DISCLAIMER: I don't own them, I just like to play with them.
SUMMARY: Cole has a tea party.
Cole Turner was a very private and mysterious man, so private and mysterious in fact, that he rarely if ever let anyone outside of his immediate sphere of influence know that he had once been The Source of All Evil. That wasn't the kind of thing you brought up at the water cooler.
Cole had, however, another secret, of a more terrifying, bizarre, and horrendous nature. Unfortunately for him, Paige Matthews was the snoopy type, and when she accidentally stumbled upon his deepest darkest secret, her mouth dropped open in horror.
"Ballerina Bunny, would you like some more tea?" Cole asked pleasantly.
"Why thank you, Cole," he responded in a high pitched voice, "I would love some tea, and might I say you are looking very reliable and not evil today." Paige choked on laughter. The former Balthazar, the former Source, the scourge of the underworld, breaker of her sister's heart was having a tea party! Cole was surrounded by stuffed animals: the bunny, a moose, a squirrel, and a buffalo. Sitting on his lap was a teddy bear wearing pajamas.
"What about you, Leroy?" Cole asked the moose.
He deepened his voice into a goofy Bullwinkle impression. "No thank you, Cole, I'm fine, but let me tell you, you look so buff today." Cole gave the moose a speculative look. The last thing he needed was to get into a cross-species/same-sex relationship with a stuffed moose.
"Uh, thank you, Leroy," he replied.
He bent down and whispered something in the teddy bear's ear and then giggled a high pitch giggle.
"Can I have some more tea?" he said for the squirrel in a particularly whiny voice.
"No," Cole said. "You may not, Squirrel Phoebe." The squirrel was wearing a pink wooly hat. Paige was staring unbelievingly at Cole. Had he lost his mind? Then again, the squirrel did kind of look like Phoebe…
TBC… next up, Cole invites Leo to join the tea party