Setting: Season 4, Cole's not evil and Piper and Leo are married. Got it? Good!

Chapter 1 – She's My Kind of Rain

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She's my kind of rain
Like love in a drunken sky
She's confetti falling
Down all night

She sits quietly there
Like water in a jar
Says, Baby why are you
Trembling like you are

She's My Kind of Rain by Tim McGraw

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"Please don't do this to me, not now," Cole whispered, the rain splashing down over his face and running down on her lifeless body, cradled tightly in his arms. "Don't punish me again, I can't live without her," he choked out, his own tears mixing with the rain.

Cole looked down at those brown eyes, the same ones he had started into a million times before, only this time they were empty, lacking the passion, the laughter and the anger they normally showed.

"Damn it, do something!" he cried out to nobody. There was nobody that could do anything. He was a demon, Leo would never hear his cry and both of her sisters were unaware of the danger their oldest sister had been in.

"Please, don't leave me, hold on damn it, I need you," he whispered in her unhearing ear, stroking her brown hair gently and remembering exactly when it was he fell in love with her.

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"Piper, is that you?" Cole said, stepping out in the back yard, his coat held up over his head to deflect the rain.

"Of course it is," she snapped out, trying to wipe the wetness out of her eyes with her hands, hoping the tears she had been shedding were hidden among the many raindrops that had fallen.

"It's raining you know," Cole said, reaching his girlfriend's older sister and trying to cover her up with his coat, letting himself get soaked in the process.

"Isn't Phoebe home?" Piper asked, not meeting his gaze.

"She's at work, are you going to come inside or stay out here and get soaked?" Cole said, smirking at her and trying not to notice that the white tank top she was wearing was soaked clear through.

"I'm fine Cole. I just want to be alone," Piper said, sighing softly.

Cole looked up at her face for the first time, and was surprised to see the tears in her eyes and the puffiness on her face. It was rare that Piper Halliwell would cry, and Cole put his hand on her shoulder without thinking the movement through. Her white tank to had been forgotten. "What is wrong?"

"Nothing. Why would something be wrong?" Piper asked, her voice tight and controlled even has her body shook beneath his hand.

"Piper, what is it?" Cole asked again, concern clear in his voice.

Piper looked up at his face and blinked. He felt her body crumple and he barely got his arms out before she had fallen against him, her tears coming back fast and hot as she clung to his now-soaked shirt with both hands.

Cole looked down at the woman in his arms with a feeling of helplessness. He had no idea what to do. He didn't know what was wrong with the witch or where her sisters and husband were. He gently wrapped his arms tighter around her body and was surprised to find his hand had made it's way up to her soft hair on it's own.

He stood there for what felt like an hour holding her, stroking her hair with one hand and patting her back with the other. An occasional "It's okay" and "ssshhhh now" would escape his mouth.

Finally Piper pulled away from him slightly, leaving her hands on his lower arms for support. She sniffed and looked up at his face slowly. "I'm sorry Cole," she whispered.

"What happened Piper?" he asked, leading her over to the bench under the kitchen window and sitting her down.

She busied herself with wiping her face off and pushing her soaking hair out of her face. She wouldn't meet his eyes as she spoke. "It's Leo. I don't know what to do. I am scared. I can't talk to him, I don't want to hear what he has to say," she admitted.

"What about Leo?" Cole asked, his hands were balled up in fists against his legs, but he didn't notice.

Piper stood up suddenly. "Never mind Cole. I don't know why I am telling you this. It's nothing, okay? I'm sorry about earlier, it won't happen again."

Cole reached out and grabbed her wrist, stopping her from walking away. "What is going on? I want to help. I am practically family."

Piper looked down at his hand on her wrist, she slowly closed her eyes and her tongue came out to lick the rainwater from her upper lip.

Cole gently tugged her back down onto the bench beside him. He had no idea why he wanted to help her. All he knew was that the only thing he wanted at that moment in his life was to sit next to a soaking wet, crying and beautiful Piper Halliwell and fix whatever was breaking her heart any way he knew how.