AN:Hey guys. I'm terribly sorry about the lengthly wait for this chapter. I have been horribly busy over the last couple of weeks with school work. Anywayz, I admit this chapter isn't my best work. I had a specific idea in my mind and I wrote it to the best of my ability. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed. If I did, I would make Rose take some acting lessons. I would also make Alyssa eat a cheeseburger.

Chapter 4

At times Life is wicked
And I just can't see the light
A silver lining sometimes isn't enough
To make some wrongs seem alright
Whatever life brings, I've been through everything

.Four days had passed since Chris' outburst and life had been passing normally. Well not really, it was pretty obvious to everyone in the family that things were different now. There was some sort of tension brewing underneath the surface. Chris could no longer look at either of his parents in the eyes. He also spent alot of time locked up in his room or out with Kate. Although Chris put on a happy face around his family and friends, it was evident that he was still carrying an unhealthy amount of emotional baggage.

One afternoon, while Chris was out, Prue and Wyatt were lounging around watching TV and Piper was in the kitchen cooking. Leo orbed in and called Piper into the lounge room.

"Well I was just up with the elders." he said "Apparently there worried about Chris, they think were not able to completely empathise with what he is going through at the moment, therefore we won't be able to help him"

"So what do they want us to do about it" said Prue "Its not like there gonna go out of their way to help us"

"Actually this time they are" said Leo "There sending us on a vision quest"

"A vision quest" said Wyatt "What's good is that gonna do"

"I have no idea," said Leo "They just told me they're sending us a bunch of visions, to make us see the error of our ways"

"Oh, thats just so frikin typical of them" said Piper "They have to make us feel as guilty as possible, just rub it in"

"So how exactley does it work," asked Prue, as she stood up and stretched.

"Well Its pretty straight forward actually" said Leo "We just have to sit around in a circle, and the elders will send us the visions."

15 minutes later, the four were sitting in the attic. They were all dreading the scenes that were to come. It would pretty much just be taking all their mistakes and rubbing them in. All of a sudden, the Haliwells gasped as the first images zoomed into their heads.

Chris Haliwell aged 10 looked on with jealousy at all his classmates. Parent's night had rolled around and once again Chris had to face being the only one they're without anyone. Piper had attended Prue's and Leo had gone to Wyatts. Both of them had promised to come to Chris' after, but they had broken this. The young witch sighed and watched as the classroom slowly emptied. He stood up and followed a family out. Once again, he found himself alone. Only this time he was waiting outside the school building in the freezing cold temperatures. A swirl f blue lights formed next to him and took the shape of his two parents. They both started stammering the apologies straight away. Chris just lowered his head, plastering a fake smile onto his face and pushing all of his feelings of resentment into the back of his mind.

A 12-year-old Chris was hurriedly flicking through the Book of Shadows. On his way home from school, he had been attacked by and extremely freaky looking demon. He had managed to ward him off for just a moment, in which he escaped, sprinting the remainder of the distance home. Unfortunately for him, the house was deserted, therefore if the demon returned he would be forced to confront him alone. As he continued his search, he felt a chill run down the back of his spine. Turning around, he faced the demon. Chris concentrated and flung his arm put, sending every ounce of his power out towards the demon, it flew through the air and slammed into the wall. Chris hurriedly ran down the stairs. His best chance for survival would be hiding out somewhere. Turning into the kitchen, he flung open the basement door. Just as he was descending the stairs, the demon shimmered in and struck his hand out. This time it was Chris' turn to fly through the air. He slammed into a wall and slid down slowly, a pool of blood oozing out of his mouth.

Just as it looked like the end for the young witch, an orb cloud appeared next to him and formed into an unknown man. He pulled a vile of liquid out of his pocket and hurled it at the demon, the second it made contact with his skin he burst into flames. The stranger knelt down beside Chris and held his palms out over his body. The blood slowly cleared up, but he was still unconscious.

As he turned to leave, a piercing voice interrupted him. Piper and Wyatt were descending the stairs into the basement.

"Who the hell are you" said Wyatt "And what are you doing to my brother."

"Woah relax" he said "Didn't Leo tell you, my names Declan and I'm Chris' new Whitelighter. If it wasn't me, he would be probably be dead right now." With that, he orbed out, leaving a gaping Piper and Wyatt in his wake.

Chris, aged 13 sat in the corner of the attic, looking through endless boxes just for the sake of it. At the bottom of a large pile, he pulled out three boxes of baby stuff for Wyatt, Chris and Prue; all of them labelled respectively. Unsealing Wyatts first, it almost burst it was so full. Blankets and toys were crammed into every inch of it. At the very bottom, he pulled out a baby book. The first few pages were dedicated to measurements and his first experiences. After this came cards from people congratulating them on the birth. Finally, there were the photos, hundreds upon hundreds of them. Chris could have sworn there was one for every day of his life up until he was 3. Prue's was almost identical.

With excitement, Chris unsealed his own box. He had never seen many baby photos of himself around the manor. As he pulled the box open his face fell slightly. Inside there was a teddy bear, a pacifier and a blanket along with a thin baby book. It started the same way as his brothers and sisters, with a couple of birth measurements, along with his godparents, aunts and uncles. Unfortunately for him, that was where the book ended. No photos, no cards, no nothing. It was as if his birth was a secret and no one knew about it.

Chris felt a small tear forming in the corner of his eye. Was he really not that important in his family? He wiped it away. He should have been used to this by now; he had spent the last decade of his life trying to prove himself to be a valuable part of the family. Obviously none of this had worked but.

In the year 2004,23 year old Chris was dying. He was lying on his mother's bed with a cursed athame protruding from his stomach. Leo was kneeling on the floor next to him, trying desperately to heal him. "Hey, I'm here now" he said "You can hold on ok, I'm here for you" as he said this, he brushed a strand of hair out of his son's eye. "You can hold on, I know you can, don't give up, please don't give up."

Chris struggled to speak, as he battled for his life "I can't dad, its time for me to go" he said "please just promise me things will be different this time around" Chris paused "I love you dad".

With those parting words, he slowly faded away into nothing. Leo let out a cry of anguish and collapsed onto the bed over come with grief, while a tearful Paige watched from the doorway not believing the events she had just seen had infact occurred.

The four Haliwells came to with a gasp. There was a solemn feeling the air. Leo was holding onto a crying Piper, while Prue's head was resting on Wyatt's shoulder, both of them had far-off distant looks in their eyes. As a family, they had no idea how they had let this happen, where had things gone so horribly wrong. What they had seen was just a fraction of the events that had occurred in Chris' short 14-year life, along with what had happened in the future an alternate Chris had come back to change. Now, what could the do to fix things? Chris was so far gone now repairing the damage would be next to impossible.

Now I'm on my knees hoping
Although I know I must go on
I know I heard I must be strong
Cause Inside I know
That many feel this way

AN: Yeah, I know this chapter wasn't my most spectacular to date, I was just really blocked with this chapter, so forgive me if it was crappy. Please take the time to review, you guys have been so awesome to me, I will try and squeeze outa new update in the next forthnight if I can.

To My Reviewers

Cherry7up: Thanks for the review. Leo not being Chris' father will actually play a very crucial plot in this story's plot further down the line.

alienangel: Thanks for the review. Its good to know your reading my story, I'm such a big fan of your stroies.

pheobex-15: Thanks for the review. I can't really give away what will happen to Kate here, as ot is vital to the closing chapters of this story. Im suprised alot of people didn't pick up the clues about Leo in the prologue of this. I dropped alot of hints.

Annara: I suppose this is slightly AU, i got fed up with baby Chris on the show not demonstrating any powers so I came up witha theory. Chris visiting the past altered the future enough to change who his father was. Thanks for the review and I'm sorry about the wait for this chapter.

chyp: Thanks for the review :)

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Fury: Once again, I don't want to give away what happens so you will just have to wait and see. Thanks for the review.

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Hazza123, signing off for another chapter.