Chapter 6
OoO Painful Memories OoO
"Serves you right, you know." James told Leo, eyeing him.
"Excuse me?" Leo said, looking through one of the cases.
"Your little date with Piper. Man, I want to be angry at you but I can't help but feel sorry." James said, smiling.
"Really. And why is that?"
"She told you 'no' when you wanted to get her into bed. How pathetic is that? Ask your secretary to have sex with you?"
"Look who is talking... you have a new one in your bed every night."
"No I don't. And if I do, they are the ones to beg me, not the other way around." James said, grinning.
"Shut up, ok?" Leo said, handing the files back to his brother.
"Make sure you have Mr.Girdy work on that new file, I am busy with the murder case."
"Ok." James said, and after a few more unnecessary comments he left for his office.
At seven thirty, Piper came into his office, bringing the warm smell of coffee with her.
"Morning, Mr. Wyatt." She said, placing the mug in front of him.
Yesterday she called him Leo, he remembered.
"Morning, thank you."
"I sent the files you asked for to your email, and I'll have Ranker's papers ready in a couple of hours." She said flatly, and headed to the door.
"Wait!" He called.
She turned back to him.
"Yes?"
"About yesterday... I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to offend you, I was acting like jerk." He apologized.
"It's ok, all men are." She said with a grin, and he couldn't help but smile.
"Yeah, but I am a sexy man, remember?"
"So? Doesn't make you any better."
"It doesn't? Too bad. Can I make it up to you at lunch today?" He asked, convinced she would agree.
"Sorry, can't. Maybe another day."
Ouch.
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Piper thought about their date the previous night and decided that she is not going to risk it all and start a relationship with her boss- again.
So that day at work she was as cold to him as she could.
In the evening, both her sisters came over for dinner, and Prue brought her son Harry with her.
"Hi ant Piper!" The six year old greeted.
"Hey there... How's your school going?" She asked, running her hand briefly through his hair.
"Great! Where is your dog? Mom told me you had a new dog... Where is he?"
Piper smiled.
"I think Ronald is cruising in my room somewhere, why don't you go look for him?"
The boy bounced to her room, and Piper turned to kiss both her sisters.
She had dinner prepared, and after about ten in the evening, Harry drifted off to sleep on her peach couch, giving the three sisters time to catch up on each other.
"How is Gerry? Did he come back from... Where did he go to this time?" Prue asked the youngest sister.
"He is in Colombia; he is coming back this Saturday." Phoebe said proudly.
"That's nice. What's going on with Tomas?" Piper asked Prue.
"Everything is ok. He is kind of stressed out right now 'cause we are having dinner at his parent's tomorrow night, and you know how he feels about that..."
"Yeah, we know." Piper said, drinking her tea.
"So.... Piper, how's your man doing?"
"Yeah, tell us about that new boss of yours." Prue said with interest.
"There is nothing to say, he is just my boss." Piper claimed.
"'Just my boss' are words that never come out of your mouth as anything but a lie." Prue said, smiling.
"Look, really, we had something along the lines of a date yesterday, and that didn't go too well, so there is nothing, and even if there was, I am not dating my bosses anymore."
"Oh, Piper, who are you kidding? You've dated most of your bosses; Adam, Henry, Sean, Jake, Nathan... Even Luke was your boss." Prue said, but seemed to regret it right away.
"Prue!" Phoebe snapped.
Piper felt a chill going through her from hearing his name.
"Sorry. But, Piper, do you see what you are doing? You are picking guys that are most likely not to last long, and if they last over a month you find a way to break up with them, or somehow make them break up with you."
"It was going pretty damn well with Luke." Piper muttered, her throat hurting at his name. She hasn't mentioned his name much in the last three years.
Three long, long years.
"Oh, honey..." Phoebe said to Piper, then turned to Prue.
"You shouldn't have brought this up."
Damn right she shouldn't have.
Piper hated talking about him with her sister, about that time of her life.
Luke and she were going out for just a little over two years when it happened.
They were out in a fancy restaurant, allowing themselves for one night spend as much as they wanted, celebrating life.
Their baby was due in just three weeks from then, and the excitement was uncountable.
They already had a name for the little boy; they were going to call him Tyler.
They married when she was two months pregnant, just about after she found out.
Luke and Piper were the perfect couple, and they loved each other as strongly as it gets, feeling like they were the luckiest people to be with one another.
They where driving back home from the delicious dinner, smiles pierced to both their faces.
They were both giggling when a loud beep was heard, and they both turned to see a car rushing right at them, about to crash.
Luke tried to stop the car, and when he saw there was no chance to stop it, he let go of the wheel and leaned to Piper to protect her and the baby.
The other car crashed right into Luke, killing him on the place.
Him, and the baby.
Piper was the only one to survive the accident.
Even the driver of the other car and his wife didn't survive, just Piper.
She spent two months in the hospital, but even when she got out she felt her life was over.
She was crying, all the time, day and night, twenty-four/seven.
It was like a nightmare coming true, and she felt helpless, and didn't have any desire to keep on living.
She felt she could would do better off dead.
Not many of her friends knew about what happened, only the ones who she knew before the accident, and most of those friends weren't more then an e-mail address these days, because it was just too damn painful to remember these times when they would all hang out together.
With Luke.
Piper still had constant dreams about him, and lately about the boy that never saw the light.
That little boy she expected more then anything else in her life for eight months, and then, one night it was all change, and their little precious baby was gone, together with his father.
Piper snapped out of her thoughts and found Phoebe and Prue talking about something else, knowing that they are trying to change the subject.
"I'll go see if Harry is ok in there." Prue said finally, and headed to the living room to check on her son.
"Well, I have to go; I have to be up early tomorrow. I'll see you tomorrow, kay?" Phoebe said, getting up.
"Sure, come over to Wyatt Investigations at your lunch break and we'll have lunch together." Piper said, walking towards the door with Phoebe.
"I should be going too. Come on Hun, time to go home." Prue said, waking her son up and walking out with him.
"Thank you for the wonderful dinner, it was as good as ever!" Prue said, kissing Piper goodbye.
When they were gone, Piper put Elvis Costello to sing 'She'.
She needed some comfort, and he always gave it to her.
"She who always seems so happy in a crowd
Whose eyes can be so private and so proud
No one's allowed to see them when they cry
She may be the love that cannot hope to last
May come to me from shadows of the past
That I'll remember till the day I die
She
May be the reason I survive
The why and wherefore I'm alive
The one I'll care for through the rough and ready years
Me I'll take her laughter and her tears
And make them all my souvenirs
For where she goes I've got to be
The meaning of my life is
She, she, she........"
Piper sighed at the music.
She didn't want a relationship, especially not with her boss.
But this time it wasn't so easy, there was something about Leo, something that made her always want more.
Maybe it was that smile of his, the one that reminded her of Luke.
But it wasn't just that.
Leo was... Different, in a good way.
But she didn't want to get carried away; she wasn't going to date her boss, period.
Not going to date him- ever.
But that mouth of his was just asking her to kiss him... but no, no relationships, she was too afraid of the suffering that might come after.
Leo was her boss.
Her sexy, beautiful boss.
AN: what did you think of the chapter? Sorry there was pretty much no fluff in this one, but this is an important chapter to understand the rest of the story.
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Next chapter's name is not decided yet.