Kristin Halliwell whimpers as she is viciously kicked by her own mother. The sixteen year old gets to her feet and dodges the next blows sent her way. She had never understood why her mother felt the need to beat the shit out of her every day since she was two. Thanks to her whitelighter genes Kristin recovered faster than a normal child, but what made it worse was the fact that Kristin had been born deaf, that was what had initially started the beatings. It wasn't her fault that her world was forever silent.

Even worse in Kristin's opinion was that the only true comfort she had was her own twin. You'd think her mother would be thrilled with having given birth to the Twice Blessed Twins, but no, she hated Kristin, simply because Kristin couldn't hear anything. Thanks to Chris, her twin, and several special lessons Kristin could enunciate with the best of them, could read lips proficiently, and for some reason no one understood sing with the best of them and play her chosen instruments perfectly, even though she couldn't hear them.

Piper Halliwell had always made it so no one could hear Kristin scream or any of the other sounds that came. Kristin keeps dodging, trying to come up with a spell to get her out of this. Then Piper blows her up and Kristin's blocks fall, waking her twin up. Still Kristin had to fight for her life without her powers. Having attended her Aunt Phoebe's School for Demon Ass Kicking Kristin could fight with the best of them, which was the only reason she was still in the fight.

In his room Chris Halliwell curses softly in pain, wondering why his twin was in so much pain, he didn't hear the sounds of a demon fight. In fact he didn't hear anything at all, never did, and that was starting to make him suspicious. Every instinct he had was screaming at him that something was terribly wrong, and that he needed to get to his twin, fast. Kristin?

Chris, help.

The connection shuts off abruptly and Chris throws his clothes on in a hurry before he heads for his twin. Kristin?

In her room Kristin starts coughing, and ends up coughing up blood as Piper kicks her viciously in the ribs, repeatedly. Chris, break down the spell, hurry, I can't last much longer. Kristin was ever so thankful for the telepathic bond between them at that moment, otherwise, she'd be screwed, not even their mother knew the true extent of their bond and Kristin planned to keep it that way, it was her only shot at survival. Hopefully Piper would just think Chris' empathy had latched onto her pain.

When Chris manages to open the door his eyes widen before he telekinetically flings his mother aside, knocking her out. He packs up quickly for himself and Kristin, taking her sax and flute, while grabbing his acoustic guitar and fiddle. Then he orbs them both out to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge and sighs, " Wyatt, I need you now! "

The eldest child of Piper and Leo blinks in shock before he heals his little sister, " What the hell happened? "

" Mom did, Wy, I gotta get us both out, you know how hard a time the family's going to have believing this. I need your help, you have to make it so we can't be found. " Chris says.

Wyatt sighs, " Just stay in contact, all right. I'll make it so no one knows I'm still in contact with you. Trust me, no one will find you two, not through my power. If you need money, let me know and I'll work something out. "

Chris sighs, " She blew her up, Wy. If it would be physical abuse that would be one thing, but mom used her powers on Kristin. "

" Go, stay safe, little brother. "

" Oh, don't worry, we'll be plenty safe, I can absolutely guarantee that, especially if we have you keeping us from being found. I figure with mine and Kristy's cooking skills we can probably score a job at some restaurant, but we'll have to change our appearances and we'll need new names. I copied that spell out of the book, we'll be fine. "

" I just hate that I couldn't see this, couldn't protect her. "

" You can now, Wy. Just don't let us down, keep your spells strong. "

" I will, Chris, you know I will. Mom won't hurt her again, and I'll keep you updated on the family, I promise. "

" I'll keep you posted on us as well. I'd better get going with her. "

Wyatt sighs, " In this night and in this hour, I call upon the Twice Blessed Power, hide my sibs from all magic but mine, so our fates may still intertwine. "

Chris grins, " Not bad for spur of the moment, Wy. I'll miss you, bro. "

" Backatcha, keep our sis safe and happy. "

" I'll do my best, but some on, we're Halliwell's. Oh, keep grandpa in the loop, I know he can keep a secret, I'll send him letters the same time I send you letters. " With that Chris orbs off with his twin and Wyatt sighs, knowing it would be quite some time before he saw his sibs again, and that there would be chaos when the family realized they were gone. Wyatt orbs to Victor's place and fills in his grandpa on the situation, both wishing Chris and Kristin the absolute best of luck.

At the Manor Piper is just coming to and she curses as she realizes her damned bitch of a daughter was gone, which meant Chris most likely was too. Piper reaches for Kristin's pillow and heads to the attic before scrying for her missing daughter, she frowns when she can't find anything, even on a world map. How the hell was the bitch hiding from her, not even Chris could pull this off, though combined the two might be able to do it. What really irked was the fact that she would have to play the part of the concerned mother when Leo discovered the twins missing.