Disclaimer: Still not owning Charmed but I am thinking of several ways to get Brad Kern back for killing Chris.

Chapter 3: Explaining Other Things

Piper paced the attic worried. Chris assured her that Katie would never let anything happen to Paige, but she still couldn't trust the girl. "Mom, calm down, Paige'll be fine."

"How can you be so sure Chris? That girl comes here for five minutes and then tries to kill Wyatt."

Chris tried to think of the best thing to say, "Well, that's more of a grudge she's got against him in the future. And believe me, Katie's trustworthy."

"How would you know?"

"Because I grew up with her and grandpa being the only family I had. Wyatt and Melinda didn't really count." Chris realized what he had just revealed.

"Who's Melinda?" Piper stopped pacing.

"Maybe we better wait for Katie and Paige to get back." Chris tried to change the subject.

"Christopher Halliwell, you will tell me right this instant." Piper ordered. Thankfully for Chris, Paige and Katie orbed back in before he had to answer. "Ok, they're back, tell me who Melinda is?"

"You told her?" Katie asked, hearing Melinda's name.

"I didn't mean to, it slipped out." Chris tried to apologize. "And maybe Phoebe should be here..."

"I'm here." Phoebe announced, coming into the attic. Piper gave Chris a look telling him to tell.

"Maybe you should start at the beginning." Katie offered.

"Alright, alright, I'll tell you. Phoebe you have a daughter named Melinda, Paige you have well, Katie. Melinda's like what six months older than Katie." Katie nodded, "Everything's good for us, Phoebe lives with her husband and Melinda in their condo and everyone else still lives here at the manor; that is until Wyatt decides that he's the almighty being in the world. He tries to get the Charmed Ones on his side, but when you guys refuse, he kills you. All of you. Katie and I were upstairs when it happened and neither one of us can heal without a whitelighter's help, so..." He paused, "Katie, give me an atheme." Katie waved her hand, an atheme appearing, then telekinetically moved the atheme over to Chris. "So we used a couple of these to get your powers. We were going to need them if we were going to survive. Katie took Piper's powers, and I took Paige's and then we split Phoebe's, she got premonitions and I got empathy. Leo and Richard were already dead before we could salvage their powers.

"Anyway, Melinda joined Wyatt without question but neither Katie nor I would do so. He gets mad at this because he knows without me and Katie; he'll never be as powerful as he could be-"

"Why's that?" Phoebe interrupted.

"It's kinda like the power of four. Right now it's two against two, so were pretty much even, and he needs at least one of us to join him and then the other is powerless."

"What's the atheme do?" Paige asked.

"It takes powers," Katie said before Chris, "You stab someone with it, until you get the power you want, then you stab yourself with it. That's how we saved the power of the Charmed Ones."

"Chris, have you...?" Piper didn't know exactly how to word the question.

"Used the atheme?" Piper nodded, "All the time. It's how you get power in the future. We mostly kill demons and take their power, but sometimes there's an occasional witch who we..."

"You killed a witch?"

"What, no nothing like that. We've come across witches that have been fatally wounded and taken their powers." Chris explained, calming Piper down.

"Hey I heard yelling." Leo said from behind them. No one had noticed him orb in. "What's going on?"

"Chris is explaining." Piper hissed in Chris's direction. Katie stood next to Paige, glaring at Leo. "That's Katie by the way, your niece from the future."

Leo looked confused, "What?"

"She came back looking for help. Apparently nothing's changed in the future," Paige said, smoothing some of Katie's long brown hair. 'Katie has hair just like Richard', Paige thought.

"Chris, who do you think turned Wyatt?" Katie asked suddenly.

"Gideon, he tried to kill Wyatt after kidnapping him, why?"

"What happened to him?"

"Leo killed him." Chris said simply.

"While Wyatt was there?" Katie persisted.

"Yeah, what's your point?"

"Is that the Gideon that ran magic school where Aunt Piper stayed in the last months of her pregnancy?"

Chris nodded, "Why?"

"Think about it, in the three months or so Piper was there, Wyatt saw a whole bunch of Gideon and everyone around him thought Gideon was a good guy, the supreme of goodness. So when Leo killed Gideon, Wyatt thought Leo was killing a good guy, so that would make..."

"Leo evil and Wyatt just following his father." Chris filled in for her.

"Exactly," Katie answered. Suddenly she turned and threw Leo against a wall. Before he had the chance to stand up, she lifted him up with her telekinetic powers, and started to choke him. "You're the reason the future's the way it is!" She yelled at him. Everyone else stood around, too shocked to move until Piper moved forward.

"Katie maybe..." She didn't finish, with her other hand, Katie lifted Piper off the ground as well but she didn't choke Piper.

"Don't test me," Katie hissed, dropping Piper on the ground. Piper landed with a loud thump. Paige, Phoebe, and Chris ran to her side, "Freeze!" Katie yelled, throwing her one free hand towards them. Paige, Phoebe, Chris, and Piper all stopped what they were doing, finding that their limbs wouldn't move. Then Katie turned back to Leo, "You caused all of their deaths, your sisters-in-law, their husbands, their husbands' families, thousands of innocents, even your own wife." Katie dropped him, and unfroze the quartet behind her before leaving the room.

"What was that?" Phoebe asked, helping Piper up.

"Katie's got kind of a temper." Chris explained.

"No, not that. That power to make us freeze."

Chris looked around, "Oh that. She got it off someone."

"Who?" Paige asked.

"No one," Chris brushed off the subject, then he turned away from the sisters and Leo. "Katie." He said simply, watching her be orbed back into the attic.

"What the? Chris." Katie looked even angrier than she had before.

"We had a deal." He stated and she looked down at her feet.

"Yeah, I know." She mumbled. Without much of a warning, Katie winced in pain. A look of terrible pain came over her face as she fell to her knees. The sisters thought it was Chris at first, until he too doubled over in pain.

"Katie." He managed to squeak out.

"I'm working on it," She squeaked back, reaching into her pocket and pulled out an amulet. "Murus adigo." Katie shouted, feeling the pain leave her. She and Chris lay on the ground, trying to catch their breath. "Did you?"

Chris nodded, sitting up. He reached out his hand to Katie, helping her up. "He's getting worse."

"I told you." Katie snapped.

"What the hell was that?" Piper asked.

"You tell her, she's your mother." Katie still sat on the ground, while Chris stood up.

"Since Katie and I wouldn't join Wyatt, he cast some kind of spell so we had to hear the screams of his victims whenever he killed. And sometimes, if he tries hard enough, he can force us to feel their pain as well. This time he killed an innocent with an atheme just so Katie and I would feel the pain." Chris looked down at the ground after explaining. Paige, Phoebe, Piper, and Leo just looked stunned.

"Why the amulet?"

"It stops the spell momentarily. Doesn't last very long though, worthless piece of crap." Katie mumbled, shoving it back into her pocket. She called it worthless every time she used it, but would refuse to go anywhere without it. "I can't hold him off anymore Chris. I need your help in the future." Katie added, finally standing up.
A/N: So, how do you like my explaination for the way the future is? Let me know in your review and there will be reviews, won't there? I've got more cookies and ice cream.

A/N 2: Thank you so much for the great reviews! I'm glad you all like the story! And don't worry, there will be updates.