Chapter 32
When Piper and Prue left his office Green got up and started walking around the room in frustration.
Piper wasn't seposed to find out who he is just yet, and she was NEVER seposed to know that he was responsible for Greg's actions.
He didn't mean for him to do what he did, so that doesn't count, he told himself, knowing that he was starting to sweat.
He was going to win that damn trial, and then he would tell Piper who he is, and he would take her away from those horrible sisters of hers, and that goddamn boyfriend she has. Leo was bad influence, so he had to go.
He set down and took a deep breath, his chest rising and falling, and he felt his heart race.
Placing a hand over his chest, he told himsef that very soon, he was going to be able to hold his little daughter in his arms. WHATEVER IT WOULD TAKE.
EARLY ON MONDAY MORNING, the date of the trial, Piper woke up from a nightmare she was having, and Leo next to her woke up as well.
"Piper?" He said, with a sleepy voice.
"Sorry." She whispered, having a hard time trying to breath normaly again.
Then Leo liften his head to look at Piper properly.
"Are you ok?"
"Yeah. Just a bad dream." Piper said, pushing the covers away from her and starting to get out of bed.
Leo set up and turned the light next to the bed on.
"You sure?" He asked again.
"I'm fine." Piper said, walking into the bathroom and closing the door behind her.
She splashed some water onto her face and shrugged at how cold it felt against her skin, but very refreshing at the same time.
She didn't remember her dream anymore, but the shaky feeling was still there.
Then she realized that the feeling was because of what was expecting her the next day, and her knees almost gave up on her.
She set down on the floor, feeling lightheaded, and put her head in her hands.
This was all going to be just ok.
There was really no need to panic, and she knew she was starting to panic, which is not a good thing to do in the middle of the night when the trial is the following day.
Ten minutes later, there was a knock on the bathroom door and she heard Leo's voise comming from the bedroom.
"Are you alright in there?"
Piper got up and opened the door, to find a worried Leo.
"You look pale. Let's get back to bed." He said.
They got into bed, and lay in thier special position, with Leo's stomach arching around Piper's back, his hands around her waist.
"Don't worry about the trial, It's all going to turn out well, and starting from tomorrow, life will be heaven..." He whispered in her ear, and those were the words she fell asleep to, feeling safe and loved.
"Piper... Come on, wake up..."
Piper opened her eyes to find Prue above her.
"It's time. We have to be out in an hour." Prue said as Piper sat up and yawned.
"Ok. I'll be downstairs soon." Piper said with a cracked voice.
She put on the clothes she prepared for herself the previous night; Plain black jeans and a long navy shirt.
When she came into the kitchen Phoebe have her some coffee and she set down on a chair next to Leo.
Breakfast was quiet, and Piper didn't complain.
Everything that happened between the ride over to the court and the trial inself was very blurry and out of this world.
She was seated next to Green, and on the other side were Greg and his lawyer.
Greg looked frightened and tense, but his lawyer kept whispering something to him, then Greg looked over at Piper and nodded, then listened to his lawyer and once again nodded, and so on until the judge spoke, and the trial begun.
It was harder then she thought it would be to sit there and hear people she doesn't know talk about what happened to her.
Doctor Clare was the first one to testify.
She remembered how all those months back Leo took her to the hospital, and Doctur Clare was the one to take care of her.
"A boy brought her, her age I think. She had two broken ribs and a concussion; I let her go home after she spent the night at the hospital." Doctor Clare said when she was asked by Green about what she remembered from that night.
When Greg's lawyer asked if the boy who brought her was Leo, pointing at him, she nodded.
And that was all he asked.
Why would he ask that? It was obvious that Leo was the one who brought her... So why did he want to point that out?
Then next one to testify was her sister Prue.
"She was very fragile after what happened, it completely changed her and she wasnt as cheerful as she used to be..."
Hearing her sister say that was like a stab in the stomach.
She didn't mean to change, she really didn't.
Piper looked over at David Green on her right side who was frowning. He looked like he was regretting something.
Next was Darryl Morris, the cop who was there that night.
"When we came in half of her clothes were thrown on the floor, and he had her on a table, then when he saw us he had a knife held against her throat, and he threatened that if we won't put our guns away he would kill her. I sent one of us to come from the back door just in case before we came in and he got there just in time to pull him away..."
Suddenly the whole event was going through her mind, the way Greg was screaming in frustration, how he laughed when she tried to get away...
Then Leo was testifying.
"When I followed them out of the club he was hitting her and screaming at her, so I pulled him away and punched him, and he ran off. Then I took Piper to the hospital."
"And how did you know to follow them?" Greg's lawyer asked Leo.
"I saw them walking out."
"Tell me, you and Miss Halliwell are going out together for... How long?"
"Objection your honor! Their Personal relationship has nothing whatsoever to do with this case." Green said, standing up.
"Sustained." The judge said.
Greg's lawyer smiled, and walked back to his seat next to Greg.
Then it was her turn to go up there.
She was asked questions by both lawyers, and tried her best to tell everything right like it happened.
Then, suddenly she was asked something she wasn't sure how to answer.
"Miss Halliwell, Doctur Clare said earlier you had a concussion."
"Yes."
"What I am asking is, can you recall exactly what happened that night outside the club?"
"Well, it was a little blurry but..."
"So you are saying that you don't remember." He cut her.
"I remember, I just don't exactly..."
"I see. That'll be all." He said, and Piper was done.
When she returned to her seat, it hit her; He was trying to blame Leo of what happened. The bastard.
Then when she heard Greg telling what happened, she thought she would pass out.
"I was on a date with Piper. She started drinking, and I told her it was enough but she wouldn't stop. then she took me outside and that boyfriend of hers, who wasn't with her at the time, followed us outside and started hitting me so I ran off. And that was all that happened, I don't know what he did to her afterwards, but he was crasy with anger when I saw him last."
"What..." Piper whispered, tears filling her eyes.
"When I was at that place she was working at I was about to leave when she asked me to stay and then when everyone was gone she said she wanted me, and I told her that we shouldn't but she said she wanted to very bad, and that she liked it ruff. So I thought, what the hack? And before I knew what was going on there were cops all over the place pointing guns at me so I freaked out and grubbed a knife that was on one of the tables.
I was drunk, and I didn't know what to do. I was NEVER going to hurt her."
Piper's hands were shaking with fear and anger all together.
"Mr. Harrison, you do realize that your version of what happened is completely different from what Ms. Halliwell has just told us here." Then judge said.
"One of you IS LYING."
AN: Oh no! What now? Next chapter the verdct will be out and Prue will find something in Greens office that will shock everyone........... Please review.
