I love you Piper II

A/N: My dear readers, thank you very much for encouraging me to keep writing. My big thanks to Blue eyes6, you've rekindled my muse!!!

I'm trying to please all of you :) :) :) Cole comes back, plain Cole, not Belthazor, not Source-possessed :) :) :) he's invincible, but just temporarily :) :) :) he'll fight for Piper, and they'll belong together at last!!! :) :) :) Please keep supporting me!!!

Here's the start. You may feel it seems like season 5. Please read and see if you like to read more.

Part 13

Piper got out of a supermarket with two large bags of food on her hands walking towards the parking lot. She's planning to cook a huge dinner for her sisters. They didn't have dinner together recently considering Phoebe and Paige were working on getting rid of their spinsterhood. Phoebe often joked that she's jealous of how lucky and successful Piper was in love. That's right, Piper's living happily with Leo. Their wedding would come soon, around Valentine's day next year. They'd just gotten Christmas Eve a few days ago.

Christmas Eve. It was a romantic day when Leo promised to take her with him to wherever he went for his job. They travelled around and he brought so much joy and fun to her. Until the night. None of his charges needed him and they spent their time at P3. After a dance, Leo went to get some drink for both of them. While Piper made her way to the couch, she spotted him walking down the stairs. Leo was still busy with making their cocktails, he stepped up to her, cheerful smile on his lips. Without a single word, he held her tightly in his strong arms. They kept silence for a while, she didn't want to break his emotion rudely, so she just let him hold her and kiss her hair. Finally, Cole loosed his embrace looking at her intensely. "I'm back." He whispered to her, his brilliant smile still on. Then he found her lips, Piper turned to another direction making him a little confused. That's when she slowly and gently pushed him out.

Gently pushed him. Out of her life as he had already been out of her heart. They'd had a quarrel between her family and him. Cole persisted that she was his, and that he had all rights to take her away with him. Prue threatened she would vanquish him if he kept disturbing Piper. He did give her a lot of chances to show off her ability of vanquishing demons. So far he's very alive with tons of powers to stop all of her efforts. Cole became a good stalker that giving them bad headaches.

Stalking. Piper had to take a halt because he's in front of her.

"Hi." – smiled Cole.

She walked on right to keep him out of her way, but he streched his left arm to stop her.

"What are you doing here?" – asked Piper reluctantly.

"Waiting for you."

"I think you have a job to take care of."

"There's something more important. I have a love to take care of."

"Be sane, Cole." – she locked her eyes at him – "We're over."

He stopped intruding into the manor after Leo had shoved him with his and Piper's legal divorce papers. They'd reported his missing last year, and she'd gotten her freedom 6 months later. But he kept showing up wherever she came to as purposeful chances. It's so bad that Piper didn't want to leave home too often assuming he's waiting for her outside.

"From the bottom of our hearts, we are not." – insisted him – "Touch me, and kiss me. Let me show you how strong our love are."

Piper threw her look around.

"What you're speaking of isn't love." – whispered her.

"Everything we do is love." – his eyes were tender pleadingly fastenning to her – "I know you don't want to break your words. You don't want to hurt him. You're hurting me, baby. I've come back for you, for us. Don't drive me away."

Piper had tears in her eyes, she wasn't used to hearing someone beg her for something. Right now, right there her ex-husband was pleading for her love. She did remember how much she had loved him and worried for him when he'd gone out. But he's telling her inmost feeling, she didn't want to betray Leo, or ruin what they had planned. Something in her head reminded her continually that her love for Cole was forbidden. She resumed walking away. He followed her and seized the bags on her hands.

"Let me help you." – she intended to protest but realizing it's not nice to pulled them in and out with him, so she let him take them.

"I miss your food." – mumbled Cole on their way to the parking lot. She didn't answer him, she couldn't invite him to come around, and it seemed better just ignore his comment.

When they reached her car, Piper found one of its tyres was flat. She groaned.

"Don't worry." – said Cole, he put those bags into her car and waved his hand, the tyre was inflated magically.

Piper smiled unconsciously, it's really great as she didn't know how to change it.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome." – he got so close that there's no distance between them. Flirting, but charming.

She separated from him getting on her seat.

"Give me a date, baby. We need to talk. We haven't talked since I came back." – said Cole.

"We have nothing for a talk." – refused Piper.

"Yes. I do have a lot."

She drove off.

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One month later,

Piper opened the door, the familiar deliverer smiled at her:

"Flowers for you." – he gave her a big bouquet of roses.

"Thank you."

When she's signing the bill, Leo snatched the bouquet and pulled a card out. Piper say sorry to the deliverer and closed the door hastily.

"I'll always love you and be waiting for you." – read Leo. He tore it into pieces and trod angrily on the flowers.

"Would you clean this mess?" – asked Piper.

"He's trying to steal my fiancee. You think I should welcome him?"

"He'll get my decision. Just give him some more time."

"Some more time. I heard it before. That's all you can say?" – shouted Leo – "Our wedding is in half a month. And you love to get flirtation from another man everyday."

"You sound like I'm cheating on you." – Piper raised her voice – "I know thoroughly where I'm standing. It just he came back and lost everything. I don't want to ulcerate his wound."

"So lovely. Come and comfort him." – grumbled Leo. He orbed out.

Phoebe walked down the stairs.

"Another row?" – asked her.

"I can't believe that's the angel I fell for."

"It's natural. He's jealous." – smiled Phoebe – "Forgive him since he loves you so much."

"I know. But he can't stand my past and I can't change it." – Piper shook her head – "I've tried all my best to avoid seeing Cole. He has to know it."

"That's a bad idea, Piper." – said Phoebe – "You shouldn't have avoided Cole."

Piper looked at her curiously.

"You need to talk to him, let him know exactly and straightforwardly about your choice. And ask him to stop annoying you."

"He'll be hurt." – said Piper thoughtfully.

"He's suffering it. Quench his hope once and for all. Maybe he'll feel better." – persuaded Phoebe – "Take my advice. I'm a psychologist, remember?"

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Piper was seeing Cole pouring some wine for them. They're alone on his yacht tonight. It's somehow strange but familiar, anxious but peaceful. They had been there many times before, on the couch where she was sitting, they had made love wildly and passionately to each other. Cole looked gorgeous like the first time he'd come to see his bride, or the very first time when little Piper had run into him. In fact the period of seventeen years was just a short time for him, he's wearing a black t-shirt under a black coat, and black pants that made him too much attractive and demonic at the same time. He walked to give her a glass of wine and sat down next to her.

"I'll be married two weeks later." – started Piper.

He grabbed her hand but she pulled it out.

"I'm saying I'll marry Leo."

"I'm your husband, baby."

"Ex." – corrected her – "I know it's hard. But, don't ruin our own lives! We won't be happy if you're like that."

"We'll be happy if you re-marry to me." – insisted Cole – "Are you feeling anything?. . . Everything here is the witness of our happiest moments."

Piper put her glass down on the table walking out. The cold breeze made her shiver, she quietly held her arms around herself closing her eyes. She knew she had to say what she should, it seemed all of words had failed her. Without expectation, she found a coat warmly embraced her shoulder, Piper opened her eyes to see him.

"You said no woman took the fact that her husband was dead easily." – whispered Cole – "I tried through foul and fair to be alive and escape the wasteland. Just to dry your tears."

"You should've moved on."

"You said you needed me in your life." – his voice sounded broken.

Piper turned away, she had really said that, when she'd been lying on the top of him, right there, on this yacht, on the other night. . . His return was unexpectent, she'd never known a dead man/a vanquished demon coming back as a living one. She herself had to be surprised that she hadn't cried for him so much, she'd loved him with all her heart though. The first day they met again, his smile was briliant, his embrace was ardent, he thought she's feeling as overjoyed as himself. Piper swallowed a bitter in her throat.

"I'm sorry, Cole." – said her – "I do remember how much I loved you, and cared for you. But the feeling's gone."

She stared at him sadly figuring she was wrong. He's not the same as before. The Cole Turner she'd known was confident, bravery, somehow arrogant, a little humorous, but the one in front of her was tired, emaciated, and devastating.

"We'll build it up again." – he took out a small box and opened it revealing a diamond ring. Then he knelt on one knee before her – "Marry me!"

Piper didn't imagine he would do it. Proposing her after she had been making a great effort to avoid him and refuse him. Furthermore, she's getting married to Leo.

"Take care of yourself, and move on with your life." – murmured her. She went to steer their yacht back to the shore.

"I can't live without you." – cried him.

Piper didn't say anything, she couldn't say anything. Cole stood up squeezing the box on his hand and throwing it to the sea.

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