AN: Sorry 'bout the short chapter people!! -----cackles evilly----- but I wanted to make these chapters separate! Anyway, this one is a lot longer and that's good right? And yes, I do listen to Rick Dee's Top 40, how'd you guess? -----laughs----- Gee, you guys must think I'm just crazy! Anyway, on with the chapter!

Leo stood with his hands behind his back, tapping his shoe quietly, but impatiently against the marble floor. The gentile woman patted a hand in her fancy updo before turning to him.

"I want the painting by the door." She said, gesturing to it.

Leo gave her a strained smile. "Mrs. Macaulay, I've already told you that the one by the door is not for sale. In five years, of owning this place, I haven't sold that painting."

Mrs. Macaulay smiled knowingly. "I'm sure if it's the right price—"

"I said it's not for sale." Leo snapped forcefully, becoming blindingly angrily in a matter of seconds. Mrs. Macaulay turned and sauntered over to the painting.

"Look, I know my son would love to have this in his apartment and—"

"Get out!" Leo yelled lividly. "Get the hell out!"

Mrs. Macaulay sent him a painstaking glare before turning and leaving Leo's art gallery.

Leo turned and rode the elevator to his office. "Bitch." He lowered him self into his chair with a sigh and leaned forward on his elbow, rubbing his face wearily. Next, he picked up his phone. "Lorena?"

"Yes, Mr. Wyatt?"

Leo sighed again. "Have Sam take the painting out of the front room. Tell him I want it moved to my apartment."

Lorena snapped her gum. "Which pain—" but she stopped short. She knew which painting it was. Everybody knew which painting it was. What the hell was his obsession with that damned thing anyway? "Yes, Mr. Wyatt."

"Good. And I don't want you gossiping about my obsession with that painting. Just get it done."

"Yes sir."

Leo sorted blandly as he put the black phone back on the base. "'Sir'." He said sarcastically, obviously talking to himself. "Who'd have ever fucking thought I be a 'Sir'?" Leo clasped his hands together and rested his forehead on them. He'd had her on his mind all the time. She was all he could think about. Piper. Piper Halliwell. And what about his child? What was he to do about him…or her? Leo laughed sardonically.

What was it his mother had told him? Oh yes, that he didn't love her. She gave the whole night up to "raging hormones". Oh God, his mother was awfully narrow-minded. What she didn't know was that that night had been the most wonderful and amazing night of his life, physically, emotionally and spiritually. And now, what was he? A man? Sure, in body, but what kind of man ran away from all his responsibilities? What kind of man ran away from the woman her loved all because of something that should have been a blessing? What kind of man…

"I'm coward." Leo said finally, replacing his forehead with his chin. "I'm a coward and a wreck."

With a irresolute sigh he picked up his pencil and started to doodle a drawing across the paper in front of him. And wouldn't it come out to be a picture of her?

"Aaah, damn it!" Leo yelled, crumpling the notebook paper and throwing it against the cream colored wall, Rolex shining against his only slightly tanned wrist. In a final attempt to achieve clarity, Leo put his head to the rich mahogany desk.

For three ignorant, blind years, Leo was sure he had no conscience. But two years ago, all of that blindness had come back to bit him in his metaphorical ass. Humph. Some kind of man he was.

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Leo took a bite out of his steak. He looked around the classic diner, rubbing his mouth with his napkin. Just then, his cell phone rang.

"Hello?" he asked, quickly chewing up the rest of the food in his mouth.

"Leo, it's Sam." Said the voice on the other end.

Leo sighed. "What do you want, Sam?"

"Well, after I got 'The Painting' moved back to your apartment, I got a call from Beck."

"What's he say?"

"He said that he wanted you t set up another gallery."

Leo laughed bitterly. "Where this time?"

"San Francisco."

AN: What's gonna happen…Will Piper and Leo see each other? Wouldn't you like to know? Review and find out!!