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Chapter 2

Phoebe was dragged back to consciousness by a searing pain in her left leg. She looked down at her leg and groaned when she saw that her leg was bloodied and part of the bone was poking out through her skin. She gazed around at the wreckage and rubble around her searching for everyone else.

In the gloom, she picked out an unconscious Leo, Paige and Chris in various parts of the tunnel all of them at least partially buried in rubble. But it was when she saw Piper that her heart leapt into her throat and nearly stopped. Piper wasn't particularly badly hurt or anything, but she was lying by a large chunk of wall that looked like it could collapse on top of her at any minute.

Phoebe knew that there was no way she could get to Piper; her leg was useless. Panicking, she called out to everyone to wake up. "Piper, wake up, you've got to move! Oh God, Paige, Leo, wake up! Please someone wake up, Piper's in danger!"

She was still pleading with them to get up, when Chris groaned and stirred slightly. She hastily switched from pleading with her sisters and Leo to pleading with Chris. "Chris, thank God. Please, get up, you have to save Piper!"

As she was imploring him to do something, he didn't seem to be listening. She watched as he dragged himself to feet, swayed slightly and shook his head several times as if trying to get water out of his ears. With a sinking feeling in her stomach, Phoebe realised that he probably had quite a severe concussion and was probably dazed and confused.

She was starting to despair when Leo said behind her groggily, "Is everyone ok?"

She yelled back to him, "Quick Leo, that wall is about to fall on Piper, save her!" But even as she spoke the wall creaked and began to fall. She screamed "Piper!" at the same time as Leo did, knowing that there was no way to get to her in time. But even as she screamed and tears began to pour down her face, Phoebe saw Chris suddenly snap as to what was going on. As she watched, he was suddenly just a blur, streaking across the destroyed room. He threw himself over Piper, just as the wall was about to hit her.

Phoebe started sobbing even harder, knowing that there was no way that they could have survived that, when Leo breathed, "What the hell?"

She looked up and saw Chris carrying Piper out of the wall, literally. They were phasing straight through the rubble as if it wasn't even there. Chris came right over to her and Leo before putting Piper down and sinking to the ground himself, holding his wounded head.

Without needing any prompting, Leo leant over and healed Phoebe's leg and other injuries, he then healed Piper and Paige who proceeded to wake up.

Piper took one look at Phoebe and Leo who were still gaping at Chris and asked, "What's goin' on?"

"Chris just saved your life, but with powers that were definitely not whitelighter powers!" Phoebe explained as if she was still trying to make herself believe it.

"What did he do?" Paige asked.

"Well, first he moved really really fast. I mean, he was like, a blur. And then he made it so that the wall that was gonna fall on you, it kinda fell through you instead." Phoebe described emphatically.

Piper stared for a minute, "I see, well, Chris you have some serious explaining to do." She said turning to Chris.

Their dark haired whitelighter didn't respond, his head still in his hands. Piper saw the blood that was still oozing from the wound on his head, matting in his hair, turned to Leo and said, "Leo, heal him, then maybe we'll get some of our questions answered."

Leo, rather reluctantly put his hands over Chris's head, the golden glow appeared and the wound disappeared.

"Ok," Paige said, "it's explanation time."

Chris glanced nervously around at each of them as if looking for an escape, before sighing and stating, "I'm part witch."

"Well, duh," Paige said sarcastically, "but why didn't you tell us?"

Before Chris could reply Leo cut in angrily, "You've been lying to us from the beginning, you're probably not even here to save Wyatt, you're probably here to hurt him, aren't you!" Leo then grabbed Chris by the front of his shirt and yelled, "AREN'T YOU! ADMIT IT!"

Chris stared at Leo and said, in a voice as cold as ice, "Leo, I'm here to protect Wyatt. But I really don't care what you believe about me anymore." He wrenched himself out of Leo's grip and started to walk away.

"Hey! Come back here!" Phoebe called.

"Yeah, we're not done with you yet. You haven't answered all our questions!" Piper added.

Chris turned back to them, glared and said, "I tell you what, you catch me, I'll answer all your questions."

"Well that shouldn't be too hard, we outnumber you 4 to 1," Paige said slightly scathingly. "And, you can't even orb in here."

"Don't underestimate me Paige." Chris said, sounding surprisingly threatening. "I've lived in a war zone, where I was constantly on the run every minute of every day from demons." And with that, he disappeared.

The Charmed ones gaped, there was a brief shocked silence before Piper asked, "Where'd he go? How did he even do that?"

"I don't know," Leo answered, "But I suspect that he didn't disappear, he's probably still here, but invisible."

"Ok," Paige said, "so where is he?"

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Leo had been right, Chris hadn't disappeared, he had gone invisible and walked through the nearest wall.

He was so glad that that power had worked, or he and Piper would be… mush.

But he was really regretting saying what he had to the sisters and Leo. He shouldn't have lost his temper and said something like that so spontaneously. It just enraged him that even after all this time, and all the good he'd done, their first instinct was always to distrust him. See Chris, that's what happens when you lose control. He thought to himself. You are such an idiot, they're never gonna trust you again now. They would also never find the centre of the maze without him. He sighed, he could just go and vanquish the demon by himself, but then they'd get all suspicious of him, having that much power. It would be better to just let them think that the three powers they had seen were the only ones he had (besides orbing). He knew what he was risking by going back to them. The demon could play his memories, and everyone would discover things about him and his life that he really didn't want them to know. It was just a risk that he was going to have to take, he decided.

So he braced himself, turned himself visible and walked back through the walls to where he had left his family.

What he had not been expecting was for Leo to send a stream of lightening at him, so in his surprise, he used another one of his powers. Damn, he thought, as they all stared at the green bubble that surrounded him, so much for keep the rest of my powers secret.

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A/N: Thank you everyone for your reviews! I think I roughly know what I'm doing with this story now (if all goes to plan), but any ideas that anyone has are always welcome! I hope I'm not making Chris have too many powers, but I hated the way he only had telekinesis and orbing, so I thought I should correct it in my story. What do you guys think? Anyway, must dash, I have the rest of the story to write! Please review!