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Luvindrewfuller Thanks 4 your review, really appreciate it.

Ok, so as promised more humour, might be a bit emotional near the end though. And I'm going to split the next chapter into 2 bits. Just cause I luv confusing u all! Lol.

Anyway enjoy!

Chapter 2: Magic School, the joy!

Chris and Crystal orbed into Magic school.

The halls were packed full of students pushing and shoving each other to get through.

The two 'siblings' just stood there, waiting for the crowd to calm down.

Crystal sighed, ''magic school is so boring, what's the point of coming here if I can't use magic, anyway?''

Chris just shrugged, ''I dunno,'' he had been avoiding the subject for sometime now.

''I mean,'' Crystal continued, desperate to get some information out of her brother, she was sick of the lies. ''I know Piper bound my powers to protect me, but…''

She stopped when she saw the look on Chris's face, he had turned chalk white.

''Chris?'' She asked timidly, ''are you ok?''

Chris stayed silent, his thoughts clearly on something else.

''Chris-'' She began, but she cut off when she saw her cousins Annabelle and Sean.

''Hey!'' She called out to them, waving her arm to get their attention.

They smiled when they saw her and ran over.

''Hiya!'' Annabelle practically jumped in front of her.

''What's got you so excited?'' Crystal asked grinning, as if she didn't know the answer!

Sean groaned, ''Suzie's party, she won't stop going on about it.''

Annabelle glared at him, ''Of course not! It's gonna be the best party ever!''

Chris frowned, ''apart from yours.'' She added quickly, turning to Crystal, who just shook her head slightly and laughed.

''See ya later Chris.'' She turned to go to her classroom but then stopped and gave Chris a strange look, ''you are coming to pick me up, right?''

Chris nodded.

Crystal brightened up immediately, ''ok then.''

''See ya!'' Chris had to yell, his sister was already half way down the hall.

He smiled and orbed off, deciding to vanquish a few demons before dropping into Hogwarts.

***

''So,'' Annabelle turned to Crystal, ''what are you going to wear?''

Crystal barely heard her, she was too busy wondering why Chris had acted so strange.

''Crystal?'' She asked, looking worriedly at her younger cousin. (Her mom had told her what she was called today.)

''What? Oh, erm, what am I wearing?''

Annabelle sighed and rolled her eyes, ''yes, that's what I just said. Honestly, what's up with you lately? You've being acting all weird.''

Sean smiled teasingly, ''like she isn't already?''

Crystal gave him one of her famous, how-dare-you-say-that-to-me-take-it-back-you've-hurt-me mock looks and elbowed him hard.

''Ow!'' He whined, holding his stomach, ''that hurt!''

''Sevres you right!'' She stated simply, folding her arms in mock annoyance.

Annabelle laughed, ''calm down you two,'' she said, in her bossiest voice, ''or you'll get into trouble. Again.''

''Hey!'' Crystal glared at her cousin, ''that wasn't me! It was him!''

Sean gave her a warning look, ''don't make me hurt you.''

''Oh yeah, what are you gonna do? Throw me against the wall?''

It hurt her slightly, that her cousins could be trusted with their powers and she couldn't. She knew Piper had only done it to protect her, but still…

She was the only one out of the whole family, that couldn't use her powers, and at magic school she often got teased for it. Not that anyone knew why she wasn't allowed to use them, even she didn't know, when she had asked Piper, she had merely said; ''it's for your own good.''

Oh well, at least her cousins didn't know anymore then she did, it was bad enough all the adults lying to her, but her cousins as well…

She had a feeling Chris knew more then he was letting on, but that he wasn't allowed to tell her. And he can't know that much, otherwise he would of told me something so I'd understand.

She stood outside her classroom for a minute, not wanting to go inside and get teased again. She could feel two pairs of concerned deep blue eyes staring at her.

''Come on, Crystal cheer up. Your fourteen in two weeks, you should concentre on your party.'' Annabelle said gently, tucking a lose strand of blonde hair behind her ears. Her hair was in a plat today, and she wore the pale blue top, that Phoebe had gotten her, (she had gone on a crazy shopping spree) mostly to annoy Paige. It had the words ''if you think I'm a bitch, you should meet my mother'' on the front, in big white letters.

''Yeah,'' Sean said shifting uncomftably, he had never been that good at reassuring people, he had his moments though.

''You should think about the party, instead of feeling guilty.''

Crystal frowned at him confused, ''what makes you think I feel guilty?''

''Well you know, just, the way you looked and stuff. It just seemed like, you felt guilty about something.''

Crystal smiled, ''why would I feel guilty?''

''I dunno,'' Sean said shrugging.

You really aren't good at reading people, are you? She thought, smiling to herself.

''It's ok, I get it.'' She said gently, ''and I don't feel guilty.''

Sean breathed a sigh of relief, but because she understood, or didn't feel guilty, she didn't know.

Why would I feel guilty? She asked herself, but she did feel guilty, sometimes. She felt as though she was just one big weight on her families shoulders. And even though she would never admit it, to anyone else or even herself, sometimes she felt her family would be better off, without her.

It was hard enough been the youngest, and having everyone look down their nose at her, expecting her to be as clever as ''the twice blessed one'' and his ''savoir'' (everyone knew about future Chris) and get into just as much trouble.

She smiled mischievously, it had been fun at magic school when Chris and Wyatt were around. They had pulled so many pranks it was unreal! But they had pulled one prank to many, and had been excluded from magic school two years ago. Piper had not been pleased.

She remembered the day they had gotten excluded like it were yesterday.

*Flashback*

''How are we supposed to protect her if you keep getting into trouble! And drawing attention to yourselves!'' She had screamed at her guilty looking sons, not realising that Crystal, or Christina as she had been called that day, was listening in on the conversation, trying not to smile (cause putting an invisibility spell on Mrs Mildred was just ingenious!) But feeling somewhat guilty for been the course of the subject.

*End Flashy*

The good news was they had promised to teach her all their tricks, meaning she cloud get back at the ''Boring Slut'' for being such a bitch and starting all those ridiculous rumours about her and her family.

That was one thing she couldn't stand. People making fun of her family just because they were jealous.

She sighed sadly, knowing this lesson was going to be a disaster, she didn't have to be psychic to figure that out.

''See you later'' she said to Sean as he continued down the hall to his lesson.

Magic school was open six days a week, four hours, (three on Saturday) and was divided into three main groups, based on ability and age.

The ''kindergarten'' kids were usally taught what their powers did, the ''Primary'' kids were taught how to control their powers and the ''High School'' kids, the oldest, were taught about the history of their powers, the demons that wanted them, and much more boring subjects, that Crystal couldn't possibly understand what an earth they had to do with magic.

Crystal and Annabelle where in the same classes for almost everything.

(Annabelle was a year older then her, Sean two years.)

''This should be fun,'' Annabelle said sarcastically, as the bell rang and they walked into the overcrowded classroom.

''Mm.'' Crystal nodded, knowing exactly what was going to happen and it was not gonna be good.

She took her place behind Annabelle at the back of the class and saw her come in. Prissy, stupid Bethany Slututore. Oh how she hated her, with her dark brown eyes and dark brown hair. She was always saying things about her family, provoking her, pushing her past her limit, making her lash out in anger and hate. But the ''oh so perfect'' Bethany never got blamed, it was always her fault never Bethany's.

She saw the stupid smirk on her face, and she clenched her teeth to stop herself from yelling ''go to hell bitch!''

''Ok class,'' their teacher, Miss Goodman said stepping in front of them all, Crystal liked her, she understood that most of the fights between her and Bethany weren't her fault. She was pretty too and in her early twenties, which was unusual for magic school teachers. (Not to mention Wyatt had a huge crush on her, which Crystal constantly teased him about.)

''Today we will be studying the diffence between higher level and lower demons.''

This is gonna be so interesting….Crystal thought letting her mind wander off as Miss Goodman began to speak.

(Meanwhile..)

''Leo!'' Piper called getting annoyed, she had called him four times, where was he?!

Well, she knew where he was, it wasn't that hard to figure out. He was with the stupid Elders all the time, now! For nearly four years he had been avoiding them. Saying he wasn't coming back until their problem was gone.

Piper knew he hated and blamed Crystal for everything that had happened in the past nine, nearly ten years. Every demon attack was her fault, every time something smashed or had to be fixed because of a fight, it was once again her fault.

She really wanted to hate him for that, for blaming such a sweet and innocent (not to mention fiesty) young girl. It wasn't her fault! She had know idea what was going on, why the demons were after her, she didn't even who her real family was for gods sake!

Tears started to well up in Piper's eyes, as she remembered the promise she had made to herself, and to her….

It had been, more or less after the attack….after everything changed. Everything.

She wiped her eyes furiously, thinking about that wouldn't do much good now. She needed information, and she knew just who she'd get it from…

''LEO! GET DOWN HERE NOW!'' She screamed, in a last attempt to get her husbands worthless butt down to their house, so he could give her information.

Then maybe she could answer Phoebe's question, finally…

*Flashy*

Piper watched her two children orb off to magic school. Feeling slightly worried, she knew that Crystal was having some trouble, not being able to use magic. She just hoped she didn't get picked on again.

Like mother, like dautgher. The voice in her mind said, making her smile sadly. For she knew the truth, she had know, or thought she'd known Crystal's parents. And it was taking all of her strength not to tell her that Crystal was actually her real name. Crystal….

Stop. She told herself firmly, it'll only make you remember, it'll only make you regret…

She turned round and started making breakfast, she had forgotten to eat she had been so worried.

''Piper,'' Phoebe brought her out of her thoughts. ''We need to talk,''

She told her sister firmly.

Piper started flipping pancakes absentmindly, ''what about?'' She asked, knowing full well, what the anwser was.

She heard Phoebe sigh, they were the only two in the kitchen. Paige had orbed off after saying one of her charges was in trouble, although whether or not she had believed her, Piper still didn't know.

''About Crystal,'' Phoebe continued, pulling Piper out of her thoughts, she was not goning to back down this time, not going to let her sister close up again.

Piper stopped flipping pancakes and took a deep breath, ''what about Crystal? She's not in any danger.'' Yet. She added to herself.

Phoebe was getting irrated now, ''Piper you can't keep blowing this off, just because you don't want to talk about it!''She paused for breath, before continuing in a much calmer voice. ''You know you have to tell her sooner or later. Before they do.''

Piper lost her temper, how dare Phoebe critasize how she handled this situation! (Which was basically what she was doing.) Why didn't she take over and see if she could do a better job!? She probably could, she thought bitterly to herself, she's the one who can read peoples emotions, who always seems to know what to say. Maybe she could help Crystal more then me. The thought saddened Piper but she refused to let Phoebe know she felt that way. So instead she turned to face her sister, and said as calmly as she could; ''I'm not going to tell Crystal because-''

''Because what?!'' Phoebe snapped at her, trying to get Piper so mad she'd open up, she wanted to understand why Piper kept the truth hidden, why she never wanted to talk about what had happened, how it had affected her. Because as good as Piper was at hiding her emotions and keeping secrets, Phoebe knew it hurt her beyond words. All that guilt and rage she felt, was slowly killing her.

''Because, because.'' Piper stopped for a second, why didn't she want her to know the truth? She loved her, no denying that. So what was the problem, the big drama? Your scared you'll lose her. The voice inside her head whispered softly, normally it irrated her, but she knew that this time it was right. That there were loads of excuses for her secrecy.

That she loved Crystal too much and didn't think she could handle the truth. That she too would blame and hate Piper, or worse that they would find her when she knew, that she would become much easier to track and find.

And when they found her….She wouldn't be Crystal anymore.

But this was all too much to say, too much even to think. And Piper refused to tell her younger sister how she felt, she had to be strong, for her sisters, for her children, and for her.

So she retaliated in the only other way she could; in anger.

She stared at Phoebe, who stared calmly back.

Piper suddenly took a step towards her sister, menacingly, Phoebe knew what was coming and slowly took a step forward. Not so close that Piper would notice, but close enough to prove to her sister she would not back down.

Piper's eyes narrowed and she really let rip, she yelled and screamed at Phoebe, who took a step back.

''You want to know why I don't tell her the truth?! About her family, about everything?!''

She didn't wait for an anwser, just continued; ''well, I'll tell you why I lie to my daughter everyday!'' She stopped and took a deep breath. Then went right back into psyco mode. ''It's because I don't want to lose her!'' She screamed in Phoebe's face, who merely blinked. ''I know what they'll do to her if they find her! And I promised her, promised me.'' She stopped and took a deep breath, ''I lost mom when I was little girl,'' I still remember her smile, she thought sadly, and pictured her mother's face. ''And-'' she closed her eyes, ''we lost Pure, after only a few years of been witches.'' She felt hot tears fall down her cheeks, her sister's face engraved on her memory forever. ''We have lost so many people, because we're witches, Phoebe. And I can't-'' She stopped and sobbed quietly. Phoebe just stared at the floor, silently agreeing with her sisters unspoken words.

Piper suddenly stopped sobbing and turned away from Phoebe, what was she thinking?! Breaking down like that, it was stupid!

She wiped her eyes fiercely with the back of her hand and started flipping the now burnt pancakes.

Phoebe stood watching her for a mintue, she hadn't quite expected that but at least now she knew part of the reason Piper kept the truth hidden. She turned to leave, when she realised something, she still hadn't asked the question that had bagered her for so long.

''Piper?'' She asked timdly, she didn't want her sister in a rage again, she might blow her head off!

''What?'' Piper said weakly, she wasn't in the mood for any more questions.

''One day she'll find out, what are you gonna do then?'' Phoebe asked gently, hoping for a reply. When none came she sighed and walked out the manor. Leaving Piper staring at burnt, charred pancakes, and asking herself the same thing.

*End long Flashy*

Piper still hadn't found an aswer, and it was beging to piss her off. Along with Leo. Piper took a deep breath and said in a sweet voice; ''Leo, if you don't get your worthless ass down here now, I'M GONNA BLOW YOUR FRICKING HEAD OFF!!'' She screamed so loud, she almost deafened herself. It worked though, in less then a minute, a swirl of blue/white lights filled the room, and Piper had to strifle a laugh. Leo had his hands over his ears and looked pretty pissed. ''What the hell was that for Piper?! What were you trying to do, deafen me?!''

''No,'' Piper said innocently, ''I just wanted to talk to you.''

''Well in that case, look up the word.'' Leo muttered, more to himself then Piper, but she heard.

''Don't take that tone of voice with me!'' Piper yelled at him, ''I've called you six times! Where the hell have you been?!'' She sighed, ''oh wait, don't tell me, you've been with the elders again, avoiding us.''

Leo stared guiltly at the floor, Piper took a deep breath, this was going to be a long morning.

(Meanwhile in the underworld…)

Bang! ''Bye bye, demon.'' Chris smiled as the demon in front of him exploded in a brust of flames.

His smile faded instantly as another demon appeared in front of him. The demon threw a fireball at him, Chris counter attacked but the impact sent him flying backwards into the nearest wall.

''Ow!'' He muttered as he stood up, ''that hurt.'' He turned to the demon who was preaping to throw another fireball, ''you're so gonna pay for that. I'm gonna kick your arse.''

The demon smirked, ''oh yeah, what makes you think you can hurt me?!'' He laughed, sending spit into Chris's face. Chris smiled teasingly, he knew just how to get this guy, or demon.

He made himself look as important as possible, ''because I am the twiced blessed-'' He was cut off by the demons agonizing screams, as he was vanquished.

''Oh man,'' Chris moaned as his older ''twice blessed'' brother, stepped in front of him. ''Soo,'' Wyatt Hailiwell said, pretty impressed with his handy work. ''Pretending to be me again Chris?'' He shook his head and tutted, 'it's sad really, my baby brother feels unworthy enough, to steal my identity.''

'Shut up Wy!'' Chris snapped, he hated been called 'baby' by anyone, well almost anyone…

'Shouldn't you be at Hogwarts, learning about the wizarding world, so we can protect our sister.'' Wyatt said, in his best 'see I'm responsible'

voice.

Chris frowned for a second, Wyatt hadn't been there this morning, he'd been at collage. Then it hit him, ''mom told you who she was today, didn't she.'' It was more of a statement, then a question, but Wyatt froze.

Chris stared at him for moment, ''Wy, are you ok?'' He asked worridly, not used to seeing the confused, uncertain look on his brothers face. Wyatt was the over confident, cocky one. ''Wy?'' He asked again, Wyatt snapped out of his thoughts, but he still looked worried about something.

Chris glad that his brother seemed normal again, decided to do what he always did when it came to his brother; annoy the hell out of him.

''Shouldn't you be at collage, learning how to be normal, or something?''

Chris grinned at the annoyed expression on his brothers face. Wyatt just glared at him, ''oh shut up!'' He snapped, ''and orb off to Hogwarts,'' he smiled, ''or I'll tell mom you've been skipping lessons, and she'll kill you for that.'' his smile turned into a laugh at the scowl on Chris's face.

''I don't have lesson's today anyway, it's Saturday.'' He muttered, already pissed at been forced to go to Hogwarts anyway.

''So, you still have to go,'' Wyatt was enjoying pestering his little brother, it was fun!

''Fine.'' Chris groaned, ''but you better not tell mom about this! I mean it, Wy.''

''Chill out,'' Wyatt said, whishing his brother would just orb off so he could kill a few demons, himself. He needed to get his mind off of things.

''I won't tell. If you leave. Now.''

''Ok, ok. See you later bro.'' Chris said, orbing off.

Wyatt just stood there, wondering if he should tell Leo & Piper how much he remembered that night…

So, sorry it took so long to update, got a bit distracted. I'll update quicker next time. Promsie. So like I said this chapter will be split into two parts. And the next one will have more humor, and be shorter. If I'm being too emotional, tell me & I'll change my idea a bit. But if you like then plz review. Plz.