I don't own Charmed or anything like that … I wish I did though…

Reminder:

"Please don't forget me mom."

"Elise, please my uh… cousins nephew just died I really need to go and see her. Please can I spend a couple of days away from work."
"Phoebe! You have not been at work for the past week. Why would I expect you to even consider the effects on your job? You can not keep staying off just because a distant relative died. I need your column in tonight or you are fired. Do you understand me?"

"Yes Elise, but…"
"No buts, five tonight or you are fired!"

Elise stormed away leaving Phoebe standing alone in the middle of her office. She knew her distant cousin's nephew was a long shot but she didn't know that Elise was on the warpath today. She didn't have to blow up in her face!

"Phoebe, uh you have eight messages from home off your sister Paige." Her assistant sidled up behind her.
"But I just left there 20 minutes ago!" Phoebe replied.

"She says it's urgent something about your niece's nephew dying or something…"

"Oh… you mean Chris?"

"Chris is dead?"

"No… it would be terrible though wouldn't it?" Her face brightening had to keep up some form of pretences for his sake at least.
"I barely know him Phoebe."

Phoebe looked glumly at the ceiling, Chris was going to be forgotten. They hadn't given him a funeral, his body had vanished. They couldn't even if they had wanted to, what would they say? Here lies Piper and Leo's son from the future? They couldn't, it wouldn't work. This was harder than Prue's death in that sense, everyone knew she was gone, everyone was apologetic, everyone looked out for you. No one knew he was gone. Most people didn't even know he had come.

So everyone would continue life forgetting he even existed.

"Phoebe are you ok?" Her assistant prodded her.

"Um… yeah listen I'm going to work from home for the rest of today. Tell Elise I will get my column in on time." Phoebe rushed out of the office leaving her assistant standing looking quite confused, holding up shreds of paper.

"What's with her." The sports columnist asked as he watched Phoebe race off.

"Ever since her sister gave birth again, she's just been acting… I dunno weirder than normal." The assistant replied blankly.
"She wasn't like that when the other one was born."

"No. Some one has died in her family."

"I heard her aunt's sister's nephew."

"Right…"

Chris gazed at his mother as she walked around like a lifeless shell. That was the best he could describe her as. She just looked so blank as she stared at the TV which was currently flashing images of a volcanic eruption in Hawaii. He watched as she just stared at the screen, she wasn't even blinking. Her brown hair tumbling down past her shoulders. Then Paige wandered in. She had been less grieving than the other sisters. She was just trying to cheer everyone up. Clarence pointed out that she was going to snap any hour now. It was depressing that they were all dealing so differently. It was annoying Chris. They weren't communicating, they just ignored each other now. It was making Chris want to stay even more just to see if they were going to ever talk. They didn't Paige walked straight past Piper stepping over her outstretched legs making her way to the kitchen.

Chris watched from his position on the stairs. Piper made no effort to move at all she just stayed in the exact same position. In the past 20 minutes since Phoebe had left they had not said a thing to each other. It was scaring Chris, they always talked to each other. They were sisters they had to. The only noise in the house was the slurred sounds of the television.

"What is wrong with them?" Chris asked Clarence who stood behind him.

"They are grieving." Clarence stared blankly at the TV screen as Piper did.

"They are communicating or anything. They are just…"

"You don't like it being silent."

"No."

Piper began to mumble something.

"Why did you leave us?" She muttered. "Everything has gone wrong."

Paige stuck her head out of the kitchen and glanced at her sister.

Piper sat quietly then switched the TV off. Paige watched her sister.

"You are here aren't you Chris." Piper muttered again.

"Yes."

"Talk to me damnit."

"I can't talk."

"They took you away from me."

"No!"

"I can't do this without my family. Leo is off killing demons, my son can't talk and doesn't even know you are gone. My sisters…"

"Talk to them!" Chris cried.

Paige walked over to her sister and wrapped her arms around her.

Piper began to let the tears come. She hadn't for 3 days and it was destroying her, she had to somehow let it out. Tears rolled down her cheeks, Paige embraced her sister tightly, Piper cried.

"Mom…"

"It's ok. Let it out." Paige soothed as Piper sobbed.

"I'm just still finding it hard. He isn't here anymore." She wept breathing heavily.

"I know we all are." Paige reassured.

Piper continued to sob uncontrollably for the next hour or so. Paige never once let go. Piper embraced her sister as she wept, Paige just made hushing noises and stroked her hair. It was what her aunt had done to her when her parents died, it took time.

Phoebe sat in her car, if she went home then she would have to face the depression of her sisters. Could she handle that? They were her sisters she had to for them. For Chris. Then through instinct she yelled, "LEO!"

He had always been there in her times of need, why not now?

But no sparkling orbs appeared beside her, he didn't appear.

"LEO! PLEASE!" She begged into her steering wheel.

"I need your help."

But no one appeared. No shimmering orbs, nothing. She remained alone in her car. She hadn't realised how hard it was without Chris. He would appear and do as she asked then he would always be at the manor when they needed him. But he wasn't anymore. He was dead, he wasn't in the ground like Prue, he was just… gone.

"Please Leo!" She cried.

Hot tears began to stream down her face. She couldn't cry. No she wasn't going to cry! But she found her self weeping over the loss of her nephew alone.

"See they are defenceless." A demon chuckled over a scrying pool.

"Yes Seer, but your past techniques have always put my demons in jeopardy. We can't risk that. Not right now."

"Sir they are all crying!" The Seer sneered.

It's partner glared at her condescendingly. "That maybe so… but in my experience, the Charmed ones when they are upset are a force not to be reckoned with." The demon stepped out of the shadows.

"Anyway if we attack now Leo won't be too happy." Barbas smirked.