What the future holds...

A/N: Thanks again for all the reviews. This will again be a short chapter and I hope to start the romance from the next one;).

Piper had a little dilemma. Ever since Phoebe had mentioned Chris to her, she hadn’t been able to get him out of her mind. She lay alone in her big bed, the only light coming from the moon and she wondered what was so great about Chris.

Sure, he was hot but that wasn’t enough to get her interested in him. And then he was also the witches’ whitelighter and he had saved their lives numerous times in the past. But why did Phoebe want her to be interested in him?

Right then, Leo orbed into her bedroom, holding Wyatt in his arms. "Hey," he smiled.

"Hey." She sat up.

"I hope I’m not disturbing you, I just wanted to take Wyatt with me for the night...you know...for some father-son bonding."

"Sounds great," she smiled warmly. "Do you have all the stuff you need?"

"Yup." Leo indicated a little bag in his left hand. "See ya." He orbed away.

Piper sighed and lay back, staring up at the ceiling. She wouldn’t admit it but there were times she wished that she was still Leo’s wife. It had hurt her badly when he became an Elder but then again, she should have seen it coming. The women in her family didn’t exactly have a history of happy marriages. Look at Grams, for instance. She’d been with many men and she had never been happy. And there was her mother Patty, who divorced her husband and was then unable to be with her whitelighter because of that stupid rule. And her sister Prue was widowed. And Cole had turned out to be the Source. And Jason had dumped Phoebe because she was a witch. Luckily, Paige hadn’t been married yet but who knew what the future held for her?

Suddenly her bedroom door flung open and Paige rushed inside. She was sweating and panting.

"I’m in trouble," she stated simply.

Piper sat up again. "What happened?" she asked testily.

Paige approached her and said, "Well, remember my date tonight? Bruce?"

Piper nodded.

"Well," Paige continued. "He...knows that I’m a witch."

Piper gasped. "Oh my God, Paige! Did you tell him?"

"No! We were just having dinner and then talking about perfume and then he told me that he knew that I was a witch...and..." she broke down.

"Oh, calm down, honey," Piper got out of bed and patted her younger sister’s shoulder. "Everything’s gonna be okay...I mean, he didn’t try to hurt you to anything, did he?"

"Um, no...but I’m still scared...I didn’t even stay to finish dinner with him!"

Piper thought for a moment. "Okay, look, it’s getting late, so maybe you should just go to bed. We can discuss this tomorrow morning."

And when she was alone again, all she could think about was Chris.