Chapter 7

After dropping Wyatt off at the nursery Past Piper, Phoebe and Paige set out to find the rest of the group. As they entered the main hall they saw both Leo's searching through tons of books as Future Piper sat on the couch with a semi-conscious Chris lying on her chest. Paige and Phoebe immediately went over to help the men in their search while Past Piper stood looking at her future self and the boy who moments ago was revealed to be her youngest son.

The tears started to fill up her eyes once again as her own words came back to haunt her. All she could hear was her own voice screaming those nasty words at the boy as the heartbreak and pain washed over him and the tears started to stream down his face. She could only imagine the pain that he was going through at that particular moment that was until the darklighter attacked. "I'm so sorry" she whispered as she made her way across the room to where the boy was putting up his usual brave front for his "other" mother.

"Chris" Past Piper spoke in a low raspy voice as the boy turned his head slightly to see who it was that had called him.

"Hey" he spoke so low that it was hard to understand what he was saying which caused the woman to move even closer ignoring the evil glare that her future self was giving her.

"How are you doing?" she said sitting in the small space at the boy's side.

"I've been better" the boy replied with a weak smile, her smile.

"Shh, honey you shouldn't try to talk. Just relax" Future Piper spoke trying hard to keep her composure. "What are you doing here, I thought I told you that I could handle this without your help" the woman spoke in her usual no nonsense tone.

"I deserve to be here just as much as you do"

"Really? Well you should have thought about that before you were such a bit…"

"Mom, please. I know you feel bad about what happened in the past but so does she" He was truly amazing in the way that he loved and forgave. She was just sorry that she hadn't noticed earlier how truly special he was.

"See what you did you're upsetting him. You should leave, now!" Future Piper growled despite her best efforts to remain calm.

"Mom!" Chris called out in frustration before going into a coughing fit and groaning in agony.

"What's going on?" questioned Future Leo as he turned his attention towards his son and both versions of his mother.

"She was upsetting him"

"No I wasn't. He was talking to me until she interfered. All I want to do is help my son" replied Past Piper.

"YOUR SON?"

"This is ridiculous Chris doesn't need to hear the two of you bickering over him. You're both his mother, in fact you're the same damn person so please let's just focus on saving him and less on who has the right to do what" Past Leo reprimanded both women who now sat with arms folded across their chest clearly displaying their annoyance with each other.

"I agree Piper she feels bad enough as it is. Now Chris said that he has forgiven both of you so please just let it go" Future Leo said in a voice full of love and understanding seeing as how he shared those exact same emotions.

"Fine" Future Piper said smoothing the boy's hair out of his face. "I'm sorry baby I didn't mean to upset you" she finished giving the boy a kiss on the head resulting in a small smile from him to her.

Once the two men had gone back to their searching Past and Future Piper glared at each other for a long minute as Past Piper took the boy's hand in hers. At this he jerked slightly, which hurt the woman's feelings greatly and resulted in a smile from her future self. But when she tried it a second time he seemed to relax a little, something that she was grateful for, but her future self, not so much.

As minutes turned into hours everyone grew restless, that was until Future Leo came across exactly what it was they needed.

"Ok guys, I found the ingredients for the antidote. Four of the six we have at the manor but the other two are going to be a little harder to get" Past Leo said while checking over the list he held in his hands.

"It doesn't matter, we'll do what we have to, to save him" replied Phoebe who stood beside him eyeing to make they had the key ingredients in stock.

"Yeah I agree with Phoebe, whatever it takes" the youngest sister sighed not knowing what else to say.

"Well one of the ingredients is found in the Jungle off the coast of Venezuela the other" he paused before continuing "The other can only be given to you by a darklighter" Past Leo finished not sounding very optimistic.

"That doesn't sound too hard, just trap a darklighter and make him give it to you" Past Piper spoke not taking her eyes off her son.

"It's not that easy. The ingredient is kept in their layer so once he's summoned he has to released to go back and actually bring it to us" added Future Piper.

"Naturally" the woman's counter part sighed in frustration.

"Wait a minute, what if I go undercover as a darklighter" Paige spoke in a hopeful voice before her sisters rain on her parade.

"NO!" both Past and Future Piper shouted not willing to risk their sister's life.

"Well there's something they both agree on" Chris smirked slightly. "Even in pain, I still got it"

"Very funny young man" the women said before glaring at each other once more.

"HELLO PEOPLE LADY WITH AN IDEA HERE!" their younger sister spoke gaining their attention once again.

"I don't think that it's a good idea Paige" said Past Leo said in a soft tone knowing that the woman's heart was in the right place. Unfortunately her intent didn't make the plan any better or less dangerous.

"It's a perfect idea. I know this really cool spell that I could use to turn my orbs black. Please let me do this for Chris, I own it to him" the young witch continued trying hard to plead her case.

"I know that you want to help and all Paige but its way too risky. I'm sorry but I can't let you do it" the future version of her sister spoke.

"She's right Paige, its way too dangerous" added Phoebe putting an arm around her dejected younger sibling.

"Don't worry if we put our heads together long enough, I'll sure we'll come up with something" said Future Leo looking in the direction of his distressed wife who just smiled at him weakly.

"Ok fine. I'll go to the house and get the Book of Shadows so we can see if there's anything in there that can help" the woman said before orbing away.

"Alright I think I might have an idea…" Past Leo spoke as the others listened on eagerly.

Meanwhile back at Halliwell Manor Paige flipped through the Book of Shadows searching for the spell that she knew would help her nephew. "Perfect" she said as she clapped her hands together and recited the spell.

Powers of the witches rise, course unseen across the skies
Turn my orbs to a color that's black as night
So that I might hide in plain sight
Giving me the powers of a darklighter fast
To save my nephew who has traveled here to the past.

"Great! Just great I don't feel different at all which means it didn't work and I can't save my nephew!" she screamed out causing a darklighters crossbow to suddenly appear in her hand.

"Ok it did work" she said trying hard not to panic or touch the poisonous arrow. Then out of nowhere her clothing changed and she was now dressed in a skin tight black leather outfit covered by a dark trench coat. "Alright, this will definitely work" she said smiling to herself.

That same smile quickly faded as she thought about what both Pipers were going to do to her if she did make it out of this in one piece. But she brushed it aside and decided that saving her future nephew was all that mattered, she would just have to deal with her sister or sisters later.

"Don't worry Chris I'm going to save you. Just hang in there" the woman whispered into the silence before black orbing out to the underworld.

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