Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed
The Conversation, The Truth Comes Out…
Piper sat across from her sisters and waited for one of them to speak but neither did so she decided that it was truly up to her to do almost all the talking.
"Well… erm, I'm not really sure where to begin but I guess I should start at the beginning… like just after you guys moved out the manor for me and Leo to raise our family here," she paused and her sisters nodded, "Well actually everything was fine back then… it was after Wyatt died. That's when everything changed, I was different, Leo was different… the whole atmosphere of our relationship and this house was different. The first time he…" she paused for a second, then continued, "The first time he hit me was three weeks after Wyatt's funeral. I was carrying a cup of tea and I tripped and spilled it one him. He jumped up and started yelling that I was stupid and that I should have been killed and not Wyatt, and other things like that, then he hit me. It wasn't that hard I suppose, but it felt like my face had been slammed off a brick wall, or something to that effect." She paused once more and then continued, "After he had clammed down her apologised and I forgave him, but then it just seemed to get worse. He seemed to lash out at me for every little thing, even things that weren't my fault. But I believe that they must be my fault because Leo wouldn't hit me if they weren't. I deserved everything that I was getting," She paused and looked up at her sisters… both of them looked horrified.
"Why didn't you tell us sooner?" asked Phoebe,
"Well I couldn't… it got to the stage that I was too terrified of what might happen to me if I said something, or what might happen to one of you two if I mentioned. So I carried on like normal, not saying a word about him to anyone. I just acted like things were perfect, like we had moved on with our lives. But inside I was being torn apart, I mean my son was dead and my husband was blaming everything on me… soon enough I was blaming it on myself as well. But instead of talking about it to anyone I turned to alternate methods of relieving my anger." she stopped when Paige spoke up,
"What do you mean alternate methods?" she asked, Piper pulled up her long sleeves and revealed cuts and gashes the travelled from her wrist to inner elbow. Some looks like fresh cuts other looked months old,
"Oh God," exclaimed Paige, whilst Phoebe remained silent,
"Any ways, every time Leo hit me I cut, and every time he yelled at me I cut, and it was like some sort of cycle I got into to… I was stuck. But then Prue appeared to me and told me that I was being mistreated and she brought Wyatt and he seemed happy, like he was before everything happened. I went into his room and Leo caught me and well that's when I sort of snapped out of my trance that I had been living in. I called for you guys help, and you helped me with questioning for a second. And for the first time in months I thought that everything was going to be alright," she paused and wiped her eyes and cheeks which were now a flood of tears, she looked through blurred eyes at her sisters, Paige was close to tears and Phoebe remained emotionless. "But then he took me to that place, and to be perfectly honest everything was perfect… I had almost no recollection of what had happened back here or you two, but then my daughter had drawn a picture of you two and the names snapped something in my mind. Then the next thing I knew I was back here and Prue was there one second and gone the next. And I was alone again, I felt so lost and scared and confused… but I just couldn't confide in you guys and I don't know why I couldn't' I just felt like you had already done so much for me and that I couldn't force all my troubles on you like this and everything when to hell. Because I tried to cast a spell to help me work through my problems but it sent me to this place called the Abyss, where I was completely alone. And whist I was in there it put this fake Piper on the earth to walk around with you guys and live my life until I figured out that I needed your help… then I came back, and well then I started telling you want happened… so…" she finished and looked to her sisters for guidance. Paige was crying, and Phoebe who was once so emotionless was now close to tears herself.
"Its ok Piper, no one can hurt you now," said Paige,
"Beg to differ," said a voice from the left of them, all three sisters turned round sharply and saw Leo standing there with a devilish look on his face…