Eek, sorry it's taken so long to update but I've been busy with GCSEs (yes, they've started, but I've already finished 4 subjects so woo!). Also, I want to make this good, or, you know, not totally crap.

Just a happy note for me – woo! I got a £800 scholarship to the college I'm going to in September. Woo!

Um I got asked to list all the kids' powers so…

Wyatt – orbing, healing

Chris – orbing, healing

Melinda – freezing, exploding, slowing/speeding objects

Ben - flaming, energy balls, fire from the hands, levitation

Alexia – flaming, energy balls, fire from the hands, premonitions

The twins also have the ability to talk telepathically to each other

Smith – flaming, levitation

Lily – orbing, healing, moving things with her mind (what's the word for that?)

Basically, they inherited powers from their parents, but Lily only got powers from Paige because Glenn is mortal. These powers may progress through the course of the story.

This follows directly on from the last chapter.

Chapter Two: Family vs. Family

"We may have a problem."

Cole looked at his wife of fifteen years and blinked. "Problem?"

"Yes," nodded Phoebe, sitting on the bed.

Cole sat next to her. "How big of a problem?"

Phoebe sighed. "Before I tell you, you have to promise you won't burn anything."

"I promise."

"I'd really prefer it if you sat on your hands on something," Phoebe suggested.

Cole smiled slightly and pushed his hands underneath him. "Better."

"Yes." Phoebe pushed her hair back with her hands and twisted it on top of her head, roughly sticking a pencil through it to hold it up.

"So how much of a problem do we have?" asked Cole, the mood suddenly serious again.

"You know this dream Lexi's been having? Well, Piper and Paige's kids have been having them too?"

"All of them?" frowned Cole. "'Cause Ben and Smith haven't-"

"No. Just their daughters." She sighed again. "The Charmed Ones-"

"Phoebe, the Charmed Ones are just a myth now. You know that, "Cole replied softly. "There's nothing to worry about there."

Phoebe shook her head. "Apparently not."

"What do you mean?" demanded Cole.

He was startled as she stood up all of a sudden and glared at him. "Oh come on Cole. Don't you get it? Three Halliwell girls, all having the same dream? Piper's daughter, Paige's daughter and my daughter. Don't you understand?"

"Instead of patronising me, why don't you just tell me?" suggested Cole, feeling anger rise slowly inside of him.

"Piper, Paige, Prue and I, we weren't the only generation of Charmed Ones. We were wrong when we thought the Charmed Ones had to be sisters. Alexia, Melinda and Lily are the Charmed Ones. The next generation."

Cole stood up and looked down at his wife. "No," was all he said.

"What do you mean 'no'?" she asked, hands on her hips, staring up at her husband. "Even the Source can't decide this. You can't just say no and expect to have it your way, Cole. Not everything works that way."

"But there can't be. It jeopardises everything!" Cole shouted.

"You don't think I know that? You don't think I told Piper and Paige that? But we can't change it. The Charmed Ones still exist."

"No!" Cole shouted again. "No! We can't change it but we don't have to just give up and go along with it, Phoebe! There hasn't been any need for the Charmed Ones in the past fifteen years because of the truce. Why, all of a sudden, are they needed now?"

"When the fuck did you get so naïve?" Phoebe screamed back, eyes gleaming and face reddening slightly. "The reason it's happening now is because there's something coming. Something big."

"But-" Cole started to protest.

"Cole, this thing has nothing to do with the truce. The truce still stays until we say it doesn't."

"Then what?"

"This…creature…in the dream. It's coming and it's bigger than either side can handle. Good can't fight it, and neither can evil. Neither side will win."

"So, basically, we're screwed?"

"I don't know. Piper and Paige went. They don't know any more that we do right now." Phoebe took a deep breath, looked Cole straight in the eye and said, "We need to go up there, to the manor, and talk with Piper and Paige and Leo about what we're going to do about this creature, and what we're going to do about the Charmed Ones."

For a moment, Cole looked like a fish on dry land gasping for air. "W-What do you mean 'what we're going to do'? It's clear what we're going to do. Nothing."

"I'm sorry, since when did you get to make the decisions for all of us?"

"When did you and your sisters become an 'us' again? In the space of five minutes you've deserted your family to fight the 'good fight' again!"

"Cole, Piper and Paige are my family! So are Leo and Glenn. I don't even know my own nieces and nephews for Christ's sake!"

"What about your children?" yelled Cole. "Are you going to risk their lives for whatever mission you're suddenly hell bent on? What about me, Phoebe?"

Cole suddenly looked lost and sat back down on the bed.

"If you desert me for them…I may as well just give up."

The sight of her husband sitting pathetically before her, his head in his hands, sent a pang through Phoebe's heart, and she knelt before him and put her hands on his knees.

"Cole, I love you and my children more than anything. I'm not deserting you, I could never even consider doing that."

Her voice was soft and gentle now, her eyes kind and loving.

"Fifteen years ago I made a choice, and I chose you. I'm not going back on that decision. But now our children are in danger, and I will do anything to protect my children. I know you're the same. If re-uniting the Charmed Ones is the only way to protect our children from God knows what, then I'll do it without a second thought."

Cole looked up, into her big brown eyes and smiled slightly. The pencil had fallen from Phoebe's hair, and the dark locks hung around her flushed face. He pushed them back behind her ear and ran his thumb down the side of her face.

"Okay."

"Okay?" repeated Phoebe.

Cole nodded. "Not happily. But for our children."

"I love you," Phoebe replied, pulling Cole down to kiss him.

"I love you too."

He stood up, pulling Phoebe with him, and became business like.

"This has to stay secret. If anyone finds out-"

"I know," soothed Phoebe. "They won't. I promise you."

Cole kissed Phoebe in the forehead and then pulled open the doors of their bedroom.

"Kids! We're taking a little trip."

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