Holy Crap. 16 comments in less than two days. Seriously that's more response than I ever thought I'd get. Well, here's a relatively long chapter.

I know the hint I gave about Chris and Wyatt being the only boys wasn't very clear, hopefully this chapter will help clear that up. Can't give you anymore than that. Any questions though and just ask. I'll try to answer what I can here but if you truly want a quick response private message me and you'll get a response in 24 hours or less. Thank you.

When Piper walked into the kitchen she found her son standing next to the counter waiting for her. She smiled at the small boy and was happy to see him smile back.

"What do you think we should make for dinner?"

"Spaghetti serves a lot of people"

Piper cocked her head a little, "How many people are we feeding?"

"With everyone, thirteen"

"Everyone?" Piper asked.

"Yes. Mrs. Paige, Mrs. Phoebe, Mr. Coop and Mr. Henry, Mr. Leo, You, Wyatt, Melinda, Prudence, Penelope, Peyton, Patricia, and Pearle"

Piper understood then, Chris meant his aunts, uncles, cousins, sibling – siblings? And parents. "Well, everyone's headed out to dinner, it'll just be you, me and… Mr. Leo"

"Oh, well…" was that why he had been trapped in that contraption? Because Mr. Leo wanted him to help make a special supper for a date night? "What about Cornish game hens, potatoes au gratin and steamed asparagus? Maybe with a chocolate cake for desert? Mr. Leo would like that"

Piper took all that in. Chris had just listed Leo's favorite meal. "If that's what you want"

Nodding his head Chris started moving around the kitchen getting out the needed pots and pans. Piper took Chris' ability to move around so easily as a sign that she never rearranged the kitchen – that was probably for the best. As Chris got out the items from below Piper got out the items from the cabinets.

"Mom?"

Piper froze while her heart pounded happily. "Yes, sweetie?"

"Why did Mr. Leo trap me in that… thing? Why not just call for me?"

OK. Not what she'd been expecting, but he had called her mom and not Mrs. Piper so she'd take it. "It was an accident, a demon attacked and he'd wanted to keep you safe so he put you in the playpen"

Chris scrunched up his face in confusion. When a demon attacked he was bait. Maybe that was it, the playpen kept him from getting out so the demon would come for him and the others could get out. That had to be it. Well, better something happen to him that his mother or Wyatt.

Chris was about to say something again when Mr. Leo walked into the room. Instantly he clamped his mouth shut and assumed his usual pose – head bowed and hands clasped behind his back.

Leo stopped in the doorway and watched his youngest. Why did the boy do that? What had his future self done to cause the boy to do that? "Hey buddy"

Chris looked up hesitantly at Mr. Leo's cheerful tone. He couldn't help himself, he had to ask, "Mr. Leo… is there something you needed?"

Leo didn't miss the way he had been addressed, "No bud. Why?"

"Well then… Well, it's just that… you're not usually in the kitchen"

Piper took the hint there. "Why don't you go and relax while Chris and I fix dinner?" She had loved that Chris was calmer before Leo stepped into the kitchen and was starting to get the feeling that this was the safe zone.

"Right" Leo nodded. He hated this feeling, that his own son wanted nothing to do with him. And it hurt that Piper had asked him to leave but he could take a hint as well so he left.

"Did Wy say something to Mr. Leo?" Chris asked after the door was fully shut.

"Not that I know of" Piper answered placing the last ingredient on the counter, "Why do you ask?"

Chris just shook his head and reached for the chicken to start washing it.

Piper waited for a verbal response but none came. She turned to look at her son and nearly dropped the bowl in her hands. "Chris!"

Chris froze in what he was doing and turned to look at his mother. "Yes?"

Piper was stunned. Chris was at the sink, washing the chicken. The catch? He wasn't using a step stool, he was floating in the air, well, hovering. "N… nothing"

Chris just shrugged and finished with the chicken. Piper watched as the boy picked up the bowl with the clean chicken and floated over to the island counter. So Chris had been hiding the power of levitation. Was that his only power or was there more? Based on what Leo said Chris also had telekinesis and molecular combustion. Was that the whole list? Was there more?

"So Wy said nothing to Mr. Leo?"

"I don't think so honey"

"Then why is he being so nice to me?"

"He just loves you baby. Why wouldn't he be nice?"

Chris just shook his head. Sometimes his mother got like that, where he wanted everyone to be one big happy family.

"Chris?" Piper prodded.

Chris sighed, "He doesn't love me. No one does. Boys are bad"

"Boys aren't bad baby. Just look at Wyatt, everyone loves him."

"No, they just know better than to go against him. He's more powerful than they are. I'm not that powerful so they can punish me."

'What does being a boy have to do with anything?" Piper asked thoroughly concerned.

Chris shot his mother a confused look, "Because this is a generation of boys"

Piper was too confused to even respond. By the time she came back to herself Chris was fully immersed in prepping the stuffing for the Cornish game hens.

The two worked in companionable silence for about an hour. Piper was letting Chris make the first move. So long as the boy was safe and next to her then they could take their time.

It wasn't until the food was cooking and they were cleaning the dishes that they'd made that Christ started a conversation.

"A new kid joined the group today."

"Oh? What's his name?"

"Berol"

"That's an unusual name"

"Not really. Well not for a sea-trow"

Piper froze. "Berol is a… demon?"

"Well yeah," Chris answered, "Not everyone in the group is dark lighters. There are some demons to. I thought you knew that?"

So this group was from the underworld. Wonderful. "I'm sorry baby, I just forgot for a second."

Chris just shrugged again and put away the last dish.

"How many of you are there, in your group"

"Ten now. We finally have even teams for slash tag again."

"Oh. Slash tag?"

Chris nodded his head enthusiastically, "Yup, I'm really good at it. I only got slashed three times today. Jinx got slashed fifteen times."

Piper didn't like the sound of that. "Are you hurt?"

"No" Chris scoffed. "It was just a few slashes. No biggie."

Piper thought that was a large 'biggie' but bit her tongue. From the way Chris was talking this was a typical conversation for the two of them. She despised this fact but let it alone lest the boy stop talking. She just stood in silence for a few minutes while Chris lowered himself to the ground.

"Something bad happened today though" Chris said ten minutes later.

"Bad?" Piper asked concerned.

"Yeah," Chris nodded, "I stopped a room of four demons"

"Stopped?"

"Well… like what you do" Chris elaborated.

"You mean you froze them?"

"Yeah, froze."

Another power! How many did this kid have? "Wow"

"I'm sorry" Chris apologized.

"No baby" Piper assured, "There is nothing to be sorry about"

"But that's too many powers" Chris said.

"No…" Piper started.

"Yes" Chris insisted, "Levitation, comb..comustion, telek.. telekan.. telekanosis, cloaking, and now frozeing. That's five."

"There's nothing wrong with that. It's amazing." Five powers! The boy was going to be as powerful as Wyatt!

"No, none of the others have five"

"Others?"

"Melinda, Prudence, Patience, Patricia, Penelope and Pearle"

His cousins. They were the ones without five powers a piece. Although Melinda was the name she and Leo were going to use for their daughter. Did Chris have a sister?

"So your cousins aren't as powerful, Wyatt is" She tired to assure.

Chris shook his head "Not cousins or Melinda. None of the girls"

Ok. Melinda was a sister. "Well, they might grow into more powers."

Chris shook his head no again, "Melinda is 19, Prudence is 16, Patience and Patricia are 14, Penelope is 15 and Pearle is 12. I'm five and I have more than any of them. Everyone's going to be so mad"

Piper was trying to peace this together but it just wasn't adding up. So the girls weren't as powerful as Chris or Wyatt, so what? Why was Chris scared? Before she could ask anything the oven timer went off and Chris closed himself off again. Any traces of fear vanished from the boy's face. Piper sighed and helped the boy.