Thanks so much for the reviews! Sorry for taking so long but here is a nice long chapter to make up for it, it's the longest chapter I've wrote so far, 13 pages on Microsoft word!

Chapter 16

Pregnant? Platform and Police

"Those sisters of yours they would sleep all day if they could," Grams shook her head in disapproval as she glanced at the kitchen clock to see the time.

"I wish I could sometimes too or maybe even just until daylight," Prue attempted to joke but couldn't help but let out a wistful sigh as she glanced at Abbie.

"It'll get better, promise," Grams smiled reassuringly at Prue as she stood up, "Anyway I'm going to wake up those sisters of yours," She patted Prue's shoulder on her way out.

"Good luck," Prue grinned knowing Paige was not a morning person, Phoebe had been out probably until late last night and since Leo had left Piper had picked up Paige's habit now too.

Grams knocked on Phoebe's bedroom door first getting progressively louder as there was no answer, "Phoebe, come on," Grams shouted getting fed up while still banging, knowing chaos would ensue if she went in without Phoebe's permission. After several failed attempts though she ignored her granddaughters rule and barged in just as Phoebe herself crept up the stairs.

Phoebe unaware Grams was in her room went to go in when she bumped in Grams on her way out, "Uh-oh," Phoebe gulped her eyes becoming wide.

"Uh-oh indeed," Grams glared at her, her lips pursed tightly together.

Paige sat up groggily, her hand rising to her hand immediately rising to her pounding head. Squinting her eyes against the sunlight cutting into the room she looked at her surroundings coming to a confused conclusion. Why am I in the bathroom? She wondered. She put her hand behind her to push herself up but it landed on something. Picking it up she glanced at it; suddenly memory of the night before came flooding back resulting in a sickening feeling in the pit of her stomach.

"Oh come on Paige you are being ridiculous, imagine being afraid of a stick," She laughed slightly high pitched. "Right I'm just going to look at the test because I know I am definitely…" She paused as she turned the test over to see the result, her breathing rather shaky, "Pregnant," She finished seeing the clear blue line, the test dropped from between her fingers onto the floor with a clatter before she too sank down onto the floor her face blank with shock.

"This is so not happening," She whispered. Before it had been a possibility now it was real. "This isn't right, I am not pregnant!" She felt herself suddenly angry and she stood up quickly throwing the test against the wall, "The test is wrong," Tears of frustration sprang to her eyes and she put her head in her hands for a moment trying to calm down.

Then she heard voices coming form the hall, curious she forgot her problems for a moment as she pressed her ear to the door hearing clearly that it was Phoebe and Grams in a rather heated conversation. The sound was muffled so she pushed the door open a fraction to hear better. She saw Phoebe in the same clothes she was wearing the night before, her hair all tangled and messy and her make up all smudged.

"Phoebe Halliwell what time do you call this?" Grams yelled shooting Phoebe a deathly glare.

Phoebe cringed and desperately though fast for an excuse, "Well you know I was at a party…"

"Hmm a party that goes on to ten in the morning," Grams raised her eyebrows her hands resting on her hips.

"Well after the party I went over to my friend…Kara's to stay," Phoebe lied thinking of the first name that came to her.

"Kara, eh? Funny you've never mentioned her," Grams said not believing a word Phoebe was saying.

"Well we've not been…"

"And its funny how you stink of men's cologne," Grams cut in her voice heavy in the sarcasm.

Phoebe cringed again knowing the game was up, she bit her lip as she looked up at Grams.

"Phoebe I'm just going to ask you once- did you sleep with a boy last night?" Grams accused gritting her teeth to stop herself form yelling again.

"Okay yeah I did sleep with a boy last night but what's the big deal it's not like it was my first time, I did it with Cole already and anyway I'm almost sixteen," Phoebe burst out, her temper taking over. She stared defiantly at Grams.

Grams looked taken aback at Phoebe's outburst, not expecting to hear all that, "Phoebe I care about you and I only want what's best for you. I just don't want you to ruin your life by getting pregnant so young, I think one teenage granddaughter pregnant is by far enough,"

Phoebe feeling guilty softened, "I'm sorry Grams,"

Grams smiled ever so slightly, "Now I'm not stupid I know you girls are getting older and are going to be…"

"Having sex," Phoebe put in when Grams hesitated.

Grams cringed at the though but shook it off, "Yeah that and I know that if I come down really strict on you all then you'll just disobey me anyway so all I ask is that you please, please be careful," She stressed.

Phoebe nodded, "I will, promise,"

"Good girl but if for any reason you should need so then I've put a box of pregnancy tests in the bathroom cupboard and I'll tell Prue and Piper too," Grams informed.

"What about Paige?" Phoebe asked.

"Well I still think she's young enough," Grams answered.

Paige felt her heart sink right down, "Oh God," She cried feeling the familiar sickly feeling again. "What is Grams going to say, she'll be so crushed and disappointed,"

She was suddenly brought out of her self-pity thoughts at the sound of Gram's scream. Panic and curiosity flooding through her as she scampered from the bathroom to find out what was wrong. Seeing Gram's stood in the doorway of Piper's room with a look of pure shock, Phoebe beside her equally as shocked looking she became worried. "What's going on?" She asked scared of the answer.

Gram's jumped at the sound of Paige's voice, she clutched her heart and let out a sigh, "Oh Paige its you, I thought it was…" She sounded almost disappointed.

"Piper," Phoebe put in, a hint of sadness to her voice, which Paige didn't understand.

"Okay," Paige began slowly looking form one to the other with confusion, "What's going on?" She asked again with a sigh of slight frustration from getting no answers.

"Piper's gone," Phoebe answered quietly when Gram's remained silent staring at a folded piece of paper in her hands.

"What like to the mall?" Paige asked oblivious to why they were acting so strange.

Phoebe shook her head and opened her mouth to speak when Grams got in first, "Here read this," she thrust the paper into Paige's hand and rubbed her head as if she was stressed.

Paige soon found out why she was stressed. As soon as she finished reading the note she adopted the same look of shock Phoebe and Gram's wore moments before, "What…how…why…when?" Her words came out in a jumble, she couldn't think straight. Questions were floating around her mind at a high speed but she was guessing neither Grams nor Phoebe could answer them, only Piper herself so she settled for a question she hoped Grams could answer, "What do we do now?"

It took a moment for Grams to react to the question before she suddenly jerked back into full Grams mode and wore her usual confident face, she clapped her hands together as if she meant business and told them both, "I'll tell you what we're going to do." She said briskly but walked off before actually telling them.

Paige and Phoebe exchanged puzzled glances before rushing after her.

Grams tore into the kitchen completely ignoring Prue who was still sat at the table with Abbie and went straight for the phone.

"Grams who are you calling?" Prue asked with mild curiosity.

Grams didn't answer, she was on a mission, "Hello, yes I need the police please, yes its an emergency, my granddaughter's gone missing," Abandoning all politeness, she spoke impatiently down the phone.

"What!" Prue exclaimed hearing Grams words.

Grams quickly put her finger to her lips to shush Prue and continued speaking on the phone, "Yes I can come down to the station," With that she hung up the phone with a little more force then necessary.

"Its Piper isn't it?" Prue said quietly a look of concern on her face as she looked up at Grams once she'd hung up the phone.

Grams nodded solemnly as Phoebe and Paige walked in catching the sight of Prue's expression they immediately figured she knew now too. "So what's happening?" Phoebe asked after a second.

"Well I'm going down to the police station and soon the police will be out and they will find her and bring her straight home," Grams said confidence masking her fear.

"Well I'm coming with you," Phoebe said firmly at once.

Grams looked hesitant but didn't have time to argue, "Sure,"

"Well I'm going to go to Andy's, his dads works at the police station surely he'll be able to find something out," Prue said while she handed Abbie to baffled Paige.

"What are you doing?" Paige asked holding Abbie at arms length.

"Well if I take Abbie it'll only slow me down and we want information quickly," Prue explained as if it were obvious.

"Well why do I have to take her?" Paige asked rudely. She didn't mean it personally to Abbie; she loved her niece but after finding out she was pregnant had kind of put her off babies.

"Well Grams and Phoebe are going to the police station…why is it such a big deal anyway, I thought you liked looking after her," Prue asked slightly offended.

"I do! Its just…never mind, really its fine, you all go and hurry back with news," Paige told them all before they all shared a reassuring smile and left.

Paige sank down on a chair letting everything that had happened that day wash over her. "God this has got to be the worst day ever," She groaned, "First I find out I'm p…pr… oh God I can't even say the word, how the hell am I supposed to be it!" She exclaimed frustrated. Calming down slightly she sighed, "On top of that I find out my big sister has runaway,"

Abbie reached out and grabbed Paige's finger tightly, "Ow," Paige whined as the grip tightened even more. She pulled her finger away as Abbie started giggling helplessly,

Paige rolled her eyes and shook her head, "Its all right for you, you don't have anything to worry about…you know its kind of weird but I have one of you growing inside me right now." She was silent for a moment as she pondered that, then she shuddered, "That is freaky," She concluded allowing a small smirk to appear on her face.

Letting out another sigh she continued her chain of thought, "I love being an auntie, don't get me wrong but…I'm not ready to be a mum," Another sigh escaped her, this time more heavy. "You know what I mean…what am I talking about of course you don't I mean you're a baby but well I know what I'm talking about…don't I? Wait I'm rambling…wait I'm talking to myself, oh God I'm going crazy," She let her head sink down on the kitchen table.

"What am I going to do?" She asked almost expecting Abbie to answer her, "You know I have so much respect for Prue right now, I don't know how she did this, I mean how do you decide what to do, do I have an abortion?" Her face screwed up in disapproval and she shook her head, "I can't do that just because I made a mistake doesn't mean a baby should pay for that," She sighed knowing that only left her with one option- to have the baby but that didn't seem to appealing to her either

"This is so selfish, I mean there are lots of families out there who would give anything to have a baby and here I am complaining about it!" Paige suddenly stood up Abbie on her hip and ran her fingers through her hair in an effort to stay calm and think straight.

Speaking quietly she let her hand rest on her stomach, "I can't give you what you need, I mean I'm not ready to be a mum and I know my sisters and Grams will offer to help but that's not enough, I mean Prue already has you to look after," She referred to Abbie who was beginning to get tired and her head was leaning on Paige's shoulder. Paige smiled softly at her niece before continuing, "Piper has gone and Phoebe is young too," She lowered her voice, "And Grams won't around forever," She gazed off out of the window for a moment her arms going slightly numb form Abbie's weight but she barely noticed, then taking in a deep breath she concluded her thoughts, "I guess what I'm saying is adoption would be my option,"

"Okay so what is your granddaughters name?" The policewoman inquired, lifting her eyes from the paper in front of her.

Grams and Phoebe sat opposite her, behind the wooden desk feeling impatient, "Piper Halliwell," Grams answered exaggerating her pronunciation.

The policewoman rolled her eyes but it went unnoticed by Grams who was much more concerned about Piper being found, she started speaking again at a fast but understandable speed, "She's sixteen, tallish, brown long hair and…"

The policewoman held up her hand in an effort to stop Grams, "Okay Miss Halliwell we'll get to the part in a moment, first of all when did you last see your granddaughter?"

"Last night before I went to bed," Grams answered straightaway as if she had already memorized what she was going to say.

The policewoman's face screwed up slightly, "Well we don't usually send out search parties before the person involved has been missing for twenty four hours,"

"That's not good enough!" Grams exclaimed frustrated her hand slamming down on the desk. She winced slightly with pain but shook it off quickly and glared at the policewoman.

"Miss Halliwell calm down please I know you are worried but chances are she will come home by tonight," The policewoman reassured obviously having had been in that position more than a few times.

"And if she doesn't? I mean what if she is lying dead in a ditch right…" Grams trailed off as she burst into tears.

Phoebe rather startled by Grams outburst, she had rarely ever seen Grams cry reached out and squeezed Grams hand tightly.

"Okay look I'll see what I can do…did she leave anything that could be used as evidence or…"

Grams pulled out the note and handed it to her, "She left this and I found it this morning,"

She read it over carefully then peered over it at Grams, "And you say she is sixteen?"

Grams nodded, "Yeah that's right,"

The policewoman let out a sigh, "Well I'm sorry but there's nothing we can do,"

"What?" Grams asked confused.

"You're granddaughter is above age to be out on her own and she has left a note saying she has left willingly," She explained.

"So wait you're just not going to do anything?" Grams asked in disbelief.

"Even if we did find her we couldn't force her to come back if she didn't wan to," She told them feeling genuinely sorry, "I'm sorry,"

Grams stood up, "Come on Phoebe we are wasting out time here," She cast a dirty look over her shoulder at the policewoman before with Phoebe following closely behind stalked out the room.

"Prue! Prue!" Grams shouted out as soon as she entered the manor, impatience and frustration evident in her voice.

Prue appeared at the kitchen doorway, an expression on her face, which clearly stated she had had no luck either.

Gram's face fell at the sight of her and backtracked into the living room sinking down on her favorite arm chair letting out a depressed sigh, "Well I don't know what we do now," She looked in hope at Prue and Phoebe to see if they had any ideas.

They both slowly shook their heads sitting down on the couch across from Grams.

"I mean I just can't believe Piper would do this, without even saying goodbye, its so unlike her," Grams stressed sadly.

"Actually last night Piper started talking to me before I went to the party, all emotional and telling me she loved me and saying goodbye but I thought nothing of it at the time," Phoebe admitted remembering the night before clearly now.

"Me too," Prue added then with a thoughtful look on her face said, "Because this is so unlike Piper, I mean we are talking about the same girl who comes home every night not a minute after curfew, that I know she wouldn't have done this if she hadn't thought about it really carefully,"

"What are you saying Prue?" Grams asked puzzled to where she was going with it.

"What I'm saying is," Prue started boldly, "that maybe we should leave Piper alone, being with Leo will make her so happy and Grams you know that as well as I do. She has been a mess since Leo left but has anyone noticed she's been much more perky the last few weeks and obviously it was the thought that soon she would be off with Leo that was making her happy…and I don't think we should be the ones to spoil her happiness,"

Phoebe nodded in agreement and added, "Grams if we find her and you force her to come home then she won't be happy she might never forgive you but this way we obey her wishes and she knows she can come home whenever she wants,"

Grams looked hesitant but eventually nodded, "Okay we'll leave her…for now anyway but I'm still not happy about this," Grams hid her emotions behind anger.

Prue and Phoebe laughed knowing what she was doing, "We'll miss her too," They smiled and Prue added brightly, "She won't be gone forever,"

"Who won't be gone forever?" Paige asked walking into the living room; Abbie balanced on her hip.

The other three looked at each other before it was Prue who spoke, "We've decided to let Piper be for now,"

Paige took a moment to let it sink in then slowly nodded and smirked, "Including Grams?"

"Yes including me," Grams rolled her eyes, they all made her out to be someone who enjoyed destroying their plans.

Prue and Phoebe grinned, "Does it also include you?" Phoebe asked Paige.

Paige nodded, "I want Piper to be happy," She concluded smiling.

"You can't deny it's going to be weird here without her," Prue commented trying to imagine life around the manor without Piper.

"More fights between you lot," Grams raised her eyebrows at them all.

"Hey we don't fight…we just…disagree," Phoebe pointed out.

"A lot," Grams added smirking.

"Okay so we'll miss Piper for her peacemaker skills," Phoebe rolled her eyes playfully at Grams before smiling.

"Is that all you'll miss her for?" Grams asked in disbelief.

"No, I'll miss…her cooking too," Paige added smirking. The rest raised their eyebrows at her so she added, "I'm kidding, of course I'll miss her,"

The others nodded while Prue scooped Abbie into her arms from Paige, "You'll miss aunt Piper too won't you baby?" She cooed at her daughter.

"Baby," Paige whispered feeling her stomach flutter.

"How about I make us spaghetti Bolognese in honor of piper, it was her favorite thing to make for us," Grams suggested clapping her hands together and standing up.

Prue and Phoebe nodded enthusiastically while Paige was in her own little world.

Everyone started to head for the kitchen; Prue paused at the doorway and turned to Paige, "You all right?"

Paige nodded weakly, "Fine,"

"You coming then?" Prue asked slightly unconvinced.

"Sure," Paige managed a weak smile as she left the room Prue slipping her arm around her and pulling her to the kitchen. She could worry about her problems later.

Piper stepped out onto the platform, her bad swung over her shoulder as she was hit with the icy air of New York. Butterflies bounced around her stomach, she had actually gone through with it. She shivered with a mixture of excitement and anxiety.

The platform was crowded with people buzzing about making it hard for her to see Leo. Then she caught sight of him, looking exactly the same as he had the last time she saw him. He suddenly caught sight of her too, she could tell by the big grin that had appeared on his face. She suddenly found herself running and soon she was enveloped in his strong arms. He lifted her up off her feet and squeezed her tightly, kissing her head.

He then set her down and they shared a smile before he leant in and captured her in the perfect kiss, sweet and tender making her feel more happy than she had in ages. She knew right then she had made the right decision.

When the broke apart for air, he whispered, "You have no idea how much I missed you,"

She smirked, "Actually I think I do,"

He smiled and pulled her close to him again, keeping her warm in his arms. She snuggled into his chest and they stayed like that for ages.

They eventually noticed they were like the last people left on the platform, Leo took her hand, "Come on we better go,"

"And where are we going exactly?" She asked curiously.

"Well I saw a motel on the way here so I thought we could go there for the night and we can talk about everything tomorrow, its not a great place like…"

Piper cut him off by kissing him softly, "As long as I'm with you it'll be perfect," She assured him.

He nodded smiling, "I love you," He kissed her forehead and wrapped his arm around her protectively and together they strode off into the night to start their new life.

So will it all work out for Piper and Leo? And what will Paige decide do? Is Lindsay really out of the picture or will she find a way to get to Prue and Andy again? What will happen when she has her baby? Will Phoebe stop her speed dating and find someone else or will Cole ever come back? Will Prue and Andy ever manage to tie the knot?

So many questions and they will all be answered soon! I hope anyway. I'm sorry for the long time in between updates but school…well it sucks! Honestly they give out far too much homework but anyway I'll really try to update soon!