A/N: Timeline! Can't believe I forgot about that in my initial notes. Season 8, post-Dex but pre-Cryogenic Leo. Thanks for the reviews.

2.

Phoebe vaguely wonders if a person can get dehydrated from simply crying. Because that's all she has been doing all night long. After her premonition she told her sisters she needed to rest. Piper and Paige left without saying another word, but not before glancing back at her with worried looks on their faces.

But Phoebe hadn't been able to rest; sleep was just a pipe dream. She could do nothing but replay her vision in her mind's eye over and over again, interwoven with memories of her and Cole together. She had tiredly gotten out of bed at 6 am and headed down to the kitchen to make coffee. She was going to need a lot of that... and mascara if she didn't want people to think she had morphed into a teary eyed raccoon.

An hour later, she had gotten no further than taking the coffee out of the cabinet. She could do nothing except to sit and stare at the photo that had triggered her premonition the night before. Clutched in her hand, it was a photo of her and Cole at happier times. Smiling into the camera with love in their eyes and not a care in the world. Phoebe had thought herself all cried out, but the dawn of the day seem to have shone a new light at the mess that is her life. She let out another sob.

"Phoebe, what are you doing up so early?" Piper asks her sister who was sitting at the counter with her back to the entrance way where she had walked in.

Getting closer, Piper can now see Phoebe's tear-stained cheeks. "Sweetie, what's the matter?"

"What do you think is the matter Piper?" Having to talk, Phoebe find herself losing her composure again. "I had a premonition of a perfect future. A future that will never come true. A future I destroyed myself!"

"Honey, that's not true."

"Isn't it? My premonitions never lie. Cole is the father of my child. But that's never going to happen now because I vanquished him in the alternate reality."

"That may be true, but we had no choice. Cole had gone completely off the deep end. He would've killed us all sooner or later if the alternate reality-you hadn't vanquished him while he was vulnerable in the world he created." Piper tries to reason with her sister to give her some comfort.

"Everything he did, he did it for me. He went crazy because I pushed him away. He loved me pure and simple and I did nothing but told him how much I hate him.

I was so afraid of getting hurt again, I convinced everyone around me including myself I hated him. But deep down I still love him, I always will. I had a lot of time to think last night. Cole and I have... had a bond, a bond that was stronger than anything earthly but I destroyed it. I destroyed it the moment I started lying to myself. Maybe my premonition is punishment. To show what could've been but never will be. Punishment for not being true to myself."

Piper bite her bottom lip, her heart breaking for her younger sister. It is time, she realize, to share something she had kept secret for almost a year.

"Phoebe, maybe all hope isn't lost." Piper began, hoping her sister won't kill her for withholding the information for so long. "Remember last year when I was attacked by the Thorn Demons and Leo had his memory erased by the Elders and I was able to bring him back with the love we shared?"

"How does that help?" Phoebe snapped. Instantly feeling more guilt when she realize she felt jealousy and a little resentment towards her sister and brother-in-law for their perfect family. "I'm sorry... that was a completely different situation. Leo might've been up there with the Elders with no memory of you but he was still alive, in a manner of speaking. And your body was still with us even though you had almost died. But Cole's been dead for years. He's gone, body and spirit. My love can't bring him back."

"That's not what I meant." Piper continued, "And Cole's not gone in spirit. When I was unconscious I was stuck in a cosmic void between life and death. Sweetie, Cole was there too. He was the one who showed me what to do. He taught me that I had to let go and move onto the next plane in order for Leo to feel the lost and bring him back to me."

Phoebe didn't hear anything beyond 'Cole was there too.' Hope began filling in the void she had felt within her. "Cole's not gone?" More a whisper to herself than a question to Piper. "Then we can bring him back? There's a chance?"

"Yeah, sweetie. There's a chance."

Phoebe got up off her chair and ran to the other side of the counter to give her older sister a big bear hug.

"We'll bring him back Phoebe. You'll know your child." Piper patted Phoebe gently on her back. Then added cheekily to lighten the mood "Besides, I want to be Cool Aunt Piper."

Phoebe couldn't help but laugh. "Oh Piper!" And once again her vision is clouded by tears but this time they were tears of hope and joy. She really need to get some fluid into her before she turns into a prune.