"What have you done?" Chris asked in horror as orbs forced him away from the underworld and into a deserted street where Leo and the sisters were waiting for him. He already knew the answer to that question, though because he recognised the war torn street they were standing on immediately. As a child it had been one of his favourite places to play. Now it was just one more memory of Wyatt's savagery.

"We've all had enough of your lies and we're going to prove you wrong about Wyatt being evil once and for all," Leo said, an expression of smug superiority on his face. Chris found the urge to punch his father's arrogant face in overwhelming. He was tempted to give in to the urge but managed to hold himself back, knowing that it would only make a bad situation worse. "And once we do that we'll finally have the evidence we need to prove you're a threat to Wyatt and we can send you to the wasteland where you belong."

"And you thought you'd do that by going on a little trip to the future?" Chris snarled. "Idiots! You've got no idea what you've done."

"Hey, don't go putting the blame on us, buster!" Piper said angrily. "If you weren't such a manipulative little freak we wouldn't have to go to such lengths."

Chris tried not to be hurt when his mother lashed out at him but after months of enduring insult after insult from her and her sisters his resolve was weakening. He'd known since he was a child that Leo hated him so getting treated like crap by his father was nothing new but being constantly insulted and berated by the mother and aunts who'd raised him and loved him was wearing at his soul. Finally he snapped. Behind Piper and Leo Chris could see Phoebe and Paige taking in their surroundings and perhaps beginning to realise that his story did have some merit. He could also sense that they hadn't been too comfortable with this plan to begin with but right now he couldn't bring himself to feel anything but anger for any of them.

"Look around you Piper!" he snarled. "Do you like your son's handiwork? If anyone's a freak it's your little brat."

"My baby would never….." Piper began angrily.

"Your baby," Chris sneered mockingly, "bound by magic so I couldn't escape and made me watch while he ripped your head off and stuck it to the handrail at the bottom of the stairs at the manor. Your baby kidnapped Leo and gave him hundreds of tiny nicks with a knife laced with darklighter venom. I found out later it took him three days of burning agony to die." Chris knew he was being cruel but he couldn't seem to stop himself. "Your baby murdered Paige's husband. His only crime? Being non-magical. Your baby tried to rape your daughter. She was only saved because your other son, who by that stage had been tortured for three days by his big brother, managed to break through the binding Wyatt had put on his magic and get them both out of there. Your baby murdered Phoebe and her husband for trying to bind his magic after he nearly killed their nine year old daughter. Of course he would do this to people's homes. It's what he does for sport like normal people go to the gym!"

"You little bastard!" Piper screamed, waving her hands to blow the whitelighter up. Nothing happened, though. "My powers don't work! Why don't my powers work? What did you do to me you horrible little freak?"

Chris was so sick of being the one that got the blame for everything. "I'm flattered you think I'm so talented but I didn't have anything to do with this. It's a basic law of magic, you idiots. In a time that is not your own you can't use your magic if another version of yourself exists or has existed."

"So why can you use your magic in our time?" Piper retorted.

Chris rolled his eyes. "Because I haven't been born in your time. I haven't even been conceived so I'm the only version of myself in that time."

"You take back what you said about my son!" Leo snarled, having ignored the conversation about powers. He advanced on Chris menacingly.

"Oh please," Chris scoffed, completely unafraid. He knew that Leo was trying to intimidate him but after years of dealing with his homicidal maniac brother his pathetic father wasn't even a blip on his radar. "You know if you're trying to be frightening you should perhaps save it for someone who hadn't been dealing with your psychotic brat for years and who, like you, can't use their magic."

"The other elders won't stand for this when we get back to our time," Leo spat. "You'll get what you deserve, Perry!"

Chris raised a mocking eyebrow. "Oh yeah? And how do you plan to get back to your own time if none of you can use your magic?" he taunted. He knew that it would be a disaster of epic proportions of Wyatt got his hands on Leo and the Charmed Ones and that he should get them out of here and preferably back to their own time as soon as possible but he couldn't resist having a go at his father first. He also wanted to put off the moment he had to go back to taking their abuse for as long as possible. Right now he was on his own turf so he didn't have to take anyone's crap but it would inevitably be more of the same 'Chris is to blame for everything' when they got back to the past.

Leo clenched his fists. "So help me god. Perry I'm going to…"

"You're going to do what, exactly?" Chris mocked. "What can you possibly do to me that your insane spawn hasn't already?"

Apparently that was an insult too far because Leo launched himself at Chris, fists raised. Admittedly Leo had the element of surprise on his side but Chris was younger, in full possession of his whitelighter senses and reflexes and had years of experience under his belt fighting not just with his powers but physically as well. He easily spun out of the way and shoved Leo away, causing the elder to fall flat on his ass. Leo sat on the ground looking winded, shocked but, more than anything, delighted. "You little bastard. You attacked an elder. I'll see your soul recycled for this."

Chris rolled his eyes at the hypocrisy of it all. Of course in Leo's mind a little thing like the fact he attacked first and Chris had only been defending himself wouldn't matter. "Good luck with that," he sneered, knowing that Leo was all talk. "I think the council will be more interested in the fact you hit me. I thought the wise and all-powerful elders were supposed to be above petty things like violence."

"It's a matter of opinion who attacked first," Leo said smugly.

So that was Leo's plan. Lie to the elders and probably get the sisters to back him up. Piper would definitely lie on Leo's behalf but Chris wasn't sure about Phoebe or Paige. They had been horrible to him but not anywhere near as horrible as his own parents. Even if they did lie, though Chris had talked himself out of worse situations before. And it wasn't even a guarantee that the elders would want to recycle his soul. It wasn't as if his mission was getting anywhere with the help of the Charmed Ones so maybe it was time he brought the elders into it. They would understand the importance of 'future consequences' so he could probably show them a few of his memories. Perhaps the one of the heavens after all the elders had been massacred by Wyatt. They would definitely let him off any charges Piper and Leo brought then.

Before he could think up a suitable response his aunts interrupted his train of thought. "LOOK OUT!" they screamed in unison.

Leo and the sisters all dived out of the way as one of Wyatt's probes – a mechanical device about the size of a small car that looked like something out of star trek came floating down the street towards them. "Shit!" Chris yelled as it began to sense for the presence of magic. He blew it up before Leo and the sisters could be scanned but he wasn't fast enough to stop it catching himself. "We have to go! Now!"

"You have my power!" Piper yelled. "You stole it!"

"What the heck was that thing?" Paige demanded.

Ignoring his mother, Chris turned to his favourite aunt. He decided it wasn't worth the hassle trying to convince them that Wyatt had invented the horrible things but other than that he kept no secrets. There was no point now that Leo and the sisters were in his time. "It's called a probe. Magic is exposed now and demons use them in the streets to scan for magical people. The city was divided into various territories and only certain people with certain types of magic are allowed in some areas. The probes scan for trespassers."

"And we're trespassing here?" Phoebe asked nervously.

"Oh yeah," Chris nodded. "Only high level demons are allowed in this area."

"But this is our neighbourhood!" Piper protested. "The Manor's just around the corner."

Chris shrugged. "Paige is the only one of you left alive and she isn't stupid enough to live in the open. Demons took over the manor years ago."

"I don't believe you," Leo said promptly. "How do we know you didn't summon that thing to make yourself look good by destroying it?"

Chris gritted his teeth. "Now why would I do a stupid thing like that? It's blatantly obvious that you're never going to believe anything I do isn't evil and besides: we're in my time now so I don't have to pretend like I give a damn about you or what you think of me, which I don't. If not for the fact I want your two younger kids to be born I'd leave you to Wyatt's mercy."

Paige decided that she believed Chris. "How long do we have?"

Chris was looking up and down the street for Wyatt's guard which he knew would be coming. The only good thing about the situation was that apparently Leo and the sisters had had the sense not to orb right into the Manor. If they'd done that they would be dead or at least captured already, Wyatt alerted to their presence by the three probes and battalion of demons that monitored their childhood home around the clock. "Two or three minutes at most," he said. "We really need to leave now."

"I'm not going anywhere with you!" Piper snapped, Leo nodding in agreement.

Chris growled in frustration. "You know what?" he snapped. "Fine. You win. I give up. You can do what you want. Save Wyatt or don't. I don't care anymore. I'll take you to Paige and she can deal with you stupid, ungrateful idiots. I'm done!" Before any of them could object he lunged, grabbing onto Paige, who was clutching Phoebe's arm, and Piper, who was holding Leo's hands. He orbed them all away. As second-in-command of the resistance, unlike most people he had the ability to orb straight into headquarters. He orbed directly into the living room of their family's living quarters and immediately let go of his passengers. "Aunt Paige!"

The aunt he knew and loved appeared in a flurry of orbs and immediately pulled him into a hug. "Chris, sweetie what are you doing here?"

"Ask them," Chris sneered in the direction of her younger counterpart, sisters and brother-in-law. He knew that he was being rude and he hated himself for it because, other than Melinda, these days he loved Aunt Paige more than anyone but Chris had reached the end of his tether. "And while you're at it you can find someone else to be their punching bag because I'm not doing it anymore. I'm done!"