Disclaimer: in the first chapter and blah, blah, blah.

WARNING: THINGS MAY GET A LITTLE GRAPHIC IN THIS CHAPTER. IT'S RATED R FOR A REASON

Chapter: 11: Last Resort

Dream

Piper walked into her room, after her trial against Derrick. Six years and up for parole in four. They went easier on him because he pleaded guilty on all counts of rape and sexual abuse. And though Piper should be happy that her life was getting back in order she couldn't shake the feeling of the scale tipping for the worst. Maybe it was because the school had been extra quiet. Or maybe it was because everything seemed to be going her way. But, for whatever the reason it was unsettling.

Dream end

"That was days if not weeks ago." Piper thought to herself. She couldn't remember what happened to her days before but she did know she was raped, again, by Patrick.

Though she knew she should be crying it wasn't like it hadn't happened before. It wasn't something that she hadn't experienced or so that was her theory. The only person she was worried about was Leo

"He took a knife for you." Her conscious whispered. For the last few days her memory was coming back to her. Bits and pieces yet none of the feelings she experienced were with those flashes of memory.

"Piper!"

Piper looked up to see Leo walk into her room shirtless.

"Did you come in here to show off your bandaged body? Or to cheer me up." Piper asked rolling her eyes as the many passing nurses stop to take notice of his body and check him out.

"The first one. My your in a good mood what the drug of the day?" Leo asked noticing that she kept pressing a button connected to an iv.

"Morphine"

"That craps addictive. And why didn't I get morphine."

"Because you don't have a couple of broken bones along with fractures and your brother's name carved in you stomach."

"He carved his name into your stomach?"

"Yeah wanna see?" Piper lowered her blanket to the end of her sleep shirt that grams had brought her. Rolling the shirt up to her breast she gently remove the bandage in large gashes and barely hanging on flesh the word Patrick was written along her stomach. The morphine that was in her blood stream finally kicked in. Looking down at her stomach with glazed, glassy eyes, Piper gently picked up a piece of the flesh that was barely hanging on.

Leo looked at the hideously written name on Piper stomach. For the first time in his entire life he wanted to kill Patrick. Leo just stared at the word barely noticing Piper picking at her skin. Leo popped Piper's hand out of reflex, and sat down to cover up the wound. He could tell the medicine had kicked in from Piper's lolling head.

"You know Leo, I honestly don't know where I would be if you hadn't saved me. That's why when all of this is over and done with I'm going to marry you and make an honest man out of you." and with that Piper went to sleep.

Two Days Later

Dream two

Piper walked into her family's beach front home. A neighbor had called to say that the place had been broken into. Which was a first because the only way you could see it was from an neighbors home. It was well hidden from the rest of the world.

Checking to see if anything had been ransacked or looted. The home was in perfect order with the exception of a few beer cans in the trash. She saw a reflection of some one behind her then her world went black.

Later, she woke up in her bed naked, and tied up. The intensely painful throbbing that came from between her legs along with the blood told her the worst had happened. Looking at her hands tied to the headboard she wondered if there was a way for her to get out. Lying there for what seemed like hours. She managed to shimmy underneath the blankets on the bed.

Piper looked over at the door in fright when she heard the door knob start to turn.

"Piper where are you?" leo yelled from out in the hall slowly opening the door. Piper saw the immediate anger that flashed in his eyes. Running over to her bed leo took out her gag and started to untie her.

"Leo watch out" she screamed she watched them struggle for a the knife that was in Patrick's hand. Finally Patrick stabbed him aver ah over again in his stomach. Passing out in shock the last thing Piper saw was Leo falling to the flour.

Piper woke up to find Patrick grunting on top of her repeatedly brutalizing her with his rigid flesh. Feeling tears escape from the corner of her tightly shut eyes she waited for him to stop moving inside her. Feeling him finally tense she felt the knife she left in her room the last time she stayed there. Quickly stabbing him a couple of times in his shoulder she temporarily immobilized him to push him off of her.

After getting her other hand untied she got out of the room she was in and ran to the phone to dial the police.

"San Francisco Police Department." Piper quickly yelled the address to the house only to be thrown into a wall by Patrick. She felt her a sickening crack in her shoulder as she was slammed into the wall. Not really noticing her nudity until she felt him stab her into her stomach. Jerking from the impact of the knife Piper screamed. Limply looking down she felt the knife move.

She watched as he carved his name into her stomach with a detached fascination. Finally tearing her eyes from Patrick's handiwork she reached out to her left to pull down a family heirloom down on Patrick's head. Watched him crumple and the blood trickle from his head before she Picked the phone back up and laid down on the couch to black out.

Dream two End

Leo watched as she tossed and turned in her sleep. She was reliving her nightmare. He could tell little by little she was waking up. He slowly walked over to her bed. He went into her room to tell her that he was being released and he would be back later, only to find her tossing and turning.

Piper finally woke up and stared at the wall she was facing. She barely felt herself curl into a ball on her side. There was a lot of information to process, and to what she was going to do with the knowledge she remembered. In the back of her mind she felt Leo's presence.

"He fucked me while you were passed out no more than five feet away from me. He used my body like I was some blow up doll please himself on. I stabbed him in the shoulder, then called the police. I talked to them then got shoved into a wall to get his name carved into my stomach." Her voice was barely over a whisper yet in Leo's mind it was a shout. "And to think days before that I was worried about staying out of trouble with grams, due to our bedroom fiasco." her voice heavily laced with bitterness.

Piper sat up to walk over to her bathroom. She hadn't looked at her self in days. She was almost to afraid of what was waiting for her. Slamming the door behind her she braced herself for the worst. She had a long slash going from the corner of her to the corner of her mouth on both sides of her face. It was amazing that she didn't remember him doing that unless he did it when she passed out on the couch. It was like he was trying to rip her face off. Looking down she unbuttoned her night shirt and peeled it off her shoulder.

"He made sure I wouldn't forget him." Above the scaring word, there were slashed under her breast and down her sides. She didn't want to look lower but she did anyways. Pulling the bandages that were on her hips off she saw the ugly slash from one side of her pelvis to the other, and the slashes down her sides went to her mid-thigh. She knew she would heal but the scars were forever. Pulling her clothing back on she walked out of the bathroom, holding her shirt together by her hands.

Leo was sitting on her bed staring at the bathroom door. He watched her warily as she stepped out holding her shirt.

"Can you button me up." She asked timidly, slightly shying away from his touch and gaze. " I guess you've already seen Patrick's handy work."

"What handy work? There was more than the name carving? I knew about the face, but there's more than the face?" Leo's face was etched with worry and hatred.

"Don't worry about it." Piper climbed into bed. Finally noticing that Leo was dressed to leave. "You're leaving?"

"Yeah just to get my school work and handle some business."

"Leo promise me you won't do anything stupid."

"I can't do that."

"Pwease, for the hurt girl?"

"Fine I promise."

"Thank you."

"I'll see you later?"

"Of course"

And with that he walked out of her room and out of the hospital. He had to talk to Piper's lawyer this wasn't over. Not by a long shot, and if Leo's hunch was right he had to warn Ms. Waters that he may be pulled into the trial.

A.N. 2: Um, don't hate me for making Piper go through that, again. After this there will be no more really bad life altering things well at least after the abortion which I probably wont go into details about. what happened after the bedroom incident will be in the next chapter or two. And it's going to be Important to the whole Halliwell vs. Wyatt trial. Also there might be a brief reference to the to the sentencing of Steve, mind you that's a BIG MIGHT. Besides Steve and derrick weren't that important to the plot.

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