It was the end of another day and Chris was once again going through his exercises, the meeting with his father and the other leaders had not been as productive as he would have liked. The resistance was only weeks old and already it was showing cracks as the different factions within it could not agree over what was to be done to Piper Halliwell once they took her down.

There were those who wanted to see her stripped of all her powers and then cast out of the magical community to live amongst those who she had enslaved but there were others still who wanted her killed for what she had done.

Jack-knifing to his feet, Chris crossed the room to look out of the window; across the bay towards San Francisco bracing his hands above his head as he gazed through the broken window towards a city that was slowly being destroyed.

He saw hell.

He saw a city where freedom was gone.

He saw….home.

Situated across the bay from the San Francisco, he had a direct view of the city, of the destruction that had so far been wrought by the demons under his mother's control, here and there a few scattered lights could be seen in buildings that were still standing, illuminating the dark murky sky.

Chris was grateful for the desolate industrial area that he and the rest of the resistance had found when they had had to move from their last hiding place and a few well-placed charms and spells added extra protection so that they were able to come and go without raising suspicions from the few patrolling demons that had passed by.

Chris narrowed his eyes as he saw another demon patrol pass by their hiding place, he wanted nothing more than to go out and take them apart, rip out their blackened decayed hearts and obliterate them for the evil deeds they had committed and he was momentarily disgusted by his thoughts.

He had sworn to do whatever was necessary to stop the evil that was spreading across the world but he thought at what price. Would he lose the one thing that made him who he was, his conscience or would he be strong enough to resist the temptation to give into revenge and all the other darker human emotions he had, tip the balance between what made him good and the demons evil.

"You've been staring out of that window for a while."

Chris blinked as he was dragged from his thoughts, turning around he noticed Bianca behind him watching him from the shadows. He arched an eyebrow at the Phoenix witch as he took in the sight of her studying him.

"There's something you need to see."

Bianca said as she uncurled her body from the position she had been standing for the last half hour as she had watched Chris and without another word to him she spun on her booted heel and strode out of the room. Chris remained standing where he was for a few minutes watching her disappear out of the room before following her.

A cold draft of air swirled around him as he stepped into the dark hallway leading away from the room he had been in, thick with moisture and with a crisp scent of the approaching winter to it. He spied Bianca a few feet ahead of him and stalked forward closing the distance between them.

"What's this about?"

"You'll see."

As they walked, the stone walls stretched at their side going down towards the lower levels of the abandoned factory, strategically placed lights guiding their way.

"Where is everyone?" Chris asked, only then realizing that the two of them were alone.

"They're around."

Bianca replied as she led him further down into the very bowels of the building they were temporarily residing in. Pausing at a doorway, she waited only long enough to check that there was no one else nearby as she pulled him into the empty room.

xXx

The demon cringed as the one who had finally become the source a few weeks before, lashed out at the incompetence she saw in those who had chosen to follow her and obey her commands. Piper was furious; so far every patrol she had sent out to look for those who had dared to form resistance to her authority had failed her.

In her fury Piper had already zapped a dozen or more low levels demon into the middle of oblivion and still it had not satisfied her anger at being thwarted. Whirling around she spied the only demon still in the cavern as her whirlwind of emotions had got the better of her and moved in its direction.

As she was about to zap this one as well her attention was distracted as a portal opened on the far side of the cavern and a woman appeared.

"WHAT IS TAKING HER SO LONG?"

Piper screamed in her rage at the leader of the Phoenix witches as she stood before her.

Meredith bowed her head to her as she acknowledged the words that Piper screamed at her. Although she did not show it, she was frightened by the being that stood before screaming her frustration about her granddaughter at her. She knew that the source wanted to get her hands on the one the Valkyries had trained to stop her but at the moment that young man was hidden from them and the only one who seemed to know where he was, was her granddaughter Bianca who had volunteered to stay behind with the resistance when the rest of them had left and joined the source.

"She is doing what she can to bring the warrior to you my mistress but there are many around him and she can only bring him when she knows she can get him away from them. Never fear my mistress she will bring him to you and you can then do whatever it is you wish to him."

Piper howled in rage at Meredith's words and raising her hands she zapped Meredith from the cavern.

xXx

Bianca rested her head on Chris's shoulder wondering what it was about him that made her feel the way she did. No other man had ever affected her, in quite the same way Chris did. There was just something about him, a feeling that they were meant to be more than what they were.

She had stayed behind when the rest of her order had left, to keep an eye on Chris and to take him when the time came to the source and that time had been tonight but when she had pulled Chris into this room she had been unable to bring herself to open the portal that would have taken the two of them to the underworld where she was to have handed Chris over to Piper's demons.

Instead she had given into her most basic emotions.

A/N: Hope you like the second chapter, as always please review and let me have your thoughts on it. :-)