AN: Thank you so much everybody!! I think this story wil unfold slowly, but you will be able to guess....Except maybe the twist at the end! -----cackles evily----- Okay, I hope you like this chapter!
Piper lay next to Dan in the dark, running her hand over his bare chest. "Baby," she said slowly, "I forgot to take my medicine today."
Dan looked down at her with surprise and genuine concern. "What?"
"I forgot to take my medicine." Piper said, simply, gauging is his reaction.
"Piper, that's not good." He said, brushing her hair out of her face.
"I know, I didn't mean to."
Dan slid down a little further to look her in her eye. "Do you want to go see Dr. Samkin?"
Piper shook her head and rolled over. "No, Dan. Dr. Samkin keeps telling me the same thing. That it'll stop happening as soon as I…" She trailed off.
Dan sighed. "Piper," he said, taking her into his arms, "It'll be okay, I promise. Everything will be okay."
Piper sat up, wrapping the sheet around her. "No, Dan, it will never be okay. Never again. It will never be okay. That's why this started happening. It's a punishment."
Dan pulled her down beside him, and held her for a minute. "Okay, Piper. But will you please see Dr. Samkin in the morning?"
Piper nodded.
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Leo knocked on Dan's office door the next morning. "I'm busy!" came the reply. Leo opened the door anyway.
"Dan, your wife has some illness."
Dan looked up to see Leo sitting on the little beige couch. "What the hell are you talking about, Wyatt?"
Leo sighed. "Your wife practically passed out on the steps at your house yesterday."
Dan sighed and rubbed his temples. "Look, Wyatt. Piper's narcoleptic. She forgot to take her medication yesterday. You've got to regulate on that from now on."
Leo shook his head. "Gordon, she doesn't need a babysitter. She's a big girl."
Dan sighed again. "Look, do you still want the job?"
Leo considered it. A hundred bucks was a good wage. He could get more. Hell, he'd already been knocked over the head, that alone deserved more. "200."
"Done."
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Piper walked into Dr. Samkin's lobby. She looked around. Being there always gave her a warm feeling, with the colors brown and burgundy, not to mention the dark wood panels. It wasn't until she reached the office, with it's deep green and rich springy wood that she began to feel afraid all over again.
"Piper Halliwell-Gordon?"
Piper looked up. "That's me."
"The doctor will see you now."
Piper took a deep breath and walked to the office where the kindly balding doctor greeted her warmly. He kind of embodied psychiatrist.
Piper sat down in the couch opposite his chair, and before he could open his mouth, she spoke. "Dr. Samkin, I'm a psychiatrist as well and to be frank, I think you're a quack. You've diagnosed me with narcolepsy, and you say it will go away as soon as I work through the accident. You are wrong. It's a punishment."
"Piper—"
"Now, my husband will still pay you for the full hour, but I'm going to leave. Goodbye, Dr."
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Piper walked into the house, only to find Lucille getting ready to leave. Piper sat on the couch, propping her stilettoed feet up on the wood coffee table. She watched Lucille leave with a brief wave and a smile. Piper smiled back and closed her eyes for a moment, but reopened them when she got a violent image of a hurtling body. She took a deep breath and glanced at her watch. 3:33. She would take her medicine in about half and hour. There was a knock at the door.
Piper sighed, and straightened her ebony skirt and walked to the door, throwing it open. She stared yesterday in the face. "What are you doing here?" she asked suspiciously.
Leo smirked at her. "I would've come right in because your husband gave me the key," he jingled it, "but I can't afford to be walloped again."
"What do you want?" she asked firmly, crossing her arms over her ice blue clad chest.
Leo frowned. "Look here!" he said, pushing his way inside, slamming the door. "I'm here to be nice. Your husband hired me, says you need to be watched, and I'm doing my damn job. Now we won't have another incident like yesterday, clear?"
Piper narrowed her eyes at him. "Crystal."
Leo smiled. "Okay, what time do you take your medicine?"
Piper sighed. "He told you about that too?" Leo gave her a dark look. She sighed again. "4:00."
He glanced at his watch. "Well, we've got about 15 minutes to kill, what do you wanna do?"
Piper looked down at her clothes. "Take a shower and change."
Suddenly, Leo had vision of her without any clothes on. He shook his head. "Right. Okay, you do that, but hurry. I'll just watch some TV. I'm Leo by the way."
Piper smiled despite her pounding heart. "I guess you know I'm Piper."
He grinned. "Yeah, hurry to the shower."
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Piper toweled off in her bedroom. She brushed her hair and walked to her closet. She found herself thinking about what Leo would think. Piper shook the thoughts away. She couldn't go there, she couldn't let her mind return to that place, it was hard enough with him being there. She quickly selected a pair of comfy jeans and a red tank top. She walked to the stairs to see Leo standing there, a glass of water and a bottle of pills in his hand, a smirk on his attractive face.
"I'm not a baby." She said, taking the remaining stairs. "I would've taken them." She took the items from him.
"Yeah, well, now you have to." She smiled and took the pills. She waited while he took the items to the kitchen. "Okay," he said, slinging an arm around her shoulders. Piper was momentarily stunned, he smelled so good and he was so warm, his t-shirt worn just enough to be soothing. "Let's head to the living room, watch a movie or something, sound good?"
She looked up at him in awe. "You really are my babysitter, huh?"
Leo grinned. "In the flesh."
AN: Okay, I think this chapter was fairly longish, to my credit, and I hope you liked it! Please review!!!
