Childish Power

Disclaimer: I guess like all the other authors here: I don't own Charmed.

Summary: One thing he regretted. He regretted of having left behind… but Chris doesn't need to wait long… a four year old girl is coming from the future… but she has more secrets than she knows

A/N: I feel very bad, that I didn't update in the last few weeks… But I guess I needed a break. I try to update a little more, but I can't promise… But I can promise, that I will finish all my stories I started, even if it takes some years :) – what I don't hope…
Okay a few things are going to happen in this chapter and some parts may be confusing – and maybe some people here will see the truth… but even if you don't understand it… the solution will come in the next chapters, of course… and hopefully soon.

Chapter 3

As every day since last week Chris was in the Underworld, as he heard Evelyn crying. "Daddy." The words echoed in his mind… it took a few seconds till Chris really understood what she had yelled… Daddy… and he could sense that the sisters and Leo were in the same room as she was… He knew that there was no expletive that could express his feelings… but he also felt Evelyn's fear. She was totally desperate and confused… he loved the girl too much to leave her alone, even if it meant, that he had to expose his secrets. So he orbed into the Manor.

"…we didn't want to scar you, it's okay." Phoebe tried to calm the girl down. She felt bad because Evelyn was crying for her father, while she knew from Chris, that he was probably dead.

But none of the adults had to do anything, because Chris just then orbed behind Evelyn.

"Hey… sweetheart." He said.

As Evelyn heard her Daddy's voice she turned around with a smile and ran into his arms… "Daddy!"

He took her in her arms and wiped away her tears and mumbled comforting words into her ear.

"Hey my little angle…it's okay. I am here. You are safe now." He whispered. He slowly went with her to the couch and sat down, totally ignoring the CharmedOnes who were looking at him with open mouth. They indeed had heard Evelyn saying Daddy to Chris and they were sure that it wasn't confusion.

"The man blue light appeared and then they said magic and mommy says no… and then they said they don't want to tell you." Evelyn tried to explain everything to her father as fast as possible, but it took him a few seconds till he managed to encode her message… he smiled at Evelyn and gave her a kiss on the forehead, but inside of him he was angry, really angry… they could have ruined everything and … he didn't even want to think about it.

"Listen, sweetheart… I will explain everything to you in a few minutes, okay. I promise… but stay here with Wyatt, okay. I have to talk to the other adults first, do you understand?" Chris asked.

"Are they in trouble now?" Evelyn asked him with big eyes. "I didn't want…"
Chris had to smile… "No… it's okay. Nobody is in trouble, okay? We will be in the kitchen… just yell if you need me, okay?" He said and he placed her back on the floor and she ran to Wyatt.

The sisters and Leo still looked at Chris and Phoebe even tried a smile, but it faded fast as she saw Chris glare. He pointed to the kitchen and finally Piper was the first one who moved, who was followed by Leo and then Paige and Phoebe. Chris gave Evelyn a last smile and finally went into the kitchen too, where the sisters and Leo already stood around the table.

First there was a long silence, they just looked at each other, until Phoebe just couldn't keep it any longer.

"Look Chris we are sorry… this was an accident." Phoebe started.

"Okay, I would have understood it, if you had called me immediately. As Evelyn saw Leo orbing in, right?" Chris said with a glare.

"Could we please come to the important point?" Piper asked impatient.

Chris gave her an 'I-am-making-the-rules' look, but Piper didn't care.

"Oh don't give me that look. That is my house and slowly but surely I am done with your lies." Piper said angrily.

"What do you want me to say… yes… she is my daughter. I lied to you, because I had to protect her?" Chris asked angrily. Well actually this was a lie again, but he didn't expect them to find out.

"Wow… that's a beginning…" Paige said.

"So she is really your daughter? How sweet." Phoebe said with delight.

"And she is so not like you." Paige added.

Chris kept quiet… he didn't really know how they would react… but he had known, that it was definitely safer for Evelyn that they didn't know. Well they didn't know about his identity, so it was probably not such a big deal for them…

But then Piper disturbed this normal discussion.

"You are her father? Then I would like to know how a father can abandon his daughter, like this?" Piper said angrily.

"What?" Chris said shocked… well actually he had thought about this subject himself a few times, but suddenly being accused of it – he definitely wasn't prepared for it.

"First you let her in the future, while you don't even know if you come back and then you leave her there while it seems very dangerous there, as her mother is already dead and then you only show up once, since she is here and then you just let us rise her?" Piper said angrily.

"I don't think that it is your concern…" Chris said angrily, but calm.

Phoebe, Paige and Leo meanwhile looked shocked at Piper …

"Eh, Piper… calm down." Paige tried and reached out for her sister, but Piper didn't even look at them.

"Oh and how it is my concern. I know how it is for a child to be raised without its parents. I experienced it at first hand (A/N: can I say it like that?) and I see it with Wyatt." Piper said and somehow couldn't stop.

Leo flinched at her words, but didn't say anything. He knew it himself…and he knew that Piper needed this somehow.

"Okay… I understand." Chris said with a sad look. He knew exactly what she meant, because he had experienced it himself too. As he was a child he had always cried for his father in the night… that was probably the reason why he had taken care of Evelyn so good. Well of course he loved her, but he had actually spent way too many hours with her – too many, so he had actually jeopardized her safety. Bianca had told him, he himself was even surprised that Wyatt hadn't found out about Evelyn in those four years, but she was his little angel…

"You don't need to take care of her anymore… I will take her with me." Chris said and turned around to head for the living room.

"Wait… it was obvious that you would do this… Only bringing her in more danger." Piper said. Piper didn't even know why she was suddenly acting so hostile towards Chris… she liked Evelyn very much. She was like the girl she never had… maybe it was because she just didn't want that something happened to her … that somebody hurt her.

But Chris didn't turn around… he just orbed out – his face pale. He had sensed something that just made his day more perfect…

"Chris?" Phoebe asked confused and then they heard yells from the living room.

"Ahh…" "Daddyyyyy." Crash and something exploded. The sisters and Leo ran into the living room, only to see that Wyatt had risen his protection shield around himself, Evelyn and Chris, who was lying on the ground – an arm around Evelyn. He was still conscious, but he had a very strong bleeding wound on his shoulder. He obviously had protected Evelyn from an energyball or something like that. And then the sisters saw one of the black cloaked demons that had tried to attack Evelyn on the day she arrived.

"Hey." Piper said, to distract the demon from her child.

But the demon didn't even bother, so Piper used her powers to let the demon explode, but to her surprise nothing happened.

"What?" The CharmedOnes said, but there was no time to be surprised, because the next second the demon conjured an energyball and threw it against Wyatt's shield and again to the CharmedOnes' and Leo's surprise the energyball easily went throw it.

Chris who saw the energyball coming used his powers and telekinesed Wyatt and Evelyn in the CharmedOnes direction. But Chris was hit by the energyball with full forth and he cried out in agony.

Piper and Leo immediately ran over to their son, but after Leo had Wyatt in his arms, Piper wanted to grab for Evelyn, but the little girl looked at her father with shocked eyes. Tears were running down her face and her face was pale.

"Evelyn." Piper tried to get Evelyn's attention as she saw with shock that the demon was going in their direction. "Orb us out." Phoebe told her sister and her brother in law.

Paige and Leo shared a panic look. They had already noticed since a few seconds, that they couldn't orb and the other two sisters saw the look and knew immediately that they were screwed.

"No…" Evelyn whispered and slowly went over in Chris' direction.

"Evelyn, no!" Paige yelled, because Evelyn was also heading for the demon. But Evelyn didn't seem to have heard.

"Daddy!" Evelyn cried and more tears were running down her face as Chris didn't react.

The demon now was next to Chris and she looked at Chris body for a second… and then Evelyn's eyes – which were normally brown - suddenly became blue. It seemed as if a light was surrounding her and then the demon began to burn… it wasn't a fast death… first the cloak burned off and then the CharmedOnes and Leo could see with shock that the demon was a young woman – pretty beautiful – and Leo could even sense some Whitelighter blood – but how was this possible. The demons cried in agony and it seemed as if it would never end and she had a surprised look on her face as she looked at Evelyn. The demon's and Evelyn's eyes met and suddenly the demon gave Evelyn a cheerful and thankful smile and then the demon exploded.

But Evelyn's magic didn't stop after that. Suddenly the whole house began to shack. Everybody expect for Evelyn fell to the ground and then all lamps in the house were turned on and then they exploded.

"OH my god… Evelyn, stop it!" Paige yelled.

But Evelyn just looked at Chris, who was lying on the ground unconscious.

"Daddy!" she whispered.

The three sisters had the same idea at the same time and they all tried to get to their feet and went over to Chris body. But before Piper could touch Chris, she and her sisters were thrown against the next wall.

"Piper!" Leo yelled and went over to the sisters and healed them.

"Heal Chris!" Piper whispered to Leo as now, besides the shacking house now also the furniture flew through the whole house.

Piper gave her husband a serious look, so he passed Wyatt to her and he orbed to Chris and immediately placed his hands above him. He hadn't the chance to heal Chris completely, because he was thrown against the next wall after a few seconds, but it had been enough for getting Chris conscious again.

Chris moaned and then he heard the crash and as he looked up he saw a chair crashing into the wall next to him. Chris immediately jumped up and looked around. What he saw was a whole chaos. The house was still shacking and the half living room was turned upside down. He saw the sisters and Leo all lying at the wall and then he saw his sweet little girl. Her face was full of tears and he saw her blue eyes – like her fathers, he thought.

"Evelyn…it's okay… Everything is okay. Just calm down." Chris asked her…but she didn't react she didn't seem to notice anything around her and the next moment Chris saw the table flying into his direction. He immediately jumped away and crouched. And he heard a loud crush behind him.

He knew Evelyn was out of control… it was the first time since four years that he saw her using her powers and as she was born, she definitely didn't threw tables after him. He knew that her powers were overwhelming her and she probably wouldn't be able to control her powers even if she wanted… Chris sighed. He knew he had no other choice. He cursed the person who was responsible for this power-mess. He closed his eyes, not really wanting to do what he was going to do… but what other choice did he have. He sighed once again and then he totally focused on his little angel.

He raised his hand and with a precise move he threw Evelyn against the next wall.

"Ahhh." Evelyn yelled shocked. The magical chaos immediately stopped. The house wasn't shacking anymore and it seemed as if it hadn't affected the world outside at all, because there still everything was normal. But the mess in the house was indeed very real. But nobody cared.

Chris immediately ran over to Evelyn and softly brushed her hair. She was only unconscious, not hurt. Also the Charmed Ones went over to her, while Piper helped Leo up to his feet.

"What the hell did you do that for?" Piper immediately accused Chris again.

"What the hell should I have done else?" Chris asked angrily. The only thing he wanted now was to orb out with Evelyn, but he knew now, that he couldn't… she was only safe with them – here.

"Okay… we should all calm down now." Leo tried his luck and to his surprise Piper and Chris nodded.

"Okay… could somebody please explain now, what had actually happened?" Leo asked, as he only had little bits of information.

Paige turned to her brother in law and started to explain the whole story of Evelyn's arrival and the rest. Chris meanwhile had already placed Evelyn on the sofa, one piece of furniture which wasn't damaged already.

As Paige had finally told the whole story, Leo finally came to the idea to heal the little girl, but Chris stopped him.

"Don't! We have to talk first." Chris insisted.

The Sisters and Leo looked at Chris suspicious, but also curious… maybe he finally was willing to reveal something about the future on his own.

"Evelyn is very powerful… As she was born, the only possibility to protect her was to bind her powers. She has no idea that magic exists… her mother even taught her to hate, no, that's not the right word… Evelyn was supposed to grow up with as less magic as possible and she should see it as something crazy. It was very important, that nobody saw in her a magical being. What I didn't thought about, was the fact that her powers – despite the binding – nevertheless grew stronger… and as she finally met magical people, who didn't suppress their magic from her, her powers reacted to them." Chris told them.

The others just listened, they had no idea where Chris' story was heading to and they didn't even understand everything…but they feared that Chris would maybe stop, in case they interrupted him. Because they knew - felt. It was the first time that he was really honest with them.

"As the demon attacked me, Evelyn's emotion got out of control, which caused this." Chris said and pointed with his hands on the whole mess of the living room. Then Chris suddenly stopped. And there was a silence, but finally Phoebe spoke up.

"But I don't understand… what kind of demon was the one that attacked you? And why could she go through Wyatt's protection shield… and who exactly was Evelyn's mother, I mean she must be very powerful…" Phoebe began to babble, till Paige hit Phoebe softly, to stop her from talking.

But Chris gave her only a sad smile.

"Her mother was a normal witch; she could control the fire… Evelyn didn't get her strong powers from her mother…" Chris said, but before any of the others could interrupt him he changed the subject.

"The demons are powerful… very powerful. Their souls had been white once, but they chose the path of darkness." Chris said, he looked on the floor now.

"So she was really a Whitelighter?" Leo asked shocked.

"What?" The CharmedOnes asked irritated.

"As the cloak disappeared, I could sense Whitelighter blood from her." Leo answered pale.

"The cloaks are only there to hide their energy from other beings. There are… were three of them. The Ones, who turned first – because of love. Actually they were supposed to be four, but the last one got a gift, which kept her on the side of good." Chris explained and he again had the CharmedOnes and Leo's attention. Chris gave Evelyn a short look and stroked her hair once again and then he continued. He had to finish this fast. He knew that the other two wouldn't wait long to attack.

"The One who died was 'Eve' she was a new Whitelighter in 14 years – or will be…and as the new Evil Source came to his power, she followed his call. She loved or admired him – she trusted him. They had been friends… but he… well the other two were good witches. Also friends of him and they are powerful too. The New Source gave them unlimited powers… they are his spies, his guards… in case you would want to see the Source, then you have to pass them first." Chris tried to explain the immense power the demons have.

"Wait… if you say that they had been friends, do you mean the Source in your time had been on the good side as well?" Paige asked irritated.

Chris sighed and didn't look up from the carpet. "Yes… the Source had been on the good side once."

"Maybe he killed Wyatt in your time?" Leo suggested. But as he said these words Chris flinched and looked up into Leo's eyes. Who held Wyatt in his arms now and Chris answered sarcastically. "Maybe."

Leo and the CharmedOnes didn't understand what was going on now at all…

„As I said: The three demons were very powerful, one reason why they can go through Wyatt's protection shield. And Evelyn … she was able to kill 'Eve' and that is definitely a bad sign… You need to protect her. If she dies… there is no hope left." Chris said sad.

"So you are going to go demon hunting again?" Piper asked now concerned.

"I never planned to kill them. They are to powerful for me even if on of them is dead. I actually planned a deal or I searched for a possibility to send them back in their time." Chris admitted.

"Oh… Christopher. You are overestimate yourself." A female voice suddenly said. Everybody immediately jumped up, as they saw that the other two cloaked demons were standing in the living room now too.

"Roxy… Mandy." Chris greeted them.

The two demons took off their cloaks and it revealed two very beautiful young women. They were probably in the same age as Chris or a little bit older. Mandy became a sad look… she went over to the place where Eve had been vanquished and her hand moved over the spot. Immediately dust went into the air and it disappeared in white glows. "Rest in peace." Mandy mumbled as she joined Roxy again.

"I never thought you would fall so deep. Christopher. Always talking about good vs. evil… she had been one of you once and you can kill her in evil blood?" Roxy said.

"Oh, now you come with – she had been one of mine? In case you forgot…you both were too. You can fight it… this doesn't have to end like this." Chris insisted.

"Become somebody like you again? Somebody who kills his old friends? No thanks." Mandy hissed.

"And what exactly was Eve doing here? What are you two doing here?" Chris said angrily.

Leo and the sisters kept quiet, they knew it wasn't their fight, not yet… But they all knew too that this conversation hurt both parties. Especially Phoebe could feel that they all had been friends once… but something had separated them, something evil – she thought.

"She was only there because of the child… nothing more. Only following an order… but we, we are here for revenge…" Roxy said.

"You know who she is, right? Who her mother is… and you are blaming me? Do you really think that's what she wants? Oh I forgot… you killed her probably, right?" Chris said and he couldn't avoid a tear running down his face.

On the two demons faces appeared an evil grin.

"Maybe." Mandy said.

Suddenly Evelyn's body began to shake, her upper body shot up and she opened her eyes. "Mommy."

Chris, the Charmed Ones and Leo turned around to her.

"Evelyn…" Chris immediately ran over to her. They both hugged each other, but Evelyn looked in the direction of the two demons who grinned at her.

"Mommy." Evelyn repeated.

"Evelyn, she isn't here." Chris said to her as he released her from the hug, but Evelyn still didn't take her look from the demons – who were now three.

On Evelyn's face appeared a great smile and she jumped from the sofa, which caused everybody to turn around to the demons again.

They were all shocked to see a third young woman standing there – dressed in black. But Chris was more shocked, because he saw in her Evelyn's mother.

"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Mary said to Chris while she took Evelyn in her arms, who had run to her.

"Hello sweetheart. I missed you veeerrry much." Mary said to her little girl and kissed her on the forehead.

"Missed you too." Evelyn said and didn't release her mother from the hug.

"Wait… that is her mother…" Phoebe asked shocked.

"Didn't you say she was good… and dead?" Piper asked while she couldn't keep her look away from Evelyn and her mother.

"Another lie?" Leo asked cold.

"No… I thought she was dead… and she is good." Chris said and looked into Mary's eyes.

"In your dreams…" Mary formed with her lips and an evil grin appeared on her face.

"But it's good to know that you had a tear for my death." Mary said loud.

"And I don't regret it." Chris said seriously, which caused Mary to flinch.

"Okay… could somebody please tell us what's going on?" Paige said annoyed.

"They were supposed to be four, but the last one got a gift, which kept her on the side of good." Phoebe quoted Chris as she suddenly understood what he meant.

"What?" Her two sisters asked confused.

"Evelyn's mother was supposed to be the fourth one… but she got Evelyn – the present, which somehow kept her from turning evil. Right?" Phoebe concluded.

"It's not about good and evil… it's about power." Mary corrected her.

"Mommy you look funny." Evelyn suddenly said. "You don't like black." She remembered.

Chris had to smile because of that comment.

"You know sweetheart… things changed." Mary said and got to her knees, so she had eye contact with her daughter, who looked at her with innocent eyes. "You know Mommy loves you, right? And I only want the best for you." Mary said and Evelyn nodded with a smile.

"So you told him?" Chris interrupted the mother-daughter conversation.

Mary glared at him. "To protect her…" she said.

"Oh I see… so that's how he turned you? Becoming your worst nightmare?" Chris asked angrily.

"Daddy, don't yell." Evelyn said. She had never seen that her parents fight.

"Evelyn, I promised you to explain a few things, right… could you do Daddy a favour and come over to me?" Chris said… Evelyn immediately wanted to go over to him, but her mother suddenly grabbed for her arm and held her back. Evelyn looked at her confused.

"I have to tell you something about your Daddy." Mary started.

"Mary… not now… you can't do that." Chris said and stepped in her direction, but suddenly Mandy and Roxy stepped between mother, daughter and Chris. And immediately the Charmed Ones were next to Chris, too – to his surprise.

"Enough… I am tired of this game." Suddenly a calm voice interrupted them all. Roxy and Mandy immediately backed away and bowed their heads… Chris face got pale the second he heard the voice. He had never expected that he would come himself. The CharmedOnes and Leo meanwhile looked around confused.

Suddenly a young man with blond hairs came around the corner from the dining room and leaned against the doorframe – relaxed.

"And who the hell is this now?" Piper asked.

And before the man could answer himself, Chris and the three demons answered in unison. "Wyatt."

-to be continued –

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