A/N Last chapter and I am FINALLY done with this rewrite. Thank you so much to those who continue to read.
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Chris 2 swept a mocking bow Wyatt's way, "Well, your Highness, let's hear your version."
"My version," Wyatt gritted, finally fed up with his brother's obnoxious counterpart, "Is that Chris was disappointed, a lot, in your inability to keep your word."
"My word?" When did I lie?" Chris 2 asked.
"When you assured everyone who thought your plan was wrong that you could keep Jenna safe." Wyatt clarified.
Chris entered his family home and immediately heard his brother and himself arguing. He headed into the family room, rushing alongside Piper, who had just noticed the raised voices herself.
"I didn't hear any of you coming up with a plan," Chris was saying to Wyatt. "Besides," he added with a negligible shrug, "she's safe, isn't she?"
"That's because we all used everything we had on that damn barrier," Wyatt growled at Chris2.
"I didn't know there'd be a barrier, Big Brother. I figured you'd be enough to save her, we were just there to marvel at your magnificence," Chris2 shot back nastily.
"I. Am. Not. Your. Big. Brother." Wyatt enunciated each word slowly, making each one its own sentence. "I don't particularly think I'm all that magnificent."
"We finally agree on something," Chris 2 sneered.
Piper started to rush between the two men, Leo seeing this stopped her. She looked at him with a question in her eyes, he shook his head at her, understanding gleaming in his.
Chris 2 continued, "You ruined everything! King Wyatt, the Twice-blessed." He ranted, "Do you have any idea how much you took from me?" He shouted.
"What did I take from you, Chris? Besides your pacifier when I was three and Christy Casey; which wasn't my fault, that was Phoenix's doing." Wyatt gritted condescendingly.
"You killed everyone!" Chris 2 panted, "Want to know why Mel never turned 11? Who finally ended the Charmed Ones? Why I don't have a fiancée?" Too angry for words Chris 2 tk'd Wyatt into a wall; where he slumped, before standing. "YOU killed my fiancée!" He tk'd him back into the wall. Chris rushed forward to stop the two, Chris 2 saw him coming and tk'd him as well. He stopped himself cold, obviously this Chris was used to having powers, his telekinesis had evolved so far that he didn't have to move someone, rather he could keep them immobile. "YOU killed Aunt Phoebe!" He tk'd Wyatt across the room. Wyatt stood again, swaying slightly. "You killed Aunt Paige!" He again tk'd Wyatt, who, again, stood. Wyatt started walking towards his 'brother'. "You killed Mel!" Chris 2 tried to tk Wyatt still, but he only slowed him down, a little. "YOU KILLED MOM!" Again he tried to tk Wyatt, this time the blonde man didn't even feel it, he just kept coming. "Why don't you use your powers against me?" Chris 2 railed at Wyatt.
Piper shared a look of understanding with her husband.
"You don't know me. I am NOT the Wyatt who would use his powers against his brother! I did NOT kill your fiancée, hell, Chris; in this reality you've never had one! I did NOT kill Aunt Phoebe; she lives happily across the street with Uncle Coop and Peyton! I did NOT kill Aunt Paige; she lives next door with Uncle Henry, the twins and Henry Jr! I did NOT kill Mel! I would never hurt our sister! I DID NOT KILL MOM! I'm not the egomaniacal, soulless, bastard who did any of those things. I thank you for making it possible, now get off my back!" Wyatt had reached Chris, was staring him eye to eye. He reached out and pulled his brother into a hug. He wasn't surprised when moments later he was hugging air.
"Took you long enough," the last Chris standing grinned at his brother.
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The family was seated at the table. Mel was still confused. "How did the other Chris vanish?"
Chris looked at his little sister, "The issues with Wyatt weren't really my issues. The issue was that Wyatt felt guilty over something he never did. Once Wyatt realized that he was blameless the other Chris was done."
"Why didn't you just say so earlier, instead of wreaking the house?" Mel wondered.
"'Cuz I didn't know it myself until we merged again." Chris shrugged.
"Do you have your headache back?" Mel asked.
"No," Chris grinned, or tried to, his swollen lip prevented it. "Although I don't see how it's fair that I end up with a split lip." He groused.
Piper's lips twitched as she tried to keep the smile off her face, "Magic does happen for a reason, but there are sometimes consequences."
"What I don't understand is how the other Chris knew that the spell would backfire…or work the way it did," her brows were knit in confusion.
This time it was Chris' lips that twitched, "He'd been the Charmed Ones White-Lighter once," he winked, "He knew what to expect."
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In the cave where Yickem had been vanquished, Bradas was alone except for the statue of ice that had once been a Dark Priest. He danced around the cave in joy, or what passes for dancing when a body is as malformed as Bradas'.
The Soothsayer entered, seeing his happy abandon. "Bradas, what are you doing?" She asked in a voice as cold as the Dark Priest now was.
Abruptly he stopped, "I am free," he informed the hag.
"Free?" She spat at him, "You have always been my servant Bradas!" She informed the now saddened again hunchbacked demon.
