AN: Wassup! Anyway, there's some stuff I've been meaning to say for a few chapters now, and I'm gonna go ahead and say it now. First things first, Selena rocks! It's like one of the best movies of all time! I'm not Jennifer Lopez's biggest fan or anything, but the girl shows off her acting chops and in the flick, I think she had a bit of a bite! (Okay, that ends GeminiPiper's movie reviews! BTW, will be back with a review of Hitch) Anyway, if you ever have a question about a song I use, you can ask! The last one was "Amazed" by Lonestar (Everyone must hear this song) and I thought it fit so well.

"You must be cold." Leo looked at Piper milling around his kitchen. She was sliding around in a pair of his socks, way to big for her feet. She had on a large sweatshirt of his and she was bent over, filling Taye's bowl with Kibbles 'n' Bits as he yapped happily at her feet.

"My feet were, a little. It took me forever to realize I wore flip-flops over here. The cold was probably inside me." Leo nodded slowly. He was wearing a gray tee shirt and blue boxers that hung down to his knees. When she thought about it, he looked kind of funny, his hair was mashed to one side and he looked sort of out of it. She had the feeling that he was one of those people who need caffeine to get his day going. "Do you want some coffee? I made a pot."

She watched as Leo limped his way over to the coffeepot. She cocked her head in confusion. "Thanks, babe."

"Why are you limping?" Piper asked, storing the dog food back under the counter. Leo just sent her a look before turning to get two coffee mugs from the counter. It took Piper a moment, then she laughed. "Oh! Ohhh…" Much to her surprise, he laughed too. He looked sexy when he laughed. Especially with the stubble along his jaw and the way his broad, sinewy shoulders bobbed a little.

"Babe, you're a piece of the work."

She grinned at him. "Thanks."

He sipped his coffee thoughtfully. "When'd you get up?" he asked, after the caffeine had charged his system.

"Around…8ish."

Leo looked at his watch. "We didn't get to bed until like, 6 o'clock and it's 12 o'clock now." He paused again, making sure he would get the simplistic math right. "You've had about two hours of sleep and you've been up for 4 hours…more than last night. Hence the limping."

She laughed again. He liked it when she laughed. It made him happy. Leo downed his coffee before turning to her and smiling. Piper crossed to him and gave him a good morning kiss. Mmm. Before teeth brushing. Nice. Just then the phone rang, causing the previously eating Taye to bound into the living room.

Leo rolled his eyes and ran after him. Piper followed as he said hello.

"Leo! I'm stranded! Come save me!"

Leo rolled his eyes again. "Liz, what the hell are you talking about?"

"I was at a party, and then, when I woke up, low and behold if I wasn't across town! I don't have any, money for a bus, I don't know anybody here, I only had my cell phone and stuff."

Leo slapped a hand to his face. "Jesus, Elizabeth." He only called her that when she really frustrated him. "Where are you?" He listened as she rattled off an address. Then, he turned to Piper. "You wanna come with me to pick up my sister?"

Piper was fairly shocked. "You mean…like, your sister?"

Leo laughed. "Yeah, you know, a female sibling?"

Piper nodded. "Right. I've got two." She paused. "Can we bring Taye?"

"I don't know about this, I look weird."

"You always look weird." He teased.

"But men's pants? Give me a break."

"You look kind of cute in my clothes." Leo nudged her provocatively. "You look better without any."

Piper grinned at him and turned to look at Taye whose head was lolling out the back window. The two figured they were about ten minutes away from his sister. They were having a great time singing along to the radio, and playing with one another. After a little bit, they pulled up in front of a random house with Liz sitting on the front step.

Liz jumped for joy upon seeing her brother's car. She stood up and bounded to the window. "Thank you so much, oh my God! Hey Taye—Who's this?" Her tone went from thankful to accusing.

Piper was instantly uncomfortable. "Hi, I, um, I'm Piper Halliwell."

"The babysittee?" She asked.

"One in the same."

Liz gave her brother a very pointed look before climbing into the backseat.

The ride back to Liz's dorm was quiet and uncomfortable. Even Taye had felt the tension, settling his big head on the top of Piper's seat. Once Liz had been returned to safety, Leo immediately began apologizing. He turned to Piper as he started the car and pulled onto the street, whizzing past trees and grass.

"Look, I'm so sorry. She's usually a pretty nice kid. I don't know what the hell got into her."

Piper shook her head. "Leo, it's okay—"

"No, Piper, baby, it's really not—"

Piper screamed a scream that pulled at his heart. "Leo, watch out!" A red and white truck had dangerously whipped out in front of them. The ground was still slick from the previous night's rain. Leo swore violently as the car spun out of his control and sent the couple careening into the grass. Piper screamed again to the background of Taye's frightful barking. Piper shook in her place as the car crashed to a stop and she scrambled out, falling on her knees in the mud.

Quicker than she could call, Leo was at her side and any cars behind them had drawn to a stop. "Shit, Piper, are you alright?" Leo asked trying to haul her up beside him. She didn't budge, she just breathed uncontrollably, and tried to stop shaking long enough to speak. Within seconds, an ambulance and two police vehicles were on the scene. Two paramedics had Piper on her feet, who just continued to sob.

"Get her outta here!" Leo yelled angrily, upset with the fast-but-not-fast-enough pace of the medics.

"Sir, we're doing the best we can. She's sort of hysterical."

"Aren't you trained to handle this sort of thing?" Leo said, frustrated.

"Look, we're gonna have to give her something to take care of the hysteria, but until then, we're going to have strap her down. Do you want to ride in the ambulance?"

Leo sat pensively, staring down at a cup of coffee. He'd always hated hospitals. They smelled like medicine, disinfectant and death. He was miserable and furious at once. He was mad at himself and miserable at the whole situation. He was such a dumbass. The whole thing had been his fault. If only he hadn't been so preoccupied with Liz's rudeness, he should have been paying more attention.

He was only waiting until she awoke, then, he would take her back to his apartment, run her a bath and put her to sleep. The doctors had also given her something to keep her narcolepsy medication in check, since she'd forgotten it, running form her husband. The man who'd hit her. Lousy bastard.

"Where is she? Where's my wife?"

Leo looked up. Speak of the goddamn devil. He stood. "They sedated her." Leo responded dully.

"Wyatt?" Dan said angrily. "They didn't tell me you were here. What are you doing here?"

"I…" Leo could think of no way to wriggle out of this tight situation. "I was the one she was with during the accident. We were driving in my car, taking my sister home."

Dan was absolutely livid. For a moment, he was so angry, he couldn't see. Then, he spoke in a low, calm, sort of dull voice. "What. The fuck. Was she doing in your car?"

Leo set his jaw. Just being around Dan made him mad. What kind of man hit the woman he supposedly loved? "Do you really want to know?" he asked, his aqua eyes going cloudy and hard with anger. Dan just glared at him.

Leo took a deep breath. "Last night, after you hit her, Piper came to my apartment; she needed someone to take care of her, to love her." He paused, seeing Dan grow more irate. "So, I undressed her, put her in my bed, and made love to her. All night." He knew he should have stopped, that he was probably getting Piper in a worse situation, but he couldn't control himself.

He gave a smirk and dropped his voice to a whisper. "I like her hair against my pillowcase much better. It doesn't really go with the color of your sheets." In all honesty, Leo didn't even see the fist coming. But as he stumbled back into the chair he'd once been sitting in, he knew a fight was going to break out. Many people surrounding stopped to look. But before Leo could take a swing, a short, dark-skinned nurse in purple scrubs came running up.

"Mr. Wyatt, your wife is awa—"

"I'm her husband!" Dan yelled.

The nurse looked from one man to the other, wondering if she had a hospital soap opera on her hands. "Which one of you is the husband? They don't tell me this stuff."

Dan raised his hand. "Right this way." She stopped. "Mr. Wyatt, would you like to come along?"

Leo nodded.

Piper looked up in time to see the nurse and Dan enter and Dan shut out a yelling man. Leo? She didn't have time to ponder the question before Dan was sitting in the teal colored hospital chair.

"Dan?" she asked softly.

"I'm sorry to interrupt" the nurse began, "but, I'm just going to tell you that you're fine. Just a bruised bicep and a small cut on your knee. We figure that's from a brief collision with the dashboard. I'll leave you two."

The nurse left. "Piper, I'm so sorry." Dan said, kissing her hand. "I didn't, I mean…I didn't think…" It took him a moment to articulate his words. "Last night, when I yelled at you and hit you, it was…I wasn't in control of myself. I didn't mean to."

How many times had she seen this before? In her line of work, she'd seen hundreds, maybe thousands of women go through this cycle of abuse. First comes the hitting and the yelling and the screaming. Then comes the honeymoon stage. The gifts and presents and attention. Then, everything becomes miserable. Perhaps he demands that you change your clothes, the outfit is too "slutty". Maybe he yells at you at something as simplistic as you bought the wrong type of beer, but it was sure to happen. And it's back to the hitting.

And as many times as Piper had seen deaths, life altering traumas and deep depression behind this, she let Dan kiss her.

AN: Wow. That was sad. Oh. Gee, that was really dark. Oh well, it gets better, promise. There's more I'd like to say. I know it's so not my business, but I beg you, if anyone is going through an abusive situation like this, I beg you to get some help. Please, it'll make the world a better place. Another thing, last chapter, Piper had a panic attack. I'd like to say that I've had one and it's very, very serious. If you have these, I urge you to get help for this as well.

On a lighter note, I'm working on a magical fic! (Yay! Finally!) It slightly AU, because I'm taking things that happened to characters in later seasons and working them in at an earlier time (BTW, I will finish "Profiling Love" and "The Reunion", don't worry!). It's Piper-Centric, but it has much PiperLeo.(Right here, just for you!) Here's the longer summary:

It was a dark day in the Halliwell Manor the day it suffered two devastating losses and the disappearance of its whitelighter and Piper's fiancé, Leo. After no word from any of the Powers That Be, Piper turned away from everything, The Power of Three, protecting innocents, fighting demons and right into everything she was supposed to be fighting against. Evil. When the whitelighter she thought she knew returns with a new outlook on life, will these two souls, who aren't who they used to be, be able to find love all over again? Slightly AU, Magic Fic, Piper-Centric, with PiperLeo.

Wow, this is a long attention. Anyway, I love you guys so, so, so, so, so, so much and you're the best! XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO! And please review!