Author's Note: This chapter starts off a couple weeks after the accident. Piper has fully healed and Grams is still clueless about her and Leo.
Prue shakes Piper awake.
"Prue? What the hell?"
"I need you to come with me to the drug store."
"What? Why?"
"Just get dressed and meet me in the car."
About fifteen minutes later, Piper walks out the front doors and climbs into Prue's car.
"Why are we going to the drug store?"
Prue starts the car and pulls out of the driveway.
"I'm…I'm two weeks late."
"Two weeks?"
"Yeah, and we used condoms every time. So I hope I'm just late."
Piper's eyes widen and she clasps her hand over her mouth. Prue looks at her in concern.
"What?"
"I just realized that I'm late, too."
"Well then that's two tests I'll be buying."
Later, back at the Manor, Prue and Piper are sitting outside of the bathroom with an egg timer.
"How many more minutes?"
Prue looks at the timer.
"Two."
"What are we gonna tell Grams if one, or both of us is positive?"
"I don't know."
"If I'm pregnant, I'll have to explain to her that one night I was with Dan, and then with Leo the next. She'll be furious."
"That doesn't even begin to describe how she'll be."
"We both made sure we used protection."
"Yes, but a condom only works like 97 of the time."
Piper groans.
"I'm never having sex again."
"Me either."
The egg timer goes off and both girls rush into the bathroom to check the results. Prue smiles.
"Yes! Negative."
She turns to Piper, who has a grim look on her face. Prue looks at the pregnancy test and reads that it's positive.
"Oh, Piper…do you have any idea whose it is?"
"There's only one way to find out."
Piper walks out of the bathroom, with Prue close behind, and goes down the stairs and into the kitchen, where Grams is making a potion. She opens a drawer, pulls out a knife, and pricks her finger. Grams looks at her oddly.
"Piper, darling, what are you doing?"
Her finger starts to bleed, but then the wound glows a golden light and disappears. Prue's eyes widen when she realizes what that means.
"Mom was able to do that when she was pregnant with Paige…"
Grams looks at Piper, who is staring at her finger.
"I want you out of my house."
Piper looks up at her in awe.
"What?"
"If you're grown up enough to have sex, you can get a job and your own place."
"Alright then…"
Piper reaches in her pocket, pulls out her house keys, and sets them on the counter
"I don't want to live here anymore if you're gonna be such a cold-hearted bitch!"
Grams' jaw drops in awe as Piper marches out the front doors. Prue glares at her.
"If she gets kicked out for sleeping with the man she loves, I should have left a long time ago!"
Prue leaves her house keys on the counter next to Piper's and marches out the back door. She gets into her car and drives away. Grams walks over to the stairs.
"Paige!"
Paige runs down the stairs.
"What's wrong Grams?"
"I need you and Phoebe to pack up Piper and Prue's things in the two suitcases in the attic, then orb them to where ever they are."
"Why? What's wrong?"
"They think they're grown up, so they're living on their own. Now go!"
Paige quickly runs back up the stairs in fear of Grams' rampage.
Prue is driving around the neighborhood looking for Piper.
"Damn it, where are you?"
It starts raining outside.
"Oh shit, this is really bad…"
She pulls out her cell phone and dials a number.
Leo's in his apartment cooking a late breakfast for him and Andy (they stopped eating take-out after Piper's accident) when the phone rings. He reaches over and turns it on speakerphone and continues stirring the scrambled eggs.
"Hello?"
"Leo, is Piper there?"
"No, just me and Andy, why?"
"Damn it!"
"Prue, what's wrong?"
"Grams kicked her out, and I can't find her anywhere."
"Kicked her out? What did she do?"
Prue takes a heavy sigh before breaking him the news.
"Leo, Piper's pregnant."
His eyes widen in shock and he stops stirring the eggs. Andy, who's sitting on the couch, turns around and stares at him.
"Leo, are you still there?"
"Y...yeah…I'm just a little shocked. Is…is it…"
"It's yours. Leo, she's so scared and confused and...we need to find her, fast. It's pouring and she could catch her death walking around who knows where."
"You come here and wait with Andy. I'll find her."
"Ok. I'll be there in five minutes."
Prue hangs up and Leo turns the phone off. Andy walks up to him and hands him his keys.
"Take my car and calls us with your cell as soon as you find her."
He nods, grabs his jacket, and walks out the door.
Leo stops in front of the manor and looks around.
"She's got to be around here somewhere…"
He drives down the street and parks in front of the house where he and Andy lived with their mother. Piper's sitting on the curb, soaking wet. Leo gets out and sits down next to her, but she doesn't look up at him.
"Piper…"
"Leo, don't. There's nothing you can say that will cheer me up."
"I know, but you can't just sit out here in the rain all day."
"Well that's what I intended."
Leo takes off his jacket and puts it around Piper. She finally looks up at him, and tears start to well up in her eyes.
"You're too good to be true. You could just push me aside and pretend you never met me, leaving me cold and alone… and yet you're here, sitting in the rain, giving me the only protection you have from the downpour. I don't deserve you."
"Piper, I would never do that to anyone, least of all you. I love you so much."
He takes her hands to reassure her.
"Everything's gonna be just fine."
"You don't know that."
"I do know. You have me, Andy, and your sisters."
"But not Grams."
"Don't worry about Grams. She'll come around. Now, come on, let me take you back to my place so you can dry off."
Leo stands up, pulls her up, and opens the car door for her. After she climbs in, he shuts the door, climbs in the driver's side, starts the car, and starts driving back to the apartment. Piper stares down at her feet.
"I'm sixteen and I'm pregnant."
"Seventeen."
She looks at him as if he's crazy.
"Did you honestly forget today's your birthday?"
"With all the drama that's been going on lately, I'm surprised I even know what day of the week it is."
"It's Tuesday."
Piper pauses for a moment to think before replying.
"No it's not, you're trying to mess with me."
Leo starts laughing and Piper smiles.
"Only you could make me smile when I'm having a day like this."
"Wow, really? I'm special."
Piper starts to laugh.
"You're something alright…"
Leo opens the door and Piper is the first to walk into the apartment, where she is immediately greeted with a hug from Prue, despite how wet she is from the rain.
"I'm so glad you're ok. Where were you?"
"Just walking around. I'm fine, really. Can you let go so I can breath again?"
"Only if you promise not to do that again."
Piper nods and Prue releases her. Not long after, Paige and Phoebe orb in with two large, heavy, packed to capacity suitcases. Prue's eyes widen.
"Did Grams kick you guys out too?"
Paige drops the suitcase to the floor.
"No, she had us pack your stuff and bring it to you."
Phoebe drops the suitcase she was holding as well.
"She's really pissed. What did you guys do?"
Prue looks to Piper, and back at her other sisters.
"She found out we had slept with Leo and Andy."
"How?" Paige asks.
Piper looks at Leo, takes a deep sigh and turns to her younger sisters.
"I'm pregnant."
Phoebe's eyes widen in disbelief. Paige replies after a moment of silence.
"You're…p…p…"
Phoebe finishes Paige's stutters.
"Pregnant? It's not Dan's, is it?"
"No…" Leo answers.
Paige looks him in the eye.
"So that's why Grams called Dad."
"What?"
"She called my dad and ordered him to take her to see the Elders."
"Oh no…" Piper says. She starts to get dizzy and Leo guides her to sit down on the couch. "Oh my God. If she tells the Elders, they're gonna clip your wings, or worse…"
Leo sits down next to her and wraps his arms around her to calm her down.
"They're not gonna do that. Don't worry."
She wraps her arms around his neck and leans against him. At that moment, Sam orbs in and Piper, startled, pulls away from Leo.
"The Elders have sent me to take you two to a meeting."
Piper looks up at him.
"A meeting?"
"You, Leo, Grams, and the Elders. They have designated a few white-lighters, including me, to be impartial mediators."
Sam extends his hands forward. Piper and Leo take hold and they orb away, leaving Paige, Phoebe, Prue, and Andy behind.
A/N: The meeting shall be next chapter. I figured this was a good place to end it. A nice cliffhanger…
