So, now that my relatives are gone...here is another update. What will happen at dinner with Victor? I can tell you it surely isn't what happened on the show. Also...I can guarantee that what happened to Rick on the show is much different in my story. I never liked what they did with Rick in the show. Thanks for all the comments. I do not own Charmed.
Chris sat across from his grandfather, browsing through a menu. They were at an Irish pub called Brennigan's. There was a picture of a raven on the menu, which of course had Chris curious. "What's with the raven?" He asked Victor. Across from their table at the pub was even a painting of a Raven amongst a dreary sky, flying with nowhere in particular to go, flying without purpose.
"I think Brennigan is an Irish name, meaning raven." He answered. "This place has the best burgers though, I hope your hungry."
"Yeah, but we should make it quick." Chris replied. "I have MAGICAL things to deal with."
"Well, I'm sure you're mother has everything under control at the manor." He tried to assure Chris.
The waitress came, taking their orders. Both had ordered a simple cheeseburger and whatever beer was on tap. Chris wasn't in the mood for a beer, but Victor had ordered those.
"So what's the future like?" Victor asked curiously.
Chris smiled and shook his head slowly. "I can't answer that." He replied, as the beers were placed on the table.
"Oh come on, you gotta give me something." He pleaded innocently. He took a sip of his beer.
"All I can say is that we become really close in the future." Chris answered.
"And Wyatt, am I close with him too?" Victor asked. Piper had told him a little bit about Wyatt when she talked to him about her pregnancy and Chris. He didn't know much aside from the fact that Wyatt seemed to be essentially evil in the future and that Chris was here in the past to change that.
Chris took in a deep breath and sighed. "You guys were close when he was younger, but after Mom..." He trailed off.
"After your mom, what?" He wondered. Chris turned away, not even wanting to think about what he almost blurted out. "Chris, what happened to your mother?"
"I can't, I can't say." He replied, feeling tears trying to form in his eyes. "The point is that as I got older, I started getting closer with you and Wyatt started pulling away. You were awesome grandpa and you were always there for me."
"Chris, if something happens to my daughter, I want to know." Victor demanded. "I need to know."
Chris sighed again, this time fighting the tears that wanted to stream down his cheeks. Victor could see them swelling in his eyes and knew it was something bad. "I can't talk about that, I don't even want to think about it." He almost sounded angered.
"You know, your mother thinks you're keeping something from her." Victor informed him. "Is this event in the future what you are keeping from her?"
"No, it's nothing." Chris hissed at his grandfather. A tear ran down his cheek.
Victor knew that it pained Chris to think about whatever happened and yet he continued to push. "It's not nothing, not to you." He said. "I can tell."
"Just leave it alone!" Chris pleaded.
"But Chris, you can't keep this to yourself. Tell me what it is, just tell me..." Victor demanded, though his voice wasn't stern at all.
"She dies in the future." Chris blurted out, as more tears made their way to his cheeks. "She dies when I turn fourteen. Are you happy?" He snarled, turning away so his grandfather couldn't see his tears.
The waitress set their burgers on the table and walked off, though neither noticed she had even brought their food. Chris focused on a blank spot on the wall, not wanting to face Victor and Victor starred at Chris in disbelief, unable to even fathom what he was saying.
"She dies?" He asked, trying to verify what he heard. "How?"
"I can't tell you." Chris answered, turning back to him.
Victor could see that Chris' eyes were red from the tears that had started drying on his cheeks. "Oh, Chris. I'm so sorry." He replied solemnly. "I..."
Chris cut him off. "Please don't." He said softly. "I've already come to terms with what happened and as long as I don't get too close to Mom, I should be fine."
"But, why shouldn't you get close to her?" He Victor asked curiously. "She is your mother after all."
"I can't get too close because she won't be there when I go back to the future." Chris answered. He finally noticed his burger and reached for it, taking a huge bite out of it. Maybe if he focused on his burger, the images of his mother's dead body would leave his mind or at least retreat to the back of his mind for the time being.
"Maybe that's all the more reason to get close to her. Heck, maybe you've changed her future and she won't die on your birthday." He replied, though Chris seemed hopeless at the thought. "If you can come back here and change Wyatt, why not your mother?"
"But..." Chris wanted to argue. A yell from across the pub interrupted him.
"There he is!" Someone shouted. Chris whirled around just as a scabber demon was approaching their table.
Chris barely had time to react. Before he knew it, his arms were flinging across the table and his body was lunging towards his grandfather, pushing him backwards, pushing him away from the demons. The scabber demon shot out a stream of acid from his mouth that burned through the table. Another came up from behind him, as Chris and Victor crawled away from the demons.
"What the hell was that?" Victor screamed in terror.
"I don't have time to explain." Chris answered. He glanced back and the demons weren't far behind them. He waved his arm out, sending a table at them as a distractions. "We gotta get out of here." He grabbed his grandfather as they made there way into the hall that lead to the bathrooms.
"Wait, no..." Victor argued, sensing right away that Chris was going to orb from the pub and that is exactly what happened.
Gideon paced his office, the mirror in view. Through the mirror, his other world counterpart was pacing as well. "It's been months, I don't see why we can't start attacking by now." His counterpart said. "The Elders don't suspect we had anything to do with what happened before."
"They don't suspect us, but I'm not so sure about the Halliwells." Gideon replied. "After the little incident, Piper pulled Wyatt out of daycare. The sisters don't visit often. Of course, you already know all of this."
"Yes, that is true." His counterpart admitted. "Our task may be a bit harder now, but you know it must be done."
"So it must be." Gideon stopped in front of the mirror. "We need someone to assist us though, we can't do this on our own. Wyatt's too powerful."
"Sigmund is gone now and the dark lighters, white lighters in my world, won't work with us. Not after our last fiasco." His reflection spoke back from the other world.
Gideon had originally intended for the dark lighters to attack on Wyatt's birthday so they could try and get Leo out of the picture, to leave his family slightly vulnerable and distracted. The demonic bounty hunters interfered though and the dark lighters were unable to follow through with their plans. Since Gideon had neglected to inform them of the bounty hunters, which he hadn't even anticipated, the dark lighters refused to continue with the task, refused to even attempt another go at their task.
"Well, there must be someone." Gideon replied.
"Well, we could..." His counterpart started.
They both eyed each other, stammering at the same time. "No."
Gideon sighed, giving in. "Alright, I suppose we could go back to Bellock and talk with him about the situation.." He replied. "I don't see why he can't get his own hands dirty."
"Whoa." Victor shuddered and swayed in dizziness as he formed in the manor next to Chris. He had never orbed before.
Chris stepped away from him. "You ok?" He asked his grandfather.
Victor shook his head hastily. "No." Was his only reply.
Chris let out a quick laugh and a smirk. "Don't worry, you'll get used to orbing in the future." He claimed.
"Chris, that you?" Piper asked from behind. She had walked out from the kitchen.
He and Victor both turned to greet her. "Yeah, hey." Chris answered.
"Hey." Victor said to his daughter.
She glanced at her father, wondering if he was alright. "What's going on?" She asked, having a feeling that something was wrong. She had enough going on though, with Phoebe's latest issue.
"Scabbers attacked while we were out and we had to orb." Chris explained.
"WE had to orb?" Piper asked curiously. She smiled as she looked at her father. "You orbed?"
"I didn't have a choice." Victor grumbled. He sat on the bottom step of the stairs.
"Well, you're doing better than we are." Piper stated. Chris and Victor gave a her a curious look and she explained. "Phoebe took off out the window and has completely reverted to her teenage self. I believe Paige said something about her stealing a cop car and putting a spell on her whole reunion class."
"She did what?" Victor cried.
"Paige reversed the spell and she's in the attic trying to scry for her as we speak." Piper explained.
"Where's little Wyatt?" Chris asked.
Piper smiled. "He's at the park with Leo." She answered.
Gideon's purple orbs formed in the underworld. He walked into a cold, dimly lit cavern in search of Bellock. He didn't expect to see the beautiful Phoenix witch though. He recognized what she was from the symbol on her arm. She stood next to Bellock, as if awaiting to follow his command or to serve his every need. Her black leather clothes were skin tight and Gideon could see every curve of her slender body.
"What brings you here?" Bellock demanded to know. He was eying Gideon suspiciously, as he hadn't seen the Elder in months.
"I'm sure you've heard about Sigmund." Gideon replied quite hastily.
Bellock gave a single nod. "Yes, and I know Wyatt and Chris have come back from the future. Bianca has informed me of everything."
Gideon was a bit confused. Bellock seemed to know quite a bit about what was going on, with Chris and Wyatt being here from the future. "Who is this Bianca you speak of?" He asked curiously.
The woman next to Bellock gave a quick smirk. "That would be me, also from the future." She explained.
"Bianca has informed me that you fail to kill the boy in her future, that I have no choice but to work beneath him." Bellock also explained.
"I never wanted to kill the boy in the first place." Gideon admitted. "It wasn't until I met you that I suddenly wanted him dead."
Gideon had been an elder for many decades and when he became an Elder, most of his former charges as white lighter had been reassigned. He never thought he merited becoming an Elder, but he accepted the title and tried to wear it with honor.
When Piper and Leo fought to be together, Gideon rallied on their side. He was one of only a few that were willing to allow the forbidden lovers to be together. The few that rallied with him, had suspicions that Piper and Leo's destinies were one in the same, that they would create a powerful child who would be a great force for good. Gideon rallied for other reasons though.
He had felt the very love they felt. He had been in a forbidden relationship with another witch named Olivia. She had the softest skin that smelled like fresh strawberries and hair as black as the night. When the Elders found out about their relationship, they had given Gideon two choices. The first choice was that his soul be recycled and the second was that they erase Olivia's memory so she could forget him and move on.
Gideon didn't want to live without her love, but he knew if they recycled his soul, Olivia would be left without him, left to suffer with the heartache of losing him. So, he decided to let them wipe her memories clean. Once his decision was made, he had never even said goodbye to her. He didn't even warn her about what the Elders were going to do, for fear that she would object and fight against them.
Gideon went years, nearly decades without her love and just when he thought he had nearly forgotten about her, he felt a twinge of pain and knew that it was Olivia he was feeling, that it was her pain he was feeling. He immediately went to her aid, but found nothing left except an old, frail body lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Bellock stood in the corner of the room, staying long enough for Gideon to memorize his cold hard face before shimmering out.
Gideon followed the demon, orbing out and reforming next to him in the underworld. It went against his better judgment, but his thoughts were beyond rational after seeing Olivia's body on the floor. Bellock was all to prepared though, grabbing Gideon as he formed and pulling him close.
He knew the Elder was the head of magic school, a school that evil was not allowed to enter. He knew that he was one of the Elders who rallied for the Charmed One to marry her white lighter and give birth to the progeny known as the twice blessed witch, the witch that might someday be the end of him and many other demons as well.
Bellock whispered into Gideon's ear. "You will stop at nothing to kill the twice blessed witch. Wyatt Halliwell must die." As he whispered, a white stream of air seemed to wisp into Gideon's ear and mind. He let go of the Elder.
Gideon stared blankly at the demon and spoke. "I will stop at nothing to kill the twice blessed witch. Wyatt Halliwell must die." Gideon didn't know why the witch must die, but it didn't seem to matter why. He would do the task regardless. Any thoughts he had about getting revenge on the demon for killing Olivia were gone, replaced with this new desire, this new task to eliminate Wyatt.
"He is a threat to us all and you know that." Bellock replied.
"Yes, but..." Gideon wanted to argue.
"There are no buts here." Bellock interrupted. "He is a threat end of story."
"This whole crusade is getting out of control though." Gideon claimed. "The sisters almost caught me before, they will catch me eventually."
"I don't care. I have other demons trying to take out Wyatt Halliwell, in case you don't succeed." Bellock informed Gideon. "I will not bow to that child or any child in the future."
"I found Phoebe." Paige said. The crystal she was holding over the map had fallen on a location. As soon as she spoke though, the crystal started swaying again. "Crap, she's on the move."
Chris stood across the table from Paige, while Victor and Piper sat on the old couch. "Well, she's gotta stop again eventually." He said, looking at Paige.
"This is ridiculous." Piper replied from across the room. "How is she moving around so fast?"
"She could be in a car." Paige answered. That would explain why Phoebe seemed to be moving around so fast.
A scabber demon formed behind Paige. "There he is." It shouted, pointing towards Chris. Another scabber formed next to him.
"Scabbers." Chris screamed, jumping to a fighting stance and readying himself for the attack.
Paige let the crystal fall from her hand and thud against the table. She turned just as one of the demons were shooting out some kind of acid and jumped sideways, avoiding the acid by mere inches. It struck the table and started melting it away. "What the hell was that?" Paige screamed. No one answered.
The other scabber charged at Chris, sending acid at him as well. He panic orbed and the acid whizzed passed him, striking an old box near the couch.
Victor wasn't really used to being around demons. He panicked at the sight of them and jumped behind the couch, though it was probably useless since the demons acid seemed to burn right through whatever it touched.
Piper reacted with her hands and tried to explode one of the demons, but it was useless. It barely even faltered the demon. Paige caught wind of what had happened and reached for a knife that was on a cabinet behind her. She thrust it at the demon, but it struck his back and melted away.
He turned to Paige hastily and shot his acid at her. She was quick to react though. Reaching her hand out, she called "Icky stuff." The acid was engulfed in blue orbs. Her hand shoved at the demon and the acid orbed at him, burning right through the demon and killing him. The other demon, shimmered away in a panic. He didn't want to meet the same fate as his friend.
Piper eyed Paige curiously. "Icky stuff?" She questioned.
"It worked, didn't it." Paige shot back, rolling her eyes as she did so.
Victor emerged from behind the couch. "Are they gone?" He asked, glancing around the attic at everyone.
"Yeah, they're gone." Chris answered.
Paige eyed the table and walked over to it. A whole was melted into the center of it. What was left of the map, was singed into the table and there was nothing left of the crystal aside from the string they used to dangle it with. She held up the string. "How do you propose we find Phoebe now?" She asked curiously.
"You mean, you don't have a spare crystal to scry with?" Chris shot back.
"I wasn't aware that the only one we had would ever get annihilated by acid." Paige replied with a slight annoyance in her voice.
"Ok, ok, enough arguing." Victor intervened. "Now, your both white lighters right?" Both Chris and Paige nodded in sync with one another and waited for him to continue. "Why can't you just, I don't know, sense her like Leo can?"
"Yes, that's a great idea." Piper added in. They were both part white lighter and unless Phoebe was in the underworld, there shouldn't have been any reason why either one of them couldn't sense her.
Paige closed her eyes and tried to concentrate. She didn't use this part of her white lighter abilities often, but if she concentrated hard enough she knew she should be able to find Phoebe. She tried to shut the world out, tried to shut out all sound around her. It wasn't working. "Piper, quite breathing so hard. I can't concentrate." Paige said, her eyes still closed and focused.
Chris and Victor looked at Piper with worry, wondering why she was breathing hard. She was rubbing her stomach softly, trying to resist the wave of nausea that was overcoming her. Her nausea was never as bad with Wyatt as it had been with Chris.
"I think I got her." Paige stated, opening her eyes with a start. "She's in a warehouse maybe. There is someone with her."
"We should go after her." Chris replied, referring to himself and Paige. "Mom, you stay with grandpa where you're safe."
"But..." Piper argued.
"Don't argue with your son, Piper." Victor said, walking over to her. "Why don't we just go downstairs and relax, maybe I could make you some tea."
"Oh, alright." She gave in, but cast an evil glare at Paige and Chris before she let her father usher her out of the attic.
Paige and Chris orbed outside of the warehouse she had sensed Phoebe was in. "I wish I could sense how many people that are inside with her, but I'm not sensing much aside from Phoebe herself." Paige said to Chris.
He moved closer to the door of the warehouse, placing his ear nearly on the door. He could hear a voice inside, but it wasn't Phoebe's. "There is at least one other person inside with her." He replied.
Paige looked at Chris curiously. "Apparently your powers are working better than mine." She said, assuming he had used his white lighter abilities to sense how many were in there.
Chris rolled his eyes. "No, it's called the ability to hear." He let out a chuckle. "I heard a man's voice in there."
"Oh." Paige replied, feeling like an idiot. "How do we want to do this?" She didn't know if they should orb Phoebe out or if they should just go into the warehouse.
"Well, I don't think we want to expose any more magic than Phoebe may have already exposed." Chris said and then suggested. "What if we just go in?"
"Just go in, that's all you could come up with?" Paige asked. Chris shrugged his shoulders, indicating it was the best he could come up with. "Fine, we can go in, but we use our powers as a last resort."
Chris slowly eased the door open, trying to be as quiet as he could. It wasn't an easy task with the door he was working with. It was a big sliding door and it was rusted to no end. He knew for certain, he was drawing attention to himself from Phoebe and whoever was with her.
"What did you do to him?" He heard Phoebe's voice demanding to know. His eyes whirled around in search of her and met her face, but her face seemed younger and her hair was longer around it. She was in a black leather jacket, as opposed to the dress she had originally started the evening in. He assumed that was her teen self.
All eyes met him as Paige stepped next to him. Phoebe's body began to flash, between her teen self and adult self, finally sticking on her adult form. "Chris, Paige." She said curiously, wondering how they had found her.
The man next to Phoebe had a shot gun aimed in their direction. A police car was parked behind him. He glanced at Phoebe. "Who are they?" He demanded to know. He didn't seem to notice that Phoebe's appearance had changed.
Her eyes batted around aimlessly, wondering whether or not she should be honest or not with her answer. "Rick, this is my sister and nephew." She finally answered.
"Rick?" Paige questioned to herself. She had heard the name earlier in the evening. Rick Gittridge was his full name and from what she had heard, he was in jail for god only knows what. He was part of Phoebe's group of friends when she had been in high school.
"She don't look like either one of your sisters." Rick replied, his grip tightening on the shot gun. He didn't seem to have anything to say about Chris.
"Long lost sister." Paige informed him.
A figure emerged from the shadows. Paige recognized her as Ramona, another old friend of Phoebe's. She knelt to the ground on the other side of the police car. "I think he needs a doctor." She said. Paige and Chris had no clue who she was talking about. They couldn't see a man's limp body on the other side of the car, they couldn't see the gash in the side of his head where Rick had smashed him with the butt of his shotgun.
"What's going on here?" Chris asked curiously.
Phoebe wanted to answer him, but Rick did so instead. "Did I say you could talk?" He snarled back. He aimed his shotgun a little higher and motioned it at Chris and Paige. "Over in the corner now." He used it to force them back into a corner.
"So, what, you're going to kill us?" Paige asked, trying not to show worry. It wasn't everyday she had a gun in her face. Phoebe could tell how worried she truly was though.
"Shut up." Rick replied hastily. He wasn't sure what to do. Before they had showed up, he had made a plan, a plan to use Phoebe's powers to help him rob a armored car. His plans would have to change, though he had no idea how drastic the change would be. He turned to Ramona, aiming the gun at her. "Get in the corner with them." She stood, but didn't move. She was too terrified of what Rick might do to them. "Now." He demanded. In his anger, the shot gun started shaking a little bit. It made Ramona move quickly though.
Chris turned to Paige, whispering quickly in her ear before Rick could turn back to them. "You orb the gun and I'll subdue him." He spoke so fast, that his words nearly came out in a jumble. He wasn't sure that Paige could even understand him, but when she nodded, he knew she must have.
Rick guided the shotgun to follow Ramona as she made her way into the corner. "Please don't hurt them." Phoebe pleaded. He glanced at her for a moment, letting her see the twisted excitement in his eyes. She hadn't a clue as to what he could have been excited about, but she had the idea that in some sick way, this was all just fun and games to Rick. He had no care that what he was doing was wrong. She couldn't believe that in her teenage form, she was stupid enough to break him out of jail.
Paige looked at her sister, giving her a look. Phoebe didn't know what the look meant, but she took a step away from Rick. Paige's hand went out. "Shotgun." She summoned calmly.
Rick aimed the gun at her and was about to tell her to keep her mouth shut, but as he aimed, dancing blue lights formed around it and it disappeared from his hands. "What the hell..." He trailed off. The gun reappeared in Paige's hands and as soon as it did, Chris reacted, using his own form of telekinesis on Rick. His hand waved out, sending the man packing. He hit a wall and fell to the ground unconscious.
"How did you..." Ramona started to ask. Her eyes scanned around the warehouse in disbelief. Apparently Phoebe wasn't the only Halliwell with some kind of magical powers. It was all proving to be too much for her to take in. Her legs started buckling, giving out on her.
"Oh no." Paige said, trying to catch her before she hit the ground. She laid her down gently and asked. "What do we do now?"
"I don't know." Phoebe replied. She glanced around. "They all saw me use my magic. They all...I can't believe I broke him out of jail."
"Who?" Paige asked before an answer came to her mind. "Rick? You broke him out of jail?"
"Phoebe, what were you thinking?" Chris demanded. How stupid could she have been even as a teenager? She should have known better than that and she exposed magic on top of things.
She shrugged her shoulders. "I guess my teenage self wasn't thinking." She answered him.
At the manor, Piper and Victor had been in the kitchen. He had made her some tea and they had been talking about things, about Chris mainly. She was curious to know what he and Chris had talked about over dinner.
"You know I can't tell you what we talked about, I won't." Victor said to her.
"But Dad..." She tried to argue.
"He trusted me and if I tell you what he said, I would be betraying that trust." He replied.
"I know he's been keeping something from me." She said, taking a sip of her warm tea. "And you know what it is don't you?"
Victor sighed. "It's not anything you need to worry about, not yet." He answered.
Leo walked into the room holding little Wyatt. "I need you to take him." He said to Piper. He thrust Wyatt towards her. "The Elders are calling."
"Wait, but..." She stood, taking Wyatt in her arms. Leo seemed frantic."What's going on?"
"Turn on the TV." Leo said as the blue orbs formed around him and he disappeared.
"What was that all about?" Victor asked curiously.
Piper went over to the little kitchen TV and hit the power button. She shifted Wyatt to her other arm, so she could flip through the channels. "I have no idea." She replied. She stopped on a channel that was running a special news bulletin.
A younger Chinese woman, dressed in a gray suite addressed the camera. She was typically on the nightly Bay News program. It was a little early for that to be on though. "I'm Tanya Chao and we're here with a special news bulletin. We've just received a video from a security camera at a local Irish Pub, Brennigans. The footage of this video has not been doctored in anyway. It seems that some sort of people or strange beings have attacked there, leaving destruction in their wake." She said. Her image at the news desk was replaced with a video.
There was no sound on the video and it was in black and white, but the camera seemed to be focused on one corner of the pub. In the corner were a few tables, one which sat two people. Though the video was slightly blurry, Piper could make out her father's figure at the table. Two men came up from behind the table and who she presumed to be Chris, turned to the men and whipped back, lunging across the table. One of the men spit something and it started burning a hole through the table. At that point in the video, Piper realized what she was actually watching. Chris had said the scabber demons had attacked them while he and Victor were out and apparently, the whole scene was caught on video. The table went flying at the demons, but Chris and Victor were long out of the security camera's range. The scabber demons stumbled, but made it passed the table. To the average person, it would seem that they disappeared in a mere instant, but Piper knew they were actually shimmering.
"Wait is that, I mean that's Chris and I." Victor stammered.
The video ended and Tanya was on screen again. "Customers at the pub claim that the men seemed to shoot some kind of acid from their mouths. They claimed they were no men, but merely some sort of creatures or demons, creatures who eventually disappeared from thin air. Another customer claimed that one of the men that the creatures attacked waved his hand out, making the table crash into the creatures..." Piper flipped the TV off, not wanting to see any more.
"Oh no, this is not good." She said. Wyatt made some noises in her arms and she tried to force a smile at him.
Leo orbed in next to her. "Incoming." Was his only word.
Before Piper or Victor could say anything to him, white figures appeared in the kitchen with them. Two men in white suites stepped forward, eyes glancing at each face in the room. Piper recognized them all to well as The Cleaners. Just months before, they had tried to erase little Wyatt for exposing magic. "Wait, but..." Piper stammered.
"I see you Halliwells are still exposing magic." The taller one said. "Where is your white lighter?"
"Why? Why do you want him?" Piper demanded.
"He's played a part in this latest exposure of magic and he must be erased." The other Cleaner claimed.
Victor, who had already gotten out of his chair at the table, took a step forward. "I was there too, do you want to erase me?" He asked in anger. "Surely you can't just go around erasing people."
"Ah, but we can." He replied. "Our task is to do whatever it is to keep magic from being exposed. You did not use any powers, so you can remain."
"I won't let you erase my son." Piper had a hatred in her eyes, anger was starting to rise inside of her.
"We aren't here for Wyatt." The taller Cleaner replied. He obviously wasn't aware of who Chris really was.
Chris walked into the kitchen blindly, unaware of who was in the room. "We found Phoebe and..." He stopped abruptly when he saw the men in white suites.
Both men turned to him. "Ah, there you are." They both said in unison. Chris raised an eyebrow in confusion. Both men seemed to be quite pleased to see him.
"You can't take him." Leo said.
"What's going on?" Chris asked.
One of the cleaners waved his hand out and Piper knew the motion. He was trying to erase Chris. When nothing happened, the other cleaner did the same movement with his hand. "This is impossible." He said, when he couldn't erase him either.
Piper felt a movement in her stomach and glanced down at her belly. Baby Chris must have been moving, possibly reacting to something. She passed Wyatt on to her grandfather and started rubbing her belly, trying to calm the baby inside of her. "Please, can't you just fix things without taking him?" She asked, more like begged. She couldn't lose her son, even if his fetus was still inside of her.
One of The Cleaners turned to her briefly. "I'm sorry, but he will be erased. We will find away." He and the other Cleaner stepped towards Chris. A white glow formed around the three of them and they disappeared.
Sorry to leave you with a cliffhanger, but you'll see what happens to Chris in the next update and you'll see why the one cleaner couldn't simply erase him like they had Wyatt earlier in the season. Wyatt might pop up in the next update briefly. Also, I never liked how an Elder, a supposed being of good magic, just decides one day that Wyatt has to die. So, I hope you like my back story of how Gideon turned onto that path and made the decision to go after Wyatt. Anyways...comments are appreciated.