I do not own any of the Charmed characters etc. etc. yada yada yada. Wish I owned Cole but that's a different matter entirely. Hope you enjoy, this is my first fanfiction ever so if its rubbish feel free to not tell me, if its good then please…review.

Have a nice day.

When Goodbye isn't the End

'The outfit is perfect, and you know it. So get your coat and walk out that door to go on a date with the man of your dreams.'

Phoebe smiled as she twirled in front of the full length mirror. She could see that what Piper was saying was true, she did look good and hopefully Matt would think so to.

But underneath it all she simply couldn't get Cole out of her head. He was all she thought about and she knew that going on this date with Matt was probably not going to help with that situation but she was determined to try. After all if Cole couldn't be bothered to try and get in contact with her then why should she waste her energy on him?

'Okay, I'm finally ready and I've kept him waiting for the obligatory 10 minutes. So far a good nights work.'

'Actually its been 20 minutes and Matt's starting to look suicidally bored.'

Phoebe picked up her purse from the bed and walked out of the room. Piper followed closing the door after her.

As Phoebe reached the bottom step he saw her. She was definitely worth the wait.

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'Hey Prue, you just missed Matt,' said Piper as Prue walked in through the front door.

'Oh darn it, and I really wanted to meet Phoebe's rebound guy! I guess I'll have to wait till next time, if there is one!'

'Don't be so harsh on her. I'd probably end up doing the same thing if I was in her situation.'

While all this had been going on Prue had managed to remove her coat, put her bag on the hall table and slouch into the sofa. She had had an incredibly hard day at Bucklands. There had been so much cataloguing to do and then she had gotten shouted at by her boss. And the worst part was he was really cute so she couldn't even hate him.

'Yeah well, I've had enough of guys for one day. Are you cooking tonight?' replied Prue.

'Uh uh, chicken and rice, not very complicated but I'm tired and complicated probably wouldn't turn out very well.'

At that moment Leo orbed in behind Piper. She turned around, not realizing he was there and let out a little yelp of surprise.

'Ok Leo sweetie, would you please make a little more noise when you do that. Something along the lines of Honey, I'm home would be nice.'

'Hey Leo, wine?' Prue said laughingly as she got up from the chair.

'I haven't got time. I came down to tell you guys there's a new demon in town. The word from the elders is that he's seriously evil and after the charmed ones!'

'What a shock, a seriously evil demon after us, I would never have expected that to happen!' retorted Prue.

'Why does this new demon want us?' asked Piper.

'The elders weren't to clear about that. They think its some kind of ritual.'

'Quick question,' said Prue. 'How do the elders actually get to be elders? I mean everytime we go to them for help they give us these vague cryptic answers. I mean do they have to train to do that cos I swear there is no way they were born that ambiguous.'

Both Piper and Leo stared at Prue with looks on their faces showing how confused they were.

'Hard day at work,' Prue said apologetically.

'They do know the name of this demon… Balcalae.'

'Okay, lets go check the Book of Shadows,' said Piper.

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'Balcalae,' read Prue 'hypnotises his victims and then uses an athame to kill them. Apparently nobody can resist this guys hypnotic powers.'

'So we find him and then attack him from behind or we come up with some way of not getting sucked in with his little mind games,' said Piper.

Prue let out a small gasp of alarm. 'You guys had better have a look at this,' she said quietly.

Leo and Piper walked over to the book of shadows and as Prue sidestepped out of the way they started to read.

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'I cannot believe it, okay you know what I just said? Well screw that, Cole would so be friends with a demon like Balcalae!' said Piper.

'Yeah. We're gonna have to tell Phoebe about this new demon, if he's after us then she's going to have to keep an eye out, be prepared but question is do we tell her about this demons relationship with Cole. It might just distract her and then she could end up dead because she wasn't able to concentrate,' replied Prue.

Piper shrugged her shoulders and closed the book. All three walked out of the attic wondering what to do.