A/N: Aw, you guys make me feel so good! There will be some slight... delay... after this chapter, unfortunately... I'm sorry. I just have to right Chapter Nine. I need to be ahead of myself, so I may even right up to Chpt. 12. I am also writing a different fic at this time, but I want to finish it before posting. That means it'll be a while. Anyway, here's chapter eight...

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Piper thought-- she knew really, but didn't want to admit it-- she wouldn't see Leo for a long time. She took the rest of the week to work on a potion. One to keep her feelings safe from her sisters' powers of being Empaths that they'd recently collected.

Prue and Phoebe found Piper in the attic, working on a potion. She was adding the ingredients that she'd memorized from the Book of Shadows, not wanting her sisters to become suspicious if they saw her looking off of that page.

"Whatcha doin?"

"Uh, making a potion, obviously," Piper answered.

"Yeah, but what for?"

"No reason. Just... keeping busy..." Piper looked around, her hand lingering over the table, searching for a certain herb. "Dill, dill, dill..." she mumbled. "Ah ha!" She grabbed the dill and shook it upside down over the pot, counting as she did.

"One, two, three, four, five." She stopped and turned the bottle back over and set it on the table.

"So, it's a dud?"

"Yes," Piper answered quickly.

"Hmm." Phoebe shrugged. "I gotta go to work. Bye bye."

"Bye."

"Love you."

'Love you too," both Piper and Prue called as Phoebe left.

"Hey, I gotta go, too. You wanna meet up at the club later?"

"Yeah, sure."

"Bye."

"Bye." Piper looked down at her potion.

As soon as Prue was gone and her car had left the driveway, she checked the Book of Shadows to make sure she didn't miss anything. To add the final ingredient, she took a knife and poked her finger. She squeezed a drop of blood into the pot.

Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes. "...Leo!" she called.

Leo orbed in a second later. He saw the knife Piper held up. "Piper..."

"Give me your hand." She was making the potion with blood from both of them. It would hide Leo from his family, as well.

A little reluctantly, Leo held his hand out for Piper. She repeated the process she had on herself on his finger. She took his hand and dropped his blood into the potion, too.

Steam rolled off of the sides of the pot. It let out a loud, Poof!, and Piper filled to viles with it. She handed one to Leo.

"What is this?" he asked.

"A potion to block telepaths or Empaths from us."

"...Piper, wha--"

"Just... Drink it. Please."

Leo shrugged. "Fine."

Piper clinked her glass with Leo's and gulped it down.

And so they jumped off the drop off.

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A/N: Oh, I feel so terrible! I stopped so early! I feel horrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In my defense, it did seem like a good place to stop, though.

My next update will be longer. Double promise.