Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed

Hello to all. I guess I should tell about this story a bit more because it might not to make any sense otherwise.

So basically this is a love story between Phoebe Halliwell and Daniel Jackson. It's an AU. Set after the Ultimate Battle and the defeat of the Ori. By the way NO COOP. There will be some interesting twists and turns and honestly I hope to make it quite long.

This is my first story so please be nice although criticism is always welcome too. Hope you'll enjoy it so read and don't forget to review.

Chapter 1

Finally after a long and dark night the dawn was coming. The mornings sun began rising in a horizon and its brightness chasing away every shadow from every dark alley or nook. It announced a new day and at the same time a never ending hope not only for a better life but also for an opportunity to actually find and explore the given chance to be happy, maybe not a whole lifetime but a few short moments is still worth it.

The morning sun suddenly disturbed a very still and still dark room. Its blinds were shut but the insistent light didn't care about it. It found a small gap between the blinds and the window and decided to announce its victory by allowing the brightness to spread around in the room, which immediately looked more refreshed with the shadows and black darkness gone.

Unfortunately its' single occupant didn't find it as refreshing as one might think. More like unbelievingly annoying. She tried with all her might to hide from that irritating ray of light but with no success. It looked as if the light had a mind on its own and its sole purpose was to wake the room's occupant. Finally after what seemed like hours the room's occupant seemed to have given up fighting with those annoying rays of sun and admitted her defeat by opening her bleary eyes. She knew she had to get up, take a shower, maybe have a light breakfast and still have just enough time to head to work without being late. So maybe it was a shadowed room or the reason she awoke alone in her bed but all of sudden everything seemed totally pointless. In that one moment she just felt utterly and completely alone.

The rational part of her brain understood that it was not true. She had great family, lots of friends, she shouldn't feel like that. Her sisters, nieces, nephews filled her life. She should be happy. Life was good. Everyone she cares about was healthy, she was a successful advice columnist, she had a great apartment, so then what was wrong? Why did every morning she woke up she felt so lonely? Why when she looked at families who were at the park she felt like crying? Why?

She knew why. Deep down she knew the reason why she felt all of that. And a cure for her unhappiness was quite simple too. So in this dark room sitting in her bed she stopped lying to herself for one moment. She looked deeper and deeper inside herself and found the truth. It wasn't overly shocking as everyone might have thought. Maybe the reason for it was because she knew it all along. She was lonely.

She still hadn't found her significant other; she hasn't got her daughter she saw in the vision quest. Sure, she had a wonderful family but it wasn't hers. Nieces and nephews weren't daughters and sons. She wanted someone. No, that wasn't it. She craved someone like dying man water in a desert. She wanted to have a person to go home to, to tell him about her day, confine her secrets, desires, hopes, sorrows, worries. She couldn't do it to her sisters. Sure, they were extremely close, but she just couldn't burden them with her worries more than she already was. Plus they had their own problems.

So she smiled every day, acted as if her life was perfect, not letting anyone know that day by day her heart was dying little by little. After all she was an empath. She learnt how to hide her emotions pretty well by now. That's why no one could tell, that's why even she sometimes could forget.

Suddenly her gloomy thoughts were interrupted by a shrieking alarm clock. She shook her head as if it could get rid off those depressing thoughts, emotions. Slowly she got out of her bed and did her daily routine. Just before she got out of her apartment she plastered a fake smile on her face that couldn't quite reach her eyes and headed to work.

Phoebe Halliwell was finally ready to meet a new day.