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The Baby Bargain… Chapter 8 (Memory Box)

Piper's PoV

Crouched over the toilet basin, Piper gingerly got up and moved the sink to brush her teeth. When she had called Leo about her pregnancy, she hadn't felt this bad, but then again she hadn't been doing for almost two weeks now. When you had gone to the doctor together that afternoon, the doctor had told her that all woman start the symptoms like those at different stages but hers at seemed earlier then most. At that point the doctor had asked her if they had been trying for a baby and were anxious. Piper hadn't known what to say but then Leo had just said, "yes, we want a baby" she had almost been afraid to look up, but when she had she had just seen understanding shine in the woman's grey eyes. The she had said that it wasn't probably anxiety wanting to get pregnant that had caused her to throw-up, or a case of food that didn't agree with her. And to think she had willingly sampled Phoebe's cooking! She thought to herself grimly for a moment. Piper had cried she hadn't meant to and all it was, was a small tear, only one. Dr Morgan had simply put her hand over Piper's and said it didn't mean she wasn't pregnant and they would do a test.

Her pregnancy had been confirmed that day and she hadn't thrown-up once until sometime two weeks ago she thought dryly. She had almost died of embarrassment when the doctor told them to hold off sex until she was four months along- but of course Leo took it in stride. Prue had got a new job as a PA and had to go into work early these past weeks, so she hadn't noticed. She didn't think Phoebe did either, but she didn't know- Piper had been feeling lonely lately. Which was stupid, she chided herself. She had her baby, no she corrected herself she had Leo Wyatt's baby. With that revelation that only seemed to come all to happen these days she felt the sting of tears in the back of her eyes. Watching them fall faster and faster in front of the mirror she scolded herself again at her weakness, in other words her hormones. She shouldn't be this touchy she tried to tell herself. She was two and half months along. She would have to tell her sisters soon, she would be showing very soon, she could already feel her waistbands getting tighter now that her stomach was thickening.

She wouldn't be able to hide her condition from her sisters much longer, they already thought something was up, it wasn't as if she could just tell them what she was doing for them all, but if something didn't change in circumstance she would have to. Being pregnant was one thing, giving up all parental rights to someone they had never met was another one altogether. Oh but time was running out. If she just told her sisters she was pregnant she knew they would support her but the child wasn't going to stay with her she could explain that to them, but as before time is running out, she needed to do something before she was a big as a bus. Somehow she knew she wouldn't be able to get away with the excuse she was just getting fat! And plus she had already said in terms of her contract that she would move in with Leo when she was three months along. She had two weeks of leeway until she had to move into Leo's mansion. As soon as Leo had been told the test results that afternoon he had insisted they go a baby store with a big grin plastered on his face.

That was when her feelings about him had pin-pointed the fact he was lonely- he truly wanted a child, not because everyone else had one or what ever trend it might be, but because he wanted someone to love and give back their unconditional love. From spending just few hours talking to his mother on the telephone she had learned that love for a millionaire often came with conditions, not that she should be surprised some woman or men didn't have those kind of values. She remembered when he started looking at cots and she told him it was a little early to plan the nursery. Looking back now she supposed he could tell her to mind her own business but he didn't. he had said maybe she was right but it didn't hurt to look, would be needed right then and there she manage to convince him to stick to a plain white baby blanket with light toffee coloured teddy bears around the edges. She remembered when she had first set eyes on it, she had thought it would be perfect but she didn't know whether to show Leo in case he got touchy after all, she wasn't going to be there to watch her baby- Leo's baby being wrapped in it. But as she picked up the edges slightly she had noticed him behind her looking at it too. After she had straightened up he said how much he liked it and took it to the cash till.

He had taken her to lunch afterwards to celebrate, asking the waitress that seemed to only have eyes for him about the health benefits on the menu before allowing her to order. After the waitress had gone and the food had appeared she took note of how careful he was being with her, but while he had been ordering she had just wished the fiery red head would put her eyes on someone else instead of lingering on Leo with his Armani suit that just scream money. Leo wanted unconditional love, love without strings. How dare she! Of course the waitress could have been looking at Leo himself. He was cute, with his dirty blonde hair and green eyes, yes he was handsome but apart of her wanted to protect him from the red head, no good would come of it. But as the waitress had left with a 'come-hither' smile and the food had come she had soon forgot her protectiveness to Leo. Looking back now she could understand why she did, after all Leo was the father of her unborn child she wanted the daddy to be emotionally fit for the role he was to play that was it. Yes.

Walking out of the bathroom to her bedroom she kneeled on the floor near the bed, lifted the spread and pulled out a blue cardboard box. It was a file box, small but bigger then a shoebox. Putting the spread back in place and sat down on the wooden panelled floor. Crossing her legs she lifted the lid off and placed it on the floor. Inside were baby photos, not a lot but a few. Leo said she wasn't needed once she had had the child. But she knew better then anyone what it was like not to have a mother- she also knew how dependant she had been on photos of her deceased parent growing up- looking at albums as bedtime stories, trying to find that resemblance that connected them together. She would get some other photos and put them in the box, give them to Leo when their child wanted to know his or her mommy. She'd put a letter in too, she decided as she picked out the baby snaps she wanted her child to have. A letter that would tell her child why she did it, what she was like and how much she love to meet him or her again. Going to the attic with her blue box she sat on the rugged floor near a moving box full of photos. She picked out various ones of her mother and father, ones with her sisters, ones of her as a toddler at Christmas, her a pre-school, as some of the ones at high-school with the dreaded braces and glasses, later to graduation and then to the start of college- she didn't have much more then that. Then at the bottom of the box she found a small but thick photo album book Grams had given her one Christmas. It was a hard back album covered in a purple sparkle fabric with her name on in various shiny sequins. Putting all the photos in the book fixing them in place she put the album in the blue box. Carrying the box back down the stairs she headed back into the bedroom, she placed the box on the bed. Pulling out a pad of square card she started to write some of the recipes for things she knew how to make, placing ten of the 10cmx10cm cards into the box. Raiding her jewellery box she took out a silver locket with swirls engraved in the front opening, that belonged to Grams that had a picture of Piper's mother in and her grandfather. She put it in the box.

She didn't know what else to put in the box, she would think of some other things later she decided putting the lid back on the box and placed it back under her bed. Leo would keep it safe until that day her child asked about his or her mommy. But that was if the child asked- no she didn't want to think of that personality.-

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It was the cell phone Leo had given her. Getting it out of her coat pocket she answered it.

"Hello?"

"Piper?" Leo's voice came through the phone.

"Yeah it's me"

"We have a problem"

"What?" Piper said suddenly scared what was going on.

"I'll tell you when you get here, you need to come now so we can discus the safety clause"

"safety clause?" she asked worriedly.

"Yes, that will fix all this"

"But what is-?"

"No time for this, just get here quick" he interrupted. And with that the phone went dead. What the hell was this 'safety clause'?

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