Well, I certainly hope everyone enjoyed the last chapter because I had tremendous fun writing it. Tomorrow second semester starts, and I am one step closer to the summer and one step closer to being 18, and finding somewhere to move. Anyway, I have to thank Kitty-Witty-Kate for her review, it certainly caught my attention! And the fact that everyone who reviews is what helps me update just about daily. Let's go to the next chapter now.
Future- Destroyed AtticThere were pieces of broken ceiling, broken tables, glass and window shards everywhere. It was hard to imagine anybody surviving the blast that had rocked the neighborhood. Sirens outside told the city that an ambulance, a police car, or possibly both was on its way. The two people who had been inside were nowhere to be found. In what had once been the corner, pieces of wood started to get pushed up and off a person. The person was tired, and just wanted to sleep, but the heavy board prevented this. With a groan, and a hard push, the person was free.
Wyatt stood up, looking around to see if anybody else was currently trying to free themselves as well. When he saw no sign of Riley moving, he tried to sense her life form, with yet again, no results. Wyatt smiled with victory. At last he had freed himself of the pesky Adams family. He heard the sirens move closer, and he orbed to the Underworld, satisfied with his victory.
Past
Piper had convinced Chris it was ok to leave the attic, and come to the kitchen for something to eat. She made him a turkey sandwich that he nibbled on. As more time went on, the more worried he got. Riley may have escaped Wyatt once or twice, hell maybe even three times before, but he wouldn't put up with that for long.
"Starving yourself is not going to bring Riley back any faster, if she even comes back. You know she told Leo she may not come back. Maybe she only had to come back long enough to make a plan as to the best way to defeat the future evil." Piper still couldn't bring herself to acknowledge the act that her innocent son was the future of all evil.
"I don't believe that." Chris said stubbornly.
"No Chris, you don't. Because you don't want to believe that." Piper said. Chris shook his head.
"I have to go to the Underworld to try to find out who turns Wyatt." Chris said, throwing his sandwich on the counter and orbing out. Piper sighed. Chris reminded her again of someone, she just couldn't put her mind on who. Leo orbed in.
"Where's Chris?" he questioned his ex wife.
"He went to the Underworld to try to find out who turned Wyatt." Piper was getting tired of the attitude Chris and Leo had with each other, but she didn't know how to stop it.
"Well, then I better go find him. I have reason to believe he's lying about who he is." Leo told Piper. She gave Leo a look that told him her patience was wearing out.
"Leo, he probably is. But give him a break. His best friend went back to the future and is probably going to die in the hands of our son. Leave him be for the day." She told him. He shook his head.
"I can't do that Piper." He told her as he orbed out. Piper stared after him, a frown settling onto her face. As much as she hated to admit it, if he hadn't become and Elder, and Chris had shown up, she probably would divorce him anyway, the way he was acting.
Park
A prone figure was laying on the ground, next to the swing set. Her green tank top was torn and bloody from the wound on her stomach, her black pants also ripped. Her left leg had a piece of wood a foot long through it. Her hair was matted down with blood, her face covered in blood. Though nobody looking at her would know it, she was alive. She opened her eyes, and slowly looked around. She was in the past, which meant her spell had worked. She had cast it after the ceiling caved in on her.
Flashback
"I got to get out of here!" She thought to herself, trying to figure a way out, the wood was crushing her, making it harder and harder to breathe. She tried to recall the spell that would take her back in time. She heard pieces of ceiling being moved on the other side of the room, and that meant Wyatt was still alive, or more wood was falling. She wasn't sure and she didn't want to find out. She finally remembered and said it in a low voice.Hear these words, hear the rhyme
Heed the hope within my mind.
Send me back to where I'll find
what I wish in place and time
And then she had felt like she was floating before losing consciousness. Unknown to her, seconds later Wyatt pulled himself from the rubble.
End FlashbackRiley struggled to her feet, only to cry out in pain and drop back down. Her leg that had the wood through it was throbbing. She considered yanking the wood out, but didn't know what the wood could be holding in. For all she knew, the wood was the only thing keeping her from bleeding to death. She got to her feet again, this time bracing for the pain. She started the walk to the Manor, favoring her left leg. She would have called for Chris, but knew he wasn't within calling range. Their telepathic link would have told her if he was around. And she would rather walk the ten minutes to the Manor than call for Leo again.
30 Minutes
Riley finally made it to the manor. The walk that usually took ten minutes had taken an extra 20 minutes, and she was even more tired if that was even possible. She was about to knock on the door when she collapsed, her body banging against the door. Piper, the only sister at home, went to the door. Demons didn't usually knock, but that wasn't really a knock, so you never know. She opened the door and Riley's body fell into the foyer.
"Oh my god! Paige!" She said, calling for her sister who could orb the unconscious girl to a couch. As Paige orbed in, she fell over Riley's body.
"Oh, what did I fall over?" She asked as she looked down.
"Orb her to the couch! And go get Phoebe!" Piper said frantically as Paige did as her older sister asked. As she orbed out to get Phoebe, Piper ran to get hydrogen peroxide, and lots of gauze, and band-aids, to start cleaning up Riley.
"LEO!" She called for the only person who could heal Riley before it was too late. But he was in the Underworld, following Chris. Damn it, he was needed and he wasn't around. She sighed and went back to Riley as Paige and Phoebe orbed in.
"What happened?" Phoebe asked, taking in the sight of Riley.
"I don't know. She collapsed on the door, and Leo is off chasing Chris around the Underworld, so nobody can heal her." Piper said as she sat next to Riley, preparing to pull the wood from her leg.
"On second thought, Paige would you please orb the wood from her leg?" Piper asked, knowing that would be less painful. Paige nodded and raised her hand.
"Wood." She said and the ceiling rafter came from Riley's leg onto Paige's hand. She quickly dropped it and came around to Piper's side.
"That looks deep." Paige said, referring to the leg wound.
"Well, it was all the way through her leg. It's a wonder she made it here without someone stopping to take her to the hospital." Piper said.
"Unless she materialized in front of our house. She was in the future." Phoebe said.
"Yeah, I just hope whoever did this to her got what he deserved." Paige said as Piper peered at Riley's shirt.
"Why is her shirt getting darker?" She asked as she lifted it and gasped. On her stomach was a stab wound about two and a half inches deep.
"What happened there?" Paige asked.
"Whatever happened to the rest of her." Phoebe said. In reality, one of the splinters rafters had hit her, but she'd been able to move it before it had gone in to deep. Riley started to sweat a little. She was dying, and nobody was around to heal her. She opened her eyes, and they were clouded with pain.
"Piper, will you tell Chris goodbye for me?" She asked drowsily.
"No, you stay awake and we'll have you healed once we can find Leo." Piper said. Phoebe and Paige exchanged sad looks.
"Piper, don't let anyone tell you that you were bad mother. You didn't know about Wyatt, and Chris turned out to be good." She said tiredly, wanting nothing more than to close her eyes and sleep.
"Chris?" Piper asked, while Phoebe and Paige looked at each other.
"Leo was never there for Chris, but you were. You were a good mom to him." Riley's eyes closed for a minute.
"No, open your eyes." Piper said and Riley reluctantly opened them.
"Chr-Chris is my son?" Piper asked.
"Unless you decide you don't want him and don't sleep with Leo one last time, then yes." Riley felt a giant headache come on. Piper sat back against the coffee table trying to process what she had just learned. Riley was relieved. Finally, she could close her eyes. Before she could, Leo and Chris orbed in. She saw Chris and closed her eye, her breathing stopped.
"Riley!" Chris said looking at the injured girl on the couch.
"Leo! Heal her and then we have something to discuss with Chris." Piper said as Leo hurried to Riley and started to heal.
"What's taking so long?" Phoebe asked as tried to heal her. He looked at them as he opened his mouth to speak.
"She's…."
