Here's a new chapter which I hope will be appreciated and hopefully there are still loyal Charmed readers even after the series finally. Keep the show alive people!

A Call For Help

A knock on the door interrupted the routine of the hectic Halliwell manor and taking a second away from making lunch, Piper looked at her eldest son, "Wyatt, can you get the door?"

He jumped down from his spot on a kitchen stool and made his way to the door with only a slight grumble escaping his lips.

"Hey, I know you," the ten year old simply stated as he opened the door to find the man he had once referred to as 'Uncle Cole' standing on the other side.

"Hey, Wyatt," Cole greeted the blonde haired boy, forcing a smile to make sure he didn't burden the young boy with his worry. "Shouldn't you be in school?"

"My mom teaches us at home," Wyatt explained as he moved from his spot in front of the door to allow the man to enter. "I'll go get her."

"Wyatt, who is it?" Piper asked as she walked into the room, but stopped abruptly as she saw the man standing in the foyer, and turning to Wyatt, she ordered, "Go to the kitchen with Chris and eat your lunch."

"I need your help," Cole pleaded on the verge or tears once the boy had left the room. "She's gone and I don't have the power to save her. I can't lose her. She's my world."

"What do you mean? What happened?" Piper asked as she moved to the livingroom and sat on the couch, waiting for her questions to be answered.

"I went to the school to pick her up, but she was gone," Cole explained. "They said that I had already picked her up. I need you to scry for her or use the spell to call a lost witch. Something. Anything. I just need you to tell me where she is. I'll get to her somehow."

He was in a panic now, distraught, terrified that he had once again failed the one he had sworn to protect. He lost her mother, he couldn't lose her too.

"Please," he let out as he took a deep breath. "She's your niece. Forget about everything that happened between us. She's all that's left of your sister. She's what Pheobe gave her life for."

Sighing, Piper gave him a long look before finally opening her mouth, "Paige!"

Within a minute, Paige was thumbing through the Book of Shadows while Piper began with the potion, letting her senses be her guide as to what ingredients she placed into the bowl as Cole paced the length of the attack, mentally kicking himself for being so utterly useless.

He had never regretted getting rid of his powers, that is until this moment. The powers he had acquired in the Wasteland were driving him mad and he knew that if Pheobe hadn't bound them, they would have never been remarried, never had three blissful years of love, marriage, but what good was anything if he couldn't protect their daughter now. What he wouldn't give to have Belthazar returned to him after seven long years of being free from his other half.

"We have to know who we're scrying for," Paige began, keeping her distance from Cole. "Do you have something of hers?"

"Would a picture work?" Cole asked as he pulled out his wallet and took out one of the many photographs he had tucked away, and when she nodded, he placed it in her hands before shoving his hands in his pockets and beginning to pace again.

"She looks just like her," Paige noticed as she took in the small girl's smile and ran her hands gingerly over it as she began to scry for her. "She has her smile."

"I know," Cole let a small grin cross his lips before his mind reminded him that his little girl was in a place unknown to him, surrounded by demons.

"We got her," Paige stated as the crystal fell and while Piper walked to her carrying potions, she looked Cole's way. "Stay here."

"I'm going," he declared as he touched Piper's arm in an effort to join the orb and after a short silence all three orbed out of the room.

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"Dammit, Leo! Take me back!" Cole shouted as he released himself and found that he was in the solarium of the manor. "I could've fought!"

"And you would've died," the blonde man responded as he looked and saw his boys watching television and added in a lower voice, "They'll get her back."

Cole didn't respond as he allowed himself to be brought back to the many memories he had of this situation. When Belthazar had been stripped from him, Pheobe had been afraid for him to help her with any demon fighting out of fear that she would lose him. A bit of irony, he thought bitterly, that all of their preparations and precautions over demons couldn't have done a damn thing to save her. After all their worrying, nothing could have prepared them for what had been the culprit of her death. His thoughts were cut short as he noticed the familiar beginnings of an orb and his heart began to race.

"Daddy!" the small girl ran from the two women and jumped into his waiting arms. "There were lots of bad demons."

"Are you hurt?" he asked her as he looked her over for injuries before he repeated again, "Did they hurt you?"

"No, don't worry daddy. Mommy protected me," Cailyn told her father as she snuggled closer to him.

"What do you mean, baby?" he asked her as he sat down with the child in his lap and she faced him. "Did you see Mommy?"

"No, but one of the bad demons was gonna hurt me but then I felt somethin' happy and then he couldn't get to me," she explained before leaning in to whisper in her father's ear. "Mommy was standin' in front of me. I could feel her."

Relieved that his daughter was safe, Cole smiled at her and pulled her into a hug and was glad that his daughter had gotten the chance to at least feel her mother's love. He knew the feeling the girl was talking about. He had felt it as soon as he would walk into the same room as Pheobe. She always gave off happiness in waves and even after her death, he could still feel it, in their house, and in their daughter.

"Thank you," Cole spoke to the two women standing before getting up as well, still holding the five year old. "But I think we need to get going."

Piper looked at Paige before starting, "We want her to stay here."

Cole put Cailyn down and kneeled down so that he was at her level. "How about you go into that room with the two little boys. I'm sure they have some fun things for you to play with," he stood up again and watched as she ran out of the room.

"I appreciate your concern with her safety, but I'm her father and she's been fine with me for the last five years. Yes, I needed your help today, and I thank you for finding my baby girl, but I am not leaving her with you," Cole calmly informed him, afraid that if he raised his voice, Cailyn would hear.

"She's not safe with you," Paige began. "Besides the fact that you were a demon and have God knows how many enemies, you have no powers to protect her.

"She's our niece. We want her to be safe," Piper chimed in.

"Oh, that's rich. Where were you when she was born? You've only seen her once even though I offered to bring her by regularly for visits with you and the boys so that she could get to know her family. The only time you saw her was at the funeral and even then, you wanted nothing to do with her. You can't blame her for Pheobe's death! You hated the fact that Pheobe was pregnant with my child, that she would be part demon. Do you know how many nights Pheobe cried herself to sleep because her sisters wanted nothing to do with her anymore, that the baby she wanted more than anything in the world, you hated. She died to give our daughter life and I know she would make the same decision over and over again if given another chance," Cole let all his anger out. "Don't stand here and tell me you want what's best for my daughter, that you know what's best for her. I slipped up today, I know. She's never been attacked, and after five years, I didn't think they would come for her, but now I know better and I will protect her. I'll figure out how."

He didn't wait for responses as he walked out of the room and took the hand of his daughter from her spot on the floor in front of the television.

"Come on, Cailyn. We gotta go home," he told the girl, softening his voice. "Since you were such a brave girl today, you can have whatever you want for dinner tonight and we'll stop at an ice-cream shop after we eat dinner."

She happily got up and walked to the car with him. "Can we eat at McDonald's?"

"Whatever you want, my little ladybug," he kissed the top of her head as he placed her securely in the car and they drove off to fill up the five year old with chicken nuggets and ice-cream, unaware that they would be in for the fight of their lives with what tomorrow would bring.

So, hope it was an okay chapter. Please review. Umm...about the whole timeline thing. It basically takes off from the fifth season. The only thing that stayed the same was the birth of Chris. Pheobe bound Cole's powers instead of vanquishing him, so they were able to get back together instead of Cole's powers driving him insane(which I am convinced was the cause of Cole's insanity, that and rejection)

So, I'm gonna shut up now. And I promise to update soon cuz I feel so bad about taking forever.