CHAPTER 20:

2003, at the Halliwell Manor.

Chris quickly grabbed the arm rests of the chair as he felt how the chair was lifted in the air – with him on it. "Wohoho put me down", he said scared. "I told you I hate flying." "Ow right sorry", Joey quickly said as she put her hand down. The chair fell down immediately and landed a little hard on the ground. "Whoops, sorry again", she said as she saw the look on Chris' face.

When the chair landed Chris quickly stood up from it, not risking Joey would accidentally lift it in the air again. "So", Chris said trying to avoid the staring looks from the sisters "You do have powers. Why didn't you say so yesterday? Why pretend you didn't know about the magical world?" "Because I really didn't know", Joey answered. "I talked about what happened yesterday with someone and she showed me I was a witch to. She gave me this really cool book from which I learned a few spells and well I found out I could make things fly."

"Why now?", Chris asked surprised. "Like I said usually when someone has powers they grow up with it, but you are what 16 or 17 years old? And you only just found out about them." Joey shrugged, she knew she couldn't tell them the entire truth so just pretending she didn't know was the best for now. "So did that person cast a spell on you? Or something else strange happened yesterday besides the attack? Because apparently your powers were blocked and it maybe helps if I know how and why the were unblocked."

"No", Joey said honest. She knew it didn't start yesterday, but about a week ago with the strange dreams. But it wouldn't be worth mentioning because that was just a part of becoming a witch and not the reason it started now. "So who is that person that explained everything to you?", Chris asked curious. He knew that she might be the clue to what was happening to Joey. If she knew Joey was a witch it wasn't surprising if she knew more.

'O man this is not going well', Joey thought. 'He will not stop asking until he knows everything.' She didn't want to answer any more questions so she yawned an stretched her arms, pretending she was really tired. She looked at her watch and knew it wasn't even strange if she would be tired it was already late in the evening.

Piper saw the girl was tired and she quickly said "We will see further tomorrow Chris". She walked to Joey and motioned the girl to follow her. Joey did so and walked after Piper out of the room and up the stairs. "I know Chris can be a little persistent sometimes, but he means well", Piper said while they walked to the guest room.

She turned on the light in the guest room and asked Joey if she wanted anything before going to bed. Joey shook her head and quickly walked to the bed. Even though she was only pretending moments earlier, she did feel really tired. She took of her shoes, laid down and immediately fell asleep. She didn't even notice Piper standing in the doorway for a few minutes or turning off the light when she knew Joey was fast asleep.

Piper walked downstairs, yawning herself. When she got in the living room. She saw Phoebe and Paige weren't there anymore. Chris was and when he saw her she immediately got him over her. "Why did you bring her to bed?", he asked mad pointing to the stairs. "We need information from her. To help her. Especially now we know she's a witch. She might be the powerful one they are looking for." "Ow relax", Piper said annoyed and tired. "We can do that tomorrow, she'll be safe here for the night."

"Well that's another thing", Chris went on. "Shouldn't we contact her parents or something? That she's here, and safe? They might be worried to death!" "Wow", Piper said surprised. "You actually sound worried yourself. I didn't think you cared about anything but yourself. Well and us of course, but that's only your job."

"Argh… I can't believe this", Chris answered putting his hands on his head of frustration. "You still don't trust me do you?" He threw his arms in the air and said "You know what that's not what we were talking about anyway. We were talking about Joey. And yes I am worried about her, aren't you?" "Well yeah of course, like about any innocent we try to save", Piper answered.

"She's different", he answered. "Anyway again, shouldn't we need to find out where she lives and tell her parents she's alright?" "No I think that is the one thing we need to avoid right now", Piper said. "Why?" "Well she talked about a guardian who told her she's a witch right? So I am guessing she has no parents or at least she's not on speaking terms with them. If they would they would have told her themselves."

Chris nodded. "Okay we need to contact that guardian then." "Again no", Piper said. "It's too dangerous. We don't know that person. Is she to be trusted? Besides you saw how quick the girl changed the subject when she talked about the guardian she doesn't want to say by name. I don't think she wants her guardian to know. Not yet anyway."

"Hmmm okay you win. For now", Chris finally said remembering he had something else to take care of to. "I think I'll be going to bed then. You know where to find me when you need me", he said as he orbed out to his little room in P3. He knew that at the moment he couldn't win an argument with Piper and he had some other business to do also.

He took the map Josh gave him from the back pocket of his jeans. He untied the knot of the rope and spread the map out over his bed. He saw that he didn't only pulled a map out of his pocket, but that there was also something else. Something Josh had been hiding in the map for Chris to find.