"Why didn't he get Aunt Paige's girls when he took Jr?"

"I never thought about it." Chris answered simply. "I honestly have no idea why he didn't. But Henry Jr's brainwashing wasn't good enough at the time to convince him to get his sisters for Wyatt's army. One of the demons he recruited was a friend of mine who told me he and a couple of others were going to try to get Aunt Paige's girls. I'm assuming since only two of the five returned - my friend wasn't one - and they were empty handed that Aunt Paige and maybe even the girls fought them off. It was after that that they dropped off the radar. I'm assuming that's when they went into hiding. I guess Uncle Henry saw the reality of the situation and realized he really couldn't protect the girls. The girls went with Aunt Paige into hiding and Uncle Henry, still stubborn, felt they wouldn't bother him and he refused to go into hiding. I guess he didn't stop to think that Wyatt might target him to get to Aunt Paige." Chris stated ominously.

"He managed to survive without being too much of a target. I suppose he still didn't understand Wyatt's grip on the world or the people till Henry Jr attacked him. I sadly don't know all the details of what happened, only that Henry Jr couldn't kill his father. Uncle Henry I'm sure tried to talk to him, but one of Wyatt's demons most likely brought him back to Wyatt after he failed for stronger brainwashing. It turned out that the brainwashing still didn't work, but with the death of Aunt Paige, Uncle Henry must have finally wised up and realized that the girls were safer in magic school and would need him. He chose to join them there full time."

"How? Magic school doesn't allow mortals. Why didn't you do more to help Jr?" Wyatt demanded angrily. How could Chris just let this happen? Not only did he let it happen, but Chris didn't even know that a lot of it was happening? Their family had been attacked and was in hiding, and Chris didn't even bother finding out if they were ok!

Chris was fed up with this. First Wyatt accused him of not caring about Aunt Paige because he didn't show enough emotion. As if Wyatt is the one that gets to determine how much emotion is enough. Now, after everything he still wasn't paying enough attention to what was being said, "Have you not heard a word I've said?! You keep thinking my world has the same rules as yours. Wyatt makes the rules in my world. In your world the elders try to keep the world so that it's all butterflies and rainbows. You get to kill a few demons, go home and chill. You wouldn't last an hour in my world!" Chris exclaimed, taking an angry step towards Wyatt.

Chris stopped, doing what Wyatt had accused him of, and reigning in his emotions so he didn't feel. Feeling led to anger which led to acting out which led to mistakes. He couldn't afford mistakes on this. He shook his head, holding his hands up in surrender as he took a step back, "I'm done with this. You're not even listening and I'm tired of reliving this."

Before Wyatt could protest Chris was gone. He realized he'd pushed Chris too far by continuing to think in terms of his world, and not trying to envision the nightmare world Chris came from. It was hard for him to understand where Chris was coming from, but he supposed that's what Chris had been trying to tell him all this time. Chris had been explaining the rules of his world, and Wyatt had been judging instead of listening and understanding.

Wyatt sighed, running a hand through his hair. He decided he would have to try again later. If they were going to save baby Wyatt, they would need to work together. Besides, Wyatt wants to get along with Chris regardless, and that was not going well at this rate. Wyatt hoped maybe Melinda could help him find a way to get through to Chris.

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The next morning Melinda was upset, not just at being left out, but at how poorly Wyatt handled Chris. She was happy to hear they had made a breakthrough but mad that Wyatt had somehow turned around and destroyed what had been built with stupid comments. She realized she was somehow going to have to help them bond, since she seems to be the only one Chris trusts, but she had no idea how she was going to do that.

After that, Chris continued his job as the Charmed Ones whitelighter, staying out of the way when he sensed Wyatt or P.J. were around.

Wyatt had been trying to connect with Chris again after upsetting him, but hadn't gotten far. While Chris was with their mother and aunts, Wyatt had gone to the underworld to see if he could get information on who might be working with the Elder that was going to kidnap his baby self.

The girls weren't happy when Wyatt told them to go to magic school to look for answers. Since they couldn't go to Elder land and ask questions, they were tasked with researching which Elders might deem Wyatt a threat, and which might be willing to help expose a rogue elder. They knew they wouldn't be able to ask questions lest the elders or the elder responsible got wind of it. Unfortunately, subtle wasn't really a Halliwell strong-suit.

Gideon kept seeing these new girls but no one seemed to know who they were. They were elusive with their answers. He didn't like the reports the librarian he tasked with keeping an eye on them said: That they seemed to be doing research on elders. Gideon confronted the girls who only said that they had always heard good things about the elders and they just wanted to know more. Gideon was suspicious but as he didn't know at that moment they had any connection with the Charmed Ones so he didn't see them as a threat to his plans. But that didn't mean he wasn't still weary of them.

Chris was upset that Paige had moved out and Phoebe was spending more time at work to avoid thinking about what happened with Jason, because this meant no power of three. His mother was no help, only expressing her joy over Paige finding happiness with Richard and understanding of Phoebe's desire to avoid thinking about the heartache over her break-up with Jason. He seriously considered getting Wyatt and Melinda and seeing if their power of three would really work. But he didn't want to risk Leo or one of the other Elders learning about that and questioning how they did it, possibly exposing them all. And with Chris not to be conceived for another few months he couldn't risk it no matter how tempting.

After giving up on Paige showing up for a vanquish like she had promised, he managed to convince Phoebe to come. After they thought they had destroyed the blob, Chris had returned with Phoebe and Piper when Paige had finally showed up. She just ignored Chris' rambling rage. Piper wanted to convert Paige's room, however since they were letting P.J. and Melinda stay in the room she couldn't. She just took a lot of her clothes out only leaving some she didn't think Paige would mind loaning to the girls. She also took most of her things. That way when the girls were gone she would have less to move.

Paige wasn't happy that most of her clothes and things were moved. She, along with Piper, Phoebe, Melinda and P.J. were in the attic while Paige looked through her things.

Everyone was looking through the boxes.

"Wow, don't you guys throw anything away?" Melinda asked. She didn't remember any old boxes of stuff like this they didn't use in her world.

P.J. pulled out a pair of go go boots. "These look like they're from the sixties."

Phoebe took them and said, "Hey they're your size, Paige. Try them on."

Melinda vaguely remembered having a flashback day at school and had asked if there were any old clothes. She was told no and a story as to why, but as she wracked her brain she couldn't remember the story.

Just as Paige was starting to put on the second boot P.J. also started to remember a story about clothes and as Paige started to zip the second one up P.J. said, "I don't think that's a good idea."

Phoebe looked at her with a teasing smile, "Why? Don't you think they look good on her?"

Melinda, still unable to recall the story said, "No it's more like a feeling something bad is going to happen."

Piper glared at her yet unknown future daughter and said, "You too? For heaven's sake they're shoes, what could possibly go wrong?"

Paige thought about it and since neither P.J. nor Melinda gave a reason beyond 'a bad feeling' she agreed with Piper on the fact that nothing bad ever happened from getting a new pair of shoes.

They were all shocked when Paige vanished immediately after finishing zipping up the boot. They quickly called Leo and Chris. Wyatt, who had been at the club where Chris was when the call came in followed Chris.

"What's going on? What's wrong?" Leo asked.

"Well you see...we kinda lost Paige." Phoebe said.

"What do you mean you lost Paige?" Chris asked incredulously.

"Well it's really weird. I mean she was here one second and the next poof." Phoebe said.

"It kinda happened after she put on a pair of Gram's boots." Piper said.

"Grams used to cast spells on her clothing when she was young." Leo explained.

"You knew Grams when she was young?" Phoebe asked.

"Yeah, we crossed paths once or twice when I was a young whitelighter." Leo said, embarrassment written all over his face.

"Eww." Piper said.

Not wanting to admit anything he said, "I barely remember it."

"Heh, heh Eww." Phoebe agreed while Piper also sorta laughed.

Wyatt and Melinda, unlike Chris, were also visibly shocked and sickened by the concept. They couldn't believe their father possibly hooked up with their grandmother. Chris had long-learned to school his expressions, so if he did find it disgusting, which in fact he did, he at least did a better job of hiding it.

"Well if those boots really did belong to your grandmother then we'd better summon her from the dead. Maybe she can tell us what happened to Paige." Chris said.

"Ok let's get the candles." Phoebe said, dragging Piper with her.

"But you…" Piper started wanting to ask more questions that Phoebe didn't think any of them really wanted the answers to.

As they were setting up Wyatt looked at his sister and mentally asked, " Didn't mom tell us this story once?"

"Yes, but I don't remember the details of what happened." Melinda said.

"You know if I hadn't taken most of Paige's things out of her room this never would have happened. It's all my fault." Piper said.

"What's done is done." Chris and Leo said at the same time causing Melinda and Wyatt to start snickering. Wyatt, knowing that this version of his brother didn't get along with their father, found it funny that Chris and their father were more alike than Chris would like to admit.

Chris and Leo just looked at each other. Chris didn't want to believe he was like his father or they would have the same thought.

"Okay you two really need to get a room."

Chris just shook his head laughing, while Leo wanted to avoid the conversation.

Melinda scrunched up her nose, grossed out by the thought of her father being with their grandmother or her brother that way. Wyatt wanted to express how much that thought disgusted him too but seeing Chris laugh it off he kept his mouth shut.

"Hear these words, Hear my cry, Spirit from the other side, Come to me, I summon thee, Cross now the great divide." Phoebe said.