The Lost Ones

Chapter four: First Date

'Okay that was weird I mean he saw me right? No he didn't see me he can't, can he? Damn that Halliwell whitelighter for orbing out before I could ask. Well I'll be hanging out here a little longer.'

Phoebe was in the attic she had been looking for anything that meet the description of the demons they just had vanquished or maybe the woman or demon they had just inadvertently saved. As she turned the pages they fell open to the page. 'Why does everything have to back to him?' It was strange no matter how much time past her feelings for him hadn't changed, no matter what picture the saw, if it was a picture him and her happy and smiling or a picture of his demonic side it was still the same, the same feeling that pressed down on her heart at times it was hard to tell was it love? Hate? Or was it just mourning what should never have been lost, then it came back to the same questions 'do I hate him? Or do I still love him and can't forget?' Lately it was different like today downstairs it felt like he was there watching, standing by her, when she said she was looking for answers it wasn't a complete lie, but she would be lying if she said it wasn't to get away, but away from what her own thought and feelings? 'It gets harder and harder each day to just blame him for what happened, God the more I think about it the harder it is to say it was all his fault. And then Chris saying that just because someone is a demon or thought to be prone to evil that we should try a save them no matter what human or demon. Does this mean that we no not we, me, I should have tried to save him. Okay that's it stop thinking about it you can't change the past. You have a job to do. ID the demons and maybe the woman so we can figure out why we're meant to save her.'

Just as Phoebe started concentrating on the job she had at hand she was interrupted by a high pitched screech of her baby sister "PPHHOOOEEEEBBBEEEEEEEEE!" this was quickly followed by her sister who was standing before her in nothing but a towel, one wrapped aroundher and the other for her hair.

"Pheebes serious problem."

"Oh my God Paige what's wrong?"

"What's wrong? What's wrong how about the fact that I have nothing to ware for my date to night I mean I have nothing. Nothing as in nada, zero, zip. I mean yeah I've got clothes but nothing for going out with a doctor. I've got vanquish clothes, I've got I'm a total hottie don't you want me now clothes, I've got I go to work clothes that say hey I'm nice, hard working yet fun. But nothing that says a guy that has a brain asked me out to go to a movie and dinner." Paige took a deep breath after her rant. Shaking her head Phoebe looked to her sister and said, "And her I thought you had been attacked by a demon, well what do you want me to do about your fashion emergency?"

"Well you've dated guys with brains, I mean there was C….umm is Jason so you might be willing to give me some sisterly advice, or if you were feeling very sisterly you would let me borrow that cute halter, you know the lavender one with the Indian embroidery at the bottom that wouldwork great with the new deep purple knee length skirt, you know the one that you said lived for dancing because it was floatie?" She ended this with the famous sister shrug the one that says, please say yes or you ruined the rest of my life.

"Yeah Paige you can borrow it." Phoebe sighs when Paige squeals and hugs her. "So when is your date?"

"He's coming to pick me up at six we'll have dinner first then were going to go to see a movie if there is anything good, if there isn't we'll probably head on over to P3."

"So what is this your third or fourth date?"

"No well if you count being x-rayed for broken bones a date then this will be our first."

"Wow really, well it's" Phoebe looks at her watch "five now you better get ready if you want to knock his socks off."

"Yeah you're right thanks for letting me borrow your top, I love ya" Paige says as she orbs out.

Just as she turned her attention back to the book, "hey did you find anything yet?"

"No Chris I haven't."

"Well then stop the demons you guys vanquished are knowen as Mudlocks, their hired assassins, they only work for upper level demons next to Belthezor they were the Source's favorite."

"So that means that however wants the woman gone is real high on the rector scale."

"Oh how ever did you deduce that Sherlock?" Chris throws Phoebe an annoyed look which countered with a glare from Phoebe. "Well I guess that means you try a find out who the woman is?"

"Yeah I guess it does."

It was six o'clock and all the residents of the manor were in the living-room waiting for Paige's date to come, well all except Paige who upstairs putting on the final touches of her out fit. Just as the grandfather clock finished chiming there was a knock at the door. Piper had said that because she was the eldest it was her job to get the door and being the interrogation, when she got the door she was stunned at the guy waiting outside, "Hi can I help you?"

"Paige Matthews lives her right?" asked the man he was 6'2 with dark brown hair nicely trimmed not a hundred percent clean cut or a hundred percent scruffy. He had thick eye-brows without being Neanderthal like, eye lashes any woman would kill for and the brightest blue, green eyes Piper had ever seen, this was all accompanied by a strong jaw line and a hundred watt smile.

"Yeah Paige lives here, you're Doctor Will Grant?"

"The one and only. Well maybe not one and onlya personcan never be to sure about these things." Piper laughed, "Well why don't you come in" Piper then moved out of the way to let Will into the manor. When Phoebe saw him she felt like she needed to pick her jaw from off the floor, it wasn't that she was thunder struck by his looks but it was that he looked so much like Cole. It really hit her when he began to speak there something about him something but she couldn't explain it.

"You have a really nice home …um…I didn't get your name."

"Oh... how rude of me I'm Piper, that is my younger sister Phoebe and he…he is a friend of the family Chris. And this little one is my son Wyatt."

"Nice to meet you and it's nice to meet you Wyatt." Phoebe's thoughts that Will was some how related to Cole and evil were blown out of the water when Will touched Wyatt's head and he didn't put up his protective shield.

"So how old are you buddy?

"Well Wyatt is coming up to his second birthday."

"Really, well aren't you the big boy. I have a nephew he's closer to three. And quit the hand full I might add I don't know where my sister gets time or the energy to take care of him."

"Hey" this came from Paige how had just come down the stairs.

'I have to say the Mudlock remains sure help her hair, not as straw like. Well what have we here the date well come turn around let's get a good look at you.' But all the joking around and light heartedness never would have prepared Cole for what he was about to see. 'NO! It can't be! No Will's dead. He's dead' He was rooted in his spot he couldn't move even if his excitants depended on it.

At the restaurant

"So Will tell me a little about yourself. Do you have brothers, sisters?" Paige asked this she was resting her elbow on the table trying to look calm and at easy were she was actually a heap of nerves."

"Well let's see I have an older brotherwho I didn't see anymore he's kind of in limbo, he's in between jobs and stuff. And I have a baby sister who I'm very close to. I'm helping her take care of our nephew."

"You mean your nephew, her son right?"

"No, I mean our nephew like I said my older brother is kind of between plans of existence and is no position to take care of a young child. I mean think about it a single unemployed dad taking care of a three year old."

"I guess. So what does your sister do?"

"My sister Bethy is a teacher. And my brother C.J. was a lawyer. So Paige what do you do?"

"Well it seems I'm not that different from your brother." This caused Will to laugh, "Trust me Paige you're very different from my brother. So I couldn't help but notice that your mailbox says Halliwell but you're Matthews is there a story behind that, like I don't know will I have to look over my shoulder to make sure there is no crazed ex-husband?"

"No wrong sister no crazed ex-husbands for me. I was adopted Matthews was he name of my adoptive parents."

"Really well I guess we have more in common Grant was the name of my adoptive parents both my brother and sister were Turner."

"You wouldn't happen to be related to a Cole Turner?"

"No I'm not related to a Cole Turner, I didn't meet my brother and sister till I was sixteen. When did you meet your sisters?"

"Just last year actually."

"Wow and you all live together that's nice when I meet C.J. and Bethy we all got matching tattoos."

"So it's not weird to get on with the freakishly fast bonding?"

"No I don't think so?"

"Can I see your tattoo?"

"Sure" Will then went and took off his jacket and unbuttoned his sleeve and started rolling it up. On the inside of his wrist he his tattoo it was made up of three interlocked diamonds one black, one dark gray, and one light gray. Running straight through all three was a purple cross; all three diamonds were in a bigger diamond also in purple.

"Wow it's beautiful what does it mean?"

"Each diamond is for one of us C.J. is the black one, I'm the dark gray one, and the light gray is Bethy. The purple cross and diamond is to represent our connection and our heritage."

After he finished explaining his mobile phone stared to ring.

"Hello Will Grant speaking. Bethy what's wrong? Don't worry I'll be right there."

"Oh God Paige I'm sorry but I got too got that was my sister, something has happened to my nephew. Could do this another time?"

"Yeah sure, go take care of your nephew."

With that Will picked up his jacket and was out before Paige could say call me. If she had been paying attention she would have seen that he didn't just disappear from view but that he shimmered.

To Be Continued