Patience woke up in Xavier's underground lair and slowly sat up while rubbing the back of her neck. She looked around the room and saw a torch lit and a table where potions or some kind of voodoo magic could be made. There was a knife on that table and she wondered if he was thinking about using that on her. She moved to let her legs hang off of the stone bed she laid upon while she was unconscious. She looked around the lair wondering where he was and was about to stand until she heard a voice behind her say,

"So you're awake."

Patience whipped her head around to see the speaker and noticed it was the past version of Xavier. She stood by the stone bed, watching him as he moved slowly around it. She moved the other way not allowing him to get close to her and made sure to keep her eye on him.

"It's amazing I never thought such a simple witch could make me feel anything but apparently I am very protective of you." He said.

"Which 'you' are you talking about because from what I've seen, both past and present, you're still just like every other demon." Patience said angry.

"You shouldn't say such cruel things about your future husband, it'll hurt my feelings."

"What feelings?" she retorted upset.

The past Xavier chuckled to himself and leaned against the stone bed so that he could look her in the eyes. He smiled at her but her expression didn't change; she didn't know what Xavier was like in the past and she didn't want to try and test it. Though she did warn him to stay away from her, Xavier wanted to test how much he made a witch fall in love with him. He wanted to understand just how deep she fell for him so he slowly leaned closer to her and Patience couldn't bring herself to move. Tears started to build up to the edge of her eyes as she stared back at him half angry; his hand cupped the side of her cheek and she inhaled sharply at the sensation of his cold hand.

"You've got a lot of spirit witch; I can see why I fell in love with you. I hope that doesn't mean I lose my touch in the future though, if you care about me as much the future me cares about you then you'll do everything to save him." he said.

"How can I save you when all you want to do is kill me and my family?" she asked.

"If you think I would do that… You don't know me at all." The past Xavier said.

He smiled and kissed her lips quickly then moved back and walked over to the table with all of his potion ingredients. He was mixing something together and Patience sat back down on the bed crossing her legs.

"So you're not going to hurt me?" She said.

"Well, being that I haven't fallen in love with you yet I wouldn't trust that statement but it seems that my future self wants you alive."

"What do you want?" Patience said curiously.

He laughed and looked at her with a cocky grin and said,

"I'm not stupid; me, from the future, came here for one thing and one thing only and it wasn't to kill the kid. It was only after I saw him take you that I realized killing the boy was never the plan. What I want is to know what the hell is going on in the future and how I'm going to survive it."

Patience looked at him confused, she saw the demons make a plan to send her husband back in time to kill Chris; she just wanted to know what was in him that made them want to kill baby Chris. Xavier chuckled at her confused look and went back to making his potion, though he didn't really understand why his future half wanted him to make it.

~XxX~

"Xavier is after something called Zion, it's a relatively neutral power that can be absorbed by either good or evil. It's like an enhancement of powers apparently the elders hid that power within me when I was young to keep it safe without telling you guys." Chris said.

Piper looked up at her son from shuffling through the Book of Shadows and said,

"They did what?"

"How come it's not in the Book of Shadows?" Phoebe asked

Wyatt said,

"Zion was a power used thousands of years ago by a demon named Mace he was the first Source of all evil that killed witches for fun. There was a coven that was finally able to separate the Zion power from Mace but they were only able to do it with the help of the Elders. After that, the Elders had to pass the power of Zion from one good witch to another to protect it. The Elders felt that I was powerful enough and so they gave it to Chris; they couldn't risk letting anyone know of Zion's location they were afraid something like this would happen; another demon would come to take the power and rule over the earth with it. Even the coven that defeated Mace was sprinkled with memory dust so that they could never remember the battle,"

"And they couldn't tell the next generation about it. Isn't that a bit risky even for the Elders? I mean if it happened to resurface again wouldn't someone need to know how to get rid of this power?" Paige said finishing her nephew's thought and adding her own.

"The Elders never thought that a demon would find it or even hear of it. Zion can't be destroyed it can only be contained, like the hollow." Chris said.

"Okay but why send a demon in the past to kill Chris I mean Zion would be passed on to another witch right?" Phoebe said.

Piper and Paige sat down and Chris looked at his older brother, they started to think about it too. There was something they were missing but they weren't sure what it was. Whatever they were missing they were sure Xavier had the answer but in order to find Xavier they would have to find Patience first.

"Maybe we can use the 'to call a lost witch' spell to find her." Paige said.

"No, that won't work if his place is protected." Phoebe said.

"So what the hell do we do?" Piper asked looking up at her sons.

Chris and Wyatt looked at each other and sighed, they really didn't know but Chris picked up the crystal anyway and started to skry with it. With any luck, Xavier would drop his protection spell so they could find her even it was a trap it was better than nothing.

~XxX~

There was a puff of smoke that came from the bowl to signal that the potion was done. Patience sat by and watched him while trying to figure out exactly why her telepathy wasn't working. The past Xavier had noticed that she was trying but didn't say anything; he enjoyed watching her struggle for some reason. She looked around and figured there had to be some talisman around that was blocking her magic. He started filling the veils with the potion so that he could give them to his future half and Patience sat there and watched closely,

"So my husband has no intention of letting me go?" Patience said.

"You're asking me? I'm not your husband yet." Xavier said filling up the last veil.

Patience sighed and stood up slowly then whipped around when she heard her husband say,

"You're up."

Patience looked up at him upset and crossed her arms,

"If you're going to kill me you need to do it already but it won't stop my family from saving Chris." Patience said.

"I'm not going to kill Chris, and it was never my intention to hurt you or your family Pate."

"Oh that's cute, you expect me to believe that?"

"You're my wife." Xavier said with a little force in his voice.

There was no doubt he loved her but he didn't like that she didn't believe him. Patience scoffed at him and held up her hand and said,

"Yeah, well not anymore." She took off her ring and threw it at him.

He caught it and looked at it with a sad expression and then looked up at her with a hard face and placed the ring down on the stone bed.

"You walked down that isle knowing I was a demon Patience and you vowed to be with me for better or for worse and I vowed to protect you no matter what. If I didn't come back here they would've sent more to kill you-" He said irritated.

"Nero knew about our marriage and he knew you were listening when he told me to kill Chris and when you left he gave me the orders to find Zion first and then kill your brothers."

"Zion? What is Zion and why would Chris know where it is?" Patience asked confused.

"Zion is a power used by an old demon named Mace that had the ability to enhance powers, Nero would become invincible, immortal. If Nero gets that power he can take out the Charmed ones once and for all. There was a demon of foresight; he said that he had seen the resting grounds of Zion within your brother and the only way to retrieve it is to wait for Zion to be sent to him and then I can kill him."

"And you think that giving him this power would save me? If Nero knows how much you love me then once you give him what he wants he'll not only kill me and my family but he'll kill you too!" Patience said.

Xavier knew this, and although his plans had changed a little he still knew of a way to keep her alive. He grabbed her hand; she shook her head but he walked over to her and sat her down anyway. He slipped the ring back on her finger and said,

"Patience, I didn't attack your brothers to kill them; I was trying to get your attention. I have a plan and I need your help to do it."

Patience looked at him then down at her ring and sighed, Xavier told her he loved her and kissed her. It was the kind of kiss that he used on her to get her to do whatever he wanted her to do. She took in a breath and looked at him and nodded at him and said,

"What do you need me to do?"

"I need you to get Paige to go to the Elders and tell them to give you the spell on how to separate Zion from a person once he receives the power at twelve o clock tonight. Once you have it you need to get ready to return to the future." Xavier answered.

"What are you going to do?"

"I'm going find a heart. Please remember I'm doing this for us." Xavier said.

He knocked out Patience again and dropped the protection barrier around the cave so that her family could come and get her. He walked over to his past self and said,

"Let's go."

~XxX~

"Oh, hey I got her." Chris said.

"Yeah but doesn't that usually mean it's a trap?" Phoebe said.

"Yeah, but we can't just leave her down there. Paige, how's it coming with that potion?" Piper said

"It's done I'm just putting it in veils right now."

"Alright let's go get your sister." Piper said standing up.

Paige handed her a veil and gave the other two to Chris and Wyatt, Wyatt looked to his aunts and said they'd be back and they orbed with their mother to where Patience was being held. They ended up in Xavier's lair; Chris and Wyatt looked around, wondering where Xavier was as Piper ran up to Patience trying to wake her up.

"She's fine but we need to get out of here mom." Chris said.

He lifted up Patience in his arms and orbed out, Wyatt grabbed Piper then noticed the bowl and empty veils he called his mom's attention to it as well. Piper walked over and looked at it noticing some of the old ingredients but not understanding what he was making. She had never seen that combination before and looked up at Wyatt who didn't know what he was making either but he was hoping that his sister would know. He grabbed the ceremonial knife on the table that had blood on it and then took his mother by the hand and orbed out with her and back to the manor.