Disclaimer: Me owning charmed is about as real as the prospect of me passing my History A level. Possibly less so.

A/N: i apologise if this chapter feels a little off, and if it seems like nothing happens, but the characters had to figure out what was going on sometime soon. Just a couple more updates and then its on with the dramatic showdown... or whatever i use as a substitute for a dramatic showdown.

Night-owl123: :) so here it is then, the next one should be up soon too.
Septdeneuf: awwww. you say such nice things. (unique, btw just what i was aiming at!)
CharmedLilAngel: a cliffhanger, oops that wasn't really intentional or i would have included an evil laugh at the end...
CharmedOne24: Yeah its about time Paige got a new power, she is lagging a bit. Not as badly as Chris though.
alienangel19852003: glad you like it.
Alyssa Halliwell: :) I always liked Piper powers best.
Mellaithwen : Ignore you? but you are correct!A self healing Paige is exactly what we saw. Glad you liked the disclaimer btw, unfortunately i have nothing as creative for this chapters.
Chris-Crossed: yup! A self healing Paige!

Chris:

"That isn't the baby's power; it's yours," he said worriedly. This wasn't right, this wasn't right at all; Piper didn't get that power until he was 7. He knew that, he remembered her getting it, in what could possibly have been the worst week of his life, well his life before the whole big brother turned source of all evil shenanigans began. In attempting to freeze one of his school friends as in the stop time kind of freeze, she'd turned them into a block of ice. It'd taken 5 days for them to unfreeze, 5 days in which Chris had to come up with lies as to why Barry couldn't go home and also why he wasn't at school, to both his (Barry's) parents and the school. No wonder he lied so well. Distracted by his thoughts, he missed the next section of the conversation, only snapping back into reality when he heard Piper ask Paige, "didn't you get hit by a fireball?"

Rubbing her arm where it should have hurt the youngest charmed one nodded.

"That's weird," she said, "it's like it's healed itself…"

"It has healed itself," replied her sister with a look of comprehension on her face, "You can heal."

A big smile spread over the witchlighter's face; "I got a new power!" she yelped, "and about time as well."

Chris shook his head, "this isn't right."

"What isn't right?" asked Paige annoyed, "the fact that I finally get some powers?"

"The timing," responded Chris quickly, "it's all wrong. Neither of you should have those powers yet…"

"Are you sure it wasn't the baby?" asked Piper irritably, "You were wrong last time."

"And my power?" asked Paige, "That was not the baby; even Wyatt can't heal without physical contact."

"Maybe this ones healing powers are more prominent," suggested Piper, "he is half elder."

"No," said Phoebe realising how difficult it is form sentences about her unborn nephew without calling him Chris, "I doubt your little welder can do that."

"Welder?" asked Paige and Piper together, Chris just groaned.

Making his mind work quickly he tried to figure out and then explain what was going on.

"Those are definitely yours and Pipers powers" said Chris, "they're ones you are supposed to develop in the future, but not now. Yes I was wrong about the baby before; but I'm not this time: those are your powers. The freezing is just a development of Pipers current power similarly to the way Paige's healing is a development of her whitelighter powers. Neither of these should have developed for at least a couple of years yet, which means something is wrong."

He paused, checking the sisters were following his train of thought, "my powers, er my powers of deduction tell me that the baby's new power is probably a result of the same problem, possibly Phoebes power as well; but that should have been coming soon anyway."

The sisters stared at him, taking in the in everything he had said, before the questions started.

"But who would do that?" asked Piper

"Why would they do that; what kind of attack plan is giving your enemy more powers?" contributed Phoebe.

"I thought you said you didn't know about my future powers!" finished Paige.

Chris shrugged, "I don't know," he answered honestly, (to Piper and Phoebe, when had he been honest about Paige's future), "maybe someone on our side?"

Phoebe

"Maybe someone on our side?" suggested Chris.

That didn't make sense to her, the elders didn't like doing things like that; they were more likely to take away their powers than cause the charmed ones to prematurely develop new ones, and other than that not many people on 'their side' could give and take powers. Thinking about the chaos that had ensued since she'd received her latest power, Jason's words from earlier that day; oh god had it really only been one day? Came back to her, 'you guys are kind of childish about your magic aren't you?' Maybe that was it, the new powers were to distract them, cause a little mayhem…

"Or maybe someone wanted to cause a little chaos in our lives; I mean what with Paige's invisible phase and Chris' brush with the law, its hardly been an easy day has it?" said the middle Charmed one.

"It would provide the perfect opportunity to attack," commented Piper.

"So why haven't they; we've been chasing round in circles all day, bickering and er… getting caught up in magical situations," said Paige carefully, "its seems they've missed the chance they created. Who'd go to all this trouble just to waste all their hard work?"

"Wyatt?" asked Piper much to the surprise of everyone.

Chris

"Wyatt?" suggested Piper.

Bingo! Replied his brother

"What?" asked Paige

"No wait, it makes sense," said Piper, "If Wyatt is in fact the source of all evil in the future he's going to want to stop you, right? But he's not going to come back himself or he might lose the throne, in the same way future Cole sent back that demon when death was stalking Phoebes boyfriend, what was his name?"

"The demon or the boy friend?" asked Paige

"Never mind," continued Piper on a roll, "and he can't send a demon because any demon he sends would have to be strong enough to get past the charmed ones and if it can do that; why not kill us and Wyatt and claim the underworld for himself."

"So he can't kill Chris in the past," realised Paige.

Awww, you know I'd never kill you anyway ickle Chrissie

"That's right," continued Piper, "but he has to stop Chris changing things, so he doesn't end up good. So what does he do? He causes some chaos in the past to distract Chris."

"Except Wyatt doesn't believe anything turned him, he doesn't think of himself as evil but as able to see beyond the boundaries of good and evil," replied Chris almost automatically

That was very poetic, contributed Wyatt, it would have been easier just to say I think its all about the power.

"So he wouldn't bother trying to stop you?" asked Paige, "I mean why start now when Chris has been here so long?"

"Maybe it took him a while to get it to work from the future?" suggested Piper.

"Partially," agreed Chris thinking back to his brother's embarrassment as he admitted, 'it took a while to work through that barrier,'

There's more to it than that and you know it; came Wyatt's taunting voice.

"I think there's more to it than that," chimed in Phoebe, " he thinks he is turning good, I mean if he's been experiencing those time ripple things too, he's bound to be a little scared."

Nope

"What time ripples?" asked Piper confused.

"It doesn't matter," said Chris, "they started after he began to interfere. You are right though Phoebe, he no longer knows it's all about the power, he thinks it is."

"Huh?" asked Phoebe, who was now as confused by this conversation as the readers.

You can't use grammar as proof of anything!

"That isn't grammar," pointed out the welder, "that's syntax or something…"

"What?" asked Paige.

"Er…"

"Stop!" cried Piper, "everyone is completely lost; let's take it slowly and recap what we know. Ok; we're all developing powers we shouldn't have."

"Because of Wyatt," added Paige

"Because he can't leave the future to come and stop Chris."

"He's doing it now because of the time ripples," added Phoebe, "which are like glimpses of a future in which Wyatt is good that Chris keeps getting sucked into."

"Ok," agreed Paige, "I'm following so far, but what was with the 'thinks it's all about the power' comment, or the completely random point about syntax?"

Chris looked down nervously, "that comment wasn't meant for you," he said slowly.

"So whom was it meant for?"

"Wyatt."

"Eh?" asked Paige, "Am I the only one who's more confused now?"

Busted!

"I can hear him in my mind," admitted Chris unwillingly to the surprised stares of his family.

"For how long?" asked Paige, a little unnerved that the future of all evil could have been spying on them for a long time.

"Not long," he said quickly, "just the past couple of days…"

"And you didn't tell us, why?" snapped Phoebe

"You had enough on your plates," he said sighing, " and besides it's nothing serious, its not like he's never done it before. When I was in the future he was almost constantly in my mind."

"Why?"

"Oh the usual, join me Chris or else. Stop this petty resistance; you'll never succeed…"

I do not sound like that

"And he'd do that why?" asked Piper

Chris shrugged, "he's the source of all evil and the most powerful magical being ever; he doesn't really need to explain his reasons. It's probably part of some overly complicated plan to turn me evil."

Not evil; just to convert you to my way of thinking.

"Ok," conceded Piper dismissively, "so future Wyatt has given us more powers for some inexplicable reason, which seems to involve turning you evil. How did he do it?"

"What?"

"How? Did he cast a spell from the future?"

Phoebe shook her head, "I'm pretty sure this kind of thing requires physical contact; like maybe a potion… the potion that demon threw!"

"What demon?" asked Piper confused.

"The one from my projection; from when we got our memories erased by Chris' spell!"

"Chris's spell?"

"Yes," replied Chris quickly, "the spell I gave you to erase the memories of the people at the bay mirror, but that makes sense cause it was almost directly after that, that everyone started developing extra powers. It would also explain why Paige developed invisibility instead of healing when she cast the spell, the potion meant she was already able to heal; even if she didn't know it."

"Wow," exclaimed Paige, "everything makes so much sense! I can't believe everything that happened this last week was for a reason, and not just randomly strung together in an attempt at comedy."

"Almost everything," contributed Piper, " your invisibility spell was just because of your idiocy."

Paige's face fell, "oh yeah."

"Never mind honey," said Phoebe sympathetically.

"Just one last thing, how did Wyatt expect this to turn Chris evil. I mean it hasn't worked has it?"

No, growled the voice of Wyatt in Chris' mind.