Break in exams and I'm massively bored so I decided to get something out for this one...bear with me on some of the details of social workers and stuff...(I never had all that much to do with mine to be honest – she just talked to me about where I wanted to live etc...so yea I'm making this up as I go along)

Ldf x

Ps. If people don't like seeing Piper being abusive and stuff then don't read this fic, it's rather simple...I got a review the other day saying I had ruined Charmed for that person by turning a kind loving character into an abusive bitch – my response DON'T READ THE DAMN FIC THEN! (although I give them credit for reading all of it before flaming...I've had someone only read the first chapter)

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ANONYMOUS REPORT: Halliwell, Christopher

Name: Halliwell, Christopher Perry

Birth date: 19th May

Age: 8

Suspected abuse

Evidence: quietness, pain when moving, jumpiness around adults...(I could have gone on but with the time I have between exams...)

Case Worker: Mathews, Paige

Reported by: Anonymous source

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Paige read over the file that had been placed on her desk that morning with increasing horror, if it was obvious enough that someone around Chris noticed why didn't she? She saw him nearly every day. But a more worrying question was who was it? Piper or Leo? She couldn't comprehend either of them doing it but it must have been one of them, Phoebe, Coop and Henry wouldn't dare try and cross Piper, or Leo for that matter, so which one of them was it? And more importantly how was she supposed to stop it? Someone was worried enough to report it to social services, who presumably wasn't family (family would have just confronted Piper straight off), so it must be bad, and bad enough that Chris was in serious danger – enough to get him and Wyatt taken away from Piper and Leo.

Paige leant back in her chair sighing and mulling over the rest of the contents of the report. Could Chris glamour? To be honest she'd never asked but then he was half Elder so it was highly likely he'd inherited that – that could explain why no one had noticed much. But then how did his school (as that was who Paige presumed it was given the evidence in the rest of the file) notice if it wasn't obviously there? Paige started kicking herself as she ran over Chris' recent behaviour and picked up on some of the abuse indicators she hadn't noticed the first time round. The only explanation she could come up with for not noticing was Piper's perfect Mom image and how much she doted on, well, Wyatt. It struck Paige as odd that she'd never noticed that particular fact but she figured she'd just taken it for granted that Chris was treated the same way.

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Andy looked around at the class full of screaming kids trying to spot the reason he was here, he was failing miserably, either the boy had decided not to come into school or was hiding out somewhere. Well it was one of those two options or Piper had beat him up bad enough that he'd had to stay home, although from what he'd seen of Piper lately she'd probably have forced her son to school anyway. Andy sighed as another sweep of the room revealed no sign of the eight year old and resolved to go looking for him at break in the hope that he wasn't in too bad a shape. That was rather wishful thinking but it was better than the other options so the whitelighter stuck to it and decided to try quietening his class down.

Once the class was finally calm he noted that Sam wasn't there either, had something major happened? But if so why hadn't Sam come and let him know? Andy nearly growled in frustration and set his class some comprehension work – there was no way his brain was up to anything spectacular with the amount of worrying and questions it was currently taxing itself with. He sat behind his desk watching the group of 7 and 8 year olds work worrying about his, for all intents and purposes, nephew and the half demon friend of his who were at the moment suspiciously absent.

"Right, homework." The class groaned and Andy hid a smile. "It's not that bad! All I want you to do is write a short report on..." he paused and searched for a topic, "your family, it only has to be one side long – it'll take half an hour tops. Due in on Thursday. Now go I'll see you then." He smiled and watched the group leave, then groaned as he realised he had Wyatt next – could the day get any worse?

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"You know that new English teacher looks really familiar." Wyatt muttered to Amalie. "I swear I've seen him before..."

"Wy, he's been here for weeks and you only now notice?"

"Well yeah." Wyatt admitted, with at least the decency to look a little red faced. "But I've been busy." He switched tone rapidly until he was defensive. "I can't notice everything you know, I have my, other, responsibilities too!"

"You can't keep using that as an excuse Wy, I know it involves a lot but seriously that excuse is starting to get really old. Anyway I'll see you later, dentist, eurgh!"

"Have fun!" Wyatt mocked as he watched his friend disappear round the corner, then groaned as he headed to English before brightening when he realised he could act up and generally manage to blame it on someone else – being a witch was cool, especially when your Mom was too concerned with stopping your brother from using his own powers to stop you from using yours.

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Chris shivered as he lay curled into a defensive ball on the floor, he'd been locked in the basement for hours and it was wet, very very wet. Somehow fixing the leak hadn't rated that high on Piper's list, and apparently it was low enough that she had neglected to mention it to Leo either. Deciding against moving despite the rather annoying cramp in his muscles the 8 year old resigned himself to waiting until either someone noticed he was gone or Piper took pity on him and let him out. He didn't hold out much hope for the second option, that had never happened in the two years since this had started to become part of Piper's torture.

"Chris?"

The voice of a worried 8 year old pierced the silence that had previously only been broken by the steady dripping of water.

"God Chris, what did she do to you?"

Chris' only response was to groan causing Sam's fearful expression to triple in intensity. Inwardly cursing Piper he shimmered out promising his friend he'd be back soon, praying that he remembered Mel's apartment well enough to get there without scaring some poor unsuspecting old lady nearby.

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"Let who go back? Phoebe, what are you on about?"

"Nothing, I, I just need to go and sort it out, he can come here, it'll be fine."

"Phoebe." Coop said grabbing her and holding her at arms length by her shoulders, looking worriedly at his wife. "What is it? A demon, a witch? Talk to me." He pulled her in close as she started crying and started running his hands through her hair and in comforting circles on her back. "Please Phoebe, tell me what's wrong."

An indecipherable murmur was heard and Coop sighed in exasperation wishing his wife would just tell him, it was all well and good sensing her emotions and vice versa but that was no good if he didn't know why she was feeling like that. A slightly louder voice cut in.

"Phoebe?" Neither Phoebe nor Paige had any of Wyatt and Chris' friends call them by their surname; that was Piper's thing. Phoebe pulled her head out of Coop's chest.

"Sam?"

"Can I take it from the crying that whatever your idiotic sister did worked? Because I really need your help."

"Woah, back up, what does he know that I don't?" Coop demanded.

The other two both ignored Coop's question and carried on.

"How do you-? You know what never mind, what did she do?"

"I need someone who can orb, and Mel is kinda not there – nor might I add is your sister."

"Paige?"

"Nah, she hasn't got a clue, your other sister."

"What's Piper got to do with this?" Coop butted in.

"A lot." Was the grim response from the two currently staring at each other.

"Isn't she supposed to have no contact with us?"

"She was getting desperate, really desperate. She's risking a lot for him."

"You've called her?"

"Well duh, I'm not a complete idiot you know."

"Never said you were."

"Not that this isn't amusing but can we please get back to the more pressing matter at hand? As in the small boy currently in agony?"

"Yes, yes of course. Sit down Coop, this might take a while."

"What?" Coop asked suspiciously. "Things that take a while generally aren't too good."

"Well suck it up because this one definitely isn't."

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This chapter dedicated to disneyqueen...

(I know I said I wasn't going to be updating but I did manage to get this written as I only have two more exams left and I'm currently on half term...:))