Hi guys, I know it took a long time but a lot happened to me and I didn't had time to work on my fics, I'm really sorry about that but sometimes things that we can't control are happening to us. I just hope that you did not loose your interest on this story and that you'll read it and will review.

Chapter 17

"Preparing the battle."

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"Mommy? Why are you and Daddy yelling?" Tom asked as he walked in the living room. He was all sleepy and rubbing his eyes.

Phoebe pulled away for Cole, she walked next to her son and said: "It's nothing baby, we were just talking a little loudly, we're sorry."

"Yeah but you could have scared the tiny baby." Tom told her.

Phoebe couldn't help but smiled and kissed her son on the forehead.

"Let's go back to bed baby." She said, taking his hand and walking back in the twins' room.

Tom laid down on his bed under the covers and closed his eyes. Phoebe kissed him on the forehead once again and whispered him goodnight.

When she went out of the room she was thinking that Cole would still be there, but to her surprise, he wasn't there. She walked in the kitchen, their bedroom, the bathroom and even in the garden but she didn't find him.

She decided to call to the manor, she was really worried, who knows what Cole would do when in was like this. She dialed the manor's number and Paige replied.

"Paige, it's me." Phoebe quickly said.

"What? What's wrong?" Paige asked, she was already worried because it was late.

"Is Cole there?" She asked.

"No, why?" Paige asked back.

"Coz... listen it's a long story, can you check the basement please?" She asked.

Paige understood that her sister didn't want to talk about what was happening, so she just said yes and quickly orbed in the basement, looking for Cole. When she orbed back and picked up the phone, she told Phoebe that Cole wasn't in the manor.

"Thanks Paige." Phoebe said and without letting time for Paige to say something, she hung up the phone. She was really angry against him but in the same time, she was deadly worried.

She sighed and walked in the kids' room and laid down in bed next to Tom. The little boy was sleeping but he cuddled in his mother's arms.

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It was five in the morning when Phoebe woke up. She got up from her son's bed, careful not to wake him up. She realized that she had only slept for 2 hours and decided to go in the kitchen and make some coffee. She had been worried all night long, thinking about Cole, about what he could be doing, if he was in danger or not. She stopped in shocked when she saw him in the middle of the living room.

"Hey." He softly said, he was looking tired, just like Phoebe, he hadn't slept during the night.

She looked at him in the eyes and hit him across the face and it was not as if she had slapped him, she had litteratly punched him.

"You bastard." She told him as he was rubbing his cheek.

"Do you know how much worried I've been? How dare you leave me, leave the kids like this?" She added.

She walked past him to the kitchen, he followed her and grabbed her arm, forcing her to turn around to face him.

He kissed her passionately and once he pulled apart, he said: "He's reaching his goal. All he wants is to see us spliting up."

"If we fight, he's wining." He added, they were still very close, their lips almost touching.

They started to kiss again with the same passion, their hands running on the other's body. Cole shimmered them into their bedroom where they laid on the bed and continued their activities.

"Wait." Phoebe reluctanty said, pulling apart.

"What?" Cole said, almost breathless from their kisses.

"Are you okay? I don't want you to be hurt because of this." She whispered.

"Don't worry, I'm okay and I want to make love to you so much that nothing will stop me." He replied, giving her his best smile and before she could argue or talk again, he kissed her again.

She started to unbutton his shirt and to run her hands on his bare chest.

"I love you." Cole whispered as he broke their loving kiss and started to kiss her in the neck.

"Don't ever leave me again." Phoebe whispered and with that they kissed again.

It was like they weren't able to stop kissing, that their mouths were glued or something.

"Mommy?" A voice asked from the doorway.

Cole who was laying on top of Phoebe pulled away from her and whispered: "Too bad."

"Yes baby, what is it?" She asked to her son.

"Do I have to go to school today?" Tom asked.

"Yeah, but you can go back to bed, it's not time to get up yet." Phoebe told him.

"Can you come with me?" He asked.

She couldn't resist, even if she wanted to stay with Cole, her son was too cute, he was all sleepy and rubbing his eyes. She got up and walked towards him. She took his hand in hers and they both walked back into the little boy room where Liz was still sleeping peacefully.

"Here you go baby." She told him as she kissed him on the neck.

"I don't want to go to school." Tom said.

"No need to argue about it, you'll go, no matter what." Phoebe said.

"Now go back to sleep." She added.

Tom sighed but closed his eyes and went back to sleep just as his mother told him.

Phoebe went back in her room and smiled when she found out that Cole had fallen asleep. She crawled in bed next to him and ran her hand across his chest.

"Baby, you should take away your pants, you'll sleep better this way." She whispered in his ear.

"Later." Cole mumbled which caused to Phoebe to smile.

She kissed him softly on the lips and cuddled up next to him, resting one of her hand on his chest.

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"NO!" Phoebe screamed as she sat up on the bed all sweaty and out of breath.

Cole immediately woke up and sat up as well. He wrapped his arms around Phoebe as she was trying to recover her breath.

"I'm okay." She whispered.

"You're not okay until I say so." Cole declared.

Phoebe smiled and looked at the nightstand, the alarm clock was indicating 8am. She sighed and Cole said: "Tell me about your nightmare."

"I'm okay." She repeated.

"It was Brad, right?" Cole said.

"Yeah, but Cole, I don't want to talk about it, please." She said looking in his eyes.

"Okay, just lay down some minutes with me." He said.

Phoebe nodded and laid back on the bed and Cole started to kiss her in the neck, well decided to make her forget about her nightmare.

As ususal, he slid one of his hand under her top Pj's and caressed her belly.

"How's my little baby this morning?" He asked, looking at Phoebe.

"Fine." She replied.

"And glad that Daddy is taking care about her." She added.

"Her?" Cole asked.

Phoebe nodded in answer and said: "I just feel it, I don't know why, I feel that we're going to have a little girl."

Cole smiled from ear to ear and kissed her passionately.

"Do we have to go to work today?" He asked as he pulled apart.

Phoebe smiled and said: "You look so much like Tom when you said it."

"I really don't want to go to work you know, I want to stay here with you in my arms." He said.

"I know but Elise will kill me if I don't go to work." Phoebe replied.

Cole sighed and Phoebe smiled, he was really looking and acting like Tom. He burried his face in her neck.

"Come on, let's get up we have to wake the twins up, they have to go to school." Phoebe told him.

"No." Cole replied as he started to kiss her neck.

"Come on." Phoebe said as she sighed.

"I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go." Cole said, he knew he was driving her crazy when he was acting like a kid.

"Fine, stay here, but I'll go and you know what, I won't let you touch me for one week." She said.

Cole immediately got up and ran in the kids room to wake them up.

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Later that day, Cole and Phoebe were both at work and the kids at school. Cole's phone rang and he immediately picked it up.

"Cole Turner, I'm listening." He said.

"Hi Cole, it's Paige." The youngest Halliwell said.

"Hello Paige, what's new?" He asked.

"I made your research, I found the way to kill Brad." She said.

"How?" Cole quickly asked, he wanted to know how to kill him so that he'll kill him himself to end up this whole nightmare.

"Well, we, the Charmed Ones, have to bless a athame, a little of our blood and a spell will do it and then, somebody will have to stab him with the athame in the heart." She said as if it was something really easy to do.

"And how do we summon him?" Cole asked.

"Huh... I hadn't thought about it yet, but it's not like we hadn't done this before, I'll just have to change a existing spell, it's be easy." She explained.

"That's great, thanks a lot Paige." Cole thanked her.

"You're very welcome, I know this bastard made it really hard for you and Pheebs, not talking about my little nephew and my little niece, I'll be more than glad if we manage to kill this son of a bitch." She said.

Cole smiled and said: "Thanks for your support."

"We are all supporting you on this one you know." Paige said.

"Yeah, I know, thanks again for everything you do for us, it means a lot to me, you're always here when I need you." He said.

"That's okay Cole, you're from the family know, you're like a brother to me." She said.

Cole smiled again, he really liked that girl, she was like his sister as well.

"So, when have you planned to do it?" Paige asked.

"Huh, I don't know, I hadn't tell Phoebe about it, it's a little painful for her again to talk about him, she had a nightmare again." Cole explained.

"You have to tell her, she has to be ready to face him, if she's not okay, if she can't do it, we're dead." Paige said.

"I know, that's why I'll take it easy for her, I'll talk to her tonight, I'll tell her about the plan and I'll ask her if she's okay with it, if she's ready to face him." Cole said.

"What about you? Are you ready?" She asked.

"More than ready, I wanna see him dead, you have no idea how much I want to kill him." He replied.

"I know Cole, but we have to prepare everything, we can't take the risk to let him go." Paige said.

"Yeah, listen, I'll talk to Phoebe tonight and I'll tell you how it went." He replied.

"Okay, bye." She told him.

"Bye." Cole said before hanging up.

He picked the phone again and dialed Phoebe's number at work.

"Hey baby." He greeted her before she could said anything.

"Hey." She said.

"Working hard?" He asked.

"Yeah, but mostly thinking about you." She said.

"That's weird, I wasn't thinking about you at all." He teased.

"Liar, you can't get me out of your head, that's why you're calling me." She said with a smile.

"Yeah, but mostly thinking about you in bed with me." He said, smiling as well.

"Sounds interresting, what about your work?" She asked.

"Huh, work? I don't know, I haven't checked any file yet." He said.

"Cole, it's 3pm, what have you been doing since this morning?" She asked him.

"Well, there's this hot girl, really hot, sexy, did I mentioned hot?" He said.

"Yeah, twice already." She said.

"Oh, yeah, well, I've been thinking about her, most of the time, in fact all the time, she's driving me crazy you know, I can't wait to till I see her again." Cole said.

"Oh... I think she can't wait to see you." Phoebe replied.

In less than one second, Cole shimmered in Phoebe's office and kissed her passionately and when he pulled apart he immediately shimmered back to his office and grabbed the phone.

"Someone could have seen you, you know." Phoebe told him.

"Yeah, but I've been really quick." He replied.

"Too quicky." Phoebe told him.

They both smiled and Cole said: "Listen, I'm going to try to work a little and then I'll meet you at home after dinner, there's something I want to talk about and I also want to make love to you."

"Totally agree, let's go back to work." She said.

"Love ya, bye." Cole said.

"Bye." Phoebe replied and they both hung up the phone.

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Later that night, Phoebe was in the kitchen cooking for dinner while Tom was watching TV and Liz was in her room.

"Hey babies, Daddy's home." Cole shouted as he opened the front door.

"Daddy!" Yelled Tom, getting up from the couch and running in his father's arms.

Cole kissed him on the cheek and asked: "How's my boy?"

"Good." Tom replied with a bright smile, this very same smile his father had.

"Hi honey." Phoebe greeted him, walking towards him.

Cole put Tom down and wrapped his arms around Phoebe's waist.

"Hi there." He said before kissing her passionately.

"Hello." Phoebe said once they pulled apart.

Cole placed his hand on her belly and before he could say anything Phoebe told him: "That little one is really good."

He smiled and asked: "Where's Liz?"

"Oh, she's in her room, looks like she hadn't had a really good day at school." Phoebe explained.

"She has a crush on a boy but he doesn't like her." Tom added.

"Oh... I see, I'm gonna talk to her." Cole said and he walked towards Liz's room.

"Hey baby, what's up?" He asked to his daughter as he sat up on the bed. Liz was playing with her dolls and only shrugged in answer.

He pulled her on his lap and said: "Come on, I know there's something wrong baby."

"That's not fair." The little girl finally said.

Cole didn't say anything and let Liz going on.

"He said I was weird, you know Daddy, I hate him." She said.

"Who?" Cole only asked.

"Brandon." She replied.

"At first I liked him, but now, I hate him." She added.

"You know you should talk to Mommy about it." Cole said, he really didn't know what to tell her and as Phoebe was working on solving love's problems everyday.

Liz nodded and hugged her father tightly.

"Let's go see what Mom is cooking for dinner." Cole stated, he got up holding Liz in his arms and he walked in the kitchen.

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"So, now that the babies are sleeping and that the kitchen is clean, what did you want to talk about?" Phoebe asked as she wrapped her arms around Cole's neck, they both were in the kitchen and just had finished to clean the table.

Cole expression became serious and he cleared his throat.

"Paige and I... we... maybe... we may have find a way to kill Brad." He said, waiting for her reaction.

"Good, when are we going to do it?" Phoebe asked, to Cole surprised, it wasn't the kind of reaction he was waiting for but it was defenitely a good one.

"As soon as everyone is ready." Cole said.

"That's great." She said.

"Baby, you have to understand that it's going to be hard to have him in front of you, it's going to bring bad memories back and he may try to hurt you with words or I don't know what the hell he's gonna try." He said.

"I know Cole... I know... but I want this whole nightmare to end up as soon as possible, I'll face him and we'll kill him." She told him.

Cole nodded and kissed her.

"We can do it whenever you're ready baby." He said.

"Okay, I'll talk to my sisters about it, you know to see if we're ready to kill him and we'll do it." She replied.

"Fine by me." He replied and kissed her passionately this time before shimmering in their bedroom.

"If they're preparing for me, I'm gonna prepare for them." Brad said with a smile as he was standing in front of one of the windows of the kitchen.

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