A/N: Thanks for being so patient! I hurt my wrist & tore a tendon in my thumb last week, and was banned from using my left hand for an entire month, so I apologize about the lack of updates. But the good news is, I can still hand-write whatever I want, so the next few chapters should come fairly quickly, as I already have them done, they just need to be typed up. I'll try to type some of them up one handed, but they'll be few & far between until I can use both hands again. If anyone is interested in ghost-typing, let me know by reviewing.

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"Raven, Wait!" Wyatt called out, stopping her from running to Reilly.

Reilly's face hardened. "Yeah, Rave, heaven forbid you consort with a demon.

Chris ignored Maya's pleas to be released from behind Excalibur. "You must be Reilly." He took a deep breath and turned to Wyatt. "Let her go, Wy. He's her brother, he won't hurt her."

"Chris, you don't know that! For all you know, he'll kill her the first chance he gets."

"Uncle Wyatt, you take that back right now! Reilly is good, honest. LET ME GO!" Raven insisted angrily, pushing at his hands. Wyatt tightened his grip, trying to hold her back. "OW!" she protested as his hands squeezed inadvertently into her arms.

"Take your hands off my sister!" Reilly growled at Wyatt.

"No, not until I know you won't hurt her." Wyatt continued.

Reilly's face darkened, and his eyes began to glow bright neon blue. "One last time- Let Her GO!" Wyatt refused again with a silent shake of his head.

"So be it." Reilly raised a hand, palm up.

"No, Reilly, stop! No!" Raven yelled. Quickly using the self defense skills her cousins had taught her, she elbowed Wyatt hard in the side, then turned, and flicked a finger off the side of her nose. Wyatt flew across the room, landing on the floor in front of Abby & Piper. Raven looked at him regretfully. "Sorry, Uncle Wyatt." She turned and orbed in front of Reilly.

"Rave- what are you doing here? You've got to leave, right now!" Reilly hissed, turning his sister to face him.

"Gee, genius, what's it look like I'm doing? I'm saving you. You aren't evil, not really. It was all her. She trained you to only use the evil powers, and gave you that potion to suppress the white lighter powers. It's not your fault that she freaked out when you got them anyway. She made everyone think that everything she had done was really done by you. Even Keira…" her voice trailed off. "But she won't get that chance this time, Rei. I told daddy about her already. So now he knows she's evil now, really evil. He won't let her hurt you this time"

Reilly snorted derisively at his little sister's speech. "Raven, you can't do this. It's too dangerous! I know you know about future consequences. This, you being here, could change things forever. You can't play with magic, Raven. Especially, with time travel! Just because we can do it, doesn't mean we should!"

"You did it." Raven said stubbornly.

"I had to. It's part of my destiny. Why else would I get Da…Chris' stupid power?"

"Because the Powers that Be recognized my mistakes, Reilly. Because they knew that I'd treated you far to shabbily- that I didn't trust you, as I should have. And because they wanted to give us a second chance." Chris stepped forward.

"Get the HELL away from me!" Reilly yelled.

"Reilly, listen to me. We have another chance now. Please…"

"I'm through listening to you, Chris."

"Look, I know what it's like to have a dad who doesn't care. You can never do enough right. I do understand- I lived it once myself."

"Yeah, yeah. I've heard all the old shit, Chris. Grampa Leo was so horrible, but when you saved Uncle Wyatt, you saved your relationship with Leo too." Reilly grimaced. "Spare me the lecture again. This isn't remotely the same thing. Grampa Leo ignored you because he had a higher purpose. At least he was an elder. You couldn't do me the favor of ignoring me. Don't even start with this, I mean, let's face it, you aren't Leo, and as you've told me a hundred times, I could never be like you."

"Reilly, stop, please!" Raven cried out, holding her stomach where a small spot of blood appeared.

"Raven! What's wrong?" Reilly cried out, whirling to find the demon that had hurt her. He didn't see anyone but the family he had expected. He growled, eyes glowing as he pulled a jeweled athame from out of the air, and held it to Chris' throat menacingly. "Whichever one of you did this better speak up and fix it, NOW! Or else, my athame slices him ear to ear."

"No!" Raven gasped as the blood spot got larger. "Rei…it's not…them. It's…you. I got…new power. I'm a ph…physical empath. Your pain…tearing you apart…in…side. So, your pain…tearing me apart physically."

Reilly made the athame vanish as he fell to his knees in front of his baby sister. "What? No!" He raised his hands to her stomach, trying desperately to heal her, concentrating on the lessons his father had given him over the years. He sobbed in frustration as no healing glow was produced. "NO!" he screamed, sending his fist slamming through the floor in agonized frustration. He took a deep breath and looked at Chris with troubled green eyes. "Heal her. Please" he added in a harsh whisper.

"I can't, Reilly."

"This is the first time I've asked you for anything in six years, Chris. Please, please heal her. Please!" At Chris' tortured shake of his head, Reilly turned to his uncle. "Uncle Wyatt, please. I'm sorry, please heal her. I know you can. If anyone can, you guys can, please…please…I'm sorry sorry…Keira…I never meant…Please" Reilly's eyes were full with unshed tears.

"Reilly, It's not that we don't want to…we just…can't." Wyatt answered softly.

"When a physical empathy feels pain so deeply, there is no way a white lighter can her them. The only way to heal her is to heal you. If your pain gets lightened, then so will her physical symptoms." Chris explained, his voice hoarse as he felt the deep pain that both of his children were experiencing.

"Talk to… him…Rei. Be a…son again." Raven gasped breathlessly, holding her side.

"No! No, son there is another way!" Maya spoke for the first time, addressing her son.

"Shut Up, Maya." Chris ordered harshly.

"What will you do, Chris, kill me? I think not. Without me, you'll never get the son you're so valiantly trying to save." Maya snapped. "Reilly- all you have do is call upon your latent evil. Allow yourself to fully embrace it, and become wholly demonic, and all your pain will disappear."

"No, Reilly! If you allow yourself to fully accept your demon side, then you'll lose touch with your human emotions. You'll kill her anyway, just because she's a Halliwell; not to mention a good witch." Chris argued, his voice impassioned.

"Why should I believe either one of you? One of you has blatantly groomed me to be something that will destroy me in the end, not to mention turn my family against me, And the other has shown me nothing but fear, distrust and hatred. You are both liars of the first order. Tell me why I should believe either one of you?" Reilly demanded angrily.

"Because deep down, you know I'm right, Reilly. Raven came here to keep you from fully turning evil. She believes you are latently good, not evil. I agree. Everything I have seen comes from hurt, rejection, pain, loss and neglect. None of it comes from true evil." Chris took a small step forward. Reilly instinctively stepped back. Chris stopped immediately. "I don't know if I've ever said this to you or not. If not, I'm sorrier than I could ever, will ever be. You are not evil. You may have demonic powers, but you are not a demon. You are my son, and you are good."

Reilly swallowed hard. "H…how can I believe you? Are you just doing this to save Raven?"

"Reilly, Maya is telling the truth. If you go fully demonic it will heal Raven completely. But you, the part of you that she so obviously loves, will be gone. I won't risk you for the sake of her. I'm also not willing to risk her for you. I'm saving you both." Chris looked down into the eyes that matched his own, and silently cursed himself for the pain he saw reflected back at him.

"I'll try Chris. But, know this much. If this doesn't work, then I will call on this latent demon thing. I will save her. I will save Raven, no matter what. It doesn't matter what I have to do to make it happen."

"Fine, as long as you understand that we vanquish demons that threaten us. Even ones that are family. We might not like it, but we do it." Wyatt added solemnly, still sitting on the floor.

"Yeah, and they don't spare any firepower, either." Cole added dryly.

"Cole!" Reilly brightened visibly. "I forgot you were here at this year!"

"I'm here. I assume that I'm around in your time? That Phoebe and I are together. Do we…get along?" Cole asked hesitantly.

"Get along? Yeah, you're the only one who still speaks to me. You taught me how to use the time travel power."

"So…I'm the reason you're here?"

"kinda, well, not really. I mean, it was my idea. You even tried to talk me out of it. But in the end, yeah, you helped me to mingle the shimmering power and the time travel power to get here."

"Shouldn't I have gone with you and made sure you were safe? I mean, no offense, but you're just a kid, Halliwell or not." Cole questioned his own motives.

"I left before you got a chance to. I didn't want you to know, because you wouldn't have let me come at all after you figured it out."

"Huh? I thought you said I agreed."

"You agreed to me coming back to try and save da…Chris and my relationship. But, well, that wasn't really my plan."

"So, what was?"

"I hired Konix and her assassins. I gave them each a target. But they'll only succeed with one. Everyone else is safe because they're in love."

"Wait, I don't get it. Who is supposed to die then?"

"She will- the only one who can't truly love." Reilly answered simply, pointing at Maya.

Cole sucked in a breath sharply. "But that means…"

"Yeah, if she dies, I do too."