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Chapter 6
"Screwing it"
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Next morning. Cole got up and walked towards his bedroom. He hadn't really slept during the night. Knowing that the woman he'd love for the rest of his life but would never be his was sleeping in the next room had been driving him crazy. He stopped at the doorway and watched Phoebe and Prue sleeping for a while. They were both so cute that it was making him smile despite the sadness he was feeling in his heart. Alex walked next to him and kissed him on the cheek.
"Morning honey." She told him.
"Morning." He replied, still looking at Phoebe and Prue.
"What are you doing?" Alex asked him.
"Nothing. Just watching them sleep. They're both really cute." Cole replied.
After a silence Cole said: "The almost three years we had together were magical, even if a lot happened to us, the fight against the demons and everything, there is nothing I regret. We had so much fun and we were so deeply in love that I enjoyed every single moment. Of course, now it's different, everything is different... And I have you. I was just like an empty shell but now that you moved in with me, you brought joy in my life."
Alex smiled and hugged him tightly.
"I love you Cole, I'll always be with you, no matter what." She said.
"Please, don't make it be true", he whispered joking, and she patted him on the chest. "I'm kidding. I love you too sweetie." He replied before giving her a big noisy kiss on the cheek.
"Let's prepare breakfast before the Halliwells wake up." Alex said.
Cole nodded and they both walked away.
Once Phoebe was sure that they were in the kitchen, she sat up. She had heard everything Cole had said. She was pretending to be asleep, but just like Cole had said, she hadn't been able to sleep either, she had too much things in mind to sleep, the guilt of not telling Cole about Prue was overwhelming her and the fact that he was now in love with this kiddo was hard to stand for her. What he said was all true; the almost three years they had together had been magical but she had very well heard the 'I love you and I'll always be with you' part. And the kiss, she hadn't seen it; because her eyes were closed but it was so noisy that she was sure that her replacement had been sucking up his lips. The thought almost made her shiver. To the numerous qualities Cole had, you could definitely add good kisser to the list and it was Alex, not her who had all the benefits.
She decided to lay back in the bed, she didn't want to get up before Alex had to leave for kindergarten or college, whatever. She kissed her daughter on the forehead and closed her eyes for a while. The images of the nightmare she'd had during the night came back to her; she had almost forgot it.
'Doesn't matter to make a fuss about it, you won't have him back, even if you were a model, he wouldn't come back to you.' She thought.
'He's in love.' She sadly added, still thinking.
Meanwhile in the kitchen, Alex and Cole were sitting at the table, waiting for the coffee to be ready.
"So... Are you sure you're not going to do anything about Phoebe?" Alex asked.
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure about it, she moved on, she has her life and she looks happy." Cole replied.
"Do you think that one day I'll have kids?" She asked, suddenly changing the subject.
"Yeah, why not? The only problem will be to find a guy crazy enough to marry you or even go out with you, but besides that, I think you'll be a great mother." Cole replied with a smile.
Alex shook her head and got up to take the cups because the coffee was finally really.
She handed a cup to Cole and asked: "Should we wake her up?"
"No, I don't think so, she probably needs to sleep, otherwise she would be up already." Cole said.
"What about work? Doesn't she have to go to work?" Alex asked.
"Oh yeah... I didn't think about that." Cole said.
He put his cup on the table and got up. He made his way to his bedroom.
He couldn't help but smile once again when he saw Prue and Phoebe together.
He kneeled down and woke up Phoebe, slowly and gently shaking her. He missed the times when he was waking her up with sweet kisses, caresses and loving words.
"Phoebe, don't you have to go to work?" He asked, almost whispering.
"Don't wanna go." She replied without opening her eyes.
"Okay. I'll be in the kitchen when you'll be ready to have breakfast." He said before leaving the room.
Phoebe had always loved to wake up next to him, now she was cursing herself for not being the one next to him in the mornings, the only think comforting her was that she was in his bed, smelling his scent, the scent she'll never forget. She let her mind floating to the thought of what Cole had said about waking up with the two women he loved the most. She imagined herself waking up next to Cole, with Prue with them, all of them smiling. She sighed mentally, even if she had never known the feeling, she was missing it.
As Cole was leaving the room, he was thinking about what it could be like to wake up next to them. Even if Prue wasn't his daughter, he was willing to adopt her, to treat her as his daughter or something. He deadly wanted to go back in the room, take away his clothes and lay down next to them, to hold the both of them in his arms.
He snapped out of his thoughts and joined Alex in the kitchen.
"I gotta go." She told him in a hurry.
"College, right?" He said.
"Yeah." She quickly said before running to her room.
Cole sat down on a chair and sighed, still thinking about what could have been his life if things were different.
After some minutes, Alex came back in the kitchen, dressed and ready to go college. But something got his attention.
"What with the outfit?", he curiously asked. It was strange; a navy blue suit with knee length skirt, her hair gathered in a braid and glasses?.
"I didn't know you wore glasses", he commented, "Where are you going?", he questioned eyeing her.
"This is my new style because of the college", she replied the first question, "I do wear glasses when I'm studying and I'm going to my class", she replied.
Cole didn't get it.
"Oh, right, I think I forgot to tell you. I quit to the Business school", she informed
"You what?! We had agreed for you to go to-", he lectured her but she cut him off.
"No. You don't get it. I changed my majoring. I realized the numbers are not my thing, I registered in the Law School", she said with a smile.
"What?", Cole's jaw dropped. "Who are you and what have you done to my little sister?", he asked
"I'm serious", she said
"I…uh… I don't know what to say, I can't believe it", he mumbled, he was really surprised. "Do… do you really want to be a lawyer?"
She nodded, "I was meditating and I remembered that conversation we had about lawyers and doctors and since you could help me I decided to give it a shot", she explained
"I couldn't agree more"; he nodded as well. He felt like proud; this was a signal that he was doing a good work.
"Ok, I'm late". She kissed her brother on the cheek and said: "Have fun today."
"Yeah, you too. And after your classes, you come straight back home, I don't want you hanging around everywhere with those demons after us." He told her.
"Okay, I will come back home as soon as I've finished." She replied before placing another kiss on his cheek.
"Bye." Cole told her as she walked away.
"Bye." She replied closing the door behind her.
Cole smiled and sighed again. He started to stare at his empty cup of coffee when someone interrupted him.
"Do you have a bottle in the fridge?" Phoebe asked.
"Oh, yeah." He said getting up and walking in towards the fridge, picking the bottle and giving it to her.
"Is Alex already gone?" She asked as if she didn't know the answer.
"Huh?" Cole said, he hadn't really heard Phoebe; he was already focusing on the well awake Prue in her mother's arm. He was playing with the little girl's hand and was tickling her.
"Is Alex already gone?" She asked again.
"Oh, yeah, she just left." Cole replied, without looking at Phoebe.
Phoebe put the baby's bottle in the microwaves and watched Cole playing with her daughter while she was holding her.
"Aren't you sad your cool Auntie Alex's gone?" Cole asked to Prue.
"Here, hold her." Phoebe said, handing him the little girl.
"Thanks." Cole said, picking up Prue in his strong arms.
"Oh, my, you're so beautiful this morning." Cole said.
As Prue giggled, Cole continued to talk to her.
"Did you sleep well?" Cole asked.
Phoebe was about to answer but Cole wasn't even looking at her. He was too busy playing with Prue; it was so cute the way Cole the ex- Source of All Evil, the former Mighty Belthozar could melt like this for this little girl.
Prue giggle once again and Cole smiled and he said: "Looks like it's a yes."
When the microwaves rang, Phoebe took the bottle. Cole walked next to her and he was about to take the bottle but he realized that Phoebe should be the one giving it to her daughter.
"Sorry." He said.
He handed her the little girl and said: "You came here to spend some time with her and I'm taking her away from you."
"It's okay Cole, don't worry about that." Phoebe replied with a smile.
She started to feed Prue and silence filled the room.
After a moment Cole asked: "Did you like shimmering?"
Phoebe looked up at him and said: "Why that question?"
"I was wondering why Prue likes shimmering, and if you liked it, it could be like mother like daughter." He replied with a smile.
Phoebe smiled, "Yeah, I liked it." She just said to reply the question.
Cole smiled and silence filled the room one more time. It was so weird, they were sharing what could be a family moment, but it was the opposite, they were only sharing a friendly moment.
Cole cleared his throat and asked: "Do you think I could have been a good father? I mean, for our little boy."
This question just hit Phoebe, she looked at Prue and could feel a tear in her eyes, she sighed and said: "The best." Phoebe sincerely replied, looking in his deep blue eyes. She looked down again, even though it was the Source's son, she always felt it like hers and Cole's, and even though Prue came after, her heart always cried at her lost first son.
Emotion was overwhelming them, they were both trying to fight the urge to fall in each others arms, they were still in love but they both knew that it was impossible for them to be together because of so many things and the first was that they had both someone in their lives.
"Sometimes I think about him you know, I could have taught him to play baseball or the use his powers." Cole said with a shine in his eyes.
Phoebe didn't answered, she was looking at Prue, and once again, she was about to spill the truth about Prue, her throat was so tight that it was hurting her. How could she hide him the truth about his daughter? He had always wished to be a father, she knew it, and it was hurting her just to think that she had took this joy away from him.
"Anyway." Cole finally said, to Phoebe's relief.
"I better have a shower right now, while you're with Prue." He added before leaving the kitchen.
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Some days passed, and Prue still was under the cares of her uncle Cole and her cool auntie Alex, it had been more than planned, but still it wasn't safe for her to go home with her mommy. Every time Phoebe arrived to the Manor a demon was waiting for her, and the attacks were still constant. They hadn't got to Alex again either. Everything would be safe while they stick on the penthouse.
"Come on", he said, "Block, now, kick". He continued and she breathless tried to follow his instructions. It was really hard; Cole was really touch as a trainer. When she tried to kick, he grabbed her by her leg and took control of her and then she ended up laying on the floor. She just closed her eyes trying to recover.
"Three weeks…", Cole started madly, "Three weeks and I still can get you", he said, "What's going on?", he asked her looking down at her on the floor
"I don't know… I just can't… I can't follow you", his sister barely said trying to catch a breath.
"It seems like you've never trained before", he commented.
"I did", she replied. 'How can I explain that I always ended up sleeping with my mentors and trainers?', she thought.
"Alexandra, if you want to learn how to fight you have to focus", he said, "Come on, get up", he ordered
"No", she said, "I'm tired already".
"Don't be lazy, we have to train at least 2 hours", he stated.
"And for how long have we been training?", she asked
"30 minutes", he replied
"What?! But I'm almost dead", she complained. She then got up and they started the routine again, "If you see me expand you contract if I contract you expand", he explained and she nodded.
They kept the routine and Alex ended up once again on the floor.
"Damn it!", she exclaimed, Prue laughed at it. Alex was trying to suppress her gross language, at least 'damn' sounded a little better than 'shit' or 'fuck'. Prue who was in a sitting position in her baby carriage was watching this with wide eyes, she laughed every time Alex ended up on the floor. "How can you get me every time?", she asked.
"Because I can predict every one of your moves", he explained as she sat up again, "Sometimes when you're fighting is more important to be aware of the opponent's movements than your owns'. That way you can know what that person or demon will do before it actually happen, and there you attack", he explained.
Alex just sighed and took a breath, she then got up and they started one more time, again Alex was sent to the floor and Prue laughed.
"See? I don't want to be harsh, but even Prue knows you suck", he said joking as she was trying to get up again, she just gave him a look.
In that moment, the elevator's bell rang and since the door was open, Phoebe could freely walk in.
"Morning", she said
"Hey", Cole just replied.
"Hi", Alex lazily said from the floor.
"How's my little sweetie?", Phoebe went straight to her daughter. She couldn't help but notice Cole all shirtless and all sweaty, they had been training, it brought back old memories. She remembered when he was training her to take the source. 'Good luck, Bitch. Cole is not nice as a trainer', she thought with satisfaction. 'But he's so hot as a trainer' another voice replied in her mind. She took Prue in her arms and kissed her on the cheek, she then sat on a chair with her daughter in her arms.
****FLASHBACK****
In the basement Phoebe and Cole were fighting with swords. Suddenly Phoebe stops and clutched her ankle.
"Uh, I think it's twisted", Phoebe said breathless.
"Stand up.", Cole coldly said
"I just need a time out", she said.
"The Source won't give you a time out when you ask. Now get up!", he commanded as cold as a rock.
"I said that I can't; Jeez, Cole. What's the matter with you?", she asked. Phoebe noticed this wasn't her boyfriend; this was Trainer Cole.
"Demons worship strength, power. Nothing else. To beat the Source, you have to channel all of your energy into your strength. Including pain", he explained as she got up and he reached out to help her.
"Let go of me. I can do it", she replied rejecting his help.
Cole got he had been touch to her, "I don't want anything to happen to you", he said coming closer and she rested her head on his chest for a moment. She understood that he had to be touch so she would learn to defend herself if he was not there. He was doing this because he loved her and he wouldn't forgive himself if he weren't around, there were an attack, something happened to her and she weren't able to defend.
"Let's go. I'm ready", she said. And they picked up the fight.
****END OF FLASHBACK****.
"Get up, Alex", he ordered.
"Not again", she lazily complained; "please, my back hurts badly".
"Get up Alexandra", he said with a mentor aptitude and she did, in less than 3 minutes she was on the floor again.
"Shit!", she expressed hitting the floor with her fist.
"Stop it", he said, "I can't work like this"; he added shaking his head.
"I'm sorry. I can take the move", she said.
"This is not working", he stated, "Phoebe…" he called her and she raised her head.
"Yeah?", she answered from the couch
"I need a favor", he started, "I need you to do a routine to show Alex the way to do it", he said.
"With Alex?", she asked looking at her daughter.
"With me", he said
"I don't know", she said still feeding her daughter.
"Please", he almost begged.
"I promise I won't laugh when you ended up on the floor", Alex commented
This was supposed to be some kind of joke but Phoebe couldn't find it amusing or funny; so this kiddo thought that she wasn't able to do it. This made Phoebe pissed, it was a challenge, "I'll do it", she firmly stated.
"When can you come over to train?", he asked
"I'll do it now", she determined. And put Prue back on her baby carriage
So she came closer; then her and Cole were face to face ready to start. She gathered her hair with a hair clip, sighed and then looked at Cole straight to the eyes, she then nodded to let him know she was ready.
They started the routine. It was almost a torture because of the closeness and the contact between them at the moment. Cole kicked she avoided it and kicked herself; they kept working out and Phoebe managed to fool Cole and he ended up laying on his back on the floor and she put her foot on his chest like showing control over him. Prue laughed and Alex started to claps.
"Wow", Alex said amazed, "How can you do it wearing a skirt and high heels?", she asked referring to her 'work outfit'.
"Real life training", she bitchily replied with a triumphal smile.
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Phoebe as usual went to check on her baby, it wasn't an usual hour, actually it was a work hour, but she couldn't help it.
She got to the floor and the doors were open, 'strange', she thought, so she got into the penthouse.
No signal of Cole or Prue, it was weird, Phoebe thought, she kept staring at the place and then she heard something, she just stayed quite scanned the place again…it sounded like a moan, she stayed quite and then she heard it again, it was coming from the main bedroom, then she turned mad as she thought, 'Oh my god'. Then she figured, the noises were coming from the main bedroom, Cole's bedroom. It was so sick. 'So you guys decide to have fun while you're watching my baby?', she screamed in her mind. She was so furious; it was so wrong and so sick, so she decided to surprise them, she was acting blinded by two emotions to be careful with: anger and jealous, mostly the last one. Then she sighed, took a deep breath and opened the bedroom's door
"So.. you don't care about having fun while watching my daughter, you bastards!!", she angrily screamed as she led the door open, and the only answer to her was two shocked caught faces whose jaw dropped after they both screamed as well.
"Aaaaahhh!" Alex and the other guy shouted in unison
"Oh my god!", Phoebe repulsively said as she covered her eyes
It was so… so.. it wasn't Cole and his school girl having fun, in fact his school girl was having fun with some one else… it was so unfair, Cole deserved so much better than this…
"Where's Prue?", Phoebe demanded.
"She's Ok. She's with Cole, they went for a walk", Alex nervously replied as she covered herself with the sheets. "Please, please don't tell Cole about this", she asked begging
"What?!", Phoebe reacted. This was insane, this kid was cheating on Cole, on his own home and she pretend Phoebe to cover for her?. Alex grasped the sheet around herself and stood on the doorway in a confident attitude.
"Please, please, he doesn't have to know about this, he'll kick me out and I have nowhere else to go", she almost pleaded, she knew she had screwed it, and she would be in troubles if Cole found out about this.
In that same moment a very happy Cole arrives with Prue in his arms, giggling at Cole and wearing the new hat her cool auntie had got for her. Still smiling from the amusing walk, he was shocked from the scene he witnessed in front of him. First at all Alex grasped in a sheet, obviously naked talking to Phoebe in his bedroom's doorway.
"What the hell is going on in here?", he demanded.
Neither Phoebe nor Alex said a word.
So raising his voice this time he questioned one more time, "What the hell is going on in here?"
This time no one said a word either but Alex looked down, this was the proof he needed to know something was not right. "Phoebe, what are you doing here?", he asked
"I…uh…", Phoebe tried.
"What?", he reacted. Then he handed Prue to her mother and got in his bedroom.
When he got in, what he saw was a guy getting dressed. "You are soo dead Alexandra!", he angrily shouted.
The guy saw troubles entering with Cole so he instantly shimmered out, but surprise, surprise, he was sent to the floor, and this time Cole threw a energy ball at him and vanquish him in the act.
Outside the bedroom they could hear the flaming noise of a vanquish; "To bad, he was really good in bed", Alex whispered. Then Cole got out the room to confront his little sister.
"Why did you do that for?", she demanded, "You have not right to do this to me"
"What?!", he shouted, "WHY DID YOU DO THAT FOR?!", he questioned. "Are you insane? A demon? In my house? In my bed?!"
"I was just having some fun", she said.
"Well you won't have fun anymore", he stated
"But he was good in bed!", Alex shouted, "You can not do this to me! It's so unfair", she complained.
"RULES", he stated, "We talked about rules, rules you were supposed to follow if you wanted to live here", he said angrily.
"You're not even my father!", she shouted.
This was too much, it even hurt him, "That's true, I may not be, but I'm here to at least try you to do things straight. You know, I wanted it to be different for you, I didn't want you to live the same I lived, but it seems like you don't understand or accept that", he said sincerely. "Now I want you to gather your stuff and leave", he said. It was the anger talking out.
Alex saw this coming, she knew she had screw it big, but she couldn't go, not now, finally she had a sense in her life, actually she had a life, even though she would never recognize it to Cole. "Cole… please, you can't do this to me", she begged. "Look I know I screw it, but I have nowhere else to go… please", she continued. "Give me another chance, I swear I'll put it together and I won't screw it".
He just stood there quite. He was really pissed, because she had unrespected him when she broke the rules.
"Please, I'm your only sister, I'll do whatever you want me to, I'll become a nun… I'll do your laundry for a week, I'll clean the whole place… I'll… please don't kick me out", she pleaded, "Besides…The brotherhood is after me, they'll kill me. I'll do whatever you want", she added. "You're the one who protect me, right now without you I'm a sitting duck".
Cole stayed still mad and thought the chances the Brotherhood could take to kill her if he didn't protect her. "And you'll train properly", he said
"Does it mean I can stay?", she asked
Cole just sighed and nodded, "Yes". Still very cold and serious, the fact she was staying didn't mean he was less mad.
"Thanks", she said and looked down. She knew she didn't deserve it.
"Now go to your room, get dressed and wait till I'll call you for dinner. You're so grounded", he angrily said and turned his back on her.
Alex just nodded quite and left.
"Kids", Cole repeated as he sighed and looked at Phoebe.
"So… she's your sister?", Phoebe asked surprised.
"Yeah, I thought you knew that", he coldly replied.
"Of course I knew it, she's a lot like her brother". she lied
It was taking Phoebe a lot of self control not to jump everywhere. Sister, she was only his sister. How can she have thought he was screwing her, she's just a kid and Cole loves matures women. Phoebe had been so paranoid that she couldn't see the truth, then she started to understand… the fact she was living there, why he was training her, the 'I love you' scenes, of course she also said 'I love you' to her sisters, it was so ridiculous she had thought he was living with someone who he had a serious relationship with. But still the thing that was hunting her was the fact that Cole looked like he had actually moved on. Even if he wasn't engaged with someone, he had moved on, otherwise he would have tried to win her back. But the truth was that, they were just friends and he hadn't tried to win her back. Still, she was happy for him, he deserved to move on, he was a great guy, and after all she had done to him, he deserved to be happy, and he looked happy.
Suddenly, Alex went out of her room and said: "But you know, he was really good in bed."
Cole gave her a killer look and she quickly closed the door.
Phoebe laughed and Cole gave her a look as well.
"What? She's young and she's having fun, nothing to worry about. I did that too." She said.
"I don't think you were screwing every guy around." Cole said and she looked down, "weren't you?"
"Well... When I was in NYC, I had some fun..." She replied shyly.
"What?" Cole exclaimed.
"Huh... Can we talk about something else?" She quickly said to change the subject.
Alex opened the door once again and asked: "Will I, at least, have a day partying per week?"
Cole sighed and shook his head, then Alex asked again: "Per month?"
"Once in a year for my birthday?" She insisted again.
As Cole didn't replied, she went back in her room and closed the door.
"You know, she could come to P3 and we'll keep an eye on her." Phoebe proposed.
"We'll see." Cole said, still mad at her little sister.
Then he looked up at her and said: "You know she's a demon, and I know you don't believe in demons being good, but I'm doing my best to make her understand that living as normal people is much better then living as a demon. She's slowly learning things and maybe one day, she'll find a guy for who she'll do her best to act as normal people, someone who will worth the try, someone who will wake up her human side."
Phoebe knew exactly what he was talking about, he was hoping that Alex will fall in love just like he did with her and that this guy will save her from evil just like she saved Cole years ago.
"If I thought that you were still evil, I wouldn't have asked you to watch my daughter." She said.
Cole smiled and said: "You know that I'll never hurt someone from your family, but what you doubt is my capacity to control my dark side."
Prue started to cry, which saved Phoebe from an uncomfortable answer.
Alex opened her door for the third time and said: "See? She's not happy that her cool Auntie is grounded."
"Look what you did to her, she's crying now." She added.
Cole ignored her comments as Phoebe was trying to calm the little girl. As her attempt where unsuccessful, she decided to give her daughter to Cole who started to rock her gently.
"Shh, it's okay baby." He whispered.
In less than one minute, Prue finally calmed down and Phoebe smiled.
"How come you're so nice with her? she's not your daughter, not even your sister." Alex exclaimed.
"She's not screwing around nor breaking my rules", he replied.
"It's so unfair." Alex added to her previous comment.
"You go back to your room and be quiet, I don't wanna hear or see you before dinner." Cole told her sternly.
"She's jealous." He added looking at Phoebe.
"I am not jealous." Alex shouted from her room.
Phoebe smiled and said: "I better go."
"No, wait, why don't you stay?" Cole asked.
'Coz if I stay, I'll make a fool of myself trying to get you back.' She mentally said.
"Because I have to get some rest, I'll have an hard day tomorrow." She said.
"Okay, goodbye then." He said, kissing her on the cheek.
"Goodbye Cole." She said returning the kiss.
"Bye sweetie, I love you." She said to her daughter, kissing her on the cheek as well.
"Bye Alex." She shouted.
"Bye." Alex replied.
As she left, she couldn't help but smile, she had learnt something pretty important today, Cole wasn't living with anyone… it was a feeling like 'if don't have him no one else will have him either'. She smiled one more time and got to her car.
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Chapter 6
"Screwing it"
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Next morning. Cole got up and walked towards his bedroom. He hadn't really slept during the night. Knowing that the woman he'd love for the rest of his life but would never be his was sleeping in the next room had been driving him crazy. He stopped at the doorway and watched Phoebe and Prue sleeping for a while. They were both so cute that it was making him smile despite the sadness he was feeling in his heart. Alex walked next to him and kissed him on the cheek.
"Morning honey." She told him.
"Morning." He replied, still looking at Phoebe and Prue.
"What are you doing?" Alex asked him.
"Nothing. Just watching them sleep. They're both really cute." Cole replied.
After a silence Cole said: "The almost three years we had together were magical, even if a lot happened to us, the fight against the demons and everything, there is nothing I regret. We had so much fun and we were so deeply in love that I enjoyed every single moment. Of course, now it's different, everything is different... And I have you. I was just like an empty shell but now that you moved in with me, you brought joy in my life."
Alex smiled and hugged him tightly.
"I love you Cole, I'll always be with you, no matter what." She said.
"Please, don't make it be true", he whispered joking, and she patted him on the chest. "I'm kidding. I love you too sweetie." He replied before giving her a big noisy kiss on the cheek.
"Let's prepare breakfast before the Halliwells wake up." Alex said.
Cole nodded and they both walked away.
Once Phoebe was sure that they were in the kitchen, she sat up. She had heard everything Cole had said. She was pretending to be asleep, but just like Cole had said, she hadn't been able to sleep either, she had too much things in mind to sleep, the guilt of not telling Cole about Prue was overwhelming her and the fact that he was now in love with this kiddo was hard to stand for her. What he said was all true; the almost three years they had together had been magical but she had very well heard the 'I love you and I'll always be with you' part. And the kiss, she hadn't seen it; because her eyes were closed but it was so noisy that she was sure that her replacement had been sucking up his lips. The thought almost made her shiver. To the numerous qualities Cole had, you could definitely add good kisser to the list and it was Alex, not her who had all the benefits.
She decided to lay back in the bed, she didn't want to get up before Alex had to leave for kindergarten or college, whatever. She kissed her daughter on the forehead and closed her eyes for a while. The images of the nightmare she'd had during the night came back to her; she had almost forgot it.
'Doesn't matter to make a fuss about it, you won't have him back, even if you were a model, he wouldn't come back to you.' She thought.
'He's in love.' She sadly added, still thinking.
Meanwhile in the kitchen, Alex and Cole were sitting at the table, waiting for the coffee to be ready.
"So... Are you sure you're not going to do anything about Phoebe?" Alex asked.
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure about it, she moved on, she has her life and she looks happy." Cole replied.
"Do you think that one day I'll have kids?" She asked, suddenly changing the subject.
"Yeah, why not? The only problem will be to find a guy crazy enough to marry you or even go out with you, but besides that, I think you'll be a great mother." Cole replied with a smile.
Alex shook her head and got up to take the cups because the coffee was finally really.
She handed a cup to Cole and asked: "Should we wake her up?"
"No, I don't think so, she probably needs to sleep, otherwise she would be up already." Cole said.
"What about work? Doesn't she have to go to work?" Alex asked.
"Oh yeah... I didn't think about that." Cole said.
He put his cup on the table and got up. He made his way to his bedroom.
He couldn't help but smile once again when he saw Prue and Phoebe together.
He kneeled down and woke up Phoebe, slowly and gently shaking her. He missed the times when he was waking her up with sweet kisses, caresses and loving words.
"Phoebe, don't you have to go to work?" He asked, almost whispering.
"Don't wanna go." She replied without opening her eyes.
"Okay. I'll be in the kitchen when you'll be ready to have breakfast." He said before leaving the room.
Phoebe had always loved to wake up next to him, now she was cursing herself for not being the one next to him in the mornings, the only think comforting her was that she was in his bed, smelling his scent, the scent she'll never forget. She let her mind floating to the thought of what Cole had said about waking up with the two women he loved the most. She imagined herself waking up next to Cole, with Prue with them, all of them smiling. She sighed mentally, even if she had never known the feeling, she was missing it.
As Cole was leaving the room, he was thinking about what it could be like to wake up next to them. Even if Prue wasn't his daughter, he was willing to adopt her, to treat her as his daughter or something. He deadly wanted to go back in the room, take away his clothes and lay down next to them, to hold the both of them in his arms.
He snapped out of his thoughts and joined Alex in the kitchen.
"I gotta go." She told him in a hurry.
"College, right?" He said.
"Yeah." She quickly said before running to her room.
Cole sat down on a chair and sighed, still thinking about what could have been his life if things were different.
After some minutes, Alex came back in the kitchen, dressed and ready to go college. But something got his attention.
"What with the outfit?", he curiously asked. It was strange; a navy blue suit with knee length skirt, her hair gathered in a braid and glasses?.
"I didn't know you wore glasses", he commented, "Where are you going?", he questioned eyeing her.
"This is my new style because of the college", she replied the first question, "I do wear glasses when I'm studying and I'm going to my class", she replied.
Cole didn't get it.
"Oh, right, I think I forgot to tell you. I quit to the Business school", she informed
"You what?! We had agreed for you to go to-", he lectured her but she cut him off.
"No. You don't get it. I changed my majoring. I realized the numbers are not my thing, I registered in the Law School", she said with a smile.
"What?", Cole's jaw dropped. "Who are you and what have you done to my little sister?", he asked
"I'm serious", she said
"I…uh… I don't know what to say, I can't believe it", he mumbled, he was really surprised. "Do… do you really want to be a lawyer?"
She nodded, "I was meditating and I remembered that conversation we had about lawyers and doctors and since you could help me I decided to give it a shot", she explained
"I couldn't agree more"; he nodded as well. He felt like proud; this was a signal that he was doing a good work.
"Ok, I'm late". She kissed her brother on the cheek and said: "Have fun today."
"Yeah, you too. And after your classes, you come straight back home, I don't want you hanging around everywhere with those demons after us." He told her.
"Okay, I will come back home as soon as I've finished." She replied before placing another kiss on his cheek.
"Bye." Cole told her as she walked away.
"Bye." She replied closing the door behind her.
Cole smiled and sighed again. He started to stare at his empty cup of coffee when someone interrupted him.
"Do you have a bottle in the fridge?" Phoebe asked.
"Oh, yeah." He said getting up and walking in towards the fridge, picking the bottle and giving it to her.
"Is Alex already gone?" She asked as if she didn't know the answer.
"Huh?" Cole said, he hadn't really heard Phoebe; he was already focusing on the well awake Prue in her mother's arm. He was playing with the little girl's hand and was tickling her.
"Is Alex already gone?" She asked again.
"Oh, yeah, she just left." Cole replied, without looking at Phoebe.
Phoebe put the baby's bottle in the microwaves and watched Cole playing with her daughter while she was holding her.
"Aren't you sad your cool Auntie Alex's gone?" Cole asked to Prue.
"Here, hold her." Phoebe said, handing him the little girl.
"Thanks." Cole said, picking up Prue in his strong arms.
"Oh, my, you're so beautiful this morning." Cole said.
As Prue giggled, Cole continued to talk to her.
"Did you sleep well?" Cole asked.
Phoebe was about to answer but Cole wasn't even looking at her. He was too busy playing with Prue; it was so cute the way Cole the ex- Source of All Evil, the former Mighty Belthozar could melt like this for this little girl.
Prue giggle once again and Cole smiled and he said: "Looks like it's a yes."
When the microwaves rang, Phoebe took the bottle. Cole walked next to her and he was about to take the bottle but he realized that Phoebe should be the one giving it to her daughter.
"Sorry." He said.
He handed her the little girl and said: "You came here to spend some time with her and I'm taking her away from you."
"It's okay Cole, don't worry about that." Phoebe replied with a smile.
She started to feed Prue and silence filled the room.
After a moment Cole asked: "Did you like shimmering?"
Phoebe looked up at him and said: "Why that question?"
"I was wondering why Prue likes shimmering, and if you liked it, it could be like mother like daughter." He replied with a smile.
Phoebe smiled, "Yeah, I liked it." She just said to reply the question.
Cole smiled and silence filled the room one more time. It was so weird, they were sharing what could be a family moment, but it was the opposite, they were only sharing a friendly moment.
Cole cleared his throat and asked: "Do you think I could have been a good father? I mean, for our little boy."
This question just hit Phoebe, she looked at Prue and could feel a tear in her eyes, she sighed and said: "The best." Phoebe sincerely replied, looking in his deep blue eyes. She looked down again, even though it was the Source's son, she always felt it like hers and Cole's, and even though Prue came after, her heart always cried at her lost first son.
Emotion was overwhelming them, they were both trying to fight the urge to fall in each others arms, they were still in love but they both knew that it was impossible for them to be together because of so many things and the first was that they had both someone in their lives.
"Sometimes I think about him you know, I could have taught him to play baseball or the use his powers." Cole said with a shine in his eyes.
Phoebe didn't answered, she was looking at Prue, and once again, she was about to spill the truth about Prue, her throat was so tight that it was hurting her. How could she hide him the truth about his daughter? He had always wished to be a father, she knew it, and it was hurting her just to think that she had took this joy away from him.
"Anyway." Cole finally said, to Phoebe's relief.
"I better have a shower right now, while you're with Prue." He added before leaving the kitchen.
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Some days passed, and Prue still was under the cares of her uncle Cole and her cool auntie Alex, it had been more than planned, but still it wasn't safe for her to go home with her mommy. Every time Phoebe arrived to the Manor a demon was waiting for her, and the attacks were still constant. They hadn't got to Alex again either. Everything would be safe while they stick on the penthouse.
"Come on", he said, "Block, now, kick". He continued and she breathless tried to follow his instructions. It was really hard; Cole was really touch as a trainer. When she tried to kick, he grabbed her by her leg and took control of her and then she ended up laying on the floor. She just closed her eyes trying to recover.
"Three weeks…", Cole started madly, "Three weeks and I still can get you", he said, "What's going on?", he asked her looking down at her on the floor
"I don't know… I just can't… I can't follow you", his sister barely said trying to catch a breath.
"It seems like you've never trained before", he commented.
"I did", she replied. 'How can I explain that I always ended up sleeping with my mentors and trainers?', she thought.
"Alexandra, if you want to learn how to fight you have to focus", he said, "Come on, get up", he ordered
"No", she said, "I'm tired already".
"Don't be lazy, we have to train at least 2 hours", he stated.
"And for how long have we been training?", she asked
"30 minutes", he replied
"What?! But I'm almost dead", she complained. She then got up and they started the routine again, "If you see me expand you contract if I contract you expand", he explained and she nodded.
They kept the routine and Alex ended up once again on the floor.
"Damn it!", she exclaimed, Prue laughed at it. Alex was trying to suppress her gross language, at least 'damn' sounded a little better than 'shit' or 'fuck'. Prue who was in a sitting position in her baby carriage was watching this with wide eyes, she laughed every time Alex ended up on the floor. "How can you get me every time?", she asked.
"Because I can predict every one of your moves", he explained as she sat up again, "Sometimes when you're fighting is more important to be aware of the opponent's movements than your owns'. That way you can know what that person or demon will do before it actually happen, and there you attack", he explained.
Alex just sighed and took a breath, she then got up and they started one more time, again Alex was sent to the floor and Prue laughed.
"See? I don't want to be harsh, but even Prue knows you suck", he said joking as she was trying to get up again, she just gave him a look.
In that moment, the elevator's bell rang and since the door was open, Phoebe could freely walk in.
"Morning", she said
"Hey", Cole just replied.
"Hi", Alex lazily said from the floor.
"How's my little sweetie?", Phoebe went straight to her daughter. She couldn't help but notice Cole all shirtless and all sweaty, they had been training, it brought back old memories. She remembered when he was training her to take the source. 'Good luck, Bitch. Cole is not nice as a trainer', she thought with satisfaction. 'But he's so hot as a trainer' another voice replied in her mind. She took Prue in her arms and kissed her on the cheek, she then sat on a chair with her daughter in her arms.
****FLASHBACK****
In the basement Phoebe and Cole were fighting with swords. Suddenly Phoebe stops and clutched her ankle.
"Uh, I think it's twisted", Phoebe said breathless.
"Stand up.", Cole coldly said
"I just need a time out", she said.
"The Source won't give you a time out when you ask. Now get up!", he commanded as cold as a rock.
"I said that I can't; Jeez, Cole. What's the matter with you?", she asked. Phoebe noticed this wasn't her boyfriend; this was Trainer Cole.
"Demons worship strength, power. Nothing else. To beat the Source, you have to channel all of your energy into your strength. Including pain", he explained as she got up and he reached out to help her.
"Let go of me. I can do it", she replied rejecting his help.
Cole got he had been touch to her, "I don't want anything to happen to you", he said coming closer and she rested her head on his chest for a moment. She understood that he had to be touch so she would learn to defend herself if he was not there. He was doing this because he loved her and he wouldn't forgive himself if he weren't around, there were an attack, something happened to her and she weren't able to defend.
"Let's go. I'm ready", she said. And they picked up the fight.
****END OF FLASHBACK****.
"Get up, Alex", he ordered.
"Not again", she lazily complained; "please, my back hurts badly".
"Get up Alexandra", he said with a mentor aptitude and she did, in less than 3 minutes she was on the floor again.
"Shit!", she expressed hitting the floor with her fist.
"Stop it", he said, "I can't work like this"; he added shaking his head.
"I'm sorry. I can take the move", she said.
"This is not working", he stated, "Phoebe…" he called her and she raised her head.
"Yeah?", she answered from the couch
"I need a favor", he started, "I need you to do a routine to show Alex the way to do it", he said.
"With Alex?", she asked looking at her daughter.
"With me", he said
"I don't know", she said still feeding her daughter.
"Please", he almost begged.
"I promise I won't laugh when you ended up on the floor", Alex commented
This was supposed to be some kind of joke but Phoebe couldn't find it amusing or funny; so this kiddo thought that she wasn't able to do it. This made Phoebe pissed, it was a challenge, "I'll do it", she firmly stated.
"When can you come over to train?", he asked
"I'll do it now", she determined. And put Prue back on her baby carriage
So she came closer; then her and Cole were face to face ready to start. She gathered her hair with a hair clip, sighed and then looked at Cole straight to the eyes, she then nodded to let him know she was ready.
They started the routine. It was almost a torture because of the closeness and the contact between them at the moment. Cole kicked she avoided it and kicked herself; they kept working out and Phoebe managed to fool Cole and he ended up laying on his back on the floor and she put her foot on his chest like showing control over him. Prue laughed and Alex started to claps.
"Wow", Alex said amazed, "How can you do it wearing a skirt and high heels?", she asked referring to her 'work outfit'.
"Real life training", she bitchily replied with a triumphal smile.
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Phoebe as usual went to check on her baby, it wasn't an usual hour, actually it was a work hour, but she couldn't help it.
She got to the floor and the doors were open, 'strange', she thought, so she got into the penthouse.
No signal of Cole or Prue, it was weird, Phoebe thought, she kept staring at the place and then she heard something, she just stayed quite scanned the place again…it sounded like a moan, she stayed quite and then she heard it again, it was coming from the main bedroom, then she turned mad as she thought, 'Oh my god'. Then she figured, the noises were coming from the main bedroom, Cole's bedroom. It was so sick. 'So you guys decide to have fun while you're watching my baby?', she screamed in her mind. She was so furious; it was so wrong and so sick, so she decided to surprise them, she was acting blinded by two emotions to be careful with: anger and jealous, mostly the last one. Then she sighed, took a deep breath and opened the bedroom's door
"So.. you don't care about having fun while watching my daughter, you bastards!!", she angrily screamed as she led the door open, and the only answer to her was two shocked caught faces whose jaw dropped after they both screamed as well.
"Aaaaahhh!" Alex and the other guy shouted in unison
"Oh my god!", Phoebe repulsively said as she covered her eyes
It was so… so.. it wasn't Cole and his school girl having fun, in fact his school girl was having fun with some one else… it was so unfair, Cole deserved so much better than this…
"Where's Prue?", Phoebe demanded.
"She's Ok. She's with Cole, they went for a walk", Alex nervously replied as she covered herself with the sheets. "Please, please don't tell Cole about this", she asked begging
"What?!", Phoebe reacted. This was insane, this kid was cheating on Cole, on his own home and she pretend Phoebe to cover for her?. Alex grasped the sheet around herself and stood on the doorway in a confident attitude.
"Please, please, he doesn't have to know about this, he'll kick me out and I have nowhere else to go", she almost pleaded, she knew she had screwed it, and she would be in troubles if Cole found out about this.
In that same moment a very happy Cole arrives with Prue in his arms, giggling at Cole and wearing the new hat her cool auntie had got for her. Still smiling from the amusing walk, he was shocked from the scene he witnessed in front of him. First at all Alex grasped in a sheet, obviously naked talking to Phoebe in his bedroom's doorway.
"What the hell is going on in here?", he demanded.
Neither Phoebe nor Alex said a word.
So raising his voice this time he questioned one more time, "What the hell is going on in here?"
This time no one said a word either but Alex looked down, this was the proof he needed to know something was not right. "Phoebe, what are you doing here?", he asked
"I…uh…", Phoebe tried.
"What?", he reacted. Then he handed Prue to her mother and got in his bedroom.
When he got in, what he saw was a guy getting dressed. "You are soo dead Alexandra!", he angrily shouted.
The guy saw troubles entering with Cole so he instantly shimmered out, but surprise, surprise, he was sent to the floor, and this time Cole threw a energy ball at him and vanquish him in the act.
Outside the bedroom they could hear the flaming noise of a vanquish; "To bad, he was really good in bed", Alex whispered. Then Cole got out the room to confront his little sister.
"Why did you do that for?", she demanded, "You have not right to do this to me"
"What?!", he shouted, "WHY DID YOU DO THAT FOR?!", he questioned. "Are you insane? A demon? In my house? In my bed?!"
"I was just having some fun", she said.
"Well you won't have fun anymore", he stated
"But he was good in bed!", Alex shouted, "You can not do this to me! It's so unfair", she complained.
"RULES", he stated, "We talked about rules, rules you were supposed to follow if you wanted to live here", he said angrily.
"You're not even my father!", she shouted.
This was too much, it even hurt him, "That's true, I may not be, but I'm here to at least try you to do things straight. You know, I wanted it to be different for you, I didn't want you to live the same I lived, but it seems like you don't understand or accept that", he said sincerely. "Now I want you to gather your stuff and leave", he said. It was the anger talking out.
Alex saw this coming, she knew she had screw it big, but she couldn't go, not now, finally she had a sense in her life, actually she had a life, even though she would never recognize it to Cole. "Cole… please, you can't do this to me", she begged. "Look I know I screw it, but I have nowhere else to go… please", she continued. "Give me another chance, I swear I'll put it together and I won't screw it".
He just stood there quite. He was really pissed, because she had unrespected him when she broke the rules.
"Please, I'm your only sister, I'll do whatever you want me to, I'll become a nun… I'll do your laundry for a week, I'll clean the whole place… I'll… please don't kick me out", she pleaded, "Besides…The brotherhood is after me, they'll kill me. I'll do whatever you want", she added. "You're the one who protect me, right now without you I'm a sitting duck".
Cole stayed still mad and thought the chances the Brotherhood could take to kill her if he didn't protect her. "And you'll train properly", he said
"Does it mean I can stay?", she asked
Cole just sighed and nodded, "Yes". Still very cold and serious, the fact she was staying didn't mean he was less mad.
"Thanks", she said and looked down. She knew she didn't deserve it.
"Now go to your room, get dressed and wait till I'll call you for dinner. You're so grounded", he angrily said and turned his back on her.
Alex just nodded quite and left.
"Kids", Cole repeated as he sighed and looked at Phoebe.
"So… she's your sister?", Phoebe asked surprised.
"Yeah, I thought you knew that", he coldly replied.
"Of course I knew it, she's a lot like her brother". she lied
It was taking Phoebe a lot of self control not to jump everywhere. Sister, she was only his sister. How can she have thought he was screwing her, she's just a kid and Cole loves matures women. Phoebe had been so paranoid that she couldn't see the truth, then she started to understand… the fact she was living there, why he was training her, the 'I love you' scenes, of course she also said 'I love you' to her sisters, it was so ridiculous she had thought he was living with someone who he had a serious relationship with. But still the thing that was hunting her was the fact that Cole looked like he had actually moved on. Even if he wasn't engaged with someone, he had moved on, otherwise he would have tried to win her back. But the truth was that, they were just friends and he hadn't tried to win her back. Still, she was happy for him, he deserved to move on, he was a great guy, and after all she had done to him, he deserved to be happy, and he looked happy.
Suddenly, Alex went out of her room and said: "But you know, he was really good in bed."
Cole gave her a killer look and she quickly closed the door.
Phoebe laughed and Cole gave her a look as well.
"What? She's young and she's having fun, nothing to worry about. I did that too." She said.
"I don't think you were screwing every guy around." Cole said and she looked down, "weren't you?"
"Well... When I was in NYC, I had some fun..." She replied shyly.
"What?" Cole exclaimed.
"Huh... Can we talk about something else?" She quickly said to change the subject.
Alex opened the door once again and asked: "Will I, at least, have a day partying per week?"
Cole sighed and shook his head, then Alex asked again: "Per month?"
"Once in a year for my birthday?" She insisted again.
As Cole didn't replied, she went back in her room and closed the door.
"You know, she could come to P3 and we'll keep an eye on her." Phoebe proposed.
"We'll see." Cole said, still mad at her little sister.
Then he looked up at her and said: "You know she's a demon, and I know you don't believe in demons being good, but I'm doing my best to make her understand that living as normal people is much better then living as a demon. She's slowly learning things and maybe one day, she'll find a guy for who she'll do her best to act as normal people, someone who will worth the try, someone who will wake up her human side."
Phoebe knew exactly what he was talking about, he was hoping that Alex will fall in love just like he did with her and that this guy will save her from evil just like she saved Cole years ago.
"If I thought that you were still evil, I wouldn't have asked you to watch my daughter." She said.
Cole smiled and said: "You know that I'll never hurt someone from your family, but what you doubt is my capacity to control my dark side."
Prue started to cry, which saved Phoebe from an uncomfortable answer.
Alex opened her door for the third time and said: "See? She's not happy that her cool Auntie is grounded."
"Look what you did to her, she's crying now." She added.
Cole ignored her comments as Phoebe was trying to calm the little girl. As her attempt where unsuccessful, she decided to give her daughter to Cole who started to rock her gently.
"Shh, it's okay baby." He whispered.
In less than one minute, Prue finally calmed down and Phoebe smiled.
"How come you're so nice with her? she's not your daughter, not even your sister." Alex exclaimed.
"She's not screwing around nor breaking my rules", he replied.
"It's so unfair." Alex added to her previous comment.
"You go back to your room and be quiet, I don't wanna hear or see you before dinner." Cole told her sternly.
"She's jealous." He added looking at Phoebe.
"I am not jealous." Alex shouted from her room.
Phoebe smiled and said: "I better go."
"No, wait, why don't you stay?" Cole asked.
'Coz if I stay, I'll make a fool of myself trying to get you back.' She mentally said.
"Because I have to get some rest, I'll have an hard day tomorrow." She said.
"Okay, goodbye then." He said, kissing her on the cheek.
"Goodbye Cole." She said returning the kiss.
"Bye sweetie, I love you." She said to her daughter, kissing her on the cheek as well.
"Bye Alex." She shouted.
"Bye." Alex replied.
As she left, she couldn't help but smile, she had learnt something pretty important today, Cole wasn't living with anyone… it was a feeling like 'if don't have him no one else will have him either'. She smiled one more time and got to her car.
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