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Going Clubbing
Chap 2
Nights later Alpha and Beta appeared to Cole. "We have a new assignment for you."
Cole glanced up from his Lazyboy. Putting down his chopsticks and Chinese food carton, he answered, "What is it this time?"
"We think you should go clubbing."
P3 was booming. People packed themselves into the club, crowding every space, but an alcove. In that alcove sat three glamorous ladies waiting for their men to come back with drinks.
Paige smiled, "Why, thank-you, Agent Brody." He handed her a drink.
"It's good to be out of the house," Piper admitted.
Leo agreed, "I'm glad the elf could baby-sit."
"The elf?" Kyle repeated.
"Do you really wanna know?" Paige asked.
Kyle paused to think for a brief moment. "No, never mind."
Paige looked around the dance floor and then to the entrance. "I'm sorry your date didn't show up, Pheebs."
"That's ok. I don't think he's the one anyway."
"Still searching for your baby daddy? " Piper asked amused.
"Baby daddy?" Kyle repeated.
"You don't want to know," Paige replied.
Phoebe rolled her eyes. "No, I learned my lesson the first time, but I think I may want to learn it again with that guy over there." Phoebe nodded to the guy at the bar. When she walked in, she had an instant attraction to him, but waited for her date anyways. Generally insulted if she was stood up, she felt awkwardly relieved. She was free to pursue the hottie.
"You do that," Piper said as if reading her mind. Then she added, "but we're going to dance," and grabbed Leo.
Kyle cocked a suggestive eyebrow at Paige. Then without warning lifted her up and swung her up into his arms. "Dance?"
"Do I have a choice?" She smiled mischievously.
"No."
In disguise Cole sat at the bar. He wasn't happy about this. Just when he thought that maybe, just maybe, he was no longer held captive by her and their past, he was reeled back into the wake of their disaster. Then Phoebe nodded at him. "Shit,' he groaned inwardly almost wanting to slam his head into the bar. Even though he knew that in spite of it all, it was merely an act. He simply wanted to believe he felt nothing but regret toward their past, but he known otherwise. He hadn't truly lived until he met her. Now the butterflies that he didn't even know existed woke up and flew out of their cocoons as she sexily sauntered over toward him. For a moment, he was lost in reminiscence. How much he would've loved to have a chance with her again, but he knew he couldn't.
"Hi," she smiled, just like that she had him again. She lured him to the dance floor.
In any other situation Cole would've found the irony humorous. Phoebe had unknowingly led her much-hated ex-husband to the small group where her sisters danced. In fact if he were evil, he would've used it as an opportunity, but he wasn't evil anymore and he didn't want the opportunity. He tried to remain distant in hopes that maybe she would lose interest. Much to his disappointment that made her only tried harder.
He felt the sisters inspect him as Phoebe's latest find. A paranoid sensation washed over his body. The girls were watching his every movement and he could've sworn they knew full well who he was. The longer he danced with Phoebe, the more his mind insisted that they were planning how to vanquish him. It was impossible he reassured himself. He tried to coax himself into thinking of other things.
Instead of pleasant thoughts, rationalism sunk in. Piper and Paige's loves were much more of a threat than either of them were. Leo was an Avatar. Sooner or later he'd develop a keen sense of power. "Leo was always a quick study," he mentally reminded himself. He could expose Cole easier than the girls could. On the other hand, Kyle was the only person motivated enough to search, find, and kill an Avatar. He had the potion and the passion to kill him.
With that thought, he snapped back to reality. Reality hadn't been any kinder to him than his thought had been. He realized that he had stopped being distant and fallen back on to old habits. As he found himself dancing with Phoebe like the way the used to, he missed her more. Oh how he missed the good ol' days. Often he longed to be here like this, but he never expected it to happen in a million years.
His paranoia melted away as he looked into her big brown eyes, losing himself in her once again. Without thinking, he leaned in for a kiss. Electricity ignited throughout his body as it remembered her. He remembered every inch of her body, and the way it felt to hold her in his arms. He remembered her tongue and mouth, and how good it felt to explore it.
She kissed him back never fighting it. She didn't even know his name. To her he was just some guy she had met at the club, but she had felt an instant connection to him. It bugged her because she knew she knew him. She felt that feeling again. That feeling that Cole used to give her. She convinced herself that, that wasn't it, but there was something in her remembered him. Especially after he loosened up, and that kiss was… proverbial. As her mind went to put a finger on it, a premonition hit her.
Instincts kicked into over-drive as Phoebe shuddered in pain. After living and loving a seer for so long, catching her was almost old hat. "What did you see?" Was the other automatic response to her premonitions. Mentally he admonished himself. What was he thinking allowing himself to get that close? She could've seen who he was. He couldn't stand seeing that look on face. He thought that he'd die if he had to see hatred and disgust in her eyes again, but once she looked up some of his fears subsided. She looked at him with confusion as if her premonition had been just plain weird and not of any significance toward him.
Phoebe thought the guy had said something to her, but she didn't actually hear him. He walked her to the alcove with her sisters following him.
"Tell me where you ate, and I'll never go there," he joked uneasily feeling like a fool.
Poor guy, Phoebe thought. The premonition had rocked her. It was really bizarre. How weird must it have been for her to suddenly stop like that in the middle of a dance? Most of the guys she had danced with before would've bolted, but he stayed. It was cute how he was so sympathetic. "Ummm…"
Cole stuttered as he stumbled to think of an alias, "Ben. Ben Chase."
"Well, Ben, it's sweet of you to take care of our sister, but I think we should handle this," Piper suggested.
"I could take her home if you all want to stay," he offered a little too eagerly. He never wanted to let her go again; he'd be anybody else just to have her back.
"No, I think we should be getting home anyways," Piper insisted, "and relieve the babysitter, ya know?"
Cole nodded hesitantly. "Maybe I'll see you again," he said, but he doubted it.
