As usual, Leo took his time when responding to Devan's call. As she sat, her patience thining, she could hear Chris calling for help. His calls rang through her mind. She wanted more than anything to go to him. Her head started to spin and suddenly a portal appeared in the middle of her room. She didn't stop to weigh the consequences. There was no time. Before she had time to reconsider, she quickly entered the portal. As she emerged from the other end of the portal she lost her balance and tumbled forward landing on a speechless Chris. She gets lost in his deep green eyes for a moment, but quickly regains her composure.
"Go through the portal," Devan demands, not knowing how much longer it was going to last.
"Who are you? How did you find me? Wh--" Chris starts to question.
"No time, just get in," Devan answers. When he doesn't react quick enough she throws him in using her telekenesis, then goes through herself.
Back in her room Devan finds a somewhat irritated Leo, that is until he notices her portal-hopping companion. He promptly rushes to his son embracing him and bursting into tears. He begins to question Chris until he notices how beaten down the young man looks. Just imagining what his son must have been through put new energy and reason into his tears. He hugs his son one more time to make sure that he really is there then pulls away and speaks.
"I'll orb your cot in from P3. You need some rest."
"But dad, aren't I going home?"
"Not just yet," Leo answers, "You've been through a lot you need to rest up and recover before you face the family. They'll ask questions, questions that you may not be ready to answer yet. I know I have many. Besides, you can get to know your new charge."
"My new what? You can't be serious. I want to go back to being the girls' whitelighter, not some rookie's who can't even go through a portal without knocking someone down."
Devan promptly smacks her new whitelighter upside the head.
"I believe you two will get along just fine." Leo says as he prepares to leave. "Oh, and Chris, she's the "Chosen One," Leo informs Chris and orbs out.
"So you're telling me that this girl has--"
"more power than the charmed ones and their family line combined," Devan finishes Chris's sentence.