The sibling's argument was disrupted by someone clearing their throat, Chris turned to see a very pissed off Penny Halliwell (Paige changed her last name to Halliwell Matthews. So Penny goes by Halliwell…coz she can) staring at him.

"You put me in a pile of mud." She growled.

"Pen…"

"Don't you Pen me Christopher!" She picked up a mud clod and threw it at him, hitting him in the arm.

"You always were a crap-" he paused, heart racing his knees buckled underneath him.

Pen darted to his side, "Chris what's wrong?"

"My head…" he muttered, "Sensory overload. Give me a hand up?"

Seventeen-year-old Penny helped her twenty-year-old cousin off the floor, the two cousins left the room unnoticed by Chris' siblings and sat in the kitchen.

Chris sighed heavily as he slid into the seat, "Thanks Pen."

Penny nodded slightly, "You thirsty?"

He rubbed his eyes, "Nah, thanks anyway."

Penny poured herself a drink and was vaguely aware of her cousin's emerald eyes studying her, turning to him she snapped, "You could just ask you know."

"Okay," he paused, "Aside from me chucking you in a mud column what's wrong?"

Penny sat opposite her cousin, "You've got no idea what it's like, I'm the odd one out… you and the twins are so strong…I'm just the inferior Halliwell, second rate." Her eyes snapped up when she heard her cousin chuckle, "What the hell is so funny?"

"Please." Chris smiled wryly, "You are so not second rate or inferior. You're just as strong as the rest of us."

"Yeah right, so how come the Elders made you three gods and I'm just plain old boring Penny?"

"Well 'plain old boring Penny', I'll let you in on a secret," he leant forward, "The Elders are a bunch of fuckwits."

Penny laughed, "If mum and aunt Piper hear you saying that…"

"They'll agree with me." Chris smirked, "Now for the other secret, take your necklace off. "

"Why?"

Chris held his hand out and orbed the necklace from her neck, leaving it out a bit longer both Wyatt and Melinda's pendants orbed into his hand. Taking his own necklace off he placed them all on the table.

"You don't understand it do you?"

"Understand what?"

Chris positioned his, Wyatt and Melinda's pendants together then placed Penny's in the interlocking pieces creating a triquetra, with a smile he looked up through his dark hair, "We're Charmed, and you Penelope Rose Halliwell Matthews Montana, are the one who holds us all together."

Piper and Paige were standing in the doorway watching their children, "He's good, isn't he?" Piper smiled.

Paige grinned, "I don't think Penny has to worry about her inferiority complex anymore."

Chris grinned at Penny, his green eyes twinkling with unspoken mischief, "Ya know, I've got an idea."

"Oh no."

"The Elders only gave me a power boost…if you want…I can make it so you share this power."

Penny's grey-green eyes bulged, "No…I couldn't."

"Pen, we could really use your help. I could use your help, I mean I'm not like my mum, if Wyatt and Mel go off the rails I can't control them by myself. I mean hell, they gave Wyatt the powers of the god of war."

"You're worried it'll turn him, aren't you?"

Chris nodded, "Yeah…I don't wanna lose him again Penny. I just can't do it."

Penny wrapped her arms around Chris as he broke into full-blown sobs, "You won't lose him, we'll kill the titans and change everyone back."

Chris pulled away, "You've always been good at giving advice."

Pen grinned, "Well I learned from the best."

"Aunt Phoebe?"

"Oh hell no." she laughed, "You."

Piper and Paige were looking at each other, "They know? Piper how do they know?"

"Chris died and was born the same day…maybe his memories were transferred?"

A look of understanding came over the sisters' faces, "His nightmares."

"I'm his mother, why didn't he tell me?"

Two sets of green eyes turned to face Piper and Paige, "Because I didn't want to worry you mum." Chris said with a smile.

"How long have you two known we were here?"

Chris and Penny smirked, "Since you got there."

Chris smiled at the two Charmed ones, "Penny and I have to run. Gods to make, Titans to kill, you know the score."

Piper smiled as Chris and Penny disappeared in a strong gust of wind, "How did our kids get so grown up?"

"Who knows sis." Paige said.