Chapter two

It was eight o' clock that same morning and Chris and Wyatt were settled in the conservatory playing while the Charmed Ones were settled at the kitchen table once again; Prestyn had fallen asleep upstairs. "Phoebs, do you want to tell us what's on your mind?" Piper asked. "You didn't say anything upstairs apart from 'she's fine'."

"She is fine," Phoebe half snapped.

"But are you?" Paige countered.

"Yep."

"You know better then to lie within this family and this household. Whatever it is Phoebe, you can tell us," Piper coaxed.

Phoebe sighed, giving in. "Prestyn had a really horrible dream…"

"And her dream is affecting you because..?" Paige led on.

"Because I was killed in her dream… by Cole."

"How does she even know who Cole is?"

"She pointed to the picture I have of him and me on my dresser drawer and said 'that man'."

"Well Phoebe honey, Cole is dead and it was just a dream," Piper assured.

Phoebe looked away from Piper and sighed.

"What? Phoebe what is it?"

"What if it was a premonition?"

"That's impossible Phoebe, that's a power, that's your power."

"What five year old dreams of their father killing their mother demonically, Piper?" Phoebe snapped.

"He is dead Phoebe. Cole is dead."

"He's come back before. Demons that we've already vanquished have come back again! Who's to say he won't?"

"Phoebe –" Piper was cut off by her littlest sister who had kicked her under the table. Piper less then subtly tended to her leg.

Paige took over. "Phoebe, honey, we understand your concerns, but we have nothing to go on."

"We have everything to go on!" Phoebe snapped, near tears.

"Honey we don't even know if Prestyn has another power; and even if she did she couldn't possibly have premonitions because you have premonitions. Two witches cannot have the same power in the same time zone," Paige educated.

Phoebe paused and thought. Piper breathed a sigh of relief.

"So why the hell else would she have had that dream!" she all but yelled.

Halliwell manor went silent.

"Momma?" Prestyn stood in the door way holding her pink and purple blankie, that had once belonged to her mother, close to her. She hugged it tight. All eyes went to Prestyn. Phoebe's face went from angry to happy in order to make her daughter see that everything was alright.

"What's the matter baby?"

"Why is everyone cranky? Am I getting a time out because I had a not nice dream?"

Phoebe got up and walked over to her only child and squatted down so she was eye level with her. "No baby. You're not the boss of your dreams."

"So I didn't do something naughty?"

"No baby, it wasn't your fault. No time out for you."

Prestyn sighed. "Momma is the bad man gonna hurt you?"

Phoebe hesitated. "Hey, I think the boys want you. Why don't you go down into the conservatory? They were very worried about you."

"Okay."

"And don't you worry baby. You're gonna be okay, okay?" Prestyn nodded her head with a smile and scampered off into the conservatory to play with Wyatt and Chris.

"You're going to be okay too, Phoebe," Paige assured.

"We don't know that for sure, and I am not going to lie to my little girl and tell her I'm going to be fine if I don't even know that."

"It's okay Aunt Phoebe, I'll protect you. I'll put up my force field and keep you safe in it until mom and Aunt Paige vanquish the bad man," Wyatt stated. As if it was the easiest thing in the world to do.

"Well thank you sweet boy, but I will need you to protect Prestyn for me – and Chris too. So if something happens, you need to put up that force field and keep Chris, Prestyn and yourself safe. You got that?" Wyatt nodded. "Good boy. Come here and give me a hug." Wyatt raced over to his aunt and jumped into her arms, throwing his own arms around her neck. She held him for a few seconds, before putting him down and letting him go back to his brother and his cousin. Phoebe looked at her sisters. "It's not safe to talk here, and it is not safe for them. Prestyn said we were at the manor when it happened. We need to call Leo and tell him to take them to magic school."

There was a beat of silence before Piper broke it. "Phoebe look at me,"she started. Phoebe walked over to the opening of the conservatory and watched the children play. "Phoebe," Piper spoke again. Piper sighed and got up to walk over to her younger sister. She put both hands on her shoulders and gently turned her around. "Honey we've been up against Cole four times before and we've won, and you've had many a vision where one of us or all of us dies, and we've not let that happen. What makes this different?"

"I've never had a child to protect before this Piper. If anything happens to her –"

"Nothing will happen to her, or you."

"Phoebe, we don't know if Prestyn has premonitions, don't you think you may be worried about nothing at all?" Paige questioned.

"Can we really take that chance? Based on our Cole history? The guy won't die! And now his coming after me," her voice was low and saddened.

"Phoebe, honey, is there anything we don't know?" Piper asked, concern evident. Her eyebrows furrowed in with confusion.

"Like what?"

"Is Cole alive?"

"According to Prestyn's dream he is."

"Now you're calling it a dream?" Paige asked.

Phoebe sighed. "I don't know what I'm calling it now…" Phoebe sounded tired.

"So maybe we should call in someone who knows what's going on in our family, witch wise…" Piper led on.

"Leo!" The Charmed Ones called. Blue and white lights filled the kitchen, and Leo evolved from them. He walked over and gave Piper a quick peck on the lips; he knew something was up.

"You can go and say hi to your kids, Leo. I won't deprive you of that just because something important is up," Phoebe told him. "But while you're at it, do you think maybe you can take them all to magic school?" Leo nodded and walked into the conservatory.

"Everything'll be okay, Phoebs," Paige assured, putting a hand on her sister's back and rubbing it for comfort. "I'm sure it's just a dream, but if not, then we will do what we have to do to send his ass back to wherever it is he came from."

Prestyn came running out of the conservatory and ran straight to Phoebe with Chris, Wyatt and Leo following.

"I don't wanna go!" Prestyn screamed. "I wanna stay here wif you!" She clung on to her mother for dear life. "Why do I have to go?"

"Yeah… why do we have to go to stupid magic school all the time?" Chris asked kicking the air down at the ground.

"Chris," Piper warned.

"Baby, it's only for a little while –"

"You said no time out." Prestyn started to cry repeating those words over and over, and Phoebe felt tears of her own starting to form. She gave her daughter a kiss on the cheek and gave her a tight squeeze, then gave her to Leo.

"Get her and the boys out of here Leo." Leo did as he was told. Phoebe wiped her tears away and sighed. "Call me when he comes back." She walked upstairs to her room and slammed the door shut.