They weren't very communicative since her parental secret came out, Mahina realized about Chris and herself the next morning, and it rubbed her raw that he was letting it affect him this much. As far as Mahina Amanda Marjorie Cromwell was concerned, Chris was as much to blame as she was; he hadn't ever told her about Bianca, so why did she have to share her heritage with HIM?

Despite her harsh feelings for Christopher Halliwell, Mahina realized it didn't make her love him any less; the thought that at least SOMEONE in the house understood the stupidity that is man, it was a comforting thought as Mahina stepped into the kitchen, the sight of the Charmed Ones greeting her.

"So," Paige asked as Mahina sat down, "how'd you sleep last night?" Mahina opened her mouth to answer, but Paige broke into her thoughts with another comment. "Damnit, why can't I have breasts like that?"

Mahina glanced down at her chest and flushed; she'd gotten her breasts from her grandmother her mother had said, but Mahina always wondered... she glanced up and gave Paige a small smile. "They weren't always," she answered, "and there are big disadvantages to having them..."

"Like the fact that there's no way Chris is letting you out of the house in anything less than loose pants and a sweater?" Phoebe finished, smirking over the rim of her coffee cup, and waiting to answer until after she'd taken a sip. "What? You were all thinking it, I can tell."

This would just be too much estrogen in the room for Chris, which was probably WHY he wasn't there at the moment; Paige had also let it slip that he was staying in a back room at P3, so he could just be sleeping in. Mahina frowned, knowing that hadn't been like Chris since Wyatt had taken over. Either way, there were obviously other things than where Chris was, as all the Charmed Ones were looking at Mahina like they expected her to say something. "What?" she asked, holding a spoon up so she could see her teeth as Piper placed a cup in front of her, "jelly donut stain?"

"Leo told us that you made a deal with Wyatt," Piper said, without even waiting for either Paige or Phoebe to even THINK of saying anything, "but WHY?"

Phoebe raised a hand, and then waved a finger at Mahina, who had opened her mouth to answer. "And don't," she said, "don't say because you just wanted to come back and see Chris. "The now middle Charmed One smiled. "We already knew that from the second you saw him."

"That obvious, huh?" All three Halliwells nodded their heads, and Mahina sighed; how could she tell them what Wyatt had become? She couldn't answer the questions that would come after, no matter how hard she tried. So, they would just have to know and ask Chris the questions.... It was time he went through the Spanish Inquisition that was the Charmed Ones. "Wyatt... he's..."

"Evil?" Piper made a "pfft" motion with her hand. "Sweetie, we can do evil."

"He's not just ANY evil..." Mahina stood from where she'd been seated and put her hands on the table. "...Wyatt Halliwell is the Source."

Piper dropped her cup; Phoebe stood there looking shocked; Paige... Paige seemed to have a mixture of both reactions. That of course, was the very moment that Chris orbed in. "Hey mom I-"his comment was stopped short as he saw the expressions of his mother, aunts, and even Mahina. "-Fuck, Mahina you DIDN'T." He walked over to her and grabbed her shoulders, shaking her a bit. "Please tell me you didn't..."

Mahina wriggled away from him, not even noticing the slow reactions of the Charmed Ones recovering from the news; she looked straight into Chris' eyes and glared at him. "You didn't do it," she told him, jabbing a finger into his ribs and pushing him back, "maybe if you had just done that from the very beginning – I wouldn't be in this mess right now!"

"You're trying to blame ME for you making that deal?" Chris snorted. "Don't blame me for you giving in, Mahina..."

"Giving IN?" Mahina screeched, as Leo orbed back in and went over to Piper, whispering in her ear. "You think I gave into that THING that used to be your brother?"

"That's what I said."

Mahina pushed Chris against the counter, a hand on either side of him. "If you think I WANT to do this you're wrong." She gave Chris a once over with her eyes. "I'm going to enjoy when he figures out I came back to warn you, figured out what happened between us... and kills you." Then Mahina orbed out in a large display of lights, leaving Chris looking shocked.

Piper looked thoughtful; of course, she also kept looking over at her and Chris as Leo whispered in her ear. Then she looked at Leo and said, "Go talk to the other elders, we need to find out what happened..." He nodded orbed out; then Piper looked at Phoebe. "Phoebe, what did you get from both of them?"

"I can't get anything from them... except one thing from Mahina." Phoebe looked at Chris, and then her sisters. "She's scared to death of going back."