Chapter 3- A shock for piper

As soon as Wyatt had blinked, piper found herself being transported though time in a swirl of white and blue Whitelighter orbs. As soon as they had died down, the witch realised she was no longer in her own house as she glanced around a small living room, which was overlooking what could only be described as New York City. Slowly making her way around the room, the pissed of, yet slightly confused mother of two took in her surroundings.

There was a large bookcase by the supper high tech television, which looked like nothing she had ever seen before, a sitting area on the rounded wooden winder sill, a leather couch and arm chair in the middle of the room, with a small coffee table covered in paper's in the centre of them and a large brown box by the doorway.

Curiosity taking the better of her, she instantly made her way over to the treasure chest and ever so slowly opened the lid. Inside were mounds of baby toys, teddy bears and even a few electronic dolls.

Reaching inside, she pulled out the one toy that caught her eye; a pink rag doll with string hair in brown plates, a doll which no doubt ably belonged to her niece, prudence, phoebe's first born.

Turning the doll over she saw on the front of the dress a sparkling message sown on to it, ' To little lily rain, may this toy bring you as much happiness as it brought me'.

Obviously piper knew that more than one toy made of the rag doll that she had brought prudence for her very first Christmas, but there was just something about it which screamed that it belonged to her currently only niece.

Shaking her head, piper placed the doll back into the box and headed out of the living room towards the stairs in the hall way. Walking up them, the pictures on the walls caught her eyes, there was one with a little new born baby, and the person she pursued was the baby's mother, there was a picture from the same child's first birthday where she was sitting on the lap of a man, whose face was sort of shadowed over and there was one which looked like some sort of family reunion, with at least twelve plus adults/ teenagers in.

Ignoring the feeling which told her she recognised the people in the photograph, piper carried on up the stairs and down the landing until she came to a door way. Peering inside, she instantly realised the room belonged to the little girl, in the photo's, Lilly rain.

The wallpaper wasn't the traditional pink colour which most parents decorated their daughter's room; instead it was a pale baby blue with purple and silver butterflies all over it with a really pale yellow outlining. It was also a complete and utter mess, with toys and teddy bears flown every where, it was certainly the exact opposite of tidy and how piper would have kept her daughter's room.

Heading over to what looked like an out of use fireplace, she reached out to pick up a photograph of what looked like someone's wedding day when she heard footsteps behind her.

"Who the hell are you?" A woman screamed from behind piper, causing her to jump out of her skin at the anger in her voice. She was probably around twenty five years old; she had long sleek black hair, dark Indian skin and large brown eyes. She was wearing a skinny rib jumper and a pair of blue jeans. In her arms was a little girl around two years old, who was quite frankly the spitting image of Chris when he was that age, all apart from the eyes that is.

"Umm… hi there!"

"Never mind that, now I asked you a question! And I expect an answer?" The women said coldly, what right did this woman have to be in her home?

"Piper! Piper Halliwell"

"What are you doing in my house?"

"Well… that's a very good question!" the thirty five year old replied, her eyes locked on the child who was eerily silent as she chewed on her sleeve.

The future woman noticed this and tightened her grip on the two year old, who wasn't very pleased, and showed this by orbing off. Her mother's eyes instantly widened, more so when she realised piper wasn't running a mile at the sight of magic. Holding her hand out, the twenty something year old summered, a ball of fire and glared at the visitor.

"What are you and what do you want?"

"I don't have to answer a demon!" Piper yelled as she glared at the fire ball in the woman's hand.

"I'm not a demon!"

"The fire ball says otherwise!"

"The type of magic I have does not make me a demon!"

"Really? While I speak from experience as a charmed one, fire balls tend to make you evil!"

"Did you just say charmed one?"

"Yeah, why?" Piper mumbled, unsure of what to say, the way the woman said it made her extremely nervous, especially when the string of swear words followed.

As she continued to curse under her breath and pace up and down the floor, the witch couldn't help but wonder why she wasn't worried that her daughter had disappeared.

As the future women turned towards the door way, blue orbs appeared behind her causing her to swear even louder than before.

"Kayla, guess who orbed over to me whilst I was in the station? Seriously it was really lucky that none of my colleges saw her! We really need to teach her about not orbing in public places." The new comer said as the lights disappeared. As the voice registered in piper's head her whole body bolted backwards as she realised just who the person was.

"Yeah, tell me about it, she's been trying it all day! I think she misses her daddy! Oh and by the way we have a visitor!" Kayla answered as she kissed her husband then pointed across the room, to where piper stood rooted to the spot.

"Chris?" The eldest witch stuttered as the man turned to face her, revealing her youngest, currently twenty five year old son.

"Umm… yeah, do I know you?" Chris asked confused, generally not recognising the women standing just inches away from him.

"Are you kidding me? It's me! Your mother! ... oh come on I can't have aged that much!"

"My mother?" he repeated, his brow creased in confusion as he stared at the new comer, tilting his head to the side, trying his hardest to remember what the woman he hadn't seen in years looked like.

"Oh my god! I'm dead aren't I! My dad was right, I die young!" piper yelled, half panicking as she stared at her son's face, that being the only logical explanation her brain could come up with as to why her own child didn't recognise her.

"Well, no I umm don't think you are…" The future man said slowly, sharing a look with his wife as he shifted his daughter into his other arm.

"Wait? What do you mean you don't think so?" Piper screamed, the panic evident in her voice, how could her own son not know if she was alive!

Kayla was about to jump into the conversation, ready to give the women a piece of her mind, when Chris held his arm out, in a way knowing what she was going to do.

"Well since my mother would be in her fifties I take it your not from this time, so I don't think I should answer that, future consequence and all that!"

Piper's shoulders sank as she heard those two words she had heard so many times before, 'future consequences', he had still grown up despite her best efforts to be the neurotic freak from the future she had once known.

Bright lights however interrupted her thoughts as a tall blonde man appeared in the little girl's bedroom.

"Chris, Kayla, I need a favour!" he said instantly, his back facing the women from the past.

"So what else is knew!" Chris replied, grinning as the new comer placed his daughter on the floor who, instantly ran over to some of lily's toys and started playing with them.

"Yeah, but can you please look after…"

"Kelly!" Chris finished for his older brother, knowing full well where the conversation was going.

"Yeah, well dad is in work, and Carla just called…" Wyatt said with a grin as he watched Lilly orb to the floor and take her doll back of her cousin.

"It's fine!"

"I promise it will be the last time for at least three months!!"

Chris, Kayla and the two toddlers just looked at Wyatt, practically rolling their eyes, knowing full well that was not going to be the case as track records showed.

"I hope this one's worth it Wyatt!"

"Oh believe me! She so is!"

He was about to orb off again, when he heard someone clearing their throat behind him, that is when he finally laid eyes on his mother.

"Mum?" he asked, a hint of uncertainty in his voice, unlike his brother he did have a few memories of their mother, unfortunately most of them were ones from when she used to yell at Chris or treat him like an annoying tag along.

Piper smiled, knowing instantly that her oldest child would recognised her, however though her happiness she never noticed the slight anger in his voice, or the expression he wore as she walked over and hugged him.

"Well at least someone recognises me!" she cried happily, stepping away from her eldest son with tears in her eyes.

"What are you doing here?" Wyatt said, his voice full of suspicion and anger, yet piper seemed totally oblivious to it as took in his appearance, knowing he had turned out just fine.

"Your five year old self sent me here, must have thought I needed to see you guys!"

Wyatt briefly glanced back over to his brother and sister in law, the three of them seemingly having an unspoken conversation, piper was from the time before Leo took of, having had enough of her behaviour towards Chris.

"Well thank him for me will you?!" Wyatt sneered, his voice dripping in sarcasm, which piper actually noticed, but instead of asking about it, she turned her head to look at the little girl with blonde ringlets in her hair playing besides her, a smile plastered on her face.

"So I have a granddaughter!"

"Two actually!" Wyatt answered instantly, as his mother bent down to talk to his little girl.

"You have two daughters!" piper practically screamed in amazement as she gazed at Wyatt, her eyes practically glistening in pride.

Chris and Kayla's jaws dropped as Wyatt clenched his fists and dug his nails into his skin, trying his hardest not to completely lose it, knowing he'd regret it in the long run.

"No, Chris has lily!" he replied through gritted teeth, steam practically coming out of his ears, as he remembered the way she used to disregard Chris every chance she got.

"Oh right!" piper said slowly, glancing at the two year old briefly out of the corner of her eyes, disappointment evident in her voice.

Chris, noticing this shook his head and pushed past his mother to pick his daughter up, vaguely remembering how she used to treat him and refusing to let Lilly listen to someone thinking her cousin was better than her.

"Have you got a problem with that?!" Kayla jumped in, a threatening look written across her face.

"No… of course I don't…"

"Yeah right…" Chris mumbled under his breath just loud enough for Wyatt to hear, who shook his head and glared daggers at his mother.

"You want to know something, mum? Dad has told us millions of stories, but I always thought he was exaggerating a little, now I'm not so sure!"

"What are you talking about honey?"

"We all saw that look on your face! You didn't want lily to be related to you, just like you didn't want my little brother!"

"Hey now that is not true!" Piper yelled, defending herself instantly, not really believing her son had just said that.

"Isn't it?" Wyatt asked, purposely standing in front of Chris protectively as he picked his own daughter up. "Even I noticed it! And I was barley six at the time!"

"What? What are you talking about? You noticed what?"

Shaking his head in disbelief, Wyatt turned his back on his mother and put his hand on Chris shoulder, directing him from the room.

Before the five of them left Lily's bedroom, Wyatt turned back around and looked at piper in disgust before adding.

"You know what? I'm glad dad took us away from you! At least Chris didn't have to put up with you for more than four years!"

"Excuse me?"

"You heard! Dad took off with us because he was sick to death of how you treated your youngest son! Even Aunt Paige and phoebe left, because no one wanted to be around you and your cold heartless heart."

Wyatt immediately stopped when he felt someone grip hold of his shoulders, as a way to tell him to calm down and shut up.

"Wh…What?" she stuttered, absolutely stunned by her sons words. "What the hell do you mean Leo left me!" Piper screamed, anger quickly replacing her disbelief, as she focused completely on one thought- Wyatt had to be lying. She knew Leo loved her more than anything else in the world; he had sacrificed everything to be with her and his children, he would never even dream of leaving her, especially with the boys, he just wasn't like that. So in her mixed up mind that only meant one thing, Wyatt was making it up.

"Oh don't pretend to have gone death now! You heard me loud and clear mother!"

"Don't talk to me like that! I thought I raised you better than a horrible spiteful child!"

"Oh don't you dare take the moral high ground with me! You lost every right to lecture me when you…"

Chris quickly snapped his hand over his brother's mouth, cutting the sentence in half before he had the chance to say anything he was round to regret. To be completely honest he hated the women as much as Wyatt did, but unlike the twice blessed child, Chris remembered that the events Wyatt was going to refer to hadn't happened yet, and knew all to well what could happen if they revealed something they shouldn't.

"When I what?" Piper snapped, glaring daggers at Chris as he shifted uncomfortably under her gaze.

"Don't Wyatt! Future consequences and all that!" Chris immediately said as he sensed his brother ready to scream the whole event at her. To be completely honest he couldn't remember a thing about that day, his memories were just stories other people had told him. The elders had told him it was his brain blocking the memories out, but he didn't see how, when he knew what had happened and wanted desperately to remember anything past a demon kidnapping him. He wanted to know from his own point of view what finally made his father snap and just disappear with his two young sons.

"Oh don't you dare start with that full shit again Chris!" Piper yelled, ignoring the look on his face as he mouthed the word 'again' to his brother and Kayla, who mouth shrugged their shoulders. "Now Wyatt, what were you going to say?"

"You know what that is exactly the attitude I'm talking about! You can't just barge into our lives and start treating Chris like that all over again! It's just not fair!"

"You wanna talk about what's not fair? How about hearing that you are going to lose everything in your life which makes it worthwhile and no one will tell you why!"

"You really want to know? Why so you can fix it? Sorry mother but I think even at this stage in your life, it is way past fixing!" Wyatt yelled, but brought his voice back down when he felt his daughter move away from him in fright.

"Nothing is past fixing! I didn't give up on you when I found out you were going to turn evil! I didn't give up on phoebe when she became the ruler of the underworld, and I be dammed if I am going to give up now!"

"When were you evil?" Chris said confused as he and Wyatt shared 'a look', the elder of the two shrugged his shoulders, before once again turning to walk away.

"You don't have a choice, just go back to your time and let everything run as it should! Because we, are out of here!" With that, Wyatt directed the rest of his family out of lily's room and on to the landing, determined they weren't going to spend another minute with piper.

Of course piper had other ideas as she charged out of the room and ran down the corridor after her son, she wasn't just about to let him walk away, without doing some serious explaining first!

"Don't you just walk away from me! I want answers! I disserve some answers!"

"You disserve nothing you old bat!" Kayla yelled out as she stopped in her tracks and spun to face the women she had heard so much about.

"Stay out of this, demon girl!"

"Hey don't talk to her like that!" Chris screamed, jumping to his wife's defence. Whilst technically it was true, Kayla was half demon, but that half was a side of her that apart from using the powers of, she never really explored. They had known each other of years before they even started going out, and in that time Chris had never seen her be anything but good, constantly fighting her father who was trying to lure her to the underworld.

"Oh shut up Chris!"

"No I won't shut up! You can't go slagging of people's wives without expecting their husband to bloody defend them!

"I said shut up, just go and bother someone else!"

Chris just shook his head, as he felt a familiar feeling of Dèjá vu. He had heard that one too many times from her, only this time, he wasn't about to listen.

Flashback

"Mummy! Mummy there was a demon upstairs!! I saw him!"

"Not now Chris, can't you see I'm on the phone!" piper scolded as she completely ignored her son and continued to talk to her youngest sister.

"But mummy he said he was gunna kill you!"

"I said not now!"

"But he was going after the book in the attic!"

"Chris shut up, go and bother someone else!"

End of flashback

"You know what, you want to know why dad left, then I'll tell you!" Chris said slowly as he looked at his daughter, not understand how he could sense so much hate directed towards him from his own mother. He couldn't even imagine feeling anything even remotely similar to lily, or even his niece, no matter what they did he knew he could never feel like that towards them.

"Really?" piper asked, surprise written all over her face. Chris just nodded and shrugged his shoulders at Wyatt's questioning look.

"Yeah really, because to tell the truth I don't care, I don't care if it hasn't happened in your time yet, because I know even if you do find out, it won't change a damm thing! You'll still be the same, heartless bitch that we all know, you don't give a damm about me, so why the hell should I care if you find out why everyone hates you, why should I keep quite just to spare your feelings, after all you don't have any!" Chris replied, in a surprisingly calm voice. Piper however seemed completely unaffected by her youngest son's words as she tapped her foot on the floor, waiting for an answer.

"You know what Piper, Chris is right, why should we care! You want to know the truth then we'll tell you!" Wyatt said, venom dripping of his voice as he said his mother's name. "Dad just about put up with you ignoring Chris, treating him like he was none existent, like I was so much better, just because I was twice blessed, he even stayed when you left a four year old Chris, on his own in the house, on his birthday none the less, he just refused to leave you alone with him! But when that demon attacked, when that demon kidnapped Chris and you… you… you just…"

"…You just said to leave him, that everything would be so much better that way, if he was DEAD, that is when he snapped and so did everyone else that you loved miss Halliwell." Kayla continued seeing that Wyatt was having difficulty in saying those dreaded words, whether it was though pure anger or sadness though, she had no idea.

"You lost everyone that day, aunt phoebe and Paige, uncle coop and Henry, grandpa, your niece and nephews… just everyone, no one wanted to be around you, and I'll tell you what, everyone was a hell of a lot happier after that day!" Wyatt said with a smirk as he saw the effect of his words on his mother, he didn't even feel the slightest bit guilty, especially after all the pain she had caused them.

"You know, piper he is right, we were a lot happier, we should thank you really, I mean without you forcing dad to take off, he would have never meet our mother… oh I mean Claire! And we wouldn't have our dearest older brother Jimmy and little baby sister Taffy now would we!" Chris continued before taking Kayla's hand and orbing off with lily, a satisfied smirk on his face. Wyatt just grinned, shifted his daughter into his other arm and waved at the women who looked shocked to her very core before following his brothers orbs half way across town.

Piper just stood and stared at the spot her sons, daughter-in-law and two granddaughters were, completely frozen in both shock and pure horror. She had told her husband to let her baby boy die! That she wanted her child, her little baby, who was only three years old to be brutally murdered by demons. How could she do something like that? But more importantly why would she? What had Chris done to make her want to abandon him like that?

The thing that made her feel ten times worse though, wasn't anything to do with how her children seemed to hate her, or the fact she was really mean to them, no the thing that made her want to curl up and die, was the thought that her husband was married to someone else.

Deciding there was only one way to get the answers she wanted, the witch glanced up at the ceiling and called for the man she knew wouldn't let her down, no matter what time period she was in, the love of her life.

"Leo! Leo, get your ass over here now! I need you!" she yelled and tapped her foot impatiently on the floor. After only waiting a few seconds she tried again and again, but still he didn't reply.

With small hot tears prickling down her face, she reluctantly opened her mouth and called for her youngest sister, only she two failed to respond.

Slouching down on the top of the stairs, piper put her head in her hands and cried, realisation finally downing on her that Wyatt wasn't lying, her whole family hated her and in the next couple of months, she was going to have to go though the heartache of losing everyone.

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Back in 2008, Leo had made the fateful mistake of asking both sisters for help, to try and get Wyatt to tell them just where his mother was.

And due to the fact Paige was heavily pregnant and Phoebe's brain happened to be on making babies, Leo was constantly getting his head bitten off, for allowing Wyatt to send piper away.

After about fifty failed summoning, locater and random spells and a few hormonal outbursts from a certain sister, the girls had resorted to trying to get the five year old to talk, a plan which was quickly becoming the worst idea in history.

"Come on Wyatt, tell me where you sent your mummy!" phoebe asked as sweetly as possible for perhaps the sixth time in the last ten minutes, her frustration over the boy's stubbornness soon showing as she sat down next to him on the floor.

"Not telling!"

Phoebe sighed and started to get up, but stopped as a new idea popped into her mind when her eyes landed on her youngest nephew and the object he was holding.

"Wyatt it's going to be bedtime soon, don't you want her to tell you a story?"

"No!"

"But she always does and you know how bad daddy is at the voices!"

Wyatt actually stopped playing with his toy trains and looked up at his aunt, he hadn't thought about that.

Seeing she was slowly starting to get though to him, phoebe decided to ask again where her sister was, hoping this time he would at least give something away.

"If you tell me where your mummy is, I can bring her back for story time! What do you say?"

Wyatt opened his mouth to answer but stopped abruptly when he heard Chris giggle from behind him.

"NO!"

"Well why the hell not?" phoebe snapped, not meaning to lose her temper but her patients was beginning to wear very thin.

"'Cus mummy will take Chris' powers away and that's not fair!"

"Oh honey, she won't!"

"Yes she will! She told daddy she would! She said Chris isn't powerful but he is and she won't listen."

Phoebe was slightly taken back by this and for a brief second she looked up at Paige who was too wearing the same confused expression as she played with Chris.

"Well we'll talk to your mummy about that don't worry, but Chris needs her too you know? You can't keep her away for ever!"

"Can too! Chris doesn't need mummy! And neither do I! I won't let her make him cry anymore! She can stay with big me forever!"

With that Wyatt closed his mouth and walked over to Chris who smiled mischievously at his brother and orbed of with him just as Leo walked back into their bedroom.

"Where'd they go?"

"Downstairs!" Paige quickly answered as she forced herself to her feet after sensing for them. "How come you didn't tell us that piper wanted to bind Chris powers?"

Leo looked down at his feet as he felt Paige's cold hard glare being directed in his direction, she was worse than a pregnant piper. After he realised she no longer had killing him in mind, the ex elder, avatar and god only knows what else, turned to phoebe, wondering if she got anything out of the boys.

"He just said, she could stay with 'big him'!"

"Well what the hell does that mean?"

Phoebe and Paige just looked at each other before diverting their attention to Leo and shrugging their shoulders, neither of them having any clue what the young witch had meant.

"You know what? Forget it, im just going to get him a damm dog!" Leo yelled, sighing in annoyance as he headed towards the door.

"No your not!" phoebe instantly yelled and jumped in front of the door way. "You can't, if you give into him now and he'll just keep blackmailing you and maybe other people! You've got to set an example and not give into him!"

Leo just rolled his eyes, but stopped none the less, knowing phoebe was right, no matter how much he wanted her to be wrong.

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Meanwhile in the future, after recovering from her little breakdown, piper somehow had made her way into the kitchen and was sitting at the table with a piece of paper and a pen. She had to admit, although it wasn't very big, Chris had a rather nice house. The kitchen had one of those really posh double cookers and a beautiful decorated woodwork counters.

The table had the same engraved pattern along the edge and the floor was a deep tree bark colour. The wall paper was semi normal and blank, but along the ceiling was a deep engraved pentagram, which made the room look bigger than it was.

She was actually really surprised she had even managed to find a pen let alone some blank paper. Although it was really nice the amount of junk and potion ingredients scattered along the work tops was huge, they were either very messy people or were expecting a very big demonic attack, either way it was a tip.

Ignoring the instinct to get up and clean it from top to bottom, piper put the pen to the paper and closed her eyes, allowing her muse to work its magic and conjure a spell.

"In this night an in this hour

I take me to a place I call home…"

As soon as the words were written down, they got scribbled right out and discarded it into the bin with all the rest. She didn't want to go home, at least not yet, she had to find out what happened and why she never fought to find her family, she had to talk to her future self, presides that was possibly one of the worst spells she had ever written.

"In this night an in this hour

I call upon my ancient power

To take me to the place

That I call my home

And help prevent all my wrong"

Not caring how it sounded, the witch read the spell aloud and was beyond relieved when she felt the white transporting lights take her across the land.

(A/n) Thanks to everyone who reviewed the last chapter, and sorry it took so long to update this, but I made it extra long to apologise.