A/N: I'm sorry this took so long. I'm so swamped with school work it's not even funny. And it'll only get worse as we build up to the exams. I really will try to update as often as possible but I can't promise anything. Well, here we go with chap 2...

Amanda did a double take and glanced at Chris. He gave her a warning look.

"What-what do you mean?" she asked.

Leo jumped on the question. "Phoebe. You can tell she's hiding something? Well, what is it? Did you come back here to hurt us? Why are you really here?"

"Leo, stop it!" it was Chris who had spoken. He was staring daggers at the elder. Amanda was standing beside him. She had always been very careful with the sensitive subject of Chris' family. Normally she would have stood up for herself but she didn't want to intrude on Chris.

"Stop it all of you" Piper butt in, cutting off the murderous vibes running between her husband and her whitelighter. "We will sort this out. Phoebe" she turned to her younger sister, "What is it exactly you can sense from...Amanda"

Phoebe looked from Piper straight at the young witch. "I can sense she's concealing something, something that is of great importance, and pain, to her. I can also sense a lot of love. That's what overwhelmed me"

"Love?" questioned Paige.

Chris was once more staring at Amanda. He had a soft smile on his face. Amanda, however, was staring intently at Phoebe. She then spoke.

"Tell me Phoebe, can you sense any malice or even anger from me?"

Phoebe concentrated for a moment, and then shook her head. "So" continued Amanda "You can see that I didn't come here to hurt you. Chris trusts me and you trust Chris, surely that's enough evidence"

"You might be masking your true feelings. It's not impossible" cut in Leo.

"Then, how come she can sense other things from me. Last time I checked you could mask all your feelings or none of them. You can't pick and choose" Amanda snapped back at him. While she had never shared Chris' loathing of his father, she was liking him less and less every minute.

"Fine" put in Piper, "We trust Phoebe. But that doesn't mean we trust you. Only time can gain you that"

Amanda smiled as she looked at the eldest witch. "I wouldn't expect anything else from you. And I can accept that I must earn your trust. Thank you for-watch out!" Amanda was suddenly over the coffee table, pushing Piper to the ground and landing on top of her. Just as she did a fire ball flew across the room, hitting the wall behind where Piper had been standing.

Everyone jumped into action. Phoebe hit the approaching demon, an ugly, green thing, with a high kick. Paige orbed a nearby vase into his head, and Piper, who had just sat up, raised her hands and blew the demon away. She then turned to Amanda. Amanda was now being helped up by Chris and rubbing her shoulder. Piper didn't really know what to say, luckily Paige summed it up for her.

"Well" she said as she held out a hand to pull Piper up, "Looks like your right on track for earning that trust you wanted. What was that demon anyway? Anyone know?"

"Hazroui" Chris and Mandy said in unison. Chris smiled and then took up the explanation at the confused looks from the girls. "Hazroui is a lower level demon, pretty small fry. He wouldn't usually go after someone big like the Charmed ones" the young whitelighter had a thoughtful look on his face, "In fact, it wouldn't make any sense. He would know he was going to die" Chris was now almost talking to himself, deep in thought, "He would only do that if he was ordered. Or if he was offered something. But why would someone send him here. They would have known he couldn't last five minutes, so why?"

He now turned to Amanda. Funny how, although they had been away from eachother for several months, he fell right back into the habit of conferring with her.

"He would have been sent by someone high-up"

Amanda too looked thoughtful "Yes but to what advantage?"

"It could only have been a distraction. But to get what? The book?"

"No. demons know by now you can't get at it. But what else is there...except..."

The girls and Leo had been watching with some fascination. It was as if the young couple could read eachother's minds. They then watched as they both came to the same conclusion at the same time.

"Wyatt!" As soon as they had spoken Amanda and Chris were running up the stairs, closely followed by the rest of the family. Everyone arrived in Wyatt's room, Piper and Leo coming in first, only to find it empty bar the peacefully sleeping baby.

"Did we get here before them?" asked Phoebe, looking around the room, as if expecting a demon to pop up from the floor. Her comment caused Piper to hurry over to the cot, picking up her young son, waking him at the same time. She gently jiggled him on her hip as Leo looked towards the ceiling.

"I have to go" he said, glancing at Amanda, he said to Piper, "Will you be ok?"

"Of course we will" Piper continued to hold onto her son. Blue orbs filled the room as Leo departed.

"I don't understand" Paige was looking at Chris, "You said it was a distraction. But there isn't anyone here"

"I don't know" Chris turned to Amanda, "Mandy, any ideas? Mandy are you ok?"

Amanda was staring at the baby lying in Piper's arms. Understanding dawned on Chris' face just as Piper looked up. "Amanda" she said, "This is Wyatt, though you probably already knew that"

"Em, yeah I did" the young witch gave herself a mental shake. Snap out of it, she told herself. This is just a baby. Chris' brother. No, no one's brother. Just a baby. He hasn't become what he will yet. He hasn't done what he will yet... "Yeah I did know" she continued more confidently, "He's gorgeous Piper" This generated a Hey! look from Chris to which Amanda only smiled.

"Isn't he just" Phoebe was now stroking Wyatt's hair "He's just the most adorable thing in the world. Yes he is, yes he is" she cooed.

"How about we go up and check the book" Chris was not a hundred percent sure Amanda was ok, "Mandy?"

"Yeah, we'll go do that" she took her eyes from the yawning child and followed Chris out of the room. As soon as they reached the privacy of the stairs to the attic, Chris took Amanda in his arms and kissed her gently. "I missed you so much" he mumbled into her hair, as he held her close.

"I missed you to" Amanda rested her head on his chest. She was suddenly feeling very tired. The spell had taken a lot and then... "So that was Wyatt" she tried to make it a fact, but Chris could always see right through her.

"Yeah, it was" he held up her face so he could look into it "It's weird isn't it. Seeing him like that. Not that I don't remember when he was young and sweet but...a baby. He's so small. So innocent"

"And that's what you're here to keep. He will stay innocent and we can have our future. All of us together"

"Yeah" smiled Chris. He then reached into his pocket, "I have something that belongs to you" He was holding a small diamond ring. He slipped it onto her fingure. "You told me to keep this to remind me of you but now you're here I don't need to remember. Besides I'd like to see you wearing it"

Amanda smiled at the memory of Chris proposing. It had been in the garden that was once their special haunt. Destroyed it may have been but as Chris said- it was still their place. And then he had got ready to leave. Hoping to keep it their spot, undamaged. Hoping to keep the city undamaged and put back so many families, not least his own. And at the final minute he had faltered, wondered if it was right. And she had given him the ring. Told him it was all he needed. Just look at it and remember what he was fighting for, what he had waiting for him. And now here they were. Once again in eachother's arms. But every thing wasn't fixed. There was still work to be done. She slowly pushed away from Chris.

"Come on" she said, "We need to check the book"

Chris smiled "All work and no play, eh?"

"It's how we stay alive" Amanda replied as she followed Chris up the stairs to the attic. Opening the door, Chris crossed over the thresh hold only to here:

"About time, I thought you'd be right up after that idiot demon" A tall, thin woman stepped out from the shadows. She was dressed all in black leather. "I' was starting to think my Lord miscalculated-what are you doing here!" She had just noticed Amanda in the door way. Distracted she didn't see Chris move his arm in a flying motion. Bianca flew across the room to land in a heap on the floor. Chris turned to Amanda.

"She got here faster then I thought she would. We need the crystals. In that box, there!" He pointed to the box on the small round table. He intended to keep Bianca busy while Amanda made the circle. This, however, was stopped as his feet were knocked out from under him. He hit his head and lay for a moment, stunned.

Amanda turned towards the noise just in time to see Chris fall and to counter a punch from Bianca. Spinning around Amanda tried to kick Bianca's leg but the witch shimmered out and reappeared behind her, flinging her across the room. She crashed into the table and fell unconscious to the floor.

"Mandy, no!" Chris struggled to his feet, starting towards Amanda only to be intercepted as Bianca plunged her hand into his chest...

A/N:Dun dun duh! So what do you think? I wrote this as fast as I could but it seemed to take forever. I know there's a lot of interaction in this chapter but I had to lay down the character, so there should be more action next time.

I know I stole some of this stuff from Chris-crossed. I think I will retell that story using Amanda so watch out for Wyatt in future chaps. I know I have yet to tell Amanda's power but she does have one which I hope to show in chapter three. Please give me some feed back even if you think I just wrote the worst chap ever.

Finally: some people asked if this would be a revelation fic. I'm not sure. Would you guys like that?