It had been a year since Chris's outburst of being a baby. He had gotten over it after his and Wyatt's talk and started kindergarten with all the other kids. His dreams came less often and went to his mom and dad for comfort though he never told them what they were about.
Chris, Wyatt, and their friend Lizzy were up in the tree house on their first official day of summer break. They didn't know why there were up there since there had already been two accidents. Lizzy had jumped out of the window and broke her foot and Wyatt had just gotten his cast off his arm after he fell off the ladder. But for some reason the old wooden house interested them and the potential danger added to the fun.
"So now what?" Wyatt asked standing up
"Shouldn't you be taking it easy after all you just got your cast taken off?" Lizzy joked
"Shut up, wasn't it you who broke your leg falling out of the widow? I broke my arm climbing down the ladder."
"I jumped out the winder and if I remember correctly you two dared me to."
"She is right you know." Chris said
"Find defend your girlfriend."
"She/he is not my girlfriend/boyfriend!" Chris and Lizzy yelled at the same time
"Fine, whatever, but please let's do something already."
"There is nothing to do up here, let's go back down." Lizzy complained, Chris nodded his head in agreement
"You two are no fun." They all stood up and started to head towards the ladder. As Chris stood up he felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. He walked backwards so Wyatt would be able to go down not noticing the window behind him. He hit his head on the top of the window as he started to fall out of the tree house. He heard Lizzy yell his name, but before he could respond he hit the ground and everything went black. Wyatt jumped off the tree as soon as he saw his younger brother hit the ground.
"Chris." He said shaking him, Lizzy was soon by his side, "I'm going to get my mom. You stay here in case he wakes up." Wyatt ordered jumping up and running inside the house. "Mom! Mom!" he shouted as he ran into the kitchen
"What, what is it?"
"Chris fell out of the tree house."
"What?" Piper asked a little annoyed, she had told the three of them to be careful up there after what happened to Lizzy and Wyatt.
"He hit his head on the window before falling out and now he isn't waking up." All of Piper's annoyance went away when she heard Wyatt. She ran out of the house to see Lizzy trying to wake Chris up.
"Don't touch him." Piper ordered getting to her son's side. She checked his pulse and breathing to find that it was a little weak and erratic. "Call 911 and tell Wyatt to call his aunts and dad." Piper said trying to stay calm so she wouldn't scare Lizzy, but in reality she was sacred out of her mind her baby was unconscious and there was nothing she could do to help him. Wyatt and Lizzy ran back outside after their phone calls.
"I reached Aunt Phoebe and Aunt Paige, but dad had his phone off."
"Okay." They heard the ambulance coming up their street, "I'm going to the hospital with Chris. Go back inside the house and don't leave until you Aunts get here, understand?"
"Yes." Wyatt and Lizzy gave Piper a comforting hug before running back in. They ran to the front window and watched as the EMTs loaded Chris into the ambulance. They sat of the couch in silence until Phoebe and Paige entered to house. They ran over to them and learned onto their bodies. Phoebe and Paige wrapped their arms around the distressed children and tried to comfort them.
"Did you reach your dad?" Phoebe asked running her hand's through Wyatt's hair. Wyatt shook his head, "We should try again, come on let's go."
They tried calling Leo a few more times, but he would not pick up his phone. They decided to sit around and wait for him to come home from magic school. When Leo did come home they ran over to see him.
"What's wrong?" he asked seeing the worried looks on their faces
"Chris fell out of the tree house and hit his head hard. He and Piper are at the hospital."
"I have to go." Leo said and started to head out the door, "Lizzy we should get you home."
"No!" she shouted surprising everyone but Wyatt, "I'm not going home until I know how Chris is, I can't. Besides I don't even know if my parents are home."
"Okay." Leo sighed before running of the door and into the car. He got to the hospital to see Piper sitting by herself with her head down. She looked up and ran over to her husband when she heard his footsteps flinging herself into his embrace.
"What are they saying?" Leo asked running his hand through her hair
"Nothing, they have been in there for a long time now. I'm worried, what if something happened to him?"
"I'm sure the doctors are doing everything they can to help him."
Piper and Leo sat down in silence his hand on top of hers resting on her knee. They saw a doctor walking towards them.
"How is he?" Piper asked getting up meeting the doctor half way
"You might want to sit down." He said worrying Piper and Leo they knew it couldn't be good. "Chris has a concussion but he hit his head pretty hard on an extremely sensitive part of his head. We have him stabilized, but I am afraid that he has failed to wake up,"
"But is he going to be okay?"
"I don't know, he could wake up in the next few hours or even the next few years. There is no real way of telling with head injuries. Also we are unable to tell if there has been any damage done to his brain. So far it looks like none, but we can't be sure until he wakes up and we do a cat scan."
"Can we go see him?" Leo asked squeezing Piper's hand
"Yeah, follow me." The doctor led them into one of the hospital rooms. Chris was lying on a hospital bed with a white bandage over his head. Machines were hooked up and beeping next to his bead. "I'll leave you three alone, call me if anything happens."
"He looks so peaceful." Piper whispered
"I know, we should call home they need to know."
"Yeah I know."
"Okay." Paige sighed "Don't worry sweetie he is going to pull through this."
"What did she say?" Wyatt asked as soon as his aunt hung up the phone and walked back into the room.
"He has a concussion and isn't waking up."
"But he is going to be okay, right?" Lizzy asked hopefully
"They don't know at the moment. They think that he will wake up, they just don't know when."
"You should call home." Phoebe said to Lizzy
"Yeah I guess, but I bet my parents still aren't home."
"It's late thought, they wouldn't just leave you here."
"Yeah they would, they do it all the time. But they do normally call to let Piper know that they can't come and pick me up."
"They really do that?"
"U-huh I'm here more than I am at my own house."
"It's true besides I like having her here at the moment." Wyatt said finally speaking up
"We need each other at a moment like this. We can talk in a different and more comfortable way then we would to adults."
"We understand, but you should still try. And if they're not home you can stay here with us."
"Okay." Lizzy sighed and walked over to the phone