Title: Shimmering Light.

Author: Sunniva

Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed or the characters in the series. I make no money on this fic and only write for fun.

Summery: Bianca only pretended being evil. When the truth comes out will The Charmed Ones help her and Chris? AU set in the beginning of Chris-Crossed. Chris/Bianca.

AN: As always in my fics Bianca is only two years older then Chris. That means she is 25 and he is 23.

AN 2: I have done it so that everything Chris has done in the past is reflected in the future.

AN 3: If the day seem to lose hours sometimes, just ignore that or think whatever they did before took a lot of time. I got the question about Bianca dieing or not and frankly I keep both options open for now.

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2004: Halliwell Manor.

Orbing into the Manors living room, Chris quickly took in the situation: Five demons, Paige on the floor unconscious and Piper and Phoebe hiding behind a turned table.

Bianca shimmered in beside him and they went to work. One of the demons threw an energy ball at Bianca. With the help of telekinesis, Chris made it go in another direction and made it hit one of the demons instead. In the mean time, Bianca conjured an athamé, threw it at the demon that made the energy ball, shimmered and after the athamé hit the target she shimmered beside the dying demon, took the athamé and stabbed the one next to them. Three demons down and two to go.

The demons had been surprised when Chris and Bianca Orbed/Shimmered in and turned their backs to the turned table. Piper took that moment of surprise and blew up the forth demon. Bianca quickly shimmered behind the last demon, conjured a bat and hit it over the head. The demon fell to the floor unconscious.

"For information," she said at Chris' look.

"LEO!" Piper yelled and kneeled down next to Paige. Her ex-husband Orbed in.

"Blessed be," he greeted serenely.

"Heal now," Piper ordered. Leo looked confused at Paige and then around the room. The broken furniture, the four piles of ashes on the floor and the unconscious demon gave him an idea of what happened.

While he healed Paige, Phoebe got up from the floor and made her way to Chris and Bianca.

"Thank you," she said to them. Bianca smiled, picked up the discarded athamé and made it disappear. Chris on the other hand looked upset.

"Do you recognize him?" he asked Bianca about the demon on the floor.

Bianca didn't need second look and nodded, "I recognized all of them. His guards. They were there when he sent me through the portal."

Chris sighed, Bianca had now confirmed what he hoped he had assumed wrong; these were Wyatt's demons.

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2027: Wyatt's headquarter.

"Those stupid, brainless morons!" Wyatt roared in rage, "what gave them the idea they could ignore my orders?" he asked his terrified second in command, "now I have lost another five demons."

"Th-they must h-have done it thinking it w-would impress you," the demon said and suppressed the instinct to flee when Wyatt threw his desk chair at the wall.

"Impress me? My orders were to wait. I gave Bianca two days! After that they could have gone if they wanted."

"I will make sure they get proper punishment once they come back."

"Don't bother, they're already dead. Bianca never lets anyone near what's hers to collect."

On his way out of the office he tossed a last command over his shoulder, "Put another five on guard and make sure they don't pull the same stunt."

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2004: Halliwell Manor.

"Let me get this straight! These demons came from your time, looking for you," Piper said while all of them tried to clean up in the living room.

Behind her Paige whined, "Why do we even bother to fix this when it's clearly the favorite thing to brake at every attack?" she stood over the broken grandfather clock.

Phoebe and Bianca were helping each other with the heavy objects while Leo was sweeping the floor. Chris stood looking at the angry demon they put in a crystal cage. He turned to answer Piper.

"Yes."

"So they were sent after you, just as Bianca was?" Phoebe wondered with an apologetic smile to Bianca. She had actually come to like the Phoenix assassin, believe it or not but they had a lot in common.

"No I don't think they were," Bianca said dusting of her hands, "I was given two days by W- uh, the dark lord."

"That sounds very Harry Potter-ish," Paige commented.

Bianca smirked but continued, "I was given two days and I believe he would wait those days before sending someone."

"Which means he and his friends came by themselves," Chris said looking back at the demon.

"So when the two days are up, what happens then?" Phoebe asked. Neither Chris nor Bianca answered. They both knew what would happen, Wyatt would send someone else to hunt them down and probably wouldn't stop until job was done.

"Okay, so what's the plan?" Phoebe asked, understanding the problem without anyone vocalizing it.

"Plan? There is no plan other then them to leave," Piper said angrily holding Wyatt safely in her arms.

"What? Piper!" Phoebe started in shock at her sister.

"If they are to become the most hunted people in the world, then they are a danger to us and especially to Wyatt if they stay."

"But he is our Whitelighter and they are both innocents," Phoebe argued.

"Look, guys," Chris interrupted, "You don't have to argue about this. Bianca and I will figure this out and we'll do it by ourselves. It's okay," he said to Phoebe who was about to protest. He turned to Piper, "Let us just use the attic and the Book today and we'll keep you out of danger."

Piper nodded reluctantly.

"I'll help you," Phoebe said glaring at Piper.

"I'll help too," Paige piped in to everyone's surprise.

"I'll come too," Piper said, "But just to keep an eye on you. Leo take Wyatt Up There for today. I don't know if there are more of these bozos around," she said pointing at the demon.

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2004: Halliwell Manor, Attic.

"So we need a plan," Chris said. He was pacing the floor, Bianca sat on the chair by the potions table with her arms crossed on top of the back support, Paige was flipping through the book without actually looking for anything and both Phoebe and Piper occupied the couch again.

"The only way to solve this in any way," Bianca said, "is for us to go back to the future."

Chris nodded but Phoebe didn't agree, "What?"

"Look," Chris explained, "W- the dark lord can send how many he wants from the future if we stay here. He will never come personally so we must face him."

"Can't you just stop the time portal from activate or something?" Paige wondered.

"No, it doesn't work that way," Bianca said. Then she thought of something, "Chris, he has to use the spell, the same one that you used," It was her way of talking about the future Book of Shadows without the sisters knowing.

Understanding what she meant about the spell he said, "If we can get the spell he won't be able to open the portal."

"Can't he just write a new one?" Paige asked.

"No," Bianca said, "All time travel spells has been blessed by Elders. If we take the spell-paper he has to write a new one and then get it blessed for it to work. I doubt the few Elders left in the future would help him with that."

"So that's a plan," Phoebe said although she didn't like it, "How to play it out?"

The all though about it for a while and again it was Bianca who came with the idea.

"Lets say I did what I supposed to do and captured Chris and brought him back with me."

"He will think you loyal to him," Chris said catching on, "and hopefully won't question it."

Bianca nodded, "One has to fight him while the other take the spell."

"That's gonna be me fighting him," Chris decided, "Don't argue with me," he said when Bianca was about to do just that, "you know our history. He will not want it any other way."

"So we have a plan," Paige said happily, "we can sharpen the details tomorrow, but for now; it's late and I for one needs my beauty sleep."

The three sisters got up but both Chris and Bianca stood still. They had been kicked out earlier and that probably also meant the backroom of P3. Acknowledging their problem Piper simply said, "You can use the Manors guestroom. I think the bed is large enough for both of you."

Chris smiled, a true smile and not a smirk, to his mother-to-be and then Orbed with his fiancé down to the room that would be his one time in the future.

They had only been in the room for a few minutes when a knock came on the door.

"Bianca?" they heard the muffled voice of Phoebe through the door, "I have something for you to wear if you want?"

Bianca opened the door and gratefully took the shirt Phoebe brought.

"Although," Phoebe said with a staged whisper, "I think Chris would like it more without it," she teased as she turned and walked back to her room leaving a blushing Whitelighter and an amused Assassin behind.

They both made themselves ready and then crawled into bed. They could have done a lot more then just share that final goodnight kiss, but frankly they were to tired from the days events and perfectly happy with just laying in each others arms again to do anything more.

And Chris had so many questions to ask her. About his two cousins, his sister, if they were okay and hidden just like when he left. He wanted to ask about the Resistance and the fighting they must have done.

But he figured, as he lay in bed with the woman he loved wearing a silly grin on his face, those questions could wait till tomorrow, and with that he fell asleep.

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2004: Halliwell Manor, the next day.

The five people that slept in the Manor gathered in the kitchen where Piper had outdone herself when it came to breakfast. They all eagerly dug in knowing how good Pipers food was.

They all fit around the kitchen table so there's where they sat. Piper and Paige sat at the short ends, Chris and Bianca at one of the long sides and Phoebe on the other.

Surprisingly they all had a good time especially Bianca who had never experienced anything like this. Growing up there had only been her mother and the other in the Phoenix coven had been too cold and distant to her.

It was during breakfast, when all three sisters had to leave the table, that Chris finally asked his questions. He started with his cousins.

"They're safe," Bianca answered, "Pasha, Peyton and Patience," she added his sister knowing he would like to know about her too, "are all hidden. They had to be removed once when Wyatt almost found them but they made it."

Chris sighed in relief. His cousins and sister were the new Charmed Ones and had taken over after their mothers' deaths. They had to be hidden because Wyatt wanted to use their powers. The others came back so Chris couldn't continue asking but at least he knew the important hadn't changed.

"So are you ready?" Paige asked when breakfast was over. They shared a nervous laugh but decided it wasn't any idea to prolong it anymore. So they all went to the attic called Leo and made sure everything had been covered.

It was then Bianca was hit with another thought, "Chris I have to take your powers."

"What?" came from the sisters.

"No, she's right," Chris said, "I can't believe I forgot."

"Forgot what?" Leo wondered.

"That W- the dark lord, God it's idiotic calling him that! Anyway, he can see magic, which means he can see my powers if I have them and will know it's a set up."

The others understood and Bianca made her way over to him.

"I'm sorry," she whispered.

"It's okay, do it," Chris said and braised himself for the pain.

Bianca put her left hand through his chest and started draining his powers. It was extremely painful but had to be done. When she was finished she took the hand out and quickly helped Chris who began swaying.

"Promise never to do that to me," Phoebe half joked in shock.

"Are you okay?" Bianca asked Chris who now stood straight again.

"Yeah, it just feels weird," he said uncomfortable. Bianca gave him an understanding smile and then her gaze fell on her hand. She sighed and took the engagement ring of.

"I guess we need to hide it again, huh? Are you ready?" Bianca asked again. Chris nodded and she took his hand and then activated the portal with her other.

"Wait," Phoebe cried out and rushed to Chris, "Here I wrote this. It's to get your powers back."

Chris took the note and then turned, along with Bianca, towards the portal. "Well here it goes," he muttered and walked with Bianca through the portal.

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AN: Ohh, cliffhanger! Well kinda so don't kill me or you won't get the next chapter. Do you know how frustrated I can become at English grammar sometimes? I know I have mistakes in my chapters but I do read through them and try to catch them. But I HATE it when you have something where there are two options, only one is the right but both sounds okay. Living in a non-English speaking country doesn't make it easier! Well, enough with my ranting.

I really didn't plan on putting this chapter up today but since it was done I though what the heck.

By the request of Akemi, I made this chapter a little longer. I hope you liked it. Thank you all so much for the kind reviews and keep it up.

Anyway, bye and I see you next time!

Sunniva.