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Chapter 7
"True Revealed"
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The next morning Cole was feeding Prue and Alex
got out of her room.
"Good morning", she said
"Morning", he replied coldly.
He was still mad at her and he was not talking to
her at all. Alex went to the table and poured some
orange juice and sat next to Cole on the couch,
where he was still feeding the baby.
"What's the plan today?", she asked to make some
conversation
"Me? I guess I'll stay here, and I think I'll check
up some documents later, and since it's Saturday
and there's not college, you'll stick on here because
you are grounded", he coldly said without looking at
her. She noticed that, she felt it.
"Are you still mad at me?", she asked and he didn't
say anything. "Look, Cole, we need to talk", she
said. He didn't say anything and she talked, "I know
I screw it, and that I did something wrong, but I…
I just wasn't thinking", she said
"Look, it's not about what you did, it's about I trust
you and you failed me", he said. "You did your way,
going over me", he said, "and it's not just that you
were sleeping with someone, it's the fact that you
broke an agreement", he explained
"I'm sorry", she said
"What if you had done something worse, like cast
some spell or do something dangerous?", he said,
"The fact is that I accepted you and trust you and
you broke that"
Alex was feeling bad, she knew she didn't deserve
anything, "Cole I failed you, it's true, but… please,
I'm really sorry, just give me another chance, I'll
do my best to do things straight, I know I don't
deserve it, but I'm still asking for it", she said
"You have it", he said, everyone needed a second
chance, and about everybody who was he to deny it
anyway?.
"Thank you", she said as he hugged her.
They stayed there for a while till Prue finished her
bottle.
"You come here you cutie little demon", she said as
she took her in her arms.
"What are you saying? You're talking crazy again",
Cole said rather upset. "She's not a demon and you
know it".
"Don't be upset. Besides, she has magical powers
right?", she asked
"Yes, from her mother's side, but the looser of her
father is only human", he said.
"She hasn't shown any powers because they're
bound aren't they?", Alex questioned
"I guess so, it's a tradition in her family to bind
the powers when they're children. Phoebe told me
about that". He replied
"Aren't you curious about what powers this little
girl has got?", she asked with a wink
"Are you insane? Didn't you hear any word of what
I told you a while ago? Besides, if Phoebe finds out
she'll vanquish us, and believe me it won't be a nice
experience", he said annoyed.
"Ok, forget what I said", she said.
Then an idea started to form in her mind, it was
something that had been running in her head in the
last couple days and she wanted to give it a try.
She then handled the baby to Cole and went to the
kitchen, "I'll go for some breakfast", she said and
left.
"Don't hear at what she says baby girl, she's
crazy", he said to Prue and she laughed
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"Was that Jonathan on the phone?", Leo Wyatt
questioned his wife.
"Yes, that was Jonathan on the phone… again",
Piper said.
"I don't know if it is me but Phoebe is avoiding
him", she said.
"Why is she avoiding him? After all she's the one
who screwed it.", Piper continued.
Both Leo and Paige looked at each other.
"Piper... how is Phoebe screwing it?", Leo asked.
"Are you kidding me? Let's face it, she started
avoiding Jonathan since Cole appeared in her life
again." She sighed.
"I don't know who I feel more sorry for if Phoebe
or Cole." She added.
"How come?", her little sister asked.
"What kind of mother leaves her child with a
freaking ex-demon ex?", Piper replied.
"But Cole is not just an ex, he's Prue's father",
Paige stated.
"Ok, please don't go there. But what kind of demon
freak agrees to watch over an ex's baby?", Piper
continued.
"Phoebe got over him a long time ago and now she's
confused. Phoebe is in love with Jonathan", she
added
"That's not all true. Phoebe still loves Cole", Paige
said.
"No, Phoebe loves Jonathan.", Piper insisted.
"Piper, even the clock knows Phoebe still loves
Cole." Leo interned.
"Besides, Jonathan is such and arshole", Paige
frowned.
"He hasn't killed anybody. Phoebe should be
grateful she found a good guy like him", Piper
insisted.
"Piper how can you be so blind? Hello! Phoebe
doesn't love him!", Paige said waving her hand.
"The fact Cole is a demon doesn't mean that-." Leo
started.
"Did you two teamed against me?", Piper cut off.
"No, but we agree that Jonathan is such a jerk."
Paige replied.
In that moment Phoebe came down the stairs.
"Morning." She said.
"Morning." Paige and Leo greeted at the same time.
"Phoebe why are you avoiding Jonathan?.", Piper
questioned.
"He's been calling you to your cell phone and to the
house the last couple days saying you don't answer
to him."
"Good morning to you too Piper", Phoebe said
sarcastically.
"I'm not talking to Jonathan at all these days", she
said
"Why?", Piper asked
"Because he's such a jerk. Can you believe he said I
should think in quitting my job so I could have
more time for other stuff? I mean, hello, that's
the way to support my child, besides he can't boss
me around the way he pleases.", Phoebe explained
"But is wasn't a problem when Cole asked you to
move out of the manor." Piper bitchily stated.
"That was different", Phoebe said a little mad, she
knew where this was leading. Then Phoebe's cell
phone rang.
"Hello", she picked up
"Phoebe, baby I'm sorry I know I did wrong."
Jonathan said through the phone.
"Yes you did", she said coldly.
"Baby, why don't I pick you and we spend the day
together? The both of us? Can you ever forgive
me?." He pathetically begged.
Phoebe sighed, "Yes."
"What about the two of us alone today?", he asked
"We'll see", she said and hung up. "Jerk." She
mumbled.
The truth was that it had been a long time since
she wanted to end everything with Jonathan, but
she felt in some way commitment to him, he had
been there in a hard time, but between them it
really wasn't working anymore, besides with the
days she slowly was figuring who he really was.
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"Alex…", Cole called for her
"Yeah?", she replied coming out from her room.
"What are you doing? You've been locked in there
for hours". He asked
"Since I'm, grounded…and I know I deserve it I
was… catching up in some legal procedures… yeah…
I was checking some of your law books", she said
"Ok", he nodded, "Could you watch Prue for a
while? I'll go to take a shower and change", he said
'Bingo!', she thought. "Sure", she nodded. "I'll take
her to my room. We'll be listening to some music,
right baby girl?", she said in baby voice as she got
in her room.
Once she was in there, she closed the door, she
finally had the chance she was looking for. Alex put
the baby in her bed. "Here, baby, Kitty will make
you some company", she said as she put a stuffed
Hello Kitty in the bed beside Prue and went to her
vanity where she had a mess of herbs and magical
ingredients. That was the 'legal' catching up she
had been doing; she had locked in her room to work
on a potion, she really wanted to know, so she put
some potion and mixed it with water in one of
Prue's bottle.
"Ok… here we go", she said before she gave the
bottle to the baby to drink.
Alex knew this was crazy, but she already had
made the potion to bind her powers again, so no
one would even know it. Of course that Phoebe
would kill her if she knew she was unbinding Prue's
powers, but she wanted to know… call it intuition,
but Alex as woman, and magical woman had some
doubts and felt something more.
The baby finished the water and nothing happened.
"Come on, baby girl, show me your magic", she said
smiling at Prue. Alex sighed, 'I must have done
something wrong with the damn potion', she
guessed as nothing happened, and she kept there
playing with the baby for a while.
Suddenly the baby started to cry. "Shh, easy baby
girl your cool auntie is here", she said and Prue was
just crying out loud.
"Don't cry, beautiful", she talked to her while
rocking her and nothing happened. Suddenly Prue
just shimmered out.
"Oh my god", Alex said nervously, "She's gone", she
freaked out.
Meanwhile Cole was in his bedroom finishing
dressing when he heard Prue crying and then he
turned and there was she in his bed.
"Oh, hello, look who's here", he said to her.
"Where's that crazy auntie of yours?", he asked as
he sat in the bed with her, "Alex, you were
supposed to watch her", he shouted
"Is she in there with you?", she asked as she came
to his bedroom.
"Of course, you came, left her and went out", he
said
"No I didn't", she shook her head
"And how did she get here?", he asked, "You're
getting crazy, you don't even pay attention to what
you do", he said looking at his sister.
Prue then started babbling like demanding for
attention.
"I'm telling you I didn't bring her, she was with me
in my room when she… oh my god it means it
worked", she realized.
"What worked?", he asked rather concerned of
what Alex had done this time.
In that moment Prue started to cry angrily
demanding for attention and Cole hadn't turned to
her when she threw a tiny energy ball at him and
laughed.
"That worked", Alex said as she noticed Cole's
burned sleeve.
"Did it just happened what I think it happened?",
Cole asked shocked.
"Yes, she threw an energy ball and that's not all…
she shimmered to you room", She explained
"What did you do to her?", he asked
"I made a potion to unbind her powers", she replied
"You what?!", Cole reacted, "Didn't I warned you
about this? I know I've been saying this to much
lately, but are you insane?", he added
"Don't you see what this means?"; she asked and he
shook his head,
"Look, she didn't orb or glow, she shimmered, and I
consider energy balls as a letal demonic power",
she explained
"Are you saying…?", he didn't want to finish it
"She has demonic powers", Alex filled in.
"Oh my God, Jonathan is a demon, that son of a
bitch is gonna pay for it. I have to call Phoebe and
tell her that he's probably the one after them,
he's probably the one giving information to the
Brotherhood about them." Cole said. "I can't
believe the bastard is using his own daughter to…"
"Cole…", she called him.
"Oh shit, he probably wants to kill her and took
advantage because she fell for him…". He quickly
ran into conclusions.
"I mean, I did that when I was supposed to kill
them a long time ago. They all go after Phoebe, I
was sent to seduce her to make her vulnerable and
kill her so that her sisters with active powers will
be easier to kill. Instead of killing her, I fell in love
with her, and every time I had the opportunity to
kill her, I just couldn't." He remembered.
"And damn it she has this tendency to fall for
evil…", he almost smiled at that.
"Cole…", she called for him again.
"Yeah?", he replied.
"Just out of curiosity when was the last time you
and Phoebe… ? you know", she asked
"What?", he asked back
"You know what I mean… when you were together";
she said eyeing him
"You mean we made love?", he asked
"Make love? What are you a girl?", she commented
almost joking, she saw his look and then she
remembered he was emotional towards his
relationship with Phoebe, "Yes that's what I mean"
He then came back to that day. "Last year", he said
as the memories came back.
"What does it have to do with the fact that
Jonathan is a demon?" He asked, but he still could
remember as if it were yesterday.
****FLASHBACK****
A YEAR BEFORE… July 2002.
"I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!", she said as
she hit her fists against his chest and was in the
edge of tears.
"Are you still with that?", Cole confronted her as
he grabbed her fists to stop her. "Why do you say
you hate me so much?"
"Because it's all your fault!", she accused as she
turned her back.
"How is it my fault?", he questioned. "I was
supposed to kill you and your sisters and I couldn't
do it because of you!", he yelled.
"Oh really? Poor demon who couldn't reach his
target", she said with a little ironical laugh, "I was
supposed to vanquish you and you manipulated me
so I didn't do it!", she accused.
"Phoebe… I loved you… and I love you even now,
how can you accuse me like that. I would give me
life for you, you had the opportunity to kill me
more than once, but you didn't coz you love me and
I really love you", he said sincerely.
"That was the past, now I hate you!", she
impulsively said.
"Oh really?", he challenged and then grabbed her
tight by her shoulders.
"Let go of me!", she warned.
"Or what?", he asked, "You'll premonition me to
death?", he asked as she avoid his eyes.
"Leave me alone, I hate you!", she shouted.
"Who are you trying to convince by repeating that
you hate me? Me or yourself?" He asked.
"Look at me in the eyes and tell me you hate me
and I'll let you go", he said.
"I hate you"; she slowly said looking away.
"Look at me!", he shouted.
She sighed and looked straight in his eyes.
"Now tell me you hate me", he said.
She opened her mouth but nothing came out.
"Come on… say it!", he insisted. She couldn't say
anything,
"Say it, damn it!", he yelled this time.
She looked at him with tears in her eyes and he
kissed her hard on the lips.
He pulled apart and repeated: "Say it."
"Leave me alone." She told him quietly.
With one look at her he could say that her mind
was pushing him away but her heart wanted him to
stay by her side.
He didn't move but kissed her one more time. At
first, she was trying to pull away and not to let
herself lose in his awesome kiss, but the truth was
that she couldn't resist it. It had been so long
since they had kissed, they both needed and
wanted this kiss. She started to respond by kissing
him back. Her tongue exploring his mouth, he
always liked when she was doing that, he was
feeling that it was just as in the past, when they
were together and in love, when they would fight
to be able to spend just one night together, when
they could face everything together. When he felt
that, he moved his hands to her cheeks and stroke
them with his thumbs. Then his hands traveled
slowly until they rested on her waist and it wasn't
too long until he slid them under her blouse. At
first he wasn't sure if she wanted it, he thought
she was going to push him away once again but to
his surprise, she pressed herself against him and
wrapped her arms around his neck. He suddenly
lifted her up and she wrapped her legs around his
waist, her back badly hit the wall but she didn't
care, all she could think about was the awesome
things Cole was doing to her. They both moaned as
they continued to kiss deeply and passionately.
But then Cole pulled apart.
"I can't." He whispered. "Phoebe, what are you
doing here?", he asked.
After all that had happened between them, he
realized this shouldn't be happening, it was too
painful to see her. Was it some twisted torture
from her?
"I, um, I came to tell you something. Actually..",
she said and they slowly brought their lips
together in a kiss. They kissed softly and the kiss
started to get more passionate. Then she broke
apart and breathless.
"I was always better at show then tell." She said
knowing he would know what followed in that dialog.
After this they continued kissing every time more
passionately, and they both knew where this would
led them, so he then picked her up again and she
wrapped her legs around his waist for the second
time. They leaned against the wall, just like had
happened the first time they had been together.
"You have no idea what you're getting yourself
into.", he said tearful to follow the dialog they had
shared almost three years before.
"Neither do you.", she replied and they continued
kissing deep, hard and very passionately.
It wasn't too long when they started undressing
each other while leading to the bedroom. They
both knew what was happening, but neither of
them thought about it, they both wanted it and
needed it. They were feeling the same intensity
that they had shared for some years, everything
was coming back as if they had never broke up, or
fight, everything was as the first night they had
spent together... Magical.
Cole just focused in loving her. He knew this could
mean two things: that this could be the beginning
of a new start for both of them or this could just
be one last time; he didn't let himself to think
about that. He just loved her…. He slowly explored
and ran over every itch of her body. He kissed her
everywhere like memorizing every fiber of her
body.
Phoebe let him do everything he pleased to her.
In that moment the rest of the world ceased to
exist while they made love.
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Some Hours later, they still laid in each other
arms. Quite, because no words needed to be told.
Cole was gently spooning her, thinking that this was
the moment that he was waiting for, for the past
years. The smell of her hair was intoxicating; he
just pressed his lips on the back of her head,
enjoying how she tasted, enjoying the warmth of
her body against his, enjoying the sweetness of
her skin, enjoying of being with her.
Phoebe turned around in the bed with a pleased
smile on her face and her lust toward Cole was
expressed in the way she stroked his strong arms,
and how she looked in his eyes, but she knew it
couldn't be. They couldn't be together.
She put her hands gently on his face, and pressed
her lips against his. He moaned slightly until she
pulled away and nodded.
"You do realize we can't do this?" she said softly.
He stared back and nodded.
"You can't pretend this didn't happen" he said,
almost angry, almost tearful.
"This shouldn't have happened but it did, so we
have to accept it like it was just a one time thing...
a never again thing... A goodbye..." Phoebe said.
Cole nodded and sat up, a bit worried, he was so
confident that he had her.
"I can't believe you're doing this... we still have
that spark, that magic, you know, we still are one
when we're together!!" he screamed, as she
gathered her clothes and started to get dressed.
"You can't hurt me, make me happy and hurt me
again, I'm not a toy Phoebe, I have feelings. Last
night was so amazing, you cannot believe what it
means to me." He said as she walked away from
him.
She was walking towards the door and Cole's heart
was falling, slowly, and slowly…
He ran to the door and tried to stop her, but she
nodded and pushed him away, he stumbled back
slightly, tears falling down his cheeks,
"Please, don't leave me again." He said, as he
crumbled to his knees, and he grabbed her legs.
"Don't..." He repeated, sobbing.
Phoebe stared down at him, he was begging her to
stay, she had to stay, she wanted to stay... but the
door was so close and she knew she couldn't walk
into that world again. It was so complicated.
She gently unwrapped his arms from her legs, and
walked out the door, leaving a sobbing naked Cole
on his knees in the living room.
Then Phoebe realized she couldn't do this, and
she didn't even know what she was supposed to,
so she came back in the penthouse, where Cole
was still sobbing on his knees, she looked down at
him, smiled and said with tears in her eyes: "You
have to know that I always loved you." He looked
at her, she sighed and started to chant: "Close
your eyes in order not to see me, walking away
from you where you think I should be."
Immediately he fell in a deep sleep and she put a
folder in the coffee table; she silently cried as she
stared at the picture of the two of them, smiling
and happily together. She knew this was the way it
was meant to be. She then went in the elevator and
stared one last time at him sleeping peacefully;
"I love you Cole", she said as a tear ran in her
cheek, she then turned her back and the elevator's
door closed. That would be the last time they had
seen each other, not knowing that that day a little
seed from him had been planted inside of her, that
nine months after would become the most precious
gift, their wonderful, innocent and beautiful
daughter. They wouldn't see each other till the day
Cole saved her from the fire a year after.
Some hours later, Cole woke up to find himself
naked in his living room and Phoebe gone, and
definitely and permanently gone from his life, when
he glanced at the table he found the reason she
had been there in the first place, the folder with
the final divorce papers, even legally everything
was over between them, everything for her, but he
knew he will always love her. Since that day Cole's
life became miserable and his heart ached
everyday with the pain of a love that wasn't meant
to be.
*****END OF FLASHBACK*****
"Stop it!", Alex demanded pulling him out of
thoughts. "It sounds pretty romantic, but with all
your details you're turning it into porn", she said
and he gave her a look. But still she had her eyes
wet with tears, it was pretty unfair.
"Hey I wouldn't mind, but in this case you're the
star, so no thank you, I'll pass this one", she added
disgustedly trying to sound cool.
"When was Prue born?", Alex asked.
"April, 27th. That's what Phoebe said", Cole replied.
Then Alex started counting with her fingers, 'From
July to August would be a month then, September,
October, November, December, January, February,
March… April', she mentally calculated. "That's nine
months…", she whispered. "Oh shit…", she said
shocked. It matched, the dates… and…
"Alex…", he warned.
"No, you don't understand… she has demonic
powers, she has blue eyes…", Alex started putting
together.
"Yeah… I don't see the point. What the hell are you
talking about?". He said annoyed by her.
"Blue eyes, just like us…", she let it in the air.
"Do you know how many people in the world got blue
eyes?", he coldly said.
"Does Jonathan have blue eyes?" She asked.
"I don't know." He replied.
"Look… you said July right? In the end of the
month; well from July to April is nine months", she
explained.
"So…?", he said clueless.
"When you want to be stupid, you really get into
the stupid thing.", she said shaking her head.
"Nine months… do the math!", she said in
exasperation, "do I have to give you a calendar?",
she asked and he said nothing, he wasn't following
her, "Prue can be your daughter", she almost
yelled.
"What?!", Cole said shocked.
"Now I understand, that's why the Brotherhood is
after her, they're not after the Charmed Ones,
they want revenge and they want Prue for that",
she realized. "She's your daughter and they knew
it."
"Oh." Cole simply replied.
"'Oh'? Is that all you have to say about it?" Alex
asked.
"You have to bind her powers again before Phoebe
shows up." He said
"But Cole, she's your daughter and..." Alex started
but Cole cut her off.
"She's Phoebe's daughter and..." He said and
looked down at Prue. So tiny, so cute, so innocent
and yet so powerful; this was the product of their
love.
"You can't understand." He said looking back at
Alex and he left the room leaving both of the girls
there.
Of course Alex was understanding perfectly, now
she was really feeling stupid, she wished that she
hadn't unbound the little girl's powers. But as usual
she did exactly as her please and now Cole was
badly shaken up because of the news. She knew
that his dream was to have a happy family, but
here everything was far away from a 'Happy ever
after' fairy tale.
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The next day was pretty normal, to Alex's
surprise; Cole was acting as if everything was as
before they learnt that Prue was his daughter. The
only thing that was different was that Alex hadn't
found the right potion to bind Prue's powers again
yet and the little girl was shimmering and throwing
tiny energy balls when she was angry or when she
wanted something, it was somehow a way to
express herself. Of course, Alex hadn't mentioned
the fact that Cole was a daddy again. Cole's heart
was already broken because he was in love with
Phoebe and that he couldn't have her with him, he
didn't needed her to bring him back to the harsh
reality where the life he wanted to have was
slipping away from him.
It was the middle of the afternoon and as it was
Sunday and Alex was grounded, she was watching
the little girl while Cole was catching up some late
work he hadn't been able to do because he was
watching Phoebe's... his daughter.
"Alright, time for the nap, what do you think little
one?" Alex asked to her, now confirmed niece.
Alex got up from the couch where she and Prue
had been watching TV for a while. She walked in
her room and laid down on it with the little girl who
suddenly shimmered away.
"Prue?" Alex asked.
She ran out of her room and heard the little girl's
giggling in her father's room. When she entered
the room, Prue was laying on the bed but when she
tried to pick her up, the little girl sent an energy
ball to her Aunt.
"You can't use your powers on your cool Auntie you
know, it's bad. See, when I use my powers in this
house, all hell break loose coz Cole doesn't like it,
and the rules are the rules, you're not allowed to
use your powers, are we clear?" Alex started to
lecture the 3 months baby.
She tried to pick her niece but once again, Prue
sent her an energy ball to her Aunt.
"Okay, okay, I'll call him." Alex said, knowing what
her niece wanted.
She walked in the living next to Cole said: "I think
she wants you to rest with her."
"I can't, I have work to do." He said, without even
looking at her.
"Come on, you've been working since this morning,
get a break and go rest with her." Alex said.
Cole gave up easily and walked in his room and laid
down next to his daughter.
Daughter. It was sounding so wrong and so right in
the same time.
When she saw him, Prue cooed and Cole smiled at
it. The truth was that he didn't want to think that
she was his daughter; it was kind of impossible for
him. He couldn't have created this perfect little
baby, he couldn't believe that after everything he
had done in his life, all the pain he had caused, all
the people he had killed, he couldn't realized that
he also had been able to create something so good
and so beautiful, he and Phoebe had created their
daughter.
He sat up next to her and said: "Here I am, now
you have to sleep."
He took her in his arms, kissed her on the cheek
and rocked her to sleep.
After a little while Prue had fallen asleep.
Alex came in Cole's bedroom and asked in a whisper
to not wake Prue: "What time is it?".
"Almost Three", Cole replied
"I have to go out for a little", she said
"You can't go out. You're still grounded" He
remembered her.
"Look… I really have to. I have a problem." Alex
started
"What's wrong?." He asked concerned
"I haven't rebound Prue's powers and I think I'll
need to do some research of my own." She
explained
"Where?", he asked curious.
"The Halliwell Manor." She replied.
"Are you insane?" Cole almost shouted.
"I have a plan, ok? Trust me", she asked
"Oh that really helps me to relax", he sarcastically
said.
"You have a better idea or a Phd in binding witche's
powers?." She asked and he said nothing. "I'll be
back soon."
She turned to left and Cole called her back,
"Alex…"
"Yeah?"
"No matter what you do, stay away from the book."
He advised
"What book?", she asked confused.
"You'll figure it out." He replied and she nodded
and left.
Then as she was driving Alex took her cell phone
out of her purse and dialed to the Manor.
"Hello?." Someone picked it up
"Hey… Paige?." Alex guessed.
"Yes, who is it?" Paige said
"It's Alex… remember me? We have the same
niece.", she said. 'Literally', Alex thought.
"Oh yeah, how are you?." Paige asked
"Great. Look, I need a favor, it's just that Prue's
bottom is a little red, you know and I was
wondering if there's some poti- I mean cream for
her? I'm on my way I can pick it up." Alex explained
"Oh sure. I'm home alone. Why don't you stop by?".
Paige proposed.
"Great, I'll be there in no time.", she said and hung
up.
Then in a little while, Alex was calling the
Halliwell's door.
"Hey…" Alex greeted cheerfully.
"Hey, please come in. I'm home alone." Paige said.
"How you doing?." Alex asked.
"Good, just doing my nails" the witch replied as she
was blowing her nails.
"And where's everyone?." Alex asked trying to get
in the chattering to bond enough with her to get
what she needed for now.
"Phoebe at the paper, Piper at P3 and Leo must be
somewhere else." She replied. "Hey, I just did my
nails so would you mind going downstairs for the
cream?." Paige asked
"Ah… cream? Uh… yeah." Alex nodded, "Let's go."
Both girls went upstairs to Prue's nursery in
Phoebe's room.
"In the top drawer." Paige indicated. Alex nodded
and got the cream while Paige was having the
hardest time trying to do her right hand with her
right one. This was the chance she could use.
"Hey I could do the right hand for you." Alex
offered.
"Would you…?." Paige replied
"Of course!." She nodded.
"Great, let's go in my room." Paige said excited.
True they got alone pretty good, in some level Alex
was feeling guilty because she was somehow using
Paige, but she really like her, they had so much
things in common, but still she couldn't forget her
target that day. They spend some time together
just talking about stuff.
"Paige are you with someone upstairs?!." Piper
shouted from downstairs.
"Yes… just a friend!" Paige shouted back and
turned to Alex, "Piper is such paranoid"
"If you think she's annoyng as a big sister you
should try Cole." The demonic little sister replied.
"Oh god that must be hell, literaly." The found
friend said.
"Oh it is, it's all very rightful and straight."
"I still remember when Cole used to be the Brain
on some demonic hunting, and he was like that kind
of person…. He just has rules for everything."
Paige explained and Alex nodded.
"Oh yeah, rules don't talk to me about rules." Alex
shook her head with a grin.
"I still don't understand the combination
'Phoebe&Cole'". Paige stated.
"What do you mean?." The other girl asked.
"Well, for what I've heard Phoebe was this
screwed up and rulesbreaker person and Cole is all
rightful and always by the book… I mean how they
could manage together?." Paige explained.
"Could you imagine them in bed? I mean if she's all
by her way as you said and Cole is 'all about the
rules'…. How can they agree in anything.?" Alex
commented and they both giggled.
"How was it like when they were together?" Alex
asked more seriuously.
"Well, I never really agreed on the fact of them
being together, but the truth is that, if he hadn't
been a demon and Phoebe a witch, they were the
most beautiful couple I even saw, always caring for
the other, always present for her, with rules of
course." Paige explained.
"He's like this with Prue." Alex commented.
"Yeah, that's maybe his human side." Paige said.
This was the moment to hit it, so she tried to
change the subject,
"So… I heard you're still learning the craft." She
commented.
Paige felt confident enough so she kept talking.
"Yes, still on the learning… it's not that bad after
you're on it."
"Oh I totally know the feeling. I'm learning
myself." Alex replied
"Do you?."
"Of course, Cole's not only my big brother, my legal
tutor till I turn 21 and my jailer but he's also my
mentor and trainer." Alex explained
"You practice the dark ways…?" Paige asked.
"Just training and Basic magic for now, you know
spells, potions, the way to defend from and kick
some asses, potions…" she repeated.
"Oh I see." Paige nodded.
"Talking about potions and magic… how is it with
witches? Because demons always show up their
powers, do you as show them when toddlers?" she
innocently asked.
"Yes… I have known that we do show them but
they're usually bound till we're old enough to
manage the responsibility of the powers you know."
Paige explained
"Really? Bind the powers, how?". Alex kept
persuading trying to act clueless.
"With a potion… we did it once for a kid I think we
mixed some cinnamon, clover's leaves…" Paige tried
to remember. "Sage, toadflax and of course an
apple's seed." The confident half witch said with a
smile.
'Bingo!.' Alex yelled mentally. She looked at her
watch.
"Oh shit, look at the time, Cole's gonna kill me."
She said.
"Oh…"
"Look, thank you, it was really fun, we should
repeat this sometime. Take care. Bye." Alex said as
she quickly left, she had already got what she
needed for now.
"Bye." Paige said.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
"I think I made it right this time." Alex said
doubtfully.
"Really? Because I'll have to buy a new wardrobe
after this." Cole complained as she showed his
burned sleeve.
'Dude, she's your daughter' she thought but didn't
dare to say it. "Well, when Paige is confident she
just talk, talk and talk… she's a nice girl, you know."
"Paige a nice girl?". Her brother asked. "I wish I
knew that one." He sarcastically added.
Alex came with the potion in Prue's bottle in came
closer to her who was in her baby carriage.
"Ok, beautiful I think we already had enough fun.
Now take some water." She sweetly said and Prue
just threw an energy ball at her.
"Hey! That was my favorite blouse!." She
complained. Cole just laughed. "What are you
laughing at?!"
"Excuse me, Miss Alexandra, but this was your
mess." He said.
'Right, you screw the witch, knock her up and this
is my mess', she thought.
"Ok, let's try this-" she didn't make it closer when
Prue had shimmered to her father's arms. "Why
don't you try it?"
Cole took the bottle with the green liquid. "Come
on princess, show this crazy girl how cute you are."
He talked to her and she drank the liquid.
In that moment they heard the elevator's bell.
"Phoebe's here." Cole mouthed to Alex. She quickly
took the bottle with the potion and hid it, just
praying that the potion had worked this time.
"Hey!" Greeted Phoebe when she entered the
penthouse.
"Hi." Cole and Alex quickly replied a little nervous.
Cole got up with Prue and his arms and Phoebe said:
"It's finally safe for my little one to come back
home."
"Oh." Cole said, he was surprised, he wasn't waiting
Phoebe to take Prue back so soon, he thought she
was just here to visit as usual. But even if he
didn't want the little girl to leave, Phoebe looked
more than happy to have her daughter back with
her, so it was fine by him.
"Okay, huh. Here." He said handing her Prue.
Phoebe kissed her on the forehead and Cole said:
"Let me grab her things."
After some minutes, he came back with three full
bags.
"She had only on bag when she came here." Phoebe
said.
"Huh, yeah, I know, but you know, we went shopping
a little and... now, there's three bags." Cole
explained.
"Thanks, Cole, this is very nice." Phoebe said.
"I can shimmer everything at the manor if you
want to." He proposed.
"Really?" She said.
"Yeah." Cole replied.
He shimmered all the bags in Phoebe room and
shimmered back in the penthouse.
They shared a smile and Phoebe said: "Well, we'll
leave now."
"Thanks you so much for everything you did for us,
it means a lot to me." She said.
"You're welcome, it was a real pleasure to have her
with us, she's a really cute little baby." Cole
replied.
'A really cute little demon I would say', Alex
thought.
Phoebe smiled and Cole tried to smile as well.
"It sounds like a goodbye." He said.
"Yeah, but I'll call you sometime to tell you how's
Prue doing." She told him.
"Okay." Cole said. He knew he wasn't going to see
her for a while.
Then Alex came close, "Goodbye little niece.", she
said in baby voice.
"Niece?." Phoebe nervously asked. 'oh god they
know'
"I just feel it that way. I've become pretty found
of her and that's why I'm her cool auntie, you
know" Alex clarified.
"Oh" Phoebe nodded as a sigh of relief came out of
her mouth.
"I'll miss you." Alex said as she kissed her
forehead. "Bye, Phoebe"
"Bye Alex", she said, "Goodbye Cole." Phoebe said.
"Goodbye Phoebe, bye little one." He said.
Phoebe walked away and Cole looked down.
Alex who had heard the whole scene hugged Cole
tightly. No words needed to be told to know what
Cole was going through right now.
Chapter 7
"True Revealed"
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
The next morning Cole was feeding Prue and Alex
got out of her room.
"Good morning", she said
"Morning", he replied coldly.
He was still mad at her and he was not talking to
her at all. Alex went to the table and poured some
orange juice and sat next to Cole on the couch,
where he was still feeding the baby.
"What's the plan today?", she asked to make some
conversation
"Me? I guess I'll stay here, and I think I'll check
up some documents later, and since it's Saturday
and there's not college, you'll stick on here because
you are grounded", he coldly said without looking at
her. She noticed that, she felt it.
"Are you still mad at me?", she asked and he didn't
say anything. "Look, Cole, we need to talk", she
said. He didn't say anything and she talked, "I know
I screw it, and that I did something wrong, but I…
I just wasn't thinking", she said
"Look, it's not about what you did, it's about I trust
you and you failed me", he said. "You did your way,
going over me", he said, "and it's not just that you
were sleeping with someone, it's the fact that you
broke an agreement", he explained
"I'm sorry", she said
"What if you had done something worse, like cast
some spell or do something dangerous?", he said,
"The fact is that I accepted you and trust you and
you broke that"
Alex was feeling bad, she knew she didn't deserve
anything, "Cole I failed you, it's true, but… please,
I'm really sorry, just give me another chance, I'll
do my best to do things straight, I know I don't
deserve it, but I'm still asking for it", she said
"You have it", he said, everyone needed a second
chance, and about everybody who was he to deny it
anyway?.
"Thank you", she said as he hugged her.
They stayed there for a while till Prue finished her
bottle.
"You come here you cutie little demon", she said as
she took her in her arms.
"What are you saying? You're talking crazy again",
Cole said rather upset. "She's not a demon and you
know it".
"Don't be upset. Besides, she has magical powers
right?", she asked
"Yes, from her mother's side, but the looser of her
father is only human", he said.
"She hasn't shown any powers because they're
bound aren't they?", Alex questioned
"I guess so, it's a tradition in her family to bind
the powers when they're children. Phoebe told me
about that". He replied
"Aren't you curious about what powers this little
girl has got?", she asked with a wink
"Are you insane? Didn't you hear any word of what
I told you a while ago? Besides, if Phoebe finds out
she'll vanquish us, and believe me it won't be a nice
experience", he said annoyed.
"Ok, forget what I said", she said.
Then an idea started to form in her mind, it was
something that had been running in her head in the
last couple days and she wanted to give it a try.
She then handled the baby to Cole and went to the
kitchen, "I'll go for some breakfast", she said and
left.
"Don't hear at what she says baby girl, she's
crazy", he said to Prue and she laughed
*-*-*-*-*-*-*
"Was that Jonathan on the phone?", Leo Wyatt
questioned his wife.
"Yes, that was Jonathan on the phone… again",
Piper said.
"I don't know if it is me but Phoebe is avoiding
him", she said.
"Why is she avoiding him? After all she's the one
who screwed it.", Piper continued.
Both Leo and Paige looked at each other.
"Piper... how is Phoebe screwing it?", Leo asked.
"Are you kidding me? Let's face it, she started
avoiding Jonathan since Cole appeared in her life
again." She sighed.
"I don't know who I feel more sorry for if Phoebe
or Cole." She added.
"How come?", her little sister asked.
"What kind of mother leaves her child with a
freaking ex-demon ex?", Piper replied.
"But Cole is not just an ex, he's Prue's father",
Paige stated.
"Ok, please don't go there. But what kind of demon
freak agrees to watch over an ex's baby?", Piper
continued.
"Phoebe got over him a long time ago and now she's
confused. Phoebe is in love with Jonathan", she
added
"That's not all true. Phoebe still loves Cole", Paige
said.
"No, Phoebe loves Jonathan.", Piper insisted.
"Piper, even the clock knows Phoebe still loves
Cole." Leo interned.
"Besides, Jonathan is such and arshole", Paige
frowned.
"He hasn't killed anybody. Phoebe should be
grateful she found a good guy like him", Piper
insisted.
"Piper how can you be so blind? Hello! Phoebe
doesn't love him!", Paige said waving her hand.
"The fact Cole is a demon doesn't mean that-." Leo
started.
"Did you two teamed against me?", Piper cut off.
"No, but we agree that Jonathan is such a jerk."
Paige replied.
In that moment Phoebe came down the stairs.
"Morning." She said.
"Morning." Paige and Leo greeted at the same time.
"Phoebe why are you avoiding Jonathan?.", Piper
questioned.
"He's been calling you to your cell phone and to the
house the last couple days saying you don't answer
to him."
"Good morning to you too Piper", Phoebe said
sarcastically.
"I'm not talking to Jonathan at all these days", she
said
"Why?", Piper asked
"Because he's such a jerk. Can you believe he said I
should think in quitting my job so I could have
more time for other stuff? I mean, hello, that's
the way to support my child, besides he can't boss
me around the way he pleases.", Phoebe explained
"But is wasn't a problem when Cole asked you to
move out of the manor." Piper bitchily stated.
"That was different", Phoebe said a little mad, she
knew where this was leading. Then Phoebe's cell
phone rang.
"Hello", she picked up
"Phoebe, baby I'm sorry I know I did wrong."
Jonathan said through the phone.
"Yes you did", she said coldly.
"Baby, why don't I pick you and we spend the day
together? The both of us? Can you ever forgive
me?." He pathetically begged.
Phoebe sighed, "Yes."
"What about the two of us alone today?", he asked
"We'll see", she said and hung up. "Jerk." She
mumbled.
The truth was that it had been a long time since
she wanted to end everything with Jonathan, but
she felt in some way commitment to him, he had
been there in a hard time, but between them it
really wasn't working anymore, besides with the
days she slowly was figuring who he really was.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*
"Alex…", Cole called for her
"Yeah?", she replied coming out from her room.
"What are you doing? You've been locked in there
for hours". He asked
"Since I'm, grounded…and I know I deserve it I
was… catching up in some legal procedures… yeah…
I was checking some of your law books", she said
"Ok", he nodded, "Could you watch Prue for a
while? I'll go to take a shower and change", he said
'Bingo!', she thought. "Sure", she nodded. "I'll take
her to my room. We'll be listening to some music,
right baby girl?", she said in baby voice as she got
in her room.
Once she was in there, she closed the door, she
finally had the chance she was looking for. Alex put
the baby in her bed. "Here, baby, Kitty will make
you some company", she said as she put a stuffed
Hello Kitty in the bed beside Prue and went to her
vanity where she had a mess of herbs and magical
ingredients. That was the 'legal' catching up she
had been doing; she had locked in her room to work
on a potion, she really wanted to know, so she put
some potion and mixed it with water in one of
Prue's bottle.
"Ok… here we go", she said before she gave the
bottle to the baby to drink.
Alex knew this was crazy, but she already had
made the potion to bind her powers again, so no
one would even know it. Of course that Phoebe
would kill her if she knew she was unbinding Prue's
powers, but she wanted to know… call it intuition,
but Alex as woman, and magical woman had some
doubts and felt something more.
The baby finished the water and nothing happened.
"Come on, baby girl, show me your magic", she said
smiling at Prue. Alex sighed, 'I must have done
something wrong with the damn potion', she
guessed as nothing happened, and she kept there
playing with the baby for a while.
Suddenly the baby started to cry. "Shh, easy baby
girl your cool auntie is here", she said and Prue was
just crying out loud.
"Don't cry, beautiful", she talked to her while
rocking her and nothing happened. Suddenly Prue
just shimmered out.
"Oh my god", Alex said nervously, "She's gone", she
freaked out.
Meanwhile Cole was in his bedroom finishing
dressing when he heard Prue crying and then he
turned and there was she in his bed.
"Oh, hello, look who's here", he said to her.
"Where's that crazy auntie of yours?", he asked as
he sat in the bed with her, "Alex, you were
supposed to watch her", he shouted
"Is she in there with you?", she asked as she came
to his bedroom.
"Of course, you came, left her and went out", he
said
"No I didn't", she shook her head
"And how did she get here?", he asked, "You're
getting crazy, you don't even pay attention to what
you do", he said looking at his sister.
Prue then started babbling like demanding for
attention.
"I'm telling you I didn't bring her, she was with me
in my room when she… oh my god it means it
worked", she realized.
"What worked?", he asked rather concerned of
what Alex had done this time.
In that moment Prue started to cry angrily
demanding for attention and Cole hadn't turned to
her when she threw a tiny energy ball at him and
laughed.
"That worked", Alex said as she noticed Cole's
burned sleeve.
"Did it just happened what I think it happened?",
Cole asked shocked.
"Yes, she threw an energy ball and that's not all…
she shimmered to you room", She explained
"What did you do to her?", he asked
"I made a potion to unbind her powers", she replied
"You what?!", Cole reacted, "Didn't I warned you
about this? I know I've been saying this to much
lately, but are you insane?", he added
"Don't you see what this means?"; she asked and he
shook his head,
"Look, she didn't orb or glow, she shimmered, and I
consider energy balls as a letal demonic power",
she explained
"Are you saying…?", he didn't want to finish it
"She has demonic powers", Alex filled in.
"Oh my God, Jonathan is a demon, that son of a
bitch is gonna pay for it. I have to call Phoebe and
tell her that he's probably the one after them,
he's probably the one giving information to the
Brotherhood about them." Cole said. "I can't
believe the bastard is using his own daughter to…"
"Cole…", she called him.
"Oh shit, he probably wants to kill her and took
advantage because she fell for him…". He quickly
ran into conclusions.
"I mean, I did that when I was supposed to kill
them a long time ago. They all go after Phoebe, I
was sent to seduce her to make her vulnerable and
kill her so that her sisters with active powers will
be easier to kill. Instead of killing her, I fell in love
with her, and every time I had the opportunity to
kill her, I just couldn't." He remembered.
"And damn it she has this tendency to fall for
evil…", he almost smiled at that.
"Cole…", she called for him again.
"Yeah?", he replied.
"Just out of curiosity when was the last time you
and Phoebe… ? you know", she asked
"What?", he asked back
"You know what I mean… when you were together";
she said eyeing him
"You mean we made love?", he asked
"Make love? What are you a girl?", she commented
almost joking, she saw his look and then she
remembered he was emotional towards his
relationship with Phoebe, "Yes that's what I mean"
He then came back to that day. "Last year", he said
as the memories came back.
"What does it have to do with the fact that
Jonathan is a demon?" He asked, but he still could
remember as if it were yesterday.
****FLASHBACK****
A YEAR BEFORE… July 2002.
"I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!", she said as
she hit her fists against his chest and was in the
edge of tears.
"Are you still with that?", Cole confronted her as
he grabbed her fists to stop her. "Why do you say
you hate me so much?"
"Because it's all your fault!", she accused as she
turned her back.
"How is it my fault?", he questioned. "I was
supposed to kill you and your sisters and I couldn't
do it because of you!", he yelled.
"Oh really? Poor demon who couldn't reach his
target", she said with a little ironical laugh, "I was
supposed to vanquish you and you manipulated me
so I didn't do it!", she accused.
"Phoebe… I loved you… and I love you even now,
how can you accuse me like that. I would give me
life for you, you had the opportunity to kill me
more than once, but you didn't coz you love me and
I really love you", he said sincerely.
"That was the past, now I hate you!", she
impulsively said.
"Oh really?", he challenged and then grabbed her
tight by her shoulders.
"Let go of me!", she warned.
"Or what?", he asked, "You'll premonition me to
death?", he asked as she avoid his eyes.
"Leave me alone, I hate you!", she shouted.
"Who are you trying to convince by repeating that
you hate me? Me or yourself?" He asked.
"Look at me in the eyes and tell me you hate me
and I'll let you go", he said.
"I hate you"; she slowly said looking away.
"Look at me!", he shouted.
She sighed and looked straight in his eyes.
"Now tell me you hate me", he said.
She opened her mouth but nothing came out.
"Come on… say it!", he insisted. She couldn't say
anything,
"Say it, damn it!", he yelled this time.
She looked at him with tears in her eyes and he
kissed her hard on the lips.
He pulled apart and repeated: "Say it."
"Leave me alone." She told him quietly.
With one look at her he could say that her mind
was pushing him away but her heart wanted him to
stay by her side.
He didn't move but kissed her one more time. At
first, she was trying to pull away and not to let
herself lose in his awesome kiss, but the truth was
that she couldn't resist it. It had been so long
since they had kissed, they both needed and
wanted this kiss. She started to respond by kissing
him back. Her tongue exploring his mouth, he
always liked when she was doing that, he was
feeling that it was just as in the past, when they
were together and in love, when they would fight
to be able to spend just one night together, when
they could face everything together. When he felt
that, he moved his hands to her cheeks and stroke
them with his thumbs. Then his hands traveled
slowly until they rested on her waist and it wasn't
too long until he slid them under her blouse. At
first he wasn't sure if she wanted it, he thought
she was going to push him away once again but to
his surprise, she pressed herself against him and
wrapped her arms around his neck. He suddenly
lifted her up and she wrapped her legs around his
waist, her back badly hit the wall but she didn't
care, all she could think about was the awesome
things Cole was doing to her. They both moaned as
they continued to kiss deeply and passionately.
But then Cole pulled apart.
"I can't." He whispered. "Phoebe, what are you
doing here?", he asked.
After all that had happened between them, he
realized this shouldn't be happening, it was too
painful to see her. Was it some twisted torture
from her?
"I, um, I came to tell you something. Actually..",
she said and they slowly brought their lips
together in a kiss. They kissed softly and the kiss
started to get more passionate. Then she broke
apart and breathless.
"I was always better at show then tell." She said
knowing he would know what followed in that dialog.
After this they continued kissing every time more
passionately, and they both knew where this would
led them, so he then picked her up again and she
wrapped her legs around his waist for the second
time. They leaned against the wall, just like had
happened the first time they had been together.
"You have no idea what you're getting yourself
into.", he said tearful to follow the dialog they had
shared almost three years before.
"Neither do you.", she replied and they continued
kissing deep, hard and very passionately.
It wasn't too long when they started undressing
each other while leading to the bedroom. They
both knew what was happening, but neither of
them thought about it, they both wanted it and
needed it. They were feeling the same intensity
that they had shared for some years, everything
was coming back as if they had never broke up, or
fight, everything was as the first night they had
spent together... Magical.
Cole just focused in loving her. He knew this could
mean two things: that this could be the beginning
of a new start for both of them or this could just
be one last time; he didn't let himself to think
about that. He just loved her…. He slowly explored
and ran over every itch of her body. He kissed her
everywhere like memorizing every fiber of her
body.
Phoebe let him do everything he pleased to her.
In that moment the rest of the world ceased to
exist while they made love.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Some Hours later, they still laid in each other
arms. Quite, because no words needed to be told.
Cole was gently spooning her, thinking that this was
the moment that he was waiting for, for the past
years. The smell of her hair was intoxicating; he
just pressed his lips on the back of her head,
enjoying how she tasted, enjoying the warmth of
her body against his, enjoying the sweetness of
her skin, enjoying of being with her.
Phoebe turned around in the bed with a pleased
smile on her face and her lust toward Cole was
expressed in the way she stroked his strong arms,
and how she looked in his eyes, but she knew it
couldn't be. They couldn't be together.
She put her hands gently on his face, and pressed
her lips against his. He moaned slightly until she
pulled away and nodded.
"You do realize we can't do this?" she said softly.
He stared back and nodded.
"You can't pretend this didn't happen" he said,
almost angry, almost tearful.
"This shouldn't have happened but it did, so we
have to accept it like it was just a one time thing...
a never again thing... A goodbye..." Phoebe said.
Cole nodded and sat up, a bit worried, he was so
confident that he had her.
"I can't believe you're doing this... we still have
that spark, that magic, you know, we still are one
when we're together!!" he screamed, as she
gathered her clothes and started to get dressed.
"You can't hurt me, make me happy and hurt me
again, I'm not a toy Phoebe, I have feelings. Last
night was so amazing, you cannot believe what it
means to me." He said as she walked away from
him.
She was walking towards the door and Cole's heart
was falling, slowly, and slowly…
He ran to the door and tried to stop her, but she
nodded and pushed him away, he stumbled back
slightly, tears falling down his cheeks,
"Please, don't leave me again." He said, as he
crumbled to his knees, and he grabbed her legs.
"Don't..." He repeated, sobbing.
Phoebe stared down at him, he was begging her to
stay, she had to stay, she wanted to stay... but the
door was so close and she knew she couldn't walk
into that world again. It was so complicated.
She gently unwrapped his arms from her legs, and
walked out the door, leaving a sobbing naked Cole
on his knees in the living room.
Then Phoebe realized she couldn't do this, and
she didn't even know what she was supposed to,
so she came back in the penthouse, where Cole
was still sobbing on his knees, she looked down at
him, smiled and said with tears in her eyes: "You
have to know that I always loved you." He looked
at her, she sighed and started to chant: "Close
your eyes in order not to see me, walking away
from you where you think I should be."
Immediately he fell in a deep sleep and she put a
folder in the coffee table; she silently cried as she
stared at the picture of the two of them, smiling
and happily together. She knew this was the way it
was meant to be. She then went in the elevator and
stared one last time at him sleeping peacefully;
"I love you Cole", she said as a tear ran in her
cheek, she then turned her back and the elevator's
door closed. That would be the last time they had
seen each other, not knowing that that day a little
seed from him had been planted inside of her, that
nine months after would become the most precious
gift, their wonderful, innocent and beautiful
daughter. They wouldn't see each other till the day
Cole saved her from the fire a year after.
Some hours later, Cole woke up to find himself
naked in his living room and Phoebe gone, and
definitely and permanently gone from his life, when
he glanced at the table he found the reason she
had been there in the first place, the folder with
the final divorce papers, even legally everything
was over between them, everything for her, but he
knew he will always love her. Since that day Cole's
life became miserable and his heart ached
everyday with the pain of a love that wasn't meant
to be.
*****END OF FLASHBACK*****
"Stop it!", Alex demanded pulling him out of
thoughts. "It sounds pretty romantic, but with all
your details you're turning it into porn", she said
and he gave her a look. But still she had her eyes
wet with tears, it was pretty unfair.
"Hey I wouldn't mind, but in this case you're the
star, so no thank you, I'll pass this one", she added
disgustedly trying to sound cool.
"When was Prue born?", Alex asked.
"April, 27th. That's what Phoebe said", Cole replied.
Then Alex started counting with her fingers, 'From
July to August would be a month then, September,
October, November, December, January, February,
March… April', she mentally calculated. "That's nine
months…", she whispered. "Oh shit…", she said
shocked. It matched, the dates… and…
"Alex…", he warned.
"No, you don't understand… she has demonic
powers, she has blue eyes…", Alex started putting
together.
"Yeah… I don't see the point. What the hell are you
talking about?". He said annoyed by her.
"Blue eyes, just like us…", she let it in the air.
"Do you know how many people in the world got blue
eyes?", he coldly said.
"Does Jonathan have blue eyes?" She asked.
"I don't know." He replied.
"Look… you said July right? In the end of the
month; well from July to April is nine months", she
explained.
"So…?", he said clueless.
"When you want to be stupid, you really get into
the stupid thing.", she said shaking her head.
"Nine months… do the math!", she said in
exasperation, "do I have to give you a calendar?",
she asked and he said nothing, he wasn't following
her, "Prue can be your daughter", she almost
yelled.
"What?!", Cole said shocked.
"Now I understand, that's why the Brotherhood is
after her, they're not after the Charmed Ones,
they want revenge and they want Prue for that",
she realized. "She's your daughter and they knew
it."
"Oh." Cole simply replied.
"'Oh'? Is that all you have to say about it?" Alex
asked.
"You have to bind her powers again before Phoebe
shows up." He said
"But Cole, she's your daughter and..." Alex started
but Cole cut her off.
"She's Phoebe's daughter and..." He said and
looked down at Prue. So tiny, so cute, so innocent
and yet so powerful; this was the product of their
love.
"You can't understand." He said looking back at
Alex and he left the room leaving both of the girls
there.
Of course Alex was understanding perfectly, now
she was really feeling stupid, she wished that she
hadn't unbound the little girl's powers. But as usual
she did exactly as her please and now Cole was
badly shaken up because of the news. She knew
that his dream was to have a happy family, but
here everything was far away from a 'Happy ever
after' fairy tale.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*
The next day was pretty normal, to Alex's
surprise; Cole was acting as if everything was as
before they learnt that Prue was his daughter. The
only thing that was different was that Alex hadn't
found the right potion to bind Prue's powers again
yet and the little girl was shimmering and throwing
tiny energy balls when she was angry or when she
wanted something, it was somehow a way to
express herself. Of course, Alex hadn't mentioned
the fact that Cole was a daddy again. Cole's heart
was already broken because he was in love with
Phoebe and that he couldn't have her with him, he
didn't needed her to bring him back to the harsh
reality where the life he wanted to have was
slipping away from him.
It was the middle of the afternoon and as it was
Sunday and Alex was grounded, she was watching
the little girl while Cole was catching up some late
work he hadn't been able to do because he was
watching Phoebe's... his daughter.
"Alright, time for the nap, what do you think little
one?" Alex asked to her, now confirmed niece.
Alex got up from the couch where she and Prue
had been watching TV for a while. She walked in
her room and laid down on it with the little girl who
suddenly shimmered away.
"Prue?" Alex asked.
She ran out of her room and heard the little girl's
giggling in her father's room. When she entered
the room, Prue was laying on the bed but when she
tried to pick her up, the little girl sent an energy
ball to her Aunt.
"You can't use your powers on your cool Auntie you
know, it's bad. See, when I use my powers in this
house, all hell break loose coz Cole doesn't like it,
and the rules are the rules, you're not allowed to
use your powers, are we clear?" Alex started to
lecture the 3 months baby.
She tried to pick her niece but once again, Prue
sent her an energy ball to her Aunt.
"Okay, okay, I'll call him." Alex said, knowing what
her niece wanted.
She walked in the living next to Cole said: "I think
she wants you to rest with her."
"I can't, I have work to do." He said, without even
looking at her.
"Come on, you've been working since this morning,
get a break and go rest with her." Alex said.
Cole gave up easily and walked in his room and laid
down next to his daughter.
Daughter. It was sounding so wrong and so right in
the same time.
When she saw him, Prue cooed and Cole smiled at
it. The truth was that he didn't want to think that
she was his daughter; it was kind of impossible for
him. He couldn't have created this perfect little
baby, he couldn't believe that after everything he
had done in his life, all the pain he had caused, all
the people he had killed, he couldn't realized that
he also had been able to create something so good
and so beautiful, he and Phoebe had created their
daughter.
He sat up next to her and said: "Here I am, now
you have to sleep."
He took her in his arms, kissed her on the cheek
and rocked her to sleep.
After a little while Prue had fallen asleep.
Alex came in Cole's bedroom and asked in a whisper
to not wake Prue: "What time is it?".
"Almost Three", Cole replied
"I have to go out for a little", she said
"You can't go out. You're still grounded" He
remembered her.
"Look… I really have to. I have a problem." Alex
started
"What's wrong?." He asked concerned
"I haven't rebound Prue's powers and I think I'll
need to do some research of my own." She
explained
"Where?", he asked curious.
"The Halliwell Manor." She replied.
"Are you insane?" Cole almost shouted.
"I have a plan, ok? Trust me", she asked
"Oh that really helps me to relax", he sarcastically
said.
"You have a better idea or a Phd in binding witche's
powers?." She asked and he said nothing. "I'll be
back soon."
She turned to left and Cole called her back,
"Alex…"
"Yeah?"
"No matter what you do, stay away from the book."
He advised
"What book?", she asked confused.
"You'll figure it out." He replied and she nodded
and left.
Then as she was driving Alex took her cell phone
out of her purse and dialed to the Manor.
"Hello?." Someone picked it up
"Hey… Paige?." Alex guessed.
"Yes, who is it?" Paige said
"It's Alex… remember me? We have the same
niece.", she said. 'Literally', Alex thought.
"Oh yeah, how are you?." Paige asked
"Great. Look, I need a favor, it's just that Prue's
bottom is a little red, you know and I was
wondering if there's some poti- I mean cream for
her? I'm on my way I can pick it up." Alex explained
"Oh sure. I'm home alone. Why don't you stop by?".
Paige proposed.
"Great, I'll be there in no time.", she said and hung
up.
Then in a little while, Alex was calling the
Halliwell's door.
"Hey…" Alex greeted cheerfully.
"Hey, please come in. I'm home alone." Paige said.
"How you doing?." Alex asked.
"Good, just doing my nails" the witch replied as she
was blowing her nails.
"And where's everyone?." Alex asked trying to get
in the chattering to bond enough with her to get
what she needed for now.
"Phoebe at the paper, Piper at P3 and Leo must be
somewhere else." She replied. "Hey, I just did my
nails so would you mind going downstairs for the
cream?." Paige asked
"Ah… cream? Uh… yeah." Alex nodded, "Let's go."
Both girls went upstairs to Prue's nursery in
Phoebe's room.
"In the top drawer." Paige indicated. Alex nodded
and got the cream while Paige was having the
hardest time trying to do her right hand with her
right one. This was the chance she could use.
"Hey I could do the right hand for you." Alex
offered.
"Would you…?." Paige replied
"Of course!." She nodded.
"Great, let's go in my room." Paige said excited.
True they got alone pretty good, in some level Alex
was feeling guilty because she was somehow using
Paige, but she really like her, they had so much
things in common, but still she couldn't forget her
target that day. They spend some time together
just talking about stuff.
"Paige are you with someone upstairs?!." Piper
shouted from downstairs.
"Yes… just a friend!" Paige shouted back and
turned to Alex, "Piper is such paranoid"
"If you think she's annoyng as a big sister you
should try Cole." The demonic little sister replied.
"Oh god that must be hell, literaly." The found
friend said.
"Oh it is, it's all very rightful and straight."
"I still remember when Cole used to be the Brain
on some demonic hunting, and he was like that kind
of person…. He just has rules for everything."
Paige explained and Alex nodded.
"Oh yeah, rules don't talk to me about rules." Alex
shook her head with a grin.
"I still don't understand the combination
'Phoebe&Cole'". Paige stated.
"What do you mean?." The other girl asked.
"Well, for what I've heard Phoebe was this
screwed up and rulesbreaker person and Cole is all
rightful and always by the book… I mean how they
could manage together?." Paige explained.
"Could you imagine them in bed? I mean if she's all
by her way as you said and Cole is 'all about the
rules'…. How can they agree in anything.?" Alex
commented and they both giggled.
"How was it like when they were together?" Alex
asked more seriuously.
"Well, I never really agreed on the fact of them
being together, but the truth is that, if he hadn't
been a demon and Phoebe a witch, they were the
most beautiful couple I even saw, always caring for
the other, always present for her, with rules of
course." Paige explained.
"He's like this with Prue." Alex commented.
"Yeah, that's maybe his human side." Paige said.
This was the moment to hit it, so she tried to
change the subject,
"So… I heard you're still learning the craft." She
commented.
Paige felt confident enough so she kept talking.
"Yes, still on the learning… it's not that bad after
you're on it."
"Oh I totally know the feeling. I'm learning
myself." Alex replied
"Do you?."
"Of course, Cole's not only my big brother, my legal
tutor till I turn 21 and my jailer but he's also my
mentor and trainer." Alex explained
"You practice the dark ways…?" Paige asked.
"Just training and Basic magic for now, you know
spells, potions, the way to defend from and kick
some asses, potions…" she repeated.
"Oh I see." Paige nodded.
"Talking about potions and magic… how is it with
witches? Because demons always show up their
powers, do you as show them when toddlers?" she
innocently asked.
"Yes… I have known that we do show them but
they're usually bound till we're old enough to
manage the responsibility of the powers you know."
Paige explained
"Really? Bind the powers, how?". Alex kept
persuading trying to act clueless.
"With a potion… we did it once for a kid I think we
mixed some cinnamon, clover's leaves…" Paige tried
to remember. "Sage, toadflax and of course an
apple's seed." The confident half witch said with a
smile.
'Bingo!.' Alex yelled mentally. She looked at her
watch.
"Oh shit, look at the time, Cole's gonna kill me."
She said.
"Oh…"
"Look, thank you, it was really fun, we should
repeat this sometime. Take care. Bye." Alex said as
she quickly left, she had already got what she
needed for now.
"Bye." Paige said.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
"I think I made it right this time." Alex said
doubtfully.
"Really? Because I'll have to buy a new wardrobe
after this." Cole complained as she showed his
burned sleeve.
'Dude, she's your daughter' she thought but didn't
dare to say it. "Well, when Paige is confident she
just talk, talk and talk… she's a nice girl, you know."
"Paige a nice girl?". Her brother asked. "I wish I
knew that one." He sarcastically added.
Alex came with the potion in Prue's bottle in came
closer to her who was in her baby carriage.
"Ok, beautiful I think we already had enough fun.
Now take some water." She sweetly said and Prue
just threw an energy ball at her.
"Hey! That was my favorite blouse!." She
complained. Cole just laughed. "What are you
laughing at?!"
"Excuse me, Miss Alexandra, but this was your
mess." He said.
'Right, you screw the witch, knock her up and this
is my mess', she thought.
"Ok, let's try this-" she didn't make it closer when
Prue had shimmered to her father's arms. "Why
don't you try it?"
Cole took the bottle with the green liquid. "Come
on princess, show this crazy girl how cute you are."
He talked to her and she drank the liquid.
In that moment they heard the elevator's bell.
"Phoebe's here." Cole mouthed to Alex. She quickly
took the bottle with the potion and hid it, just
praying that the potion had worked this time.
"Hey!" Greeted Phoebe when she entered the
penthouse.
"Hi." Cole and Alex quickly replied a little nervous.
Cole got up with Prue and his arms and Phoebe said:
"It's finally safe for my little one to come back
home."
"Oh." Cole said, he was surprised, he wasn't waiting
Phoebe to take Prue back so soon, he thought she
was just here to visit as usual. But even if he
didn't want the little girl to leave, Phoebe looked
more than happy to have her daughter back with
her, so it was fine by him.
"Okay, huh. Here." He said handing her Prue.
Phoebe kissed her on the forehead and Cole said:
"Let me grab her things."
After some minutes, he came back with three full
bags.
"She had only on bag when she came here." Phoebe
said.
"Huh, yeah, I know, but you know, we went shopping
a little and... now, there's three bags." Cole
explained.
"Thanks, Cole, this is very nice." Phoebe said.
"I can shimmer everything at the manor if you
want to." He proposed.
"Really?" She said.
"Yeah." Cole replied.
He shimmered all the bags in Phoebe room and
shimmered back in the penthouse.
They shared a smile and Phoebe said: "Well, we'll
leave now."
"Thanks you so much for everything you did for us,
it means a lot to me." She said.
"You're welcome, it was a real pleasure to have her
with us, she's a really cute little baby." Cole
replied.
'A really cute little demon I would say', Alex
thought.
Phoebe smiled and Cole tried to smile as well.
"It sounds like a goodbye." He said.
"Yeah, but I'll call you sometime to tell you how's
Prue doing." She told him.
"Okay." Cole said. He knew he wasn't going to see
her for a while.
Then Alex came close, "Goodbye little niece.", she
said in baby voice.
"Niece?." Phoebe nervously asked. 'oh god they
know'
"I just feel it that way. I've become pretty found
of her and that's why I'm her cool auntie, you
know" Alex clarified.
"Oh" Phoebe nodded as a sigh of relief came out of
her mouth.
"I'll miss you." Alex said as she kissed her
forehead. "Bye, Phoebe"
"Bye Alex", she said, "Goodbye Cole." Phoebe said.
"Goodbye Phoebe, bye little one." He said.
Phoebe walked away and Cole looked down.
Alex who had heard the whole scene hugged Cole
tightly. No words needed to be told to know what
Cole was going through right now.