"No, they weren't in the house but she didn't know that. She and Leo both demanded the girls back."

"I'm guessing my other self wasn't happy to see them."

"Nope. In fact, just to flaunt it, he orbed P.J. in and she walked over and stood beside Wyatt. When Aunt Phoebe saw her she tried to get close to her but Wyatt just raised his shield. Leo tried to reason with him but Wyatt simply pointed out that he had warned Aunt Phoebe about testing his patience, and that since she refused to listen she had to deal with the consequences."

"Let me guess, they tried to reason with you next."

"Aunt Phoebe did. I told her the truth, that I didn't know where he kept the girls, but I knew they were safe for now."

"But you said you visited with them."

"Yeah, about that. I did visit but I wasn't allowed to orb there. I had to ask Wyatt as he had a spell placed to keep them hidden. I had to be taken there by one of Wyatt's demons. So I had no idea where they were because every time you opened the curtains to look out the scenery changed. He had made sure they were well taken care of."

"What happened with Aunt Phoebe?"

"She begged P.J. to come to her but she refused, stating her loyalty to Wyatt. I honestly don't know if she was brainwashed or just trying to protect her sisters. I soon found out that while Wyatt and I were getting the girls, Wyatt had sent more demons to keep Aunt Phoebe and Uncle Coop occupied. It was probably close to two weeks before Wyatt let up, allowing them to return home and find the girls missing. Aunt Phoebe then threw some kind of potion at Wyatt that did nothing but upset him."

"What was the potion?"

"When I checked it out later, it turned out to be a power stripping potion. Granted it was a powerful one. But without the power of three there was no chance it was ever going to work."

"What did he do to Aunt Phoebe?"

"He got mad and started to force choke her in the air till I begged him to let up. He did, but as soon as she was on the ground she pulled out a dagger. I guess she got it from one of the demons she killed. I heard Leo yell at her and looked up to see her charging Wyatt. I feared what he'd do to her, but I didn't even have time to call out a warning." Chris said, eyes tearing up as he turned away.

"Did he kill her?" Wyatt asked quietly, not entirely sure he wanted to know the answer.

"No, he didn't have to. One of his demon bodyguards flamed in, stabbed her before she got the chance and then he flamed out with her."

"Why?"

"Best guess? To keep Leo from being able to heal her and show everyone that even the Charmed Ones were no match for Wyatt's might. P.J. of course was distraught. She kept trying to run to her mother but Wyatt wouldn't let her. Wyatt handed her off to another one of his demons and told him to take her to her sisters for a while. I tried to sense for Aunt Phoebe after we left but couldn't find her till it was too late."

"What did Dad do?"

"Same as always, talk, talk, talk. He even begged Wyatt to bring Phoebe back to be healed, to which of course he refused. He told Leo that she had been warned about testing his patience. That she got what she deserved for not only defying him but trying to kill him. When Leo continued to argue Wyatt threatened to run Leo through with Excalibur again and this time have Parker freeze him, since she inherited mom's freeze and Peyton who got mom's ability to blow things up, to blow him up at the same time and continue for a while."

"The girls wouldn't do that to Dad." Wyatt stated, horrified at the prospect.

"They would." Chris countered calmly.

"Why? What did Dad do to them?" Wyatt demanded.

Chris sighed, "Nothing, but they wouldn't know it was Leo."

"I don't understand."

"The real reason Aunt Paige took her girls and Uncle Henry into hiding isn't just because she feared Wyatt."

"Wait, what about Henry Jr."

"He's the reason they're in hiding."

"He's mortal, what could they fear?"

"That's just it, everyone just assumed he was a mortal."

Wyatt frowned, "But he is... isn't he?"

Chris shook his head and said, "We all just assumed that he was an ordinary mortal. But a seer told us that Henry's birth mother was a teenager named Skye and that she had been having dreams that the child's father Christopher Mercer, son of a mafia leader, was going to kill her and her unborn child. She had apparently confronted him and the vision wasn't clear enough to tell, but something was said and or done and in a panic she ran away from him and right in the path of a Darklighter named Rennek that had targeted Aunt Paige but hit and killed Skye by mistake. That's when Aunt Paige orbed Henry Jr. out of her womb."

"Oh so you're saying his birth mother was a witch."

"No, he and his mother were mortal. But Henry Jr. soon started to develop psychic abilities. I did some digging and learned that although rare, mortals can develop such powers. His mother was getting the visions from him."

"Okay so what are you getting at? He was getting premonitions like Aunt Phoebe?"

"Basically, yeah. Wyatt happened to find a warlock with the power of projection. It allows you to project a desired reality. He had Henry Jr kidnapped and had the warlock test his powers on Henry Jr. Wyatt used it as a form of brainwashing. He made Henry Jr. see a vision that his father was going to kill an innocent and in the vision he saw he couldn't reason with his father as he was going to kill him too if he got in the way. Henry Jr. grabbed a pipe and hit and wounded his father. It took Wyatt a while and he had to go through several different scenarios in order to break Henry Jr., but eventually he was able to convince him to kill his father."

"But you said Uncle Henry was with Aunt Paige?" Wyatt questioned.

"Pay attention, Wy." Chris said.

"Gotcha." Wyatt said, a wide smile spreading across his face.

"What?" Chris asked, genuinely confused.

"You did it! You called me Wy!" Wyatt was ecstatic. It meant listening to all the bad stuff his other self did was working! Chris unconsciously called him Wy. It was a start. Maybe they could make it work yet.

Chris was surprised, not entirely sure that he had actually said the nickname. But like Wyatt he too felt that maybe this was the breakthrough they needed.

"Sorry I made you lose focus. Now how could Jr. kill Uncle Henry if he was with Aunt Paige?"

"This was before they went into hiding and he didn't really kill him; it was all more or less an illusion. It took a few more sessions before Wyatt was confident enough to try for the real thing. So he did, I suppose you'd call it a trial run. He had Henry Jr. start seeing images of what happened with his birth mother, only he twisted the vision so that the darklighter was no longer the killer. It was now his birth father. Then Wyatt made him believe that he had killed other girls as well. Then he gave Henry Jr. a gun and sent him off with one of the darklighters that normally try to be your conscience and get you to commit suicide even when you previously never had such thoughts. The darklighter under Wyatt's order was invisible and constantly hissed in Henry Jr's ear that this man was the reason he nearly died along with his birth mother."

"He didn't kill him did he?"

"Yes, he hesitated at first, but with the darklighter hissing in his ear he did it. After that, and a few more killings like his birth grandfather and some of his crew, Wyatt felt that he was ready to go it alone. And he did, he shot Uncle Henry.

"Was he hurt badly?"

"No, I guess Wyatt's brainwashing wasn't strong enough to get him to kill his father without the darklighter hissing in his ear."