Summary: I know, you are probably freaking out because I actually updated a new chapter to this story. Well let the freak out continue because I actually had free time on my hands and I figured the best thing to do would be to do another chapter. So sorry I didn't update sooner but my muse left me for someone else, gave me two weeks notice though, and it took me a while to find another one but alas I did and this one is doing quite well. I may even extend their contract. Anyways I hope that you enjoy this chapter and don't worry it isn't the last, my muse made sure of that. So go forth, read, and enjoy what I have brought to the masses.

Disclaimer: I know that it's been a while but I just want to inform you all that I do not own Charmed. If I did I wouldn't be working in retail because I absolutely hate it but it pays the bills so what can you do. Anyways on with the Chapter.

Chapter 18: And It All Falls Down.

The ride to the hosptial was silent as Mel held her father's dead hand. The paramedics gave her apolegic looks but she ignored them all. She didn't want their pity or their apologies, she wanted her father back but she knew that she couldn't get that option. He was dead and it was all Jeff's fault and it wouldn't be long before she made him pay.

The feeling of a paramedic's hand on her shoulder was enough to bring her out of her thoughts. Melinda looked up to see that they were at the hospital but at the coroner's office instead, knowing that they needed a real doctor to pronounce a person dead before the police officially could. She hadn't even jumped out of the ambulance yet when she Thomas standing far off in the distance looking at her.

"Miss Halliwell I need to talk to you." he softly said to her as she climbed out of the ambulance.

"I don't have time for this Detective, I need to find my mother."

"I know that and I want to help you but first you have to tell me what I need to know."

"The only thing you need to know is that if your brother has harmed my mother I won't be the only one going to a funeral."

"Please let me help you."

"Go away" she sneered as she made her way towards the building wanting nothing more to do with him or his crazy family she tried to ignore him but before she could, his hand was wrapped around her wrist.

"Let me go you bastard." she screamed only to have him pull tighter and drag her off but not before he flipped his badge to the one remaining paramedics who was sitting in the ambulance waiting for his partner to come back.

"Melinda let me-"

"I said let me go!" Melinda screamed again as the rear view mirror on the right side of the patrol car suddenly blew up. A scared Thomas immediately let go of Mel's wrist as he ducked for cover. The sound of the second window blowing enough was heard as the sight of blue and white lights suddenly appeared in front of him and disappeared. Thomas got back on his feet only to see the body of Melinda had also disappeared from sight.

"What the hell are you?" was all he whispered as he walked towards the patrol car and called for back-up. He didn't know what he were Melinda had gone but he knew that she would have to go home eventually and he would be there waiting on her.

Piper watched as "Jeff" walked out of the room leaving her alone again. She had no idea who the man was but she couldn't help but feel as though she knew him somehow. Closing her eyes, she tried to remember exactly where she knew the man from when it suddenly hit her.

"So they get you too huh?"

"I know who you are, I mean from around school."

"My name's Geoffrey Marti but you can call me Jeff."

Her stomach turned as memories of Jeff flooded her memory all the way to the last day that she saw Jeff. After he tried to hurt her she had immediately ran home to tell Grams. She was so upset that she cried for three hours straight, not only at the lost of her one true friend but at the fact that he tried to hurt her. Then the memories stopped, as if she was forced to forget what happened and that's when she realized that maybe she was forced. Maybe Grams had seen how badly that she had been hurt and cast a spell to make her forget about Jeff. That would be why she didn't remember him or the fact that he had a brother who was his identical twin.

The thoughts of what her Grams could have done to her left her mind as she heard the door open again and Jeff walk inside the room. He appeared to be just as angry as he was before but this time he didn't come into the room empty handed. In his hand was a vial and a long needle. Piper could only imagine what it contained but she knew that she didn't want to find out.

"What the hell do you want?"

"Now Piper is that any way to speak to me, your future lover." Jeff replied sweetly as he walked closer to her.

"Future my ass." she spat back causing his smile to fade back into a frown. "If you don't let me go now you won't see your future."

"My love how you've changed. I would never have guessed that the meek little book nerd would became a big ball of fire. I have to admit it's kinda of a turn on."

"And who would have thought that a science fair winner would push up on his only friend from high school only to kidnap her all these years later. I have to admit, it's kinda of pathetic. Piper smirked at the man only making him more angry than he was before.

"Oh now you remember me." Jeff spat as stopped advancing towards Piper. "Now you remember me after wrote me out of your life, pretended that I didn't exist after everything that I did for you. Befriended you, made you feel better about yourself and you refused me."

"You attacked me-"

"I was trying to show you how I felt…and you didn't care; you didn't care that I loved you. I still love you Piper. Do you know how it feels to love someone so much that it hurts just to breath."

Piper opened her mouth to retort the comment but she found herself at a lost for words. She looked at the man in front of her who eyes were filled with so much rage at the very same time so close to tears. A more compassionate person would have felt sorry for him but not her. He had terrorized her family, tried to kill the love of her life and now had the audacity to say he loved her. Piper wanted nothing more than to use her powers and blow him up, not caring that she couldn't use her powers to do that.

That's when it hit her, powers. She had forgotten all about her powers and using them to get away from Jeff. He didn't know that she was a witch and had the power to do things that he could never imagine but she promised that she would show him. All she needed was a distraction and she would be home free.

"Piper are you listening to me?"

The sound of a Jeff's angry voice calling out to her was enough to bring her out of her thoughts of escaping and her gaze returned to him along with an icy glare.

"I'm sorry what did you say?" she smirked again, yanking at the cuffs around her wrist and not really caring if Jeff got mad at her.

"Don't ignore me Piper, it won't work out well for you."

"You sure about that."

"Very sure" he sneered as he walked until he was at the foot of the bed. He reached out his hand to rub the bottom of her leg, the vial and needle still in his hand. Piper kicked her foot as soon as he touched her but it only caused him to laugh at her. "Piper please, stop struggling against me it's really quite pathetic."

"Says the kidnapper and an attempted murderer."

"Not attempted Piper I thought I told you that. Leo is dead and now there is no one in the way of stop us from being together."

"Even if Leo…is dead there's no way in hell I would be with you."

"We'll see about that."

Walking away from the bed, he jammed the needle into the vial and filled it with the liquid. It wasn't long before he was at Piper's side, holding her arm with one hand while the needle was in the other.

"What's that?" Piper asked nervously as she tried to move her arm away.

"This, it's nothing really except a small sedative to put you to sleep while I move you to a more secret location." Jeff smiled as slowly traced her skin with the needle, small shivers climbing up and down his back at the realization of having this beautiful woman so close. "It won't be long before the cops figure where we are and try to take you away from me."

"Wait." Piper shrieked as Jeff made the move of sticking the needle in her arm. She had to do something fast before it was too late to do anything. "Let me say something first."

"I'm not letting you go, Piper. I won't lose you again."

"And you won't Jeff, not when you hear what I have to say."

Piper smiled as Jeff let go of her arm and moved the needle away. Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes as the words of a spell came to her mind. "Hidden powers, come to me. Loose the bonds to set me free."

"What the hell-"

Piper didn't give him a chance to finish his sentence as she raised her hands to freeze him in place. Yanking the needle and vial out of his frozen hand, she unfroze him only to stick him with his own needle.

"How did you…what the hell…-"

"Payback's a bitch." was all she said as the man's body fell to the floor. After his eyes closed, she too, fell on the floor beside him unleashing the tears that she had been holding back. She knew everything that Jeff was saying was true. She could feel it in her hurt that Leo was gone, as if her heart was now broken in two. The love of Piper's life was gone and she was going to make sure that the man before her pay for what he'd done.

Her eyes stung as the mixture of white lights and tears filled them. She had been searching for her brothers ever since she orbed away from Thomas and she had yet to find them. It didn't help that she was an emotional wreck and she didn't know her way around the area at all.

"Melinda."

"How did you get up here?"

She didn't say anything, turning around to see her brothers standing behind her. The tears began to fall again as she immediately ran towards them and pulled them into a hug.

"Mel what's wrong."

"He's dead." she cried as she held on tighter to Chris and Wyatt.

"Who's dead Mel."

"Dad's dead and mom is missing."

"No, what-"

"You can't be serious" Wyatt hissed as he let go of his sister as tears began to fill his eyes. "Dad's not dead."

"He is Wyatt, he's dead and it's all my fault."

"Mel-"

"I was too late with the potion…and the healing with everything."

"What do you mean you tried to heal him, you can't heal."

"I couldn't because of this stupid training that you're doing so I did a power swapping spell to try to heal him but I was too late." the last part coming out as a scream as she collapsed onto her knees.

"Mel please-" Chris tried to say but he was starting to choke on his own words. Tears slid down the side of his face as he listen to his sister. There was no way his father was dead, he just couldn't be not yet anyways. "Please tell us-"

"Please tell you what Chris" she screamed again. "Dad's dead. I was there when he did and there's nothing that we can do. Even with the stupid vision I still couldn't prevent it…I couldn't stop it."

"But how-"

"He was shot by Thomas's twin brother, some kid that mom knew in high school and he became obsessed with her. He was in love with her and tried to attack her but she pushed him away. I had a vision and saw everything. I saw him shot dad and I tried to save them…I did but it was too late-"

"Melinda where's mom?"

"I don't know Chris, she…was gone by the time I got there."

"What the hell are we going to do?"

"It's too late, we won't be able to save them and it's all my fault."

The brothers couldn't do anything as they watched their sister crumple to the floor in front of them. They both reached out to heal her and realized that they couldn't.

"Aunt Paige, we need you." Chris yelled for his Aunt.

Paige orbed in too see her nephews in tears and her niece unconscious on the floor. She immediately rushed to their side and placed her hands over Mel's chest. "What happened?"

"She just collapsed…we don't know why?"

"Guys what's going on. Why are you crying?"

"Mel came to us and told us that…dad's dead and mom's missing."

"What."

"Dan wasn't the one trying to kill dad" Chris whispered as cradled his younger sister's head in his lap. "It was Thomas's brother and Mel had a vision…and tried to save him but…he's dead."

"He can't be, Piper can't be" Paige shook her head disbelievingly. Her sister and brother and law could not be dead, they just couldn't be. "Are you sure?"

"Why isn't she healing?" Chris shouted as the glow of his aunt's hand disappeared still leaving him with an unconscious sister. "What's wrong with her?"

"Because she fainted from emotional exhaustion" Wyatt explained, "you can't heal that."

"Wyatt, what are we going to do? Dad's dead and mom could be-"

"Don't say it." Wyatt shouted causing his brother to jump a little. He refused to believe that his father was dead. He was twice blessed for a reason and if he had to break a few rules to get his father back so be it. "We are going to find mom and we are going to bring Dad back."

Paige said nothing as she grabbed a hold to her family and orbed them back down to earth. She had a sister to find and a brother in law to save and nothing was going to stop her.

Phoebe sat on the edge of her bed as she tried to wrap her mind around everything. She had just been told that Leo was dead and Piper was missing by someone she hadn't seen a long time. She was surprised to see the person but was devastating when she heard what they had to say. When she first heard the news she wanted to cry but the reassuring voice told her that it was going to be okay, that everybody was going to turn out fine. Everything happened for a reason, they said and she believed that. Now all she had to do was follow through with the plan and get her sisters to follow it too. Grabbing her keys, she ran out of the house and made her way towards the manor. She had a sister to save.

Prue smiled as her sister left the house, happy that she was going to follow the plan. She knew that Phoebe was terrible at keeping secrets but she was the only one that would listen to what she had to say. Paige was too stubborn and Piper would be too emotional but Phoebe, Phoebe would follow her words exactly to the letter. Something that needed to be done if they wanted to get Leo back. Leo was now safe, going through the process that will make him a white lighter again and once that was done he would be back with his family. Now all that was left was to find Piper and make everything right again. A feat that the Charmed Ones could easily handle.

Was it as awesome for you guys as it was for me. I hope so because I worked really hard writing it for all you loyal readers and I wanted everyone to like it. Hope you like the reference to Prue again, she is such a great help. As always a preview of what's to come

1) A very angry Piper

2) A nosy Thomas

3) A broken heart

4) And a re-winged angel.

Stay tuned for what's next to come and Happy Trails.

"Ricka"