Three hours after Drake's demise, Piper checks on the boys sound asleep.
"Can't sleep?" She hears Leos voice and sees his reassuring smile and knows its time to talk. She carefully closes the door and leads Leo downstairs to tell her who exactly this 'old friend' was that helped her.
"It was Cole." the disbelief upon Leo's face mirrored hers when she had seen him earlier that day.
"In the flesh, so to speak. He - He helped me move on. He helped me believe in us enough to trigger your memory to come back to save me."
"So what is he? A demon again? A ghost?" Leo questioned, a worrying tone and look across his face.
That familiar frown she had seen many times before. She sniggered, remembering she had asked Cole those exact same questions. Although, Leo was too compassionate to call him a nightmare. Should she tell Pheobe? She was already giving up on love. Her demon ex saving her sisters life by coaching her on love might just be enough to send her to the nunnery.
Piper started thinking. The what ifs going through her mind. What if Cole hadn't had helped? Would she have had the strength to let go, to believe in Leo? Without his coaching would she have just stayed on the 'cosmic void' that he is on, to live a life without her family, without everything she has in the world. Or maybe she would have even died, leaving her boys without their mother and father. She thought herself as so lucky at this moment she held Leo so tight.
"He's stuck in a 'cosmic void' between life and death. Hard to believe huh? He helped me because he didn't want Pheobe to give up on love. He didn't want our love to die and for her to think she's destined to live life being an old spinster woman." She laughed. Although slightly worried.
"I thought for sure he'd have an ulterior motive. After all this time, he contacts us, and he wants to help? I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for it. I could have lost everything I have. It just seems a little too clean cut. It's never clean cut when that mans involved."
She remembered back to all the heartache and pain he caused. How much her sister had been through for that man was too much hurt one person can take for a lifetime.
"Are you going to tell pheobe?" Leo asked. She was asking herself that very same question.