Chapter Four:

A young police officer in San Francisco also noticed the news reports, but was not all that surprised by the existence of magic. His entire family had been aware that not only witches, but also demons in fact existed. His name, Michael Morris. He was the oldest of Darryl and Sheila's sons. He had been a cop for four years, and now at the age of 25 he was faced with probably the greatest challenge of his career. Dealing with the hysterical aftermath caused by the exposure of magic. He saw his fellow coworkers arresting, even brutalizing witches that had probably saved innocent lives at one time or another. Mike did not necessarily blame them, after all they were simply afraid of something because they did not understand it. Still he knew that arresting these people was wrong. After all, in using their powers they had not actually hurt anyone, it was just, well, seeing magic scared everyone.

The young cop knew he had to get away from work as soon as possible and inform Chris Halliwell, a close friend of the family about what was going on. He just hoped that his supernatural friends were not caught in the same predicament that these other witches were, exposed. When he finally got back to the station he called Chris at his apartment, but he got no answer. He then decided to call his youngest brother on his cell, after all Sean was Prue Halliwells boyfriend, and they were almost always together.

The entire group was still at the Harley house trying to figure out what to do, when Sean received his brother's call. Brian Harley had already cancelled his plans knowing that at dinner was when he would be compelled to reveal his powers. He obviously had not binded them as it was evident that he would need them as they all would have to go up against Wyatt. Sean told his brother that he was with the Halliwells over at the Harley house and they already knew about what was going on. Still though Mike insisted on coming over to help, so told his commander that he had a family emergency and needed to get home. Although his boss was not too pleased he allowed it, After all Mike Morris, as well as his father before him had always been exemplary police officers.

Back at the Harley house Chris and the others were trying to come up with a plan. "We need to set up a safe place to bring witches and keep them from arrest, and we need to get them there, Scry for as many witches as we can, keep them from being exposed or arrested and bring them all together." Chris proposed. "Well that sounds like a good idea, but one where are we going to bring them, and two how are we going to get them there without exposing ourselves." Brian questioned.

"We can change our appearance, so people will not know our true identities even if they see us using our powers." Prue said. Chris thought it was a good idea, but even if others did not know who they were that would be irrelevant if they were caught. "Right good idea, especially in my case because if I am exposed I could just orb out. And Devon if you are willing to help you could just shimmer out. Everyone else though has no other way to escape if they were caught and arrested." Chris pointed out. "I could use my freezing power to get away" Prue said. Chris knew she could, but he really did not want to risk his cousin. "No it is too risky, the freeze could ware off too quickly" He told her. She knew that he was just trying to be protective. She knew she could help, but she also did not want to fight with Chris, instead she just sat down with a pout on her face to show Chris she was unhappy. Chris however did not let it bother him, he needed to protect his cousin.

"As for where I think we can gather everyone, P3. It's been closed since my mom died, but we still own the building. It is large and is in a rather abandoned area." Chris said, changing the subject. "Good idea" Bridget said, "that is the perfect place." Chris then turned to Devon to ask him if he was willing to help. "I guess" he said, "anything to keep Wyatt from getting what he wants."

By that time Michael Morris had arrived at the house, so the group told him that Wyatt was behind magic's exposure and what they planned to do about it. Mike agreed to help any way he could. "Okay" Chris said, and taking charge he started dishing out assignments. "Prue, you Bridget and Brittany can do the scrying. Brian you need to come up with a cloaking spell for P3 and then try to create a counter spell to keep witches from exposing their powers, at least the ones who have not done so already. Mike, Sean, get your brother and the three of you can go to P3 and explain what is going on to all those we mange to bring there."

Everyone agreed to their tasks and got to it. While the girls began scrying, Chris glamoured to give himself another appearance, and then cast a spell on Devon to change his. Almost immediately, the girls were able to track the location of several witches and so Chris and Devon were off to rescue as many as they could.

The first witch Chris set off to rescue, was a young female witch who did not look as if she could be any older than Prue. She was cornered in an alley by a group of about five people, who were accusing her of being a freak and a witch among other things. Chris had arrived in time to witness the girl using her power of electrokinesis. He immediately sprung into action, pushing through the crowd and demanding to know what was going on. "This girl is a freak" one of the guys accusing her screamed. Chris, not knowing what else to do suddenly pushed through the crowd of people dragging the girl behind him and then running as fast as he could. The others followed in pursuit, but Chris and the girl were able to round a corner and he was able to orb them to P3. When they got there the Morris brothers were already there as Chris had asked them to be. After leaving the young witch there with them, he orbed back to the Harley house to get a location on another witch.

After numerous scenarios that had gone much like the first Chris was able to rescue many witches from confrontations, arrest, and even from police custody. A few times he had been forced to use his power in front of witnesses, but each time he changed his appearance so there was no way he could be discovered as the mysterious man rescuing the witches.

After many hours it seemed that he and Devon with the help of the girls scrying had rescued as many witches as they could, and so they all gathered at P3. In total they had rescued almost thirty witches. Before addressing the crowd, Chris wanted to see how Brian was coming with the counter spell. Since P3 was already successfully cloaked so Wyatt could not locate them. "I am getting close but I still need like another line to make the spell work, if it even can. I mean Wyatt was the one who cast the spell so it obviously has a hell of a lot of power behind it." Brian informed Chris. "Well we have over thirty witches here so if that isn't enough power to counter the spell, I don't believe anything is. Let me see what you have so far." Chris answered.

Between the two of them they were able to finish the spell. They decided to try it first with just them as well as Prue, Bridget, and Brittany hoping it would be enough, so they went to retrieve the girls. Once all together in what used to be Piper's office at P3, all five of them chanted at once:

Stop all that Wyatt's Spell has caused

Bring exposure to a pause

Let good magic hide what has not yet been revealed

To make good vs. evil a more level playing field

They could not know for sure if the spell had worked. All they could do is wait and hope.

Meanwhile, Wyatt was in the underworld, just waiting to make his move. He was pleased with how things were going, even though he knew his brother was managing to rescue many of the witches. That was not what was important though, he had been successful with his goal. Causing mass hysteria among everyone in San Francisco, thus priming the city for his takeover, as he would ride in and save the day, and he had also got the people to think of good magic as the enemy, thus weakening the community of good magic significantly and virtually eliminating their chance of defeating him. "Yes" he said to himself, "everything is going as planned"

It seemed that the counter spell had been successful as news station were reporting that calls regarding "Witch sightings" had all but ceased. Happy with at least that progress, Chris had finally decided that he would need to address all of the witches outside, as someone had to take the lead role. Chris was the logical choice as he was the son of a charmed one, and probably the most powerful among the group of witches. However, as Chris began walking out of the back room and into the main hall blue orbs appeared in front of him. When he could finally make out just who it was, he was shocked. "Dad?" he managed to utter, as he did not know just how to feel about the fact that the elder, Leo Wyatt, Chris' father was standing before him.