A/N: Thank you all so much for the reviews. I'm sorry it took so long to update but here you are. I hope you like it and don't worry, more people will be introduced into the story in the next chapter.

Chapter 6

Intrigue, confusion and fear blanketed the room as Mother and Father studied the unconscious form of their youngest child. They didn't know what to think or what to say next as the watched him breathe in and out with slow, steadied breathes.

They were scared.

Scared and uncertain about the events that had led up to the boys journey to the past and the occurrences and odd behavior that took place thereafter. He seemed unhappy to see them. Almost as if their mere presences bothered him. But they couldn't worry about that now. All that mattered at the present moment was making sure their son was physically ok and the rest would have to be put off until he was awake and in a better frame of mind.

They had moved the boy into their bedroom after his mysterious collapse and now they were sitting on either side of them, each one lost in their respective thoughts. It took a long while but Piper had gathered some of her wits and began to speak.

"Is he ok?" Piper asked her husband who was staring at the boy, watching him like a hawk, afraid to take his eyes off of him for even one second, for fear of losing him again. After all they were in the very place the boy had faded away over a year ago and couldn't help but feel the eeriness of it all.

"Leo?" she called out in a worried tone only to be answered again by silence.

Leo glided a loving hand over the boy's forehead, removing the hair from his closed eyes as his own glistened with tears. He was either oblivious to his wife's question or he simply didn't care to answer it. He was too emotionally distraught right now and couldn't handle even the simplest of conversations as a million questions and doubts invaded his mind.

Why was Chris back?

Did he screw up again as a father and now the boy had come back to have his revenge?

Or was his son doomed to repeat the horrifying cycle of his past self and came back once again to save his brother? If so Leo wouldn't allow him to play hero again, even if that meant giving Wyatt over to his evil ways and just try his best to instill in him that family, that the bond between he and his brother was important and never should be broken under any circumstances that way at least he and Chris wouldn't go after each other and try to kill one another as they did in the original time line and perhaps in this one as well.

"Leo, please answer me" he heard the voice of his wife call out to him. He wasn't in the mood for this. He didn't want to talk. He didn't want to say something that would throw the woman over the edge especially the part about giving up on their eldest son.

"He'll be fine. He just went into magical over load, that's all" Leo answered in a cold manner that the witch wasn't used to hearing.

"Oh" she said looking down at her fingers that were busy twirling around one another. "But how, I mean, he didn't use any of his powers?"

"Actually he did" the man said in an irritated pitch that caused the woman to recoil slightly.

They were both very emotional right now and scolding her husband would only lead to an argument and more frustration, adding to their problems and Lord knows they already had enough of them. Taking a deep breath and thinking her wording through appropriately Piper responded.

"Which one?"

"Premonition" he spoke softly with his eyes still fixated on the boy.

"But Chris doesn't have that power" the woman spoke with bewilderment.

Letting out a deep sigh that came out sounding more like a groan Leo tried to respond in a voice that wouldn't show his annoyance at the woman's stupidity. He didn't want to come across harshly but the situation, the wondering and the qualm was getting to him.

"That's because he probably didn't let us know he had it, or maybe with the change in the timeline he received more powers than he had originally" he said as he ran a hand over his hair in frustration.

"There was a lot he didn't tell us"

"CAN YOU BLAME HIM!" the man shouted.

"What's that supposed to mean?" the woman replied trying to keep her cool. She knew the boy's death had hit her husband hard so she decided not to take his lashing out personally.

"Are you kidding me? Don't you remember how we treated him? The things we said and threatened to do?" his voice was now shaky as the sins of the past flooded his mind reminding him of all the pain he had put his son through, all the unnecessary punishment that he had dealt upon the boy.

"I remember" Piper said while standing up and walking over to the other side of her son where her husband was seated. Resting her hand on his back she began rubbing in small soft circles as she watched the man she loved fighting to hold back tears of pain and loss but mostly of guilt.

"Why didn't I see it? Why didn't I know my own son from a stranger" he questioned in an angry, self loathing voice.

"Because he didn't want us to" she spoke resting her head on his shoulder before taking one of his hands in hers.

"That's not a good enough excuse Piper. We should have known. We should have felt something" the man said as his heart continued to break.

"What if that's the reason why he's here? To make us suffer for what we did to him? What if this is payback for what we've put him through?"

"That's not how Chris is and you know it Leo. He loved us. No matter how cruel we were to him, no matter how many times we threatened him, he still loved us. Our little boy was just sweet and forgiving that way" she whispered to him as both finally feel apart.

Ha if you only knew. A now awake Christopher thought as he listened to the conversation taking place right next to him. He could hear them crying and feel their bodies shake and he couldn't be happier. They deserved it. For all the times they left him, for all the times they missed a game, a play, a birthday, everything time they dropped him to praise his brother, for every damn night he cried himself to sleep feeling alone and neglected, they deserved what they were feeling right now, they deserved every bit of that pain.

His parents were true pieces of work. Always making everything about them, or their precious Wyatt and those visions he saw proved it. He was dying, or at least a different version of him self was and what happened? His father, the very man that sat by his side right now had left him to find his perfect older son. The planned for child, the twice blessed son, the loved child and left him in agony, dying after all he had gone through to save them, to protect them and his miserable ass older sibling.

A perverse since of pleasure came over him, delighted that his parents felt horrible and were suffering for their past actions and now with this new found information he was going to break them and enjoy every moment of doing so.

"Dad" he spoke in a weak voice, so they would believe he had just woken up and would remain ignorant to what he had in store for them. He also kept his eyes closed to make sure that the first stage of his plan would go off without a hitch.

"Chris" his father responded in a relieved tone, happy that his son was coming to.

How pathetic, Chris thought as he struggled hard to keep a look of disgust from forming on his face.

"What are you doing here?" a "sleeping" Chris continued.

"He must be talking in his sleep" Piper spoke sadly, not liking the question her son posed.

"Oh, Wyatt's downstairs" Chris continued. "Can I come Dad? I want to go with you too, I don't want to stay home alone again today. I want to go with you and Wyatt. Please Dad" he then paused as if he were waiting for "dream" Leo to respond.

"OUCH!" he yelled out grabbing his side instantly alarming Piper and a stunned Leo who wonder what the hell was going on. "I'm sorry Daddy, I'll never ask again, I promise. I know you love Wyatt not me" he said spoke in a child like voice. "Yes I know I was a mistake"

"Chris that's not true! I love you too! What the hell just happened?" Leo asked turning to a shocked Piper.

"I don't know. It looks like he's remembering something"

"Or it could be a nightmare!" Leo shot back not liking the accusing tone behind his wife's words.

Chris then began to cry in his sleep and turned on his side for dramatic affect and pulling his knees into his chest.

"This isn't right. I'm fixing this right now" Leo said as he began gently shaking Chris while willing him to awaken. "Chris, please wake up son. It's just a nightmare" Leo said more to ease his conscious then ease his son's fears.

"Not so hard Leo" he heard his wife command.

Ignoring the witch the man continued "Chris please come on son, it's just a nightmare. You're fine"

Chris smiled to himself fully aware that his father's mind was reeling with this new faux information and he couldn't be more thrilled. He mentally scolded himself for not coming up with such a good idea like this sooner.

Now for the good part.

Chris pretended to wake up as he fluttered his eyes several time, acting as if he were focusing, waiting for the right time to give the performance of his life.

"I didn't tell I swear!" the boy yelled while moving away from his father's touch.

"What! Chris, what the hell are you talking about?"

"I didn't tell Mom about what happen! I promise" he screamed this time while trying hard not to laugh.

"Chris, it was just a bad dream" his father said while Piper watched the scene in front of her not alerting her son to her presence.

"Ok, that's what I'll say if you want me to Dad. Yeah. I hurt myself in my sleep while having a bad dream. That's what I'll say if Mom asks me Dad. I meant Leo" he looked away quickly as if to avoid a slap.

"I don't want you to say anything Chris. I just want you to focus on what's around you" he pleaded with the boy as he waved his hand around showing him the room.

Chris panted heavily as if he were afraid of what Leo may do to him next. "I didn't fall asleep in here, honest Leo, I would never go in your room without permission from you or Piper. I know how much you hate that. I know you guys only want Wyatt in here"

Now it was Piper's turn to get upset. Not that she believed that Leo would ever hurt Chris but the look in his eyes and the words that he spoke were more than a little bit unsettling.

"Chris baby it's ok. You're safe. No one's going to hurt you, ok" the woman spoke with tears running down her face as she took the boy in her arms separating him from his father without really meaning to.

This couldn't be happening, Leo thought to himself as he backed away from the mother and son to rejoin him on the other side. He had to get him to look into his eyes somehow. To see that he wasn't the monster from his dreams or even worse the father who would abuse him in the future.

"Chris I don't know what's going on but I swear to you that I will fix it, ok" he said running a loving hand down the side of the boy's face under the watchful eye of his mother. "I love you. I'll do anything to keep you safe, anything to make this, whatever it is up to you" he said before wrapping his arms around the boy, hugging him tightly as tears streamed down his face.

Meanwhile Chris had buried his face deep within Leo's shoulder with a huge grin as he mentally spoke to himself.

Let the games begin.