I LOVE YOU, PIPER
Summary: Leo got lost in the reality where Piper was married to Cole. He showed her his sincere love and tried to win her back.
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Summary of part 3:
- Andras – the demon of rage – broke the sisters bond making them powerless.
- The Elders explained to Leo the rest of what's happenning to The Charmed Ones.
Part 4
Three sisters were in the attic searching the book for the way to get their powers back.
"Nothing here." – Prue closed the book, the triquetra still kept parting.
"It's all because of you, Pheebs." – cursed Prue – "You stirred my bile."
"You went into action first." – retorted Phoebe – "But Piper called me bitch, she triggered it."
"We should call Leo, he must know something." – suggested Piper.
"What? You still want to see him?" – asked Prue.
"He's our whitelighter. We need a whitelighter." – argued Piper.
"But the reason shouln't be here right now." – interfered Phoebe feeling the atmosphere turned hot again.
Cole shimmered in.
"If nothing's urgent. We're having a sisterly talk." – said Prue.
"Sisterly talk?" – smirked Cole – "I think your bond is broken."
"How could you know that?" – blurted Phoebe.
"Unluckily, your powers are rooted in your bond as sisters. It causes you're extremely vulnerable now." – continued him.
"What do you want?" – frowned Prue.
"Heal it if you want to survive." – proposed Cole.
"Survive? I think we have an agreement with The Source." – doubted Piper, she tried to get something from him.
"Once you're The Charmed Ones, not now."
Three sisters startled with fear.
"OK, I'm sorry, I shouldn't've made it harder. Forgive me!" – started Phoebe.
"I shouldn't've suspected you and. . ., um, you know." – said Prue, she and Phoebe thought Cole didn't know about Piper and Leo love.
"Sorry Pheebs for calling you that. And Prue, I didn't mean to make you sad." – said Piper.
They squeezed each other's hands. Then Prue tried to move a chair, it's unmoved, Piper blew it up, it's unblown, Phoebe levitated, her feet were still on the ground.
"It doesn't work." – said Prue, they looked at one another anxiously.
They hadn't really been sincere yet.
All of a sudden, Cole morphed into his demon form. Three sisters got shock, they'd never seen Belthazor in person for a year living with him.
"It's time to kill." – grumbled Belthazor in his harsh voice.
Prue grabbed her sisters' hands tightly. He formed an energy ball in his hand.
"Run, I'll hold him off." – said Prue.
"No, Prue, we're in this together." – said Piper.
"We're always three." – said Phoebe.
The triquetra on the book joined back up.
Prue tk Belthazor crashing against the wall.
"Blow him up!" – shouted her.
Piper hesitated feeling something wasn't right. He couldn't act that slow with all of his reputation.
Prue used her power to make a small statue aiming at him.
"No, he didn't really want to kill us." – cried Piper, she blew it up.
Belthazor shimmered out, then re-appeared the second later in his human form.
"It's worked, right?" – said Cole – "I'm back to work."
He disappeared.
"Why did you know, Piper?" – asked Prue.
"If he's in fight, he wouldn't wait us to react." – answered her.
"So why he help us?" – asked Phoebe.
"Some unknown purpose." – guessed Prue – "But our powers are back, we can protect ourselves."
"Prue, I admit I loved Leo, and maybe I still. . ." – said Piper – "But I'm aware that he's your husband, don't worry, it'll never happen."
"I trust you." – smile Prue softly.
"I'll keep distance with Cole. I've pondered on it, there's a lot of mortal men outside." – said Phoebe.
"Everything will be over, Piper. You'll start again after that." – said Prue, that's all she could say. They didn't know how long it would take.
"But you look like jealous, Piper?" – wondered Phoebe.
"Do you think demon can love?" – asked Piper indeliberately.
"What?" – challenged Prue and Phoebe in union.
"Nothing. It can't help it." – Piper walked out.
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"You've got married to Prue so that you have a good reason to live with them."
"I can't believe I accepted to marry without love." – mumbled Leo.
"You don't love Prue that way, but you're in sympathy and harmony with her. Plus she loves you."
"How long will it last?" – asked him.
"Until The Charmed Ones defeat The Source, they can vanquish Belthazor then. Piper'll be free."
"It doesn't make sense if I'll leave Prue for her." – despaired Leo.
"The fate has its own arrangement, Wyatt." – continued them – "The Charmed Ones just got a few demon attacks last year. But those were always fatal. It means The Source still trys killing them, decreasing the quantity as if he keeps the agreement, but increasing the quality. Phoebe get some premonitions when she touches Belthazor or his stuff, it helped them save some situations. Do you have any question else?"
"Yes. The girls and the book are interconnected. What if The Source use this marriage to turn Piper evil, then the book. Every demon wants it." – asked Leo.
"We've got a prevention. They've married in a normal way, neither wicca nor dark one so that their natures won't be changed. Belthazor isn't capable of touching the book. What all of us are waiting for is he turns traitor to The Source. It'll be time to act."
"He has no motivation to do it." – said Leo.
"He will. We know he will."
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2.00 am
The door's opened up, Piper knew it's Cole. He stepped very gently trying not to wake her up since she's a light sleeper. She was lying on her side turning her face out, he pulled her blanket up and lied next to her.
"Thank you!" – mumbled her.
"What?" – asked him in low voice.
"For helping us."
He realized she's talking about them losing their powers in the morning.
"You're welcome."
Piper switched the night lamp on. She lied on her stomach raising her head up to stare at him. Her eyes were soft, and her breasts were heaving lightly behind the low-necked night gown in her position.
She kissed him, and he responded her passionately. Piper wanted Cole this night, she didn't know what's the reason after seeing his demon form or after his helping her get the powers back. Perhaps because she had found him caress her picture last night or because her period had just been over making her hormone rise up.
As the matter of fact, they did it occasionally, not so much or regularly, but how could a man and a woman share the same bed of long duration without having sex??? Furthermore, the agreement didn't mean they're just nominal husband and wife. For the first 3 months after their wedding, Piper found Cole was a sweet and pampered lover, she also wanted to use it to remind herself where's her status and stamped out her love for Leo. Cole's always on her side when he had free time. Then he caught her and Leo in her room, he started to stay out often, and their sexual activities interrupted for a month. Piper wanted to resume in Leo's and Prue's nuptial night since she felt heart broken, but Cole refused. However, he took the initiative in it next night. They kept it happen sometimes, but he had heaps of girlfriends outside. And it hurt Piper, she knew Leo wouldn't treat her like that, now she had to live with him in the same roof as his sister-in-law while both of them understood they would've never left each other of their free wills.
She couldn't ignore Cole on the other hand. Anyhow they're in cohabitation, but he kept some affairs besides her. Sometimes she wanted to expel him, sometimes she wanted to close the door to keep him home. Sometimes she craved for him, sometimes she felt disgusted when he touched her. But she did nothing, she held her head up and pretended she didn't care.
Phoebe thought Cole still live in the Manor because The Source was afraid of fighting directly to The Charmed Ones and Cole adored her, as to Piper, she's absolutely frigid to him. But Prue guessed different, Cole was an evil demon in her eyes, if Piper refused him, he would cause trouble. She never asked Piper though.
A few minutes later, Cole was on the top of Piper, he reached out to switch the lamp off.
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Piper was making up at her dresser. Her hair was twisted into a bun, she wore a black jacket and a black skirt. Cole came in and put a small box down in front of her.
"Thank you." – she opened it revealing a pair of pearl earrings.
He looked at her reflection in the mirror while she's putting them on. They're going to attend a burial service. Prue and Phoebe weren't interested in dealing with social relations, so Piper usually had to take on those responsibilities. The dead was a close neighbor who had helped their mother a lot in the past.
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When Piper was walking out, Leo came from the kitchen:
"Piper!"
She turned around.
"Where're you going?" – asked him.
"Attend a funeral." – answered her – "Any news?"
"I just settled my own business." – Leo knew she didn't get what he's talking – "You can say I'm from the past, the year of 2000 since I just kept that old memory in my mind."
Piper remembered he had incessantly asked her about what had been taking place and had no idea who Cole was. But she recognized he's mentioning another meaning that he only held the period they'd been happily in love.
"Leo!"
"The Elders've helped me catch the imformation up. But the last thing I really lived with is you said Phoebe cast a spell for you to find the man you loved." – Leo looked at her amorously – "You didn't need it. . . you always knew you love me."
"Loved." – corrected Piper in a soft voice.
"I love you, Piper." – insisted Leo – "I know what's going on, what we're waiting for, and I know I have an obligation with Prue, but even it isn't in conformity with sentiment and reason, whatever turns out, I still and always love you." – he touched her upper arm.
Piper avoided his eyes, she had wanted him to keep this love in his heart forever, but she found it's very selfish, he was unhappy as long as he still loved her.
"I have to go." – she turned away.
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Cole and Piper were at a cemetery with many people while a priest was holding the ceremony. The new widow was weeping ceaselessly. When they lowered her husband's coffin into his grave, she knelt down crying her heart out and calling his name bitterly. She passed out as they started to bury him.
Piper sighed, she's feeling sympathy with her deeply, she understood thoroughly how to be seperated from the one themselves loved with all their hearts. She couldn't say separation in life was better than parting in death. At least Piper still saw and talked to Leo everyday, that's also why the wound in her heart wasn't healed realizing they would never be lovers as before.
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After the ceremony, Piper and Cole went home. They were walking to the parking lot together.
"Human feelings're so strong, Mrs. Dorothy looks exhausted. Hope her recover soon!" – said him.
"She's grieving. She's just lost her husband. No woman could take it easy." – whispered her.
They kept walking in silence until they reached their car. Cole opened the door for her:
"Would you grieve at my death someday?"
Piper stared at him, his eyes were serious and touched. She hadn't thought about it, she did have some vague feeling for him, but it wasn't deep enough to worry about losing him. Furthermore, her family thought they themselves would vanquish him after defeating The Source. Would she grieve for him??? And why he cared for it???
"Never mind." – said Cole, she didn't say a word and he took it as her answer.
He walked to the other side and got on his seat.
They didn't talk anything, even not seeing each other on the way home.
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