Special thanks to Shining Azure Angel for the suggestion. It really makes sense to shake up the story a bit. Hope you all enjoy.
Chapter 6 solutions and Complications
"So how did it go?" Piper asked and Phoebe sighed. She'd barely made it to the bathroom. She supposed she should have been relieved that her sister had waited until now to ask.
"Not bad, where's Paige? If we're going to do a play by play I don't feel like doing it more than once."
"Oh…"
"Ha-ha just get her in the main room." Phoebe muttered.
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"So what you think your soul mates?" Paige asked and Phoebe shrugged.
"I don't know but it's odd like it felt real."
"Well we could find out." Piper reminded her sisters.
"Piper we didn't bring the attic or the book."
"So we write a new spell." Piper shrugged.
"Oh, well…" Phoebe thought of it and smiled.
"Times of sand," Piper began.
"Soul's once bound," Paige put in.
"Goddess's hand," Phoebe put in.
"Is this the soul mate she hath found?" Piper asked and waited.
Slowly the picture began to glow and then a light emanated from it and passed to hover over Phoebe. When it did not recede they had their answer.
"I'd say we have a match." Piper smiled at her younger sisters.
"Hmm, so now what?" Piper asked looking to her sisters.
"No," Paige looked to Piper and then to Phoebe. "You go get your bod dressed and meet Cole for a day of fun and sun."
"Hmm, sounds like a plan." Richard murmured and Paige elbowed him.
"That it does." Leo agreed orbing in even as Phoebe froze.
Phoebe felt the arm go about her neck; she couldn't call out or scream as she was dragged back into the alleyway.
"Phoebe? What is it? A premonition?"
"Yeah I…" Phoebe tried to think of an excuse. "Piper do me a favor and tell Cole I can't go out today, I don't feel well."
"Phoebe what did you see? Is it Cole?"
"No, not Cole, I just have to do something." The middle sister said and strode from the sitting room.
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Cole frowned as he listened to what Leo was saying. It sounded so like Phoebe, at east how she'd been, secretive, not that he'd minded then, usually she'd been protecting him after all but now?
Now though why would she? After all things had been going so well hadn't they? Knock, he couldn't just let this happen, he at least had to know why she was withdrawing.
"Where is she?" He asked and a little smile lit Leo's lips.
"I thought you might feel like that." He said adding. "She's in her room or was when I left to come here."
"Good." Cole said and then he was shimmering up to the laundry room on the floor where Phoebe's room was.
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Piper was rocking her son as he was whimpering over something or other when the knock sounded on the door. She called for Paige but figured that her little sister was probably with Richard.
"Who is it?" She called even as she shifted so she could peer through the peep whole.
"It's Cole!" The deep voice called and Piper opened the door, to find him standing there looking a little worried.
"Good, Leo told you then. Come on in. Phoebe's in her room."
"So she hasn't come out again?"
"No, she hasn't even eaten." Piper said and Cole nodded and strode over for the phone.
Piper was amused as Cole called room service and ordered al f Phoebe's favorite breakfast foods.
"Bribery?" The eldest sister asked and Cole turned nodding.
"I want to know what's up and so what ever works."
"Well, nice to see you haven't changed."
"I have not stopped loving her." Cole said quietly and Piper could see the truth in his intense cobalt eyes.
"Good, she deserves a little happiness."
"Yes, that she does." Cole agreed settling in with the mother and son to wait for the waiter to arrive.
TBC
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There you have it, another chapter finished. What do you think? Is it too sappy? I'm sorry this chapter was so short but the next will be longer. I'm plotting my way through it as you read this.
Crimson Nova
