Author's Note: If you have any questions about the characters and/or get confused, refer to the character sheet.

Thanks to Klutz242 for your review, it inspired me to write another chapter today. :)
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Jacob and Michael were sitting on a couch opposite of Rachel. Rachel was covered by a heavy blanket. Her face was red, with white pelt marks. She hadn't spoken much in the last two hours.

"Mikey," she said suddenly to her younger brother. Michael perked up and with soft eyes looked at her with concern, "You should go stay at Aunt Paige's."

Michael stared at sister intently for a moment, "I'll be okay," he said in mumble, "I'm more worried about you."

"I know you are," she said in a childish tone, "But you're not healthy here. I'm a wreck."

Phoebe hugged her daughter, "Sweetie, you're going to be fine." she rubbed her daughter's back, "I'm sorry that happened."

Jacob looked at Michael, "Maybe you should go."

"Fine," Michael said in a disagreeing tone, "I guess I'll go for the night." he looked at his older sister, "I hope you feel better."

Rachel gave him a small smile. Jacob and Michael went upstairs to pack some things while Coop and Phoebe focused on Rachel's trauma.

Piper and Leo showed up a few minutes after Emma had been trapped in the crystals. She looked at them with a bewildered expression, "Is my baby girl alright?" Leo whispered to Chris with concern.

"I think she'll be okay in a bit, but I've got to talk to you, Dad." Chris said in a wary tone.

Leo gave a worried glance to the worn out girl in the crystal cage. Piper stared at Emma with the deepest concern, "What happened to her?"

"Emma from this timeline met the Emma from my timeline," Chris said softly, "They became friends. I did something wrong though."

"What did you do, Chris?" Leo asked in a suspicious tone. That tone struck Chris, as it reminded him of the days when the girls and Leo hadn't trusted him.

"I coerced Emma into letting the other Emma and her share the same body." Chris said in a regretful tone, "I didn't think it all the way through. We had done it for the other version of myself and thought it would work. Emma from this timeline and Emma from that timeline are too different. I think it resulted with Emma from that timeline taking over her body."

"Chris, this isn't good." Piper shrilled at him in an angry whisper.

"I know, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it." Chris said in an apologetic mumble.

"We need to focus on fixing this," Leo said to his neurotic son and his overprotective wife, "We can deal with the ramifications later."

"Leo, you can't go see her." Chris whispered with sincerest regret.

"Why not?" Leo asked him suspiciously.

"In my timeline, you abandoned us, Dad." Chris explained to him, "Not because you wanted to. After you saw Wyatt turned evil, he forced you to flee. He knew that with you by our side, his attacks could potentially be fruitless. When we were kids, Wyatt used to always pick on Emma and you took his side. After he became evil, you finally took Emma's side and began to repair your relationship. Shortly after the two of you called a truce, you were forced to move up to Elder Land. Wyatt said if he caught your powers being used, he would kill Emma. Wyatt's promise not the kill Emma if you stayed up there was the only thing allowing me to go back and fix the past, without it I would have never left."

"This is great," Piper said with tears in her eyes, "My daughter hates her father. Look what misuse of magic has done." she lectured Chris.

"She doesn't hate him, Piper," Chris said softly, "She loves him, but she feels betrayed by him."

Piper and Leo stared at Chris for a moment, "What's wrong?" Chris asked his parents.

"We've been too hard on you," Leo said apologetically, "We're sorry."

"Sweetie," Piper added softly, "You can always call us 'mom' and 'dad'"

"Oh, I'm sorry," Chris said a moment later, "I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. I was just feeling a bit off-guard." He looked at his parents for another moment, "Maybe Mom should go and talk to Emma. Dad, can you help heal her if she's injured?"

"Why didn't Wyatt heal her?" Piper asked Chris in a sharp tone.

"Wyatt's the problem." Chris whispered.

"She said that?" Piper asked him curiously.

"No," Chris hesitated, "She felt it."

"Felt what?" Leo asked Chris suddenly.

"I think your Chris is an empath," Chris said suddenly, "I feel people's turmoil quiet a bit."

"Since when?" Piper asked him with a confused look.

"His power is pretty strong. I'm going to bet he's had a long time to train this power to not drive him crazy. I haven't had that same amount of him. Emma's really anxious any time Wyatt is around her."

"Because he hurt her in the other timeline?" Piper answered Chris' statement.

"Yeah," Chris explained to his parents, "She seemed to really peak after Wyatt threw his hands up and incinerated a few demons that were after her."

"So Wyatt was protecting her," Leo reasoned, "Why the fear?"

"I don't know if she fears Wyatt as a person or just the power Wyatt possesses," Chris admitted to them, "But I can understand her concern. Wyatt's powers are a bit unnerving. He can read minds, incinerate people with his hands, he has nearly every whitelighter ability and there is so much more I am unaware of."

"But Wyatt is good here." Piper said in a sharp tone, it was obvious to Chris she was trying to mask how much it hurt to hear Chris talk about Wyatt like he was a tyrant again.

"Mom, I know" Chris said in a soft tone and put his hands on her shoulder, "Wyatt is very good here. He's everything I always wanted him to be. He's everything Emma wanted him to be. Emma's younger than we are though. She was only nine when the Event occurred. The Event was the catalyst that made Wyatt lose his mind. Emma grew up to watch his terrorize people and that scarred her a bit. Luckily, Wyatt could never kill her. He didn't have the stomach too. More than anything he wanted us to join him."

Piper looked at Emma's face and saw something she hadn't seen in a quite awhile. Fear was written all over her face. Piper wasn't used to her teen daughter looking so afraid. Normally, her daughter was rambling on about how Wyatt was getting on her nerves. Other days she was begging her mother to give her money so she could add music to her E-drop. On lucky days, Emma would volunteer to watch Matthew for her and then Piper and Leo could go out. Piper rarely had free time, most of her time was spent managing her restaurant but her family was still her first priority.

'The last time I saw her cry was her first day of the junior high level of magic school. Some boy had broken her heart and Emma had spent the whole day crying. She didn't stay like that for long. She decided destroying demons was so much more effective.' Piper mused.

She walked over to her daughter, "Emma, honey, are you okay?"

"Mom?" Emma asked from the crystal cage, "Is that really you?"

Chris' eyes widened, he didn't even think of what Emma's reaction would be when she saw their mother again. Piper removed the crystal hesitantly and the cage was broken, "Promise not to orb."

Emma lunged herself onto Piper, "Mama, it is you!" she said as tears streamed down her face, "I'm sorry I didn't save you."

Chris wanted to scream 'Future Consequences', but then realized he was in the future. "It's okay, sweetheart. I would never blame you." Chris knew that his mother was speaking to Emma, but it comforted him too.

Piper helped Emma onto the couch and leaned her daughter against her chest, "I missed you." Emma mumbled to her mother.

Leo came over and put his hand on Emma, hoping to heal her. Leo didn't know whether to consider it was lucky that Emma had no physical injuries or unlucky that he couldn't heal her emotionally.

"Daddy?" came the faint whisper. Leo sat next to Emma. As he looked into Emma's eyes, he saw so much. Hatred. Confusion. Sadness. Then he saw resolve.

"I'm sorry I left you," Leo said softly to his daughter, "I would never leave you if I didn't have to."

Chris didn't think these were the best choice of words, but he kept his lips sealed. "We were just becoming close again." Emma said indignantly.

"You don't look too good, sweetheart," Leo said softly to her, "I'm going to stay with you every minute through your recovery."

Chris longed for his father to have said that to him in his future. Emma looked at her father, "Promise me?"

Chris knew that if Leo broke this promise, there would be no recovery between that relationship. He wanted to relay this information to Leo, but looking at the pure look of intense dedication Leo had, Chris knew he didn't need too.

"Promise you."

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