Sorry, guys, I know I said I'd have this chapter up sooner, but I haven't been online in a while.I know you're all wanting to know Leo's answer to Piper, butyou're not going to get it in this chapter...Maybe in the next one, aye?

Thanks to:

anonymous: Oh, come on. think up a name, dude! (or dudette...sp?) I have an idea! Call yourself...Miggs2! In honor of my old name! (kidding, I was kidding)

syad yniar: Here's a question: Why rainy days? Why not...syad yunns! Huh, that doesn't look right...Okay, never mind...Ignore that. Forget it. Wipe it from your memory...yunns...lol. If you liked the last chapter I think you'll love this one...I know I loved it...We're going to study WWII this year (8th grade) and my teacher loves WWII too so we'll spend extra time there (yay!)

patricia: It's not bad if he still loves Lily. They WERE married, you know. And sorry, no answer in this chapter, it's all Piper and Leo (in RUSSIA-woo! go russia!)

chattypandagurl: I know I'm right...I also know I'm arrogant and egotistical.

piper+leo4eva: Everyone is making a huge deal about Leo loving Lily. Oh my God! They were freaking MARRIED! As an answer to your question: YES, he still loves her, AND he loves Piper (in 1942 present-time). If you pay attention, you'll see him telling Lily he loves her, and telling Piper that. Sorry, Leo won't answer in this chapter. But you know anyway.

scullymulder: I love to rant! I'm good at it!

foureverCharmed: Your name reminds me of the song "Forever Young". I don't remember who sings it though...

Chub: Not really a good question, I don't think...Makes for a good answer, though, doesn't it?

candlewick866: 1-Thanks!...2-Can do!...3-You too? Yeah, I just threw the "didn't mean to offend anyone" in there just in case.

"Piper!"

A young Piper, in her early twenties, looked up quickly through the smoke. She saw her twenty-year-old cousin running toward her, carrying a baby.

"Is she okay?" Piper asked, taking the baby from her cousin.

"She's fine."

Piper kissed Baby Brooke's forehead and handed her back to her mother. Phoebe hugged her year-old daughter tightly. She looked up, her hair being blown about by the wind. "Where's Prue?" she yelled over the noise of the shell bombings and the gunfire.

Piper's heart skipped a beat. "Prue? I thought she—Oh my God." Piper pulled her hair back with her hands. "She must be back at the temple! We can make it if we run! There are soldiers there! They'll take care of us!" she yelled.

Phoebe nodded and tightened her grip on her daughter. They ran across the street, Piper looking to her side only to see bodies and guns and fire.

They made it to the temple where three soldiers were firing across the street into the attic of a home. One of the soldiers yelled at them to get inside, and they obeyed without question.

Their cousin Prue was sitting with a soldier in a pew. They were both praying, her prayer in Russian and his in American.

"Prue!"

Prue and the soldier turned to look up at Piper and Phoebe, who was still holding Brooke. Prue stood up, pulling the American soldier up with her. His helmet was on the pew, along with his rifle.

"Oh my God," Prue whispered. "With all the bombing, I thought…" she trailed off.

Piper hugged her cousin, but then turned her attention to the American soldier. She immediately ran up and hugged him. "I thought you were dead," she cried. "You and Prue…" She pulled away. "I thought your company was stationed outside Moscow."

"They moved me."

"Oh." She hugged him again.

An officer ran into the church. "Wyatt! We need you out here!"

Leo looked up and nodded. "Sir." He grabbed his helmet and rifle and started to leave the church when Piper grabbed him.

"I love you."

He kissed her quickly. "I love you, too. I have to go."

"Promise me you'll come back?"

"Always."

Leo ran out of the church and when the doors closed, Piper rushed back to her cousins. They shared a group hug, and Piper broke away first to walk to the front of the temple and knelt down to pray.

"Who are you praying for? We're all safe. We're all together."

Piper glanced over her shoulder at her cousins. "I am praying for our mothers, our grandmother…" she sighed. "…And I am praying for Leo and his American brothers," she added, wincing as they heard the roar of explosions from the bombing outside the temple.

Brooke started crying. Another officer and two soldiers dragged three wounded men into the temple. The cousins jumped. Piper jumped up to see who the men were, her heart rushing in fear. When she knew none of the men were Leo, she wasn't sure if she was relieved or even more frightened.

Two medics rushed in to help the soldiers, pushing Piper away. She stumbled back and caught her balance on Prue. The sounds of bombs and the smell of gunpowder got to Piper and she turned around and hugged her cousin as tears made their way down her face.

"Ah! Son of a bitch!"

"Hold still!"

"Get it out! Oh, God, get it out!"

"Hold him down!"

Two soldiers held down the wounded man as Leo pulled a knife from the guy's lower leg. The soldier screamed and panted for breath.

"Get him inside the temple! I just saw two medics run in there!" Leo shouted.

One of the soldiers turned around to see soldiers run into the temple. They weren't American. "Son of a bitch! Wyatt, they're in the temple!"

Leo's head shot up. Over the screams and bombs he couldn't tell if anything different was happening inside the temple, but he knew that if his officer saw something, someone was in there who wasn't supposed to be.

One of the soldiers carried the wounded man away, and Leo, his officer, and two other soldiers ran for the temple. Other men were running for it, as well.

Before they opened the doors, they could hear screaming and gunfire.

Piper.

They forced the doors open to find four German soldiers unloading their guns on the five Americans in the temple. They quickly shot down the Germans in a flurry of bullets, but the wounded Americans and the medics were dead. Leo's eyes scanned the temple for Piper and her cousins, but couldn't see them.

They heard a scream and looked to the back of the temple, where a German soldier was holding Piper in front of him as a shield.

"Take them both out!" Leo's officer yelled.

"No, wait!" Leo stopped the officer.

The soldier who had Piper was shouting threats in German while holding a gun to her head, his arm wrapped around her neck holding her still and choking her at the same time. Piper was barely struggling to get away, knowing it was useless. She shrunk down as much as possible as tears flowed freely down her cheeks. She was praying in Russian and when the German tightened his grip on her neck, she screamed some words at him and fell back into prayer.

"Let her go!" Leo yelled, even though the German didn't know what he was saying. "Let her go!"

"Just take them both out!"

"No! We have to save civilians!"

"We can't save them all!"

"The hell we can't!"

Before one of the other soldiers could kill Piper and the German, Leo aimed his gun. "Get down!" he shouted in Russian, one of the phrases Piper had taught him.

Piper looked up. She registered the words Leo had shouted and shrunk down as much as she could again, ducking her head. She continued praying aloud.

It all happened very fast. There was some more shouting, then she felt the impact of the bullet hitting the man holding her, and she felt his grip loosen on her as she fell backward. She shook herself free of his hands and his grip and looked up at Leo, hugging herself.

Leo lowered his gun.

Piper crumbled down to her knees on the floor of the church. The blood of the dead German soldier pooled around her. She soon felt two arms around her again, and she fought back at first, afraid of who was grabbing her.

"Piper, shh. It's okay…"

Piper sunk into Leo's arms and cried hard. He stroked her hair and rested his head between her neck and shoulder.

"You know her?" Leo's officer asked.

Leo scooped Piper up in his arms. Blood that had soaked her clothes dripped onto him and onto the floor. She cried into his chest.

Leo nodded. "Yes, sir."

The officer nodded. "Good work, soldier. I want you back on the field in ten minutes. Got that?"

Leo nodded again. "Sir."

The officer ran out of the temple with the other soldiers. There was blood on the floor everywhere, from the American soldiers and the Germans. Leo didn't care for the time being.

"Piper…" he whispered.

Piper sobbed. She wrapped her arms around Leo's neck tighter.

Leo carried her to a pew and sat down with her. She crawled into his arms once again, wrapping her arms around his neck and torso and cried into his chest. When her hand touched his gun, she flinched and recoiled as if she'd touched something hot. She moved her hand away. He took off his helmet and wrapped his arms around her waist.

"Where're your cousins?"

Piper cried harder. She didn't need to say a word, and Leo knew. Soon they heard a baby crying. Piper jerked away from Leo and ran to the crying. She gasped when she saw Brooke sitting on the floor alone. Piper scooped the little girl up and turned around to face Leo.

"Where're their bodies?" he asked quietly.

Piper looked at him as if he'd hit her. "Outside the temple. They ran…I guess Brooke fell…" She hugged the little girl tightly and cried. Leo took her in his arms again.

"I want this war to stop," Piper sobbed.

"I know. Everyone does."

Piper twisted away from Leo. "Then make it stop!" she yelled, still holding Brooke. "Make it stop!"

"I can't."

"Try!"

"We are. That's why we're here."

"And all it's done is get everyone killed! My cousins are dead! I could have been killed! For all I know, my mother and my aunts are dead, as well!"

"Piper, I can't make the war stop. I can't make everything go back to normal."

"Why the hell not?"

"I'm not God, Piper."

"No, but you're an American soldier! You were sent here to fix this! Now they're all dead! Everybody's dead! Why aren't I dead?"

"Because you were meant to live."

"And they weren't?"

The same officer ran into the temple. "Wyatt, let's go!"

Leo looked back at Piper, his hands on her upper arms now to hold her steady. "I have to go."

"No! Don't go! If you go, you will die with the rest of them!"

"If I don't go I'm a coward. A traitor to my country."

"Leo, please!" Piper begged.

He shook his head slightly. "I'm sorry." He kissed her. "I love you."

"I love you, too. I love you so much. Never forget that."

"Piper—"

"If you die out there, swear you will die knowing I love you. Swear you will die loving me," Piper pleaded, gripping Leo's arm with her free hand.

He kissed her again. "I swear."

"I can't lose you, too, Leo."

"You won't."

"Let's go!" the officer shouted.

Leo glanced at the officer, then looked back at Piper.

"I love you."

"I love you, too."

Leo ran out of the temple with the officer. "Guess you know her better than we figured, eh?" the officer asked.

"Yeah."

"Well we came here to save lives, not sweep the Russian girls off their pretty little feet."

Leo shook his head. "I did save her life. And if I can do both, then—" Leo fired at some German soldiers and shot them down. "—why the hell not?"

I think that chapter could've been a WWII movie scene...I loved it, hope you guys did, too! like I said, one or two more then the finale. I feel bad about killing Phoebe and Prue...I don't know why I did, really...But I saved Brooke! Yay! BTW, Brooke was Phoebe's daughter...Doesn't really matter, but now you know...Don't hate me for killing them.

Okay, so...Review!