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Chapter 5

After about half an hour of following Leo, the Charmed Ones and Chris were starting to get frustrated. They kept hitting dead ends. Chris also knew that they were going round in circles, years on the streets had given him a very accurate sense of direction. He would have said something sooner, but he knew that Leo would have kicked off immediately, and while he knew that he could take Leo in a fight any day and while he would enjoy kicking the crap out of his so-called-father. He didn't think that the sisters would appreciate it, and he still needed their help to save Wyatt. However, Chris was just about to insist that maybe Leo shouldn't lead when he noticed that Leo was about to step on a paving stone that was raised slightly higher than all the rest. He had a certain sense of foreboding about it, and called out, "Leo, stop!"

"What do you want now, Chris?" Leo asked sounding exasperated.

"Don't step on that stone."

"Why not?"

"Because it's higher than all the others, it's out of place. So, it could be some sort of trap." Chris explained.

"Don't step on the stone because it's higher than the others." Leo repeated slowly and disbelievingly, "You're out of your mind Chris." And with that he promptly stepped on the stone. It sank down to the same level as all the others. At first it seemed like nothing was going to happen, so Leo grinned triumphantly at Chris, but then the wall to their right started making a rumbling, grinding sort of sound and very slowly started to move towards them.

"Way to go Leo!" Chris called over the noise.

"How the hell was I supposed to know that that would happen?" Leo demanded.

"Well, I tried to warn you that something wasn't right. You could've listened!" Chris retorted.

"Shut up both of you and think of a way out of this!" Piper yelled at them.

The group slowly backed to the unmoving wall desperately looking for a way out. There was no way they could run down the tunnel and get to a different one; it was too long. Piper tried to blast a hole in the wall, but it barely left a mark. Leo tried shooting lightening at it, but that had even less effect.

As they began to get desperate, Chris walked up to the approaching wall and experimentally put his hand to it. His hand went straight through it, followed by the rest of his body.

Paige said shrilly, "Did – Did he just abandon us here?"

But before anyone could answer Chris came back through the wall and said quickly, "Ok, the other side is clear."

"Can you take us with you?" Phoebe asked.

Chris paused, and nodded. He didn't look sure, and his nod looked more as if it was to convince himself rather than them, but at this moment in time, he was their only hope.

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Chris had to consider Phoebe's question for a split second. He knew that it was risky, he'd never tried to do it with this many people. But it was their only chance, if they didn't do anything soon, they would be history. So he nodded. It will work, he thought trying to reassure himself, everything will be fine.

"Ok, quick! Everyone hold hands!" he called to the others, they all did so without any arguments, seeing as they had no more ideas of how to get out. Chris then grabbed hold of Piper's hand and walked straight at the wall that was now only half a metre from them. Chris was no stranger to using powers under pressure, he had done it everyday in the future, but now… he was terrified, that for some reason it wouldn't work, and he would have made the future even worse by causing the premature death of the Charmed Ones.

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Piper prayed that Chris's plan would work. But she wasn't only thinking of her own life; to her that wasn't all that was at stake. She was thinking of the unborn child growing inside of her, the one that no one even knew about yet. She couldn't let it be killed by some demon before it was even born. She was also thinking of Wyatt, if this didn't work, he would have to grow up without a mother, or a father, or aunts to protect and love him. When they were barely an inch from the wall, she squeezed her eyes tightly shut… and nothing happened. She opened them to find they were in another torch-lit tunnel and that the wall that had been moving towards them was now behind them, and moving away from them. It had worked! She breathed a huge sigh of relief and a smile broke out on her face.

Her sisters also smiled and they went over to Chris and threw their arms around him. Chris looked a little uncomfortable at this, but said nothing and smiled (if a little nervously).

Throughout this, Leo looked at Chris. He was slowly coming to terms with the fact that Chris wasn't here to harm anyone (besides demons). Before, ever since Chris sent him to Valhalla he had been determined to prove that Chris did everything for some selfish, evil reason. However, he was realising that while some of Chris's actions were questionable, all his motives had been good. He was here to protect Wyatt and that was that. Fair enough, he had kept secrets (which still annoyed Leo) but he must have thought that he had a good reason for doing so. And the secrets hadn't directly hurt anyone. Leo knew that he had been overly harsh and uncaring to Chris, who had clearly had a traumatic life, partially at the hands of Wyatt (at least while he was imprisoned). But he hadn't given up, he had come all this way to save the person who caused him so much pain. Leo had been in denial when he first found out that Wyatt was in fact evil in the future, he just couldn't see how his little angel could grow up to do such horrific things to innocent people. In fact, he had been in denial to such a point that he was determined to make everything and anything that went wrong Chris's fault. Now though, he saw the light, if Chris truly had wanted to hurt Wyatt, he could've left them there to be killed and gone ahead and done what he wanted. But he hadn't, he had come back and saved them, and risked his own life in the process. While Leo still didn't particularly like Chris he decided that he would endeavour to stop doubting him and help him save Wyatt.

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Meanwhile, at the centre of the maze, the demon was fuming. "Damn that whitelighter! They weren't supposed to be able to escape from that! How the hell did he get so many powers!" He turned and threw an energy ball at the wall before calming down a little. "Right, I'll just show some more of his memories, maybe that will weaken his charges trust in him… or it could give him a mental breakdown, either way's fine. Now, let's see…"

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A/N: Ok, here's another chapter for you guys, I'm not entirely happy with it, but I did my best. I'm sorry if Leo's change in attitude was too sudden, but I had it pointed out to me that he was being a little out of character (being completely evil to Chris) --- blame it on his over protectiveness of Wyatt. He and Chris aren't going to be best friends or anything from now on, but Leo is going to make a little more of an effort. Thank you everyone for your reviews! Please review this and tell me what you think!