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Chapter 4
"Family pictures"
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"Cole!! Cole!!" Alex shouted from the living room.
Cole ran out of the kitchen and asked in a worry tone: "What?? What is it?"
"I... I... I think someone needs a diaper change here!" She said, pointing at Prue who she had been playing with on the couch while Cole was preparing the baby's bottle.
"Okay, all her stuffs are in the bathroom." Cole said.
"No, I think you misunderstood, I'm not going to change her, you do that." Alex refused.
"I can't, firstly because I'm preparing her bottle and secondly because I don't know how to do it." Cole said.
"And of course, you think I know how to do it?" Alex asked.
"Of course, you're a woman, those things are natural for you." Cole said.
"I am a demon, not a babysitter and I don't know how to do it either, besides you're the one who accepted this baby in our house, so you do the dirty work." She said as she got up and picked Prue in her arms to give her to Cole.
"Have fun." Alex told him as she was patting his shoulder with a smile.
Cole sighed and walked in the bathroom with Prue.
"Okay, I wish you could talk and tell me how to do this." Cole said and it made Prue laugh.
Cole smiled at her and asked her: "You think it's funny?"
The little girl laughed even more and Cole started to tickle her.
"Let's go now." Cole said as he took a new diaper and looked at it.
He sighed one more time and said: "First I think we have to take away the old one."
He started to undress Prue and he stopped breathing till he had put the old diaper in the dustbin.
He continued his business while playing with Prue, smiling and talking to her.
"Now we need something to clean..." He stopped and looked at the bag that Phoebe had given him, it was full of baby stuffs.
"Don't they have a manual for this?" Cole asked Prue, who as every time Cole was talking to her was laughing.
Cole smiled and shook his head. He took all the things, which looked useful to clean a baby bottom and used everything on Prue.
About 30 minutes later, Cole finally went out of the bathroom with Prue in his arms and a triumphal smile.
"So, how was it?" Alex asked with a smile.
"I think Prue and I are a great team." He replied with a smile.
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Later that day, it was time for little Prue to get some rest. Cole was rocking her in his arms but instead of falling asleep, the little girl was crying loudly.
"Can't we do anything about that?" Alex asked.
"I don't know what to do Alex, I never had kids before." Cole replied.
"Did you change her diaper?" She asked.
"Yeah, I did it a couples of minutes ago." Cole replied, still rocking the baby.
In fact they were more like yelling at each other than talking because of Prue's cries.
"Maybe she just wants her Mommy." Alex guessed.
"Do you think we should call Phoebe?" Cole asked.
"Nope, we'll get through this together bro." She replied with a smile.
"Okay, let's think about it... If I were a baby..." Alex started.
"You are a baby." Cole told her to tease her.
"Shut up Cole." She told him.
Cole gave her a look and she knew what it meant.
"Sorry, let's try this again", she said sarcastically, "Cole, my dear brother that I love so much would you mind, please being quiet while I talk?", she asked rolling her eyes, she hated when he was bothering her about the way she conduced herself.
"So, if I were a baby... maybe I'd like... to... eat! Yeah, did she eat?" Alex asked.
"Yeah, genius, a whole bottle." Cole replied sarcastically.
"Ha-ha", she said sarcastically as well.
"Maybe she's hungry again. Let's go in the kitchen and give her another bottle." Alex stated.
"Is that the best you got?", he asked appealing at her lack of ideas.
"Do you have a better idea?", she challenged.
"Ok, let's do as you say", Cole nodded and they both shimmered in the kitchen.
Suddenly, Prue stopped crying.
"Wow. What did you do?" Alex asked amazed.
"Nothing." Cole said as Prue started crying again.
"It's weird, she stopped crying for a couple of seconds", she said. She hadn't got what had made the baby stop crying.
"Yeah, what could have been that?", he asked while Alex fixed the bottle. Cole was rambling around the kitchen, still holding Prue and suddenly Alex noticed he was about to slip with something's wrapping paper.
"Watch out!", she yelled, when he reacted it was already too late, he had slipped and about to fall with Prue, so his only reaction was to shimmer out, then he shimmered back in right next to Alex. Prue stopped crying again. She noticed. "Did you notice that?", she asked with a 'are you thinking the same I'm thinking?' look.
"What?", he asked and Prue started crying again.
"You shimmered", she said
Cole sighed, "Look if this is one of you stupid theories-", he started
"No, you don't get it. You shimmered and she..., shimmer again", she asked
"Why?", he refused trying to calm Prue
"Just do it!", she yelled and he did as he was told. Prue didn't cry for that moment.
"She likes shimmering! She likes shimmering!" Alex shouted happily.
"What?" Cole asked.
"Yeah, when you shimmered, she stopped crying. Come on, do it again." Alex said.
Cole shimmered back in the living room and Prue stopped crying.
"I told you." Alex shouted from the kitchen.
"Thank God I'm going to have some sleep." She added, "I had a tough day, you know".
Cole shimmered back in the kitchen next to his sister and said: "Hold on, when am I going to sleep?"
Alex nodded and patted Cole's shoulder and she said: "That's hard for you buddy... Good luck." And with that, she shimmered in her room.
"We'll get through this together bro." Cole sarcastically said imitating Alex's voice.
"I heard that." Alex shouted from her room.
Cole sighed and looked at Prue.
"So, where do you want to go?" He asked her but she started crying again.
"Alright, alright, we'll just go..." He said before shimmering away.
Cole shimmered all night from places to places, from Japan to England, from New York to Sydney. He remembered when Phoebe was asking him to shimmer at the other side of the world for the weekend or because she wanted to go shopping in a different country. He remembered this little spot in the South of France; that was the day when Phoebe and Paige switched bodies. Phoebe was exhausting because of their intensive training and Cole wanted to spend some time alone with her, away from the manor and from her sisters. He had joined her in the park where she was having lunch with her sisters and Leo and then they had shimmered to this nice place. He decided to shimmer to this spot with Prue, he sat down on the beach with her in his arms and remembered the good time he had there with Phoebe, the good old times.
"I wish that your Mommy and I could be together again, we could be shimmering right here again, maybe we could have a nice little baby like you and spend the weekend here." Cole said.
"And of course the jackass of your father, Jonathan wouldn't be in her life." He added.
She giggled. "Ok, but don't tell your mom the jackass part or Alex for that matter", he said and she smiled. "Good girl"
And he continued, "But you know, I like you baby, even if you're crying, I like you, you brought joy in my life, I wish you could stay with me for a long time." He told her.
He noticed that she wasn't crying anymore, in fact she was falling asleep. Cole smiled and stayed on the beach for some hours, thinking about Phoebe, remembering the past and thinking about what could have been their life together.
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Phoebe was standing in the door waiting for someone to open the door to her; it was really early but she had to see how Prue was doing with Cole; she missed her already, it had been a whole night apart and she missed her and she really needed to know how Cole was dealing with her, if her baby was okay, if the person she cared the most in her life was happy and safe. Phoebe sighed and looked at her watch and when she was about to ring the doorbell again, her jaw dropped when she realised who had opened the door.
"Morning!!", Alex said cheerfully, wearing a black mini-skirt, a red top and boots. She already was all dressed up to her first day at College. Yeah, she had finally decided to try in the Accounting school of the University of San Francisco. She thought it could be fun with all the numbers and maths.
"Morning", Phoebe replied in a kinda cold tone. There was something bothering her, oh yeah, Cole's new 20-years-old girlfriend was the person who had opened the door.
'Stop it Phoebe. You don't have to get mad for that. He's moved on, just like you. You have to accept it', she thought.
"Where's Prue?", she coldly asked
"Oh the baby? She's sleeping in the bedroom with Cole", Alex informed; Phoebe just nodded.
'At least you're not the one being in the bedroom with him, having fun with him...' Phoebe thought.
"Would you mind holding on for a sec? I gotta go to check something in the kitchen", she asked
"Sure", Phoebe just said.
"Be right back", she said.
Phoebe just stayed there looking around the place; nothing had changed since she had lived there.
"Would you like some coffee or something to eat?", Alex asked from the kitchen
"No, thank you, I'm fine", she replied politely.
She then carefully opened the door of the main bedroom.
She couldn't help but smile when she saw Prue in Cole's arms, they were really cute together. The scene which was taking place in front of her was looking like a perfect family picture, it was like they were both fitting perfectly, as if the were meant to be together. Phoebe knew that they were meant to be together, to live together since Cole was Prue's father. For a moment she pictured herself slipping in bed next to them, kissing Cole on the lips and Prue on the cheek as if they were a perfect little happy family. Phoebe snapped out of her thoughts when she noticed that Prue was awake. The little girl was looking at her Mommy and giggling. Phoebe didn't want her daughter to wake Cole so she walked towards the bed. She was about to take Prue in her arms when Cole shimmered in her back and threatened her by pressing an athame on her neck.
"I wouldn't move if I were you." He said.
"Cole it's me, Phoebe." She said.
He let her go and said: "I'm sorry... I didn't know."
Phoebe smiled and said: "It's okay, I see you're protecting her very well."
"That's my job." Cole said, by saying that made him realise that it was more than just a job, he was enjoying to watch Prue. He was really happy to have a kid in his life even if it was just for some days, he couldn't wait till the day when Alex would be a Mom, he'll be the real nice Uncle Cole, right now, he was just Mom's old friend or something close to that. He smiled to himself thinking that Alex wouldn't be a Mom before 5 years, that if she kept living as a human, cause if she chose to live at the demon's time, he would have to wait for at least fifty years or so to be an uncle, but it didn't matter, he was looking forward for this day.
Phoebe couldn't help but noticed that he was only wearing a boxer, it brought back some old memories of the two of them waking up together... Once again, she snapped out of her thoughts and took Prue in her arms and kissed her on the cheek.
'Daddy looks so hot like this baby.' She thought.
'Stop it.' She ordered herself.
"Back", Alex said a little cheerfully, interrupting Phoebe's thoughts.
Alex really was excited and she noticed everyone was on the bedroom,
"Hey I see we have a little party here", she said with a little sarcasm.
"Hey", Cole said with a smile, "I see you're ready to start the day"
"Oh yeah", she nodded and came closer to Cole.
"It's my first day, I'm pretty nervous", she said
"You'll be fine, because you're great", he said
"Ok, I gotta go, wish me luck", she said. He hugged her and kissed her on the cheek.
'Yeah Cole, kiss her good luck so I'll throw up', Phoebe thought. It bothered her A LOT, the fact that Cole seemed happy and that he was showing his love to this kiddo.
"Good luck", he said.
Alex came to the baby gave her a kiss on the forehead, thing Phoebe didn't really like, then she smiled at Phoebe.
"Bye, have fun!", she said as she left.
"Cole... ah... can I ask you something?", Phoebe said
"Yeah, sure what is it?"; he replied
"What she meant by first day?", she asked curiously
"She's starting in the Accounting school today", he replied
"Oh... and... just out of curiosity, how old is she? Like 20?", she tried
"Actually 18" Cole replied as he got in the bathroom.
Phoebe's jaw dropped, she couldn't believe it, only 18 and she was almost 30... Maybe that's why he's with her, cause she's younger and well, youth did have its benefices, oh god she felt so old in that moment; in the other hand all this was so sick, Cole was such a pervert before Phoebe's eyes in that moment, cause he could be Alex's great great great and only god knew how many great's grand father, but then she thought he's a guy after all, and guys are just after a nice butt and pretty face; maybe it was that she wasn't attractive to him anymore... then she thought
'I haven't worked out since I gave birth', she almost screamed mentally.
She had almost recovered her original shape but she still had a few extra pounds,
'Oh my god, I'm fat and she... well she's 18 and her body is perfect', she said to herself.
'But then again I'm like this cause I had his baby. You didn't have his baby', she thought proudly and then replied to herself, 'But Cole doesn't know that, genius', she reproached herself.
'For him you're just a fat single mother', she sighed, 'Not hot, not sexy, no attractive and not young anymore'.
'Phoebe, why do you care what he thinks about you anyway?', she argued mentally.
Then little Prue started crying again, Phoebe rocked her and kissed her on the cheek.
"That's okay baby, everything is fine, Mommy is here." Phoebe whispered softly to her daughter's ear.
"Did you know that she likes shimmering?" Cole asked as he got back in the bedroom all dressed.
"She does?" Phoebe asked. "Why would she?", she added,
'Besides the fact she's a demon herself, that she's your daughter or that I love shimmering with you?', she thought.
"Yeah, yesterday night, after the bottle, the diaper change and the big cuddle in front of TV, it was time to go to bed and she started crying. We noticed that she stopped crying only when I was shimmering with her", Cole explained
"We?", she asked
"Yeah, Alex and me, we were taking care of her", he replied.
'Bitch', she thought.
"So I shimmered all night from places to places until she fell asleep." Cole explained.
'From places to places, that's good, it means you didn't sleep with that 'younger than me' bitch.' Phoebe thought.
Phoebe smiled and asked: "Where were you when she fell asleep?"
Cole was a little embarrassed by the question and Phoebe noticed it.
"In a little spot in South of France." He told her.
Phoebe knew exactly which place he was talking about.
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After a long day at work and before coming back to the manor, Phoebe decided to stop by the penthouse to spend some time with her daughter. When she knocked on the door, she was surprised not to find Alex opening the door. Cole was standing in front of her, with Prue in his arms.
"Hi." Cole said.
"Hi guys." Phoebe replied, kissing Prue on the cheek.
"Come in." Cole said as he closed the down behind her.
Phoebe smiled and walked in the living room where the TV was on.
"I just wanted to spend some time with Prue. I hope I'm not bothering you." She said.
"No, you're not, besides, Alex isn't back from college yet, I'm just watching TV with Prue." Cole explained.
"Here, you'll be better in your Mommy's arms." Cole said as he handed Prue to Phoebe who smiled at him.
They both sat down on the couch and watched TV, there was an odd silence between them.
Cole was looking at Phoebe with Prue, it was a beautiful scene, he could just sit there and watch it forever. She was so beautiful, and the baby was so cute, he couldn't help but keep thinking Prue could have been the daughter they would have had together, it was so hard. Once again, he remembered the little baby boy they had lost. Maybe he wouldn't have been evil, maybe the love of his parents could have saved him but he knew that it was the past and they were living in the present and in this present, Phoebe and him have nothing to share together, not even love. He just stayed there looking at her without saying a word, wishing that things could be different and that he could be holding the both of them right now, wishing that they both had a present and a future together, even if he knew perfectly that nothing will bring Phoebe back to him, it was over as they both had said.
Phoebe felt he was looking at her, she would give anything to know what he was thinking while he was staring at her.
'Maybe he's just thanking god that I'm not with him anymore since I'm a cow', she thought as she was rocking her baby, it wasn't true, she wasn't a cow but she was paranoid, she was reacting pretty emotional towards things related to her shape for two reasons, one she had been like a planet for a time while she had her baby, and she was starting to get obsessed about recovering her original shape, and two, the fact that Cole looked for a 20 years old, could mean a lot of things to her and that made her feel bad. What she didn't know was that Cole was thinking about the very same thing than she was thinking about. Deep in her heart, she wanted to tell him the truth, to tell him that he was Prue's father. She wanted to be back with him again, to have a family with him, their family. The problem was that her mind was telling her not to tell him to truth because it would make things too hard for her and maybe for him. Her mind was saying that their love was impossible for a lot and a lot of reasons; she knew she was going to keep living with her daughter and Jonathan and nothing more. But deep inside, she was still hoping that she could have a family with Cole.
All of the sudden Alex arrives home and she just enters and then shut the door. She was really pissed for something. She didn't greet; she didn't say anything. Cole noticed this, and asked.
"Hello Alex, what's going on?", he asked curious
"I hate you!", she yelled, "I hate everyone!!", she shouted and locked herself in her room. She had become a furious. Cole sighed, 'what the hell?', he questioned himself.
Phoebe saw this with wide eyes, 'this girl is nuts', she thought. "What's going on with her?", she asked him
"I don't know, maybe I should talk to her", he replied and then they heard her throwing stuff around her room, "Later", he added with a nod.
Phoebe felt out of place, this was couple's issue, or at least she thought.
"I think I better go", she stated, "I'll step by in the morning, is that ok?", she asked
"Yes, sure, feel free to come whenever you want", he assured with a smile.
"Ok, Thank you. Good night baby", Phoebe kissed Prue on the forehead and left, "Good night".
"Good night, Phoebe", he said as she closed the door.
It was so hard for the both of them. For Phoebe because the last thing she wanted was to leave her daughter and for Cole because the last thing he wanted was for Phoebe to leave. He wanted to watch her and Prue more, to stay with them a little more, to see what it was like to see Phoebe playing with her daughter, smiling, talking baby talk and all those things. The truth was that seeing the both of them together as a family was hurting him because he deadly wanted to be a part of this family, he wanted to be Prue's father, not the nice Uncle Cole but somehow he was happy, he was happy becasue Phoebe was happy, because she was smiling and because she had her life back on track. She wasn't suffering because of him anymore and if she was happy that way... than he was happy as well... at least that's how he wanted to look like.
After closing the door, he stayed there with Prue in his arms, thinking about how much he still loved her. Then he remembered he had another problem in that moment, 'Alex', he thought and sighed.
"Do you want to go and find out what happened to Auntie Alex?", he asked in baby voice. She laughed, "I'll take that as a yes", he said. Auntie Alex, and how right he was, even if he didn't know it, he had just said it because Alex had proclaimed herself as Prue's cool auntie.
Cole knocked Alex's door and softly said, "Alex... Can we come in?", he asked
"Leave me alone, Go away!", she shouted. This wasn't going to be easy.
"Hey, don't be rude, come on, open up, Prue wants to talk... come on let's talk", he insisted.
"She can come in, you can't, go away!", she replied yelling and then gave up, so she opened the door.
She took Prue in her arms and closed the door again.
"Guys are all bad guys you know little baby." She told Prue and the little baby giggled.
"Come on Alex open the door." Cole said, knocking one more time.
She finally opened the door and asked: "Are you going to lecture me?"
"No, I promise", he said and she let him in.
She sat down on the bed and started to play with Prue.
"Aren't you good with your cool auntie?" she asked and the baby giggled.
Cole sat on the bed and started, "What happened?", he asked softly. Alex avoided the question.
"Alex, honey, did something happen in college today?", he insisted.
"I won't come back to that hell!", she yelled. Then she noticed she had raised her voice, "Sorry... I didn't mean to... nothing, nothing happened", she denied, she was calmer than before.
"And why were you so pissed then?", Cole persuaded
"It doesn't matter", she replied
"Trust me, talk to me", he said
"Alright", she nodded, "Today, I had this class... and the teacher...", she started to piss as she was talking about him, "He's a jerk, alright?", she said madly
"Why?", he questioned
"Because... because. He challenged me in front of a entire classroom", she told him
Cole didn't get the point, "What did he do?"
"He got mad at me cause I don't think the way he does", she said
"That's all?", Cole asked
"No, I want to kill him", she stated. "I hate him."
"What? Look I thought we had talked about this. You can not kill someone because you don't like that person", he explained
"I said I wanted to, not that I would to. I won't do it... or maybe...", she told him. Cole gave her a look and she rolled her eyes.
"Okay, I won't." She assured him.
"But is so unfair", she said. It was strange, she was furious but she wanted to cry, she didn't know why.
"Welcome to the human emotional world", he said hugging her. "You know I was going to say this to you tomorrow but maybe it won't be of any use now", he added
"What?", she asked
"Well... I was thinking in buy you your own car, so you could go to classes and you can move around, but since you're not going again I guess I'll just forget it", he explained with a smile
"I didn't say I wouldn't come back", she said, "Are you talking serious?", she asked excited
"Of course, I already selected a few models, but we'll go tomorrow so you can choose one, so you can decide the color", he said
"Really?", she said with a smile
"Yes", he nodded
"Thank you!!, thank you, thank you!!", she hugged him.
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Phoebe was driving back to the Manor from the Penthouse, she was thinking about everything; thinking about how things were at the moment. She left Prue with her own father and he didn't know it, she felt guilty, sometimes she thought about what if when Prue were older and start developing her powers she realised she had demonic powers? She would have to explain a lot of things, and she would have to tell her about her real father.
On the other hand she also was thinking about herself. She had a daughter, she had her sisters, she had Leo, she had her father, just like her other sister, mother or Grams who were a spell away, she knew they would always be there for her and oh yeah...She almost forgot, she had Jonathan. How could she forget him if she was supposed to love him? That was the problem, she didn't really love him, even if he had been there for her since a while, and he cared about her, she couldn't manage to love him, she just couldn't.
She had met Jonathan the year before, a couple of weeks after she had seen Cole the last time, that was the time when she had got pregnant, but she didn't know it yet at the moment. He was an innocent they had to save from a demon... and he found out about the secret, but he was more than grateful because they had saved his life. After that he kept around and he asked Phoebe out, at first she refused she wasn't looking for a relationship at the moment, but then she realised she needed to forget about Cole, she had to get him out of her mind somehow, so you could Jonathan was like the rebound of the moment, she felt alone and she needed someone that made her just feel something or at least not think about him, she thought that maybe get out a little would help, so she accepted. He was quite good looking, he was kind and she liked him, so they kept going out, but she wouldn't open up that much to him, they had had like 5 dates and he was the one who made an attempt to kiss her and she didn't respond the way he would expect, and they kept like that, till one day something had happened.
***** FLASHBACK*****
"Jonathan, you've been so nice with me and so gentle, so I rather to be straight with you", she started as sincere as she could.
"What do you mean?", he asked. He didn't like where this was going.
"Don't take it the wrong way but I think... it'd be better if we don't see each other anymore", she stated
"Why?", he asked
"Something big is happening in my life right now, and it wouldn't be fair if I just get you into it", she just said
"What's happening? Please, trust me... look I know I barely know you but I'm falling for you, please at least tell me what's going on?", he declared. And it was in fact true, he was falling for her, even if he would liked her to open up more to him, he was falling for her; he always felt like she had a big sorrow inside, even if she laughed sometimes he could see a lot of sadness in her eyes and he wanted to make that go away.
"I... uh... I'm pregnant,", she told him. "I just found it out a couple of days. I told my sisters yesterday and they're not talking to me since then because of it", she commented.
He didn't say a word. So she kept talking, "Look, I'm not forcing you on anything because you are not responsible for this...", how could he be responsible, when the farther they had got had been a little kiss, not even talk about sex, Phoebe had become a really closed person, "You have the right to look for someone who can actually give you everything that I can't right now".
He managed to talk, he was shocked, "What happened with the father?", he asked
"He's gone. This is just my baby and I'll look for her or him by myself", she said with courage as she put her hand on her belly.
"No, Phoebe, you won't be alone. I'll be with you", he promised her as he took her hand in his
"No... it's not fair. I'll have a baby and my life will turn outside around, and I don't want to force anyone in that", she said
"No, Phoebe. I want to be with you... look if the father is gone, it's ok I'll be the father of your baby, we can be a family", he proposed. "I love you", he said.
All she could manage to say was, "Thank you for being with me", she said with tears in her eyes.
****END OF THE FLASHBACK****
And that was the way it had been, that rebound became in that support she had there, so she didn't feel that alone even if deep down she had an emptiness that only one person could fill.
"I'm home!" Phoebe said as she entered the manor.
"Hi sweetie. How are you?" Piper asked.
"I'm good, I just stopped by the penthouse to see how Cole is dealing with Prue and sounds like things are great." She explained. "You had to see Cole and Prue playing together, it was so cute... and just the way of you know the look in their eyes as they laugh together and...-", Phoebe expressed with shine in her eyes.
"Wow", Piper said, "What the hell is that? Why are you talking like that?". Phoebe just didn't say anything, she knew she shouldn't be talking like this.
Piper came closer to Phoebe, "Phoebe, this is exactly what I was talking about when I refused about Cole watching Prue", Piper started
"But you have not idea, she's safer with him than she could be here", Phoebe said
"that's not what I mean, and you know it". Her sister confirmed. She knew her pretty well, she could see the shine and love in her eyes when she was making the description of the scene between Cole and the baby, but they had gone through this before, it wouldn't work and they knew it.
"Hey Phoebs, Jonathan is waiting for you in your room, looks like he's really suffering of withdraw." Paige said.
Phoebe didn't reply and went straight to her room.
When she opened the door, Jonathan almost jumped on her.
"I missed you so much." He told her as he started kissing her on the lips.
"Yeah, me too", she just said.
He wrapped his arms around her and started kissing her in the neck and said, "I'm glad you let the baby with this friend of yours, that'll give us more privacy. I'm not saying that I don't like her, but it's better for you and I when she's not around, you know, we can have some fun." He said.
Phoebe didn't like it, she didn't like what he said about Prue and damn it she didn't like him at all.
"Are you saying that Prue bothers you?", she asked, she had the feeling he had changed since Prue was born, it was like it bothered him that Phoebe dedicated too much time to her daughter, but that was sacred to Phoebe.
He knew he had to be very smooth and careful answering that otherwise he could screw everything. "No, baby, of course not. It's just that since she was born, you've dedicated her the most of your time, and I know she needs it, because you're her mother... but she cries and wakes you up and keeps you busy and tired and we hadn't had the chance of being together lately", he explained.
He was right in some level. "You're right", she said, "I'll try to take some time for you as well", she said.
He just kissed her on the lips. He started to kiss her on the neck, "It's been a while...", he said and started to try to take off her shirt, she knew what it meant, she knew what he wanted, and something inside of her was telling her, yelling her actually, to make it stop.
So she broke apart and just said, "Sorry, but I'm a little tired and I have some work to do, so since the baby is not with me I'll get that done", she barely said and quickly got up,
"You can stay if you want, I'll be working downstairs", she said and left the room.
She had been avoiding be with him lately and it was for some reasons. First, she didn't feel like it, she just wasn't in the mood, all she cared about was to take care of her baby. While she was pregnant it was great, because he cared about her and he took care of her, and there was chemistry, they even got to sleep together, but after she gave birth, things changed; all Phoebe cared about was Prue, besides the fact that after the birth, even if it had been months she felt linked to Cole again... since the moment she had her baby in her arms for the very first time, so tiny, so vulnerable... and when she saw her eyes, HIS same eyes, she felt all those things she thought she had put away, all those feelings she denied, all that came back in that instant, so start to act different so did Jonathan, he was like jealous of Prue because she had all of Phoebe's attention, and even if he didn't show it, she could feel it. So she found herself making up excuses to avoid to be with him, so between 'It's too soon, the doctor doesn't recommend it', 'I'm tired', 'I have work to do' or 'I have to take care of the baby', they had distance from each other and she hadn't slept with him again, and every time she thought about it made her want to puke. Maybe it was that 'they' were over, she tried to love him, but she couldn't but she was with him because he could be that father Prue needed or at least she thought, but she still had the notion that maybe she could work this out with him,
'every couple has its crisis', she told herself as she was reading a letter from a reader.
She knew it would work out because that was her destiny, that was the way it was meant to be, so she just accepted it and kept with her life.
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Chapter 4
"Family pictures"
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"Cole!! Cole!!" Alex shouted from the living room.
Cole ran out of the kitchen and asked in a worry tone: "What?? What is it?"
"I... I... I think someone needs a diaper change here!" She said, pointing at Prue who she had been playing with on the couch while Cole was preparing the baby's bottle.
"Okay, all her stuffs are in the bathroom." Cole said.
"No, I think you misunderstood, I'm not going to change her, you do that." Alex refused.
"I can't, firstly because I'm preparing her bottle and secondly because I don't know how to do it." Cole said.
"And of course, you think I know how to do it?" Alex asked.
"Of course, you're a woman, those things are natural for you." Cole said.
"I am a demon, not a babysitter and I don't know how to do it either, besides you're the one who accepted this baby in our house, so you do the dirty work." She said as she got up and picked Prue in her arms to give her to Cole.
"Have fun." Alex told him as she was patting his shoulder with a smile.
Cole sighed and walked in the bathroom with Prue.
"Okay, I wish you could talk and tell me how to do this." Cole said and it made Prue laugh.
Cole smiled at her and asked her: "You think it's funny?"
The little girl laughed even more and Cole started to tickle her.
"Let's go now." Cole said as he took a new diaper and looked at it.
He sighed one more time and said: "First I think we have to take away the old one."
He started to undress Prue and he stopped breathing till he had put the old diaper in the dustbin.
He continued his business while playing with Prue, smiling and talking to her.
"Now we need something to clean..." He stopped and looked at the bag that Phoebe had given him, it was full of baby stuffs.
"Don't they have a manual for this?" Cole asked Prue, who as every time Cole was talking to her was laughing.
Cole smiled and shook his head. He took all the things, which looked useful to clean a baby bottom and used everything on Prue.
About 30 minutes later, Cole finally went out of the bathroom with Prue in his arms and a triumphal smile.
"So, how was it?" Alex asked with a smile.
"I think Prue and I are a great team." He replied with a smile.
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Later that day, it was time for little Prue to get some rest. Cole was rocking her in his arms but instead of falling asleep, the little girl was crying loudly.
"Can't we do anything about that?" Alex asked.
"I don't know what to do Alex, I never had kids before." Cole replied.
"Did you change her diaper?" She asked.
"Yeah, I did it a couples of minutes ago." Cole replied, still rocking the baby.
In fact they were more like yelling at each other than talking because of Prue's cries.
"Maybe she just wants her Mommy." Alex guessed.
"Do you think we should call Phoebe?" Cole asked.
"Nope, we'll get through this together bro." She replied with a smile.
"Okay, let's think about it... If I were a baby..." Alex started.
"You are a baby." Cole told her to tease her.
"Shut up Cole." She told him.
Cole gave her a look and she knew what it meant.
"Sorry, let's try this again", she said sarcastically, "Cole, my dear brother that I love so much would you mind, please being quiet while I talk?", she asked rolling her eyes, she hated when he was bothering her about the way she conduced herself.
"So, if I were a baby... maybe I'd like... to... eat! Yeah, did she eat?" Alex asked.
"Yeah, genius, a whole bottle." Cole replied sarcastically.
"Ha-ha", she said sarcastically as well.
"Maybe she's hungry again. Let's go in the kitchen and give her another bottle." Alex stated.
"Is that the best you got?", he asked appealing at her lack of ideas.
"Do you have a better idea?", she challenged.
"Ok, let's do as you say", Cole nodded and they both shimmered in the kitchen.
Suddenly, Prue stopped crying.
"Wow. What did you do?" Alex asked amazed.
"Nothing." Cole said as Prue started crying again.
"It's weird, she stopped crying for a couple of seconds", she said. She hadn't got what had made the baby stop crying.
"Yeah, what could have been that?", he asked while Alex fixed the bottle. Cole was rambling around the kitchen, still holding Prue and suddenly Alex noticed he was about to slip with something's wrapping paper.
"Watch out!", she yelled, when he reacted it was already too late, he had slipped and about to fall with Prue, so his only reaction was to shimmer out, then he shimmered back in right next to Alex. Prue stopped crying again. She noticed. "Did you notice that?", she asked with a 'are you thinking the same I'm thinking?' look.
"What?", he asked and Prue started crying again.
"You shimmered", she said
Cole sighed, "Look if this is one of you stupid theories-", he started
"No, you don't get it. You shimmered and she..., shimmer again", she asked
"Why?", he refused trying to calm Prue
"Just do it!", she yelled and he did as he was told. Prue didn't cry for that moment.
"She likes shimmering! She likes shimmering!" Alex shouted happily.
"What?" Cole asked.
"Yeah, when you shimmered, she stopped crying. Come on, do it again." Alex said.
Cole shimmered back in the living room and Prue stopped crying.
"I told you." Alex shouted from the kitchen.
"Thank God I'm going to have some sleep." She added, "I had a tough day, you know".
Cole shimmered back in the kitchen next to his sister and said: "Hold on, when am I going to sleep?"
Alex nodded and patted Cole's shoulder and she said: "That's hard for you buddy... Good luck." And with that, she shimmered in her room.
"We'll get through this together bro." Cole sarcastically said imitating Alex's voice.
"I heard that." Alex shouted from her room.
Cole sighed and looked at Prue.
"So, where do you want to go?" He asked her but she started crying again.
"Alright, alright, we'll just go..." He said before shimmering away.
Cole shimmered all night from places to places, from Japan to England, from New York to Sydney. He remembered when Phoebe was asking him to shimmer at the other side of the world for the weekend or because she wanted to go shopping in a different country. He remembered this little spot in the South of France; that was the day when Phoebe and Paige switched bodies. Phoebe was exhausting because of their intensive training and Cole wanted to spend some time alone with her, away from the manor and from her sisters. He had joined her in the park where she was having lunch with her sisters and Leo and then they had shimmered to this nice place. He decided to shimmer to this spot with Prue, he sat down on the beach with her in his arms and remembered the good time he had there with Phoebe, the good old times.
"I wish that your Mommy and I could be together again, we could be shimmering right here again, maybe we could have a nice little baby like you and spend the weekend here." Cole said.
"And of course the jackass of your father, Jonathan wouldn't be in her life." He added.
She giggled. "Ok, but don't tell your mom the jackass part or Alex for that matter", he said and she smiled. "Good girl"
And he continued, "But you know, I like you baby, even if you're crying, I like you, you brought joy in my life, I wish you could stay with me for a long time." He told her.
He noticed that she wasn't crying anymore, in fact she was falling asleep. Cole smiled and stayed on the beach for some hours, thinking about Phoebe, remembering the past and thinking about what could have been their life together.
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Phoebe was standing in the door waiting for someone to open the door to her; it was really early but she had to see how Prue was doing with Cole; she missed her already, it had been a whole night apart and she missed her and she really needed to know how Cole was dealing with her, if her baby was okay, if the person she cared the most in her life was happy and safe. Phoebe sighed and looked at her watch and when she was about to ring the doorbell again, her jaw dropped when she realised who had opened the door.
"Morning!!", Alex said cheerfully, wearing a black mini-skirt, a red top and boots. She already was all dressed up to her first day at College. Yeah, she had finally decided to try in the Accounting school of the University of San Francisco. She thought it could be fun with all the numbers and maths.
"Morning", Phoebe replied in a kinda cold tone. There was something bothering her, oh yeah, Cole's new 20-years-old girlfriend was the person who had opened the door.
'Stop it Phoebe. You don't have to get mad for that. He's moved on, just like you. You have to accept it', she thought.
"Where's Prue?", she coldly asked
"Oh the baby? She's sleeping in the bedroom with Cole", Alex informed; Phoebe just nodded.
'At least you're not the one being in the bedroom with him, having fun with him...' Phoebe thought.
"Would you mind holding on for a sec? I gotta go to check something in the kitchen", she asked
"Sure", Phoebe just said.
"Be right back", she said.
Phoebe just stayed there looking around the place; nothing had changed since she had lived there.
"Would you like some coffee or something to eat?", Alex asked from the kitchen
"No, thank you, I'm fine", she replied politely.
She then carefully opened the door of the main bedroom.
She couldn't help but smile when she saw Prue in Cole's arms, they were really cute together. The scene which was taking place in front of her was looking like a perfect family picture, it was like they were both fitting perfectly, as if the were meant to be together. Phoebe knew that they were meant to be together, to live together since Cole was Prue's father. For a moment she pictured herself slipping in bed next to them, kissing Cole on the lips and Prue on the cheek as if they were a perfect little happy family. Phoebe snapped out of her thoughts when she noticed that Prue was awake. The little girl was looking at her Mommy and giggling. Phoebe didn't want her daughter to wake Cole so she walked towards the bed. She was about to take Prue in her arms when Cole shimmered in her back and threatened her by pressing an athame on her neck.
"I wouldn't move if I were you." He said.
"Cole it's me, Phoebe." She said.
He let her go and said: "I'm sorry... I didn't know."
Phoebe smiled and said: "It's okay, I see you're protecting her very well."
"That's my job." Cole said, by saying that made him realise that it was more than just a job, he was enjoying to watch Prue. He was really happy to have a kid in his life even if it was just for some days, he couldn't wait till the day when Alex would be a Mom, he'll be the real nice Uncle Cole, right now, he was just Mom's old friend or something close to that. He smiled to himself thinking that Alex wouldn't be a Mom before 5 years, that if she kept living as a human, cause if she chose to live at the demon's time, he would have to wait for at least fifty years or so to be an uncle, but it didn't matter, he was looking forward for this day.
Phoebe couldn't help but noticed that he was only wearing a boxer, it brought back some old memories of the two of them waking up together... Once again, she snapped out of her thoughts and took Prue in her arms and kissed her on the cheek.
'Daddy looks so hot like this baby.' She thought.
'Stop it.' She ordered herself.
"Back", Alex said a little cheerfully, interrupting Phoebe's thoughts.
Alex really was excited and she noticed everyone was on the bedroom,
"Hey I see we have a little party here", she said with a little sarcasm.
"Hey", Cole said with a smile, "I see you're ready to start the day"
"Oh yeah", she nodded and came closer to Cole.
"It's my first day, I'm pretty nervous", she said
"You'll be fine, because you're great", he said
"Ok, I gotta go, wish me luck", she said. He hugged her and kissed her on the cheek.
'Yeah Cole, kiss her good luck so I'll throw up', Phoebe thought. It bothered her A LOT, the fact that Cole seemed happy and that he was showing his love to this kiddo.
"Good luck", he said.
Alex came to the baby gave her a kiss on the forehead, thing Phoebe didn't really like, then she smiled at Phoebe.
"Bye, have fun!", she said as she left.
"Cole... ah... can I ask you something?", Phoebe said
"Yeah, sure what is it?"; he replied
"What she meant by first day?", she asked curiously
"She's starting in the Accounting school today", he replied
"Oh... and... just out of curiosity, how old is she? Like 20?", she tried
"Actually 18" Cole replied as he got in the bathroom.
Phoebe's jaw dropped, she couldn't believe it, only 18 and she was almost 30... Maybe that's why he's with her, cause she's younger and well, youth did have its benefices, oh god she felt so old in that moment; in the other hand all this was so sick, Cole was such a pervert before Phoebe's eyes in that moment, cause he could be Alex's great great great and only god knew how many great's grand father, but then she thought he's a guy after all, and guys are just after a nice butt and pretty face; maybe it was that she wasn't attractive to him anymore... then she thought
'I haven't worked out since I gave birth', she almost screamed mentally.
She had almost recovered her original shape but she still had a few extra pounds,
'Oh my god, I'm fat and she... well she's 18 and her body is perfect', she said to herself.
'But then again I'm like this cause I had his baby. You didn't have his baby', she thought proudly and then replied to herself, 'But Cole doesn't know that, genius', she reproached herself.
'For him you're just a fat single mother', she sighed, 'Not hot, not sexy, no attractive and not young anymore'.
'Phoebe, why do you care what he thinks about you anyway?', she argued mentally.
Then little Prue started crying again, Phoebe rocked her and kissed her on the cheek.
"That's okay baby, everything is fine, Mommy is here." Phoebe whispered softly to her daughter's ear.
"Did you know that she likes shimmering?" Cole asked as he got back in the bedroom all dressed.
"She does?" Phoebe asked. "Why would she?", she added,
'Besides the fact she's a demon herself, that she's your daughter or that I love shimmering with you?', she thought.
"Yeah, yesterday night, after the bottle, the diaper change and the big cuddle in front of TV, it was time to go to bed and she started crying. We noticed that she stopped crying only when I was shimmering with her", Cole explained
"We?", she asked
"Yeah, Alex and me, we were taking care of her", he replied.
'Bitch', she thought.
"So I shimmered all night from places to places until she fell asleep." Cole explained.
'From places to places, that's good, it means you didn't sleep with that 'younger than me' bitch.' Phoebe thought.
Phoebe smiled and asked: "Where were you when she fell asleep?"
Cole was a little embarrassed by the question and Phoebe noticed it.
"In a little spot in South of France." He told her.
Phoebe knew exactly which place he was talking about.
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After a long day at work and before coming back to the manor, Phoebe decided to stop by the penthouse to spend some time with her daughter. When she knocked on the door, she was surprised not to find Alex opening the door. Cole was standing in front of her, with Prue in his arms.
"Hi." Cole said.
"Hi guys." Phoebe replied, kissing Prue on the cheek.
"Come in." Cole said as he closed the down behind her.
Phoebe smiled and walked in the living room where the TV was on.
"I just wanted to spend some time with Prue. I hope I'm not bothering you." She said.
"No, you're not, besides, Alex isn't back from college yet, I'm just watching TV with Prue." Cole explained.
"Here, you'll be better in your Mommy's arms." Cole said as he handed Prue to Phoebe who smiled at him.
They both sat down on the couch and watched TV, there was an odd silence between them.
Cole was looking at Phoebe with Prue, it was a beautiful scene, he could just sit there and watch it forever. She was so beautiful, and the baby was so cute, he couldn't help but keep thinking Prue could have been the daughter they would have had together, it was so hard. Once again, he remembered the little baby boy they had lost. Maybe he wouldn't have been evil, maybe the love of his parents could have saved him but he knew that it was the past and they were living in the present and in this present, Phoebe and him have nothing to share together, not even love. He just stayed there looking at her without saying a word, wishing that things could be different and that he could be holding the both of them right now, wishing that they both had a present and a future together, even if he knew perfectly that nothing will bring Phoebe back to him, it was over as they both had said.
Phoebe felt he was looking at her, she would give anything to know what he was thinking while he was staring at her.
'Maybe he's just thanking god that I'm not with him anymore since I'm a cow', she thought as she was rocking her baby, it wasn't true, she wasn't a cow but she was paranoid, she was reacting pretty emotional towards things related to her shape for two reasons, one she had been like a planet for a time while she had her baby, and she was starting to get obsessed about recovering her original shape, and two, the fact that Cole looked for a 20 years old, could mean a lot of things to her and that made her feel bad. What she didn't know was that Cole was thinking about the very same thing than she was thinking about. Deep in her heart, she wanted to tell him the truth, to tell him that he was Prue's father. She wanted to be back with him again, to have a family with him, their family. The problem was that her mind was telling her not to tell him to truth because it would make things too hard for her and maybe for him. Her mind was saying that their love was impossible for a lot and a lot of reasons; she knew she was going to keep living with her daughter and Jonathan and nothing more. But deep inside, she was still hoping that she could have a family with Cole.
All of the sudden Alex arrives home and she just enters and then shut the door. She was really pissed for something. She didn't greet; she didn't say anything. Cole noticed this, and asked.
"Hello Alex, what's going on?", he asked curious
"I hate you!", she yelled, "I hate everyone!!", she shouted and locked herself in her room. She had become a furious. Cole sighed, 'what the hell?', he questioned himself.
Phoebe saw this with wide eyes, 'this girl is nuts', she thought. "What's going on with her?", she asked him
"I don't know, maybe I should talk to her", he replied and then they heard her throwing stuff around her room, "Later", he added with a nod.
Phoebe felt out of place, this was couple's issue, or at least she thought.
"I think I better go", she stated, "I'll step by in the morning, is that ok?", she asked
"Yes, sure, feel free to come whenever you want", he assured with a smile.
"Ok, Thank you. Good night baby", Phoebe kissed Prue on the forehead and left, "Good night".
"Good night, Phoebe", he said as she closed the door.
It was so hard for the both of them. For Phoebe because the last thing she wanted was to leave her daughter and for Cole because the last thing he wanted was for Phoebe to leave. He wanted to watch her and Prue more, to stay with them a little more, to see what it was like to see Phoebe playing with her daughter, smiling, talking baby talk and all those things. The truth was that seeing the both of them together as a family was hurting him because he deadly wanted to be a part of this family, he wanted to be Prue's father, not the nice Uncle Cole but somehow he was happy, he was happy becasue Phoebe was happy, because she was smiling and because she had her life back on track. She wasn't suffering because of him anymore and if she was happy that way... than he was happy as well... at least that's how he wanted to look like.
After closing the door, he stayed there with Prue in his arms, thinking about how much he still loved her. Then he remembered he had another problem in that moment, 'Alex', he thought and sighed.
"Do you want to go and find out what happened to Auntie Alex?", he asked in baby voice. She laughed, "I'll take that as a yes", he said. Auntie Alex, and how right he was, even if he didn't know it, he had just said it because Alex had proclaimed herself as Prue's cool auntie.
Cole knocked Alex's door and softly said, "Alex... Can we come in?", he asked
"Leave me alone, Go away!", she shouted. This wasn't going to be easy.
"Hey, don't be rude, come on, open up, Prue wants to talk... come on let's talk", he insisted.
"She can come in, you can't, go away!", she replied yelling and then gave up, so she opened the door.
She took Prue in her arms and closed the door again.
"Guys are all bad guys you know little baby." She told Prue and the little baby giggled.
"Come on Alex open the door." Cole said, knocking one more time.
She finally opened the door and asked: "Are you going to lecture me?"
"No, I promise", he said and she let him in.
She sat down on the bed and started to play with Prue.
"Aren't you good with your cool auntie?" she asked and the baby giggled.
Cole sat on the bed and started, "What happened?", he asked softly. Alex avoided the question.
"Alex, honey, did something happen in college today?", he insisted.
"I won't come back to that hell!", she yelled. Then she noticed she had raised her voice, "Sorry... I didn't mean to... nothing, nothing happened", she denied, she was calmer than before.
"And why were you so pissed then?", Cole persuaded
"It doesn't matter", she replied
"Trust me, talk to me", he said
"Alright", she nodded, "Today, I had this class... and the teacher...", she started to piss as she was talking about him, "He's a jerk, alright?", she said madly
"Why?", he questioned
"Because... because. He challenged me in front of a entire classroom", she told him
Cole didn't get the point, "What did he do?"
"He got mad at me cause I don't think the way he does", she said
"That's all?", Cole asked
"No, I want to kill him", she stated. "I hate him."
"What? Look I thought we had talked about this. You can not kill someone because you don't like that person", he explained
"I said I wanted to, not that I would to. I won't do it... or maybe...", she told him. Cole gave her a look and she rolled her eyes.
"Okay, I won't." She assured him.
"But is so unfair", she said. It was strange, she was furious but she wanted to cry, she didn't know why.
"Welcome to the human emotional world", he said hugging her. "You know I was going to say this to you tomorrow but maybe it won't be of any use now", he added
"What?", she asked
"Well... I was thinking in buy you your own car, so you could go to classes and you can move around, but since you're not going again I guess I'll just forget it", he explained with a smile
"I didn't say I wouldn't come back", she said, "Are you talking serious?", she asked excited
"Of course, I already selected a few models, but we'll go tomorrow so you can choose one, so you can decide the color", he said
"Really?", she said with a smile
"Yes", he nodded
"Thank you!!, thank you, thank you!!", she hugged him.
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Phoebe was driving back to the Manor from the Penthouse, she was thinking about everything; thinking about how things were at the moment. She left Prue with her own father and he didn't know it, she felt guilty, sometimes she thought about what if when Prue were older and start developing her powers she realised she had demonic powers? She would have to explain a lot of things, and she would have to tell her about her real father.
On the other hand she also was thinking about herself. She had a daughter, she had her sisters, she had Leo, she had her father, just like her other sister, mother or Grams who were a spell away, she knew they would always be there for her and oh yeah...She almost forgot, she had Jonathan. How could she forget him if she was supposed to love him? That was the problem, she didn't really love him, even if he had been there for her since a while, and he cared about her, she couldn't manage to love him, she just couldn't.
She had met Jonathan the year before, a couple of weeks after she had seen Cole the last time, that was the time when she had got pregnant, but she didn't know it yet at the moment. He was an innocent they had to save from a demon... and he found out about the secret, but he was more than grateful because they had saved his life. After that he kept around and he asked Phoebe out, at first she refused she wasn't looking for a relationship at the moment, but then she realised she needed to forget about Cole, she had to get him out of her mind somehow, so you could Jonathan was like the rebound of the moment, she felt alone and she needed someone that made her just feel something or at least not think about him, she thought that maybe get out a little would help, so she accepted. He was quite good looking, he was kind and she liked him, so they kept going out, but she wouldn't open up that much to him, they had had like 5 dates and he was the one who made an attempt to kiss her and she didn't respond the way he would expect, and they kept like that, till one day something had happened.
***** FLASHBACK*****
"Jonathan, you've been so nice with me and so gentle, so I rather to be straight with you", she started as sincere as she could.
"What do you mean?", he asked. He didn't like where this was going.
"Don't take it the wrong way but I think... it'd be better if we don't see each other anymore", she stated
"Why?", he asked
"Something big is happening in my life right now, and it wouldn't be fair if I just get you into it", she just said
"What's happening? Please, trust me... look I know I barely know you but I'm falling for you, please at least tell me what's going on?", he declared. And it was in fact true, he was falling for her, even if he would liked her to open up more to him, he was falling for her; he always felt like she had a big sorrow inside, even if she laughed sometimes he could see a lot of sadness in her eyes and he wanted to make that go away.
"I... uh... I'm pregnant,", she told him. "I just found it out a couple of days. I told my sisters yesterday and they're not talking to me since then because of it", she commented.
He didn't say a word. So she kept talking, "Look, I'm not forcing you on anything because you are not responsible for this...", how could he be responsible, when the farther they had got had been a little kiss, not even talk about sex, Phoebe had become a really closed person, "You have the right to look for someone who can actually give you everything that I can't right now".
He managed to talk, he was shocked, "What happened with the father?", he asked
"He's gone. This is just my baby and I'll look for her or him by myself", she said with courage as she put her hand on her belly.
"No, Phoebe, you won't be alone. I'll be with you", he promised her as he took her hand in his
"No... it's not fair. I'll have a baby and my life will turn outside around, and I don't want to force anyone in that", she said
"No, Phoebe. I want to be with you... look if the father is gone, it's ok I'll be the father of your baby, we can be a family", he proposed. "I love you", he said.
All she could manage to say was, "Thank you for being with me", she said with tears in her eyes.
****END OF THE FLASHBACK****
And that was the way it had been, that rebound became in that support she had there, so she didn't feel that alone even if deep down she had an emptiness that only one person could fill.
"I'm home!" Phoebe said as she entered the manor.
"Hi sweetie. How are you?" Piper asked.
"I'm good, I just stopped by the penthouse to see how Cole is dealing with Prue and sounds like things are great." She explained. "You had to see Cole and Prue playing together, it was so cute... and just the way of you know the look in their eyes as they laugh together and...-", Phoebe expressed with shine in her eyes.
"Wow", Piper said, "What the hell is that? Why are you talking like that?". Phoebe just didn't say anything, she knew she shouldn't be talking like this.
Piper came closer to Phoebe, "Phoebe, this is exactly what I was talking about when I refused about Cole watching Prue", Piper started
"But you have not idea, she's safer with him than she could be here", Phoebe said
"that's not what I mean, and you know it". Her sister confirmed. She knew her pretty well, she could see the shine and love in her eyes when she was making the description of the scene between Cole and the baby, but they had gone through this before, it wouldn't work and they knew it.
"Hey Phoebs, Jonathan is waiting for you in your room, looks like he's really suffering of withdraw." Paige said.
Phoebe didn't reply and went straight to her room.
When she opened the door, Jonathan almost jumped on her.
"I missed you so much." He told her as he started kissing her on the lips.
"Yeah, me too", she just said.
He wrapped his arms around her and started kissing her in the neck and said, "I'm glad you let the baby with this friend of yours, that'll give us more privacy. I'm not saying that I don't like her, but it's better for you and I when she's not around, you know, we can have some fun." He said.
Phoebe didn't like it, she didn't like what he said about Prue and damn it she didn't like him at all.
"Are you saying that Prue bothers you?", she asked, she had the feeling he had changed since Prue was born, it was like it bothered him that Phoebe dedicated too much time to her daughter, but that was sacred to Phoebe.
He knew he had to be very smooth and careful answering that otherwise he could screw everything. "No, baby, of course not. It's just that since she was born, you've dedicated her the most of your time, and I know she needs it, because you're her mother... but she cries and wakes you up and keeps you busy and tired and we hadn't had the chance of being together lately", he explained.
He was right in some level. "You're right", she said, "I'll try to take some time for you as well", she said.
He just kissed her on the lips. He started to kiss her on the neck, "It's been a while...", he said and started to try to take off her shirt, she knew what it meant, she knew what he wanted, and something inside of her was telling her, yelling her actually, to make it stop.
So she broke apart and just said, "Sorry, but I'm a little tired and I have some work to do, so since the baby is not with me I'll get that done", she barely said and quickly got up,
"You can stay if you want, I'll be working downstairs", she said and left the room.
She had been avoiding be with him lately and it was for some reasons. First, she didn't feel like it, she just wasn't in the mood, all she cared about was to take care of her baby. While she was pregnant it was great, because he cared about her and he took care of her, and there was chemistry, they even got to sleep together, but after she gave birth, things changed; all Phoebe cared about was Prue, besides the fact that after the birth, even if it had been months she felt linked to Cole again... since the moment she had her baby in her arms for the very first time, so tiny, so vulnerable... and when she saw her eyes, HIS same eyes, she felt all those things she thought she had put away, all those feelings she denied, all that came back in that instant, so start to act different so did Jonathan, he was like jealous of Prue because she had all of Phoebe's attention, and even if he didn't show it, she could feel it. So she found herself making up excuses to avoid to be with him, so between 'It's too soon, the doctor doesn't recommend it', 'I'm tired', 'I have work to do' or 'I have to take care of the baby', they had distance from each other and she hadn't slept with him again, and every time she thought about it made her want to puke. Maybe it was that 'they' were over, she tried to love him, but she couldn't but she was with him because he could be that father Prue needed or at least she thought, but she still had the notion that maybe she could work this out with him,
'every couple has its crisis', she told herself as she was reading a letter from a reader.
She knew it would work out because that was her destiny, that was the way it was meant to be, so she just accepted it and kept with her life.
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