This story is set in between "Power Outage" and "Sleuthing with the Enemy" and contains ideas form "The Three Faces of Pheobe". Pheobe cast a spell to find out the secrets that Cole is hiding and if there relationship is serious or not. As a result her son shows up with a chance to guide mother and father thought the events that will be their downfall.
"I'm home!" yelled Prue as she walked through the door and into the kitchen. Piper came in an began to help her sister with the packages she was carrying.
"So I've got the pigs feet, crickets and mandrake, but the place was all out of cockles. I'll have to find the somewhere else. Maybe downtown." said Prue as they began to unload the ingredients.
"Yuck, I bet people though you were nuts going into a store looking for cockle shells" said Piper as she was making faces at the odd objects.
"I don't really care about that right now. This recipe is very important. We have to follow it to a T." said Prue knowing that all there safety was in jeopardy if the potion didn't work.
"It would be nice to get back to our lives such as they were" said Piper all the demon fighting taking a toll. Sometimes she just wished they were normal.
"And we will after we vanquish Belthazor. Where's Pheobe? We have to get started on a summoning spell" asked Prue
"I don't think she's in a rhyming mood." said Piper conserned about her little sister.
"Why not?" asked Prue echoing that consern
"She's worried about Cole. She hasn't heard from him in days and..." just as Piper was said this Pheobe walked in.
"Whacha guys talking about?" she asked wondering why the converation stopped as soon as she walked in.
"You" answered Prue "Whats going on with Cole? Piper and I are worried."
"Oh it's not a big deal" said Pheobe hoping that her sisters would just drop it. She didn't really want to share her feelings with them.
"Pheobe, we have to be honest with each other. That's a promise we made when Belthazor tried to spilt us apart remember?" said Prue knowing that all of them have to start being more open with each other.