Author's Note: I've said this before but I'll say it again. Sometimes I have a tendency to rush my stories without realizing it. Let me know if you see that here. Thanks!
Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed or any of its characters. I only own my original characters.
Piper sat at the kitchen table. Her hand was clasped around a warm cup of tea. It was seven o'clock in the morning. Wyatt was fast asleep. Phoebe came downstairs looking very tired.
"Good morning." Phoebe said yawning.
"Good morning." Piper replied.
As Phoebe poured herself a glass of coffee, Paige came downstairs looking unusually energetic.
"Good morning everyone!" She said cheerfully.
"What are you so chipper about this early?" Piper said.
"I dunno. I guess I just woke up in a good mood, that's all."
Chris orbed in, looking quite worried.
"Everyone up to the Book of Shadows. Now." He ordered.
"Good morning to you too." Piper said.
"Good morning. Now, you guys need to come upstairs."
"Why?"
Chris walked out of the kitchen and jogged up the stairs. When they got to the Book of Shadows, Paige said,
"You mind explaining what's going on?"
"I got attacked by a demon." Chris said while flipping through the Book.
"Who was it?" Phoebe said.
Chris stopped flipping through the Book when he reached the Belthazar's page and said,
"This is him. This is the demon that attacked me."
Phoebe felt her heart stopped and her stomach turn over.
"You must be mistaken." She said.
"No. This is the demon."
Piper looked at Phoebe and then said,
"Are you sure, Chris?"
"Positive."
"This doesn't make any sense. We already vanquished Cole." Paige said.
"Cole? Who's Cole? We're talking about the demon Belthazar." Chris said confusedly.
"Belthazar is Cole. Cole was a half demon."
"Wait a sec. Cole as in Phoebe's Cole?"
"How many other Coles are there?" Piper said.
Phoebe sat down on a nearby chair and said,
"This cannot be happening. Not again..."
"Don't worry Phoebe. We'll figure this out." Chris said.
"First thing, we have to figure out how he got back." Piper said.
In Cole's abandoned penthouse, Cole shimmered into the living room. He looked around. The place had been vacant for a while so it was no surprise that it was a bit untidy. He was alive and well. Sure, he wasn't the Cole he was when the Charmed Ones had vanquished him. He was now known as Belthazar. It felt weird being Belthazar. It was weird to keep transforming between his human side and his demon side again. After all, he hadn't had been Belthazar in so long. How he got back was an unknown question. One minute he was dead and the next he was walking the earth. Cole didn't know how that happened and he could probably care less. He was back now and that was all that mattered.