A/N this used to have footnotes, I have edited them out. This is the same chapter with the same information just in a better format.

Chris sighed as he watched the three women in front on him. Piper was in a bad mood and trying to goad her sisters into an argument. She missed Leo and as neither he nor Chris were around to around to take her mood out on they would have to do. It was times like this that Chris was glad he had been 'Halliwell Hide and Seek Champion' five years running. You wouldn't know to look at it but it was perfectly possible for someone to orb in to the gap between the tops of the cupboards and the ceilings, and lay there comfortably spying.

Leo had finally made the permanent move to Elder, the darklighter attack being just too much and Piper was taking it out on anyone and everyone. Chris grinned to himself. He knew both Leo and Piper blamed him for their marital problems. But this was what caused Leo to leave originally too. He had been staying with the sisters as when he was promoted they couldn't find a replacement whitelighter, what with the titans decimating everyone. So Leo had stuck around until Gideon had driven him away. Leo returned to the sisters, as their Elder whitelighter, until Wyatt was kidnapped during Chris' birth when Leo orbed down at Paige's frantic calls.

Chris knew he wouldn't get anything helpful out of the sisters anytime soon. With Piper in a mood and taking it out on her sisters they would all gang up on him so he orbed away. Now that he was conceived there was one less consequence of his family connection to them being discovered. Chris didn't like to think of it as revealing his identity to them, being a Halliwell didn't make him who he was. When he had left Halliwell was synonymous with evil, he was the only one of his generation to not join Wyatt, he was the black sheep of the family.

Sometimes he wondered why he didn't just kill Wyatt, it was so much easier. But learning that the root of it all came from this time, from his birth, he couldn't kill Wyatt for something which was his fault. And logically he couldn't stop himself from being born, so he was going to save Wyatt, and if he failed, rather than risk time, he would then kill Wyatt, and kidnap his baby self. The baby he would leave somewhere, to grow up far away from the sisters so they'd never know of his act of fratricide.

Over the course of Piper's pregnancy Chris distanced himself from the family. The less they remembered him the better, he still kept an eye on them and sent them off every now again. They all had questions about this child, were they new to this timeline? Had Chris spilt Piper and Leo in an attempt to stop the conception?

So he stayed away, let them have what they wanted, normal lives. Let Piper deal with the pain and worry of Leo gone and another child of his on the way. She went on a demon killing spree. She was so angry and part of her hoped if she got hurt then he'd come back. With them preoccupied with their own and Piper's drama Chris was able to dedicate more time to Wyatt and do what needs must without worrying about Leo finding out and accusing.

Piper was just hours shy of labour when he killed Gideon, it took the power born of from his contraception on the ghostly plain. He could return there, that was where he felt he belonged, but the power of Leo being an Elder, his immortality overcame the call death had on Chris. All it took was for him to let go, it felt like returning to where he belonged, it wasn't hard to take Gideon with him

Piper woke up to find a baby, another boy, he was tiny and where was the flood of love she had had with Wyatt? The new baby bonding was put off by the disappearance of Gideon. Whatever was powerful enough to and wanted to kidnap or kill an Elder was a danger to them all. By the time they realised they would probably never find anything out Chris was a toddler and smiled more at his Grandfather and barely recognised his mother.

Due to, at first, the hunt for Gideon, and later Piper's feelings of guilt and inadequacies, mixed in with undiagnosed post-natal depression, Chris spent a lot of time with his grandfather. Victor loved him and it was always a joy to have the boy around. Eventually, when Chris was six months old Victor moved to a two bed place, where Chris had his own room. Even years later when both Wyatt and Chris visited it was always known as Chris' Room.

They called him Chris as Piper wanted to honour Leo and his family. Leo returned on Wyatt's third birthday, he wanted to reconnect with his son and his family, and had used the excuse of Wyatt needed training and direct guidance form the Elders. Leo volunteered himself, and not being cruel, they allowed him leave to return to Earth, for his son.

Wyatt, who recognised Leo as the presence who watched down on him from Up There, was pleased to see Leo. Chris, who was sickly, and overwhelmed by the screaming children hyper on cake running around his home, hid from this new stranger. Piper was too blinded by it being Leo, her Leo, whom she still loved being there, too much notice what Chris was doing.

Leo didn't know what to make of Chris. He resented the memories brought back by the name but never had the heart to tell Piper that the reason he became a doctor was because he watched his father waste away and die of an illness. An illness which meant he couldn't provide for his family and made him bitter, and spend what little money they had on drink. Leo also wanted to be a doctor so he could help his mother patch herself up with more than just make up.

Chris was always ill so could never play in the same way Wyatt did. He was much more intune with death and ghosts than other Halliwells were. So he spent far too much time talking to people nobody else could see, it unnerved Leo.

For the first three months after Leo's return they never discussed Chris, it was only when he caught him orbing that he asked. Shocked and overjoyed that he had a second child Leo tried to bond with him. But there was too much baggage. The name, Wyatt being jealous of Chris receiving his attention, and the fact that he was so fragile meant father and son bonding was almost impossible. Chris also spent a lot of time at Victor's, having a small young child, who wasn't well or powerful around a demon attacks just wasn't sensible.

And so unintentionally Chris never was as close as the rest of the family. They all loved each other but they didn't really know each other.