Chapter 4
OoO Ex-Boyfriend Gone Crazy OoO
When Piper walked into the building the next day she bumped into Mr. Girdy, another one of the investigators working for the Wyatt brothers.
He was somewhere in his early forties, Piper guessed.
She wondered if he actually believed people think that horrible wig he had on was real.
He smiled as he saw her.
"Can I help you?" He asked politly, and Piper decided she was going to give him a chance before she would decide she officially dislikes him.
"I am the new secretary." She said, smiling back.
He shook her hand, obviously pleased with the new information.
"I am John Girdy, call me Joe."
"Piper Halliwell. Call me however you please."
He smiled even widely, and said;
"I like you, you good at your job?"
"I guess you'll have to decide on that now won't you?"
Ok, NOW she officially disliked him.
When James came in she gave him his coffee, which he thanked for, then Ms. Dobbs came, and she gave her coffee as well, although she wasn't as greatfull.
"I got my eye on you, just so you know." She said, eyeing Piper suspiciously.
"Excuse me?"
"Don't play games with me, I know what you're up to." She continued, looking down at the coffee infront of her like it was toxic.
"Right... Enjoy your coffee, Ms. Dobbs." Piper said and hurried out of her room.
Leo was the last one to come in, and she couldn't help but notice the red mark on his left cheek.
"What happened to you?" She asked.
"I ended the relationship with my girlfriend." He said, quite miserably.
"Ouch."
"No kidding. I took her to a fancy restaurant and she thought I was going to propose."
"You dumped her in a restaurant??" She asked, remembering how horrible it was with Nathan.
"Yes. Why?"
"I would slap you again." She said, looking right into his gray eyes.
Demn, those were some nice gray eyes.
"Why would you say that? What's wrong with breaking up in a restaurant?"
"That is the most discusting thing you could do. I bet she tried to shout at you but you shut her up."
"Well, not exactly shut her up..."
"Right. Let me give you an advise- Do not ever dump a girlfriend in a restaurant. It's just not fair." Piper said, and pulled out some papers from her table.
"This is what I found from the newspapers yesturday, there really isn't much."
Leo looked through them.
"It's more then I expected. Thank you."
Piper smiled, and he gave her a paper he was holding with telephone numbers on them.
"Could you call these people and ask them the questions that are on the back? It has to do with that woman's murder." He said.
"Sure."
She did as he asked after he left, and she was talking to a woman who appeared to be a close friend with the murdered woman, when the doors from the elevator opened to reveal none other then Nathan.
What the hell was he doing here?
"Excuse me, Ms. Harrison, let me call you back in a few minutes." She said inot the phone and hung up just as a furious Nathan walked up to her desk.
"I can't believe this. You actually went out and found a new job? Ok, fine, you proved your point. Now it's time to come back to work."
"I AM at work. You better bo find a new secretary." Piper said, pretanding she is typing something to show him she is ignoring him.
"I don't haave time for this. Take your things and I'll go tell you 'new' boss you quit."
"Don't you dare!" She called, getting up.
"Piper, you are coming with me, so stop arguing and thake your stuff, or I will take them for you." There was something is his voice that alarmed her, he was truly very upset she left... Then suddenly he caught her wrist and his voice became even louder, if possible.
"NOW!"
"No! Let go of me! I am not going enywhere with you."
Ms. Dobbs came out of her office.
"What in the world is going on here?!" She asked, looking from Piper to Nathan.
"Nothing, we were just leaving. She quits." He said, pulling her away from the table.
"No! I dont want to quit, let me go already, you're hurting me!" She tried to get out of his grip but his strong hand kept pulling.
"Hey!" She heard Leo's voice from behind her, and Nathan stopped to look at him, without leaving his hold of her wrist.
"You need to find a new secretary, she is working for me." Nathan told him, and grabbed her purse from the table, then headed for the way out still pulling her with him.
"I don't work for you Nathan, I work here now... Let me go already!"
"Hey! You heard the woman, let her go." Leo said, and when Nathan didn't obay he got a hold of his shoulder and yanked him to the side, letting Piper slip away from him Nathan.
She helt her hurting wrist, then looked up to see Nathan and Leo face to face.
Nathan looked like a crazy monky next to the taller, maturer and sexyer Leo.
"Now get out, you are not welcome here." Leo said, grabbing her purse away from Nathan, then letting him go.
A furious Nathan turned back to look at Piper.
"This is not over yet, you'll be hearing from me." He said angrily, and hurried out of the building.
She never saw him that way before, and it was unclear to her why did he want her to come back and work for him so badly if he broke up with her... Sure there were thousends of secretarys better then her out there...
"Are you ok?" She felt Leo's pleasing hand on her shoulder and looked up to see his eyes gazing at her.
"Yeah, I'm really sorry about that..." She said, feeling completely embarrassed having her ex come screaming like that into the building. That would sure get her fired in no time...
"That was Nathan? Your ex?"
"And I am glad he is. He's never acted this way before." She said doubtfully.
"Are you sure he is sane?" Leo asked, seriously.
"I don't know." She said, and again looked down the hall to where Nathan has disappeared.
"You might want to put some cold water on that wrist." He said, looking down at it.
"OK."
"Stay away from this guy, he can be pretty aggrassive."
She nodded, then forced a thankful smile.
"Thank you." And with that, she headed to the lady's.
The last thing she heard was Ms. Dobbs behind her telling Leo- "You see that? I told you she was just more trouble."
--OoO--
Leo went back to his office after telling Ms. Dobbs that is was't Ms. Halliwells fault.
He set down on his chair and called the guards downstairs telling them not to let Nathan in next time he comes before they talk to him.
That guy was completely out of his mind.
When the phone rand he picked it up to hear Alison's mother's voice. Danm.
"Leo Wyatt, you have some guts, boy." Mrs. Millar said.
"Hello, Mrs. Millar." He said, too tired to argue.
"Don't you hello me! How dare you leave my daughter like that??"
"I am sorry, but I don't believe this is any of your business." He said as politely as possible.
"Of course it is! You go back and apoligize, or it will be the biggest mistake in your life."
"I don't believe it will. Goodbye, and again, I am sorry." He said, and hung up before she could say anything else.
when the phone rang again seconds later he picked it up and said;
"I really think you shouldn't be talking for your daughter."
"What?" He heard an unfamiliar man say, and realised it was definatly not Mrs. Millar.
"I apologise, you've reached Wyatt Investigations; I will let you talk to my secretary to make an appointment." He said.
"I don't want to talk to Piper; It's you I want to talk with." And then Leo realized that the voice belonged to Nathan.
"Yes, can I help you?" Leo asked patiently.
"Look, I am sorry for the way I acted a few minutes ago, but she is only working for you to make me mad, and I know she will quit sooner of later, so why don't you make it easyer for us both and fire her."
"Sorry, but I will mosnt definatly not fire her, she has been a good secretary for the two days she's been here and I don't have one logical reason to fire her." And because she is so much fun to look at, he added quietly.
"Goodbye." He said, once again putting the phone down before Nathan could say anything else.
As Leo walked out of his office towards James's, Piper smiled at him, then went back to typing, and he thought maybe he should change some rules.
Like the one saying you can't date with the employees.
He stopped and walked up to her desk, waiting for her to notice him.
When she finally looked up he smiled at the shiny brown eyes, and said;
"What would you say we go for a cup of coffee after work?"
For a moment he thought she would refuse, but then a smile curved her lips.
"Sure, sounds great." She said.
Definatly great.
Now he just had to figure out how to explane this to James...