Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed or any of the characters. They all belong to Aaron Spelling and the WB. So please do not sue me.

Author's Note: The story is set a few months after Centennial Charmed. Piper is not pregnant. Cole is half-human and has all of his normal powers and is not insane. Phoebe still works at the Bay Mirror and Paige is a full- time witch.

Author's Note: I rewrote this chapter!

Piper sighed as she looked around her bedroom. Clothes were scattered around the room and trash was thrown all over the floor. Piper bent down and picked up an object off the floor. Tears came to her eyes as she remembered the previous night.

:::FLASHBACK:::

Piper came home from the club exhausted. She wanted nothing more than to take a nice, long, hot bath and to get some rest.

As she entered her bedroom, she set her keys and purse down on the dresser near the door. She was about to call for Leo but then realized he wouldn't come. She missed her husband. He was always with other charges, the Elders, and if he wasn't with them he was somewhere else she didn't know about. Piper was used to coming home and Leo being nowhere in sight.

She was about to enter the bathroom when Leo orbed in. He stumbled around before gaining his balance. "Piper, you need to pick up this damn pigsty! It's always filthy." He threw something off the dresser onto the floor. He heard it shatter into pieces. He spat. He had been drinking all night and was very drunk.

"Excuse me?!" She almost yelled. "I am a full-time witch and I own a club which I am at most of the day." She yelled this time. "Why don't you try picking up something?" She spat back at him.

Leo grabbed Piper and pulled her to him. Piper could smell the alcohol on his breath. She struggled in his grasp. "Leo, let me go! You're hurting me." She tried to free herself but Leo only tightened his grip on her.

"Shut the hell up, witch." He whispered. He didn't want her sisters to hear her. Leo threw her against the wall. Her head hit against it and blood poured from her head. Leo quickly orbed out before her sisters came up and saw what was going on.

A few minutes later Piper awoke and saw the blood on her clothes that came from her head. She held her head and crawled on the floor to the door. Her head hurt too much to stand up. While she was making her way to the door she came across what Leo threw on the floor.

The picture of them on their wedding day.

THE NEXT NIGHT

Piper had told her sister's what had happened the previous night and they were both concerned about her.

Piper had to go to P3 that night. So she took a shower and changed into a black skirt and a blue top. She curled her hair and pulled it up half-way. She put on her make-up and then made her way downstairs.

She hoped her sisters weren't home because she didn't feel like talking to them. They didn't want her to leave the house because they didn't want her to get hurt again. She kept telling them, "Leo was the on that hurt me. Not some random guy off the street. I'll be fine." But they didn't want to take any chances.

Tonight she needed to go to the club. The band Green Day was playing there.

Paige and Phoebe were in the kitchen making and stocking up on potions. She hoped to be able to sneak out.

She was almost out the door when Paige caught her. "Freeze missy." Paige called from the kitchen. "Where are you going?" She asked worried about her sister.

"I am going to P3. Bye!" She was about to leave when Phoebe stopped her. "I knew that was too easy." She whispered.

"Piper, we are worried about you. Do you really think you should be going to the club after what Leo did to you?"

"I have a band playing there tonight so I need to go. Plus, it will help me get my mind off Leo." Piper told her sisters.

Her sisters reluctantly gave in and let her go. Piper hugged each one of her sisters and told them she would be ok.

AT THE CLUB P3

Piper was serving drinks left and right. The band was really good and the club was packed.

One customer was staring at Piper. 'Damn it Turner! She is your ex sister-in-law. Besides you loved Phoebe, you can't think about Piper in anyway but friendly.' Cole mentally scolded himself.

Cole asked for a coke and rum. Piper handed it to him without looking who it was. "Thanks." He said.

Piper froze in her spot. She knew that voice. "Cole?" She gasped. "How is it possible you are alive?" She asked.

"I'm not sure. I believe the Avatars brought me back." He explained. He knew as well as Piper did how he got back.

For some reason, Piper didn't hate Cole. All the anger she held had died. She didn't trust him though.

Leo saw Piper engaged in a conversation with a man. And of all people Cole Turner! He saw her laugh with him and smile at him. He became furious. He stormed over to them.

"Piper, what the hell are you doing talking to some half-breed?" He questioned trying to keep his anger under control.

"Chill out man. All we are doing is talking." Cole said.

Piper was touched and surprised that Cole would defend her. "He's right." Leo looked as if he was about to hit her right then and there. Instead he stormed off.

Piper looked as if she was about to cry. Instead she held it in. She didn't want anyone to see her break down.

Cole was surprised to see tears well up in Piper's eyes. He always knew her as the strongest Halliwell. He hated seeing her like this. He wanted to kill Leo for hurting her. (A:N Cole has no idea what Leo did to Piper. He meant about Leo making her cry.)

"Listen Piper, I have to leave now. But if you ever want to hang out or jut need someone to talk to I'm here. All you have to do is come by the penthouse." He said.

Piper surprised both of them by taking up his offer. He gave her his number to penthouse and then paid for his drinks and left.

Piper was now left with a problem. Does she tell her sisters Cole alive or does she keep it to herself.