A/N: Hello! Me again! With another chapter! Okay, I want to put up a little summary right now for this section of this fic, something I shoudl have done in the previous chapter, but...

SUMMARY: This section is set in 1550, in England. Leo is the Prince of Camelot, but it's not the same Camelot as in the myth. It's my Camelot. Just a name to another country. Camelot is real big and nice and all, and it watches over Lioness (LEO-ness. Remember that, for my sake!) because the neighbor country is so small. Piper and her sisters have been servants since they were real little.
Piper and Leo met when they were ten, and got to be good friends. No one knew about it, though, but the two of them and Piper's sisters, and the other servants at the Baroness' home. A Baroness is like a woman with a lot of money, I think. Jacqueline is very mean to the girls. She sold them to another family once, but got them back.
Piper sneaks into the castle with Leo sometimes, but they spend most of their time together between Lioness and Camelot in the forests. Now, Leo's father, the King of Camelot, said a year ago, when P&L were 16, that Leo could court and marry. They've had to come up with fake relationships, and that might be mentioned now and then...

Okay, if I remember something else, I'll be in bold! Don't forget to R&R!

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Piper woke the next morning in a very familiar place. She glanced around the chambers she was in, smiling at the closed door. It was pitch black, but she knew what was in the room, and knew that the door was closed. From the outside hallway, one wouldn't know the secrets that were held behind that door.

As Piper's scanned the room, her eyes fell on Leo. He was awake and watching her curiously.

"What are you thinking?" Leo asked.

"Just that I hope no person comes through that door."

They both smiled.

"I will have to be leaving very soon…"

"Don't go." Leo rolled over. With Piper under him, he propped himself up on his elbows and cupped her cheeks in his hands, stroking them with his thumbs. "You don't have to." He kissed her.

"I do. The Baroness with be back at lunch. If the work is not done--"

He kissed her again, this time to quiet to. "Very well. It's still dark out. We'll leave now."

"Now."

"Yes. You want to. Come." Leo pulled Piper up and out of the bed. She wrapped the sheet around her body. "Ah… Now why did you have to go and do that?"

Piper smiled. Leo took the edges of the sheet from her and pulled it loose, not taking his eyes away from her own. She stared at him as the sheet dropped. His eyes left her face and scanned her body, but he didn't move.

"We don't have all day, Leo. We must leave now," Piper reminded him.

Leo groaned.

()

"Why do I… Why does she have to be back by dawn?" Piper asked.

"The woman she works for--the Baroness--doesn't like her sisters. She treats them terribly, and always has. A few years back, they tried to escape, and she caught them. It was downhill from then on. She's just playing it safe."

"…She doesn't want to leave…"

"No, she doesn't."

()

Piper and Leo rode through the woods near the gates of Lioness. It was there that they almost always split up. It was far enough away from the guards to be safe, and Piper could pass through without Leo, which would leave him free of answering the guards as to why he was there.

"Well, then, Milady, I'll leave you at the gates."

"You mean in the forest?"

"You know what I mean."

"Do I?"

"You should."

"I will meet you, then, tonight."

"I hope so."

"I'll try. Promise. I'll finish all of my work and slip away."

"Then get going." Leo leaned to the side in his saddle and pushed Piper's horse with his foot. "I'll meet you there before sundown."

"An hour earlier, I know."

"You're so smart."

"I know." Piper smiled. Without another word, she disappeared into the forests.

Leo watched her go before turning his horse around and riding back into Camelot, being sure to ride around the gates and into fields that led straight up to the castle.

()

"Why didn't… he… just go through the gates?"

"Think about it. If they went through the gates, the guards would question them. It's safer to take the long way."

"Oh…"

"They had to keep their relationship a secret. It was hard, but there was no other way."

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"Keep your head up," Leo directed later that day.

Piper lifted up her chin. "Okay, okay, now stop bossing me around," she complained. She looked at Leo, staring at her as if she were some maniac. She burst out laughing.

"Okay, Piper, if you've got a case of the giggles, then I will go home to Camelot and send you back to work," Leo said, turning for his horse.

"No! No, Leo, I promise I will concentrate. It won't happen again," Piper swore. She had thrown her sword into the ground and was running to him. "Please?" she begged.

"Fine," Leo agreed, knowing his simple plan had worked.

"Great!" Piper ran back and pulled her sword out of the ground as Leo got his from his horse's saddle. He walked up to Piper. She stood ready, but her legs were shaking and he knew she was barely able to concentrate.

()

"What are they doing?"

"Sword fighting. He starting teaching her when they were sixteen. She caught on quickly, and very well."

"Why do they do that?"

"To learn. For fun. For something to do."

"Sounds more painful than fun…" Piper said.

"You used to like it," Leo pointed out.

"Yeah. In 1550," Piper laughed.

()

They touched the tips of the lethal weapons together and rolled them in a semicircle. Leo went on offense and Piper defended herself. He took a jab near her stomach and she blocked and pushed him away, taking a step back as he went forward.

"Don't back up too much, Piper. And don't turn your back," Leo reminded.

"Don't talk too much Leo, it's the same as turning your back," Piper replied. She took the chance Leo wasn't paying attention to go on offense and pushed him back with a blow near his chest. "See?"

"Stay low."

"Ah, push it."

She attacked Leo, backing him into a tree. He spun around to the other side and she followed. He whipped back around to face her and blocked a blow near his head, nearly missing. She took a stab at his stomach and he blocked again.

Piper made the mistake of backing up too much and was once again on defense. She held her sword with one hand as she jumped up onto a rock and blocked Leo three times before she was able to jump down and block him in midair.

Their swords clashed together in the air and swooped down to the side. Piper took the advantage and swung low. Leo had to jump to keep her from cutting his leg. She attacked him full force and hit the sword from his hand. She pushed him against another tree and held the tip of the weapon at his throat.

"Round One, Piper," she said breathlessly. She backed away, always keeping her eyes on Leo, and knelt down to throw his sword at him. "I'm not finished."

Leo took a step forward and took a stab at Piper's stomach. She blocked him off and was forced to back up. She finally held him steady when she blocked him with her sword just near her face. For a second neither moved, and Piper reacted by swiping down Leo's chest, ripping his shirt.

"Not bad," Leo said.

"I know."

Piper backed away and so did Leo. She watched him curiously as he took off his shirt and grabbed his sword again, ready to fight in only pants.

"Now I'm getting mixed signals here," Piper said. "Should I fight or are we taking a break to… not fight?" She smiled.

"Ha ha, grab your sword," Leo said. "I'm not finished," he mocked.

Piper took a step backward. Big mistake. Leo came at her, blow after blow, forcing her to keep taking steps back until she was up against a different tree. She pushed his sword away and stepped forward, but Leo was relentless. Piper blocked him as fast as she could, but he was gaining on her and she was backing away. He took a low slash at her legs and cut her skirt at the bottom. Piper backed away and ripped it off.

"That's very clever, Leo, but it's not going to get me to take this dress off and fight naked," she teased, a little glint in her eye.

"Funny, but it was only payback."

"Ah, well, I think it worked out better on my side than it did on yours…"

"What's that supposed to mean?" Leo dropped his guard, seeing as Piper was down, too.

"It means I got you topless and all you did was get my dress up two inches."

"Ah, well…" Leo took advantage of the fact that Piper wasn't paying much attention to his or her sword and lashed it across the left shoulder of her dress, ripping the strap. She frantically grabbed at it as it fell down.

"You…" she accused, inhaling deeply.

"Me," Leo returned calmly. He walked past Piper to his horse, knowing she was too stunned to counter a move back at him. He slid his sword back into the sheathe attached to the saddle and turned around. Piper was tying the two ripped ends of her strap together.

"Ah, Piper, quit your worrying. I like it falling down."

"Yes, and that is precisely why I am tying it back up," Piper said as she finished tying it.

()

"They're good."

"He was taught years ago and does publicly in Camelot. Challenges people just to show off."

"He's egotistic."

"…A little." Leo smiled.

"He taught her well." Piper nodded to herself.

()

They rode near the gates of Camelot, but weren't within earshot or sight of the gates' guards. Leo stopped and jumped off his horse. Piper watched him turn and look at her.

"What?" she laughed.

"Nothing, I'm merely wondering when you are going to join me here on the ground."

Piper smiled and slid off of her horse. "Better?"

"Much." Leo walked up to her and stopped when he was less than a foot away. She didn't move. "Much better," he whispered, pulling her close.

"Leo, the guards--"

"Are out of sight, out of mind."

Piper cocked her head to one side. "And you, Prince of Camelot, are seducing a maid from Lioness," she reminded him with a smile.

"Not my point."

"What's your point, then?"

"Is it working?"

Piper didn't answer for a few seconds, just stared at his eyes. Just before she opened her mouth to speak, he stopped her with a passionate kiss. When he pulled away, she found an answer. "No."

"Ah, well, I tried," Leo replied, releasing Piper and turning toward his horse. He'd played the same trick on her earlier that day. He pulled it nearly anytime she needed to be swayed into something.

"No! No, no, no, no, Leo--" She reached him and turned him to face her. He met her with another deep kiss. They slowly pulled apart, and her eyes were still closed. When she opened them, she was smiling. He raised an eyebrow, expecting an answer. "Okay, it's working… And a little too well, so go." She pushed him away.

"Fine, I'll go… But not until I know you're home, or at least on the way."

"Fine." Piper kissed Leo one last time before getting back on her horse. She stole another glance at Leo. With a short shrug and a quick kick in her horse's flank, she disappeared into the forest back toward Lioness.

Leo smiled a little and shook his head. He jumped back on his horse and rode to the gates.

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A/N: I don't know what I sword fight is like. I watched "Sword and the City" with Piper's sword fight with What's-His-Face. I watched it, paused it, and wrote down what they did. Then I fast forwarded to the next fight. Then, when I was done, I popped in First Night (Sean Connery...some other guy that I can't think of is in it, too...) and watched, paused, and wrote down what Lancelot did in his sword fights. So if I got it wrong, then the movies have got it wrong.
Well, I'm off to write! ::orbs out:: -- I wish

PS: Remember that scenes from these time traveling trips will be in future fics I write. About half of this chapter I took from a different fiction and copied. I plagerised (sp?) myself!
So in the future, if something seems familiar, it was probably here. (have I said that before, or...am I just having deja vu...?)