The Halliwell/Matthews family disappeared in a swirl of blue orbs, depositing them in the Halliwell attic.

"We'll put Chris in my room." Piper said, breaking the tense silence, holding her hand out to Leo, the Elder orbed Piper and Chris into Piper's bedroom and waited as Piper pulled back the covers before sliding their son into bed and tucking him in.

Inside Piper and Leo's heads (3rd person POV)

Piper and Leo stood beside the bed, their eyes trained on the young man in their bed, "He's our son Leo…" Piper trailed off trying to comprehend the fact that this boy was hers, her mind boggling at how mean she'd been to him. Looking at him now she began to put the pieces together, he had her hair and similar features and slight frame, he had his father's height and eyes.

No, the last bit was wrong, they had similar eyes, but Chris' were the greenest she had ever seen, they held a wisdom beyond his twenty-two years. They also held a mixture of great pain, love, sorrow and anger, but never hate, no matter how mean they had been she never saw hate. When he'd slipped into his stoic mask all she'd seen was pain and now she understood; his mother and aunts had distrusted him, hated him at points and all he was trying to do was save them all.

Twenty-two was too young to have the weight of the world on ones shoulders, it was at that point Piper Halliwell made a decision, he would not bare the weight alone any longer.

The only thing she wanted to know is, why didn't he tell them?

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Leo stared at Chris and saw so much of Piper in him, he couldn't believe that he hadn't seen it earlier.

He had been so awful, Christ! He'd tried to kill his own son in Valhalla! And he wondered why Chris hated him! He was probably ten times worse in the future.

He choked back a sob, looking at his son he decided something once and for all, no longer would Chris be baring the weight of the world on his shoulders, Elder or no, he would help his son. And make sure nothing like today ever happened again.

Zzzzzzzzz

They went to leave but Chris cried out, "Mum!"

Piper glanced at Leo who motioned for Piper to go back to their son, "Go. I need to go back up there for a little bit. Sort some business out. We'll talk later okay?"

She nodded and as Leo started to orb she called out, "Leo wait!"

His orbs stopped and he looked at her, "What is it?"

She looked down at Chris then back up at Leo, grinning broadly she said, "I love you."

He smiled back, "I love you too." He gave her a quick kiss and orbed out.

The next day…

Piper was in the kitchen preparing a breakfast big enough to feed an army, Leo still hadn't returned and she had decided to let Chris sleep. Phoebe and Paige were in the lounge talking to Prue.

One thought sprang into her mind, where was Wyatt?

"Paige!" Piper called, "Where's Wyatt?"

Paige closed her eyes and found him, "He's with Chris!"

Prue stood up, "I wanna go see sleepy head, back soon." With that she shimmered upstairs.

She grinned at the infant form of her eldest cousin, awake and nestled into Chris' side, "Hey Wy."

She straddled her other cousin and squeezed his nose shut and waited until his eyes flew open, "Morning sleepyhead!" she grinned and hugged him as he sat up.

"Morning Prue." He said hugging her back.

She pulled away and slapped him hard across the face, "Don't you ever scare me like that again!" she shouted, "It was just lucky Wyatt came…"

Shadowed green eyes looked up at her, "What?"