She was so late.

Well, technically she was going to be right on time to find a seat and get out her things. She wasn't going to have time to talk to Leo before hand to tell him she simply didn't have time to handle everything. Instead, she was going to have to explain it in front of everyone, embarrassing and humiliating herself in the process.

"Hello everyone," Leo greeted. "Let's get started."

Piper winced.

Leo spared her a concerned glance as he turned his gaze to the agenda. "The new books for the library and English department."

Piper opened her mouth, but Camy spoke up before she could say anything.

"The English books should be here in about six weeks. The English department said they'd handle the cataloguing and stamping so we don't have to worry about that."

"And the library?" Nick asked.

"The order will be sent in by the end of the week. Ms Graham did mention that she would probably need help cataloguing and shelving them," Camy reporting, consulting her notes.

Leo smiled. "Thanks Camy, what about the clothing flyers?"

Again Piper opened her mouth and again someone else spoke up first.

"I have 4 proposals for formatting," Zoe said, spreading four sheets of paper in front of her. "And the orders will have to be due by mid-March if we want everything to get here before things get too hectic.

Leo was nodding, watching Piper's fish-out-of-water expression with internal excitement and a perverse pleasure. "Did you have a date in mind?"

"Uh… March 18th."

Nick flipped through the council planner. "Looks good."

"Thanks Zoe. Can you take up the publicizing of that stuff?" he asked.

"Sure thing," Zoe agreed. "Posters and announcements?"

Piper watched the ping pong match without any real idea of what was going on. Her mind was racing, unable to follow the pace of the meeting.

"Sounds good," Leo approved. "Which leaves us with the Valentine's plans. Chocolates and roses?"

"Check on both accounts," Rick said. "Roses and chocolates are all ordered and going to be here in perfect time for Valentine's day."

"Excellent. Thanks guys."

Piper had no idea of what had just happened. All of that had been her things to handle for the meeting, bestowed upon her by Erin with a glare that told Piper it was another way she was trying to deal with the outsider on council. But Piper hadn't done any of it and yet, Erin didn't seem all that pleased with the outcome. Piper didn't pay attention to the rest of the meeting and if Nick hadn't deliberately dropped loudly into the chair next to her she probably would have continued her adventures in her own little world.

"So how Is La La Land this time of year?"

Piper glared. 'What the heck just happened here?"

Nick blinked innocently. "What are you talking about?" he asked, shooting Leo a playfully confused glance.

"You have to be kidding me. What are the two of you up to?"

"An intervention," Leo spoke up, still calm.

"Or delegation," Nick agreed. "We wanted to prove to you that other people on this council could actually get work done if you'd asked."

Piper sighed. "Prue called."

"Well, Prue called Andy, who called me, who talked to Leo, who talked to council," Nick replied. "But yes."

She turned to Leo. "So this is what the whole conversation was about in the hallway?"

Leo shrugged. "We were worried, that's all."

"You gusy are worse than Grams, worse than me. I told you I was fine."

Leo raised an eyebrow. "How much of that did you get done?"

She glared. "That's a low blow."

"Oh, I don't know," Nick said with a shrug. "You haven't heard how we got a hold of everything you were supposed to do."

Leo winced. He wasn't really sure he wanted to see Piper's reaction to the fact that someone had touched her precious planner, even if it was for the greater good.

Piper raised an eyebrow. "Oh really?"

"Nick, we don't need to pile anything else on her," Leo said.

"Oh it won't upset…" He stopped at the sweet smile on Piper's face that never boded well. "Maybe that information is better off classified."

"Oooh, wrong can of worms," Leo groaned as Piper turned her attention on him.

"Classified? What did you guys do? Stalk me?"

Nick shook his head.

Piper narrowed her eyes, trying to figure out what could be worse. "What did you do?"

Nick shrugged playfully. "Your planner didn't go missing recently, did it?"

"Are you kidding?! You stole my planner?!" There were very few things that Piper was so extremely protective of. Her planner was one of those things.

Leo sighed. "I told you."

"My planner?!"

"Piper, breathe. We borrowed it. You got it back the same way we got it," Leo tried to reassure her, coming around the table to sit on her other side. "We borrowed it for twenty minutes while you were napping in the library. We didn't change, add or physically remove anything. Heck, I wasn't even  sure what was important and what wasn't."

Piper wasn't sure if that made her feel better or worse. There was more to the issue than the fact that they took it. There were things in there that she didn't need other people to see. "My life is in that planner."

Nick was confused. He'd known Piper was protective and obsessive about her planner, but he hadn't realized the full extent to which she protected the organizer. What gnawed at him the most, however, was that Leo seemed to know and understand that.

"I was looking for specific things. Beyond that I promise I didn't look further," Leo placated. "And I promise you, I was the only one who looked."

Piper took a deep breath, part of her aware she was probably overreacting and it probably made her look endlessly neurotic. I probably am neurotic, she scolded herself. "Next time, try asking."

Nick exchanged a look with Leo. "There won't be a next time," he said, his voice brooking no argument.

"I'm a big girl, boys, I know my own limits," she protested.

"Sure you do," Nick agreed solemnly. "That's why we had to stage this intervention."

Piper actually blushed. "Okay, this time I didn't. But we'll call it al learning experience and you two can stop being worry warts," she said, patting Nick's cheek.

The bosy watched as she left. "Relapse in a week," Nick proposed, still watching Piper's retreating back.

"Two days before she's asleep in the library again," Leo countered.

Nick grinned. "You're on."