It was early morning. The sun was rising and creatures began to stir. The birds chirped happily outside and next doors dog began barking as he did every morning around this time.

Wyatt tossed and turned in his sleep, the noises not quite enough to wake him. Piper and Leo however were a different matter. Piper rose in to a sitting position and stretched.

She looked around the bedroom. It was a massive bedroom with white walls which had many pictures hanging up. There were lots of old fashioned cupboards across from the bed. To the side furthest from her was the window where she could see a slight glow around the edge, telling her the sun was up.

She looked across at the person lying peacefully next to her. "You awake Leo?" she asked while yawning. Leo groaned and mumbled what sounded like a yes. Piper threw back the bed covers, got up and stumbled sleepily over to the window. She flung back the curtains, allowing the sunlight to flood in to the room and causing Leo to shield his eyes from the light as he got up.

"Did you have to do that? It's too bright."

"Oh stop moaning. It's the only way to get you up." Leo frowned at this, but couldn't stay annoyed for long. He knew she was right. He followed his wife downstairs and in to the kitchen.

The kitchen was only small but had everything they needed. It was modern and the walls were painted a light blue colour. There was a small, round, wooden table at one end of the kitchen with four matching chairs around it.

"Cup of coffee?" Piper asked. Leo nodded as he sat down at the table. "What do you want for breakfast?" Leo smiled, stood up and walked over to Piper who was now pouring out the coffee. He put his arms round her waist and kissed her on the cheek.

"How about I do the breakfast this morning," he offered. Piper turned to face him, putting her arms around his neck, and smiled.

"Ok," she agreed, so Leo set about making her, her favourite breakfast and soon they were both sitting eating.

A short while later Wyatt came in to the kitchen.

"Morning,"

"Morning honey," Piper replied smiling.

"Chris not up?" Wyatt asked surprised. Piper and Leo looked at each other and shrugged.

"Not seen him," Piper replied her voice changing to a flatter tone "is he often up at this time?"

"Yes. Every morning."

Piper looked at her son blankly for a second before smiling again. "You want some breakfast honey?"

Wyatt grinned, "sure."

"Ok. I'll make your favourite. Now you just sit down and I'll have it ready in a few minutes." Wyatt sat down quickly, forgetting about his brother. Everyone seemed in a happy mood and, for now, Chris wasn't important.

After Piper had made breakfast for Wyatt, her and Leo walked out the kitchen.

"You know Chris had better be up soon! He has a lot of chores to do. I promised to take Wyatt out soon and I don't want to spend the morning chasing Chris around."

"Give him a break Leo. Just yesterday he cut himself badly and the day before he fell over. I know he needs to do the chores and he will. I'll go and see if he's awake yet."

"Piper, you know why he has to do these chores. The pain he caused. I will not let him get away with that no matter what! A few cuts and bruises won't hurt him. Remember why we are doing this."

"I know. I miss them Leo and I'll never forget that it was because of Chris that they are not here any more but…well…he is our son," Piper said with tears in her eyes.

"Son or not, he needs to be punished."

Piper looked slightly taken back by the anger in her husband's voice, but she nodded in agreement. "I know. I agree. You know that, but I just don't want to see him in pain. Punishing him is one thing, but to torture him…" she stopped and looked at Leo, trying to hold the tears back.

"I know," Leo said simply, though he didn't agree with what she said. He thought Chris deserved any pain that came to him. He was responsible for the death of family members and, not only that, but he caused Piper a lot of pain. No one got away with that.

He stood hugging his wife, calming her, before she moved away to go and wake Chris up.

She made her way upstairs, causing the floorboards to creak as she went. She went to Chris's room and knocked on the door. After hearing no reply she knocked again. Nothing. Not even a slight noise. Piper opened the door and walked in, her eyes searching the room, but it was empty.

Chris wasn't there and some of his things were missing, while other things lay on the floor in a mess. It wasn't like Chris to leave his room in a mess or to just disappear.

The bed was in the corner of the room underneath the window, where the curtains were still drawn. Along the other wall was a wardrobe. The doors on it were both open, with clothes on the floor in front of it and it was the same with the cupboard next to that.

For the first time Piper happened to look at walls. They were covered with blue striped wallpaper, but most of that was torn now and was just the blank wall behind it. She noticed a few marks on the walls in these places. Red marks. The wall was also cracked in some places. She decided to think nothing of it and figured it was just because of how old the wallpaper was.

She turned her thoughts back to the fact Chris wasn't there and for a second she felt worried, but the worry soon just turned to confusion. Where was he? Why had he gone? She walked out the room, closing the door with a bang behind her.

She went downstairs and found Leo in the kitchen, talking with an excited Wyatt.

"Leo, we need to talk." Leo looked towards Piper in surprise and nodded before motioning to Wyatt to leave the room. Wyatt sighed and stood up, leaving the two to talk. Piper and Leo sat down at the table and Leo asked what was wrong, concerned that it was something bad.

"Chris has gone," Piper told him. Leo calmed down slightly when Piper told him the reason for wanting to talk. It wasn't as bad as he had thought, though it did annoy him.

"What? The boy can't have just disappeared!" He soon realised that what he had just said, in fact, was wrong. Chris had just disappeared. At that point Wyatt ran downstairs in to the kitchen.

"Chris has gone!" he yelled, but realised, by the looks on his parent's faces, that they already knew. They discussed for a while where he could be, but thought of no where.

"Guess we'll just have to go and search for him," Piper sighed.

"When I get hold of that kid…" Leo started but stopped, seeing the upset look on Wyatt's face.

"We'll split up and try and find him." Piper said and the other two agreed.

At the main road Piper walked off towards the woods and fields, while Leo and Wyatt headed towards the town, splitting up at the edge and going in opposite directions.

Will anyone find Chris and what is he planning on doing next?

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