The past Can Always Haunt You
a/n: I left you all on a cliff hanger with the last chapter. I just couldn't resist it. The word for this chapter is forgotten, there is no reason for this. Sorry for the long update. Enjoy! :)
Chapter 3
The police man looked at Piper and Leo who were sat on the couch in the living room. "Well it seems that we should place you and your son in protective custody until further notice." He told them. Piper was shocked as the police had went from not bothering about their safety to taking them away from their home.
"What. Why has this suddenly came about." Piper said out of both shock and anger. "A week ago he was in prison and it has taken you almost all of that time to inform me of this and try to take me away from my home. When you could have done before he stabbed me." She was nearly yelling by this point. Leo pulled her into him. She looked into his eyes. "Okay." She gave up. "I can get Paige to drop Sara off at school and pick her up. I will pack bags for me and Ben. Honey will you be coming too?" She asked. Leo said that he might if he wasn't called away to work.
Paige took Sara to school and Piper was now in Ben's room putting his clothes together as Leo was in their room getting some clothes for him and Piper. "Mrs Halliwell is there any other names that you could go by while in protective custody?" Piper looked him as Ben was still downstairs.
"We could go by our middle names. Mine is Jane, Ben's is Rhys and Leo's is Christopher." The detective wrote this down.
"What about surnames?" He asked. Piper looked thoughtful.
"My Dad has a different surname than me. We could go by that. It's Bennett." She told him.
"So your names are Jane, Christopher and Rhys Bennett?" Piper nodded realising how ridiculous it sounded. Ben appeared at the door.
"Mom why do we need to have different names?" He asked. "And why didn't I go to school?" He came into the room. Piper looked at him and figured that there was no easy way to tell him any of this.
"Ben, we need to go away for a little while and we need new names because there is a bad man that is trying to hurt us. But detective Marshall here is going to make sure that we don't get hurt."
"Mom is the bad man, the guy that stabbed you?" He asked Piper was so taken aback by this question that she never answered him.
They were later told that they would be going to San Raphael not too far away from the city. "Now while you are here you need to remember that your middle names is your first names. Piper your name is Jane. Leo yours is Christopher and Ben your name is Rhys." Murphy told them. "And you are the Bennett's. So while I am here I am going to pretend that I am your father so that we don't draw suspicions." Piper nodded in understanding. They had finished packing and were now at the police station. "The only problem that we have is why you have a giant scar on your stomach. But I'm sure that you can think of something for that."
"I could say that it is a surgical scar." Piper retorted. "Are we going now?" She asked. Marshall told them that they were and the sooner they were out of the city all together the safer they would be.
They drove into a nice little street in a moving van. "Okay lets get this thing unloaded." Leo said opening the back. "Honey the men can do this." He told Piper.
"How about the adults seeing as the little man has a cast on his arm." Piper answered back. They got to work. As they were pulling some bed out of the truck a family walked up behind them.
"Hello there I am Teddy Barns, this is my wife Barbra and our son Xavier." The man of the house said.
"Hi Teddy. We are the Bennett's I'm Chris this is my wife Jane and our son Rhys. Nice to meet you." Leo shook hands with Teddy and Piper did the same with Barbra. The two boys just looked at each other and kicked the grass beneath their feet not sure what to do with each other.
Back in San Francisco Paige and Phoebe were wondering how long Piper was going away for. They had no idea where she was and getting to her would be a problem. They were in the attic. "Paige why are we up here. This is a human nut job that is after our sister. The police are handling it." Paige continued flipping through the book of shadows.
"I don't think the police are handling this in the right way." She said stopping at the page she was at.
"Well what else can we do? The police have taken Piper and Ben away from the immediate danger. It is what is best for their safety." Phoebe replied, Paige sighed knowing that Phoebe was right. They left the attic with their arms around each other casually. They knew that Leo could bring Piper back to them if they needed her for the power of three.
In San Raphael Piper was making lunch and Teddy offered to help them move the furniture. "Mom guess what. I just found out that there is going to be a street fair on Saturday. Can we go, can we please?" Ben asked practically begging his mother to allow him to go. "We can go if you want to Rhys. but we have to have all of the furniture moved in by then." Piper told him.
"Jane," Barbra started, "I was wondering if you and your husband would like to come to a dinner party at our house on Friday night?" Piper looked thoughtful for a moment.
"Okay if I can find a good babysitting service by tomorrow." Barbra handed Piper a business card. "Thanks I will call them tomorrow when I get the chance. Is this the service you use when you and Teddy go out?" She asked. Barbra nodded. Piper sighed and wondered what her sisters were doing in San Francisco.
Paige and Phoebe were back in the attic, looking for a magical way to catch 'Big D'. Phoebe slammed the book closed. "This is hopeless we are never going to find anything."
"Maybe we can scry for him using an object that belongs to him." Paige suggested. Phoebe looked up, taking her hands away from her face.
"That would work, if the police hadn't taken it for evidence. For years Piper has been too scared to come up against her past she flung out everything that reminded her of it years ago."
"Apart from her son." Paige said. Phoebe got the hint pretty quickly.
"We cannot use our nephew as bait, Paige." Phoebe was shocked that Paige would even suggest that. "He's just a kid."
"Why not? It would work they are related by blood." Paige responded.
"Because we don't know where they are and they are moving into a new house right now probably trying to get settled." Phoebe said, she noticed the defeated look on Paige's face. "Maybe we can find something that Piper missed when she was throwing out her old clothes." Paige perked up after that.
"Then can we get Leo to bring Ben here." Phoebe nodded.
"I don't know why I let you talk me into this." She commented. They went to work trying to find something that would allow them to scry for 'Big D'.
A while later Phoebe found a photo of Piper dealing with 'Big D' thinking back to the day that she took it as she showed Paige. "We could use this photo to find him and have him arrested. We might be able to get Piper home within a week." Paige took the photo and pulled a map and the scrying crystal.
"I hope everything turns out okay for Piper, she has changed her life around and has been clean for nearly a decade. She has been raising that asshole's son selflessly for eight years, and what does he do, he scares her silly and then stabs her in front of their son." Paige said as she moved the crystal around over the map. It caught Phoebe by surprise. A month ago Piper hardly knew Paige and yet she still shared a part of her past that she didn't normally share with people with people. Did that mean that Piper had excepted Paige or trusted her?
Across town in an abandoned warehouse 'Big D' was figuring his next move. "I need to find Piper Halliwell and get rid of her and any ties to my past. Then get out of San Francisco." He flung an old cardboard box to the other side of the room he was in. "What, if I never find her. Then what will I do. The police will have her in protective custody by now. I stabbed her!" He yelled at nothing. He was hoping that the police weren't going to find him in the warehouse, but even he knew that to avoid the police by moving around and not leaving a trail. He cursed himself when he realised that going after his old 'client' put him on the polices' radar.
"God this place is so quiet without Ben running around. I kinda miss it." Paige said to Phoebe as was scrying with the picture. The crystal dropped, giving Phoebe her answer.
"I don't think that we'll be missing our nephew for much longer. I got his location." Paige got her phone and made an 'anonymous' phone call to Daryl explaining where he was. Paige and Phoebe decided to impress Piper by grocery shopping. They had gotten everything that was put on the list.
A week later Detective Marshall knocked on the door at the house that Piper and Leo were staying in while in protective custody. When they were all sitting in the living room, Marshall shared his news. "We found David Fisher, he was hiding out in an abandoned warehouse down at the docks in San Francisco. You guys can go back home."
"How come he was found so quickly?" Piper asked when she had gotten over the initial shock.
"It was an anonymous tip." Marshall replied honestly. "I think I better get going, I need to travel back to San Francisco. I will see you guys tomorrow afternoon." The Detective showed himself out.
"How are we going to get everything packed up again by tomorrow?" Leo asked.
"Non of this stuff is actually ours. So all we need to do is pack up our clothes." Piper suggested. "I need to make dinner, unless you want to eat out tonight."
"I would much rather have something home cooked. If your up to it. We can tell Ben while we are eating." Leo suggested. Piper agreed and continued to the kitchen.
The next afternoon Piper put her key in the front door of the manor. Pushing the door open she let Ben run in. Her and Leo followed behind him. They went into the living room. "PIPER YOUR HOME!" Phoebe shouted as soon as her eyes set on the now eldest Halliwell. They embraced each other showing how much they had missed each other.
"I missed you to Phoebe. Paige don't I get a hug from you too?" Paige smiled and ran over to Piper and wrapped her arms around her older sister.
"I missed you Piper." Paige said quietly.
"I missed you too Paige." Piper responded.
"Hey don't I get a hug?" Ben joked coming in between the three sisters. Paige and Phoebe smothered him. "Now Leo too." He pointed at Leo who was really happy at how much Piper and Paige had missed each other.
The entire family celebrated that night. A dark man was put behind bars and Piper was finally allowed to have some peace and quiet from the past that she regretted having.
a/n: I will have another chapter posted soon, I promise.