A/N: Another chapter has come!! I'm really glad I had a lot of positive feedback on the last chapter. You guys…really make my day. Just know that I'm really thankful to have people who like my story….and I'm thankful that if I have a bad day….I can just click on my reviews and It would really make me feel better. Thank you!! All of you! So…I spent some time on Chapter 9….here we go!
Summary: This is an A/U fic. What if the Elders never let Piper and Leo get married? What if they forbid them from having any kind of relationship? And they followed the rules, except that Piper still got pregnant. So what if their daughter had the exact same story Paige had? Piper and Leo had to give their powerful daughter away to another family...and they were never the same.……time passes by, and a chain of events….leads Piper's daughter and the Halliwells to another exciting, and emotional adventure.
Disclaimer: I do not own the show or any of the characters, except for some that you don't recognize
Separation- Chapter 9
As the music followed its own beat and the people were swinging their hips to the groove, Piper stood behind the bar counter, bored as a minor in a classroom would be. She leaned on her elbow on the counter, while people surrounded her, drinking and dancing and socializing. She really had no care for them, and thought all of them were stupid little idiots for thinking of spending their money on this stupid club when they could be using it for something else. 'Oh well….money is money….and I guess I'm making lots of it from these idiotic civilians.' She thought, and gave herself a small laugh at the comment.
"Hey miss? You happen to stock Budweiser at this here club? I haven't sipped one in ages….Good lord!" the western based man said. She laughed inside at his stupid white cowboy hat, something someone would wear in a black and white John Wayne movie. Three gold teeth shone from his smile and it looked like he didn't get a chance to shave that morning either. But he was a customer. And a clubber kind of person, apparently. Who the hell cares anymore. "Yeah….that'll be $7.99 a bottle sir." She said awfully loudly, since she could barely here over the music and the constant jabbering of the crowd.
"Woweee! That's a mighty cheap price miss….glad I came here tonight!!! I'll take three icy cold ones!!" he said like a dog when he gets a treat. Piper lifted an eyebrow and stared at him for a minute. "Yeah…ummm it's no problem." She said sarcastically as she opened the cooler hidden under the counter and took out three wet, and cold beer bottles for the man to have. "That'll be 23.97 sir." She said loudly once more, her hand held out, ready for the money to land on her palm. The man dug in his pants a little, and it seemed he was searching for his money.
'Ohhhh no…you're not going to use the 'I seem to have lost my wallet' trick bucko…..' she thought, quickly assuming that the man was pure broke, judging my his attire and his western accent. But the next event proved her wrong, as he finally pulled out a crumpled one hundred dollar bill out of his pocket and slammed it down on the counter. Piper was startled, since his slam made an awful loud noise and it shook the counters of the bar. One person's drink even spilled a bit, but with the girl he was talking to, he didn't seem to mind or notice. Piper sighed as another thing she assumed was wrong and took the bill to the cashier in the middle. She brought out the change and handed it to the man.
The man had already broken the bottle cap off with his teeth and had started to chug all the beer down. "WOOOO doggie!!! That is mighty tasty there!!! Ow ow owwwww!!!" he said, yelping like a dog. Piper shook her head in embarrassment and covered her eyes with her hand. 'The people in San Francisco these days…..they all came out of the mental asylum for pity's sake!!' she thought, still shaking her head. She looked up at the ragged man and roller her eyes. "Your welcome." She spat out at him, as she went back to her work. But the cowboy seemed to stick around.
"Say there little lady….you look mighty fine….this music sure is great! Care to dance???" he said, still chugging the second of his three beers down. Piper paused and stared at the man again, this time instead of embarrassment, she stared at him with disgust. "Look MR. PECOS BILL. If you know what's good for your 'doggies', then I suggest you get away from me this instant before I take a freaking lasso and whip you into the wall!!!" she screamed at him. His eyes widened and his hands went up in his defense. "Ok missy…..I know when not to deal with a toughie chick. Had one as a second wife myself!!!" he grinned. Piper rolled her eyes once more as he backed away from the counter with his beer bottles and went to find some other woman he would rodeo dance with.
She sighed as she got another perverted person away from her because he was hitting on her. It made her feel cold and bitter to know that she could have been happily married, with a beautiful daughter and not to mention a ring as a symbol that she was taken. She only had one true love, and that was Leo. She recognized the spot that she was standing in. Almost fourteen years ago…..she stood in this same exact spot in the exact same position, waiting for her love to come and tell her the news about their status "up there". Of course, that only ended in heartbreak. She turned around to look at their couch right under the stairs.
It was their little loveseat. It was there that on nights she had to work at the club, all she had to do was snuggle up with Leo and he would make all the stress and pain go away. Of course, that only ended up in heartbreak too, since she had no one by her side now. No one to keep her warm through this endless snow storm. "Up there" had taken it all away from her. She only wished that she had a little girl to keep her company……to remind her of her father everyday, and to see her beauty and laughter in the morning when she woke her up for school. She needed someone, but instead, she ended up with no one. She only wished and prayed that things would get better, that suddenly Leo would show up and suggested that they run away and elope, while shortly after they get married, they can get their daughter back, while they could live in a happy family scenario away from the elders, away from demons, away from any other pressures in her life. But she realized that it was only a simple prayer, and usually in the Halliwell family, no matter how much you tried, prayers just don't work.
She snapped out of her fanaticizing and turned back to the club. She reminded herself that she also had to keep an eye out for suspicious looking people. Several times, minors had been sneaking in without her knowing, and she hadn't of caught one yet. She needed to keep a close watch tonight, since she didn't want kids to get away with sneaking into P3 illegally.
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Alyssa, Karis, Sam and Holly stood in front of the club, with it's neon lighted sign, and the hundreds of people lined outside it's entrance. "Wow…..I didn't think it would be THIS packed….." Karis said in amazement.
"It's Friday night idiot…..of course it's packed. Well….better for us. At least there are people to cover us so there's a very low chance that we would get caught! You know…that guy over there is HOT!" Alyssa said with a smile. Sam rolled her eyes at her friend's immaturity. "Whatever…let's just get in already…" she said, wanting to get the whole thing over with. Holly stood silent the whole way. Karis giggled in excitement. "Ok you guys…..it's around the back, through the alley right here…." She said, walking through the giant crowds of people over to the side of the club. Alyssa followed Karis quickly, but Holly and Sam seemed to hesitate their every step of the way.
Finally they entered the well-lit alley, where all the garbage cans stood. They walked in a line as Karis leaded the way to the middle of the alley, where there was a door that stated it was the back entrance to P3. Alyssa, Holly and Sam silently stood back while Karis walked up to the door and lightly knocked on the door, in a particular pattern. After, she stood back along with her friends. It was like they were in an Indiana Jones movie, and right now they were opening a secret cave. They waited a few seconds, when a big, muscular Caucasian man opened the door slightly and stuck his head out and looked around the alley. He finally spotted the four teenagers.
"Yo…what chu want?" he said, showing his ghetto speech. Karis rolled her eyes and stood up to him. "Yo yourself. I'm with Mario. He told you we'd be here didn't he?" she said sternly. The guy lifted an eyebrow. "He'd didn't say nothing about little teeny toddlers." He said, checking all four girls and their appearance.
"Well who cares! I'm with Mario and if you don't believe me, then you could go call him on his cell and disturb him in his work and he'll send 'boys' after you. You know what I'm saying?" Karis said, showing some ghetto talk of her own. The man gave a big sigh and opened the door fully. Sam glared at Karis. She knew her family had connections, but by the way they were talking, it sounded like her father was a big important boss of the Mafia. He walked outside, in his huge black shirt and jeans. In his hand, he held a metal detector. "Hey….I gotta check you girls. Club rules." He said. "I can't have you girls shooting a rampage inside can I? Boss would kill me…"
The girls just shrugged, since they really had nothing to hide. He checked each one of them, and it only took a matter of minutes. Of course, Alyssa took a little long than the rest of them from all the jewelry she had on. They finally were done, and the guard led them through the entrance. "Okay….you go out there, and keep yourselves covered. Boss is on watch tonight cuz I've been doing this crap for Mario a lot. Letting these dumb minors in. You get caught, you don't know who I am….and you don't know how the hell you got through this door. And if you have to blame it on someone, blame it on a guy named Leon. He paused and glared at the front entrance where another guy that looked a lot like him, only more hair, stood and as he glanced at him, he snickered.
"Okay….okay….you got everything? Good…..now go do, whatever it is you girls wanna do……Just get away from me. I can't get caught sneaking you in here got it?" he said, as he walked back to the back at his post. Karis and Alyssa giggled in excitement. "Oh my gosh you guys!!! We're actually in P3!!! Hear the music??" Alyssa said excitedly as they walked through some minor halls until they finally reached the main room. A loud burst of music soared through their ears as the they saw a wonderous site. People, dancing and socializing with each other. A band rocking out on the stage. It was heaven to Alyssa and Karis. Of course to Sam and Holly, they weren't so sure if they wanted to stay anymore.
"You guys……I'm not so sure we should be doing this anymore….." Holly screamed over to them since the music was deafening their ears.
"Oh come on Holly! Don't chicken out now!!! This is it! We're actually in!!! Let's go have some fun!!!" Alyssa shouted as she and Karis made their way through the crowd. "Where the heck are they going?" Sam screamed to Holly. Holly just shrugged but then followed Alyssa and Karis closely, with her fear of losing them and getting caught. They finally stopped walking when they reached four guys. Sam recognized them from the senior football team. She glared at Alyssa. She pulled Alyssa over to her and whispered in her ear. "You never told me we'd be meeting guys here."
"Come ON Sam!!! Tyler, Richard, Bobby and Arnold from the football team!!! Why do you think we came on the first place? You didn't think we'd be here on our own did you?" she said with a smile. But Sam was in no mood to joke.
"Lis….." she said worried, using her friend's nickname. "I have a bad feeling about this ok?"
"Sam….come on. There's no need to worry. These guys are huge and they could pass easily for adults…..so we wouldn't get caught right away! It'll be fine….besides, I heard Arnold thinks you're kind of cute! It'll be fine. Tell you what, we'll leave early then ok? At least an hour here and then we can go." She said, looking into Sam's eyes. Sam sighed and gave up. "Yeah…..yeah….."
Alyssa giggled and went over with Holly and Karis to look at the guys. Alyssa went straight to Tyler, Holly went to Bobby and Karis hooked up with Richard. It was sort of ironic because these guys were the guys they've each had a crush on every since freshman year. Sam blushed as Arnold walked over to her. He held out his hand that was stuffed in his pocket and smiled. "Hey Sam." He said. Sam blushed even more, taking his hand and shaking it. He was an honest to god good guy, with dark brown spiky hair, and was tall and muscular, just like your average quarterback from the football team.
"Hi." Sam said shyly as they shook hands. He smiled as he saw the redness in her face. "So….what' up?" he asked. Sam merely shrugged. "Nothing much…..have you been here before?"
Arnold shook his head. "Nah…..the other guys have….but I'm here for a first." He said, looking around the place. Sam nodded and smiled again. Arnold turned back to her. "Hey…..you wanna dance?" he asked, holding his hand out. She hesitated for a minute and looked around to her friends. It turned out that they were already at the dance floor. She took his hand and nodded slowly. "Sure…" she said, as he took her wrist and dragged her to the dance floor. The music was flowing with their moves. Sam seemed to dance in perfect rhythm as her body matched the tempo of the song. Arnold danced along with her, admiring her dancing and her beauty.
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A heavy arm was thrown over her shoulders and tightened around Apolla's neck Spencer held her neck tighter and tighter until he could hear her gag. Apolla clenched her teeth and gathered her strength to bury her elbow in his solar plexus. As Spencer staggered backward and sucked for air, she turned on him indignantly. "Argh…..you jerk….." she said, rubbing her neck in the sore places.
Spencer recovered from his injuries and tried to run at her again. Apolla felt strong and confident about this battle and she believed she was going to win, judging from her past fights with darklighters. She let him come at her. 'Might as well get a shred of a workout' she thought as he barreled towards her. As he got close, reversed his momentum with a fast knee strike and finished him off with a front kick.
He lay sprawled in a half-conscious pile and a smile flickered over her face. She bent down to him and looked at his face sympathetically. "Oh… look who got his ass kicked by a girl!!" she said, all giggly and stood up from him. She was startled by his next move. His eyes jerked open and his hand grabbed her ankle. She gave a little gasp before she hit the floor on her back. She could hear Spencer laughing as he got up from his back. Apolla clenched her teeth and was sore from the sudden fall. She rubbed the back of her neck for her head was spinning and was a little dizzy. The next blow to her face that Spencer gave didn't exactly improve her condition.
Apolla's head jerked to the right as Spencer's fist buried into her cheek. He then grabbed her by the neck once more, pulling up from her lying position and holding her up against the wall. He laughed as he stared at her helpless face. "Please…..you whitelighters are always so ignorant." He said, smirking once more. Apolla gagged through her choking. Spencer held her neck tightly, his big palm wrapped around her neck. Apolla wouldn't give up. She once again gathered her strength together to lift up her right leg and kick him in his…….well, his private place.
Spencer backed away, startled by the sudden pain. "Bitch…" he spat at her as he gasped for air. Apolla was breathing heavily, savoring the feeling of air going through her weakened lungs. She gave him a deathly stare and ran at him to give him a spinning kick in the face. He fell on the floor, right on his chin as he fell flat on his chest. It seemed to Apolla that he was finally knocked out. She sighed and closed her eyes, mentally complementing herself on winning a good fight. She turned around to run and get Artemis to help and to warn him of the darklighter, when a sudden sharp pain went through her.
It turned out, that Spencer recovered from his aches and pains quite quickly. He still laid on the floor, but his arm was spread out to Apolla, with the crossbow gripped tightly in his hand. The arrow had just entered into Apolla's stomach. Apolla paused and looked down at the crimson colored blood spreading slowly throughout her shirt. She gave a gasp, before she just collapsed to the floor. "Ha ha ha ha…." Spencer laughed in pity. He watched her back away slowly, crawling to lean against the wall, as she held her stomach tightly. She reached the wall, and leaned against it, slightly tilting her head and closing her eyes, trying to deal with the pain.
"Oh….the whitelighter got proved wrong….and lost to a darklighter. I could tell that you've been around for a while whitelighter….but I guess you were bound to die sometime. I'll just take your power to hand to Arkon….and soon, your companion whitelighter will come, where he will die at my hand as well. And as the uncle comes crawling back to you….then the girl will have to follow sometime, and all of your powers, will be mine." He said as he laughed more. Apolla's breathing was now ragged and she closed her eyes tight. "Sam……" she let out as a mere exhale.
She then silently wished and prayed in her mind, that Artemis wouldn't feel her pains and wouldn't come back home. But she knew that all whitelighter partners always shared the same pain, and emotion…..as if they were each other's charges. And she knew that Artemis will if not already feel the pains of the darklighter's arrow and poison spreading through her body. It was hopeless now.
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Artemis watched as his charge danced with a senior from her high school. Suddenly an urge of fatherly instincts took over him. 'What in the name of…..what is she doing dancing with that man? Why is she here anyway…..Oh Sam……you've really done it this time haven't you…..' he thought as he shook his head slowly. He had followed the girls to the club and watched them go through the back entrance. He felt a little hurt by her lies and deceit. But she knew it was probably not all her fault. He knew the all the peer pressure she was going through at school, with all her friends, so what could he do?
'But what she did was still wrong….. that girl…..' he thought once more. Once the girls had been checked and walked in, he sneaked way in to the back of the alley where no one would see, and he orbed into the men's bathroom of the club. He walked out of the stall casually, and walked out of the bathroom. He searched through the hundreds of heads that occupied the club and when he finally found them, he found them with guys.
Of course he was going to go get them out of that club. If the owner found those four, then they could get arrested or worse, he and Apolla might have to take the blame. Something caused his eye. He wasn't really paying attention to the name of the club, just watching the four girls. But then he saw a big neon lighted sign on one of the walls. P3. "Oh god….this is….Piper's club. This is her mother's club. I can't let them see her….oh lord….' He thought as he thought of the newfound panic.
He hurried through the crowds of people, trying desperately to reach Samantha. He was within feet of her, when a sudden sharp pain made him stop and gasp in pain. "Ahhhh…." He gasped as he clutched his abdomen tightly. The pain was so overwhelming and it was like he couldn't stand anymore. He suddenly realized what was happening. "Oh god….Apolla….." he said, worried that Apolla had been attacked. He prayed that it was something else, but he couldn't ignore the aching pain inside of him. He backed away from everyone, and decided he would have to go to Apolla first and Sam later.
Still clutching his stomach, he slowly made his way to the bathroom. He pushed the door open, and luckily nobody was in the washroom. The pain was so severe, he screamed every now and then, and he fell to the floor. He breathed very heavily and crawled to the wall where he lightly leaned on it. "Apolla…" he said again, dematerializing in blue and white shiny lights.
To be continued……stay tuned for chapter 10 of "Seperation."
A/N: Thanks again reviewers!! And I hope you review this chapter! I hope you don't mind the suspense and the mild cliffhanger. Hehehehe. There will most likely be another chapter up tomorrow night or on Saturday. Thanks again! Please read and review!!!
Oh wait! One more thing before I leave this author's note alone……I did this with my other story, and it helped me a lot. I'm going to do a character poll for this story. Can you please leave a review telling your favorite character (along with your comment of course). It really tells me what kind of characters the readers like. But, I mean….only choose from the ones I created. Not the already made ones. I'll name them right now.
Pick between:
Sam, Apolla, Artemis, Spencer, Arkon, Karis, Alyssa, Holly, Arnold, or you can even vote for the minor characters! Like, ummm, Ms. Rowland, the nun, the western man, the security guard, ummm there's many more. Please do me a favor and vote? Thank you so much!!! Hope you liked the chapter!!!! Read, Review and Vote!!!