Wyatt held onto her like he was stuck in a mirage. He couldn't help it. He just kept feeling the brush of her warm, soft lips on his like a phantom torturing him as he held her closer. She stayed still in his arms as he did but he didn't notice. This was their time to be together for once and he wasn't going to let her go so quickly.

He just felt the whole moment playing over again and over again throughout him. There was hope. He did love her and something in her had decided to love him back for a moment. The kiss had proven him that. He had a chance!

"Victoria," he whispered to her sleeping form.

She moved slightly in his arms and mumbled lightly as she held onto sleep for a little longer.

"What do we do now?" he asked her.....

Chris woke up slowly from his misting unconsciousness to find himself not still lying on the cold carpeted floor in the living room that he had been thrown to fro the shock of hitting Victoria's shield.

His mother was right next to him and she was standing over him like a looming shadow in the distance as her gentle soft brown eyes gazed into his. He hadn't been here before he realized slowly. He had been moved to the couch. His father kneeled beside him with his hands reaching out over his chest as he healed him. Leo's blue eyes glittered down on his son lovingly with worry as he did.

He had been told what happened and he hadn't liked it one bit. He had noticed that Victoria had been off lately, but he had just left it up in the air as a cold or something. Now, he knew differently after what Phoebe had informed him of. Victoria wasn't letting on everything about herself or anything that was affecting her at the present moment. She was the reason his son was hurt at this very moment and now his oldest son was somewhere else in the world with her.

After the last fight that she and Wyatt had had Leo had to worry about how this one would turn up.

Especially, now that Victoria could pick into someone's mind in order to retain information. She had done it with Phoebe. She knew about the premonitions of herself as well as Piper's death. What else she knew he didn't know, but he wanted to find out.

There was still one secret left for her to find out.. One main secret that Victoria couldn't bring out. Chris's secret.

Leo looked back over at Phoebe who stood in the darkened doorway with her thin arms still folded crossed her chest. She looked worried, angry, and above all else confused. He had to admit he felt the same way too. The Elders had never said that Victoria had the power to do what she had done. The fact that she had temporarily put Phoebe as well as his son out of commission while doing it he didn't like at all.

Victoria had powers she shouldn't have. She had some new secret and she was sick all the time according to Phoebe as well as Piper. Leo knew they should have told him earlier about it and he was angry at them for it. Because of them not telling him this is what happened. Victoria had gotten out of hand whether she did it because she wanted to or else because something had possessed her didn't matter. She had done this and now he had to pick up the pieces.

"Chris, are you alright?" Leo asked his son. "Are you feeling better?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, dad. Where? Where is Victoria?" Chris asked his father as he slowly sat up on the couch dozily.

"We don't really know." Leo told his son. "Wyatt took her."

"You let Wyatt take her? Are you insane? Well, can't you sense her somewhere?" Chris asked instantly only thinking about her now and what was wrong with her.

"Chris, we're worried about you now."

"What? Why? I'm fine, dad. You healed me." Chris replied and looked at his sad mother, his paranoid aunt, and his worried father as he realized what they were all thinking. "No way. This wasn't on purpose. She.. I don't know what was happening to her. I knew she had her shield up but I still tried to get through it. I wasn't thinking and I ended up hurt. She didn't try to hurt me."

"Chris," Leo tried to say softly.

"No, I did this to myself. I should have stopped myself, but I tried to get through to her and I ended up getting hurt. It's my fault not hers."

"Chris, she didn't tell you what was wrong in the first place." Leo started.

"She never got the chance." Chris tried to say in her defense as Leo shook his head.

"Son, she has powers now that she shouldn't have. She's been using them and it's affecting her more then it should. The Elders think that she may not be on our side anymore."

"No, dad you're wrong. She is on our side."

"Chris, explain to me why she has powers that don't belong to her unless she became evil in order to kill to attain them."

"You're wrong. What about her powers progressing? She's already all powerful like Wyatt so why not have her powers progressing? Ours do it all the time."

"Because the Elders know when that happens. They decide when that happens." Leo informed Chris.

Chris stubbornly shook his head and looked from his mother to his father. He tried to find someone on his inside in the room. Anyone if possible, but no one looked convinced by his argument. Then, he looked to Phoebe and decided to play her empath card before it was too late.

"Phoebe, come on tell them she's not evil. You're an empath for Christ's sake!" he cried out when she started to shake her head.

"I can't be on your side this time Chris." she told him softly as she hung her dark curly head.

"Why? Why? Huh? Is it because she's more powerful then you and you are jealous of her because you never got an active power while she has so many? Huh? Is that it?"

Phoebe glared at him in his stupid assumptions and looked around the room angrily.

"Well, come on, aunt Phoebe. You're not one to keep a secret. Tell me what she did to you that was so bad that would make you change your mind so quickly." Chris cried.

Phoebe bit her lip and glared still. Her eyes turned to Leo and Piper for askance to the situation.

"No," Chris cried out again as he went in front of his parents to block Phoebe's gaze. "I asked you a question about my girl and now you have to answer me. Give me one good reason why she's evil."

"Chris, you love her. You're too close to the situation to see it any other way." Phoebe told him.

"Just stop patronizing me, Pheebs. Alright? Just answer the question."

"Fine. Leo's right. She has powers she didn't have before. I found that out when she raped my mind for answers. Literally."

Chris gaped at her and shook his head in denial.

"That's what happened, Chris. When she started having seizures she took my premonitions into herself. She knows what I saw. She knows everything."

Chris shook his head in denial with fresh brittle tears forming in his jade green eyes.

"Come on, Chris. Haven't you noticed how weird she has been acting? Then, at the club she fainted and was fine a few seconds later and just now when she was acting like a wild animal. That isn't the same girl you fell in love with Chris. I felt that the moment I entered the room. Something in her is very wrong and I don't know if we can save her from it." Phoebe told him as she tried to come forward into the room and comfort him.

He didn't let her though. He just looked at her through angry tears. He didn't want to know this was happening. He didn't want to believe the girl he was in love with was evil, but everyone had saw what happened. If she wasn't evil then there definitely was something wrong with her and they all didn't know if they could save her.

"Chris?" Leo asked his son.

Chris shook his head, his arms crossed, and his green eyes started to tear up but not falling. "So what? What do you expect me to do to her, dad? Kill her? Say it's for the greater good? I love her!"

Leo flinched at Chris's 'greater good' comment but shook his head at his sons suggestions, "No, we'll try to save her. We don't really know for sure but we have to make sure what's going on with her. We'll save her if we can. You just have to know that sometimes we can't save everyone."

Chris glared at his father. "You're wrong about her, and I'm going to prove it."

In a matter of seconds, Chris had orbed away from them. He went straight to the Golden Gate Bridge. It was the only place that he could think of at the moment that Wyatt would take Victoria.

He was worried about what he would find. A dead body. A few dead bodies of his brother and the girl he loved.

He hoped not. He just didn't get why Wyatt of all people would take her away. He didn't get why everyone didn't trust her. He knew what Phoebe said was true but still... They all had been on the dark side at one time or another and they all had been possessed by something else at one time or another. So, why? Why would they even say that they couldn't save everyone unless Phoebe or the Elders had said something was wrong with her.

Something that was wrong with her besides the fact that death was after her.

Then, what was it? What had happened to her? Why hadn't she told him?

Why couldn't she trust him enough to have him save her?

All these things ran through his mind as he looked around at his surroundings. The sky was graying over head and a storm was coming. He wouldn't doubt it was because of his emotions. He was sure he would get yelled at later, but now he really didn't care. All he cared about now was finding Victoria and making sure she was safe.

He had to make sure that Wyatt hadn't hurt her in some way thinking that she had deliberately hurt him.

The smell of salt lashed through the air around him as he saw some shadows that didn't belong with the gate's steel beams. He moved quickly seeing them huddled together and fearing the worst.

What if she was dead? What if Wyatt had killed her? She was so much weaker lately then usual. She hadn't told him why, but she couldn't be the best in a fight if she was sick right now.

If Wyatt had murdered her....

Chris came straight up to them and stopped in his tracks. Before him was his brother and his girl. They both were sitting on the top of the Golden Gate Bridge together and alive and safe and sound.

Together...

Chris took in a gulp of fresh air as his jade eyes set the scene.

Wyatt has his head done. He was looking down at Victoria so.. Lovingly.. His dark blond curls flying in the wind as his clear blue eyes scanned Victoria's face like she was an angel and if he closed them for one moment then the world would end. His face.. Chris had never seen his brother look that way at anyone in his life. Never. He was looking that way at his girl.

Victoria was there inside his brother's arms. Wyatt was holding her close to him. Her reddish-brown curls flying in the breeze and teasing the side of her pale face as she laid with her eyes closed to the world around them. She was still in her pajamas and she was shaking a little from the cold breeze around them.

She looked so beautiful and so peaceful. It had been a long time since he had seen her be able to sleep right.. Now she was doing it in his brother's arms.

She smiled softly as he watched her lay there so comfortable in his brother's arms. Something Wyatt had said into her ear had made her smile. It wasn't right. Wyatt never made her smile. Wyatt made her angry and annoyed but he never made her smile.

Chris watched in horror as she opened her beautiful blue-violet eyes to the world. She was the only person with that color of eyes. A gods eyes, he had told her once when they had been kidding around.

She looked up at Wyatt. There was a pause in time. A rift maybe, Chris didn't know for sure as his world fell apart around him. She looked back up at Wyatt with the same expression he was giving her. It was more veiled though. It had layers.

Had she ever looked at him that way?

She looked at Wyatt and a tear fell down her cheek as she did.

"What do you know about me now that you didn't know before?" Wyatt asked her.

Victoria looked at Wyatt with a soft smile and shook her head slightly. She didn't know how he knew that she could see things by just being close to him, but he did. She was surprised he could tell this so easily. She spoke slowly as she went through everything she had seen when she had been kissing him, "I know you used to stalk me when I was with Chris. You watched me while I slept last night. You wished you were the one beside me. You never stopped loving me even if I tried to stop you."

"You got all that from a kiss?" he asked her as his brilliant blue eyes searched hers and she shivered from the cold.

She looked to the dark black ocean churning below them and nodded. "I know a lot of things."

"Well, then tell me, oracle. What do we do now?" he asked her.

Victoria looked away from him. She didn't know. She had to save herself first. She didn't want to live like this forever. She didn't want to kill people just to survive another day.. Hour.. Minute. Depending on how this ..disease would affect. She didn't know what to say. She was drawn.

She loved Wyatt and she loved Chris. She couldn't help that. They had been her life, in all of her lives, and here she was now again in this paradox. She had to make a choice. She wasn't being fair to either of them. She had made a mistake in kissing Wyatt without making a choice.

Chris, what was he going to do once he found out. She wasn't sure she could keep this a secret from him and she knew Wyatt wouldn't. Right now he was looking at her like he had never been in love with anyone else before and she had been the one to wake him up from it all.

She felt her tears start running down her face again as she looked away from Wyatt. She didn't know what to do now. She didn't know where to go, what to say.. She wasn't being directed by anyone or anything and she was making a mess of everything.

God, what was she going to tell Chris?

It was then that her eyes linked with familiar jade green eyes and she gasped as she realized she wouldn't have to tell Chris anything because he had already saw it for himself.