Piper, Phoebe and Wyatt re-materialised in the lounge of the Halliwell manor and were shrugging off the jackets when Paige re-materialised in the hall with the two injured kids from the future.

They laid opened the blankets so they were folded in half and put them on the sofa's so they could wrap the pair in them to try and warm them up.

"Sofa" Paige said waving her hand at Chris he disappeared into blue and white orbs reappearing on one of the sofa's. Once again Paige said "sofa" this time waving her hand at Aeryn who also disappeared into blue and white orbs reappearing on the sofa opposite.

"That was different" Paige said as she shrugged out of her heavy coat watching her sisters wrapping the youngsters up in blankets "it's probably one of the first times they've let someone else take care of them" she mused out loud.

"It certainly looks like it, my good I'm so glad she didn't show us how she got all these scars" Phoebe added Piper looked over from where she perched next to Chris feeling guilty about how badly she'd treated her own son.

"We need to call Leo because her breathing really doesn't sound healthy" Phoebe winced at the rattling sound that accompanied each of Aeryn's breaths, Chris breathing also wasn't sounding as it should.

"Leo could you come down here please" Piper called but only got a jingle from her elder ex husband "don't you jingle me mister, get down here now or I'll never welcome you in my house again".


Leo was in a meeting when Piper had called and annoyed that his ex wife was still relying on him even though they had a new white-lighter now.

Like usual she didn't take to kindly to his response of simply jingling her and like usual she showed her dislike in the response of threatening him, but banishing him from the manor that was a new one.

He knew Piper Halliwell well enough to know that she was stubborn and didn't make idle threats and she knew that he knew that.

He turned to the elder next to him which happened to be Roland whose opinions about Leo and Piper's 'forbidden' relationship had softened considerably since the Titans attacked.

"I'm sorry but I've got to go" he said whispering.

"Piper" Roland asked.

"Yeah" Leo said rolling his eyes "I'll be back as soon as I can" causing them both to laugh.


Piper was getting trigger itchy and her sisters hoped that Leo responded before something exploded because her emotions were so all over the place after the revelation that Chris was her son.

Her emotions came to the boil resulting in a vase on the sideboard to explode just as Leo materialised in the archway "you rang" he said looking at the flying pottery shards.

"Heal first talk later" she barked at him pointing at the two young adults that were lying on her sofa's.

He moved to kneel by Aeryn's side tugging the blanket open slightly so he could see what he was meant to be healing he than held his hands over the deep knife wound and dug deep for the spark of love that ignited his healing power. Sure enough a soft golden glow radiated from his hands closing the wounds.

Aeryn felt the familiar warmth of a white-lighter's healing power and was happy in the knowledge that once again Chris had kept his promise, but she was still to cold to really respond.

"I've healed her so why isn't she waking up" Leo asked turning to the woman he still had strong feelings for.

"We found them in ankle deep snow she probably just happy to be wrapped in a nice warm blanket on a comfortable couch".

Leo scooted over to where Chris was shaking and once again opened the blanket slightly tapping into the well of love all elders have causing his hands to glow. He once again healed Chris for he didn't care to remember the amount of times.

"Aeryn where's Aeryn" Chris said coming round.

"Who the hell is Aeryn" Leo asked looking at the sisters who's unconsciously gravitated towards each other standing shoulder to shoulder in the archway.

"Touch her and find out" Chris snarled at his father.

"Christopher" Piper scolded "behave yourself".

"Leo Wyatt" the strong Irish accent caught everyone's attention and drew it to Aeryn who'd managed to sit up without any of them noticing, she was holding one heavily scared hand out to the elder "let me show you who we are".


Leo looked at Piper who nodded so he moved to sit on the coffee table in front of her resting his hand on hers he was pulled into a strange room with shafts of light coming down.

"Where are we" Leo asked looking around for anything that he could identify but came up empty.

She laughed "my people call it the link, a place where two minds can meet to share thought or talk confidently".


She than proceed to show him exactly what the charmed one's had inadvertently seen while they trying to save her life "I'm Aeryn and the fiancée of Christopher your son. I will be born on November 1st 2004 in Galway, Ireland. Recruited to the Triskelion at sixteen I met Chris when I punched him at the Triskelion where we were both training to fight with the resistance.

We quickly fell in love and used our telepathically abilities to form a permanent bond between us. I used my maternal grandmother's demonic blood to help us infiltrate the underworld and gather intel. It was on one of these fact finding missions that we bumped into Bianca.

She was eager to join the resistance and although I didn't truly trust her, she was a former associate of Wyatt so I encouraged Chris to pretend to court her in ruined San Francisco while I tried to stop evil taking England. Not that I care much for those stuck up pompous twat's but I knew Ireland would be next.

He proposed to me on Tower Bridge at midnight as his eighteenth birthday was coming to a close and mine was being rung in. Over the next four years we regularly kept in contact using the link and I would make swooping attacks on Wyatt's dominions every couple of months.

Finally Wyatt began to turn his attention on Ireland as he realised the my clan were becoming too bigger a threat for him to cope with. I urged Chris that now was the time to travel back in time mainly because I needed to know he was safe before I could defend the people of my land.

When Bianca was sent back to get Chris under Wyatt's orders it was a blow to the San Francisco resistance that was only rectified by the Irish resistance successfully kicking American demonic arse back where they belonged. But my cover as a double agent was blown and it was only Bianca's death that gave me the opening to escape".


"This" Leo gestured at the space they were stood in "the link it's a tell tale sign of projective telepathy which is a power unique to the most powerful Driscoll witches".

She laughed again "my father John Driscoll was a witch but died and became a white-lighter a week before he was due to marry my mother Crystal Marshall. You let them stay together as it would destroy the most powerful forces of good outside the charmed one's. Crystal by the way is half witch half phoenix".

"Crystal Marshall wow she's one heck of a hybrid, I remember that Roland was assigned to mentor her, which caused a stir as he was an elder".


Paige moved into Phoebe's room giving up hers for Chris and Aeryn who stayed with them up till a week before his birth, being from the future they could give Piper an exact date which was a week after the date the doctor provided.

The underworld became terrified off this new power which had allied itself with the charmed one's making them a formidable force which resulted in a significant decrease in demonic attacks around the manor.