Here is the next update...I'll warn you now that I didn't change too much in this section. Once again...I do not own Charmed.
Late the next afternoon, Chris and Leo stood atop the Golden Gate Bridge once more. Leo had spoken with the Elders about The Order, wondering why they could be after his son. The Elders weren't one hundred percent sure on why they had been after Wyatt, but they did give Leo some sort of idea as to why.
"So, what did they Elders say?" Chris asked impatiently. He hadn't heard from Wyatt yet and wondered if he had had any luck in finding The Order in the underworld. Until he heard from his brother, he would just have to work with Leo to resolve the demonic issue at hand.
"Well, they weren't entirely sure why they wanted Wyatt, but they have been waiting for their leader to be reborn. The Elders think that maybe they believe Wyatt to be the reincarnation of their leader." Leo explained.
"So they are after him because they think he is their leader and they want him to reclaim his place amongst them?" Chris asked, trying understand exactly what it was that the Elders were implying.
"I guess it seems so." Leo replied.
"We should warn the sisters so they know what they are up against." Chris suggested.
"Good idea, anything to help Wyatt." Leo replied.
Both Chris and Leo turned into orbs and headed to the manor. When they appeared in the parlor, they both noticed that Paige was placing crystals around the home. It was probably a good idea to be doing so, as they would detect if evil tried to enter the house.
Phoebe popped out from behind Paige, noticing Leo and Chris. "Hey." She said greeting them.
"Where's Piper?" Leo asked, assuming she was in another room of the house.
Phoebe looked at Leo curiously. "Uh, she's out. Why?" She asked.
"Because we know who is after Wyatt and we think they will attack again." Chris explained with his hands on his hips.
"And who might that be?" Paige asked with concern.
Leo explained this time. "A demonic cult known as The Order. They used to be the most powerful force in the underworld until their leader was vanquished." He informed the two sisters.
"And guess what?" Chris picks up one of Wyatt's toys. "They think he's been reincarnated." He said, referring to The Order's leader.
"Wyatt." Paige guessed. Chris nodded his head, indicating that she was correct in her assumption.
"He's young enough to be turned evil. Especially by them." Leo explained. "Where is Wyatt? Is he with Piper?"
The front door opened, causing everyone to turn their heads curious to see who it was. They assumed it was just Piper though.
"Anybody home?" She asked cheerfully.
They all walked over to greet her and see what she had been up to. "Where have you been?" Paige asked from the parlor as she made her way to the front door where Piper was.
Piper was carrying several different shopping bags and she had a hat on that was made from balloons. "Well, everywhere actually." Piper explained as she walked towards the round table near the stairway. "First we went shopping and then we went for a boat ride. We had a picnic in the park and then we stopped at the fair." She took off her balloon hat, setting it on the table and then she set her bags on the floor near the table.
Chris glanced around, not seeing Wyatt. "Piper, where's Wyatt?" He asked with concern.
"Oh, he's coming." She said, looking back towards the door.
Both Chris and Leo turned to the door as well, waiting to see who was bringing him in. Soft singing could be heard just outside the door. It opened, revealing a tall, but firm Latin type of man who had lustrous black hair. He was pushing in Wyatt's stroller with a balloon in one hand as he held the stroller and a big teddy bear in his other arm.
"If your happy and you know it clap your hands..." The man was singing softly to Wyatt. He looked up as he entered the manor, feeling everyone's eyes on him. "Hello." He said to them with a slight accent.
Chris had a look of pure disgust when he saw the man. He had thought Piper was giving up on men, giving up on love, yet she had spent the day with some overly handsome Latino man.
"Who are you?" Leo asked curiously.
"He, he's just a date." Phoebe said, causing Chris to glare at her suspiciously.
"A guy." Paige added in quickly.
Piper came forward, walking towards the man. "You don't have a name yet do you?" She asked him.
Chris turned to Piper, his eyes following her as she walked. "What does that mean? He doesn't have a name." He asked.
"Why not call me David." The man suggested, speaking with a slight accent. "You've always liked the name."
"No, I mean, yes." She said to him, getting closer. She turned and smiled to everyone. "Isn't he perfect?" Paige and Phoebe both stared at him as if they were completely smitten.
"What the hell's going on here?" Leo asked with confusion. He had no idea who the man was or why Piper had been with him.
"You don't have to feel threatened by me." David replied. "No one can replace you in Wyatt's eyes and Piper wouldn't want anyone to."
Leo turned to Phoebe, hoping for an explanation. "Phoebe." He said sternly.
She gritted her teeth together, dreading what Leo and Chris would have to say about the situation. They had actually made David for Piper with magic, to remind her what it was like to love. Piper had told Phoebe and Paige that she was going to swear off men so she could focus on raising Wyatt and both sisters thought that her decision was a huge mistake. They had hoped creating David for her would help her to realize her mistake, would help her to find love again. Phoebe looked at Piper and David. "Why don't you guys put Wyatt down for his nap." She suggested, so she and Paige could talk to Leo and Chris alone. "I'm sure he's really tired from all this excitement."
"Ok." David said, pushing the stroller towards the stairs. He started to sing again softly. Piper smiled and followed behind him.
Chris and Leo were both eying Paige now. She was looking awfully suspicious and now as they were eying her, she couldn't keep her mouth shut. "Alright, so I made him out of my own little brew." She blurted out.
"You what?" Leo snapped at her with enough force that Chris decided to keep his anger to himself for the moment.
"Well, Piper was going to give up on love and on her birthday no less." Phoebe said, trying to defend what Paige had done.
"So you conjured a man?" Chris asked, trying to keep his cool.
"No, not just any man. The perfect man." Paige corrected Chris. "See, he's somebody who knows exactly what she wants and he's just gonna be here long enough to straighten her out."
"Twenty four hours, that's it." Phoebe added, like what they had done was no big deal. "That's good right?"
"Not even twenty four, more like eight and than sadly, he goes poof." Paige said, feeling a little sad that David would be leaving them.
"Yeah." Phoebe confirmed. Then, she spoke very seriously. "You don't want her to live without love, Do you, Leo?"
Chris glanced over at Leo, awaiting his answer. Leo leaned in a bit closer to the girls. "Well talk about this later, after we deal with the order." He said, changing the subject. He didn't want to admit that it pained him to see his wife with another man. Deep down, he still loved Piper and he would always love Piper.
Darryl Morris peaked his head in the front entrance of the manor. Piper had left it open when she came in from all of her activities with Wyatt and David. Paige and Phoebe were the first to notice him. "Is this a bad time, I just wanted to drop this off." He said, holding up a small rounded package. Leo and Chris turned to him.
"Darryl." Paige said surprised. "Why don't you just wait for dinner?" Her and Phoebe had a dinner planned that evening for Piper's birthday. They had invited Darryl and Sheila for dinner, so Paige wondered somewhat suspiciously why he was there so early and without Sheila no less.
"Dinner." Darryl said almost as if he had forgotten about it He held up the gift again. "Actually this is for Wyatt, so he has a little something to open up too."
"Oh, that's so sweet." Phoebe said with a smile as she walked over to take the gift from him.
She had it in her hand for barely a moment. "It was Sheila's idea." He said, grabbing it back from her. "Do you mind if I give it to him?"
"Sure, yeah. They're upstairs." She said.
"Thanks." He replied. He started towards the stairs as everyone's eyes seemed to follow him suspiciously.
Chris turned to Phoebe and then to Paige. "Don't you think we should cancel the dinner party?" He asked, knowing that they had a demon situation to take care of.
"No." Paige said as she walked off to the kitchen. Chris looked over at Phoebe, wondering if she felt the same way and Phoebe just shrugged her shoulders.
"Oh, come on guys." Chris tried to argue. "There are more important things to deal with at the moment than some stupid dinner party."
"Chris, it's Piper's birthday." Phoebe replied angered with him. "We are not going to let anything ruin her birthday."
Chris shook his hands in frustration. He looked over at Leo. "A little help here." He pleaded.
Leo shook his head. "I don't think we're going to change their minds." He replied.
Phoebe had started to walk away from them so she could help Paige in the kitchen. Chris stopped her though. "What about your nephew?" He asked. "There are demons after him, a whole cult of demons. Do you think Piper wants you to have this party if it may put her son at risk?"
She turned to Chris. He had a point. She walked back over to him, just as Piper and David started to emerge from upstairs. "Piper, we think Wyatt may be in danger." She said.
Piper was holding the baby monitor in her hands. Only moments ago, she had let Darryl into his room so he could leave Wyatt a present. The baby monitor was doing an unusual crackling sound. They hadn't realized, but the monitor upstairs had been turned off. That was the reason for the crackling sound.
"Why's it doing that?" Chris asked curiously, referring to the baby monitor.
Piper went into a panic. She turned and pushed passed David, running back to Wyatt's room. Leo panicked as well and ran after her. Everyone else followed suite.
When Piper walked into the room, she saw a familiar figure standing in one corner. He gestured his hands out like she had always done when she used her powers and a demon that was standing over Wyatt's crib turned into flames. Little Wyatt had put up his shield against the demon and was crying uncontrollably. When Piper walked over to him, he put it down. She picked him up, trying to soothe him. "It's ok." She said softly, holding him close. Leo and every one else ran into the room and saw the presence in the corner.
"You need to keep a better eye on me, Christopher." He said sternly.
"Wyatt." Piper said softly at the sight of him. He was definitely Chris' attacker at P3 all of those weeks ago. As her son stood before her, he wreaked of evil. His whole appearance seemed to be evil. She didn't understand how her son could turn out like that in the future.
Wyatt ignored her comment and continued barraging his little brother. "I came here to protect you and now I'm having to protect myself." He turned to David before Chris could even say anything back to him. "Who the hell are you?"
"I am David." He answered. Of course, the name David had meant nothing to Wyatt.
"He's been my date for the day." Piper said.
"What?" He snapped, causing her to jump back and shield little Wyatt's ears. He looked at Chris curiously. "Is there something I should know?"
"We can't talk about this here." Chris answered, shaking his head.
"Talk about what?" Leo replied. "Piper and I are just on a little break right now."
"He's busy with his Elder duties now." Piper said nonchalantly.
"Elder duties?" He looked at Chris with anger all over his face. "Taking a little break?" His father wasn't supposed to become an Elder until a few years after Chris had been born and his parents had never really split up in the future, but his father had let his Elder duties somewhat consume him in the future, which did cause them to see very little of him. Why had things changed all of a sudden? Why would Chris have changed all of that? If Piper and Leo were not together, how would they be able to conceive Chris? Too many questions were floating through his mind. He could barely focus on a single one of them.
Paige and Phoebe had yet to speak. They were simply watching as the events slowly unfolded before them. Little Wyatt had seemed to be ok though and that was what mattered the most.
Wyatt looked at Chris once more. "We need to talk when this is all over with." He said angrily. Black orbs surrounded him as he left the manor.
"You two need to talk?" Piper questioned curiously. She shuddered at the thought of Wyatt black orbing. "How do you two even know each other?"
"It's complicated." Chris answered with a shrug of his shoulder.
"Of course it is." Paige said sarcastically. "I'm gonna guess it has something to do with future consequences."
"I think we should check on Darryl, make sure he is ok." Phoebe suggested, somewhat changing the subject.
"I'll orb over there and check on him." Leo volunteered. He turned to walk out of the nursery.
Paige and Phoebe followed him. "We need to get ready for the dinner." Paige said.
Chris followed the girls out, not wanting to be alone with his mother. "You're still not canceling the dinner?" He asked, feeling like he wasn't getting through to them at all. After the last demon attack, he would have thought that it might have knocked some sense into the sisters. Apparently, it hadn't.
Paige and Phoebe's heads both turned to Chris as they made their way downstairs. "No." They both answered annoyed. They were determined to keep the dinner plan on schedule, determined to have a normal evening.
Leo's orbs formed in the front hall of the manor. He gazed around looking for Chris or any one of the sisters. Phoebe was standing at the dining room table, setting the dishes for the dinner they had planned for Piper.
He walked towards her, wanting to let her know that Darryl was alright. "Hey, talked to Darryl." He said, getting her attention.
"And?" She asked curiously.
"He's fine, the demons never went near him." Leo explained. Relief washed over Phoebe. "He actually said they should be over shortly."
Chris walked in from the kitchen. "Paige is in there actually trying to cook." He said to Phoebe, before he even noticed Leo. "She won't listen to a word I'm saying."
Piper made her way downstairs with David in tow. Wyatt had finally fallen back to sleep and she felt content to leave him be again. She found everyone, aside from Paige, talking in the dining room.
"I think I have an idea of how we can protect Wyatt." She said. The room went eerily quiet as they all stared at her awaiting an explanation. "We can bind Wyatt's powers." As she spoke her last line, she did so as calm as she could be. She knew it was a crazy idea, but maybe it could help to protect her son.
"Finally, some common sense." Chris replied, happy that she was ready to consider his idea.
"Piper, you can't do that." Leo said. "He's our son and we make this decision together. I won't allow you to do that."
"How do you know this will actually protect him?" Phoebe asked. Her sister had never wanted to bind Wyatt's powers before. It was never even an option before. "Taking away his powers are not necessarily going to protect him. I don't think that it's a good idea."
"Don't think what's a good idea?" Paige asked as she walked in with a tray in each hand. She started to place them on the table as Piper explained.
"I want to bind Wyatt's powers." Piper explained.
"What, you're not serious are you?" Paige asked. Piper had never wanted to do that before when demons were after him. Why did she want to do that now?
"Yes, she's serious." David said as Piper nodded her head.
Leo looked at her with anger in his eyes, as Phoebe spoke. "Well, to bind someone with that kind of magic is going to take the power of three and we won't help you do that." She said, putting her foot down.
The door bell rang, causing everyone to turn their heads to the front door. It must have been Darryl and Sheila. "Come on in." Paige yelled across the house as she started walking towards the door to greet them.
The door opened and the couple walked in. "Hey, Paige." Darryl said.
"Hey, glad to see that you're ok." She said.
He smiled. "Me too."
They walked back to the dining room. "Happy Birthday." Sheila said as she made her way to Piper, hugging her and holding out a small gift bag.
"Aw, thanks." Piper said with a smile. She took the bag and set it on the table behind her, which sat under the window.
"The food smells great." Darryl said.
"Well, have a seat." Paige said. "I'm gonna bring out the rest of it."
"I should get going. Call me if you need me Piper." Leo said. He felt a little out of place amongst all of them, given the situation between him and Piper.
"Ok, thanks." She replied to him.
Leo started turning into orbs. "Wait, what about Wyatt?" Chris tried to protest. It was no use. Leo disappeared from sight. He turned to Piper. "We don't have time for this Piper. We need to be looking for the demons that are after Wyatt."
"Oh, Chris you worry to much." Phoebe said, before Piper could actually respond.
"You're not worrying enough." He mumbled back to her, but she ignored him.
"So who's this?" Sheila asked curiously, placing her hands on David's shoulder.
"This is David." Piper said. "David this is..."
"Sheila." David said. He turned to Sheila. "It's a pleasure to meet you." He turned to Darryl. "You must be Darryl."
"Yeah, nice to meet you." Darryl replied. They shook hands.
"He seems fantastic, where'd you find a catch like that?" Sheila asked Piper, as Darryl walked over to grab a plate of ham from Paige.
"My sisters made him actually." Piper said with a smile. She was feeling very giddy. "He's so perfect."
"Made him magically?" Sheila asked trying to understand. She was new to the knowledge of magic and wasn't sure what the girls could and couldn't do with magic.
"They did make him, didn't they?" Chris mumbled to himself. He started to walk off, heading towards the attic.
He made his way up the stairs, trying to think of a way to make the sisters agree on binding Wyatt's powers. He wondered if maybe he could use David to do that.
Chris walked in the room and found the small cauldron with a potion sitting on the table in the middle of the attic. There were some ingredients spread out on the table around it. He glanced at the book of shadows that was on the table as well and it was still opened to the spell they used. He looked it over trying to see exactly how they had made David.
David walked up behind him. "Chris, Piper sent me up to check on you." He said.
Chris turned to him. "Yeah, that's so nice of her." Chris replied sarcastically. "I'm busy though."
"Doing what?" He asked curiously.
"The sisters made you right?" Chris asked. David nodded. "And you have quite an influence on Piper, wouldn't you say?"
"Actually, I just reflect what she wants." David explained.
"So they just wrote down what she wanted and that was that?" Chris asked with a raise of his eyebrow. David nodded again. Chris reached for a piece of paper and a pen. He wrote down something random and put it into the potion.
David glowed and twitched quickly. "What were we just talking about?" He asked, having lost his train of thought for a moment.
"Uh, Paige and what she looks for in a man." Chris lied, hoping David would answer without any questions.
"Paige wants a man she can openly practice magic around, one she won't feel suppressed by." David explained. Chris wrote it down and put it in the potion. David glowed and twitched again.
"And what about Phoebe?" Chris asked.
"She wants the same thing, plus she wants him to be available to live near her heart." David also explained. Chris wrote on another paper, throwing it in to potion.
"Wow this potion packs one hell of a punch. Just one more thing..." Chris thought out loud. He wrote something on a paper about binding Wyatt's powers and threw it into the potion, hoping that in doing so, it would allow David to persuade the girls that what they want is to bind Wyatt's powers. "Magical Pheromones, nice." He thought when he spotted them on the table. He added the whole bottle of those into the potion as well.
David glowed and twitched one last time before Chris lead him back downstairs to the girls. Everyone was sitting around the table and they had started to pass around dishes of food.
"Hey, we saved some seats for you guys." Phoebe said. "You can sit over by Piper, David."
There was a seat open by Piper and one open by Phoebe. "Why don't I sit here." He said, taking the seat next to Phoebe. She gave him a curious look. "I'm here for you Phoebe, not off in some far away land doing business. "
"I like the sound of that." Phoebe said blushing.
"You shouldn't have to hide your secret." He also said and than he turned to Paige. "You can openly practice your magic in front of me. I won't make you feel like you have to constantly suppress it."
Paige smiled as Piper was starting to get a little angry. David got up and started to massage Paige's shoulders. "Oh that feels wonderful." Paige said, really getting into the moment.
Piper smacked Paige in the arm. "Hey, get your own gift." She snarled.
"Is this something demonic?" Darryl asked Chris, as the sisters continued to fight for David's affection.
"No, it's something messed up." He replied softly. Things were not exactly going as Chris would have liked them to.
"He's mine." Piper said, trying to pry David away from Paige.
"But I made him." Paige replied. She picked up a chunk of ham and threw it at Piper, but Piper used her power to freeze it before it hit her. She than grabbed it and threw it right back. Paige reacted with her power though. "Ham." She said, engulfing it in orbs and aiming it away from her. It struck Phoebe smack in the center of the face.
"That's it." Phoebe said. She scooped up a handful of potatoes and whipped it through the air at Paige, striking the lower part of her face. The girls were now in an all out food war.
"I think we should go." Sheila said to Chris. She started to rise from her seat.
"I think that's a good idea." Chris replied. He never wanted them to come over in the first place.
"Ok, well tell the girls we said thanks for dinner." Darryl said, taking his wife's hand. He lead her out of the manor, trying to avoid being struck by food.
"This is not supposed to be happening." Chris said to David. "Get them to bind Wyatt's powers now."
Wyatt stood near an endless pit in the underworld. It wasn't very big, but it was hard to miss. Hot flames seemed to flow out of it, almost like steam would flow out of a geyser. Wyatt wasn't sure that the pit was endless because anyone that Wyatt had seen thrown into the pit burned instantly. He had put a few demons through the fire of the pit, as well as a few people that Chris may have deemed innocent. He had had good reason in burning them though, or so he thought.
This flaming 'geyser' was one of Wyatt's favorite places in the underworld. He felt himself mesmerized by the flames every time he was near it. He liked the warmth of the flames and the color. They had a blueish tint to them, with red highlights, amongst the usual orange glow. This was his place to think, his sanctuary. Much like his father stood atop the Golden Gate Bridge sensing for evil in the mortal world, Wyatt stood here sensing for enemies in the underworld.
He closed his eyes, trying to focus on the demons that were after little Wyatt. He had just saved him earlier from one of the demons. Technically, he had actually saved himself. He knew the demon was part of a demonic cult and he was hoping that if he focused hard enough, he could find where they were in the underworld and vanquish them before they could attack again.
Wyatt's eyes opened. He knew where the cult was. He contemplated getting his brother as backup, but quickly decided against it. He didn't want to seem weak and he figured he could handle the demons on his own.
"Leo." Phoebe called. She was sitting in the attic with, Chris , David, and her sisters. Wyatt was sitting in a playpen in the middle of the attic playing with some toys.
"Leo." Piper called out.
Leo orbed in next to the playpen wondering what the sisters wanted. He looked around and they were each covered in some kind of food. "What's going on?" He asked curiously.
"You don't want to know." Chris replied. "The sisters have something to tell you."
He looked at them all suspiciously. "We've all agreed to bind Wyatt's powers." Phoebe said to him.
Leo's eyes got big as his face filled with panic. "What? You can't be serious." He replied angrily.
"They have never been more serious in their lives." David said.
Leo looked over at David. "I wasn't talking to you." He looked back at the girls. "I can't let you do this."
Three demons shimmered into the attic, all wearing the same black robes as the other demons that had attacked. Wyatt's shield had raised around him and Leo. One of the demons pulled out a small scepter, which Piper had recognized instantly as the 'metal rod thingy' she had described to Chris. It was aimed at Wyatt and his eyes glowed red for a moment and then, Leo was forced backwards away from him. His shield had repelled him. The three demons walked into Wyatt's shield as Piper tried to blow them up. Wyatt's shield had protected them though. "He's one of us now." One of the demons said with content. The three demons shimmered out with Wyatt.
"What the hell just happened?" Piper asked angrily.
The demons appeared in the underworld. One of the demons grabbed Wyatt, holding him up for the others to see. He pulled Wyatt down, setting him on an alter in the middle of their lair. Another demon brought over a toddler sized black robe. They put Wyatt in it. "Now that our leader is back we can finally rise again and claim our rightful place in the underworld." One of the demons said.
"I always hoped this day would come." The other demon said.
"Not so fast." A furious Wyatt said to the demons. They both turned to him, wondering why the baby had not put up his shield for protection.
"Who are you?" The first demon asked, as others began to surround them.
"Well, you see..." Wyatt started as the demons formed energy balls. "He's me and I'm not your leader." The demons were poised with their energy balls, ready to unleash them. Wyatt put out his hands, sending a wave of energy at a handful of the demons, turning them to dust. The other demons took a step back, frightful of such a strong power. "Throw those energy balls at me and you'll all die." He snarled.
In the attic of the manor, Piper , Paige, and Phoebe had all surrounded Chris. They practically had him cornered. He took a step back. "They took my son." Piper said angrily.
"And this is my fault?" Chris asked, trying to back further away.
"The magical pheromones wore off after the demons got Wyatt." Paige said. They had already sent David out of the room so they could talk with Chris. "Right after David had seemingly put us under his little spell and convinced us that WE wanted to bind Wyatt's powers."
"That's a bit of a coincidence, don't you think?" Phoebe asked Chris.
"Come on, Leo." Chris pleaded. "A little help here."
"I'm sorry Chris, but you tricked them." Leo said. "I can't help you out of this one."
"I was trying to protect Wyatt, something you guys should have been doing instead of that stupid dinner." Chris replied, trying to defend himself.
"You didn't have to trick us." Piper said.
"You saw him." Chris said to her. "Do you really want him to become that in the future? That's why I came back here, to keep him from turning evil."
"And what, he picked on you in the future, picked on your family?" Piper asked.
"Yes, that's exactly it." Chris answered truthfully for once, though not giving his mother all of the exact details. "He's killed helpless people in my future and I came to stop that."
"By getting rid of Wyatt's powers?" Leo asked.
"That wasn't really the plan, but..." Chris tried to reply.
Piper cut him off. "Just stop. I don't want to hear anymore. I am gonna get my son back and when I do, I don't want to see you ever again."
"You don't mean that." Chris shot back. He couldn't believe his own mother was saying that to him.
"Yes, I do." Piper said sternly. "Just get out."
"But I can help get Wyatt back." He argued.
"Haven't you already helped enough?" Paige asked sarcastically.
"Look, you can hate me later, but we have to get Wyatt back and I know how." Chris said.
"And how is that?" Piper asked angrily. She hated him right now, wished she could use her power on him.
"The demons reversed his morality, that's why his shield repels you and protects them now." Chris explained.
"And your point is?" Leo asked, not understanding what Chris was trying to explain.
"His shield goes up around me and since they've reversed his morality..." Chris was interrupted.
"You should be able to get near him." Leo finished, understanding what he was getting at.
"Yes." Chris confirmed his assumption.
"So he views you as a threat?" Piper asked, not really surprised. She was beginning to wonder herself if Chris was a threat. "We don't need your help Chris."
"I'm sorry." He said, before orbing out of the attic.
Chris appeared in the underworld only moments before the Charmed Ones. He felt a familiar presence with him. He turned and saw Wyatt unconscious on the floor. Two demons were tying his hands behind his back as the others surrounded little Wyatt.
"He has returned to us, to his rightful place." Someone who looked like a head demon started to say. The Charmed Ones orbed in and starting attacking before he could finish.
Piper exploded one demon and Phoebe kicked another. The head demon set Wyatt down on the altar, his shield raising up. Piper tried to run to him, but she was thrown back, landing on the floor. She rose to her feet as the head demon formed a fireball. "He protects me now." The demon said. Chris jumped the demon from behind, causing him to kill himself with his own fireball.
The other demons shimmered out, not wanting to lose their lives. Chris stood alone in Wyatt's shield. Phoebe went to untie adult Wyatt and see if he was alright. Piper had picked up the scepter. When the head demon had died, it fell from his robe, rolling outside of the shield. "You need to aim it at Wyatt and it should change him back." He said to her. She seemed leery of doing so. "Trust me."
She aimed the scepter at Wyatt and his eyes glowed just like they had before. His shield went down and she rushed towards him, taking him in her arms.
"How come he didn't raise his shield back up for you?" Paige asked curiously.
He turned to Paige. "I don't know. Looks like he at least trusts me now." Chris replied.
Adult Wyatt rose to his feet slowly. He couldn't believe that a couple of mediocre demons had actually managed to get the best of him. He gazed around spotting almost his entire family. He saw his baby self in Piper's arms and assumed that they had taken out the rest of the demons. He walked over to Chris, grabbing him by the arm. "We need to talk." He said, orbing out with him.
They appeared at the beach. Chris freed himself of Wyatt's grasp and stepped away. He had never dark orbed before and it gave him an eery feeling that he never wanted to have again. He couldn't really place what the feeling was. He felt cold and hot at the same time, fire and ice. He felt a wave of nausea and blackness entering his heart, moving throughout his body. "What do you want and why are we at the beach?"
Wyatt stood silently for a moment, letting the ocean breeze wash over him. His head turned to Chris. "Why are Mom and Dad taking a little break? Why is Dad an Elder? What the hell have you done?" Wyatt asked, bombarding his little brother with questions.
"That doesn't matter right now." Chris replied, looking out over the horizon. The sun was starting to set and the moon was slowly rising up over the water.
"Like hell it doesn't." Wyatt stammered. "What have you done?"
"Look, I didn't mean to split up Mom and Dad." Chris said, trying to defend himself. "But I needed Dad to become an Elder so it would make way for me to be the Charmed Ones white lighter. That was the only way I could get close enough to you, to get close enough to save you."
"How many times do I need to tell you that I don't need saving?" Wyatt asked, rolling his eyes.
"I won't give up on you." Chris argued.
"You destroyed The Order and saved the younger version of me, but I didn't change. Clearly, I am meant to be this way." Wyatt tried to explain.
"No, you're not. Obviously, someone else got to you and changed you." Chris replied. No matter how much Wyatt would try to convince him, he would not give up on trying to save his brother. He would even die if it meant saving his brother.
Wyatt sighed in frustration, assuming he would never get it through his brother's thick skull that he was the way he was by choice. No demon had anything to do with it. In his frustration, he pushed at Chris, causing him to fall forward and land in the wet sand. A wave came up the shore, crashing into him.
He struggled for a moment, waiting for the wave to retreat. He stood up, his clothes sopping wet. A memory came to him. He remembered the last time he had been on the beach with Wyatt. It was a family day, though it had been only their mother that was with them. He had begged his father to be there, but he had claimed to have more pressing matters at hand.
Piper had made a picnic lunch to take with. Wyatt couldn't wait to get into the water, but Chris touched one toe to the water and pulled it back quickly. The water felt like ice to him and he had refused to get in. Wyatt came out of the water, walking over to get a snack from the blanket that Piper had laid out on the sand. Then, he walked up slowly behind Chris and pushed him into an oncoming wave. Chris had screamed as the water rushed over his skin, nearly freezing him. "Mom." He had shoutedfuriously."Wyatt pushed me into the water."Piper had just smiled and told him to push back, so Chris did just that and they spent the rest of the day enjoying the water together.
"Why'd you do that?" Chris asked, feeling the same way he had when Wyatt had done that to him when they were kids.
"Sometimes I wish we were kids again, wish we were still innocent." Wyatt said, feeling vulnerable to his emotions.
He didn't really answer Chris' question, though his brother had accepted it as an answer. "Me too." Chris replied as he took his shirt off and scrunched it in his hand, ringing the water out of it.
They both stood quietly as the sun finished setting and the world turned to darkness. The moon was big and bright, somewhat lighting the beach and the ocean before them. Neither brother dared to speak, as they weren't really sure of what to even say.
The next morning, Leo had orbed up to the Golden Gate Bridge and found Chris sitting there, looking over the city. "Great place to think isn't it?" He asked, bringing Chris out of his thoughts.
It was, in fact, a great place to think. As he sat above the city he had actually been thinking about Wyatt and their encounter on the beach the night before. "What do you want?" Chris asked back.
"Just to talk." Leo explained. "Trust is a precious commodity. Once you lose it, it's pretty hard to get it back."
"What, did you read that out of a fortune cookie?" Chris asked sarcastically.
"Don't be a smart ass, it doesn't help your cause." Leo replied.
"My cause? Pretty much screwed that up don't you think." He said as he was starting to feel hopeless.
"I don't know." Leo said.
"Are you saying you still trust me." Chris replied, getting to his feet.
"It's not my trust that matters." Leo explained. "It's the sisters."
"I know, so what do I do?" He asked, hoping Leo could give him some advice.
"Just be straight with them." Leo suggested. "Don't manipulate them even if it is for the right reason. And for what it's worth, I do still trust you. You did save my son from turning evil, didn't you."
"For now." Chris replied, turning away from Leo. His mind started to drift back into it's thoughts. He knew that there was still goodness in Wyatt's heart, he could sense it last night when he was on the beach with him. For once, Wyatt had actually felt like his brother again, like the one he had considered his best friend as a child, his savior, and his protector. If there was still good in Wyatt's heart, than he could be changed, he could be saved.
Hope you all like the little scene near the end with Wyatt and Chris. It was one of my favorite parts to write for this section of the season. Comments are always appreciated.