Thank you all for the great reviews and comments on the last chapter. I'm working on a Supernatural fan fiction too, so my time has been kind of split between the two. That's one of my other favorite shows. Anyways...I'll leave this short so you can get right to the reading. I do not own Charmed!
"Is Chris back yet?" Phoebe asked Piper. Chris had orbed out a few hours ago after they had told him about Bianca. It was them or her and she didn't make it. The sisters felt bad for killing the love of his life, but what choice did they have. Deep down, Chris had to understand that.
"No, he isn't and I haven't the slightest idea where he could have gone." Piper replied. She sat in the kitchen with her hands rested on her belly, feeling the baby's movement. He was quite the restless child.
"Well, we're still going to have to deal with Bellock, I mean he could be the one that turns Wyatt..." Phoebe glanced at Wyatt sitting across from Piper on the table. "erm, you evil."
Wyatt rolled his eyes, but didn't argue the fact that his aunt thought he was evil. "Well I don't think that's his intention. I think he just wants me dead." He replied. "Plus we have to deal with Gideon."
"Wait, Gideon? As in the Elder?" Phoebe asked in disbelief.
"While you were napping, Wyatt told me that Gideon was in the Underworld." Piper explained. Both Phoebe and Paige had been napping since neither one of them had really gotten any sleep the night before. They were all too busy trying to get their powers back after Bianca stole them. Once their powers were back, they immediately took to the Underworld in search of her.
"I think he had something to do with my kidnapping." Wyatt added in.
"But I thought that was Sigmund." Phoebe replied, feeling a bit confused.
Wyatt explained his assumptions. "Sigmund isn't strong enough to keep up the barriers in that hidden room. He can't glamour, which is something I'm pretty sure my kidnapper was able to do quite well." He said.
"And why is it you thought he could glamour?" Piper asked again, though he had already explained it once to her.
"Because most of the time he looked like Lex Luther." He answered.
"Like from the comics?" Phoebe asked. Somehow she wasn't surprised. Not much surprised her after being a witch for a few years and seeing things most people would never believe in.
"Yes and we both know he's not a real person. Plus, I saw him glamour into me." Wyatt said. "So, why not glamour into Sigmund to make it seem like he was the kidnapper and potential killer?"
"But why would Gideon want to hurt you or your baby self?" Phoebe asked.
"We haven't a clue." Piper replied. "Leo's up there talking with a few Elders about the situation as we speak."
"Why don't we just go talk to Gideon in magic school?" Phoebe asked, more like suggested.
"Oh no, Leo went there first and Gideon was nowhere to be found. That's why he went to the Elders." Piper said.
"Alright. I'll go wake Paige and fill her in on the situation." Phoebe replied, before walking off.
Orbs filled the room and Chris seemed to appear in her place. His eyes had been red from crying. He had sat for a good long while thinking though. He knew that Bianca had to die. He knew that his family had to come first and he just wanted to tell his mother that it was ok, her death was ok.
"Hey, Peanut." Piper greeted him softly.
"Hey." He said back.
"Where have you been?" Wyatt asked curiously.
Chris walked towards the table where his brother and Mom were sitting. He leaned against the wall nearest them. "I was just out thinking." He replied.
"About Bianca?" Piper asked. She knew that when he had left earlier it was because of Bianca, because of her death. He needed time to mourn her.
"Yeah and it's ok. I'm ok with her death." Chris said.
"You are?" Wyatt asked in disbelief.
"I'm not happy about it, but I understand why it had to happen. My family is more important right now and it's not like she won't be there in the future." Chris replied.
"So you're really ok with things?" Piper asked. If her son was anything like her, he was probably just trying to put on a brave face when deep down inside, her death had shattered his heart into a million little pieces. She had tried to put on a brave face after Prue's death, but deep down she had been lost without her older sister.
"As ok as I'm ever going to be." He said. "Now we just need to watch out for Bellock and be ready in case he attacks."
"Yeah, well we might have to fend off Gideon too." Piper replied.
"What?" Chris wasn't sure he heard right, yet somehow it didn't surprise him. He knew that Wyatt had expected he was involved with the kidnapping that happened and the subsequent torture that happened as well. There just hadn't been any proof.
"Yeah and he's gone off the radar so to speak, which only adds to my suspicions." Wyatt explained. "He was in the underworld with Bianca."
Chris was surprised to hear Wyatt speaking in his mind. He hadn't done that in quite a while. He wasn't really sure he was ok with it at this point, but he wasn't about to argue. "He was working with her?" He asked back.
"Not sure yet." Wyatt replied and then spoke out loud. "Leo's checking to see if the other Elders know anything about Gideon. Maybe they can get a location on him."
"Would it kill you to call him Dad for pete's sake?" Piper nearly demanded.
Wyatt shot an angered look towards his mother. "He's not my father." He said sternly.
"Hate to break it to you, but he's half of who you are." Piper replied.
"That doesn't make someone a father." Wyatt shot back. "There are just as many dead beat dad's here as there are in the future and..."
Chris cut him off. "Excuse me, but you weren't the one neglected. He was always there for you, every birthday, every new power you got. He was there so you could show it off for him." Chris argued. "Where was he on my birthday or when I wanted to show him a new power?"
Piper knew that Leo wasn't the greatest father in the future that Chris and Wyatt came from, but she had no idea the extent of why he wasn't the greatest father. It seems he had apparently abandoned their youngest child or maybe even her and Wyatt too. She wanted to say something to Chris to make him feel better, but she had no idea what to say. Somehow, she didn't think she would be able to miraculously make things better.
"That's exactly why I hate him just as much as you do." Wyatt replied. "He was a dead beat to you and when I got older, he neglected me too."
"Yeah, he neglected you because you turned evil and wreaked havoc on the world." Chris said.
"Oh for Heaven's sake." Piper thought. She had to say something now. "Would you two just knock it off." Both Chris and Wyatt glanced at her quickly. "Or I'll get up and spank both of you and don't think I won't."
Chris sighed. "Fine, Sorry Mom." He said.
Baby Wyatt orbed next to Chris and starred up at his mother, who was quite surprised. She had put the boy down for a nap and assumed he was sound asleep. "Wyatt?" She almost seemed to question. Chris looked down at him and let out a half smile. It faded quickly though, when there was a loud crash upstairs.
Piper and Wyatt both jumped up from their chairs at the table. "What the Hell was that?" Wyatt asked.
"Only one way to find out." Piper said as she took off through the dining room. Wyatt didn't bother running, he orbed instead.
"Sure I'll stay with Wyatt." Chris replied as they both disappeared out of site. "When did I become a frickin' babysitter."
"I heard that." Wyatt said mid orb. He reformed on the second floor in his bedroom. "Quit bitching."
Gideon stood with an athame in hand and Phoebe stood across from him trying to shield herself from it. The window on the far side of the room was shattered. Wyatt formed an energy ball and sent it packing at the Elder, but he was quick to avoid it and quick to use a power back, letting a short burst of his electrokinesis to strike the eldest Halliwell boy.
Piper made her way into the room and took in the sight before her. Wyatt was on his knees as Phoebe was levitating and moving in to kick Gideon. His concentration on his power stopped as he wielded the athame and moved it in a quick motion to slice Phoebe's lower leg. "I didn't want it to be this way." He said. "I didn't want to harm the Charmed Ones." Phoebe fell to the ground, grabbing at her ankle, warm blood flowing from the wound.
"Well I sure as hell want to harm you." Piper replied. She put her hands up to try and blow him up, but once again she must have tapped into the baby's powers. She was electrifying him with essentially one of his own powers. She hadn't intended on electrifying him, but she was pleased with the end results.
Gideon was brought to his knees as he starred at Piper in disbelief. She shouldn't have had that power, yet for some reason she did and he didn't know why. All of a sudden though, it stopped and he was free from her power, taking the time to orb away immediately. He knew he was in over his head at that point.
"Damn it." Piper replied, wishing she could control her power, or Chris' power, a little better. She had preferred to make Gideon extra crispy, but that didn't happen. She called out for Leo and he came orbing in as soon as he heard her.
"What is it?" He asked. She had sounded urgent when she called out to him.
"Gideon was here and Phoebe's hurt." She replied to him.
"You better orb down to Paige first." Phoebe said. "She was forced through the window and, well I don't really know what happened after that."
Leo walked to the window and glanced down at the ground, spotting Paige sprawled out in the grass. He assumed she was probably unconscious and orbed down to her. When he had her healed, he orbed with her back into Wyatt's room where Chris and little Wyatt had just walked in. He moved to heal Phoebe.
"So Gideon is attacking us now?" Paige asked. "I can't even believe this."
"Neither can we." Piper said.
"Well I can, that pompous asshole." Wyatt replied.
Piper looked at him in shock. "Do you always have to use such foul language?" She asked him.
"I learned that word from you." Wyatt said back. "I seem to remember you calling Leo a lying asshole and that sometimes you wished he wouldn't even bother coming around."
"She said what?" Leo asked in curiosity.
Chris stepped forward to correct his brother. "Technically, she hasn't said that yet." He replied.
"But why would I...?" She wanted to question.
"It's a long story." Chris said. He looked at Wyatt. "Can we not give them too many future details please. The less we have to explain the better." Wyatt rolled his eyes, but nodded his head at Chris.
"Well, I have some news from the Elders." Leo said, changing the subject. It was obvious his boys weren't going to tell him what happened in the future to make Piper say such things to him.
"And that would be?" Piper asked. She sat on the day bed in the room. Her feet were killing her from carrying around the baby for several months. She was surprised she could still get her shoes on.
"There were some Elders that never did want us to get married. They weren't the majority though and had to bite their tongues when it was decided we could marry." Leo started to explain. "Some Elders were just against us for breaking the rules, because if we are allowed to, others might try and do the same. A few others knew about the prophecy surrounding Wyatt and they didn't think one being should be born with as much power as Wyatt was born with and will grow to possess. So they didn't want us to marry either."
"What does this have to do with Gideon though?" Paige asked. "I thought he rallied for you two to get married?"
"He did." Leo said. "These few Elders that were against us and against Wyatt are rallying on Gideon's side since it's become apparent that he's against Wyatt too. They won't help us stop Gideon or save Wyatt because they've heard rumors about the future, about what has happened in the future."
"What does that mean?" Piper asked. She looked at Chris and then Wyatt. "Is the future really that bad, are you really that evil?"
"I'm not evil." Wyatt argued angrily. He turned away from Piper, not wanting to see the look of disappointment on her face.
"I saw you in the future." Piper said to him. "You killed innocent people and you didn't show any remorse for what you did. You tortured your own brother when you should have been protecting him and being a good brother."
Wyatt thought back to a memory, a conversation he had had once. It was only a few weeks before their mother had been killed by the evil demon Zankou.
"Wyatt, you should know better than to go after demons without telling me first. What if the demon was too strong for you?" Piper scolded him.
"But he wasn't too strong for me." Wyatt argued. "I vanquished him."
"Yes, but you almost got your brother killed when you chased after him." Piper shot back. Her face was full of disappointment and anger.
"So, I was supposed to let the demon get away?" Wyatt asked.
"You left your brother alone in a dark alley." Piper replied. Her anger getting worse. "So yes, you should have let him get away."
"But Chris is fine." Wyatt argued.
"He had to be healed after a dark lighter shot him." Piper said. "After you left him alone. You're the big brother. When it's just the two of you, it's up to you to protect him, to look out for him. Not leave him to fend for himself."
"But..." Wyatt tried to argue.
"No butts." Piper cut him off. "You have to look out for family, protect the ones you love. Got it?"
Wyatt looked up at her. "Yes." He said, the look on her face, forever engraved in his brain. It was a look he never wanted to see again, a mixture of emotions and disappointment that she had been feeling that day over his recklessness with the demon and with his brother. From that day forward he made a vow to himself that he would always take care of Chris, no matter what. He'd change the world for his brother if he had to and that's just what he did.
Now, as he stood in the past, standing amongst his family, he began to wonder if Chris was just an excuse he used to justify what he did to the city, the world. Chris had never asked him to change the world. Somehow he didn't think that that was how his mother had intended he look out for his brother. He quickly pushed the thought away. He looked at Piper. "Fine, call me what you want." He said to her. "Call me evil. I don't give a crap anymore. I guess I never really did."
Sorry, it's kind of a short chapter I guess. Chris isn't happy about Bianca's death, but he understands now why it had to happen and that his family had to come first. Everyone knows that Gideon is after Wyatt now, though it's been suspected for a while by adult Wyatt. Anyways...please comment, let me know what you thought. Thanks!