"So," Paige stood by the table in the attic. There were potions littered upon the table that varied in color, shape, size, and strength. There were almost a lot of papers filled with enchanted words that were among the potions on the table. "How do we find the evidence that we need?"

"Well, all I know is that I really want-" Piper spoke angered until Phoebe stopped her.

"Yes, we know." Interrupting her smoothly as she forced her elder sister to sit down, Phoebe went on purposely, "You want to blow him up."

"Well, we should," Piper declared assuredly as she glared at the potions as if they had done something to provoke her, "No one harms my sons and gets away with it!"

"I know," Phoebe muttered as placidly as she could, "We want to destroy him, too."

"But that's a little bit hard when we don't have evidence," Paige said pointedly at the siblings.

"Can't we just skip the evidence. We could just orb up there and blow that Elder to pieces." The oldest Charmed One spoke as she stared ahead.

"You know you can't to that," a voice joined into the conversation as Chris stepped forward, "The Elders are already thinking about recycling my soul...If you do something dramatic, they'll just come after mini-me."

"Chris," Piper's gaze hardened as she questioned him. "Where were you?"

"The bridge."

"Peanut," Piper stared at him as she noticed the shading under his eyes, "I'll make you some food. You need to eat."

"Sure, Mom," Chris answered tiredly as he went down the stairs to the kitchen, "But I am helping you cook."

"Alright, honey," she answered back to the retreating figure before looking back at her two younger sisters. "Please find a way to get that stupid Elder caught."

"Will do," Paige half saluted her before going back to her evidence finding/plotting. Phoebe stared over at her older sibling before she moved away towards her younger sibling as she stated, "Make us some food too!"

"It depends."

"On what?" Phoebe asked curiously.

"If there will be any left by the time you come down," when the two gave her an empty look, she expounded her point. "I have to feed a kid with malnutrition in there and myself."

"Oh," Paige scrunched up her nose, "That's just too weird to think about."

"You're telling me," Chris spoke up from behind them by the doorway.

"Hey, mister," Paige glared at him somewhat playfully, "I thought you were in the kitchen."

"I am," he answered back confidently.

"Wait, what?" Phoebe's eyes widened in shock, "But you're in here right now."

"You're just like Prue." Piper spoke as she looked at her son.

"Huh?" The other pair of female witches asked as Chris smirked at them.

"He's using astral projection," Piper continued on after they gave her another clueless look.

"Okay, mister," Paige scowled playfully, "Enough showing off. You and Piper go cook."

This was greeted with a, "Yes Aunt Paige," and a, "Alright, alright. We'll go cook," before they both disappeared in a blur of orbs. Paige and Phoebe looked at each other before smiling and heading back to work.

"Time to find evidence," Paige stated quietly to herself, "We're going to take that annoying, pompous Elder down."

On the other end of the table, Phoebe finished the sentence that she had unknowingly been saying at the same time as her little sister, "One way or another. No one messes with our family."


The next time they saw Chris and Piper, the two were covered in flour. From head to toe, white powder covered them so that the only thing that could be seen of them clearly were their eyes. Other ingredients covered the wall in multiple splatter patterns.

"Wow, it looks like a bread monster threw up in here," Paige said as son and mother frowned at her the same way, "Don't give me that look."

"What happened to the food?" Phoebe asked abruptly as soon as Paige stopped speaking.

"You can thank your nephew," Piper grumbled as she attempted to rub the sticky flour off of herself.

"Chris?" The two stared at him as he raised his hands in the air unexcitedly. "Why do you think it was me? I'm actually about the only chef in the house that won't blow up water."

"It was Wyatt," Piper stated as she set the giggling toddler down on the ground next to them. Chris rolled his eyes, "Yeah, and I warned you that it would be a waste of time to teach him how to cook. He might have some skills in potion brewing, but that's as far as cooking goes for him. He's worse at it than even Aunt Phoebe."

They flinched when the image popped up into their imaginations. Phoebe wasn't gifted with being able to cook, and she tended to set water on fire. To imagine that Wyatt would probably blow something up that can't actually be blown up was kind of scary.

"Noted," Piper insisted with an unenthusiastic sigh, "No trying to teach Wyatt how to cook."

"At least you get to teach your other son."

"I do get to teach you how to cook right?"

"Of course, Mom," Chris answered her back but he glanced away right afterwards.

"Finally," Piper smirked as she looked pointedly at her siblings, "Someone will be able to cook correctly."

Before the others could speak much further, Leo orbed into the room. With him were the three Elders who had forcefully orbed Chris 'Up There' against his wishes. Leo looked depressed as he silently glared at the people who dared make him look like he was in on the plan. Piper glared at them as if challenging them to make a move.

"What do you want?" She snapped at them angrily.

"Blessed b-"

"We don't need the ridiculous greeting," Phoebe cut them off, having heard the saying enough from Leo.

"We came for Christopher," the woman, Sandra, answered calmly.

"What are you going to do with him?" Piper shouted crossly as she began to slowly raise her hands, "Last time you guys kidnapped him, he almost died."

"That had nothing to do with us," the other guy Elder(not Gideon) answered back boldly.

"Oh, I think it did," Paige continued for her family, "When he orbed back here, he had a darklighter's arrow in his abdomen. Somehow, a darklighter got 'Up There' without any problems."

Sandra looked at them in surprise. Leo continued, "When this was happening, I couldn't orb 'Up There'. I didn't get any calls. Don't you think it was odd?"

"We're going to need Chris with us," Gideon spoke up as he glared at the Witch Elder.

"No," Piper answered.

"We're taking him by order of the High Counsel," the man continued to watch the brunette twenty-two-year-old. With a flick of his wrist, Chris began to disappear in orbs. Before he could get very far, Chris reappeared.

"How did you-" Gideon shouted in confusion.

"I'm part Elder." Chris stated as he emotionlessly answered the man's question. "You can't make me do whatever you want."

"See," the man said to his companions as he scowled at the kid from the future, "He must be stopped. He'll ruin the balance of magic."

Chris scoffed as he raised his hands casually in front of himself. Before anyone could blink, lights gently flew out of the man's chest.

"What are you doing?" The man screeched as more lights flew away from his body.

"I'm clipping your wings," Chris smirked as he suddenly stopped, "At least, that is one thing Leo from the future actually taught me."

Leo gave a pained expression at hearing what he had done(will do if it's not fixed) to his son. Gideon gave an angry shouted, but Chris orbed him away along with the other guy Elder.

"I'm sorry, Christopher," the woman sighed, "I knew that Gideon was a bit too ambitious about the balance of the world, but I didn't know it was this bad."

"He's what turns Wyatt," Chris answered back.

"Are you sure?" Sandra stared from him to Leo and back, "That's a serious accusation."

"That's why we're finding evidence on him," Leo stated as the rest of the family looked irritated, "But we can't really find anything yet."

"Well, if it means keeping the future safe," she looked over at Chris for confirmation, "Then I will help get Gideon's soul recycled."

"Thanks," Piper smiled at the woman.

"We're not all heartless, Piper," Sandra stated as she kindly smiled at Chris, "Some of us Elders are here to save the people who need to be."

"And that's why I used to like," Chris smirked, "In the future anyways."

"Thank you, young man," she laughed lightly before her smirk dropped, "You have to give him his powers back."

"I know," Chris nodded his head. "I will...well, most of them."

She chuckled before there was a bell noise, and she sighed, "I must leave now."

With that she orbed out and the family looked at each other.

"Time to get cleaned up."

"Yep."