Chris was extremely irritated as he sifted through the Book of Shadows. The sisters were all out, leaving him to watch Wyatt, something he really didn't want to do. He didn't have anything against babies. He actually liked kids. It was Wyatt he hated. It was the kid that would grow up to ruin his life.

Chris knew it was wrong to take out his anger on the one-year-old version of his cousin. He could even hear both his parents in his head telling him exactly that. But he couldn't help it. Wyatt had taken everything from him. He'd destroyed everything he had, leaving him with just his father, and even that Wyatt had tried to take. So that was all Chris saw when he looked at his cousin. The monster that slaughtered his family.

Chris was pulled through his thoughts by the sound of the door. "Anybody home?" came Phoebe's voice.

"Up here!" Chris called as continued flipping through the book using telekinesis. He could practically hear his mom scolding him for doing it. She was a stickler for personal gain.

Phoebe walked into the attic a second later. "Hey. Where is everybody?"

Paige is at one of her temp jobs and Pi... Mom is at a doctor's appointment," Chris said. He cringed at having to call Piper mom. It pained him more than anything ever had. Piper was great and all, but that title didn't belong to her. He knew that if he didn't give it to her though, the others would be suspicious. It was better this way. It was the only way the sisters would trust him.

"Piper had a doctor's appointment? Why didn't she tell me? I would've gone with her," Phoebe said.

"That's probably why she didn't tell you," Chris said. From the time he'd Spent around Piper, he'd learned that she did not like being fussed over.

"Well, why didn't you go with her?" Phoebe asked.

"Because that would've been majorly weird," Chris said. It really would have been. Everyone would've assumed he was her husband when he was really her nephew. It would've been really creepy.

Phoebe laughed. "Yeah, seeing yourself on a sonogram does seem kinda weird."

Chris nodded and continued to flip the pages using his powers.

"You know, it only takes like two extra seconds to flip the page, and if Piper saw you do that, she'd go nuts," Phoebe said.

"It's a good thing she's not here then, isn't it?" Chris said with a smirk on his face.

"You know, I've only ever seen you use telekinesis. Is that your only power?" Phoebe asked.

"No," Chris said chuckling. That was definitely not his only power. He was just as powerful as Wyatt was. It came with being Twice Blessed.

"What are your other powers? And don't say anything about future consequences," Phoebe warned.

Chris thought for a minute. He supposed it wouldn't do any harm to tell her some of his powers. He doubted he'd be giving anything away, and it might keep the sisters off his back about keeping secrets for a while. "Well, I have Piper's power to freeze, astral projection, telepathy, levita-"

"Whoa, hold on. You can hear our thoughts?" Phoebe asked in shock and horror. She liked keeping her thoughts to herself. She still remembered that time that Piper and Prue had cast a spell to hear others' thoughts. That was not fun for her.

"Yeah, but I can control. I can turn it on and off. I only listen to people when it's necessary," Chris said.

"Oh, okay, go on. I think you were saying something about levitation. That's my power," Phoebe said smiling.

"Yeah. I got powers from all of you actually. And of course I can orb and sense," Chris said. He had a lot more than that, but that was what he felt comfortable telling.

"That's quite a list. But how come you can't heal?"

"Paige can't either," Chris reminded her.

"Yeah, but Paige has only had her powers a couple of years. You've always had your whole life," Phoebe said.

"True. I guess my witch side was just more dominant than my whitelighter side. And honestly, most of the time it didn't bother me. We had enough whitelighters in the family that it wasn't really necessary." 'Until it was,' Chris added to himself. There was that one fateful time when being able to heal would've been useful. He could've saved his mother if he'd been able to heal.

Phoebe noticed that Chris' face had darkened considerably. "Chris, are you okay?"

Chris quickly slipped his unreadable mask back on. "Yeah, I'm fine.

Phoebe was about to question him further when she heard Piper's voice from downstairs. "Chris!"

Chris and Phoebe immediately headed downstairs. They found Piper in the entrance hall. "Piper, is everything okay? Is it the baby?"

Piper held up her sonogram for Chris. "Care to explain this?"

"Aww. Look, Chris. It's your first picture," Phoebe gushed as she took the photo from her sister.

"Not according to my doctor it's not. According to him, I'm having a girl," Piper said.

Chris mentally cursed. Why hadn't he thought about that? Of course the doctor would be able to tell that Piper was having a girl. What the hell was he going to do now? They would never believe him. First of all, they wouldn't believe anything he had to say after this lie, but besides that, they wouldn't have believed him anyway. Hell, he wouldn't believe him if he didn't know it for a fact.

"That's impossible. We know it's a boy. He's standing right there," Phoebe said as she glanced at Chris.

"Tell that to the doctor," Piper said irritably.

"Hang on a second. I think I heard this story. your doctor did tell you I was a girl in my future too. You all got a big surprise when I was born," Chris lied.

"Again? We did it again? It wasn't bad enough with Wyatt?" Phoebe asked. They'd believed Wyatt was a girl too. That was of course because Piper had seen herself in the future with a little girl. That had obviously changed.

"But how? How could the doctor not know you're a boy?" Piper asked.

"Well, those pictures are blurry, right? He probably just made a mistake. It happens," Chris said. He smiled inwardly with triumph when he saw the looks of belief on the sisters' faces. He always had been a good liar, a trait he picked up from his father. His dad had been a good liar too. He almost had to be. The man had been a cop when he was a liar. Lying kinda came with the job description.

"Yeah, I guess that's true," Piper said.

"Alright, well, I gotta go. Wyatt's asleep upstairs and I have things to do. Bye," Chris said before orbing out.

"Piper, are you okay?" Phoebe asked. Her sister had a weird look on her face.

"Yeah, it's just..."

"What?" Phoebe asked.

"You know I love Chris, right?" Piper asked. She wanted that fact known before she went on.

"Of course you do. He's your son," Phoebe said.

"That's just it, Pheebs. I don't feel like he is? I know he's my son and I love him, but I just don't feel the same connection to him that I do with Wyatt," Piper said. She felt like a horrible mother for even thinking this, but it was how she felt. She didn't feel like Chris' mother. She'd been feeling that way for a while, but wouldn't let herself acknowledge it until now.

"Well, that's probably because he hasn't been born yet. It's weird. I mean, do you feel like the baby inside you is yours?" Phoebe asked.

"Of course," Piper said without hesitation. She felt a deep connection to the child growing inside her. She just wished she could also feel it for his future self. It felt like the two were different people.

"Well, then you do feel a connection to him, just a different version to him. It's a complicated situation, Piper. I mean, how many can say they knew their adult son's before they were even born. You're probably just still dealing with the shock of who he is," Phoebe said.

"You really think so?" Piper asked not so sure.

"Yeah, that's gotta be it. Don't worry about it," Phoebe said.

"Yeah, you're probably right. I'm gonna go check on Wyatt," Piper said before heading towards the stairs.