A/N: Okay, sorry it took so long. Hopefully this chapter is better, I know the first two chapters followed the scripts closely, that changes in this. Here we see the consequences of the changes to the timeline and Chris is born, which of course means Wyatt went missing... Anyway, hope you enjoy it, this is where the story starts moving. Let me know what you think, see you at the bottom.

Disclaimer: I do not own charmed or its characters etc...

So on with the next chapter...

Chapter 3

After the discovery things improved temporarily. Still, while things for Piper and Leo looked up, things didn't go so well for Phoebe. Although she did eventually manage to tell Jason about her secret and he agreed to keep it he couldn't stay with her. He didn't feel that he could be part of a world he not only couldn't but didn't want to comprehend. It broke Phoebe to let him go. However that wasn't enough to make her give up on love, especially after she saw the future in her dream quest. Paige wasn't much more successful with her love life, she did however start work at magic school, finding her pursuits there much more successful. The worst though came with the birth of Piper and Leo's second son. It was perhaps the nail in the coffin of their relationship, though it wouldn't become obvious for years after.

It was perhaps because of the distraction of the birth, perhaps it was always going to be that way. By the time the Baby was due things seemed to be looking up in the sister's lives. Piper wanted to give birth in a hospital this time, even though there was concern that it would be born the same way as Wyatt, so when she went into labour Leo took her to the hospital while Phoebe and Paige waited for the nanny. Then they went to meet Piper at the hospital. It was a long labour, so after a few hours Phoebe and Paige went home to check on Wyatt while Leo stayed by Piper's side. He hadn't been home when they arrived but there had been no sign of the nanny either, they had assumed they had just gone for a walk, a regret they would later have. It was shortly before the baby was born that Leo was called away. One of his newer charges was in grave danger and he was needed to heal her. He would be back soon. Paige and Phoebe arrived back in the hospital to find a hysterical Piper alone in labour. Leo didn't make it back for the birth. He arrived a few hours later with some bad news. He couldn't sense Wyatt.

After that everything was thrown into chaos. Piper started to panic but her exhaustion from the long complicated birth meant it was a danger to her health. As her heart rate started to rise a nurse came in and ushered her sisters and Leo out the room and gave Piper something to make her sleep. This left Phoebe, Paige and Leo to find Wyatt themselves.

"Look, we'll go look for him, you stay here for Chris and for when Piper wakes up." Phoebe insisted. Leo shook his head.

"I need to find Wyatt. I would rather Piper wake up to find Wyatt safe than for her to know I'm not helping. I need to do this."

"Phoebe is right, Piper shouldn't be alone, and someone needs to stay and protect Chris, your new son Leo, the one Piper just gave birth to remember?" She tried to get through to him. All too aware that he had yet to meet his youngest son, that he hadn't even asked about him.

"Chris?" Leo sounded somewhat confused.

"Your son Leo, he needs you too. We can look for Wyatt. You need to be here for Piper and Chris." Phoebe urged. Leo wasn't listening though.

"I'll be back." He told them as he orbed out.

"Well what do we do?" Paige turned to Phoebe.

"I don't know. We need to search for Wyatt but we can't leave Piper and Chris here unprotected. If something happened to Wyatt" Phoebe broke off, choked up by the very idea of it. She swallowed hard, "then who's to say they would be after Piper and the baby next." She managed to finish.

"We can set crystals around Piper's room but we'll still need someone to look over Chris." Paige was doing her best to stay strong. Wyatt had to be okay, there was no other option.

"I'll ring Dad, he should be here anyway." Phoebe said more to herself than Paige as the situation started to sink in. "He might only be a mortal but he can keep an eye on things and call us if something happens."
Paige nodded and went to set up the crystals while Phoebe contacted Victor.

It wasn't long before Phoebe and Paige had realised they would have to look in the underworld if they wanted any chance to find Wyatt. Once they were down there though Paige still couldn't sense him. They would have to rely on the old fashioned way; trying to get information from demons.

After what must have been hours of searching and interrogating Phoebe and Paige realised they had to go back empty handed. They could only hope Leo had better luck. When they arrived back they found Piper awake, sat beside her was Victor, baby Chris in her arms. She had a smile on her face that contradicted the tears rolling down her cheeks.

It was a strange feeling for Piper, she sat there looking at this little bundle of joy and she felt so happy, knowing that he was hers, the way he looked at her as though she was his world, and she supposed she was at that moment, knowing that he would be so loved. She never wanted to let him go. But at the same time she was in despair, her other baby was missing. The one she had promised to always protect. The one whose destiny would outshine theirs. The one who was supposed to be the protective older brother to the baby she held in her arms. She took her eyes off him for a moment and looked up to see her sisters back, alone, that meant they hadn't found him. They looked exhausted and filthy and were covered in scratches and bruises. They were lucky, they had gone down there without any potions in their rush to try and find Wyatt. As they saw her looking they came forward into the room. For a few moments as they both took turns holding the baby everything seemed okay.

Leo still didn't return as night fell and Piper, Paige and Victor were forced to leave. Piper was allowed to keep Chris in her room with her overnight though and for that she was eternally grateful. He was the only thing keeping her sane at the moment. The knowledge that he needed her right now, perhaps just as much as Wyatt might. Right now Wyatt had her sisters and her husband looking for him. Chris only had her. With that in mind her exhaustion from the day took over and pulled her into sleep.

The search for Wyatt seemed to last forever, the end to the search came almost a week later in a rather anticlimactic way. Leo, Phoebe and Paige, the latter two not with the first, had spent all day searching everywhere for Wyatt again. While Phoebe and Paige had reluctantly stopped to update Piper and to sleep and rejuvenate their potions stash, Leo had not been seen at all since they first realised Wyatt was missing. Piper had been asleep, still in the hospital. The stress of having a son missing and the fact that there was no one really to look after her at home, though Victor had offered repeatedly but due to his lack of powers was turned down.

It was around midday, Phoebe and Paige were in the underworld searching for Wyatt, Leo was presumably searching for him too and Victor had gone to fetch lunch, leaving Piper and Chris alone in the hospital room. It was then and there that Wyatt orbed into the room of his own accord. Piper was dozing, Chris in a cot by her side. Wyatt walked straight up to his new brother and orbed the tiny baby into his arms. The gesture stirred Piper and in alarm she went to freeze the threat. The sight that greeted her however froze her in her tracks.

Stood next to her bed was the eldest son holding his younger brother in his arms. I look of wonder on the toddler's face that seemed too profound for a child that wasn't even 2 yet. Her first thought was she was once again dreaming. After all, she had had many dreams of her two boys together since Wyatt had gone missing. After a moment of realising she wasn't asleep she noticed tiny white lights helping Wyatt hold Chris.

"Wyatt?" Piper whispered, afraid that her voice would cause him to disappear. Instead he looked up at her, his concentration shifting from Chris and making Piper afraid he might drop him. "Wyatt, give me your brother please?" She Piper asked, opening her arms to take the baby. Instead Wyatt orbed himself into her arms, still holding Chris and refusing to let him go. Piper hugged her sons to her tightly, tears falling in her relief that both her babies were finally safe again. "This is Chris, your Baby brother." Piper told Wyatt, gently stroking Chris' tiny fist. "You're gonna have to look out for each other."

"Cwis." He tried to copy her as he looked down at the baby in his arms. Chris opened his eyes and reached out for Wyatt. The scene caused another round of tears from Piper.

Piper had tried calling her sisters after both her boys had fallen asleep but they didn't respond and Piper resigned herself to waiting for them to return from the underworld. In the meantime Victor returned to find the three of them asleep curled up on Piper's hospital bed. He carefully removed Chris and laid him in his cot then shuffled Wyatt into a more comfortable position next to Piper and pulled the sheet over them both. Piper stirred slightly.

"Go back to sleep honey." Victor whispered as he gently stroked his daughter's cheek.

It was a couple of hours before Phoebe and Paige resurfaced just in time to hear Victor calling them again. They quickly rushed to the hospital, afraid that something had happened to Piper or the baby. The sight that greeted them however was quick the opposite. As they rushed down the hallway to Piper's room Victor met them.

"It's okay, he's here." He assured them. They didn't realised what he meant until they reached the door way, and there, in bed with Piper fast asleep was Wyatt. Chris back by his side where Wyatt had orbed him.

Leo wasn't as easy to get home. No one had seen him since he had disappeared to look for Wyatt and while all the sisters had tried calling him, even shouting that they had Wyatt back but he wouldn't come. In the end they had gone to The Elders, explaining and asking that they bring Leo back. After many complaints and much arguing from the sisters The Elders had finally acquiesced. Even once he had been summoned he continued to fight, trying to go back to his search. Just from the look of him it was obvious that he had not stopped looking and searching since he had discovered his son missing.

In the end Piper blew him up to weaken him enough to stop fighting long enough that they could get him in to the crystal circle to listen, and perhaps a little to get him back for not being there.

"Leo, honey calm down." Phoebe tried the gentle approach.

"Let me go, I have to find him!" Leo struggled on, desperate.

"We found him!" Piper almost shouted in her frustration at him. At that Leo stopped in his tracks.

"You what?" He whispered.

"Or rather he found us." Piper corrected herself.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Leo asked confused.

"Why?! We couldn't find you! You wouldn't listen to our calls! How were we supposed to tell you?!" Piper was furious now.

"I just…" Leo was at a loss for words, not quite sure how to finish his thought. "Can I see him?" He settled on. Desperation clear in his voice. Paige removed one of the crystals to let him out the cage.

"He's in the nursery with Chris. He won't leave his side." Paige told him.

"Chris is sleeping so don't wake him up." Piper warned.

"Chris?" Leo asked confused.

"Your son!" Piper fumed, as Leo left the room.

Leo made a beeline for the nursery, almost running to see his son again. As he reached the door he composed himself before carefully pushing the door open and quietly stepping inside. The first thing he saw when he looked back upon closing the door was Wyatt; sat in his crib, his eyes on his brother. Not moving.

"Wyatt?" Leo whispered to get his son's attention, he didn't move. "Wyatt it's daddy." He tried again as he approached Wyatt. When reached the crib he picked up Wyatt and held him tightly to his chest. Leo turned his back to the other cot, not having noticed it yet, as he bounced Wyatt up and down slightly, walking away to go sit in the chair in the corner, before he could reach it however Wyatt orbed out of Leo's arms and reappeared in the cot with his brother. Leo jumped and spun round, checking he hadn't lost Wyatt again. The door opening caught his attention. "I don't think I'll ever be able to take my eyes off him again." Leo whispered to Piper who had just entered.

"You know he came to the hospital. First thing he did was pick up Chris." Piper's voice had an edge to it. "Have you even looked at your other son yet?"

"I just… I thought I'd lost him Piper." Leo tried to explain.

"I was scared too Leo." Piper spoke quietly but there was no mistaking the anger in her tone. "But Wyatt wasn't the only one who needed me. Who needed us." Piper emphasised.

"I knew you'd be there for him."

"You knew?" Piper raged. "You didn't even ask about him, you still haven't even looked at him." Piper paused before some kind of understanding crossed her face and the anger vanished, just a sadness replacing it. "You blame him." Piper's voice was calm, almost empty. "You blame him for Wyatt."

"What? No, I…" Leo tried to object.

"Leave." Piper said coldly.

"Piper-" Leo tried again.

"Go!" Piper told him firmly. The look in her eyes told him there was no room for argument and that she would blow him to pieces if she had to. While torn and desperately wanting to spend time with Wyatt, and never let him out his sight, he knew Piper wouldn't let him stay and he quietly slipped out the room. As he went to turn the door behind him he saw Piper lifting Chris into her arms. Wyatt watching happily. Leo sighed as he shut the door.

After that things didn't really recover for Piper and Leo. While Piper did eventually let Leo back into the nursery to meet Chris and see Wyatt she could tell he would rather spend the time with Wyatt alone. She consoled herself with the idea that it was just because he was so scared about Wyatt. His lack of attention to Chris didn't really change though he did spend a little more time with his youngest son, finally able to pick him up. For Piper though their marriage was effectively over. Leo disagreed.

Okay, I hope you liked it, it was quite different. I know Leo's behaviour was questionable but we already know he was there for Wyatt more than Chris, not to say he doesn't still love him. To sarah, thank you, I hope you liked the new chapter, sorry it took so long to update. I blame maths. Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed it. Let me know what you think and see you in the next chapter. (*smiles*)