The Past Can Always Haunt You
a/n: This chapter will start at the hospital. Then will take a different turn. The word for this chapter is Bark. As in dog bark. Woof, woof. Enjoy! :).
Chapter 2
Leo had come to see Piper in the hospital and she told him about what the police had told her. "Wait I don't understand, the police told you that he has escaped from prison, but instead of hunting him down they came here and told you something that you already know." Piper nodded and yawned a little. It was then Leo noticed how tired she looked. "Piper are you sleeping okay, you look exhausted?" He asked her.
"I haven't been. I keep thinking that he is going to show up here or even at the school. What if he gets to Ben?" Leo sat down on a chair beside her, as he had been standing since he came in. His eyes went down to her stomach. It had swollen over night. 'Maybe I should tell a doctor that her stomach has swollen' He thought.
At that moment a nurse walked in. "Excuse me nurse her stomach has swollen over night. Is that anything to be worried about." The nurse looked at Piper's chart.
"It should be okay, but I will get a doctor in just to check." The nurse left to find a doctor. Piper yawned again, this time deeper.
"Here baby let me tuck you in." Leo told her. As she was limited by how much she could move, Piper let Leo tuck her in properly.
After about five minutes Piper looked as though she was uncomfortable.
Piper's Night Mare
She was overlooking herself sitting in the living room. "I remember this. This is the night that it happened." She said to herself. The younger Piper put half the line of cocaine up her nose, for about a minute she looked relaxed then it all went to hell when she stood up and was sick in on her way to the bathroom. After she was sick she collapsed on the floor.
Ten minutes later Grams returned home with Phoebe. They were arguing for the millionth time, so Phoebe stormed up the stairs. Grams walk towards the living room and seen the unconscious Piper just lying there. She looked for any clue as to what had made her grand daughter collapse. It was then that she seen the half used line of cocaine on the coffee table. "Phoebe get down here and call an ambulance!" Grams called up into the celling. "Well somebody better be dying." She replied as she ran down the stairs. She stopped short when she seen Piper lying there in her grandmothers arms cols and shaking. "grams I didn't really mean-"
"Never mind that just call for an ambulance Phoebe." She ordered. Phoebe did as she was told. The ambulance came and took Piper to the hospital.
Piper felt herself being pulled to another event in time. She look around at the white room she was in. It was a hospital room. At first she thought it was when she was in the coma, the time that she took the overdose, but it wasn't. She looked closer and seen sweat and tears on her face and in her hair. Then she seen a tiny baby in a blue blanket. The biggest day in her life, the day she had Benji. Young Piper held her boy close to her and whispered to him "Benji Rhys Halliwell, I will turn my life around just so that I can watch you grow into a man." This made dream Piper cry, remembering the first moment she was allowed to spend alone with her baby.
"I love you Benji." She said. The young Piper never heard her.
Next Piper went to a place that she never wanted to go to, the future. It was a prison cell. "Why am I in here. I've never been in prison before." The older Piper sat there on the bed. Piper had no idea how far in the future this was, but it was just a dream, wasn't it? She stood up and looked through the bars that were the window of the cell. A demon shimmered in behind her. Dream Piper panicked. "Hello there is a demon behind you." She yelled half forgetting that the other Piper couldn't hear her. The demon drew out a knife from behind his back. The other Piper still didn't know that the thing had shimmered in behind her. The knife plunged into her back. Piper felt the pain from the stab.
End Piper's Dream
Piper woke with a start. She was crying. Leo got some water from the side and poured it into a glass. "Take a drink honey, take a drink." He told her. Piper took the water and drank it slowly. She calmed down a little.
"A demon stabbed me." She told her husband and explained what she had seen in her dream. Leo listened to what his wife was telling him. He then looked at his watch.
"It's half two I need to go and get Ben from, school I will be back in about an hour, with Ben." He kissed her head and left the room. He pocked his head back round the door. "Honey the doctor said that the swelling is completely normal. Love you bye." Piper shook her head at him as he went to pick up her son from school. Her thoughts went back to the dream as she thought about Ben when he was younger.
It wasn't long before Leo was back with Ben. Ben hugged his mother, pulling Piper out of his thoughts. "Hey Benny, what's up?" She asked. "How was school?"
"Well I got in trouble for not paying attention in class. But I was thinking of visiting you." He said sadly. Piper pulled him into a hug. She let him go again quiet quickly, wincing in pain. She held his shoulders instead.
"Benji listen. It is not your job to worry about me. It is my job to worry about you. Got it?" Ben nodded and climbed on top of the bed to be with his mom. He would never admit it but he was a mommy's boy, before Piper had married Leo he never had much of a choice. "I take it you missed me then?" Piper asked. Ben only nodded. He put his hand on Piper's now very swollen stomach.
"Mom are you having a baby? 'Cause when Sara's mom was having a baby her stomach looked like that." Ben asked while rubbing over the wound.
"No Ben I am not pregnant. And can you stop that please, you are hurting me." Ben did as he was told and put his hand away. "Do you want me to help you with your homework?" Piper asked.
"Can you. We are learning about the solar system." He went into his school bag, which Leo had carried up from the car. And Leo pulled the table closer to them.
Ben opened the work book and looked at his sheet. "Okay question 1." Piper started. "Name the first four planets in our solar system in the correct order?" Ben put his pen in his mouth.
"Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars." Ben answered, knowing he got the question correct.
"Okay then write it down." Piper helped him get the correct spelling for his homework and Ben leaned against her stomach.
"Mom, why is your stomach wet? Did you spill water?" He asked. Piper looked down and seen a red liquid seeping through her hospital gown. "Yuck, that is gross."
"At least it isn't your blood son." Piper commented. "Now I think you should go down while a doctor stitches me back up."
Piper got out of the hospital a couple of days later. While happy to be home Piper was constantly worried that something else was going to happen at the hands of 'Big D'. It was her logic that if he had the balls to put her in hospital in broad daylight in a crowded park, then if she was alone or at home he could do worse. As she was climbing into bed with Leo that night they started talking about it. "I still think the police should have done more to protect you and Ben." He commented as they pulled back the covers. "I mean you were too afraid to leave the car when we went to collect Ben at the school." He said he climbed into the bed and they cuddled until they fell asleep.
Piper fell into a restless sleep. She started mumbling. "Noo. Don't. " Piper rolled over. "Don't hurt him." Another yell came. "He is just a kid, leave him alone." Leo woke up when she started shouting at nothing yelling at whoever it was to stop hurting her baby. "Piper. Honey wake up." Leo said shaking her carefully so he didn't hurt her. "Piper come on. Time to get up." Piper slowly opened her eyes and looked at Leo. Her beautiful brown coloured eyes were filled with fear and pain. It broke his heart to see her like this. The door opened and Phoebe stood there. "What is all the shouting about. You are going to wake up the nine-year old if it doesn't stop." Phoebe said feeling tired and fed-up. She hadn't had much sleep because of Piper's nightmare's.
"We're sorry Phoebe. I will try to keep it down." phoebe left the doorway and returned to bed. "If I can find a way to either stop a drug dealer with a death wish or stop night mares." Leo shook his head and whispered something into her ear. She kissed him obviously liking what he had said. After that, let's just say that there wasn't much sleeping in their bedroom that night.
The next morning Piper was still worried sick but refreshed and ready to face anything that came her way. That was until the doorbell rang. "I'll get it it's probably Sara's mom. I asked her to bring Sara here before school." Piper left the kitchen to answer the front door.
"I'm coming." She said walking toward it. Instead of the shape of a Woman and her child she seen the figure of a man. She opened the door wondering who could possibly want to knock on somebody's door at this time in the morning. "Yes. Can I help you." she said. The man held up a badge.
"Are you Piper Halliwell." Piper nodded, unsure of what could possibly come of this. " I'm dectective Marshall. I understand you're life is in danger. I think that you should let me in." Sara and her mother appeared in the doorway. "Good morning ma'am, little girl." He said. Piper invited detective marshall in. Sara's mother just dropped her off and left for work
"Sara, Ben is in the kitchen eating breakfast. Why don't you go and get him. And can you ask my husband to come in here for me please. I think that he would want to hear this." She told her. Sara did what she asked not asking any questions. She knew better than that.
Leo joined Piper in the sitting room and the couple got ready to hear what the police had to say to them. And hoped that it was good news.
a/n: I am going to leave it here and keep you guessing about what the detective is going to tell them. I don't mean to be mean. I am just following my instincts.