Okay, so yes, I'm having the whole powers from the womb thing. This is the baby of a charmed one and a demon. Even without his invincibility, Cole was more than likely even more powerful than the Source when he came back in the fifth season.

"Okay, so I'm a little freaked out, give me a break." Piper said, sitting the mixing bowl down and looking over at Phoebe.

"I thought you were happy about this. You seemed like it when you told us last week. You've always wanted children."

"I am happy. It's just...I keep thinking about how powerful the baby's going to be." Phoebe nodded.

"Yeah, I know what you mean. You are a charmed one, and then Cole's probably the most powerful demon in existence even without the invincibility." Piper nodded.

"I think the fact that I'm already tapping into the baby's powers and it's only been two weeks since I found out I was pregnant is a sign of how strong the kid's going to be." Piper stared down at the counter when another thought hit her.

"You're thinking about Paige again, aren't you?" Phoebe asked. "I mean, the other Paige, the one from the future." Piper nodded.

"I just can't help but to wonder..."

"I know." Phoebe said, sparing her from having to finish the thought. "Have you talked to Chris?"

"No." Piper shook her head. She was slightly afraid of talking to Chris, of hearing what he might tell her, of hearing that maybe her child had suffered the same fate as Paige's. Something had been bugging her about Chris, though.

"How do you think he knew us in the future?" She asked finally. Phoebe shrugged.

"I don't know. He's a whitelighter, right? Maybe he was ours. Who knows how long he's lived." Piper shook her head.

"No, he said that he hadn't been a whitelighter for long, remember? He doesn't even know how to heal."

"Well, maybe he was a friend of the family." Phoebe frowned. "When he first came back he told me that he'd only come back about twenty years or so. He doesn't look much older than twenty himself...maybe he's not a friend of ours, maybe he's a friend of your kids, or Paige's."

"Maybe." Piper said, but she was thinking about the man who had come back from the future with Paige. Kyle, who was apparently the father of Paige's children. He and Chris had seemed close, and she'd seen the worry in Kyle's eyes when he'd left to go back to the future, worry for Chris.

She guessed that if he was a friend of the family that it would explain why he was so determined to help them, why he had been so determined to keep Cole alive, to get Piper and Cole back to each other when they'd lost their memories.

Something was nagging at the back of her mind, though. She unconsciously put a hand over her stomach.

"Hey." Piper said when she came into the attic, and taking in the now familiar sight of Paige, flipping through the book of shadows.

"Hey." Paige said absently.

"What demon are you going after now?" Piper stepped closer to her. She'd been worried about Paige for a while now, ever since they'd seen the future version of her sister.

"I thought I'd follow Chris on his next little hunt." Piper frowned.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Paige looked up and her eyes flashed with anger.

"Why not? He won't tell me anything." Piper sighed, putting a hand on the book, stopping her from turning the page again.

"Honey, he can't tell us what he doesn't know. I think he was telling the truth when he said he doesn't know which demon gets to Phoebe, otherwise he wouldn't have come back so early, he wouldn't still be looking."

"That's not what I'm talking about. He may not know which demon attacks this year, but I think he knows why, well, I, came back. He won't tell me, though. He keeps avoiding me. I need to know what happened, and why I would think it was Cole's fault in the future."

"You don't think that she was in the right, do you? You don't seriously think Cole could do that?" She asked warily, but Paige shook her head, her attention back on the book, though it didn't look like she was seeing the words now.

"No, I don't think that it was Cole. Even when I hated Cole, I probably wouldn't have thought he'd do something so horrible." She shrugged. "Besides, I heard...myself and who I guess is my future husband talking. I'd think he'd be a little bit pissed at Cole too."

"I guess so." Piper was silent for a moment while she watched her sister start flipping through the book again. "What are you looking for?"

"Demons powerful enough to take us on and stand a chance."

"You mean demons powerful enough to take on a child of a charmed one and a whitelighter?" Piper asked gently.

"Chris is probably looking here too. You noticed the fact that he brought a lot of demons here that could only be vanquished by the power of three." Piper nodded, even more worried now.

"Yeah, I noticed. So, what? Are you going to be going after demons that you know you can't vanquish on your own, because I know that Chris is a little reckless, I've seen it, but that doesn't mean you have to be."

"I'm not going after demons. I told you, I'm going after Chris. I'll be back later." She closed the book, and orbed out.

"Damn it." Piper sighed again.

"Hey, was Paige here?" Phoebe asked, walking into the attic.

"She was." Piper ran a hand through her hair. "She's not anymore. She said that she's going after Chris." Phoebe nodded.

"She's still a little angry at Chris, isn't she?" Piper sat down on the couch.

"She thinks that Chris knows more than he's telling...and the thing is that I know she's right, but..."

"But you don't think that Chris is keeping it from her to hurt her." Phoebe finished for her, sitting down as well.

"Whatever he knows, whatever happened to Paige's family in the future...it's something bad...bad enough that he doesn't want to tell us."

"But the way that Paige looked. I mean, the other Paige...we have to stop that from happening, Piper, and to do that, we need to know everything." Piper shook her head and smiled sadly.

"I know, but I'm worried about what it's going to do. What could be worse than finding out that your children are killed? What could be bad enough that Chris wouldn't want to tell us after that?"

Chris was hiding out, waiting for the demon to appear. Ever since Kyle and Paige had come back, he'd been spending even more time in the underworld. He hadn't truly needed the reminder of how bad it was in the future.

Seeing Paige and Kyle reminded him of what had happened to Ruby and Jack, to what had happened to Mel, Phoebe, and Piper.

He had to close his eyes when images of Mel and what had happened to her played in his head for a moment. He couldn't tell them that couldn't devastate them even more than he already had. What would it do to Paige and Piper to find out about this? Piper and Cole would hate him if they ever found out the truth.

He knew that Paige wasn't taking what she'd already learned well. How could she? He never wanted her to find out about that. He'd though that he could handle it, hadn't figured that she would come back too.

Chris smiled when the demon he'd been looking for flamed in, and raised his hand.

Paige was hidden in a back part of the large cavern, her gaze focused on the spot she knew that Chris was hiding in. Was there a demon supposed to show soon? Was this demon on his list?

A few seconds later, one did flame in. He didn't wait; Chris simply stepped out of his hiding spot, a smile on his face. The demon faced him as well.

"A whitelighter." The demon said, smiling as well. "Are you suicidal?" Chris laughed.

"No." He paced out in front of the demon, facing him and crossing his arms. "You know, if I were you, I'd flame out right about now. But in my experience, most demons aren't very smart."

"You can't vanquish me, whitelighter. Only the power of three can." Chris cocked his head to the side.

"Sure about that?" Paige almost jumped out of her hiding spot when the demon sent an energy ball Chris' way, but Chris only raised his hand and her eyes widened when it was deflected and sent into the side wall. The demon's eyes widened also.

"How did you do that?!" Chris simply shrugged.

"You mean you can't see it?" The demons eyes narrowed.

"You're no whitelighter." He growled.

"No." Chris said calmly. He raised a hand and a fireball appeared there. "I'm not." He sent it at the demon and watched as it burst into flames and disappeared. Paige stood in shock, watching him as he sighed and orbed out.

Her legs feeling numb, she came out of her hiding place. For a minute, she just stood there and then rage filled her and she orbed out herself.

"We have a serous problem." Paige said as she walked into the attic. She put her hands on her hips, facing Piper who was sitting on the couch. She had gotten past her shock, and now she was just pissed off.

"What's wrong now?" Piper asked, sitting aside the book she'd been reading.

"Chris is the problem. He's been lying to us." Piper sighed.

"Paige...we all know Chris isn't being entirely forthcoming, but he has helped us." She frowned and studied her sister's face. "Okay, so whatever you're talking about, it's bad, isn't it?"

"Chris is a demon." Piper stared at her sister for a moment.

"What?" She asked, standing up. "That's ridiculous."

"I saw him vanquish another demon with a fireball, Piper." Piper stopped, and shook her head.

"But that's impossible, Chris can't be a demon."

"Why not? You weren't entirely trusting of him when he first came back, were you? Maybe this is a plan, maybe he's after us." Piper shook her head.

"Paige, Chris has been in the past for months. He's never done anything to hurt us. In fact, if it wasn't for him, Cole would still be in Florida. We've vanquished more demons since he's been our whiteligher than we did in the entire year before. Why would he do that? Why would he want us to do that if he were a demon? Why would try and save Cole's life if he were?"

"But I saw-"

"Paige, you saw yourself and your future husband, didn't you? They trusted Chris. Are you trying to tell me that you seriously think that a demon trying to kill us would fool them for years just to do that?" Paige's anger deflated a little bit and she sighed.

"Then how does he have fireballs to use? I heard him, Piper. He told the demon that he wasn't a whitelighter, but he still orbed out after. How does that work?" Piper was frowning now, thinking about Chris, about the weird feeling she'd been having about him lately.

"What kind of fireballs?" She asked.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, were they like the one's the Source used?" Paige rolled her eyes.

"They were blue, what does it matter?"

"Like the ones that Cole uses?" She asked quietly.

"What?" Paige shook her head, pacing a little. "Okay, maybe you're right. Maybe Chris is one of the good guys. So, maybe this isn't Chris."

"Huh?" Piper shook off her thoughts and looked over at her sister.

"What if it was a demon, just not Chris? I mean, it'd be a perfect way to get to us, right? Pretend to be someone that we trust but that we don't know very well at the same time so it'd be harder for us to bust them."

"Maybe." Piper said.

"I'm going to look up shapeshifters." Paige walked over to the book.

"Okay, I'm just going to...go see what Cole's doing..." Piper walked out of the room.

Piper paced in the living room. She couldn't get it out of her head. Everything that she knew about Chris came back to her, everything that had happened since he had come back.

Why would he come back and not someone else? Why him? Was he the only one who could do this? Why did he want to protect this family so much? It could be that he was just a friend, but she had the feeling that it ran deeper than that.

He'd fought to get her and Cole back together when they'd lost their memories. He'd done everything he could to keep them all alive when the titans had attacked. He'd warned them and helped them when Paige had come back from the future.

Paige's future husband had looked at him with worry, had seemed close to him, and then there was the fact that Paige had heard Chris tell a demon that he wasn't a whitelighter. He'd known their family well, obviously, knew that Paige and her husband had named their children after their own parents. She had seen the determination and...pain in Chris' eyes when he'd told Paige that he'd do everything he could to stop it from happening again.

The powers that Paige said that Chris used sounded like the powers that Cole had. He'd also seemed genuinely concerned when he found out that Cole wasn't invincible anymore.

Piper's frown deepened and she abruptly stopped pacing. Why hadn't she seen it before? The dark brown hair, the light blue eyes that were the same shade as Cole's. Even his attitude. She shook her head when a memory hit her of how their attitudes, at least about their own welfare, were alike.

"Its okay, Cole went to get him." Leo said, but Darryl did not look reassured.

"Cole?" A second later, Cole did shimmer into the manor, over by the stairs.

"Cole." Phoebe started over, but he held up a hand, an energy ball forming there.

"Wait." A second later a bounty hunter appeared across the room. Cole dove to the side, avoiding the lighting that the demon sent his way and sending energy ball at the same time. His did not miss, and the bounty hunter burst into flames.

"Damn bounty hunters," Cole stood up, smiling and completely unconcerned, "They're like gnats."

Piper shook her head at the memory, at one of the many examples of how Cole was when it came to his own life. Now that she thought about it, she did see that same quality in Chris...

"Hey." Chris said, orbing into the attic, looking surprised to see her.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Chris looked around, waiting for something.

"Uh, could you do me a favor?"

"What?" She asked, starting to get up. Chris didn't answer, he simply walked away from her, waiting. A second later a demon shimmered into the attic and Chris tackled it to the ground and rolled away.

"Blow him up?" Piper lifted her hands, doing as he asked.

"What do you think you're doing?" Chris went over to the book.

"What I said I'd do, I'm trying to find out which demon is after you guys." Piper stood in front of him, putting a hand on the book.

"And what would have happened if I hadn't been here?" Chris glanced up at her, unconcerned. In fact, it seemed like he had already forgotten about the demon.

"I would have managed."

"How?" Chris closed the book, and shrugged.

"I got a few tricks." He said before orbing out.

The way that he handled his own welfare. That did remind her a little bit of Cole, except that Chris took it a step further. Cole was confident, Chris was too. Then again, Chris seemed to only care that he finished his mission.

That reminded her of someone else. Chris was on constant demon hunts, he never seemed to stop. She remembered the way that Prue was. At times, she had the same attitude.

Chris may not worry about himself, but he did worry about everyone and everything else. That was something that also reminded her of Prue. He was also sarcastic and snappy like Paige at times. He was obsessive, just like Piper had to admit she was at times.

Really, though, it was uncanny the resemblance he had to Prue, and she didn't know how she didn't see it before. If she was right, that obsessive thing had to of come from her and Prue because there was no way it came from Cole.

What tricks did he have anyways? If he was just a whitelighter, he shouldn't be able to vanquish an upper level demon himself. But if he wasn't...but how was it possible? How was it possible to fool everyone?

Piper put a hand to her stomach when the feeling she'd been getting lately grew stronger, and she had the distinct impression that her baby was trying to tell her something. She'd had a strange feeling about Chris...since she had found out she was pregnant.

"Chris!" Piper called out suddenly. She needed to see him. She needed to see him now. "Chris! I need you, get down here!" Her nerves were so shot that she jumped when he orbed in behind her.

"What's wrong?" He asked, concern in his voice. Piper shook her head, and met his eyes. She stared into his eyes, his blue eyes, and she knew.

"Okay, I need you to tell me something, and I need you to be completely honest with me. No orbing out or dodging the question, just honesty."

"Piper, you know I can't tell you anything more about the future." Chris said, sighing. "I know that Paige is worried-" Piper held up a hand, cutting him off.

"Not about that." She said, still a little freaked out by her own train of thought. "About you. I need the truth, Chris."

"The truth about what?" Piper closed her eyes briefly and took a deep breath.

"I need you to tell me how it's possible you can orb...when you're mine and Cole's son."