Chapter 4: Sleepless Nights And Pumpkin Pies
Letting herself get shimmered in next to her and Leo's marital bed, Piper didn't waste time with anything. She stepped back one from Cole to assure that her perfected powers had their intended aim and reached up slowly, her fingers almost touching his chest. She stopped for a second, taking in his remarkable features, then made a slight movement of her wrist. The blow that resulted didn't harm Cole at all, but it knocked him onto the bed and ripped his clothes conveniently apart.
The stunt however, horrified Cole, making him want to be rather small and out of this world. He didn't know whether the gatekeeper entrusted him with any powers this time, but he held out his palm anyway to form a fireball as a tool of his self preservation. It was at that moment, looking up, that he realised that there was no threat to his safety or health.
The danger arouse in the form of an also naked Piper, "what do want with that?" She murmured in a velvety voice, "okay, I was the one who started with violence, but sadism is only allowed on my part, remember? Just because Phoebe permits it with the occasion of our foursomes..."
"What?" Cole lost concentration and let the fireball accidentally burn his own hand, somewhat before he directed it to vanish.
Piper laughed at him, but when she climbed up on the bed on top of him, she started with kissing and caressing his already healing right hand. She gently licked the wound until it disappeared, while Cole was trying to understand the situation. He had his powers all right, but what was this with Piper's behaviour? And for goodness' sakes, what foursome?
"Ah, forget I mentioned Phoebe!" Piper said a bit upset, while she stroked and touched Cole everywhere now, but he didn't move a muscle in response, "I don't think she would agree to join us anytime soon. She's rather annoyed with you since you stopped the new American civil war from erupting. We could've identified so many potential demons...speaking of potential! Eh, I hate business," she pulled Cole's red pants off, using her amazing dexterity to try to start him off, if nothing else helped so far. Needing to work on rousing him wasn't something new and Piper was sure she had the experience now to provide those few special touches she came to know after experimenting with him during the last couple of years since Phoebe had completely given up the hope of a successful relationship with him. To Piper's annoyance though, Cole still held on to the illusion of being together with Phoebe one day. This was one of the reason's he'd given in to the older sister's charms, she knew that well. Being Piper's lover gave him the opportunity to stay in touch and the family more or less tolerated his existence, whether he kept to his moral high ground and double crossed them sometimes or not. Not to mention those now very rare occasions Phoebe gave in to her middle of cycle lust and used him as a toy, which paradoxically meant heaven to him. Piper still accepted the situation as well. She even supposed that when Cole shut his eyes during intercourse, or asked for the lights to be turned off, he imagined that he was making love to Phoebe, not her. It didn't matter to her too much, she already had a husband who treated her as if she was a god and cherished her to the point he tolerated not being the one who satisfied her sexually. All in all, boring as Leo was, he was the reason himself Piper needed Cole. The half demon wasn't all that much older than Leo, but boy, was he more skilled in bed. Nevertheless, there must've been something wrong with him this time and Piper started to worry about him. She couldn't see the anger in his eyes either that so often fuelled their passionate, animalic encounter. Piper was baffled when he pushed her away once she wanted to use her tongue wandering lower than his bellybutton with it.
Cole cringed away and sat on the side of the bed, "maybe..." He started, but had no idea how to get away from her. He had absolutely no idea what St. Peter, the gatekeeper of heaven wanted him to do. His equivalent in this dimension was obviously on very intimate terms with his Piper, but certainly the gatekeeper's task could have not been for him to sleep with her. There was always some greater goal at stake in the background and he wondered if the road to the solution really was to bounce on Piper.
The triumvirate's oldest followed Cole to the edge of the bed on her hands and knees, cursing Phoebe silently to herself. The visionary charmed one has been particularly nasty to Cole in the last time and Piper guessed this being the reason for her lover's frustration. Phoebe was of no good to anyone lately. Without active powers, they practically allowed her to share the throne of the underworld just because she was their sister. Paige had mentioned a plan recently about how to get rid of her without the demons finding out they did it, and Piper had been thinking about it since. They could've ruled easier without her, she never knew what she really wanted and often changed her mind. But more importantly, after the initial shock, Cole would forget about her too. Paige would subsequently be also easy to get rid of, as her powers were not as strong as Piper's escalating blowing up abilities that worked on all demons now, not just on some. When she would have the throne to herself, she would divorce Leo, and maybe keep him as a lover, because the underworld would never accept an ex Elder as their sole king. But Cole on the other hand...Piper cursed under her breath once more when she recognised Leo's orbs.
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