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Chapter 13

Third point of view

When Leo left for the meeting, the atmosphere around the table changed. Every member of the family fell quiet thinking for themselves about the possible outcomes of the meeting. Piper knew that today would the challenge for her family, she was sure that Leo would do his best, but if the Neutrals went far enough to prevent them coming Up There they definitely wouldn't make the situation easy for them if they even were bothered to talk to him. That idea hurt greatly, she got that what they did they did to protect their son, what she never managed to achieve.

For the last months she made the distance between her and her children, considering it her punishment, but after the talk with her youngest she knew that she provided more damage, but this time to those children she had left. That realization made her to re-think her actions. She wanted to talk to her children and finally to get rid of that elephant which stood between them for all this time.

A couple of minutes in complete silence let her to observe her family. Her cousins became more responsible and sensitive to their surroundings, their grades at school started to grow and they spent more time with their mothers and fathers. Her sisters now willingly put their business away just to help her the way they could and to be with their children, in some way they spoiled their kids more than before but that was understandable. As for their husbands, they tried to make them all communicate, not only do what kids asked to, but really to listen for one another and help to overcome the loss of the nephew. But it didn't usually worked, no one was willing to discuss the problem, and that only helped the family fall apart, something they didn't want to happen.

Her own children became almost strangers for each other. Paul and Wyatt were rarely in the same room and almost never talking aside from 'Hi!' and 'Bye!' and that was painful to look at. On several occasions she tried to make them talk about what they felt, but it failed because she never talked about it herself, yes she said about the way she would treat her middle son when he would be back home or the way to bring him here, but she never showed what she felt about the problem itself. And her sons taking example from her followed her lead.

And here, now she saw how wrong she was, how her attitude to her family tired them all apart, she stopped being the glue the family had, she changed and the change wasn't a good one. Now she understood she needed to get back to where she was strong, just not to lose the rest of her loved ones.

When the dinner was over, Paige and Phoebe hurried home, but before that they asked their older sister to call them immediately when she got some news on their nephew. The girls said bye to her sons and left after the parents, but before that the youngest turned to her aunt hugged her and said:

"Aunt Piper, don't worry, Uncle Leo will do everything he can, he loves Chris a lot and he will never let him go without coming with him in peace."

Piper had tears in her eyes. She always knew that Penelope had an empathy, but she never knew that she could feel her and her husband.

"Penny, did you ever felt Chris' emotions?"

"No, somehow he was always shielded from me, and aside from dad and sisters' barrier, Chris' wasn't formed by potion, it was self-made." Piper nodded her head, but it made her worry more. They suspected that Chris had memories from the past-life, but even then he needed the potion to protect his mind, but now he could do it himself, that meant somebody thought him that, somebody extremely powerful. 'Could be the Neutrals that powerful?' she asked herself.

After she cleaned everything, she went to the living room and found their both of her sons, sitting side by side, and according Paul's shrugging of the shoulders he was crying. For the first time he cried in front of someone. She watched how Wyatt pulled his youngest brother to himself and started muttering something him in the ear. After a minute or so she finally came to them and pulled them both in a hug and let the tear slip down her cheek. They stayed in this position for some time.

"Mum, I love you." She heard her eldest whispered. "I know that you made your mistakes, but I really love you. Today sitting at that table I again felt myself as if I belonged there. I stopped blaming only you and dad." He continued. "We are all at fault here, it was me who always thought that Chris was the most reasonable to look after him too much, to guide him. Every time we talked it was me he tried to make to spill problems and I never tried to make him talk, assuming that he hadn't got any. And when you told us about the past, what he sacrificed for me, I felt furious and you were only those on whom I vented my anger. Now when I think about our childhood with him, I recall quite a few moment where I caught him with fake masks, but never really took notice of them. And I remembered that he went a couple of days with strange bandage on his wrists, but once again I dismissed it, thinking that my brother would never do such a thing as hurt himself. How wrong I was!" At the end all three of them were crying, they finally found strength to talk about what they felt.

"I told mum today, that I saw Chris talking with his friend about his parents, but I knew that very minute that it wasn't about our mum and dad. He talked about them with such a glowing face and sounded so affectionate that now I blame myself, that I never asked about it. I never saw these friends of his at school also and some of them seemed a little bit older than he. He talked with them about preparing dinner for the family. I guess he was talking about the Neutrals." Paul said sadly. "Yesterday I found the culinary book in one of his drawers. It has different marks about what to do and it looked like as the pieces of advice for cooking the dished more delicious, more importantly they were written by him, in his hand-writing. I never even knew he could cook." He finished, smiling at the idea. Piper looked at her son with curiosity, she always assumed that none of her children inherited her skills in the kitchen, but once again she was wrong. The kid she neglected was her main inheritance in the kitchen, she never tried to see if Chris could cook, she just decided if he couldn't study why would he cook. And that broke her heart again.

Piper took a deep breath, she needed to calm her heart down and she had to tell her children how she felt, but she didn't know where to start. So she decided to start since the moment she found out she was pregnant.

"When I was pregnant with Chris, I knew that I will have a strong, clever and very concentrated son. When I found out at first that the Whitelighter from the future was my son, I was confused but at the same time proud. My son was ready to come to the past and safe his elder brother. Then when the Chris died I couldn't make myself to leave the house fearing to lose you, Wyatt and him. At the time your father lost control over his emotions and wasn't around much that only made the situation worse. But some time later we conceived you, Paul he went back. He couldn't let himself to miss the pregnancy of his other child, as it happened with Chris. As time went by, you were born and needed more attention than Chris, because he was always a quiet baby and Wyatt, starting the pre-school, we drifted from the son who once was willing to gave us his life. When he became older Chris was independent and the fact made me think that he wasn't needed me as much as you two were. You, Wyatt needed more practice with magic as you are Twice-Blessed and you, Paul, more care as you were always mommy's boy when you were a baby. And I never questioned it, later we just used to it and stopped noticing that it was wrong and when he could use our help. I think it was our fault we never taught him ask our attention. And look where it got us. Now every day when I walk around the manor I stated to see, to remember things when I should have helped him, guide him teach him, when he looked at me wanting to ask something but then something happened and he never did and I never asked. In the end he did it himself without me, Leo or anybody else." Piper finished her story.

"He didn't ask us, but he asked others family, Piper." Everyone turned to the voice. Leo made his way to the couch and sat down, rubbed his face. "They love Chris, they know him, his dreams and fears. And they have five other children to take care of. They are powerful and if dare gorgeous in every sense of the word. They said their opinion of the Elders' work, they made us look as babies at our meeting, so detailed, so practical. They said Chris will come to us when he will be ready, when he will feel himself up to seeing us again, but we need to learn about him as much as we can."

"Easy said than done" The blonde mumbled.

"Yeah, but at the same time they recommended to start with finding out his destiny and who he is." Leo quieted. He didn't know what else to say. But he didn't get the chance to continue because the room filled with the light that was familiar with Leo.

The light reviled two people, one of them Leo saw at the meeting it was Helena, with her was a young man whose photo he saw on the bracelet. He was around thirty years old, with short dark blonde hair and deep green eyes. He was tall and well-fitted and wore simple blue jeans and gray T-shirt. The man looked at all of them, glanced at his mother and said:

"We need your help, no, not we, Chris does. I hope you are willing to help."