CHAPTER II:

Unable to wait one more seconds Piper decided to wake up her sisters to fill them in all the recent events and ask them for their help.

"You stay here with him, I'll tell the girls and we WILL find a way to reverse the magic… you just keep on healing him if he looks too bad… we'll get out of this one sweetie, I promise." Piper said resting her hand on Leo's shoulder and kissing his cheek comfortingly.

Leo sighed and nodded ever-so-sadly.

"Everything is going to be fine, sweetheart… mom and dad will take care of everything, you just relax now, baby." She said kissing Chris' forehead.

"We have to save Wyatt!" He answered in his delirium, trying to sit down.

Leo ran to the bed and helped Piper force Chris back down on the bed.

"We'll save Wyatt, sweetie… don't worry… I am going to get your aunts and we are going to start researching the book… don't worry… we'll take care of everything this time, you just rest… we'll make sure everything is fine, baby." Piper cooed in his ear, while she caressed his hair.

"I am sorry, mom… I am just so tired… so tired…" He excused himself for not being able to help.

"I know you are, honey… don't worry… rest… mom and dad will take care of everything."

"If this is another of Chris' crazy stunts I swear I am going to kill his orbing butt… no respectable demon is up this early in the morning!" A very sleepy Paige yawned as she was dragged by Piper to the Hallway where an equally sleepy Phoebe was waiting for them.

When she heard Paige's words, Piper that had been fairly able to stay composed till now, started jerking trying to regain control of herself.

"What happened sweetie? Is everything ok?" Phoebe asked worried walking to her and hugging her. Piper shook her head, knowing that if she spoke she wasn't going to be able to restrain the tears.

"Have you been crying?" Paige asked concerned looking at her red stained eyes.

Piper let go a sob. "It's Chris… I know who he is…"

"What did he do to you? I swear that if he made you cried I am going to kick his skinny ass all the way back to the future where he came from!" Phoebe said protectively.

"No…" She cried.

"And why are you crying, sweetie?" Paige asked her concerned drawing soothing circles in her back. 'What did he do to you? Where is he? He better be prepare for the Charmed ones wrath cuz nobody hurts our sister without regretting it, right Phoebe?"

"Right… He is dead meat." Phoebe answered caringly.

Piper, of course, bawled her eyes out with that comment.

"What is it sweetie… we can't help you if you don't tell us!" Phoebe said sweetly. "What did Chris do NOW? Where is he?"

"He is in my room…Leo is taking care of him… he got stabbed by a power blocking athame and he is dying… we can't heal him and he is dying in my bed… my son is dying before he is even conceived!" She cried.

"He is dying?" Paige said shocked. It was fun to tease about killing Chris when he was fine and healthy, but she didn't want him to really die.

Piper nodded between sobs.

"What do you mean by your son?" Phoebe added.

Piper just nodded again.

"Chris is your son?" Paige asked even more shocked.

"Mine and Leo's and I told him to get out of here... I hurt my son…you should have heard him… he was scared of me… he said he didn't mean to hurt me…" She mumbled pseudo coherently in between sobs.

"Honey… I am sure he understood your reasons and already forgave you for that." Phoebe said understandingly, trying to put behind the fact that she had just found out that Chris was her nephew and she wanted to jump and scream or at least have some kind of reaction; but right now her sister needed her, she would have to put off the reaction for a little later.

"But he shouldn't have to forgive me for that… I shouldn't have said that…" She continued sobbing.

"Piper… I don't mean to be cruel… but what's done its done… and now the important thing is to get him well so we can ask him to forgive us, don't you think?" Paige asked her trying to snap her out of it, also realizing that if Chris was truly dying she didn't really have time to really chew and digest that Chris was her nephew right now, they will have to act now and deal with the turmoil of emotions of the later revelation later.

Piper nodded.

"So what do we know? Who did this?" Paige asked.

"We don't know… we need to find the magic that did it to reverse… but Chris is in such a bad shape he is not being really coherent most of the time, he doesn't really remember that he is in the past and he mixes time lines, and he doesn't really know… and it's better…cuz when he remembers he is devastated." Piper explained sadly.

"Well… but we need him to tell us who did this, Piper…it's the only way." Phoebe said sympathetically.

Piper nodded reluctantly.

"Well… I think is time we have a conversation with our newly found nephew." Paige said leading the other two to Piper's bedroom.

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When they entered the bedroom Phoebe and Paige repressed their gasps at the devastating sight of Chris; they didn't want to alarm even more the already distressed parents, but they never imagined their tough, detached, neurotic whitelighter could look like that, so pale, so frail and for the apparent pleads for companion and attention, anything but detached at least from the members of their family.

"Mom…" He moaned without opening his eyes a soon as they entered the room and Piper ran to him, holding his hand. Piper seemed to get lost in whatever she was cooing at her son, oblivious of anything but her son's weak state.

"Hey… how is super daddy doing?" Phoebe smiled at Leo good-humoredly.

"I've been better." He said trying not to show how really battered he was.

"We need to find out who did this, Leo." Paige said seriously.

Leo nodded but didn't move from where he was.

"We need to ask him." Paige ratified.

Leo nodded and sighed, he shook his son gently in order to wake him up.

"Chris, son… wake up for a second please."

Chris moaned in pain and Piper had to bite her tongue not to yell at everybody to stop disturbing her son.

"Please Chris, daddy needs your help."

"I am tired, dad… I don't feel good." He said weakly without opening his eyes.

"I know, buddy… but I really need you to wake up for just five seconds… can you do this for me, son?" He said holding his hand.

Chris groaned, but opened his hazy eyes trying to focus them on his father.

"Dad…" he tried to smile, but he was too weak.

"Hey, champ..." Leo smiled at him "I know this is hard son… but we need to you to tell us what happened to you… so we can heal you."

Chris looked at him and blinked three times, each time it took him longer to re open his eyes.

"Come on, sweetie, stay with us… we need your help so we can help you." Phoebe, who was now standing behind Leo, spoke.

"Tired" He said weakly.

"Come on, Chris… you can do it… if anyone is strong enough, you are… we need your help." Paige said, she was behind Piper, at Chris' right, while Leo and Phoebe where at his left.

"Come on sweetie… your whole family needs your help… you are not going to let us all hang in here, right?" Piper said lovingly stroking his hair.

"Wyatt" he mumbled, closing his eyes "The gi…" He trade off falling asleep again.

"Yeah… just think that you need to save Wyatt… that will keep your neurotic self going!" Paige exclaimed from behind and Phoebe chuckled a little.

"Nahh…" Leo said sadly "He was saying that his whole family is not asking him… that Wyatt is missing."

Piper nodding, confirming what he was saying. "And the gi… probably means the girls… and I am going to assume that would be your offspring, cuz I am not a rabbit!"

Paige and Phoebe smile as broad as they could smile in this sort of situation.

"Gee you are good parents…a couple hours of knowing he is your son and you already deduct that cuz he says Wyatt and the gi he means all that?" Paige asked amazed.

"No… he's been asking for Wyatt since he got hurt." Leo said sadly.

"He thinks we are not letting Wyatt inside the room, so he is just seeing how he can manipulate us to let his brother come and visit." Piper added stroking his hair with a sad, sad chuckle. "And that is better than having him remembering the truth."

"Still… if you ask me… that is a hell of good parenting… figuring it all that out in his state…he is lucky to have such great parents." Paige told them comfortingly and they smiled thankfully.

"Ok…" Piper sighed and looked at Phoebe "Bring Wyatt here… he will be able to sense him somehow, I guess... and try not to wake him up!" She told her as she walked out the door. "Wyatt is coming in a few minutes, sweetie" she whispered in Chris' ear and they could see how his mouth draw a smile.

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Chris was twisting and shaking in pain when a couple of minutes later Phoebe walked in with a sleepy Wyatt.

"Shh… leave him on the couch… he is going to fall asleep again and Chris will be able to sense him in the room." Piper whispered.

Leo meanwhile was trying to raise Chris' head up to give him some more pain killers.

"Come on Chris… open up… I need you to take this." Leo told him lovingly.

"No…" He moaned weakly.

"Come on Chris… it will make you feel better!" Leo pleaded.

But Chris didn't answer and just leaned forward so gravity would take his head to rest on his father's chest, and even if he was anything but bothered by his son resting his head on his chest, at this point the only thing he really cared about was stopping Chris' pain as much as he could.

"How did you get to be so stubborn, Christopher?" He scolded him lovingly.

"I take after mom, right dad?" He mumbled weakly with a faint smile with his head hidden in his father's chest.

Leo couldn't help but chuckling; Piper didn't know whether to find it cute or get angry.

"Well Chris… if you don't take your medicine I am going to ask Wyatt to leave the room and I won't let him come visit his sick brother until you are really better!" Piper threatened the boy, knowing Chris was able to sense Wyatt's presence.

And confirming one more time that her mother instincts worked perfectly, as soon as she said those words Chris opened his mouth and swallowed the pills his father was attempting to give him.

"That wasn't so hard now, was it?" Leo said gently putting him back into bed.

"Ok, we NEED to ask him what happened!" Paige felt horrible reminding them… but she couldn't stand there watching her nephew's life slip away without doing something.

"Can we just let him rest five minutes?" Leo pleaded.

"He is getting worst by the second Leo… what do you think?" Paige said sadly. "Chris… sweetie…we need to know what happened to you!" She asked kneeling in front of him. "Come on… open those beautiful eyes of yours for your Auntie, ok?"

Chris weakly opened his unfocussed eyes and looked at her.

"You are such a good boy." She told him as if he was a little kid, caressing his cheek.

He smiled weakly.

"Are you in pain, sweetie?" She asked and thank god she was just staring at Chris' eyes so she missed Piper's and Leo's glares.

Chris nodded.

"Do you remember how you got hurt?" She spoke to him as if she was talking to a little kid, but Chris seemed too confused and looked like he was mixing times and was definitely not acting very mature right now. Not that she could blame him, a deadly stab in the back and a dose of pain killers that were one pill away from an OD would do that to anyone.

"An eye for an eye he said…but he doesn't care!" His voice broke and he looked like he was going to cry.

"Who doesn't care, sweetie?" Phoebe asked caring.

"Wyatt… Wy doesn't care anymore…" Chris said heartbroken and his eyes got glassy.

"Wyatt did this to you?" Piper snapped freaked out.

"No… he said Wy cared about me … an eye for an eye, he said…Does Wy still care about me, mom?"

"I bet he does, honey… but who said an eye for an eye?" Paige asked him.

But Chris was turning his head around searching for his mom.

"Does he, mom?" He asked her with glassy eyes when he found her.

"Of course he does, sweetie." She caressed his hair and kneeled beside him, so as to be only a couple of inches away from her baby boy, who seemed on the verges of tears. "Everything is going to be fine…you need to tell us who did this to you… Wyatt is going to be very angry at whoever did this to his baby brother, right?" Piper said trying to repress her own tears…seeing Chris raving like this was killing her.

Chris did a futile attempt of nodding "Brothers forever… He'll always have my back and I'll always have his… always." He said as his eyes slowly began to close down.

"But who did this to you, Chris?" Leo snapped worried and Chris jolted startled.

"Did what, dad?" He looked at him confused, his eyes hazy.

"Who stabbed you, Chris?"

"Who was stabbed?" he asked confused and then a flicker of pain crossed his eyes " Bianca…Wyatt didn't mean to kill Bianca, right dad? Tell me it was an accident… he didn't mean to…" He rambled, his green eyes piercing his father's for the answer he was longing to hear.

"Wyatt killed Bianca?" Phoebe could help a horrified scream.

Chris eyes quickly flashed to his aunt before loosing consciousness.

"CHRIS!" Leo called him desperately one more time.

"I don't want to go to school today, dad… Paige says I have the highest grades in the entire school and I never miss classes… please let me stay, dad, I am tired, just today… let me sleep, please." He mumbled without opening his eyes.

"You seriously have the highest GPA in the entire school?" Leo beamed proudly, Piper looked at him like "Does it really matters right now?" but she was undeniably proud too.

Chris nodded and let go a weep of exhaustion. "Let me sleep, dad… please!" he begged in the verge of sobbing.

Piper kissed his forehead. "Just sleep baby…we are so proud of you."

Leo squeezed his hand gently. "You can sleep now, son…we love you."

"He is not going to tell us a thing!" Paige said worried.

Piper took her index to her mouth to indicate her to hush, she set the baby monitor besides Chris and covered Wyatt with a blanket and indicated everyone to leave.

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"How are we going to save him if we can't speak to him?" Paige said worried.

"Paige… did you see him there? He was exhausted…He needed to sleep… he wasn't going to tell us anything!" Piper answered her annoyed.

"Yeah…we need to find another way to help him!" Leo said resolved, he wasn't going to let anyone bug his son any more.

"You go ask around to see if you find something, we are going to try to put together what he said to see if we can come up with something." Piper told her ex husband.

Leo nodded and walked to his ex wife, kissing her forehead he told her "If you need me for anything… if Chris as much as moans… call me." He said orbing away.

Phoebe went to get a notepad and a pen. "He said an eye for an eye." She wrote while she said it out-loud.

"Sounds like a vendetta to me." Paige said and Phoebe nodded.

"Well… then we have to start seeing which demon might have something against Chris." Piper said determined.

"You mean your "lets slay a demon for breakfast, one for lunch and one for dinner and a couple in between, just in case" son?" Phoebe looked at her with eyes wide open.

"Yeay… that's going to be easy…The whole underworld probably has something against him!" Paige added.

"Well then the whole underworld better be prepared to answer me some questions, then!" Piper barked angry.

"Wait… but he said ""An eye for an eye he said…but he doesn't care!"" Paige said as having an epiphany.

Phoebe jotted it down. "Yeah… and when I asked him who didn't care, he said…" Phoebe followed her lead.

"Wyatt!" They both said at the same time arriving to the same realization.

"And then he said "he said Wy cared about me … an eye for an eye, he said"" Paige continued.

"He said Wy cared about me…" Phoebe repeated.

"What are you insinuating… that this wasn't something against Chris but against Wyatt?" Piper asked stunned. The other two nodded. "But Wyatt is a toddler!" Piper said in denial.

The other two just looked at her, knowing she was saying that more out of denial than because she was really that stupid.

"But why would they stab Chris if they had something against Wyatt? Why not try to kill Wyatt?" Piper asked still trying not to see it.

"An eye for and eye…and Wyatt cares…Wyatt probably killed or took something this demon cared for and now he is killing someone Wyatt cares for!"

"You are saying my good son might die cuz someone wanted revenge on my evil son?" Piper threw herself on the couch with a heavy thud.

"I am sure Wyatt is not all that bad." Phoebe said comfortingly sitting beside her and caressing her back.

Piper rolled her eyes at her. "Did you hear anything of what Chris said about him, when he could actually speak coherently?"

"Ok, Ok… maybe he is not Saint double blessed… but I mean, his brother seem to really love him, right? And he seems to think there is still some good left in him… and the demon that stabbed Chris seemed to think Wyatt cares about Chris too…" Phoebe comforted her.

Paige kneeled in front of her oldest sister. "Yeah, honey… I am sure there is still some good in Wyatt… and we are going to save him this time…we are going to save Chris first… he is going to go back to his full neurotic mode and he is not going to let us rest until we go insane or we save Wyatt… whatever happens first…and if you are insane… you are not going to even realize that one of your sons is evil and the other one is insanely neurotic…though we are going to understand why he is insanely neurotic… after all he did say he takes after you." Paige comforted her banteringly.

Piper chuckled a little sitting down straight. "ok… so how do we find a demon who wants to avenge something that probably is not going to happen for another twenty years?" She bitted her lip worried.

"Uh?" Leo asked materializing in front of them.

"Did you find out anything?" Piper asked him expectantly.

Leo shook his head devastated. "Nothing… nobody knows anything… You?"

"We think is someone that came from the future." Phoebe said.

"Why?" Leo asked.

"Someone that wanted revenge for something Wyatt did… or will do." Piper said heartbroken.

"An eye for an eye he said … he said Wy cared about me… an eye for an eye, he said." Paige repeated to Leo. "That's what Chris said."

"Bastard! That's why they stabbed him in the back? They didn't even have the guts to face him." Leo said angrily, wanting to blow something up.

"I know Leo… but getting all worked up about it is not going to help… we need to find a way to solve this!" Phoebe said soothingly.

"But how? How are we going to find who did it?" Piper asked worried.

"I have an idea… I just don't know if you are going to like it!" Phoebe bitted her lip and arched her eyebrows nervously.

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The Halliwell's little Angel

COOOL… I am so happy you like it… I hope you'll keep on enjoying it!

Septdeneuf

"I liked it so far." THANKS :)

"You didn't really give Piper and Leo time to react to the revelation which is a little of a pity in my opinion, but the way they found out over the stronger connection was great. " yeah… I am sorry… maybe they should have another moment…they will… at least Piper with her sisters…it's just that the kid is dying…

"I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next, they have to heal Chris somehow, don't they?" Dun.. dun … hehehe I am evil.. I know.

darcy101

OHH Don't cry… I know its sad…I am so glad you liked it so much… I hope you keep on enjoying it…

Ceres217

Thanks… here you have more!

CharmedBec

Thanks! I am glad you like it cuz you are such an awesome writer!

"So will evil Wyatt come back to save Chris?" Yeah…in a few chappies… I hope its not a disappointment! Predictable, yeah… but not disappointing.

Cassi

Heheh thanks… Maybe you like the way I write how Chris get hurts cuz I am a sucker for that too… I love when they get hurt and everybody fuss around him.

Victorious Light

"You know at first I thought this would be a one-shot, but you will be continuing it, right?" Yeah… it would be just plain cruel to end it there! Here you have some more!

"I like the idea that you set up and the fact that Chris blocked his senses from both his brother and past Leo. An interesting idea." Thanks! I am happy you liked it… I didn't think too much about it as a big deal when I wrote it… but apparently it seemed to catch on

"Nice threatening from the demon as well, wanting to know his last words to tell Wyatt." See… that one yeah… it was my own sick mind playing dirty tricks…I am glad you liked it.

"I have to say that I found the end part adorable, that he was asking for Wyatt to come and see him. Too cute, even if he is delirious. Lovely angst from both Chris and leo and Piper." Thanks… I hope you keep on enjoying it! Here you have

JadeAlmasy

Thanks my lovely and faithful reviewer!

phoebe turner

THANKSSSSSSSSS

" it would be interesting to see wyatt in the future and his reaction!" Hmmm… this is me thinking if I should tell you what is going to happen or not…I decided I shouldn't… unless you ask me again… cuz I am always tempted to tell everybody my whole plot…cuz I can't wait till I finish writing it to get people's opinion.

midnite-magic

THANKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS…I can give you a box of cybernetic tissues if you want… as a gift for being such a lovely reviewer!

Piper Chris fan

THANKSSSSSSS…I am glad you liked it, and I hope you continue liking it…yeah… when Chris gets better… I haven't wrote that scene yet… I haven't got anywhere near that scene yet… but I bet he is going to FREAK OUT…! Poor little guy…

Karen

"Aw Chris, Fantastic story i can't wait for more...hope we get to see some of future Wyatt to hint hint Lol" Hmm… I see my plot was super predictable cuz it was a super popular question… just cuz you ask (cuz don't ask with me cuz I love spoiling my reviewers) yeah… wait a couple more chapters and Mr. Goldilocks will make his appearance.

Starry Sky 44

Thanks… I swear your review made me smile so much you wouldn't believe it… you are sweet! Yeah I like it too when Chris is vulnerable and everybody has to take care of him…the deadly wound just adds to the pressure…but they'll figure something out… they always do…and I hope they come up with something, cuz I still haven't come up with exactly HOW they are going to cure him myself…

EosHeliosSelene

THANKSSS here you have.

Emma15

'Oh... very good! I just love it when Chris is hurt and vulnerable and not able to distinguish between his Mom and Dad and Piper and Leo." We are in the same page here… I love it too…
"I hope Wyatt feels that Chris is hurt in the future and comes to heal him..." Hmmm it is a popular question… VERY…a lot more than I expected…if you really want me to answer you what's going to happen, ask me again and I will reveal you anything you want… I just never know when people really want to know what's going to happen in the question or they are just asking rhetorically.

"I love Wyatt and Chris bonding stories..." Yeah… me too… all my stories ALWAYS end up being Chris and Wyatt bonding stories somehow…even when I don't plan for that to happen. So that should actually give you a hint for your previous question.

alienangel19852003

Of course… here you have more… I hope you liked it too!

teal-lover

Of course its going to continue… I am glad you liked it… you are so one of my favorite writers and readers… so every time teal lover appears somewhere, I am happy… hey if I see teal somewhere I automatically get happier…

Wyatt reaction? In a few chappies… it's coming and its going to be dramatic, to say the least… as I always portrait Wyatt…very flamboyant for lack of a better term.

Sparkling Cherries

"That opening sentence was bloody brillant! i mean "anesthetized body and soul." is a fantastic metaphore!" Thanks… I was actually about to erase it cuz I thought it might be too much…

" i mean just where did u get that." I guess from long nights with a hollow soul and a void vacuuming my heart (Ok… yeah I know that sounds super depressing… but come on…no one writes if they don't feel the whole spectrum of emotions pretty deeply, right? How can you know what 10 completely different characters are feeling and how to create tension scenes if you don't have a wide range of feelings and emotions yourself… don't u think?)

"Does this mean that wyatt is paying a visit to the past?" Wow… I've never been so predictable in my fics…EVERYBODY got that Wy was going to appear…Yeah… Wy will be here in a few chappies… it's coming and its going to be dramatic, to say the least… as I always portrait Wyatt…very flamboyant for lack of a better term