A/N: The bit in italics towards the middle is a flashback. Yes it is time for a little taste of "The Event". So sad...yet so sweet.

At least I think so.

I'll shut up now.

Chris sat up quickly, blood pouring down his face from where he cracked his head on a table. He felt his head and pulled his hand away. It was covered in blood. He looked around in panic and saw Piper face down, unconscious.

"MOM!" He screamed, hurrying towards her.

He checked her pulse. It was faint. This couldn't be happening! Not again…

"Please…" he whispered trying to calm down.

"LEO!" He screamed, shaking violently.

"LEO! PAIGE! SOMEBODY HELP!"

Both Leo and Paige orbed in a second later.

"What is it?" Paige asked. Leo had already seen Piper and ran to heal her.

Chris was still trembling, so Paige tried to comfort him. It wasn't working though; he was still shaking, breathing heavy, and not responding to anything Paige said.

Finally, Piper's wound closed and she sat up unsteadily. Leo hugged her. That was so close.

Piper noticed Chris in the corner, shaking and jerking away from Paige.

"Leo he's hurt!" Piper said quickly.

Leo got up and ran to his son, who didn't even notice someone was holding him up and healing him. All he could see was the living room, where he had come home from school to find his mother.

Dead.

There was a demon standing over her, laughing.

"Your too late," The demon hissed. He shimmered out, pleased at the pain he had caused the young teenager.

"Mom!" Chris screamed and ran over to her.

"DAD!" Chris pleaded towards the heavens, "Just once, please come for me. Come for Mom! Please! Somebody help me!" Chris cried.

"Somebody help me…" He whispered, clutching his mother's ice cold hand.

"Chris? Can you hear me?" Leo asked.

Chris snapped out from his memories and stared blankly at Leo.

"Mom…" He whispered frantically.

"I'm right here Chris," Piper said soothingly. She moved towards Chris and put her arm around his shoulders, rubbing his arm up and down, trying to soothe him.

"The demon…he came and killed you. And laughed. Just laughed as you died. He was laughing," Chris said in between sobs.

Piper could only stare. Being attacked here brought all those memories back for him.

"And I called Dad. But nobody came…" Chris whispered to nobody in particular. "Nobody came…because I didn't matter anymore. Mom only cared and she was dead," Chris began to shake again. Leo felt a stab of guilt.

"Leo let's orb him home!" Piper said in panic.

They orbed into Piper's bedroom and second later and Leo helped Chris to sit on the couch. Piper sat next to him.

"Why did we orb up here?" Paige asked.

"Didn't you hear him?" Leo whispered. "The demon that killed Piper attacked in the living room. I don't want to remind him of that. I think he's having a breakdown or something."

Chris had been silent, just tears rolling down his cheeks.

"Sweetie…that's how I died? You came home and found me dead from a demon attack?" Piper asked quietly.

Chris swallowed. He had to tell her. "The Source had sent him after you. You were completely off-guard. He didn't make a sound when he shimmered. And…I couldn't save you!" Chris sobbed.

Piper hugged her son tightly.

"Shh…baby its okay. It's okay. We can fix this, we can…" Piper said, trying to reassure Chris.

But she was crying too.

She led Chris over to her bed and leaned him against her shoulder, rocking him and promising every thing would be okay. As mothers should.

Slowly, Chris drifted off to sleep and Leo helped Piper lay him on her bed so he could rest.

Paige and Leo left the room, leaving Piper to watch over her son. She gently took his hand so she wouldn't wake him up and just watched him sleep. She had done this many times with Wyatt.

And now she had another son to watch over.

"My little boy…" She breathed. She could only imagine what it was like for him, coming home after a perfectly normal day to find his life changed forever. And his father hadn't even come to help him. Piper's eyes welled with tears as she thought of all the pain Chris had been through.

An absentee father.

The death of his mother.

His brother leaving his side and becoming evil.

The loss of family.

All the cruel things she, her sisters, and Leo had said and done to him.

It just wasn't fair for such a young person to deal with that.

Piper let go of Chris' hand to wipe some tears from her face. He bottled up so much inside.

"Please Chris just talk to me, I want to help you but I can't. I don't know how," Piper sobbed.

She brushed away some hair from his face and eyes and smiled at how peaceful he seemed for once.

Her little boy.

"I love you Chris," She whispered, smoothing out the blankets on the bed.

Chris' hand brushed hers and held it tight.

"I love you too, Mom" he said sleepily.

TBC…

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