In the first chapter I said that this took place in the 5th season.. That was wrong. It takes place in the 6th season. Sorry no Chris. Pheobe has her powers.

Chapter 1- He's Back

"Ding," the doorbell chimed.

Piper put Wyatt in his playpen and made her way to the front door stepping over some of Wyatt's toys. She opened the door and resisted the urge to curse. She knew that her child would hear.

"Hey, Piper. Is Pheobe here?" Cole said as he poked his head in the door acting like no time had passed since he had last been here.

"Cole leave now before I get rid of you myself," she said quietly so as not to let Wyatt hear.

"Phoebe is happy and we haven't had a demon stop by in two weeks. We don't need one now."

When he started to protest Piper threw up her hands about to blow him up.

"Piper, please. Wait!" Cole cried knowing that this would be the end of him if she continued.

"I'm not a demon and blowing me up would be against the rules," he said.

She kept her hands where they were but refrained herself from blowing him up. If he didn't make sense in the next thirty seconds then she would blow him up, even though it might not even phase him.

"Go on," she said in a nasty tone.

"When I was in the Wasteland waiting for 'Them' to decide where I was supposed to, two Avatars helped me back and took my powers. Now I can finally say that I'm human," Cole said.

He could tell by the look on her face that she wasn't amused and didn't believe him. Fearing for his life he thought of an idea that might prove that he was human.

"Call Leo," Cole said.

That name made Wyatt start to cry. He missed his father very much.

"He's not here. He's an Elder," Piper said walking over to the baby and picking him up.

"Oh. I see I've missed a lot," Cole said looking at the little boy in Piper's arms.

"Why did you want me to call Leo?" Piper asked.

"I was thinking that if he healed me then you would know that I was telling the truth," Cole said.

"I guess I can call him," Piper said. "Leo!"

A few minutes and an akwardly long silence later blue swirls of light appear before them.

"Da," Wyatt cried holding his arms out.

Leo picks up the baby.

"Piper, why did you call m..." his sentence trailed off when he turned around and saw Cole sitting on the couch.

"What's he doing here?" Leo asked Piper with disgust.

"He says he's human," Piper said.

"And you believe him," Leo said.

"No, but you can help see if he is." Piper said.

"There's nothing to do. He's evil. He'll always be evil. That's how it is," he stated.

Piper picked up the heaviest object that she could carry and heaved it at Cole.

He fell to the floor, unconscious.

"Heal him, Leo," Piper said.

"I can't heal evil," he said putting Wyatt in his playpen.

"Just see if you can," she said.

"There's no point."

At that moment Paige walked in.

"Whoa, he's back. Why can't he just die," Paige yelled.

Cole was still lying on the floor.

"Leo, just try," Piper pleaded.

She didn't really believe Cole. She just wanted to know that her instincts were right.

Finally Leo agreed. He was grumbling as he bent down on his knees and laid his hand over the wound on Cole's hand.

He was certain that his hands wouldn't begin to glow but to his amazement they did and within moments Cole was fully conscious.

Paige hadn't said a word for the last couple of minutes. What was happening hadn't registerd with her yet. 'How could this be? For over a century he had been a demon and had done horrible thing to hundreds maybe thousands of people. How can you just walk away from that consequence free?' Paige thought.

"Do you believe me now?" Cole asked as he stood up.

"No," Leo stated firmly. "You possess so many powers that it would be easy to manipulate my powers."

Mausoleum

Pheobe was sitting on the steps just stairing into the void. She often came here when she felt alone. Somehow this place, this home to dead bodies that would make alot of people shudder, made her feel at peace. It was the only place that she could really be herself and express how she was really feeling. Her family believed that she was fine, that she had moved on and she wanted it to be true. SHe tried so hard to get over him but how can you just forget the love of your life, your soulmate. How did they expect her to just hate him after all the time they had spent together.

Usually Pheobe would come here and reflect on her past. It was here that she realized that it wasn't Cole's fault that he had been taken over by the Source. She knew that none of the things that happened to him in the past couple of years were his fault. He had tried to save her and her sisters and because of that the Source had possessed him. After that everything had fallen apart. They vanquished him without thinking of a different plan that could save him and then when he came back she told him that she had no feelings for him. She understood now why he had gone crazy.

She knew that if it had been her and she had died to save him and then come back so that she could be with him and he told her that he hated her repeatedly that she would have gone mad. Add to that more powers than she could count taking over. Who wouldn't become insane in that situation.

If only she had tried to help him instead of caring about her own pain. If she would've swallowed her pride then she probably could have saved him. That was all she was left with. 'If only'

She stood up and walked out of the mausoleum. She took one last look and remembered Cole's words saying that this was the second safest place he knew. The first being with Pheobe. She realized how much she had let him down. Being with her was supposed to be the safest place he knew and yet she was the reason for what he had become.

She got in her car and headed for home.

Halliwell Manor

Paige had left for a new temp. job and Leo orbed off to check with his fellow Elders to ask if they knew anything about Cole. Piper kept Wyatt and herself at a distance from Cole. After all that they had been through with Cole she knew that even if it seemed as though he was human, he was capable of many things.

Both of them heard a car pull up and Piper froze. How would Pheobe react to this news? Finding out that her demon ex-husband was back yet again.

I hope that you like it. Please review. Constructive critisism is fine.