CHAPTER 4:

2003, at the Halliwell manor.

Chris was still flipping through the book of shadows when Paige walked in in her nightgown. "I thought I heard a noise", she said while she suppressed a yawn. "What are you doing here? It's three am for crying out loud and don't tell me you're looking up a demon for us to hunt, because when I go back to bed I want to sleep until at least ten am."

"Don't worry", Chris said still looking at the book. "I'll take care of it myself." "Take care of what exactly?", Paige asked. "O, just some demon", he answered, still not looking at Paige. "Listen to me Chris", she said "And look at me when I talk young man…" Chris looked up from the book "Eh… yes".

"Look", Paige went on "I know you are our whitelighter and all, and you mean to do the best, but can't you just relax? You're driving us crazy with your hunts, but it has to break you up to. I mean look at you, it looks like you haven't slept in a week." "I haven't", Chris said honest. Remembering all the bad dreams he was having lately. "Exactly my point", Paige continued. "Go to bed, get some rest, you're no good to us walking around like some kind of ghost."

"I can't, alright", Chris said unintentionally loud. "Just go now, leave me alone!", he grumbled on. "Fine", Paige said waving her arms in the air and leaving the attic.

'It's no use', Chris sighed. 'This book is too big and the demon I am looking for might not even be in it yet. After all, the demon won't attack us until another six years'. Chris sat down on an old seat nearby. He rested his face in his hands and felt really desperate. 'I am hear to save Wyatt, and now a little sister to. And none of it seems to work out. I can't do this'.

Suddenly a soft wind began to blow in the attic. It moved the book of shadows. No, it moved the pages in the book. Slowly, but still. Chris stood up and walked towards the book, he touched the moving pages but they kept moving. Chris stepped a little away, he didn't want to interfere with what was going on. One page after another went by. And almost at the end it stopped. Chris stepped forward and looked at the two pages in front of him.

On the right side was a spell to fix what was broken and on the left side… The demon on the page in front of him looked awfully familiar. A very ugly demon with horns on his bold head, a green taint over his face and claws as hands. Chris felt the fear all over again. Seeing the demon who attacked his dad, but above all the awful night in the bathroom. The floor was so cold! But he didn't dare to move an inch, afraid that someone might hear him.

After hours of thinking nothing else then 'please don't let him find me', he finally fell in a restless sleep. The next morning might even been worse than that night. Chris woke up because of screaming in the house. His father was yelling 'NO'. The six year-old tried to stand up, although he felt really stiff. He was half sleeping when he opened the door and walked downstairs to look what was going on.

Trying to push the sleep out of his eyes with his tiny fists he saw everyone was upset about something, his mom and dad in particular. "What's wrong?", he asked. They all turned around and looked at him. Stunned. Piper ran over to Chris, picked him up and hold him really tight. Her tears falling on his face. "You're okay, you're okay", she said.

"Mom, what's wrong?", he asked again. "There were demons in the house last night", Phoebe started. 'I saw them', Chris thought, but he didn't tell. "We thought they took you and P.J., but you are apparently still here, so… maybe P.J…..", she began.

The entire day everyone tried to find the little girl. Leo even convinced a few of the elders to come with him and help him find out what happened and where his little girl was. It was all no use. The demons left no evidence whatsoever and nobody nor up with the elders nor their spies down in the underworld could help them.

Chris remembered from that day on he barely saw his dad. He was always trying to find P.J. even when everybody else thought she was long gone. The years went by and Leo did hang out with Wyatt once in a while, he did help Piper when needed, but when Chris asked him something, looked at him, he ignored his second son.

All the pain Chris felt, every time Leo didn't answer him, or walked past him without looking. His sister, his best friend as a kid, dead. All of it, is the fault of the demon on the page in front of him. 'If I would kill him now, the demon would not have the chance to break my family'.

Chris ripped the page out of the book and orbed out. He needed to visit some 'friends' in the underworld.