I´m very proud of this chapter because I didn´t really know what would happen and I kind of just let it flow. And I think the result is satisfying. Please tell me if you think the same.

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It´s Chris!

After a few more seconds which felt more like eternity blue orbs finally started to appear in the attic. They formed into Leo who looked slightly worried.

"Piper, what´s wrong? Why aren´t you calling for...Oh god Chris!", he said when he finally registered Chris lying on the floor badly injured and the emotional state the sisters where in.

Phoebe frantically yelled at him, "Cut the crap Leo and get over here! We don´t have much time left!"

Leo instantly did as he was told and Phoebe made some space for him by Chris side. He held his hands over Chris´ bruised body and started healing. After a moment he looked at a distraught Piper.

"God Piper what happened to him? Who did this?"

But she didn´t answer. She couldn´t concentrate on anything else but her son right now. Not until she knew he was fine.

Another few moments later Leo was finished healing and said frowning, "That´s all I can do."

Piper finally reacted as she pushed some hair out of Chris still way too pale face. "Shouldn´t he wake up?...Why doesn´t he wake up?...Leo, you gotta heal him a little more, this can´t be it yet...Why the hell isn´t he waking up?"

Leo quickly put a hand on her shoulder to stop her little panic attack before it got out of control. He didn´t understand her suddenly exaggerated concern for her wightlighter but he was worried about the young man himself. He and Chris had come to some kind of truce before he left off to elderland. He still didn´t completely trust Chris but he was sure that he would never deliberately hurt the sisters or Wyatt. And Leo for sure never wanted to see him suffer.

"Calm down Piper. I took are of all his injuries. He´s fine now..."

"But then why is he still unconscious? I mean look at him! Does he look fine to you? Cause to me he certainly doesn´t...", Phoebe interrupted him. Piper nodded wanting to ask the same question.

"Look, it´s hard to explain..."

"Try!", Paige snapped still standing a few feet away with Wyatt in her arms, her fear slowly making way for anger.

Leo took a deep breath trying to find the right words. "Chris is physically ok. He had quite a few serious internal bleedings and his ribs were either fractured or even smashed. But I healed all that, that´s not the problem... But he... How can I put that...He´s exhausted. More than you can imagine. Whatever he did, he completely burned himself out! I mean, I´ve never seen anyone so worn out... The only thing I can tell you at this point is that he is going to be ok. I just don´t know how long it´s going to take until he fully recovers. "

Piper herself was probably as far from being fine as her son but she was at least relieved that Chris was out of imminent danger. She knew that she´d been fairly close to loosing him. And that was not an option.

Why didn´t he say anything when she found him? Why did he have to go after this demon alone? Why didn´t he ask for their help?

But Piper knew this was useless. She wouldn´t get any answers now. The only thing she could do was making Chris as comfortable as possible and taking care of him until he feels better. That was the only thing that mattered right now. So she turned her gaze away from her sick son to the other people in the room.

"Ok, sitting here doesn´t bring us anywhere. Leo will you please orb us to my room so we can put him into my bed. And Phoebe and Paige, can you please put Wyatt back to sleep? It´s way too late for him to be awake."

They all nodded in response and Leo took Pipers hand while putting the other on Chris´ shoulder. When he orbed out Phoebe got to her feet. She took a last look at the floor where her nephew had almost died and then turned and followed her younger sister out of the attic.

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Leo orbed them straight to his ex-wifes, even though he deeply regretted that fact, bedroom. Piper got up from the floor and pulled the sheets back so that Leo could carry Chris to her bed. After he put him down she took his shoes off and gently covered him with the comforter.

Piper than sat besides Chris and caressed his forehead trying to feel his temperature. Chris seemed to respond to her touch and moaned slightly before he opened his eyes.

They were a little glassy as he looked around trying to find something familiar in the only dimly lit room. His vision was blurry so that he didn´d recognize his mother until she whispered his name.

"Chris?"

"Mum?"

Leo was leaning against the door frame a few feet away. He could´n understand what they were saying but found the way they were looking at each other a little awkward.

"Yes sweetie, it´s me, mommy. Don´t worry, you´re safe now. I´ll take care of you.", Piper told her son reassuringly.

"Where am I?", Chris croaked out confused. He couldn´t think straight due to his current state of health.

"You are in my bed. We brought you down here from the attic because you need to rest and sleep a little...Chris? You´ve gotta tell me what happened to you. Where have you been tonight and who did this?", Piper asked him.

"You don´t need to worry about it anymore. I took care of Scradon.", Chris replied.

Replaying their conversation in the attic Piper asked, "The demon that killed me in the future?"

At first he was irritated by her question but then he remembered that he had already given it away and simply nodded yes feeling too weak to speak.

Piper saw that and decided to let him sleep now. "Listen sweetie, I´m gonna go talk to your aunts and father now." She stopped as she felt him tense when she mentioned Leo and took his hand.

"Chris you were hurt, I had to call him! Besides, I can´t keep it a secret forever. He is you father, he deserves to know... And you know I think he´d be a little confused when he sees us together, me fussing all over you and you being totally annoyed about it...", she said with a smile before getting serious again.

"Listen. I´ll talk to them real quick and be back here with you as soon as I can, ok?"

She already wanted to leave but there was one more question lingering in her head and she couldn´t resist asking it.

"Chris, when I found you...why didn´t you tell me that you were hurt..." She looked at his hand in hers and took a deep breath before she continued, "... you know you... you could have died." Her voice was full of emotion.

Chris closed his eyes and for a second it looked like he wouldn´t answer but then he said already half asleep, " It just felt so good...just being there with you...in your arms...I didn´t feel the pain anymore...and all I wanted, all I needed ...was being with you...I missed you so much..."

Piper felt tears up well in her eyes as her heart broke. She bent down to kiss his forehead and whispered, " It´s ok sweetie. Just sleep now. We can talk later. I love you...", but he was already lost in a deep, dreamless sleep.

Piper wiped the tears out of her eyes and stood up. Leo had watched them all the time and was still too occupied with the incidents of the night to notice Pipers state.

But when she turned around his eyes fell on her rounded belly and the truth hit him with a sledge hammer. "You...You..You´re..."

Piper noticed his stammering and saw that Leo stared shocked at her stomach. She quickly said, "Not here!", and pushed him out of the room and into the corridor.

"You´re pregnant?" Leo asked her still shell shocked.

"No I think I just ate too much and gained a little weight around the waist...", she replied rather casually shrugging her shoulders but then barked, "Of course I´m pregnant!"

Phoebe and Paige chose that moment to come out of Wyatts´ bedroom but quickly realized what was happening between the soon-to-be-again parents and stood back silently.

"Who...?...What...?...Where...?...Who´s the father?", Leo asked completely helpless and utterly confused.

Piper looked at him with a You can´t honestly be asking me that question face, "Who do you think the father is?". She meant that as a rhetorical question and thought that Leo should actually get what she was trying to say.

Piper also thought that Leo should know the whole truth and decided to tell him about Chris.

"Listen Leo,...the baby...it´s Chris!"

She knew that he probably wouldn´t be jumping in the air and hum happy songs for the rest of the day but there was no way she was prepared for the reaction he actually gave her.

"Chris is the father ?", he croaked out looking like he´d faint any second.

Pipers jaw dropped and she could´t believe what her husband...ex-husband...whatever...had just said. Her sisters faces mirrored hers.

The next second a book came flying out of Pipers bedroom and hit Leos´head before it fell to the floor with a thud. (Yes M.J.L.S., this one was just for you!)

Phoebe and Paige instantly broke into laughter while Leo rubbed the aching spot on his head. Piper looked in Chris direction. But when she saw that he was still asleep she shifted her gaze down on her belly.

"Was that you?". As if wanting to confirm her suspicion the baby kicked her into her kidney at that moment. "Naughty baby! You can´t hit daddy with books. That´s not very nice!", she scolded playfully.

Phoebe and Paige were holding their stomachs by now and Phoebe said, "But you gotta admit that he totally deserved it !" and started laughing again.

Leo didn´t seem to understand a word they said so Piper decided to end his misery. "Leo, Chris is not the father!"

"But you said..."

"No, I din´t. Oh for heavens sake... Chris IS the baby!...I´m pregnant with Chris!...He is our child Leo, our second son, YOUR SON!"

She had wanted to break it to him gently, but her patience was wearing off. "We don´t have time for that now! My baby is in there suffering and he can´t even tell me why exactly!", she said exasperated pointing with her hand towards the room.

Phoebe and Paige were serious again and Paige tried to calm her sister down. "Piper come on, flipping out is not good for the baby. What did Chris actually say? How did you find him at all?"

Piper ran a hand though her hair before she answered, "I woke up in the middle of the night and suddenly felt that something was wrong with Chris. At first I thought it was the baby but I didn´t feel any pain or other weird things. Then I felt drawn to the attic so I went there. When... When I got there he was kneeling on the floor crying, sobbing and there...there was pure agony in his eyes!...I asked him what had happened and if he was injured but he just kept crying. Eventually he said that he had vanquished my killer and that he wanted to stay there with me for a while. He was tired so I said yes...Oh god I should have called Leo immediately! But I didn´t see any injuries..."

"Hey,hey...", Phoebe interrupted her,"...don´t blame this on yourself. I saw it in my premonition, he looked fine...Wait a minute! Your killer?"

Piper nodded, "Yeah, apparently I got killed in his future. That was the EVENT! The reason why he didn´t want to get too close to me. He was afraid that it would hurt too much. He told dad when I "sentenced" them to spent time together."

Phoebe gasped, "Oh my god Piper, I´m so sorry! Why didn´t you say something?"

"I didn´t want to worry you. Besides he wouldn´t to tell me when or how it happened so there isn´t much we can do... Anyway... Phoebe, you had a premonition?"

"Yes I did. In my sleep actually. I saw you up there with him trying to wake him up, but he was unconscious. Then he eventually did wake up to tell you that he loved you and to take care of Wyatt and then he... he... he died. I´m so sorry Piper.", she said when she saw a tear slide down her sisters face. "Then I saw the bruises on his stomach before the premonition ended. I got up and started calling for Leo while I ran to the attic where I found you. "

"I didn´t know I was that close to loosing him...", Piper gasped still close to tears.

Than Paige turned towards her Elder-brother-in-law who had listened to their conversation while the truth started to sink in. "By the way, Leo. What exactly took you that long to come down here? We called you for at least two minutes!". She expected a REAL good explanation.

He sighed, "I was just coming out of a meeting. They must have put you on mute because I only heard you two or three times before I immediately orbed down here."

Paige was shocked,"They did what?"

"Did you expect anything else?", Piper barked but realized that she had been too harsh. "I´m sorry, it´s just... a lot for one night"

Paige sent her an understanding look. Piper continued," Ok, I think Chris said the demons´ name was something like Scradon. Can you please go ´up there´and see if you can get any information on him? But please be careful that they don´t cut the telephone cable again."

"Ok, but if anything happens , call me. "

Piper nodded reassuringly and he orbed out. "And I think we should go back to bed. Chris is fine for now and I´ll stay with him tonight. But we´ll have to be strong for him in the next few days so we need our sleep."

Phoebe and Paige went to hug their sister and Paige said, "He´s gonna be fine. We´ll make sure of that." And then Phoebe added, "Yeah and remember we are here for you so just call us if anything happens or if you should need us. We love you!..."

Piper whispered , "Thanks! I love you,too.",and then they all left for their respective bedrooms.

Piper got down next to her son on the bed and grabbed his hand while she watched his sleep. He was still lying on his back his head turned towards her. He was pale and he was frowning which made his face look tense but other than that he seemed to be fine. Piper kissed his knuckles and hoped that everything would be fine soon, but little did she know what was still lying ahead of her.

Just a minor cliffy this time. But don´t be fooled. There is still a looot to come so pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaase keep up with reviewing. As I said it inspires me and makes me work harder and a loooooot faster.