Disclaimer: I own nothing related to the TV show Charmed, but if the producers want to change that I would have no problem with it. :)

A/N: Okay, it has been ages since I wrote fanfic and this is my first Charmed one. The first few chapters might be short, but once I get going again I promise longer chapters. Reviews are more than welcome and flames are fine as long as they are reasonable.

Chapter 1

Piper was watching her son and ex-husband worriedly. Chris looked like he was ready to attack his father again and Leo looked like he was ready to break down and cry. Very weird, thought Piper, who had never seen Leo this upset before. I wonder what he’s thinking. Ever since Chris lost his temper Leo can’t seem to concentrate on anything.

“Mom!” the sound of Chris’s voice snapped Piper out of her reflective state.

“Oh sorry honey, what is it?”

“I was just hoping you’d like to join us in saving your son, you know the all-powerful one?” Chris’s bitter voice cut at Piper’s heart. She couldn’t believe he could be so sweet one minute and so cold the next.

“He gets that from growing up the son of a charmed one, you know,” said Phoebe, who was sitting beside her older sister at the kitchen table. She was getting a major vibe off of Piper, even with the blocking potion. That mixed with Chris’s hate and confusion and Leo’s remorse was making it hard for Phoebe to concentrate. She decided to move away from them and went upstairs to go look through the Book of Shadows with Paige. She thought that maybe it would help if the three had some family time.

Chris watched his aunt leave and groaned inwardly. Great, now mom and Leo (he still couldn’t bring himself to call him dad) are going to want to have a heart to heart, which we do not have time for. True to Chris’s belief, Piper opened her mouth to speak, but Chris cut her off before she could say anything.

“Look, mom, we don’t have time to discuss why I have done what I have and why I don’t like Leo. Wyatt’s in danger and he is the most important thing right now. Now, try to find this demon that will change him.”

Piper looked at her son, with dismay. She couldn’t believe he had just given her an order. That would not stand. “Now listen to me, Christopher Perry Halliwell, I don’t like your tone. You will not talk to your mother like that. And, yes, your brother is important, but so are you, so you better damn well get used to it!”

Chris was taken aback, not by his mother’s forwardness and temper (that he was used to), but by how she insisted that he was important. He doubted that anyone in his family had ever said that about him before. But the biggest shock came next, when Leo took his turn to speak. “

Your mother is right, Chris. You are important to us. Now I know that I must have hurt you really bad in the future, but I haven’t done that, yet. And the more I know about it, the more I can do to save us.” Chris looked at his father in anger. How dare he think he can fix this? He is just as full of himself in the past as he is in my present. And Chris was ready to tell him so.

“You didn’t have time for me and I don’t blame you, okay? I don’t blame you. I am not allowed to blame the great man who balanced his duties as elder and father to the Twice-Blessed child. You couldn’t help that you had to help the rest of the world, because of your elder duties. You couldn’t help it that you had to spend as much time with Wyatt as possible to keep his powers in check. And you certainly couldn’t help it that your final good-bye to mom and your relationship ended up resulting in me, the mistake of the fucking century!”

Piper and Leo looked at Chris bewildered. They couldn’t believe what he just said. Leo was about to respond, but someone else did.

“Naughty, naughty, Chris. You shouldn’t talk to your father like that.”

All three jaws dropped at the sight of the two people standing before them.