From the author: Well here it is another chapter I hope it isn't to bad. I also just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has reviewed this story, it means a lot, without your encouragement I might not have been inspired to keep going, so again I thank you and hope you like this.


There are certain milestones in our lives that give us the opportunity to reflect on where we've been and to look ahead to where we're going. If you're lucky, the looking ahead is as much fun as the looking back. But not everyone is lucky. Sometimes in these moments of great promise and potential, we often wish we could simply stop time, to relish in those final moments of glory and to put off the future for just one more day. We're taught to remember only the significant moments – the rites of passage. In truth, the smallest steps that get us to these momentous occasions are just as significant. Looking back, we see it's not just the high points, but the low points that also define who we are and who we will become.

It was both the high and low points of mine and Phoebe's relationship that had lead us here to the final declaration of our love. There was to be a wedding, a real wedding this time not that farce that the first time was, a wedding that was a long time coming but one that would have to wait just a bit longer. Piper wanted us to wait until she gave birth before we had the wedding, something about not fitting into a dress, I don't know girl stuff I guess. So we waited about three or four months before we actually had the wedding which was ok with Phoebe it gave her time to plan all this stuff like flowers, dresses, cakes and other things, I never knew that declaring your love was so time consuming or expensive but what Phoebe wants Phoebe gets.

During those months while we were waiting to get married Phoebe planned our wedding I tried to help once I told her which flowers I liked best but I guess I chose the wrong ones cause Phoebe got mad at me, I don't understand this human stuff at all. It was only later that Leo explained to me that the groom doesn't get to plan the wedding they just have to stand at the alter, it doesn't matter what they want it is all about the bride. I am glad Leo knew that kind of stuff because I sure didn't. So after that anytime Phoebe asked me about something for the wedding I just said what ever you think would be best is fine, and after that everything went smoothly.

Wyatt was finally born and about a month later we decided to have the wedding. Finally the time was here I was about to go crazy with preparations and what not. So here is how it was all supposed to go according to Phoebe, the wedding was to take place in the manor with grams proceeding over the ceremonies not my choice might I add but what Phoebe wants Phoebe gets. Piper and Paige were her co-maids of honor and Leo was going to be my best man, which was ok with me, hell I didn't even really know anyone else besides Leo. She invited a few close friends who knew about magic like her dad, Victor, and Darryl and his wife and I don't really know who else was there the only thing that mattered to me was that Phoebe was going to be there.

It was a Saturday around three or so when this whole show got under way. I was waiting in my black tux in front of the windows, which was our makeshift alter so to speak, with Leo beside me and Grams in front. Then the wedding march started with Paige followed by Piper coming down the stairs, they were wearing sort of a blue color dresses, and then it was Phoebe's turn. She was breath taking in her white dress which was mostly like a wedding dress but with its own little Phoebe spin to it. It seemed like forever before she got to me and in that time I took it all in, this magnificent moment. I pondered how we had come to be, how we had been relentless in our love, how we had overcame all the odds, how our love was so strong that nothing could tear us apart, I thought about the stories that would be told of a love that turned a demon good, a love that would rival any of the greatest loves wrote about in books.

Finally Phoebe was standing beside me hand in hand ready to declare our love to the world. First Grams asked if there was anybody who objected to the marriage. I held my breath, I just knew that Phoebe's dad would have something to say he never really liked the ideal of his daughter with a demon or any man for that matter, but he didn't say anything and so the wedding went on.

I was lost through out most of the ceremony, lost in Phoebe's eyes so as to what exactly went on I don't know. When it came time to say our vows Leo had to poke me in the ribs to bring me back to Earth. We had written our own vows seeing as the others could not compare to what we had to say to each other. So I went first and this is what I said to the love of my life,

"Phoebe, our love is unconditional, we knew that from the start, I can see it in your eyes and you can feel it from my heart. From here on after let's stay the way we are right now and share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow. You will always be the miracle that makes my life complete and as long as there is a breath in me I'll make yours just as sweet. As we look into the future it's as far as we can see so let's make each tomorrow be the best that it can be. And if along the way we find a day it starts to storm you've got the promise of my love to keep you warm. So Phoebe, I cross my heart and promise to give all I got to give to make all your dreams come true. In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine." And then I repeated the words that Grams said after her, the traditional wedding vows. "I, Cole Turner, take you Phoebe Halliwell, to be my wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part."

And then it was Phoebe's turn to recite her vows and I was certainly anxious to see what she had to say. And this is what she said,

"Cole, sometimes I could stay awake forever just to hear you breathing, watch you smile while you are sleeping, while you are far away from dreaming, I could spend my life in this sweet surrender, I could stay lost in this moment forever. Cause every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure. Lying close to you feeling your heart beating and I wonder what you're dreaming, wonder if it is me you are seeing. Then I kiss your eyes and thank God we are together. I just want to hold you close, feel your heart so close to mine and just stay here in this moment for all the rest of time. Cole, I don't want to close my eyes I don't want to fall asleep cause I would miss you baby and I don't want to miss one smile, I don't want to miss one kiss, I don't want to miss a thing, I just want to be right here with you just like this forever." And then it was her turn to repeat after Grams. "I, Phoebe Halliwell, take you Cole Turner, to be my husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part."

Wow, I was impressed with Phoebe's vows to say the least and at that moment everything was right in the world well at least for me it was. Then just as I had become lost again in love, Grams voice boomed over me and she asked me something I don't even know what she asked but everybody was looking at me and I remembered what I was supposed to say when she asked and I said, "I do" followed shortly by Phoebe echoing my words, "I do." Then Grams turned us to face the audience and pronounced us man and wife and said I could now kiss the bride.

Damn I had been waiting to kiss Phoebe ever since she came down the stairs in that radiating dress and finally the time was here. I was going to seal this marriage with the deepest most passionate kiss I could muster and apparently Phoebe felt the same way, so then and there in front of everyone we kissed like we have never kissed before feeling the passion from one another and knowing that love had conquered all on this day. Then with one final statement Grams said it all, "I now present to you Mr. and Mrs. Cole Turner," finally my dreams had all come true the day was finally here and our love was sealed. As we left through the kitchen to make our way outside where the reception was to be held I have never felt so much happiness in my life, even if I was getting pelted with bird seed and who knows what else.

The reception was great of course I was still lost in the entire ritual of things like the first dance and cutting the cake and all that but I didn't care I had found what I had been searching for my whole life someone to love and someone who would love me back unconditionally. There were toast to us by Victor, Paige, and Leo but it was Piper's toast that struck me the most. This is what she said,

"Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always. A promise, like a reward for persisting through life so long alone. The belief in each other and the possibility of love, a decision, to ignore or simply rise above the pain of the past, The covenant, which at once binds two souls and yet severs prior ties. The celebration, of the chance taken, and the challenge that lies ahead, for two will always be stronger than one, like a team, braced against the tempests of the world. And love…will always be the guiding force in your lives. For tonight is mere formality…only an announcement to the world for feelings long held. Promises made long ago-in the sacred space of your hearts. To Phoebe and Cole may they share a lifetime of happiness together and may you never have to feel the pains of loneliness again."

After the toast it was time to cut the cake had I known Phoebe was going to shove it into my face I might have been a little bit more prepared but alas another thing to add to the list of human traditions I knew nothing about. But in all honesty I didn't mind it and I hope she didn't either when I rubbed it all over her face, kind of funny someone spends all that time to create a cake and you go and smear it all over each other but I sure did have a great time cleaning it off of Phoebe. After the cake it was time for our last dance before we departed on our honeymoon, a few days in a nice and quite bed and breakfast in Vermont were we could be alone away from magic for awhile. The last dance was spectacular I don't even know what song was playing but we danced, I can't explain what happened on that floor but the music played and we held each other close and we danced like no one has ever danced before out there on that hardwood floor, lost in each others arms, lost in each others eyes, swimming in each others souls, it was simply perfect.

Finally it was time to go, I shimmered me and Phoebe to Vermont and well we did what everyone I suppose does on their honeymoon those details I will spare you my sweet, there are some things you shouldn't know about your parents.

So for now I will leave you with these words of wisdom my child and know that the world you desire is out there and you can find it for on this day I found the world that I always wanted the one I only thought existed in my dream.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach, check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Remembering a time when everything was right,


Well there it was sorry if it was bad, I am not good at the wedding stuff either so hit the review button I need a little self esteem boost, just kidding. But you can leave a review if you want, until next time.