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CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Coming clean.

Piper knew what was coming. But she held her breath, praying that he wouldn't say it.

It was futile really. She realized that, as Leo gently pulled away, and gazed down at her with those huge sympathetic green eyes.

"What happened?" He asked.

Just like she knew he would…

Piper looked at him. His shirt was wet now, clinging to his body. The muddy water she was caked in, had stained it, but he didn't seem to care. He just kept his worried gaze on her, waiting for an answer. And her blatantly ignoring his question didn't seem to dissuade him.

"Piper?"

"Don't ask." She pleaded.

Leo tenderly lifted her face, and examined the mark that Jeremy's enthusiastic punch had left.

"Who did this?"

"Nobody." She insisted, shoving her wet hair out of her face.

Leo caught her arm.

"You're bleeding."

Piper glanced down at the gash on her left arm. Somehow her just looking at it, triggered a stinging pain. It was funny how she hadn't realized how much it hurt.

"It's not deep."

"Piper-"

"Can I use your shower? Please?" She asked quickly, before he could ask her anything else.

Leo hesitated.

"The second you get out, your gonna tell me everything alright?"

"I promise."

(A/N: Sorry guys, but I had to give the girl a shower!)

She had promised, but now she didn't seem so talkative. Sitting there, looking vulnerable in a white bathrobe, with her hair slowly defining into loose curls, her mouth stayed firmly closed.

"Piper?" Leo asked gently.

Her huge hazel eyes met his, and the look in them made him hesitate to push.

"Come on. You promised."

She shook her head.

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

"Try me." Leo insisted, kneeling down in front of her.

"I'm very open minded. Didn't I tell you that my mom used to be a man, my dads a drag queen, and Shannon's Elvis incarnate?"

Piper blinked, belief flickering across her face.

"I'm joking." He admitted, with a grin.

She laughed a melancholy laugh, and gave him the brief ghost of a smile.

"You've got a great sense of humour, you know that?"

"It takes the right sort of person to appreciate it." Leo said.

"Is that right?"

"Are you gonna talk to me?"

The flirty smile on her lips disappeared.

"I… didn't mean to come here you know. I lost my key. Grams is visiting my aunt Gail, and I don't know where the hell Phoebe and Prue are."

"They're at Missy Campbell's party."

"Figures…"

She stopped talking. Leo wished she would just tell him what was going on. He knew that he could help he if she dropped the whole 'Leo's-a-mind-reader' pretence and just spilled.

"I don't want to drag you into this." She choked, tears forming in her eyes again.

"You don't deserve it."

Leo shook his head. He had no idea what she was talking about.

"Are you in some kind of trouble?"

She didn't say anything.

"Piper come on. I can only help, if you tell me what's wrong. What am I supposed to think? You looked like you just fell off the golden gate bridge."

"I did." She whispered.

"Be serious."

Her unwavering gaze unnervingly assured him that she was telling the truth.

"Oh my god, you are."

Leo laughed nervously, and stood up.

"Why?"

"Jeremy-"

"He did this to you!"

Leo looked at her, sitting there shivering despite the heating being on full blast. He looked at her tear reddened eyes. He looked at her beautiful face, and the thought of Jeremy laying into her like that, made his blood boil.

"I'll kill him."

"He's already dead." Piper said quietly.

It was weird how the first thought that this triggered was:

-Oh my god, I'm in love with a murderess. They're gonna make a James Bond film out of this one day…-

"You…?"

"It wasn't me!" Piper snapped.

"He-he was… He jumped in after me. I came up, he didn't."

Tears were streaming down her face again. Leo felt incredibly guilty. How could he ever think that this girl was capable of murder?

"He was-he-he…"

"He was what?" Leo asked gently, taking her hand.

Realizing how cold it was, he put his other hand on top, in an attempt to warm her up.

"He was tr-trying to-to kill me." She trembled, bordering on hysterics again.

"Why?"

Piper looked him right in the eye, as if searching for the proof that she really could trust him.

She seemed to have found it, because she took a deep breath and momentarily swallowed the tears.

"Because I'm a witch." She said with as much honesty as he had ever heard her say anything.

"And he wanted my magical powers."

(A/N: I was gonna leave it there, but I promised you guys fluff...)

Piper watched Leo carefully. She didn't see the smirk of humour and disbelief that she was expecting. There was definite surprise, maybe even a flicker of regret for wanting to know.

She choked back the tears, willing them to stop. But she wasn't like Phoebe, who had perfected the art of crying whenever and wherever the feeling took her. Even Prue could turn the water works on and off when she felt like it. But for Piper, once the tap was on it was very hard to stop.

Leo glanced at her, frowning slightly, as if waiting for her to correct the sober expression on his face.

"I'm not joking." She promised.

"I get that."

Piper couldn't tell if he was scared of her, or thought she was just plain crazy, so she carried on.

"Jeremy was a warlock. He told me that my mom was a witch, and that he'd done a spell to give me my powers early. The only way for him to get them was to kill me."

"Are you aware of how crazy this sounds?" Leo asked her quietly.

His voice was cold.

"Of course I am. Why do you think I didn't tell anyone?"

"Maybe you shouldn't have."

That stung. She couldn't believe that he had just said it.

"You don't believe me? What you'd have preferred it if I'd been a murderer?" She demanded, almost choking on the words.

"Leo, look at me!"

He looked at her.

His green eyes seemed to melt, as they gazed into hers. She didn't know what else to say. What else she could say. She hoped that her eyes would tell him everything her stupid tongue currently couldn't. That she was telling the truth. How much it meant that she had told him. That she needed him to understand. That she loved him.

It must have worked, because he immediately dropped the Simon Cowel impression, and wrapped his arms around her in an apologetic hug.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." He promised.

Piper let her head rest on his shoulder and tried to ignore the fluey feeling, attacking her body.

"I didn't do this on purpose." She said.

"I know. I know. I'm sorry."

She knew that now probably wasn't the best time, but she had never felt closer to him. She felt like she could tell him anything.

"Leo?"

"Yeah?"

"Remember the other week, when we agreed that that kiss didn't mean anything?"

"Uh-huh."

"What if I lied?"

Leo dropped her like she was on fire, so abruptly that she almost fell off the couch.

"What?"

"Nothing." She said quickly reading the shocked look on his face.

"It doesn't matter."

"Yes it does." Leo insisted.

"Forget I said anything. I-"

The other words didn't make it past her lips, because Leo locked them in an unpredicted kiss.

Without even thinking, she kissed him back.

Pipers mind fluttered back to that Monday when he had 'comforted' her. It had been a classic first kiss. Tender. Shy. Unsure. This was completely different. It was more intense. More honest. More real.

Leo gently ran his hand through her hair, brushing it over her shoulder, and softly kissing her neck, trailing down until she stopped him.

His lips found hers again, and in that moment their minds and souls were completely in sync. She knew him. Everything about him, and she loved him for it.

She tightened her arms around his shoulders, knowing that her kiss could tell him everything she was feeling.

Leo let his hands slip down to her waist, stopping unsurely at the bathrobes belt.

He pulled away.

"You want me to stop?" he panted.

Piper shook her head, murmuring one word.

"No."

(There you go peeps, a nice long chapter. Tell me what you thought.

I've decided to put 'How soon is now...?' on hold for a bit, and want advice off you guys. I need to write another fic as well as this one or I'll go crazy (er) but I can't decide which one. Here are 4 options, so tell me which one you want in your review please.

Behind hazel eyes. (P/L) When Piper was 17 she was engaged to and pregnant by Paul Wyatt (Leos older brother, who was 28 at the time.) he didn't want the baby, and talked her into having an abortion. Devastated, Piper broke off the wedding. But Paul told everyone that Piper had the abortion behind his back, and she became enemy no.1 with the Wyatt family. Four years later Paul and Leo go to P3, not knowing that Piper part owns it. What will happen?

Quadriogy. (Anybody who knows the real name for a 4 part story, please tell me!) A four part alternate reality series, one about each of the sisters, set in an alternate reality. Pipers (An alternate reality) is set in the alternate reality that Piage visted in 'Centennial charmed' and Paige's (Bad dreams)is set in a reality where her adoptive parents didnt die, and Prue died when she was just 15.

Angel eyes and blood ties. Lillian was pregnant with Leo's son when he left for the war that he died in. Now, all these years later, Leo's half demon granddaughter Marissa, is put in danger by constant attacks from Hawker demons who are after her half witch, quarter demon quarter human daughter Lily. The elders decide that it is time to tell Leo about them, and feel that they will be safest under the protection of the charmed ones.

Journalism and magic. Piper is a reporter who is working on a piece on the existence of magic. Her research leads her to Leo Wyatt. He is a doctor (and a white lighter) will Piper get her story and ruin his life, or will she fall in love with him? Either way, sparks will fly... (Anyone who can think of a better title, please suggest it.)

(Please choose one guys, coz I cant! Oh, and don't forget to review!)