"What the hell is she talking about?" Asked Phoebe. Paige just looked at her sisters, Phoebe could feel her pain and confusion.

"Oh, sweetie. What happened?"

"I'm not exactly sure?"

"Why don't you come in here and tell us." Piper said motioning towards the kitchen. Five minutes later, three very quiet women sat around the Halliwell dining table.

"So, ok. Let me see if I got this right. Penny is my niece, she came back from the future and we're all in terrible danger. But she told us before that we weren't." Phoebe said slowly, scratching her head.

"That's the cliff notes version." Piper quipped.

"But we're in danger?" Phoebe said again. "Why couldn't she have given us a name?"

"What am I going to do?" Paige asked sounding helpless.

"About what sweetie?" Piper asked trying to be as supportive as she could.

"I crushed her. She said that I wasn't her mom." Looking at Piper, "What did she mean?"

"I think that maybe she meant that you didn't sound like the mom that she knows."

"How are we going to find her?" Phoebe asked. "We don't have anything that belongs to her."

"We could try calling for her. That might work." Piper suggested.

"It won't work. She hates me now! Penny won't come if any of us call for her." Paige told them stretching her arms towards the center of the table. "How can I be a mom? I was so mean."

Piper smiled at her,

"You're a great aunt. I'm sure that you are in fact a great mom. And I also know that you were not intentionally mean to her. You just didn't handle that particular situation the best way." She soothed, "Don't beat yourself up about it, we'll find her."

"Piper's right. But can I bring everybody's attention back to Penny's other revelation." Phoebe said, her voice tense, "We're in terrible danger! And we don't know what or who might be after us."

Paige let out a quiet whimper of distress.

"It's okay. We'll ask Leo for help." Piper told them trying her hardest to keep them and herself calm. "Leo!"

Leo orbed in, his body silhouetted by the magical white and blue orbs.

"Piper? What's the matter?" He asked looking confused. "I said I'd be home at 5..."

Piper cut him off,

"We have a problem." She told him. Wyatt and Chris came running in,

"Daddy!" They both squealed, running at Leo full speed, wrapping their arms around his legs. Leo bent down and hugged them both back.

"How are my little men?" Then looking back up at the sister's he asked

"What's this problem?"

"Boy's can you go back and play in the sitting room, please?" Piper asked them. Wyatt and Chris looked at their father,

"Do we have to?" Wyatt whined.

"Please!" Piper repeated. Both boys stomped off back to the sitting room.

"Leo come and take a seat." Piper said gesturing towards an empty chair.

"We have quite a bit to tell you."

Penny orbed to the hill overlooking the bay of San Francisco, the place she always went when she needed to think. Sitting down she hugged her knees and continued crying.

"Go away!" she told the man standing behind her. But he didn't move. Instead he took a seat next to her and played with a few blades of grass.

"I told you not to tell her!" he said softly, trying not to scold her. Penny looked up at him, her red eyes brimming with unshed tears.

"Did she even want me?" Penny asked him.

"Yes!" he told her putting an arm around her shoulder, "She wanted you more than anything in the world. You were her reason for being."

"But Chris, she said that she wasn't even sure that she wanted kids."

"And I tried to tell you, that Paige doesn't even make her mind up until after Mel is born."

"But…" Penny started, Chris cut her off before she could say anymore.

"But nothing. Paige loved you more than life itself." He told her, his bright green eyes full of sympathy and pain as he continued.

"Your mom had so many plans for you. And she made the biggest sacrifice that she could so that you had the chance to fulfil them."

Penny could see Chris' eye's begin to water, laying her head on his shoulder, she felt a great big lump forming in her throat as she forced the tears from her eyes.

"Mom would have been so disappointed with me if she saw the stunt I just pulled."

Chris lent his head on hers and smiled,

"No she wouldn't have. Do you want to know something else?" he asked.

"What?"

"She did see!" he said sitting back up. Penny lifted her head and stared at him.

"What am I going to do?" she asked, her eyes suddenly filling with anxiety. "I told them that they were in danger."

"Don't worry. Go back and explain." Chris said standing up, extending his hand to help Penny up.

"Come with me?" she asked, grabbing his hand and pulling herself up.

"I can't."

"Yes you can. You just don't want to."

"Penny I can't"

"Why not. Come on Chris, give me a really good reason."

"How about the last time that I was here the world was altered, Gideon stabbed me, and how could I forget, I died in Dad's arms."

Penny giggled.

"It's not funny Penny."

"No it's not. But I was just thinking. You look pretty good for a dead guy."

"Ha-ha. You know what I meant."

"Then why couldn't you just say it. I'm too darn scared to go back there and explain what happened." she said.

"You know one of these days you're not going to have a come back." Chris said shaking his head slowly.

"And on that day, I'm going to jump out of my chair and do a little dance." she laughed as she took a step towards him.

"Please Chris! I need you."

"What am I going to say to them?" He asked her.

"The truth. The whole truth. Everything we know. And then I'll tell them why I came back."

Penny looked away.

"We can't change that, Pen." Chris said softly.

"You did!" she whispered. "When you came back to save Wyatt you changed Piper's future."

"Not intentionally."

"But I want my mom. You got yours."

"Penny we can't come back in time and change the past every time we don't like something that happened." He told her, everything coming out a bit harsher than he had intended.

"I would have loved Paige to have come home that day too, but she didn't. I accepted, and we all thought that you had too!"

"I accepted it. But I… I just want her back."

"I know. We all do." Chris said hugging her, "Come on, let's go now before it gets to late."

Looking up at him Penny smiled.

"So your coming with me?"

"Yep. I can't very well come to town and not visit, can I?"

"No you very well can't" she laughed as they orbed back to the manor.