Chapter 3

Everyone in the attic had tears in their eyes. "He's gone" was the only thing Wyatt managed to say, before blackness took him, and he fell to the floor.

This seemed to shake everybody out of their stupor. "WYATT!" Piper shrieked, running to her fallen child. Tears still streaming down her face, she kept repeating the same sentence "I'm sorry, so very sorry. Please don't go, I'm so, so sorry" it was obviously directed at Chris. Everybody was feeling guilt. Knowing now how much they'd hurt him, how much they'd hurt their own nephew and cousin.

"Why is it, that even if I've been warned, I still turn out to be such a horrible father?" Leo asked, he had promised his son that this time around he would be a good father. That he would be there for his son. But still he had horribly failed. "everybody is at fault here Leo, we all made him feel that way" Henry said, he had worked with kids who had a childhood like Chris, a childhood he formerly saw as a good one, but now realized was kind of horrible, a childhood that messed most of the kids up.

Wyatt was stunned, never had he imagined how much his brother was hurting, hurt by his own family! Sure Wyatt had to admit it, he had noticed how his parents treated Chris differently and if he was honest, he had always been happy about it. Not because he wanted the attention, not because he like how it hurt Chris. No Wyatt had liked it because it kept his brother safe. As long as Chris was kept away from his magical heritage he was safe. He wouldn't have to fight for his life, wouldn't have to face any of his fears. He could just live a normal life. Well in hindsight it had been stupid, they had still ended up with a hurt Chris. And it been his own fault.

Guilt gnawed at his insides. How could he do that to his own brother? His little brother, the one he has sworn to protect, the one he was supposed to guide, to help! He trusted me, he believed in me, and I let him down. Wyatt just lay there, numb to the outside world, drowning in his guilt and pain.

It was ironic really, how he was the hurt by the ones who should have helped him, and that the dangers, the people, they'd tried to protect him from were the ones who saved him, trained him and made him feel loved. Wyatt needed to talk to him, he needed to apologize. Tell him he was sorry, so very sorry, even though that didn't even begin to cover it.

Why couldn't he sense his brother, ,he knew he had hurt Chris and that by now Chris was quite a powerful witch, with very good training. But that was phoenix training, learning how to fight and not show your emotions. Not the spells and potions training the Halliwell family got. The one that was needed to block their bond and scrying.

Wyatt finally came by "he's really gone" was the first thing out of his mouth. "he broke all connection, I only have a faint whisper that tells me he is alive" he cried, speaking about the formerly unbreakable bond the brothers had. "We need to fix this" Paige said, taking action, she could not believe this, she had known it was wrong, she had said it so many times, to herself, her sister, but nobody listened, she didn't even listen to her own instinct, and now, now it was too late, they'd hurt him too much. He had felt the need to create a whole life with none of them in it. "Come one people! Think with me, we need to fix this!" Paige yelled now. "Okay, umm how about going to our past selves, and telling them they are doing it wrong!" Phoebe said. "yeah, we can do that!" Prue said, happy they were now forming a plan. "I won't listen, you can bring half of the world back, and I won't listen" Piper said, tears still in her eyes. "Of course you will listen, we will be coming from the future, why wouldn't you listen?" Penelope asked. "Because, sweetie, I know the time they will be going back to, it's a time I was very stubborn and I had just almost lost little Chris, and lost big C.." she trailed of, they hadn't told the kids about the visitor from the future. "Lost big who?" Priscilla asked. "Nobody, but I just lost people in that time, I was very over-protective. I had set my mind to it, I won't listen".

"She is right, we know Piper, and Piper knows herself, and we all know she wouldn't listen, too stubborn" Paige said.

"Well, maybe we should start by making up to Chris in this time" Wyatt said, even though he wished his brother would never have to go through this, he also knew his mom, she wouldn't listen. "Well, then first we need to find him, I'm pretty sure he is blocking everybody out, your bond is the weakest it has ever been, he is smart so by now summoning won't work anymore, so how do we find him?" Priscilla said. "I'll go to his room, find something to scry with" Leo said. "PIPER!" they hear Leo scream quickly after Leo left. Everybody ran downstairs to Chris' room, they all stopped looking to an empty room, only the unneeded stuff was still there. "When did he do this?" Prue asked, she didn't remember him packing up his stuff. But Wyatt ran past her back up to the attic, only to find Chris' two boxes gone, boxes filled with their papers and important stuff. He ran back down again, to the living room, where he found that the photo books Chris liked were also gone. "he really moved" was all he said when the rest of the family came downstairs. "well he left some old stuffed animal or something, so we're going to scry with that" pearl said, dragging Patricia with her.

After an hour of scrying they still hadn't found Chris.

Wyatt knew scrying wouldn't help, or summoning him with the old spell. Chris had been trained, and somehow Wyatt knew Chris had also trained himself. They needed something new. "We need to fight him with his own weapons, people! We need to think of a damn good spell to find him, and then a whole plan to get him to listen to us!". Everybody stared at Wyatt for a while, all knowing he was right, but hating how far it had come. "well? Anybody helping me?" Wyatt yelled. It seemed to shock his family enough to get them into action. The manor was a blur of working people, all thinking of spells, potions and apologies. They needed Chris back.

Apartment of Chris and Bianca

"Did you mean it, what you said to them? About me I mean?" it was the first thing Bianca asked when they arrived back at their apartment, it probably wasn't the best thing to ask in the situation, Chris had after all just lost his family, he left all his trust in them back at the manor. But still, she had been so touched by what he had said, how he had stood up for her against his whole family. "Of course I meant it, why wouldn't I? It's the truth!" Chris answered her. He smiled, even though he just lost his family, Bianca was still with him, and he could still trust her. Bianca smiled too, she loved him so, so much. This was probably one of the hardest days in his life, and still he found the time to make her feel loved, like he did every day since they had known each other.

Flashback

Wyatt and Chris were walking towards their friend Justin's home, it was his birthday and he was having a party. Both boys looked forward to it, and were chatting happily away. Not knowing how everything would change within mere minutes. Not knowing the danger that was coming.

Bianca didn't really know why the boy she was assigned to kill was so important, she did her research, sure he was a Halliwell, but an untrained one, one with very few powers.

This should be an easy kill she thought, the only thing that was standing in her way was that annoying twice-blessed person Wyatt. He would surely protect his brother.

She had planned and thought through everything, her only solution was if you want to kill Chris, you'll have to paralyze or immobilize Wyatt first. So she had made a potion, a paralyzing potion for Wyatt.

As she neared her target, she heard them talking about something that had happened at Chris 'school.

Bianca swallowed, shit she heard personal stuff. Bianca had never really liked her legacy, had never liked the killing and the hurting. She knew her mother didn't like it either, it was one of the reasons they both did almost no assignments, but she had gotten this one, because nobody else in the family could do it.

So she swallowed all her fears and dislikes, and tuned all her feelings out. She needed to work.

Bianca threw the potion at Wyatt before either of the boys had the chance to notice her. She heard Wyatt shriek, and yell that he couldn't move anymore. She saw him trying to use his powers, but is was useless. Bianca moved forward, and Wyatt noticed her. "Shit, Chris go! Get out of here!" he yelled. "No way, are you crazy you can't move anymore or use your powers, I'm not going to leave you!" Chris answered, making himself ready to fight. He was scared shitless, he had no training and one look at the girl told him she had crazy amounts of training.

Bianca slowly began advancing on Chris, and the fight had started. She had to give it to the Halliwell boy, with no training his reflexes were crazy good. And then she made the big mistake, she looked into his eyes. Beautiful, emerald green eyes. Big, round and innocent. No way she could kill him now. When she looked into those eyes you could see his soul, a soul that was purely good. She couldn't kill him. She gave up, told him Wyatt would be okay later that day, and she shimmered away.

End flashback

"I'm sorry it had to go this way, with your family I mean" Bianca said, they had time to express their lover for one another, right now Chris had to grief for his lost family.

"It's alright, I think I've always known it would end this way, with me losing my trust and leaving them. I always hoped it they would turn out as silly thoughts, something my inferiority complex created, but really it was just me preparing myself for this day. Don't worry sweetie, it'll be okay, I'm fine, sure I will miss them, they were my family for 21 years after all. But I'll get a better life now, a life with you". Bianca was touched by his words once again, but she also knew some of it were lies. He was not fine, he loved his family dearly, even though they had hurt him. He had given them many chances, and knowing Chris, he could have given them dozens more, but he knew he had to get away from them to stop them from hurting him even more. Apparently her disbelief showed on her face because Chris started talking again "Look I know you don't believe me, and yeah you're probably right, but I just want to start over again with my life. You know, live it like I want to, like we want to. I want us to start a life together. Maybe even begin a family. Wouldn't you like that?" Bianca had tears in her eyes, yes she wanted that so badly, she had wanted to be with him from the moment she started to know him, and when they became an item she had hoped so much that he would want to stay with her, she wanted to have a family with him. "Of course I do! Don't ever think otherwise!" she said while running to him and locking him in a hug. Chris laughed "well that is good to know" he kissed Bianca on her head. "Sweetie, did you actually work on your paper?" Chris asked her a couple of hours later. "Ughh, well I managed to think of about 100 words, but no it totally sucks" she answered. Blue orbs filled the room and Phoebe's paper appeared in front of Bianca. "I know you think you should make this paper yourself, but a little help wouldn't hurt right?" Chris said, he himself knew how collage was hard work, especially when they had a busy week with demons. "Thank you!" Bianca answered, and she went to work.

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