Chris woke up the next morning and rubbed his eyes, just as he did every morning. Seconds after he did, he realized something was wrong. He looked at his hands and realized they were corporeal again. That wasn't right. He had been fading. The time for him to be conceived was approaching and he should be disappearing because his parents were apart. The only thing that could've stopped his fading was if... Well, Chris chose not complete that thought because it was nauseating just to think about. Anyway, how could it happen? Leo and Piper barely even spoke nowadays. In fact, they hadn't been around each other in weeks. He supposed they could of patched things up last night, but what were the odds of that? Unless...

Chris got up and quickly got dressed. Then he left the room and went down to the living room where he found Leo sitting on the couch.

"Morning," Leo greeted.

"How long?" Chris asked with a glare.

"How long what?" Leo asked.

"You know what?! You know. When did you find out?" Chris asked. Leo had to know. It was the only thing that made sense with Leo suddenly reconciling with Piper, and that must of happened for him to still be alive. Leo must have seen his fading hands and went to fix it.

Leo sighed. He knew he couldn't hide it anymore, and honestly, it was probably better that there weren't anymore secrets between them. He just worried because he knew Chris wouldn't take it well. "Since the day we came here."

"How?" Chris asked.

"You made a comment about stopping your birth, so I asked Paige to help me find your parents. She wrote a spell that ended up taking us to the future," Leo told him.

Chris' eyes widened in horror. "You went to the future? Are you crazy? Do you know the kind of damage you could've done."

"First of all, I'm not sure it could've gotten much worse. Second, it was more like we were viewing the future. We couldn't affect anything and no one could hear or see us. We watched a conversation between my future self and Wyatt.

"You knew this whole time? Why the hell didn't you tell me that?!" Chris asked angrily.

"Because you weren't ready for me to know. You needed to recover and you didn't need to worry about what I knew while that was going on," Leo said.

Chris snorted. "Recover."

"Yeah, and you finally started to. At least I thought so," Leo said sadly. Obviously he was wrong since Chris had hid that he was fading. He suspected that his son knew last night, but it was confirmed when Chris confronted him.

"You listened to me tell you things. You asked me about my father, and all along you knew you were him! You take some twisted humor in that?" Chris asked.

"No. Actually it disgusted me. I hate myself for what I did to in the future, or I guess what I didn't do is more accurate. All I can say now is that I will make sure it doesn't happen again," Leo swore.

"Yeah, right," Chris said skeptically.

"I don't expect you to believe me right now. I'm working against twenty years of painful memories. I get that. But I swear, it will be different. I love you, Chris," Leo told him.

"You barely know me," Chris pointed out.

"Maybe, but what I do know, I love. I know you came back here to save your brother and you were willing to risk anything for that, even possible rejection, and unfortunately, that's what you got," Leo said.

Chris flinched slightly. "Does... Does she know?"

Leo didn't need to ask who he meant. "Yeah. Paige told her after we left.

Chris sighed unhappily. He didn't want Piper to know about him. She'd feel bad because he was her kid and she hated him, but she'd still hate him. She'd still think he was the worst thing that happened to her and probably secretly wish he was dead.

"Chris, last night, when I told her what we had to do..."

"Oh, God, stop!" Chris begged as he started to feel sick. The last thing he wanted to hear about was the night his parents conceived him. It was bad enough that he knew it happened.

Leo chuckled slightly. He realized how bad it must sound to Chris. No one wanted to hear about their parents having sex. But he was trying to make a point and he was determined to make it. "She didn't hesitate. She didn't even need an explanation. She just..."

"Dude, you're making it worse!" Chris whined. He knew his father was trying to make some kind of point, but it was really going over his head, as all he could picture was Leo telling Piper they had to do it.

"Alright, I'm not saying this right. What I'm trying to tell you is that she wanted to save you just as much as I did. Piper knows how badly she screwed up," Chris said.

Chris shrugged and looked away. "It's not her fault. She can't help how she feels about me."

"Chris, Piper cares about you. I know that's hard to believe, maybe even harder than believing I do. What she did to you was terrible. She knows that and she's trying to get help for it.?" Leo said.

Chris took a seat in a chair across from Leo. "What do you mean help? What does she need help with?"

"She's started taking some anger management classes. She realized she has an anger problem," Leo said.

"Only with me," Chris mumbled.

"You think that. You really think you're the only thing that makes her angry?" Leo asked.

"Well, I mean, she's always had a temper, but I never saw her like this. It started with me," Chris said sadly.

"You're wrong. If you just saw after coming here, it's because she got the help she needed before you were old enough to see it in your timeline. I know that because she's been angry for a long time. It did not start when you came. It started when her sister, Prue, died," Leo told him.

"Really?" Chris asked, unsure if he should believe him. Leo might lie to make him feel better.

Leo nodded. "She fell apart when Prue died. The only way to keep herself from completely losing it was by turning the pain to anger. She just never really let it go. It got worse and worse. I take a good deal of responsibility. I should've said something to her a lot sooner, but I just thought it would make her anger worse."

"Well, if nothing else, I make her anger worse. She's more angry around me then anyone else," Chris said.

"You were her most recent outlet, and it wasn't right. The way she treated you, the way we all did, was wrong. Please, don't ever think there's a good excuse for the way you were treated, and even Piper sees that now. That's what finally got her to see how much help she needed," Leo said.

"I don't wanna talk about this anymore," Chris said before quickly getting up and fleeing from the room.

Leo sighed and reminded himself that getting Chris to see that he was loved was going to be a process, especially where Piper was concerned. She'd wrecked all of Chris' faith in her when she was went after him. But it would happen. He swore, he would get his son through this.