Title: Falling from grace

Summary: Piper was always the perfect mom but she resents future Chris for breaking up their family when he came to the past and takes it out on the innocent baby version. Piper Halliwell is falling from grace big time and her sisters have no idea what's going on.

FirePony16 I know you reviewed on my other story but if you read this then I want to say thanks and I hope you do too!

Family set ups in all of my stories will probably be different to make the story different and to stop me getting bored of writing similar things in how the family works so in this one LEO IS NOT AN ELDER! Sorry if this confuses anyone! If anyone fancies betaing for me let me know!

Okay, so sadly some of this comes from experience and I know it's really out of character for Piper but I think it works. Some of this comes from actual feelings in season 6 before they knew who Chris was and other bits from experience and some just because it works with the story. Started it at Christmas just 'cos it's that time of year and I decided to! Anyway felt like doing this to celebrate my moving on so here it is...

LEO IS NOT AN ELDER

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It was Chris' eighth Christmas and as he came downstairs he looked at the pitifully small pile of presents on his side of the room and then glanced over at Wyatt's, much, larger pile. He sighed. Christmas was always like this. He hadn't really noticed until a couple of years ago when his friend Sam commented on how much stuff Wyatt had. That was the one thing he wished Sam hadn't done; he knew he would have worked it out himself eventually but a few extra years in denial wouldn't have done any harm.

In fact he would have welcomed it. Anything was better than this feeling of rejection that followed him around now and no matter what he did he couldn't shake it.

He heard his older brother bounding downstairs and retreated to his corner. There was no point trying to compete, Wyatt would always win.

"Hey sweetheart." Chris lifted his head as his mother entered the room even though he knew the comment was directed at his brother. "Happy Christmas."

Piper went over to her oldest son and swamped him with a massive hug. Chris stayed quiet watching emotionless hoping he'd get one too. It wasn't worth asking, she'd just get all mad and then Christmas would be completely ruined and put an anti orb spell on his room. She glanced his way and Chris' spirits lifted a little, maybe he would get one; but Piper quickly turned away in disgust and gave all her attention back to her oldest child.

"So honey why don't you open your presents?"

Paige chose that moment to orb in with her two kids, Paul and Melissa; she'd cracked and allowed one P name, so Piper quickly changed her attitude towards Chris.

"You two sweetheart." Her voice was sickly sweet and fake but Chris pretended not to notice he was just glad of the attention. "Hi Paige." Piper said diverting her sister's attention to the opposite side of the room to Chris, "Your presents are under the tree. Leo should be down in a minute. Where's Henry?"

"On his way over. He had a night out with his friends last night. Didn't really feel up to orbing this morning." Her and Piper exchanged looks, they knew it would take Henry a while to get used to orbing. "Well more he just plain decided he really didn't want to. I think it might have had something to do with the last time we orbed he was sick."

Paige glanced over at the 4 kids tearing open presents. In the confusion you really couldn't tell Chris' pile was so much smaller. Piper laughed at Paige's last comment and cast her mind back to the time in question. Leo chose that moment to walk in, still half asleep, and sit by his oldest son as he opened his presents. Piper grimaced knowing it meant she'd have to sit with Chris but quickly hid it under a fake smile. Chris on the other hand just looked downcast as he saw his father pick Wyatt over him as well but he quickly perked up when Wyatt came over and passed him a present.

"I bought you an extra one." He said looking incredibly pleased with himself. "I saved up my pocket money to buy you that game you wanted. I thought we could have a race on it later."

Chris' expression was one of pure joy as he ripped off the wrapping and saw the latest burnout game inside. He leapt up and enveloped his older brother in a hug.

"Yeah." He said excitedly. "I'll so beat you."

Wyatt laughed. "No way you will." He grinned at his brother before walking back over to his own pile of presents.

Henry walked in and chuckled at the state of the living room. Paige stood up and went and gave him a kiss. Phoebe, Coop and Amalie appeared next giving merry Christmas greetings all round before Amalie tore off to open her presents annoyed that her cousins had started without her.

The adults all talked amongst themselves while the children ripped paper off presents and compared what each other had got. Chris quickly became quiet as he finished his pile long before the rest of the family.

"Chris." Chris immediately looked up. "Are you done already?" His Aunt Paige asked wondering why everyone else was still busy with presents and he was just sat there.

"Yeah." Piper jumped in not giving Chris a chance to answer. "He always rushes this. He's too eager to see what he's got."

Chris just nodded it wasn't worth arguing no matter what he felt like or the fact that was such a lie. He was always slow opening his presents. It made them last longer.

Well long enough for him not to feel quite so left out.

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Yeah so there it is kinda short but it is Christmas and I'm late wrapping presents. Oh and if anyone knows what the latest burnout game is then please let me know I have no idea. I'll edit it in.

Again cookies for the first reviewer of this story you guys are the reason I posted chapter 2 of Past Secrets up so fast! So reviews are very much appreciated! It means a lot to know people are actually reading these! Cookies also go to the person who can let me know what the latest burnout game is.

As I said, before people get confused, Leo is not an Elder in this story although he is in Past Secrets and the family set up is different in this. I just like writing different things so I keep changing it around when I write new stories. Sorry if it does confuse anyone but I will try and put a note at the top of each chapter to let you know what it's like in that story.

Seen as though I won't be posting anything else till after Christmas:

To everyone that celebrates Christmas:

Merry Christmas and I hope you get what you want!

To everyone else:

Happy Holidays!