Title: Please Give Me Another Chance Author: Laheara Fandom: Charmed, post "The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell", SPOILERS for this episode Rating: PG, to be sure

Summary: After the "The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell" ep. Chris finally admits to Phoebe's he Piper and Leo's son. Now that they all realize who Chris really is will they get the chance to be a family to him or will he die, hurt and alone, after saving Piper from being killed by a demon.

A/N: YES!!!!!! The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell episode finally confirmed what we all know that Chris really is Wyatt's little brother. GOOD EP.

"Please Give Me Another Chance"
by Laheara (entsg1efc2002@yahoo.ca)

Phoebe walked in and called Chris's name. He whirls around and asks, "Are you here to kick me out?"

Phoebe shakes her head, "No, I'm here to ask you a question."

Chris doesn't know what's coming but is just happy one of the sisters is still talking to him, "Ask."

"I need you to be honest with me. No lying, no running away, just the truth."

Chris nodded, "Ok."

Phoebe took a deep breath, "Are you Wyatts little brother?"

Chris couldn't believe this, how had she figured it out? But suddenly Chris felt a huge weight lift from his shoulder at someone else knowing his secret. He sighed and answered, "Only if I can get Piper and Leo back together in time."

Phoebe knew he was telling the truth, the boy in the vision was Chris, her nephew, Piper's second son. "Why didn't you just tell us from the start?"

"Because Leo and Piper weren't even talking really when I first got here. If I had said they were going to get back together and had a child you all would have thought I was crazy. And I couldn't risk them getting to soon, but now it looks like they might not at all."

Phoebe hated time travel because the idea of it always messed with her head, but she had to know, "So what happens to you if they don't?"

Chris looks at her not sure if she' ready to hear the truth, but he sighs again and sits down, "I die."

Phoebe rushed forward and sat beside him taking his hands in hers, "No, there must be something we can do to help you. How much time do you have?"

"Not much, I'm running out of time. In my future I'm supposed to be conceived VERY soon, if not already. They have been so busy with other things since Piper's birthday they haven't had a chance to make up. If they don't I'm dead in a few days or maybe a week."

"But you're alright now, you're not hurt, how will you die?"

"I don't belong here Phoebe, and if they don't get back together I won't belong in the future either, I won't belong anywhere. Space and time aren't very forgiving to a being that doesn't actually belong somewhere. I will simply get weaker and finally just fade away and It will be like I never existed, because really, I didn't. I can feel it already, it's starting."

"Oh Chris, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry this is happening you to baby," she pulled Chris to her and hugged him.

Chris was surprised at first, it had been years since he'd been hugged by a member of the family, but it felt. good. He melted into the hug and clung to his aunt for a while.

Phoebe pulled away when she felt Chris jerk in her grasp, she leaned back and saw tears on his face, "Chris?"

Chris looked at her, "You don't know how long it's been since I got a hug from one of you. You all died when I was very young. All Wyatt and I had growing up was each other, I loved him so much I didn't even see him turning evil until it was to late. I like to think that our love was what kept him from turning completely, he's very evil but he never tried to kill me until that time Bianca brought me back. That tells me part of him still remembers love, even though he's evil now. But he's so far gone and so engulfed in his rage that I can't get to him anymore, that's why I thought if I could stop it from happening his whole family could, not just his little brother."

Phoebe shook her head, "I just can't imagine little Wyatt being evil."

"It was gradual, not all at once, but I was to close to him to see it."

"But he obviously cared about you at once time or he would have killed you before you got a chance to come back here."

"I know and I did, Bianca and I both did, but he wouldn't listen to us."

Suddenly Piper came in looking for Phoebe and glared at Chris when she saw him. "What is HE doing here? You OUT of my club! Now!" At that moment Paige came to the door too.

Phoebe jumped up and stood in front of Chris, "Piper, please, give him another chance."

Paige jumped in, "We did, when Leo insisted he deserved one and he let a demon into Wyatts room."

"I explained that to you! The demon was looking for evil, he wasn't hurting him. Wyatts shield wasn't even up so he wasn't being hurt."

Piper put up her hands, "Enough! I don't want to hear it. I never trusted you Chris, and I never will now. You might as well go back to the future because If I see you again I'll vanquish you myself. Now OUT!"

Chris looked at Piper with pleading eyes but she was too angry. He let out a soft sob and lower his eyes to look at Phoebe one last time, "Protect her for me, please. I'm sorry." Then he orbed out before she could say anything.

"What were you doing talking to him, he's evil!" Piper scolded her sister.

"He is NOT evil! I know!"

"How do you know, everything we've seen so far has proven he's not to be trusted," Piper pointed out.

Phoebe looked up and yelled, "LEO!"

Leo orbed in a second later and look at the girls, "What's up?"

"Leo, as an Eldar you can sense evil right?"

"Yes."

"Do you sense it from Chris?"

"No, but he may have some magic from the future to block me. Look I wanted to trust him too, but that stunt with Wyatt was the last straw." Leo looked over to Piper who was nodding in agreement.

"No you guys don't understand, he's not evil he's desparate, he's running out of time."

Paige made a strange face at that remark, "He said that to me, that he was running out of time and he needed me to trust him and to get Piper and Leo to trust him too."

Phoebe looked at Leo, "Can you orb us back to the manor?"

"Yeah, I guess." Everyone links hands and the arrived in the living room a the manor. Phoebe sat down and motioned for them to all follow, "You all better sit before I tell you this."

But before she could start the story about who Chris was and the vision of him from the future, a group of demons attacked out of nowhere. They all jumped into action sending demons flying into the air and across the room and blowing them up and igniting them with energy balls. The girls were winning for a while but then a league of reinforcements arrived and things turned bad.

Phoebe saw a demon about to stab Piper and screamed, "CHRIS!"

A swirl of blue an white appeared in the centre of the room and Chris appeared. It didn't take him long to take in the situation and then he saw Phoebe pointing at Piper. He saw the knife and dove for Piper getting between her and the demon and taking the knife in the stomach. He winced and hissed in pain as it cut through his skin, then he threw his arm in the air and the demon flew across the room and shimmered out followed by the others. The arrival of another Whitelighter didn't put thing in their favour anymore and they retreated.

Everyone was stunned that the fight had ended so quickly but eventually came back to their senses. Chris was clutching his stomach and finally fell to his knees in pain and his hand was covered in blood. He turned back to see if Piper was alright and she hugging Leo and staring at him surprised but still cold.

Chris looked back at the floor, "I know, get out. Right Piper?" He tried to laugh but ended up coughing instead and couldn't hold his position any longer and fell down on his free hand. "Be more careful next time, please, I don't want you hurt again."

Phoebe started to rush forward, "Leo! Heal him."

Chris laughed, "It's ok Phoebe. I was dying anyway. this just makes it faster and better for everyone. Protect Wyatt. please." Then he struggled but orbed out before she could get to him.

Phoebe yelled, "Chris NO!!!!!!" Then she looked at Piper and Leo. "You don't know what you just did. He's going to die thinking the only people he ever cared about hate him."

Piper was furious at what Chris had done but she wasn't cruel, she didn't want Chris to die. "I didn't mean what I saw to him at the Club, I don't want him to die. Leo can you find him?"

Leo closed his eyes and looked for Chris, then he opened them in shock. "No I can't."

Paige walked out of the kitchen with the left over of a potion in her hands. "I think this is why. It's a potion to block finding someone, either by scrying or even a Whitelighter Leo."

Leo looked confused, "But why would he want to not be found unless he's up to something."

Phoebe finally broke, "STOP IT! Just stop accusing him of being bad, he's not. He just saved your life Piper, you owe him for that, but you're not going to get a chance to pay it back because he's dying."

Paige shook her head, "No if we can find him before he bleeds to death Leo can heal him, he'll be fine."

"No, no he won't. You heard what Chris said, he's dying anyway."

"Why? What's wrong with him," Paige asked as she sat down on a chair.

"I don't know exactly what he said, but it's a time thing. Being here in the past is taking a lot out of him, he's getting weaker and weaker because he doesn't really belong anywhere."

Piper shook her head, "No he belongs in the future, if being here is killing him he should go back."

"He can't, if he goes back he's dead too. Wyatt will hunt him down and kill him. He would rather die in a time and place where he had family."

"Who is his family?" Paige asked.

Phoebe looked at them all, "We are. Piper, Leo, in his time you two get back together again now or pretty soon and you have another child. A boy. Wyatts little brother."

Everyone looked surprised and not quit getting what Phoebe was saying so she spelled it out. "Chris is your son, you're second son. And because you two haven't gotten together, he's dying because he does exist yet in any time."

Piper's jaw hit the ground, as did Paiges and Leo just stared in shock. "How do you know this?"

"That vision quest I went on at the magic school, it showed me a future version of our family. Wyatt had a little brother who came up to me and asked for help. When I came out of the vision Chris was kneeling in front of me asking for help in finding who conjured the headless horseman. Then at P3 tonight I asked him flat out if it was true and he admitted it was. I didn't sense any deception from him."

Piper looked down at the floor in shock and needed to catch her thoughts. Then her eyes fell on a few drops of blood the carpet and her heart froze. "Chris! Leo, our son is bleeding to death somewhere near here! We have to find him."