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Chapter 5
"Right behind the wall."
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With her red hair up in a ponytail, long Hello Kitty pj's and Sylvester slippers, once again Alex was the person who opened the door. She really looked like she were 10 years old, but that was her. She was still yawning, she had just got up.
"Morning", she said.
As every morning for the last 3 or 4 days Phoebe was checking up on her baby first thing in the morning. Prue had stayed with Cole longer than she thought she would, but the demon's attack were continuous those days and Phoebe was more than grateful for the fact that her most precious belonging was safe, happy and unaware of the danger of her house at the moment.
"What are you doing here?", Phoebe asked.
'So you spent the night to have fun with my man', she thought, 'Stop it, Phoebe, he's not your man anymore and you know that', another voice inside of her commanded.
"I live here", she just replied, it seemed a little odd.
"What?", Phoebe's jaw dropped.
She couldn't believe it, Cole was living with this kid. She knew that he was probably sleeping with her, and that their relationship might be something serious, besides she spent the most of the time in the penthouse, but she hadn't thought about the fact that they were actually living together already. It meant that it was more serious than she thought. Phoebe didn't like it, she didn't like Alexandra at all, she was so jealous of her. It wasn't fair that she was with the best guy on earth and that Phoebe Halliwell was with a non-liking babies looser. It was true that Cole was a demon, the greatest demon of the Underworld, but he was such a great boyfriend and fiancé. Phoebe knew he was sensitive, adorable, lovely, caring, romantic and even more. This girl was having so much luck to have him.
Once again she stared at her and eyed her well. She noticed her pj's, she was like a kid.
'Haven't you heard about the silk?', she thought referring to her Hello Kitty's cotton Pj's.
How in the hell could she get a man in the bed with those? It made her laugh. It was like a standard between women, like an unwritten rule, that when you're sleeping with a guy you use a different type of lingerie, night-gowns… she remembered herself, she bought a complete wardrobe just to sleep or not to sleep at all when she was going to get married, but before that she also had outfits for special occasions. But then again, maybe that childish attitude, that air of innocence was what Cole liked, 'Damn it, I wish I were 18 years old again'. This was so sick, but god Cole would listen to her. She just got in the penthouse and found Cole sat in the couch with Prue in his arms, he looked so cute, but that wouldn't save him from her. It was weird how much she knew that she and Cole couldn't be together because they couldn't make it work but in the same time she was jealous and she wanted to be back with him. She knew it was impossible for them to be together again, first he had moved on and secondly, even if he was still single, being together was too hard for them, they went through too much things, evil, pain, saddness...
"See? Your mommy's here early", he said to the baby. "How are you today?", he asked Phoebe without looking at her
"Fine", she just replied. "Would you mind leaving us for a couple of minutes?", she asked Alex
"Sure", she nodded and got in her room.
"We need to talk", she stated angrily at Cole
"What is it?", he asked
"How can you be such a sick pervert? How could I leave my daughter with a pervert like you?!", she started.
Cole was confused, "What are you talking about? The fact I'm a demon doesn't mean I-", he defended
"You're such a sick bastard. It makes me want to throw up just to think-", she was cut off by her cell phone. "Hello!", she angrily answered.
"What is it?", her sister asked
"Sorry Piper, you have nothing to do with it", she apologised, "What happened?", she then asked
"You gotta come fast, the demon is here!", she quickly said
"Ok", she hung up. She looked at Prue, she was smiling and the most important, safe,
"We're not over yet!", she angrily stated to Cole and left.
Cole was still very confused;
Alex got off her room and asked: "What the fuck was all that about?"
"You know what I think about your language", he stated, "and I have no the slightest idea what the hell she was talking about" he added.
"I think she's crazy", she guessed as she poured two glasses of juice. "Maybe that's why you liked to screw her", she said as she gave a glass to her brother.
Cole just hit the glass against the near table, "How dare you? How dare you say that?" Cole said, very offended, "I loved her, damn it, I still love her. Our relationship wasn't about 'you screw me, I screw you', it was love, you can't talk about her that way." He said.
He sighed and looked down at the little Prue who was looking at him with round eyes, she didn't understand why the nice Uncle Cole was yelling now.
Alex knew she had been way out the line, he was right, now she wanted to cry for being such stupid, "I'm sorry." Alex apologised. "I didn't mean to hurt you." She added, she hated to see him that way, especially when she was the one who had caused this pain to him.
"It's okay." Cole told her, looking at her.
She looked down, "Oh shit", she said crying.
"What now?", he asked
"When you spilled juice, I got some on my pj's", she said, "I have a yellow stain in my pj's. You ruined my pj's!", she accused
"Why are you crying?", he asked
"You will never understand me!!", she threw.
"Try me", he said, he wondered why his sister had been so emotional lately.
"Really? Alright, do you have an uterus? Have you ever had a period?", she asked
"No", he replied
"Then you will never understand me!", she said as she locked in her room. That was the answer to everything, she was emotional cause her period.
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Later that same day, Phoebe went to the penthouse, again, and Alex opened the door…again. This time Phoebe didn't bother in greet or anything.
"Where's my baby?", she asked
"In the living room, in her crib", Alex just replied.
"I didn't bring her crib", she said
"Cole bought one for her", Alex replied
Phoebe didn't listen and went straight to get her daughter
"I wouldn't do that if I were you", Alex warned.
Phoebe didn't listen and when she was about to get the baby she was sent to the wall and fell.
"What the hell?", she angrily asked, "what did you do to my baby?"
"I didn't do anything, Cole did", Alex explained.
"And where's that asshole?", she asked
'I'm not the only one who have to watch my vocabulary.' Alex thought.
"They called him from the office, he had to go and I'm watching the baby", Alex replied
"What?", Phoebe asked confused, she didn't like this. "Do you know how to get my baby out of there?"
"I thought you were a witch, can't you figure it out?", she asked, "Cole cast a spell on the crib to protect the baby, only the right spell can get her out of there, and yes I know how to get her but I won't tell you because you could be some shape shifter trying to get her", she explained
"Hold on… you just said spell? Witch? Shape shifter?", she asked shocked, "Are you crazy or… do you know?", she asked
"Of course I know, I'm a demon", she informed.
Oh my god, it was so wrong, now Cole was living with a demon and he left HER daughter with this demon whore to babysit?
"You're a demon?!", she shouted, "You better call that bastard right now and tell him to shimmer his demonic ass back here. Now!." Phoebe ordered.
"And I'm the one who has to watch my mouth." Alex said rolling her eyes, referring to Phoebe's expressions, she picked up the phone and dialled Cole's cell phone number.
"Cole, yeah, it's me, I think you better come back here fast." Alex said.
"What is it? Is Prue ok?", he asked worried, "Is there something out of control?".
"No, honey, don't worry, Prue's fine, but it's someone else who is out of control. Her witchy pissed mother to be exact" She added. Phoebe who had very well heard that gave her a furious look.
"I'll be there in a minute", he said.
"Okay, thanks." Alex said before hung up the phone.
Cole shimmered outside the penthouse in no time. "What is it?", he asked as he closed the door behind him. "What's wrong?" He asked, checking that Prue was in her crib and safe.
"What is wrong is that you let my baby with a demon, that's what it's wrong!" Phoebe shouted. "Besides you used dark magic to protect her"
"First at all, Alex can be a demon and a little screw up-"
"Thank you!", Alex cut off sarcastically madly.
"Shut up, Alex", he said to Alex and then turned to Phoebe again, "But I trust her and I know she will watch over Prue just like me", he clarified. "And I just used a spell with a force field around the crib", he explained madly
"You have no right to decide about my daughter you sick pervert!", she yelled.
"Are you still with that?", he asked back.
Phoebe was out of control, she then stayed quite and realised it was pointless; it didn't make any sense. She knew it wasn't about the fact he used magic to protect her it was something else, she was out of control… she couldn't explain it. She just sighed, straighted her hair, turned around and left with not word.
"I told you she was crazy", Alex said and Cole nodded with a look full of confusion.
"Ok, since you're here I have some stuff to do", Alex stated, "I gotta go".
"Where are you going?", he asked.
"Bookstore. I need some accounting books", she stated.
"Yeah, right and I'm a whiteligher", he said joking.
"I'm serious"., she stated grabbing her car keys.
"Ok", he nodded pleased, "Could you stop by at the store for diapers?", he said.
"Of course", she nodded as she put on her sunglasses, giving her brother a smile before leaving.
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Alex had some things to buy so she decided to go to the mall, in that moment she was in the bookstore waiting for her books.
"Here you have 'Basic Accounting', 'History of the Accounting' and 'Laws related to the Accounting process'", the employee of the stored explained as she put the books on a back.
"And here, in the other back are all the books Mr. Turner ordered, please tell him we couldn't find 'Forensic Reports of Jake Miller', but we asked for it to our other store, so we'll send it as soon as we get it", she explained.
"Thank you very much. Bye", Alex said as she grabbed the backs and left the store.
"Miss Mattews"; the same employee called and Paige turned to the counter, "We found your book, 'Magical and Medical Herbs by Ly Shown'?", she asked to confirm.
"Yes", Paige nodded and paid.
In the parking lot Alex was making her way to her car, she was checking mentally to see if she had forgot something; she had the books, she had Cole's books, she had the diapers and she even bought a new blouse, and of course she couldn't resist buy a pair of shoes and a purse that matched. She also bought a cute hat for her little niece. Suddenly she felt someone behind her and she turned to check and she saw some one she would have rather not to see again. She walked faster but he reached her.
"Look at what I found", the dark clothed man said
"What do you want?", she asked very nervous.
"I want… you", he slowly said as he approached her against the near wall.
"Leave me alone", she ordered.
"Excuse me?", he asked, "You think you can fool the Brotherhood and get away with it?", he asked her
"My brother did", she challenged and she had screwed it.
"And speaking of… how is that bastard brother of yours? How's Belthozar? I take you're with him", he persuaded
"I don't know anything about him. I haven't seen him in years"; she lied.
"You're lying!", the demon accused as he threatened her with an athame.
"Leave me alone!", she yelled as she dropped all her backs trying to escape, with was useless because now he was threatening her with the sharpie object.
"That wasn't exactly what you used to yell when we were 'having fun' in the past, remember?", he told her.
Thinking about that made her want to throw up, how could she had sex with that... thing... Now that she was looking at him, he was horrible; definitely not the kind of guy you want to have in bed, he was disgusting. It was making her so sick and she wanted to escape as soon as possible.
In that moment another demon shimmered in. "Sorry, I didn't have any luck, I just can't track that baby", he explained to the one who was with Alex.
"Too bad. But in the meantime, look at what I found…. We can have some fun", he said.
"Leave me alone!", Alex shouted again. Even if she had dealt with this people, right now she felt helpless, her life was in danger, she knew she couldn't get them this time.
"I don't know why, but we haven't been able to sense her in the last few days, do you know why?", he asked the other demon.
"I have no idea", the other nodded.
"Come here", the first demon ordered, "Don't let her go", he ordered as he handled the athame and he started checking the items of the bags.
"Sorry, I'm a little confused, but we're not shoplifters", he said as he was pointing Alex's neck with the athame.
"Don't you know that you can learn about people for what they buy?", he said. "Shoes…and stupid things…", he said, "Basic accounting?", he read, "Since when we're interested on numbers?", he laughed and continued. "Tips for Legal procedure in the State of California, Version 2.003", he read. "Interesting, this isn't exactly your choice… Wally? Wasn't Belthozar a lawyer?", he asked his partner.
"I heard he was a sensation in courts", Wally replied.
"Well, here we have a bag with books about laws and legal procedures, and our Alexandra here isn't the 'legal' type exactly… so where's Belthozar?", he asked and Wally put the athame closer to her.
"I won't tell you anything!", she shouted.
"Ok… but what is this? Baby shopping?", he asked taking what she had got for the baby. The demon thought for a minute and put two and two together. "Hold on a second… of course, how can we have been such stupid?", he asked
"What is it?", Wally asked.
"We haven't been able to track that baby", he started, "Wally, my friend", he said as he came closer and started touching Alex, "You have to learn to put things together", he said as he ran his hand in Alex face.
"The baby is the daughter of one of the Charmed Ones… and what a coincidence, the one who bedded Belthazor", he stopped talking as he ran his hand on her chest now. Alex wanted to puke because this thing was running his disgusting hands all over her, but if she said or did something he might kill her and go after her brother, so she stayed quite.
"Now we found the screw up sister buying baby's stuff, so I wonder how wouldn't Belthazor take care of his little one?", he said smiling. They already knew Prue was Cole's baby, that's why they wanted her.
"So doing shopping for your little niece?", he asked her. It was confusing for her, 'how do they know I call her 'niece'?", she thought. Of course that wasn't the reason.
"I don't know what you're talking about", she denied, she couldn't put Cole or Prue in danger.
"In that case… in since you don't want to have some fun with me", he said patting her butt hard. "let's get this over with", he said as he took the athame from the other demon's hand.
"Too bad, you're hot stuff you know?", he whispered in her ear.
In that moment Paige was making her way to her car when she saw the scene from the distance, all she could see was two dark clothed men, 'demons', she thought, threatening a girl with an athame. She ran to the wall to help.
"Athame!", she called when she was closer and the object orbed to her hand.
"What the hell?", the demon said as he threw an energy ball at Paige.
"Energy ball", she called and threw it back to them, Alex threw one of her own and they just shimmered out.
Paige noticed that Alex had thrown an energy ball, which made her a demon, 'Oh god I screwed it, I just helped a demon'; she thought and started to walk away.
"Thank you", Alex said to her and Paige turned back.
"Are you alright?", Paige asked thinking 'great Paige, now make conversation with her so she'll kill you'.
"Yes, thanks to you", she said. "Please don't go away. I know who you are", she added
"What do you want?", Paige asked
"Come on, take off that 'I'm a witch you're a demon' look", she said as she started to gather all the items in their backs again. "I don't kill", she informed, "Since a time ago", she added
"Weren't you at Cole's Penthouse the other day", Paige asked
"Yes, that's me. I'm Alex"; they shook hands.
"I'm Paige", she said.
"I know, you're Phoebe's sister", she commented.
"Are you as good demon as Cole is?", she asked
"I wish I were as good, I wouldn't be in so much troubles right now", Alex replied, "I love the color of you hair", she commented
"Thank you, I love yours as well", she said referring to her same red color and they both smiled. "They were from the Brotherhood", she said
"Yes, I know", Alex said, "I was doing some shopping and they found me", Alex said.
"You forgot this", Paige handled her the baby back.
"Ohh… this is for my little niece, now it's ruined", she said.
"Your little niece?", Paige asked fearing she had heard what she had just heard.
"Yes, Prue… your niece, I hope you don't mind I borrow her to be my niece for now, she's so cute", she explained.
Paige just heard this with wide eyes. This girl was a demon, she was Cole's girlfriend and she thought Prue was cute. And about the 'my little niece' thing? 'what if they know the truth?', she thought.
"Ok, it was fun, thank you, but I have to go, bye", Alex got in her car and left Paige shocked with the new knowledge she just got.
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As soon as Alex got to the penthouse she ran straight to Cole and hugged him tight and said nothing.
"What is this for?", he asked her a little surprised. She started crying, he just bruised her hair.
"What happened?", he asked
"Cole… I… uh… I was… they found me", she slowly said very nervous.
"Who?", he asked
"'They', the brotherhood", she informed
"What?! Are… are you alright?", he asked concerned.
"Yes, I am now", she said still in his embrace, she them wept for a while, "Cole I was so scared I don't know why I was afraid I might put you on danger or the baby", she stated. Cole was surprised, it seemed like his little sister was to attach to the human emotions lately.
"Don't worry honey, you're safe."; he comforted.
"Cole they know I'm with you", she said.
"What? How?", he asked.
"They got me in the mall and saw the law books, so they suspect it", she explained
"But they're not sure?", he asked
"No, I didn't confirm it", she replied, "But that's not the worst… they know you have the baby", she added
"You mean… Phoebe's baby?", he asked worried.
"Yes, I think they've been spying on us, they know things", she said
"Like what?", he asked
"They know the baby is Phoebe's daughter, they know she's with you and they're after her", she informed. "You know I never thought I would ever say this but 'I love you", she said and hugged him
"I love you too", he said still brushing her hair, it was like she was a little girl still scared of her own nightmares, she was so vulnerable and emotional in that moment, that Cole was almost shocked.
"Sorry I didn't mean to interrupt", Phoebe said politely and got in the kitchen. She had to pass the living room to go to the kitchen and she had heard long enough from the 'I love you' part. She wanted to cry.
'He loves her', she thought, 'and she loves him back, and they love each other', she reproached mentally and sadly. 'I lost him', she stated sadly drying a tear that fell in her cheek.
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It was almost 11 and Phoebe had feel asleep while trying to sleep Prue, she was tired, because she had been fighting the demons, working and watching over her baby. She was deep asleep in Cole's bed while Cole and Alex had spent the last 3 hours on the couch just talking about College, about herself, himself, the problem with the brotherhood.
"I'm tired I'll go to take a shower", she said and turned around.
Cole couldn't help but he got up and walked towards his bedroom, stopped at the doorway and stayed there watching Phoebe asleep. And he stayed there for a while just watching her and then he came back to the living room, and sat on the couch.
Suddenly she woke up and jumped, 'I fell asleep', she thought rubbing her eyes, she then saw Prue sleeping next to her and remember she had fallen asleep along with her. She was so comfortable because she was in one of her favourite places, Cole's bed, she just couldn't help but relax on his pillow when she could feel his smell. She carefully got up trying not to wake Prue. She walked to the living where Cole was.
"Sorry I fell asleep while I was getting her to sleep", she apologised. "What time is it?", she asked then
"It's past eleven, and don't worry about that", he said.
"I'm just too tired and fell asleep as soon as I felt a bed", she said with a little smile. "I guess I'll just go", she stated
"No wait, why don't you stay?", he proposed, "It's late and I'll be better if Prue had her mother with her", he added
"I don't know", she said
"Come on", he insisted, "For her".
"She's been missing you, a lot. I think that baby girl needs her mom and her dad close to her everyday, since her Dad isn't here, you have to stay with her a little more." He added.
"Alright", she agreed.
"Good", he nodded, "Go back to sleep then", he suggested.
"But… but you mean in the bedroom?", she asked
"Yes", he nodded.
"And where are you going to sleep?", she asked.
"Don't worry about me", he said "I can sleep anywhere", he stated. In that moment Alex got out of the bathroom in her sky blue Hello Kitty bathrobe.
'Are you a Hello Kitty Fan or what?', Phoebe thought. 'you should join Paige'.
"No I think I better go, I don't want to bother anyone", she said
"How come?", Alex asked combing her wet hair spilling water everywhere. Cole gave her a look because of that.
"Phoebe's going to stay with her baby", he informed.
"Great", Alex said.
"She'll sleep on my bedroom", he added
"And where are you going to sleep?", Alex asked
"I can sleep on the couch", he said
"No", both Phoebe and Alex said.
"I'll go", Phoebe said
"You'll sleep with me. Come on, I'll take care of you", she said. "Come on"
"See? I have a place to sleep. Good night Phoebe"
"Night!", Alex said as she grabbed Cole by the arm.
"Good night Cole", she said.
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Alex and Cole were in bed already, everything was dark and Alex was trying to sleep. Cole was just there with his eyes wide open staring at the ceiling, and his sister noticed it.
"Can't sleep?", she asked
"Not really", he replied
"Thinking about her?", she asked
"A lot", he answered. "She's in my bed, right behind that wall, sleeping next to the baby I wanted to have with her but is not mine..." He said.
"Hey… but why don't you try again? You know with her", she proposed.
"It's too late, don't you see? She's in love with someone else, she's happy with that guy, she has a baby with that person, there's no place for me in her life", he said sadly
"Oh Cole", she said hugging him
"I'll be fine", he said and both stayed quite for a while.
"You know this remembers me of that time when you lived at home"; she started
"When?", he asked
"I think I was like four or five, you where studying", she said, "I remember you used to spend hours reading in your bed, I think you were getting your majoring in law", she told him
"I remember that time." he nodded.
"I used to sneak in your bed and just watch you read", she said, "I didn't know what you were reading, I just stayed there quite while you read", she said
"And then you fell asleep", he filled
"I wasn't very nice at that time, why did you like to do that?", he asked curious.
"I don't know, I guess… I really never had a father and I you were like that image for me… I always thought that once you finished reading you would tell me about it", she said.
"I never did", he said.
"I know, after that, you left and it passed years until I saw you again", she said.
Cole kissed her on the forehead and she said: "You're still that image for me, you're a model for me. I wish I could be brave, strong, good and sensitive, just like you."
"I'm sorry I left you, but things were different back then I didn't or wanted another choice. I'm sorry I made it hard for you, it shouldn't have been easy to grow up there." He said. "I know it couldn't have been easy for you… I kinda lived the same".
"That's all in the past Cole, I don't wanna talk about it or think about it anymore. We're catching all that lost time now, I'm glad I came to see you." She replied.
"I'm glad you came as well, and as for being just like me, you're just like me you know. Well, the only difference is that I don't sounds gross when I talk." He said.
She hit him playfully and said: "That's mean."
"Oh and you'll never be clever than me." He added and they both started laughing.
"How could I? You're a hundred years older than me", she said with a smile.
"Hey! Are you insinuating I'm old?", he asked and she just giggled.
"But seriously how do you do it?", she asked
"What?", he asked back
"How can you conserve and look so good living more than a hundred years? Because look at you… I gotta say you're hot, if you weren't my brother I would have slept with you already", she said
"Shut up, can't you think something non-sex related?", he replied and she just looked at him.
" … and thanks for the compliment", he said, "But I think it's a family things, look at mom I think she was 160 when she died and she was gorgeous", he compared.
"You're right, so I have hopes to be gorgeous even then", she said with a smile
"And it helps to work out a little", he added.
"It's good to know I won't depend of plastic surgery", she said
"I wouldn't be that sure", he said and they both kept laughing not knowing that Phoebe wasn't sleeping and was able to hear their giggles through the wall. What they didn't know as well, was that she was crying silently.
"So you guys are working on your own 'baby'?", she stated jealously while crying in the other side of the wall. It was so wrong she was the one supposed to be with Cole.
She kept weeping silently for a while till she fell asleep.
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Cole was sat in his chair near the fireplace smoking his cigar and drinking a very expensive scotch
"Phoebe!", he called
"Yes, Sir", she replied.
"Could you please turn on some music", he commanded without even looking at her.
She was a little confused and when she looked down at herself she noticed she was wearing an uniform and that she weighed like 300 pounds.
"What?", she reacted.
"Didn't you hear me?!", he said, "I want some music and please try it to be something classic", he said.
It was incredible, she was his maid??? He didn't even turn to look at her, why would he? she was an elephant.
Suddenly Alex came in, she was wearing a silk sky blue Hello Kitty robe, "I love you", she said to Cole and kissed him.
"I love you too", he replied as she sat in his lap, "You're sooo hot, not like Phoebe", he said and they both laughed.
Phoebe couldn't believe it. This was the hell, "I had your baby!", she yelled in defence of her shape.
"Baby", Alex started as she got up, "Guess who had your baby and is in perfect shape", she seductively said. "Me", she said as she let the robe fall revelling a very sexy Hello Kitty lingerie, that let see her perfect body.
"Baby you're so hot", Cole said and they started making out.
"No! No, no, no", Phoebe kept yelling and was brought back to reality for Prue's Cries.
Phoebe woke up all sweaty; it had been a dream, what a dream? A nightmare… 'What if is one of those premonitions dreams', she feared. Then she loomed at the clock on the nightstand, '2:30 am', she read and Prue was hungry.
"Come here, sweetie", Phoebe said and took the baby in her arms. She unbuttoned her shirt and started breastfeeding while talking to her baby, in that Prue fell asleep again. Phoebe laid her carefully on the bed again. She needed a glass of water, so she just got up and went to the kitchen, she drank her water and sighed. She had to get out of there; she would get crazy.
"What are you doing up?", Cole interrupted her thoughts as he turned the kitchen's light on.
"Uh… I just… I was feeding Prue, she fell asleep and I got thirsty", she said shyly. "What about you?", she asked
"I just …uh… couldn't sleep that much tonight", he said. "Do you want some coffee?", he offered.
'You bet, I heard you playing with your doll.' She thought.
"Yeah, coffee would be great", she said as she sat in one of the Kitchen's stool.
"Why doesn't Jonathan come here? Doesn't he want to see his daughter?", he suddenly asked.
It was something that was in his mind but he hadn't dared to ask.
"I wouldn't mind at all if he comes to see her", he offered.
'Of course I would mind, he took you away from me', he thought, he was just being polite.
Phoebe didn't know what to say. She never expected something like this from Cole, he was really offering her that Prue's assumed father could come to his house whenever he wanted? That meant he didn't care she was with another guy.
"Ah… Jonathan? Well, he can't come over and he hasn't come because… he's out of town, in a business trip", she made up.
"Well, tell him he can come to see his daughter. If that little one were my daughter, I would be dying to see her if she were away from me.", he said.
'Oh my god, she's your daughter', she thought.
She was so touched, he would have made a great dad, it was so beautiful, and then again she felt very guilty, the guilt that would be with her till the day she died because of the secret she had kept from Cole.
"And what does he do? For a living?", he curiously asked.
"He's a… publisher. A very successful one", she replied.
"A publisher, uh? Interesting", he nodded, 'What a looser', his lawyer pride thought as he gave her a cup of coffee.
"Thanks", she said.
"Would you like a cookie?", he asked searching through the cabinet.
"Ok", she nodded. "And how's work?", she asked trying to change the subject.
"Good, pretty good", he said, "Chocolate chips", he handled her a cookie as he ate one himself,
"These are… were Alex's", he said noticing the empty package, "Please don't tell her", he said and she smiled. They stayed quite for a while. "Is he… I mean Jonathan, is he happy of being a father?", he asked. He wanted to know that if that looser had all he couldn't, that at least he appreciated it.
"Yes", she just nodded, empty answer, she had the feeling Jonathan didn't care about the baby.
"Why wouldn't he?", she asked
"I mean, sometimes it should be hard not to have private moments because the baby is crying but waking up with the two people you love the much on earth can definitely fill withdraw.", he said with a smile.
"Yeah", she just nodded. She was amazed by the way Cole expressed, how different Jonathan and him were. Cole was such a sensible and caring man, one of the reasons she loved him.
"Look, I'm a little tired and I should get some sleep, Prue usually wakes early… thanks for the coffee. Good night", she said. She had to get out of there otherwise she wouldn't be able to control and throw herself in his arms and make a complete fool of herself when he rejected her, but he was so sweet, so noble, so… so Cole, and that was enough for her to love him.
"Good night, Phoebe", he said as he saw her leave.
"You already lost her Turner", he whispered to himself as he took a sip of his cup. And he sadly repeated to himself, "You lost her".
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So, what do you think?? Please review!! Thanks a lot.
Chapter 5
"Right behind the wall."
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With her red hair up in a ponytail, long Hello Kitty pj's and Sylvester slippers, once again Alex was the person who opened the door. She really looked like she were 10 years old, but that was her. She was still yawning, she had just got up.
"Morning", she said.
As every morning for the last 3 or 4 days Phoebe was checking up on her baby first thing in the morning. Prue had stayed with Cole longer than she thought she would, but the demon's attack were continuous those days and Phoebe was more than grateful for the fact that her most precious belonging was safe, happy and unaware of the danger of her house at the moment.
"What are you doing here?", Phoebe asked.
'So you spent the night to have fun with my man', she thought, 'Stop it, Phoebe, he's not your man anymore and you know that', another voice inside of her commanded.
"I live here", she just replied, it seemed a little odd.
"What?", Phoebe's jaw dropped.
She couldn't believe it, Cole was living with this kid. She knew that he was probably sleeping with her, and that their relationship might be something serious, besides she spent the most of the time in the penthouse, but she hadn't thought about the fact that they were actually living together already. It meant that it was more serious than she thought. Phoebe didn't like it, she didn't like Alexandra at all, she was so jealous of her. It wasn't fair that she was with the best guy on earth and that Phoebe Halliwell was with a non-liking babies looser. It was true that Cole was a demon, the greatest demon of the Underworld, but he was such a great boyfriend and fiancé. Phoebe knew he was sensitive, adorable, lovely, caring, romantic and even more. This girl was having so much luck to have him.
Once again she stared at her and eyed her well. She noticed her pj's, she was like a kid.
'Haven't you heard about the silk?', she thought referring to her Hello Kitty's cotton Pj's.
How in the hell could she get a man in the bed with those? It made her laugh. It was like a standard between women, like an unwritten rule, that when you're sleeping with a guy you use a different type of lingerie, night-gowns… she remembered herself, she bought a complete wardrobe just to sleep or not to sleep at all when she was going to get married, but before that she also had outfits for special occasions. But then again, maybe that childish attitude, that air of innocence was what Cole liked, 'Damn it, I wish I were 18 years old again'. This was so sick, but god Cole would listen to her. She just got in the penthouse and found Cole sat in the couch with Prue in his arms, he looked so cute, but that wouldn't save him from her. It was weird how much she knew that she and Cole couldn't be together because they couldn't make it work but in the same time she was jealous and she wanted to be back with him. She knew it was impossible for them to be together again, first he had moved on and secondly, even if he was still single, being together was too hard for them, they went through too much things, evil, pain, saddness...
"See? Your mommy's here early", he said to the baby. "How are you today?", he asked Phoebe without looking at her
"Fine", she just replied. "Would you mind leaving us for a couple of minutes?", she asked Alex
"Sure", she nodded and got in her room.
"We need to talk", she stated angrily at Cole
"What is it?", he asked
"How can you be such a sick pervert? How could I leave my daughter with a pervert like you?!", she started.
Cole was confused, "What are you talking about? The fact I'm a demon doesn't mean I-", he defended
"You're such a sick bastard. It makes me want to throw up just to think-", she was cut off by her cell phone. "Hello!", she angrily answered.
"What is it?", her sister asked
"Sorry Piper, you have nothing to do with it", she apologised, "What happened?", she then asked
"You gotta come fast, the demon is here!", she quickly said
"Ok", she hung up. She looked at Prue, she was smiling and the most important, safe,
"We're not over yet!", she angrily stated to Cole and left.
Cole was still very confused;
Alex got off her room and asked: "What the fuck was all that about?"
"You know what I think about your language", he stated, "and I have no the slightest idea what the hell she was talking about" he added.
"I think she's crazy", she guessed as she poured two glasses of juice. "Maybe that's why you liked to screw her", she said as she gave a glass to her brother.
Cole just hit the glass against the near table, "How dare you? How dare you say that?" Cole said, very offended, "I loved her, damn it, I still love her. Our relationship wasn't about 'you screw me, I screw you', it was love, you can't talk about her that way." He said.
He sighed and looked down at the little Prue who was looking at him with round eyes, she didn't understand why the nice Uncle Cole was yelling now.
Alex knew she had been way out the line, he was right, now she wanted to cry for being such stupid, "I'm sorry." Alex apologised. "I didn't mean to hurt you." She added, she hated to see him that way, especially when she was the one who had caused this pain to him.
"It's okay." Cole told her, looking at her.
She looked down, "Oh shit", she said crying.
"What now?", he asked
"When you spilled juice, I got some on my pj's", she said, "I have a yellow stain in my pj's. You ruined my pj's!", she accused
"Why are you crying?", he asked
"You will never understand me!!", she threw.
"Try me", he said, he wondered why his sister had been so emotional lately.
"Really? Alright, do you have an uterus? Have you ever had a period?", she asked
"No", he replied
"Then you will never understand me!", she said as she locked in her room. That was the answer to everything, she was emotional cause her period.
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Later that same day, Phoebe went to the penthouse, again, and Alex opened the door…again. This time Phoebe didn't bother in greet or anything.
"Where's my baby?", she asked
"In the living room, in her crib", Alex just replied.
"I didn't bring her crib", she said
"Cole bought one for her", Alex replied
Phoebe didn't listen and went straight to get her daughter
"I wouldn't do that if I were you", Alex warned.
Phoebe didn't listen and when she was about to get the baby she was sent to the wall and fell.
"What the hell?", she angrily asked, "what did you do to my baby?"
"I didn't do anything, Cole did", Alex explained.
"And where's that asshole?", she asked
'I'm not the only one who have to watch my vocabulary.' Alex thought.
"They called him from the office, he had to go and I'm watching the baby", Alex replied
"What?", Phoebe asked confused, she didn't like this. "Do you know how to get my baby out of there?"
"I thought you were a witch, can't you figure it out?", she asked, "Cole cast a spell on the crib to protect the baby, only the right spell can get her out of there, and yes I know how to get her but I won't tell you because you could be some shape shifter trying to get her", she explained
"Hold on… you just said spell? Witch? Shape shifter?", she asked shocked, "Are you crazy or… do you know?", she asked
"Of course I know, I'm a demon", she informed.
Oh my god, it was so wrong, now Cole was living with a demon and he left HER daughter with this demon whore to babysit?
"You're a demon?!", she shouted, "You better call that bastard right now and tell him to shimmer his demonic ass back here. Now!." Phoebe ordered.
"And I'm the one who has to watch my mouth." Alex said rolling her eyes, referring to Phoebe's expressions, she picked up the phone and dialled Cole's cell phone number.
"Cole, yeah, it's me, I think you better come back here fast." Alex said.
"What is it? Is Prue ok?", he asked worried, "Is there something out of control?".
"No, honey, don't worry, Prue's fine, but it's someone else who is out of control. Her witchy pissed mother to be exact" She added. Phoebe who had very well heard that gave her a furious look.
"I'll be there in a minute", he said.
"Okay, thanks." Alex said before hung up the phone.
Cole shimmered outside the penthouse in no time. "What is it?", he asked as he closed the door behind him. "What's wrong?" He asked, checking that Prue was in her crib and safe.
"What is wrong is that you let my baby with a demon, that's what it's wrong!" Phoebe shouted. "Besides you used dark magic to protect her"
"First at all, Alex can be a demon and a little screw up-"
"Thank you!", Alex cut off sarcastically madly.
"Shut up, Alex", he said to Alex and then turned to Phoebe again, "But I trust her and I know she will watch over Prue just like me", he clarified. "And I just used a spell with a force field around the crib", he explained madly
"You have no right to decide about my daughter you sick pervert!", she yelled.
"Are you still with that?", he asked back.
Phoebe was out of control, she then stayed quite and realised it was pointless; it didn't make any sense. She knew it wasn't about the fact he used magic to protect her it was something else, she was out of control… she couldn't explain it. She just sighed, straighted her hair, turned around and left with not word.
"I told you she was crazy", Alex said and Cole nodded with a look full of confusion.
"Ok, since you're here I have some stuff to do", Alex stated, "I gotta go".
"Where are you going?", he asked.
"Bookstore. I need some accounting books", she stated.
"Yeah, right and I'm a whiteligher", he said joking.
"I'm serious"., she stated grabbing her car keys.
"Ok", he nodded pleased, "Could you stop by at the store for diapers?", he said.
"Of course", she nodded as she put on her sunglasses, giving her brother a smile before leaving.
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Alex had some things to buy so she decided to go to the mall, in that moment she was in the bookstore waiting for her books.
"Here you have 'Basic Accounting', 'History of the Accounting' and 'Laws related to the Accounting process'", the employee of the stored explained as she put the books on a back.
"And here, in the other back are all the books Mr. Turner ordered, please tell him we couldn't find 'Forensic Reports of Jake Miller', but we asked for it to our other store, so we'll send it as soon as we get it", she explained.
"Thank you very much. Bye", Alex said as she grabbed the backs and left the store.
"Miss Mattews"; the same employee called and Paige turned to the counter, "We found your book, 'Magical and Medical Herbs by Ly Shown'?", she asked to confirm.
"Yes", Paige nodded and paid.
In the parking lot Alex was making her way to her car, she was checking mentally to see if she had forgot something; she had the books, she had Cole's books, she had the diapers and she even bought a new blouse, and of course she couldn't resist buy a pair of shoes and a purse that matched. She also bought a cute hat for her little niece. Suddenly she felt someone behind her and she turned to check and she saw some one she would have rather not to see again. She walked faster but he reached her.
"Look at what I found", the dark clothed man said
"What do you want?", she asked very nervous.
"I want… you", he slowly said as he approached her against the near wall.
"Leave me alone", she ordered.
"Excuse me?", he asked, "You think you can fool the Brotherhood and get away with it?", he asked her
"My brother did", she challenged and she had screwed it.
"And speaking of… how is that bastard brother of yours? How's Belthozar? I take you're with him", he persuaded
"I don't know anything about him. I haven't seen him in years"; she lied.
"You're lying!", the demon accused as he threatened her with an athame.
"Leave me alone!", she yelled as she dropped all her backs trying to escape, with was useless because now he was threatening her with the sharpie object.
"That wasn't exactly what you used to yell when we were 'having fun' in the past, remember?", he told her.
Thinking about that made her want to throw up, how could she had sex with that... thing... Now that she was looking at him, he was horrible; definitely not the kind of guy you want to have in bed, he was disgusting. It was making her so sick and she wanted to escape as soon as possible.
In that moment another demon shimmered in. "Sorry, I didn't have any luck, I just can't track that baby", he explained to the one who was with Alex.
"Too bad. But in the meantime, look at what I found…. We can have some fun", he said.
"Leave me alone!", Alex shouted again. Even if she had dealt with this people, right now she felt helpless, her life was in danger, she knew she couldn't get them this time.
"I don't know why, but we haven't been able to sense her in the last few days, do you know why?", he asked the other demon.
"I have no idea", the other nodded.
"Come here", the first demon ordered, "Don't let her go", he ordered as he handled the athame and he started checking the items of the bags.
"Sorry, I'm a little confused, but we're not shoplifters", he said as he was pointing Alex's neck with the athame.
"Don't you know that you can learn about people for what they buy?", he said. "Shoes…and stupid things…", he said, "Basic accounting?", he read, "Since when we're interested on numbers?", he laughed and continued. "Tips for Legal procedure in the State of California, Version 2.003", he read. "Interesting, this isn't exactly your choice… Wally? Wasn't Belthozar a lawyer?", he asked his partner.
"I heard he was a sensation in courts", Wally replied.
"Well, here we have a bag with books about laws and legal procedures, and our Alexandra here isn't the 'legal' type exactly… so where's Belthozar?", he asked and Wally put the athame closer to her.
"I won't tell you anything!", she shouted.
"Ok… but what is this? Baby shopping?", he asked taking what she had got for the baby. The demon thought for a minute and put two and two together. "Hold on a second… of course, how can we have been such stupid?", he asked
"What is it?", Wally asked.
"We haven't been able to track that baby", he started, "Wally, my friend", he said as he came closer and started touching Alex, "You have to learn to put things together", he said as he ran his hand in Alex face.
"The baby is the daughter of one of the Charmed Ones… and what a coincidence, the one who bedded Belthazor", he stopped talking as he ran his hand on her chest now. Alex wanted to puke because this thing was running his disgusting hands all over her, but if she said or did something he might kill her and go after her brother, so she stayed quite.
"Now we found the screw up sister buying baby's stuff, so I wonder how wouldn't Belthazor take care of his little one?", he said smiling. They already knew Prue was Cole's baby, that's why they wanted her.
"So doing shopping for your little niece?", he asked her. It was confusing for her, 'how do they know I call her 'niece'?", she thought. Of course that wasn't the reason.
"I don't know what you're talking about", she denied, she couldn't put Cole or Prue in danger.
"In that case… in since you don't want to have some fun with me", he said patting her butt hard. "let's get this over with", he said as he took the athame from the other demon's hand.
"Too bad, you're hot stuff you know?", he whispered in her ear.
In that moment Paige was making her way to her car when she saw the scene from the distance, all she could see was two dark clothed men, 'demons', she thought, threatening a girl with an athame. She ran to the wall to help.
"Athame!", she called when she was closer and the object orbed to her hand.
"What the hell?", the demon said as he threw an energy ball at Paige.
"Energy ball", she called and threw it back to them, Alex threw one of her own and they just shimmered out.
Paige noticed that Alex had thrown an energy ball, which made her a demon, 'Oh god I screwed it, I just helped a demon'; she thought and started to walk away.
"Thank you", Alex said to her and Paige turned back.
"Are you alright?", Paige asked thinking 'great Paige, now make conversation with her so she'll kill you'.
"Yes, thanks to you", she said. "Please don't go away. I know who you are", she added
"What do you want?", Paige asked
"Come on, take off that 'I'm a witch you're a demon' look", she said as she started to gather all the items in their backs again. "I don't kill", she informed, "Since a time ago", she added
"Weren't you at Cole's Penthouse the other day", Paige asked
"Yes, that's me. I'm Alex"; they shook hands.
"I'm Paige", she said.
"I know, you're Phoebe's sister", she commented.
"Are you as good demon as Cole is?", she asked
"I wish I were as good, I wouldn't be in so much troubles right now", Alex replied, "I love the color of you hair", she commented
"Thank you, I love yours as well", she said referring to her same red color and they both smiled. "They were from the Brotherhood", she said
"Yes, I know", Alex said, "I was doing some shopping and they found me", Alex said.
"You forgot this", Paige handled her the baby back.
"Ohh… this is for my little niece, now it's ruined", she said.
"Your little niece?", Paige asked fearing she had heard what she had just heard.
"Yes, Prue… your niece, I hope you don't mind I borrow her to be my niece for now, she's so cute", she explained.
Paige just heard this with wide eyes. This girl was a demon, she was Cole's girlfriend and she thought Prue was cute. And about the 'my little niece' thing? 'what if they know the truth?', she thought.
"Ok, it was fun, thank you, but I have to go, bye", Alex got in her car and left Paige shocked with the new knowledge she just got.
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As soon as Alex got to the penthouse she ran straight to Cole and hugged him tight and said nothing.
"What is this for?", he asked her a little surprised. She started crying, he just bruised her hair.
"What happened?", he asked
"Cole… I… uh… I was… they found me", she slowly said very nervous.
"Who?", he asked
"'They', the brotherhood", she informed
"What?! Are… are you alright?", he asked concerned.
"Yes, I am now", she said still in his embrace, she them wept for a while, "Cole I was so scared I don't know why I was afraid I might put you on danger or the baby", she stated. Cole was surprised, it seemed like his little sister was to attach to the human emotions lately.
"Don't worry honey, you're safe."; he comforted.
"Cole they know I'm with you", she said.
"What? How?", he asked.
"They got me in the mall and saw the law books, so they suspect it", she explained
"But they're not sure?", he asked
"No, I didn't confirm it", she replied, "But that's not the worst… they know you have the baby", she added
"You mean… Phoebe's baby?", he asked worried.
"Yes, I think they've been spying on us, they know things", she said
"Like what?", he asked
"They know the baby is Phoebe's daughter, they know she's with you and they're after her", she informed. "You know I never thought I would ever say this but 'I love you", she said and hugged him
"I love you too", he said still brushing her hair, it was like she was a little girl still scared of her own nightmares, she was so vulnerable and emotional in that moment, that Cole was almost shocked.
"Sorry I didn't mean to interrupt", Phoebe said politely and got in the kitchen. She had to pass the living room to go to the kitchen and she had heard long enough from the 'I love you' part. She wanted to cry.
'He loves her', she thought, 'and she loves him back, and they love each other', she reproached mentally and sadly. 'I lost him', she stated sadly drying a tear that fell in her cheek.
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It was almost 11 and Phoebe had feel asleep while trying to sleep Prue, she was tired, because she had been fighting the demons, working and watching over her baby. She was deep asleep in Cole's bed while Cole and Alex had spent the last 3 hours on the couch just talking about College, about herself, himself, the problem with the brotherhood.
"I'm tired I'll go to take a shower", she said and turned around.
Cole couldn't help but he got up and walked towards his bedroom, stopped at the doorway and stayed there watching Phoebe asleep. And he stayed there for a while just watching her and then he came back to the living room, and sat on the couch.
Suddenly she woke up and jumped, 'I fell asleep', she thought rubbing her eyes, she then saw Prue sleeping next to her and remember she had fallen asleep along with her. She was so comfortable because she was in one of her favourite places, Cole's bed, she just couldn't help but relax on his pillow when she could feel his smell. She carefully got up trying not to wake Prue. She walked to the living where Cole was.
"Sorry I fell asleep while I was getting her to sleep", she apologised. "What time is it?", she asked then
"It's past eleven, and don't worry about that", he said.
"I'm just too tired and fell asleep as soon as I felt a bed", she said with a little smile. "I guess I'll just go", she stated
"No wait, why don't you stay?", he proposed, "It's late and I'll be better if Prue had her mother with her", he added
"I don't know", she said
"Come on", he insisted, "For her".
"She's been missing you, a lot. I think that baby girl needs her mom and her dad close to her everyday, since her Dad isn't here, you have to stay with her a little more." He added.
"Alright", she agreed.
"Good", he nodded, "Go back to sleep then", he suggested.
"But… but you mean in the bedroom?", she asked
"Yes", he nodded.
"And where are you going to sleep?", she asked.
"Don't worry about me", he said "I can sleep anywhere", he stated. In that moment Alex got out of the bathroom in her sky blue Hello Kitty bathrobe.
'Are you a Hello Kitty Fan or what?', Phoebe thought. 'you should join Paige'.
"No I think I better go, I don't want to bother anyone", she said
"How come?", Alex asked combing her wet hair spilling water everywhere. Cole gave her a look because of that.
"Phoebe's going to stay with her baby", he informed.
"Great", Alex said.
"She'll sleep on my bedroom", he added
"And where are you going to sleep?", Alex asked
"I can sleep on the couch", he said
"No", both Phoebe and Alex said.
"I'll go", Phoebe said
"You'll sleep with me. Come on, I'll take care of you", she said. "Come on"
"See? I have a place to sleep. Good night Phoebe"
"Night!", Alex said as she grabbed Cole by the arm.
"Good night Cole", she said.
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Alex and Cole were in bed already, everything was dark and Alex was trying to sleep. Cole was just there with his eyes wide open staring at the ceiling, and his sister noticed it.
"Can't sleep?", she asked
"Not really", he replied
"Thinking about her?", she asked
"A lot", he answered. "She's in my bed, right behind that wall, sleeping next to the baby I wanted to have with her but is not mine..." He said.
"Hey… but why don't you try again? You know with her", she proposed.
"It's too late, don't you see? She's in love with someone else, she's happy with that guy, she has a baby with that person, there's no place for me in her life", he said sadly
"Oh Cole", she said hugging him
"I'll be fine", he said and both stayed quite for a while.
"You know this remembers me of that time when you lived at home"; she started
"When?", he asked
"I think I was like four or five, you where studying", she said, "I remember you used to spend hours reading in your bed, I think you were getting your majoring in law", she told him
"I remember that time." he nodded.
"I used to sneak in your bed and just watch you read", she said, "I didn't know what you were reading, I just stayed there quite while you read", she said
"And then you fell asleep", he filled
"I wasn't very nice at that time, why did you like to do that?", he asked curious.
"I don't know, I guess… I really never had a father and I you were like that image for me… I always thought that once you finished reading you would tell me about it", she said.
"I never did", he said.
"I know, after that, you left and it passed years until I saw you again", she said.
Cole kissed her on the forehead and she said: "You're still that image for me, you're a model for me. I wish I could be brave, strong, good and sensitive, just like you."
"I'm sorry I left you, but things were different back then I didn't or wanted another choice. I'm sorry I made it hard for you, it shouldn't have been easy to grow up there." He said. "I know it couldn't have been easy for you… I kinda lived the same".
"That's all in the past Cole, I don't wanna talk about it or think about it anymore. We're catching all that lost time now, I'm glad I came to see you." She replied.
"I'm glad you came as well, and as for being just like me, you're just like me you know. Well, the only difference is that I don't sounds gross when I talk." He said.
She hit him playfully and said: "That's mean."
"Oh and you'll never be clever than me." He added and they both started laughing.
"How could I? You're a hundred years older than me", she said with a smile.
"Hey! Are you insinuating I'm old?", he asked and she just giggled.
"But seriously how do you do it?", she asked
"What?", he asked back
"How can you conserve and look so good living more than a hundred years? Because look at you… I gotta say you're hot, if you weren't my brother I would have slept with you already", she said
"Shut up, can't you think something non-sex related?", he replied and she just looked at him.
" … and thanks for the compliment", he said, "But I think it's a family things, look at mom I think she was 160 when she died and she was gorgeous", he compared.
"You're right, so I have hopes to be gorgeous even then", she said with a smile
"And it helps to work out a little", he added.
"It's good to know I won't depend of plastic surgery", she said
"I wouldn't be that sure", he said and they both kept laughing not knowing that Phoebe wasn't sleeping and was able to hear their giggles through the wall. What they didn't know as well, was that she was crying silently.
"So you guys are working on your own 'baby'?", she stated jealously while crying in the other side of the wall. It was so wrong she was the one supposed to be with Cole.
She kept weeping silently for a while till she fell asleep.
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Cole was sat in his chair near the fireplace smoking his cigar and drinking a very expensive scotch
"Phoebe!", he called
"Yes, Sir", she replied.
"Could you please turn on some music", he commanded without even looking at her.
She was a little confused and when she looked down at herself she noticed she was wearing an uniform and that she weighed like 300 pounds.
"What?", she reacted.
"Didn't you hear me?!", he said, "I want some music and please try it to be something classic", he said.
It was incredible, she was his maid??? He didn't even turn to look at her, why would he? she was an elephant.
Suddenly Alex came in, she was wearing a silk sky blue Hello Kitty robe, "I love you", she said to Cole and kissed him.
"I love you too", he replied as she sat in his lap, "You're sooo hot, not like Phoebe", he said and they both laughed.
Phoebe couldn't believe it. This was the hell, "I had your baby!", she yelled in defence of her shape.
"Baby", Alex started as she got up, "Guess who had your baby and is in perfect shape", she seductively said. "Me", she said as she let the robe fall revelling a very sexy Hello Kitty lingerie, that let see her perfect body.
"Baby you're so hot", Cole said and they started making out.
"No! No, no, no", Phoebe kept yelling and was brought back to reality for Prue's Cries.
Phoebe woke up all sweaty; it had been a dream, what a dream? A nightmare… 'What if is one of those premonitions dreams', she feared. Then she loomed at the clock on the nightstand, '2:30 am', she read and Prue was hungry.
"Come here, sweetie", Phoebe said and took the baby in her arms. She unbuttoned her shirt and started breastfeeding while talking to her baby, in that Prue fell asleep again. Phoebe laid her carefully on the bed again. She needed a glass of water, so she just got up and went to the kitchen, she drank her water and sighed. She had to get out of there; she would get crazy.
"What are you doing up?", Cole interrupted her thoughts as he turned the kitchen's light on.
"Uh… I just… I was feeding Prue, she fell asleep and I got thirsty", she said shyly. "What about you?", she asked
"I just …uh… couldn't sleep that much tonight", he said. "Do you want some coffee?", he offered.
'You bet, I heard you playing with your doll.' She thought.
"Yeah, coffee would be great", she said as she sat in one of the Kitchen's stool.
"Why doesn't Jonathan come here? Doesn't he want to see his daughter?", he suddenly asked.
It was something that was in his mind but he hadn't dared to ask.
"I wouldn't mind at all if he comes to see her", he offered.
'Of course I would mind, he took you away from me', he thought, he was just being polite.
Phoebe didn't know what to say. She never expected something like this from Cole, he was really offering her that Prue's assumed father could come to his house whenever he wanted? That meant he didn't care she was with another guy.
"Ah… Jonathan? Well, he can't come over and he hasn't come because… he's out of town, in a business trip", she made up.
"Well, tell him he can come to see his daughter. If that little one were my daughter, I would be dying to see her if she were away from me.", he said.
'Oh my god, she's your daughter', she thought.
She was so touched, he would have made a great dad, it was so beautiful, and then again she felt very guilty, the guilt that would be with her till the day she died because of the secret she had kept from Cole.
"And what does he do? For a living?", he curiously asked.
"He's a… publisher. A very successful one", she replied.
"A publisher, uh? Interesting", he nodded, 'What a looser', his lawyer pride thought as he gave her a cup of coffee.
"Thanks", she said.
"Would you like a cookie?", he asked searching through the cabinet.
"Ok", she nodded. "And how's work?", she asked trying to change the subject.
"Good, pretty good", he said, "Chocolate chips", he handled her a cookie as he ate one himself,
"These are… were Alex's", he said noticing the empty package, "Please don't tell her", he said and she smiled. They stayed quite for a while. "Is he… I mean Jonathan, is he happy of being a father?", he asked. He wanted to know that if that looser had all he couldn't, that at least he appreciated it.
"Yes", she just nodded, empty answer, she had the feeling Jonathan didn't care about the baby.
"Why wouldn't he?", she asked
"I mean, sometimes it should be hard not to have private moments because the baby is crying but waking up with the two people you love the much on earth can definitely fill withdraw.", he said with a smile.
"Yeah", she just nodded. She was amazed by the way Cole expressed, how different Jonathan and him were. Cole was such a sensible and caring man, one of the reasons she loved him.
"Look, I'm a little tired and I should get some sleep, Prue usually wakes early… thanks for the coffee. Good night", she said. She had to get out of there otherwise she wouldn't be able to control and throw herself in his arms and make a complete fool of herself when he rejected her, but he was so sweet, so noble, so… so Cole, and that was enough for her to love him.
"Good night, Phoebe", he said as he saw her leave.
"You already lost her Turner", he whispered to himself as he took a sip of his cup. And he sadly repeated to himself, "You lost her".
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