A/N: I'm sorry for making you wait for so long=) But I had vacations and I didn't have time=) Enjoy=)

Chapter 12

Tom's point of view

For the past half a year I watched me younger brother closely. I always looked after my younger siblings, but Chris had too many skeletons in his closet to not worry about him after his birthday. I knew that he didn't sleep well and spent better part of the day checking and re-checking his work at the restaurant.

"How is he?" I asked Kate when she got in the car after talking to Chris.

"Well, he tells he's alright, but he admitted to have problems with sleeping, because his dreams back and he can't take them under control." She looked in the mirror, as I started the car.

"Why didn't he tell us he has problems? I don't understand him sometimes." I singed.

"You know him, Tom. It's not easy for him to ask for help. We did try to learn him that, but the Halliwells destroyed every our attempt."

"What kind of dreams he has?" I wondered.

"A mixture of future and past. You know him. He will keep it quiet till we make him talk. I don't want him to go through the ritual again."

"If it's disturbing him so much, he will have to. I know that he don't like to remember the other timeline, where he died but we don't have any other choice." I said.

Later that day I found myself at my parents home waiting for the rest of the family arrive. The stuff was preparing the dinner and serving the table with Chris giving orders and joking around. We knew that today Mum and Dad finished their checking with the Elders and my brother was obviously tensed about it and his dreams. Sometime I thought that Chris took too much responsibility and it would bury him one day. We always knew that he was a private person who didn't like to share his worries, but also we knew that he was a very sensible, that's why we kept close eye on him.

When everybody gathered around the table Serena asked the question that bothered her and the rest of us.

"How was the meeting?"

"It went well, as far as I concerned. The Elders were surprised about how serious we took the revision but still everything was just good." After a few moments of silence Mum continued. "We met Leo."

Everybody stilled and looked at Chris as if expecting him to say something or indicate the fact that he heard the statement. I also was observing him, I saw how he took deep breath, shut his eyes for a moment and put a fake smile on his face. I looked around the table and noticed that everyone could see through his mask.

"Well, he's good then, right?" He wondered careless, well he wanted to sound this way but failed.

"Yes. He is. And I think the rest of family are too. But he asked us about you. He wanted us to tell him where you are and take you home."

"And what did you answered to that?" Audrey questioned.

"That Chris will come when he's ready. What else can we say. It's your decision, not ours to make." Dad replied staring right into Chris.

For the next couple minutes there was silence in the room. Every member of the family were thinking about what Dad said. And I agreed with him. Chris should feel himself ready to meet them.

"Well, the main reason I gathered you here is because we have more immediate problem. Chris has troubles sleeping as you know" Kate glanced at my youngest brother, who nodded encouraging her to continue. "He told me today it was because of the dreams."

"Dreams?" questioned Mum. "Why didn't you tell us earlier?"

"Mum, I wanted but I didn't know how, and I had no intentions to worry you." Answered Chris and looked at the table. Instead of continuing arguing with Chris, Dad got up and came to Chris and kissed the top of his head.

"Chris, you are part of this family, you always was, is and will be important to us. So stop behave like we don't care. We care with all our hearts." Every member of the family was nodding in agreement. "And we will do what we have to do to keep you happy. We talked about it every couple of months and here we again you hiding so relevant from us. We were more worried about you not knowing what was going on. "

"Sorry, Dad." Chris mumbled. Dad leaned and kissed the top of his head again.

"You are not only one of the Neutrals, you are my son, tom and girls' brother and those kids' uncle. So stop that and let us help you."

With that Dad took his seat again. And the room was silent for the next fifteen minutes. When everyone finished with their main courses, I decided that we needed to think about the problem, that was currently here.

"So, what kind of dreams are they?" I asked looking at my brother.

"Mixture of past, present and future. Something that was never suppose to happen. Last time the dreams were only the combinations of some exact time and now there is everything. Some thing that could have happened but didn't, some that happened in another timeline and some from the possibly variations of future." Chris explained.

"So, we need to repeat the ritual, but this time we really need Piper and Leo's samples of blood. Last time we used ours and now it obvious that that wasn't enough." Said Mum/

"Last time it was much easier to get the blood samples, but now ot will really problematic. Piper and Leo will want to know why we need it. And I'm afraid this can turn to the completely different level of problems. They will try to make us look bad, and turn it to their advantage." I voiced my idea.

"Even if they try to do so, we don't have a choice and I'm not going to let them use the situation and accuse us in everything." Mum replied.

I knew that may be Mum was right, but it didn't ceased the tention I had inside me. And I could see that Chris thiked the same way. It would be the difficult meeting and for that we need a lot of patience and self-esteem. I only hoped that the conversation which would take place in the near future between us and Halliwells would not be that hard for Chris. He wasn't ready to meet his biological parents just yet and he understood it perfectly.

"We will see them and have the conversation but I don't wanr them to know about Chris too much, I mean that I want to find out about Chris on their own, without our intervention. And even less I want to make you, Chris feel uncomfortable. That's why we need to make the story why we need their blood." Dad said. All this time none of my sisters said anything and I dared to guess they were thinking what they had to do, in order to protect Chris.

Chris during this discussion kept quiet and continued playing with food. His face showed that he was thinking about something I didn't know about, but I could say that it was something concerning his dreams and the way to solve the problem.

"I think we need to combine the blood of Halliwells and yours" he said finally. I observed him and saw that he himself wasn't happy about that idea. But I had to agree with him. We were his family emotionally and they were his family biologically, and if we needed to stop my brothers dreams we had to use their help.

"I agree with Chris." For the first time this night Serena voiced her opinion. "We are powerful, but Chris comes not only from Neutrals but also from the Warren line, the most powerful line if witched, ever existed."

"Ok then. It's decided. We use them. My only concern is: Chris are you ready to face your biological family?" Kate asked and everyone in the room concentrated their attention on my brother.

"I' m not ready but I want to stay sane, so I'm in."