Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Charmed, I just wrote the story

A/N: I'm terribly sorry; the little preview I gave at the end of the last chapter is for the next chapter not this one. Sorry

Chapter 3

Piper's face was one of absolute calmness. Behind that facade, she was furious. A minute ago she was sitting down at the kitchen counter happily eating breakfast when out of the blue a letter had appeared at her side.

'Can't take the boys today. See you next month.' It had said. Her damn ex-husband was becoming quite an insufferable git in his old age. Well that's not true elders don't age. In his time then, thought Piper.

Five years ago, if somebody had told her that her loving sweet angel of a husband would become like he had she would have laughed right in their face, not believing a word of it. Five years ago Leo was a loving father to Wyatt, and was anxious to see the next one which was on the way. He had chosen the new baby's name, Christopher Perry for a boy after his father, and Prudence Melinda for a girl. He had made sure that the charmed ones were the only charges he had to take care of as a White lighter, and he stayed with his family rarely ever going 'up there'.

Then tragedy had struck. His little boy, his precious Wyatt had been taken. It had happened so suddenly. One minute they had all been standing in the conservatory talking while Wyatt played in his playpen, the next thing they knew, the play pen was empty and the little boy was nowhere in sight. At first everyone had thought that Wyatt had just orbed to somewhere else in the house but soon discovered that was not so.

A month past and their little boy had yet to come home. By then Piper was absolutely hysterical, even more so then when he had first gone and that was quite a feat. She spent all her time crying, unable to help with the hunt for her child due to the new one on the way. Then Piper went into labour. Paige had taken her to the hospital as Leo and Phoebe were out following a new lead. The birth of Chris had not gone as smoothly as one hoped it would. During Piper had lost a lot of blood and for a while there the doctors were convinced that they'd lose her. Leo had been called to the hospital, Paige taking his place in the hunt. He broke down. He had not been able to bare the thought that he would lose his son and wife too. Piper surprised them all and pulled through.

Baby Chris was born a happy and healthy little boy. Leo had refused to even look at him, let alone hold him. He was already angry at the child; he had almost lost him his wife. As soon as Piper was given the all clear he was back on the search for his little boy. But what he had not known was that while he was at the hospital that little boy had been found.

Wyatt was found in the underworld fending off all kinds of attacks. It had been Paige who found the child, he was just holding onto life. As soon as they could they had taken the boy from that awful place, and once home found his father. Leo had taken one look at his son and felt pure rage towards the offender who did those things. He had become even more furious when told that they had no idea of the identity of the attacker. He had healed his son and orbed away.

For months Leo did not return home, not even for a minute. Piper later found out that he was searching the underworld, consorting with demons trying to get revenge on the offender. Though the answers to who attacked his son did not come until much later. One day he had stopped off at magic school to gather some information, just before going out on another hunt when Wyatt orbed into his arms. That had startled him. He hadn't seen his son in such a long time. But what happened next made the former look like nothing. Gideon had walked into the room to great him, and when the man's eyes meant the eyes of his son, they reflected only horror. Wyatt's shield had flown up faster then ever before and then Leo knew. That evil bastard had been the one. He had taken his son.

Piper remembered that she had been the next person to arrive on the scene. She had been in the nursery with Wyatt when he orbed out. She had run out after him. Piper had been completely shocked to see Gideon as he had been away on some sort of mission for the last seven months and wasn't due back for a while yet, and she had been even more shocked to see her estranged husband. She had not seen him since the day Chris was born and Wyatt was found. A second after surveying the scene in front of her the realisation dawned on Piper also. She had looked at Leo and saw the look in his eye. It was one of complete malice, a look she had not thought Leo capable of. She quickly called Wyatt to her and he orbed them home. She had given her baby to Phoebe and told Paige to orb her back.

When Piper had arrived back on the scene it was completely different to the one she had left. Leo had been standing there looking menacingly at a scorch mark on the floor, just below where Gideon had been standing minutes ago. Beside him was an upper level demon also looking at the spot. Piper couldn't believe it; Leo had basically just killed an elder, except he had gotten a demon to do it for him. Piper could only stand there and look at him blankly, that was not the man she had fallen in love with. Her man was full of love; this one was full of hatred.

The next thing that happened hadn't shocked Piper so much. Leo was been pulled upwards, white lights surrounding him, against his will. It was exactly like what had happened at their fist attempt of a wedding. The elders wanted answers and they wanted them then, they weren't going to wait. Piper had then felt a hand gently rubbing her shoulder. It was Paige. She had forgotten that she was still there. Piper had turned around and sobbed uncontrollably into her shoulder. She didn't judge Leo for wanting revenge on Gideon and she didn't even judge him for vanquishing him. But she couldn't get the look in his eyes out of her mind. Leo had changed and it certainty wasn't for the better.

Piper hadn't seen her husband until eight months later. He had come back completely different again. He was an elder now. He had taken Gideon place. He was passive again, well at least that was the face he put out for everyone to see, but he still wasn't the man Piper had married and Piper new he never would be again. Just looking at the way that man treated her baby was enough to prove that fact to her. She was furious with this person. He had come back to tell Piper the news of his promotion and to let her know that this meant they could no longer be married. That was a piece of news that she didn't get too upset over. Her marriage had basically ended when Leo left after Chris was born. She had barley seen him since. He had chosen revenge over his family and that was enough to make Piper give up on him. She hadn't done so right away but after six months of waiting for him to come back to her and getting absolutely no sign that he would Piper had finally taken her sisters advice and let go.

Leo only came to visit his sons once a month and on special occasions and he rarely ever came for the monthly visits anyway. He always left a note saying that he wasn't coming, never having the guts to say it to her face. He always left it up to her to break their little boy's hearts, in the process breaking her heart to see the hurt looks on their faces. Piper actually wouldn't mind if she never saw Leo again, she hated the person he had become, but he was the father of her children and even if she were to get married again, Leo would always be their dad. That fact would never change, it couldn't be changed.

Now Piper was walking a walk she had walked so many times before. It was the walk to her boy's room, to let them know that their daddy wasn't coming. The walk to see the pained looks in their eye. To see those looks been quickly replaced by ones of nonchalance, trying not to seem like they cared so they wouldn't get hurt. She was on her way to break her four and five year olds little hearts, again.

Piper hesitantly opened the door to see one of her baby's sleeping and her other baby's blue eyes look right at her.

"He isn't coming is he" asked the child softly. Piper's heart broke, again.

A/N: Please RnR. Thankyou for all the great reviews so far and to California Chick you should have gotten your answer from this chapter but if you didn't this is the future where Wyatt is evil.