Chapter 5- Flashbacks

"That's where you're wrong, you see whether you want to believe it or not, Chris and Wyatt are best out of my life, and before you say anything, I mean they are best as far away from me as possible!

You see, after I saw them, I was more determined than ever to find them again and take them home to where they belonged, then I watched a home video, and saw for myself how differently I treated Chris to Wyatt. That's when I realized, they were happy, I saw that for myself! They had a life and who was I to take that away from them, when I made theirs a misery with my attitude towards my youngest son!! That day I declared that I would never look for them again, because deep down I knew it was best for them to stay as far away from me as possible! I will always love them, always remember them, they will always be in my heart, but sometimes you have to make sacrifices to keep the people you love happy, and that's what I did that day!" when piper had finished her little speech, she had tears trickling down her face as she reached into her pocket and talk a photo out. It was a picture from Chris fourth birthday party, the only one she had of him smiling, and one she would never let leave her pocket.

Past piper just remained silent, but as she opened her mouth to argue, her future self put her hand up, stopping her before she could even talk.

"Do you want me to finish the story or not?"

Past piper just nodded as she stared at the photo that got pushed back inside piper's jeans, where it had been for the last fifteen years.

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"Now as I said it was the 13th of October… a Friday would you believe, and for the time of the month, it was the best weather you could wish for…the private investigator finally came though for me, and had found out exactly where my family had moved to… The second I found out, I jumped straight in the car and headed full speed out of sanfansico."

Flashback

Slamming her car door shut, Piper adjusted her glasses and placed the car keys in her hand bag before throwing it over her shoulder. She had waited eight long pain filled years for this day to arrive and absolutely nothing was going to stop her seeing her kids. People always told her it was a waste of money hiring the private investigator, but it had finally paid of, and now she was standing in front of the school her thirteen year old son went to.

Adjusting her sun glasses so they covered her eyes completely, piper positioned herself by the only exit out of the school, right in the centre of the pavement and waited, watching patiently as the clock ticked by, her eyes never once leaving the school doors.

Twenty three minutes later and the bell rang, soon enough teenagers started pouring out of the gates, laughing and joking with their friends as they swept past her. As the younger ones strode out, piper found herself wondering if they could possibly be friends with her baby boy.

Half an hour later and the crowds had died down to just one or two people, but piper still remained in the same spot she had arrived in, tears rolling down her face. Her boys weren't there!! She remained standing there for another few minutes before turning her back to the school and walking away, with her heart in her throat, she could hardly hold back the tears when she realised she had missed them.

'There is always next time!' she tried to tell herself, but eight years of loneliness had knocked the fighting spirit right out of her, deep inside her, the voice which told her she was never going to see them again was getting stronger by the day, to the point that the voice that told her she would, could barley be heard.

Felling like she had just been trodden on by a fifty stone elephant, she reluctantly dragged her feet along the pavement, her eyes just staring at the cold hard concrete. She was so preoccupied she never saw the group of children in front of her until she ran in to them.

"Oh sorry!" The brunette who had bumped into her said instantly as he helped the forty year old to her feet, after standing up himself.

"No it was my fault!" she replied, trying to blink the tears that were threatening to fall away, her heart still stinging.

"Chris! Chris! Are you okay Chris? Please say you're okay!" A little girl around five years old cried as she ran into the boys arms. It was then the defeated witch finally looked up and took in the appearance of the people in front of her. The boy called Chris, had a mixture of the baby she had learned to love and the twenty year old she had met thirteen years ago written into his features. He was wearing a pair of casual blue jeans and some skater top. It was like the bond they once shared intensified as she stared into the boy's eyes, knowing they were her son's.

"I'm fine Nikkei don't worry, when has a little bump stopped me?!" HER SON replied as he picked the child up with a cocky grin plastered across his face, one that only he could get away with.

"When the bad de…man stabbed you!"

"Stabbed you!!" Piper screamed in disbelief and worry as Chris clamped his hand over his little cousin's mouth in panic.

"Umm yeah err a crazed manic tried to kill me… thinking I was… his reincarnated…father, it was a long time ago, no lasting damage!" Chris mumbled trying to cover up for his youngest cousin's slip up. She had yet to master the 'no-demon -or-demon-related-injury-talk in-public'.

The little girl smiled sweetly as Chris put her down on the floor and toddled over to the woman she had just met.

"Hi, im Nikkei and that's Chris and the person hitting his arm is his girlfriend Kayla!"

Piper looked up confused, and sure enough a girl around eleven years old was smacking Chris' left arm, whilst mumbling something about a lame excuse. They both looked up at the same time after what Nikkei had said registered in their brains and yelled simultaneously that they were not going out.

"You will when you're grown up!" The five year old replied before turning back to the stranger and pointing to a group of children which were heading towards them, chasing after the tearaway baby. "And that's Julie and Jenny, and their brother Henry and my sisters Prue and Penny!" she continued happily as the rest of the group joined them, she hadn't quite learnt the' don't talk to strangers' rule yet either.

"Well you certainly have a big family!" The witch replied, generally interested and slightly curious as she studied each family member.

Julie and Jenny were roughly eight years old, they wore identical pink and blue outfits and had their long blonde hair styled in plaits either side of their heads, making it impossible to tell them apart. Their brother Henry, who was obviously yet to be conceived, was about a year or so younger and was the spitting image of his name sake.

Prue looked exactly like piper's sister when she was a little girl, she was around ten years old, only being eighteen months younger than Chris. She was wearing a long tom boyish style of clothes and a summer cap which held her hair back. Penny looked around the same age as Henry and was holding her sisters hand. She had long brown hair, styles like her cousin's and deep chocolate brown eyes.

"Yeah we do!" Nikkei screamed as she ran back over to the eldest of them all, piper's youngest and currently only present son.

"Aren't you a little young to be looking after them all by your self?" She eventually said, concerned about the responsibly that was being placed on his shoulders.

"He's not on his own! I'm helping!" Kayla piped up as she glared at the woman, for some reason she was getting a really bad fleeing from her.

"What's it to you? You from the social or something?" Chris snarled defensively, pushing the energetic child behind him.

"No why should I be?"

She hadn't meant to sound so suspicious but she just couldn't help it, after all Leo had disappeared with no money, she had every right to be concerned about the wellbeing of her family.

"I know I shouldn't of said that, but I needed to know if they had survived okay with out me, and of course at the time, what was really bugging me was why Wyatt wasn't with them. I guess I could have come right out and asked, but I thought if I just prodded enough Wyatt would eventually be brought up. I just couldn't handle the thought of not seeing him, seeing the handsome man he was turning in to!"

"Of course not! Not that that's any of your business!" Prue yelled, cutting off the words she knew were going to come out of Chris' mouth.

"Well I'm sorry to sound so nosy, but there are a lot of bad people about and I wouldn't want to see you get hurt!"

"Well don't worry your little head about that lady! Wyatt and Jimmy will be hear soon!" Kayla yelled, her suspension about the woman rapidly increasing, there was just something about her, which were ringing the girl's alarm bells.

"Oh? And who are they?"

"My brothers!!" Chris cut in, standing in front of Kayla, she still after all, no matter how good her mother and brother were, part demon, and had the temper to go along with it.

"My heart felt like it had been repeatedly stabbed, when those words left my youngest' lips. It confirmed to me at the time, what I had always feared, the boys had someone else to call mum!"

"So Wyatt and Chris were telling the truth, Leo did get remarried!"

"No, actually he didn't, one look at jimmy and I knew he wasn't Leo's son, he looked way to much like Chris' 'girlfriend' to be related to them! My investigator found out I was right to, (that was the last bit of information I asked him for, ) Jimmy was Kayla's brother, his mother was one of Leo's charges."

"Brothers…" piper mumbled, still trying to keep the tears from falling down her face. She was so glad she had worn the black glasses, otherwise who knows what could have happened when if they saw her reaction.

"Yeah Jimmy is 16! He doesn't eve got o school anymore! He's also very protective of all of us, so I'd be very careful if I was you!" Kayla yelled, signalling to Chris that she had her suspicions about the woman being dangerous.

"Are you threatening me?" Piper demanded, taking a step forward, not missing the eleven year olds tone of voice, it was sending shivers down her spine. Glancing at the way Chris was presenting himself, piper realised to her horror, her worst nightmare had come true, Leo had raised Chris to be just like the neurotic Whitelighter they had once known.

"Maybe!"

Chris put his hand on Kayla's shoulder and signalled to her that they had to go. Not taking his eyes of the woman, who they still didn't know so much as her name, her turned Kayla round and made an action with his hand, which told the rest of the group to start walking.

"No wait a minute!" Piper yelled as she lunged forward and grabbed hold of Chris shirt and pulling him back. "You're not going anywhere!"

"I could tell I was scaring him, but at the point I didn't care, I just didn't want to let them walk out of my life again, or miss the chance of seeing Wyatt!"

"Let go of him!" One of the twins yelled as the other one grabbed hold of Nikkei who was by now crying, seeing the fear on her favourite cousin's face. Not caring if she was to young, or if magic was exposed, Jenny rushed forward and flung her arm out, attempting to knock the woman off her feet, unfortunately whilst she was upset, her powers didn't work to well, and the blow just made a fire-hydrant (Sp?) go flying across the street, soaking everyone.

Before anyone else had a chance to react, loud footsteps were heard behind them, where two boys, nearly equal in height, were charging towards them, as Chris tried to loosen the woman's grip on him.

"Leave my brother alone!" The younger blonde one called out as he shoved the woman to the ground and pulled Chris from her reach, as the other placed himself in front of Kayla and the children.

Looking up from the floor, piper instantly recognised the boy, as her son, her little miracle, who she had tried to conceive for so long. He had long curly hair and was frozen in rage as he looked into the woman's eyes, knowing exactly who she was.

The other boy, who piper soon realised was related to Kayla, knelt down next to Chris and his sister and stared into both of their eyes.

"Are you two okay?"

They both nodded and as Jimmy stood up, piper who had heard the question, burst out into a fit of rage.

"What do you mean are they okay? Do you seriously think I would hurt them?!!" As Jimmy opened his mouth to answer, Wyatt beat him to it, and what he said and the way eh said it would stay with the woman forever!

"It wouldn't be the first time you tried to hurt an innocent kid! Stay the hell away from us, bitch!"

Ignoring the looks the other ten were giving him, Wyatt turned around and walked of, forcing everyone to follow him.

"Wyatt WAIT!" She screamed as she once again chased after the Halliwell children, but by the time she had turned the corner, they were all gone. The only evidence anyone had even been there was a large blue orb which was floating across the sky! "I'M SORRY!"

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"I never saw them again! Not once, I was completely inconsolable for a about a week after, the anger in my little boy's voice haunted me!"

"So Wyatt recognised you, as his mum!" Piper asked slowly, as she saw her future self grip the photo in her pocket and try and hold back the tears.

"Yeah he did! But he hated me! That's what made me watch a video of when they were younger, I wanted to see him look at me with nothing but love, but that tape made me see the difference in Chris' eyes too, he looked so sad and miserable when ever I went near him!

Then I saw myself laugh when Wyatt threw a drink on the floor, yet when Chris knocked one over accidentally, I screamed bloody murder at the poor boy! Which is when I realised how differently I treated them, and that Leo was right al along to take them away from me! I still to this day don't know why I acted like that, and I really hope you can find a reason for it piper! For Chris sake more than anything else!"

Pausing for a breath and a drink of water, the future piper looked at her past self and shook her head.

"Now if you'll excuse me, I have a business to attend to, good luck getting home! But something tells me, if Wyatt sent you hear, then magic isn't going to let you go back until you learn what ever it is he wants you too!"

As she put the glass back down on the desk and started to walk away, past piper grabbed her arm.

"Wait what about Melinda!"

"Im not telling you anything else about your future, you needed to know about the boys, you don't need to know about her! Good bye!"

And with that the retired witch left leaving piper to think long and hard about what she had just been told.

(a/n) thanx for the reviews guys they mean alot, okay i was going to split this chapter between 2008 and 2028, but it didnt quite work out like that, so the next one will be about paige in labour the the boys