Title: What If?
Author: Anna Angel
Rating: T
Status: Complete
Category: Drama
Characters/Pairings: Leo/Piper
Plot: What if, instead of Alec grabbing Daisy, he'd just taken Piper in "Love Hurts"?
Disclaimer: No, I do not own Charmed or any other company/product I mentioned in this story. I am not making any profit on this. It is just for fun, I promise. Yes, some of the lines and the premise are from the show. No, I'm still not making money.
A/N:I rewatched "Love Hurts" the other day and thought what would happen if Alec had just take Piper. Wallah, this story was born! The first little tidbit are lines from the show, but the rest should be my words with a bit of the series words thrown in there. Anyway, I hope you like this 'what if' scenario. I love feedback good or bad so leave me a review. Enjoy! :)
Alec: Alright, no more tricks, ladies.
Leo: Let her go, Alec.
Alec: I don't think so. I have what you love, you've got what I love. Care to trade? (Phoebe puts her hand up.) Don't do that. (His hand starts glowing.) I will kill her if I have to. You still think I'm incapable of love, Leo? You wanna see far I'm willing to go?
Daisy: Alec, no!
Piper: Daisy, stay back.
Alec: You shut up!
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Prue came barreling through the door not knowing what was waiting for her at home. She looked at the scene in front of her with horror. Piper was being held captive by Alex and everyone was helpless to stop it.
Alex looked at the older sister and dark orbed away with Piper. He wasn't taking any chances this time. In time, Leo would relinquish Daisy to him to get his precious Piper back. It was all just a matter of waiting.
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"No," Leo screamed out in anguish. He couldn't believe he let Alex take Piper. God, why did he have to be injured right now? "I have to go after her!" He began stumbling down the stairs slightly as Phoebe and Daisy grabbed him before he fully fell. "Ahh," he screamed out grabbing his shoulder. Damn, he'd forgotten that Piper still has his powers. That would mean it would take him longer to heal.
"Woah there, Leo," Phoebe replied easing him down the steps while holding him up. "You're not exactly in tip top condition to be darklighter hunting."
Prue decided to jump in at that moment looking between the three people in the room. "Yeah, I agree. We'll go after Piper. You need to get better."
"Oh, this is all my fault. I should've gone with him Leo, then you'd have Piper and no one else would get hurt." Daisy swiped her hands through her blonde curls looking worriedly. She held her hands over her eyes trying to hold back tears. She hadn't meant to cause so many people pain.
"No Daisy, this isn't your fault," Leo groaned out clutching his side. "This is Alec's fault and only Alec's fault."
"Yeah, there's no way you could've prevented this," Pheobe agreed supporting Leo's weight. "Come on, Leo. Let's get you lying down on the couch. When we save Piper, she's not going to want to see you in even worse condition than when she left." Phoebe continued supporting Leo as he slowly walked towards the couch. Slowly she laid him down gently on the couch watching him settle in.
"Okay, we need a plan," Prue said looking at the two women in the room.
Phoebe nodded her head in agreement before looking at Prue. "He's going to come back for Daisy eventually. She's what he wants."
"Yeah, but we can't risk her life for Piper. For all we know, once he gets Daisy, he'll kill Piper." Prue sighed in frustration. "It doesn't help that we still don't have our own powers."
Leo groaned as he sat up and looked at the two sisters. "That also leaves Piper more susceptible. She still has my powers, which makes her vulnerable to his arrows. If she gets hit, she's about as gone as I was." He swallowed thickly and laid back down. God, he hated this.
"Great, Phoebe can't control my power, I hate having Phoebe's power, and Piper is vulnerable to any darklighter attack. " Prue rubbed her forehead staring at her baby sister intently. She knew they were both determined to get Piper back. They couldn't believe they'd let the bastard take her to begin with.
"First things first, we should put a protection or cloaking spell on Daisy. We can't have her being taken by him too." Phoebe glanced at Daisy then back at Prue. She held out her hand to Daisy and motioned her head to the stairs. "Come on, I've got the spell covered. Prue, make sure Leo stays here. We don't need to lose Piper and him."
Prue nodded her head in understanding as Phoebe took Daisy upstairs. She knew they'd get their sister back. She just wasn't sure how they'd get her back. Reassuringly, she laid a hand on Leo's shoulder and smiled down at him. "Don't worry, we'll get her back. I'd never let anything happen to one of my sisters."
Leo nodded feeling his pain ease little by little. It seemed the healing properties were beginning to kick in. Maybe, soon, he'd be well enough to help get his Piper back. Right now, he could only hope for the best and pray she was okay.
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Alec threw down the little witch. He could see why Leo liked her. She was pretty. However, she was annoying, headstrong, and stubborn as hell. It annoyed Alec to no end. He sneered down at her disgusted by her in general. Hell, things would've just been fine if that damn whitelighter had given him his love. He would've been happy with Daisy, and Leo could be happy with his stupid witch.
"What are you going to do me," Piper asked matching the darklighters glare.
He barked out an evil laugh looking down at her. "Nothing, yet. If I do anything right now, then no one would come after you, and I wouldn't get my Daisy."
"So what? You think she's going to live happily with you? You think she's going to want to produce little Satan spawns? You're either blind, or the dumbest darklighter I've ever met." Not that she'd met that many, or any for that matter until now.
He pointed at her as he got really close to her face. "You shut up," he screamed slapping her hard across the face. "Daisy will be mine, and we'll run away and be happy together. Nothing you or that stupid whitelighter of yours say will change my mind. She belongs to me." He growled slightly and backed away from Piper turning away from her.
A long silence followed his small tantrum as Piper contemplated if she should say what she was thinking. "If you really love her, she wouldn't belong to you," she barely whispered out. She looked up at the darklighter who was breathing heavily, but also contemplating her words. "You also wouldn't force her to be with you," she finished looking down at the dirt ground.
Neither of the two talked much after that. The darklighter paced the floor waiting quite impatiently, while Piper just stayed lying on the floor silently. She didn't want to get hit again. She also didn't want to risk him actually killing her.
Piper knew her sisters would come. She knew they'd vanquish this bastard far into the wasteland and make him suffer. She had no doubt in her mind about that, but one thing did worry her. If Alec was really in love with Daisy, which she doubted, he would go to the Earth and back for Daisy like Leo did for her. That little aching thought worried her just a little.
TBC…