A/N: Now that I am fully awake and have just reread through the previous chapter, I am excited enough to try and get this next chapter up as soon as I can. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed in any way.

Chris Halliwell took in the appearance of the shaking girl before him. Her long, chestnut hair that was slightly mussed from sleep, her tiny yet athletic body and her saddened hazel eyes that looked up at him through long lashes. She was in a word, beautiful. And mysterious.

He had been thrown for a loop when he had orbed into the attic to check the book only to find her slumbering peacefully on the daybed. Positioning himself behind her, he had waited for her to awake and then been thrown for many more loops in a matter a minutes. He had come to the conclusion that she was just as confused as he was. And she knew who was going to turn his brother into the Lord of Darkness.

"Yes," she whispered to his question. Did she tell him? He was going to think she was a wacko! She was pretty sure he did anyway. With the knowledge of who turned Wyatt would he be able to evade death or was it his destiny to die here in his past? She had to tell him. He had to have a chance to save his brother and himself. Yet Chris' television show voice seemed to chant in her mind, 'Future Consequences'. Oh to hell with that!

Chris waiting in silence, watched as she tried to decide what to say. He knew she was wondering if it would be alright to give such information away. He was startled when she looked back up at him with sadness and grief, her eyes studying him for the first time. He felt as if she was gauging him, looking deep into his soul, trying to decide what to reveal.

"You can stop chasing demons." She finally said in a low voice.

"What?"

"Wyatt wasn't turned by a demon."

"If not a demon then whom?"

After a few moments of tense silence she uttered a name. "Gideon."

"What?" Chris shouted, causing her to jump. "The elder that runs Magic School?"

"That's him." She confirmed. "And your father's mentor and friend."

"I can not believe this," Chris hollered in frustration.

"Well you need to!" Kate shouted right back. "Because if you don't innocents are going to die! Gideon is terrified that there is too much power in Wyatt and that he is bound to become evil. He is going to kidnap him when Piper goes into labor and kill you in the process. So pull it together Chris!"

"Kill me?" Chris was hoping he had misheard that last part.

"In the show's season finale, you die protecting Wyatt." She sighed. "Leo is maddened and enraged by your death and finds Wyatt before any harm can be done. He kills Gideon in an act of great evil. You died in his arms…"

Chris was shocked when she sank to her knees sobbing. He kneeled down next to her hoping to ease the young woman's obvious distress. Why was she so upset? He was just a fictional character to her, right? Certainly not important enough to have her burst into tears when retelling his impending death.

"Hey," He said putting a hand on her shaking shoulder. "Now that I know what happens, I can avoid dying."

"I just know how he feels." She choked. "I know what it's like to have someone you love die in your arms and not be able to stop it."

So these weren't tears for his death, but the death of someone else, someone that obviously meant more than the world to her. He could tell that her grief was fresh. Whatever had happened to her in her own time had been very recent. Not knowing what else to do, Chris pulled the grief-ridden young woman into hug. She stiffened at first but was soon clinging tightly to him, her whole body wracking with sobs. It was the least he could do for her. She had, after all told him the one hidden truth he had been seeking for the last decade. Why was his brother evil? Rubbing comforting circles on her back, he whispered calming words.

Kate hated losing it in front of Chris. She couldn't help it though. She was terrified when he wrapped his arms around her, trying to ease her distress. Yet soon she was holding onto him as if he was her lifeline. Within a few minutes she was able begin calming down. Even once her sobs had had become an occasional hiccup he hadn't pulled away but continued to hug her. Suddenly she felt guilty. She had told herself that this was Dan holding her, consoling her, not Chris. Pulling away from him abruptly she stood and wiped the remnants of her tears away. She had to stop losing herself to her grief. Before his death, Kate had rarely cried, now it seemed she was falling apart at the drop of a hat.

"I'm sorry about that," she muttered then added. "Thank you."

"Don't be and your welcome, Kate." Chris told her with sincerity.

"I shouldn't have lost it like that."

"It hurts to lose someone you love." He said softly.

"I don't want to talk about this anymore." She whispered, her emotional barrier was sudden up. "We have to find a way to stop Gideon."

"We?"

"Yes, we." She snapped when he questioned her. "I can help you. I'm sure if I think about it hard enough I can remember those episodes scene for scene maybe even word for word."

"I see." He said in slight mocking tone causing her head to snap up.

"Hey, I liked the show alright!"

"I didn't say anything." He smiled at her.

"You," she muttered. "Were insinuating."

"Not me." He laughed at her look then became serious. "It's going to be too dangerous for a mortal."

That was it! He had gone from comforting her to teasing then on to insulting. No wonder the Charmed Ones were always rolling their eyes heavenward with him. The guy could make her blood boil.

Chris saw her look and cringed inwardly. He had gotten that look many a time from his mother and aunts both here in the past and his own time. Realizing all to late his mistake about calling her a mortal, which translated in her mind that he thought she was helpless. Ducking was his first instinct. He should have followed that.

"You!" she muttered darkly and balled her fists but stopped shocked when a vase on the nearby bookshelf shattered into a hundred tiny pieces.

"What the hell?" Chris jumped startled, his eyes immediately searching the room for his mother's angry presence. When he didn't find her, his eyes fell beck on a startled Kate. "That was you."

"I'm thinking not possible." Kate said.

"Well that's not one of my powers and there isn't anyone else here besides you." He tried to reason with her.

"Something must have knocked it over." She shook her head. She didn't have powers! The thought was absurd. But then how did I get here, she thought. She remembered opening Dan's gift and looking through the book. She also remembered uttering the spell to reunite one another across time and space. Yet Dan wasn't with her and she was trapped in Charmed. Well, 'trapped' might be over doing it.

"It exploded!" Chris stated simply.

"I think you're nuts."

"LEO!"

"What are you doing?" she exclaimed.

"Calling Leo."

"Thank you Captain Obvious." She growled. "Why?"

"He'll be able to sense whether or not you are magical." Chris said simply.

"And you can't?"

"I am not an Elder." Chris stated before calling again, louder than before. "LEO!"

Within a few moments the twinkling light of Leo's orbs appeared causing Kate to step back, positioning Chris between the newcomer and herself.

"Yeah?" Leo asked his son, surprise evident on his face. Kate, knowing he had yet to notice her, assumed it was because Chris rarely called for his father.

"I need you to sense Kate here and see if she's magical or mortal."

"Kate?" Leo asked his son gazing at the young woman behind him. "Who's Kate, Chris?"

"This is Kate," Chris said putting his hand on her shoulder. "Kate this is Leo."

"Nice to meet you." Kate said softly, the manners that had been drilled into her by her mother evident.

"Like wise." Leo said with a nod and small smile. "Why do you need me to sense for magic? Don't you know?

"Uh, long story short, Kate is from an alternate reality or dimension, as far as we can tell anyway." Chris told him.
"Explain."

At Leo's request Chris began to fill his father in on the last hour, skipping over Kate's breakdown. He even told the newly made Elder of Gideon's betrayal and even his own death. All in all, Kate was as surprised as Leo. Perhaps the timeline was the same as the show but Chris seemed slightly different. She hadn't thought he would spill that much information willingly.

"This is crazy," Leo said when Chris finished. "Gideon is an elder, my mentor and friend."

"I believe Kate." Chris stated firmly. "She knows things about us, me, the future that she would otherwise not be able to know. At least sense if she's magical."

Leo's eyes narrowed slightly as he thought about what Chris had told him. He looked at Kate for a long moment before walking over to her and placing his hand above her brow, his eyes closed.

"Well?" Chris asked when Leo removed his hand a minute later.

"From what I can sense she's a witch." Leo stated looking Kate up and down. "If I'm right she may possess powers not unlike Piper."

"That was you then," Chris told her indicating the shattered vase fragments.

"Well how was I supposed to know that if I jumped into an alternate dimension, that is a television show, I would suddenly pull a Harry Potter and become a witch?"

"I was just…"

"Don't." she said cutting him off. "I'm confused enough as it is."

"So you say Gideon is going to try and kill my son." Leo asked bringing the two bickering adults before back to reality.

"Tries to kill Wyatt and succeeds in killing Chris." Kate stated. "Wyatt is evil in Chris' future because Gideon was unable to kill Wyatt after he kidnapped him but was able to traumatize him for life. Gideon's betrayal showed Wyatt that there is no difference between good and evil. It's all about…"

"Power." Chris said, finishing her sentence. He knew that line well. Power was everything to Wyatt.

"Gideon is afraid of Wyatt." Kate continued when she noticed Leo wasn't fully convinced. "He believes that much power in one being would be enough to turn anyone bad. In his mind what he is doing is all for the greater good"

"How does he get Wyatt alone?" Leo asked. If this was true he had to avoid it at all costs. He refused to let either of his sons die.

"Under the guise of helping Chris back to the future. You all are under the impression that Wyatt has been saved after taking down an evil that is most likely brewing as we speak. All of you except Piper and Wyatt end up in an alternate reality where everything here that is good is evil an vice-versa." She continued to tell them all she knew of Gideon's obsession with Wyatt and the details of what happens when he begins to execute his plan. When she finished, Kate was out of breath and looking pleadingly at Leo. He had to believe her or else terrible things would happen.

Leo was about to reply when Paige's voice could be heard calling them from below. "Anybody home? Phoebe? Chris?"

Chris noticed Kate's terrified expression upon hearing Paige's calls and grabbed her hand, then looked at Leo.

"You fill her in and get Phoebe." He told his father. "I'm going to talk with Kate. We need to formulate a plan."

"What about Piper and Wyatt?" Leo asked, clearly not enjoying the idea of Piper and his son being at Magic School alone with Gideon. "We should get them out of the school."

"We'll go and take care of that." Chris said. "Just fill in the other two"

Leo didn't get a chance to respond as his son had already dissolved in blue orbs with Kate. It was going to be a ruff day. He was horrified that Gideon would be willing to team up with a demon just to murder a toddler he felt had too much power. Not only a toddler, his friend's son. Leo was furious when Paige found him in the attic. Turning he began to fill her in.

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