After another hour that felt like years, Coop suddenly jerked his head.

"I think they're back!" He exclaimed staring at the ceiling and concentrating on something invisible.

"How so? Are you sure?"

"It's my ring, I can feel it." He squinted at the ceiling and then jumped to his feet. "I'll go check!"

"Let me know what's going on!"

Coop nodded and let the pink pulsing light swallow him up.

The living room of the manor was kind of crowded.

"Hey…"He greeted Piper but the words he wanted to say got stuck in his throat as he saw all the people he didn't know.

The suffocating feeling in his lung disappeared as he saw Phoebe sitting in one of the chairs from where she waved at him.

"Phoebe!" Coop felt like he could breathe again.

"Thank god! Well, thanks for telling me that she is alive!" He snapped at Piper who shrugged handing him his ring back wordlessly.

"Uncle Coop!" The young blond man opposite to him suddenly said, but covered his mouth immediately as the one next to him slapped his arm.

Coop widened his eyes opening and closing his mouth again.

"Uncle Coop?" Phoebe cried astonished. She looked at Coop just as baffled as he felt.

"Okay, everyone out! Shoo!" Piper ordered clapping her hands and the grown up Wyatt and Chris left with their grandmother.

"Should I ask?" Coop asked confused. He locked eyes with Phoebe.

Piper shook her head. "Absolutely not! So, what are we going to do, now?"

"Who were they?" Coop whispered to Paige who sat nearest to him.

"Oh, you know just Wyatt and Chris and our mum." She whispered back and Coop was totally speechless now.

At the same time their grams said: "We get to the book of course!"

She stepped next to the sisters and they orbed out.

"But…" Coop groaned, then followed them to the condo.

"Is that all the explanation I get after all?" He placed his hands on his hips, determined not to leave without an answer.

Phoebe grabbed his hand and pulled him into her bedroom.

Piper and her grandmother shared a look. They had always understood each other without any words.

Phoebe drew a deep breath, she didn't know what to think, what to feel, let alone what to do.

"Listen I don't know what you want me to do now with all this! This is too much! What are you expecting?" The words just tumbled out of her in a rush. Coop put his hands on her shoulders to keep her still.

"Hey, hey Phoebe calm down! It's okay, I don't expect anything right now, okay?"

"I should be out there helping them, lives are at stake here!"

Coop held her shoulders." No wait! There's one thing, our love seems to be at stake here too right now and I want you to know that I am not letting this get away from us, because I love you Phoebe Halliwell with all my being! I found love for thousands of people, but never for myself, not until I met you!"

"I…" She took his hands into hers. "We haven't even been out on a date yet!"

"Don't worry!" Coop cradled her cheek in his palm. "I just know that we will be fine!"

Phoebe smiled a little. "Apparently. Uncle Coop." Hope grabbed hold of Phoebe, in a time where she almost lost it, she now had a little assurance that everything would fall into place. Even though the future could always change, there was a small chance that they'd work it out, despite all their problems.

He chuckled. "Yeah."

"Phoebe!" Piper called.

"Now go!"

"I'll call you when we need the ring again."

Coop watched her leaving and felt somehow satisfied.

All of a sudden he felt a presence behind him, but before he could even turn around the demon grabbed his wrist. "Nice ring!"

Coop struggled to get free, but the demon was strong. "Can I borrow it?"

The next thing he knew was the pain in his back as the demon hurled him against a wall in the Magic Scholl.

"Ah!" He tried to get up as soon as possible, but the pain seized his whole body.

"Are you going to hand it over yourself?"

Coop clenched his teeth, gasping. He threw a malicious glare at the demon above him. "Never!"

He wanted to vanish, but his adversary threw him against the opposite wall with a gesture of his hand.

"Not so quick, cupid!" He sneered.

A deep groan escaped Coop as the air was pushed out of his lungs. Bones cracked and he felt something warm and wet on the side of his head.

The room spun around while Coop struggled to become master of his senses again. His heartbeat was too loud in his ears and he couldn't concentrate anymore.

Dumain approached and the cupido cried out in pain as the demon twisted his arm. "Did that hurt?"

"Stop playing around! We have no time for this! Get the ring!" Christy ordered entering the room.

Coop tried to make a fist, but Dumain's grip on his wrist was too harsh. "Thank you!" He said sarcastically as he practically ripped the ring of his finger.

"How does it work?" Christy asked but Coop didn't answer. "How does it work?" She yelled and burned his shoulder with a fireball.

"Argh!" The smell of burnt flesh stung his nose and the pain was excruciating, it was everywhere and Coop couldn't think of anything else. His blood was pumping loudly in his ears. Sickness was building in his stomach, so he screwed his eyes shut and clenched his teeth to fight against throwing up and losing consciousness.

His muscles trembled uncontrollably.

"He is a cupido so I guess it works with…"Dumain wrinkled his nose in disgust. "…love."

"Shan't we get rid of him first?" Christy asked, forming a fireball between her hands.

Coop tried to keep his ragged breathing under control but his body practically screamed at him every time he wanted to move. He kept his eyes screwed shut to endure the pain.

Was this the end?

His muscles were clenched even though his ordered them to move, they didn't. His head was pulsing and the wet liquid travelled down his cheek. The smell of iron filled the air around his fogged mind. Another wave of nausea rolled over him.

He knew he had to move if he didn't want to die, but he couldn't.

The sound of crackling flames filled the air.

Just as Christy wanted to set him on fire it felt like fingers were grabbing him and pulling him away.

There is still more to come.=)

I hope you liked it so far, I know it's only following the storyline,

but I needed something to cure a so called 'writers blockade'

and I liked to give Phoebe and Coop more thought,

especially their thoughts and feelings.