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lissysue85: Thanks. Yeah, they have a very good idea what Gideon is up to. Yeah, don't worry, Leo will get to have a talk with both Chris and Mel. I'm glad you're enjoying. Thanks for the Review!

lizardmomma: Thanks. Yeah, Leo is having a hard time believing. Then again, this is one of his most trusted friends, so you can kinda understand his reluctance. Thanks for the Review!

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Melinda Wyatt Charmed: Yes, Gideon did. Yeah, I kinda thought it was early too, but I'm not gonna rush into the fight with him. I'm gonna give them time to sort things out, figure out a strategy. I wanted it out there, but not resolved yet. Well, I guess you'll just have to read to find out what they do... :D lol. Of course, he will try to cover it up, it wouldn't be much fun if he didn't. I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for the Review!

A/N: OK, here's the next chapter! Sorry, if it's kinda long, but it has a lot of info. I know it took me a little bit to get it up, but I wasn't sure how I wanted to play it out. Hope you enjoy!

Secrets Revealed

Leo had been searching for Gideon all night, unsuccessfully. He was slowly believing that it wasn't a mistake, that Gideon really was after Wyatt. Piper had unpacked all her stuff, and Paige had set up crystals all around the house. Phoebe was looking through the Book of Shadows, looking for anything to help them stop Gideon. Chris and Mel had orbed down to the underworld to see if they could figure out what demons Gideon had enlisted.

*****

"Can you sense anything?" Mel asked her brother as they looked around the cave Gideon had orbed Mel to earlier in hopes they could pick up a trail.

"No, can you get a read?"

Before Mel could answer, they both felt the change in the air. Mel was almost overcome by the fear in the room. She looked at Chris and knew he could sense it too.

"Barbas," they both whispered, turning when they heard clapping.

"I'm touched," Barbas said, coming out from his hiding space.

"What do you want?" Chris spat.

"Ah ah ah, I know your secrets," Barbas tsked, waving his finger. Chris and Mel glanced at each other, unfazed by Barbas' threat. "No?" Barbas guessed, seeing their look. "Well, you young Melinda are afraid something will happen to someone you love. Yes, you've already overcome that one, but what about for the child you're carrying? What if something were to happen to it?" Chris looked incredulously at his sister, who looked away guiltily. "Oh, she didn't tell you did she Christopher?" Barbas teased. "Well, that probably won't help you, since you have also overcome the loss of a loved one, but still can't get past the death of...what was her name? Oh yeah..." Barbas waved his hand. Mel felt a sudden wave of fear from her brother and knew what Barbas was showing him.

Mel flicked her hands and blasted Barbas. He stumbled back, glared at Mel, and then shimmered off. Mel looked to Chris. She knew he was no longer seeing the illusion anymore, but could still feel the hurt he was feeling.

"Chris?" she said, trying to get his attention, walking cautiously toward him. When he didn't wake from his trance, Mel grabbed his arm and orbed them back to the manor.

*****

"So have you found anything?" Piper asked Phoebe again.

"No, Piper. I'm sorry, but there's just nothing in here on how to stop an elder," Phoebe told her sister, shutting the Book.

"I still can't believe Gideon would do something like this," Leo mumbled.

"We're gonna stop him though," Paige said confidently. They all smiled at her conviction. Those smiles quickly faded when Mel and Chris orbed in and Chris just sank down the wall, staring off into space.

"Oh my God!" Phoebe cried.

"What happened?" Piper asked worriedly.

"Barbas," Mel said simply. She slid down by Chris and shook his shoulders. "Chris? Come on, snap out of it," she said forcefully.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Chris managed to ask, looking straight at Mel. She swallowed and took a deep breath.

"I wanted to wait," Mel sighed. Chris looked at her angrily, and stood up.

"Till when Mel? When you came home with a baby?" Chris yelled at her. Mel stood up to face her brother.

"No! I was gonna tell you when I thought you were ready, when I didn't think you'd go ballistic!" she yelled back.

"You think you can hide something this big and I won't get mad at you for not telling me?" Chris asked her incredulously.

"Is that why you're mad Chris? Are you mad because I didn't tell you I'm pregnant or because it still hurts to think about her?" Mel retorted.

"You're pregnant?" Leo blurted out to Mel, who ignored his question.

"Don't bring Lily into this Melinda!" Chris warned. Mel knew she'd hit a nerve when he called her Melinda, he only did that when he was mad at her.

"That's what we're fighting about though, isn't it?" Mel asked gently. "You're not mad I'm pregnant, yeah you're upset I didn't tell you, but what you're mad at is the fact that you had to relive her death. Well guess what Chris, I loved her too. I miss her too. I was there when she died, remember? I felt your pain, I know what you went through. And now you say you're mad because i didn't want you to have to feel that pain again?"

Chris didn't say anything, he just stared at his sister. He knew she was right, he wasn't angry at her, but with himself.

"Who's Lily?" Piper asked softly, able to tell it was a tough subject for Chris and Mel. Chris took a deep breath, on the verge of tears. Mel sighed, and closed her eyes.

"Lily...Lily was my daughter," Chris sighed. Everyone, except Mel, gasped in shock.

"You have a daughter?" Paige asked in disbelief.

"No, I had a daughter," Chris said sadly.

"Oh my God, Chris..." Phoebe started quietly, placing a hand on his shoulder, but he shook it off.

"Forget it," he told them. Everyone, except Mel, looked at him like he was crazy.

"'Forget it'? Chris, you tell us you had a daughter, and from the past tense I'm guessing something happened to her-" Leo started.

"Yeah Leo, something happened, she died!" Chris interrupted, yelling.

"My point is..." Leo continued calmly. "You can't tell us that and expect us to just 'forget it.' We're family." Chris looked away.

"Leo's right Chris, we're family, we help each other," Paige told him softly.

Piper had a few tears falling down her face. She was holding her stomach protectively. It was hard enough to watch the baby that was growing inside you twenty-two and walking around, and it was even harder to think he'd already lost a child of his own.

"Was Bianca her mother?" Phoebe asked. Chris nodded, and pulled something out of his pocket.

"What is that?" Paige asked. Mel looked sadly at Chris, she knew he had been carrying it around to remind himself why he'd come back.

Chris laid the picture on the table so they could all see. The sisters and Leo looked at it carefully. The picture itself was worn, as if it had been held a lot. In the picture was a younger Chris, with a young Mel hanging on his back with her arms wrapped around his neck. There were also two other young teenagers, a boy and a girl, on the other side of Chris and Mel. Then there was Bianca holding a little girl, who resembled Chris, on his other side. Phoebe thought the other teenage girl in the picture resembled her when she was younger, but shook it off. Paige felt like she knew the unknown teenage boy somehow, but wasn't sure why. Piper and Leo were looking at their two kids, who looked happy, and the little girl that was obviously their granddaughter.

"Is that Lily?" Phoebe asked, pointing to the little girl in the picture. Chris nodded. "How old was she here?" Chris took a deep breath.

"She was two," he answered, then turned gloomy. "She died a few months after this was taken." Phoebe looked at him sympathetically.

"Are these two..." Paige started, pointing to the two unknown teenagers in the picture.

"Your son and Phoebe's daughter," Mel told her aunt.

"Who are their fathers?" Phoebe asked, curious. Chris and Mel smirked.

"Nice try," Chris replied. Phoebe rolled her eyes, making Chris and Mel chuckle slightly.

"How old were you guys in this?" Piper asked her kids, unable to take her eyes off the picture. Chris and Mel shared an uneasy look, but still answered.

"I was seventeen," Mel told her mother.

"Nineteen," Chris added, shifting uncomfortably as the sisters and Leo looked at him aghast.

"You had a kid when you were..." Paige was mentally calculating.

"Seventeen," Chris finished. Leo looked at his son with wide eyes. Phoebe and Paige inhaled quickly, and starting looking around the room at nothing in particular. Piper raised her eyebrows at her fully grown son.

"You had a baby when you were seventeen years old?" she asked sternly.

"Yes," Chris said guiltily, sinking away from his mother. She was the only person who could make him feel that guilty, even if he hadn't done anything.

"And you," Piper started, turning on Mel. "You're pregnant?" she asked just as firmly as she had with Chris. Mel, however, did not sink away under her mother's gaze like Chris did.

"Yes," she answered honestly. "But I'm nineteen," Mel added smartly. Chris gave her a 'you are so dead' look, and Mel just smiled back.

"What is in that water in the future?" Paige asked sarcastically. Piper gave her youngest sister a dirty look. Mel and Chris chuckled at their aunt though.

"How exactly did you and Bianca manage to raise a baby that young? And with Wyatt evil?" Phoebe asked her nephew.

"I dunno," Chris shrugged. "We had an apartment, we blocked it so Wyatt couldn't find it. Plus, we had a live-in babysitter," he added, jerking his thumb over to Mel, who smiled innocently.

"Did I know?" Leo asked quietly, so quietly the others almost didn't hear him. He was still looking at the picture. Chris and Mel knew what he was asking though, and gave each other an unsure look.

"No, you didn't," Chris told him, looking almost guilty. Almost. Leo nodded slightly.

"What about you?" he asked Mel. "Did I know you're pregnant?"

"No," Mel answered flatly. "If I didn't tell my brother, why would I tell you?" Leo looked sad, but Mel wasn't really concerned.

"Did Wyatt know?" Paige asked. Chris' gaze immediately went to his sister. He hadn't thought about that yet.

"Yes," Mel mumbled under her breath, hanging her head.

"Huh?" Phoebe asked, unable to hear what she said.

"Yes," Mel said louder. "Wyatt knew." Chris' eyes went wide. He opened his mouth to say something, but she beat him to it. "No, he didn't know until about a week before I came here. I didn't tell him, but somehow he found out."

Chris seemed to calm down a little bit. The sisters and Leo were still processing all the information they'd just learned. Chris looked up at Mel, with a look as if he was pondering something.

"It's Jackson?" he asked suddenly.

"Huh?" Paige asked, utterly confused. Mel knew what he was talking about though.

"I thought you liked Jackson?" she quipped with a smile. Chris rolled his eyes.

"Not when he's sleeping with my little sister!" he retorted. Phoebe and Paige had amused smirks on their faces. Piper and Leo had small smiles creeping up their faces. Mel was looking at her brother with a mischievous smile on her face.

"Actually, you did, you just didn't know we were sleeping together," she confessed. Chris now had a look of pure shock, causing Mel, Phoebe, and Paige to bust out laughing.

When their laughter finally slowed, Mel walked over to Chris and wrapped one arm around him.

"Don't worry so much bro. The only reason I didn't tell you was because I know how you and Wyatt get," she told him in an only slightly sarcastic tone.

"What do you mean 'how me and Wyatt get'?"

"You two are too overprotective."

"Am not!" Chris denied, only to receive a 'yeah right' look from his sister. "OK, fine, maybe I am a little," he admitted. Mel raised her eyebrows.

"A little?" she asked incredulously. "Chris, do you remember what happened to Bobby Simpson?" Chris got a guilty look on his face, but tried to smile innocently. "You almost blew him up when you found out I was sleeping with him!"

"OK, fine, I'm very overprotective. Happy?" Chris sighed. Mel smiled.

"Don't worry, I love ya anyway," she said, pulling him in a hug.

"Aww!" Phoebe squealed.

"How sweet," Paige remarked, slightly sarcastic.

Piper and Leo just smiled watching their two youngest children, who hadn't even been born yet, interact with each other.

A/N: Well, I hope you liked that chapter! I should have the next one up soon, I've already gotten a pretty good start on it, so it shouldn't take too long to finish. Hope you enjoyed this chapter! Reviews are appreciated!