Disclaimer: ah if only i owned charmed looks off into space dreamily...

A/N thank you to everyone who reviwed my story, all feedback is very welcome, even criticism, go on i won't bite. But please remember it's still only my first story so be kind.

Also sorry if the orderingis a little confusing in this chapter.

Paige

"Phoebe's calling" said Chris to his youngest charge and disappeared.

'Great' thought the witch, who was sure that the boy was just about to open up to her. Damn him! She wished he would tell them something, if not about the future then about himself. In fact she thought she would prefer that, it wasn't natural to be so focussed on magic.

'But you were,' said a little voice in her head, referring to the time a couple of years ago when she had given up work to become a full time witch. 'But he's not a witch,' argued another part and then it hit her. He was a whitelighter, most whitelighters didn't have lives, mostly because they were dead. Maybe the good fight was all he had, the poor thing. She would have to try harder to make him feel at home; she would help him get a life!

Forming a plan the half witch, half whitelighter orbed to the storeroom her sister's club. Poking around in Chris' stuff might be an invasion of privacy, but it was just step one in her master plan to help him, so he would forgive her. She hoped.

Searching through his stuff didn't take long, since he didn't bring anything back from the future with him, and hadn't picked up much while he was here. Add to that the fact that everything was so damn organised and after five minutes she was done, finding nothing of use.

"Paige!" she heard a voice yell in her mind. Phoebe was in trouble; maybe Chris hadn't just bailed on her after all.

Piper

Looking at he baby once again Piper wondered if the child inside her now would be evil too. She would have to ask Chris, not that he would tell her. Damn him and his stupid future consequences! She supposed her child would be evil too, or dead. It was the only thing that made sense to her, if they weren't why would they let someone else come back to save Wyatt, unless… unless they sent Chris. That made so much sense, and would it explain everything. If Chris were her child's whitelighter in the future, he would know a lot about them. Oh! And she'd been so horrible to him!

"Piper!" yelled a voice behind her, "Phoebe's in trouble, we have to go" Grabbing her sister by the arm, Piper felt the two of them about to orb out.

"Wait!" she scolded, "we can't leave Wyatt here alone!"

"Grab him, we'll drop him at the magic school on the way," and with that they orbed off.

Phoebe

She saw her whitelighter orb in, to the amazement of the whole office. Glancing around he saw he had orbed into a room full of people.

"Phoebe are you mad!" he yelled, "How do you expect to explain this?"

"That's not something you need to worry about!" growled a voice from behind him, "because your coming with me; dead or alive."

She watched as the demon sent a fireball towards her whitelighter.

"Look out!" she yelled and used her empathy to send it back in the demons direction, who ducked out of the way leaving it to hit a wall.

"I said this wasn't your fight Witch! Stay out of it!" The demon glared at her angrily, but her empathy power felt desperation and a desire for help from him. Then she felt her self-thrown against a wall, unable to move. In an attempt to break free she tried to levitate, only to find she couldn't access her power. 'Damn' she thought, ' this demon's more powerful than I thought.'

Watching helplessly as her whitelighter orbed out of the way of one fireball after another, she noticed as her terrified co-workers fled or… took pictures? Why did she have to work at a newspaper? Chris was right, how was she going to explain this, and more importantly how was she going to survive this? She could just let the demon take Chris, he said he'd leave then, but that would be wrong, and since when could you trust a demon? Or she could… "Paige!" she yelled, "I'm in serious trouble here! Bring Piper!"

Now that was a good plan!