Chapter 38
...Suddenly Piper remembered something, something very important.
"Leo... Where is he? Is he Ok?"
Darryl was staring at her, and she could tell he was choosing his words.
"I don't know, when I came there they were rushing him to the hospital, that's where your sisters will be waiting, and we're on the way there anyway. Will you be ok?" He asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Piper said, still thinking about Leo.
They were ten minutes away from the hospital when Piper asked;
"Is Green..." She stopped to find the right words. "Is he... you know, is he dead?"
"I would guess so." Darryl said after a few moments.
She sighed, not sure how to feel about that.
When they got to the hospital, two nurses quickly took care of her wounds while Darryl was figuring out where Leo was.
He led her down a hall, and at the end of it Piper could see her two sisters, Phoebe sitting on a chair and staring into space, while Prue was pacing from side to side.
When they saw her, they both jumped up and rushed to embrace her with a hug.
"Thank god! We were so worried..." Prue exclaimed, tears in her eyes.
"What happened? Where is Green?" Phoebe hurried to ask after Piper away back from her sisters.
"Um, later... Where is Leo?" Piper asked, concern in her shaky voice.
"He is in there." Prue said more calmly, gesturing towards the closed door on their left.
Piper looked at it, then slowly opened it and walked inside.
Leo was lying in a bed, a beeping noise from some machines around him.
His eyes were shut, and he looked paler then Piper has ever seen him before.
She was overwhelmed by the sight; Leo always looked so strong and in control, and there he was, completely vulnerable.
Tears running down her cheeks, she stepped closer to him, and suddenly his eyes opened.
"Leo?" She said in a small voice.
He blinked a few times, then a relieved smile curved his beautiful features.
Piper now stood close to him, as his hand rose to her cheek where she felt his warm touch.
She grabbed his hand with her trembling once, and tried to say something but couldn't find her voice.
"I was worried they wouldn't be able to find you." He said.
Piper sniffed to clear her nose, and managed to nod.
"What happened?" He asked.
"He crushed the car into a tree." Piper whispered.
"What? How did he do that?"
"Well, the cups were after us, and he started driving like crazy. One thing led to another and a few minutes later we were smashed into a tree." Piper said, remembering how she looked back at the car (or what was left of it), and Green, sitting there, soaked in his own blood.
"He is dead, isn't he." Leo said rather then asked.
Piper nodded.
They both sighed, looking into each other's eyes, talking without saying a thing.
Piper slowly smiled between her tears, saying;
"You took a bullet for me."
Leo smiled too.
"Well, not technically. He aimed it on me." He said.
"Doesn't make me love you any less."
"I love you too." Leo said, and things suddenly started to clear up.
"How are you doing?" Piper asked.
"Not bad actually, it hurts a bit, but I'm fine." He said.
There was a knock on the door and her two sisters came in.
"Hey, how are you two?"
Both Piper and Leo smiled, relieved, and finally, after all that time, Piper felt it.
It was over, the bad days were over. From now on, everything will be good again, as unfamiliar as that might sound.
Leo was ok, her sisters were too, and even she was feeling a bit cheered up.
She was so afraid for Leo's life, and knowing that he was ok was like jumping into heaven.
Somehow, the knowledge that Green was gone was also relieving.
She grew to fear him ever since she saw those pictures, and now that she knew that he was behind Greg's connection to her, she hated him.
But now, regard it all, her faith was back. She felt alive again, which was very surprising even to herself considering what occurred that night.
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Two days later, Leo was released home.
His mother wanted him to stay with them for a while at least, but he insisted on staying in the manor with Piper.
At the first month, things weren't completely normal around the house, the awkwardness of all that happened was still there.
The realization that Piper wasn't a full sister to Phoebe and Prue was quiet shocking, but they got over it rather fast.
The Gray days were starting to belong to the past, and a new page was opening, especially in Piper's life.
She figured out which college she wants to go to, and it wasn't the one Leo was heading to, but they were going to pull it off, get through it, just like they always did.
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"Wow... Did you see that?" Leo asked, looking up into the dark sky and the beautiful starts which seemed closer then ever.
"No..." Piper said, looking up too.
It was spectacular.
Not just the sky... everything. Everything was falling back into its place; her puzzle was linking again, forming a beautiful life for her.
"It was a shooting star." Leo said, smiling.
"I missed it." Piper said, disappointed.
"It's ok; we'll wait for another one to fall." Leo snuggled closer to her on the bench in the manor's backyard.
Piper put her head on his shoulder, shivering inside the blanket that was wrapped around the two.
"What if there won't be another one tonight?" She asked with a sleepy voice.
"For you, there always will be, I can guarantee you that." He said, stroking her hair.
"That sounds very cheesy." Piper said, closing her eyes.
"Don't complain." He whispered.
"Who said I was?" She said, and with her eyes still shut she placed a soft kiss on his lips.
He shifted a bit, and set up from the comfortable position they were in.
"Come on, let's go to bed." He said, sounding a little too excited for the cause, obviously talking about something a bit more enjoyable then sleeping.
"Lead the way, Charm Boy."
The End? No, it was just the beginning...........
You ask what happened with Greg?
He got what he deserved, and Piper never saw him again, he was completely gone from her life, as was Green, who Piper couldn't help but feel sorry for.
He was her father even if she wasn't proud of it, and he had his sorrow ending. Maybe he was in a better place now, somewhere where he can find peace.
The loss of Grams never really stopped hurting, but then, how can it? Things like that hurt forever.
Prue begun her career as a photographer, which was surprising, but as Piper knew her older sister, she will be successful in anything she would do.
Phoebe continued her rebelled life, which contained many unending fights with Prue.
Some things just never change.
Like Leo. He was, and always will be her angel, one she would never let go of.
They were meant for each other, they both knew it.
Of course, more gray days were to come, at a time no one will be expecting them.
But until then, Piper was set to make the best of every day, letting those little surprises surprise her over and over again, whether they were good, or not too good.
Because in the end, like it or not, it's all about THE LITTLE SURPRISES IN LIFE..........................
AN: And here the story ends... I am not making a sequel guys, I thought about it but decided to leave it at that.
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Thank you all soooooooooooooooooooooo much for spending time and reading it, it was great fun.
If you want to read more Piper Leo stories, go read my "Fast Woman, Delicious Man", which is also a major PL. Right now I am concentrating on that one, but soon I might start another one, because ideas are jumping in my head.
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