Title: "Love's Picnic"
Author: Pirate Turner
Rating: G
Summary: True love isn't always a picnic.
Warnings: Het, Unconventional Pairing, Drabble
Word Count: 100
Challenge: For a Charloft LJ comm's 100 Drabbles of Summer prompt
Date Written: 16 July, 2012
Disclaimer: Piper, Prue, and Phoebe Halliwell, Cole Turner, P3, and Charmed are ᄅ & TM Spelling Entertainment and any other respective owners, none of which are the author. Everything else is ᄅ & TM the author. The author makes absolutely no profit off of this work of fan fiction, and no copyright infringement is intended.

He takes her hand and shimmers them to a lush meadow where a blanket and picnic basket await. He kisses her neck. Despite her smile, she protests, "We've got to stop meeting like this."

"When? When you tell your sisters?"

"You know I can't."

There are tears in her eyes; his thumbs brush them softly away. "And I can't stop loving you, Piper Halliwell." There's pain in his voice and eyes as he asks, "Do you really want me to?"

"No! Never! I don't know what's going to happen, Cole," she cries, clinging to him, "but please, never stop loving me!"

"I won't."

The End