"Happy 14th birthday peanut" sang Piper halliwell as she embraced her baby boy just as he came home from school.

"Thanks mum" said Chris and then added slightly annoyed "I thought you had forgotten since everyone has been ignoring me since morning"

Suddenly Chris felt himself being pivoted away and his eyes widened when he saw the energy ball headed towards his mother who was now in the spot he had vacated. He buckled slightly under the impact of the energy ball as it hit his mother and felt her slump against him. He angrily flicked his hand at the demon and watched in satisfaction as it blew up. Just as he was about to bend over and heal his mother's wounds, he felt something press against his head and his world went black.

When Chris awoke he felt groggy and jumped up as the events of what happened caught up with him. He rushed towards where his mother was taking shallow breaths and was alarmed at the amount of blood that was staining the carpet.

Suddenly as though she could sense his presence piper Halliwell turned towards and gasped out the last four words she would ever say again" I love you, peanut"

On that day something inside Christopher Perry Halliwell, the second most powerful witch in the world, broke. He could no longer access his power to heal.

Chris held his mothers corpse sobbing uncontrollably for what felt like hours when the jingling of orbs was heard. Wyatt Matthew Halliwell oldest of the charmed progenies had come home and he had a big grin on his face. He was holding a gift wrapped in blue wrapping paper and as soon as he felt his brother's emotions he dropped the present and rushed into the foyer. What he saw would haunt him for years to come.

"Dad!" he yelled at the heavens before rushing to his brother's side. Chris did not even acknowledge his presence even when he dropped the block in their bond as he did not want Chris peeking at his birthday present.

"She's gone Wyatt" croaked Chris as his tears continued to fall.

Wyatt was in a daze he was still grasping the fact that the eldest and most powerful of the charmed ones the strongest witch of their time was gone. He sank to the floor and placed an arm around his younger his other arm reaching out to touch the face of his mother. Her eyes which were once sparkling with life was now a dull brown, her brown hair was matted with blood. Wyatt closed his eyes and grieved for his mother soon tears were also spilling down his face as he realized that his mother, the anchor of their family was gone.

Suddenly Wyatt and Chris both sensed someone orbing in, Leo had finally decided to check in on why his eldest was calling him. When he saw the corpse of his ex-wife he roughly pushed his kids aside and knelt beside her stroking her head.

Leo's hands continued glowing gold as he tried to heal his wife. "What happened" he all but choked out

"Demons" said Chris softly and Wyatt heard how his voice broke. Wyatt realized through their bond, that Chris was blaming himself for his mother's death.

Wyatt grabbed Chris's hand and cast a glance at his father who nodded and orbed himself and his brother into his brother's bedroom, giving their father some time to mourn alone. He gently lifted his brother's head and looked into his eyes asking the question he so desperately wanted to know.

"What happened Chris?"

Chris looked away as he replayed the memory in his head and allowing Wyatt access to it as well. Wyatt noted that through their bond Chris was feeling nothing. It was as though all his emotions were switched off he was numb and Wyatt was very worried because if Chris continued like this he would sink into depression. Wyatt watched impassively as the memory played out and realized that nothing in it was Chris's fault in fact there was nothing his little brother could do to save their mother as he was knocked out but he knew that Chris felt different.

Suddenly Wyatt felt a huge burst of anger radiating of Chris and he jumped away as though stung.

"Chris!" he nearly yelled "What are you doing" as he notice the sparks of lightning dancing around his brothers fingers.

"It's all my fault" Chris said more to himself than anyone else "and they are going to pay."

"No its not" Wyatt tried to remain calm and console his brother.

"I could have saved her Wyatt!" said Chris "if only I had sensed the other demon behind me I would have saved her. It's entirely my fault I wasn't paying attention."

"You were distracted cause you were trying to heal mum!" Wyatt had lost his composure "don't blame it on yourself!"

Wyatt lunged forward activating his shield at the same time to stop his brother but he was too late and Chris had orbed out. Wyatt cursed and ran downstairs to find his aunts with his father mourning over their sister. He must have called them while Wyatt was upstairs with Chris. His aunts looked up and Wyatt shook his head.

"Chris has gone after the demons and has cloaked himself from everyone including me" said Wyatt regretfully

"HOW COULD LET HIM GO!" shouted Leo. He has already lost one family member today and could not lose another one.

"I tried to stop him" Wyatt repeated in the same tone.

The aunts and Wyatt had tried every possible way of finding Chris and had even orbed to the underworld to look for him but to no avail. In the end they returned back and cleaned the house as well as called the police department. They had used magic to make pipers death seem like a kitchen accident instead of an energy ball to the back. They had also messed up the kitchen to make it more believable and Darryl was the only officer present to know the truth and he had even helped them with arranging the kitchen to make it look like an explosion. Chris came home almost three hours after the officers had left and by then the whole family was worried. He orbed into his bedroom to find both Wyatt and Pure (phoebe's oldest daughter) waiting for him.