AN: Hey guys... well, now that we can finally update chapter and review, here is the next chapter, it's delayed but not my fault! lol.

Someone said something about Leo cussing in non-magical stories...I don't know, I've kind of noticed that too lately. But in my stories it's not just Leo using some French, it's other characters too. that's why it's rated PG-13. Hope you guys don't mind. Anywho, here's chapter nine, enjoy!

Chapter 9

OoO Blackmailing Lustville OoO

"I'm talking about family values here! This is a danger to us all!" Harriet Tucker's voice rose above all others.

Leo thought he would explode into thousand little peaces if the council meeting wasn't going to end soon.

"This is non sense Harriet!" Candice, who was in the head of the court house and seemed to be on Piper's side called back.

Leo glanced at Frank, who just sat there next to his wife, looking either tense or just really not amused. Or both.

"No one; and I mean no one, in the history of this town has tried to kill anybody! I don't know what the hell has this woman got after her, but we don't need this trouble!" Harriet exclaimed, looking furious, even scared.

If only she knew that her husband sitting next to her was the one giving her the head ache.

Staring again at Frank, Leo shook his head at the irony of it all. Frank had the look of a criminal; Leo had no doubt about who pushed Vilma into the water. Wait, who pushed PIPER into the water. PIPER.

Leo felt chills as he thought of Vilma –Piper- and knew that as soon as he was out of the ridiculous meeting he would go over to her place and… well, he will do things.

Him and Vilma.

Together.

Alone.

"Look, I know Piper Halliwell is as innocent as anyone, but someone is out after her, and this has never happened in Lustville before! This town is supposed to be a safe place to raise our grandchildren!" Harried said, and when she cast her eyes on Leo as the words 'grandchildren' were said, Leo almost choked.

It was obvious that when she was talking about 'grandchildren', she meant Leo's and Mar's. Which SO wasn't going to happen!

And the worst thing about it all, Keren Wyatt was also looking at Leo, her eyes all expectation.

Mayor Grits finally closed up the meeting which was going no where but more arguments, and announced that they will have the Halliwells attend the next council meeting, seeing as they were citizens of Lustville now and had a right to hear the meetings, especially if the subject was directly effecting them and their further staying in Lustville – if that was going to happen.

Leo walked to his car fast; making sure his mother won't notice him.

He's already spent the first half of the day getting her off his back (her and many others) about what happened to Piper, and that he has to 'Stay away from that woman!'. God.

He was opening 'that woman's door in no time, and walked in without any permission. He was getting used to that.

He saw her long brown hair from behind, she was sitting in one of the chairs in the backyard, holding mug in her hands.

"Vilma, you have no idea how glad I am to see you…" He said as he walked out to the back yard.

She looked alarmed and put her mug down, getting up herself. But he looked passed the alarmed expression at her beautiful face.

Well, maybe except that nasty bruise, which seemed from the looks of it to hurt like hell.

"No, Leo, this is not a good time…"

"Don't you say that to me, I've just had the most fucking annoying day in my life, and you were always the only thing in my mind." He continued, getting closer, about to kiss her.

But she backed away.

"No, Leo, you don't understand, this is REALLY not a good time…" She was saying.

"Oh Vilma, please just fuck me…" He said, only half sarcastic.

And boy, was he sorry for saying that…

"HEY!" a voice called to him from behind, and as Leo turned around to see who the male voice belonged to he could only make out a huge human standing there, before a fist connected with his eye very painfully, making Leo stumble and fall flat with his back on the grass.

"BEN! Are you out of your mind?!" Piper exclaimed, and he could hardly make out as she stepped in 'Ben's way to Leo.

"No one; and I mean no one will talk to you this way Piper. That man doesn't even know your name! Did you know that…" And so he started with statistics of women getting raped each year; Leo was too dazed to hear.

Piper started pulling him off the ground, and he had to lean in to her for a second before gaining balance again.

Now that he could finally make out the man who punched him in the eye, he realized he was even taller then he seemed before, almost a whole head above Leo, and about two above Piper. She wasn't even close to reaching his shoulders.

"Ben, I think you should go." Piper told him, one of her hands still on Leo's shoulders.

Ben looked at her like she'd just said something like 'I'll never sleep with you again', which at the moment seemed to Leo like an awful thing to say, at least coming out of her mouth.

"Really, Ben, stay in the motel down the street… Or even better, go back to San Francisco, I'm staying here and there is nothing you can do about it." She said.

"You want me to leave you here? Alone? With him?"

Yes, that sounds right. Leo thought, still feeling wobbly.

"Ben, I'm serious, if you don't want me to push you out then you better leave yourself." Piper said, and Leo hoped it was just a figure of speech, because there was no way Piper could even move that man's little finger. He was three times her size, and from the punch that was still stinging as hell in his eye, he knew the man had some muscle.

"Ben, go." She said, and with a dreadful look that 'Ben' sent to Leo, he left the house, slamming the door after him as he exited.

"He's not going back to San Francisco, is he?" Piper asked, more herself then Leo.

"Nope, he's going straight for the Motel." Leo said, leaning his arm against the wall to keep himself from stumbling back down.

That was when Piper seemed to remember he was there.

"Oh! Come here…" She led him to the couch, and started checking his eye.

"That's gonna leave a bruise." She informed him.

"Good, now we match. Who the hell is Ben?" Leo asked.

"Oh. Ben is my ex from San Francisco." Piper said.

"Good, at least he's not your brother, then I wouldn't be able to punch him back next time.

Piper let out a laugh.

"There is no way you can pull it off against Ben. He's a walking muscle."

"I know. Try to work with me here?" He asked.

"Right. Sorry. Ice?"

"Yes, please."

She returned from the kitchen a few minutes later with a pack of ice, and gave it to him to hold against his eye while she set down next to him.

"So, how are you feeling?" Leo asked, still remembering yesterday very well.

"Better then you do." Piper said. She was amused.

"Good to know. Is your boyfriend going to behave? It's a crime to punch a man of the law, you know." Leo said.

"He was protecting me. From you." Piper said.

"I guess he could use that one in court, and then I would lose my spot as a sheriff without any elections, which are in two weeks by the way." Leo said, putting one arm around Piper for her to lean into him.

She was quiet for a long time, and he knew which question was coming.

"So you really think it was Frank Tucker?"

"Yes. I don't think, I know." Leo said.

"I don't know…"

"Why, you think you know who it was?"

"You're not going to like this." She warned.

"Shoot."

"Your mother." She said.

No, it couldn't have been. Or at least he hoped to god it wasn't…

He didn't say anything though, knowing he will even have to consider that one. And Leo knew very well that Piper Halliwell wasn't exactly his mother's favorite person…

They didn't have sex that evening, because Leo knew he had to go and stop by his house to say goodnight to Maggie, then to P3 to investigate, now with only one eye seeing anything.

Piper who still wasn't feeling her best stayed home, and made him promise he would come back, which he had no doubt what so ever that he will, unless someone would kill him first.

At P3, there was a new 'talk of the day'.

Now everyone knew about Ben's arrival in town, and they weren't liking it.

Apparently, Ben has managed to come up to some people and threaten them with some small criminal history some of the respectable Lustville citizens had (even they weren't pure…).

Somehow, Ben managed to find out that people were considering to 'kick out' the Halliwells after what happened to Piper, and Ben tried hard to push that idea.

So he used the good old blackmailing way, the bastard. He was one fucking doctor. What the hell was Vilma doing with him for THREE years, like she told him earlier that night? He was defiantly not her type.

Finally, Leo spotted Ben talking to Frank, which was a no good combination, especially when it seemed that they were fighting.

"You get out of this town, you hear me?! Take your little girlfriend, and get the hell out!" Frank was saying.

"My 'little girlfriend' owns this club, so you're the one invading here!" Ben sapped back.

"No one is invading anything; this place is open for all crowds." Leo butted in, and when the two other men looked at him, furious, he remembered that even though they were fighting, they both hated Leo.

"You!" Ben exclaimed, and Leo took a step back.

"I am the sheriff, so another step and you're arrested." Leo warned, and it worked. Ben backed away the extra step.

"Leo, stay away from this one, will ya?" Frank said, angry.

"No. You two take this outside." Leo commanded.

"Look, I didn't start this! He came here and started blackmailing me about some shit!" Frank exclaimed.

"That true?" Leo asked Ben.

"He's been blackmailing the whole damn town for the last two hours!" Frank continued.

Leo looked back up to Ben, who tilted his jaw, and turned around.

After he was gone out of the club, Leo looked back to Frank, who frowned and walked off.

Leo had to hold himself so that he won't chase after Frank and give him a bleeding nose, the bastard almost killed Piper, and here was Leo, protecting him from the new 'big bad'.

"What happened to your eye?" Mar, sarcastically Frank's daughter, said from behind him.

"I fell into the river and got raped." Leo muttered, still thinking about Ben and Frank.

"By the doctor?"

"Yes." Leo said, cursing Ben in his mind.

Mar laughed.

"Listen, if we're already on the Ben subject here… He needs to go. He somehow got a hold of my little criminal file… you know, the one I got myself opened while in San Francisco… And anyway, he's been looking in other people's files too, and as you can see around you no one's happy."

"What did he said he wanted?" Leo asked, but knew the answer.

"He says he wants Piper Halliwell out of the city. God, poor thing, stuck with that wacko doctor. How is she by the way? Was she really raped?" Mar asked.

"No, just pushed into the river, which is quite enough." Leo said, and looked at the time.

It was just over twelve, and Leo was still planning on coming over to Vilma's, hoping that big boy Ben wasn't there.

"No kidding. You leaving?" Mar asked.

"Yeah, duty calls." He lied only to some extent, and headed to the Halliwell's.

Piper was in the living room with her sisters when he came.

"Good evening sheriff." Phoebe teased.

"Ladies." Leo greeted back.

"We'll be… not here." Paige said, grabbing Phoebe's sleeve and dragging her out of the room.

Leo made his way towards Piper who was on a couch. He sat down next to her, and her head automatically fell on his shoulder.

He smiled to himself, and grabbed her waist to pull her on to him so that her legs were on either of his sides, their chests against each other, her head buried in his neck.

It felt good to have her with him.

"You look like you've been beaten up. What did Maggie say?" Piper said from his neck, obviously talking about his blue eye.

"I have been beaten up, by your boyfriend. Maggie asked if you got mad and hit me."

"She did not!" Piper said pulling up so that her nose was almost touching his, and their eyes were parallel.

"Oh, she did. I told her we both went and banged our heads on the wall. She said we were immature. I said all adults are." Leo said.

She smiled, relaxing again, and after brushing her lips against his she leaned back against his chest.

"Leo?"

"Yes?"

"Do you think… well, I don't want to sound like… Just… Do you think 'they' will try to… 'Push me in' again?" She asked slowly, and he could hear the trays of fright in her voice.

"Nah, no way. Frank is not putting another finger on you. Or the sheriff's spot. And Ben is taking care of that one."

"What?" She asked, pulling up again.

"Your boyfriend has been blackmailing people into sending your ass out of this town. Frank included, and I know he's hiding some criminal past." Leo said.

"Criminal? In Lustville?" Piper asked.

"Of course. We're all criminals here, that's why we're so far away from everything." Leo said, smiling.

"Is that so? Does that mean I'm sleeping with the enemy?"

"Nah. You're a criminal too, Vilma." Leo said, and pulled her up for a kiss. A sweet, short kiss.

"Does this mean me and my sister are outta here?" She asked, serious again.

"Over my dead body." Leo said.

"Be careful, that just might happen." She teased, and he remembered.

Ben would get his body dead in no time.

AN: Well? Any thoughts you'd like to share? Well, go on, share them! Lol

Oh, one exclusive spoiler for next chapter… Be prepared for someone to be found ----. Can you guess? It's one of the spoilers I gave you a few chapters back… Doesn't say who the 'someone' is though. Well, I won't torture you with little guessing games no more, I feel evil. Next chapter you'll see.