Chapter 2: A Secret No Longer

First of all, responses to my two reviewers!

Charmedchickeva: Don't worry Piper's name will not be Evelyn for long, and I gave her that middle name. Because I don't remember her middle name ever being mentioned in the shows. Glad you liked it though!

Lady Maraduer: Again with the whole Piper's name being Piper again. And as I promised before she will be with Leo soon, within a few chapters.

Evelyn woke in the early morning sunlight that was streaming through the bedroom window. She turned over and found Ron lying wide awake beside her. "Morning, dear," he said.

"Morning," she replied, "ready to get up?"

He yawned, "actually, it's still quite early, so I think I'll sleep some more."

"Alright, then, I'll go and make us some breakfast," she smiled as she jumped out of bed and went toward the door.

"Hey, Ev?" Ron called.

"Yeah?"

"I was wondering, would you like to cast the spell with me later on?"

"Um Ron, I don't think you should cast it at all."

"Why?"

"Because I think it would be better if I didn't know if we are soul mates or not," Evelyn looked a little uneasy as she said this, but he ignored it.

"Well I think I'm going to cast it," he told her.

"Alright you do that then." She closed the door with a soft click. Evelyn practically ran down the stairs, glad that he had decided to sleep in. had to find that spell before it was cast.

When she entered the kitchen, she found to her great surprise, Leo sitting with his back turned to her. "Morning, Piper," Leo said, turning around.

"Leo, what are you doing here this early in the morning?" she moved over to him and whispering added, "And I do not wish to be called by my first name while my fiancé is in the house."

"Ah, I see you're still hiding your past from him," Leo said.

"Yeah well, he's going to find out soon enough, especially since you gave Ron that spell last night!"

"Hey, don't worry, its not like you can't tell him not to cast that spell."

"Oh come on, Leo! You know Ron isn't that persuasive!" she was getting a bit annoyed at her old friend.

"You can't keep running from the past, Piper."

She took a seat at the table, sighed and pushed her hair off her face.

"Maybe not, but I can deny it."

"How?"

"By getting rid of the spell." At that moment the phone rang. Evelyn ran over and picked it up.

"Hello?" she asked.

"Hi, Ev?" she heard P3's head manager on the other end.

"Yes, hello Mark. What can I do for you this lovely morning?"

"I was wondering if you could come into work."

"Um, maybe, why" she asked, slowly.

"The girls called in sick again" he replied.

"Alright" Evelyn replied"I'll be right over."

"Ok, see you in a few" Mark hung up the phone.

She too hung it up and then turned back to Leo"look, Leo, I have to get over to the club. I'll see you later, ok"

"Yeah, bye" he said and orbed out in swirl of bright light. Evelyn ran through the kitchen and to the doorway, where she grabbed her keys and left.

What she didn't notice on the way through the house was her fiancé sitting at the top of the stairs. Ron Weasley had heard every word that had been said in the kitchen that morning. Now her secret was a secret no longer.

It was now late afternoon, and Evelyn had been working all day at her club, at the moment she was just finishing the inventory. "Mark!" she called.

"Yes?" came his reply.

"How's the gin?" she asked, wondering if she needed to order more.

"Um, it looks like we have enough to do us for tonight, but we'll need a whole new order by tomorrow." He walked over to her. "Almost done?"

"Done!" she said, putting the pen down on the clipboard and taking the paper off it. "Today's what? Tuesday?"

"Yeah," he replied, "the company only ships on Wednesday's right?"

"Yes, I'll have to fax this to them and pray that they get it in time," Evelyn said and hurried off towards the doors, "I'll see you later." She told Mark as she left.

As soon as she faxed the order, Evelyn decided to spend the rest of the afternoon at home, on her couch with a good book. She hoped Ron wasn't home; she didn't want to deal with him at the moment.

When she opened the door, she knew right away that he wasn't there; throwing her keys down on the kitchen table, Evelyn grabbed a cold bottle of water out of the fridge and went up the stairs to her room to get a book. She decided to read up in her room instead and settled down on her bed.

She was about two pages into the third chapter of her book when suddenly a voice behind her made her jump. "Afternoon, Piper Halliwell."

She froze, hoping that it wasn't who it sounded like. Slowly, very slowly she looked up from her book and found, not to her surprise, Ron standing in the doorway. She sighed, and sat up. "How did you find out?"

"I was listening to you and Leo talk this morning," he replied, simply.

"You were eavesdropping on us!"

"Sorry, but I came down to see if you wanted any help with breakfast and I heard you talking to someone, Leo I saw and he was calling you Piper."

"Yes, well, that is my name too."

"It is?"

"Evelyn is my middle name, I changed to it, when," she paused wondering if she should tell him about her sisters. "When I encountered a life changing experience."

"And what was that?" he asked.

"Cast that spell and you'll find out," she said.

Ron went over to his dresser and pulled the spell out of the top drawer, "if I do cast it, how far back will it take me?"

"Probably somewhere between 1920 and 1950, it's hard to say exactly."

"But, Piper," he paused, not thinking about what he had just called her. "May I call you Piper now?" she nodded and he continued. "That's a time frame of 30 years!"

"Yeah, well you don't always get what you want out of spells like these."

"Not to mention you weren't even alive then!"

"Yes, I was," she said, "well, maybe not as I am now, but it will be my past life self."

"And things happened exactly back then as they do now?" Ron asked.

"Yes, but remember you can't change the past. Many bad things could happen if you do."

"How do you know all this stuff?"

Piper hesitated, thought 'Ah, screw it' and said, "I was once a witch, Ron. And a very powerful one at that. Have you ever heard of the Charmed Ones?"

A/N: In the next chapter: Piper might start to cheat on Ron, can youguess with who?