Since Then, Till Now
A/N: I'm so sorry for not updating in so long, but you guys know how hectic school can get! Anyway, here is the next chapter! I hope you enjoy it! Also, thanks for reviewing guys. You are the best!
Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed, but I do own the characters that I wrote into this fic.
Piper's thoughts on Leo flew out of her mind as he mentioned her sisters.
They were the best thing in Piper's life. After their grandmother had died her sisters were the only thing had left. Their mother had died when the girls were all little and their dad had walked out of their lives. So their Grams had taken care of them until a few months ago when she passed away. The girls became distant, but soon after that they reunited again when Phoebe came across an old book; The Book of Shadows. Shortly after their powers manifested and they became the Charmed Ones, the most powerful witches in the world. The girls have been living together ever since.
"Yeah, I miss them a lot." she said.
They then started chatting about everything. From where they had been born to what was their favorite color. Piper felt as though she could talk to everything and anything around Leo without feeling embarrassed and Leo felt the same way. As the continued talking and walking they didn't notice the young man that watched them behind a tree. He, along with a few other men had been ordered back to search the forest for Piper early in the morning since they couldn't find her nor Leo. They were suspicious about Leo since he joined the other hunters. He always separated himself from the group when hunting. Now they were sure he was betraying them. The man's light brown eyes matched his hair color. After he was sure they were out of hearing range he started sprinting toward his other fellow hunters to tell them what he just witnessed.
"You actually did that?" Leo asked between laughs.
All Piper could do was nod in approval. She was laughing so hard she couldn't speak.
"Okay, you have to stop. I can't laugh anymore, my stomach hurts too much," Leo pleaded still laughing. Piper was about to remark something when they heard a gun go off.
By instinct, both Piper and Leo ducked and covered their heads with their hands. They looked around to find themselves surrounded by the hunters from last night.
"Leo, I can't believe you!" the head-hunter said.
"Rick, I can explain! I - …" Leo was stopped short by the fired gun Rick had in his hands aimed at Leo.
Piper stood there, terrified, just watching the scene in front of her. When she saw Rick, the head-hunter, aim his gun at Leo and fire she knew she couldn't let Leo get hurt. She put her hands up and with a opening of her closed hand everything froze. The bullet stood frozen a few feet away from Leo's chest. Everyone else at the scene was frozen except for Piper who knew she had to act fast before everyone else became active again. She took a few feet back and ran at Leo, just as everyone unfroze. The bullet missed it's target and hit a tree behind Leo, who was now on the ground with Piper next to him. He knew what she did, but was still very surprise and thankful. The bullet wouldn't have killed him, only weakened him, but he didn't know what he would have done if that bullet had hit him. What he would have said to everyone when we wasn't on the floor bleeding to death and dying. He had already taken the memory dust back Up There and he wouldn't be able to just 'erase' what happened.
Piper saw everyone unfreeze and froze them all again. She hit Leo a bit and he unfroze. He looked around the at non-moving figures around them.
"Did you just freeze them?"
"Duh! Of course I did, or do you want me to unfreeze them and get us killed?"
"No! Ok, how do we get out of this mess?"
Piper was starting to get annoyed. "You're asking me?! I don't know, I just freeze stuff!"
"How long can you keep these guys like this?" Leo inquired quickly.
"Not long, a minute, I think," Piper told Leo trying to come up with a plan to get out of the mess they were in.
"After they unfreeze, I'll make a distraction and make a run for it, got it?"
"Yes," Piper nodded in agreement. Suddenly, time became active again and Leo quickly stood up. Piper right behind him. He noticed Alexander, one of the newest hunter in the group, was the on closest to him to he jumped up and kicked the gun from his hands and gave him a punch to the face which brought Alex to the floor with a bloody lip. Leo dashed for the gun and fired toward the ground were the rest of the men stood.
"Piper now!" he ordered.
Piper, once again, made everything motionless and ran to unfreeze Leo. As she made her way to him she tripped over a frozen Alex, but quickly got up and shook Leo who dropped the gun and grabbed Piper's hand. Both started running away from the hunters not noticing Alex picking up the gun that laid a few feet away from him and taking aim at the pair and firing. Leo suddenly stopped as he felt Piper become still next to him. He didn't understand why she stopped all of a sudden. They both needed to get out of there and fast.
"Come on Piper, we have to hurry!" he coaxed tugging at her arm.
"L-Leo," she called his name faintly, her voice quivering.
A few seconds after she heard the shot fired she felt a keen pain shoot up from her back and had to stop running. She felt Leo tugging at her arm begging her to continue running but she couldn't. All she could do was to call his name. Everything around her was starting to go dim and breathing was starting to become harder to do.
Leo was starting to become impatient, he walked in front of Piper and before he could do anything else she fell limply into his arms.
A/N: Mmmm, I think that was a good stop. ::smiles evilly:: Just kidding. Hope you liked the chapter. Oh, and please don't forget to leave a little review.
-- Holly's Shadow Liz