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A/N: Okay it took long till I finally updated- and I am really sorry. But I am just too busy :( . Sorry. I fear this chapter isn't very long either… but I try to update more frequently. But as I say, I try! Till then, hope you like this chapter and please nevertheless review!

Chapter 4

Before Phoebe could do anything stupid she heard somebody groan painfully. The sisters immediately ran over to the couch where they saw Chris lying.

"Oh god, Chris…" Phoebe said as she suddenly channeled his emotions – his pain.

"The antidote… give him the antidote." Phoebe said in panic… as her vision slowly clouded and she could only fell the pain.

Piper, who saw her sisters panic immediately grabbed for the vial with the antidote and Paige orbed a teaspoon to her. Piper kneeled in front of Chris and softly uplifted his head so she could slip the antidote into his mouth… To her relief he didn't struggle but swallowed it all.

The next second Piper could feel that Chris body relaxed – although she hadn't even realized how knotted he had been. It was as if a lot of pain was gone now.

Phoebe who sat on a chair now and she could clearly feel how he pain disappeared – it seemed as if the demon hadn't lied about the antidote… which would only mean, that the deal would be implemented honestly too. Well Phoebe could free herself from Chris' emotion now at least…

"Everything okay?" Paige asked her sister, who nodded… "The antidote worked." Phoebe answered.

"Great." Paige said with not much enthusiasm.

In that second Leo came downstairs with Wyatt on his arm. The sisters had decided that the two should stay upstairs as they called Krad – just in case…

"What happened?" Leo asked his wife, who was looking at Chris thoughtfully.

"We made the pact with the promise not to tell Chris about it and therefore Krad gave us an antidote for Chris." Piper summarized the events.

Leo only nodded.

"So what do we do now?" Paige asked as nobody did anything.

"Wait till Chris get better?" Phoebe suggested.

"So we just follow the deal? And in the end…" Paige asked helpless.

"Oh god… what did we do?" Phoebe whispered…

"We had no other choice!" Piper tried to defend their actions although she felt uncomfortable too.

"We had to save Wyatt's life!" Leo said calm.

"And therefore we are allowed to kill somebody else? Our whitelighter?" Phoebe asked with no emotion… they all were fuzzy – as if they had been under a spell (A/N: which they weren't)… they just realized the whole extent of their pact.

"How can we cherish somebody till he is well and then simply kill him? We never killed an innocent… oh god… I can't do that." Phoebe said suddenly hysterically.

"Phoebe calm down." Piper said suddenly loud.

"Oh right you can do that, right? Because so you can save Wyatt, right?" Phoebe hissed back.

"I didn't …" Piper tried to defend herself, but Phoebe didn't let her.

"Have you ever thought that he has family too? He has a mother who loves him and who would give her life for him… we can't kill him." Phoebe said with tears in her eyes.

"Actually his mother is… forget it." Leo just wanted to correct Phoebe's tense.

Piper and Paige immediately went over to her sister and hugged her.

"But what shall we do? Krad said himself that he is watching us." Paige gave them all, the hint that they should be careful with what they were talking about.

"He would know about each of our plans!" Paige warned.

The others immediately shut up… they had totally forgot this part.

That was as Chris began to moan.

"Chris?" Piper asked carefully…

"Mom?" Chris whispered.

The sisters suddenly felt uneasy it was the first time that Chris showed some kind of humanity. Needing the comfort of his mother. They all felt sorry for him but they also felt sad because they couldn't help him.

„Chris, it's me Piper… you are going to be fine, okay… Chris. Chris." Piper softly said.

Chris slowly opened his eyes… at first he thought it was really his mother and he smiles happy, but then his memories came back and he was aware in which time he was and his face turned serious again and he tried to get up.

"No…" Piper pushed him back… but she didn't need to try hard, because the second Chris was in the sitting position his head began to spin and he lay back fast. But he didn't loose his conscious.

"What happened?" He mumbled.

The sisters and Leo looked at each other…

"Uhm… the demon attacked you and you got sick… but Piper found an antidote and we found out that the demon's name is Krad… but that's all." Phoebe lied.

"Wyatt…" Chris whispered. And now Piper felt even worse. Chris really did care for Wyatt and she was sacrificing him… there had to be another way, she thought and she had to try hard to keep herself from crying.

"He is okay. Don't worry." Piper said.

And Chris relaxed… „Krad…" Chris whispered… and then he smiled. He remembered Wyatt playing this game with him… always when they tried to hide something from their mother, they spelled the words reversed… and one time as Aunt Phoebe came to visit them she immediately figured it out…

"What?" Paige asked as she saw him smiling.

"Nothing. I just thought that the demons really aren't so original with their names anymore." Chris said.

"That's what I thought too." Phoebe said and smiled at Chris, but he didn't see it, because he had his eyes closed again…

„Chris… we need your help…" Phoebe then said and he forced himself to open his eyes again.

"We need to know everything you know about what is going to happen in the future… what is going to happen to Wyatt?" Phoebe asked calm – she hated herself for it.

Chris had to laugh weak… "So now you need my help?" he asked bitter.

Phoebe looked at the floor and bit her lip.

"It won't help you to find or kill the demon anyway… because I don't know anything about him either." Chris said. 'Expect the fact that the demon is from the future and is working for Wyatt.' Chris thought… but he knew that he should keep this secret, otherwise it could cause too many questions, which he wouldn't be able to answer – future consequences.

"You could give it a try… and we could need the answers anyway." Paige tried to convince Chris, but he felt dizzy again and he closed his eyes. The next second he felt asleep again.

"Great… it's not working like that." Piper said angrily as they all had went to the dinning room, so Chris could sleep in peace.

"Let him rest. Till he is fit again." Paige said.

"That's not what I meant…" Piper said frustrated. "He is here for over a half year and till now we couldn't get him to talk about future as much as we want… how are we supposed to learn everything in two days? Especially as he doesn't know that we really need the information." Piper said.

"I guess you have no other choice then to cast a spell." Leo said.

"… probably." Phoebe mumbled sad.

"The truth spell." Paige suggested.

And her sisters nodded.

"Can you watch him?" Piper asked Leo, who nodded. The sisters slowly went upstairs… to the attic.

As they were in the attic they went to the Book of shadows and Piper started to flip through the pages. Nobody said a word… what was there to say anyway?

The truth spell… "We should rewrite it… or maybe mix a potion instead." Piper said.

"You mean, because the spell would influence us too, right?" Paige asked.

"Exactly." Piper said and went over to the potion table.

"Can you mix a potion?" Phoebe asked.

"It's complicated… but, yes I guess I can do that." Piper said in thoughts. "But it will take a while. After the mixing it has to cool down for I would say another two hours." Piper counted.

"You notice that we are running against the time." Paige said.

"But if it works immediately… maybe we can find a solution in time. It's our only chance. And we at least get the needed information." Phoebe said sad.

"Okay… you mix it… and we should work on a spell to bind Chris powers, also the Whitelighter ones… so he doesn't disappear in the underworld again, the second we don't watch." Paige suggested.

"But if a demon attacks, he wouldn't be able to defend himself." Phoebe objected.

"Krad promised not to attack." Paige said.

"Excepted the fact that you trust a demon… I actually meant the other demons that are coming in and out here everyday. We can't leave him defenceless." Phoebe insisted.

"Okay, okay… what about a spell that prevents him from orbing away from us and using his powers against us?" Paige suggested.

Phoebe nodded satisfied… "Let's start!" She said now enthusiastically.

Leo watched Chris. Somehow it became harder and harder to hate the young man. The fact that he was vulnerable woke a feeling in Leo that he couldn't identify and explain yet. But he had the strange feeling that he should protect him. It irritated him. Since the day Chris came in the Halliwell manor Leo has mistrusted him … and now these father like feelings. Leo shook his head. He must be tiered.

Piper came downstairs. Watching Leo pacing through the room with Wyatt in his arm.

"Something new?" she asked.

Leo looked up and calmed down. "No… he is just sleeping." He answered.

"Well we should wake him in a few minutes, to give him the antidote." Piper said.

"Already two hours?" Leo asked confused. He had totally lost his feeling for time.

Piper smiled at him. "We or I mixed a truth potion for Chris and Phoebe and Paige wrote spells to bind his powers to a limit. I think as he slept the whole time now, the next sip from the antidote should be enough so he can answer questions." She said.

"Yeah…" Leo said in thoughts.

"Well I can't give him the potion yet… it still has to cool down. But we can at least cast the spell already. So our little friend here can't run or orb away again." Piper said looking at Chris.

Leo went over to her and kissed her on the forehead.

"We will safe Wyatt… nothing will happen to him. Not as long as I live." He said to her and she smiled.

"Leo, you are dead already… or better you can't die." Paige said giggling as she and Phoebe came downstairs.

"I guess that proofs it, right." Leo answered.

"Yeah. We won't loos him." Phoebe said confidently, giving Wyatt a kiss on the cheek.

Paige waved with a slip of paper. "I think we should first cast this… and then the antidote!" she suggested.

Her sisters nodded. They went over to her and read the spell. A light surrounded Chris and disappeared – with Chris' powers.

Piper went over to Chris and shook him softly. "Chris."

His eyes slowly opened and he looked into his mother's eyes. He smiled.

"Here take the antidote and you will feel better." She promised. He swallowed the antidote and the dizziness he had disappeared. And he remembered that he was in the past, and that the woman in front of him wasn't his mother. His face immediately became emotionless again. The mask he had worn since he came back. This happened the second time today… and for him it was really annoying.

"Piper… how late is it?" Chris asked concerned.

"Since the last time you woke up, two hours past." Piper answered.

"We have to find the demon." Chris said and jumped up.

"You are not fully cured yet. You should calm down." Phoebe protested.

"I am fine! I can take care of my self…. And I can't believe that you all are standing here so calm. There is a demon out there who is more powerful then the CharmedOnes and he is after Wyatt." Chris said.

"Who says we didn't try to find a solution?" Piper protested.

"I don't see a mess of books and potion ingredients anywhere. What the hell have you done in the two our more hours? Sitting here and waiting for me to wake up?" He asked sarcastically. But as he saw the faces of the others – he knew that it was actually the only thing they did.

"You have to be kidding me! Oh god I don't have time for such stupidity. I am going to the Underworld to find some answers." Chris said and tried to orb out.

The others looked at him expectantly and Paige had to smirk as she saw that nothing happened.

"What the hell?" Chris asked.

"Oh. I forgot. We did something. You are going nowhere. First you answer some questions!" Piper said. She was a little bit confused about her feelings towards Chris. They seemed to go up and down today. First she felt pity for him, and then she was angry again… Today definitely happened too much.

"You bound my powers?" Chris asked shocked. "You have to be kidding me!" he said angrily.

"Sit." Leo ordered.

"What if a demon attacks? You let me die?" Chris asked and there was a little panic in his voice.

"No… your powers work, when you get attacked by demons. And now sit down." Piper calmed him down.

Chris glared at the sisters but finally sat down. "As far as I remember, I already told you. I know nothing about the demon. That's why I need to go to the Underworld." Chris said.

"We don't want to talk about the demon. We want to talk about you!" Piper said and the others sat down too, opposite to Chris.

-to be continued-