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I can't spell!! How do you spell reveiw? I keep getting it wrong! I also lowered the rating! I think it was always too high and I'm not planning on any explicit sex scenes or any at all for that matter, not planning to involve drugs apart from medical ones, shouldn't be too much violence, I hope. Basically I think PG is better, or should I change it back? Anyway enjoy

Piper walked inside the house to the sight of Phoebe and Cole making out on the sofa.

Phoebe looked up. "Hey Piper! Had a nice day?"

Piper's eyes shifted to Cole who smiled at her in the usual way, like nothing had happened. "Uh, it was...ok."

Phoebe grinned. "Great! Well uh, I think Prue left you some dinner. I'm not sure, she's in the kitchen."

"Oh ok..."

Phoebe nodded. "So why don't you go check out the kitchen?" she added, trying to hint.

"Uh...ok then," Piper said, hurrying away.

"Goodnight Piper!" Cole called after her.

Piper turned around.

Cole winked at her. "Sweet Dreams..."

Piper blinked and then kept moving.

Cole shrugged at Phoebe. "I guess she doesn't like me..."

"Ah don't take it personally, she's been acting weird for days now..." And Phoebe was proved right when Piper walked straight into the wall.

"Ooh..." Phoebe muttered, imagining Piper's pain. "Piper you all right?"

But Piper had already hurried off into the kitchen.

Prue turned as she approached and asked coldly, "Where've you been all this time?"

"Thinking..." Piper replied, avoiding Prue's eyes.

"Hopefully about what you're going to do about you and Cole-

"For the last time there is no me and Cole."

"Sure Piper, I believe you," Prue said, raising her eyebrow sarcastically. "Your dinner's in the oven, you'll have to microwave it."

With that Prue walked out,

"Is that how it's going to be? Are you going to be cold like this forever?"

"Piper you lied to me, you betrayed Phoebe. You deceived Leo."

"I lied to you but I didn't betray Phoebe or deceive Leo. I tried to tell you the truth but you walked off, you wouldn't listen."

"Fine. I'm listening."

Piper stared at her.

"Well Hello? You asked me to listen and I'm listening so go on, spit it out. I want to hear your version of the truth."

Piper gulped. She wanted to tell Prue but she couldn't. How could you tell your own sister that you could die?

Prue watched Piper intently, waiting to see if Piper would say anything. She could see a sudden flash of fear in Piper's eyes, a sudden flash of worry. Maybe Prue hadn't noticed it before but it was obvious now that Piper was scared of telling Prue the truth about something.

"Why are you scared Piper? Is it to do with Cole or hurting Phoebe?"

"I am not going out with Cole!" Piper stated plainly, her voice on a slight edge. "I'm just..."

Suddenly Cole and Phoebe burst in laughing and chatting.

Phoebe glanced up, a smile plastered over her face. "Oh sorry, were you two having a chat? Sorry, just thought we'd get some strawberries!"

She reached out and grabbed the bowl of strawberries, which was left on the table and walked out with Cole following.

Her stopped at the door and gestured at Piper who watched as he mouthed, "Tell and..." he pressed his finger against his neck and sliced it across.

Prue turned in Cole's direction as he walked out of the room. "So what were you going to tell me?"

Piper stared at where Cole was just standing, and then her eyes flickered upwards at Prue.

"Piper I'm trying to understand here why on earth you would go out with a guy like Cole, or rather demon like Cole. Now if you have a reason which could spare me the aggravation of trying to find a reason why you would like him, I'd really like to know."

"I can't tell you... I don't want you getting hurt..."

"Yeah well that's what you said before I found out about you and Cole, or the you and Cole that doesn't exist or whatever..."

"I just can't tell you or bad things will happen..." With that Piper rushed out of the room.

Prue rolled her eyes. Bad things will happen? Bad things always happen, what's new?

It was a few days later when Piper decided to make a hospital appointment. Only the doctor seemed in a great rush to see her and gave her an appointment on the very same day she phoned.

Leo walked down the stairs. "Good morning!" He said to the three Halliwell's sitting at the breakfast table.

"Morning!" they replied.

Leo came over to sit next to Piper and placed an arm around her. "Guess what?"

"What?"

"I have got a day off, courtesy of the Elders."

"Oh..." Piper said. "Well that's good, that's really good. Yeah. So what are you going to do?"

"Well, I was thinking, you, me, romantic setting?" he suggested, a smile spreading widely over his face. He took a pancake of the pile in the middle of the table, and ripped it in half feeding one half to Piper. "What do you say?"

"Uh Leo... I really wish I could but..." Piper stopped, trying to think of a reasonable excuse. "I have a big party at P3 today."

Prue looked up from reading the newspaper. "No you don't, it's your day off."

"Yeah well this came in at the last minute, you know how it is. I'm sorry Leo."

"No that's ok!" Prue butted in. "I'll look after the club, 415 don't need me today and maybe it would be good for you two to spend some time alone together." She looked at Piper straight in the eye as if hinting something.

But Piper just replied hastily, "No really Prue it's a theme party. You hate themes."

"I love themes!" Phoebe chirped. "I can do it! I'm not meeting Cole till the evening so-

"Oh thanks Phoebe but it's ok, I don't want to cause any trouble-

"It's no trouble. I would-

"No it's ok!" Piper insisted.

Phoebe looked slightly taken a back but just nodded. "Alright then."

Piper rubbed her head slightly. "No I mean, I appreciate it, really, I just think this is so important it wouldn't look very professional if 'm not there, but thanks."

Leo looked downhearted. "Oh ok then well what time will you be back? I mean we can do something special this evening?"

"It's a club Leo, we won't close for ages. You might as well go and see a film."

Leo looked at her blankly. "See a film? Piper I haven't seen a film since 1941. I guess I'll just tell the Elders I don't need a day of. I'll go back to work," he added, slightly annoyed.

"Oh come on Leo. Don't get angry at me."

"I'm not angry at you. I'm just a little annoyed that you'd choose your club over me. Especially seeing as we haven't had anytime to ourselves since we got married."

Piper opened her mouth to protest but Leo orbed out, dropping the pancake.

Phoebe and Prue glanced at each other awkwardly.

Piper hit the table in frustration and walked off.

Prue watched her and followed her out to the front door. "Lat minute party huh?"

"Yes," Piper replied, coldly.

"And me and Phoebe can't help?"

Piper spun around, "You heard the conversation, if you can't remember what I said that's your problem!"

Prue was a little surprised at Piper's coldness.

So was Piper. She was just on edge. Trying to cover her tracks so well and Prue was just trying to stir it up.

Prue sighed watching Piper pull on her coat. "So you're going to be in P3 all day? You know, Phoebe said that Cole's not coming till this evening-

"I am not deaf, thank you."

"Piper it's just a little suspicious that's all. And did you see Leo's face? He was hurt."

"Yeah well if you don't shut the hell up, he won't be the only one!"

Prue looked shocked. "Did you just threaten me?" she asked.

Piper grabbed her bag and opened the door. "I don't know Prue."

Piper closed the door. What was going on with her? She didn't know how to control her emotions anymore.

"I want to tell her..." Piper thought aloud. "But I don't want Cole to kill you, either."

"Talking about me?" asked Cole, walking up behind her.

Piper turned. "Just leave me alone."

"Hey, I was just going to say you're doing a great job of keeping up appearances..."

Piper just stared at him. "Whatever."

Piper opened the door of her Grand Jeep Cherokee and drove off.

Piper stood in the hospital, generally hovering around. San Francisco General had apparently been completely full up so she was standing in an unknown hospital. She felt so lost.

"Excuse me?" said a man's voice.

Piper spun around. "Oh hello...."

"You look a little lost? Are you ok?"

"Oh uh, I have an appointment today, it's like some weird long analysis thing and I just don't know where to go, so yeah, I am a little lost, I guess. In the sense that I don't know where I'm going because like, I know where I am," she rambled.

The man smiled at her. He looked rather young with a dash of brown hair and green eyes. "Piper Halliwell?"

"How did you know?"

"Dr. Tyler. I knew you'd be coming so that's how I knew your name!" he smiled. "Come on, I'll show you where to go?"

Piper followed him. "Wait, you're my doctor? Aren't you a bit young?"

"No I'm not your medical doctor, I'm your psychiatrist."

"Psychiatrist? What? I am not insane."

"It's just counselling that's all. For you and your husband. It's usual, don't worry. Anyway, welcome to the Sir Nicola's ward. This is where you'll be treated."

He smiled. "I hope to see you around. Good luck with your long analysis thing."

Piper watched as he walked off. She could feel the nerves rising, the fear mounting and most of all, the feeling of loneliness clouding over her. She heard the elevator door open a few meters away and two men rolled out a trolley with a body covered in overalls. It didn't take a genius to realize they were wheeling a dead body through the corridor.

Piper looked away quickly. That was not going to help. "It's not that bad... it's not that bad..." she muttered. "That's not me... that's not me... it won't be me... Piper, get a grip on yourself..."

"Piper Halliwell?"

A cold rush of fear spread over Piper. "Yeah?"

"Dr. Parker, it's nice to meet you!"

Piper let him shake her head and tried to force a smile. "Uh, you too Doctor."

Piper walked him into a room. It was very spacious, even though it lacked any sign of windows.

"Take a seat. So Miss Halliwell-

"Uh, Mrs Halliwell. I'm married, actually I'm Mrs Halliwell Wyatt now."

"Ok Mrs Halliwell Wyatt you know you've been diagnosed with breast cancer. I offer my condolences while reminding you that at such a young age your chances of recovery are very high."

Piper just nodded. "Right..."

Dr. Parker started looking through her notes. "I see... from what Dr Slack told me, you are in good health apart from the tumour which increase your odds. Now if you'd like to get changed..."

The examination went on for a long time. A time long enough to drain Piper's emotions leaving her with only fear.

As the touch touched her more Piper spun around.

"Can you please stop it?" she asked, calmly but loudly.

He took his hand carefully off her. "Are you ok?"

"No I'm not..." Piper answered, quivering. "I know you're doing your job and I know it's like vital and everything but can you stop groping me? It just feels like your molestering me or something. I'm sorry..."

The doctor sat down in front of her. "You can put your clothes back on for now. Ok Piper, can I call you Piper?"

Piper nodded, looking into the man's eyes. He was fairly middle aged and he obviously looked like he was trying to keep control of the situation but after seeing so many innocents in trouble, Piper could see that he was clearly distressed by what he had seen.

Piper started putting her clothes back on as quickly as she could while listening to him.

"Now this will be the course for today. We just did a visual examination, now we will do a mammogram, and altra sound and a PET scan, don't worry, it will only take a few hours."

"Hours?"

"Well it is, admittedly a long process. But it's to determine how is the lump is and through that we can plan a course of action."

"Right."

"Now is your husband here? It might make you feel more comfortable"

"Uh no he couldn't come, work."

"You haven't told him..." Dr. Parker realized.

"Yes I have!"

"Piper, over 20 year specialising and you think I've learnt nothing? Mrs Halliwell Wyatt you have to tell him. You don't understand. Some of the procedures can be life changing, you and your husband need to talk about that."

"Look I can't tell him and he doesn't need to know."

"Piper, I know this is hard to tell someone you love that you're ill but it's important. We can tell him if you like. Together you two can have counselling to get through it and-

"I know, I met Dr. Tyler. I'm not insane, I don't need him and neither does Leo."

"Leo's your husband?"

"Yeah."

"Well then you can't keep it from him, you-

"Look are you my doctor or an advice columnist?"

"Piper I'm telling you this in the interest of your mental health. You won't be able to cope on your own. I know, I've dealt with cases like this before-

"Can we just get on with the day? Please?"

"Piper-

"Fine, I will tell him," she lied. "Can we get on with this...I want to go home..." and by saying this she really meant it.

The day went on with Piper having various scans and various tissue samples being extracted.

By the end of the day, they were back where they started. In front of Dr. Parkers desk.

"Ok Piper, how did you find today? A little nerving? At ease?"

"How would you like to be surrounded by people you've never seen before, staring at you like your some kind of exhibition, with people talking and discussing you behind your back, and people taking your insides out of your chest?" Piper replied, her voice monotone.

"It will get easier as it gets alone, Piper. I promise you."

Piper didn't look so sure and just mumbled, "Fine, if that will make you sleep at night..."

He didn't hear that, "Most of your tests results will come in a few days time but from scans there are some questions I would like to ask..."

Piper looked into his eyes, "Go on."

"Well first, I would like to ask, did you ever suspect you had breast cancer?"

"No."

"I see... So you didn't notice anything at all abnormal?"

"About my breasts? Not really."

"It's just that... Well, your tumour. It's been growing for a while. Haven't you notice?"

"If I had noticed don't you think I'd do something about it?" Piper snapped.

"Piper I'm not trying judge you here, just trying to gather information about breast cancer awareness. I just don't understand how you couldn't have noticed the lump? It is quite visible. It's almost impossible that you couldn't have noticed anything-

"Well if you were saving the entire world from evil do you think you would?"

There was a pause of silence as the doctor gave her strange look.

Piper bit her lip quickly. "Look I just thought I was pregnant that's all..."

"Pregnant? Luck you weren't pregnant, that would cause serious problems. Pregnancy's in cancer are rare but if you conceive and you are in your position then an abortion is almost necessary if you are to have an operation, so I advice you start taking the pill. Would you like me to prescribe it for you?"

"No thanks, I don't really feel like sex lately seeing as I've got a great lump sticking out of me..."

"Piper, you really are over reacting -

"No, I want to ask you a question. Am I going to die?"

Dr. Parker looked up at her. "Piper this isn't a-

"I just want to know if I'm going to die. Don't you think I have he right to know?"

Dr. Parker sighed. "In these early stages you really can't tell, only time will tell. You'll see..."

"That's a yes isn't it?"

"No it isn't. In fact, Breast Cancer has one of the most successful recovery rates. But..."

"But?"

"I'm not going to lie to you... I don't understand how you couldn't have noticed a tumour. Yours is unusually large... and it's spreading, faster then we would've hoped but it's nothing to worry about!"

"Nothing to worry about? I can see all those anxious looks in your eyes... I've not Cancer, I haven't lost my mind! I know you know something, I know you know things which you won't tell me!"

"Look Piper, it's too early to get any reliable results so-

Piper ran her fingers through her hair. "Then why the concern? Tell me what's on your mind!"

"Piper," he said, softly.

"TELL ME!" Piper demanded, shouting furiously. "This is my LIFE!" Tears of rage poured down her face.

He stared at her, his face looking troubled. "Ok... Piper your tumour is big. It is spreading so rapidly we will need to do an operation as soon as possible to get rid of the tumour. The operation, it will have to be big. That's why you need your family around you, you may have to have a mastectomy."

"What's that?"

"That's when we remove the whole breast..." he answered slowly.

"...The whole thing?" Piper repeated, softly. "That can't be true. Technology has improved; can't you just take out the tumour? Can't you just...?"

"The tumour is very large, Piper. Normally we'd just get just remove the lump which is a lumpectomy but that might not be possible. I can't stress enough how important it is to tell your family. That's why you may need counselling. We don't think your weak, but this case of cancer is... unusually bad... I'm sorry..."

Piper blinked. She was starting to feel very numb. "How can you tell this? It's been one appointment, you normally have loads of appointments."

"That's afterwards. That's the treatment..."

"Treatment..." Piper repeated, again. "Will I need Chemo? You said it's spreading fast? Will I need it?"

"...Maybe..."

Piper touch a strand of her hair, "I'm going to loose my hair?" she thought out loud, her voice shaking tremendously.

"Piper we don't know any of these things for certain. I wouldn't worry about it. Just go home and rest. Tomorrow morning tell Lee and-

"Leo..." she corrected, automatically.

"Tell Leo and phone the surgery and see when the results will be back. Soon you'll come back. We'll give you the results. Come to some firm conclusions, run some more tests-

"More tests?" Piper said, shocked. "Can't you just get rid of it?"

"You know that's not possible. We're going to have to do a MRI, which is magnetic resonace

"- I don't care! Why more tests? Haven't you done enough? Just treat it, make it better. Please..."

"I know this is a hard time!" He said, placing his hand on her shoulder.

"Get off me! I've had it with you Doctors. Pretending you can understand! Saying you know how I feel, you know what I'm going through! You don't know a thing? How could you? You're not the one who has to face this? Just because you treat it everyday doesn't mean you know anything! You know nothing! Do you have any idea what I'm going through? You don't care. You see it every day. I'm just another paycheck to you! So don't pretend you know how I feel because YOU DON'T!" Piper screamed. She grabbed her coat and ran out of them room.

The doctor followed her. "Piper. Piper wait, you're over reacting. Come on!"

Piper didn't look back and just ran through the hospital doors into the cold outdoors.

Piper slowly opened the manor door. She knew her face was tear stained and her eyes were red with the crying.

"Hello?"

There was no answer. She sighed with relief and walked in, she dumped her bag on the floor and sat on the table, trying to console herself. Trying to come to terms with everything the doctor had said. She had another appointment in a few days to discuss something. By that point Piper had stopped listening and just concentrated on the fear.

"Hello Piper..."

Piper turned when she heard the voice of the last person she wanted to hear right now. "Prue..."

Prue sat down directly in front of her. "Are you ok? What's wrong?"

"Oh nothing, nothing, just hay fever."

"You don't have hay fever. This has nothing to do with Cold does it?"

Piper looked down, avoiding contact with Prue. This lying was only going to get harder, she realized. She felt pangs of guilt as she lied back, "No it's just to do with work that's all. Just a bit stressful."

"Is that stressful because you didn't turn up today? Or stressful because the theme night was cancelled?" Prue asked.

Piper looked up in mock confusion. "I don't know what you are talking about. I turned up today."

"No you weren't, you weren't there at all and there was no party. I was there all day waiting. When you left the house you never went to P3. You never came to P3 all day. So that begs the question: where have you been?"

Piper swallowed. "Uh... On a course."

"A course?"

"A theme course. A course about themes for clubs. Yeah."

Prue blinked. "Very smooth. Piper I want to be able to trust you but quite frankly, I can't. Now Cole has been out all day and came about half an hour before you did. Coincident?"

"Yes."

"Coincident that you were talking to him this morning?"

"He said Good Morning, I said Yes it is," Piper replied, her eyes were darting around frantically.

Prue didn't know what to say to that so instead she said. "Come with me!"

She took Piper's hand and led her to the bathroom.

Piper stared at the bathroom. "What?"

Prue pressed a box into her hand. "I'm just hoping you played safe with Cole."

"There's no me and Cole. Do I have to tattoo it on my forehead?"

"No but if there was no you and Cole then you shouldn't be lying to me about where you were today."

Piper looked down at the box, which contained a pregnancy tester. "You think I'm pregnant?"

"You don't even want to know what I think Piper but I'm just making sure we don't get into any complicated disaster ok?"

Piper stared at the tester and just shook her head. "Prue, I'm not pregnant. I know I'm not pregnant so there will be no problems with Cole and Phoebe and-

"Well just check."

"Prue trust me, if I was pregnant I would know. So can't we just?"

Prue glared at her. "Just do the test and then I'll believe you."

The closed the door behind Piper.

Piper rolled her eyes, frustration building inside her. Of course she wasn't pregnant! If she would the doctors would have said because it would cause serious problems with the operation and... The thought of the operation made Piper squirm. She looked down at her figure. She'd never wanted to be a model or anything but she would've liked at least two breasts like any normal person! Piper started crying, in her hands. The truth beginning to flood in. She touched her hair and sniffed, she wasn't going to let this go as well.

"Prue?"

"Yeah?" Prue replied from outside the door.

Piper sighed, why was Prue making things so hard for her? Like it wasn't hard enough. And this was only the beginning. She'd have to be in hospital for a few days. How was she going to do that when Prue was playing Nancy Drew?

I'll just do the test, show her the negative results and that will shut her up.

Piper then did the test. She wasn't nervous or worried, or even excited. Piper couldn't feel anything but the tiredness of the day. It had drained her.

Piper dumped the tester down next to her as she waited for two minutes too find out the results.

She buried her head in her hands. "Leo..." she muttered. That's all she wanted. She had hardly gone near him since she found out. Lying to Prue was hard enough but Leo. His caring eyes, his soft touch, his gentle loving voice-

"Piper? You quite done yet?" Prue called out.

Piper sighed and turned over the test. There was a little red line across it. Piper squinted confused. Wasn't red line for positive? Couldn't be though. She re-reads the packet. It was. But that would mean...

"Shit."

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