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"Would somebody please tell me what's going on?" Chris demanded.

"It's 2005" Wyatt said.

Chris stared at Wyatt for a moment.

"How did we get here?" Chris asked, while looking around the room and waiting for a logical explanation.

"That's exactly what I'd like to know." Wyatt said as he looked at Chris. Then he shifted his gaze to Leo, "And I have the feeling there's something you're not telling us…"

But he wasn't going to be allowed to finish that sentence anytime soon because at that moment Piper walked in.

Chapter 3

Piper had gone to look for Leo after he hadn't returned with the towels and she searched the house for him and ended up walking into the living room.

Chris saw his mother enter the room and was shocked by her youth and beauty. He had to admit that his mother had always been very beautiful, but the Piper he knew was in her late fifties.

He saw Piper look at him in shock, as her eyes widened and her heartbeat increased. She lent back and held onto the wall for support.

Chris stood up and walked towards her to help her, but she backed away from him.

She wouldn't believe what she was seeing. Chris was dead. This had to be some kind of spell. She had been tricked into believing things that weren't real before…

"Stay away from me." She said to Chris angrily.

This confused and hurt Chris. He knew that he must look like a stranger to her, but his mother was usually very nice to strangers.

Leo understood Piper's reaction and walked towards her to comfort her and to explain. But she backed away from him too.

"This isn't real, this isn't real…" she whispered to herself.

"Piper, please calm down" Leo said pleadingly " This is real. Chris is back."

"Chris is dead Leo!" Piper yelled angrily "You should know that better than anyone!"

Piper's comment made Leo very quiet. He still blamed himself for Chris´ death.

This was too much for Wyatt to grasp.

Chris? Dead? How could Chris possibly be dead? Chris was standing right in front of him.

Wyatt had been right in assuming Leo wasn't telling them something. Wyatt had felt it all his life. There was a secret. Something terrible had happened in the past and his parents had been hiding it from Chris and him all their lives. He had just thought that he was being neurotic at times, so he didn't mention it, but in this moment he knew that he had been right all along. He needed answers, but he knew that now was definitely the wrong time to ask his questions.

His mother was completely spooked out by seeing Chris, but Wyatt knew that Piper hadn't recognized him, she saw him as a stranger, and so it was best to let someone she recognized calm her down first.

Now it was Paige's turn to try and help out.

"Please Piper, listen to me. This is real. I didn't want to believe it either myself, but I've realized that it's true. They're back from the future and they need our help to get back to their time. We have to help them."

"Them?" Piper asked questionably.

That was the first time that she had really gotten a look at the stranger on the couch. She walked closer to him and he stood up. Piper now stood right in front of him and searched his face, trying to put a name to the face that looked strangely familiar to her.

Wyatt looked into his mother's beautiful eyes, while holding his breath.

Piper looked back into his bright blue eyes. She'd recognize those eyes anywhere.

"Wy…Wyatt?" She asked with tears brimming her eyes.

Wyatt let out the breath he had been holding and smiled down at his mother.

Piper knew that it was him.

He looked happy and caring. A thought crossed her mind.

"You're not," she said "You're not…"

Wyatt knew what she was going to say.

"Evil?" Wyatt asked, finishing her sentence for her.

Piper nodded.

"No, I'm not. But you're not the only one to have thought that." He said while looking at his father.

Chris sensed that his mother was close to breaking down in tears from all the emotions that she was feeling, so he walked to her from behind and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.

Piper looked up into Chris´ face, her vision blurring. She pulled him into a hug as she rested her head against his chest with her eyes closed.

"I've missed you so much, Chris." She choked out in between sobs.

Chris had no idea what she was talking about, but he hugged his mother back, giving her the support she needed while he shot Wyatt a questioning look over her head.

Wyatt just shrugged.

Leo saw the exchange between his sons.

He walked towards his wife and youngest son and he also placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Piper," he said.

She opened her eyes and looked at her husband through her cloudy vision.

"They don't know" Leo said while he averted his eyes to the floor. "They don't know what happened before Chris was born."

"What happened before I was born?" Chris asked curiously.

Piper stared at him. How could he not know? How could he not remember?

And then it hit her. Wyatt wasn't evil. Chris had managed to achieve his goal, to save his brother. The Chris that was standing in front of her had grown up in a peaceful world with his brother by his side and he had never had a reason to come back in time to change it all.

It had all worked out after all.

Leo pondered his response to Chris´ question. Although he didn't know what it was, he must have had a very good reason to not tell his sons the truth over the years. Although he hated to not be honest with them, he couldn't tell them.

"I can't tell you" He said.

"Why not?" Chris asked.

"I don't know. I hate to have to keep secrets from you, but I must have had a reason not tell you." Leo said. "I'm sorry."

Wyatt was disappointed. He knew what his father meant though. This was obviously something huge. If he hadn't told Chris and him over the years, he must have had a very good reason not to. But he wasn't going to let it go that easily.

"We'll just have to ask you again in 26 years." Wyatt said while looking at his parents smugly.

"And by then I promise that we will have a better answer to your question." Leo said confidently.

"What are you doing here?" Piper asked her sons.

Chris looked to Wyatt for an explanation. Wyatt always had all the answers to their problems.

"This wasn't intentional." Wyatt said plainly.

"Do you know how you got here?" Leo asked them.

"Well, I didn't cast a spell that could have resulted in this." He turned to Chris.

"Did you?"

Chris racked his brain. He tried to remember if one of the spells that he had cast over the last couple of weeks could of backfired and sent them back in time, but he was quite sure that he hadn't.

"No. Not that I know of."

Wyatt trusted his brother more than anyone else and he trusted his judgment.

If it had been a backfired spell then there was only one more suspect on Wyatt's list. Actually, three more suspects.

"Did any of you cast a spell that could have resulted in this? Or did you ask for help on some magical situation and end up summoning us?" Wyatt asked his mother and Paige.

Piper knew that her sisters and her had been magically inactive for a while. There had been no demon attacks recently, so there had been no need for magic.

Piper looked at Paige and she shook her head.

"No, we didn't."

"What about Phoebe?" Chris asked.

"No, she won't have," Piper said, "she would have told us."

"Where is she by the way?" Chris asked his parents and aunt calmly.

It struck Piper how very different his demeanor was. The Chris she had known was slightly aggressive, neurotic and held a lot of pain and loss in his heart that had shaped him to be who he was: The man that stood in front of her looked exactly the same on the outside, but he was appeared to be calmer and more thoughtful.

"She's at work," Paige answered.

"Paige," Leo said in his whitelighter way, "you should go and get her. We may need her help."

"Yes," Piper said, "We need her."

Wyatt was hesitant. His parents had always warned him that when time travel was involved, it was best to keep as few people as possible informed, but if Piper and Paige knew, Phoebe would find out anyway.

He nodded his agreement.

"I'll be right back." Paige said as she orbed out.

"Well, that means it wasn't a spell that brought us here then." Chris said, getting back to business.

"No, Chris" Wyatt said as he paced the room. "That means that it wasn't someone who summoned us here accidentally or for help."

"But why would someone send you back in time intentionally?" Piper asked her sons.

"As you know, when you go back in time, you loose your powers because only one of you can have your powers at the same time." Chris started to explain. "And that would be a very good opportunity to try and…"

Chris hesitated. He didn't want to worry his parents. He looked at his older brother.

"Try and what?" Leo asked worried.

"Kill us." Wyatt finished Chris´ sentence for him.

Piper was shocked by her son's words.

"Do you know who would want you dead?" Leo asked his sons concerned.

"Pretty much, every single demon in existence." Chris answered.

"And that's not our only problem at the moment." Wyatt said with a frown on his face as he looked at his parents.

"Why? What's wrong?" Leo asked his eldest son as he walked towards him.

"Well, we've probably shifted our entire timeline just by being here."

"What do you mean?" Piper asked him.

"The slightest thing we do or say in this time could have a ripple effect and change all future events." Wyatt explained.

Chris thought that his brother was exaggerating.

"Neurotic" Chris said with a slight cough.

"No, Chris." Wyatt said while getting angry with his little brother. "I don't think you get how serious this is! This isn't a game! We've always relied on our powers to help us, but now we don't have them anymore! You have to take this seriously! And I think it's time you realized that I might not always be around to protect you!"

Wyatt turned away from his brother.

Wyatt's outburst greatly surprised Chris. His brother never yelled at him, Wyatt was always cool and calm in tricky situations. Something was wrong with him.

"What's wrong, Wy?" Chris asked him concerned.

Wyatt turned back to look at Chris.

Chris looked into Wyatt's eyes and he saw something there that had never been there before.

It was fear.

Wyatt looked away.

"Wy?"

"It's just…when those demons attacked you and you were hurt, I realized that I couldn't heal you and…I thought I might loose you." Wyatt ended in a whisper.

The room was silent.

"But that turned out ok, didn't it?" Chris asked his brother to try and cheer him up.

"But what if it doesn't next time?"

Chris knew how much the whole event must of frightened Wyatt, but he had to know that what had happened wasn't his fault.

"I'm old enough to take care of myself, Wyatt. It's not your responsibility to protect me anymore." Chris said. "And I promise that I will do my very best to give those demons a hell of a time to get their job done. They're not going to get rid of me that easily."

Wyatt smiled at his brother.

At that moment Paige orbed in with Phoebe.

TBC

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