Piper's heart is racing as she walks through the portal into where? What
if Chris isn't here, What if Wyatt is Evil, What if...she stops, what if Leo
is hurt and can't get back, what if her family need her, bracing herself
for the worst she steps forward and sees. The attic. She smiles at the
anticlimax, it is quiet, exactly as she left it, no that's not true, there
is a lot more junk and the Book of Shadows is....
"Piper" Her thoughts are interrupted as she hears her name and spinning round she raises her hands ready to freeze...
"Leo?" standing there, calmly looking at her, smiling.
"I can't let you leave the attic Piper, its against the .."
His words are cut off as she launches herself at him, hugging him, holding him, saying his name over again and then pulling his face to hers kissing him hungrily. He returns her kisses and as she pulls back, gasping for breath, he tenderly pulls her back into his arms saying, "Now that's what I call a hello"
"Oh Leo, I was so worried? Why didn't you come back? Is it Chris? Does he need us? Has Wyatt hurt him? Is he dead? The questions poured out of her as a succession of nightmare images filled her head.
"Shusshhh, its OK. It's all OK. Shusshh everything is going to be fine."
"But in your letter, you said.."
He laughs. "Ah that. I might have over reacted a bit" looking slightly embarrassed "I was under a lot of pressure you know. Come here and sit down, I think we need to talk"
"But where is Chris I need to see him"
"You see Piper, that's my problem. I'm not allowed to let you." "Don't worry" he quickly adds as he sees her temperature rising "Chris is fine, I promise you. He achieved what he wanted to and in this future he is happy, Wyatt is someone to be very proud of and.."
"That's all very nice Leo, but I would like to see for myself. Its not as though you haven't kept things from me before"
"Piper, think about it, rules are made for good reasons.." Off her face he smiles and adds "Well, most rules". "We can't just pop into the past or future for a visit to check that everything is working out as we want, it would lead to cosmic chaos"
"Chris did. You did!"
"Well Chris was .."
"Wrong?"
"NO!. I was going to say outside of my jurisdiction. And I didn't"
"Yes you did. You are here. Now. In the future"
"Yes I am, right were I should be. Piper, I am from the future, or rather the present, its you that's out of place, out of time"
"But in your letter you said.."
"Ah yes, that letter again. I didn't get here Piper, the Elders yanked me back to hear their verdict, and I think to stop me breaking yet another rule and then I didn't need to go, because you already had or have"
"But Chris. I have to see him Leo. I need to see both of them"
Leo sighs, "I knew just talking to you wouldn't work" He smiled "It never has". He pulls out his wallet and gives her a picture "There, happy now?"
The picture shows some sort of party. There is Chris, exactly as she remembers him, his arms around a young girls waist, laughing at something the man next to him has just said. The second man looks familiar; he has Leo's smile.
"Wyatt?"
Leo nods
"He has a good face, a nice smile"
"He is a good man," Leo says gently "Although he is as stubborn as his mother"
Something else in the picture catches her eye, an older couple dancing in the background, oblivious to their surroundings.
"Leo, is that..is that us? But I die?"
"No Piper you didn't"
"We look happy"
"We are, very"
"I look fat"
"No, you look beautiful, you always do" and he kisses her head
Piper smiles at the photograph and then up at Leo. "Can I keep it?"
"Would you pay any attention to me if I said no?"
"Paige and Phoebe are they.."
"No Piper, no more. I've bent enough rules, its time for you to go back"
She puts her hands up to his face and pulls him into a deep and tender kiss"
As she pulls out of it she smiles at him and asks, "So do we have grandchildren?"
They both laugh, he strokes her cheek, "You never play fair"
"Aw just a bit longer, I've missed just sitting with you talking" she smiles "kissing"
"You know as that's something both of us don't want to do without in the next, or rather past, twenty years, I think that you should get back there and talk some sense into past me."
"But you want to be an Elder"
"No, I want to be with you, I always have. I just felt I had no right to put my desires before the greater good. Someone needs show me that my first duty is to my family and I know the perfect person, she is extremely persuasive and she doesn't fight fair"
He pulls her up, pulls her in his arms and gently kisses her again "Goodbye Piper, I will see you very soon"
"You promise"
"I promise"
He smiles as she leaves and stands for some time after she has gone looking at where the portal was, he is eventually startled from his revere as two arms appear from behind him gently wrapping around his waist.
"I see you glamoured up for the younger model" An older, plumper Piper whispers in his ear
Leo turns around laughing; as he does some wrinkles start to add to his face and grey hairs to his hair. "I didn't want to frighten you"
"Yeah?, you didn't want to miss out on all of those passionate kisses more likely, I remember Mr" She puts her hand up to his changing face, smiling. "No stop, why does she get to have all the good stuff. At my age I could do with a young stud too"
"Oh yeah" He pulls her into a kiss.
"Leo.."
"No. I wouldn't swap you, and what we have now, for all the world. Plus her passionate kisses aren't anywhere near as good as yours are yet."
"Piper" Her thoughts are interrupted as she hears her name and spinning round she raises her hands ready to freeze...
"Leo?" standing there, calmly looking at her, smiling.
"I can't let you leave the attic Piper, its against the .."
His words are cut off as she launches herself at him, hugging him, holding him, saying his name over again and then pulling his face to hers kissing him hungrily. He returns her kisses and as she pulls back, gasping for breath, he tenderly pulls her back into his arms saying, "Now that's what I call a hello"
"Oh Leo, I was so worried? Why didn't you come back? Is it Chris? Does he need us? Has Wyatt hurt him? Is he dead? The questions poured out of her as a succession of nightmare images filled her head.
"Shusshhh, its OK. It's all OK. Shusshh everything is going to be fine."
"But in your letter, you said.."
He laughs. "Ah that. I might have over reacted a bit" looking slightly embarrassed "I was under a lot of pressure you know. Come here and sit down, I think we need to talk"
"But where is Chris I need to see him"
"You see Piper, that's my problem. I'm not allowed to let you." "Don't worry" he quickly adds as he sees her temperature rising "Chris is fine, I promise you. He achieved what he wanted to and in this future he is happy, Wyatt is someone to be very proud of and.."
"That's all very nice Leo, but I would like to see for myself. Its not as though you haven't kept things from me before"
"Piper, think about it, rules are made for good reasons.." Off her face he smiles and adds "Well, most rules". "We can't just pop into the past or future for a visit to check that everything is working out as we want, it would lead to cosmic chaos"
"Chris did. You did!"
"Well Chris was .."
"Wrong?"
"NO!. I was going to say outside of my jurisdiction. And I didn't"
"Yes you did. You are here. Now. In the future"
"Yes I am, right were I should be. Piper, I am from the future, or rather the present, its you that's out of place, out of time"
"But in your letter you said.."
"Ah yes, that letter again. I didn't get here Piper, the Elders yanked me back to hear their verdict, and I think to stop me breaking yet another rule and then I didn't need to go, because you already had or have"
"But Chris. I have to see him Leo. I need to see both of them"
Leo sighs, "I knew just talking to you wouldn't work" He smiled "It never has". He pulls out his wallet and gives her a picture "There, happy now?"
The picture shows some sort of party. There is Chris, exactly as she remembers him, his arms around a young girls waist, laughing at something the man next to him has just said. The second man looks familiar; he has Leo's smile.
"Wyatt?"
Leo nods
"He has a good face, a nice smile"
"He is a good man," Leo says gently "Although he is as stubborn as his mother"
Something else in the picture catches her eye, an older couple dancing in the background, oblivious to their surroundings.
"Leo, is that..is that us? But I die?"
"No Piper you didn't"
"We look happy"
"We are, very"
"I look fat"
"No, you look beautiful, you always do" and he kisses her head
Piper smiles at the photograph and then up at Leo. "Can I keep it?"
"Would you pay any attention to me if I said no?"
"Paige and Phoebe are they.."
"No Piper, no more. I've bent enough rules, its time for you to go back"
She puts her hands up to his face and pulls him into a deep and tender kiss"
As she pulls out of it she smiles at him and asks, "So do we have grandchildren?"
They both laugh, he strokes her cheek, "You never play fair"
"Aw just a bit longer, I've missed just sitting with you talking" she smiles "kissing"
"You know as that's something both of us don't want to do without in the next, or rather past, twenty years, I think that you should get back there and talk some sense into past me."
"But you want to be an Elder"
"No, I want to be with you, I always have. I just felt I had no right to put my desires before the greater good. Someone needs show me that my first duty is to my family and I know the perfect person, she is extremely persuasive and she doesn't fight fair"
He pulls her up, pulls her in his arms and gently kisses her again "Goodbye Piper, I will see you very soon"
"You promise"
"I promise"
He smiles as she leaves and stands for some time after she has gone looking at where the portal was, he is eventually startled from his revere as two arms appear from behind him gently wrapping around his waist.
"I see you glamoured up for the younger model" An older, plumper Piper whispers in his ear
Leo turns around laughing; as he does some wrinkles start to add to his face and grey hairs to his hair. "I didn't want to frighten you"
"Yeah?, you didn't want to miss out on all of those passionate kisses more likely, I remember Mr" She puts her hand up to his changing face, smiling. "No stop, why does she get to have all the good stuff. At my age I could do with a young stud too"
"Oh yeah" He pulls her into a kiss.
"Leo.."
"No. I wouldn't swap you, and what we have now, for all the world. Plus her passionate kisses aren't anywhere near as good as yours are yet."