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Jaded: Thanks for your review, it's great that you like the story. And you're right, I like it much more to write conversations than description. But I should improve them in my next story.
So here is the next chapter.
23. Chapter
When Cole arrived at his work the next morning, his secretary told him, that Edward Wingrove wasn't there. Cole gave her an annoyed look. "But he wanted to see me this morning." He insisted on his appointment.
Erin Kelley shrugged her shoulders rather bored and looked meanwhile more interested at her fingernails. "I could call Isabell for you." She finally told him graciously and took the phone with a sigh.
Soon later, she hung up again and looked up. "Isabell will come here in a minute. She'll bring some work for you, Mr. Wingrove will only be in the office tomorrow." She let him know.
"Thanks for your quick help." Cole said sarcastically and disappeared in his office.
Immediately afterwards Mr. Wingrove's secretary entered Cole's office. Isabell Swallow wore a design suit and a golden necklace with a diamond pendant. In contrast to their last meeting, she looked at him coldly and Cole couldn't find much of her polite friendliness anymore.
"Here you are!" was everything, she brought out. She gave him a few files and Cole had the opportunity to take an admiring look at her countless golden bangles and her diamond rings.
"You wear beautiful jewelry Miss Swallow." he explained with a smile on his face. "Mr. Wingrove must pay you a good salary."
"I can't complain about it." she replied shortly and turned around quickly, so that her sapphire earrings were swinging. "If you want to excuse me, I have to work hard for my money."
Cole looked after her and shook his head thoughtfully, a cloud of perfume was in the air and Cole couldn't get an idea of the price of Isabell's perfume. Probably it was one of the most expensive perfumes available on the market. It was really strange, that Wingrove's secretary could buy the most expensive things. He smiled, or perhaps it wasn't such a big surprise.
Early in the afternoon Cole has finished his work and decided to go home. He left his office, but as far as his eye could see, he didn't find his secretary. Cole didn't assume that anybody would miss him, so he went to the underground car park. But when he entered the floor, he stopped immediately. Isabell Swallow just left the car park zooming in her brand new sports car. It seemed as if she didn't have to work so long for her money yet, Cole thought cynically, while he walked to his own car.
When Cole arrived at home and entered the hall. Amy came up to meet him, she was all churned up inside.
"I just wanted to do you a favour and bake a cake, but she didn't allow it." She started angrily at the kitchen door. "I can't do anything, she doesn't want it. She told me, that she is paid for it."
"Do you have a quarrel with Mrs. Jennings?" Cole asked in surprise.
Amy nodded. "Yes, I just want to do something, I wanted to help her. I need to do something to get all the thoughts about the demon and everything out of my mind. Actually I don't want to think at all, therefore I wanted to concentrate on something else. But she's only grumbling."
Cole smiled slightly, he could understand her very well. It was a very complicated matter not to think about anything. A little distraction would be good for her. "How about a trip to the place, where the Voodoo show took place yesterday? We could look around, perhaps we'll find something interesting." He said and realized too late, that it probably wasn't the best idea to distract Amy.
But Amy already nodded enthusiastically. "That's a great idea."
Soon later Cole parked the car and they walked through the park to the place, where the Voodoo show had taken place the night before. It looked different in broad daylight. The sun was shining from a cloudless sky and some workers were just dismantling the stand. The sweat had to run down their bodies, but that didn't seem to disturb them. Amy und Cole passed them by and went to the place, where the stage had been yesterday evening.
Amy looked around in surprise. "It's hard to imagine, that it's the same place. The atmosphere was completely different yesterday."
Cole nodded and looked around too. They were standing on the stage now, which was just a circular surface with asphalt. He could still make out some traces of the night show on the ground. The power, which Belva had used to draw a sign on the ground, was swept together on the edge of the circle and the rests of the torches were lying on top of it. Cole walked to the pile and kneeled down to take a close look on it. But just in this moment a worker with a shovel appeared beside him and filled the rubbish into a garbage bag.
Cole stood up immediately and looked at the man in excuse. "I lost my watch yesterday evening and I thought I could find it somewhere here. Did you find it?" He wanted to know, but the man didn't say a word. He tied up the garbage bag stoically, as if he wouldn't have heard Cole.
"May I take a look at the garbage bag, please?" Cole asked again, but the man ignored him again. He disappeared with the bag in his hand.
"Hey!" Cole shouted behind him and shook his head in surprise. He had got a funny feeling about this worker. Lost in thoughts he looked after him and was sure, that something was wrong with this man.
Meanwhile Amy stepped beside Cole and sighed slightly. "We won't find anything here and it's hard to believe, that I have really seen the demon here. Perhaps it was just imagination."
Cole shook his head. "No, of course not. Somehow, I don't know, everything is strange here, I'm sure there is something wrong." He looked at the workers, who were working dully like machines, then he turned to Amy. "Can you tell me, do all this workers have a heart?"
Amy looked around and nodded. "Yes, as far as I can see it from this distance. Why? Did you think that they are demons?"
Cole shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know, there is something fishy going on with this workers." He looked at them. They kept working monotonously again, when something else occurred to him. He turned back to Amy again. "And Amy, don't tell everybody anything about my heart."
"It was just Prue and I think, she has to know it." Amy explained firmly.
"No, Prue in particular." Cole told her and raised his hand to stop the discussion. "Let's better look around here."
They tried to find something on the place for a while, but it was obvious, that the workers had already removed everything. In the end they decided to go back to the car.
But just when they left the surface with asphalt and stepped back onto the grass, Cole stopped. He bend down to pick up a stone up. "Look, what do we have here." He explained satisfied.
"A stone." Amy said purely and simply.
Cole shook his head. "That isn't just a plain stone, don't you see how black it is and that it's shining? That's a thunderstone."
"And what does that mean?" Amy asked curiously and looked at the black shining stone more intensively.
"The thunderstones emerged, when a meteorite was falling onto the earth. These stones are covetable and very rare. Voodoo Priestess and their worshippers use them to communicate with their divinity, the Loas." Cole explained and took a close look at the stone. He couldn't understand, why somebody had thrown it away, but then he saw some cracks at one side, perhaps it was used for something else, he thought gloomily.
Amy looked at him thoughtfully. "Why do you know so much about demons? Did you already fight against them?"
Cole shrugged his shoulders. "That's it." He answered evasively and put the stone into his pocket. They walked on to the exit and passed one of the workers, who wrote something into a small book. Cole stopped resolutely and spoke to him. "Do you know, when the next Voodoo show will take place?" He asked the man.
The man ignored Cole completely. He wrote something in his book and didn't look up.
"Hey, I'm talking to you!" Cole shouted a little bit louder this time and gave him a slight push.
The man got a fright and dropped the book on the ground. Then he looked at Cole with glassy eyes. "You may not be here, get out of here."
"This is a public park." Cole explained him, but it seemed as if the man wasn't interested in it.
"You must not be here, get out of here." He reeled off like automated. "We are busy with the clearing work. Something could happen to you."
"I don't think so." Cole explained ironically and wondered, why the worker hadn't noticed that they were already walking around here for a while. Cole shook his head, but he didn't say another word, because he was rather sure, that the man wouldn't tell him anything else.
Meanwhile Amy tried to get Cole's attention and dragged at his sleeve. "Cole," she whispered. "you wanted to know, of the worker have a heart." she said in a low voice.
"Yes." Cole nodded and looked at her very interested.
"Well there is something wrong with their hearts." She explained and pointed at the worker. "It's there, but it's strange, it doesn't have any connections."
"Which connections?" Cole asked in surprise.
Amy shrugged her shoulders. "That's difficult to describe. But I suppose it's the connection to the consciousness or the soul."
"Oh, I see." Cole said, but he didn't know, what to think about it. He looked at the worker again, but the man didn't care about them anymore and kept on working on his list. "Well enjoy yourself at work." Cole wished him ironically and turned around thoughtfully to leave the place together with Amy.
When Prue arrived in her office the same morning, Judy was already waiting for her with a happy smile on her face.
"I've seen the photos of Mrs. Maryson, they are really great." She told her.
Prue grinned. "Do you think so? It was hard enough to make them, because she wanted to sit in front of the totally overloaded fireplace."
"Nobody will notice." Judy explained smiling and put the paper aside. "By the way Robert and me would like to invite you for a barbecue next weekend." She smiled. "We'll finally have to return the nice evening at your place."
Prue looked at her sceptically. "That isn't necessary Judy." she said evasively. Because if Judy knew, that she owe her naked trip to the park to Cole, she would probably change her mind.
"Of course it is and it'll be great fun." Judy said meanwhile and it was obvious, that she wouldn't accept a negative reply. "So do you have time?"
Prue shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know Judy, I'd be glad to come, but ..." She hesitated.
"What's wrong?" Judy asked in surprise.
Prue shook her head. "Nothing. I just began to listen to reason." She explained cooly and added with a sigh. "But, so what. It's just an evening at your place and I'll be able to stand him for that time."
"Great, and you can take Danny with you." Judy explained. "Slowly but surely I'm getting used to him."
Prue grinned and shook her head. "Don't worry, that won't be necessary, Amy is there and she likes to take care of him."
Judy looked at her in surprise. "Amy Carey? I've heard that she is released, but I didn't know that she is living with you now."
"She is. She didn't want to go home right now and our house is quite large." Prue told her indifferently.
"Oh, I see." Judy let out. "It's a problem for you."
"No, rubbish, what makes you say that?" Prue shook her head. "She is nice and she just wants to do the right thing." She looked at Judy, who was watching her attentively. "Amy is been through a lot and I'm glad, that I can help her." She explained plainly, but when she saw Judy's sceptical look, she finally admitted. "Okay, it gets on my nerves a little bit, that she thinks Cole is her knight in shining armour."
Judy grinned. "Oh, you don't like it at all."
"Don't get me wrong. For my sake she can glorify Cole for the rest of her life. I just fear, that he'll disappoint her sooner or later." Prue said thoughtfully.
Judy nodded knowing. "I understand, what did he do?"
Prue decided to change the subject, she wasn't keen on repeating her yesterday's talk with Dianne. "Nothing, okay? Everything is alright. But you could help me with something else." She told Judy and took out the note with the telephone number, she read on David Morgan's phone a few days ago. "Do we have any program here, where I can get an address on the basis of an telephone number?"
Judy nodded walked to Prue's computer. She switched through the programs and finally she found the right one. "Here, there it is." she explained satisfied.
"Thanks Judy!" Prue said and looked at the screen intently.
"I suppose, you won't tell me what you want with it, will you?" Judy wanted to know, while she went back to her seat.
"Later perhaps." Prue promised her and keyed in the unknown telephone number, but nothing happened. She looked at Judy again. "Does it work with every number?" she asked.
"Yes!" Judy nodded and walked back to Prue. "Let me try it." She explained firmly and keyed in the number from the piece of paper. But it didn't work. Judy shook her head. "I don't understand it." She said and went back to her place. She tried to find the right program. "Perhaps the program has just problems at your place. But let's try another number first." She decided and keyed in her own telephone number. Immediately she could see her own address. "What did I say?" she said and asked Prue. "And now your number."
Prue smiled, Judy was a complete washout, when she should remember a telephone number. Therefore Prue called her the number without thinking.
Judy keyed it in and grinned. "It works, even if you've given me your old number." She explained and bend forward to pick up the note with the number from Prue's desk.
Prue looked at her in confusion. "What do you mean?" she asked.
"Mm?" Judy looked up quickly. "You've given me your old number from San Francisco." She explained and turned back to the screen. "It's the telephone connection of a woman. I'll write down the address for you."
But Prue didn't listen, she still looked at Judy in surprise. Judy was right, she had told her her old number, but why could Judy see her name, or didn't she see her name on the screen?
"There it is!" Judy gave her a piece of paper with the address.
Prue took it, without looking at it. "Do you want to tell me, that you've seen my name on the screen?"
"What? Oh, you talk about your telephone number." Judy nodded. "Yes, Halliwell in something with a P.. street in San Francisco."
"But that isn't possible." Prue let out in surprise.
"Why not? Probably the phone company didn't give it to another user yet. Sometimes they are very slowly." Judy suggested. "Or our program is out-of-date, after all it doesn't work on your place."
Prue nodded slowly. "Year, probably you're right." She said thoughtfully. Nevertheless she wondered, why she had been so shocked, that her old phone number belonged to some Halliwells in this world, too. Finally she should come from San Francisco, so there was nothing to worry about. Nevertheless she keyed in her old phone number again. But again nothing happened. She pressed on some keys, but the computer didn't do her the favour, but crashed, just great!
When Judy left the room soon after, Prue took the phone resolutely, finally there was another way to find something out. She dialed the number without thinking twice. She didn't know, what she expected. She had no idea, who would pick up the phone and what she should tell this person. But after she just heard an endless toot of the phone, she didn't need to answer this question. Nobody answered her call, not even an answering machine.
Prue shook her head, it was a stupid idea, what did she expect to come out of it? Everybody had made it clear to her, that she had to live without her sisters. And she had accepted it. And an address didn't mean a thing, even if magic existed here. She was just hoping for something, what would never come true.
Although she tried to stop thinking about her sisters all the time, she didn't succeed. She couldn't concentrate on her work and needed more time than usually. When she was finally ready, early in the afternoon, she decided to go home. There was no use to go on working, she wasn't able to concentrate today. She left the building and went home. She needed to relax. But when she arrived at home and opened the door. Clara Jennings came towards her, she was completely enervated.
"Things can't go on like this." she explained shaking her head. "This girl drives me mad. She wanted to buy fruits to make marmalade, although you can buy marmalade cheaper in every grocery. Then she wanted to bake a cake, I'm just wondering who it should eat. And in the end she wanted to interfere in my preparations for diner. So we'll really have to clear up, who is responsible for the kitchen." She told Prue resolutely.
"I'm sure Amy just wanted to help you, Clara. She hasn't had an easy time of it." Prue tried to explain and looked around. "Where is she now?"
"She went out with Cole." Clara explained in relief. "And I could finally prepare the diner." She looked around. "And if you don't mind, I'll go now. My nerves are shot, it was a hard day for me."
Prue shrugged her shoulders. "If you are ready, it's okay."
Clara nodded. "And Prue, there is a good side that Amy is here too. I'd like to take a week off. I already told you last week, that my daughter will have to go into the hospital tomorrow. And I'd like to take care of my family for the rest of the week."
Prue thought about it for a moment, perhaps that was the best solution. Because obviously Amy and Clara didn't get along very well. "Okay, that won't be a problem." She decided and looked thoughtfully after Clara Jennings, who was leaving the house rather satisfied. Prue was surprised, that Clara had no understanding for Amy. Amy just wanted to be kind and relieve some work of Clara, Prue thought. She shrugged her shoulders, how should she know what was going on between them. She decided to look for Danny, when the door bell was ringing. Prue turned around and wondered, who it could be.
Prue went to the door, but when she opened it, she stopped thunderstruck. The person on the other side, felt exactly the same.
"Leo." Prue brought out. She gave him an incredulous look, but then she embraced her brother-in-law happily. "I had such a funny feeling all day. I knew that something would happen." She said and didn't notice that Leo was as confused her she was. "Come in." She finally said and led him into the living room.
They sat down and Leo shook his head. "I can hardly believe to see you again." He told her finally.
Prue smiled, she couldn't describe, how wonderful it was to meet a member of her family again. "Me, too. But tell me first, how you are, how my sisters are? Is everything alright? And most of all is my little niece alright?"
Leo lifted his hand and shook his head sadly. "No Prue, I'm not allowed to tell you anything about them." He explained firmly.
"What?" Prue flashed at him. "Stop making such a fuss. You'll be able to tell me, if my sisters are alright at least. Or why are you here?"
"You aren't the reason, why I'm here, Prue. I had never expected to meet you here." He explained, still completely shocked about their meeting.
Prue looked at him and frowned. "I don't understand you."
"I'm sent here to talk to a young witch carefully. I want to find out how far she is." He said. "I've never thought, that you could live here."
Prue nodded. "Then you wanted to talk to Amy." she realized sadly. "Will you be her white lighter in future?"
Leo shook his head. "No, I just have to explore the ins and outs of the situation here. You should know, that it's a little bit chaotic above. But I'm not allowed to talk about it with you."
"And you also don't want to talk about my sisters? Come on Leo." she invited him.
"Your sisters are alright. They had a hard time, but they are out of danger now." He finally explained. "And your niece is a nephew."
Prue grinned. "I'm so glad for you. Although I'm wondering, why I always get nephews. What's his name?"
"Wyatt." Leo explained proudly.
"Do you have a picture of him?" Prue asked excited.
Leo searched in his pocket, but then he stopped. "No Prue, I can't do it. You have your own life now, don't think about the past. You deserve to live your own life without any troubles."
"That isn't so easy."she explained in a low voice. How could he tell her, she should forget everything, if he was suddenly sitting in front of her. "What's going on here, Leo. Why are you here and why did they tell me, that I'd live in a world without magic. That's a lie, rubbish." She told him resolutely, but when Leo didn't answer, she added. ""Why is our old phone number from San Francisco the same one in this world?"
Leo sighed. "Because it's your sisters' number. You are in the same world, Prue." He began and raised his hand to stop her to bombard him with questions. "No, nevertheless you can't see them. Everything is worked out, so that's impossible for you to meet each other. Even if you tried to call them, they'd never answer your call, because it wouldn't end up there, but nowhere."
"And if I'd travel there?" Prue asked calmly.
"Then they'd cancel the flight of bad weather probably." Leo explained softly. "And even if you managed to get there, you wouldn't be able to get home. There'd always be an invisible wall in front of you, you couldn't enter your house or meet your sisters or other friends. Even if they'd come to New Orleans one day, you'd never meet by chance. Before you enter a place, your sister ors your friends would have just left it one minute ago."
"And if I'd asked a friend to visit my sisters?" Prue wanted to know, rather composed.
"Then your friend would forget your request on the flight to San Francisco from one minute to the next." Leo shook his head. "There is no way, Prue."
"They thought about everything, didn't they?" Prue asked bitterly. "But why did they tell me this rubbish about a world without magic?"
"Because it should be a world without magic for you. You don't have any magical powers anymore and so no connection to the world of magic. You can live your life without any obligations. You always wanted that. You should be able to live a normal life, as you did before you knew that you are a witch."
Yes, but at that time she hasn't had the faintest idea of magic, she thought angrily and asked "And why New Orleans?"
Leo shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know exactly, but we never have many problems with demons here. Despite or probably because of the Voodoo cult, it's a safe town for you."
Prue smiled ironically. "But it didn't work as it was planned, did it?"
"It's really a funny coincidence that you live together with a future witch now." He confessed. "But after all you haven't seen a demon yet." He grinned, but his smile faded from his lips again, when he remembered, that she had probably seen one demon.
"Leo, the former owner of this house was a witch and Amy's friend was killed by a demon, do you know absolutely nothing?" She asked shaking her head.
He looked at her in surprise. "No, I didn't know anything of it. It seems as if it was totally chaotic, when they came to this decision." He shook his head sadly. "They should have never allowed it, if they'd have asked me, if I'd have known anything of it, then..." He shrugged his shoulders in excuse.
Prue knew exactly, what he hinted at. "Don't worry Leo, it's okay, I get along with him."
He looked at her sadly. "You've no idea, what he has done to your sisters."
Just in this moment Prue heard, that the front door was opened. And before she could say something, steps were approaching the living room.
Seconds later, Cole entered the room and stopped immediately, when he saw Leo. "Oh!" He let out and gave Prue a sceptical look. Did she really call for her former white lighter, when the first little problems turned up, he wondered angrily. But he asked loudly. "What does he do here?"
"He's just here for Amy." Prue explained plainly, because it was still hard for her to accept this fact.
Meanwhile Leo shook his head in disbelief. "I couldn't believe, when I heard about it." He announced. "After everything what's happened. How could they unleash you on an unsuspecting world again."
"Very easy, just a small enquiry and I was here again." Cole explained cooly and with a satisfied smile.
"I suppose there isn't any chance to get rid of you, is there?" Leo asked in frustration.
"Why do you moan? You've got rid of me, haven't you?" Cole reminded him.
"Yes and we thank goodness that you are gone. Nobody miss you." Leo got it straight.
"I didn't suppose anything else." Cole replied calmly. "Because I don't miss one of you just as less."
Meanwhile Amy entered the living room, too. She saw both men quarreling and stopped in surprise.
Prue looked at her and turned to Leo. "Leo, this is Amy, the young witch you want to meet." she explained calmly.
Leo looked away from Cole and looked at Amy friendly. "Hello Amy, I'd like to talk to you."
Amy looked at him in surprise. "About what?" she asked.
"About the heroic fight against evil." Cole stated, before Leo had the opportunity to answer.
Prue shook her head. "Come on Cole, let's leave them alone for a while." She said and turned around. "But don't dare to vanish again, without talking to me again." She told Leo and walked to the exit.
Cole looked at her sceptically, but he already wanted to follow her, when Amy stopped him. "Wait!" she said and looked at Cole asking. "I want you to stay here." She decided firmly. "And who's that at all?"
"He is a good person and he just wants to help you." Prue explained quickly, before Cole could answer.
"Oh." Amy looked at Leo thoughtfully. "Are you coming from the church?" she asked in a bad mood. "Well I really don't want to know anything of them anymore.
"No, Amy I don't belong to the church. I want to talk with you about your life as a witch. About the dangers you could be exposed to." Leo explained slowly, because he didn't know at all, how much Amy already knew. He hadn't expected anything like this. "I want to know, how you feel, if you need some help, protection, information." He started carefully.
"No, don't worry, I don't need your help." Amy told him. "Prue is here, she can tell me everything. And Cole can help me, too."
"Cole?" Leo asked and looked at her forcefully. "You should never listen to him."
Amy looked at him furiously. "Why not?"
"Because no good witch would ever think of the possibility to perform black magic." Leo explained. "You'd become evil."
"But Cole wouldn't do anything evil." Amy defended him vehemently, she wouldn't have anything said against him.
Leo shook his head. "Of course he would, he had done it in the past more than once." He cast an angry look at Cole and turned back to Amy, who was watching him still in disbelief. "Evil, that's the only thing, he can do."
Amy snorted and flashed a look of contempt at him. "Why on earth do you say anything like that?"
"He is a demon Amy." Leo finally tried to convince her.
Amy gave Cole a shocked look, but then she shook her head vehemently. "Nonsense! He isn't." She explained firmly. "He has a heart."
"Oh, I'd say, Leo has his doubts about that." Cole told her calmly.
Amy turned to Leo. "But of course he has a heart. I can see it and ..." She stopped just in time, when she saw Cole's forcing look and she remembered his request. Yes, he was right and she didn't want to go on talking with this man. "I'll tell you something, I don't want to listen to you anymore. I don't need your support." She explained furiously. "Where have you been, when I really needed some help?" She asked and didn't wait for an answer, but left the room, before someone could stop her.
Leo shook his head sadly, before he looked at Cole angrily. "What did you do to her?" He asked in resignation. "Did you seduce the poor girl? Well it seems that's the only thing you can do very well."
"No Leo, I've saved her life." Cole explained him and smiled ironically. "And there are people, who are grateful about it and don't forget it at the first best opportunity."
"I can just remember, that you've threatened our life constantly." Leo told him calmly.
"Yes, that's your vision of the world." Cole said. "But there's no use to get worked about it. You've got no business being her, so don't dare to interfere here. It isn't your world." He got him straight. Then he picked up his son and left the room.
Leo looked after him and sighed. "I really don't know, who anyone who wants to be responsible-minded, could expose us to this danger. If he finds out, that Phoebe lives in his world, too, he'll make life hell for us."
Prue looked at him sceptically. "I thought, there is no way to meet them."
"No, there isn't." Leo stated. "But Cole won't be interested in it. His obsession for Phoebe won't allow him to listen to reasons. And nobody knows, which dark machinations he'd set in motion, no matter how hopeless it is."
"Don't worry, he's got over her. I know it for sure." Prue explained moodily. "He really loves Danny and he wouldn't do anything to risk it."
Leo sighed again. "You don't know, what he had done to your sisters, Prue. He lied to us and cheated us. He was the Source of all evil and after it he was an overpowering invulnerable demon. You can imagine, in which danger we were, he was a threat to all our lifes."
"Yes, but it was just Cole." Prue explained, but when she saw Leo's incredulous look, she added. "I don't say, that he wasn't dangerous. But another demon in his position would have vanquished all of you easily."
Leo looked at her sceptically. "I'd never thought, that you of all people would ever defend him."
"I don't do it at all." Prue explained vehemently and wondered, how she could get in such an awkward situation. "But I wasn't there when all this chaos happened. And therefore I'm a little bit more objective, I suppose."
Leo shook his head. "He is dangerous Prue, and he'll always be dangerous. And therefore it's madness and they should never have allowed him to come back. He didn't deserve it."
"Stop it here. I don't want to quarrel with you, Leo. But probably, they haven't seen it the same way as you. You just have to accept it, like me." She smiled slightly to calm him down. "But actually it's good for me to talk with someone who really knows, who Cole is. I'm sick and tired to hear all the time what a wonderful couple we could be."
Leo looked at her totally shocked. "But Prue, you..."
"No, no, of course not." she explained firmly and for the first time in her life she could understand Phoebe very well. It didn't bear thinking about how she'd feel, if Leo found out anything about their unlucky affair. Luckily it was already over now and she didn't allow herself to go thinking about her feelings more closely. "Who do you think I am?" She instead asked indignantly.
"Excuse me." Leo shook his head. "That was a stupid question. I know that you aren't so naive. He can't take you for a ride with his so-called charm. You are too clever and cautious for that."
"Yes, you really don't have to worry. I get along with him." Prue announced again and looked at Leo. "It's easier, than knowing, that I live in the same world as my sisters, but I don't have the possibility to meet them."
"But you did accept it, Prue." Leo reminded her.
"I had no choice." She informed him angrily and looked to the door, where Cole and Danny disappeared. "But what's with Danny? He is Phoebe's son, and they'll never have the chance to meet each other. How can they take the responsibility for it?"
"It's better for her." Leo explained. "Phoebe's been through a lot, because of Cole and she survived. She's lucky now, she's got a new friend and she has her own life back. It wouldn't be good for her right now."
Prue looked at him skeptically. "So you won't tell them anything of me." She realized sadly. "But will I see you again in future at least?"
Leo looked at her. "If you need my help, I'll always be there for you, I promise you. I don't care about the rules, because relating to Cole, I had never agreed to this deal. Therefore it doesn't matter how the arrangement is."
"I hope we'll see again in future, even if I'm not in danger." Prue said with a sad smile on her face. "And I'll take care of Amy, perhaps you'll have to come again because of her."
"We'll see." Leo hugged her for a last time and Prue watched him disappearing in blue lights. It was hard for her to resist temptation to take his hand and to disappear together with him.
AN: I know, that Leo wasn't very nice. Probably I wasn't very fair to him. Sorry, but now you can see what happened, when one of them turned up in my story.