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Chapter 7

Piper walked over to Pauline and shook her by the shoulders. "Pauline, what happened?"

Pauline blinked, as though waking up from a dream. "What?"

"Who was that?" Piper asked.

"I-I don't know," she lied.

"Yeah, right. How else would he know your name?" Piper released her niece and placed her hands on her hips.

Pauline slumped down to the ground.

"Demonic ex-lover?" Phoebe asked, shrugging.

"Yeah. How'd you-?" Pauline looked up at her aunt.

"I've had experience with someone like that," she replied, thinking of Cole.

"So. Did you know he was a demon?" Paige asked.

Pauline stood up and leant back against the wall. "No. Maybe he became evil after I dumped him."

"You dumped him. Why?" Phoebe asked.

"He-he was too.demanding. I couldn't put up with it any longer, you know. I doubt you could handle a demanding ex-lover-turned-demon."

"Well, we tried," Phoebe said quietly.

"Come on," Piper said, leading Pauline back into the kitchen. "Tell me why you just-just froze when you saw him."

Pauline sighed, sitting down on a chair. "When I saw him again, I-I felt as though I was in another world. A perfect world. Where I had both my parents and James and I were together. Then I felt like I had been taken away from the life I led. As though he wanted me to believe that it really was going on."

"Wow. Cole never made me feel that way, and I am glad for it," Phoebe said, taking a bite out of her unfinished waffles.

"Pheebs, Cole was hell bent on getting you back. He wouldn't try to kill you or hurt you in any way. He loved you too much to let go," Piper said.

"So anyway, guys," Paige said before her sisters started an argument, "should we hit the Book to find out more about demonic ex-lovers bent on vengeance?"

Pauline was up before anyone could object.

"Wait up!" the three sisters chorused.