So, I have taken everyone's suggestions into concern in this chapter. I hope that everyone will be pleased with it.
Chapter 2-Answers
"Bennett, come on. We gotta go," Cole screamed for the child as he hurridly got the girls ready. "We can't keep being late for school and work."
"I'm coming, daddy," the little boy said as he ran into the room, putting his back pack on while he ran.
Cole was holding the twins, their diaper bag, and his briefcase.
"Ben, can you open the door for me?" Cole asked the child since his hands were clearly full.
The child obeyed and held the door for his dad. He then helped his little sister to the car.
"Come on Jaclynn," he said, taking her hand.
Once everyone was in the car and buckled up, Cole thought they might actually make it on time today.
"Daddy, lunch," Bennett screamed just as his dad was about to leave the driveway.
Cole immediately stopped.
"I'll be right back," he said turning the car off and running back into the house to retrieve the child's lunchbox.
It would have probably been easier just to shimmer, but he didn't like to use magic around the children a lot, just when he had to.
He came back out and locked the door. He got back into the car and finally started off.
He had finally started to have a schedule when it came to the children. He would drop the girls off at their aunt's house and then would drop Bennett off at school. After school, the neighbor would pick up Ben and watch him for a few hours until Cole would come home, after picking up the girls.
Pheobe couldn't help but think of Cole. She hadn't stopped thinking about him since she had seen him the day before. He had been so...normal. She tried to get him out of her head, but at the moment that wasn't an option. Memories kept running through her mind, their first kiss, first date. Then came the horrible ones, the first time he was vanquished, the loss of the baby. How she had hoped she could save her son. She knew she could have raised him as good, but the Seer had stopped any chance of that.
Pheobe sighed. She was stuck in her office, trying to give advice to people, but could think of nothing. How could she help other people with their lives while hers was this much of a mess?
She tried to write, but when it was 2 o'clock and she still was staring at a blank screen on the computer, she decided that enough was enough. She picked up her stuff, and after begging Elise to let her finish the column from home, Pheobe left.
She didn't know why, but she was heading straight for Cole's house. He had told her where he lived the day before, doubting that she would care, or even remember.
She had though, and now she was standing in his driveway.
There was no car in the driveway and it seemed that Cole wasn't home. She looked at her watch.
"Well, duh," she said to herself. "He's at work."
Usually she would've known that at this time of the day, he wouldn't be there, but for some reason, she had drove there anyway.
She looked at the house next door and noticed a group of boys playing in the front yard. Most of the boys were about 5 or 6, but one was smaller than the rest. Pheobe watched him, not knowing why she was so drawn to him.
He tried playing with the bigger kids, but they were faster, meaner, and rougher. He kept getting left behind and was the first to get "killed" in their game of war.
While the child was supposed to be playing dead, he saw the woman standing at his house. He stood up and couriously walked towards her. 'Maybe she's a demon' he thought. He quickly knocked that thought out of his head. 'No, she's too pretty to be a demon' the child thought.
"Hi," he said.
With the way he acted with the older boys, she had expected him to be shy and closed in, but he seemed outgoing and acted like he craved attention.
"Hi," Pheobe replied smiling at the little boy. "What's your name?" Pheobe asked.
"Bennett, but I like Ben," he told her.
"Hi, Ben. I'm Pheobe," she told him. "How old are you?"
"Phree," he said holding up three fingers.
"Wow," Pheobe said. "You're a big boy."
"Yeah, I know," he said and smiled at her.
It was then that a car pulled into the driveway.
"Daddy," Ben screamed as he saw the car pull up.
"Hey, buddy," Cole said as he hugged the child, then started to get the children out of the car.
"You have another child?" Pheobe asked, not understanding why he hadn't told her.
"Umm..yeah," Cole said, as he tried to get all three girls out of the car.
Pheobe walked over to him and took one of the girls from him. She was going to stay until he answered some questions.
Cole unlocked the door and ushered Pheobe in.
"Time to come in, Ben," Cole told the child.
The little boy was happy to go inside. He was curious about his daddy's visitor.
Cole put the twins in a playpen in the living room and Pheobe sat down on the couch and watched as Ben and Jaclynn played.
Ben wasn't like his sisters. Instead of having blue eyes, he had chocolate brown eyes, and his hair was lighter than theirs.
Pheobe left the children and walked to the kitchen where Cole was preparing their dinner.
"Why didn't you tell me you had a son?" she asked him.
"I didn't tell you everything about the past three years. Since the last time I saw you, you wanted to kill me, I didn't think I had to tell you about everything," Cole said harshly, but kept quiet so his children didn't hear.
"Leaving out that you have a son is a pretty big thing," Pheobe said. "Do you not care about him as much as the girls?"
Cole had no idea what he should say. He was mortified that she actually thought he cared more about his daughters than his son.
"I love my son, with everything I have in me," Cole told her getting upset. "How dare you come into my home and question my love for my children."
"I'm sorry," she said. "You told me a lot of things yesterday. I thought you would have told me if you had another child."
He knew he would have to tell her. He couldn't keep playing this game with her.
"I didn't tell you about him because I didn't know how to. I don't want to lose him," he told her.
"Cole, what are you talking about?" she asked.
"I found Bennett in the Underworld after I got out of the alternate reality. He was a year old when I found him. A lower level demon was taking care of him, raising him as evil. The demon had promised the Seer that if something were to happen to her that she would take care of him so that he could become the next Source."
"Was he the Seer's son?" Pheobe asked, clearly confused.
"No, she wished he was, but he was never hers, not even when she stole him," Cole explained.
Pheobe knew that what he was saying couldn't be true. Her baby had died. She had probably just heard Cole wrong, although the story seemed to match up.
"Cole, what are you..." she started.
Cole cut her off.
"Pheobe, Ben is our son," he told her.
Her jaw dropped. How could that even be possible.
Cole started to explain.
"I'm pretty sure the Seer passed the baby to her younger sister before she was killed. It's the only way he could have survived. She taught him that wrong was right and right was wrong. I was lucky to have gotten to him in time. Since he was only a year old, it was easy to turn him back to good."
"Why didn't you tell me that you had our son!" Pheobe screamed.
She couldn't believe that she had missed the first three years of her child's life.
"I didn't know what to do. He was evil when I found him. I was afraid that you wouldn't accept him, like you didn't accept me. I didn't want him to live a life where he was forced to hide a part of himself. He's part demon. Do you really think you could've lived with that, raising a demon? What about your sisters? What would they think? I did what I thought was best for him. He's a happy child who can express his full self. No power stripping potions, vanquishing potions to get rid of his demon half. He can live a life where he is treated like an equal. Do you really think that Paige and Piper would have treated him the way they treat Wyatt and Chris? He would have been an outcast in his own family. I saved him from that," Cole told her.
"He's my child. How do you know what I would've done. You never gave the chance, the choice. I'm his mother. I deserved to know where my child was," Pheobe countered.
How could he possibly think that she wouldn't love their son. Just looking at him made Pheobe melt. He was perfect. She was hurt that this is what Cole thought of her although she shouldn't have been. It was her fault. She had gave up on him and he was afraid that she would do the same to their son.
"I want a chance," Pheobe said. "He's my son and I want a chance to prove you wrong."
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