Woogey man

I am light

I am one too strong to fight

Return to dark where shadows dwell

You cannot have this Halliwell

Go away and leave my sight

And take with you this endless night

Sixteen-year-old Chris Halliwell woke screaming, he felt like he was choking to death, almost instantly he felt his brother's presence beside him.

"You okay?"

"Yeah, I think so…" Suddenly the light snapped on and their parents came running in.

"Are you okay Chris?"

"Yeah, just a bad dream."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah mum, I'm okay. The three of you can go back to bed."

"Are you really sure?"

"Yeah."

"Night sweetie." Piper and Leo walked out.

"Can you leave the hall light on?" He asked quietly. Piper smiled at him.

Wyatt remained by his side and said, "Are you really sure you're okay Kit?"

Chris waved a hand and orbed his older brother to his own room. Chris picked up the phone and called his aunt Phoebe.

"Hello?" Phoebe yawned.

"Aunt Phoebe hey, it's Chris."

"Chris it's three in the morning."

"I know and I'm sorry, it's just I had that dream again, with the darkness but I heard the complete rhyme this time."

"What was it?" Phoebe asked getting up and going to the kitchen.

"Does it matter?"

"Just tell me honey."

"Okay here goes;

I am light

I am one too strong to fight

Return to dark where shadows dwell

You cannot have this Halliwell

Go away and leave my sight

And take with you this endless night."

"Okay honey, get some sleep okay?"

"B-"

"No butts, sleep okay. I'll talk to you in the morning."

Chris hung up the phone and slid under the covers wondering what the rhyme meant. Knowing his Aunt and that reaction he changed his mind about sleeping and crept up to the attic. Picking up the book of shadows he sat down on the couch, pulled a blanket over him and began to read.

His eyes opened as he came across the page in his Aunt's handwriting detailing the woogey man, "I can't believe they wouldn't tell me knowing how much I was afraid of that dream and the damn basement." It wasn't long after his grumbling that he fell asleep atop the book.

Chris' already strong connection with the Book of Shadows became stronger as he slept and generation's worth of wisdom seeped into him. Piper walked into the attic in the morning and saw Chris asleep on the couch. It took 'til she got to his side before she saw he was asleep on the book.

"Honey it's time to get up."

"Mum?" Chris said groggily, "What's up?"

"You kiddo, you're going to be late."

He looked at his watch and jumped off the couch, "God Mrs P is going to throttle me if I'm late again!" His school pants, shirt, tie, and shoes all appeared in the attic, "Don't take this the wrong way mum." Chris froze her and got changed like lightning.

Unfreezing his mother he kissed her cheek and said, "See you later mum, love you."

"Hair!"

"At school, bye!"

"Love you honey."

Chris sat down at his desk and prayed that Mrs. Peters wouldn't notice that he was late.

"Late again Christopher?" She tutted, "Two weeks detention."

Chris nodded, a book up the front of the room exploded into flames. Chris looked up and flicked his hands. His teacher and class all froze, he raced out of the classroom gasping for breath. Looking around he saw he'd frozen the entire school.

Wyatt walked out of his classroom when it froze, stepping into the courtyard he saw his brother hyperventilating on one of the seats. Jogging over he said, "So what happened?"

"I got a new power." Chris said starting to regain control of his breathing thanks to a burst of healing from his brother.

"A new power?"

Chris nodded, "Fire starter." He gestured over to the full rubbish bin.

He willed the bin to burst into flames and it did, Wyatt looked at his brother's face and put a hand on his forehead, "Jesus Christ Chris! You're burning up!"

"I'm okay." He said brushing Wyatt's hand away, "I should get back to class before everything unfreezes."

"I'll walk you." Wyatt helped him up looping one of Chris' arms around his neck he said, "Chris, what happened before you froze everything?"

"Two weeks detention…book burst into flames."

They stopped outside Chris' room and he walked in. Wyatt closed the book and the flames went out. Smiling at his brother he orbed back to his class, Chris unfroze everything and let his teacher go on with her tirade.

"Mr. Halliwell this is the fifth time this month and frankly I am sick of it, if you don't get your act together I will be forced to seek a suspension from the principal."

Chris' eyes rolled back in his head and he collapsed onto the floor, when he came too he could hear his mother's voice, "So what happened to him? He was absolutely fine this morning!"

"He collapsed in class Mrs. Halliwell, I would hardly call it my fault!"

"If you-"

"Are you aware that your son has been tardy five times this month? Not to mention that he comes to school looking like he has been… doing thing he shouldn't be."

"Like what?" Piper's voice had that 'I'll blow you up tone'.

"Chris came to school this morning looking like he was stoned-"

"HOW DARE YOU!" Piper shouted, "Chris is a good boy. You saying things like that will not help him!"

"Mummy?"

"Oh Chris honey you're awake!"

"What happened?"

"You collapsed in class, came to take you home."

"I don't feel so good."

"No, you're running a fever…" She placed a hand on either cheek and forced him to look at her, "Why didn't you tell me you were sick?"

"I didn't feel sick mum." He stood up and they walked out to the car, Chris slumped into the passanger seat.

"So why don't you tell me what's really going on?"

"I got a new power." He replied gasping for air, "Fire."

Piper drove home quickly and when Chris was lying on the couch she called for her husband, "Leo! Leo Chris needs you!"