Here is the latest update. I know some of you thought Chris still should have fought with Leo in my last update, but in my ending A/N I explained why I had him fight with Wyatt instead. I thought some people might not like that change, but I thought it fit my version. I hope you like this update though. Wyatt and the sisters end up tracking the same creature and just when they think everything is taken care of, things take a turn for the worse. Thanks for the reviews guys. I do not own Charmed.
After a few days, Chris and the sisters had been Wyatt free again. Chris didn't want to see Wyatt after their last encounter. He knew he was doing the right thing by trying to save his brother, but sometimes he had his doubts. Sometimes, he wished he could just rid the world of his brother instead. Unfortunately for him, Wyatt wasn't gone for good though.
Phoebe and Paige were out with Darryl Morris. It was late in the evening and they were tracking a phantasm when Wyatt intervened. They were just about to strike and rid a thief and killer of the phantasm inside of him. Wyatt orbed in behind them and gave them warning.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." He said, catching their attention.
"Who are you?" Darryl asked. He had not seen or met adult Wyatt yet.
Phoebe turned to Darryl. "Remember when I told you that Wyatt was back in the past? Darryl, meet Wyatt."
"What do you want?" Paige asked. "We're in the middle of something here."
"I understand that, but I've been tracking a phantasm and the host of the phantasm is sitting over there with a video camera." Wyatt explained. He pointed towards a car just down the street from the alley they were standing in. "I think she works with you Darryl."
Darryl peeked out of the alley and saw Inspector Sheridan sitting in her car with a camera. "Why is she there with a camera?" He asked. Her being there didn't seem to make sense.
"But how would she even know to be there with a camera?" Paige asked.
"Someone is trying to set you up." Wyatt replied.
"But who?" Phoebe asked.
"Barbas." He answered. "I heard that Barbas was asking about phantasms and how to control them. He may be trying to set you up."
"And why is it you care?" Paige asked.
"I don't. Well..." He trailed off. He was starting to care. He just didn't want to admit it. Being in the past, being around his family, was starting to slowly change him. "I just don't want you to get caught using magic."
"I still don't understand." Darryl finally chimed in. "So, Sheridan has that thing in her? I thought it was in that guy over there?" He pointed to a thief that Sheridan had her camera aimed at.
"There must be one in both of them." Phoebe concluded.
"How do we get rid of either phantasm without getting caught on tape?" Paige asked. Wyatt sighed and held his hand out. The camera that Sheridan had appeared in his hand. "I guess that works."
Sheridan looked around confused for a moment. Angered, she got out of her car, walking over to the thief who seemed to be trying to break into a pawn shop of sorts. "I think they're on to us." She said.
"Ya think." Paige replied, as she and Phoebe emerged from the shadows.
Phoebe reached her hand back and thrust a potion at Sheridan and the thief. The phantasms inside of them started twitching and were forced from them. Paige held out a short wand she was carrying and after a moment of struggle between Paige's hand holding the wand and the phantasms, they were both sucked inside.
Sheridan and the thief had collapsed to the ground unconscious. "So, you're sure he committed those murders?" Darryl asked Paige and Phoebe.
"Yes." Phoebe answered.
"I guess I'll take him in then. Thanks for the help." He replied.
"You're welcome. We should get going." Paige said.
Wyatt stood, not saying anything. He was still holding the camera. He followed the sisters out of the alley, back to Phoebe's car that was parked down the street.
"So are you coming back with us to the manor?" Paige asked him.
"Yes, but I planned on orbing. I need to speak with Chris." He replied.
"I don't think he really wants to talk with you." Phoebe said. "You can ride with us if you want."
Wyatt looked at Phoebe's Mini Cooper. "Your car isn't made for tall people. I'll just orb." Wyatt was right around six feet tall, there was no way he was going to sit comfortably in her car.
"Going somewhere?" A voice asked from behind them.
Paige and Phoebe didn't recognize the leather clad woman, but Wyatt knew her all to well. "I was wondering when I was going to see you, Bianca." He replied.
"Wait, Bianca. As in Chris'..." Paige started to say.
Bianca cut her off. "I'm not Chris' anymore." She said sternly. "I've moved on to someone better and now I'm here to eliminate all of you." She formed energy balls in each hand, thrusting them out quickly.
Wyatt threw out one of his own energy balls, which struck hers mid air. Paige orbed the second energy ball and sent it back at her, but Bianca just shimmered out and back in place, avoiding it. "Just get out of here." Wyatt said to his aunts. "I can handle her."
"But..." Phoebe started to argue.
"Go." Wyatt ordered. So, her and Paige climbed in the car and left.
"Teddy bears or clowns?" Piper asked Chris, who was sitting next to her on her bed. She held up a magazine. On one page was a crib set that had teddy bears on it. The page across from it had clown crib sets.
Chris rolled his eyes. "Definitely not clowns. I hate clowns." He replied.
"Ok, no clowns." She said, putting down the magazine. "You're kicking again."
Chris shrugged his shoulders. "Sorry." He said innocently.
"You know you're one restless baby." Piper replied.
Chris was about to respond, but orbs stole his attention. Wyatt formed near the fireplace in Piper's room. He had a gash on his right arm, blood trickling down passed his elbow. "Wyatt?" Chris questioned.
Piper looked up, eyes meeting those of her eldest son. "What happened?" She demanded to know, as she rose to her feet and walked over to him. She looked his arm over.
"Stop, I'm fine." He insisted, though as she touched his arm, he winced in pain.
"So, what happened?" Chris asked. "Why are you here?"
"Bianca attacked." He replied to Chris. "She's determined to take out the Charmed Ones and both of us."
"Well, I can understand why she would want to take you out." Chris said. "After all, you did torture her after I left."
Wyatt pushed away from Piper. "Who told you that?" He demanded to know.
"Ethanial. Yeah, he's been part of the resistance the whole time." Chris informed Wyatt.
Piper had no idea what the boys had been talking about. She did know that at one point, Bianca was Chris' fiance. She knew very little about Ethanial or the resistance though.
"Damn it." Wyatt muttered under his breath. "Look, that's all in the past or the future, depending on how you look at things. You need to come to the realization that we may need to kill Bianca."
"What, no." Chris shot back. "I can't kill her."
"Wait," Piper intervened. "She wants to kill us?"
"Yes." Wyatt said and explained. "I met Phoebe and Paige in an alley. We were both tracking phantasms. After we took care of the phantasms, Bianca tried to attack us. I told Phoebe and Paige to leave, that I could handle Bianca. Shortly after they drove away, Bianca shimmered away and I couldn't trace her. She's probably used a cloaking spell on herself."
"Well, Phoebe and Paige aren't back yet." Piper replied.
Leo walked in to the room, worry and fear in his eyes. "Something's wrong. I can't sense your sisters." He informed Piper, not realizing Chris and Wyatt were in the room. Usually when he couldn't sense someone, it meant one of three things. Either they were cloaked from him sensing them, they were in the underworld, or they were dead. Hopefully, they weren't dead.
Piper shot out of the room frantically, headed for the attic. She didn't care how she had to do it, but she was going to find her sisters. "Mom, where are you going?" Chris asked, as he chased after her. Leo and Wyatt followed.
"I'm going to scry and if that doesn't work I'm going to..." She was cut off.
"If Leo can't sense them, you won't be able to scry for them." Wyatt said. Piper froze mid-step for just a moment. It felt weird to hear her own child refer to his own father as Leo. Chris used to do the same thing before his secret was out and even after that for a short while, but even Chris called Leo Dad now. "Would it kill you to call him Dad?" She asked and then started back towards the attic.
"He's right, Piper." Leo replied. If he couldn't sense them, there was no way Piper would be able to scry for them. The spell to call a lost witch may work, but it would probably be a long shot.
"Bianca probably has them." Wyatt said.
Piper stopped when she reached the book of shadows. "She's a Phoenix right?" She asked as she opened the book, looking for that page specifically.
"Yes." Chris answered. "And she's working with Bellock."
"Maybe he's in here too." Piper replied.
"No, he's not in there." Wyatt informed them. He looked at Chris.
Chris looked back at Wyatt. "If he was in the book, I doubt you would have ever let him work beside you." He replied to his brother.
"And why is that?" Wyatt asked curiously.
"Did you know that one of his powers is thought manipulation?" Chris asked back. Wyatt's eyes grew big with bewilderment. "Ethanial told me that was one of his powers, that he used it on Bianca and god only knows who else. Bellock wants both of us dead, you especially so he can take over as ruler or whatever."
"That son of a bitch." Wyatt said clearly angered.
"All right, lets just calm down." Leo replied. "We've faced Bianca a few times." He looked at Piper. "You're power barely affected her, she just rematerialized after you blew her up. Maybe there is a potion we can use on her as a last resort." He knew Chris didn't want to kill Bianca. He loved her, he was going to marry her. Eventually though, he would have to come to the realization that it was either her or his family.
"What about Bellock?" Piper asked.
"We can try a potion on him too." Leo answered.
"Yeah, but it's going to have to be a strong one." Chris added in.
Wyatt shifted his weight from one foot to the other. "There's only one way to kill Bellock and it's not a potion." He replied.
"And how is that?" Piper asked.
Wyatt answered. "A knife that's been dipped in dead man's blood."
"What?" Piper gasped out. "That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard."
"He comes from a line of demons that existed before there were a lot of witches making vanquishing potions." Wyatt explained. "A potion might work on him, but it's not a guaranteed way of vanquishing him."
"Ok, but how do we get dead man's blood?" She asked.
"Vampires." Chris replied.
"Vampire blood to be specific." Wyatt added. "They are technically dead, well living dead anyways."
"That's not going to be an easy task." Leo said. "How does any of this help us get the sisters back?"
"If Bianca has them, she's more than likely with Bellock." Wyatt replied. His arms were crossed over his chest now. "We're going to have to fight them."
"We don't even know where they are." Leo said.
"Bellock's lair in the future has been in the same place for nearly fifty years and I know just where that is." Wyatt explained.
"Well, a potion is going to have to cut it for now. We don't have time to get dead man's blood." Piper replied.
With that said, she set out to make a few upper level vanquishing potions. Leo didn't like the idea of his pregnant wife going after powerful demons, especially since baby Chris didn't seem to have any shields or anything that Wyatt had when he was in the womb. Piper was adamant though and refused to sit back. She was going to kick some ass and get her sisters back or so she claimed. She thought she would be just fine as long as she had Chris and Wyatt to back her up. Leo wanted to help, but someone had to stay with little Wyatt.
Piper was all ready to head to the Underworld, but when Wyatt orbed her and Chris, she was surprised to appear near a seemingly abandoned house in a lower class neighborhood of San Diego. "What are we doing here?" She asked.
"He has a lair in the Underworld, but he's usually here. He lives here on the surface." Wyatt explained.
Chris smiled as they walked up to the door. He remembered a few young witches egging Bellock's house in the future. They didn't realize it was a demon's house. They had assumed it was abandoned and just wanted to have a little fun. Chris was furious when he found out what the witches had been doing, but was grateful that Bellock must not have been home when they did it. Surely he would have killed the young witches.
"Why didn't we just orb in?" Piper asked as they walked to the porch.
"We can orb out, but he as the place protected from anyone orbing in." Wyatt replied.
Chris looked at Wyatt curiously. "So, what...we're just going to ring the door bell?" He asked.
Wyatt smiled. "No." His hand reeled back, an energy ball forming in it. He lunged it at the door and the door burst into pieces, flying back into the house.
Piper stepped back in astonishment. "Ok." She followed her boys inside.
A stunned Bianca turned to face them. "You're too late." She said. Phoebe and Paige were slumped over on the couch. "I've already taken their powers and they should finish bleeding out any second." She held up and waved a bloody athame in mockery of what she had done.
"What did you do to them?" Piper demanded to know. She could see her sisters on the couch and she could see blood, lots of blood on the couch, but she couldn't make out the deep knife wounds in their abdomens.
"The same thing I'm going to do to you." With a quick shimmer, Bianca formed next to Piper and forced the athame into her stomach. With another quick shimmer, she was gone.
Piper's hands went to her stomach, warm blood oozing all over them. Chris tried to catch his mother as she fell, but he felt a sharp pain in his side. The baby, the knife must have struck the baby. His hands immediately went to his side, blood oozing out as well.
Wyatt caught his mother and saw the blood on Chris' hands. He panicked and called Leo immediately. "Leo, you have to get here right now." He demanded.
Leo heard Wyatt calling, but new he couldn't very well leave little Wyatt who was asleep in his crib. He couldn't take little Wyatt with either, especially if there were a demon wherever Wyatt was.
"Leo." Wyatt screamed out one more time. He laid his mother down on the ground and began to heal her, assuming that once she and the baby were healed, Chris might be healed as well.
Leo could hear the panic in Wyatt's voice. He could hear the fear in it as well. He had to get there as quick as possible. He ran into Wyatt's room and orbed out with the baby. He wasn't going to chance leaving his son alone in the manor. He orbed into Darryl and Sheila's house, sensing they were both home. Sheila looked up at him in surprise, but he didn't give her a chance to speak. "It's an emergency, I need you to watch Wyatt." He laid Wyatt on the bed and orbed out without waiting for a reply.
He appeared outside of the house where Wyatt had been calling from. He didn't understand why he couldn't orb directly inside, but he hurried up the porch steps as soon as he formed. "What's going..." He started to ask what was going on, but stopped when he saw Wyatt healing his mother and apparently Chris at the same time.
"Paige and Phoebe...they're on the couch." Wyatt replied quickly. "They need healing."
Leo tried not to dwell on his injured wife or son. He ran to the sisters on the couch and began to heal Phoebe first. She seemed to have lost the most blood. Wyatt finished healing Piper and ran over to Paige and started healing her.
Darryl walked into his bedroom where Sheila said she would be waiting for him. She used a come hither tone and he knew that when she used that tone, she was usually waiting in some kind of sexy lingerie. He walked in and looked at the bed in confusion. Sheila was sitting with little Wyatt laying against the pillows. "What's going on?" He asked her curiously.
She sighed, looking up from Wyatt to her husband. "Leo orbed him in, said it was an emergency." She replied.
"What emergency?" He asked. "I was with the sisters earlier and everything went fine."
"He didn't say or wait long enough for me to ask anything." She said.
"Where's little Wyatt?" Piper asked as they formed in the manor. "You didn't leave him alone did you?"
"No." Leo answered. "He's at Darryl and Sheila's."
"Any idea how we get our powers back?" Paige asked.
"We can kill Bianca." Wyatt replied. Killing her would release her hold on their powers.
"Or we could try the spell to call a witche's power." Chris suggested.
Wyatt clenched his fists in anger. "She's evil Chris, Bianca is evil. She's going to have to die eventually, when will you realize that?"
"She wasn't evil until you tortured her and twisted her mind around." Chris shot back.
"She started out evil, she was sent to kill you and I can't for the life of me understand why she didn't." He replied. "She's just doing what she was trained to do."
"I can't believe you are saying this." Chris said. "I can't kill her, I won't."
Wyatt sighed. "Fine, I will." He replied sternly.
"Guys, stop it now." Paige intervened.
Phoebe spoke. "Lets try a few spells first and then we can go from there, ok."
Chris shook his head in dismay. "Fine." He said reluctantly. He hated the thought of anyone killing the love of his life, but if she was targeting his family now, maybe she had to die. "No." He pushed the thought away quickly.
So Bianca nearly killed the sisters and Chris, though they were saved in the nick of time. Phoebe and Paige need to get their powers back and they all need to eventually deal with Bianca, which is something Chris will be dreading. Anyways...please review. Thanks.