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Chapter 22: Break-in

Piper finally put two and two together. "You're the one who broke into Mark's apartment and stole his birth certificate!"

"Aren't you a bright one?"

Piper was tempted to tell him to shut up, but she restrained herself. "Why did you need his identity?"

"To get out of the country safely! I had all the cops on my ass. Suspected drug deals, suspected murder… they weren't going to give up on me soon. I was number two on San Francisco's most wanted list. He looked just like me. It was perfect. Until you came and screwed it up."

Piper closed here eyes and leaned her head back. It was too much to take in. Mark was killed because he looked like someone.

"Why do you need me?" she asked, frightened.

"I have a new identity. The man I killed had a wife, so you will be taking her place. Just for the plane ride I have chartered. After that, it's the bottom of the Pacific for you."

Piper held back her tears. He was serious. There was no joke in this man's voice.

"Besides, I can't have you or your cop boyfriend messing everything up this time. I may have just killed you in an alley like I did to your old boyfriend if you weren't dating that cop. I know if you turn up dead he'll be all over my ass."

"We won't do anything; I promise. Just let me go and I'll forget this ever happened," Piper begged. She just wanted out of here alive.

Wong just laughed. "I don't think so. You know what, I think I should kill your sisters too. After all, they will be looking for you. And they're dating cops."

"No, please!"

Wong barked out and order in Chinese and one of the men who kidnapped Piper came forward. They conferred for a few seconds and the man took off.

"What did you do?" Piper asked softly. "What did you do?!" she screamed at him. She was hysterical now. That man was going to kill her sisters, Andy, and Eric. He probably would have killed Leo if he weren't already dead.

Wong laughed once again. "Don't worry. You'll be seeing them soon enough. In hell."

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Leo turned and tossed restlessly in Piper's bed. Andy, Prue, Phoebe, and him decided to spend the night here in case they got another call from Piper. Unlikely, but so was getting kidnapped out of your home by a swat team of men with machine guns. Leo wasn't ruling out any possibilities.

He laid on back, looking at the ceiling in the darkness. Maybe he couldn't sleep because this room reminded him so much of Piper. It smelled like her, felt like her.

Leo heard a creak. He cocked an ear, listening for more. There it was again. And again.

Someone was climbing the stairs. It could be Phoebe or Andy or Prue, he reasoned with himself, but why would they be trying to climb them so secretly?

Leo got out of bed and quietly stepped into the hallway, hearing more footsteps. Leo hid against the wall right by the top of the stairs, cloaked in darkness.

If it was Phoebe, Andy, or Prue, he was going to feel like an ass. But if it wasn't, he was probably saving their lives.

The man was at the top of the stairs now. Leo reached out and grabbed the person by the neck and slammed him forward. The person hit the floor and something clattered out of his hand. Leo leaned on the person's back, one knee in the middle of the back, to prevent the person from getting up.

The sound of the body hitting the floor woke up the others and they came into the hallway, turning on lights.

The lights blinded Leo for a moment, since his eyes were adjusted to the darkness. But it soon passed and he saw himself kneeling on top of a Chinese man.

Leo immediately recognized him. Leo pressed down harder on the man. "Where is she?!" Leo demanded of him.

The man didn't reply, but Andy did. "Leo, what the hell are you doing?"

"This is one of the men who took Piper."

Phoebe gasped with surprise and Prue looked like she was going to feint.

But Andy was nothing but calm. "Alright. I'll take him into custody and take him to the station.

But Leo wasn't listening. He twisted the man's arm behind his back.

"Leo, stop it!" Andy yelled at him. This was against police protocol, but Leo didn't care. He was on temporary leave for the shootout involving Eric.

Leo twisted a little harder and leaned in towards the man. "Where is she?"

The man didn't answer, so Leo twisted harder and the man gave a yelp of pain. "Tell me where she is!"

No answer, harder twist.

"Look, if you tell us where she is, you will get a reduced sentence. If you don't help us, I'll make sure you rot in a cell for the rest of your life."

There was no answer, so Leo twisted a little harder and heard a satisfying snap. The bone hadn't broke, but his shoulder was probably dislocated or close to it.

"Alright! Alright!" the man cried out in pain. "Wong has her in a warehouse a little south of 57th."

"Wong?" Andy asked, taken aback. "Wong is behind this?"

The man didn't answer; he just nursed his shoulder.

Leo just looked at the man. "Now you know how I feel," Leo said with no sympathy, since this man threw him over the railing.

Andy cuffed the man and Leo made the call for squad cars be ready to go to the warehouse. The squad cars were going to pick up Andy, Leo, and the man under arrest on the way.

As the squad cars pulled up, Andy put a hand on Leo's chest. "I don't ever want to see anything like that again, understand? From now under you act under protocol."

Leo pushed his hand away. "We got the address, didn't we?" Leo turned and walked out to one of the four waiting squad cars.

Moments later, three of the cars were racing down the highway, sirens blaring. The fourth car had taken the man in custody to the station house.

On the way to save Piper, all Leo could do is pray. Please let her be alive. Please.

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Piper couldn't breath. Wong had a hold of her throat and he wasn't letting go. Dots swam before her eyes and she knew she was going to black out or die.

Wong finally let go and she fell to the floor, gasping for breath. She laid on her side, still bound.

"What did I tell you about trying to escape?" he growled angrily at her.

Piper just tried to breath. She had tried to escape, claiming to use the bathroom again. This time she tried to make a run for it, but Wong caught her in no time.

"Come on, get up. It's time to go?"

"Go where?" Piper gasped as he dragged her off of the floor.

"To the private plane taking us to China. Correction. Taking me to China. You'll be at the bottom of the Pacific before I get there." He laughed and Piper felt the now familiar chill of dread run up her spine.

He took her to the jeep, with the illegally tinted windows, she had been taken here in. He put her in the passenger seat and buckled her seatbelt. Piper didn't know what good it would do. With her hands bound, the seatbelt laid useless across her chest. The lap belt would be the only thing to keep her in her seat if they were to crash.

Wong got in behind the wheel and started the engine. As he pulled out of the parking lot, Piper heard the heavenly sound of sirens.

Wong sped up.

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As they reached the warehouse, a jeep was just pulling out. The officer driving followed the car under Andy's command. The jeep didn't pull over for the sirens. It sped up if anything.

"That has to be him," Leo said.

Two of the cop cars chased the jeep while the other stayed behind to check out the warehouse.

As the jeep increased speed, so did the squad cars.

Up and up went the speedometers. Up past forty. Past fifty. Past sixty.

It was okay to go that fast on straight road, but there was a big curve up ahead.

The squad car slowed down.

The jeep didn't.

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Piper closed her eyes, not wanting to see the speedometer climb anymore. When she opened them again, they were going around the curve way too fast.

Wong finally seemed to notice and slammed on brakes and jerked the wheel to the right.

He lost control of the car and it went spinning.

Spinning, spinning, and spinning.

It didn't stop until it slammed into the tree with sickening crunch.

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Author's Note: Oohh! Maybe the car will blow up and Wong will die! Maybe not! Wait until the next chapter to find out. Please let me know how you think the story is going so far.