AN: Hey everyone... I really want to thank you for your long and beautiful reviews for the last chapter. So here are my thanks: (BTW, I might put an Author's Note after you guys read this chapter if I feel I have to reply to some of your reviews).
Nakita: Thanks for the review... yeah, Leo seems to be getting better about the deal ha? Sorry for the little 'the end' prick, couldn't help it! lol
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Alright, so now that the thank yous, I'll just make sure you all know the following; I am NOT making a sequel to this story... sorry guys, I think it's bee long and this will be a good place to end it. Thanks everyone for sticking around and reading it, you know how I appreciate it.
So here we go... last chapter...
The Finally; Chapter 32
OoOoOoO Fast Woman, Delicious Man OoOoOoO
As he fell, he wasn't sure which one shot him, but he was guessing it was Junior who had his gun pointing at him.
It didn't hurt the first moment; he collapsed but didn't realize why.
Only a few seconds later did he see the blood on his hands and felt the horrible sting in his stomach, like someone was slicing it.
Or just shot a bullet through it.
He found himself breathing heavily, and heard Darryl call out something.
He looked to his direction, and saw Darryl checking someone's pulse.
Piper.
He wanted to call out her name, but all that came out was a vicious cry of pain.
He was awake as someone pulled him onto something, later he saw the ceiling moving, and realized it was him that was being moved.
People were shouting something all around, and someone was pressing something on his wound, telling him something Leo couldn't make out.
His thoughts were completely centered on the last he saw Piper, first as she stood unsteadily when they burst into the room, blood rolling from her forehead. Then he saw her lying on the ground.
He didn't even know if she was alive.
Suddenly he realized that aside from Piper, Leo was worried about the creature that was growing in her. In those few seconds he was rushed into an ambulance, he suddenly started realizing how precious it all was. He wanted to scream with frustration, ask someone for Piper.
But he didn't see her anywhere. The last he did see was the opening of the back of the ambulance getting closer and closer, then doors shutting, and with the doors he shut himself.
---OoO---
The rain touched her cheek in the most blessing way, like it woke her up.
She looked up, and saw that the rain was actually strong, and the sky was gray. But she felt good.
She then realized that someone was holding her hand tightly, and looked to see who it was.
Leo. He was next to her, and they were running. They were running to the other side of the street, and he was laughing.
She remembered this moment, she remembered it very well. It was their first official date. Well, it wasn't exactly the FIRST date, considering that he had spend the last night at her house, in her bed, his hands on her breasts...
She laughed with him, and they were running and laughing for a long time, until he suddenly stopped, and Leo's eyes darkened.
"Look out, Piper." He said, and she turned to see what was behind her, just in time to ketch a glimpse of William Wyatt - Big Man, holding his gun out.
First he shot his son, and Leo collapsed to the cold road, motionless.
Frantic, she looked back to Big Man, who was now pointing his gun at her.
"NO! Stop! My baby..." She managed to mumble, but the pain struck her and she screamed.
"PIPER!" Someone called her name.
She felt a hand on her, and opened her eyes, sure to see William Wyatt above her, but instead stood Phoebe.
Piper tried to ketch her breath, but as she drew more in it still didn't seem enough, not until she felt the inhaler against her and the oxygen finally floated in.
When she could breathe again, Phoebe removed the inhaler and looked at Piper with a gaped mouth, here eyes wide and red.
She realized she was dreaming, but the pain from the dream was still there and made her want to cry.
Phoebe was talking to her, but she couldn't tell what she was saying. She sounded hysterical.
A few women in white ran into the room and started doing something above her, their hands flying everywhere, making her dizzy.
One of them was asking her questions, but Piper just couldn't concentrate, and then she remembered why.
Leo.
Leo, and the baby.
She tried hard to ask someone, but wasn't sure if she was getting out more then just mumbling, and her heart was racing.
She heard the door to the room opening, and wished it would be Leo, but instead came in Prue and her husband, who both joined Phoebe in the corner of the room.
She knew she was panicking, and she couldn't stop herself. But it wasn't long before everything went dim again.
---OoO---
They told him she was going to make it, and they weren't sure about the baby yet.
They said that if they will find it a danger to its mother they will have to abort it.
He put his palms on his eyes, trying to make them stop hurting.
"You ok man?" James, who has been sitting next to him in a chair, asked.
"Yeah, fine." He said, removing his hands.
He has just received the update on Piper, the one that also told him she was alive.
He himself only regained consciousness about half an hour ago, and the hole in his kidneys was not very cheering.
All he wanted was to be able to get out of that fucking hospital bed and go see Piper.
"What happened in there?" He finally asked. He still wasn't sure who shot who, because he knew he shot somebody, but he wasn't even sure who he aimed for, let alone if he hit anyone at all.
James took a deep breath, obviously preparing for the explanation he was about to give.
"From what Darryl told me, you two were searching around the aria, when you saw Junior creeping in. You followed him, and he led you right to Piper and... you know...Dad. You tried to get them to put their guns away, but then he shot Piper, missing her heard just by a bit. You shot into him almost at the same time, then Junior fired into you."
Leo took a deep breath.
So he did hit him.
"And Junior got away?" Leo asked.
"No. He went down too. Darryl's work." He said, and Leo nodded.
So his father shot Piper, Leo shot his father, Junior shot Leo, and Darryl shot him. Hell.
"And all that happened in less then two seconds." James remarked.
"What happened to them?" Leo asked after a few more moments.
James took a deep breath again.
"Junior is at the jail hospital."
Leo waited for more. There was one man he was interested in.
"You shot him right into the heart Leo. He died on the spot." James said.
Leo nodded.
Big Man was a big, strong man. A crook, a con man. That was who he was. And he died by the hands of his son, which is what he deserved. Now he can rot in hell with the others.
---OoO---
The next time she came to was a day later, and they told her what happened.
They said that if she will keep the baby, it doesn't mean it will stay for long.
But that wasn't new to her.
They also told her it won't be an easy pregnancy, and if the baby would make it long enough they will go into a c-section about a month or two early. Piper just nodded.
It was a miracle the baby made it this far, and she wasn't going to let it go. Not now. Not again.
---OoO---
It was two days later that they agreed to bring both Piper and Leo into a bigger room, where both their beds would fit.
In the middle of the night, Leo heard her crying silently.
They had a short conversation the night before, but it was no longer the five minutes, mostly words of relief.
He pulled his head up a bit, to make sure, and sure enough he heard the muffled sounds of the sniffing and breathing.
"Piper?" He said.
"I didn't mean to wake you up." She mumbled.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
She didn't answer.
He felt the urge to touch her, hold her with him, but when he tried to sit up it hurt.
But he kept going anyway. He brought himself into a sitting position, and turned to slide his feet to the floor.
That was when he noticed that Piper was doing the same.
It took the two about three more minutes to finally stand up, after each tried several times and failed.
Finally, both still sitting on their own beds, facing each other, they reached for each other's hands, and holding them both they pulled themselves up in unison, both wincing, but satisfied.
"Alright. That was the challenging part, and we got through it." Leo said as a metaphor to reality. "Now it's the easy part."
Sure enough, seconds later, they managed to pull each other into a hug, both saying "Ouch" together.
They settled down in each other's embrace, and relaxed against one another.
She felt so good when he held her, it felt so right.
"Why were you crying?" He asked.
"I don't know. But I think I'm done now. I just had to get a few tears out of my system." She said, but he could still hear the tears in her voice. But he knew, THOSE tears, were tears of pure happiness.
"You know, Leo?"
"Know what?" He whispered back.
"I think I love you." She said, and he chuckled.
"I KNOW you love me. You can't resist me Piper, I'm irresistible." He said in the sexiest voice he could manage.
She laughed too.
"Now complement me." She said.
"You are magnificent. So desirable, every man wants you. But I have you, so they can all kiss my ass." He felt her relax even more against him, so he continued, because he had a lot more to say; "You have the most beautiful hair a woman can have, and your eyes are dazzling. Your legs are to die for too. You know you have beautiful legs."
He remember the first time he said that to her, and went pink. No wonder she used to think he was a moron. But she always loved him, he knew that much.
"And you know what else?" He said.
"There is more?" She asked, sounding surprised yet longing for more.
"There is always more when it comes to you."
"Tell me." She pled.
"You, Piper Halliwell, will make the most beautiful mother on this earth. And I will make a good father, I swear to god I will."
"I know." She mumbled in her angelic voice, and he heard the happy tears coming back.
"But first, you will have to make a beautiful bride." He whispered, and kissed the top of her head, feeling his tears welling up as well.
They stood there for the next ten minutes probably, and if it wasn't for the pains all over their bodies, it would have been perfect.
"Um, Leo?" She said after a while.
"Yes?"
"I don't think we can move." She declared.
"Good call."
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Leo was first to be released out of the hospital, but he practically lived there until Piper was out too, which took quite a bit longer.
But the baby was ok, and they both had hope like no one else did, because they knew. And they were in love.
And even though the BM case was not even nearly closed, Leo decided to leave it for the FBI. He wasn't going to spend another moment on the files, or his dead father.
They also knew it wasn't over. Big Man wasn't working alone. He had hundreds of men all over the world who worked for him.
But you see, Leo and Piper weren't going to let it bother them anymore. They've both been through much already, and they were now ready for anything that came their way.
It was clear to everybody that those two were meant to be.
Because here was; a woman who's suffered so much for the past few years of her life, and a man who's been living a lie all his life, chasing a criminal that was right there under his nose.
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And there, on a peach colored couch outside a beautiful mansion, sat a man on one end, with a six months pregnant woman's head on his lap, the rest of her spread out across the magnificent peach couch, with an ugly, yet smart dog at her legs. The only sound was Elvis Costello's voice, chanting 'She' into their ears.
She may be the face I can't forget
The trace of pleasure or regret
May be my treasure or the price I have to pay
She may be the song the summer sings
May be the chill the autumn brings
May be a hundred different things
Within the measure of a day
She may be the beauty or the beast
May be the famine or the feast
May turn each day into a heaven or a hell
She may be the mirror of my dreams
The smile reflected in a stream
She may not be what she may seem inside her shell
She who always seems so happy in a crowd
Whose eyes can be so crowded 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
But 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 in many 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 Halliwell and Leo Wyatt.
She was a Fast Woman, and he was a Delicious Man.
OoO THE END OoO
AN: Thanks everyone, don't forget to leave me a review of what you thought of the chapter and the fic as a whole... I can't wait to read what you think (please review even if you're not a regular reviewer but you do read it, last chapter and I want to see different comments, good or bad, so I learn for the future). Also, if any of you read my previous story, tell me if maybe you liked the other one better, or the other way around. I'm really just wandering.
So after you're done reviewing, don't forget my next fic whose first chapter I put up only a few minutes ago... It's called "Lustville". So hurry there and make me happy!
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