It had been three months since Chris' birthday and two since his move to Japan with another four months left there, he also had various tenure positions offered to him. Wyatt had visited every fortnight or so the two growing ever closer. But he was only one in the family that Chris was in contact with and Wyatt had had enough he wanted his family happy and whole.
So Wyatt informed his mom that Chris would be at the General Library, Hongo Campus at mid-day Japanese time. He orbed her over and then went to spend time at Akihabara playing with all the cool electronics. It was half an hour later when he heard her calling for him. Seeing her in a state of distress he took her home and then went to find Chris to knock some sense into him. Unable to find him Wyatt again orbed home to speak to his mother, he found her franticly searching through the book.
"Mom, what happened?"
"Wyatt scry for your brother." Wyatt did as he was told. When he came up blank his mother just stopped and started speaking. "That wasn't your brother, the things and the stories he had to tell. I would know, I would have recognised it. Wyatt a demon was impersonating your brother, I killed it but I can't find Chris. It was a demon, it had to have been. It was just a trick a cruel trick"
"Mom." Wyatt shouted and grabbed her by the shoulders, "tell me what happened," he asked gently moving her over to the old couch.
"I saw Chris and he looked so impassive. He took me a coffee place and we talked. He told me how he grew up knowing, and what he claimed to know, he couldn't have. It never happened, how could he have known that. He told me how much it hurt it to be pushed aside. But Wyatt, no, I would have known if he was in that much pain. So I tested him and asked him questions, he told me lies about Junior and telescopes and suicide. Lies! All of them. So I knew he was a demon and so I took him to a back alley and I blew him up, but it was blue, he blew up in orbs. But it that was just a demon trick. We have to find him Wyatt, we have to."
He was hugging her now afraid to tell her what Chris had shared with him, how when he sensed it felt different from when Chris was blocked or in the underworld. He just sat there holding her.