Chapter Eight

Piper stood leaning against the doorframe of Chris' bedroom. She knew she should leave him to cool down, but the neurotic mother in her told her to go in there and talk to him.

When Piper sat down on the edge off Chris' bed he lay there with his back to her. "Chris sweetie," she soothed stroking his brown hair. He turned to her and she could tell from his red-rimmed eyes that he'd been crying.

"Why does everything with him always have to revolve around Wyatt?" Chris asked quietly turning away from her again.

Piper sighed sadly. She didn't have an answer to that. She wished she had, she wished that she could say something comforting to Chris. But she knew whatever she said wouldn't take away fourteen years of abandonment. So she did the only thing she could think of, she was just his mom. She lay down on her side next to him and pulled him into a hug. She rested her chin on his shoulder and asked, "Do you want to talk about it?"

"Don't you want to know about Wyatt?"

"Yeah, but he can wait. Let me focus on you first," Chris smiled despite the tears that were threatening to fall. He could always count on his mom; she had been there all his life, unlike his dad. He knew that she more than anyone wanted to know of any news of Wyatt, but she was putting his welfare before a boy she didn't know, something that he knew Leo wouldn't do.

"I'm fine mom really," Chris lied "I want to tell you about Matt, sorry Wyatt anyway," Chris pulled out of the embrace and sat up "You wanna go get dad. I know he's itching to know what's going on,"

Piper nodded and got up to leave "Mom,"

"Yeah," she asked turning her attention back to him.

"Do I look like I've been crying?"

"A little baby," she answered truthfully. Wiping away the remaining tearstains around his eyes.

"I don't want dad to see me upset,"

"Maybe he should sweetie," Piper answered, "Maybe if he sees how upset you are it may give him the kick up the butt he needs,"

"What to be the perfect father," Chris answered rolling his eyes "I don't think so,"

"Alright sweetie. I'll fix it," Piper sighed. She knew she shouldn't use magic to cover the way Chris felt but she also understood that it wasn't fair for him to feel uncomfortable about being upset and she knew that he would feel embarrassed if his father knew he had been crying.

"I'm only doing this the once though and it's only because I don't want you to feel uncomfortable in front of your father," Chris nodded and Piper began reciting a spell.

"Let what is seen, be unseen,

As what is real becomes a dream.

Hide the pain that is evident upon Chris' face,

Let it be dealt with another time, another place,"

Piper watched as her sons' sad eyes lost their red and puffy swelling and returned to their normal state. She however could see that behind that mask he wore, that told the rest of the world that everything was fine, it wasn't. It was in his eyes. They were eyes that showed so much emotion even when his face didn't.

"You ready to face him?" Chris nodded.

"I'll go get him then," Piper said heading for the door.

"Mom,"

"Yeah honey,"

"Thanks," Chris smiled.

"That's ok," Piper answered before leaving to go get Leo.

Chris watched his father closely as he followed his mother into his bedroom.

"Chris I..."

"It's alright," Chris interrupted "I understand that you want to know everything I do about Wyatt,"

Leo nodded. Waiting downstairs had been driving him crazy. He knew that Piper was right if he pushed Chris he wouldn't get the answers he so desperately needed.

"I only met Matt, sorry Wyatt…" Chris corrected himself for his parents benefit "…today. I've been having trouble at school," Chris finally admitted.

"What trouble?" Piper asked getting into full mom mode.

"Some of the guys from school have been giving me a hard time,"

"The ones from the other day?" Leo asked. Chris nodded.

"What! Wait!" Piper turned to Leo angrily. "You knew our son was being picked on and you never said anything about it,"

"Chris didn't want me to," he explained.

"Oh, so you pick that particular subject to be the first in which you take notice of what Chris really wants," Piper spat angrily.

Both Leo and Chris felt embarrassed by Piper's comment. "Mom please, were getting off track,"

"Sorry honey," she answered her son and flashing a glare at Leo that told him she would be dealing with him later.

"Anyway as I was saying. I was on the floor about to get my head kicked in and Matt pulled Tommy off me. When I first saw him I thought it was dad. He looks so much like him."

"So we got talking and he said he was different to everybody else. When I asked him what he meant he orbed,"

Although they knew that this boy was Wyatt, Piper and Leo were still taken by surprise at this information.

"He has witch powers as well as whitelighter too. It has to be Wyatt mom. It can't be anyone else. I showed him the book and when we both touched it something strange happened,"

"What?" Leo asked

"It began to glow. It only happened when we touched it at the same time. There was some sort of connection, I can't explain it, but it was weird. That's when I started thinking that Matt was Wyatt, so I asked him if he could try and get a premonition if I gave him an object. I gave him my old teddy bear, you know the one that was Wyatt's," Chris told his mom.

"Did he see anything?" Piper asked afraid of the answer.

"Yeah, he saw his kidnapping. He said he saw you saying goodnight to him and then after you were gone, there were men in gold robes who took him," Chris noticed the tears that began to fall down his mothers face. He didn't want to upset her by dragging up the painful memories of the past, but he knew that she wanted the truth so he carried on. "That's everything, expect for that blue domey thing you saw,"

His parents starred blankly as they tried to digest what Chris had told them. "It's him isn't it mom, it's Wyatt,"

"Yeah honey," Piper swallowed "You found him," she smiled proudly.

"No," Chris corrected her "We found each other,"

Leo smiled and shook his head. It was rather ironic that after all these years of searching; he wasn't the one to find his son. Between them Wyatt and Chris had found each other. They were extraordinary! They had the sort of sibling bond that he had only ever seen once and that was with the Charmed ones. It made sense really they were sons of a charmed one and when Phoebe and Piper had found Paige after Prue's death there had been the same sort of connection.

"Well what do we do now?" Leo asked "I don't think that Wyatt's going to be coming back anytime soon do you,"

Chris smiled "Don't worry dad, something tells me that he'll be back sooner than you think,"

Leo looked at him puzzled. "Come on," Chris said motioning for them to follow. They did and as they reached the bottom of the stairs they came face to face with a very shaken up Matt.