AN: Yay! My first chaptered Charmed story! Okay. I hope you all enjoy it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed... or Chris would never have died, no matter how beautiful that death scene was.

Chapter One

"We're going underground to vanquish a demon that seems to have it out for Chris. It shouldn't be too hard. He's not even powerful. Chris doesn't even know what he did to make this demon mad."

"I wish I could help."

"Not when you're this far pregnant, baby. Do it for Chris."

"Okay. Good luck and be safe."

Leo now wished he'd kissed his ex-wife before he left. Down in the underworld, with fire burning all around you and the putrid smell of rotting demons, Leo really wished he'd kissed Piper before he'd left.

"Paige!" Leo looked over when Chris yelled.

"Lance!" Paige yelled and the soaring lance diverted in it's course and stabbed one of the attacking demons. Phoebe thanked her before giving one of the demons a roundhouse kick to the face.

The demon had laid a trap. He made it seem like he was after Chris all on his own but when they'd arrived to vanquish him, he had about one hundred friends. Leo was worried for Chris's sake. Chris had finally started to accept Leo and he didn't want his son to get hurt.

Chris, however, seemed fine. He was tossing demons across the room and spearing them on the lanterns all over the walls. Leo was more than a little proud. Leo was helping out but he couldn't do too much, being an Elder and not supposed to kill anything.

Chris however, didn't have that problem. The demons were getting killed off by him and the sisters like wildfire. The main demon, who called himself Parsel, attacked Chris while the others were distracted. He called upon giant snakes which wrapped themselves around the whitelighter.

Chris smirked and orbed out, easily avoiding that. Parsel smirked back and glanced at the others. Two demons had just grabbed Phoebe and rendered her harmless. Parsel held up his hand and a white ball appeared. He looked at Chris as though daring him to try and stop him.

"Phoebe, watch out!" Chris yelled and ran to save her. When Chris was between Parsel and Phoebe, Parsel threw his little white energy ball at them.

"Chris!" Phoebe tried futilely to warn her nephew but the ball hit Chris. Instantly, Chris froze.

Leo stopped, Paige stopped, and all the demons paused for a moment in which Chris, frozen in shock, was surrounded by three spinning white lights.

"Chris!" Leo called out, taking a step toward him. Suddenly, Chris was thrown back off his feet, letting out a small scream, covered in the white lights and then vanished as his body became a bunch of white sparkles. Leo froze, terrified. He could still hear Chris's small yell of terror and surprise echoing off the walls.

'No...' Leo's eyes searched the entire area for his son's body.

"No! Chris!" Paige cried out. Almost instantly, the demons started fighting again. With anger and fear, the two sisters and their Elder took out about ten more demons before they noticed that all the demons were fleeing.

The area was emptying out faster than a bucket with holes. Parsel gave them all a parting look before disappearing as well.

"No!" Leo roared and quickly ran to the spot where he'd last seen Chris.

"Where is he?" Phoebe asked, joining him. They looked for a good ten minutes before Paige stopped them all.

"He's not... dead, right? I mean, he wouldn't have died that easily, right?" Paige asked, looking at the other two for some comforting words.

"Right. He's cant be dead but he's obviously not here. We should... We should go home and scry for him. Come on." Phoebe looked at Paige and then at Leo.

"I'll follow in a minute." Leo waved over his shoulder. Despite their better judgement, the sister nodded and left Leo to himself.

"Chris!?" he called out to the empty cave-like area. He got no response. "Chris!" Leo couldn't believe he let this happen. It was bad enough that Chris kept getting attacked for his attempts at saving Wyatt... but to be attacked for no reason and then just to vanish?

Leo wouldn't admit his son was dead. Never. Not unless he saw his dead body for himself. Never.

– – – – – –

Phoebe sat at the kitchen table, swinging the pendant over the map. She stared intensely at it. Why wasn't she getting anything?

"Any luck?" Leo asked, stepping into the room.

"No more than I had in the last ten seconds, Leo." Phoebe loved Leo but he was getting a little testy.

"Sorry." Leo excused himself and left the room again. He couldn't help but be anxious. He wanted to find Chris! He had to be busy right now. If he didn't do something he would just bug Phoebe and distract her.

Piper.

He'd go to magic school and see if Piper or the others could help. The teachers there would have some ideas as to how to find Chris. They had to.

– – –

"What do you mean you can't find Chris?" Piper's voice was getting louder. She seemed about to faint. "H-How could something happen to him? I-It was supposed to be-...W-Where's Chris?"

"Calm down, Piper. We're looking for him right now." Leo made her sit down so she didn't fall down and hurt the baby.

"But- But what happened? Where is he?" Piper asked. Leo shook his head.

"I don't know but we'll find him. I promise." He kissed her forehead and kissed Wyatt on the cheek. "I'm gonna go talk to the teachers and see if they have any ideas, okay? Just stay here and rest."

Piper hid her face in her hands. Chris couldn't just vanish. It wasn't possible. She knew he was twenty-two and strong enough to defend himself so how could he... He couldn't possibly be dead, could he?

Wyatt looked up at the ceiling as though hearing something up there. Like the bells that came with orbs.

– – – – – –

Chris groaned and stretched, getting off the floor of his small room at P3. He yawned and scratched his head.

"Man, what a dream." he cracked his neck and walked out into the empty club. It wasn't nearly time for it to open and with Piper gone it might not open at all.

Chris looked around and then shrugged, orbing out and to the manor. It seemed strangely quiet.

"Paige? Phoebe?" Chris asked, walking around. He entered the livingroom and found Auntie Paige asleep on the couch. He knelt next to her to examine some wounds on her arm. How did she get those?

Chris remembered that in his dream, Paige had been struck on this very same spot. But it had just been a dream, right? It couldn't have been real because how else did he get back to his room?

"You find him yet?" Leo's voice came from the conservatory so Chris decided to ask Paige about the marks later.

"Hey, Dad." Chris greeted as he walked in.

"No, Leo. The crystal isn't finding any trace of him. What if he's still in the underworld?" Phoebe suggested, dropping the crystal onto the table.

"Then we'd have to go look for ourselves... That could take forever." Leo groaned.

"Uh... guys? Who are we looking for?" Chris asked, a little annoyed at being ignored.

"What did you figure out at the school?" Phoebe asked.

"Well the teachers say what I described is a power only advanced witches know but it can be taught to demons if they're powerful enough. But who would teach it to a demon? And none of them knew what it was called or what actually happened to a person hit by it because none of them have that power." Leo ran a hand over his head and through what hair he had.

"Leo! Phoebe! Look at me!" Chris yelled, thoroughly annoyed.

"God dammit, Leo!" Phoebe yelled and then covered her mouth. "Oh. I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me."

Leo looked around the room curiously and then turned back to Phoebe. "Okay, let's just concentrate on finding Chris, okay? Just relax."

Finding Chris? Chris didn't understand. Was this some kind of joke?!