I was just looking back at my reviews earlier, it was oh so much fun. Ha, I love you all! LoL!!
Anyway, here's the next chapter, I'm writing it just now, on Friday, trying to get it posted...so hope you like it!!! Sorry it probably wasn't posted until late Fri night/Early Sat...close enough right?
I know there are things that don't exactly make sense, as to why some things are the way they are, I'll explain that all later so don't worry. I think if you think about it, it does. I could have done some stuff with this chapter but I decided against it...why? I don't know. So! Chapter 10 will absolutely be up far before next Friday, although it probably won't be terribly long, just splitting these two up a bit. –love
oh and this site isn't displaying like asterics and tildes anymore! what's up with that?! The spacing and everything is really messed up. Sorry.
please, don't think that this by any means is no longer a Piper and Leo story...it is. Trust me. Just more now. And some Cole to come as well...soon.
My biggest gracias:
Charmedfreak37: That's right, every relationship has its ups and downs and it's gotta come out once in a while! Thanks a lot, hope you like the update!
xXx RT xXx: Hope you did well on all your tests and everything, studying is like the worst feeling in the world for me. Thanks! But, it's not like it was a HUGE Piper/Leo fight. Trust me, I could have done worse...mawhh hah ahah! Where are you on the boards!?! Nvm that, know your busy, I am too, been trying to stay away, but I just can't! Miss ya over there though all the same. :- )
Piperleo4ever: The whole light thing, you shall find out soon...read on. Yeah gotta spice things up a bit sometimes.
Mela: Leo IS kind, at least in my world, the show...that's a horse of a different color. (is it strange that I have such an urge to watch the Wizard of Oz right now?) Lights can be bad. Evil even. Although, dark can be worse, no? All the pretty lights can be misleading, sounds like the store Spencer Gifts. The back is like woooah, there were pretty pink lights up there, not this! Hah.
Chub: Thank you, I thought it needed to end. This one (which I am about to start writing) I'm hoping will turn out fairly long, but we'll see where my pen, err, keyboard, takes me!
Hyper-piper-312: Why hello and welcome to my fic. Thanks a lot, feel so congratulated. LoL. Here's the next chapt, hope you like it...there is def. more sweetness to come.
Charmed Amber: Piper/Leo moment? I'm sorry, I just can't quite do that, yet. Maybe. Who knows. I don't! That's the most exciting part about it all. Now, are you a very perceptive one now aren't you? Perhaps you are an empath...or telepathic, just mentioning. Storyline is somewhat along those lines...only different. Hopefully. That plus more, if you will...because it's not that that's the real issue...
Chapter 9: "Twisted"
Last Time:
Leo orbed into the next room, ignoring the elders' calls. He put his hand up against their bedroom door and rest his head on it. "I wish this never happened."
At the same time Piper fell down onto the bed and put her head in her hands. "I'm an idiot." She leaned back onto the bad and just lied there looking up at the ceiling. "I wish this never happened."
Lights swirled above both of their heads, going unnoticed, before landing in each of their bodies.
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"PIPER!"
"PIPER GET UP YOU'RE GOING TO BE LATE!"
Piper rolled over in her bed, smacked her alarm clock that had been on snooze for the past 20 minutes and reluctantly yelled back, "I'm coming! Jeez," She muttered to herself, "You're my sister, not my mother."
She got up to get dressed after hearing a loud knock on the door. "What is it now Prue?"
"You've got to drive Phoebe because I have a staff meeting I have to get to, and she's already late."
"Oh, okay fine. Now scoot. Tell her I'll be down in a minute."
"That's the attitude I want to hear." Prue smiled and hopped out the door.
Piper walked past her over-filled closet and thought about how she should get to cleaning all her old stuff out of there one day. "Too much to do."
She ran down the stairs and reached out to grab the last of her homemade muffins and encountered another hand grasping towards it.
"Piper, you're going to spend the rest of the day in a kitchen, do you really need this one lousy muffin?" Phoebe asked and she tried to pin her hair up out of her face.
"You're the one who's late here, I'd be more than happy to whip something else up."
Phoebe got up, grabbed the muffin and broke it in half handing one to Piper. "Happy?"
"Very. Okay, let's go."
Driving down a back road, Piper abruptly stopped at the sight of a cat sprinting across the road. After Phoebe recovered from the loud screech the sliding breaks made and the slight swerve of the car, she asked if Piper was okay.
"Yeah, I'm fine...I just hope that poor little thing is." She pushed her door open and jumped out of her jeep. Getting later by the minute, Phoebe too, got out with her to check on the cat.
"I don't see anything, so I didn't hit it, right? Otherwise there would be like...blood, or something."
"I'm sure it's fine, just ran away into the woods and got scared. Don't worry sweetie. Now come on," She said dragging her away, "We gotta get to work."
As they drove Phoebe babbled on and on about a new fashion article she was working on for Cosmopolitan. She anxiously awaited the day when one of her ideas would be accepted. Working as an assistant meant getting coffee for the actual writers and doing their errands. Not the kind of life she envisioned herself having, but she'd take it, for now.
Piper dropped Phoebe off and pulled into the restaurant, her restaurant. She ran past the bus boy and into the kitchen with a sorry look on her face for not being here to set up for that night.
"Where were you Piper? We couldn't get a start on anything with you okaying it, we're almost two hours behind schedule." One of the chefs complained.
"I know, I know, I'm really sorry, I slept late and I had to drop my sister off, and then we almost hit a cat, and then..." A waiter stopped her from finishing.
"I don't want to interrupt, but shouldn't we start working?"
"Yes. Good attitude. All right, let's get to business."
"No Mr. Geller we can't have it ready for you today. ....Why?...Because it's just simply not ready... The x-rays haven't come through yet...Okay, tomorrow, I'll make sure it's done."
Prue slammed down the phone and leaned back in her chair smiling to herself thinking about how she just handled that client. She worked busily at her desk for the rest of the afternoon until she called into an important meeting. This was a rare occasion now that she was the boss of almost everyone working at the auction house. She didn't own the place, yet, but she was well on her way.
Her meeting seemed to go on and on for hours, which it did, but to Prue, it seemed like even longer. Someone was suing Bucklands for fraud on an account they had handled three years prior to the suing, back when Rex was the boss. Prue was put in charged of handling the law suit and all the press surrounding it as well. For hours she worked and worked trying to gather as much information on the current situation as she could.
Finally at 12:30 that night she finished all the work she could and headed on home. She quietly opened the door to the manor and snuck into the house. She laid her bag down and crept up the creaky stairs and into her room.
Piper, who had just fallen asleep, heard her come in and got up to go see where she was so late. She peaked through the crack in her door to see and exhausted Prue sitting on the edge of her bed.
"Hey honey, where were you all night? Work? Phoebe and I were getting worried."
"Yeah. Sorry I didn't call, just had a lot on my mind. Some company is trying to sue us for something that Rex did."
"Rex? As in warlock Rex?" Piper asked trying to remember the correct demon of the week.
"Rex as in the most powerful evil in the world."
"But at the time..."
"He was just Rex." Prue answered, "Stubborn boss Rex."
"What do you think happened to him?" Piper wondered aloud.
"Who knows. I mean, according to the book, what I remember of it anyway, our powers were the strongest out there. So if he's got our powers still...we were the Charmed ones, the power of three."
"We may not be the Charmed ones, but we're still the power of three."
"Oh yeah?"
"Prue, we've lived together for three years without killing each other, I think that's three pretty powerful women."
"Anyway," Prue continued, "Rex isn't really the issue right now, my job, the entire auction house, is at stake."
"What are you going to do?"
"I don't know. See, this guy that we have no record of, claims he bought a fake item from us 3 years ago."
"But if you guys have no record of him, how can he make his claim?"
"Oh, only because he is the richest man in San Francisco."
"I'm sure you'll, we'll, figure something out. We always do, but right now, I think we both need some sleep." Piper said rubbing Prue's shoulder and getting up to go back to her own room.
"Hey Piper..."
"Yeah?"
"Do you ever think about what our lives would be like if we still had our powers?"
"All the time."
"Really?"
"Yeah, I mean, who knows what our lives would be like. Probably more exciting than this. Working a 9 to 5, most of the time later, job, coming home, going to sleep, getting up again...not very magical."
"Yeah but you love your job Pipe."
"I did. I mean, I do. I love cooking and I love the feeling of running my own place, but, I don't know."
Prue interrupted her, "It's what you've dreamed of since you were a little girl. It's not as though I wanted to run an auction house at 6."
"It is, and it's great. It's amazing actually, just the fact that I was able get so far...but it's not everything. I'm almost 28 and I just wish that I had someone. Someone special. I wish I wasn't going to sleep alone tonight. I want to in love Prue. You didn't exactly see Cinderella waiting around at almost 30, never having found any guy that she really cared about."
"Come on, you've had lots of men."
"Nobody special though. No one who when he wasn't around, I was head over heels, can't wait to see him again, in love with." She stopped, feeling so stupid and naïve, "and that's what I want I guess."
Prue just smiled at her little sister's dreams. "It's cheesy I know, but who knows? Who's to say I won't find my special soul mate one day." Piper said in response to the look she was receiving.
"You believe in that kind of stuff?"
"Sure. Makes life interesting."
a/n: Well, got some stuff going on! LoL.
Oh and by the way, the Mr. Geller that Prue was dealing with was a little tribute to Friends, seeing as how the last episode aired in the us last night (very touching, cried for hours). Hm, Ross isn't my favorite. Anyway, I felt it fitting for the situation.
So what'd ya think?!?! New updates kind of random again maybe, not sure bout this whole Friday night thing. We'll see. –Love-