I finally got this up. Yay! Hopefully yo guys still want to read it.

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Chris's hand shivered over his neck. Blood covered his fingertips like spider webs. He stared up at Jade as she cradled her black cordless phone in her hand. Her other hand was holding his free hand. Her eyes glistened as they traveled over the arrow sticking out of his lower abdomen.

"Chris, how is this…"

She didn't finish. A moment later, white petals of light glistened before them like raindrops in the air. Jade dropped the phone onto the carpet as the light transformed itself into people. Her mouth hung open as the shrouds of light disappeared to form Leo and Piper.

She turned to them with her dark brown eyes resting on Chris. Leo instantly moved forward towards his son. His eyebrows drew together to wrinkle his tanned forehead. Piper quickly flicked her wrists at Jade to freeze her. Then, she turned her attention back to her son. Her hand resting over her pale pink lips and her other resting wrapped across her chest.

"Chris, why didn't you call us sooner?" Piper cried.

"I.." Chris tried to speak before pain wrenched through his side.

"Darklighters arrow," Leo informed her.

Piper kneeled slowly before her son. Her hand brushed his light brown hair from his forehead. Then, she quickly went to pull the arrow out.

"No! No!" Leo cried knocking her hands away from the arrow. "You're pregnant. It's poison to the baby."

"But how do we get the arrow out? It's poisonous to you too!" Piper cried waving her hand and accidentally blowing up a nearby pillow.

The white fluff flew slowly through the air as Chris coughed out, "Jade."

"Jade?" Piper asked looking back up at the girl she had frozen a moment before.

"Jade.. she under..stands." Chris coughed out as his body wrenched with a new wave of spasms.

"How?" Piper asked. "Did you tell her?"

"I think.. she figured it.. out." Chris replied, swallowing hard on the pain.

"Chris, you can't do that. You can't be reckless like that. You have to be careful about our secret." Piper told him.

"Piper, she's the only one right now. You have to unfreeze her," Leo cut in.

"Alright," Piper replied. Her wrists flicked in Jade's direction. "But we are so having a talk, young man. And don't think that that doesn't mean your father doesn't use memory dust on your friend."

Jade unfroze slowly. Her eyes blinked as she slowly shook her head in wonderment. A few small pieces of fluff from the pillow were falling to the ground as she frowned at them. Her eyes then rested on Chris as he tried to smile up at her through the pain.

Jade took a deep breath, "So, you must be the in-laws."

At the silence, she giggled nervously.

"Alright. Whatever. I need you to take the arrow out of my son right now," Piper ordered.

Jade moved off of the bed. She sat down next to Chris with her legs resting under her. He laughed a little and started coughing in pain. "I bet.. you never.. thought.." he tried to say.

"That this would ever happen," she finished with a small smile.

Jade pulled at the arrow. Her hands bending the wood till it cracked into two. She lost the top half of it and pulled the rest slowly from his body. Her one hand never left its spot cradling the nape of his neck. Once it was out and Chris was breathing raggedly she tried to offer the arrow to Leo and Piper, but they quickly backed away from her.

"Poison," Chris explained to her confusion.

Jade instantly dropped the arrow, "Shit! You let me touch it and it's poisonous!"

"No, only to us. Chris and I are whitelighters and Piper's pregnant with a future witheligher to be. You, being human, makes you immune to its poison." Leo gently informed her.

Jade looked down at Chris's blood on her hands, "Oh."

Leo moved forward. Now, that the arrow was safely out of Chris he could heal him. "Thank you," he said to Jade. Then, he rested his hands over Chris's chest. A moment later there was a soft golden glow illuminating from them as he healed Chris.

"Wow," Jade whispered.

"Yeah, wow." Piper agreed with a warm smile.

Chris struggled to a sitting position as soon as Leo was done healing him. He gave his mom and dad both a big smile as he looked back at Jade. Piper shook her head as Leo came to stand beside her and then she froze Jade again.

"Alright, onto our next problem. What are we going to do about her?" Piper asked.

"Erase her memory? Go back to pretending nothing happened." Leo offered.

"No way!" Chris cried, taking the steps left between them.

"No way?" Piper repeated.

"No, I… She's okay with it, mom. She gets it. How? I don't know. Why? I can't say, but she does. Don't take this away from me. Not when someone outside of magic that's not an innocent knows about us and gets it!" Chris cried.

"Chris, honey," Piper tried in a tired voice.

"No, mom. Not her! You can use magic all you want on anyone you want, but I want her."

Piper's face contorted. She looked down, swallowing hard, and biting her lips.

"You're sure she can keep our secret?" Leo asked.

"Yes."

"Because this just isn't your secret anymore, Chris. This is the whole families secret. All of our lives are in her hands," Piper explained worriedly.

"I know, mom."

Piper shook her head.

"Mom, how many times have you wished you could be normal? How many times have you wanted to tell our secret?" Chris asked her, pleadingly.

Leo stayed quiet. His arm now over Piper's shoulders as she listened.

"She's the one and only person I've ever trusted with it. She's okay with it. Sure, freaked out, but I can talk to her about it. I don't have to make up some lame excuse for disappearing all the time and I get someone that I can talk to about it. Someone normal. Someone that can accept me the way I am. Which is basically as a freak of nature."

"You're not a freak of nature," Piper interrupted.

"Either way you wrap the package I'm still not like everyone else."

"Chris, honey, you're my son. You'll see, live, and even learn things that no one will ever know, but you will carry that wisdom with you forever. You will save so many lives and prevent so much pain. You have a gift that sure you can't return it, but you can always use it to help others." Piper sighed. "Chris, I'm just worried that the more she knows the more susceptible she is to getting hurt and then what will you do when that happens? Or worse when she dies because of knowing our secret."

"I need her," Chris responded shaking his head.

"Chris!" Piper cried.

"I want to let her be the one to decide to forget or live with it."

"Chris, I.." Piper tried, but failed.

Leo interrupted. "Are you sure about this?"

"Yes." Chris replied adamantly.

"Fine," Piper said looking from her stubborn son to her husbands blazing eyes she unfroze Jade. Piper took a step back towards Leo and let his wrap his arm around her.

Jade smiled, "You're all better."

"Yeah," Chris replied.

"Okay, hate to interrupt. Well, Jade we've all got a question for you," Piper said.

"Shoot," Jade replied.

"How are you dealing with our secret?"

"Secret? Oh, you mean the whole 'witch thing'," Jade responded air quoting. "It's cool. You save the world on a daily basis."

"What are you planning on doing with that knowledge?" Piper asked.

Jade looked at them quizzically. "Far be it from me to tell your secret."

"Good. Let's keep it that way," Piper replied clapping her hands together. "Chris, curfew in a half hour."

"Nice meeting you," Jade called as they orbed out.

When they were gone she looked over at Chris with a small grin, "So you think they liked me?"

Chris laughed rubbing his cheek self-consciously.

You've got explaining to do, young man!" Piper said. "And you'd better start talking."

Chris jumped at the sound of his mother's voice as he realized where he was again. She was leaning against the island as Wyatt quietly healed her. Paige sat nearby in a chair at the table and Phoebe was in the process of collapsing there as well with an icepack on her forehead. Somehow, he'd lost a few moments in time. A repercussion of the spell? Where was Prue when he needed her?

"Now!"