The next week was quiet for both the sisters and the young couple that lived next door to them. Xander's job at the auction house was going well and Prue was teaching him how to appraise and evaluate items that came in for auction. The buyers that had been expressing interest moved to begin purchasing the business, Piper returned from her business convention and Prue and Andy enjoyed a date as they worked on reestablishing their relationship.

And on the other side of the country a former boyfriend of Piper's, Leo Wyatt, struggled to help a woman being stalked.

A woman walked fast to her car but kept looking over her shoulder. A car horn beeped, startling her and she dropped her groceries. She bent to pick the stuff up but found a jar had broken and cut herself.

"Ow, damn it!" As it if was just one too many frustrations.

"It's all right, Daisy." Leo said gently.

"Oh, Leo, thank God it's you. I have been so scared."

"You just have to stay strong a little longer and then you'll be safe."

"He's out there, Leo. He's going to find me. I've seen what he can do, his powers." Leo held her hand and a white light shone from his own hand as he healed it. "How did you do that? Who are you people?"

"Please trust me, Daisy. I'll explain soon. We don't have time right now."

"Why me, Leo? I don't understand."

"You have a very special future ahead of you. That's why I want you to go to San Francisco. I have powerful friends who can help you."

"What if Alec finds me first?"

"He won't be able to find you, I've made you invisible to him."

"Hello, Leo." A voice said, startling them both as black light appeared and the form of an attractive man was revealed.

"Hello, Leo." He repeated. "I've been looking all over for you. Figured you could only be here for one reason. Where are you, Daisy? I know you're close by."

"It's okay, Daisy. He can't see you. Don't say a word, just leave."

"Don't listen to him, sweetie, don't do it." Alec protested

Daisy didn't answer, just ran.

"She's already gone, Alec."

"I love her, Leo. Much like you love your little witch. What's her name? Piper?"

"Darklighters aren't capable of love, Alec, you're literally all about hate."

"This one is. I love Daisy and you are keeping me from her. It's only a couple of days ago all I had to do was think about her and bang! I'd be there with her. Then suddenly she vanishes from my radar. Cloaked by a whitelighter. By you." Alec snarled.

"Then if you know I'm the one that cloaked her, then you also know that you won't find her as long as I live."

"Yes, well, I have a solution for that." He smirked as he manifested a crossbow and shot Leo, just as Leo disappeared in a glow of lights of his own, white lights, as opposed to Alec's black ones.

"A relaxing weekend in a condo on a beach in Cabo is just what we need." Prue insisted as she and Phoebe carried their suitcases down the stairs. "Andy knows our secret and is okay with it, there hasn't been any demon attacks in a week and if there are, I think Xander can handle it."

"He was part of a group that took down a 60 foot demon snake." Phoebe said dryly. "He can handle a demon or two. No, what I'm objecting to is the fact that you're wearing your bikini already, that you're planning to wear it on the plane."

"It's a time saver, the moment we hit the condo, I plan to be on the beach getting golden brown. And he said the demon snake was more like 40 feet."

"Doesn't change the fact that it's bigger and more powerful than anything we've taken on. And you're making me look frumpy, it's practically a sign of the apocalypse." Phoebe complained.

"Look at it this way, soon you'll be surrounded by buff, tanned men with limited verbal skills, while I'm simply sunning myself on the beach."

"Now, I feel better." Phoebe agreed. "Piper and I won't have to share the male attention three ways. Increases my chances of a little excitement of the male persuasion." Phoebe grinned cheerfully.

"You may end up getting all of it." Prue said gloomily. "Piper isn't planning on attracting any attention, she's planning to spend the whole weekend under a beach umbrella, reading."

"What?! Why?" Phoebe exclaimed, dismayed. "She's not seeing Joss anymore, he took a job offer in San Diego, she's guy free."

"Yeah, but she's also had a string of bad luck. Let's recap. Jeremy the warlock who tried to kill us and steal our powers, a geographically undesirable handyman with a great butt and a ghost. This is more of a sucking void."

A sudden crash from upstairs had them both tensing and looking up as Piper screamed. They hit the stairs at the same time, running and burst into the attic to find a surprise.

Leo Wyatt, geographically undesirable handyman, holding a bloody shoulder with an arrow sticking out of it lying on the floor with Piper bent over him.

"What the Hell?!" Prue exclaimed.

"He just appeared out of nowhere in bunch of white lights!" Piper exclaimed herself. "Since when does my old boyfriend have power?! And what kind of power? What are you, Leo?" She demanded.

"I'm a whitelighter. And I need help."

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A/N Some dialog taken from Charmed wiki, episode 'Love hurts.'

Reference to a ghost is one from an earlier episode who came to the Charmed Ones for help in solving his murder, so he could move on. He liked Piper but being a ghost, not a great prospect for a relationship.