I don't own any of the characters in this story except Georgie, Hannah and Molly, I do not give permission for anyone to use them as they are very special to me!

Chapter 7

It had been a year since Phoebe had seen Piper, Paige, Leo, Les, Georgie, Molly, Hannah and Kyle. She had spent the entire year with Cole. She didn't feel guilty; she didn't see why she should.

"Cole?" She called

"Yeh…I'm in the back room" he called back. Phoebe made her way through all the unpacked boxes that lead through their new house. She reached the back room. "Hey sweetie" he said as she saw her sweet body stand in the door way.

"Hey…can I have a kiss?" she said. Okay she admitted to herself she felt guilty, incredibly guilty. Guiltier than anything she had done in her 28 years of living.

"Of course you can. Is something bothering you?" Cole asked standing up.

"No…I just want a kiss" Phoebe said swaying her body from side to side in the door way.

"Of course you can have a kiss, I love the taste of your lips" Cole said leaning in to Phoebe, he pressed his soft lips up against hers; her whole body tingled with pleasure.

"Woh that was nice" She touched her lips with her fingers. Cole smiled. He walked back over to the box he was unpacking, it had Phoebe's old clothes init, which she wore when she was with Cole earlier in her life, when her heart would hurt if she wasn't with him and it would ache when she was with him. He looked back at her over his shoulder.

"You miss your family don't you?"

"Yeh…but, I can't go back or I won't want to leave them" Phoebe said. Cole stood up and walked over to her. He took her tiny hands in his.

"Look, if you want to go and see your family then we can go. If you don't want to leave then you don't have to. Phoebe all I've ever wanted in my life is for you to be happy"

"Cole I don't want to live another two and a half years without you in my life, I couldn't cope"

"Neither could I, but I don't want you to be unhappy here. I'd rather you were happy without me then unhappy with me"

"I'm never unhappy with you" Phoebe said smiling.

"Good, coz I'm always unhappy without you" Cole said smiling back at Phoebe. Phoebe smiled. She waited until Cole went back to unpacking the boxes until she walked out of the room.

Paige was holding Hannah's hand. "So how was the party sweetheart?" Paige said looking down at Hannah.

"Yeh Mom is was ok I guess, I wish Georgie would have come though. Why does she have to go into hospital?"

"Because her Dad is ill"

"I heard Aunty Piper saying he's in there coz he was a broken heart" Hannah said stopping

"Well he has, Aunty Phoebe doesn't love him anymore and I think he's just started to realise it"

Hannah smiled and kept on walking next to Paige. When they arrived at the manor a group of people were gathered on their front lawn. Paige grabbed Hannah and orbed her inside. When they were inside Piper ran up to Paige.

"Paige, Georgie orbed in the hospital"

"W…what!" Paige stood back

"But Georgie shouldn't be able to orb! She has no whitelighter jeans in her…unless. Phoebe slept with Leo didn't she?"

"NO!" Piper shouted hitting Paige's arm.

"Les is a whitelighter"

"You what!" Paige started panicking "Hannah go to your room sweetie, do not try and orb ok? Just read a book or something"

"Ok Mommy…I love you" Hannah walked upstairs. Paige and Piper walked into the conservatory. Leo was sat down with Molly and Georgie. Leo smiled when Piper walked in with Paige.

"Paige…we need you to orb in and get Les" Leo said

"Why? Why can't you?"

"Because I've already tried. Seen as Leo Wyatt is dead they won't let me take him out. But you can"

"Fine…whatever. See ya later" Paige orbed out.

Georgie orbed out again. She didn't orb back. Leo was looking at Piper waiting for Georgie to orb back in…but she didn't. Leo you'd better try and sense her. Leo concentrated.

"Ok I got her, be right back" He orbed out. Molly sat up and orbed upstairs to her room. Piper was stood still, she closed her eyes and scrunched up her nose. Orbs appeared, Piper opened her eyes to see if it had worked…Paige was stood there with Les.

"Piper WHAT are you doing?" Paige said as she sat Les down on a chair.

"I'm trying to orb"

"But…you can't orb"

"I know that…" Piper waved her hands at Paige dismissively. "So you got Les then?" Piper said looking at Les.

"Uh huh, I just grabbed him and orbed out"

"Paige!" Piper shouted walking over to Les

"What!"

"Now the photographers and going to KNOW we have powers!" Piper said looking out of a window to see her front lawn swapped with photographers and journalists.

"Well I'm sorry but I couldn't get him out any other way"

"Fine…" Piper sighed and rolled her eyes. "LEO!" Leo orbed in with Georgie and…Phoebe!

"Who, long time no see Pheebs" Piper said. Les stood up and a smile spread across his face.

"Phoebe…you're back" Les said between coughs.

"Yep" Phoebe said with her hands in her pockets

"You still look amazing" Les said

"Thanks…you look ill, are you ok?"

"He was in hospital" Paige said glaring at Phoebe.

"What! Why?"

"Because you broke his heart" Piper said

"Oh Les…I'm so sorry" Phoebe ran over to him and wrapped her arms around his body. He didn't move.

"Phoebe…can you please let go of me" Les said, to everyone's shock.

"Sure…I'm sorry" Phoebe said standing up

"Phoebe, when you left, I thought you were dead, I thought someone had kidnapped you. But when Piper told me you were seeing Cole and probably wouldn't ever come back, my heart broke in half. I couldn't get up in the mornings, I couldn't eat, and I didn't wash or shave. The only thing that kept me going was Paige, Piper and knowing that I still had Georgie. She was crying everyday for you, she didn't want to start school, she wouldn't talk to anyone, she hated me, she blamed me for you leaving, and then she started orbing. I couldn't control her, lucky for me Leo and Piper knew all about orbing children and they helped me so much, I owe my life to them. So please don't back here and wrap your arms around me and think everything will be ok, coz it won't be!"

"Les I didn't want to leave you, believe me, but I had to. I love Cole and I realised that when he came I've always loved him. And thanks to Piper I was able to accept that and nurture it. I didn't want to leave Georgie…did you say she orbed!"

"Yeh I did" Les said looked at Georgie who was smiling at her Mom and Dad.

"Woh…how!" Phoebe said in total shock.

"You mean…you don't know" Piper said looking at Phoebe then back to Les again

"No I didn't tell her, I didn't tell anyone" Les said

"Tell me what?" Phoebe looked around

"That…I'm a whitelighter" Phoebe fainted. Les looked around and ran over to her. "Phoebe?"