I do not own any of the Charmed characters, this is just for fun.

The Past for two and the Future for most

"Her birth father was a whitelighter, or elder to be exact."

"Gideon."

"Yea. Her Mother was a demon that worked under the master and other powerful demons. She wasn't very powerful."

"How did Gideon and her mother meet."

"Not getting into that yet. Gideon dies, and her real mother dies. So a Darklighter, and a Witch adopt her. The Darklighter gave Cat part of his magic, incase she got hit with one of his or his friends arrows. He didn't want her to die. The Witch gave Cat part of her magic so that Cat wouldn't have too much evil in her, and it was also for Cat to be able to cast spells and make potions to protect herself. The Witch and Darklighter had a daughter, their daughter and Cat became best friends. One night when Cat was seven, a demon attacked. It was Christmas Eve, her step parents were wrapping the presents. Cat and Sam, the daughter, were upstairs sleeping. Cat woke up to the sound of the front door blowing off the hinges. She jumped out of bed and went to the banister out of view of the first floor. A demon in black had come in and tried to make her parents tell him where Cat was, they refused. After about five minutes of the demon started trying to convince Cat's stepparents to tell him he or he would blow them up. Cat ran to her and Sam's room. She woke Sam up and told her what happened. Sam was about nine at the time. She told Cat to hide in the closet, Cat did. Two people in black came into thier room. Cat could see it all from where she was hiding. She watched her sister die." Chris said

"That is horrible." Piper said

"Try to get a seven year old not to blame herself for it. She had nightmares for years after that. She couldn't sleep for two weeks after that, every time she closed her eyes she would see the look on her parents, and Sam's face's just before they died."

"Then what?" Piper asked

"She came to live with you guys, since you and her stepparents were close."

Back in Cat's room, she didn't wake up after Chris and her talked.

Cat was still asleep, Chris had woken up and was telling the Charmed Ones about her past. She could hear him and her memories came back to her.

Flashback

A seven year old lay in dark room. Christmas lights could be seen outside the three windows that surrounded the walls of the room. The seven year olds bed was on the wall facing the door. There was another bed against the other wall. That bed belonged to Sam the seven year olds stepsister and best friend. Sam was nine, almost ten. Sam had always been a sound sleeper, but the seven year old was a very light sleeper.

The seven year old was dreaming about what the next day would be like, it was going to be Christmas, and she had been a very good girl. She dreamed about the looks of the faces of the family that had adopted her, everybody had smiles on their faces. She had been dreaming about what they would look like when she gave them her presents to them. But then the seven year old heard a loud clash.

She opened her eyes. It was still dark outside so it most have been Santa Claus the little girl thought. She looked at the clock and saw that it was 10 o'clock at night.

"That must be Santa, nobody ever comes by this late." The girl said to herself as she sat up and put her slippers on.

She grabbed her housecoat and opened the door slowly. She didn't want Santa to know she was awake. She was afraid he would run away from her. She grabbed her camera, which she had received from her parents for her birthday just this same year. It was a digital one. She turned the flash off and went to the top of the banister. She had found out that at a certain spot in the hall way you could look down and not be seen from anybody down staires. She laid on her stomach on the ground and went right up to the banisher, she looked throughthe banister holes putting the camera through one hole in the design and saw a man dressed in Black, followed by six others dressed in black to.

The first man she saw was huge.

"That isn't Santa, I thought he wore red and white, maybe he is trying something different."

"Where is she?" The large black figure said.

"I don't know who you are talking about." The seven year olds step father said.

"Yes, you do, where is Catheren?" The large black man asked. "I know she is here Bryan."

"I still don't know what you are talking about." Bryan said

"Shall we ask you wife, she will be more willing to talk to us." The large figure said as he lifted his hand and Bryan's wife was lifted into the air. "Tell me now before I tear apart you wife."

"I don't know what you are talking about."

"The girl you both adopted, you have her here, and I want her."

"You will never find her."

"Oh, but I will. You cannot stop me. If you tell me now you will be able to live, if you stay quite I will kill you both, and your daughter Sam."

"I don't know where she is, she ran away from us, last week."

"Then why are you wrapping her some presents, she has to be here."

"Because we were hoping that she would come back to us tomorrow. When she sees how much she was cared about when she was here."

"I don't believe you, you are lying to me." The large figure said as it flung Bryan's wife in to the Christmas tree.

'Why is dad lying, I am right here, I didn't run away, I am here.' Cat said she tried to stand up but for some reason she was unable to. She looked down again and saw that her father was now at her mother's side. He looked at Cat for a moment then looked back at the figure.

"You will not be able to hurt anyone in my family ever again. I will never let you find Cat, never." Bryan said.

"Fine then, you can die to protect her." The large figure said. A fireball formed him his hand and he threw it at Bryan and his wife. Both screamed and collapsed to the ground.

The seven year old now started to back up and could stand, she ran to her room, just after the large creature told his men to find her.

The seven year old entered her room and went toward her sister's bed.

"Sam...Sam... Sam wake up...Sam." The seven year old said

"What do you want Cat?" Sam said sleepily.

"There are guys down staires."

"It's just Santa Claus and his elves. Go back to bed." Sam said

"No, they hurt mommy, and daddy, they threw a fireball at them, they were hurt, and now they are coming up to get you and me. I think they are here for me."

Sam now was wide-awake. Her parents had told her the day someone might come for Catheren, but she was not to let them have her. Sam grabbed her sisters arm and put her in the closet. "Don't come out until they are gone." Sam said.

"But..."

"No listen to me, you have to stay away from them." Sam said as she closed the door. Cat had learned a while ago how to make things invisible so she could see through them, but no one else would be able to see through it. She turned the closet doors invisible and she watched as Sam put a spell on the door of the sliding glass closet. Sam then went and lay down on her bed. Just as three of the black men came in. Sam looked at them.

"What do you three want?" Sam asked them.

"We want your sister." One of the three said

"What sister?"

"The one that was sleeping in that bed."

"She hasn't been sleeping there for awhile, she ran away, and left the bed like that. I keep it like that so I feel like she just woke up and went to the bathroom or something when I wake up."

"Did someone check the bathroom?" A second one said.

"Yes, this is the last room." The first one said

"Like I said before she isn't here." Sam said.

"We can sense her here."

"Then your senses are messed up."

"How dare you speak to us like that!!!"

"How dare you wake me up on Christmas Eve."

One of the dark shadows moved his hand and Sam went flying across the room.

"Tell us where she is." The third one said.

"She's not here."

"Wrong answer." The first one said as he flung her again in to another wall, then into the closet. The glass shattered, the cardboard that was behind it was still in place. Cat could see her sister clearly she was bleeding on the back and she was coughing blood out of her mouth.

"Sam." Cat screamed not caring if anybody heard her but no one did.

Sam was again thrown to a wall were she was impaled with a piece of a chair that was broken. Sam looked directly at her sister and the look in her eyes was one of defeat. Then Cat heard a voice in her head.

"Don't let them find you, hide." Cat heard in her head.

"Check the closet." The first shadow said.

One of the shadows came to the sliding doors and opened it. Cat huddled in the corner of the closet hidden by the clothes that her sister and her had in there. The demon moved them and look right at her, then away.

"I don't see her anywhere." The demon said as he let the cloths fall on her and looked in another part of the closet.

A second demon came to the cloths and moved them, looks at her and saw nothing and said that the other one was right.

The three demons leave and go down stairs. Cat puts head through the floor boards, which she could do with the magic her birth mother had given her. She could go through solid objects.

"Master, she isn't here, we looked everywhere." One of the followers said.

The large creature turned his head to Cat's parents.

"We will find her, you have only stopped us this time. The large demon left, as did his creatures.

Cat brought her head back into the closet and went to the door of the closet. She opened it and went to her sister.

"Don't ...let... them... find... you." Sam said trying to catch her breath.

"Why would you do this for me?" Cat asked her sister as she started to cry.

"I couldn't... let them...find you.... you have.... to hide... from them... you are... the key. They will... try to... turn you... to favor them."

"What key?"

"The key...of...." Sam never got to finish the sentence. She died in Cat's arms.

Cat started to cry but she knew she couldn't morn for too long, those men would be back someday. She kissed her sister's head and went to her baby sister's room. Cat had a three-month-old sister named Julia. She walked in and found the room a mess. She looked in the crib and found her sister not moving.

"Julia...Julia, can you hear me?" Cat asked Julia did not move. Cat touched her arm lightly and found it cold, she tried to feel for a pulse but there was none. She then picked up her sister and brought her to Sam. She placed Julia on top of Sam's stomach and kissed them both then went down stairs to check her parents. She ran over to parents and saw they were both alive.

"Mom, Dad." Cat said as she went up to them and kissed them.

"Cat you need to hide from them." Cat's mother said.

"Why?" Cat asked

"They want you to be under their rule when you turn." Cat's dad said

"What are you talking about, turn."

"You will one day know this but you have to know that we love you and we don't want anything bad to happen to you."

"What is going to happen? What am I the key of?"

Cat's mom laughed slightly but it turned into a cough.

"So, Sam told you were the key right."

"Yea."

"Well you have to be careful, don't trust everybody you met, they well try to make you favor them, I need you to be brave."

"Don't go." Cat said as tears began to cry.

"Be brave for both of us, and be save, Chris' family are people you can trust. Trust them with all of your heart."

"No... Don't go... I need you." Cat said

Both of Cat's parents dead at the same time, but Cat knew she would have to leave soon, she went up the stairs and picked up her younger sister. She brought Julia down the stairs and lay her next to her stepparents, then she did he same with Sam. She then grabbed some clothes and left the house, as she left she thought about her family. The family that was nice enough to take her in all dead in less then an hour because of her. She couldn't put anyone else in danger not tonight, not during the holidays. Cat wondered for the rest of the night. She found a park bench and sat on it. It was in front of an angel. She wasn't sure if she believed in a God right now, not after all that had happened to her family that night.

It was almost dawn now and she knew the police would be checking the parks for people. She left. She walked down the street looking for a place to hide, when she came to an abandoned factory building it hadn't been used for years. She stayed there for Christmas day

The Halliwell's had invited Catheren's family for Christmas Day dinner. When they didn't show up the Halliwell's got nervous. They knew that Bryan was a Darklighter and that Sara was a Witch and they were afraid something happened. They had called a received no answer. So Piper and Paige went over. They didn't orb in but they drove over. They knocked on the door, that the demons had put back up, no one answered, so Paige turned the doorknob and found that it wasn't locked so they must have been home, since they would never leave their house unlocked unless they were home.

At first they didn't see the family that was lying dead on the floor of the living room, they saw the mess that the demons had caused when they were looking for Catheren. "Oh, my, God, Piper look." Paige said as she walked over to the four dead people lying on the living room floor.

"Oh, God." Piper said as she walked over to them.

She looked at all of their faces even little Julia's.

"LEO." Piper called out loud.

Leo orbed in behind them.

"Yes." He said calmly in his pacifist voice. But after seeing the four dead he went up to them and tried to heal them. "I am sorry Piper but I cannot heal any of them."

"You have to." Piper said.

"You guys, I have looked everywhere, and I haven't been able to find Cat." Paige said as she carefully climbed over the debris that was over the stairs. She had gone looking for Cat after Piper called Leo.

"Leo see if you can sense her."

After a minute Leo opened his eyes. "No I cannot sense her anywhere."

"Then she was taken by whoever did this?" Piper asked nervous she would get a yes out of that question.

"No, she was always powerful, after she left the house she was probably trying to hide from whoever did this. She would have cloaked herself even if she didn't know she was doing it."

"How are we going to find her?" Paige asked.

"If she was trying to hide she wouldn't go anywhere they would think they could find her."

"Chris." Piper said.

"Yea mom." Chris said as he orbed in, he was only seven. "Where is Cat?" Chris asked after he saw he four dead people in the living room.

"That is what we need you for. You can sense her."

"But how?"

"When you were little you two had a connection. She would always come to you went you were little, try to go to her now."

"How?"

"Think about her." Chris did. Then suddenly he disappeared.

"I will meet you at home with her. I promise." Chris said just before he completely disappeared.

Chris was transported to the building Cat was hiding in. He spotted her in the corner and went toward her.

"No stay away, anybody close to me gets hurt, go away." Cat cried as Chris approached.

"I will not."

"Just go, I don't want you to get hurt."

"I am here to bring you someplace warmer." Chris said as he started to get the shivers, which he didn't understand why, since it wasn't that cold out.

"It's not because of the weather that it is cold."

"Then what is it?"

"I caused it." Cat said.

Chris was now only inched from her and he could see clearly the tear streaks down her cheeks her puffy red eyes. 'She must have been crying all night.' Chris thought to himself. "Please come with me."

"No, they will hurt all of you, probably kill you if you don't give them to me. But I cannot put anyone else in danger. Everybody who takes care of me or cares for me dies, my birth mother, father, my stepfather, and stepmother, Sam, Julia. Julia was only a little older then two months. They killed her with no problem."

"Cat don't blame yourself."

"It's my fault. Those men came into the house and asked for me, my parents wouldn't tell them, so they died. Sam wouldn't tell them so she had to die. Julia couldn't tell them so they killed her. It's all my fault."

"Cat you have to know that it isn't."

"No it was, I am the key, I don't know of what."

"Come on, you will be safer at my house." Chris tried to grab Cat's hand but she pulled her hand away.

"No I will only get you killed, I don't want anybody else's lives to be in my hands."

"Cat." Chris came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her shoulders trying to comfort his best friend.

She allowed him to and cried into his shoulder. Chris then orbed them both to the Manor.

"Where can he be?" Piper asked

"He is fine, I would have felt if something bad happened to him." Leo said.

Just then orbs appeared.

"Chris Thank God." Piper said.

She then noticed he wasn't alone; Cat was there too, still crying.

"Cat I am so sorry." Piper said.

"They dead because they were protecting me." Cat said

"From who."

Cat put her hand out and her digital camera appeared in her hand. She handed it to Piper and Piper took it.

"I heard his people call him Master, but my parents called him Carl, and Cane."

Piper saw a huge man dressed in black one of the his men had no mask on and he had four triangles on his face.

"I have those same marks." Cat said. "They wanted to take me away with them."

"We wont let them do that." Piper said. "Chris take her up to your room, while I get the guest room ready, she can sleep in there for now, until we fix up the other room." Piper said

"Ok mom." Chris said as he walked with Cat up the stairs.

"I will come and get you when the guest room is ready Cat." Piper said.

Cat hadn't slept for 24 hours so once she was on Chris' bed she fell fast asleep. Chris slept on the floor next to the bed, and Wyatt in his bed.

End Flash Back

End Chapter

Well that was a long one, I didn't find a place to stop before here. Well tell me know what you think.

The Charmed Ones and Leo knew that she was the Key before so that is why Leo was there. I thought this would help to clear up what kind of connection Cat and Chris have and what Chris was trying to tell the Charmed Ones earlier.

I have finished writing this story and will post the rest once you guys review. I also have written a different take on the season finally if you guys are interested. Tell me and I will post it after I post the last chapter of this one. Tell me if you are interested. I would like to know. Thanks for the reviews, and review more please.