Cole and Phoebe were curled up together on the sofa, watching a film when a very agitated Prue burst through the door.

"Have you seen Wyatt?" She asked, ignoring the indignant look on her younger sisters face.

"Err, no." Replied Phoebe, "Have you seen that we're sort of in the middle of something here?" Prue glanced over to where Cole and Phoebe were intertwined, before he eyes widened.

"What's he doing here?" She exclaimed, rounding on Cole, "You said before you left that it wouldn't be safe for you to come back for days, weeks even, you said it could put us in danger!" Cole rolled his eyes, used to Prue's mistrust.

"Prue, it's okay!" Cried Phoebe, standing up and putting her hands on her sisters wrists to prevent her doing any damage to Cole. "No one's going to realize he's gone, because they're too distracted preparing them selves against a new power that's rising." She explained, seeing the understating spread across Prue's face. "A new power which only seem to come into existence yesterday..." She pressed.

"The other travellers..." Breathed Prue, not not fully understanding Phoebe's hints. "They must be trying to build an army against us and Wyatt!" Cole raised his eye brows, and Phoebe sighed, not wanting to have to explain her theory.

"Prue..." Began Phoebe, not sure how to explain what she had found out since Prue had gone out with Wyatt.

"What happened here?" Interrupted Prue, glancing into the conservatory where the demon had attacked. Prue walked over to the other sofa, noting the scorched floor and the magazine Phoebe had been reading, carelessly thrown behind a plant. "Another demon attack?"

Phoebe nodded, opening her mouth to explain everything, when all of a sudden Piper walked through the door, immediately taking in Cole's unexpected presence and Phoebe's nervous stance. Phoebe swallowed, having hoped that she would be able to persuade Prue to her way of thinking first, so as they could tackle Piper together.

"Hey," She greeted, "have you heard anything from Wyatt?" She checked, "I think he called out for Leo more than twenty minutes ago but neither of them are answering my calls and something awful might have happened!"

"Sweety, he's the twice blessed in a time which is completely unprepared for him, trust me he's okay." Comforted Prue, walking over to her and putting her arm around her shoulder. Piper nodded, taking a few deep breaths to calm her self down from the panic she had been building up since Leo had orbed away.

"So are you going to explain what you're doing here now?" She questioned Cole after a minute.

Cole started to explain that she was in no danger when Phoebe cut in. "He came to help me." She lied, knowing Piper would jump to the wrong conclusion as Prue had done if he mentioned the new power too early. "That demon attacked and I needed him to save me." Cole looked down at Phoebe slightly confused, but smiled in agreement when Phoebe trod lightly on his foot.

"What kind of demon was it?" Asked Prue, clearly concerned. "Do you think any more of them likely to attack?"

"I doubt it." She replied, choosing her words carefully so as not to reveal her thoughts to quickly in case her sister bit her head of. Prue and Piper clearly couldn't understand how Phoebe could be so certain, "They won't attack again because they weren't after me." She elaborated.

"Then who were they after?" Questioned Piper, looking suspiciously at Cole.

Phoebe took a breath, deciding there was no point beating around the push any longer. "They were after our little sister." She told them, "Paige was telling the truth."

"So what are you saying?" Asked Piper, her voice suddenly very icy. "That you believe that woman was our sister, or that you believe her entire story." Prue kept her arm tightly wrapped around Piper, ready to prevent her from injuring their sister. Phoebe bit her lip, taking a few small steps back.

"Of course she doesn't believe everything." She laughed lightly, "You don't, do you Phoebe." She pressed, opening her eyes wide to impress on Phoebe the need to to anger Piper. Cole quickly stepped in front of Phoebe to shield her, deciding to explain everything he knew to try and divert Piper's rage on to his practically indestructible self.

"Look Piper, there is a chance that your son isn't as sweet and innocent as his six month year old self might suggest." Prue gripped slightly harder on to Piper's shoulders as she waited for Cole's explanation. "There's a new power gaining numbers in the underworld, and it's one more powerful then anything that has been before. Even the source." Piper shrugged, not seeing that this was anything to prove her son's wrong doings. "And it only started yesterday." He added, his eyes fixed on Prue, not Piper, knowing she was far more likely to see sense then the mother of the accused.

"And you think the only possible suspect is Wyatt, do you?" Demanded Piper, determined not to believe the half demon no matter how many reasons he spouted. "Well you're wrong."

"Piper," He began carefully, fully aware of the power Piper has developed, "There is no one else it could be. If it were a being from this time then there would be a trace, there is no way anything develops that much power over night."

"So." She protested, "He wasn't the only one to arrive back from the future that night, why can't they be responsible." Cole shifted on the spot, noticing her flexing her fingers as if in preparation for an attack.

"Phoebe told me about you're sole meeting with the people you are immediately disbelieving because of the ridiculous nepotism in this family." Piper ground her teeth, her glare practically boring a hole in Cole's chest. "Remind me when you arrived which of the boys had been thrown across the room by the other?" Prue bit her lip, beginning to see Cole's point. Clearly Wyatt was more powerful than Chris, and so was certainly the most likely candidate when it came to identifying the most powerful time traveller.

Piper, however, was having none of it. "Now you listen to me." She hissed, her voice dangerously quite. "My-" She wormed out of Prue's grip and flicked her fingers at Cole, blasting his chest, "Son-" She flicked her fingers again sending him across the room, "Is- Not- Evil." She finished, flicking her fingers at him with every word, leaving Cole sprawled in the corner. As soon as she was certain Cole would be out for a minute, Piper rounded on her sister, towering over her.

"Piper, be reasonable!" Cried Prue, trying to pull her furious sister away, "You can't deny there is a reason that we should be at least cautious about this!" She insisted, although her words seemed to make Piper even angrier as everyone turned against her.

"I swear the next person who suggests my son is evil I will blow up for real!" She cried, just as the familiar jingle of her husband's arrival rang through the air. She turned to him quickly, noticing his surprise at what he was facing but there was something else on his face as well. He was nervous. She took a breath, terrified about what could have happened. "Is everything okay?" She asked, not lowering her arms from her defensive stance, "What did our son want?"

Leo swallowed hard, all to familiar with how his wife handled bad news. "Is he okay?" Cut in Phoebe, "He seemed pretty shaken up when he orbed into the manor earlier."

"Wait, he was here earlier and you didn't say anything?" Asked Piper, turning away from Leo, giving him time to think of a cover story, Phoebe shrugged arguing that she had neither been given time nor opportunity to tell the story. Prue couldn't help but feel the tale of Wyatt hearing the future Paige had sent her past self to the manor, spitting her name and orbing away was defiantly slightly suspicious. "Fine." Dismissed Piper quickly, turning back to Leo before more of their suspicious could be voiced. "So what did Wyatt want?"

"Oh err..." Replied Leo, "He was fine, just checking everything was fine here but had to sort out some other stuff which is why he couldn't come to the manor." He lied vaguely. He could see Pipers eyes narrow in suspicion, and quickly continued so as to distract Piper from her eldest son. "I would have been back earlier, but I got a call from the elders." He improvised, knowing this was the most likely reason for his sudden acquisition of knowledge.

"The elders?" She questioned eagerly, waning to know any information which could help her son's case. "What did they say?"

"Maybe you should sit down first." He suggested, grasping her hands gently and leading her over to the sofa next to Phoebe. She tried to protest, terrified about what had to say. "Look, the elders still can't confirm Paige's story." He stated truthfully, knowing the sisters had enough evidence to believe her already, with out him further lying about the elders words, "but they now know that the boy she was with is our son Piper."

"Wha..what?" She stammered. not wanting to believe that the boy she had treated with such indifference should really mean so much to her. "He can't be." She protested, "Wyatt said..."

"He lied." Stated Leo, who was no more happy than Piper to admit his first son's wrong doings. "It's Chris we should be trusting, he came back here to help us." Piper shook her head, frantically trying to stop the tears beginning to fall from his eyes. Prue sat down on the other side of Piper, gently stroking her arm, and Cole finally stood up and walked over to the back of the sofa, wrapping his arms around Phoebe as they all waited for Pipers response.

"I need to see him." She said finally, her maternal instinct taking over so now all she wanted was to bring her newly discovered son into a tight hug, and do everything she could to make amends to him. "Chris!" She called out, hoping he would answer her call just as Wyatt had done earlier. "Chris please, I'm so sorry!" She begged, before trying a different tactic "Christopher Halliwell, come here now!" She screamed. But still there was no reply. Piper was becoming more agitated every second the boy ignored her for.

"He won't come Piper." Said Leo gently. As one all four of the others stared at him, wondering how he could be so certain, he shrugged knowing Piper would force him to take her to the cave if he told the truth, "Well if I were him I wouldn't come." He replied, "I mean If I were trying to stop my brother, I'd try and keep as low a profile as possible, and that would defiantly include not dropping in on my parents." He reasoned. Piper seemed to accept this but was still unhappy. "I still won't believe Wyatt is evil." She stated once she had calmed down. "There must be another explanation."

"And maybe there is," Leo reassured, staring deep into Pipers eyes to try and calm her down, "But for now we should at least be careful. If he is trying to change the time lines then we can't let him. Son or not."

"Our son is not evil." Maintained Piper, unable to get the baby version of Wyatt out of her head.

"You're right, he's not." Confirmed Leo, "but unfortunately our other son just may be."

"I don't understand how you can be so certain." Protested Prue, "I mean you can't have been with the elders for more than ten minutes, how can that be enough to convict your own son?" Leo swallowed, knowing there was no way to explain. Before he even had a chance to, however, Phoebe reached out and touched his hand, she shut her hands, jerking backwards as she received a premonition. Leo shut his eyes, knowing what she was seeing. Soon she would tell her sisters about his encounter with Chris, putting his son in more danger then she could know.

Phoebe let out a gasp as she was brought back to reality, she stared up at Leo in disbelief. "You've spoken to him!" She exclaimed, unable to believe that he wouldn't have told them. Piper looked up at him, clearly hurt, whilst Prue prepared to restrain her sister once more.

"You...you saw him?" She murmured. Leo nodded, and Piper closed her eyes as she understood. "He was the one calling you wasn't he. It wasn't Wyatt at all." Leo nodded once more, knowing where she was going with this. "Take me to him." She requested, her voice quiet but determined.

"Piper, I..." He began but Piper shook her head, her eyes suddenly shot open, as she glared into his eyes.

"Take me to him, now." She ordered with such authority that Leo dared not disobey. He sighed and took Pipers hand, orbing her away from her sisters and Cole and down into the Chris' cave.


Chris was busy working on a large sheet of paper when the sound of orbs echoed round the gloomy cavern. Chris spun around to see, to his annoyance, his father had returned far earlier than planned, brining with him the one person Chris was dreading facing. He had never been able to get over his mother's death, and now seeing her, so young and unaware, made Chris' heart ache for the woman who had raised him. He knew he couldn't get close to this woman no matter what because if he did, every painful memory he had been pushing down since the age of fourteen would rise up, and then how could he find the strength to stop what ever Wyatt was planning for this time.

"You can't be here!" He pleaded desperately, jumping to his feet and swiftly moving as far as he could away from his parents. Piper's eyes filled with tears and she clasped her hands to her mouth as she properly took in his features for the first time.

Of course, she had recognised the familiar dark brown Halliwell head of hair Chris possessed when she first saw him at the manor, but after Wyatt had renounced him, she had dismissed this as a coincidence. As she looked closer, however she saw more and more of Leo and her family in his face. "I'm so sorry." She breathed, taking her hands away from her mouth and reaching out for her newly discovered son. Chris turned away from his mother, knowing his resolve would falter if he faced her any longer.

"I told you it wasn't safe!" He exclaimed at his father, "there's no time for this, you need to sort out Wyatt!"

"I made him bring me here Chris." Defended Piper, stepping forward, almost shielding Leo and forcing Chris to look at her, "I believed your brother over you and I'm so sorry I didn't see that you are my son." With every word she edged closer to the conflicted teenager.

"I don't blame you." Dismissed Chris with a shrug, trying to remain as detached and distant from her as possible, "you had no reason to believe me. Besides, Paige is the one you should apologise to, not me. I mean, Wyatt only said I wasn't his brother, he never denied Paige was his aunt- that was all you." Pipers heart plummeted as she thought about her ill treatment of both her son and half sister since they had arrived. Perhaps Cole was right, their obsession with family trust was clouding their judgement and now it could put them all at risk. Of course Piper still couldn't believe Wyatt was truly evil, but she wasn't naive enough to discount the evidence of her second son sheltering in a damp cave in the middle of the demon infested underworld just to hide from his big brother.

Before she could offer up any further apologies, however, Leo cut in. "What's this?" He enquired, kneeling down on the floor to examine the paper Chris had been working on before they had arrived. "It looks like some kind of map."

"Yeah." Confirmed Chris, tearing his eyes away from his bleary eyed mother. He held out his hand and a cascade of blue orbs fell over it, and when they had cleared an old skrying crystal had appeared on his hand. With out further explanation, he knelt back down and began circling it around the hand drawn map.

"Wait, is that the underworld?" He exclaimed, his tone a mixture of impressed and horror that his son could draw a map of these treacherous caves in such detail.

"Part of it." Answered Chris shortly, "Wy and I found this bunch of abandoned caves when we were younger, then when he... turned..." he glanced over to Piper who he guessed wouldn't want to hear any part of that tale "...he began using the caves to imprison and, um... question (torture) members of the resistance, he believes Paige set up."

"And you think that's where he's keeping you're aunt." Concluded Leo. Piper, how ever had stopped listening after Chris had mentioned his and his brother's little adventure when they were younger.

"Wait, so you're saying I just let you run around the underworld by yourselves?" She explained, horrified that she could have been so lax as a mother

"Not 'let' as such, you just had more important things to stop." Shrugged Chris as he continued to skry. Piper stumbled back slightly as her mind began racing, imagining what sort of mother would allow her two young sons to run around unchecked. She now couldn't help but think that if Wyatt had turned evil, her skill as a mother must have had something to do with it. Chris sighed, his white-lighter senses detecting her misery. "Don't worry mum, you were amazing." He assured her, still not taking his eyes off the circling crystal, "You just had a lot on your plate, and on the whole we only went exploring when Aunt Phoebe was babysitting." Piper gave a small smile, greatly appreciating her son's words.

"You know if you can protect this cave, I doubt Wyatt won't have protected the one he's holding Paige in." Leo pointed out, Chris shrugged, continuing skrying.

"I'm not looking for her." He stated, "I'm searching for a density of magic- if there is a protected cave here, that's the only way to find it."

Both parents couldn't help but be a little bit saddened at the matter of fact way Chris dealt with betraying his brother. But more than that, despite everything, they couldn't fail to be proud. Piper relied on her sisters for support, and had done since long before they were witches, yet here was her son, completely alone in another time, not even twenty years old and yet he was coming up with plans and using magic in a way they would never have thought of. When the skrying on it's own didn't work, he refused to give up, instead be began whispering various spells to undermine what every magic Wyatt was using. Slowly the crystal began to spin faster, and Leo and Piper spotter a faint purple glow coming off of it until it eventually fell on to the map, the point firmly pressed against one of the smaller cages.

Chris sighed in relief, knowing he was now so much closer to saving his aunt, but as he stood up and prepared to orb he found Leo had moved forward placing a firm hand on his shoulder. "You can't go!" He insisted, knowing full well that his son was intending to orb right to his brother, "You said you self that he can't know you're trying to stop him." He pointed out. Chris pushed his hand off angrily, glaring up into his father's hazel eyes.

"She's my family, Leo, and I don't abandon my family." They way Chris emphasised 'I' couldn't help but bring more questions into Leo's crowded mind.

"Chris, sweety," came Piper's softer voice, "perhaps we should go instead." She suggested. Chris just shook his head.

"You don't know where it is." He told her simply, "It would take you hours to find the right cave and who knows what he'll do to her by then." Even the thought of what Paige must be going through made Chris' breathing heavier and both parents could suddenly see how distressed he really was about his situation.

"Surely he won't hurt her too much." Reasoned Leo, still not grasping how gone his son truly was, "I mean she is still his family too right?"

Chris sighed, having hoped not to have to reveal anything about their future problems, but he could tell his parents wouldn't let him go any where until they understood- he was starting to regret calling Leo in the first place. "Look, Wyatt knows she's family, but he also thinks she knows about the spies the resistance has in his followers." He explained as briefly as possible, "He'll do anything to get that information, because the spies keep on passing information to the resistance who are stopping an increasing number of his... schemes." He described, not mentioning the cruelty and bloodshed caused by most of Wyatt's 'schemes'.

"So you're afraid of we leave her for too long then she'll tell him all their names and then she won't know to fight them any more?" Asked Leo, while Piper shut her eyes, hating that they were talking about her son like this.

"She won't tell." He replied confidently- but Leo, who had seen how effective magic could be as a torture in the right hands wasn't as certain.

"How can you be so sure?" He asked doubtfully.

"She won't tell, because she doesn't know their names." He said sadly, suddenly shooing his head up to look desperately at his parents, "I'm the one that organises the spies, and the only name she knows is mine." Piper gasped, covering her hand with her mouth.

"You're working for her?" She asked, beginning to dislike her new sister more and more, hearing how she was dragging her son into dangerous situations. "What if she tells him your name, what would he do if he finds out."

"He won't find out, because I know she would die first, and I can't let her die because of me! I can't loose any one else!" He shut his eyes tightly, knowing that he had said to much. He could feel both parent's gave on him as he turned away, "So if you don't mind I'm going to get her back." He added, trying to regain his mask of indifference.

"No." Stated Piper firmly, moving forward and resisting her own arm on Chris' shoulder, "If it's that dangerous then we'll send Cole." She insisted, "Cole!" Almost instantly, Prue, Phoebe and Cole shimmered into the cave, and Piper could tell they had been preparing for them for a while as Phoebe was holding baby Wyatt in her arms, clearly not wanting to leave him alone in the manor. "Do you recognise these caves?" She asked as soon as they had gained their bearings. Cole strolled over to the map, kneeling down to examine it closer.

A look of admiration flooded his face as he took in the immense detail of the page. "I think so." He said eventually, "they were used by a group of vampires years ago, before they were banished by the source." He recalled. Piper muttered something under her breath and, although it wasn't clear, Chris could tell she was fretting about her boys playing in vampire caves. "I take it this is where we should find your brother." He stated, directing his words at Chris who nodded silently. He had heard many stories about Cole and although he couldn't tell the sisters why, he was not happy with him being the one to rescue his aunt.

Piper quickly explained how she wanted Cole to shimmer in to the cave to rescue Paige, whilst the rest of them would speak to Wyatt- as she wanted to clear up certain matters Prue, Phoebe and Cole could clearly see that Chris was unhappy with this plan. Not only was the demon who had put his whole family in danger the one to go rescue the witch who hated him the most, but the rest of his family were about to confront the person it was most important not to piss off.

"Prue should go with Cole as well." He said unenthusiastically, remembering all to well how stubborn his mother was and knowing there was no point trying to persuade her to let him go. "If Wyatt gets back early, he'd only see Cole as another demon and wouldn't hesitate to kill, unless he recognised his family there as well." He explained, not adding that even if Wyatt didn't get back, Paige would be perfectly happy to kill Cole as well.

"Why wouldn't Wyatt see Cole as family?" Enquired Phoebe innocently. Chris smile at her secretively, while Prue hit her arm.

"No future questions Phoebe!" She scolded, "There could be severe consequences!"

"Fine." Sighed Phoebe melodramatically, "I'm sure Chris has his reasons for his statement." She walked over and wrapped her arms around her boyfriends waste. "I'll go as well." She informed them, "Give you guys some family time." Everyone, apart from Chris nodded, and he simple sighed, leaning back against the cave wall, all the memories of his aunts and sisters flooding back to him in painful waves.

"That's decided then." Confirmed Prue, "You guys go and call him and when he's in the manor, Chris will be able to sense him and we'll head for the cave." Everyone turned expectantly to Chris, seeing if he had any last minute advice for them. He sighed, but just nodded his consent for the plan. He had plenty of things he wanted to say, and plenty of warnings he knew he should give, but, seeing his mothers unhappy face as they discussed their schemes to undermine her son, he decided it might be best to say nothing.

How bad could it be?


Okay, so in the next chapter, Wyatt's scheme will be revealed (Well most of it) and there should also be some Chris/ Aunts stuff and Piper we'll be having a friendly word with her son. Any way, hope you liked it, and if you did, please review!