AN: Well, well, well. The last chapter of "Just Breath" I really loved writing this fiction so much. Possibly even more than I did with Black Orbs. Which I didn't think was going to be possible. But it was. I don't know what it was about this one, it was just so easy to write.

I really could've gone either way with this ending. I wrote about three different versions in all, this was the winner. But yeah… I was going to end differently in the original.

Wow, 14 reviews. I love you guys. Really, wow.

Ok, Chapter 20:

"Hello. What is your emergency?"

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And that was when Piper felt her world implode. The second she felt the foundations of her life crumble and that was when she died on the inside. Nothing hurt as much as that moment did. She couldn't breath for the pain, it was drowning her. And she didn't want to be saved.

At some point her knees had given up the fight and she was on the pure white floor beneath her. She was vaguely aware of arms around her waist, pulling her up again, but she couldn't stand. She wanted to be on the floor. She felt safer down there.

The noise was still there in her mind. The noise, the moment, the everything that sent her into this state. And she couldn't shake it. She closed her eyes and scream, trying to block it out. But it wouldn't go. It's all that was there in her hazy unfocused mind.

The noise of the flat line.

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He was deathly white, almost so he faded into the sheets of the hospital bed. The walls to, and the harsh light that covered the room. Everything around him was white. Except for the smears of crimson, covering him in different directions.

She was scared of the colour white.

The tubes the he was nestled in scared her even more, so did the machine that would beep and make other noise that she didn't know what they meant. But what scared her the most was the fact that it was Leo lying there.

Her Leo.

"Leo…" She said to, taking cold of his hand, squeezing it a little. "The doctors said you could hear me if I talked…" Another stray tear betrayed her eyes and she wiped it away hastily. She would be strong for him.

Piper looked down at her best friend in the whole world and stood still and silent for a long while. Almost scared if she spoke that she'd miss something.

"I love you Leo." And she swore she felt him squeeze her back, "I love you so much Leo." She repeated and there was another squeeze. So gentle it was hardly there. But it was.

"Leo?"

And that's when it came.

The sound of death.

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"Piper honey…come on Piper…talk to me…" Phoebe held her pulled her up as she was trying to bring her back the edge of a breakdown. "Piper, the doctors are trying to save him, stay strong honey…"

But Piper didn't care what her sister was telling her. She just screamed louder, she screamed to block out the pain. And soon she realised the pain was the reason she was screaming.

"Piper…" Phoebe tried again, but Piper pulled away, falling on to the floor again, curling up, and sobbing on the floor. No one could reach her down there.

Phoebe stared intensely through the glass door and watched the various medical staff rush around Leo, shocking him, staring at the machine, looking for any change in the monotones tone.

"Clear!" One last attempt, she could see it in the doctor's eyes. That look of giving up, the shining tears and the shaking head. They could all hear Piper from inside. It just made this hurt more.

And that's when she saw what she was looking for.

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He gripped tight onto her hand, as the rain came down around them both, missing in the earthy smell. He stared straight ahead, biting hard into his bottom lip and he was shaking. But no tears fell.

"Leo?" She spoke but he made no indication that he heard her. So she tugged on his arm a little, "Leo?"

He just carried on staring straight ahead, at the sky. His eyes had lost the shine they always had. The perfect green had dulled over into almost grey, matching the sky today.

"You want to be alone?" She asked, him trying again, not really expecting an answer. But this time he turned his head, the emotionless expression on his face made her shiver as he slowly shook his head.

"No." It was a whisper but she heard him and she nodded, "I need you here."

"You always got me Leo." She told him as she noticed his gaze moving downwards, to rest on the gravestone at his feet. "Always."

"You've got me too Piper." And the thunder clapped above them and the heavens opened further, the rain falling harder as Leo fall to the ground.

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"Piper…" Phoebe's voice had an edge of happiness to it this time. How can she be so happy? Piper looked up at her sister, the sobs still violently racking her whole body.

"What?" She choked out, still staying on the floor and still crying. She couldn't seem to stop the tears.

"Piper look…" Phoebe pointed at the glass door and Piper shook her head.

"I've seen him Phoebe. I don't need to again." Wiping at her cheeks forcefully, brushing back her hair.

"No…look!" Phoebe took a step over to where Piper was on the floor and pulled her up, "Listen…"

Piper refused to believe her ears. She had seen it. She's seen the machine go dead, she's seen her best friend and love of her life die. Just like that, she'd seen it all. It couldn't just happen like that. He died, that was it. He mind was just messing with her. Playing more cruel games.

"No. No. No. No. No." She started screaming again, this was all too much to take in. Piper pulled at her cloths and her hair, again falling to floor. Phoebe looked down at her big sister. She had been through too much for her age. This was just the thing to break her. But…

"Piper, the doctors… they brought him back…" Phoebe soothed her while she cried even harder. Not taking it all in, "He's alive…Leo's alive Piper."

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"Hello. What is your emergency?"

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AN: I wasn't too into this chapter but I think I had some good parts in there. Ok, here's the summary to the sequel. Yes there is a sequel. Love me?

Working Title: Two Hearts, Their World (May change)

Rating: T

Summary: AU, No Magic. PL. The strength of their relationship is put to the test. All limits tried. You can only get pushed so far, before you start to think, What if we were never mean to be together in the first place? (Set seven years on from "Just Breath")

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