AN: Hi! I've been stringing you guys along a long time now. What happens next? What's the secret? So, I'm giving you a break. There's more to the story, so if anything about this story is confusing, then, well, let me know, and I'll reiterate clearer in late chapters. Love ya'll!

Chapter 10: Know

"You know what happens with the lights back on,

The less you know,

The more you want."

Jimmy Eat World, "Just Tonight"

When Piper was out, that demon returned. That same demon with the gray skin and those ugly, crisscrossing, green and yellow marks on his skin. Leo had a drink in his hand, watching All My Children. Ah, that Erica Kane was at it again. But when that demon shimmered in, blocking the infamous soap opera queen's latest dally into scandal, he was forced to sit up and take action.

"What the hell do you want?" he ground out.

"I mean you know harm." The demon rattled off. "My master wishes to speak with you."

Leo shook his head. "No, no, no!" He stood up, in a fit, in a rage. "I won't have anything to do with magic. Not anymore, no orbing, no healing, no nothing!"

The demon cocked his head, with the oddest, most content smirk he'd ever seen. "Not even for your unborn child." Leo stiffened. "Yes," the demon nodded, "they know." Leo turned in time to see him pointing towards the heavens. Then, towards the floor. "We all know."

Leo shook his head. "No, no, no." It was all their fault. He shook his head again, pressing his hands to his ears, pressing into his temples. He'd only done what he thought was right. He'd only done what he thought was right to keep him and Piper together. He hadn't known, he hadn't known.

"They want to meet with you."

"They who?" Leo sneered.

The demons lips curled in a grotesque, pale imitation of an actual smile. "Gideon and Belthazor, of course. Even good and evil will come together when the need is dire."

Leo shook his head once more, in agony, in defeat. "But then she'll know. Then she'll know what I did."

The demon took his arm. Leo didn't protest. He knew, he knew. "Well then, Leo Wyatt, perhaps it's better that we do this now. Then she will know. We're saving you."

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Piper stopped her clunker in front of the Halliwell Manor. The house sat there, inviting, wonderful, yet looming, terrifying. Piper sniffed. She was bigger now, her pregnancy obvious. If she knocked on the door, if she dared to enter, Phoebe would see her. Piper trudged up the walk. Up the steps. Up to the door. Her fist came up. She knocked. Once. Twice. Footsteps. Light. A woman's.

The door flung open and instead of her sister, Phoebe, it was a redhead. Piper recoiled slightly, more out of confusion than anything else. Who was she, where had she seen this woman?

"Who is it, Paige?" Phoebe's voice. Her sister bustled into the foyer and stopped dead in her tracks. "Piper?" she murmured softly. "Piper!" she screamed and rushed her older sister. And for the first time in a long time, something inside her cracked and they cried together.

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Leo was taken to the Underworld. Taken directly to the two masterminds, Gideon and Belthazor. They stood together, the merging of good an evil, to bring down one person, one man. If only they knew he was already defeated. The messenger demon bent Leo by his head, much like a police officer presses a criminal into the backset of the car. Leo dropped to his knees, bowing before them.

"What do you want from me?" He roared, even beaten as he was. "You already took everything from me."

"Apparently we didn't take everything." Belthazor said condescendingly. "We understand that Piper is pregnant again."

"You weren't supposed to know anything!" Leo screamed. He turned to Gideon. "You betrayed me!"

Gideon, an exalted Elder, gazed down at him in contempt. "Leo, it was for your own good. For one being to possess so much power—"

"That 'being' was my child—"

"That being was a threat!" Gideon threw in.

Leo, brokenly, whispered. "I didn't know, I just didn't know." And as he started to sob, the memory unfolded.

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Leo orbed to the Elders, bowing before them in respect.

"Speak, Leo." Odin's voice rumbled into the beautiful silence.

"I love her." Leo started. "I love a witch, I love a Charmed One. I love Piper." Silence greeted him. "She's carrying my child. I just want to raise my child, and love her in peace."

"Do you want to clip your wings, Leo?" Odin asked. "Is that what you want?"

Leo shook his head. "No, no. I just want a chance. A chance to prove that our love and our child won't damage our jobs."

The Elders talk amongst themselves until Gideon's voice cut through. "Leo, we have agreed to allow your…love affair to go on." Leo ignored the condensing choice of words. "You must sign this agreement. If you can manage to stay together without any lacking in your jobs, we will stay out of it. If you can't, you will be taken from them."

Leo nodded and the parchment was pushed in front of him, along with a pen. He signed his name and the parchment was taken away.

"Now go, Leo. Love."

What Leo didn't know, as he orbed back to his happiness was that below his signature, in Latin, read the words: "The sins of the father shall be received by the son." It was headlong launch into trickery and sadness. It was the reason Piper and Leo would come to loose their child.

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"But you have to understand!" Leo said, as the messenger demon shimmered away. "Piper doesn't know!"

Belthazor grinned. "Well, she does now."

AN:

Kcdancer: If there's one thing I'll do with this story, it's explain everything. But I'm pacing myself. I'm not just going to give it all away. Don't worry about it.

Charlie: Yes, I've decided I will be updating "Breaking All The Rules." I've almost finished the second chapter now, but I'm dissatisfied with it, so it'll take a few tweaks and kinks.

-Leo-Piper-Forever-: Actually, reading back on it, I kind of like Leo and the other dads too. It was more interesting than I first thought. Anyway, places like my fictional Dedicated Dads do exist, and I'm pretty sure there are some specifically for new dads, new moms, young parents, etc.

Dream.Of.Rainy.Days-x: I'm so jealous. My mother and I get into this constant battle—Magic Bullet, or the Jack LaLane (sp?) juicer. I'm, of course, am pro-Magic Bullet, especially since Jack and his wife have spoken such sacrilege against it. Sorry to have let loose on you there. This story is a lot darker than my others, and that's why I like it too. I'm one of those people who creates something to get away from something. Whenever I have inner angst, I start up a chapter on this. Or, if I'm sad, I listen to dreary music until it just goes away. Hence, this story's birth.

patricia: Why was he rough with her, you ask? I'm gonna be real with you—mostly because I felt like it. But secondly, it was an emotional thing. If he could make her hurt because of him, if he could make her hate him, it would keep her away from his deepest, darkest secrets (hints at above chapter).

CrazyWomanLovesYou, PiperandLeoFan101, TVCrazed, heather1021: Thank You!

PS: Last chapter was mislabeled, it was actually chapter 9, so I'll fix eventually. Please review!