A Matter of Change

Chapter 2: Attack

/Halliwell Manor/

It was early in the morning, a time when normal people were in bed sleeping, dreaming about the day to come. Now only if the Halliwells were normal people. Usually the sounds coming from the manor at this hour would be that of an explosion or other sounds that accompany a demon vanquish, but this night it was filled with the sound of two men raising their voices in anger.

"I can't believe they are still going at it." Paige muttered in exasperation.

"I just wish that the empathy blacking potions would work on witches as strong as them." Phoebe said rubbing her head as another strong wave of emotion hit her. Wyatt and Chris had been fighting for three hours now and Phoebe was about ready to pull out her own hair from all the negative emotions that were hitting her.

"Why are they fighting anyways?" Henry asked while rocking Patience (his and Paige's daughter).

"Chris is tired of always being the one to take care of Phillip. He is the only one that wakes up at night, the one to change his diapers, and he does everything else for the baby. He wants Wyatt to start acting like a father instead of an uncle to Phillip." Piper said while feeding Phillip a bottle.

"You know I'm sorry to say this but Chris has a point, Wyatt has not been treating Phillip like a son." Paige said.

"It's worse than you guys think." Coop said. Everyone in the room turned to look at him. They waited for him to continue.

Finally Phoebe being herself couldn't wait anymore and said "What do you mean by that?"

"I was talking to the cupid assigned to them and he told me that he has to work over time to just keep their love alive." Coop finally said.

"You mean that my babies are about to breakup?" Piper asked in obvious distress.

"It's not Wyatt that is falling out of love, it's Chris he feels that Wyatt just loved him until they had the baby and now that the baby is here and what the angel of destiny has gotten what she wants Wyatt is going to leave him and Wyatt isn't doing that much to ease his suspicions." Coop said.

Everyone just sat in silence for a few minutes while they tried to digest what they were just told. Piper finally broke the silence and voiced what everyone was thinking "I hope Wyatt gets his act together before things get so bad nothing can be done to fix it."

/Upstairs/

"I can't believe you think I don't love you anymore!!" Wyatt yelled. Four the last few hours he had been having a major fight with Chris. Wyatt had a dreadful feeling that this was not just a harmless fight that all married couples had and that his marriage was dangerously close to ending.

"What else am I supposed to believe you got together with me because destiny said we had to, and so you did. So we get together and we actually got married and life was going perfect. You were the perfect husband when I was pregnant you even got me my weird cravings; but as soon as the baby is born the act ends." Chris sighed and continued. "You never help me with Phillip the only time you ever seem to spend with me or your baby is when mom forces you to. I feel like I am raising Phillip as a single parent."

"How can you say that I have been there for you and Phillip since he was born." Wyatt yelled indignantly to him.

"No you haven't!" Chris yelled back at Wyatt. The room fell into silence as they both seemed to run out of things to say. Chris sat in resignation onto their bed. "We haven't even had sex since Phillip was born and that was six months ago."

"You can't blame that on me you haven't had any time to have sex." Wyatt said in a defensive tone.

"You could have helped me with Phillip and then I would have time for sex." Chris sighed and looked at Wyatt with tears in his eyes "I can't do this anymore…I think we need to take a break."

Wyatt could feel his heart breaking as he whispered "What do you mean?"

"I asked grandpa if he would mind if Phillip and I went to live with him for a little while and he said it was okay." Chris said with tears now flowing down his cheeks.

Wyatt could not believe what he had just heard. Chris did not just say that he was leaving him and taking his baby. He stood there in complete shock. When finally awoke from his shock he saw that Chris had taken out a suit case and was packing Phillips and his stuff.

Wyatt went over and grabbed Chris' shoulder and said "You…you can't leave me…..I..I love you." Wyatt was able to choke out.

Chris' shoulders started to shake and he turned to look at Wyatt with miserable eyes and said "You say that you love me, but for the last six months I've felt anything but loved." With those words he walked by Wyatt to Phillips room to get some stuff.

Wyatt didn't know what to do. He felt completely broken. He found himself doing what he would always do when he was a little kid and he was completely lost he went to his mom.

His mom was in the dinning room sitting with a cup of coffee. After seeing Wyatt, Piper stood up and hugged her son and let him weep into her shoulder. Piper hugged him and asked him what was wrong.

"He..He said that he was was leaving to stay at grandpa's and I don't know what to do to fix it." Wyatt said in-between hiccups.

"Don't worry honey you now know what you were doing wrong you can fix it. You will just have to win him back and show him that you are going to be there for him and your son." Piper said in a motherly voice.

Suddenly Piper let out a scream as she was hit by a fireball. Wyatt quickly turned and saw that the manor had suddenly been over run by demons. Wyatt growled and said "You picked the wrong day to attack." Wyatt raised his hands and sent a wave of fire out that engulfed all the demons. Wyatt smiled in satisfaction when a woman wearing a red dress appeared out of a black fog. She smirked at Wyatt and raised her hand and sent out a ball of pure energy at him.

Before the ball could reach Wyatt it changed its path and hit a wall instead. Wyatt turned to see Chris standing at the bottom of the stairs. Suddenly a woman wearing a black dress with black hair appeared behind Chris. Wyatt yelled out a warning but it was too late. The woman grabbed Chris and kissed him. A sick colored light enfolded Chris. When the woman released Chris he fell to the floor as if he was a rag doll.

Wyatt yelled no and started to run towards Chris. He was almost there when he felt a sudden sharp pain fill his gut. He looked down to see a dagger with a black blade sticking out of his stomach. He stared at it in shock. He slowly looked up at the blond woman and saw that she was chanting something.

When the chanting stopped the blade suddenly burst into black dust that flew over him. Wyatt felt is energy leaving his body. The world started to twist and turn. For some reason he was on the floor. How did he end up there? Was that Chris over there? What had happened? Why was it getting dark?

That was the last thought that entered his mind before darkness took over his world.