CHAPTER 14

Chris walked out of his room in the apartment that he had shared with his former charge, which turned out to be a demon. He had loved her and she had betrayed him. He saw someone sitting on the couch as he walked in.

"Who are you?" he called out.

Whoever it was sitting on the couch she turned around. "Chris we need to talk." Piper said standing up and walking around to him.

"Mom now is not the time." Chris said walking away from her and to the front door. "Please can you leave and come back another time?"

"Chris listen to me you need to talk about this, I need someone to talk to someone." Piper said as a silent tear rolled down her cheek.

By this time Chris knew that something else was going threw his mothers mind. "Mom what's wrong." He said taking a few steps until he was standing in front of her. He led her over to the couch and sat her down. "If you tell me what's bothering you then I'll talk deal?"

Piper nodded her head. "Leo has a daughter, which means that you have a step-sister and I have a step-daughter." She said.

Chris looked at her in shock. "What do you mean?" he asked in a whisper.

"Before Leo went to the war he was engaged with another women and she was pregnant with his child, she got sick and died so they gave the child to his sister. When he died and became a whitelighter his sister was sick and couldn't take care of his daughter so he took her to the future with him and gave her to a foster parents. She always knew him as her uncle not as her father." Piper explained.

"What's her name?" Chris asked taking all the information that she had just told him in.

"Kira, she's 23." Piper answered.

"Well do I get to met her?" Chris asked.

"No not yet. Leo has to tell her that he's her father not her uncle, plus I still haven't met her either. Leo is having a hard time right now. She was attacked by a demon and almost died, Leo came just in the nick of time and healed her." Piper said.

"Oh my god really?" Chris asked looking down at the floor. "She's alright right?"

"Of course she is." Piper said

"Oh good. Does dad know that you told me?" Chris asked already knowing the answer. "He doesn't know that you came over does he?"

"No I told him that I was going out for a bit and would be back in a bit." Piper said.

"Oh."

Piper and Chris sat on the couch for a few more minutes before Piper spoke up. "I was wondering if you wanted to move back in with the rest of us, since Mackenzie isn't here anymore and this was sort of her apartement."

Chris looked up at her and saw that his mother really wanted him to move back in. "I don't know mom, I'll think about it."

"That's all that I'm asking." She said. "Do you mind orbing me home? Paige orbed me here so I don't really have any other way."

"No problem." Chris said waving his hand. His mother was wrapped in a swirl of blue and white lights and was gone back to the manor. Chris flopped back on to the couch and let out a puff of frustration.

The next morning…

Kira woke up and saw that Garrick was no longer in bed and the sheets where thrown back. She slowly got up and winced as a small pain made it's way through her stomach. Leo must not have healed her fully because she was still very sore. She walked over to the full- length mirror and lifted up her black tank top that she had worn to bed that night. There was a thin line of skin that bumped out running along her stomach and up her back. She would probably have that for life as a consent reminder of what had taken place.

She put her shirt back down and shuffled into the living room. All of a sudden the room went all dizzy and she lost her footing. Bracing for the impact with the floor it never came. When she opened her eyes she was pairing into hazel ones.

"Are you alright?" Garrick asked as he picked her up and laid her onto the sofa.

"Yeah I'm fine." Kira replied quickly as she sat up and another wave of dizziness washed over her. Garrick gently pushed her back onto the couch.

"Take it easy, your safe." He said gently.

"Sorry." Kira mumbled.

"It's alright you don't have to be sorry for something that you don't have control over, but one question why did you almost fall?" Garrick asked.

Sarah sat up and Garrick came and sat beside her. "When I got up this morning I had a sharp pain in my stomach where Leo had healed me then when I came out I had a dizzy spell. I don't know what's causing it." Kira explained.

"I know, you're going to fast after what happened, you should really be in bed not up and walking about." Garrick said with concern as he looked in to her eyes.

"But I feel fine expect for the small pain in my stomach and the little dizzy spell." Kira said her voice rising.

Garrick stood up and stood in front of her. "I little dizzy spell you almost lost consciousness, you could have hurt your self." He said his voice starting to rise. "Now you're not going to move from the couch until I have Leo take a look at you to make sure you're alright."

Kira sat on the couch arms crossed over her chest. "Fine." She said. "But can you get me something for breakfast I'm starving." She said with a smile.

"Of course I will." Garrick said as he leaned in and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek. "Be right back." As he went into the kitchen to make some breakfast.

Phoebe came into the kitchen that morning and saw Paige sitting at the kitchen's island with a cup of coffee in her hands.

"Hey Paige what's up?" Phoebe said as walked around and stood on the other side of the island facing her sister.

"Nothing just that Piper's been a bit different since the night that we got ride of Mackenzie, she seems…." Paige said but was cut off by Phoebe.

"Distant and preoccupied by something?" Phoebe said.

"Yeah, you think that there's something that she's hiding from us?" Paige asked.

Phoebe thought about it for a moment and then spoke. "Yeah I think that there is something that she's hiding but I don't know what, I think that it's something to do with Leo."

"Maybe, think that we should talk to her about it?" Paige asked.

"I think that we should but later on, where is Piper I haven't seen her all morning?"

"She went to the club early, and I'm late for magic school. See you later." Paige said as she orbed out leaving Phoebe to ponder what it was that Piper was hiding from them.