Act of Defiance

Summary: 30 year old Piper Halliwell is a famous actress, she also is a mother of two beautiful daughters. Her oldest child, Chassidity, is 15. She got pregnant with her when she was 15 and her father is a man named Leo Wyatt, he and Piper broke-up when they went their seperate ways for college, he to New York for Medical School and she to Los Angeles to Drama School. Chass spends half of each break she gets from school with each parent. Leo calls to check up on her every week. Her youngest daughter, Alexis, is 4. Her father was a guitarist in the band called 'Warlock Blood' named Jeromy Burns. Jeromy and Piper split up when she told him she was pregnant and she never thought another thing about him. She never has time to spend with her daughters with flying from country to country and state to state with acting jobs and interviews and press conferences and with her new live-in boyfriend, Dan Gordon. Chass knows that Dan can't be trusted and does her best to stay away from him, but what happens when Piper goes to England for 2 days for an interview and leaves Dan alone with the girls?

Chapter 1-Reliving Hell

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Chassidity Halliwell sat in a corner of her shower, boiling hot water pooring down onto her, blood cascading down her legs. She sat emotionless stairing at a wall, unable to feel, but she felt like she should cry, if not for her but for what her sister had to witness. It had happened yesturday but Chassidity had been having a gut feeling that it was about to happen since she met her mother's new boyfriend.

Dan Gordon was a professional baseball player for the Seattle Mariners. Well, at least he used to be, last season he had blew out his knee sliding into second base and could no longer play. Her mother had met him at one of her many charity events that she attended, ones that Chassidity had grown to think were just a diversion to get away from her and her sister.

Her mother had never really seemed to want to be a mom. For as long as she could remember, Piper Halliwell had been the type to tell all of her bring home dates that Chassidity was just a kid that her grandmother or one of her sisters were baby sitting. Once when she was 4 her mother had brought home a male friend and her Aunt Prue had met them at the door of the Manor that they had been living in that had been passed down from generation to generation in their family. Her and her aunt Phoebe had came home after Phoebe took her to the park and she had smiled when she saw her mother, which was a very rare occurance, and ran to greet her. When she had called Piper 'Mommy' Piper told the man that she was Prue's daughter and Prue had simply looked at Piper evily before picking Chassidity up and taking her away from the scene.

Prue had always been her favorite aunt. Her and Paige were always there for her and she knew that she could go to them if she ever needed to talk to anyone about anything. But not this, god not this, they would be so disappointed in her.

Her mother had gone to England for two days to have an interview about some charity event that she was sponsoring and had left her live-in boyfriend Dan in charge of watching her and her four-year-old sister Lexie.

It was summer and Chass had just got back from spending half of the summer with her father, Leo. Then, her mother simply kissed her on the cheek and walked out the door shouting for her to be good and help Dan with her sister. She had never trusted Dan, she didn't like his smug smile or his greased down dirty blonde hair, his eyes always showed some sign of mischeive which Chass didn't like.

The night before her mother was scheduled to come home, last night, was when everything was ripped apart for her. It all started when...

Chass was sitting in the living room of her mother's mansion. She was watching some stupid reality television show called 'American Idol'. She saw Dan walk in out of the corner of her eye and felt the couch move as he sat down oddly close beside her. She curled herself up closer to the arm of the couch but continued watching the show as if nothing was wrong.

Dan had that mischeivous look in his eye as he reached a hand over and rubbed it across Chass's thigh, letting his fingertips go slightly inside her short pajama shorts that she had gotten as a present from her Aunt Phoebe for her birthday in April. Chass tensed and tryed to pull away but Dan looked at her smiling a little which made her sick. "What's wrong Chassy?" he taunted acting concerned using the nickname that her baby sister called her since she can't say Chassidity. "No reason to be afraid. No one's going to hurt you." He said moving to where he was leaning over her, his face oddly close to hers as she tried to hide herself within her legs, which were pulled up to her chest.

He raised forward and pulled the fifteen year old into a harsh and hurtful kiss, only breaking it when she slapped him away from her and stood up to run away. He had grabbed her ankle and pulled her to the floor, her long chocolate brown hair falling free of it's pony-tail, and laid himself on top of her, kissing her again. He ran his hands down her body to the rim of her black shorts and pulled them slightly down her hips. She screamed even more into the kiss trying to push him away. The pushing just made him angry and he raised himself and slapped her across the face causing her mouth to start bleeding along with the spot on her head that had slit open slightly as her head made contact with the floor as she was pulled down.

He smirked and continued removing her shorts and underwear, he then removed his mouth from hers but placed his hand over her mouth, moving his kisses to her neck and his free hand to her breast. Tears starting fall from her eyes as she lay, knowing that there was no use, he was much to big for her to fight. As he removed his pants, she turned her head to the side, not wanting to see him but spotted something much worse. Her four year old sister was standing in the doorway of the living room in her pajamas, clutching the teddy bear their mom had gotten her when she was born as if her life depended on it. This made Chass cry harder, she didn't want her sister seeing something this traumatising but there was nothing she could do.

She screamed out into his hand as he thrust violently into her, breaking her barrier and taking her innocense. She knew that he had used protection, she saw the condom wrapper laying on the rug infront of her face.

Once he was finished, he removed himself and replaced his clothing, kissing her one last time and then walking out of the living room, never noticing Lexie standing in the opposite doorway, which Chass was grateful for. She quickly stood-up, ignoring the seering pain in her legs, and put her shorts back on. She walked over and picked her little sister up from the floor and taking her into her bedroom and laying her in her small bed.

"Chassy, Dan hurt you didn't he?" Lexi said in her small four-year-old voice, her hazel eyes looking at her sorrowfully. Lexie looked more like Jeromy then she did Piper. Chassidity was a Piper clone and was often asked in school about her famous mother because they look so much alike everyone figures out instantly that their related.

"Yeah, Lexie he did but I'm not gonna let him hurt you OK. I promise." Chass said, holding back the tears in her chocolate brown eyes as she pushed a peice of long dark brown hair, almost black, behind her sisters ear and kissing her forehead. "Now, you go to sleep, mommy's suposed to be home tomorrow and we gotta be all awake and everything to hug her remember?"

Lexie's eyes brightened at the thought of seeing her mother and she kissed Chass's cheek before laying down and snuggling into her pillows, drifting to sleep.

Chass had then walked silently out of the room and into her own, locking the door before changing clothes and going to bed herself.

Chass was broken out of her thoughts as she saw the shower door open and her mother's concerned brown eyes looking down at her. Chass hadn't noticed that she was crying, let alone loud enough to be heard and was grateful that the bleeding had stopped. Piper bent down on the outside of the shower and pushed some hair behind her ear before speaking, "Chass, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, it doesn't matter." Chassidity said pushing herself farther away from her mother. Don't get her wrong, when it was just her and her mom and her sister everything was great, her mom was a great mom when she wanted to be.

"Yes it does. Come on, we'll talk in your room if it makes you more comfortable, after putting on some pajamas and drying off." Piper said standing Chass up and wrapping her daughter into a towel and half hugged her, rubbing her arms soothingly, as they exited the bathroom and walked into Chass's room.

Piper sat Chassidity down on the bed and went into the closet to get some pajamas. She came back with some and also some clean underwear and Chass put them on before pulling her still wet long brown hair up into a pony-tail and laying down on her full sized bed, grabbing a body pillow and snuggling into it as she stared past her mom, as if looking through her.

Piper walked over, trying to hide the tears that wanted so desperately to fall at seeing her baby like this, and layed down behind Chass on the bed and snuggled into her, pulling her close to her. "Sweetie, please tell me what happened."

"I can't." was what Piper got back, her daughters voice was so much unlike what she'd known to be her daughter, it was so weak and distant and miserable.

"Yes you can hunny, you can tell me anything." Piper said pulling her daughter closer to her.

"You'll hate me." Chass answered with more misery in her voice then before.

"Nothing you could do would make me hate you."

Chass just shook her head, gripping her mom's hand for reassurance that she was safe and wasn't alone. She knew that he wouldn't try anything as long as her mom was there. "Where's Lexie?"

"Downstairs with Dan. For some reason she didn't feel very comfortable with me coming to check on you though, she wanted me to stay with her. She said it was to keep her safe." Piper said with a chuckle. "As if Dan would hurt anyone."

Chass just lay there. Scared of what was going on downstairs but eventually her fears died down thinking that Dan couldn't do anything as long as her mom could walk in at any moment. She gripped her mom's hand tighter and fell into a restless sleep, reliving the expereince again.