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Chapter 4 » Demon Hunting

As discussed Chris had stayed at Phoebe's place for the night. They had talked for a while but Chris, as usual, did most of the listening. Not that he didn't want to tell his aunt things, that were going on with him, but he couldn't risk telling her too much from the future. When Phoebe had mentioned that Leo was currently frozen Chris had pretended that he'd already known... there was no need in telling her that the first time he had actually heard about it just a couple of hours ago from Billie.

It didn't leave him alone, though. His parents and aunts had told him everything that had happened in their past, or at least he had thought so. Why leave out the part about Leo being frozen? What reason could they have?

Billie was right of course. Since he had a sister and Leo was also in the future, he would be fine. The sisters were going to defeat that Ultimate-Power-Thingy (as Billie had put it – Chris couldn't help but smile at that phrase) and everything would turn out just fine. Still, it didn't make a lot sense to him that no one told him... it sure sounded like a big deal and nothing you just happened to forget to mention. No, he definitely had some questions to ask, when he was back with them.

It had been hard to find sleep that night but Chris had managed to catch at least a couple of hours of it.

The next morning he was up before Phoebe was and orbed right back into the manor. He was hoping to be able to talk to Melinda before the rest of the house woke up. He knocked on the door, well knowing that his sister wasn't the only one in that room (that was, of course, if both of them had survived the night – Chris loved Melinda, but she could be a hand full and Billie didn't exactly seem to be easy-going either). When no one answered he opened the door and looked inside. There was just Melinda in the bed and she was still very much asleep.

Unbelievable, Chris thought. They were in the past, trying to find a demon and preventing their family of finding out who she was – and she slept like a baby. He'd known that Melinda could sleep though anything so far (demon attacks, earthquakes, bring it on...) but that might actually be a personal record. He also knew that if he dared and try to wake her it would be the last thing he did. Therefore he retrieved in order to keep the peace.

Sighing he started to make his way to the attic. If he wasn't going to talk to his sister he might as well try and find the demon again. The spell to find paradox hadn't worked but that didn't mean that there wasn't a spell in the Book of Shadows that would work. And if there was, he'd find it.

He went up the stairs and heard a voice in the attic before he reached it. It was Billie but she seemed to be alone, he assumed she was on the phone. She really didn't seem like the kind of person who'd talk to herself, at least not whole conversations.

"Anyway, how was your date with Henry?" he heard her saying and stopped in front of the door. It was ajared so he could see her. She really was on the phone but had it jammed between her head and shoulder. Her hands were occupied swirling a knife around, using telekinesis. She might even consider that training it. Chris would call it showing off, even if she thought she was the only one who could see it. But he had to admit that she seemed to have the knife pretty good under control.

"Don't worry about it, he's a guy. That's usually always the reason when they're acting weird."

Chris opened the door, leaned against the frame with his arms folded, and watched her. He found it very interesting that she could be on the phone, use her powers but didn't notice when someone was entering the room she was in. Multitasking aside, her priorities were all wrong. Granted, she was faced toward the other side of the room and didn't have any eyes in the back of her head, but still, she needed to work on her awareness. If he was a demon and attack her, she wouldn't notice until it was too late.

"Speaking of weird. Does this happen often? You know, hot future versions of your nephews popping up?"

Chris smirked and couldn't help but remembering what she'd told him yesterday and said: "And here I thought I didn't look too hot."

With a surprised "Gee!" Billie jerked and lost control of both, the phone and the knife, as she swirled around. While he phone dropped on the floor the knife flew in Chris' direction but he orbed away quickly and re-appeared behind Billie (who jerked again when she noticed).

"God, enough, with all the orbing already!" she said and picked up the phone. "Paige, I need to go. I have to go kick someone's ass back to the future." Looking at Chris (who was smiling in amusement) with the most annoyed look she hung up the phone. "I hope that was worth it. I almost killed you!"

"Far from it believe me." Chris said and walked over to the book. "I orb faster than you throw knifes at people. Do you do that often, by the way?"

"Only when they annoy me."

He couldn't help but teasing her. "And when they're hot, right?"

Billie looked like she would love to throw another knife at him, on purpose this time. "Oh, get over yourself. Do you have any idea how many hot guys I meet? You don't make the Top Ten." Still, he couldn't help noticing that she seemed to be embarrassed.

Feeling that he teased her enough about this he changed the topic. "So how was your night? Did you and Melinda get along?"

She sighed and used her powers to get the knife back. "It was okay. She's really nice, we stayed up half the night talking."

Chris raised his eyebrows. "Really? About what?" He hoped Melinda hadn't told Billie anything about the future... she knew how important it was not to mess with the past but then again, sometimes Melinda did what she felt like and not what was best.

Unfortunately he didn't get a real answer. All Billie did was shrug her shoulders, saying "Girl stuff" and that was that.

Frowning Chris asked: "What's girl stuff?"

"Sorry. Last time I checked you were still a boy, so you don't get to know."

"Okay, fine... just tell me that she didn't tell you too much about the future."

"Why, would you have to kill me if she did?"

"No, I'd have to kill her."

"Relax. All we talked about was personal stuff."

He saved himself the question what kind of personal stuff, because he was still a boy. Silently he kept wondering what it could have been, because as far as he was concerned Melinda didn't have tat much personal stuff going on. Apparently he was wrong. She simply kept it from her brothers.

Shaking his head he said: "Secrets seem to run in the family."

"What makes you say that?"

"Well, Melinda has never told me anything about personal stuff, Wyatt keeps a low profile with his girlfriend, too, and not a single soul has told me that my father had once been frozen."

"They didn't? Why not?"

"I wish I knew. But it'll make a great conversational topic once I'm back. I mean, why not just tell me, I don't get it."

"Maybe they couldn't. Maybe they knew that you'd be back here one day, I mean, they must have been through it in their past."

"So?"

"So..." Billie made the impression that she was making all of it up as she went, but it seemed to work. "If they have been through all of this before and you didn't remember Leo was frozen, they couldn't tell you, before you went back here. Because then you would have known." She frowned. "Does this make sense?"

"Surprisingly... yes, it does. If the Chris they remember coming back to the past didn't know about dad and they would have told me, it would have changed the past. It could be that something I do will lead to free him."

"But you can't do anything. The sisters have to fight the Ultimate Power for Leo to come back."

"Yeah, about that... what is the Ultimate Power?"

She shrugged her shoulders. "No one knows, that's the problem. The sisters need to find it before they can defeat it and finding it has been a bitch so far. Whoever it is doesn't want to be found. Not that I can blame them. If I were meant to go up against the Charmed Ones I'd run faster than Forest Gump."

"Speaking of locating a demon... maybe the Book is the wrong way to approach this. I'm from the future, right?"

"Well, that's what you keep saying."

He ignored her and walked over to the city map. "So maybe I can find it by scrying for it..."

"Okay, but if it points to Melinda as well, we'll have to reconsider some things..."

Chris smiled. "She may be a lot to handle but she's not a demon, trust me."

"Whatever you say." As Chris looked at her he saw that she was smiling as well. "Come on, get started. I really need to vanquish something today."

"Why?" he asked as he started scrying.

"Do you not remember the knife I threw at you? I'm on fire."

"Do you not remember missing me?"

"That's a mistake I can still correct, you know."

Chris laughed. "Okay, okay, calm down, Xena."

"You know Xena?"

"I'm from the future, not from Mars..."

As he said that someone walked in the attic. "Here you are." It was Piper. "Phoebe called and said you already left."

"Yes, I wanted to get to work right away. I don't want to spend more time in the past than I absolutely have to... the risk of changing something I don't want to change is too great."

"And I understand that. But do you think you have time for breakfast?"

At that the crystal found a hit. "Apparently – no. Sorry, Mom, gotta go."

"Wait!" Piper said before he could orb out. "I don't want you to go after a demon by yourself and you don't even know if you found your demon. We're coming with you."

"But-"

"No but, Mister, I'm still your mother!" At that she held out her hands. "We won't let you go alone. Won't we?" she looked at Billie.

She shrugged her shoulders. "I wanted to tag along anyway."

Chris sighed. "Okay, fine. - I really miss Wyatt he'd be on my side."

"We have a Wyatt, but he's generally on my side." Piper said with a smile on her lips.

"Duh, you're his mother and he's three. What choice does he have?" Billie asked.

"That's beside the point." Piper said and Chris, deciding it would be best not to respond, took their hands and orbed to the location the crystal had hit.

It turned out to be a warehouse. Boxes were piled everywhere around them but no employees seemed to be here.

Billie walked to one of the boxes right away and pulled out a stuffed animal. "Okay, unless the demon has a very weird fetish, I'd say we're in the wrong place."

"We're not." Chris said. "We're in the right place the question is, why would a demon be he-"

Piper sushed him and signalled for all of them to duck behind a couple of boxes and they did. Shortly after that Chris heard footsteps and a voice speaking: "The toys will be shipped next week. Have you prepared them all?"

A second voice replied: "Yes. And they work perfectly fine. We have tested them on a couple of children. They all began to turn against their families and towards us."

Hearing that both voices were male Chris let out a disappointed sigh. Apparently Billie had the same thought because she whispered: "You know, maybe you should start looking for other demons and then you'll find the one you're looking for."

"It may not be her I but didn't you hear what they said? They're definitely worth vanquishing. They're talking about taking children away from their human families." he looked at Billie when he added: "Sound familiar?"

"They're not the same demons who took Christy." Billie said. "They didn't lure her away they just took her!"

"I know." Piper whispered. "But we still need to vanquish them, don't you think?"

Billie nodded.

Chris took a look around as good as he could. "It seems to be just the two of them. We should be able to take them."

"Wrong." Another voice said from behind them and before he could turn around an energy ball flew toward them. Chris rolled sideways and saw that Piper and Billie got away as well. Piper immediately blew him up but the fight caught the attention of the other two demons.

One of them threw another energy ball at them. Piper tried to fight it off by using her power on it but it blew up in the middle of the room instead and caused all of them to flung through the air.

Chris ended up on the floor next to Billie. He sat up and looked at her but in the very first second she didn't move – when she finally moaned and lifted her head he exhaled in relief. He then tried to look for Piper but, the demons didn't give him any time for that. Both of them were headed towards Billie and him when his eyes caught a forklift. He tried to use his telekinesis to move it but it didn't work. He wasn't strong enough to move something that big. When something reached for his hand he jerked but then saw it was Billie.

"On three?" She didn't have to say anything more. They had the same power after all...

He looked at her for a moment but then nodded and started counting: "One... two... three."

The forklift moved so quickly, Chris could barely follow it, and a second later it impaled both demons at the same time. He kept staring at the forklift even after the demons dissolved into thin air. It had been impossible for him to move it on his own and with Billie it had been so easy... he turned to look at her again. She was definitely stronger than he had thought she would be. She might have even been able to move it by herself but obviously didn't think she could have. Chris, however, was almost sure about that.

"Huh. Good aim." Piper said and knocked off some dirt of her clothes.

Chris realized that he was still holding Billies hand, just before Piper turned to them. He let go if it immediately and got up.

"We were lucky. We should have seen that third demon coming."

"How could we have?" Billie said as she got up as well. "We don't have eyes in the back of our heads."

"She's right, don't beat yourself up over it." Piper said. "What matters is that they're gone. And since you didn't find the demon you were looking for we can still have breakfast, right?"

After making the toys disappear they orbed back to the attic of the manor. While Chris went right back to the city map Piper sighed and went down to make breakfast.

"Chris... don't you think you're going about this the wrong way? I mean, yesterday you found Melinda and today you found a group of completely unrelated demons. You seem to find everything but her."

As he scried he asked: "And what way do you think I should approach this? Billie, I need to find that demon. It's dangerous."

She sighed and seemed to give up. "Whatever. So that thing with the forklift was pretty cool, huh?"

"Yeah. But to be honest I think you did most of the work. I could barely move it and with you if felt like it was a feather."

She frowned. "No, I really think it was the both of us. Don't get me wrong, I'm good, but I'm not that good."

When the crystal hit something again they both stared at the map. When Chris realized exactly where it was pointing he frowned.

"Congratulations. You found Melinda again. I'm telling you, this the wrong way." She was right at least about one thing: The crystal pointed exactly at the manor they were in, which meant he had again been lead to his sister. But he refused to believe that this was the wrong way. Scrying almost never failed.

"BILLIE! YOU SHOULD REALLY GET DOWN HERE!" Piper yelled from downstairs.

"What could I have possible done wrong in the last two minutes?" Billie mumbled and started making her way downstairs. Chris followed her because he had had way too many disappointments for one morning. He was going to take a break, do his mother a favour and have breakfast, and start again afterwards.

"What's up?" Billie asked Piper as she reached the end of the stairs.

Piper looked nervous but also kind of happy. "As it turned out we weren't the only ones on a mission this morning. Phoebe had premonition. She and Paige went after it and they vanquished some demons but they also found something... or someone. A girl. Apparently she's been held by these demons for years, she doesn't know for how long... but she had this with her." She gave Billie a photograph – it showed two young girls smiling into the camera. With a smile on her lips Piper added: "She's in the living room." Billie gasped as she saw the picture and ran past Piper.

Chris walked up to his mother, asking: "What was all that about?"

"They found Billie's sister."