I found Chris on my room at the Manor.

He was on my bathroom.

I leaned against the door, watching him.

"Warlock?" Chris questioned.

"A woman with a bird symbol" I said, raising my eyebrows. "Can we not lie to each other? Please? I know it was Bianca and she hurt you"

Chris turned to face me. "You wouldn't let a warlock get that close to you" he said, searching my eyes. I lowered them. "Bree. Talk to me"

"Jake's not good anymore" I said softly. "He showed up and told me about Bianca"

"After he stabbed you" Chris said angrily.

"I'm fine" I lied.

Chris turned away from me, looking at himself in the mirror, "You do remember that somehow, you indeed became my charge since we arrived here, right? I can sense you. And I can sense you're hurting. Leo didn't heal you completely, did he?"

I stepped closer, both of us staring at our reflections in the mirror.

I lifted my shirt. The side Jake stabbed was red, dark veins spreading outwards from the stab wound. I swallowed in sadness and pain, closing my eyes as I let go of my shirt, letting it fall down.

I felt Chris grab my hand, squeezing. I opened my eyes. Chris pulled down his shirt, revealing a large wound on his chest.

I sucked in a deep breath, meeting Chris' eyes, both of our eyes were misty.

I could feel his heartbreak as he pulled out a ring. His engagement ring.

I touched my heart, voice trembling. "I hate being a cupid sometimes"

"I know" Chris murmured, eyes on his ring before he shoved it to his pocket. "We're going to be okay"

I laughed bitterly, "After my guy best friend tried to strip me from my powers and my girl best friend tried to kill you? Makes me regret having given her my blessing"

~8~

Future - Flashback

My hand was wrapped around Jake's as I beamed us out to the park Chris and Bianca were expecting us.

Jake let go of my hand. "I wish I could do something like that" he murmured, lips pulling out in a pout.

I giggled, shaking my head, walking through the destroyed parts of the park. "Do you know how many times I've had to drink that cloaking potion so no demon detects my beaming? It's a pain in the ass. Sometimes I wish I was in the cupid island with dad and Pey"

Jake nudged my arm, making me look at him. "I don't mind supplying you with all those potions. I prefer you having you around than locked up in the cupid island"

"And I still wonder why he doesn't make a move" I heard Bianca's amused voice from within some broken down bushes.

Pink flushed my cheeks and I shook my head.

Jake laughed awkwardly, "One guy can only handle so many rejections before he stops trying"

I sensed something in the air. "But someone already made the next big step in the relationship?!"

"Told you we wouldn't be able to hide it from her" Chris replied, chuckling as he and Bianca walked out to meet us.

I squealed, jumping into Bianca's arms, "Show me!"

Bianca laughed, raising her hand, showing me her engagement ring. "I know you didn't coach him into proposing because it wasn't a very romantic proposal"

"Had I known he was proposing this soon, I would have used this" I raised my hand with my cupid ring in my pointer finger, wriggling my fingers. "To give him a little push. But, you know what? It wouldn't have been genuine because we both know Chris sucks at romantic gestures. So this is more natural and genuine"

"Hey" Chris scolded, offended.

"It's the truth, man" Jake shrugged in amusement.

Our smiley moment was ruined by a drone flying close to us, shining a light in Bianca's eyes.

"What's that?" Jake asked. "Guys?"

My eyes widened in alarm and realization. I raised a hand, conjuring a sphere of what my force field was made of around the flying drone so it wouldn't be able to transmit as Chris used his telekinetic power to throw it against a wall. I straightened my fingers, my shield pulsing with energy, my power combined with Chris' destroying the drone.

Chris immediately turned to Bianca, worriedly "Are you okay?"

"Yeah" Bianca answered, "Yeah, I don't think it had time to transmit"

Chris growled in frustration, "I can not believe he's sending probes after us now" I placed a hand on his shoulder, exchanging worried looks with both Bianca and Jake. "I'm gonna kill that son of a bitch"

"No, no you're not" Bianca said firmly, then glanced at me. "Breana. Don't" I looked away. "You two are going to stick to the plan"

The plan to change our lives.

It was the only way to stop Wyatt.

"But he knows" Chris pointed out, gesturing at the drone.

"If he knew he wouldn't have sent the probe" Jake countered.

Bianca nodded in agreement, "You have to go back, Chris" she looked at me. "Bree. You said it. It's the only way to stop them. It's the only way to change all this"

I looked at them in worry.

Jake nodded, soft and supportive.

~8~

~Now~

"I should have realized there was hatred in their hearts" I said softly, looking down.

Chris shoved his ring away, turning to me, grabbing my face in his hands. "Do not blame yourself for this. You didn't turn them evil. You didn't force them to hurt us. Okay? Your idea was great. We are with our family again. We're saving them. You've given me something I never thought I'd have again. My mom. You've given me hope, little cuz"

We rested our foreheads together momentarily, my hands gripping his wrists as he still held the sides of my head. A moment to try and strengthen our own energy. Chris with his whitelighter powers, relishing on the fact I, his charge was alive and me, with my cupid powers, with the familiar bond of my still alive family member.

~8~

Chris orbed us close to a park, holding his side, hissing slightly.

"I told you I could beam too" I gently chastised, seeing the sweat building up in his forehead.

"If I can prevent you from straining your power, then I will" Chris said, breathing in sharply, straightening back. I slowly lowered him to take a seat in a bench. Chris looked up at me, "You're getting a little pale there. You're my baby cuz and I promised your mom I'd take care of you whenever I could"

"You can die and then who's going to save our future?" I said in frustration, rubbing my now sweaty forehead.

We indeed weren't doing that well.

"She's right" I whirled around, only to see both Bianca and Jake walk out from behind a statue. "You really shouldn't try to orb anymore, you know? It could kill you"

Chris chuckled bitterly, looking over my shoulder from where I stood in front of him protectively. "Is that what you want?"

Bianca stared at us blankly, "If that's what I wanted you'd already be dead. Right, Jake?"

Jake had been quiet, eyeing my stance. I didn't want him to see the way my legs felt like jelly and the tremble of my hands.

"Right" Jake said simply. "You're not looking that well, gorgeous" I narrowed my eyes. He gestured at himself and then Bianca, "All we want is to bring you both back"

"How'd you know we'd be here?" Chris asked.

Bianca and Jake exchanged a slight smile, for a moment it felt like old times.

"Same reason you'd know we'd be waiting here" Jake said, looking around the park with a nostalgic smile.

The park wasn't as destroyed as the one from our time. It had flowers and looked very well taken care of.

Bianca smiled as well, a ghost of my best friend in the coldness of her eyes. "This is still our spot, isn't it? We all became best friends here before you and I became a couple. And despite our age difference"

"No" I said softly. I felt Chris grab my shaky hand, both of us squeezing tightly "This is what we hoped it would be"

"This is what we were trying to preserve for our future" Chris said, gesturing around, at the beauty of the park, of its goodness. The lack of evil. "Do you remember?"

Jake scoffed, shaking his head "We were naive to think we could change anything, to stop him"

"You don't believe that" I told him, then looking at Bianca, my eyes misty but I didn't want to shed any tear over them because it was not worth it, right now. "Neither did you, Bi"

Chris used my hand as support to stand up, almost leaning against my side to remain standing. "Or at least you didn't"

"Well, we do now" Bianca said coldly.

I looked at Jake to see if he agreed, only to find he was already looking at me, his eyes glimmering with darkness. I didn't need to focus on him to detect the hatred, the evil emanating in waves from him.

Chris looked between his fiance - ex fiance, now? - and his used to be best friend in disbelief and sadness, "What happened to you, Bianca? Jake? How did he turn you back?"

They exchanged a brief look

"That's not important" Bianca told us, the two of them walking closer. "What is important is we were interrupted in stripping you of your powers"

Jake pulled out another athame, "If we don't finish what we started, you'll die soon"

Bianca tilted her head aside, smiling sadistically. "Think of it as an infection, and we're the only ones with the antidote"

"Here or there, we're dead anyway" I told her, backing away a few steps, tugging Chris back with me.

Jake pursed his lips. "No. He gave us his word he wouldn't hurt you, Bree. You're still his family"

I glared at him.

Bianca gave us a pleading look, "Please, guys. Don't make this any harder than it has to be"

"Have you ever met us?" I smirked at her, feeling the orbing taking place as I had tried to distract them for Chris to charge his energy to take us away.

~8~

Considering I was expecting the orbing, I didn't feel nauseous as Chris and I landed on the living room, falling to the floor.

I vaguely heard Paige exclaim our names as I focused on Chris, rolling him to his back, breathing heavily as I finally allowed myself to cry, shaking him.

"Chris, Chris" I kept repeating his name, my shaky hands trying to get him to open his eyes.

"Honey, hey" I felt arms gently prying me away from my cousin and into a warm embrace. "Shh, everything will be okay"

"They weren't bad" I murmured, because someone had to know that they weren't like this. "Jake didn't mean to. Bianca wouldn't hurt him. They wouldn't"

But Wyatt screwed them up. He destroyed another good thing we had.

First our family now our friends.

I welcomed the warm embrace, hiding my face into their body, the aura giving out was so familiar and soothing I found myself lowering my defenses.

~8~

The next time I woke up, I was lying in a sofa, Chris was lying on the one in front of me. The sisters and Leo were surrounding us.

Leo was trying to heal Chris, noticing the wound from Bianca's powers.

"She was stripping him from his powers" I announced weakly, hearing them trying to figure out what it was.

Leo will never be able to heal him. He shouldn't waste his energy in that.

They all turned to me at the sound of my voice.

Phoebe immediately made her way to my side, kneeling next to my head. "How did you know that?" I didn't answer. "And don't get me started on your own wound" she scolded. I flickered my eyes to my side.

Leo stood, crossing his arms. "Neither of you can be healed" he said with a frown. "Chris now I understand but yours? I healed you earlier"

I half smiled. "Slow draining potion. He was always smart about them. No one could ever tell what was going on until it was too late"

"Jake?" Paige asked.

I snapped my eyes at her in shock. How does she know that?

"He's from the future as well" Piper stated. "Explains Bianca being an adult instead of the little girl we just met. Someone must have sent them after Bree and Chris"

I looked at Piper in disbelief. They knew?

"What makes you think that?" Phoebe asked before snapping her eyes at me as if sensing something.

I was staring at the ceiling, feeling all kind of things. Starting with heartbreak and then sadness and then anger.

"She's a hired goon" Piper pointed out. "The Book said it. She's an assassin. And that warlock? Bree knew him. Someone he was turned to the dark side"

Phoebe took a shaky deep breath, "Either way, we have to find them to save Chris and Bree. Figure out what they did..." she stopped talking, again feeling something. I looked at her slowly. She was looking between the two of us, eyebrows creasing in concentration. "Woah"

I used the couch to help myself up, panting as I realized what was going on.

Phoebe was able to read us again.

"What is it?" Leo asked, looking down at her and then taking a double look at the panic in my face as I stared at her close to Chris.

Phoebe looked down at Chris, hand on her chest, "Oh my god, he loves her"

Paige made a face "Loves who? Bianca?"

Phoebe nodded without looking away from Chris, voice filled with shock and sympathy. "She broke his heart"

"Don't" I called out as Phoebe reached out to Chris' hand, grabbing his ring.

Phoebe turned to me, showing me the ring "Engagement ring. You knew who she was all along" I didn't answer. She hissed through her teeth, grimacing, "She was your best friend too. The warlock...." I looked away. "You had feelings for him. Feelings you were afraid to admit to him"

Because of my cupid side. I never wanted it to rule me. It was why I had bowed to myself to never love. Because I would never know if it was genuine or my cupid powers were guiding me to it.

Piper stared at me. "How did he hurt you?"

"How does a warlock try to kill a witch anyway?" Paige asked thoughtfully, "That looked like a stab wound..."

"In the attic I saw an athame" Leo quipped.

Piper clapped, "Perfect. Now we have a way to scry for the two of them"

"Bloody athame" Paige held out her hand, a swirl of orbs showing in her hand, disappearing to show the athame Jake used on me.

Piper nodded in approval, accepting the athame from Paige, holding the ring Phoebe gave her. "You guys work on the vanquishing potion and a spell for Jake in case they're not in the mood to help"

The sisters immediately made their way out.

I watched them go, feeling weaker than before.

Leo slowly took a seat next to me, seeing I was awake unlike Chris who began murmuring Bianca's name.

"They weren't bad" I said softly, resting my body back, I felt Leo looking at me. A sad, bitter smile played on my lips. "They helped us come back to the past. Without them, Chris and I wouldn't be here"

~8~

~ 22 years in the future ~

Today was when the plan would be done.

The four of us infiltrated within the tourists as a tour guide showed around the manor.

I had to tune her out, because I knew she was a demon. Maybe it wasn't obvious to people but I could tell the way she was mocking our family history.

I felt Jake nudge my hand and I flickered my eyes to him, seeing him smile slightly and reassuringly.

The tour guide mentioning the drones made me tense but with an arm around my shoulders, Chris lazily and discreetly used his telekinesis to make the probes turn away.

I relaxed at that as we followed behind the humans in the tour.

"Nicely done" Bianca said, smiling.

Since Wyatt took control, the magical world had been exposed. Witches were back into hiding. The witch trials had started up again. It felt like history had been repeating itself. Witches being hunted down, magical creatures no longer with that freedom of secrecy, some were forced to display their powers for humans' entertainment and those who didn't, well... They were never seen again.

This was the worst world ever we could live in.

It was why we could no longer keep going with this.

The four of us continued with the tour, Chris and I unable to stop watching as the holographic memory of the Power of Three being reborn was showed.

My lips pulled up in a soft smile as I saw my mom again after so long. I could sense Chris felt the same way as he kept his eyes on Piper but unlike me, he wasn't showing it on his face. Had it not been for my slight empathetic powers, I wouldn't know how he felt.

As we reached the kitchen, we waited for everyone to walk off.

Two demon guards shimmered in.

"Hey, you four" the first one snapped. "Move along"

Bianca and I exchanged slight smirks.

"Wait for it" Bianca whispered, slyly.

I smiled.

The guards got angry, stalking forward.

A dagger materialized on Bianca's hand and I conjured a sword in mine.

"Are you deaf?" The guard snapped. "I said..."

Bianca stabbed him in the stomach, vanquishing him.

I twirled my sword, stabbing the other guard through his chest, watching it vanquish from existence. I let the sword disappear along the flames, turning around, high fiving Bianca.

Jake slid closer to me, wrapping an arm around my middle as Bianca opened the basement door.

"We should find somewhere else to wait" Jake whispered wickedly on my ear. "After all, they just got engaged. Tell me you don't feel that... tension"

I did.

And I knew what Jake was implicating. I half smiled, grabbing his arm, pushing it away, stepping away from his embrace, raising a pointed eyebrow.

Jake blushed, looking away.

I smiled, amused.

"I know where we can go" I grabbed his arm, looking at Chris who had been waiting for us but he had to look away, flustered at the wriggle of my eyebrows as we walked past him.

"You're mean" Jake chuckled, having witnessed our interaction.

"I'm younger" I said innocently. "I have to be"

I lead him to what used to be my room, but now it was full of artifacts, no longer resembling a bedroom. I held back the need to cry because we were going to succeed.

We were going to save the world and our family and this museum would be a home again.

Whatever it takes.