A/N: Hello everyone, I want to thank you guys for the reviews, they make my day so please keep them coming.

Also after this chapter I want to hear what you guys's opinion is towards Chris. I know I've asked you before but after this chapter I wonder if you guys still have the same opinion. So I can't wait until you guys have to say.

I also want to know what you guys think of Paige and her relationship with the people around her. Piper and Phoebe, what you guys think of them, and why and don't forget about Leo. Now back to the story.

Chapter 26:

Paige orbed to P3 but the office seemed like it had not been used for days. Just to make sure she wondered around the streets to the club's neighborhood, but as she found absolutely nothing she orbed to the next possible spot, The Golden Gate Bridge.

He wasn't there either. As she took in the scenery she remembered how it all went down with her sisters and brother-in-law couple of hours ago.

"You don't trust me." Paige had said simply after a long heated debate between herself and her sisters. "I saw the future, I was there, and I asked you to trust me, but it seems like you don't trust me."

"That's not true!" Phoebe cried with her voice and features dripping with shock hurt.

"It is true," Paige nodded sadly to herself.

"Can you just back up a bit and explain what happened in the future?" Piper tried.

Paige shook her head.

"You heard it from Chris that someone was after Wyatt. You heard it from me that something was after Wyatt and that he would grow up terrorizing people. Today you witnessed it with your own eyes and heard it with your own ears the warning from the Chromne that something was was going after Wyatt. That Wyatt would grow up to terrorize people for power." Paige went on disappointed with the two women she had learned to call family. "Can that be enough?"

"What about Chris?" Piper asked nonetheless.

"What about Chris?" Paige asked back.

"Well why did he attack you?" Piper pressed, "Why does he know all of this demonic stuff? Who is he?"

Paige couldn't hide the hurt from her face as she stared at Piper, "What did you want Piper?" she asked tiredly to the sister who had hurt her through her betrayal, "An exclusive story about Chris? Sorry that's not going to happen. I asked you to trust me and I've told you as much as you need to know. I've told you about Wyatt and you still refuse to listen to me or to others."

"Paige try to understand from our point of view." Leo tried to amend softly, "I'm trying to do what you told me to do. It's not hard trusting you, it's hard trusting him. Really I am trying my best, but Chris does some questionable things."

Paige looked at her brother-in-law and sighed, he really was trying.

"You said that Fadhji said that a Child of the Light was trying to get to Wyatt." Leo pointed out, "What if that force is Chris."

"It's not." Paige said with confidence as she tried her patience with her family.

"But how do you know?" Leo asked.

"I just do." Paige reassured him, "Chris would never hurt Wyatt."

Paige remembered the day that future Leo, the Sisters Two, and Eric had been executed. She remembered being in that dank building crying for the family she had lost. Crying for the messed up world the future beheld for her. She remembered Chris saying that he was the Source of all Good that, Holly, one of her daughters, died believing in. She remembered that she had yelled at Chris for not being able to kill Wyatt and she remembered when he had revealed the reason why he couldn't: 'He's my brother' he had screamed.

Paige had left her family there to think while she went to her room. After hours of waiting for the twenty-year old who had fled the manor she had gone out to look for him. Just what was he up to? Was he actually considering Wyatt's philosophy? What if he did decide that Wyatt was right and he went back to the future? What if he joined him?

All of these thoughts ran through her mind as she watched the scenery from up on the Gate. She decided to go back to the manor and try scrying for him again. Phoebe had gone to a date, and Piper had gone to her dad's, she guessed that Leo was Up There. As she walked downstairs to look for crystals she saw Chris standing alone near the windows of the sun room looking out.

"Hey," she said softly and hoping she wouldn't spook him.

Chris glanced at her direction but then turned his attention back outside.

She knew that she had hit him low, but he needed to hear it. Marko and the others did not sacrifice their lives and put all of their hopes and dreams on him if he was just going to join Wyatt at the end.

"I couldn't save any of them at the end." He said in a hoarse and hushed whisper after along pregnant pause of awkward silence. "What good am I if I can't protect the people I love?"

"But they trusted you," Paige said with her voice just above a whisper, "They loved you. All of them."

"What good did that do to them?" Chris asked bitterly, "I'm a failure. After all of this fighting, all of this suffering, and all of the dead and decay falling around me. Why?"

Paige didn't have an answer for him. She didn't know what to say.

"From of all the evil in the world, from all of the power in the world I wonder if I ever made a difference?" Chris asked, "You know the Source wants me back. He wants me by his side, to rule by his side. He wants me there, he wants me so bad that he's willing to do anything to get me back, even rip my soul from the Afterlife. And I ask myself, why?"

"Why what?" Paige asked.

"Why does he?" Chris turned to face her and she saw his eyes were oceans of pain. "Why does he want me back, why does he want me at all? He says that he loves me, that he wants things how they were once before: Him and I against the world. He would say, "We're the Charmed Halliwell Brothers, the unstoppable force with nothing to stand in our way." He talks about power and how wonderful asset I will be with him.

Leo talked about how the Universe had picked me to be the Source of all Good. The good of what? The good to hurt? The good to get them kill?

They both saw me as a weapon, each with their own reasons. They both said that they did the things they did because they loved me."

Paige felt her throat clog with bitter bile as he went on.

"I don't understand their love. It hurts too much for me to love them back. Mom once told me that she would give her life for me because she loved me. That she would protect me even if it meant her death. Bianca was the same, so was Marko.

But what about me, when they went off dying for my sake did they actually think of me? Where they that selfish to be left alone? Were they that weak?"

Paige fought off the tears that stung her eyes.

"I think of Eric, and he said that he would have done anything to have his little brother back. He said he loved him and that he missed him. But not once did I see Eric trying to reach out to his brother. Not once, the only thing I saw was that he was trying to impose the 'old morals' back into Aric.

Leo was the same, and Wyatt was no different."

Paige couldn't tear her stare from him, his eyes were the window to his soul and she could see the endless sea of pain, hurt, betrayal, confusion, trauma, and the old man that he had been forced to grow up to be. She could see the wound that would not heal, his heart.

She thought about that time when she had been in the past and from what she had heard she could see his distress. Wyatt had been a father to him, he had been everything, he had been raised by him, all of the teachings and long lonely days, they had been devoted to Wyatt. From what she could tell, ever since he found out that Wyatt was using him to do evil he had never returned to Wyatt. She could only guess how distraught he had been, to even contemplate to end his life.

He had fought so hard on the side of Good, to keep the precious balance she herself had learned to protect, the Charmed legacy. What people and the Universe required of him, and he had sacrificed so much. Then to find out what he fought so hard to protect was the thing that destroyed his life and taken away the lives of those he cared for the most.

Paige let a tear fall. She understood then that he hadn't decided to turn back to his brother, but had questioned that perhaps in some distant reality Wyatt had been right about Good and Evil, that perhaps there was no such thing, but power that corrupted, and two sides that fought for it, with each protecting their own. Not once had he forgotten the people he loved as she had proclaimed in her sheer panic.

TBC.

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