AN: Hello everyone. Thanks to all of you that reviewed, it's very much appreciated! Now, about some things that rose in some of the reviews, I'll respond.
I know this story is different from my last one, the scenario is completely something else, but you wouldn't want to read the same story again... right? About Piper; in this particular fiction Piper is a very complex character and you'll see that as I add chapters. She'll probably develop the most out of them all, and Leo will be a close lead. Last chapter was mostly an introduction of Piper's character, and some about Lustville it self, I even squeezed in them meeting Leo, and you'll see more of that in this chapter too.
This chapter will be more of an introduction to Leo's character (which will be very important for the rest of the story, you'll see why), and believe me that you are out for a little surprise here...
And you guys, those of you who red my previous fic, I hope you trust me that I have a plot for this story already made up, just like I did with the other, and I'm talking murders, blackmail, and PLENTY of romance (;
About the name of the fic, or town for that matter... I thought 'Lustville' would be a great name for the town, AND the story it self. You'll see (;
So anyhow, enjoy this chapter, and don't forget to leave me a review!
Chapter 2
OoO To P3! OoO
"Up Piper!" Phoebe's voice filled the room.
Piper turned to another side uncomfortably and buried her nose in her pillow, which smelled of ducks.
"Come on sis, time to start a new life." Paige said, sounding delighted.
"Oh joy." Piper mumbled back.
"Come on, we want to get to the club before seven, and it's already six twenty." Phoebe complained.
"You only want to be there because that cute sheriff promised to be there and help." Paige called to Phoebe.
"No Paige, the sheriff has his eyes on Piper, not me." Phoebe said, "And I'm predicting it's not only his eyes he's going to have on her soon..."
That was enough to wake Piper up.
"Alright you two, stop talking dirty." She said, removing hair from her face as she set up.
Piper didn't like the situation at all. She was used to have everything under control, NORMAL, and this 'Lustville' place was not normal at all.
Officer Wyatt was her last concern at the moment. All she wanted was to get that damn club going, and fall into a little routine after all the mess of getting the club set up is out of the way.
But until then, she was just going to try and bear.
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"Eat fast Maggie; you'll be late for school." Leo said over the paper in his hands to his seven year old daughter.
"Don't rush her Leo; she'll choke on her food." His mother snapped from the other side of the table.
"That's right, and then she'll be late to school. Come on Maggs, grab the muffins and come out into the car." Leo instructed his daughter while he put the newspaper away.
"Do I have to daddy? Caroline Twain told me her mommy lets her stay home sometimes." Maggie stated, using her tricky voice that she knew always gets to him.
"Well, I'm not Caroline's mother and I tell you to hurry. Let's go kid." He got up and opened the door for his daughter.
"You know, I'm aught to have a mommy. Caroline says everyone does." Maggie continued to babble as she pulled her bag-pack over her shoulders. That kid sure had a way with words, and he knew she was getting all that sneakiness from her grandmother.
"Maggie, in the car, now." Leo said, and Maggie frowned and continue into is truck.
"She's right you know." His mother muttered from over the table, slipping from her tea.
"Forget it Ma, I'm not marrying Mar." Leo said for what seemed like the thousandth time that month.
His mother had this new idea that he should marry Margaret tucker, and he knew she's been talking to Harriet, Mar's mother, behind their backs.
"Leo, she'd make a great wife and mother to Maggie. You knew her since you were a little boy." His stubborn mother continued, pressing her lips together as she stared at him, demanding.
"My point exactly. I remember her running in dippers. She's twenty, I'm thirty two. Forget it."
"She is twenty four, fresh and ready." Keren Wyatt continued stubbornly.
"Look Ma, I'm not marrying again, ok? Loose the idea and concentrate on your 'Cherry Ladies Club'."
"It's CHARITY, Leo. And don't talk to me in that voice young man."
"I'm not young anymore." He said back.
"Daddy! I'm goanna be late for school again because of you!" Maggie shouted from the car.
"I have to go." He said, and started to close the door behind him.
"We'll continue to talk at lunch." His mother said.
"There is nothing to talk about, Ma. And I won't make it for lunch today; I'll be helping the Halliwells with setting up Marlin's old club." Leo said.
"Leo, I don't want you with those women, I saw them yesterday at Harriet's motel and I can tell they are no good news. We should have never let an outsider manage something for us." Keren muttered.
Leo only got to hear as far as that because he closed the door and went to his truck where Maggie was waiting.
"Daddy, I think you should get me a dog." Maggie said when they pulled out of the driveway and headed down the street.
Chaparral Elementary was across town (which is ten minutes away from the Wyatt mansion.).
"Did Caroline say that too?" Leo asked.
Whoever that Caroline kid was, he didn't like her.
"No. I just want a dog." Maggie continued.
"You want too much kid."
"I think I should have a mommy. Really, it's only natural that a girl my age would have a woman figure in her life." Maggie said.
"Don't go smart on me. We've had this conversation before. Grandma is your 'woman figure'." Leo tried, but he knew Maggie wasn't going to fall for that one, or give up so easily.
"Then get me a dog."
"Maggie..."
"Oh, I see. You won't give me a mommy OR a dog? Really, it's only natural that a girl my age would have an animal figure in her life..."
"Don't push it."
"So is that a Yes?" Maggie asked, her voice much more cheered now.
"No, it's not. We'll talk about it later."
"There is nothing to talk about, dad." Maggie said, quoting him from a few minutes ago when he was talking to her grandmother.
"Hey!" He called, and poked his finger at her side, making her giggle.
"Alright, you better hurry now." Leo said as they stopped by her school.
"By dad!" She called after he gave her a kiss and she ran out of the car.
He waved her, and drove away after he saw her walk into the small building safely.
His next stop was the station where he saw the Tucker's car parked outside.
Oh, great. What do they want now?
When he walked into his office he saw Frank Tucker sitting in his chair, smoking a pipe.
"Put that out Frank." Leo instructed as he walked closer.
Frank obeyed and put the pipe away.
"Why are you here?" Leo asked him.
Frank Tucker was out to get Leo's place as a Sheriff ever since Leo got the place a year before, when William Wyatt, Leo's dad and the previous Sheriff passed away.
Before William, Frank's father, Dean Tucker was the Sheriff, but William got elected over him and took his place.
The Tucker line were always the Sheriffs in town, until about thirty years ago the Wyatts took their place.
Once a year there was an election for the new Sheriff, and Frank was hoping to receive that place.
Leo wandered if Frank knew that Harriet, Frank's wife, was setting his daughter and Leo up to marry each other.
"Can't an old friend pay a visit?" Frank asked, smiling.
"No. Get out Frank." Leo said, not a mused at all.
Frank rose from the chair, and came to stand nose to nose with Leo.
"The elections are in a month Leo. So start saying your goodbyes to this office. You don't belong here." Frank spat.
"Good day, Frank." Leo said, opening the door for Frank to leave.
Frank grinned, and stepped out.
Leo spent the next half an hour on the phone with a colleague from San Francisco, Darryl, who unlike Leo seemed to actually have something to do while being a cop. Leo was a SHERIFF, but the most fighting he did was with his mother.
Looking at the time, he saw it was eight and remembered the Halliwells.
His mind kept drifting off to the image of one of the three sisters. He didn't even remember her name; it was either Paige or Piper.
He remembered her long brown hair swing as she turned from one exited citizen of Lustville to another. She didn't look entertained unlike her two other sisters, who looked like two ten year olds who's been given candy.
Leo remembered how he couldn't take his eyes off her lips when he talked to her. So red and so... Damn, he really couldn't remember her name.
He got up, and headed out of the station.
"Leo! Didn't see you come in."
Leo turned around to see Rob, one of the officers. Leo was about to say something, but then saw the blond air trying to hide behind Rob's table.
"Robert, you and Mia can take the sex somewhere else." Leo frowned as he pulled his black police jacket on.
"Sorry." Rob said as Mia stood up, wearing Rob's jacket.
"It's against the council rules you know, having sex at public places." Leo said.
"Who is the maniac that suggested that rule?"
"Frank."
"Figures." Mia muttered.
"I hope he didn't see you two here when he was here." Leo said.
"We were hiding under the table." Rob said quietly.
Leo shook his head, and headed for the way out.
"Stop screwing women here, Rob." Leo called to his friend before walking out of the station.
Minutes later he arrived at the building that used to be Marlin's pub, and now was owned by the three charming Halliwell sisters.
He could hear that there were many people inside even before he came in.
When he did open the door, he revealed a room full of people gathered around the only table in the room, all holding glasses of wine in their hand.
"Leo! You are just in time for the celebration. We decided to crack a few bottles for the success of P3." Garry, a guy who used to be Leo's classmate said, gesturing to one of the already filled with red wine glasses on the table.
"P3?" Leo asked.
"Piper, Phoebe and Paige. P3." One of the sisters said. He still wasn't sure which one was which, but he couldn't see the one with the long beautiful hair anywhere.
Leo smiled, and grabbed the glass, then held it up like the others.
It was then that he looked down to his right and saw her, smiling a smile that was clearly fake.
"To P3!" Someone said first, then everyone repeated in unison and emptied their glasses after clinging them together.
Minutes later, everyone spread around, some sweeping and cleaning, some trying to fix the AC, some trying to get the lights to turn on, and others just chatting with excitement.
Leo made his way towards the gorgeous brunet, and waited for her to look up at him from her laptop.
"Yes?" She asked.
"Need any help?"
"Um... No, I'm just trying to round our budget here. I'm sure my sisters could use some help." She said.
Leo looked around and saw her two sisters chatting away with Mar, one of them sweeping the floor and the other holding many papers that Leo wasn't sure they knew what to do with.
"They look fine to me. You, on the other hand, look pretty tense." He said, casting his eyes back on her.
She sighed, and said;
"I'm just trying to get things in order here, cause right now it's all crazy."
Great, a control freak.
Oh well, no one's perfect.
He stared at her for a few moments, trying to figure the woman out, but it seemed impossible.
She was tense like hell, and the pen in her hand was hitting the paper in front of her from side to side.
"Alright, what do you need help with?" He asked, insisting on an answer, and took a seat next to her.
She kept her suspicious eyes on him for a few moments, until they relaxed a bit and looked back at the papers.
"There are too many things that need repairing, and all these people are so excited and expect us to open this place up in no time. It will take at least a week to set up some deliveries that will be coming constantly, not to talk about redesigning the whole damn place."
Leo looked around.
Marlin's looked the same since he could remember himself.
"What's wrong with how it looks now?" He asked.
"Oh, give me a break. The walls are pealing off, and there is a leak coming from the bathrooms."
He realized that was true, and smiled.
"I can do some painting job." Leo offered.
"You? Aren't you the sheriff? I thought you guys were supposed to be busy all day." She said.
"Welcome to Lustville, Miss Halliwell."
She seemed terrified by the idea, and he had to laugh.
He caught a sight of his mother across the room, and the first thought that came to his mind was What is SHE doing here? She couldn't possibly be here to help... but it didn't take him long to realize she was 'spying', and obviously not liking him taking to any woman if it's not Mar.
"Who's that?" He heard Piper's voice (He's found out that was her name from Harriet), and saw her looking right at his mother.
"Why are you asking?"
"I am guessing she is either your mother or mother in law." Piper continued, sounding already more cheerful with the guessing game.
"Guilty." Leo said.
"How long have you been married?" Piper asked as a matter of fact.
"What? No, she's not mother in law, she's my mother." Leo explained.
He saw her smile, even though she was looking down at the papers again, and he said;
"So how about that painting job?"
AN: Well? Any thoughts, good or bad are welcome!