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Chapter 20- Life Without Leo?

Piper woke up to the sounds of beeping. She was in a cold white room with many strange instruments in it that she had never seen before. She looked down and saw that she was in a white hospital gown. The hospital, is that where she was?

Just then her sister Prue walked in.

"Sweetie, you're awake!"

"Prue, what happened? Where's Leo?"

Prue looked down not wanting to answer.

"Prue, answer my question! Where is my husband?!"

"You were in a car accident. Leo got on top of you to protect you. He didn't want you to get hurt. He really does love you."

By now Piper was terrified and crying. If something had happened to her husband she would be devastated. She would no longer have a reason to get up in the morning.

"Is he alive?" she whispered.

She was so scared of the answer.

"Piper you've been out for a month. Leo went into surgery and then dropped into a coma. He has yet to wake up. On a brighter note though, your baby is fine."

Piper didn't hear anything Prue said after Leo's hasn't woken up from his coma yet. Her greatest fear had come true. Her husband was dying. She didn't think that she could bear it.

Prue went and alerted every one of Piper's consciousness. Pretty soon everyone was in her room, her sisters and their husbands, her parents, Leo's siblings and their spouses, even Leo's parents. His mother too was included in this group. They were all happy to see that she was awake. Piper however, would not talk to any of them. She was so upset about Leo's coma. Leo's mother and her own noticed how upset she looked just then. They both went up to her and wrapped her into a tight bear hug. She sobbed in their arms. The love of her life was in a coma and he might not wake up. How could she handle that?

Pretty soon visiting hours were over and every one had to leave. Piper was left alone to grieve by herself.

She stayed in the hospital for two weeks longer. Then they let her go. She returned to her house only to find that her parents and parents-in-law would be with her through the remaining of her pregnancy or until Leo woke up.

Piper finally got the courage to go see Leo a week after she got released. She walked into his quite room and sat down. Leo had many cuts on his face. It scared her to seem him like that. She took his hand and kissed it.

"Hey baby, you're not looking so hot. You have to get better because I need you. Our baby needs a dad and I refuse to marry Jason!" she tried to joke around. "Seriously I know that you are not going to sit here while another man is taking care of me and your baby. You wouldn't stand for that. That's why you have to wake up and be good again."

She started to cry again. She lay down on top of him and cried in his chest.

"P-pleas-se wa-ke u-u-up!" she cried.

Piper couldn't do it anymore. She needed her husband to be ok. She ran out of the room and went back home.

When she got home she got a phone call from Michael asking her to come down. There was someone who had information about her killer.

Piper was surprised to see Jason Travis when she got there. He had nothing to do with the CIA, did her?

"How's Leo doing?" Mike asked.

Piper just shook her head. She really didn't want to talk about it.

"Jason what are you doing here?" she asked him coldly.

"Look Piper I'm so sorry. Don't speak just listen. I teamed up with Mark Leo's old boss to get you. The deal was I get you and give you to him so that he could torture you for revenge. Then I'd come save you to look like a hero and you'd fall in love with me. Meanwhile he was supposed to kill Leo. He went back on his word and tried to kill you too. I'm so sorry and I'm so glad that you're ok!"

Piper looked at him her face red with anger.

"YOU'RE THE REASON THAT MY HUSBAND IS LYING IN A HOSPITAL BED DYING?! I DON'T THINK THAT I HAVE EVER HATED SOMEONE AS MUCH AS I HATE YOU RIGHT NOW JASON TRAVIS! THE LOVE OF MY LIFE IS IN A COMA AND I WANT YOUR FUCKING BLOOD! I WANT YOU TO DIE. YOU REALLY WANT MY FORGIVENESS? THEN GO KILL YOURSELF!"

With that she started to hit him with everything lying in the office. She wanted to kill him. She had never had that urge before now.

"Piper, calm down!" Michael told her. "I know that you're angry and you have every right to be. You should under no circumstances forgive this man. However, killing him is not going to make Leo okay. Also when he wakes up he's going to want you by his side not in jail."

Piper knew that he was right. As much as she wanted to she couldn't kill Jason Travis. Instead she went to her office to sit down. She found Dan there.

"I had a feeling that it was Mark. I had been talking to him. I was trying to trick him into thinking that I was on his side so he'd tell me his plans. I should have told someone about my hunch but I wanted to save you and get the glory myself. I'm so sorry Piper it's all my fault that you got hurt!"

Piper just turned to him with tears pouring from her eyes.

"You'll never be my hero Dan. It's not because it's you. It's because my hero is the man that I've been in love with my whole life. The man that I have always wanted to spend the rest of my life with. The man that is laying in a coma dying right now. That it the only man that I will ever love in that way and the only man that will ever be my hero. If you could understand that then maybe we would get along better."

With that she walked out of the office. She went to Leo's. She saw Lillian sitting at her desk staring at the place that Leo usually sat. Piper sat down in the place. She started typing up some of his paperwork.

"H-how is he?" Lillian asked in fear.

Piper just looked at her. No words had to be said. At that moment there was nothing that needed to be said between the two. There was a strange understanding that they both knew how the other felt. As much as they both hated to admit it, the other one truly loved Leo as much as she did.

Piper knew Lillian was vain and didn't appear to love anyone but Leo was her soft spot. At times he could bring out the good in her. However she had to learn to accept that she would never get him. He was Piper's and he always would be Piper's. That was never going to change. Lillian was too vain for Leo. Strangely, knowing that Lillian knew what she was feeling right now was a comfort to her. Unknowingly to her Lillian felt the same way. This of course didn't mean that Piper was going to stop being a bitch to her. It just meant that for now that had an unspoken understanding.

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Another month had gone by and Piper was now five months pregnant. Leo had still not woken up yet. Piper would visit him frequently. In fact it became rare that Piper wasn't there. She would hardly leave his side. She would even spend nights next to him sometimes. It got so bad that her mother and Leo's mother would have to monitor her to make sure that she really hate and she wasn't lying.

Piper was sitting by Leo's bed talking to him, telling him about her day. This had become something that she would do everyday. She wanted to keep him up to date on what was going on in her life.

She left the room to go get a snack because she was hungry. When she came back she got a huge surprise. Leo was sitting up in his bed wide awake. Piper stared at him and dropped her food on the floor.

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Yes that's right an update! lol I know it's been a while I'm sorry. I promised a chapter a long time ago but I got grounded from the computer. I was failing English for a while but I am now happy to say that I have a high B and I kicked ass on the AP test so all is right in the world! Lol Anyway I could never kill of Leo! However I'm thinking of doing the whole desperate housewives thing and making him forget who he is like Mike did at one point. Speaking of desperate housewives if anyone watched the season finale; THAT DID NOT LOOK LIKE MIKE THAT SHE KISSED AT THE END THERE! FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT THINK I'M DUMB I KNOW THAT'S NOT MIKE MY POINT HIS WHAT THE HELL IS SUSAN DOING KISSING A GUY THAT'S NOT MIKE?! Ok my ranting is officially over please review!