AN: Thanks to all of you for the reviews!! I love them! Glad most of you are enjoying the fic…
This chapter is… well, you'll see. I thought it was sad. You guys enjoy it!
CHAPTER IV
OOO Lost Lovers OOO
The sight that was opened to his eyes was… Unusual to him, at least after so long.
Paige was sitting on a couch, staring at the woman wrapped in a warm blanket. The woman was Piper.
Paige's eyes lightened when they noticed Leo, Piper's just stared at him with a blank expression on her face.
"Leo! Good, you're here. What did they say?" Paige asked.
"They knew she was alive." Leo stated, his eyes locked on Piper's.
"What??"
Phoebe said, appearing from the kitchen.
Leo forced his eyes away from Piper to look at Phoebe.
"The elders knew for a while now." He said. He could still feel Piper's eyes on him. And as different as they seemed, his heart couldn't help but leap as he thought of her. Saw her. She is right there…
"I can't believe it!" Phoebe exclaimed, throwing her hands in the air.
What did it mean? The fact that Piper was back… did that mean that things would finally be… ok again? Or were they just starting to fall apart?
OOO
Leo looked different.
He looked… tired. His hair was messier. His clothes were… gray. He wasn't the man Piper remembered him to be.
What had been in the last two years she's been gone? Why was she found now? Was there really a way out for her? Was it really possible to be free again? To be… 'Piper' again?
She thought of her apartment… of Barney. Her 72 year old 'boy friend'. She thought of her job… one which she's had to bare for two years. But the worst were the nights… The hot nights of the underworld. And the Source. God, he must have been so angry…
She couldn't concentrate on anything the rest of the humans in the room were saying. Who was she fooling? She knew well that Rassalas would have her back soon. She knew it.
More over; she felt it. He knew where she was. Every once in a while she'd feel a hot flash… she'd feel his presence. There was a point when she felt like he was poking her heart.
She winced.
The three other figures in the room stopped talking and turned their attention to her.
Rassalas was still trying to get through. She knew he could. He's done it before. About two year ago, when she killed that man. She might not have been controlling her body, but her hands were the ones covered with the blood of the innocent. She remembered it all too well.
The heat wave of his superior soul again hit her with a shock.
"What's happening to her?!" She heard someone ask.
Piper closed her eyes, feeling her body trembling, fighting against Rassalas's attempts to make her his again.
But she didn't see the black nothing that usually takes over when your eyes block out all sight; she saw flames… she felt them. They were Rassalas's flames. She started feeling what he felt.
He was seething, inflamed, furious, wrathful, raging… No; He was scared. God… he was terrified.
"Piper!" someone had screamed. Then another someone. Wait…
She could still feel Rassalas. What if it was him calling her name… why was everything so confusing?
She snapped her eyes opened. Immediately, she could see the three somewhat familiar figures hovering above her. As she did so, she felt the hot sensation leave her body, leaving her to shiver.
It was cold again.
Rassalas was gone.
"Leo, this is not ok! Can't you do something for your wife!!?" Phoebe was saying.
Piper caught someone's hand, and held on to it tight. She wanted to say that he was gone now; but it all seemed like a mess. She wasn't comprehending anything…
"I'M TRYING!" Leo was shouting.
"Why is she so hot? She's burning!" Paige's voice came.
Why were they all so loud? She couldn't concentrate on a thing…
"Leo!" Phoebe again.
"He's gone now!" Piper tried. They listened.
"He's not here any more." She repeated.
"What? Who?"
"Ras-… Rassalas. He's gone."
"The demon?" Paige asked.
"I don't understand…" Phoebe complained.
"He's gone. He was here; now he's gone." Piper said. She tried to find words, but nothing that made too much sense would come to her.
Then she looked to Leo. His wide green eyes, ones which now seemed gray, were even wider and alarmed. She needed to talk to him. He would understand. She had to tell him.
"Are you ok?" He asked in his calm, suiting voice.
"Yes."
The four stayed in their awkward positions for a few minutes.
"Do you want to talk?" Paige asked.
Piper extended her arm, placing her hand on Leo's knee.
Soon Phoebe and Paige left for another room after saying something to Leo, receiving a nod back.
When they were gone, Leo, slowly yet surely took a seat next to her.
"Rassalas tried to control me." She said after a few minutes of nothing.
"Control you? Is that what happened a few minutes ago?"
"Yes."
"I see. We'll get rid of him Piper." Leo started promising.
"No you won't. You can't. The Source will protect him." Piper said as a matter of fact. Because it was.
"We'll free you from this Piper. I swear to you." He said. He still seemed distant when he talked to her. He might have been sitting right next to her, but she felt almost like a stranger.
"Don't."
He didn't say more on the subject.
Another long silence took over. It wasn't a comfortable one like they used to have either.
"What happened to him?" Leo suddenly asked, looking down.
Piper knew all too well who Leo was referring to.
She looked down, ashamed.
"He died didn't he?"
"No!" Piper shot her head up, startling Leo.
"He didn't die. He lived. I had him about five months after they took me." Piper said.
Leo stared at her, wide eyed again.
"What?" He asked with no more then a whisper.
"He's alive." Piper said, not much louder.
"Where??"
"In the underworld."
"I can't believe this! You had our son this whole time? He was with you"
"I didn't have him with me Leo. I've only seen him about three times since he was born." She mumbled.
She saw the tears in Leo's eyes. She remembered well the day they finally found out they will have a baby. They've been trying for so long… and when the happy day came, it changed them in the best way possible.
Two months later Piper was taken, and the joy was over for them both.
Piper had her baby. He looked a lot like his father.
The last time she'd seen him about two months ago he was already at about 18 months of age… he gave no notice to her. He actually put this 'protective field' up. The Source was keeping him to feed from his powers. After all, what could be more powerful then the child of a white lighter and a Charmed One?
She closed her eyes again. It felt easier that way; no one to look you in the eye and judge.
She felt him as he was getting closer, leaning over. Soon he was touching her cheek. Then he was hugging her.
She pulled away. She didn't mean to, but she did.
He looked surprised.
She shook her head no. "I'm sorry."
"Piper, you shouldn't be-"
"I'm sorry Leo. I can't." She stated, and got up.
Piper didn't mean their conversation to end the way it did. After she has gotten up, Leo who was still shocked about the fact that their son did survive, got up as well and left for the kitchen, where her two sisters returned from.
--OoO--
"Leo?" Paige asked as he came in.
"I have to go. I can't be here." He said, and orbed out.
Phoebe gave Paige a questioning look, and continued down towards the living room.
Piper was already lying down on the couch, her eyes closing.
No. She wasn't just falling asleep. She has been crying. And now that Paige looked back at it, Leo had tears in his eyes when he left too.
AN: this was kind of a sad chapter… pretty short too. Sorry about that… there still not much action going on, but I can promise you guys that it's coming! This Chapter was more to give you just a small peak into the past. Not much about what has been really happening in those two years for both sides has been discussed much, that is; Piper still hasn't told them what has been happening. And there is much more then what you guys already know… Review please!