AN: Now, just from the name of this chapter you can guess that something… big will happen here. It will develop the story line A LOT.

About Leo referring to Ben as Piper's 'boy friend'; it's just a figure of speech, if you may. Meaningless, really. Same as saying 'your ex', just in a more mocking way.

Now, be prepared for a VERY unusual chapter, which may seem a little boring at first, but believe me; it will keep you on your toes by the time you reach the good part wink. Some nice fluff in this one too, not lot's of it, but it's there.

Chapter 10

OoO A Blood Soaked Curtain OoO

On Sunday, Piper returned to P3 after a two day break from her 'attack', and got the most unpleasant looks from some people.

Some were nice and even concerned, Mar being one of them. Though, of course, she wasn't very keen about Ben coming into town – no one was.

Piper has managed to keep some distance from him, but he was as stubborn as hell.

And the ticking thing about it all was that he kept being so understanding and using his damn psychology to explain why Piper was 'running away' from relationships.

Piper tried to explain that she was in a relationship, and even found herself screaming 'I sleep with another man, damn it!' at one very regretful moment.

All might have gone well if she hadn't yelled that in a club full of people.

"I sleep with ANOTHER man, damn it!"

All faces seemed to turn to her.

Keren's expression was the one that made Piper want to hurl. She was looking at her like Piper's just said 'I killed your son'.

"Would you keep your voice down?!" Ben said in kind of an angry whisper, grabbing Piper's arm.

He started pulling her to another side of the club.

The only sounds were the music, but no one was talking; they were all looking.

"Let go of me Ben." Piper hissed back when she was already standing against a wall, and he was standing close in front of her.

He let go, and Piper crossed her arms in front of herself.

"Look, I know you are going through a hard time with the mess that your sister dropped on you back in San Francisco. I know you had the urge to leave it all behind and run away, but this place will finish you off. I'm not mad that you had a fling with that sheriff of theirs; you have womanly needs and I understand that, I do. I'm just asking you to end this absurd now and come home with me. I know that's what you really want." He was as calm as hell, and Piper felt like slapping him.

If only there weren't so many people around…

She couldn't quite explain why, but she felt tears welling up in her eyes.

She couldn't help it; the things that Ben was saying were very likely to be true. She simply ran away to this town. Lame. She was lame.

Ben's eyes seemed to soften, and he brought his hand to her cheek, but she shrugged it off.

"Go away Ben. Go back to San Francisco."

"Not without you." He said stubbornly.

"You heard her, get the hell out!" Rob said from behind, and Ben turned around.

"I won't leave without you, I promise." He whispered to Piper like it was a good thing, and then slowly made his way through the crowd (which was still looking) towards the way out of the place.

"Are you ok? What did he do?" Rob asked, picking Piper's chin up with his finger.

"I'm fine. He didn't do anything." Piper said, drying her eyes with the back of her hand.

"You two have a history?" Rob asked.

Piper nodded.

"Three years…" She started.

"You dumped him?" Rob guessed.

"Precisely. But he won't let go" Piper explained, and Rob seemed to understand.

"I see. He's a sonofabitch. Did you know he was threatening people so we'd kick you guys out of here?"

Piper nodded.

"Don't worry; we're not letting you three go. This club is the best thing that happened to this town since the statue." Rob said with his hand on Piper's shoulder, a smile revealing his white teeth. "Let me know if he comes back. Leo should be here soon." Rob continued, and with that he walked off.

That was when her sisters bounced into the club, and Piper decided to forget about Ben. Eventually, he'd leave town and forget about her.

The last traces of weight were lifted off her shoulders when Leo came in, and people stopped staring.

At one that night they drove back to her place.

"And it's not like he's always been this way. I mean, I thought I knew everything there is to know about him, but here he has gone all crazy, and it's like the last three years were all a damn show." Piper complained.

"I'll make sure he's out of town by tomorrow night. I've already started to collect some stuff that will put him in his place, and the blackmailing he's been doing is far from legal." Leo said, and Piper felt relieved.

They climbed up the stairs to her room, and as soon as they were inside Piper collapsed on her bed.

That bed brought her happiness, because that's where she'd usually find Leo at.

"Well, look who's in a hurry tonight…" Leo mocked, but set on her bed next to Piper, starting to play with her long hair which was sprung in waves down her back.

"I'm tired." She mumbled.

She felt as he lay down on her, his chest on her back, making her sink deep into the mattress.

She winced and smiled, as he started removing hair from the back of her neck, and placing his lips there instead.

Piper, who couldn't move under him, relaxed completely and closed her eyes. He started turning her to her back, his lips traveling along as she was turning, until he reached her mouth.

His hot tongue explored her mouth for long seconds, while his fingers were unzipping her dress, then her bra, and finally getting rid of those.

Piper helped him out of his clothes as well, and ran her palms along his chest, laughing as his lips were tickling her neck.

It was so pleasurable; they barely heard the knock on the door.

"Leo…" Piper started.

"Go away!" Leo yelled to the door, but Piper started unwrapping her legs from his waist.

"Piper, you need to come downstairs!" Paige's voice came.

"She's busy!" Leo informer, and tried to keep her on him but Piper slid away.

"I have to check if it's serious." She explained, and got out of bed.

She put on Leo's jacket and her panties, then slightly opened the door and slid to the hall.

"This better be good." Piper said, closing the door behind her.

When she looked up at Paige she saw a look of horror in her eyes, and remembered that one from when Phoebe called and said she was at the police station about two months ago.

"What's wrong?" Piper asked, getting worried.

"I think you need to come downstairs and see something." Paige mumbled, and Piper followed her down the stairs.

The whole downstairs level was dark, but Paige kept leading her to the kitchen.

There, by the window, Piper could make out Phoebe's features as the light from the moon hit her.

She was crying.

"Phoebe…?"

"I found him in the back yard." Phoebe sobbed out.

"I don't understand…" Piper started, but then Paige turned the lights on.

At first Piper didn't see anything odd except Phoebe's tear stroked face, but then she realized what was at her legs.

Something, or someone, very big, was wrapped in red curtains, with flowers on them.

But then Piper recognized the curtains- they were their curtains, but they were originally white.

Now, they were soaked in dark blood.

"Ahhaa…" Piper tried to say something, pointing at what now she realized what a human body wrapped in their grandmother's curtains.

But when Phoebe took a step forward towards Piper and accidentally touched the body with her shoe, it rolled to its back and the curtain stayed behind, and a blue head of a man was revealed to her eyes.

And the man was Ben.

Both Phoebe and Paige let out a scream at the site, probably already knowing who it was; seeing as someone had to put him in those curtains, and Piper backed away quickly, bumping into the kitchen counter and making some pots fall to the floor.

She gripped the counter with both her hands like her life was depending on it, and tried to breath.

"Piper! What's going on down there?!" She heard Leo's voice call, and she tried to answer but no voice would come out of her.

"It's nothing Leo!" Paige called back.

But Piper was already puking the few drinks she had that night on the kitchen floor.

---OoO---

He was already zipping his jeans, prepared to go downstairs to see what the hell was going on, when Piper walked back into the room.

"Piper! What happened?" He immediately asked, but she already started taking his jacket off of herself and giving it back to him.

"Leo, you have to go, I'm so sorry…" She said, putting her bra back on.

He took a closer look at her and realized her paleness.

"What the hell is going on?" He asked another time.

After she was in her shirt she finally looked at him.

"Phoebe… she's going trough mid-life crisis." She lied.

"What? The girl's twenty; she can't be in mid-life crisis." Leo said.

"Please Leo, she's twenty five. And she is going through them, ok?? I need to… be there for her. Look, we'll do this tomorrow. You have to leave now."

He stared at her for a few moments to make sure that was her final word and she wasn't going to change her mind, and finally nodded.

"Alright. Call me in the morning?"

"Yeah."

She followed him as he walked downstairs –where he saw no trace of either of her sisters- and stopped as he walked out.

He stole a last glance at her, before starting the engine and driving away.

Something was wrong, and it defiantly wasn't Phoebe going through mid life crisis.

--OoO--

"Alright, you get his head." Paige was saying when Piper walked back into the kitchen.

"Why do I have to take the head?! I want the legs." Phoebe complained.

"Just shut the fuck up." Piper hissed.

She walked over to the body and looked at it for a brief moment before walking around it and grabbing the curtain where his shoulders were.

Her sisters helped as they dragged him towards the car.

She couldn't tell Leo. Just the fact that Phoebe moved the body would get her in jail for years, especially with her little past.

"He was right in our back yard Piper, the water brought him here. I panicked, so I thought that…"

"You thought 'maybe I should bring him into the house and Piper would know what to do with him'?! Well, here's a news flash sis; I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MY EX'S DEAD BODY!" Piper almost yelled as she sharply stopped the car at the end of the street.

They pushed him out of the truck in a dead end where no one lived, and drove the car back home.

She wanted to pick up the phone and call Leo like nothing else, but her sister begged her not to, and the Halliwells had family commitments, and those came first.

The three sat numbly in the living room after that, staring at each other.

It was all happening like a bad nightmare.

First the whole spying attacking fiasco, then Ben came into town and made everyone around hate him, and now his traces of blood were on the kitchen floor.

And as much as she came to hate that man in the past few days; she's been sleeping with him for three years of her life, and just the thought of him all blue from the time he spent under water, and all red from the blood that seemed to be coming from his head and a 'hole', obviously a bullet, in his stomach- made her want to vomit again, but there was nothing left.

The man was killed with cold blood; he was shot. Then he was pushed into the river.

Phoebe's head was as low as possible- with shame probably- and Paige was staring at Piper.

It felt like a dead end, and Piper couldn't come up with anything that could save them from this one.

AN: An overwhelming chapter, wasn't it? At least none of the characters you care about died... (And most of you seemed to despise Ben).

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