Chapter 6

Piper cried herself to sleep in my arms, I looked down at the sleeping form. Her body had now relaxed, how many sleepless nights did she have, worrying about this? I kissed her on the top of the head and gently placed her down.

I quietly exited the room and made my way downstairs. As I reached the bottom I saw Darryl leaving the living room and walking towards me. "How's Piper?" He asked.

"She's fine, just resting at the moment..." I looked over his shoulder seeing my baby sister with her legs pulled out to her chest, slightly rocking back and forth. "...How's Phoebe?"

"Not good, she hasn't stopped crying, wishing that she could see the bastard who had done this." I cringed as he almost shouted, his frustration clearly showing at the situation, being powerless to really do anything about it; as it clearly showed that this case was in our line of expertise more then his.

I smiled at him, giving my thanks for looking after Phoebe; I showed him the door promising that we will do whatever we can to bring justice. Swallowing as I have to make myself believe that I wasn't the murderer.

Shutting the door I went back to Phoebe, not knowing if I should touch her or not, she needed a hug right now, but that hug could trigger a premonition and I'm not ready to deal with that yet. But then seeing as I touched her before I went to see Piper, she didn't get any premonitions off me; I decided to take that risk.

Wrapping my arms around her, she let all the tears shed, soaking through my purple shirt. Her muscles relaxed as she let everything out, which is a very good sign my touch hadn't trigged a premonition. Pulling her head out of my shoulder and wiping the tears on her sleeve she spoke. "Prue...I need to tell you something...It's best if Piper is also present for what I'm about to say."

"Piper is resting now, sweetie..."

"Is she alright?"

"For now, she's been having sleepless nights recently."

"I know she scared the crap out of me when I went to the kitchen this morning, she normally sleeps in on her day off." I looked into her clear dark brown eyes and for the first time notice the dark circles underneath them. I suddenly remembered that Piper wasn't the only sister that seemed to have a restless night. "Phoebe what is it? What's wrong? You were awake before me which nearly gave me an heart attack." I smiled, it's a fact that Phoebe loved her sleep and would spend the entire day in bed if she could.

"It's about Cole..."

"What about him...He's dead isn't he? You killed him yourself..."

"About that..." She said a matter-of-factly. I watched as she got up and started to pace about, I had a bad feeling at the pit of my stomach about this. "Phoebe..."

"...We really should wait for Piper for this..."

"PHOEBE!"

"I lied Prue, I didn't vanquish Cole like I said I did...He's still out there."

I can feel myself burning up, I closed my eyes trying to calm myself down, and then I smiled as I realised that Cole might be behind the murders and not me it was possible after all right? I mean the way the murders had been carried out went beyond 'human.'

Do you think that Cole did it?