Chapter 10

Piper and Leo tried hard to hide their revulsion and hatred for the man, but the feelings were just way too strong and the wounds were still too fresh. Piper bit the inside of her lip fighting against the voice inside her head that seemed to be screaming for her to kill the son of a bitch right here, right now, and avenge your child, while another part of her begged the woman to keep her emotions in check and allow their counter parts to deal with the Elder when the time was right.

Leo on the other hand could only think back to the pain and agony that he felt on the day that the older version of his son was killed by one of the people he trusted the most in this world. The man could feel the anger and heartache pulsing through his veins adding fuel to the fire that had been burning for months now.

As the two shifted through their thoughts Gideon took another step in their direction causing Leo to get to his feet and take a protective stance in front of his wife and child.

"What's going on here Leo?" asked Gideon as he looked the injured boy over. "Is Christopher ok?"

"No, but he will be" Future Leo said through clenched teeth.

"Well is there anything that I can do?" the soon to be fallen Elder questioned with false concern.

"We're fine, but thanks for what I'm sure is your genuine concern but Chris will be just fine no matter what has to be done" said Future Piper holding the man's gaze as she remembered how he used to be so helpful to them in the past only to gain their trust and get close enough to harm her children.

"Is there something else that's wrong here? You two seem a little upset about something" the man's mentor inquisitively spoke.

"No we're ok, but again thanks for your concern" Future Leo said trying to keep his composure.

"Of course I'm concerned Leo you are my friend after all but I must say something about you seems a little off" Gideon said sensing the man's anger. Had he found out about his plan? No, that couldn't be it but the look on his former students face told him that something was horribly wrong.

At that very second Past Leo, Piper, Paige and Phoebe decided to make their grand entrance causing a look of shock and confusion to come across the Elder's face.

"Hey we got it" Past Piper said before taking in the scene in front of her. "What's going on?"

"Is everything alright?" the man asked when no one answered his ex-wife's question.

"What's going on here? Why are there two of you?" Gideon asked in a panic filled voice.

"We're here from the future to make sure the mistakes of the past don't happen again" he said knowing that the man knew exactly what he was talking about.

"Really? Perhaps I can be of some service?" the man said searching for the meaning behind Future Leo's words.

"Oh no Gideon, you've done quite enough already" Future Piper spoke through clenched teeth, not caring if the man knew of her intentions or not.

"Very well. If you need me I'll be in my office" Gideon said before making a quick exit.

"Ok what was that all about? Does he do something to us in the future?" question Piper who really didn't want to know the answer.

"Of course not Piper he's my mentor and best friend. There's no way he would do anything to hurt us" the rather naïve man spoke.

"You have no clue as to how wrong you are" his future self corrected him.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"That's not important right now, just cure Chris" Past Piper said hoping to prolong the answer knowing how horrible it mush be.

"Right the problem with that is, there are two vials with different potions in them but we don't know which one is the cure" the woman's younger sister informed Future Piper and Leo.

"Ok, well what's in the other vial?" asked Future Piper.

"We don't know" Paige responded unenthusiastically.

"So we're going to play the guessing game while my son's life hangs in the balance?" Future Piper said sounding rather annoyed.

"That's what I said but it doesn't look like we have much of a choice, besides there's enough base potion to divide into two separate vials. One containing each of the two main ingredients that way if one doesn't work we have the other one as a back up" Past Piper spoke as the boy in question awoke after passing out when the Elder arrived.

"Hey did you guys find it?" Chris's voice interrupted.

"Yes honey it's right here your Aunt Paige is putting it in right now so just hang in there" Past Piper said receiving a smile from her unborn son.

"Hey when this is all over you owe us a get out of demon hunting free card mister" Phoebe joked trying to lighten the mood.

"Nice try Aunt Phoebe but, no"

"You can't blame a girl for trying" she sighed.

"It's ready" Paige said handing the potion to the future version of her sister.

"Ok, sit up son" Future Leo spoke while helping the boy into an up right position.

Within seconds Chris had downed the entire bottle.

"So how do you feel?" asked Past Piper.

"The same. I guess it's because so much poison was able to make it's way through my body it's going to take a while longer for it to have any affect" the boy said once again leaning on his mother.

"Ok while we're waiting do you mind telling us what that whole thing with Gideon was about"

"Paige!" warned Past Piper.

"Oh what, like you don't want to know"

"Actually I want to know the same thing myself" Past Leo added suddenly feeling sick to his stomach.

Future Piper and Leo shared a glance for a long second before nodding their heads in agreement.

"Alright we'll tell you everything" Future Leo began before his son interrupted.

"Dad no, I told you not to tell them anything. Just let me handle it"

"No way young man you've been handling too much on your own as of late and it's high time you let us help you" his mother's past self spoke.

"Yeah sweetie we're you're family. It's time that we take care of you" added Phoebe before nodded to future Piper to go on with the story.

"It all started when…"

It was several minutes later by the time the pair was finished filling themselves in on the horrid details. Even more time passed as each of the family members tired to process the information.

"That son of a bitch" Past Piper whispered as she tightened her fist.

"How could he do that? I mean it was bad enough that he was going to kill an innocent child but to murder Chris just for trying to protect his brother? It all seems so, surreal" Phoebe said still in a state of shock.

"I can't believe that it's been Gideon all along" Paige said mimicking Phoebe's stunned expression.

All of a suddenly all eyes were on past Leo. The man just sat there staring blankly at the floor. He hadn't spoken a word since even before the story began.

"Leo, are you ok?" Past Piper spoke cautiously.

"Yeah I'm just great Piper"

"I know that you're hurt right now but…" Past Piper began before being cut off.

"NO you don't know. I'm responsible for my own son's death all because I was the one who brought his killer into our lives" replied Past Leo.

"That's not true Leo you had no way of knowing that an Elder would want to harm anyone let alone your children" the middle witch spoke.

"She's right, we didn't have a clue as to what Gideon was up to, but now you do. So you have a chance to stop him before he kills Chris" added Future Leo.

"And that's exactly what I intend to do" Past Leo spoke in a harsh tone.

Before anyone could ask the man what he was planning, Chris inhaled sharply and sat up causing his mother to jump at his sudden movement.

"Whoa there, are you ok?" Paige asked.

"Yeah actually I'm doing great. I guess all of the poison must be gone" Chris spoke in a voice that no one recognized.

"Are you sure that you're ok son something just doesn't seem right" Future Leo said looking into his son's eyes and seeing the darkness behind his stare.

"Now why would you say that?" the boy questioned looking right through her.

"Umm Paige, where's that other potion" asked Past Piper seeing the difference in the boy as well.

"You don't need any potion Piper, I'm fine" Chris said as more of a warning then a statement.

"Listen Chris we just want to make sure that everything's out of your system, so just take the potion and we'll stop nagging you" Future Leo smiled nervously.

"I have a better idea. Why don't I completely ignore all of you and go have some serious fun. I'm thinking killing spree, later" Chris smirked before black orbing away.

"Something tells me that we gave him the wrong potion" Phoebe said staring blankly at the spot where her nephew once stood.

"Bright side, at least he's cured. Evil but cured none the less" said Paige.

"Great, just great" said both Pipers whose words were followed by silence.

ALLEY

Meanwhile an evil Chris ascended upon a scared female witch in a cold dark alley.

"Come on fight, I dare you" he said forming a fireball in his hands.

"Please don't do this" she said trying to distract him while her whitelighter crept up behind her attacker. What she didn't know was that he knew exactly what she was up too, but he would string her along just for the hell of it.

"What's the matter sweetheart, scared? Don't worry it will be all over very soon" he said summoning his darklighers crossbow. With lightening quick speed he turned around and shot an arrow right through the man's chest.

"NOOO" the woman screamed knowing that she had to face the assailant all on her own.

"Ha! You stupid little bitch, did you really think that I wouldn't sense him? Oh this almost isn't any fun" he said tossing the fireball up in the air.

With a dramatic yell the woman sent an ice ball his way. Then with the flick of his wrist the ice ball degenerated into nothing as he stood there laughing at the woman's attempt to defend herself.

"You call that defense, well let me show you a little offensive trick I learned" he said hurling the fireball her way. Once it made contact with the girl Chris froze her body and allowed only her head to move. Her blood curdling screams filled the air as he allowed her to burn slowly occasionally unfreezing her to intensify her pain.

After several minutes of torture Chris ended the witch's life with another fireball reducing her to a pile of ashes.

"That was pretty cool. But I have to admit this would be a lot more fun if I had someone to enjoy it with"

A smile crept across his face as he thought of the one person that would have as much fun with this as he did. The boy then flamed out of the alley and into the attic of Halliwell manor as he started to work on the potion and the spell that would bring the biggest evil he has ever known to the past. And that evil would be none other then Wyatt Matthew Halliwell.


IcantthinkfoaFnick-That's ok you can marry Chris I want Wyatt (well the one from Chris Crossed anyway) LOL. Thanks for reviewing.

Anianka-"hey, I'm not satanic, I just like it when evil things happen" Ha! And the meaning of satanic would be what? LOL But yeah an evil little potion was in the other potion vial and now the charmed ones and both Leos are in for a little surprise but I'm not going to tell you what that something is so you're just going to have to keep reading to find out.

JadeAlmasy-That would be great if they did but you know them anything good having to deal with Chris is not allowed. Stupid Kern. Anyway thanks for reviewing.

Blacknightwolf04-Yeah but isn't evil just so much better? LOL Well I would love to tell you that Chris will be turned good soon, but sorry I can't. But don't worry you're going to love every minute.

Ilovedrew88-Aren't they cute! Yeah the charmed ones are in for a lot as far as those two are concerned but they're going to have even bigger problems as far as their older counter parts are concerned. I hope you liked this chapter too and please don't forget to review.

Phoebe Turner-Here's your update! And it looks like things have gone from back to worse in the charmed universe but hey, at least it's going to be entertaining. Enjoy!

Septdeneuf-I'm glad you liked the other chapter and I hope that you enjoyed this one as well. :)

Fire Gaze-Well here's where things get a little dicey and start to go haywire. But hey that's just how you like it, right? Thanks for reviewing.

Sparkling Cherries-Thank you ever so much kind lady! And I'm happy to see that you had such a nice birthday (if only you could send cake through the mail) LOL.

Mrs. Rhett Butler-Thanks a lot for the sweet review and there are several chapters to go before we get to the end of the story. I hope you stick around for it all. :)

Hopermaster-Thanks for reviewing this story all over again, I really do appreciate it.

Mysterious Midnight-It's ok, I'm glad you were able to review no matter what :) Here's the latest chapter. Hope you liked it.

Karone Evertree-Yeah but without it we can't pay the bills or buy that things we want so I guess it's worth it in the end. Yeah Wyatt and Chris are sweet but since the powers that be over at Charmed seem to hate Chris, I doubt we'll ever see any closeness between the brothers.

Teal-lover-Hee. I'm glad you enjoyed that bit and it's so cute and matches with the personalities of both boys (from what we've seen anyway) again thanks so much for reviewing.