Disclaimer: Again as before, I don't own characters, they are merely pawns in my masterpiece (ha!) of fan fiction. I'm not writing this for profit, so don't sue me! Any coincidence in anything else is just that. This takes place before the sisters get their powers and before Phoebe leaves for NYC. I hardly have any idea which direction I'm going to take this, I'm just trying to put it together as I go along. Feedback is appreciated.

AN: Okay, so here are my thank you's. They go out to: WickedWillow1, Kira8, P3Halliwell1329, Pixie Wildfire, Love-Is-War, CharmingTess, Katriona, cohrent29 (hi Ange!), DuCksRVeRKOol, piperperson, KC-Piper-fan, and Susan. If I forgot anyone, it is simply because fanfiction.com hasn't let me see your review yet and I will thank you in the next chapter!!! As for all the questions, here are my answers:

1. Ty may be Leo, he may not be. You'll have to wait and see. I like to let people draw their own conclusions, so if you want Ty to be Leo, then Ty is Leo, etc.

2. This is not an AU, so draw your assumptions about Grams from there.

3. As for the Piper/Leo dreamy goodness (I enjoyed that phrase greatly by the way), you'll just have to wait and see!

4. As for the Therapy theory, well, I'm not sure yet. It's a possibility.

5. As for Piper talking to Ty in her head, I thought about doing that but I don't think it would be as comical, or realistic. I know if I heard a voice in my head I would talk out loud to it, so I guess I incorporated myself slightly into Piper.

With that said.ONWARD HO!

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Ch. 4 - Pushin' Me Off Of Life's Little Edge

Prue was asleep sitting across Andy's lap in Grams' hospital room. Phoebe was sprawled across the chair on the other side of the bed. They had all passed out shortly ago. The lights were off, minus the one right about Grams' bed. It buzzed and hummed along with the heart monitors it surrounded. Piper was seated in the large window sill. Her legs were pulled up and she switched back and forth between watching Grams and watching the lightening storm outside the window.

They were on the third floor of the hospital. Every 45 minutes, a nurse would come and check Grams' vital signs. Piper would watch her, knowing that if she disturbed or hurt Grams there would be hell to pay. The clock on the wall ticked almost as loud as the whirring and obnoxious beeping of Grams' oxygen and heart monitors. It was 4:56 AM. Piper didn't feel tired. She felt like she could explode and the only thing that happened to be holding her together was her skin. She turned to look out the window, the Doctors words from earlier rang through her mind.

"Your grandmother suffered a heart attack as a result of a condition known as Arteriosclerosis." Dr. Granger had begun.

"In English, please?" Prue asked.

"It's a type of hardening of the arteries. It can occur in the heart, or in other veins or muscles in your body. All people develop some degree of it as they age. It does lead to complications in some people, however, such as your grandmother." He explained.

"Will she be okay?" Piper had restated Phoebe's question.

"She's stable, and we will be running some tests on her in the next couple of days to detect the severity of her condition. "

"Could we have prevented this?" Prue asked.

"Not likely, Miss." Dr. Granger assured. "Arteriosclerosis can't usually be diagnosed until symptoms develop. Even then it might've eluded you. Quite often Arteriosclerosis shows no symptoms until the flow within a blood vessel has been seriously compromised. She's lucky you were all there when the heart attack happened."

Piper and Prue were both crying again at this point. Phoebe cried as well. None of the sisters could speak anymore. Andy looked at them before speaking up.

"So what's going to happen now?" He cleared his throat, his arm around Prue's shoulders.

"As I said we're going to be running a number of tests to assess the severity of her condition." He studied his clipboard for a moment. "Once we figure that out, we'll go from there on how to treat this."

"What are the possibilities?" Piper found her voice, though it was cracked and rough.

"I have a list of the tests I'll be running, and also of the possible treatments, the prognosis and the possible complications of Arterioscleroses. Why don't you all give that a read over tomorrow? Right now I'll bring you to your grandmother's room." He stood.

Piper closed her eyes tightly, a tear sliding down her cheek as she took a deep breath. She put her head down sideways on her knees, staring further out the window.

"I can't believe I'm going to do this." Piper scarcely whispered to herself with a sigh. "Ty? Can you hear me?"

'Of course I can.'

Piper shivered as she felt like she could hear his voice rustled through her ears not just in her head. The shiver subsided and she felt a slight warmness.

"Can I ask you something?" She questioned.

'I can't promise an answer, but yes you can.'

"Is Grams going to die?" She felt her voice catch a little bit.

'Eventually, Piper, she will. I was told . . . from a very good source I might add . . . that right now is not her time.'

"When?"

'Piper . . . I can't tell you that.'

"Why not?" Piper felt her eyes filling further. She knew they were spilling over.

'There are just some things that you're not allowed to know. Life isn't supposed to be laid out in front of you, Piper. It's unpredictable, that's how it's supposed to be.'

"I can't keep up with life when it's that way." She sniffled softly.

'Yes you can. You just need to believe in yourself. You never get more then you can handle. You're stronger than your sisters; you just don't believe you are.'

"Because I'm not." Her shoulders were shaking as she cried now.

'Yes you are.'

Piper cried into her knees. She felt a hand on her shoulder and her head popped up. She quickly wiped at her eyes.

"I'm sorry, Prue. . .I didn't mean to wake you up." She sniffed.

"You didn't. I had a weird dream." She assured. "C'mon let's go for a walk."

"So. . ." Piper began to say, her hands idly lay in the back pockets of her jeans as she strolled along the hallways.

"So . . . Are you going to tell me who this . . . Ty, is?" Prue stated.

"You wouldn't believe me if I tried." Piper looked down, blushing.

"Try me?" Prue asked, sitting down with her vending machine coffee and Doritos.

Piper took a deep breath.

"Okay . . . you asked for it." She looked at Prue. "I swear if you have Grams commit me for this I'll come back and haunt you forever after I die."

"Whoa, Okay, I swear." Prue motioned to cross her heart. "So spill the beans."

~~~~ AN: C'mon you knew Grams wasn't gonna die! After all this isn't an Alternate universe! BTW all health info was found on Yahoo! Health so whatever's wrong I'm sorry!