"Cole Turner." Cole answered his phone at work. He was lost in a new case on his desk, he was hopping to find the break the DA needed.
"Cole, It's Paige." Paige sounded upset, like she had been crying.
"Paige, what's wrong?" Cole asked, feeling suddenly uneasy.
"Cole, it's Piper." Paige choked out, fresh tears coming to her voice.
Cole jumped out of his chair, pressing the phone against his ear. "What about Piper?" he practically yelled.
"She was in an accident Cole. She was leaving P3 and got hit in the drivers side by a truck." Cole felt his stomach drop. Piper. Oh god.
"Is she?" he started to ask.
"She's in the hospital Cole. They won't tell us anything yet." Paige said.
Cole hung up the phone. His Piper, hurt, in the hospital. He felt his legs getting weak as the fear and desperation sunk in. Not his Piper.
Cole didn't even tell his staff where he was going. He shut his office door and shimmered to the hospital. He shimmered into the men's restroom. Cole ran out of there and down the hall to the nurses station.
"Piper Halliwell" he choked out when he got here. He needed to see her now. He needed to tell her he was here for her.
"Her family is in that waiting room over there." the nurse answered, pointing to a glass room down the hall.
Cole ran down the hall. Paige saw him first. She ran to meet him, giving him a hug. Her eyes were red and puffy.
"Anything yet?" Cole asked her.
Paige shook her head. " Piper's still in surgery." Paige led Cole back down to the room.
Phoebe, Dale, Shawn, Darryl and Melissa were already there. Cole hugged Phoebe before sitting down off to the side by himself. He felt like he couldn't breath. This was happening to fast. He couldn't lose her. He had just found her.
Cole looked up as Darryl sat down beside him. "Cole." Darryl said. "Things will be okay. Piper is a very strong woman. She will pull through."
"Thanks Darryl. I don't think I have ever felt this scared before. This is different then when the girls are attacked by demons. Leo's always there to heal them. He can't heal this." Cole said, trying not to cry in front of his friend. He just wanted to go see Piper.
"What about the baby?" Cole asked, his mind filled with a whole new set of fears. "What if she loses our baby? It would break her heart." Cole choked out.
"Don't think about that right now. You have to be strong for Piper." Darryl said. Before he had a chance to say anything else, a doctor walked into the room.
"Paige Halliwell?" he asked.
Paige jumped up. "Yes." Phoebe stood up next to Paige, grabbing her hand.
"I'm Dr. King, I am the trauma surgeon who was with your sister." Dr King introduced himself.
Darryl and Cole stood up. Cole walked over to the doctor. "I'm Cole Turner, Piper's fiancé. Is she okay?"
Darryl put his hand on Cole's shoulder, prepared to be there for his friend should the news be bad.
The doctor nodded. "Piper was hit pretty hard. The truck hit the driver's side. She has a concussion, a broken arm, and lots of scrapes and bruises. She lost a lot of blood from a wound in her side. I am a little concerned about the concussion. The CT scans show bruising. We won't know for sure if there was any brain damage until she wakes up." Dr. King said.
Cole felt relief. Piper was alive. She would be okay. Cole's relief was short lived, as he thought again about their baby. "Our baby?" he finally choked out. The doctor looked down, fiddling with his clipboard.
Finally he looked up, meeting Cole's eyes. "I'm sorry Mr. Turner." he said gently. "We tried, but the wound's to her stomach were too much. We couldn't save the baby."