The Neighbors
"Damn it," Phoebe heard Laveda yell. She hurried up the stairs to see Laveda sitting on the floor. She stopped in the doorway as she noticed Chris was kneeling in front of Miss Vida.
"This is useless," Laveda muttered. "We can't succeed, not in this little time. You and I both know it happens within four months – when Piper gives birth. There is no way we can do all of this, not unless we go on a killing spree in the underworld and the Elders won't allow that – the whole good-evil balance needing to drop slowly instead of overnight."
"Don't talk like that, Vida. We can make this work. We've got four months," he begins but Laveda cuts him off.
"You've got four months. I have a month and a half before I have to be back in my time or else I'll die in this one. When a person is born that same person cannot exist in that timeline or the older version will die. The same will be true for you in four months," Laveda states and Chris frowns.
"Where did you learn that?" Chris asks and she cocks her head to the side.
"The Magic school library is good for things other than making out you know," she states and Phoebe snorts, causing them to look at her. "How long have you been standing there?"
"A little while. You caught him making out a lot didn't you?" Phoebe asks and Laveda raises her brow. "I had a vision and one of the scenes was you catching him making out at his locker. You caught a paper on fire… think you were new with that power," Phoebe states and both young witches blush.
"Not a lot but enough," Laveda mutters before looking away from all of them.
"Sorry," Chris whispers to her while pulling her close. "I was an ass back then."
"You were my best friend and I always knew it. It didn't matter to me… not really," she mutters but you can hear the hurt in her voice. That's when she stood up. "I'm heading underground."
With that she grabbed a vial from a little bag hanging from her waist. She dropped it and she disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Great," Chris muttered angrily before standing up. "Just great… I'm finally happy. I finally have the woman I love and am so close to stopping evil that I can feel it and I'm about to lose her. I'm running out of time."
"We'll figure this out," Phoebe began but Chris just orbed out leaving her alone in the attic. She sighed before deciding to go look at the book.
-X-
"Who," Laveda yelled while pointing the atheme at the demon who was quaking in its boots.
"I don't know," the demon yelled and she plunged the atheme into its chest before pulling it out. He flamed out of existence and she sighed while putting the atheme back where it belonged… up her sleeve, attached to her wrist.
Then she began travelling through the caves, searching for another evil to interrogate. That's when Orbs appeared in front of her.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Wyatt's voice demanded as he appeared before her.
"Trying to save your sorry ass. Now, would you mind moving?" she asked while putting her hands on her hips.
"You're trying to get yourself killed," Wyatt grumbled before telekinetically lifting her and throwing her over his shoulder. Then he orbed with her kicking and screaming even though she knew it wouldn't help. Then he orbed her to the manor's basement.
He sat it down but she slapped him right across the face. It stung her hand on the initial contact and the noise echoed through the room.
"Was that necessary?" a voice asked and they turned to see Leo standing there at the bottom of the steps.
"She was in the underworld hunting Demons so I brought her back," Wyatt says before holding out his hand. The little bag of potions on her waist flew to him. "And this I'm taking to make sure she doesn't go to the underworld alone again."
"You hypocritical ass," Laveda yelled at him. "You go to the underworld alone all the time? What's the difference – because I'm not as powerful as you or is it because I'm female?"
"A… nobody's as powerful as me and B, you are as close to my power as anyone can come and C, my mom and aunts were the greatest force this world had ever seen until the three of us came along so I'm all for girl power and all that jazz. No… Chris can't lose you, little V. That would kill him," Wyatt told her and she snorted.
"Seriously, who are you and what have you done with Wyatt?" Laveda asked sarcastically and Wyatt snorted.
"I'm still Wyatt. I'm just not being as dark and twisted as you are use to," Wyatt says before touching her shoulder. For the first time in forever her Psychometry kicks in and she has a premonition.
Laveda is knealing next to Chris, an atheme wound in his stomach while she shields little Wyatt. Big Wyatt is trying to protect the boy to as Gideon steps forward.
"Just give me the boy. You've seen who he is, what he will become. Make this easier on all of us and just hand him over without a fight," Gideon states. Laveda looks at Gideon, tears on her face.
"Why did you do this?" Laveda begs of him, trying to understand.
"I always feared Wyatt would be too powerful. He should never have been allowed to be born. Neither should you two in fact. He, however, is more of a threat. He has been corrupted and I must stop him. I won't let anything stand in my way," Gideon says stepping towards them.
"You've gone evil, Gideon. I'm sorry but I must stop you," Laveda states as electricity flows from her the palm of her hand which is aimed directly at Gideon. Chris raises his hand even with hers and his magic is also released. Gideon screams before he dies and that's when Chris exhales, death taking him.
Laveda gasped before stepping back. She knew who was after Wyatt. She sped upstairs to where Paige, Phoebe, Leo, little Wyatt, and Chris were all waiting.
"It's Gideon," she cried as she came in the room. "I had a vision of him killing Chris while attempting to get at Wyatt. He's the one who's trying to get him."
"You're sure," Phoebe asked as Leo looked stunned.
"I am. He said it was because Wyatt was Too powerful, he'd be too easy to corrupt or something like that. It was hard to concentrate beyond the betrayal and Chris dying," Laveda says.
"We always knew this would be a one way trip for me," Chris states before standing up and walking towards her.
"No way… I won't let you die. I can't, not this time," She all but yells. "I lost you once and it killed me."
"You're here, you're still living and you will continue even after I'm gone," Chris states and she shakes her head. "You'll move on, live without me. Besides, it won't be goodbye forever. Time will change and you and I will see each other again."
"It won't be the same," Laveda says stepping back. "Leo, take me to the elders, someone with the power to glimpse the future." Leo nods before doing as ordered.
In the heavens she goes to an Elder.
"Laveda, this is Michael. He's on the council and he can see the future," Leo states.
"I need to show you something," Laveda states while holding her hands out to him. He puts his hands over hers and she sends the vision to him. He gasps before looking at her. He quickly shows the other council members the vision. "Do I have permission to do what must be done to prevent this atrocity from occurring which would bring about what he fears?"
"Permission granted," one of the elders says.
"We'll orb you into magic school. There you'll be on your own. We cannot interfere more than that," Sandra says while walking up to her. "I am sorry for this."
"Don't be. This is why we came back," Laveda states. "To stop Wyatt from turning. We just never suspected it would be a friend."
Sandra put her hand on Laveda's shoulder and she disappeared in white lights.
-X-
Back in the manor they were standing there still in shock. Nobody knew what had happened. Questions were being thrown at the brothers as if they had the answers.
"Really, what do you think she's doing? Where did she go?" Phoebe asked.
"I don't know," Wyatt began but Chris cut him off.
"The elders then magic school," Chris states.
"No," Paige states. Then she groans. "Am I the only member of this family never to have been 'up there'?"
"Yes," they all told her. That's when they heard a cough and turned to see Wyatt's hair shrink to a very small trim. His shirt became a pale blue button up and he was in blue jeans instead of leather pants. He also had no facial hair.
"What just happened?" Wyatt asked.
"You're good," Chris said before hugging his older brother. That's when Leo orbed in with Laveda.
"It worked," Laveda said before hugging Wyatt. Then she kissed Chris right there in front of everyone.
"Oh, get a room," Wyatt muttered before looking away.
However. When they pulled away everyone noticed they were fading.
"What's happening," Paige asked.
"We're out of sync with this time line. We're going to the future," Laveda states before smiling. "We won, we did it." Then those two kiss again before looking at the adults. "See you in twenty-two years… technically a few months."
That's when they completely faded…
-X-
