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    Piper Halliwell is the middle child in every way, although sadly is soon to become the oldest. She is constantly mediating between her two sisters, even when she tries to avoid getting involved. Like Prue, she has an active power, the power to freeze, which has come in handy at numerous times. Just recently she has acquired another power and is able to blow things up at will.
    Piper is seen as the sweet romantic of the family, the innocent one who believes in true love and long talks into the night. But ironically enough, she is also the one with the most confusing love life. Her relationships with warlocks, ghosts and whitelighters are something her sisters often joke about, but the road to true love has been long and painful for Piper. Only now does she seem to be finding some stability in her life as she enters her first year of marriage to Leo.
    When Piper first became a witch, her life was already changing. The first time she used her power was during an interview for a chef's job, which she ended up getting. Her boyfriend  at the time was Jeremy. The day she got her job he took her to an abandoned warehouse, revealed the fact that he was a warlock, and tried to murder her. Piper and her sisters vanquished Jeremy that night but the memory of him made Piper a lot more cautious in the following months.
    A few weeks later Piper fell in love with a ghost named Mark while trying to help him bring his murderer to justice. She was later kidnapped by the murderer, rescued by her sisters, and forced to say goodbye to the perfect man, who just happened to be dead. Once again, Piper had fallen for the wrong guy.
    During this time she continued her job at Quake, the restaurant where she had first interviewed. But instead of being a chef, she was moved to the manager position. This led to a hectic schedule that was further complicated by nights spent hunting demons and days spent gawking at their new, cute handyman, Leo. After awhile Piper and Leo became closer and it seemed as if Piper might have finally found the guy of her dreams. But then Leo left. He returned a few weeks later, only to leave again. In the meantime, Piper fell for a grad student named Josh. When he got a job in Beverly Hills, he offered to turn it down in order to stay with her. But Piper told him to take the job. She couldn't get Leo out of her mind or out of her heart.
    Another few weeks went by before Leo magically appeared in their attic, dying from a poisoned arrow. He finally told Piper that he was a whitelighter, sent to them for protection, and that he broke the rules by falling in love with her. Piper was angry that he had kept the secret from her but realized that he had needed to leave all those times because of his job and not because he didn't love her. So using Leo's own powers, Piper managed to heal him, and they both admitted their mutual feelings for each other.
    A few months passed and Piper opened up her own night club, which eventually became a successful hot spot that hosted such bands as the Goo Goo Dolls and Dishwalla. But because of their responsibilities, Piper and Leo could not continue their relationship without experiencing numerous problems. Piper was in for quite the surprise when she and her sisters were sent to the future. Still living in the manor, she found herself with a beautiful daughter named Melinda. The girl's father, and Piper's ex-husband, turned out to be Leo. He and the future Piper hadn't been able to make their marriage work and they had separated. Piper returned to the present with this knowledge, but never told Leo. The two split soon after, worried that their relationship was getting in the way of their duties. At this point Piper started dating the next door neighbor, Dan, who surprisingly enough was not a warlock, a ghost, or a whitelighter.
    It took her own death though, to make Piper realize that Dan was not the right guy for her. While working in her club Piper became sick with the Arroyo Fever. She died and was saved by Leo, who's wings were clipped because of what he had done. He became mortal and eventually won Piper's heart once again. But breaking up with Dan was hard on Piper, and  her duties as a witch only served to complicate things. She considered giving up her powers and the situation became even worse when the doctor who had treated Piper, died trying to discover how she had survived the deadly disease. Piper eventually got over her guilt though, with a little help from Leo.
    Their relationship seemed doomed however, after a trip to the whitelighter world led to an ultimatum from Leo's superiors. Either the two would have to stop dating or he would be reassigned. Hoping to get around their restrictions, Leo hastily proposed marriage. At first Piper wasn't too receptive to the idea, but after discussing it with her sisters she decided to accept his offer. A quick wedding was planned, then destroyed when the whitelighters found out and stole Leo away mid ceremony. Piper was shattered by what had happened and plagued by the idea that she would never see him again.
   Still hurt by the elders' meddling, Piper went on strike, refusing to help her sisters in their Wiccan ways. She changed her mind after a little girl's life was threatened and this led the whitelighters to reluctantly return her fiancé. However, their relationship could not get in the way of their work and they would have to wait on their marriage. Neither Piper nor Leo seemed to mind these rules as long as they could stay together.
    All of their plans were threatened again when Piper was possessed by a demon. Prue decided that the only way to save her was to kill her and let the demon infect Leo who would then be able to bring her back. The plan worked perfectly and they were able to vanquish the demon from Leo once the power of three was restored. A few weeks later the couple learned that the whitelighters had finally relented and would allow them to marry. But it seemed for a moment, that all of their struggles had been in vain when Piper was nearly killed for a second time. A demon threw a bladed sphere at her, hitting her in the back. Luckily Leo was there to save her.
    Not long after, Piper's wedding day arrived. She was stunned to discover that the whitelighters, apparently feeling bad about their previous actions, had sent her mother down for the occasion. After being told that she was the heart of the family, Piper was on her way to the alter. Unfortunately Prue nearly destroyed the ceremony when her astral form went wild and ended up in jail. Piper called off the wedding, but changed her mind later that evening when Prue straightened everything out. Leo and Piper were married in front of their family and friends in late February.
    Later that spring Piper almost became the first Halliwell sister to move out when she and Leo packed their bags. A series of flashbacks revealed just how lonely she had felt between her two feuding sisters when their grandmother had died. But after discovering that Grams had been ready to strip their powers to keep them together, Piper realized that she could not yet leave the manor.
    Piper was faced with a very different dilemma though when she was granted a new power, allowing her to blow things up. Unable to control it, she had knocked out Prue, creamed a watermelon and nearly killed a ficus plant before finally vanquishing her first demon. Her self doubt continued to grow after Phoebe turned into a demon and a spell transformed Prue into a dog. Feeling helpless she turned to Leo, but eventually came up with a plan that saved both of her sisters.
    Tragedy struck though after she and Prue vanquished a demon on the local news. While Leo and Phoebe went to the underworld to track down Cole, a disgruntled witch shot through the house, hitting Piper. Prue desperately tried to save her bleeding sister, rushing her through the crowd to the hospital. Sadly, Leo could not hear her yelling for him. And after telling her older sister that she loved her, Piper died.
    Eventually Phoebe was able to make a deal to turn back time and save her older sister. But the deal seems to have turned sour, since the clock restarted at a time when both Piper and Prue's lives are in jeopardy. Now only time will tell who will live and who will die.