AN: Well, this marks my official return to Fanfiction. That is if any of you will take me back. Before you give me a cyber beat down, here's what's going on. In January of '06, my grandmother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and even though it became harder to write, I did anyway, because she encouraged me. In August of last year, a week after the new school year, my grandmother passed away. It has been an emotionally trying year. My grandmother and I were very close and it seemed as if all my creative drive died with her.

I've been trying to write since January of this year, but my creativity has been stilted. But, today, I really decided to try. To those of you who simply don't care about my stories anymore, thanks for the time you did spend, and I can hardly blame you. To those of you who are going to read on into this chapter: You mean the world to me when my writing is sometimes that only thing that keeps me happy.

So, a short summary of the things that have happened in the story since I KNOW some of you have forgotten(I would've): Piper and Leo reunited after he disappeared when Prue and their unborn baby died. Though they really shouldn't of, they slept together and that resulted in a pregnancy. Demons have revealed a little something about the death of their first child and that resulted to an on-road argument. The argument was distracting and landed them in a car accident. Without further ado…

Chapter 13: Everything

"Tell me everything will be alright,

Close your eyes and dream of me tonight,

Tell me that you won't just fade away,

Cross my heart…"

--Just Surrender, "Tell Me Everything"

The car tumbled and flipped to a heart-startling stop. Everything around fell into a crushing silence. Leo found his bloody head laying on and amongst crumbly pieces of glass. His first thought was of Piper and his baby. He started to move and found the seatbelt had fallen apart, leaving him able to simply shimmy out of the seat much to his chagrin and pain. He noticed almost thoughtlessly that there was a lot of his blood on at the scene. When he was out he could see. Piper, laying, ejected from the car several feet away. He tried to scream, but it came out as a cough. The wet ground rushed up to meet his face. And then…

Nothing.

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Leo woke next in his hospital bed, groggy and attached to a number of beeping machines. He gasped sharply and someone in the chair beside the door lifted his head sharply. Bright sunlight streamed through the windows. Where was Piper? Where was his child?

Leo started to speak, but it came out as nothing more than a series of gasps and stutters. The person in the chair walked over.

"Whoa, whoa, hey now. Calm that down." Oddly enough it was Blake. "They found my card in your wallet. It was the only number to call."

Leo nodded. "Where…" he paused to wheeze, "Piper?"

"She's in ICU."

Leo nodded. "The baby?"

Blake paused. "Leo, the baby's with Piper." Leo started to speak, but Blake stopped him. "Leo, listen to me. After the accident there were some…complications. They're going to be operating in ten minutes. They've got to do a caesarean section."

Leo coughed. "Wanna…I wanna…see 'er."

"No," Blake said adamantly. "You're not doing to hot yourself."

"Gotta," Leo managed, throwing back his blankets. He winced at a sharp stab of pain in his abdomen. He glanced down. He was all bandaged up. Interesting. "Gotta go see."

"No!" Blake said. "You can't leave this bed. You can't even go take a piss for God's sake!"

"Gotta," Leo mumbled again, trying to get his les over the side. "Gotta go see 'er."

"Nurse!" Blake shouted dramatically, momentarily forgetting that this was real life and not a nighttime drama. "Nurse!!"

Leo glanced at a machine. His heart rate was up dramatically. That was…funny. A nurse came in. She was tall, blonde and slim in a pair of plain turquoise scrubs. "He can't keep his heart rate up like this, we gotta put him under again."

"No!" Leo coughed out.

The nurse fiddled with a few of his machines and tubes. Leo screamed inside and once again, black.

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Phoebe Halliwell cradled a cup of bad coffee half an hour later. She and Blake had become fast friends, bonding over their mutual situations. The fact that the people they were here for happened to be sharing an apartment and having a baby seemed to help.

Phoebe had dark bags under her eyes with nothing left in her to cry out. Blake rubbed her back soothingly and urged her to let it out.

"I cried so, so much for Prue. There's no tears of sadness left in me. And I promised Piper that I'd always be there for her. She couldn't make that promise to me. I wish she had."

Blake hugged her softly. "It'll be okay."

"But she's been in surgery so long and there's been so long since there was any news." Phoebe swayed in Blake's arms.

"When was the last time you ate?"

"I dunno, yesterday?"

"We need to walk you down to the cafeteria."

As they walked away, with much cajoling on Blake's part, a very sedated Leo stumbled by. It was astonishing to see the way no one stopped him as he went blankly through the hallways. But, sadly enough, hospitals were busy, busy places and there was rarely anything running through these people's minds than the immediate problem, not the guy feeling his way blindly towards ICU operating rooms.

He'd even managed to disconnect himself from all his machines, which had been pretty painful. That IV had hurt like bitch. He closed his eyes for most of the way, but fatefully enough he fell right into the operating room. Oh yes, this was most definitely providence.

Someone's head whipped around to face him. "Doctor, a patient just wandered in. We've got to get him out of here."

The doctor swore heavily. "Well, Jesus, Donna, I can't just pull my hands out of a women's uterus."

"But Doctor--"

"Is he talking?"

"Well, no."

"Is he touching anything?"

"No."

"Then shut the hell up for a second."

"M-M-Mine," Leo stuttered. "My baby."

"Holy shit," the nurse said, "I think we've got the father in here."

The doctor mumbled something no one heard, but didn't repeat himself. "I'm extracting the baby now."

Leo watched as they lifted his child. Everything was riding on this moment. Everything. The baby didn't cry. No movement, no screams. Time slowed and Leo's heart clenched. As his vision blurred, he saw Piper in his mind's eye. His knees buckled, and in that last moment before what was left of him careened to the floor, his child let out an ear-piercing wail.

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When Leo awoke, Blake was at his side once more. "How you doin' big guy?"

"Where--" Before Leo could wheeze out the rest of his question, Blake replied happily.

"Hey, when you learn to shut up, you wanna take a trip down to the maternity ward and check out your little boy. Then we can go visit Piper. She's already begging to be let out."

Leo didn't want to know how long he'd been out. He didn't care. He had a child. A little boy. And his Piper, the love of his life was okay.

For now, everything, was beautifully miraculously okay.

AN: Thanks for making it this far! Love you all mucho!

-Gemini

PS: I might be changing my name, so look out for that.