A/N: 'Ello everyone! This chapter is dedicated to two people: Ced14 and MionePotter1592. Thanks for reviewing guys. Your comments were really helpful and wicked nice! Hope you enjoy reading the chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it!!

Alise ran, her legs aching and heart pounding. She could hear screams from behind her as she ran down the stairs, jumping them two, sometimes even three, at a time. She sped into the living room and stopped dead in her tracks. There were half a dozen more demons standing in front of her, each holding a fireball in his hand, smirking. Alise groaned.

"Son of a bitch," she hissed under her breath. She turned her head to see if she there was anyway she could go back up the stairs but only found two more demons smirking at her as they formed fireballs too.

"Ok, you are really starting to piss me off now," she said, glaring at one of the demons who had long brown hair which was pulled back into a pony tail and was wearing a jade amulet around his neck.

"Oh goody," the demon said, throwing the fireball up and down, the smirk still adorning his lips before growling and hurling the fireball at her.

Just in time, Alise ducked, the fireball flying past her and hitting the wall. One of the picture frames shook and fell, the glass shattering. Beyond pissed now, Alise opened up her senses and pulled a large amount of pain from people all around the world and literally flung it at one of the demons in the corner. The demon, with a confused look on his face, started screaming in agony before finally bursting into flames. All the other demons looked at Alise, confused as to what she did before snapping out of it flinging fireball after fireball at her. Alise ducked them as best as she could before taking off again, the demons following hot on her tail.

"Chris!" Alise yelled out as she dove behind the island. She took another amount of pain and flung it at another demon, it bursting into flames too. Just as she ducked another fireball, Chris appeared out of nowhere. He was about to open his mouth to speak when he orbed out again, just missing a fireball. He then orbed in next to Alise behind the island.

"Took you long enough!" Alise panted as she killed another demon.

"Doesn't look like you need my help," Chris replied as he watched the demon burst into flames.

Alise glared at him before ducking another fireball. "Stop being a smartass and help me!" she hissed as the lead of the group threw fireball after fireball at her.

Chris turned his head back and looked at the leader, his eyes narrowing in anger. Alise noticed the sudden change and looked at him questioningly.

"Do you know him?" Alise asked.

"You could say that," Chris growled before carelessly standing up and nearly missing a fireball aimed at his head.

"Chris!" Alise yelled but to no avail. Glaring, Chris used his telekinesis and redirected the fireballs aimed at him back at the demons. Alise watched, astonished as one by one they burst into flames, all except for the leader.

"Chris Halliwell. When will you learn that you will never be good enough?" the leader asked as he formed a giant fireball and hurled it at Chris. Chris redirected the fireball but the leader shimmered away just in time. Alise sighed in relief as silence filled the room for a few seconds, the only sound being Chris's hard breathing. Alise slowly stood up next to Chris but immediately let out a shriek as a pair of arms roughly grabbed her around the waste and lifted her up. "Don't worry Halliwell, I'm not here for you; I'm here for her." Alise struggled against the demon and did the only thing she could think of: she lifted her elbow and jabbed him in the stomach. The demon let out a howl of pain, which Alise magnified with the little strength she had left, and let go of Alise, who was bent over trying to regain her breath.

Chris grabbed Alise's arm and pulled her to his side. Angrily, he used his powers to aim one of the large kitchen knives at the demon. Just as the knife was about to hit him, the demon shimmered away.

"Fuck," Chris yelled, banging his fists on the island tabletop.

Having regained her breath, Alise reached out a hand and rested it on Chris's shoulder. "Chris," she said, "it's ok. No one got hurt. That's what matters ri-"

"No! That's not what matters Annalise. He got away. That son of a bitch got away!" Chris yelled out suddenly, spinning around. Alise could see the rage in Chris's eyes. She had been a part of a couple house attacks but she had never seen Chris this mad when the demon got away.

"What's the big deal? He's a demon, I get it but he's just that: a demon. One demon, Chris," Alise said, taken aback by Chris's outburst.

"He's not just any demon Lise. You don't get it, you just don't get it," Chris said.

"Well then stop yelling and fucking explain it to me!" Alise replied, becoming angry herself.

"You won't understand!"

"God, I'm so sick of this. It's like you expect me to understand every thing you say and when I don't and ask you to explain, you bite my head off and tell me that I don't understand which is my point to begin with," Alise said in one big breath. She could feel the guilt pouring off of Chris and knew that he was hiding something from her. "I don't need powers to tell me that you're hiding something. What aren't you telling me Chris?" she asked in a softer voice, begging him with her eyes to be honest with her. Chris just stayed silent, avoiding her gaze. "Fine. Well, when you're ready to be honest, come find me."

Alise sighed and walked towards the kitchen door. She turned her head and saw that Chris hadn't moved from his spot. She sighed again and opened the door, almost bumping into Piper and Melinda.

"Hey, Alise. Where are you going?" Melinda asked, smiling.

"I don't know. Just…anywhere but here right now," Alise replied as she pushed past the two and into the living room. She grabbed her jacket from on top of the couch and put it on.

"What happened?" Piper asked, concerned.

"Chris and I had a fight. You should go talk to him," Alise said quietly, avoiding the older woman's gaze as she walked to the door.

Piper shot a worried glance at her daughter. "Alise, do you want to go to Borders with me? I have a couple of books to get and I don't want to go alone," Melinda asked, smiling at Alise.

"I don't know. I think I better get home," Alise said, reaching into her pocket for her keys.

"Come on, please? We can get ice cream afterwards at this amazing little creamery that's to die for. And plus, in the months that you've been working here we've only hung out once. Please? For me?" Melinda begged.

Alise sighed. "Fine. For you," she said, giving Melinda a small smile.

"Yay. I'll be back later mom," Melinda said. She hooked her arm through Alise's as they made their way outside.

Piper closed the door behind her daughter and employee and turned towards the kitchen. She walked in to find Chris sitting at the island with a glass of water in front of him. He didn't look up when she entered.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Piper asked, taking a seat across from her son. Chris shook his head. "Ok let me rephrase that. Let's talk about it."

"Mom, I'm not a kid," Chris said, finally looking up.

"I know. But you're still my son and I hope that whenever something's wrong that you'll talk to me about it. Now, what's wrong?" Piper asked.

"She's right. I'm not being honest with her and it's ruining not only our relationship but also our friendship. She thinks that I don't trust her but I do, mom, I do," Chris said earnestly.

"I know you do but she doesn't. What caused all of this anyway?"

"Cal," Chris answered, his eyes immediately darkening with anger.

"You're going to need to be more specific hun," Piper responded.

Chris sighed. "He's a demon but not just any demon. I found out after Alise…after she uh…after she died that Bianca had hired a demon to kidnap her," Chris said, his voice becoming more hoarse.

"He was the demon?" Piper asked, although she already knew the answer.

Chris nodded. "I was at P3 waiting for the new shipment when I heard Alise call. House attack. When I got here and saw him, I just…went crazy I guess. I mean I killed him already. Actually Wyatt and I killed him."

Piper frowned, confused. "After I found out it was him I lied to evil Wyatt and told him that Cal was apart of the resistance. We tortured him for a long time before we actually killed him. It's the one real memory I can remember where Wyatt and I actually bonded," Chris said, shaking his head slightly at the thought.

"Well did you vanquish him?" Piper asked.

"No. Son of a bitch got away," Chris growled.

"We'll get him Chris. I promise. But why did Alise get mad?"

"He tried to take her but she luckily got away. Before he shimmered he said that he wasn't here for me, that he was here for her. I got so angry that he tried to take her. Alise tried to comfort me but I just blew up on her. She has every reason to be mad," Chris said before his eyes widened.

"What is it?" Piper asked, alarmed at Chris's change in demeanor.

"He tried to take her but he didn't get her," Chris whispered. Piper gave her son a confused look when he abruptly stood up. "He didn't get her which means that he's going to try again. I'm such an idiot. I can't believe I let her leave. He's going to go after her again and she's going to be alone!" Chris yelled, panic flaring in his eyes.

"Chris! It's ok," Piper said, trying to calm her son down.

"It's not okay! He could have her right now for all we know. God damnit, I shouldn't have let her leave by herself!" Chris yelled, angrier with himself than with anyone else.

"Chris!" Piper yelled. Chris turned around, startled as though he hadn't noticed that his mother was there the whole time. "Alise is fine. She didn't leave by herself. She was going to go home but Mel convinced her to go out with her. You know that if anything happens Mel will orb them back to the manor or the very least Magic School. So, don't worry ok."

Chris took deep breaths before sitting back down and roughly running his hands through his growing hair. "I'm such an ass. We've been together for a little more than two weeks and already I've screwed things up," Chris said, sighing.

Piper put a hand over her son's and gave it a squeeze. "You didn't screw things up. Alise isn't going anywhere anytime soon; she won't let you go and you won't let her go. Look, I'm pretty sure Mel will end up dragging her to P3 tonight anyway so you'll see her there but give her some time. She's hurt right now. Talk to her in a couple of days and tell her the truth. In the meantime, we can get more information on this demon and find out whom he's working for and most importantly why whomever he's working for wants Alise. Ok?" Piper asked.

Chris nodded and sighed. "Thanks mom. I just, I really don't want to lose her again," Chris said.

Piper could see the passion and raw truth in her son's eyes. She squeezed his hand again and whispered, "I know honey, I know."

A/N: Action action action as promised! Don't worry, all will be well soon. There shall be a different type of action in the next chapter wink wink but that is only if I get good reviews and comments!!! And all of you who have subscribed please please please comment!!! Lots of love 3