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Thank you for reviews guys... and I'm sorry that it took me so long to update, but finally, here's the new chapter

Could we be friends?

"Chris!" Nick pulled away from Leo, he breathed heavily.

"Nick, what happened? Are you ok?" Leo asked him. Nick seemed scared.

"I... I don't know... I had a premonition, I think" Nick was confused, this was his first premonition.

"What did you see, sweetie?" Phoebe asked worriedly.

"Chris... trouble..." He mumbled, looked at Leo, grabbed his hand and shimmered with him to the Underworld.

---Underworld---

"What are we doing here?" Leo whispered.

"Honestly, I don't know. Maybe we should wait and find out." They were hiding behind one of the big rocks. Suddenly, they heard steps, a great crash, someone's scream and horrible laugh.

"Hurry!" Nick said as he ran towards the source of the noises, Leo followed. After a while they saw Chris. He was fighting two demons. It seemed he was gonna win when another demon appeared and hit him with a fireball. Chris fell down unconscious. Nick ran t the demons trying to entice them away from Chris.

"Take him to the manor, I'll cover you!" Nick yelled at Leo who ran to Chris and orbed them away. Nick threw a few energy balls at the demons and when he saw Leo and Chris weren't there anymore he shimmered back to the manor too.

---Manor---

"Where were you?!" Piper asked when she saw the blue and white orbs in front of her, before they could form into Leo with Chris.

"Oh my God! What happened?" Piper was scared when Leo laid still unconscious Chris on the couch.

"Underworld... demon attack" Leo answered at Piper's questions without looking at her. He put his hands over Chris's wound induced by fireball. Suddenly gold glow appeared and the wound disappeared, but Chris was still unconscious.

"What's wrong? Why isn't he waking up?" Piper asked, now more worriedly.

"I... I don't know, he should be awake" Leo checked Chris's pulse and tried to heal the wound again, but it was already all right.

"Leo and where's Nick?" Phoebe asked when she noticed her son wasn't there.

"Behind you" Nick said causing Phoebe and Piper to jump.

"You scared me!" Phoebe yelled at him.

"Sorry, mom, I didn't mean to" Nick smiled wryly. He went to Chris.

"Chris, you're all right?" Nick asked, but Chris didn't answer.

"What's wrong, Elder-boy?"

"I don't know, he should be ok, I healed him. Maybe he just needs to rest." Leo said trying to convince himself. He felt Chris wasn't ok, but didn't know why. Nick sensed Leo's qualm. He knelt to Chris while Leo was telling Piper and Phoebe what happened. Nick wanted to give a pillow under Chris's head because he didn't seem to lay very comfortable. When he was lifting Chris's head to put the pillow there, he felt some warm liquid. He pull his hand out quickly and saw it was bloody.

"Elder-boy?" Nick turned to Leo, but he didn't noticed.

"Elder-boy! You didn't heal his head!" Nick yelled and he got Leo's attention.

"What are you talking about?" Leo asked, then he noted the blood on Nick's hand. He quickly came to Chris and healed his head too.

"He had to hurt when he fell down." Leo said, Nick nodded.

"Now he is definitely ok, but I think it'll take a while till he wakes up. In the meantime I suggest we finish up the cookies that almost killed Nick." Leo smiled at Nick wryly.

"Not funny, Elder-boy" Nick said and hit Leo in the arm.

"What's with you, it didn't hurt." Leo said looking at his arm and at Nick.

"Well, maybe it wasn't meant to hurt." Leo raised his eyebrow.

"Nick, when you first saw me you wanted to kill me and now, you hit me and said it wasn't meant to hurt. It's weird because I thought you hated me."

"I did" Nick shrugged and wanted to leave, but Phoebe stopped him.

"How do you mean you did?" Phoebe was confused.

"Look, I have always known him as a big-headed, unprincipled and egoistic Elder-boy who totally ignored his son who happened to be my best friend."

"Thanks" Leo said sarcastically.

"You're welcome" Nick smiled at him.

"Anyway, there's something dad told me, he knew it from his own experience. People could change, so it isn't aright to judge them according to their past... or future in this case. But I did it, I... I hated you because all the things you did in the future, I would have never believed you could be different. But I came here and now I know I was wrong. For example the way we met yesterday. You only opened your mouth and I sent you to the nearest wall, I have to admit it was great to beat you, but the point is you let me do that, you didn't fight. The Elder-boy I knew would knock me out immediately. And then when I told you Chris is your son it was something I didn't presume... you were happy, you were confused and surprised, but somewhere inside you you were happy. And today I did something I would never, never ever do in my time line... I hugged you and then I took you to the Underworld to save Chris. In fact, I've known you only for a few hours, but I can already say that you are totally different from the Elder-boy I used to know. Maybe... in this time line... we could be friends." Nick was looking straight to Leo's eyes. Leo was cough unawares with Nick's sincerity.

"You're so sweet!" Phoebe said and hugged Nick.

"I know, mom, I'm the sweetest person ever" Nick smiled innocently.

"Yeah, and the most big-headed."

"No, that's you, Elder-boy" They laughed.

"So, what do you say, Elder-boy, could we be friends?" Nick asked.

"Will you stop calling me Elder-boy?"

"Let me think about it... NO"

"OK, buddy, but one day you'll stop calling me so."

"I wouldn't be so sure about it... Elder-boy" Leo tousled Nick his hair. Piper and Phoebe just smiled at the scene in front of them.

"Now, when we're such good friends, Elder-boy, could you orb me to the Magic school library?" Nick asked as if it was commonplace.

"What, Magic school?" Leo stared at Nick surprised.

"Yeah, you know, the place where you can find everything about magic. Is it a problem?" Nick didn't know why Leo was acting so weird.

"Yes... no, I mean how do you know about Magic school and why do you want to go there?"

"Well, I was going there before Wyatt destroyed it and I have two reasons why I want to go there now. First, the demons that attacked Chris in the Underworld aren't in the BOS... I know it because in my time line we had problems to vanquished them, but in the library is a book where's vanquishing potion and I know which book is it. And second, you know mom and aunt Piper. When Chris wakes up they won't let him go so easy... they will hug him and yell at him why he didn't say he is family and you want to talk to him either, so I don't want to hamper."

"You won't hamper, Nick."

"OK, I know, but I hate family reunions and when aunt Paige comes home from her temp job,huh... I really don't want to be here." Leo smiled at Nick in understanding and nodded.

"Fine, orb me there and pick me up when everything is over, ok?" Nick smiled too, Leo waved and Nick disappeared in blue and white orbs.

"What was that about?" Leo turned to face pissed Phoebe.

"What are you talking about?" He asked innocently.

"You just sent my son there... somewhere without even looking at me if I agree. What if he gets hurt?" Leo had to laugh, but when he saw expression of Phoebe's face he stopped.

"Don't worry he'll be all right. I didn't send him somewhere, I sent him to Magic school. It's school for magic kids led by Gideon, my mentor and good friend." He tried to explain.

"And that's supposed to calm her?" Piper asked.

"Look, he'll be safe there. It's the school for good beings, that's the reason I had to orb him there. He couldn't shimmer, because it's demonic power." Phoebe and Piper had a lot of questions about that school, but didn't have the chance to ask, because Chris started to get up. They ran to him and hugged him. Chris was confused, but didn't pull away. It felt so good to be hugged by his mom, he missed her so much.