Um...Okay this is the last chapter of the story. I really wanted to wrap it up but I just didn't know quite how...I know, this chapter...sucks. But I kinda liked it. :-D
Prue and Phoebe sat on the couch, just hours after Piper and Leo left.
"I wonder when they'll be back…" Prue mused.
Phoebe sighed. "I'm bored," she said.
"Me too."
"I wonder what they're doing…"
"Leo said they wouldn't be gone long."
"It feels like forever…" Phoebe sighed.
"Tell me about it."
"I would, but I'm too bored."
Both sisters started laughing.
Suddenly the lights of orbs filled the kitchen and Prue and Phoebe jumped up to check it out. Leo and Piper were both standing in the kitchen, his arms around her and her face hidden in his chest. She opened her eyes and looked around.
"What year is it?"
"Well it's about time!" Phoebe said. "You guys have been gone for two months! We thought you were dead!"
Piper squinted at her sister. "You're wearing the same clothes."
Phoebe tried to think of an excuse. "…Every couple of months, you have to wear the same clothes twice, you know."
"Right, whatever. Now how long have we been gone?"
"Just a few hours," Prue said, then she and Phoebe hugged Piper. "So what happened?"
"Um…Lots of stuff…But I really just need to think for a little bit right now, okay?" Piper started for the stairs, leaving the kitchen. "I just…have some stuff to sort out…" She glanced at Leo and he knew she wanted to talk to him.
"We saw three of our past lives…And we were never allowed to stay together," Piper was saying later that night.
"That doesn't mean anything."
"Doesn't it? I mean, we were broken apart in the dark ages, we had the most difficult, confusing relationship before the Civil War, and you died a week after I left for another country during World War Two."
"Ah, okay the World War Two thing doesn't count. That was actually my life."
Piper stared at Leo. "Good point."
"Besides, I think they'll be okay."
She looked up. "Who? Us?"
He nodded. "Sure."
She stared at him again. "What aren't you telling me?"
He held his hands up in surrender. "Nothing. You know everything that I know."
She still didn't believe him. "You're holding something back."
Leo shook his head. "Never."
"Still…" she said, falling against him, "I'm not sure if we'll ever be able to stay together…Not in any life…" She sighed. "We're pulled apart in every life."
He smiled but she couldn't see. "Not every life…"
"Leo!" Piper ran through the woods. "Leo!" she shouted to the trees, to the darkness. No answer. Not even a cricket chirp. "Leo where are you?"
Suddenly pounding footsteps shattered the nighttime silence. Piper whipped around to see Leo running toward her. She met him halfway in the clearing of the grove. As soon as he reached her he just fell into her arms and hugged her tightly. He was breathing hard and his heart was pounding from the long run.
"I thought you'd left," she whispered.
"Never."
She pulled away enough to look up at his face, lit up by the moon. Neither of them were sure what time it was, but they were sure that no one could find there here. They were alone. Finally. With no one after them.
"No one's coming right?"
He shook his head just a little. "No one."
She sighed with relief and leaned into his embrace.
"They couldn't take you from me," he told her.
"They would have."
He shook his head again and rested his cheek against hers. "Never."
She wrenched away from him. "They would have, Leo! They wouldn't let me go! You know that!"
He pulled her back to him. "They couldn't take you from me. Not ever."
She sighed, feeling loved and safe in his arms. "I love you," she said honestly.
"I love you," he echoed.
"We'll be pulled apart again, you know," she said. She backed away from him again, slowly this time. "They won't stop until we're dead…or at least miserable."
He actually laughed at that.
"It's not funny," she muttered, staring a the ground.
"I know that…" He tried to take her back into his arms, and she finally fell into him. "But they won't go through with anything. You and I both know that."
She sighed again. "Just know that I love you."
He smiled. "I know."
"I love you," she said again.
"They can't have you."
"They'll take me."
He shook his head. "They won't. I swear it. I swear they can't have you."
She smiled just a little. "Maybe we can make it in this life."
"In this life and every life after."
She looked up at him hopefully. "Promise?"
He didn't want to give her a promise that he couldn't keep for certain. But that look of hope was in her eyes and he couldn't make himself say no if he tried. "Of course…"
She smiled. "We'll always be together," she whispered.
"Always."
I know, that was confusing and it made no sense...But I like confusing endings like that. Hope you enjoyed the story!
It's officially over! My second finished story! Yay! (now to work on the others!)
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