"How many more days?" Chris asked the next morning at breakfast
"Today is the last day sweetie." Piper said looking at her son. He looked even worse than yesterday, "Are you sure you're not tired?"
"Yeah mom I'm fine." Chris sign obviously annoyed at her question
"Don't believe him mom, he came into my room against last night scared out of his mind and shaking real bad. It took him forever for him to fall back asleep." Wyatt said walking into the room getting an evil glare from Chris, "I'm sorry, but I had to tell her I want you to be healthy during my vacation."
"And thank you for telling me, I'm gonna call your Aunts and have one of them drive you to school today."
"Okay, get better soon Chris."
Piper picked Chris up and placed him on the couch wrapping him up in a blanket. She ordered him to stay as she went and retrieved a thermometer and children's aspirin. She took Chris's temperature, 102, before giving him the aspirin. Sighing Piper walked back into the kitchen cleaning up checking on Chris every so often to make sure he hadn't moved.
Later that day Piper walked over to the couch relived to see Chris finally asleep, but sighed when she felt his still burning forehead. She walked over to the phone and called her sisters telling them to come over, she didn't have to worry about Wyatt she had already arranged for him to go over to a friend's house.
"Hey house is Chris?" Phoebe asked walking into the manor followed by Paige.
"Sleeping at the moment over…" Piper looked at the couch, where Chris was suppose to be sleeping, but only saw the blanket and no body. "He was there a minute ago, Paige could you try and sense him?" Paige nodded her head and tried, but was unable to sense her young nephew causing Piper to freak out even more. Her youngest son, he baby, was out there alone in the world sick with a temperature.
"Calm down Piper we are going to fine him." Phoebe said sensing her older sister's distress "Do you have any idea where he could be?"
"Leo." Piper whispered under her breath remembering the events of the day before.
"What?"
"Leo."
"Wait…but…"
"That's why I called you. Chris left the house yesterday and our Leo brought him back." Piper put emphasis on 'our'.
"Do you think he remembers?"
"I don't know, but he is the only person who can help, Leo!"
Leo was sitting in his room think about Piper and Chris. He had the dream again something about someone he loved dieing. He felt so much anger towards the person who caused his love one's pain, but he didn't know who the person was. The feelings soon changed into sorrow for the same love one before turning into happiness and amazement. Some how Piper and Chris had been related to the dream, but Leo couldn't figure out how. Sure he had heard of the Charmed Ones, everyone had, but anytime there was a meeting about them or their children he was left out. They said it had something to do with him being missing their entire life, but he didn't quiet believe them.
Leo's thoughts were broken when he heard a distressed woman calling his name. He orbed down to the source of the voice to find himself in the manor facing Piper, the other two sisters standing next to her.
"Please help me. Chris ran away and Paige can't sense him." Piper pleaded
"He ran away?"
"Yes, and he is really sick. So please help me find him."
"I'll try." Leo closed his eyes and tried sensing for the young boy. When he found him he was surprised at how fast it came and how strong the connection was as if he was standing next to the kid. It confused and scared Leo a little, he had never felt anything like this before while sensing for a person.
"What's wrong?" Piper asked seeing the confused face on Leo
"Nothing, I've got him be right back." Leo orbed out of the manor and into the park where he had meet Chris for the first time yesterday. He saw the young boy huddled near the bushes shaking. "Chris." Leo said softly putting a comforting hand on his should not wanting to scare the child, but he shied away. "It's okay Chris it is me, Leo, from yesterday. I came to take you home." Chris looked at him with his feverous eyes; Leo wrapped his arms around his back just as he passed out before orbing back into the manor lying Chris down on the couch before trying to heal him.
"Why isn't it working?" Piper asked freaking out again.
"I don't know." Leo continued to try healing him when he noticed a red spot on his shirt. Lifting the shirt up Leo saw the gaping wound on Chris's chest that was now bleeding. "How did this happen?" now trying to heal his stomach
"I don't know he never told me." Piper said mad at herself for letting Chris tick her into her not seeing his stomach
"I don't know why it isn't healing, but we need to stop the bleeding and clean it up before it becomes even more infected." Phoebe and Paige ran out of the room and came back in with a first aid kit and towels. Leo dressed the wound before picking Chris up and caring him to his bedroom. Piper followed close behind with a thermometer to find his temperature almost at 106.
"You don't have to stay Leo." Piper said breaking the silence
"I know, but I want to."
"Suit yourself."
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" Wyatt asked later that night coming to his brother's bedroom.
"I'm Leo, I meet Chris yesterday and I helped your mom find and take care of him today. I'm guessing you're Wyatt?"
"Yeah, do you know what's wrong with him?" Wyatt asked as Leo helped him onto his lap, it seemed like the most natural thing in the world to do.
"We think he was attacked by a demon, but we don't know which one. It has left him with a big cut on his stomach and a pretty high fever which also has to do with the infection on the cut."
"Is he going to die if you don't figure out how to cure him?"
"No of course not."
"Do you promise?"
"Yes I promise I will do everything in my power to help save your brother."
"Good, so what are you?"
"I'm an elder."
"Really? My dad was an elder, that's one of the reasons he had to leave."
"How old were you when he left."
"Two and Chris wasn't even a year old."
"How old are you now?"
"I'm six and he is four."
"Sounds like your mom has her hands full with you two."
"Yeah especially with Chris, he worries too much for his age and that can get him in trouble like now. But you can't stay mad at him for long he is too cute."
"I could understand that." Leo agreed looking at the boy's angelic face as he slept.
Piper stood at Chris's door frame and watched her eldest son and his father talk. She wished to tell them the truth, but didn't know how the elders, or Leo, would react. But seeing the two talk together you could tell Leo would have made a great father for their two boys. Piper couldn't bear to break the duo up, an even though Wyatt didn't know it, she knew he needed to spend some quality time with his father.
A/N: Sorry it took so long, to write more, but hopefully it won't take as long next time. Thankyou for all the reviews I would comment on them, but I am really out of it right now. Blame school.
