A/N;Thanks for all your reviews, they really do motivate me to write, so please keep them coming. Hopefully this next part will answer some of your questions.

Chapter 6:I'm a whitelighter get me out of here!

"wuh?" Piper asked, still half asleep.

"quick where's Wyatt" Leo repeated, a note of urgency in his voice, his eyes darted around the room looking for his son, suddenly he realised that Piper was not alone in bed.

"nice, real nice" his tone changed to a sarcastic drawl. " here I am worrying about my son, and there's you, shacked up with lover-boy…."

"Leo" Piper croaked.

"….i mean is this why you haven't called for me in weeks huh? As soon as my back was turned you get it on with him of all people?..come on Piper you could have chosen any guy in the world, but no, you chose the one person I actually cannot stand! "

"Leo" Piper, drew back the covers and stepped out of bed " its not what you think.."

"Really?" he snarled before noting Piper's slightly swollen stomach "Oh this gets even better…your pregnant by him too? Ew Piper you're almost old enough to be his mother for gods sake"

If the situation hadn't been so serious Piper might have laughed at that comment, but as it was, she just needed to calm her ex-husband down. " Look, can we take this outside please? I don't want to wake Chris"

"We wouldn't want that now would we?" Leo shouted, " After all kids need their sleep"

Too late. Chris stirred, and opened his eyes. As his vision slowly came into focus he realised who was in the room. "Oh crap" he muttered.

"I'll give you 'oh crap' you-wife-stealing-son-of-a-"

"Leo!" Piper shouted, grabbing her husbands arm and pushing him out into the hallway. " I will not have you turning up unannounced in the middle of the night, shouting the odds..now what is this about Wyatt?"

In the shock of discovering his wife in bed with her white lighter Leo had momentarily forgotten about the original reason for his visit. " I came to check he was ok, I could sense that he was in pain….it's a father-son bond we have."

"well there's no need to worry as he is fast asleep in Paige's room , and physically he is perfectly ok, which is what I would have told you at 3pm on Wednesday"

"3pm on Wednesday?"

"Yes, that informative post-it note you left me, explaining that the next available slot for you to see me was this Wednesday at 3pm"

"dammit! That must have been my secretary.."

"wait, you have secretaries up there?"

"Yes, all elders do, when we are busy, such as at the moment, they screen our calls so to speak, I must tell her to class your voice as 'urgent'."

"Yes, well you do that!"

"hey don't make me out to be the bad guy here, I 'm up there in elderland and all of a sudden I get a horrible chill that I only ever feel when members of my family are in extreme pain, so I orb in and find you snuggling up to that lying, cheating murdering waste of space!"

" I can explain"

"like hell you can! Come on then, this had better be good, I'm waiting"

" he is your son Leo" Piper whispered softly.

"who?" the elder seemed confused.

"Chris. Chris is you son" Piper repeated, her eyes glancing towards the bedroom door and then back at Leo who had just slapped himself around the face. "what are you doing?"

"I'm sorry" he apologised, " I just zoned out there a second, I needed to wake up, what were you saying?"

"Chris…. Is…. Your…. son" Piper intoned carefully

Leo slapped himself again, and this time shook his head as if he were trying to get water out of his ears. " I really really must be going mad, I haven't been on a trip this big since 1976"

" Leo" Piper began to loose her patience "that boy in there, Christopher, is your or rather our, son"

"see now you keep saying that but.."

" and I will keep saying it, until you believe it, because it's the truth."

"but that's impossible..you and me …we split up…we ..are you sure its mine?"

"how dare you!" Piper spat. " Of course he is yours, he has your eyes for one thing, and for another, it was Chris you sensed when you thought a member of the family was in pain, he was poisoned by a demon. And no, its not impossible, do you not remember that night?…4 months ago..me, you, 2 bottles of la Rioja and a trip down memory lane?…."

A look of slow realisation suddenly spread accross Leo's face. He staggered backwards, groping at the wall until he managed to steady his balance and avoid falling. "no, no, no.." he muttered. "this can't be true, not him, not my son…."

" I know it's a huge shock, it took me a while to get used to it..but you will , and I really think that once you and Chris …."

"No, Piper, seriously I can't do this.."

"Leo. Its okay you need time to adjust. All you have to do is go in there, apologise for shouting and we can take it from there."

"I need time.."

"Of course you do, we all do , we.."

"No, Piper I mean time by myself.. to think this all through.."

"What? You can't be serious! This is not the time to disappear on us"

"look I gotta go, take care of Wyatt for me and I'll be back real soon" he said standing up and making ready to leave.

"Leo!" Piper screamed. "You can't do this, you can't just leave us!" but it was too late, without so much as a backward glance, the elder disappeared in a cloud of white and blue lights, leaving Piper alone in the darkened hallway.