A few hours later Chris slowly woke feeling slightly better and definitely in a lot less pain, though still hot and groggy from the fever.

"Hey." he whispered, the throat dry and raw.

"Hey sweetie" smiled Piper, still present and sitting by his side like she promised. Everyone turned around to the woken whitelighter. "Do you need anything?" she asked

"Water?" asked Chris.

"Ill get it." offered Paige.

"How long was I out?"

"Only half an hour, Leo works quick luckily. Got you patched up in no time." replied Phoebe.

"Hey..." whispered Leo from the corner of the living room, afraid to say much more. He wasn't sure whether he should stay for when Chris woke, but decided he needed to show Chris he was not going to run away from this.

"Hi..." replied Chris. It was one word, said with pain both physical and emotional, but it was a start. That was good enough for Leo.

"Ummm, how you feeling?" asked Leo. Chris took a quick look around, noticing the house look nothing like it had done before. All signs of the previous fight had been erased, oh the beauty of magic. It was days like today where personal gain went out of the window.

"Better." was all Chris offered in reply, swiftly ending the conversation.

"Here you go sweetie" offered Paige, glass of water in hand.

"Thanks" smiled Chris as he accepted the glass of water. As he went to sit up and take a drink, he screamed in pain, dropping the glass and it shattering all over the floor.

"Chris!" yelled everyone at once, all rushing over to the couch.

"Baby whats wrong?" asked Piper with a terrified look on her face. Chris did not answer for what felt like hours, but it was a mere few minutes. It took a couple of minutes for him to get his breathing back under control, trying to ride out the pain. Unfortunately he assumed Leo would have healed all of his injuries while he was unconscious and had yet to test out the pain of his ribs. With both arms clinging to his chest, willing the pain to go away, the wet cough from earlier return, this time blood could be seen when Chris pulled his hands away from his mouth.

"Mom?!" whispered Chris, fear written in his eyes and Piper realized what was wrong.

"Oh my god sweetie your ribs! I completely forgot to tell Leo, im so sorry!" she said, her hands covering her mouth in shock, how could i forgot such a thing?! Thought Piper. "Leo, heal!"

"Chris? Son, let me heal them." But Chris had yet to move his arms, his eyes still scrunched up in pain. "Chris? Chris, you have to move your arms for me okay? Just for a few seconds and then it'll feel better, i promise." Slowly Chris lowered his arms, with his arm going straight for Piper searching for her hand. Immediately Leo began healing and within seconds the pain started to go away.

After it was all over a small and quiet "Thanks" could be heard from Chris's lips before he drifted off to sleep.

"Are you sure there is nothing else?" asked Leo.

"Not as far as we know, thats all he told us." replied Paige

"Okay good. I don't want him in any more pain than he has to be right now." They all looked down at their whitelighter in his fever induced sleep, hoping the worse was over. Leo had already tried to heal his fever, unfortunately it was 'self-inflicted' in a way and that was something Leo could not heal. Chris had gotten his fever by not taking care of himself, pushing himself and working himself too hard. Something the Charmed ones should have noticed a long time ago.

"Piper, can i talk to you for a second?" whispered Leo, not wanting to wake Chris from his sleep.

"Yeah sure. Paige do me a favor and orb him into my room? Make him comfortable, ill be up there in a bit." asked Piper

"Sure thing." And with that Paige, Phoebe and Chris disappeared in a shimmer of blue orbs, leaving Piper and Leo alone.