Disclaimer: If you really want to hear it again: I own nothing. The spell I used later in this chapter isn't mine either, it's from the episode "Chris-Crossed".

Jenny: Lindsay is not from the future. She fought the demon from the first chapter and he shimmered them to the attic, that's the reason why she was there.

Christine Bahrens: Thanks for your review!

Ceres217: Well in this chappie there will be some fighting but I don't think I'm good in writing this parts… maybe that's the reason why I don't write much of them. Anyway thanks for reviewing.


Chapter 12

After Chris had left, Lindsay had decided to take a walk to clear her head. Now she was strolling down an alley and like almost the whole last week she couldn't stop thinking about Chris. She still refused to accept that she felt so much for him, but maybe she should stop denying it. It was getting harder and harder anyway to do it, especially after their kiss this morning.

It had felt so good… so right. She had kissed a few guys earlier but she had never felt anything compared to this. Almost everytime she had hooked up with a guy she had done it to get informations about the demon who had killed her mom. She had played a role, like she was now actually doing with Chris.

But she wasn't sure if that really just was a role anymore. Sure, the side of her she was showing Chris was completely different as she was in the past years, but Lindsay knew that she had once really been like this. It was just so long ago that she'd almost forgot how it was to feel anything else the anger, hatred and pain. But she couldn't deny it that it felt great to be able to feel happiness again, to feel love again.

Her thoughts were interuppted as suddenly a black haired woman shimmered in front of her. She grined evilly and throw an energyball in Lindsays direction. Lindsay was totally shocked and raised her hands in defense. Suddenly the energyball froze in the air. She looked at it in disbelief. It was the first time she had actually froze something.

But her joy about this fact vanished quickly as the woman threw another energyball at her. Lindsay tried to freeze this one too but she was to slow. It hit her in the shoulder and threw her in the wall behind her. The impact with the wall was so strong that she nearly fell unconscious. Dizzy she looked up and saw the woman walking over to her and kneeling down. Before Lindsay could do anything the woman reached out one hand and pulled it in her chest.

Lindsay gasped in surprise and pain. She felt her powers flowing out of her body and did the only thing she could think of. She called out for her new co-inhabitent. "Chris!"

A few seconds later he orbed in behind the woman who had still her hand in Lindsays chest. It took Chris just another second to realize what was going on. Quickly he waved his hand and sent the woman away from Lindsay. She crashed into the opposite wall while Chris rushed to Lindsay who was barely conscious. He turned around to see the black haired woman shimmer away. He knew she would come back, but now he first had to take care of Lindsay.

She was now unconscious and Chris knew she hasn't much time left if he didn't help her. He needed the book of shadows but he couldn't let her alone here or in her arpartment. Finally he grabbed her hand and orbed away to the manor.


Piper was in the kitchen as she heard Chris yelling out for her and her sisters. Quickly she went over to the living room where she saw Chris kneeling in front of the couch. As she walked over to him she could see that Lindsay was lying there with a huge wound on her chest. "What happened?" she asked concerned.

"A phoenix attacked her" Chris explained. "Is the book in the attic?"

Piper nodded. "Yeah. What's a phoenix?"

"No time to explain. She will be back soon to finish this." Chris stood up. "Can you look after Lindsay?" he asked and orbed upstairs without waiting for an answer.

"Hey! Finish what?" Piper yelled after him. Frustrated she sat down beside Lindsay. She was sweating and except from the great wound on her chest Piper could now see one on her left shoulder too. "Leo!" she shouted, wondering why Chris hadn't call for him. But then she realized that Chris must have known that Leo wouldn't show up if he called for him. Maybe that's why he brought Lindsay here.

Leo immedtiately orbed in. "Blessed be."

"Oh spare me with this" Piper sighed. "Can you heal her?" She pointed to Lindsay and Leo walked quickly over to them.

"What happened?" he asked.

"A phoenix attacked her. I don't know much more because someone refuse to tell me anything else!" She shouted the last words so Chris could be able to hear her from the attic.

Leo frowned. "Why are you yelling?"

"So that Chris can hear me. He just…"

Leo didn't let her finish "Chris is here?"

"Yes, he orbed in with Lindsay a few minutes ago. Then he went upstairs to check the book" Piper explained uncomfortable. She knew that Leo was angry about the fact that she trusted Chris. "Can you heal her now?" she asked to break the silence that came over them.

Leo put his hands over Lindsays wounds. The one on her shoulder closed immediately but the one on her chest didn't heal. Piper frowned. "What's up? Why isn't it healing?"

"I don't know. Maybe I should ask the elders…" Leo began but stopped as he heard a explosion from upstairs. A few seconds later Chris orbed in with a vial. He hold it up and wanted to say something but then he saw Leo. "What is he doing here?" he asked annoyed.

"Trying to heal your little friend" Leo snapped back.

"You can't heal her or else I would have called you – even if I know that you wouldn't have come anyways."

"Well maybe if Wyatt wouldn't be sure you're evil then I would care a bit more about you."

"Yeah sure" Chris said sarcastically. Leo looked at him confused. It seemed like he had hit a nerve by Chris. But why would he care if I care about him? Since he got here he seems to hate me.

Leos thoughts were interuppted as Chris spoke again. "Listen we don't have time for this now. This phoenix will soon attack again. We should all leave now."

"What?" Piper asked surprised. "Why should we leave? Isn't that a vanquishing potion?"

Chris nodded. "Yeah but we need the phoenix to finish her attack or else Lindsay will die."

"Why?"

"Because phoenixes have the ability to strip you off your powers. And if they can't finish with that, the attacked person gets weaker and weaker" Chris explained impatiently.

"So we'll let the phoenix attack her again?" Leo asked.

"We have no other choice. Let's hide somewhere and wait. I don't think it takes long until the phoenix come again" Chris responded. Piper and Leo nodded and walked over to the dining room from where they could have a good sight of the living room. Chris looked down at Lindsay and took her hand. "Everything will be fine, I promise" he said quietly. Then he followed Piper and Leo.


Chris had been right. A minute after they had all left the living room the phoenix from the alley shimmered in. Grining as she saw that her victim was unprotected she walked over to Lindsay. Chris had to gather all his self-control to stay calm while the phoenix sat down on the couch and put a hand into Lindsays chest. He hardend his hold on the vial with the vanquishing potion.

As the phoenix slowly put her hand out again and Lindsay started to stir, he stepped out from the dining room. Unfortunately his arm touched a vase that was standing on a table and with a loud crash it fell to the floor. The phoenix turned around and Piper quickly raised her hands to freeze her but nothing happened. The phoenix smirked evilly and threw an energyball in their direction. "Uh uh, that's not good!" Piper yelled as she grabbed Chris' shirt to pull him to the ground with her.

"She's a witch too, she don't freeze!" Chris shouted back and hurried to reach the vial that has flew out of his hand as Piper had pushed him down. The phoenix threw another energyball and this time Leo grabbed Piper and orbed out of the way. The energyball hit the wall behind them and left a smoking mark on it. Chris took the vial from the floor and threw it against the phoenix who immediately burst into flames and vanished.

He sighed and went over to Lindsay who looked a bit confused, while Leo and Piper reappeared behind them.

"What happened?" Lindsay asked as Chris sat down beside her.

"You remember the woman who attacked you in the alley?"

Lindsay nodded and put instinctively a hand to her chest where the phoenix had injured her.

"Well, this woman was a phoenix and she stripped you from your powers. But don't worry, we'll find a way to get them back" Chris said and took her hand again.

Lindsay didn't know what to say. She felt it that her powers wasn't there anymore. Even in the time she hadn't used them she had still felt their presence but now they were gone. For a moment she felt facilitated and happy about it but then she remembered her mother. She knew that she had to get her powers back even if she didn't wanted to so she could take revenge.


"Power of witches rise,

come to me from across the skies

Return my magic, give me back

all that was taken from the attack"

Lindsay sighed as she felt her powers return to her. This time it was even harder to accept that they were back as it was a week ago. Ever since her mother died all she had wanted was a normal life without this hocus pocus. She looked up at the ceiling of the living room. Lindsay knew that the book of shadows was the only way she could end with this mess in her life. Trying not think about Chris' reaction if he'd find out that the book was the reason she met with him in the first place, she turned to Phoebe. "Thanks for the spell."

Phoebe nodded. "No problem." As she'd came home from work, Piper and Chris had been sitting there, trying to write down a good spell to give Lindsay her powers back. After they had explained what had happened, Phoebe had quickly wrote this ryhme down.

"Are you okay?" Chris asked worried as he noticed the sad expression on Lindsays face.

She smiled. "Sure. I just want to go home now."

Chris nodded. "Okay, let's go." He turned to Piper and Phoebe. "Thanks for your help."

"Yeah I owe you" Lindsay added.

"Well, I have a date tomorrow and if you keep Chris busy so he don't come up with some demon hunting plan I would say we're quits" Piper responded grining.

Lindsay laughed lightly. "Sure. I'll try my best."

Chris raised his eyebrows. "I'm curious to find out what your best is" he said teasingly.

"You'll see" Lindsay answered before Chris orbed them out to her arpartment.


Since Leo had become an elder he often orbed onto the top of the Golden Gate Bridge to communicate with the other elders. But soon he'd found out that it's also a good place to think and today he really needed that. He couldn't get Chris' response out of his mind as he'd said that if Wyatt wouldn't think he's evil he would care more about him.

Chris had sounded sarcastic but somehow Leo thought he'd heard bitterness too, even some sadness. But it really didn't made any sense. Why would Chris give a damn about it if Leo cared about him or not? He thought about how Chris had been shot by this darklighter a week ago. Leo hadn't noticed it then but now he could remember that Chris had used the same tone to "thank" him after he'd healed him.

Maybe they have met in the future and something had happened. It would explain why Chris seemed to hate him since they have met in this time. But wouldn't that also mean that they probably had been friends? Why else would Chris act so strange around him? And he also seemed to know a lot about the sisters, the book of shadows and the manor. Leo had asked himself from the beginning why Chris found his way through the manor so easily.

Probably Chris visited the manor very often in the future or he… Suddenly a thought crossed Leos mind that made him become a bit sick in the stomach. Or he lived there. But that would mean he's related to us. For a few seconds Leo really considered this thought but then he pushed it away. It couldn't be. It was impossible. Leo didn't even wanted to think about Chris as family because that made him feel too guilty. He had treatened Chris like crap, like he's the evil in person.

Quickly Leo stood up and breathed in the cold air. He'd thought he would feel better after coming up here but that clearly wasn't the case this time. After a while he came to the decision he'd still look after Chris. It seemed now more urgent than ever to Leo to find out who he really is. Leo just hoped that he would be able to handle it if his earlier suggestion was right.

TBC… (Sorry this chapter wasn'tas long as usual but I also started a new story and I have lots of schoolwork to do… Maybe the next will be longer again…)