AN: Thanks for reviewing!! I update quickly, part of the reason is because this counts towards school. How lucky am I?! Anyhow, I also update because I write fast and well I like to update because reviews make my day! So, my update schedule will be pretty quick, maybe twice a day! Like today! LOL, okay I've talked nonsense to the point where I'm sure it has sickened you. Read on!
"Yeah, see Pheebes, that would be nice, but you never want to see Prue and I always end up as the go-between and, I get pissed off and sick of it, and that's why we haven't seen each other for 5 years." Piper couldn't see her younger sister, but knew, somewhere in San Francisco flopped across her couch, frowning.
"Piper, she doesn't want to see me either." Piper rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, okay, sure."
"So how is your life?" Phoebe asked, playing with the fringe on the blanket thrown over her couch.
Piper sighed happily. "It's good you know."
"Piper Halliwell admits there is something good to life?"
"Yes—I mean no, I mean...I don't know."
"Explain." Phoebe demanded, blowing a bubble with her gum.
"Well, okay, there's this guy named Leo Wyatt and he's really nice and sweet and stiff and then, even though I don't want to like him I do, and that just makes things more confusing and I think I found a great property to open up a restaurant and I'm just really confused." Piper said in a rush. Phoebe's bubbled burst.
"Slow down Hyper Piper. So there's a guy, and his name is Leo and he's good to you and stuff...so why not try it out? There can't be any harm in that right?" Piper sighed, rolling the steering wheel a little.
"Phoebe, you don't understand, we have very different lives."
"How so, we're both young woman, living by ourselves—"
"Life is harder for me Pheebes, you've got...money and help and people...I've got to go. Bye." Before Phoebe could utter another word, Piper clicked off of on her cell phone. Leo invited her to lunch, but he needed her to meet him at his office. She pulled into the visitor parking lot at Elway Agency and Entertainment. She'd never been to his office before and oddly looked forward to it. Piper tapped her finger on the steering wheel as she pulled into the parking space.
She got out and walked into the lobby. For a second, she wondered how she looked, walking into that respectable looking place in her low-rise jeans and pink and white baseball tee. Oh well. She rode up to the 7th floor and walked to his office where a secretary was blocking the way. "I'm here to see Mr. Wyatt."
"Do you have an appointment?" she asked dryly, rubbing a file back and forth over her manicure.
"No, but—"
"You can't just go in without an appointment."
"But he's expecting me." Piper protested, temper flaring. The secretary gave her a look before pressing the intercom.
"Mr. Wyatt, there's a stubborn, persistent brunette out here—"
"Oh, that's Piper, send her in." The secretary smiled.
"Go on in, he's expecting you." Piper frowned, but opened the door to his office anyway. She saw him sitting at his desk. It was covered with paperwork, but he obviously wasn't too concerned about it as he was staring intently at her. He wondered how to greet her. Boyfriend and girlfriends greeted with a kiss, business associates greeted with a handshake and friends hugged. They weren't really any of the above. She solved his problem for him.
"Hey." She said with a little wave. Duh, that should've been simple. He stood up.
"Hey. I'm up to my ears in paperwork."
"Do you still want to go to lunch?" she asked with a touch of concern. He smiled.
"I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't." he said, sitting on the edge of his desk. "So," Leo continued, "I was thinking this amazing little Italian bistro, a little closer to the burbs." Piper's face brightened with an idea.
"I've got a good idea, far better than Italian."
"Oh yeah," he smirked, "and what would that be?"
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"This is better than Italian, why?" Piper took a sip of her soda.
"Because, McDonalds is incredibly bad for you, the food is greasy and well, I'm addicted." Leo smiled.
"You're a peculiar person, Piper." He said, eating a fry. She lifted her face up to the sunlight as they sat out side in her Jeep.
"Yeah well..." she didn't bother to answer.
"So, how are things going?" Piper shrugged.
"Fine, I guess, I'm thinking about opening up a restaurant/club." Leo nearly spit out his drink.
"And you were planning on telling me this, when?" Piper looked at him oddly, in a dreamy sort of state.
"I didn't think it mattered." Leo spoke softly, and uncontrollably.
"Everything you do I want to know about."
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Leo stroked the top of Piper's head and as the two lay on the couch in his office. They'd decided not to sleep together, she wasn't even sure how they'd wound up this close. In more ways than one. "Tell me a story." He asked. Piper smiled as she listened to his heartbeat.
"There once was a man from Nantucket—"
"Hey, hey, about you!"
"I'm getting to that." She joked. "Alright, alright. Well, there was this jackass named Roger who my sister Prue started to date. Eventually, he proposed to her. She was ecstatic. And one night, Roger tried to seduce Phoebe." Leo nodded, telling her to go on. "So before Phoebe could figure out how to tell Prue, Roger said that Phoebe tried to seduce him. So that night Prue confronted Phoebe and they had a fight of epic proportions. And so, we haven't seen each other for 5 years."
Leo continued to stroke her head as he thought. "Was this Roger a good looking guy?" Piper shrugged. "I don't know, I guess so, not really my type, but he was pretty attractive. In a way."
"Well," he apprehensively, "what if...Phoebe really did...you know."
"Leo!" Piper exclaimed, jumping up and walking over to the window.
"What?! I just thought...maybe..."
"Leo, Phoebe's not like that! And it's not Prue's fault, it's Roger's, you don't know what you're talking about!" Leo sighed and walked over to her.
"I'm sorry." He said, resting his chin on top of on her head. "It was just a suggestion. I didn't mean anything by it." Piper didn't realize how close their bodies were. And she didn't realize how he was whispering softly in her ear and touching her tenderly. She closed her eyes.
"I didn't think we would...What I mean to say is, I thought we would wait."
"We waited." He insisted, kissing her neck.
"No, no we didn't, we, we, we..." she couldn't finish. Piper wanted him so bad and he wouldn't stop touching her. But she knew she had to make him stop. "Leo, stop. No, no, no, no, no. You're bad, very, very bad. You, you..." For some crazy, insane, inexplicable reason, she thought that it was wrong for them to sleep together, go to such a level of intimacy.
"You get away from me, Leo Wyatt!!" She exclaimed, spinning out of his grasp. She ignored the puzzled look on his face.
"Piper—"
"NO! You keep your damn libido away from me!" You sex-driven asshole! You stay away!"
"Piper, I—" but he didn't bother to finish as she raced passed him out the door. He watched her run away from him from the doorway. "Sht!" he leaned his head back against the doorjamb, slamming his fist against the wall. The secretary wrung her hands.
"Would you like some coffee?"
AN: Whew, finished! As you can tell Piper and Leo have a complicated relationship. But many things happen to secure them to each other, so fear not. Please review, you know it makes my day!!