Ah, the long awaited Part Two. I have completed 3 and 4, which will be up soon, and part 5 is in the works. Don't disappear! -CT

Darryl paused with his hands in front on the payphone. Who to call? Cole was

always a major button pusher for the girls, each in their own ways... so who was

he to tell about this? There was no way he could keep this a secret. Not Cole.

He knew that he should tell Phoebe, but considering her whole 'I must find the

father of my future child' phase, learning that her ex husband is still alive is not

going to sit well with her; Piper is pregnant now, and the last thing he wanted to

do was add to her stress- especially since he learnt the hard way how grumpy

she can be when she was with child; Paige had a huge grudge against Cole,

after all he did and Leo was still reeling from finding out that Chris is his son, and

that he hate him.

The only one of the family that was least likely to freak would be Chris... but he

was most likely to go on a tangent about Cole being the demon to turn Wyatt.

I swear, if I have to hear that one more time, I'm going to give Chris a black eye

Darryl thought. Since Leo wasn't going to be much of a help, he knew that his

only chance was Paige. At least she couldn't accidentally vanquish him.

Darryl hastily dialled Paige's mobile number, and waited impatiently as the phone

rang.

"Paige Matthews." Paige answered the phone, her voice slightly breathless.

Darryl didn't really want to think about what he may have interrupted,

"Paige, its Darryl." Paige frowned at Darryl's tone of voice,

"What's wrong?"

"I need you to come down to San Francisco Memorial as soon as you can. It's

important."

"What?" Paige's eyes widened. Why the hospital? "Are my sisters alright?"

"They're fine. It isn't about them. Just come here, and I'll explain."

"Okay, I'll meet you in the main parking lot in about 20 minutes."

Paige hung up and frowned again. Darryl normally sounded panicked- it was just

his personality- but right now he seemed more freaked out than usual. Compared

to how he had been made his reaction when he was attacked by the warriors that

followed them out of Valhalla earlier this year seem like a brisk walk. Something

really bad must have happened... but what?

"Matthews!" Paige's newest boss loomed over her. She jumped. She had been

so glad when the temp agency had assigned her to work at a children's help

hotline, but her boss was a total ass wipe. It surprised her that this idiot was

actually good at giving advice... despite the fact that most of the callers found

him really creepy. She plastered a smile on her face,

"Yes sir?"

"Instead of staring into space and making personal calls, it may make sense that

you do some work!"

"I'm sorry, but there's an emergency and I have to go."

"What?" her boss started to go red. Man, this guy had a short temper!

"I'll be back in an hour or two- I won't take a lunch break today, okay?" Without

waiting for an answer, Paige left. She knew that there would be hell to pay when

she got back, but she'd rather be fired than leave a friend hanging.

"Hey, Darryl!" Paige chirped as she climbed out of her cute, green, VW Beetle,

"What's going on?"

"I need you to come with me." Darryl led Paige into the hospital. Now she was

getting really worried,

"Are you okay? What's happened?"

"If I told you, you would not believe me. You need to see for yourself."

Within a few minutes, Darryl and Paige were up in 304a. Morgan had

already been moved to another room, and a curtain concealed the other bed.

Paige sighed with a mixture of relief and annoyance,

"You dragged me out of work to see an empty room?" Darryl shook his head

grimly,

"It isn't empty." Darryl led her around the pink curtain, and watched as a look of

shock and anger appeared on her face as she took in the image of Cole in front

of her.

"Oh my God!"

"Paige- are you-"

"I need to sit down." Paige stated and fell onto the unfortunately cheery yellow

chair near the window.

"Are you okay?"

"Am I okay?" Paige repeated, "I'm sitting in the same room as the man who broke

my sister's heart and tried to kill me! Do you think that I'm okay? And, you know,

this whole 'Cole is still alive' thing is getting really really old!" Paige put her head

in her hands in attempt to collect her bearings.

"Paige?"

"What?" Paige snapped as she looked up at Darryl, who had a confused look on

his face. His brows knitted together,

"I didn't say any..." Darryl trailed off and turned around. Paige followed his line of

vision and stood up defensively, her body tense.

For the first time in over a year, Cole was fully conscious.