Here is another update. Thanks to everyone who commented. They are greatly appreciated.
Wyatt stood on the beach, the breeze blowing around him. The waves were crashing at his feet. In mere moments, the sun would grace the world and shine across his face, warming it as it did so. Wyatt hadn't been to the beach since he was child. His mother had planned a family picnic, though it was only her, himself, and his brother. They had spent most of the afternoon eating and jumping in the waves.
Rays of sun started to raise up above the ocean, slowly lighting the world. A sail boat was out in the horizon, it's green sail guiding it through the water. Waves hit the boat, flowing over it as it made it's way through the water.
Wyatt embraced the sun, let it wash over him. The waves felt cool against his bare feet. Morning had finally come and he would try once more to get his brother, to take him back to the future. He reached down for the shoes and socks that sat behind him in the sand, just out of reach of the water. He put them back on his feet and turned into dark orbs, leaving the beach.
He reformed in the back room of the club, assuming that Chris would be there. Blankets were laid out messily on the couch, indicating that someone had slept there. He couldn't sense his brother anywhere in the club though.
Wyatt closed his eyes, trying to focus on his brother. He couldn't sense him though. Maybe he had his mental wall up, blocking Wyatt from sensing him. He orbed to the attic of the manor, hoping that maybe his brother was with the Charmed Ones.
His eyes gazed around the attic, but he had a feeling that he wasn't going to find this brother in the manor. He had to be somewhere else. He spotted a map on the table in the middle of the attic and the scrying crystal. He hadn't sensed the sisters in the manor, so he decided to walk over and try and scry for his brother.
Once again, he pulled the necklace from his pocket. He stared at it for a moment, before he intertwined it with the crystal. He dangled it over the map, waiting impatiently for it to reveal his brother's location. After several minutes, the crystal still dangled over the map. If his brother wasn't anywhere in the mortal world, than he had to be in the underworld.
Wyatt was so focused on the map and the crystal, that he hadn't heard the footsteps that made their way up the attic stairs. Piper walked into the attic, immediately spotting him. "Hey." She shouted, putting her hands out. She tried to blow him up again, though it seemed useless. She wasn't able to phase him the night before, why did she think today would be any different?
He stammered back, adjusting his feet as he tried to stand his ground. The crystal fell from his hand, landing hard on the table. His eyes met his mothers and he orbed out of the manor at once, before any emotions could wash over him.
Chris' blue orbs formed into the front hall of the manor. His mother had called out to him that morning, but he had simply ignored her. He was busy searching around the underworld, trying to find out information on who might be after Wyatt. Now, it was nearly evening and he had decided to finally see what she had been calling about.
He walked through the house, finding Piper in the kitchen. She was washing some dishes. He had assumed they must have been dirtied from dinner. The kitchen did have a familiar smell too it. It had smelled like one of his favorite meals, pot roast. She had cooked it often when he was a child.
"You call for me?" He asked, getting her attention.
She turned to him, pushing her long brown hair behind her right ear. "Yeah, only about 8 hours ago." She turned back to the dishes in the sink.
He walked closer to her, leaning against the counter next to the sink. "Well, what did you want?" He folded his arms across his chest.
She dropped the dish rag into the water and turned to him again. "I WANTED to talk to you about your mystery attacker."
"I thought we were going to drop this?" He asked annoyed.
"No, WE weren't going to drop anything." Piper said. "He was in the attic this morning."
"What?" He shouted with both anger and concern in his voice. His arms went to his side and his body stiffened. Why would Wyatt come to the manor?
"And better yet, he was trying to scry with the map and crystal we left out on the table." She explained. She wiped her hand on the dish towel and reached into her pocket, pulling out a necklace. "He left this behind." She held up the necklace, dangling the triquetra in front of Chris.
His eyes grew big as they focused on the silver pendant dangling before him. "I can't believe Wyatt kept this." He thought to himself. His hand reached for it.
Piper saw his reaction. "This isn't yours is it?" She asked curiously.
He let go of the pendant, letting it dangle in her hand again. "What? No." He lied, turning away from her.
"Right, ok." Piper said, setting the necklace on the counter. "Look Chris, I know your not telling me the whole story, but we are here to help you if you need us. You just have to trust us."
"I know you are and I do trust you, but there are a lot of things that I can't tell you because..." He was cut off.
"Of future consequences. I know, I know. That excuse is getting old." She said and then asked curiously. "Didn't you come back here to change the future?"
"Yeah, but that was supposed to be more of a surgical strike to..." He was cut off again.
"To save Wyatt. I know." She said letting out a deep sigh. "If you're in danger though, we are in danger and we need to know about it."
"I know, but I'm not in danger." He lied. "It's fine, I'm fine."
"You are?" Paige asked, walking into the room. "If you're so fine, why did your attacker show up at the manor this morning?"
"I don't know." He replied, turning away from the sisters. He walked over to the kitchen table. "Stop worrying about me."
"That's kind of hard when demons are trying to attack you." Paige said.
Chris was beyond frustrated. This conversation was getting on his nerves. "He's not a demon." He said, letting his frustration get the best of him.
Both Piper and Paige stared curiously at Chris. "So what is he then?" Piper asked, stepping closer to him. She assumed that Chris had known more than he was telling them. Obviously, she was right.
"I have some demon stuff to deal with. I'll see you later." He said, ignoring the question. Orbs started engulfing him as he was leaving the manor.
Before he was completely gone, he heard Piper ordering him like she were his mother. "Get back here mister." She demanded. He thought it was almost funny to hear her talking like that since after all, she really was his mother.
Chris reformed in the back room of P3. He sat on the couch and leaned his head back against the wall. His knees were pulled up on the couch against his chest. He couldn't believe that he had been frustrated enough to let his guard down, to tell Piper information about his attacker.
The music from the club vibrated through the walls into his little room, interrupting his thoughts. He wasn't sure he should continue to stay at the club now that Wyatt had known he was staying there, but he didn't really have anywhere else to stay. The music was getting to be annoying now, as it seemed to be getting louder and louder.
He stood from the couch and started pacing the room. He was trying to calm himself and push away the sound of the music. He turned to walk back across the room, when he was stopped by a figure forming. Panic rushed through him.
Wyatt formed in front of him, eyes locking together with his. "I see you've been playing around in the underworld." Wyatt said calmly. Emotion was non existent in his eyes or his face.
Chris squinted his face in anger. "What do you care, Wyatt?" He asked.
"I've been asking around about you and it seems that there are over a dozen demons that want your head on a platter." Wyatt explained.
"Oh and that's not a good thing?" Chris asked sarcastically. "I thought that you wanted me dead. After all, that is why you sent an assassin to kill me isn't it?"
"That was a mistake Chris. I was foolish to do that." Wyatt admitted, still showing no emotion. "We're going home before you get yourself killed." He walked forward, forcing Chris to back into a corner.
"You can't make me go with you." Chris said, still angered.
"And why is that?" He asked curiously. "You get to attached to Mom?"
"What? No." Chris argued.
"Wait a minute..." Wyatt said with a smile. "She doesn't even know you are her son does she? That explains why you are holding yourself up here instead of at the manor."
"No, she doesn't know and she's not going to." Chris replied.
Wyatt heard the door again and decided to orb out before anyone could spot him. Once again he was doing so with out his brother. Obviously, his task of getting his brother home was going to be harder than he thought.
He focused his orbs on the underworld. He had run in with a few demons earlier that day that wanted to kill his brother for wreaking havoc against many of their kind. Chris had been tearing up the underworld trying to find the threat that was after little Wyatt and the demons weren't pleased with him for doing so.
Wyatt appeared in a dark tunnel. It was very dimly lit with only a few torches along the corridor. He walked slowly trying to remember where exactly the demons were that he had spoken to earlier in the day. He was intent on killing them before they could get any ideas of trying to kill his baby brother.
He approached a small group of demons. They were all speaking amongst themselves. He leaned in closer trying to listen, while also trying not to alert them of his presence.
"I can't believe he dared to show himself in the underworld." One of the taller demons said to the others.
"Yeah, but he fears the same thing we do. His offer is very tempting." A shorter, heavier demon replied.
"He fears him for different reasons though." The first demon explained. "His offer was tempting, but no demons have been able to get at the Charmed Ones offspring. They have all lost their lives trying."
Wyatt turned away from the demons, trying to comprehend what they were saying. Obviously, someone was trying to get to the Charmed Ones offspring, someone was trying to get to him. Maybe Chris was right about someone trying to hurt him as a baby, trying to turn him. He turned back to the demons and stepped forward, stopping them mid conversation.
"Who the hell are you?" One of the demons asked.
"Who's after the Charmed ones offspring?" Wyatt asked curiously.
"What?" He replied. "I..." Wyatt stopped him, forming an energy ball.
"I think you heard me." Wyatt said. He asked again, letting the energy ball multiply in size. "Who's after the Charmed Ones offspring?"
The tall demon answered, not wanting to lose his life. "A being of good came down here recruiting demons. We don't know his name though, I swear to you."
"Are you sure you don't know his name?" Wyatt asked angrily, still holding the energy ball in his palm. He inched it closer to the demon.
"No, we don't. He didn't say." The demon answered in a panic. Wyatt lost his cool and reeled his arm back. He thrust it forward, the energy ball striking the demon and vanquishing him instantly.
The other demons tried to run in fear, but Wyatt was too quick for them. He tossed one demon into a wall with his telekinesis and thrust another energy ball at one of the other demons. "Still don't know his name?" Wyatt asked, feeling furious now. The demons looked at him, but didn't offer an answer. "Fine." He pushed both hands out, making a similar motion that his mother did. A wave of energy crashed into the demons, forcing them back as they all turned into dust. They were all vanquished at once.
Piper and Chris were standing in a warehouse, waiting for Paige. It had been over two weeks since Chris' run in with his own brother and now he stood, pacing, waiting to take out a demon. It was some sort of slime demon that fed off of ones magic. Other than that, not much else had been known about the demon. No one in the future had ever been able to vanquish it.
"She should have been here by now." Chris said, practically wearing a rut in the floor where he had been pacing.
"So, she's a little late." Piper replied, like it was no big deal.
Chris turned to Piper. "No, she's a lot late." He thrust his arms out in anger. "Paige used to be the first one to a vanquish. What's wrong with her?"
Piper cocked her head towards Chris. "She's in love, that's hardly wrong." Piper admitted.
"It is when it interferes with her responsibilities as a Charmed One." Chris said angrily.
Piper was beyond annoyed with Chris. "Why don't you just let me handle this one alone?" She asked, just wanting to be done with the situation.
"Because, you've handled the last four vanquishes alone." Chris explained. "I swear, you never should have let them move out."
A little over two weeks ago, Piper had let her sisters move out of the manor. Paige had informed her that she was moving in with Richard, taking their relationship to the next level. She spent most nights at his place anyways. Phoebe had decided to take Elise up on her offer to work from China, so she could be with Jason. She didn't want to be one of those woman that Elise described to her, a woman who put her career before happiness. Piper wanted her sisters to be happy, so she gave them her blessing when they had moved out.
Chris was far from happy about them moving, but try as he might, he could not stop it. He was worried that the sisters were beginning to stray too far apart from one another, that their Charmed bond would be weakened. He was also worried that if they strayed too far apart, than they would not be able to protect Wyatt.
"Hey, you don't see me complaining." Piper exclaimed. "I'm happy for them and you should be too." She took a quick glance around the warehouse. "So where is this demon, what's it's name?" She asked curiously.
Chris looked her in the eye. He shrugged his shoulders. "No one knows it's name and it's too strong for one witch to handle." He explained. That was why he wanted one her sisters there with her.
The warehouse door opened behind them. They both turned to see Darryl Morris popping his head in. "How much longer is this gonna take?" He asked curiously. He had been keeping all of the workers out of the warehouse, while Piper and Chris dealt with the demon situation. The workers were starting to get restless though.
Piper's mouth opened, as if to answer his question. She spoke to Chris instead. "Go see what Phoebe's doing." She suggested. Maybe Phoebe could help them.
He turned and walked out a side door of the warehouse, hoping that none of the employees were waiting there. From their he orbed out to Honk Kong, which was now where Phoebe was living. He appeared in a modernly decorated apartment, that had flares of Chinese designing scattered subtly through out it.
Phoebe was sitting at a table working on something. Chris couldn't tell what it was, but what ever it was involved folding paper. She was caught off guard when he appeared to her, causing her to gasp and nearly slide right off of her chair.
Chris glanced out the window, it looked to be early morning in China. They sun was barely even up. "We need you for a demon vanquish."
"Oh, ok." She stood from her chair and grabbed something. It was an origami tiger. Chris grabbed a hold of her and orbed right back to the warehouse.
They both walked inside. Phoebe ran over to Piper, squealing in excitement as she did so. They both hugged tightly. She felt as if it had been a lifetime since she had seen Piper, though it had only been two weeks.
"Hi, wow." Piper said as they embraced. She was glad to see her sister.
Phoebe pulled away from Piper. "Oh, how's Wyatt? I miss him so much?"
"He misses you too." Piper said. She looked her sister over. "Is this a good time?"
"No, this is a great time." Phoebe assured Piper. She waved her origami in the air. "Jason's away at a conference and I was just practicing my origami." She waved it in front of Chris' face and held it out to Piper. Chris stood next to her with his arms folded. He rolled his eyes at the tiger. "This is a tiger. You can have that."
Piper laughed as she looked over the tiger. Chris interrupted the sisters. "Can we get the show on the road here?" He asked, wanting to be done with the demon just as much as Piper did.
"Ok." Phoebe replied. "What do you want me to do?"
"You're the bait." Chris explained. "All you gotta do is levitate into the air and when this demon senses your magic it's gonna come fast and hard."
"Ok, be careful of my origami. That tiger took two frickin' hours." She said. Piper turned and set the tiger on some boxes behind them, keeping it from harms way. Phoebe stood strong and focused.
"Ok, lets do it." Chris suggested. It was now or never. Phoebe's arms raised slowly from her sides and she started to slowly float off the ground. Her head glanced around as she levitated in the air, searching for whatever demon it was they were trying to vanquish.
Something started moving along the floor, almost as if it were just under the floor. It made Phoebe think of the creature in the movie 'Tremors.' It came hard and fast, finally whipping through the air. Her face filled with terror as green slime started to overcome her body. It seemed to cocoon her as it began to feed on her magic.
Piper immediately freaked out. Screaming, she threw out her arms. The green slime exploded, leaving remnants all over the warehouse. Phoebe fell to the ground, covered in the slimy goo. Piper was partially covered as well.
She walked to the warehouse door as Chris helped Phoebe to her feet. "All clear." Piper said to the crowd outside.
Chris was sitting in the nursery now, with Leo and baby Wyatt. Piper and Phoebe had to get all of the slime cleaned off of themselves and change clothes, so he decided to see what Leo had been up to. He was reluctant in doing so at first because in the future that he came from, Leo was just a random person that happened to pop into his life on occasion. He was hardly there for him. He knew that Leo wanted to protect Wyatt just as much as he did though and that was why he decided to put up with him for a few minutes.
"So, Piper is really worried about you." Leo said to Chris. "She's worried that your attacker is going to strike again."
"I told her to stop worrying." Chris replied. "I don't think he wants to hurt me anyways."
"And why is that?" Leo pried.
"It's just a hunch." Chris explained. Actually it was more than a hunch. There was something different about Wyatt. When he ran into him at the club, his brother had hesitated with the energy ball. Usually he would have unleashed at Chris without so much as a thought.
"Yes, well he could still come back and I think you should at least warn the sisters about what they are up against, in case he shows up again." Leo explained.
"Your probably right." Chris admitted. Just because Leo was right, didn't mean he was going to tell the sisters anything though. He couldn't bare to tell them that his mystery attacker was, in fact, Wyatt and that Wyatt was the one terrorizing everyone in the future. More than likely, they would think he was talking nonsense. He wasn't sure if Wyatt would show his face again, would allow their own mother to see him again. It was strange though, Wyatt had seemed dead set on getting Chris home and now he had left him alone for over two weeks. Chris had no idea why, but he was glad for it.
The door opened to the room, stopping Chris and Leo's conversation. Phoebe's eyes gazed around at the room as she and Paige walked in. She let out a big smile when her eyes rested on Wyatt. She ran over to him and gave him a big hug. "Oh, hi baby." She said in pure excitement.
"This one too." Paige said curiously, referring to her room. It had become Wyatt's new bedroom. They had already been in Phoebe's room, which had been turned into some sort of exorcise room.
Phoebe had knelt next to the rocker, still ogling over little Wyatt. She looked up at Paige. "Yeah, you move it you lose it in this family" She replied.
"You could lose a lot more than a bedroom when this is over." Chris shot back, glad that Paige had finally showed up. He was worried that the sisters weren't focused enough on their Wiccan duties. He wasn't sure how to refocus them though.
"Gee, Hi Chris!" Phoebe retorted back. It seemed that he couldn't let them relax for even a moment.
Leo looked at Chris and then turned his gaze to Phoebe. "It's his job to offer his opinion." He explained.
A trickle of green slime oozed out of a heat vent in the floor, aimed for Chris' shoe. No one had even seemed to notice it. "You know, the only reason she is here is because Paige missed another vanquish." Chris informed Leo.
"Another one?" He asked curiously.
"Yeah, that makes what..." Chris looked over at Paige, who had just taken a seat next to him. "Five in a row now."
"You guys are such nags." Paige said in defense.
"When did you two become so chummy?" Phoebe asked, barely able to believe how well Chris and Leo were getting along.
"We're not chummy." Leo corrected her. "He's just been through a lot to protect Wyatt. Instead of doubting him, I figured we may as well help him a little."
Piper walked in the room with a smile on her face. "So what do you guys think?" She asked, referring to the room. "Do you like Wyatt's new room?"
Both sisters had the same answer. "I like it. I just liked my room too."
"Well, you guys were the ones that moved out, not me." Piper declared. "It's always yours if you need to come back though."
Phoebe looked at Piper, understanding her point. "So, where are my clothes?" She asked. She had taken her other clothes off to be washed of the green slime, wearing one of Piper's robes in the meantime.
Piper had informed them that their stuff was boxed up in the attic. So, she led the way and her sisters followed in tow.
Chris and Leo remained talking amongst themselves as the girls did their own little thing in the attic. Leo thought it would be good for the sisters to do a little bonding. Chris had to agree with him, as he was so stressed that they would eventually stray too far away from one another. Sisterly bonding would hopefully keep that from happening.
"Chris, Leo." They both heard one of the sisters shouting. Both men starred at each other for a moment, worry forming in their faces. Leo jumped up from the chair, laying Wyatt in his crib, and followed Chris up to the girls.
"We lost Paige" Phoebe stated, as they walked in. They both glanced around the attic, but Paige was nowhere in sight.
"What do you mean you lost Paige?" Chris asked curiously.
Piper and Phoebe both explained to them that they had lost Paige when she put on a pair of go-go boots, boots that may have belonged to their mother.
"Well, if we want to understand what happened to Paige, maybe we need to summon your mother and ask her about it." Chris had suggested. Leo was inclined to agree with Chris and shook his head for Phoebe and Piper to see.
Phoebe set about gathering the right amount of candles, laying them out in a circle on the floor of the attic. She began lighting them one by one.
Piper was sitting on a chair near the candle lit circle. "If I hadn't have taken over Paige's room, this never would have happened. This is all my fault." She thought out loud, making it seem like she was some awful person.
Leo and Chris spoke in unison. "What's done is done."
Phoebe glanced over at Chris and Leo, just as she lit the last candle. She had a look of disgust on her face. "You two need to get a room." She said to them. They looked at one another, but said nothing.
"Yeah." Piper agreed.
Then, they turned back to Phoebe as she began to recite the spell to summon her mother. "Hear these words, hear my cries, spirit from the other side. Come to me, I summon thee. Cross now the great divide." She finished.
Golden orbs began to swirl within the circle of candles. At the same time, the slime oozed out of Chris shoe, covering his entire foot. He looked down, trying to shake it from him. Patty Halliwell formed in the circle and stepped out, embracing Phoebe.
"Oh, Phoebe." She said with a smile. She held her tightly.
The slime had covered both of Chris' feet now, as he struggled to get them free.
Piper walked over and took a turn hugging her mother. "Hi Piper." Patty said. She held her just as tightly as she had held Phoebe.
Piper slowly pulled away. "Uh, we got a problem." She tried to explain.
Patty glanced over at Chris, not sure of who he was. The slime was climbing up his legs. "Well, your not the only one."
Piper and Phoebe looked over at Chris. They had assumed the slime had been vanquished. Oh how wrong they were.
Leo looked down at Chris' legs. "Orb out." He suggested.
"No, magic makes it grow." Chris explained to Leo. "Summoning her spirit has already made it stronger."
The slime moved up around Chris' stomach now. "Chris just let me blast it." Piper said, ready to throw her hands up.
Chris was shaking his head. He didn't want to be blown into pieces. Piper didn't know that Chris was half witch, which meant that he was essentially half mortal. The average white lighter was someone who had already been dead, so they could reform if Piper had blasted them with her power. Chris was not the average white lighter. More than likely, a blast from Piper would kill him.
"Oh just listen to them." Patty said, assuming he must have been her daughters new white lighter. She had heard rumors about them getting a rookie new white lighter when Leo had become an Elder. "We'll vanquish that slime later."
As the slime was inching closer to his head, he decided to listen to Leo and orb. When he was mid orb, Piper put her hands out, blowing up the goo once more. It exploded onto the floor, seeping into it's cracks. Chris reformed and leaned down, his hands resting on his knees. He was trying to re-catch his breath after the slime had nearly intoxicated him.
"Oh." Piper said as the slime slithered into the floor. Chris looked at her shaking his head in disbelief.
Patty, Piper, and Phoebe all migrated to the living room so they could sit and discuss what may have happened to Paige. Chris and Leo, searched throughout the manor, trying to locate the slime. It seemed to be within the walls of the old home.
Chris placed his ear to one of the walls and heard the slime, gurgling within it. "I think it's in the wall." He said. The wall cracked just after he spoke, causing him to back away immediately.
"Yep, it's in the wall." Leo replied, confirming the obvious.
Chris turned to the sisters. "We're gonna need Paige. I think it's going to take the power of three to vanquish it."
I realize that my chapters probably don't end in the best places, but my story doesn't necessarily have chapters. It just has certain breaks in the story, hence the lines splitting up parts of my writing. So I've just been taken huge chunks and putting them into chapters here. Sorry about that. Anyways..enjoy!