A/N: Sorry for the long wait me been busy (exams) but schools just finished so should have plenty of time to update! Anyway someone finds out in this chapter! Thank you for everyone who reviewed! You make me so happy! I will acknowledge them in the next chapter only because this chapter somehow already got long enough. Anyway this chapter was hard to write and came out a bit jerky but try and enjoy:
Piper stared at Prue, trembling a little. "Uh…"
Prue put on hand on her hip. "I'm waiting…"
"I, it's not what you think…"
"Trust me Piper, you don't want to know what I think... How could you?"
"I didn't!" Piper protested, quickly. "I didn't Prue."
Prue shook her head slightly and laughed a little. "You can't seriously be trying to deny it? Piper you wrote this!"
"I know I did… but… I was lying."
Piper's mind was racing. She was going to have to make a lot of decisions fast. She had to tell Prue… But why like this? Oh God how could it come down to this. Piper caught Prue's eye, and realized she was giving Piper an evil look. Piper really wanted that hug, that speech about how everything will be ok.
"This is all one big mistake. One screwed up, complicated mistake."
"Yeah I got that! The mistake is that I found the letter and not Leo! The mistake is that your little getaway didn't go to plan! The mistake is that you are standing here trying to deny it!"
Piper shook her head and looked up the ceiling. "Prue let me explain…"
Prue laughed that same amused laugh. "Explain? Explain! What's there to explain? An affair is an affair!"
"I didn't have an affair Prue, I have b…b…"
"What?"
"I, I, I can't tell you, not until I told Leo."
"Oh so you're going to tell Leo all the little details?"
"No Prue, that's not why I mean. Why are you being like this? Just let me-
"Why am I being like this? Piper, I'm being reasonable. You can't tell me that I being mean or heartless. I'm just trying to understand here why the bloody hell you would do something like that?"
"I didn't I'm ill!" Piper almost shouted.
"Oh? What like a sore throat ill? Because you know you could've got that from you're game of tonsil tennis with this other man."
"Prue! I have, I have… I can't tell you but I…" Piper bit the cut on her lip causing it to bleed again; she couldn't get the words out. When she looked at Prue's face she just couldn't. Prue's eyes looked so cold and she could see the lines of fury across her face. "I don't know what to say…" she mumbled.
Pure sat down on her chair. "How could you? I thought you loved him?"
"I do…I love him so much… Prue I didn't have an affair I just pretended that because I didn't want to hurt Leo,"
"Why would you hurt Leo?"
"I can't tell you, not until I've told Leo."
"Yeah well how do I know that's not an excuse? I mean it's easy for you to come in here and spin that bull now that you've been found out!"
"But I'm telling the truth. Can't you trust me?"
"No! No I can't trust you Piper. You, you spend three years pretending to love a man and all that time you're having an affair? You cold hearted bitch!" Prue shouted. "You of all people. I never thought you would."
"Prue I DIDN'T! I said it because I love Leo, I tried to run away because I'd do anything to stop him getting hurt. ANYTHING! And if that means faking an affair then I will. I had to do pretend, and I can't tell you why. Not yet. Please Prue. Prue please. You're my sister- you have to believe me."
Prue stared at Piper. "I need to time to think about this…" she made her way out of the room.
"But you believe me, don't you?"
There was a pause.
"Don't you?"
"Piper what do you expect me to say? You wrote this-
"And I'm telling you that I wrote that to protect Leo!"
"You haven't given me a reason to believe you…"
Piper walked over to Prue and took her hand. "What about because I've fought for Leo, and he's fought for me, we nearly died through the process. An because I- I love him you know I do."
"Love is just a word, Piper."
"No Prue. It's a f-feeling…" Piper stuttered.
Prue raised her eyebrows.
There was a tap at the door.
Prue turned and there was a man. "Hey Prue, your auction item 1083 is causing a real stir downstairs. They need you!"
Prue turned to the guy. "I'm sorry Steve! It's a really bad time."
Steve glanced at Piper.
"Uh yeah, Piper this is Steve, Steve this is my sister."
"Oh hey! Uh Prue, it is your auction item. You are responsible!"
Prue sighed. "Alright."
She walked off with Steve without even saying goodbye to a hurt Piper.
Then suddenly Prue turned around. "Don't move, you and me need to talk."
Cole smiled at Phoebe from the side of the room. She was sitting sorting out all of her clothes.
Cole strolled over. "Hey baby…" he whispered in her ear.
She turned and kissed him. "Hello gorgeous…"
She turned and wrapped her arms around him. "Well only Leo's at home so I was thinking-
"I was thinking that you could get ready and I'll take you out tonight."
"Hmm… but in the meantime-
"I have to go. But I'll be back, make sure you look beautiful because we're gonna have a great night."
Phoebe smiled. "Ok then!" She kissed him again. "Goodbye! Love you!"
"Ditto!"
He walked off and as soon as Phoebe turned out he shimmered out.
Down in the underworld
Cole shimmered in. "What do you want?"
"Now that's not the right attitude Belthazar. Would you like to rephrase that?"
Cole leaned an alter table made out of stone. "Uh…let me see…no."
The Source turned around. "Really? Let me ask you again. Would you like to rephrase that?"
"I'm not scared of you. You may scare the bounty hunters and you may scare the other demons but not me."
"That's right Belthazar, you're just scared of fear. I am fear so you fear me. Belthazar everyone's scared of me! It's natural…"
Cole sneered. "Sure. Now why did you call me?"
"To see how you were getting on with the Halliwell's."
"Well at the moment I only getting it on with one of them."
"Ha. Ha. Now have you made any progress?"
"Yes a lot."
"You lie. You haven't done anything apart from seduce the witch."
"Well I have to get them to trust me, I'm surprised they allowed me back."
"Well they have, why not use that to your advantage?"
Cole shook his head. "I told you before I'm not killing them."
"We don't want to kill them, we want to break them. And I know how."
"I'm listening…"
"One of them has breast cancer, no one else knows."
"Who? Phoebe? Is it Phoebe?"
"No."
"Prue?"
The Source smiled, not that anyone could see his face. "No Belthazar…"
It suddenly drawn on him. "Piper has Breast Cancer?"
"Yes, use it to your advantage… Ok?"
Cole smiled. "Easy."
Piper sat in Prue's office. Her head was spinning rapidly. She felt numb. She didn't even notice when the door opened.
Cole walked up to her. "Hello…"
Piper looked up. "What are you doing in here? Prue's not here."
"I came to see you Piper…" He sat down next to her and took her hand. "So how's life?"
"O-Ok… Uh is Phoebe with you?"
He shook his head. "No, it's just you and me."
Piper blinked. "R-right… Um, I might just go-
Cole grabbed her arm. "Stay… We have a lot to talk about."
"We do?" Piper asked, confused.
Cole nodded. "Indeed. So you loom pretty peaky at the moment? Anything the matter?"
"No, I'm fine. I'm fine! What do you mean peaky? I'm great, n-never been better!"
Cole chuckled and moved closer to her and whispered in a deep voice. "Don't lie to me…"
Piper moved back a bit. "I'm not…"
Cole grinned and almost evil grin. "I know Piper… I know…"
"Know what?"
He glanced at her chest. "Go figure…"
She followed his gaze. "I don't know what you're talking about!"
"Yes you do… Come on Piper. No need to lie to me!"
"Look I'm not hiding anything! Leave me alone!"
Piper got up from the side chair and tried to move.
Cole grabbed her and pushed her into a wall. "So Breast Cancer huh? How tragic."
Piper froze. "H-how do you know?"
Cole put his hand of Piper's shoulder. "I'm a demon, I know everything, especially when the source tells you…" he hissed.
Piper shook a little. "H-huh?"
An energy ball appeared in Cole's hand and he placed it underneath her neck. "Evil knows all Piper…"
"You're not evil, what about P-Phoebe?"
"Oh I only want to concentrate on you at the moment… Breast Cancer. Gee that must be hard, how did Leo take it? Oops, sorry I forgot that you didn't tell him!"
"Y-you can't tell him!"
Cole tilted his head. "Are you telling me what to do Piper?" he asked, holding the ball slightly higher.
She whimpered,
The energy ball disappeared. "So are you going to tell Leo?"
Piper nodded. "Yes…now…"
"Now? Gee you evil bitch!"
"What?"
"Well it's just after you two have got married and you already want to break his heart."
Piper looked up, "Excuse me? You don't know anything about us-
"Oh but I do Piper… I know more then you could imagine. Did you ever wonder how the Elders found out about you and Leo's secret marriage?"
It took less then a second for Piper to work out what Cole meant by that. "You bastard."
"Oh yeah… you see Piper, I know everything about you and Leo. You know, Phoebe should really have listened to you and Prue when you warned her off me. Too late now though. Now where were we? Ah yes, you were about to tell Leo. Go on then. Go tell him."
Piper stared at Cole.
"Aren't you going to go and tell him?"
"I have to wait for Prue…"
"Good excuse. You're just scared of telling him. You know how he'll react. He'll hug you and tell you that everything is going to be all right, won't he Piper? And he'll look after you and care for you, won't he?"
Piper didn't understand what he was trying to get at. She glanced at the door, desperately waiting for Prue to come back. #
"Won't he Piper?" Cole repeated, with an evil tone to his voice.
"Yes."
"But while looking after you he'll start to hate you, won't he? All the pain you've caused, all the strain and all the hurt. He blamed you slowly inside and it will start pulling apart you relationship. Won't it Piper? Won't it?"
"No… No it won't. Leo and me will be fine. I won't hurt him."
"Of course you won't but the cancer will. Every second he'll be worrying about you. Do you think you'll ever see a smile on his face if you tell him?"
"He can still be happy-
"Happy? Piper if Leo had cancer would you be happy?"
That thought struck Piper for a second.
"Piper you can't tell him. He'll resent you! Slowly you'll be killing him!"
"Do you think I don't know this? I know it will hurt him? But it will hurt him more if I don't tell him!"
Cole laughed. "You've been talking to Mummy haven't you?"
"How do you know?"
"Only a ghost would speak such crap like that!"
"It's not crap."
"Oh come on Piper! How could it hurt him if he didn't know? That doesn't make sense. Unless you want to destroy Leo you have to go. Do you want to destroy Leo?"
"N-no-
"Exactly. So you won't tell him, will you?"
"I don't know…"
"Piper?"
"Ok I won't but I'll tell Phoebe about you."
That surprised Cole. "What?"
"And Prue, I'll tell them about how you're still working for the Source."
"Not if you want them to live, you won't. Got that?" he added, threateningly.
Piper nodded quickly.
"Piper you have to run away or Leo will know won't he?"
Piper shook her head tears falling down her face. "B-but…"
Cole laughed a low and evil laugh. "But what Piper? Leo will notice and he'll hate you for keeping it from him?"
"I can't run away, I have nowhere to go."
"That didn't bother you before did it?"
"Look I don't need to go away! I can hide it from Leo!"
Cole leaned them further into the wall. He cupped her breast with a sleazy smile. "When one of these mysteriously disappear, I think he might just notice…"
"Oh My God!" they heard Prue's voice bellow.
Cole let go of a frozen Piper and turned to Prue who was standing in the doorway with a horrified look on her face. "Hello Prue…"
Prue stared in disbelief. "Oh My God," she just repeated, stunned.
Piper jerked away from Cole. "Prue, it's not what you think!"
Prue just shook her head. "You and…Cole…"
"That's not what you said two minutes ago!" Cole said to Piper.
"What?" Piper replied, confused.
"Come on Piper, Prue's found us out, let's just admit it!" Cole argued.
"Admit what? Prue ignore him!" Piper ran up to Prue and grabbed her hand.
"Get of me you sick, sick, bitch."
"Cole's lying. Me and him, there's nothing."
"Oh yeah? And that's why he's touching you up. That's sick Piper. I can't believe you. He's Phoebe's boyfriend!"
Piper shook her head quickly. "No he was threatening me, he weren't, we weren't!"
"Oh for God's sake STOP LYING TO ME!" Prue screamed.
Cole came up behind Piper and wrapped his arms around her. "Just tell her the truth Piper. Prue you're right to not truth her; if I were you I wouldn't believe anything Piper says. That note about the affair, that was with me."
Piper elbowed him in the stomach. "I have no idea what the hell he's on about."
Prue flicked her fingers at Cole and sent him flying into the wall and then turned to Piper. "You're not convincing me let alone yourself."
"Prue I'm-
"Telling the truth? No your not. You wicked, bitchy slut. How could you? How could you cheat on Leo for Cole? Your sister's boyfriend. I thought Phoebe had stooped the lowest of the low with Roger but you're something else. You're something else. You are just so…so cold hearted!"
"Prue…" Piper tried to but in weakly.
"No! You just got married! You just spent the last three years fighting for a man and now you're with Cole? Are you some kind of man-eater? God you. I can't believe this is you. YOU! You are sick! Have I told you that? Have I told you how sick you are? Oh My God. You told me you were ill, that's why you were running. I nearly believed you. Now I know you are ill, you're sick in the head."
"Let me explain. Cole was trying to stop me from telling Leo-
"Oh save it Piper! The note, the lies, you and Cole, they all add up and I am so ashamed of you. You're so lucky I'm not going to tell Phoebe or Leo but you better sort this out. You better or I will tell them."
"There's nothing to tell. They're all lies!"
"You're all lies you mean-
"Prue, you're my sister. Why won't you listen to me? Damn it, why won't you trust me?"
"Trust you? Piper I can never trust you again!"
Prue's face wasn't just of anger but of sheer disappointment.
"I'll tell you the truth Prue. From the start…"
Prue just shook her head and started to walk off.
Piper still tried to continue. "I wrote that note to Leo because I didn't want him to know that-
The door slammed as Prue walked out of the room.
"…I have Breast Cancer…" Piper finished, looking around to find the room empty except for a knocked out Cole.
A/N: Hope you liked that! No one minded that Cole's a bit evil did they? Anyway please review! Pretty please with cherries, sprinkles, chocolate swirls and mini Leo's on top?? Enjoy your weekend. xXx