"Is everyone alright?" Chris said as he looked from the girl on the floor to the sisters.

Paige orbed over by Wyatt before he hit the ground. She looked at him to make sure he was ok.

"Thank god you came in when you did, Chris." Phoebe went over by Piper who lay on the floor.

"What happened?"

"We're still trying to figure that out." Paige answered.

"Is she alright?" Chris asked Phoebe as Piper came to.

"Where is he?" Where is my son?" Piper asked frantically.

"He's right here." Paige handed Wyatt over to his mother.

"I don't care what's happening to her husband she's dead." Piper started towards Sam. But she stopped dead in her tracks when she caught sight of the young woman.

Lying on the floor curled up in the fetal position the young woman sobbed. "I'm so sorry. All I had wanted to was sneak in, get the spell, get Wyatt and be back before any of you woke up. She told me this would happen if you three found me."

"What were you trying to do?" Phoebe asked as she helped Sam to her feet. Even though she had tried to steal away with her nephew, Phoebe felt sorry for Sam.

"You heard her. What the hell were you trying to do?" Chris yelled out.

"Chris!" Sam screamed throwing herself into his arms planting a big kiss on his lips.

"What the heck?" Paige said with a slight chuckle. Then her eyes lit up."Oh god no! You're not from the future too are you?"

"Hey you two." Phoebe said pulling Chris free from Sam's grasp.

"Excuse me?" Sam said trying not to smile.

"What the hell is going on here?" Piper asked this time. "Are you from the future too?"

"Well sorta." Sam rubbed her stomach then looked up at Chris.

"Well are you or aren't you?" Piper demanded.

"I was born in 1980 but I am from the future."

"Ok now I'm totally confused." Phoebe sat down on the couch. "How about we start with you telling us your name."

"My name is Samantha Kirkpatrick. I was born right here in San Francisco. In fact I was born in that big blue house across the street."

"You knew Mrs. Becker?"

"Yes. She was my grandmother." Sam said with a smile. Then she turned back to Chris. "Don't hate me for this Chris, but I have to tell them."

"Why would I get mad if you told them something?" Chris smirked then looked at the sisters.

"Cause you're not telling the sisters everything about why you're really here." She looked at the girls. "And I won't tell you why he's here either. Future consequences and all." Sam rubbed her stomach again.

"How far long are you?" Piper asked her tone softening. The mother in her coming out for a second.

"Five and half months." She giggled. "But my mother-in-law doesn't know that." She looked up at Chris. "She would kill me if she knew I was pregnant before her son and I got married."

"I don't see what's so funny." Chris began to pace the room. "Just tell us why your here. And why you were trying to leave with Wyatt."

"Same old Chris." Sam said walking over to the Book of Shadows. "I'll never understand how I fell in love with you."

"What??" Everyone said looking at her.

"I'm Chris' wife."

Sam got a quick flashback to the day her and Chris were married and smiled. That had been one of the happiest days of her life. When she became Mrs. Christopher Halliwell.

"Wait...what?" Piper couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"You didn't tell us you were married." Paige started to laugh.

"Because I'm not." Chris walked over by Sam and grabbed her arm. "What are you talking about? You're not my wife. I've never even met you."

Sam pulled free of his grasp, then walked over to look out the window.

"Don't worry you will in three days. All of you will meet me in three days." She watched as the black VW Bug pulled up to the house across the street.

Phoebe had come over by her at this point and was looking out the window too.

"I hadn't been back in that house since she died." Sam watched as the past her got out of her car and slowly walked up to what had once been her grandmother's house.

Everyone had joined them at that point.

"Is that you?" Piper asked watching as the girl across the street entered the big empty house.

"Yep." Sam moved away from the window and went over to where Chris was now sitting. Without even thinking she began to rub his shoulders. Something she was so used to doing it just seemed natural.

"Aaahhh, that feels so good." He said before quickly popping up to his feet.

"I was always good at relieving your stress." Sam giggled. "I mean with all the demon fighting you and the sisters do."

Phoebe and Paige gave each other a quick look and a smile.

Sam went back over to the couch and sat down.

"Maybe I should just start from the beginning." Everyone else sat across from her. "In three days time I will come knocking at your door inquiring about the nanny position you put in the paper."

"I didn't put any ad in the paper." Piper was quick to point out.

"You didn't. I did as per your grandmothers request."

"What?" Piper screamed.

"How?" Phoebe added.

"Your grandmother told me to alter my paper so I had the ad to show you. She had said she was going to talk to you, to put the thought of hiring me into all of your minds. But I take it she didn't do that yet." Sam let out a long soft sigh. "See it's a very long dragged out story, but I'll give you the Cliff's Notes version." Sam couldn't help but smile. "See your grandmother and my grandmother were part of the same coven. Have you ever heard of 'The One'?"

The sisters looked from one another then back to Sam.

"Can't say that we have." Piper answered.

"If you look in the book you'll find an entry your great-great-great aunt put in about 'The One'. It's kinda like the Source. You do remember The Source?"

"So you are evil. I knew it." Chris said standing behind Piper. "Vanquish her!" He tapped Piper on the shoulder.

"Hold the phone a sec there buddy. Let's fined out just what or who this "The One" is first before we do anything." Paige got up and grabbed the book. She flipped through the pages until she got to the one that explained who or what 'The One' was.

"The One:

The ultimate witch. One witch who possesses all the powers of everything good and evil. A true balance of power. More powerful then the Charmed ones. The one witch able to be a powerful force of pure good or pure evil."

"So who is 'The One'?" Chris asked still not sure of Sam.

"Me." She looked down at her hands.

"You?" Phoebe was truly shocked.

"My ancestors were the most powerful witches, more powerful then the Halliwell's. Everyone in our family had the power, but it was it most powerful in the women. And with each generation it grew stronger. By the time my mother was born she was the most powerful witch ever. My grandmother and Penny knew that they had to bind her powers until she was older for her protection." Sam rubbed her belly. Which made Chris smile. Something Piper was quick to notice and even though she still had reservations about Sam, she hadn't seen Chris smile like that since he'd arrived.

"See too many of the women in our family had been hunted down and killed. So they bound my mothers powers thinking it would protect her. But it didn't. She was still on the radar for high level demons. Most of them Penny and Grandma vanquished, but there was one that they couldn't stop. He was relentless. He wouldn't stop til he had killed my mother." Sam cleared her throat. "Well when she was seventeen she got her powers back. Something my grandmother wasn't pleased about, but she knew that my mother needed to get powers back so she could master them if something were to ever happen to Penny or herself. Your grandmother had said she was old enough to understand them and able to control them as well. Shortly after is when she met a young man who, of course; she fell madly in love with."

"Oh I think I know where this stories going." Phoebe said with a half frown.

Sam sighed then continued her story. "On the night of my mothers eighteenth birthday she found out that she was pregnant with me. With tears on her eyes my mother told my grandmother." Sam looked over at Chris. "Grandma wasn't pleased that she was pregnant, but there was really nothing she could do about it. She told my mother that she was happy and that it must have happened for a good reason. Things like this never happened without some meaning to it." Sam got a dull pain in her stomach. "Ouch!"

"You alright?" Chris was quickly by her side.

"Just a little hungry I guess." Sam touched his hand and smiled.

She looked into his green eyes and the past year of her life came flooding back. She knew then and there just how she had fallen in love with him. It was those caring green eyes.

"Maybe we should continued you this downstairs." Piper said as she got to her feet. "I'll make us some breakfast."

"Some of your famous chocolate chip pancakes?" Sam asked with a smile.

"How do you....never mind." Piper smiled.

The five of them headed down to the kitchen.

"Well when my father found out about me he broke down and told my mother everything. That he had been sent to kill her, but had fallen in love with her. He would not let anything or anyone hurt her or his unborn child. So the two of them went to Grandma and told her the whole story. Grams wasn't as understanding as my mother had been. She went to destroy my father but my mother stood between the two of them. She told her that she loved him and if she was going to kill him she would have to kill her too."

"Oh my god." Phoebe sighed.

"So what was he? A demon? A warlock? What?" Chris asked.

"A darklighter."

"You're half witch half darklighter?" Piper asked amazed.

"And the two of you get married?" Paige asked with a slight laugh.

"In this very house."

"I'm so confused." Piper shook her head.

"So what happened to your parents?" Phoebe asked.

"Well when my Grams and Penny racked there brains looking for some solution to the problem that this union was. Then my mother suggested that they make my father human."

"They could do that?" Paige asked as she began flipping through the book looking for the spell.

"I tried it on Cole. It works." Phoebe said with a sad look.

"Yes they did." Sam smiled. "My parents got married and had me. Shortly after I was born is when we went into hiding. Some other darklighters came after us and Grams said we needed to leave. She didn't want anything happening to her daughter or her granddaughter. They all knew that he wouldn't rest until he had killed my mother and my father for betraying him. For five years everything was fine. We moved from town to town and I didn't get to see much of my grandmother, but we were together and that's all that mattered. Then on the night of my sixth birthday he found us and killed them both."

"Who?" Chris asked a bit of anger in his voice.

"Kane. The warlock that had send my father after my mother. He found the three of us and killed them both. I had been in my room when it happened. I was so frightened I must have orbed over to my grandmothers. Because the next thing I knew I was standing in the middle of her livingroom. Well Kane followed me there. But he didn't know that the whole coven was there. They vanquished him the minute he appeared. So in the end my grandmother and Penny raised me until I was fourteen when my grandmother died."

"How come I don't remember you?" Phoebe asked. "I remember your grandmother but I never knew she had a granddaughter."

"I was home schooled. Grams didn't want anything like what happened to my mother to happen to me. She was a tad bit over protective." Sam giggled. "But aren't all parents?" She looked over at Piper.

"Yes they are." She smiled back at her.

"So where did you go when your grandmother died?" Phoebe asked.

"To live with myuncle in Oregon."

"So why have you come back?" Piper asked.

"Future me or past me?"

"Both."

"Past me came back because your grandmother came to visit me two nights ago saying that you needed me. That I had to come back and become Wyatt's nanny. The Charmed Ones needed 'The One' to back them up. To make sure that Wyatt didn't turn evil. And after everything your grandmother did for my mother and grams I said I would." Sam shoved another heaping fork of pancakes into her mouth. "So I packed up and headed back here."

"I still don't get how Grams and mom were in on this and didn't tell me." Piper poured Sam another glass of juice.

"Penny said that she would handle getting me into the house and that it was my destiny to meet all of you anyway. That she had see very happy times ahead for me."

"Like what?" Paige asked.

"She told me that I would meet my future husband here."

"Chris?" Phoebe half laughed.

"Yep. Chris." Sam flashed him a sweet smile and got one in return.

"I don't get it. Who's trying to kill him in the future?" Paige asked.

"If I tell you, you won't believe me." She looked over at Chris who knew who it was right away.

"Just tell us and we'll help you." Paige said.

"Alright then. But don't say I didn't warn you." She took a deep breath. "It's Wyatt." Sam waited for everyone's reaction. But suddenly another sharp pain hit her almost knocking her off her chair.

"Are you alright?" Chris quickly got to his feet and came running to her side. A look of fear in his eyes.

"Yes. But I have to get back. I don't think you have much time left." She tried to get to her feet but the pains where coming to fast this time.

Chris scooped her into his arms and orbed her into the attic. They were alone for a few moments before the others joined them.

"I have to save you, Chris I can't loose you." Sam rested her head on his chest.

"Don't worry about it. You will get back. I'll make sure of it." He kissed her forehead.

The sisters ran into the room.

"What are you doing, Chris?" Piper asked him as he looked over the spell Sam had ripped out of the Book of Shadows."

"I'm helping her." He walked over and got the blanket she had before. "We need to make this potion before she leaves. She won't have time to do it there." He began to drop things into the caldron.

"What else do you need?" Piper asked as she walked toward him.

"Are you sure about this, Piper?" Phoebe asked.

"She's his wife...we need to help her."

Sam wasn't doing that good. The pains were getting stronger.

"Just hold on sweetie." Paige said wiping the seat from her forehead. "They're working as fast as they can."

"I know they are." Sam smiled. "We just have to hurry."

"Can I ask why Wyatt did this to Chris."

"I can't tell you that."

"But if we knew why." Phoebe said.

"It would reveal too much and I just can't do that."

"It's ready." Piper said as she filled three vials. "Is she ok?"

"I'll be fine." Sam slowly got to her feet. "We have to hurry though. I don't think we have much time left at all."

"Well we're coming with you." Phoebe stated as she helped Sam up. "You all can't come with me." She looked at Piper. "And I know she won't let me take Wyatt alone. So I think maybe just Piper should come with me."

"What if Wyatt's waiting for you?" Chris asked knowing his brother all to well. He knew his bother would be waiting for her to come back and it would all be over. He would die and he would loose the love he never got to know. He wouldn't let them go without him. "I'm coming with you."

"You can't. If Wyatt sees you I don't know what he'll do." Sam was getting weaker.

"Well the two of you can't do this alone." Paige said. "I'll come with you. Besides who's gonna get this and him to Chris?"

"Fine, but we have to leave now." Sam said as she began to chant the spell again to open the portal.

"Come back safe." Phoebe said to Piper and Paige.

"We will."

"Are you sure it's wise taking my mother to the future?" Chris asked handing Sam one of the vials.

"Don't worry, Chris. It's something I have to do. I can't loose you." She reached up and caressed his cheek.

"So do I fall in love with you right away?" He couldn't help but smile.

"No. At first you can't stand me. In fact you think I'm here to hurt Wyatt. That I'm the one that turns him evil."

"So you know who turns him evil then."

"As a matter of fact I do know who it is."

"Then tell me and we can stop him or it."

"It's.......ouch." Another sharp pain ripped through her body. "We have to hurry. I can feel him fading away."

Just then Piper came back into the room holding Wyatt.

Sam walked over to the wall that she had entered through the night before.

"Are you ready?" She looked at Piper and smiled.

"As ready as I'll ever be." Piper squeezed Wyatt tightly.

Sam looked over at Chris then walked over by him planting a deep passion filled kiss on his lips.

"What was that for?" He asked blushing.

"Because I love you."

"We'd better go." Paige smiled.

Hear these words here the rhyme

Heed the hope within my mind

Send me back to where I'll find

what I wish in place and time

The portal opened once more and the three of them walked through.