A slender young woman paced the room between the couches set up in the home of the Halliwell sisters.
"Well?!" Prue said with impatience.
"Well what? We can't do a hole lot." Piper said with remorse
"Piper's right, we don't know what we're up against."
"The book . . . "
"Wont help us, Prue, I looked already. What about the elders?" Phoebe looked at Piper with the question.
"I don't know, wouldn't hurt to ask." She replied " Just one moment and I'll yell for Leo." Piper got up and went into the kitchen. Coming back with some odd looking roots, leaves and a candle, she placed them on the table and lit the candle.
"What are you doing, Piper?" Phoebe asked as Piper began to crumble the leaves.
"Getting ready." She answered
"To call Leo? You don't need that stuff, just yell."
"No, For later."
"Later? What's happening later?"
"LEO!"
"Ouch. My ears are, thanks to you, ringing."
"Sorry"
"Sorry for what?" Leo, materializing, walking across the room toward Piper, asked.
"Sorry for blowing Phoebe's hearing out the window," She smiled sweetly "we need help."
"Hi, to you too. The elders don't have much to say about it. I took the liberty of asking on your behalf."
"That leaves us back at square one!" Prue threw up her hands. "Well we can't just sit and wait for it to hit us! We need a plan and we need to act. " The room rattled, just as a slight breeze stirred the curtains.
"Company? Now?" Piper asked, just as the far wall started to blur and a dark male figure appeared in
the room.
"A Family gathering? And I wasn't invited!" He mocked a wounded face and posed as if someone had shot
him.
"I'm insulted!" Piper rolled her eyes and shook her head and with dry amusement said,
"Welcome, Cole. No, it's not a family gathering, if it was you would have gotten a invitation from Phoebe." Cole grinned and strode toward Phoebe, stepping around to stand behind her as he linked his hands around her and pulled her close.
"Not that we're your family, so don't get too comfy." Prue bit out. He opened his mouth to answer, but Phoebe gave him a kiss and discouraged the reply.
"I can't take this! I'm leaving I'll be back later." Storming to the door and slamming it shut, Prue left.
"You know she'd make a great demon, they should recruit her." Cole said looking at the door.
"Give it time, Cole, she doesn't trust you a whole lot yet." Phoebe looked down at her feet and prayed what she said was true.
"No recruiting! Got that?!" Piper looked sternly at Cole, as she added "Phoebe's enough."
"Yes ma'am." He grinned "Don't you want to know why I came?" Leo who had been silent up till now asked,
"Is this got something to do about Family?"
"Yeah. You know about it?
"No, not really, I was told to expect someone, Family, that's all."
"Same. Someone who would be of importance is coming and that they were Family."
"Hello, um, hun? I'd like to be included in this conversation," Piper smiled dryly " What's going on?
Who's coming? And what about the demon on our butts?" She asked looking at Leo.
"I was told to prepare you for family, that was coming. I don't know about the demon, Cole?"
"The demon was ordered not to attack. I don't know why, It would make more sense to attack now."
"That doesn't explain much, we know someone's coming but we don't know who?" Phoebe looked at Cole
"You said they were important?" Before he could answer, loud talking could be heard from just beyond the front door. A knock sounded, then the door flew open to admit a pack of noisy girls.
"HI!" one yelled "Oooo, let me try to shimmer!" Another voice added to the racket
"Shimmer? You? Ha! You'd end up in the wall or something, Trina."
"Shove it! I'm going to try, despite the fact that your right!"
"Oh, God have mercy on the surroundings!" Another laughed. Piper looked on in shock as two girls came into the living room smiling and laughing. Phoebe glanced at Cole before saying
"Who the hell are you?" Just as the third one shimmered into the room.
"YES! I DID IT! I DID IT!" She jumped up and down then grabbed the one with the short hair and started dancing.
"Happy bunch aren't they?" Cole said. That comment got through to the tall dark haired one. She stopped dancing and faced Cole.
"Oh, I'm sorry! We should have waited at the door, shouldn't we?" Leo smiled and replied,
"I don't think that would have worked, you weren't paying too much attention to what was going on."
"Now how about telling us how you are?" Phoebe asked with raised eyebrows. At that moment Cole noticed something and commented on it.
"Hey you look like Phoebe, only with dark hair!" The tall girl smiled brightly.
"Thank- you! I've been told I have my mother's looks, but I have my Father's hair and charm! My name's Catriona, but everyone calls me Trina. This is Lila and this is Arien, or Amy."
"Cole said you look like me." Phoebe looked at Piper only to find her starting from Trina to Lila then to Amy, with a quizzical look on her face as if she was looking for something.
"Yes, he said I looked like you."
"You said you look like your mother,"
"Yes. I'm failing to see the point here."
"How can you look like your mother and look like me?" Trina gave her a look that suggested she was a few bricks short of a load.
"Phoebe, I think she's saying you are her mom," Piper said quietly
"What?.... How.....no....no, no, no.... I don't have kids." Phoebe said in denial.
"Well, not right now you don't." Trina said
"Not right now?"Phoebe said on a squeak.
"I'm from the future." Shock mirrored in Piper's face as she asked. "Can you clear something up for me?"
"Sure,"
"Who's our father?" Piper asked glancing at Leo then Cole.
"Cole Turner."
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She looked from one to the other as they slowly absorbed the news. Shock radiated from them, mostly Phoebe.
"I guess that's not what you wanted to hear, huh?" Trina looked at Piper and saw her examining Lila and Arien.
"I guess you figured out who they belong to huh? they're my cousins."
"I think they know this, Trina."
"Yeah, your probably right, but it never hurts to confirm." Piper spoke up then,
"I see a lot of you in them, Leo," He wrapped his arms around her and looked at the girls.
"Ok, now that the starting sessions over can we do something else?" Tina asked, at that Cole chucked and said,
"You're a lot like Phoebe. And no, we're not done yet. I have some questions for you. I'm only half human, and Phoebe's a charmed one, so.................."
"Which am I?"
"Yea, and does the source know about you?"
"Yes, he knows or knew, about me. And as to what I am, well . . . that's kinda hard to explain."
"Why is it hard to explain? Are you a demon, a charmed one, or nothing? What?"
"It's not that easy, the source knew about me before I was born, and so was prepared because I got all the powers. That enables me to go between the two worlds like you do, dad, but unlike you I can't be vanquished. I can and have killed but I'm not evil because . . . Well. . . I'm not exactly sure on that I'll have to ask. Like mom I help innocents and I have her powers, but at about ten times the magnitude and I get a head start because of my being able to go down and see what's going on. The source can't... or won't hurt me, and so far as I know I can't be killed. But I'm assuming, that if you chop my head off, I won't live. I'm not willing to put the theory to the test."
"So you're a mix, of both of us?"
"More like every and all crammed into one package."
"Are you legitimate?" Lila and Amy hooted with laughter at that.
"That's insulting! I'm no bustard! It raised hell but you guys managed." Came the indignant reply.
"How, when the source knew about you, did we manage to get married, let alone stay alive to have you?"
"You took precautions." Trina payed they didn't ask more on the subject, they didn't.
"How did it raise hell?"
"The Grandmas attended the wedding."
"My mother came to the wedding? Why would she do that? What would she want?" Cole said almost to himself. "If she came, it was for an ulterior motive. She had to have wanted something, the source must have sent her. Why once the source knew about your powers, didn't he destroy you? Once the full power of the source is targeted that person doesn't stand a chance."
"She said she can't be killed." Phoebe said looking dazed and yet thoughtful.
"I'm too valuable, because I have the power to help him, if he can persuade me." Trina looked straight at Cole and Phoebe. Everyone was waiting for her to continue, Piper and Leo were on the couch cuddled up together and Cole and Phoebe were still standing by the fire place with their arms around each other.
"I, we have all the powers putt together. Just in different strengths in certain areas. We each have our strengths and weaknesses with our powers." Leo frowned thoughtfully and asked,
"If you guys have all the powers of three, where are your individual powers? Why do you need three?"
"Technically we don't but we do each have gifts that the others don't. I can get nature and animals to
bend to my will, Lila can make things disappear, and be invisible, Amy can change shapes and camouflage things. So
working together works better and we're more powerful with three." Phoebe looking somewhat less shocked asked,
"What are you here for? Why did you come?" Trina glanced at Phoebe before her eye's settled on the
floor.
"We need your guy's help finding a gem and a book that went missing." Trina prayed that no one cast a truth spell, if they did she was doomed. Cole was looking at her like he knew that she was lying, then asked,
"How can we help?" Everyone looked at him astonished. Phoebe's mouth hung open.
"We, Cole? I am not committing my self before I know what I'm diving into!" Cole had released Phoebe and was walking toward Trina when she made the comment. He stopped and turned to look at her.
"Our daughter needs our help, and you're concerned about what we might get into?" He asked softy. Without giving her time to respond, he continued. "I agree we need to know what's going on, but I for one, am going to help regardless. I thought you'd do the same, obviously I was wrong." Trina opened her mouth but Phoebe beet her to it.
"Cole that's not fair! And that's not what I said! We don't even know if she's telling the truth! Looks mean nothing!" Trina looked to Piper for help. Piper saw the look Trina threw her and decided to help.
"Hello? Did you forget we're here?" They ignored Piper and continued to argue.
"We don't need proof! She's a carbon copy of us! If looks don't prove it then her personality should!"
"In most cases that would be enough, but not in ours! We have to be more careful, because we're not normal!!" Trina watched as her parents went at it, not knowing what else to do she froze them. Piper turned and said,
"Well that takes care of the shouting, but honey how is freezing them going to help? They're going to go
at it again once they come out." Trina walked over to the other couch and plopped down, before answering.
"I plan to un freeze one at a time. That should, if nothing else, prove that I'm legit." Piper walked over
and put her arms around Trina giving her a hug.
"Honey, she's not saying that she doesn't believe you just that we need to be careful." Trina hugged Piper back.
"I know that." She chuckled. "I would do the same in Mom's position. I don't blame her a bit, but it should give adequate proof that I am, whom I say I am. And hopefully putt the argument to rest." Piper nodded.
"Trina, can you show them your demon half too?" Lila who had shoved Leo to the middle of the couch so she could curl up beside him asked. Piper who had got up to go sit between Leo and Amy asked.
"You have a demon form?"
"Yeah. But I don't use it. I look too ugly in it." Amy laughed at this.
"You don't look ugly, you look like a bad Halloween costume!" She said. Lila bust out laughing, as she adding her own comment.
"I just loooove the horns!" They set off laughing again and Trina made a face at them. She turned and unfroze Phoebe. She came to, still shouting.
"We're . . . " She trailed off looking at Cole, then turned to Piper.
"Why did you freeze Cole?"
"I didn't," Piper pointed to Trina. "She did." Phoebe looked at Trina who had her arms folded.
"Is that enough proof Mom? Or you want something more?" Phoebe looked at Cole then back at Trina and said,
"Unfreeze him." Trina chuckled and shook her head.
"As you wish." With a flick of her wrist Cole came to life much the same way Phoebe did. Loudly.
"That does . . . " Phoebe marched over and planted a passionate kiss on his lips. Taken by surprise but more than willing, he kissed her back matching passion for passion. Mildly disgusted Trina interrupted.
"Sappy moment! Get a room, we don't need to see this." Trina made a face and added. " Mind you it could
be worse and . . . What the HELL am I saying?! I'm going to shut up right now!" Everyone laughed. Phoebe and
Cole sat on either side of their daughter. Trina curled into Cole while Phoebe tucked her feet up onto the couch.
"Oooo. That looks comfy, I'm putting my feet up to!" She was kicking off her shoes when they heard a
voice.
"I didn't know we had company. Well you all look at home with these people, mind introducing me?" Prue
stood at the entrance to the room leaning against the wall. Trina spoke before anyone else could.
"You must be Prue. I' ve heard about you, I'm Catriona Turner." Prue's eyes lost their warmth. Phoebe
got to her feet as Cole's arm tightened around Trina.
"Turner. Your Cole's sister then?" Prue asked icily. Cole spoke swiftly and hard.
"No, she's my daughter." Trina cringed, groaned and burred her head in his shoulder. Prue's eyes flashed fire.
"Daughter?!" Prue pushed her self away from the wall not pausing a moment in her speech. "I don't believe this! All this time you've been with Phoebe and you never once mentioned a daughter!"
"Prue . . . " Phoebe tried to reply only to be cut off.
"How can we trust you when you prove time and time again that you're untrustworthy?!"
"That's not true . . . " Piper declared.
"I should have trusted my instincts about you, you're a demon that will never change."
"People can change, Prue. He's done lots of good and helped out more that once." Leo pointed out. Phoebe's expression had gone stony through Prue's ranting. Now she spoke only to be interrupted.
"Yes ,she's Cole's....."
"She really hates you doesn't she, Dad? Do tell me what you did to piss her off so much." Cole surprised, looked at Trina and replied.
"Noth...."
"He tried to kill my sisters and me. When he failed at that, he targeted Phoebe."
"But he fell for her, did he not?"
"If one can go by what he says." Trina chuckled.
"So he fell in love with her, didn't kill her and when a demon attacked her at his apartment he risked his life to save her. When the three of you went back in time and Phoebe did the apple thing at the fair, it came out a 'C'. When you decided to go on a mind vacation with motorbike and leather guy and ended up getting accused of murdering someone, he helped track down the real killer with the scent of blood that demons can smell. "
"That doesn't cancel out that he's a demon!"
"No, but it does with the grievances of this family." Lila stated quietly.
"No, it doesn't!"
"How can one prove them selves, when not given the chance?" Amy added. Prue looked from one to the other, finding no ally she threw up her hands in disgust.
"Well?!" Prue said with impatience.
"Well what? We can't do a hole lot." Piper said with remorse
"Piper's right, we don't know what we're up against."
"The book . . . "
"Wont help us, Prue, I looked already. What about the elders?" Phoebe looked at Piper with the question.
"I don't know, wouldn't hurt to ask." She replied " Just one moment and I'll yell for Leo." Piper got up and went into the kitchen. Coming back with some odd looking roots, leaves and a candle, she placed them on the table and lit the candle.
"What are you doing, Piper?" Phoebe asked as Piper began to crumble the leaves.
"Getting ready." She answered
"To call Leo? You don't need that stuff, just yell."
"No, For later."
"Later? What's happening later?"
"LEO!"
"Ouch. My ears are, thanks to you, ringing."
"Sorry"
"Sorry for what?" Leo, materializing, walking across the room toward Piper, asked.
"Sorry for blowing Phoebe's hearing out the window," She smiled sweetly "we need help."
"Hi, to you too. The elders don't have much to say about it. I took the liberty of asking on your behalf."
"That leaves us back at square one!" Prue threw up her hands. "Well we can't just sit and wait for it to hit us! We need a plan and we need to act. " The room rattled, just as a slight breeze stirred the curtains.
"Company? Now?" Piper asked, just as the far wall started to blur and a dark male figure appeared in
the room.
"A Family gathering? And I wasn't invited!" He mocked a wounded face and posed as if someone had shot
him.
"I'm insulted!" Piper rolled her eyes and shook her head and with dry amusement said,
"Welcome, Cole. No, it's not a family gathering, if it was you would have gotten a invitation from Phoebe." Cole grinned and strode toward Phoebe, stepping around to stand behind her as he linked his hands around her and pulled her close.
"Not that we're your family, so don't get too comfy." Prue bit out. He opened his mouth to answer, but Phoebe gave him a kiss and discouraged the reply.
"I can't take this! I'm leaving I'll be back later." Storming to the door and slamming it shut, Prue left.
"You know she'd make a great demon, they should recruit her." Cole said looking at the door.
"Give it time, Cole, she doesn't trust you a whole lot yet." Phoebe looked down at her feet and prayed what she said was true.
"No recruiting! Got that?!" Piper looked sternly at Cole, as she added "Phoebe's enough."
"Yes ma'am." He grinned "Don't you want to know why I came?" Leo who had been silent up till now asked,
"Is this got something to do about Family?"
"Yeah. You know about it?
"No, not really, I was told to expect someone, Family, that's all."
"Same. Someone who would be of importance is coming and that they were Family."
"Hello, um, hun? I'd like to be included in this conversation," Piper smiled dryly " What's going on?
Who's coming? And what about the demon on our butts?" She asked looking at Leo.
"I was told to prepare you for family, that was coming. I don't know about the demon, Cole?"
"The demon was ordered not to attack. I don't know why, It would make more sense to attack now."
"That doesn't explain much, we know someone's coming but we don't know who?" Phoebe looked at Cole
"You said they were important?" Before he could answer, loud talking could be heard from just beyond the front door. A knock sounded, then the door flew open to admit a pack of noisy girls.
"HI!" one yelled "Oooo, let me try to shimmer!" Another voice added to the racket
"Shimmer? You? Ha! You'd end up in the wall or something, Trina."
"Shove it! I'm going to try, despite the fact that your right!"
"Oh, God have mercy on the surroundings!" Another laughed. Piper looked on in shock as two girls came into the living room smiling and laughing. Phoebe glanced at Cole before saying
"Who the hell are you?" Just as the third one shimmered into the room.
"YES! I DID IT! I DID IT!" She jumped up and down then grabbed the one with the short hair and started dancing.
"Happy bunch aren't they?" Cole said. That comment got through to the tall dark haired one. She stopped dancing and faced Cole.
"Oh, I'm sorry! We should have waited at the door, shouldn't we?" Leo smiled and replied,
"I don't think that would have worked, you weren't paying too much attention to what was going on."
"Now how about telling us how you are?" Phoebe asked with raised eyebrows. At that moment Cole noticed something and commented on it.
"Hey you look like Phoebe, only with dark hair!" The tall girl smiled brightly.
"Thank- you! I've been told I have my mother's looks, but I have my Father's hair and charm! My name's Catriona, but everyone calls me Trina. This is Lila and this is Arien, or Amy."
"Cole said you look like me." Phoebe looked at Piper only to find her starting from Trina to Lila then to Amy, with a quizzical look on her face as if she was looking for something.
"Yes, he said I looked like you."
"You said you look like your mother,"
"Yes. I'm failing to see the point here."
"How can you look like your mother and look like me?" Trina gave her a look that suggested she was a few bricks short of a load.
"Phoebe, I think she's saying you are her mom," Piper said quietly
"What?.... How.....no....no, no, no.... I don't have kids." Phoebe said in denial.
"Well, not right now you don't." Trina said
"Not right now?"Phoebe said on a squeak.
"I'm from the future." Shock mirrored in Piper's face as she asked. "Can you clear something up for me?"
"Sure,"
"Who's our father?" Piper asked glancing at Leo then Cole.
"Cole Turner."
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She looked from one to the other as they slowly absorbed the news. Shock radiated from them, mostly Phoebe.
"I guess that's not what you wanted to hear, huh?" Trina looked at Piper and saw her examining Lila and Arien.
"I guess you figured out who they belong to huh? they're my cousins."
"I think they know this, Trina."
"Yeah, your probably right, but it never hurts to confirm." Piper spoke up then,
"I see a lot of you in them, Leo," He wrapped his arms around her and looked at the girls.
"Ok, now that the starting sessions over can we do something else?" Tina asked, at that Cole chucked and said,
"You're a lot like Phoebe. And no, we're not done yet. I have some questions for you. I'm only half human, and Phoebe's a charmed one, so.................."
"Which am I?"
"Yea, and does the source know about you?"
"Yes, he knows or knew, about me. And as to what I am, well . . . that's kinda hard to explain."
"Why is it hard to explain? Are you a demon, a charmed one, or nothing? What?"
"It's not that easy, the source knew about me before I was born, and so was prepared because I got all the powers. That enables me to go between the two worlds like you do, dad, but unlike you I can't be vanquished. I can and have killed but I'm not evil because . . . Well. . . I'm not exactly sure on that I'll have to ask. Like mom I help innocents and I have her powers, but at about ten times the magnitude and I get a head start because of my being able to go down and see what's going on. The source can't... or won't hurt me, and so far as I know I can't be killed. But I'm assuming, that if you chop my head off, I won't live. I'm not willing to put the theory to the test."
"So you're a mix, of both of us?"
"More like every and all crammed into one package."
"Are you legitimate?" Lila and Amy hooted with laughter at that.
"That's insulting! I'm no bustard! It raised hell but you guys managed." Came the indignant reply.
"How, when the source knew about you, did we manage to get married, let alone stay alive to have you?"
"You took precautions." Trina payed they didn't ask more on the subject, they didn't.
"How did it raise hell?"
"The Grandmas attended the wedding."
"My mother came to the wedding? Why would she do that? What would she want?" Cole said almost to himself. "If she came, it was for an ulterior motive. She had to have wanted something, the source must have sent her. Why once the source knew about your powers, didn't he destroy you? Once the full power of the source is targeted that person doesn't stand a chance."
"She said she can't be killed." Phoebe said looking dazed and yet thoughtful.
"I'm too valuable, because I have the power to help him, if he can persuade me." Trina looked straight at Cole and Phoebe. Everyone was waiting for her to continue, Piper and Leo were on the couch cuddled up together and Cole and Phoebe were still standing by the fire place with their arms around each other.
"I, we have all the powers putt together. Just in different strengths in certain areas. We each have our strengths and weaknesses with our powers." Leo frowned thoughtfully and asked,
"If you guys have all the powers of three, where are your individual powers? Why do you need three?"
"Technically we don't but we do each have gifts that the others don't. I can get nature and animals to
bend to my will, Lila can make things disappear, and be invisible, Amy can change shapes and camouflage things. So
working together works better and we're more powerful with three." Phoebe looking somewhat less shocked asked,
"What are you here for? Why did you come?" Trina glanced at Phoebe before her eye's settled on the
floor.
"We need your guy's help finding a gem and a book that went missing." Trina prayed that no one cast a truth spell, if they did she was doomed. Cole was looking at her like he knew that she was lying, then asked,
"How can we help?" Everyone looked at him astonished. Phoebe's mouth hung open.
"We, Cole? I am not committing my self before I know what I'm diving into!" Cole had released Phoebe and was walking toward Trina when she made the comment. He stopped and turned to look at her.
"Our daughter needs our help, and you're concerned about what we might get into?" He asked softy. Without giving her time to respond, he continued. "I agree we need to know what's going on, but I for one, am going to help regardless. I thought you'd do the same, obviously I was wrong." Trina opened her mouth but Phoebe beet her to it.
"Cole that's not fair! And that's not what I said! We don't even know if she's telling the truth! Looks mean nothing!" Trina looked to Piper for help. Piper saw the look Trina threw her and decided to help.
"Hello? Did you forget we're here?" They ignored Piper and continued to argue.
"We don't need proof! She's a carbon copy of us! If looks don't prove it then her personality should!"
"In most cases that would be enough, but not in ours! We have to be more careful, because we're not normal!!" Trina watched as her parents went at it, not knowing what else to do she froze them. Piper turned and said,
"Well that takes care of the shouting, but honey how is freezing them going to help? They're going to go
at it again once they come out." Trina walked over to the other couch and plopped down, before answering.
"I plan to un freeze one at a time. That should, if nothing else, prove that I'm legit." Piper walked over
and put her arms around Trina giving her a hug.
"Honey, she's not saying that she doesn't believe you just that we need to be careful." Trina hugged Piper back.
"I know that." She chuckled. "I would do the same in Mom's position. I don't blame her a bit, but it should give adequate proof that I am, whom I say I am. And hopefully putt the argument to rest." Piper nodded.
"Trina, can you show them your demon half too?" Lila who had shoved Leo to the middle of the couch so she could curl up beside him asked. Piper who had got up to go sit between Leo and Amy asked.
"You have a demon form?"
"Yeah. But I don't use it. I look too ugly in it." Amy laughed at this.
"You don't look ugly, you look like a bad Halloween costume!" She said. Lila bust out laughing, as she adding her own comment.
"I just loooove the horns!" They set off laughing again and Trina made a face at them. She turned and unfroze Phoebe. She came to, still shouting.
"We're . . . " She trailed off looking at Cole, then turned to Piper.
"Why did you freeze Cole?"
"I didn't," Piper pointed to Trina. "She did." Phoebe looked at Trina who had her arms folded.
"Is that enough proof Mom? Or you want something more?" Phoebe looked at Cole then back at Trina and said,
"Unfreeze him." Trina chuckled and shook her head.
"As you wish." With a flick of her wrist Cole came to life much the same way Phoebe did. Loudly.
"That does . . . " Phoebe marched over and planted a passionate kiss on his lips. Taken by surprise but more than willing, he kissed her back matching passion for passion. Mildly disgusted Trina interrupted.
"Sappy moment! Get a room, we don't need to see this." Trina made a face and added. " Mind you it could
be worse and . . . What the HELL am I saying?! I'm going to shut up right now!" Everyone laughed. Phoebe and
Cole sat on either side of their daughter. Trina curled into Cole while Phoebe tucked her feet up onto the couch.
"Oooo. That looks comfy, I'm putting my feet up to!" She was kicking off her shoes when they heard a
voice.
"I didn't know we had company. Well you all look at home with these people, mind introducing me?" Prue
stood at the entrance to the room leaning against the wall. Trina spoke before anyone else could.
"You must be Prue. I' ve heard about you, I'm Catriona Turner." Prue's eyes lost their warmth. Phoebe
got to her feet as Cole's arm tightened around Trina.
"Turner. Your Cole's sister then?" Prue asked icily. Cole spoke swiftly and hard.
"No, she's my daughter." Trina cringed, groaned and burred her head in his shoulder. Prue's eyes flashed fire.
"Daughter?!" Prue pushed her self away from the wall not pausing a moment in her speech. "I don't believe this! All this time you've been with Phoebe and you never once mentioned a daughter!"
"Prue . . . " Phoebe tried to reply only to be cut off.
"How can we trust you when you prove time and time again that you're untrustworthy?!"
"That's not true . . . " Piper declared.
"I should have trusted my instincts about you, you're a demon that will never change."
"People can change, Prue. He's done lots of good and helped out more that once." Leo pointed out. Phoebe's expression had gone stony through Prue's ranting. Now she spoke only to be interrupted.
"Yes ,she's Cole's....."
"She really hates you doesn't she, Dad? Do tell me what you did to piss her off so much." Cole surprised, looked at Trina and replied.
"Noth...."
"He tried to kill my sisters and me. When he failed at that, he targeted Phoebe."
"But he fell for her, did he not?"
"If one can go by what he says." Trina chuckled.
"So he fell in love with her, didn't kill her and when a demon attacked her at his apartment he risked his life to save her. When the three of you went back in time and Phoebe did the apple thing at the fair, it came out a 'C'. When you decided to go on a mind vacation with motorbike and leather guy and ended up getting accused of murdering someone, he helped track down the real killer with the scent of blood that demons can smell. "
"That doesn't cancel out that he's a demon!"
"No, but it does with the grievances of this family." Lila stated quietly.
"No, it doesn't!"
"How can one prove them selves, when not given the chance?" Amy added. Prue looked from one to the other, finding no ally she threw up her hands in disgust.