AN: Hey all! I think I own you all some answers after the little guessing game I made you go through (I'm evil, it's in my nature). Most of you went with 'Ben trying to win Piper back, and Leo forced to get married', and I would guess those too. They both have a lot to do with what's goanna occur, but it is in many ways different, and will get very complicated very fast. Let me put it this way;
Someone is attacked (not this chapter, but very soon... hint).
Someone is coming to town
Many some ones are getting blackmailed
Someone is murdered And the rest I won't give away (though I'm sure you guys can't get much from the little so called 'spoiler' I gave you. Believe me, no guessing will help with that one, you're in for a surprise).
Oh, and someone asked and I forgot to answer; What Leo and Piper 'did' that night wasn't sex, it was just fooling around with no clothes on, no entering any private places. Like Leo said, he wouldn't seduce her in such a way while the woman is drunk. Also, someone asked if Leo had a wife; he didn't, he had a girlfriend who didn't want the child she got pregnant with, and skipped town after Maggie was born. She died a month later (more details are in one of the earlier chapters, can't remember which one it was).
Chapter 6
OoO Meeting the Wyatt Women OoO
He stared at her across the room as she made her way to the drink bar, where she told something to the bar tender.
He knew she'd already noticed him, he saw her eyes lend on his the minute he came in, but she was playing a hide and seek game.
Well, he found Piper. Now it was time to find Vilma.
"Excuse me guys..." Leo said to his buddies at his table as he got up and headed to Piper's direction.
Her face looked alarmed, and he couldn't quite explain why. Surely she enjoyed the previous night... She had to, with all the giggling.
"Evening, Vilma." He joked with her, but she didn't seem amused.
"Evening." She said, looking everywhere but at him.
She was wearing a dark dress, something in the shade of green, and it only covered her skin just a little above her knee. Her shoulders were completely bare and he remembered touching them the night before. God.
"Care to dance?" He asked, already taking her hand in his.
But she held it back, and looked to the floor.
"Listen, last night was... Um... Very, nice. But let's keep it that way Leo... really; I don't see this going anywhere, so we might as well just stop now."
He smiled.
"Let me try this again; Care to dance, Vilma?" He said, this time bowing to her.
She finally looked up at him, and her mouth formed to say no, but when he gently took her hand and led her to the dance floor, she didn't stop him. She followed.
They danced to the music, and even though at first she was stiff and not very cooperating, soon she relaxed and laughed along with him; and the music.
She told him more about herself; why did she come here, the trouble her sister managed to get in, and why she was the one to fix it, ever since they were teenagers, that is.
He wondered if she realized that she was closing herself up for anyone to get in. But he could see her opening again, like she did last night, and this time with no unnecessary help from alcohol.
When they both got tired and the music was slow enough, he pulled her closer until their chests touched (or at least somewhat, they had great difference in height), and she finally relaxed against his shoulder.
Later, Piper had to go and help up with some things that were needed from the basement, but she promised to come back.
Leo spent the next two hours relaxing with a drink in a table with the other officers, and watched as she gave orders to the other workers. Every time she turned to look at him he saw her lips smile a bit, and he always returned a smile.
"Having fun I see." Frank Tucker's voice came, and Leo realized he was looking as Piper and Leo were exchanging looks.
"As a matter of fact, I am." Leo said, making Rob and the others laugh.
Frank just eyed Leo.
He really hated Leo, and not only him, but all the other Wyatt men too. Tuckers have always been in a so called 'battle' with the Wyatts. They were always the two controlling families of Lustville, sheriffs, and usually Mayors. Now, the Tuckers had almost no voice except his and his wife's vote out of twenty in the community meetings, and that was only because the Tuckers owned the only motel in town.
"I hope you are getting ready, the elections are only three weeks away now, and I don't see you doing anything but getting girls drunk every night." Frank snapped, and left towards his wife Harried, who seemed upset with him over something – which wasn't new.
Leo shook his head at the stupidity of it all. Frank Tucker saw Leo as his greatest enemy, while Harriet Tucker wanted their daughter to be his wife. That's Lustville for you.
---OoO---
Piper brought the last box of some additional mugs for beer, hoping that it would be enough for the rest of the night. She thanked one of the workers who helped her, and headed to find Leo.
She still remembered her promise to her herself, but couldn't help it. Aside from knowing how to take care of a female body, Leo Wyatt was a gentleman. A donut, but a very yummy one, she just couldn't resist.
Just tonight, tomorrow I'll tell him NO MORE.
With that decision in mind, she headed for his table when she felt a cold hand on her bare shoulder.
She turned around to see a woman somewhere in her late forties looking at her with angry eyes.
She was wearing a very business-like jacket and skirt, light orange but nice to the eye, and after Piper looked at her for a little longer she realized the woman was just looking young, but her angry expression was giving away the fact that she was older then she looked. She was beautiful, and the gloomy way she looked at Piper definitely didn't suit her at all.
"Hello." Piper said, a bit unsure.
The woman was reminding her of someone, but she couldn't remember who exactly.
"Good evening, Miss Halliwell." She said, her low voice giving away no sympathy at all.
"Evening, Mrs.... Um..."
"Keren Wyatt."
Leo's mother. Fuck.
"I like what you did with the place." Keren said, but her eyes never left Piper.
"Thank you." Piper mumbled. The woman was already scaring her.
"Alright, I'll get right to my point," Great... "I'll ask you to stay away from my son; he has responsibilities and is practically engaged to Margaret Tucker, so unless you want to be the 'other woman' I suggest you find yourself a new sex partner." Keren said.
Piper stared at the woman in front of her, trying hard not to let her mouth drop.
She was not the kind of woman to take in insults and ignore it. No, not Piper Halliwell.
Besides, Piper could see Mar dancing with a fellow her age not far from them, looking anything but engaged to another man.
"Well, Mrs. Wyatt, I don't think I'll be able to find a better 'sex partner' in this town, your son has real potential." Piper said, smiling. She hadn't really slept with Leo yet, but from the little 'taste' he gave her last night she could tell he was great.
"Look, if you just back away from him and act like a good girl it will only be better for everyone." Keren hissed, and Piper realized she herself was enjoying it; much more then Keren, at least.
"You don't get rid of me that easily." Piper said, comfortably shifting her weight to another leg and placing her hands on her hips.
"Fine. How much?" Keren asked.
Piper didn't get that last part. How much?
Keren was already digging in her purse for her checkbook.
Oh.
"I don't need your money Keren, you can't be serious."
Piper was suddenly disgusted by the woman in front of her.
Keren stopped, and looked back to Piper.
"All I'm asking is for you to clear his way. You don't know my son, you can find many others like him here; they are all the same. You don't want to mess with a Wyatt man, believe me when I tell you." And with that Keren walked off.
Before Piper could think any about the wired conversation she just had with Keren Wyatt, her son, the much more pleasant part of the family, walked up to her.
"Was that my mother just now? What did she want?" Leo asked, looking alarmed.
"Nothing. She seems very protective." Piper mumbled, still watching Keren making her way through the crowd to the way out of the club.
"What did she tell you?" Leo asked, drawing her attention back to him.
"That you were taken, and I'm just the other woman." Piper said.
"You didn't believe her, right?"
"Should I?" Piper asked, but she didn't.
"No. Never believe a word coming out of the mouth of a Wyatt." Leo said, leaning a little forward, smiling.
"I'll keep that in mind." Piper said, her spirit already rising, and a smile already forming.
"Good. Now, I think you own me a last dance," and he pulled her back to the dancing floor, where they enjoyed each other's company for the rest of the night.
That night when he took her home; they had real sex.
She just couldn't resist him, and this time she wasn't able to blame it on the alcohol... and god knows it was so much better without it.
He left earlier then the previous day, seeing as it was a Monday and he had to work.
So at five thirty when he left her, she spread herself across the whole bed, remembering every moment of last night.
Again, he managed to take her to heaven, and she didn't think even for a moment to let go.
He still didn't tell her much about himself, and she felt a little out of herself, sleeping with a man who she had only knew a little over a week.
Maybe it was because he was a donut? Maybe he had bad influence on her?
Later that morning, Piper as sitting in the back yard and watching as the water of the lake rushed leftwards, like it's racing itself.
She typed a few more numbers in her laptop, checking what it would do to the money coming in if she raised she prize of the more expensive drinks, and found it would benefit her a lot, and just as much as she needed.
The sun was right above her, but it wasn't too hot.
Phoebe was out on a lunch date with Rob, and Paige took a ride around town, taking pictures to send friends back in San Francisco.
When Piper next looked up from her laptop, she saw a blond girl in front of her, and jumped with surprise.
"Oh, sorry, didn't mean to scare ya." The girl said.
The thin girl looked to be about seven or eight, her long blond hair tied in a side pony in a crooked way, as if she did it to herself, or a man did it for her.
Piper took the laptop off her knees and put it on the ground beside her.
"No, it's quite alright. Can I help you?" Piper asked the girl, leaning forward in her seat.
"I just wanted to come up here and meet you." The girl explained. She was looking up and down at Piper, staring at every part of her. "You're pretty." The girl finally concluded, and smiled.
Piper eyed her, unsure if she should trust her.
"Thank you. What's your name?" Piper asked.
"Maggie Wyatt." She answered proudly.
"Any relations to the sheriff?"
"Course, he's my daddy." Maggie said simply.
Oh, great. He was married with kids. I should have seen this coming..
"How's your mommy?" Piper asked, mad now.
"My mother is dead." The girl said.
"Oh."
Well, I guess that settles that.
"You know, daddy said I can't meet you, but I figured that I should know who my dad hangs out with. It's only for his sake, really." Maggie said, and Piper has already determined that the girl had some sneaky smarts.
"Of course." Piper said, smiling. "You hungry?"
"Very." Maggie said, and let herself in. Piper followed.
The two ate ice cream together, and Maggie told Piper all about school and Leo and what she knew about her mother.
Piper found herself thinking about Leo in a new light, considering that he's been a single parent to Maggie for many years.
After two ice creams, Piper took Maggie home.
"Next time, make sure your grandma knows that you left home." Piper told her as they walked down the street towards the Wyatt house, feeling a breeze when she remembered Keren Wyatt, not a very pleasant woman.
Poor Maggie.
"She wouldn't let me go, and dad is working, so I went while she was taking her nap. It's just for this one time though, promise." Maggie said, as she started climbing the stairs to her house.
"Okay." Piper said, as she waved the blond girl goodbye.
She had to give credit to Leo for raising such a smart little girl, maybe a little too smart actually.
The fact that he was a father seemed like something she should have known even after one conversation with him. Now she just had to figure out why Leo didn't tell her he had a daughter.
AN: Now, this chapter had a purpose, believe me, and if it felt a little boring you will see why I had to do it for next chapter. I hope you liked how Piper met Maggie (and by the way I'm very glad that you guys like the girl, it feels like a great accomplishment to me). Keep the reviews coming!