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Chapter 12

Paige anxiously paced the attic as Phoebe scryed. All were on edge and nervous. It had been an hour since they had last seen Chris.

Piper was trying to keep busy so she didn't have a break down, by trying to coax her husband back into the conscious. Wyatt had been silent as he sat down and just stared at space.

"Did you find him?" Paige asked her sister again for the sixth time. Phoebe just shook her head.

Leo groaned as Piper put the wet cloth to his head and slowly opened his eyes.

"Leo"

Memories flew back to him and he quickly sat up.

"Chris" he cried looking around at his family.

"He's not here" Piper said as tears started falling.

Leo didn't say anything but just went silent.

"Did you see how much anger he had?" Paige asked breaking the silence.

"I didn't sense anything before, it was like he's been holding it in since we found him" Phoebe added laying down the crystal.

"And I'll bet that if this demon hadn't come along it would have come out different" Paige continued.

"But my real question is when he dropped Tak, do you remember he griped his head as if there was pain" Phoebe said.

"It must be a new power, he's been getting a lot of them lately" Leo muttered.

"A power that gives headaches" Paige quipped.

"No, but it must have been something" Leo said.

Piper had remained silent throughout this whole conversation and was slowly breaking down. She let out a sob and Leo turned to her. He wrapped his arms around her and held her as she cried.

"Hey, it's ok. We'll get him back" Leo said comfortingly. Piper just shook her head.

"I don't know, I can't help but feel that every time we get him back, someone takes him again" Piper mumbled into Leo's shirt but every one heard it.

Leo gasped and pulled her back, they didn't notice Wyatt's glare.

"What are you saying?" Leo asked shocked. Piper just stared at him miserably.

"You know what I mean" Piper retorted. "Every time we get him back, we promise him that we'll never let the demons that took him take him again, that we'll protect him. Some lousy job we've done so far"

"Piper, we did our best, we tried to get to him. But he wouldn't let us" Leo said.

"So that shouldn't have stopped us, we should have talked to him" Piper said her voice getting rising.

"Piper, Chris knocked Leo unconscious. The demon got to him, and taunted Chris using his worst fear" Paige said walking over.

"And the reason that he got to Chris is because we doubted his power, and didn't try harder to track down and kill Tak" Piper yelled, the tension in the room was high and everyone was silent after that.

"What should we do, Piper, just leave Chris for the Demons. Should we just abandon him, after we have begged and pleaded for his trust and told him we would never let anything happen to him or that we love him" Phoebe yelled back, standing up.

"The demons are going to use him and turn him against us, the longer we sit here and blame ourselves the harder we're going to have to fight. The past is the past, and we can't do anything to change it" Phoebe continued yelling. Piper shrunk back down, and sat staring at her sister.

Phoebe felt her guilt start acting up at making her sister even sadder but it had to be said. She pushed her guilt back and softened her voice, now that she knew she had her sister's attention.

"But we can change the future, by rescuing Chris. We have to face that the little boy that you gave birth too is gone. Chris will never trust people like he would have if he had grown up here. But he's still your son and my nephew, we'll show him that there is so much more to life" Phoebe said turning to Paige for support.

Paige nodded in agreement and smiled.

Piper nodded and wiped her tears, she had a new look of concentration on her face.

"I'll go get some coffee, we might be here awhile" she said walking out of the attic. Paige turned to Leo.

"Follow her"

He nodded and left the attic.

Paige turned to her sister and smiled.

"Good going, pheebs"

Phoebe smiled back, and hugged her.

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Piper entered the kitchen and found the coffee grounds. Putting them into the coffee maker she sighed and wiped the rest of her tears. Phoebe was right. They had to be strong, for Chris's sake. She heard he door swing and felt someone come up behind her.

"Are you alright?" her husbands voice came from behind her.

Piper nodded "Just shaken, I don't think Phoebes ever talked to me like that"

"It's usually the other way around" Leo agreed.

"She's right though, we have to be strong. When we find Chris, it won't be easy but nothing in life ever is" Piper said turning around to face her husband.

"We'll earn his trust, and than take one day at a time" Leo nodded.

Piper's eyes filled with tears again and she sighed.

"Why does everything in our life have to be hard?" Piper asked as the tears fell down her face.

Leo paused before answering thinking about her question.

"Because the things in life aren't worthwhile unless you fight for them. We had to fight to get married, and than to have Wyatt. We'll make it through, just like we did all those other times" Leo said wiping the tears off Piper's cheek.

"Our strength comes from our love, we love our son's. We doubted Chris's powers because he was fragile, and even when he was a baby. If we had just seen that the demon after was after Chris and not Wyatt, than maybe things could have been different. But like Phoebe said, he past is the past. We can't change it but learn from it" Leo added.

Piper smiled and hugged him. He was right, they would make it.

They were interrupted by a voice, a very familiar voice.

"That's nice but if we don't find him soon, than they'll be nothing to save"

They turned to see Chris, well the older version of Chris.

TO BE CONTINUED

Plutobaby494: This is my last chapter for the summer, (wipes tears) School starting tomorrow. BUT the story will continue, how could I leave you hanging! Please review, reviews make me happy and will make it more likely to skip homework and work on my story!

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