A/N: I realize that there were two copies of Chapter 9, but that was due to my own stupidity. This should cover up the other Chapter 9 and take care of everything. I was tired and my fingers hurt from typing and I think I may have been kind of random clicking, but getting two up there is better than getting none, right? (I'm hoping that that's a rhetorical question...) And Charmboy4, I'm sure I got the Greek stuff from me, because quite frankly, I hate the Oh My Goddess episodes, since they're the start of a downward swirling spiral that "Brat" Kern had thrown us into involving Piper and Leo. We really are studying Greek mythology. I haven't and hopefully never will use anything from the Oh My Goddess episodes unless someone like practically begged me. (See? Once I'm set on a point, there is no persuading me otherwise, even if I'm wrong!)
Now on to Chapter 10... (this is right where that little page-turning sound goes on and everyone scrolls down)
"That is so not fair!"
"Oh, calm down."
"No! You're cheating!"
"How could I be cheating, Piper? I'm throwing them straight."
"Well throw with you hand, then, not your powers."
"Oh, quit complaining."
"Complaining? Leo, I'm not a duck hunter, for cryin' out loud! I don't shoot mid-air objects!"
"You do now. Now pay attention."
Piper raised an eyebrow. "No."
"No what?"
"No. I'll throw, and you shoot them."
"So that what, Piper? When you go up to your House you'll be less trained than anyone?"
"Leo, you know that I'm stronger than my sisters. I have more and stronger powers. All I don't have is Phoebe's power of premonition. If anything, I should be fattening up on chips and soda and letting my powers rot, not grow. This just boosts my chance of getting picked!"
"And if one of your sisters are picked, then you'll be too fat and untrained to fight."
"So?"
"Piper..."
"Fine... But let me throw for a while."
"Fine."
Leo stepped back and Piper pointed to a boulder. She threw it up into the air with telekinesis. Just before it started to come down, Leo threw a fireball at it and it exploded.
"Now that is not aim," Piper commented.
"How is that not aim?"
"Because that thing was like seven feet wide!"
"Okay, Piper, what's fair?"
"Hmm..." Piper turned in a slow circle, evaluating the objects around them in the field. "Ah ha..." She threw a tiny rock high into the air with telekinesis, a power she had learned long ago. Leo looked at her like she was crazy. "Well hurry up and get it before it falls!" Piper reminded.
Leo shook his head, turned around, and threw a low voltage energy ball at the pebble just before it hit the ground. He didn't miss. "What now?"
"Damn you..."
(1 Hour Later)
"Tired," Piper groaned.
"Wimp," Leo said.
"Pushy."
"Coward."
"Power crazy."
"Baby."
"...Pushy," Piper retorted, out of things to say.
"Ah ha, double. You lose."
"Shut up."
They stopped walking. Leo turned and raised an eyebrow at Piper. "Excuse me?"
"Oh, shut up," Piper repeated, brushing her hand across his arm as she walked past. "Where the hell are we?" she asked, throwing her arms out in exasperation. She whirled around to face Leo.
After training, Leo had orbed Piper to a place she didn't recognize so that they could talk. They did. They talked for a long time. They talked about each other and their families and their lives. Their favorite animals and colors and why it always looks friendly outside when it's actually freezing, and vice versa. They covered everything from sticky notes to how many cheetahs live in Africa to the best places to get powers from.
"You tell me, Little Miss Know-It-All."
"I hate you so much right now."
"No you don't," Leo teased.
Piper groaned. "Ugh!" She whirled around. "Okay, what do you want?"
"Depends."
"On what?"
"I'll think about it. Come here."
Piper ran over to Leo and let him orb her out.
(manor)
"Okay, now where were we?" Piper asked, coming into the living room of the manor.
"You were admitting defeat, because you couldn't find out where I took us."
"Never would I meet defeat."
"Oh, please, Piper. Don't humiliate yourself like this."
"Like what?"
"Piper, Piper, Piper..." Leo sighed.
"What?"
Piper sat on her knees on the couch beside Leo, facing him. She had one arm propped up on the couch, the other resting on her leg. He didn't answer. She looked at him curiously.
"What?" she asked again.
"Nothing."
"Nothing is always something."
"Not necessarily."
"Yes, necessarily."
"Whatever."
Piper put on a fake stunned look. She pulled Leo closer to her and kissed him. It was that moment that Prue and Phoebe decided to barge inside the manor.
"Go," Piper urged before her sisters got into the living room. Without another word, Leo orbed out. Piper looked up at her sisters a little angrily. "What is it?"
"I'm graduating next week!" Phoebe shrieked.
"Good for you, Phoebe," Piper said, standing up to hug her sister.
"Thank you. Then I can become a psychologist and make the big bucks just for doodling on a pad of paper and nodding and saying, 'Mmm hmm. Uh huh... Tell me how it all started...'"
All three sisters laughed and sat down.
A/N: Short, but hopefully good. I was thinking about the whole naming the chapters thing, but trust me, you don't want that. It would not be pretty. I may be imaginative, but naming things is not my specialty. I had three chickens named Chickadee, Chickaboo, and Chickaboom. See my point? Anyway, the next chapter deals more with the girls' and Leo's families and there are little scenes running through my head right now. I think it'll be about as long as Chapter 9, otherwise it'll be like two medium-sized chapters, depending on how quickly I get these ideas out.
Really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really breath, really, really, really, really, really, really sorry about the wait. It's so weird, I can write in everything but this, Wyatt, and Home Sweet Home. Anyway, I have like... 3 lines of Chapt.11 up, so 3 down, 197 or more to go, eh?
PS: Sorry about the italics up there (the 1 Hour Later and manor). My computer wasn't letting me put through another space to show some sort of time lapse.