Chapter VII

"Phoebe!" Cole called her softly.

"Hmm."

"What do you think our child will be?" Cole whispered, lying next to her.

"Does it matter?" Phoebe turned facing him, with a small smile formed on a corner of her lips.

"Either one would be fine by me." He lowered himself to kiss her tummy.

Running her fingers through his hair, he brought his head up to level with hers and kissed her lips softly and gently. Parted his lips from her, he looked at her and he could see a mother-to-be glow visibly on her face, and sparkles in her eyes.

"Cole," Phoebe began, "Do you think---do you think our baby will be good?"

"Phoebe, there's not a single doubt in my mind that our baby will be evil." Cole assured her warmly, "Our baby will be in the force of good."

"How do you know that for sure?"

"I just do."

Rattling the doorknob, Piper cracked opened the door, and poked her head in, "Phoebe?" She called out for her baby sister, in a low tone of voice, "Phoebe, honey? Can we talk?" No answer, "Phoebe are you in here?" Piper let herself in, and took a look around the room, no sign of Phoebe or Cole anywhere. "Phoebe where are you?" Piper yelled, rushing down to stairs to informed Paige to their missing sister.

"Paige!" Piper hollered, "Paige!"

"What Piper?" Paige peeked her head out of the refrigerator.

"Phoebe's gone." Piper panicked.

"Calm down. Where's Cole?"

"He's gone too." Piper said, "He kidnapped her!"

"Yeah," Paige sarcastically responded, "what a great way to win over her sisters trust, kidnapping their sister, oh and the love of his life."

"Where can she be Paige?"

"Piper, just chill." Paige said coolly, " Wherever she is, she's with Cole. She'll be safe.

"Paige, how the hell can you be so calm in a situation like this?"

"What situation?" She muffled, licking her fingers to wipe off the frosting off of it.

"This. Cole and Phoebe!" Piper remarked. "What happened to the girl that was so overprotected of her sister?"

"She took a chill pill, and know when to give her sister some space and so should you." Paige replied with a witty smile before taking a bit off of her cake.

"Are you serious?" Piper asked solemnly.

"As serious as I can be." Paige winkled her nose and nodded, then licked her fingers again.

"Give me that!" Piper snatched the plate of cake out of her hand.

"Hey!" Paige protested, "I was eating that."

"Not anymore." Piper wickedly stated.

"You know what would make you feel better and get your mind off of Phoebe?" She walked to Piper's side. "A hot bubbly bath! Whatcha say?" Before Piper could say a word, she answered for her. "Ok? Ok! I'll go fill up the bathtub for ya."

Back to the mountaintop, the wind was blowing violently making tall massive trees looked like as if they were swaying and about to be yanked out of their roots.

Windows banging against the wooden wall rapidly at the speed of the wind, Cole noticed it as he parted himself from Phoebe and walked to the windows and tried to close it.

"The weather seemed to have taken a turn. We should get out before the wind blow us over." Cole yelled, trying to fight against the strong gust of wind.

"I don't want to go home." Phoebe stubbornly protested.

"Phoebe, you have to sooner or later. You might as well as face your problem now, and stop stretching it out for later." Cole reasoned, as he slammed the windows shut.

"It'll be there when we come back, but can we please stay in a hotel for the night?" Phoebe asked looking down.

"Alright, only tonight!" Cole agreed. "But first thing tomorrow morning, we will go home and face your sisters."

"Does it have to be first thing in the morning?" Phoebe whined like a little kid.

Cole shot a glare at her, and then nodded without another word.

"Good. That's my girl." He walked over to her and brought her into a warm embrace, and then them shimmered off.