Okay, so I know I haven't updated at all in a while, but don't give up hope. I'm trying, I swear. We just moved and right now my computer is in the garage, so I have to use my stepdad's computer in his office but I can't use that a lot because he needs it all the time. I'll shut up now. Just know that I haven't given up on any of my stories

Oh, and to the review I got about Cole's dad and how he was able to do what he did. I assumed that he had become a whitelighter when he died since he had done so much good in life which is why he can shapeshift and everything. K, now on the story.

Chapter 8-One More Makes Five

Weeks had passed since that wonderful, magical night and both, Pheobe and Cole had been avoiding each other as much as they could, afraid that the other viewed that night as a mistake, afraid that it meant nothing. They avoided each others eyes as they talked, too scared that they would see regret and guilt staring back at them.

"When is mommy coming over?" Ben whined, pulling on Cole's pants as they walked into the house.

"I don't know, Ben," Cole answered a little louder than he had intended causing the boy to began to cry. "No, don't cry. I'll take you to mommy's, okay? And you can play with Wyatt."

"Yay!" the boy cheered as he dried his tears.

"Go get you backpack," Cole told the child as he placed the twins in the playpen. "Dad!"

"You rang," the man said as his figure changed from the clue crystal-like particles and formed his body..

Can you take Ben to Pheobe's?" Cole asked his father, not quite ready to go there himself.

"No, but I will watch the girls while you take him. You need to talk to her. I'm not going to let you lose this. You love her. She loves you and there are four children who will be devastated if you don't at least try," Benjamin told his son, as he picked up Jaclynn and placed her with her two younger sisters.

Realizing that his father was right, Cole put Ben in the car and made his way to the Halliwell manor, thinking of what he would say to her when he arrived, and hoping that she felt the same.

"Is Pheobe here?" Cole asked as Piper opened the door, holding back a very anxious child.

"Yeah, but she's not feeling too good. She doesn't want to see you," Piper informed him. "But I'll watch Ben if he wants to stay and play with Wyatt."

"I really need to talk to her, Piper," Cole told his ex sister-in-law as he motioned to Ben that it was okay for him to go play with his cousins.

"Ugh, I'm gonna regret this," Piper said as she gestured her arm telling Cole that he could come in. "But go ahead."

Cole quietly thanked her, taken back by the compassion he was sure had died a long time ago, and made his way up the stairs.

"Pheobe," Cole said as he knocked on her bedroom door. "Can I come in?"

Not hearing a response, he slowly turned the door knob and opened the door to find her sitting on the bed, with a look on her face that he couldn't place. It was different, not sad, but not happy either. Maybe confusion? Frustration? He wasn't sure.

"I'm sorry to come in. Piper said you weren't feeling well. She said that you didn't want to see me. Tell me why and I'll leave. I just need to know. No secrets. No lies. Ben needs both of us and if I took it too far that night, I apologize, I just…love you so much. I haven't stopped. I loved my wife, but not in the same way. She was safe. There were no obstacles, and I know that that is not love. Love is a risk. That's what makes it worth having, so please tell me how you feel, so we can work things out because you're Ben's mom and the girls have become so attached to you. I couldn't handle it if I mess that up for them," Cole was rambling now, needing to get everything off his chest.

"I don't know what to do. Should I move in with you? Should I share custody and have the kids here and there every other week? What do my sisters think of all this? Will they me mad if I move out? If I love you? Marry you again? Will they be happy about his at all or want me to get rid of it?" Pheobe was crying now, and Cole had to pull her into his arms to try and stop the cries that shook her body.

"Sweetie, what are you talking about? No one is forcing you to make a decision. You don't have to live with me and your sisters seem okay with Ben. Piper even let me in the house, so that has to be an improvement," Cole tried to cheer her up.

"You don't understand. You don't know what I mean," Pheobe insisted, pulling away from him.

"Then make me understand. Why do you have to make all of your decisions right now?' Cole asked her, clearly not understanding why she was so upset.

"I'm pregnant," Pheobe said, sniffling. "I'm afraid that Paige and Piper won't want me her, won't want your child here."

"Ben is downstairs playing with Wyatt and Chris. What makes you think that they wouldn't accept this baby as well," Cole said, inwardly trying to grasp that there was going to be another baby.

"All of the reasons you told me why you kept Ben from me. Ben doesn't live here. He doesn't use magic. He's not a threat. This baby won't know how to control it's powers at first and I don't think my sisters will want our child here, living, with uncontrollable powers. I have this feeling that there's something different about this baby. I just feel like it holds more power than anyone will expect and I'm afraid that my sisters will be afraid of him or her," Pheobe expressed her fears, tears soaking her face.

"I don't really care what your sisters think and when it comes to your child, you shouldn't either. This being is ours, not theirs. They're not responsible for it, we are. If they don't understand know that you are always welcomed at my house, your home," Cole told her as her tears began to dry up. "Be happy. This is what you've wanted. I'll help you in any way possible. I am after all an expert in child care."

Cole gave her a smile and dried the last remaining tear on her face.

"I know," Pheobe said as she gave him a smile. "And I am. And I do love you, Cole. This baby is proof of that, conceived in love. I just hope that others will see it that way."

K, I know it's not that great but it's something, and Laine I so sorry, but no twin moments. I tried but failed. I will have some in the next chapter, I promise. K, please review peoples.