Chapter 2:

A/N: If I don't write it then it happened just as it did in the show.

Cole gave him a skeptical look as he asked, "Why?"

Cailean gave the former assassin a bemused look as he said, "I have something I need to tell them. It's very important."

Cole nodded as he went back inside. Phoebe gave him an expectant look as she said, "Well?"

Cole replied, "His name Cailean Devlin. He has some very important information for you."

He neglected to tell them Cailean was a vampire. Finally after a few minutes Piper nodded as she opened the door and Cailean walked right in. He smirked to himself; Patty had never revoked the invitation. Both Halliwell sisters gave him suspicious looks as Piper demanded, "We want an explanation now."

Phoebe picked up where her older sister had left off, "How did you know our mom; you were what six when she was killed?"

A slow smirk spread across his face as he replied, "Wrong love. I was 627 years old. Ya see I was here in San Fran tryin to find a wanker that owed me a good amount of quid when I encountered a Grocslar deamon. Well to make a long story short I wasn't faring so well due to the fact that the bloody git had shot me with his poisonous spikes. I thought I was a goner when your mum comes out in her waitress uniform and after some chanting in Latin vanquished the ponce. Then she brought me here and fixed up my wounds and allowed me to get the poison outta my system. I stayed around for three months. I saved her from some warlock that wanted her to promise to give him your powers when you were born. Your grams didn't like it o course but after she saw how good I was with You an Prue she quieted right down. I never got to know you Phoebe ; you were in her tummy"

Piper and Phoebe were both finding this very hard to believe so they both yelled for Leo. When he appeared they told him what Cailean had just told them. He said, "I'll go talk to the Elders about this."

After he disappeared Cailean said, "I wish I could've told your mum how much I preciated her friendship."

After trading a few looks Piper said, "You can. Follow us."

Cailean wordlessly followed them to the attic. He looked around and noted that except for a few differences it was just as he remembered it. After they had mixed a few ingredients and said a spell Patty Halliwell appeared. As soon as the vampire and the dead witch saw each other they tenderly embraced. Piper and Phoebe both had astonished looks on their faces as Piper asked, "Don't tell me you two..."

Patty released her old friend/lover as she said, "I was lonely Piper and your father had just left me."

Just then Leo appeared and said, "The Elders said he is to protect you and fight at your side. It is his destiny."

Phoebe protested, "But he's just a vampire."

Leo said, "He's of the Order of Aurelius; the most powerful and fierce vampire there is."

Patty chimed in, "Also he's very loyal and trustworthy. Once he gives his trust and his word no better an ally will you have."

Then she looked sadly into Cailean's eyes as she said, "I have to go. Take care of my daughters. Remember your vow."

He bowed his head reverently as she disappeared. Once she disappeared Piper asked, "What was your vow?"

He growled as he lit a cigarette, "Don't worry bout it."

He had originally come here to tell them about Paige but he decided to let them learn about her on their own. That didn't mean he would not protect her. He asked as he exhaled a large cloud of bluish smoke, "Did ya say Prue's funeral was tomorrow?"

Piper nodded as she said, "I did."

Then Phoebe asked, "But how will you come it's in the daytime?""

He replied as he showed his ring, "I have an enchanted "daylight" ring. Don't worry bout me."

And with that he was gone."

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The Source of all evil was feeling very triumphant he had broken the Charmed Ones. He would love to savor their grief in person (So to speak). He was pulled from his musings by his seer Oracle. She said, "My lord I have some rather unfortunate news."

He rumbled, "What is it Oracle?"

She replied, "My lord there is another Charmed One."

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The next day as Phoebe and Piper were saying goodbye and thanking them for coming to the funeral Paige walked up and took Phoebe's hand as she said, "I'm very sorry about your sister."

Phoebe was about to reply when she was overcome with a premonition. After the premonition had subsided she went to find Piper and tell her what she had seen when a large group of Demonic Bounty Hunters appeared and began hurling lightning bolts and fireballs at Cole. Cailean had a devil-may-care smirk on his face as he vamped and tore into the bounty hunters. He hit one in the midsection with a bone shattering roundhouse kick and rolled over it's back and tore the throat out of another. He turned around and ripped the head off the one he kicked in the gut. Leo watched in morbid fascination as Cailean brutally killed 3 bounty hunters. He looked over at Cole and saw that he had transformed into Belthazor and was cutting a bloody swath himself. Cailean and Belthazor were now fighting back to back; Cailean crowed as he snapped a bounty hunter's neck, "Damn this just like that time in LA back in 52."

Belthazor grunted as he incinerated three bounty hunter's with a huge energy ball. Piper strode forward and began blowing up bounty hunters right and left as she screamed hysterically, "Stop just stop. We are burying our sister today; can't we get one days peace."

The bounty hunters seeing they were in a losing fight chose to disappear leaving a sobbing and fuming Piper. Cailean made his face revert to his human one as Belthazor transformed back into Cole and they both joined the grieving sisters. Once Leo had Piper calmed down Phoebe told her what she had seen. Piper said, "We need to stop Shax?"

Phoebe, Leo and Cole agreed.

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After hearing Phoebe's premonition Cailean hurried to Paige's apartment and watched as she and some guy got in her car and left. He tailed them to P3 and watched as they walked in. If Phoebe's premonition was right Shax would attack them on the roof so he jumped upon the roof and melted into the shadows as he just waited for the "fun" to begin. 45 minutes later he saw Paige and her boyfriend walk out onto the roof. He also saw Phoebe and Cole shimmer onto the opposite roof. Suddenly Shax appeared and he watched helplessly as Shax slung her boyfriend into a wall. As soon the human collided with the wall Cailean attacked as did Cole; now transformed into Belthazor. While Belthazor kept him busy dodging energy balls; Cailean chose the more direct approach. He slammed into Shax and threw him to the ground with a flying mare and was about to kick the demonic assassin in the head when he said demonic assassin hit him in the chest with a wind blast; knocking him off the roof. He executed a triple somersault and landed on his feet. Then he leapt back up onto the roof. He snarled as he attacked Shax with a merciless combination of punches, knee strikes, elbow strikes and kicks, "Hey ya bloody poofter we ain't done yet."

Shax blocked most of the blows but he was unable to block a devastating spinning back elbow followed up by a 720 kick. He blasted both Belthazor and Cailean off the roof and disappeared. Belthazor shimmered back on the roof and transformed back into Cole before Paige could see him. Unfortunately Cailean was unable to land on his feet and slammed face first into the ground with bone jarring force. After Cole had shimmered them back to the manor and they had bandaged Cole's and Cailean's wounds. Phoebe asked, "Did anybody else see that she orbed?"

Cailean spat out a glob of blood as he drawled, Uh...yea bout that..."

Should the girls have the same reaction as they did in the show?