To read disclaimer, rating, setting, summary, and my notes, please go to the 1st chapter.

For about 2 years I have been an anonymous reviewer reading other people's stories and now I have finally registered and decided to write a story of my own. It definitely helps to know that people support you and like the story by simply reviewing. You don't even know what it means to me (well, maybe do if you also write). Thank you guys sooooo much. Anyway, here are the personal responses to those of you who reviewed chapter 2:

Blue eyes6: Thanks for both of your reviews. I'm glad you like the way I changed the storyline a bit and the fact that Phoebe and Cole will be pretending to be a married couple.

angeleyes: There will definitely be quite a few Phoebe/Cole scenes in this story and in this chapter too, after all, it's a P/C fic.

NorthShoreFan: Thanks and here's more. And I'm very happy that you put me to your favorites list. It must mean that I am doing something right. Thanks.

ColePhoebe4eva: Well, your confusion should disappear while you read this chapter as well as the up coming ones. By the way, I couldn't figure out what "lol" means. What does it mean? Anyway, I'll stop getting in your way of finding out the answer.

katbaby: Thanks for the compliments and, of course, the review. By the way, what I said before (about there not being many Darryl/Cole moments), well, I guess I lied. I changed my mind. Darryl is going to be in this story a lot (I knew that before), and I'll make more friendly moments for the two of the. And here's more.

Phoebe Turner Halliwell: You are good. You figured it all out – you know, about my story. I'm very glad that you are reading it, I am obviously reading yours too and I love "Eternal Flame" and "If That's What It Takes." We're reviewing each other's stories, and I think that's cool. Also, thank you very much for your compliment about me being a talented author. It means a whole lot to me. And by the way, you are a very talented writer yourself and I am waiting for your updates just like you're waiting for mine. Oh, and don't worry that you don't know how to fix my problem. I'm just asking someone who does know to tell me.

Badgirl21: First of all, thanks. I know it might sound confusing that they are married and Phoebe doesn't even know about it, but I wrote it that way on purpose – you now, a cliffhanger. And don't worry, I'll clear things up in this chapter, as well as the following ones.

PhoebelovesCole: Thanks for the compliment. And here's more.

sehar: Thanks so much for the review. I'm so happy you like it. And I came up with the husband/wife idea a long time ago – it will definitely give some opportunities to make humor out of it.

Anyway, here's the next chapter. Hope you like it.

Honeymoon Is Where It Begins

By: true love lives forever

Chapter 3: Off to the Honeymoon

Phoebe stood next to Cole as they both waited in the San Francisco port. Both had their baggage with them, which they placed on the cement so that they didn't hold the bags because otherwise they would be way too exhausted by the time they could board their ship. It's not as if they had a thousand bags or anything like that because they only had enough to get them by for 3 weeks, it's just that they would still need to wait for about half an hour until boarding time started and there was a huge line for people to get in, so they just might as well wait and relax a bit until the time came.

It has only been 3 days since the whole discussion about the undercover mission that the whole group had in the manor, but since that day a lot has happened even though only a short amount of time has passed by. At first, Cole and Darryl had to do a lot of paperwork about the supposed marriage of Phoebe and Cole. That has taken a lot of time to do, but once it was done, they also had to get the tickets for the cruise ship for Phoebe and Cole's honeymoon.

Yep, they had to go on their honeymoon for three weeks on a cruise ship. That was the whole deal, the reason why both of them had to pretend to be the happy newlyweds. As Darryl and Cole explained it that day at the manor, this Michael Banmer owned this cruise ship and used it to smuggle drugs to various countries that the ship visited. It is the perfect cover and nobody suspected a thing for 5 years, until 3 years ago one detective caught them. However, that didn't help much because the pictures that he had taken had disappeared the next day before he could have shown them to anyone and unfortunately, the police can't prove anything because of lack of evidence. Even worse, that detective disappeared a few days later and his disappearance is still left as an open case since nobody can prove it to be connected to the drug smuggling. At first, nobody knew that Michael Banmer was involved, but with a lot of digging, it has finally been discovered, though unfortunately without any evidence so far.

And now here they were, going on a cruise to try and prove all of that in just 3 weeks that they had. This is the closest that the police came to and if the two of them blew it now, it might take another 3 years to prove that this Banmer truly is such a bastard. Eight years is way more than enough for smuggling the biggest loads of drugs onto the streets of dozens of countries. Now the time has definitely come to stop it all and to put the ones involved behind bars.

Suddenly, Cole touched Phoebe's hand to get her out of her thoughts, startling her in the process for she was too lost in them. When she looked up at him, he said that the boarding time has finally come and that even the crowd of people was already moving inside. They both lifted the bags, though Cole got most of them as a gentleman would, especially a just married husband, and they started moving toward the ship along with the still huge crowd of impatient couples.

After finally getting into the ship, the two of them were given 2 keys to their suite in the form of slide cards, a map of the ship, and a schedule of various events that were going to take place on it. Afterwards, Cole, along with Phoebe at his heels, headed towards their suite on the 6th floor after taking an elevator. The whole ship was like a museum. There were hundreds of beautiful paintings on the walls everywhere; there were also little statues in the corners making this place even more beautiful. The one that caught Phoebe's eyes the most was a delicate statue of Cupid with a bow and arrow in his hand, pointing it towards the people that would walk past it on the ship. Phoebe knew that the real Cupids didn't use the arrows but rather magical rings instead, at least in this time they did. After all, she did meet one of the Cupids just less than a year ago when he asked for the Charmed One's help to defeat Drazi, the demon of hate.

The whole ship was definitely quite a scene to anyone's eyes. No wonder so many people wanted to go on their honeymoon in this particular ship. Just standing in it made you feel unique, almost as if you were a royalty living in the richest palace on Earth.

Phoebe pulled out of her reverie as the two of them finally reached their suite. Cole opened the door using his slide card and once they came inside, the sight before them took Phoebe's breath away. The place was luxurious to say the least. The living room alone was just super spacious – maybe she could pretend that not was she only married for 3 weeks, but also that she was royalty too. Neither Darryl nor Cole told her how much the Police Department paid for these tickets, but she didn't even want to think about the price because she knew she would probably just get so sick in her stomach that she wouldn't even be able to go through with the mission.

The "happily married couple" came inside and started looking around their suite after putting their bags on the floor. There was a thought that crossed both of their minds, which debated on whether or not it was truly their suite and if there wasn't any mistakes on who got what rooms. But they both let it pass aside and just simply started to unpack.

From all the silences that had settled between the supposed newlyweds, Phoebe figured that her "husband" was a very quiet type of man. He didn't like to talk much about anything, except for the things that mattered to both of them. So far, he only talked about their mission and nothing else. However, Phoebe made a mental note to ask him about his past since she should know about him at least a little bit – they are married after all and usually people don't marry after knowing each other for 3 days and not knowing a thing about each other. It was only because of that reason. Yes, it didn't have anything to do with the fact that she wanted to date him later on in the future once this was over and done with.

By the time Phoebe and Cole finished unpacking, it was already lunchtime and the ship had finally sailed away from the port. Now they were alone and had to do their act convincingly so that nobody could suspect a thing about them. Because of that, they had to act like a married couple when they were anywhere on the ship besides their suite. So they walked hand in hand to one of the restaurants on the ship while seeing hundreds of couples walking by them, happy and in love, the way they pretended to be, though not completely pretending since there was that little spark in both of them since the first day they had met, which neither of them would admit… yet.

The two of them sat in the back of a very nice restaurant about 15 minutes later. They wanted to be a bit farther from everyone here so that they could talk more freely to each other. A waitress brought them the menus which offered so many delicious things that they didn't know what to pick, but finally settling for 2 salads they ordered their lunch. As they waited for their orders, Phoebe took this as an opportunity to get to know him better, starting the first conversation between them in considerably a long time.

"So, Cole, tell me something about yourself," she started a bit nervously, not knowing how he will respond.

Cole looked up at Phoebe, startled a bit from the unexpected question, and questioned her in response, "Like what?"

"I don't know. Anything, I guess. I mean, I should know something about you, just like you should know something about me since we are supposedly married. I don't really want to get into a situation in which I'm talking with someone I meet here and the conversation somehow leads to my "husband," whom I know nothing about. So what do you say?"

"Okay then. What do you want to know? Ask away," Cole didn't know what to tell her about himself. He hoped she wasn't going to ask him much about his past. He didn't feel like saying, 'Oh, well, for the past century I killed more witches and just your normal everyday humans than anybody can count. I have been the most powerful demon in existence, but I decided to quit and try living my life as a human.' Yeah, that would have caught her attention. Suddenly, he pulled out of his thoughts as he heard Phoebe ask something, though he obviously missed what. "Sorry about that. What did you say?"

"I noticed already that you don't like to talk much. But, I don't know, tell me about your family. Where were you born and when? I should know your date of birth." That was a given. What if somebody asked her his date of birth when it was needed?

Date of birth – great. Just great. How do you tell a woman that you're 115 years old? Yep, I was born in 1885. Then I just might as well ask, don't you think I look good for my age? He could just imagine her reaction. First, she'd think it's just a crazy joke, and then she'd think that I'm just plain crazy. He finally came up with a lie to say and tried to keep a straight face. "I was born in San Francisco, same as you. And I was born on August 16, 1971." It was half a lie since all he said was true, except for the year in which he was born.

"1971. Okay, but what about your family?" Just then the waitress brought their salads to them. They thanked her and started to dig in.

In-between bites of his salad, Cole finally muttered without looking up to meet Phoebe's eyes, "I don't really like to talk about my family. I lost them a long time ago." He didn't think that saying his demonic mother killed his father when he was 3 years old would be a good idea. It's not exactly the best conversation starter.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know. But I do know what that's like. My father left when I was very little and then my mom died a little while after that…" Cole heard what she was talking about until then, but then everything else was just a blur. His attention switched to the entrance of the restaurant where he saw a familiar figure walk in.

"… So, as you see, I know what that's like… Cole… Hello? Earth to Cole," Phoebe tried to get his attention, in the end finally even waving her hand in front of his face. His attention finally switched back to the woman sitting in front of him and waving her hand.

"Sorry," he said while glancing at the entrance once more. After a couple seconds of silence, he continued again, "Don't be obvious, but turn back and look at the entrance." She did as she was told. "A man just walked in wearing a black suit and right now he's talking to the waiter. Do you see him?" Phoebe nodded her head and then a surprised expression crossed her face.

"Wait a minute, I know him." Now it was time for Cole to be surprised and he raised his eyebrows as he asked, "How? We never showed you his pictures? Are you sure we're talking about the same guy?" He asked it just to make sure, but it was quite obvious they were talking about one and the same person because he was the only one standing near the entrance, now moving to a table, and still talking with a waiter.

"Yes, I've known him when I lived in New…"

"That's Michael Banmer. He's the guy we're after." That was all that Cole said as he cut her off. He looked at Phoebe and saw her dubious expression. "What? How did you know him in New York?"

With an attitude, obviously angry, Phoebe answered, "Three years ago when I still lived in New York I've known him for about a month as Jake Mitchell. He was my boyfriend at the time. Why is it that I always end up with the worst men out there on planet Earth? I just can't believe he's one and the same person." Phoebe's ranting was just starting and she definitely had a right to do so. Since she became a witch, she found out that many of her dates were in reality demons and now she finds out that even when she was a normal female, her boyfriend was a criminal. That's just great.

Meanwhile, Cole was thinking of what they had gotten themselves into. If Banmer knew Phoebe in New York, he might think of her as a threat now. But on the other hand, they just might get closer to him Phoebe's previous connection to him. In either case, now they would be in even more danger, and even though you could say he liked to play with fire before when he used fire ball, right now this kind of fire wasn't such a good idea because he's not alone now.

TBC

Author Notes: I certainly don't want to disappoint you guys and I hope you liked this chapter as well. I'll try to update as soon as I can, but I am a slow writer due to my language barrier. This was the hardest chapter to write so far, but I finally completed it. By the way, I got the idea for the scene during their lunch from the episode "Power Outage." You might have seen some similarities because of that. Also, I don't go out much to any place and because of that I don't know much about anything. So if you see something in this story that isn't very realistic, just please either ignore it and read on or tell me about it and I might change it so that it will be closer to the truth.

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