AN: This is yet another flashback, this one is set around 2 or so months after the last one. So Leo and Piper have broken up by now, she's with Dan…but she's not pregnant yet. Ok? Got it? Good.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters in the Charmed TV Series. Nor do I own the lyrics I use in this chapter. They are from an amazing song called 3AM by Busted, and I also use Breath by Anna Nalick.

I'm calling you at 3am and I,
I'm standing here right outside your door
But I don't think that my heart can take much more
I'm scared of cracking up again I just
Want it to be like it was before
And I don't think that my heart can take more

It was dark outside, the autumn air stinging Leo's bare arms as it whipped around, but he didn't care. He stared dead ahead as his walked forward, keeping the same steady pace the whole time. His feet almost had a mind of their own as they moved down the hauntingly familiar route.

And there he was. The place he hadn't been to in two months. 62 days. The place that it hurt too much to think about. He forced himself to raise his head and look at it. He forced himself to feel his heart shatter in his chest again. He forced himself to feel the pain he had been denying.

It had been two months since he had seen her properly. Sure, there were glimpses here and there in the hallway but nothing else. Nathan and Rick didn't talk to any of them anymore and Jamie was forced to move away shortly after things went bad.

5 friendships. Torn apart at the seams. They would never heal and Leo knew it. He wouldn't. Not if he didn't have her.

.xXx.

"You okay Leo?" Her voice was soft, and she raised her hand to graze his shoulder. He wanted to flinch and turn away from her touch, but knew that would hurt her too much. So instead he closed his eyes and he just let himself feel her hand on his shoulder.

He tuned to look at her, and almost immediately wished he hadn't. Her perfect brown eyes were flashing gold with deep running concern and she was biting her bottom lip.

"Leo, I know it's bad right now. But things are gunna be okay." She made total eye contact as she spoke and he nodded. "I know things are never gunna be the same, but it'll be okay. Eventually."

His mother who he had loved and looked up to all his life was gone. Just like that. No warning, no chance to say goodbye. Twisted metal and broken glass. Just like that and she was gone forever.

He could remember the police telling him and his dad. They were sat in the front room. Leo kept his eyes fixed on the opposite wall as they told them. The wall was red; it was his mom's favourite colour. She had painted that wall.

She wasn't ever going to paint another wall again. She wasn't ever gunna laugh again, or cry or walk. She wasn't ever going to nag him about his room again, or tell him how much she loved him. She wasn't going to even breath again.

He saw the police get up and he saw his dad let them out. And then he saw his dad fall to his knees and curse at sky. He saw all this but none of registered in his mind. That's when he stood up and walked steadily out of the house. Not one tear falling.

Not until he'd seen the look on concern on Piper's face.

"Yeah, I'll be okay. If I've got you." He said and buried his head in her shoulder.

"You have." She whispered into his hair. "You always will."

.xXx.

Piper heard the faint sound of tapping on the front door. She had fallen asleep on the couch that night. She rubbed her eyes and padded to the front door, trying to wake anyone else that was asleep and looked through the peephole.

Oh.

My.

God.

Her breath began to get shallower and shallower, her heart beat soaring. She was terrified. But she knew she had to open the door for him. If she didn't she'd be plagued with the "what ifs" and she already had enough of those as it was.

"Leo…" She trailed off as he stared at her with wide eyes.

"I need you Piper. I need things to go back to the way they were." She wanted to just agree and throw herself into his arms. She wanted to just tell him yes and bury her face into his t-shirt again. But a nagging feeling at the back of her mind held her back.

"I can't Leo." She heard his heart break; it matched the sound of hers.

"Why the hell not Piper?" He was angry now, she could tell but she wouldn't give in.

"Well, take a look Leo! Things aren't the way they were! They can't ever be again! Nathan's gone off the deep end, Rick's no better and Jamie's gone. Leo!" She was screaming at him now.

Leo shook his head.

"I want us to be together Piper. I need us to be together, because I can't take much more of this. Everyday. Not having you, it's killing me slowly from the inside out. I need you."

In and out Leo. In. And. Out.

She looked at him for a while and watched as he tried to control his rapid intakes of cold air. And shook her head, staring at her bare feet.

"I can't."

And they don't know how long they stood there, coming to terms with the stone hard facts of their lives.

'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button

AN: I know that wasn't so good, but I just wanted to get this chapter down. Please reveiw, because thats the only way I know if you like this story and if I should keep on posting it. Becuase I've finished writing it, but if no ones reading it... or liking it then should I carry on posting. And if you dont like it then; tell me why. I can re-write parts to improve. Constructive critism is always good.