To know of the strength of love,
To feel your touch one more time.

Mother, how I miss you.
Why did you have to run away?

Paige looked up from the ground, "Who was the first to discover Piper?" Chris sighed, trying to not name himself but unable, "I was."

Leo screamed out, "You killed Piper!"

Chris shook his head, "No." He said simply.

Piper looked at him, "Who kills me?

Chris looks down, like a child asked an impossible question, "I do not know. I wish I did. I," he hesitates, not wanting to say any more.

Phoebe eyes him, "Continue," she demands. Chris shakes his head, gripping it, and falling to his knees very close to the edge of the force field, "I was fourteen years old! You were baking my cake and I was playing in the conservatory…I heard a scream and came running…you were already in the foyer," he screamed out, "You had too many bruises! I couldn't heal you! I screamed out for anyone," he looks to Leo," You were in a meeting and came after she was already dead!" He looks to Paige, "Where were you?!" He screams out, tears in his eyes, as his whole body shakes.

A fourteen year old Christopher Perry Halliwell is playing with his toy fire truck that his grandfather gave him the night before. It was an early birthday present. His mother is baking a surprise for his birthday. He doesn't quite know what it is but he does smell chocolate. He hopes it's a cake and cookies! He loves his mother's cooking and always wants to help her around the kitchen.

It is then that he hears a scream. He quickly drops his fire truck on the ground and runs for the foyer, his hands out ready to blow something up. There is no demon but his mother is lying on the ground. She is dying right before him. He can't heal! Why can't he heal? "Wyatt," he calls out, "Dad!" He screams as he rushes by his mother's side. "Leo!" "Leo, mom is dying!" "Aunt Paige!" He tries calling every single whitelighter in the family.

"Uncle Coop, mom is dying!" he tries in desperation calling all the cupid-born in the family. "Please, any whitelighters at all! Any Elders, Piper Halliwell is dying!" Eleven year old Melinda Halliwell comes running down the steps, stopping at the sight of her mother and brother. She grabs her mother, holding her, "Mommy!" She calls out, "Chris, what do we do!?" She screams out, "Daddy, mommy's dying!" Melinda has tears in her eyes.

Piper holds their hands, "Peanut," she says, "Mel," looking at each of them, "Protect one another," she says, "I'm sorry I didn't believe you," she says looking at Chris, "my peanut," and with that her head falls over. Piper Halliwell is dead.

An hour passes by before Wyatt Matthew Halliwell orbs in. Christopher and Melinda have their heads on Piper's chest, tears staining their cheeks. He says nothing to them. He just orbs away a minute later.

Two hours after that, Leo orbs in, "Sorry," he says without taking in the scene, "I was in a meeting," he is wearing his Elder robes. Finally, he takes in the scene. He looks at his ex-wife and runs over, grabbing her and forcing the kids to let go, "Piper!" He screams out.

Fifteen minutes after this, he sets her down gently and closes her eyes, "Who did this?" He screams. Chris shakes his head. Melinda is quiet. She knows better than to speak to that man. Leo grabs Chris by the collar, "You did this, you allowed her to die! You killed your mother," he pauses, "no, you didn't even deserve to call her that!" He screams out, "You're nothing but a worthless boy! Why didn't you heal her?" He knows that neither Chris nor Melinda can heal, but he doesn't care. His love is dead. He throws Chris to the floor.

After a minute of looking at Piper's body, Leo orbs out with it, leaving his children behind.

What no one knew was that Phoebe was watching the last part. She runs over, grabbing both Melinda and Chris, "You're not worthless," she calls out to them, holding them both in a hug, "I love you both so much." She has cuts and bruises all over her body, her own children and husband already dead or missing. She couldn't find Paige and she wasn't answering her calls. She rushed over to the manor, figuring everyone was attacked. She was right. Who did it? Phoebe had no idea. They came quickly and silently, murdering her family.

"Why does Daddy hate us?" Melinda asks softly. Phoebe looks into her eyes, wanting to deny it but she can't, "I don't know, sweetie, I just don't know," she sobs out, holding them both as close as she can. "Chris, Melinda," she finally says, "It's not safe here. We need to go." All three of them leave the manor.

In the conservatory, sits a fire truck. A toy that is meant to show a happy time but only shows an end to a childhood, a childhood that the owner can never have back. In the kitchen, a triple layer chocolate cake sits with the last layer being burnt inside the stove. Also inside the stove, a tray of cookies brown until the smoke detector goes off. The house is empty, a sign that a family has fallen apart.

In the attic, a pedestal houses a book. On that book, the symbol for the triquetra is sitting on the cover, and almost immediately the triquetra splits. Only one part remains. The book glows gold and then red. The red tint disappears and is picked up by a fifteen year old boy, whose plans are only now truly starting to come to fruition.

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