“No, you don’t understand. This isn’t like one of your premonitions, Phoebe. What’s happening to Chris is more like a vision quest. If Chris dies in the memory, he dies here too.”
Leo registered the looks of horror on his family members´ faces.
“No!” Piper said as her legs gave way, but Leo managed to catch her before she fell to the floor and he let her sob into his chest, “I can’t loose him again, Leo. I just can’t.”
“It’s okay, Piper. We’re not going to let him die” Leo tried to comfort his wife, but he found it hard to believe his words himself.
Paige was the first one to snap back to her senses. She wasn’t going to break down while Chris needed her. She needed to stay calm and focused if she wanted to save her nephew.
“Everyone,” She said in a soft but firm voice, “I know this is a really hard time, but we can still save Chris, you’ve got to pull it together.”
“How?” Phoebe asked her sister questionably, “How can we help him?”
“We’re witches aren’t we?” Paige asked and she waited for the nods from her various family members, present and future ones, before she continued, “There’s got to be something in the book.”
She walked over to the book but she froze as she heard Chris´ pained whisper.
“Paige?”
They were running out of time. In only a few minutes she would go back into the hall and call for Leo, and Chris would have his departing words with his father before fading away.
Paige was trying her best to fight back tears as she thought back to that day.
“Where’s dad?” Paige heard Chris whisper in-between shallow breaths.
She wiped away the tears that had started to roll down her cheeks with the back of her hand.
She felt a comforting hand on her shoulder and she looked up over her shoulder into the face of her eldest nephew. His determined yet encouraging look gave her renewed energy.
No. She wouldn’t let Chris down again.
Paige and Wyatt walked over to the book and started to anxiously search through the book for a solution. A spell, a potion, anything that could help them save Chris.
Piper and Leo were now sitting on the floor beside their son, tears were silently running down their cheeks as they whispered to him to hold on, that they were going to fix it, even though they knew that Chris couldn’t hear them.
Phoebe went into the living room to fetch a pillow and she gently placed it under Chris´ head. She then joined her sister and brother-in-law on the floor next to Chris.
“Dad.” They heard Chris whisper, “Dad…”
Paige knew that in Chris´ memory she would soon walk back into the hall to call for Leo. They were running out of time…
Paige continued to hastily flip through the book.
“Wait,” Wyatt said as he placed his hand on a page in the book to stop Paige from turning it, “This is it. This is the answer.”
He waved his hand and candles appeared already lit, on the kitchen floor forming a circle.
“What are you going to do?” Leo asked his eldest son from his position on the floor next to Chris.
Wyatt picked up the book and walked into the circle, where he sat down.
“Mind connection,” He explained simply.
“No! It’s too much of a risk!” Leo exclaimed as he stood up and ran towards the circle in an attempt to stop his son, but when he reached the circle he found that an invisible force was keeping him from entering it. Wyatt was blocking him, “If you’re still in his mind when the memory ends, you could die too!” Leo tried his best to convince his son. He wasn’t going to lose both his sons. He wouldn’t be able to handle it.
“Don’t worry, I’ll get out in time,” Wyatt told his father in a determined voice and then he turned his attention to the book.
“No!” Leo yelled but he was too late.
“Life to life and mind to mind,
our spirits now will intertwine,
I mould my soul and journey to,
The one whose thoughts I wish I knew.”
Wyatt slumped to the floor.
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Wyatt immediately recognized his surroundings. He was in the manor, in his parents´ bedroom. Everything looked pretty much the same as he knew it, except of course for the old fashioned furniture, but he recognized plenty of it from when he was younger.
He stared in shock at what, or rather who, he saw lying on his parents´ bed.
It was Chris. He was in the same state that he had been in, in the kitchen except for one big difference.
This Chris had an enormous wound in his stomach and blood was flowing freely from it. Wyatt knew that his brother’s last minutes were quickly approaching.
He quickly ran over to his side, “Chris,” he whispered but as he reached forwards to comfort his brother, his hand pas-sed straight through him.
“Chris,” Wyatt span around and saw his father rush into the room and bend down next to Chris exactly where Wyatt was sitting. Leo was sitting in him!
Wyatt quickly moved from his spot to standing next to the bed.
“Hey,” Chris whispered weakly, using all his strength to muster up the energy that it took to say such a small word.
Wyatt could see the pain in Chris´ eyes and he felt his hart being crushed. He just couldn’t stand Chris being in so much pain for a second longer.
“Chris!” He yelled around the room hoping that his idea would work, “Chris, if you can hear me, you’ve got to snap out of this right now! It’s only a memory Chris!”
“You can hold on, okay?” Leo comforted his son.
Wyatt saw his aunt Paige standing quietly in the doorway as tears started to stream down her face. Wyatt hadn’t realized that she was there.
“Hold on ... hold on. I'm here” Leo brushed Chris´ sweaty hair off of his forehead gently, “You can hold on, okay?” He asked his son as tears also started to form in his eyes.
Chris nodded softly.
Wyatt knew he had to act fast. Chris obviously hadn’t heard him. It was time for plan B. He always had a plan B, it was a long shot, but it had to work. It just had to.
“Don’t give up okay?” Leo said.
Chris nodded, trying to fight back tears of his own as he saw his father’s helplessness.
Wyatt quickly started the spell,
“The painful truth has been revealed,
We’ve been told of what was concealed….”
Wyatt heard his brother’s last words, “You, either.”
“…Chris´ pain I can bare not to see,
Let it end, this memory.”
Paige’s tears were now flowing freely down her cheeks as her breath caught in her throat.
“No, no, no. Please, no…” Leo was pleading with his son.
Chris was loosing consciousness. He knew his time had come. It was time to let go.
“No, please.” He heard his father’s voice only as an echo, far, far away.
He closed his eyes.
The next thing he knew, he was blinded by a white light…
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Cliffhangers really are evil, aren’t they?
You’ll just have to wait until the next chappie….
Incase you were wondering, I always figured there was a scene between Paige orbing in to the manor and her calling for Leo, so I kind of made it that the SWAT team found Chris and that he then called out for Paige because he had heard her voice. (That’s why Chris says “Paige?” in his memory) I also figured the first thing he would ask her was where his dad was so he would know that his dad was looking for Wyatt. Then I expect that Paige would have told him that he was indeed looking for Wyatt and Gideon and I also as-sumed that she would have tried to comfort him for a while, but that when Chris felt that his time was short that he wanted his father so that’s why I made him call for his dad. I hope that kind of explains the things that Chris said during his memory that weren’t in the show.
Anyway I have very important exams coming up soon, so I don’t know when or if I’ll find the time to write the next part until the end of the month. Maybe a lot of reviews will encourage me to take some time off from studying…..Hint! Hint!