A.N Thank you for the reviews! Really glad you like this so far, and that people have shared my frustration! This chapter is a bit angsty but I hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer I do not own Charmed.

Chapter Two

Piper smiled softly at her youngest sister as she babbled something about Henry and scuba-diving. She was so sweet, and clearly stalling so Piper shook her head.

"It was nothing, really. I just felt his presence a little bit," she said, the soft smile now for an entirely different reason as she thought about her husband and her son, who had given her the strength to trust in the two teenagers and herself just as Leo would have, "It's nothing." She waved a hand at Paige's sceptical look, about to say something about her going and enjoying her honeymoon when the front door opened and slammed shut again. "Who-"

"Piper?! Piper are you here?"

"Phoebs?" Piper frowned at the strangled cry from the middle witch and with Paige got up quickly as Phoebe came into the living room. "Phoebe what's wrong what happened?"

"God you look awful." Paige flinched slightly at the glare Phoebe sent her way, it had meant to be a light-hearted remark. "Sorry, I just mean…" She trailed off, she didn't need to be an empath to feel the anger radiating off of Phoebe right now and for some reason it was directed right at her.

"Phoebe sit down," Piper murmured as she moved forward and took her elbow gently, "Did something happen? Was it a demon?" She was silently cursing herself for not being more concerned that she hadn't been able to contact Phoebe all day, but she had just assumed she was living life out on her own. She had never even thought something terrible might've happened.

"No it wasn't a demon," Phoebe muttered, letting Piper guide her to a chair because she didn't have the strength to fight both her sisters right now. No, just Paige. "But something did happen."

"Um did I do something wrong?" Paige asked, she hadn't moved from her spot and just watched as Piper sat on the arm of Phoebe's chair rubbing her back quietly in an effort to calm her.

At the question Phoebe raised her eyes in a hard glare and Paige frowned. She could tell Phoebe had been crying, her eyes were bloodshot and her mascara streaking down her cheeks. Which was unusual because Phoebe never went out of the house looking anything but her best, and she had driven all the way over here. "You never told me."

"Told you what? Told you I was back? Well technically I'm not just Henry's scuba diving and y'know he has a full tank of oxygen and Piper needed healing and-"

"Paige, babbling," Piper murmured and she moved to gently brush a strand of Phoebe's hair over her ear, "Phoebe, sweetie, talk to us. What happened to you today? I couldn't contact you."

At the tone of Piper's voice Phoebe blinked and glanced around the room. Had Paige just said something about healing? "What happened here?" she asked quietly.

"Nothing," both sisters replied, too quickly but Phoebe just nodded a little. She couldn't focus on that, couldn't think that there had possibly been a demon attack. A vanquish.

I don't think so.

Phoebe sucked in a breath as that pain in her heart suddenly grew again and she pinched her eyes closed. She was vaguely aware of Paige moving forward and crouching in front of her, of Piper saying her name again. "It was Coop."

"Coop? Coop the cupid Coop?" Piper frowned, "What...did he hurt you?"

"Did he do something to you?" Paige's voice was firmer and Phoebe nodded a little causing her two sisters to look in shock at each other, Paige's nostrils flaring and she stood up quickly.

"I will go and get him and orb his ass back here so Piper can blow him up!"

"Paige, wait." Piper shook her head, this wasn't making any sense. What they were both thinking couldn't be possible. "Phoebe, what did Coop do exactly? Did you two get in a fight?"

"Piper I think it's pretty obvious what Phoebe is telling us he did!"

"Paige that's impossible, he's a cupid there's not a bad bone in their bodies."

"Well we've been tricked before by people we think are good but turn out to be evil!" The snort of derision from Phoebe stopped Paige in her tracks, and there was the glare again.

"Like Cole huh Paige? Like him?"

Something about the way Phoebe said his name suddenly threw up memories of four years ago.

Face the facts, Phoebe. Cole has gone back to his old ways, and I'm not the only one who thinks so. Piper thinks so too.

Screw the Power of Three.

"I wasn't even thinking of Cole because that was years ago," Paige frowned, "Phoebe-"

"You never told me," Phoebe said, "You never told me what actually happened."

"When?! What are you talking about I thought this was about Coop!" Paige cried throwing her arms in the air in frustration, "You're not making any sense!"

"Okay ladies lets just calm-"

"When I vanquished Cole!" Phoebe snapped, interrupting Piper and almost knocking her off the chair as she jumped up to face Paige, "In that alternative reality, the one Cole created and you sneezed into? You told me we vanquished him, that we came together as sisters and we vanquished him! But that's not true! You lied to me!"

Paige was too shocked to talk and her jaw hung slightly as she stared at her, frankly, pissed off big sister. The deja vue of those years ago was flooding back to her and she just shook her head slowly.

"Phoebe, stop it." Piper was standing now and she moved between the two of them. She wasn't sure she had ever seen Phoebe so angry, and certainly not at Paige. Except when she was under the influence of the Source's spawn, but, those were extenuating circumstances. "Where is this all coming from?! You said Coop-"

"I have a barrier around my heart, Piper," Phoebe spat turning the glare on her now, "That's right the Goddess of Love has a barrier and Coop thought it would be great to take me back to see my past loves to try and knock it down."

"O-kay…" See Piper had known there was a more reasonable explanation for all this. "Okay, well, I guess that sounds like a good idea." Phoebe scoffed again and Piper frowned. "Alright missy that's just enough you're acting worse than Wyatt right now." She straightened up, arms folded across her chest. "So Coop took you back, and obviously he's shown you something to do with Cole and for some reason you're blaming Paige. So tell us what the heck happened!"

So Phoebe did.

She told them everything, everything that Coop had shown her, even Dex and Anton and Jason. But it was the part about Cole that made her knees buckle slightly, Piper catching her and moving her quickly back to the chair.

"He said that our love was so strong, that we'd always be together," Phoebe cried as her shoulders heaved, "Do you remember it Paige? Do you remember what that other Phoebe said then?"

"No it was-"

"She said 'I don't think so' and she just vanquished him. It was like she didn't even care."

"Well she didn't!" Paige cried, "He made her life hell after Prue died! He stopped her seeing Piper, I told you all this!"

"You still don't get it," Phoebe shook her head and she roughly rubbed at her cheeks, "You don't understand, you never understood but I do now. That wasn't me and that wasn't Cole none of that was real!" Paige shook her head slowly and Phoebe continued. "You always said we did it together but we didn't, she did. That other Phoebe wasn't me but all this time I've just gone along thinking, 'Well it was alright because y'know we all did it together' I've never known I didn't see it happen!"

"Yeah and isn't that a good thing?!" Paige cried in disbelief, "Phoebe I cannot believe we're having the same damn argument again! It's been over three years! You cannot…you cannot still love Cole, that's just…Piper tell her she's being ridiculous!"

"I'm not being ridiculous Paige!" Phoebe snapped before Piper could speak, "I just saw something terrible and I'm trying to understand how you could keep it from me!"

"Because I didn't want to hurt you!" Paige yelled back, "And to be honest I didn't think it was a big deal! I still don't! We all wanted Cole dead, I just-" Again she threw her arms in the air in frustration. "This is crazy. You're crazy. I'm not dealing with this."

"Paige don't…" Piper sighed heavily as Paige orbed out and she looked at Phoebe. "Honey…" Phoebe shook her head before dropping it into her hands and Piper sighed again. It was going to be a long night.