Memory Lane
Chapter 2
Piper woke up hearing Chris' voice on the baby monitor. "I will save you Wyatt. I swear. I won't fail you again. I don't know if I can bring myself to hurt you if I fail. No matter what that means for the world." Wyatt cooed. Piper could hear the rocking chair squeaking and she knew that Chris was rocking Wyatt. "I love you Wy. So much. You were always there for me growing up. You healed me when I was hurt. You comforted me when Dad forgot about me. You took care of me when everyone else was too busy. You protected me always. Now it's my turn to take care of you and I promise I'll do a good job." Piper got tears in her eyes. Hearing the love her sons had for each other and knowing everything Chris was willing to do to save his brother. It really was heartwarming as much as it was disturbing what their relationship came to. What her oldest son came to. She had stayed up most of the night thinking and then when she finally did fall asleep she kept having nightmares about what she'd seen in Chris' memories.
She got up and went downstairs to give her boys some privacy. When she got to the kitchen she found a pot of coffee and two tired sisters. Looks like they had a sleepless night too. "We really need to talk to Chris today. I have thought of a hundred questions since then. I know he won't be able to tell us everything, but at least there aren't so many big secrets anymore so he can tell us most of it." Phoebe said as Piper sat down.
"Chris is with Wyatt right now. Lets give them a little while. I think yesterday opened up a lot of wounds for him and he needs some time with his brother." Piper told her.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Paige started. At Piper's glare she scrambled to explain. "I mean I know he won't hurt him, but that's a lot of bad memories related to him. It might hurt him more to be around Wyatt right now."
Piper smiled. "You didn't hear what I did. Chris is more committed than ever to save Wyatt and get his loving big brother back. Wyatt is everything to Chris. Always has been apparently."
Her sisters couldn't help but smile at that too. "If anyone can save him Chris can." Phoebe added.
"I sure hope so." came a voice from the doorway.
"Chris. Good morning sweetie." Piper said as she walked over to him and gave him a warm hug. He would never get tired of this. It had been so long since he'd been in his mothers arms. He only hoped that when Wyatt was saved she would still be alive when he went back to the future. That all of them were still alive. He shook that thought off. He wasn't here to make things easier for himself. He was here to save Wyatt. End of story. What he wants doesn't matter.
"Have some coffee and some breakfast then we'll talk." Piper led him to the table.
After breakfast Piper called Leo down so they could talk. "Okay what do you want to know?" Chris asked. "I'll tell you everything I can, but please please understand that there are some things I still can't reveal."
"What kinds of things can't you reveal?"
"The type of being Melly is, who Phoebe and Paige end up marrying, that kind of stuff. Those things need to happen on their own in their own time."
"We can accept that." Leo assured him and looked around daring the sisters to contradict him. They all nodded too though Paige and Phoebe looked a bit disappointed. Apparently they really wanted to know who their soul mates were.
"Okay first question and please don't take this the wrong way, but I would think that you would want to send your sister back instead of you to get her out of that world. Why did you come?" Piper asked him.
"Because this was the harder job. She's lived most of her life in that world. It's all she's ever known. She was only nine when everything changed. Coming back here and seeing her family again and not being able to tell them who she was, dealing with all the distrust and even hate at times coming off of you, seeing a better world that she was never able to have; that would have killed her. She's stronger than me in some ways, but in some ways she is still just a little girl who wants nothing more than to curl up in her mother's arms for eternity. The prophecy plays a part in it too. We explored the option that she was the thrice-blessed of the prophecy since she has part of three beings in her too, but that was discarded for a few reasons. Also I was closer to Wyatt. It is more important to me that he is saved instead of eliminated."
"I am so sorry for how we treated you Chris. That must have hurt you so badly too." Phoebe had tears shining in her eyes.
"Don't worry about it Aunt Phoebe. Any of you. You didn't know and I never intended you to. I knew from the beginning how things would be. I'm not important. Saving Wyatt is. That's the only important thing."
"I agree that saving Wyatt is important, but you are important too. Never doubt that." Leo told him as he placed a hand on Chris' arm.
Chris had to bite back a retort about how he was the one who always told him that but remembered his promise to at least give his father a chance and instead gave him a tentative smile and settled for a more passive comment. "You have no idea how long I've wanted to hear that from you." It got the point across and Leo looked down at the floor, but didn't remove his hand. Chris smiled a little more. Maybe there was a chance.
Suddenly Leo looked up in alarm "Oh my god. I attacked you. I attacked my son. I forced my own son to fight me."
"You may have been a lot of things to me growing up Leo, but you were never abusive. You never hit me so I know that if you had known you wouldn't have attacked me. I don't hold that against you. In fact that was even a relief." Chris chuckled softly. "Helped me work out some of my anger towards you at least."
Everyone looked like they weren't sure whether to be amused or disapproving so settled for something in between. "Tell us about the world there. We saw your memories of Wyatt, but very little about the world as a whole." This is the part Piper was curious about. How much damage was done.
"Well after he killed you three he spent two years in the underworld consolidating power. No one could get close to him. All of the magical beings were targeted. They joined him or died. He made a few more attempts at the kids, but I was able to keep them safe for the most part. There were a few injuries but nothing bad. We all learned very quickly to look over our shoulders at all times. I began to train them all in the martial arts and stealth you taught me Aunt Pheobe and no one ever went anywhere alone or even without someone that could orb. I knew Wyatt would get to magic school so I went and emptied all the libraries and brought everything home. I spent that two years training myself and them, recreating the book of shadows bigger and better than before. I remembered most of the spells and potions from the book since I had been using them most of my life. I was friends with a lot of different magical beings so that part was easy too. I used the libraries I brought home from magic school to create the demon sections. Then once he had a good portion of magical beings and demons on his side he went after the elders and whitelighters. None of the elders survived and only a handful of whitelighters. Then he really began taking over. That's when I started the resistance. All of the family were members even the ten year old twins. They were better trained from those two years than even the older members. Within a year humans were completely extinct. No one from the resistance was ever able to be healed. Demons had free reign of the world. There were always fires burning somewhere. Before I came here I hadn't seen the sky for years for all the smoke and everywhere in the world was the same. Our members were ambushed regularly and we had to get someone into his ranks. Henry volunteered. He was young enough that it would be believable, but old enough to keep his head in a dangerous situation. He was our only chance. We would get warnings of the ambushes and turn them around on Wyatt's people. Even those on his side lived in terror. He would kill them for any slight. The resistance were hounded every time we left the house. The book just kept growing with all the information from everyone and the new spells we were all coming up with. We are losing badly. There isn't much left to save, but we try to do what we can to thwart him. It's bad."
By the time Chris finished his story everyone was sitting there in shock. They didn't think it could possibly be so bad. They really had lived through pure hell. They all cried inside for their children and the horrors they faced. "I have a question and a confession." Phoebe said. "Yesterday after we kicked you out Paige found you in the park and took us there to see you."
Chris interrupted her. "Oh my god. I let me shields fall. Are you okay? I didn't hurt you did I?"
"I'm fine. I lost consciousness pretty fast, but Paige orbed us out of there right away so no harm done, but my question is, how often did you lose control like that?"
"Not too often. Only after we fought or after I screwed something up big time. I learned a long time ago to keep myself wrapped up. I had too many people counting on me to risk being emotional. This was harder than I thought it would be though."
Piper was shocked at how strong her son was. As he said he had no choice, but it is still hard to imagine. "What did you mean when you said Melinda had more emotional scars from her time with Wyatt?"
"I really don't want to answer that and you really don't want to know."
"I need to know Chris. Please."
Chris sighed and looked down. It still killed him how he failed his baby sister and let her fall into Wyatt's hands. "Well she has the burns like me and a few energy ball scars, but otherwise she's fine physically. The real damage done was a hundred times worse. It is the only time I have ever felt like I really could bring myself to kill him. He called in his demons to rape her repeatedly for days until I could get her out. She was only fourteen. She can never have children now." When Piper broke down in sobs Chris said, "I'm sorry. That's why I didn't want to tell you. I got her out as soon as I could. Honestly I did, but it took time to find her and put together an insertion team."
"Thank you Chris, for saving her. I know you did your best. You have way too much on your shoulders. I'm glad you told me. I need to know this stuff just in case. If we can't save him I don't plan on lying down and dying like I did in your future, but I need to know what I'm fighting for. You're right. Hurting my son would be hard, but to save my other children from that fate I can do anything. This just gives me the ammunition I need to do what I need to do if I need to do it." Piper assured him.
"Why can't we vanquish you?" Paige asked. At the strange looks she was getting she added, "Not that we'd want to of course, but you seemed pretty certain that it wasn't possible and I was just curious why."
"With parts witch, whitelighter, and elder it's not easy to kill me. Darklighter arrows will kill me, but much slower than they would anyone else. Other than that the only thing that can possibly kill me is Wyatt. There is no one else strong enough. Not even the power of three."
"We haven't seen much power from you though." Phoebe reasoned.
"I haven't let you see it. It would be a little too obvious who I was if you saw all of my powers. I was originally planning only to let you see my orbing power, but then it came out that I was half witch so I decided to let you see my telekinesis. That isn't a very rare power so I figured it was safe."
"What other powers do you have?" Piper was curious now.
"Elder bolts, energy balls, levitation, conjuring, illusion, empathy, and mental shielding"
"You got two of Phoebe's powers but none of mine?"
"Yeah kind of funny how that worked out. Wyatt has most of the same powers as me except he doesn't have the elder bolts, conjuring, or the empathy and has healing and a physical shield. Melly has both of your powers Mom and Phoebe's premonition along with her orbing and her powers from her other part. I've been using all my powers when I go undercover in the underworld. I spend as much time undercover as I do just killing demons."
"Why did Wyatt need to bring in a healer for you if he can heal?" Paige asked.
"He can't heal anymore. The more he killed the weaker his healing ability got and now he can't heal at all anymore. It's kind of a tradeoff. I guess he figured it was worth it."
"That actually makes sense" Leo said. "I've heard of rogue whitelighters before that lost the ability to heal."
"What is your birthday? We need to make sure you are conceived." Leo asked Chris.
"I need to be conceived in the two week window starting one month from tomorrow. As gross as it is to think about I had to do the calculations so I could make sure it happened. In the interest of full disclosure I should tell you I was fully prepared to use a lust potion as a last resort."
"You would use a lust potion to conceive yourself?! That's horrible." Phoebe cried.
"I didn't like the idea much either, but I can't risk not being born. If I'm not born then I can't come back and warn you and no one would be able to defeat Wyatt. Coming back to change the future has big risks, but that was one I couldn't take."
"I can understand that, but I am very glad you didn't have to do it. I can guarantee that we would have been pissed about it" Piper told him.
"I know, which is why I would have tried everything else I could first."
"Why couldn't you have just told us?"
"You may not have wanted to have me. You didn't like me very much and you certainly didn't trust me. Leo never did even after I was born. I don't even know if you would have believed me."
"Oh Chris. It wasn't that we didn't like you. We didn't trust you because you kept so many secrets. We were annoyed with you because we didn't understand why you were so focused. You never gave us a chance to decide whether or not to like you because you never let us get to know you. Now that we know you better we can't help but love you, family or not." Piper told him and wrapped him in her arms.
"Chris I have no idea what happened to make me treat you that way. I want to think that I would never treat my son that way, but obviously I did. I don't know why, but I can promise you that I love you and would never do that again. Now that I know what I did wrong I can fix it. Of course I want you. You're my child even if you don't actually exist yet." Leo placed a hand over his and squeezed.
Chris closed his eyes and took a deep breath to keep his emotions in check. "I hope so Dad. I really do." Leo's face lit up hearing Chris call him Dad in a normal tone of voice. The only times he had heard it so far was when he was sneering at him.
Phoebe and Paige decided to let Chris have some time with his parents and left them alone. They decided to take Wyatt to the park.
Over the next week Chris spent a lot of time with his family getting to know them again and they were getting to know him finally. One day they were sitting in the attic going over the book and Chris was showing them which demons he had vanquished since he got there that they didn't know about. All of a sudden the attic wall began to glow in the Halliwell triqueta. "Shit!" Chris cried. He positioned himself in front of his family to protect them in case it was Wyatt coming through. He would not let Wyatt hurt them again.
The charmed ones and Leo all figured out pretty quick who Chris thought was coming through and readied themselves for battle. They were confused when three people fell through the portal all in various states of injury. "No!" Chris cried. "Dad heal them! Please!" Leo ran over and did so.
The girl woke first. "Chris?"
"Melly what are you doing here? Who's leading the resistance?"
Melly started to cry. "This is the resistance Chris. Wyatt broke the enchantments on headquarters. We are the only ones that survived. There's nothing left to save there so we decided to come here and help you. This is our only hope now."
"You three are all that's left? How? What happened?"
"Henry. He betrayed us to Wyatt. He saw that we were losing and decided to bargain for his life. He gave Wyatt all of our secrets and sent him after us. We were able to escape and get into the manor to do the ritual and get back here. I'm sorry Chris. I failed you." She sank into his arms.
"Shh it's okay Mel-bell. You didn't fail me. There was nothing you could have done. You did as much as I would have been able to. I never counted on Henry changing sides. Maybe he was too young when we sent him in. Maybe he was corrupted over time. It's not your fault."
The rest of the family let them have their moment. Then the other two woke up. They had been the cover for Melly to get through so they took the bulk of the damage before they made it through themselves. Chris reached over to help the two guys up. "You guys doing okay?" They nodded and hugged Chris tightly.
Chris turned around to make introductions. "This is Jason, Ethan, and Melly. Guys this is my Mom Piper, Dad Leo, Aunt Phoebe, and Aunt Paige."
"They know?" Melly asked incredulously.
The women looked a little sheepish and Chris cringed. "Yeah they were a little more suspicious than we gave them credit for. They cast a spell to see my memories"
Melly gasped. "Are you okay ki-ki? That couldn't have been easy for you" Chris nodded and she turned to her mother and aunts. "And you! How could you do that to him! I know he told you how bad things were in the future!"
"Melly stop. They were scared that I was lying to hurt Wyatt. They did what they felt they had to do. We've already been over this and we're okay."
She looked at him skeptically but seemed to deflate. "Okay and by the way since when is Leo Dad?"
Leo visibly cringed and looked at the floor. "Since he is a different person in this time and is disgusted with how he treated us in the future. He asked me to give him a chance to make up for it before he even does it and I am. And I have to admit things are going good so far."
"Whatever. It's going to take a little more than that for me. I saw how badly he hurt you Chris, and everything he pushed you to and I won't forgive that easily." She glared at Leo.
"Just give him a chance Melly. He hasn't done anything wrong yet and maybe this time around he won't. Please?"
"I'll try okay? That's the best I can do." She walked over to Leo and held out her hand. "Hello Leo." she said.
Leo took her hand gratefully "Hello Melly. It's wonderful to meet you."
"She looked him up and down. "We'll see." She turned back to Chris. "He looks a little less haunted in this time at least." Then she turned to Piper. "Mom?" Piper held out her arms and Melly rushed into them. "I'm still mad at you for putting Chris through that but I can understand your fear. If you hurt him again though you will answer to me."
"Enough Melly. They were hurt as badly as I was during our little trip down memory lane. Let it go. That's an order." Chris said sternly.
"This is a personal matter. You can't pull rank, but I will let it go. I just want to make sure they understand that I won't allow anyone to hurt you."
Suddenly there was the sound of orbing into the room. Chris sighed. "Great timing buddy." he muttered. "And this is little Wyatt." Jason and Ethan glared at Wyatt like they wanted to kill him. Understandable given the circumstances, but it couldn't be allowed. Chris stepped in front of Wyatt. "The mission is to save him. You lay one hand on him and I will break it. Understood?"
"And if you can't save him?" Ethan asked. "We can't use the original plan to go back to the future and initiate the final battle because there are only two of you left and you need at least three of the Halliwell line to pierce his shield. So what's the plan now boss?"
"That just means that we can't fail here. With all of us now we have a better chance anyway. You will treat him like you would treat any other child and here I can pull rank. He has done nothing wrong yet and if we succeed he never will." They both nodded. "I'm sorry I have to ask for this but I won't take any chances. Not with this. I need the oath from all of you now. Even you Melly." When they nodded he said "okay. The oath should be to protect Wyatt as long as he never intentionally harms an innocent."
They all chanted as one. "By the powers of the wicca I swear to protect Wyatt Matthew Halliwell as long as he never intentionally harms an innocent on penalty of death. So mote it be." A golden thread of magic swirled around them and then was absorbed into their skin.
"What just happened?" Piper asked completely confused.
"That was the wiccan oath. It's an ancient spell that I found in the magic school library. All of my people know it and it is used only with the most crucial of missions."
"What does it do?" Paige asked.
"If they violate the oath they die. In this case if they harm Wyatt in any way or intentionally allow him to be harmed. Now you can be sure they can be trusted." Chris explained.
"Okay now that that's settled we can make arrangements. Do you have any ideas where they can stay Mom?" Chris asked Piper.
"They can stay here if you can add more rooms and get some furniture."
Chris chanted the spell to add three more rooms. "I need a little break before I conjure the furniture. That spell takes a lot of power." He sank onto the couch. Suddenly his head snapped up and he looked to Melly. "The book? Please tell me you brought it"
"Oh yeah I almost forgot. It's here." She pulled out a small book out of her backpack. "You'll have to unshrink it. Prue shrunk it for me when we were escaping and I can't undo it."
Chris waved his hand over the book and it returned to it's normal size. It was easily five times the size of their current book of shadows. "Since we can't go back now we may as well keep it here."
"May I?" Paige asked almost drooling as she looked at the book.
Chris smiled and handed it over to her. She sat down with it and began to look through it. "This is amazing Chris! You did this?"
"Most of it. There have been spells and potions added that the resistance created. Wyatt has the original book though."
"You were even able to add the triquetra." Piper said in awe.
"Any Halliwell can actually."
"Everything in here is cross-referenced, indexed, and put into different sections. It is so much easier to find things in here. Do you think we could use your book?"
"Of course. It's a family book and you are family. Hell everyone in the resistance had access to it and future consequences don't matter as much anymore about that kind of stuff since we can never go back now."
"Ok since we are all here and committed to protecting Wyatt we need to set up watch rotations, alarm signals, danger codes, etc." Ethan said.
The three resistance members clustered around their leader and his family. "Huh?" Phoebe asked.
"That's what we did in the resistance when we were protecting high priority people. We didn't have enough people here for that stuff before but now we do. I'll have to train you guys for it though. This part isn't too hard though and you've already got the kicking ass down pat." he laughed.
"First priority is to set up a shift rotation. We need one person inside the room and one outside at all times. The person inside needs to have an offensive power and the person outside needs to be able to orb to raise the alarm. Or shimmer in Ethan's case."
"Wait Ethan is a demon? I thought you didn't work with demons?" Piper said alarmed.
Chris smiled at her. "Ethan is only half demon. You've actually met him before. He's half manticore half human."
"Wait he's the baby we saved and returned to his father? But you wanted us to vanquish the baby." Phoebe was getting confused here.
"I didn't realize it was Ethan until I saw his father as a human when Dad healed him and I was too afraid to take any chances. If it helps I'm glad you didn't listen to me then."
Ethan laughed "Me too!"
"Anyway, we have eight of us, with two on each shift we can run six hour shifts. Ethan, Jason, Paige, and Leo will be on the alarm shift and myself, Melly, Phoebe, and Piper on the watch shift. Ethan you'll work with Melly, Jason with me, Leo with Piper, and Paige with Phoebe. Us resistance people will take the overnight shifts since the rest of you have jobs and that's when an attack is most likely to be and no offense but we are better trained. We have been doing this most of our lives against stronger and better organized enemies. Piper and Leo can have the morning shift while Phoebe goes to work and Phoebe and Paige will cover the evening shift while Piper works at the club. I'll make a chart with everyone's schedule. As far as the alarm signals and danger codes you four go through my book. Everything has a code word. Usually it's similar to the name to avoid too much confusion. That's how we communicate in a crisis without broadcasting to the enemy what we are doing. If there is an attack and you recognize the demon call out the code word for the demon if you can remember it. If not just call out the name of the demon and the person on the outside will hear you over the monitor, raise the alarm, and if necessary collect the needed materials to vanquish the attacker." Chris sat down and made the schedule chart.
"What if we are somewhere without electricity or out in public. We won't be able to use the baby monitor." Paige asked.
"Look in my book in the household spells section. There is a spell to make things run without electricity. If we are in public the alarm person will be nearby but not actually with Wyatt so as to avoid getting trapped in an attack and being unable to raise the alarm. There is also a spell in the same section to increase the signal power. I usually just used it on my cell phones but it will work for the baby monitor as well. Okay everyone look over the schedule and see if it works for you." Everyone agreed to it easily and the current shift which happened to be Paige and Phoebe got set up. Paige went to get the baby monitor, cast the spell on it, and handed the monitor end to Phoebe who clipped it on her pants and she took the receiver out into the hall while the rest of them went over the book.
"Hey Chris! Paige called from outside the room. Chris went to the door and opened it. "Am I allowed to sit down out here?"
Chris laughed. "As long as you don't fall asleep" And he was even nice enough to conjure a comfy chair for her. "I'll watch for a moment if you want to go get a book or something."
He went back in the room. "Oh yeah and if there is an attack keep up constant chatter over the monitor so we know if you are incapacitated and someone can orb in immediately. Everyone nodded and Paige yelled an affirmative from the hallway.
Everyone fell into an easy routine with the watch lists. Chris and Melly cherished their alone time at night with their baby big brother. It was just a week later when the system was tested. Chris was sitting next to Wyatt's crib singing a song to the baby when suddenly a demon shimmered in. Chris recognized it immediately as a swarm demon. "Swimming!" he called over the monitor. Jason orbed into Piper's room "Swarm demon!" He called before repeating the process in Melly and Ethan's rooms. At the same time he was doing that Chris called for Leo who orbed immediately into Phoebe's room and then Paige's. Jason, after raising the alarm, orbed into the nursery grabbed Wyatt and orbed out with both Wyatt and Paige. They still had to keep up the watch under attack and either of them could cover any position. It took under thirty seconds for Wyatt's room to be full of all manner of magical beings. Piper blasted the demon as soon as she walked in and blew up and then reformed into two of them. "No Mom! Don't blast them! Freeze them!"
Piper looked confused but did as Chris said. "Okay why are we freezing him instead of killing him?"
"Swarm demons reproduce when you kill them. The only way to kill them is to kill the Swarm King. If this tribe is after Wyatt we have work to do. First we have to figure out where the Swarm King is. We can try to get it out of these guys hence the freezing."
"But then how do we get rid of them if we can't kill them?"
"This is the part I despise since of course I've been on the other end, but we have to torture them and let them escape which they will when they can't take the pain anymore. It's the only way to get rid of them." Chris looked down afraid of what his family would say about the idea of torture, especially of knowing that Chris tortured.
"If that's the only way then we have to protect ourselves and Wyatt." Piper said putting her hand on Chris' shoulder correctly interpreting his look. "Chris you know what you are doing better than we do. Like you said you've had a lot more practice against much harder enemies. We will follow your lead and do what you say here. When it comes to this situation we aren't your parents or your aunts but your subordinates. Don't worry about disappointing us or us disapproving of your methods, okay sweetie? Just do what you need to do."
"Ok mom. Unfreeze one of their heads." When she did Chris turned to the demon. "Where is your king?"
"Do you really think I'll just tell you?" The demon sneered at him.
"No I expect to have to work for the information. Luckily for me I have a lot of experience with your kind so I know the best ways to encourage speech. Melly handed him the potions she'd fetched when the alarm was raised. Chris threw the fire potion at him. It was the same potion Wyatt had used on him to cause his burns, but not quite as strong. After a few moments he threw the antidote. "Ready to tell me now?"
"Never"
Chris shrugged and threw another of the same potion at him. When he again threw the antidote the demon broke and told him exactly how to find the demon king. He nodded to his mother who unfroze both of the demons and they shimmered away immediately. "Ok this demon will require at least the power of three to vanquish and at least two more to keep the others off our tail. Dad you have to stay behind. We may need you for heals after it's over. We can't risk you on this mission. Mom, Aunt Phoebe, and myself will handle the power of three Mel and Ethan run interference. Here is the spell." He handed them the paper that the spell was written on that Mel had also grabbed.
The group orbed into the enemies lair and were set upon by swarms as soon as the materialized. Chris took the hands of his aunt's and began to chant the spell to vanquish the king. Mel and Ethan were having difficulty keeping the swarms occupied by the time the spell was finished and they all exploded. They orbed back to the manor except for Chris who went to the safe house to retrieve Jason and Paige. They all made it back to the manor and Chris addressed them all. "Perfect execution everyone. Great job. Let's hope we don't have to do it again." The three who were very familiar with that speech all began to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Piper asked.
"He gives the exact same speech after every successful mission. It's kind of a running joke with us."
Chris then walked over to Wyatt and took him from his mom. "I'll put him back to bed." As he was walking out he could be heard murmuring to his brother. "It's okay Wy. We've got you. We won't let anyone get to you. I promise.
Next time: Figuring out who the real threat to Wyatt is. Can they stop it in time?
