A/N: This is my first fanfic! I hope you enjoy! Phoebe and Cole are my favorite couple so this story may be a little P/C, but I'm going to try to make it less... maybe. I'll probably do whatever you, the readers, want. So review! And enjoy!

Prologue

Phoebe sighed, tripping over the pair of black heels she had dropped onto the floor at one in the morning. Paige had raked her into being a date for a lawyer. She had gone to the benefit, planning to be courteous and stunning in her new black dress. However, after Robert, her date, had tried to drunkenly kiss her late in the evening she had went home, in tears, with her ex-husband.

Phoebe picked up notes from both of her sisters from underneath the fruit bowl, where all notes were left.

Phoebe,
How was the date? Good I hope!
Love,
Paige

Brushing some brown hair back from her face, she threw the note in the trash. No Paige, she thought. The date went horribly - and that was before he tried to French me.

Phoebs,
Don't forget to pick up the dry-cleaning. You came home late. I'm at the club.
Love,
Piper

She had to smile. The note was pure Piper - rational and to the point.

Phoebe sighed, getting herself a glass of orange juice and swallowing it all in one gulp. Today was going to be a long day. Not only would she have to tell Paige that she had most likely lost her valuable lawyer, but she would have to swallow her pride and thank her ex-husband.

Checking herself once more in Piper's full length mirror, she twirled around. The skirt was past her knee and white. She wore a light pink halter top and simple white flip-flops. Her hair, curled from the night before, was spruced up by her putting two shimmery pink hair clips on either side of her head by diagonal from her temples. She smiled, grabbing her purse and keys. She looked, for the first time in weeks, put together.

Phoebe drove humming along to her favorite tunes and trying to ignore her reasons for coming downtown. However, apprehension seized her as she pulled into the parking lot beside the law firm of Jackman, Carter, and Kline.

I'm here to see Cole Turner, please, Phoebe asked politely of his tall, red haired secretary.

Name please, she asked, never looking up from the document she was typing.

Phoebe Halliwell.

He'll be with you in a moment, she said, taking a few more keystrokes before looking up to smile at Phoebe. Phoebe returned the smile and sat down in one of the three chairs opposite her desk.

The woman pressed the intercom button on her telephone. Phoebe Halliwell to see you.

Cole groaned, quite loudly. Send her in please, Sheryl.

Sheryl laughed and opened the door for Phoebe.

Hello Phoebe, Cole greeted his ex-wife with more than a hint of distaste.

Phoebe said quietly, inspecting her toes for a moment before looking up. Cole was surrounded by mounds and mounds of paperwork. That seemed like a safe subject. So... how's work?

Cole glanced up, annoyed. Fine. You?

The brunette blushed. she admitted.

The scene was strange, ole was sitting at his desk, slumped, in an effort to quite literally sink into his paperwork. While Phoebe stood in front of his desk, looking shorter than usual in her flip-flops, with her feet pointed inwards. She held her hot pink purse in front of her, clutching it with both hands.

Do you need something? Or have you just come to stare at the ex-husband? Cole asked angrily, looking up.

Phoebe laughed nervously. Um... I came... I just...

Cole snapped.

I came to thank you, Phoebe let out the words ina whoosh. Thank you for driving me home last night.

Cole relaxed considerably and leaned back in his chair. I don't know why you were with him anyway. He's sleazy.

Phoebe wriggled her nose in distaste. Don't I know it. It was a favor for Paige.

Cole opened his mouth to speak as Sheryl's voice filled the office. Your eleven o'clock is here.

Cole replied to his secretary.

I'll see you around, Phoebe said.

Cole replied quietly.

And Phoebe left.

A/N: Thought I'd mention. In my story Wyatt, Piper and Leo's son, is four (meaning that he was born while Prue was alive...). Also Paige kept her job (never left it) and Phoebe had a short stint as a secretary, but soon got fired for an abundance of unexplained absences.