Once Upon A Time, Primrose Empath, and Sleuthing With the Enemy are the episodes I used for this chapter. This is the last chapter that I will be rewriting scenes from episodes on. I'm not going to use any of the other directions between Sleuthing With the Enemy and All Hell Breaks Loose. There were about thirteen episodes between those two so I figure I've got quite a bit of time to work with.

"How is she?" Piper asked after she came home from the club. Phoebe was sitting on the stairs with a book in hand but Piper doubted she was actually reading it. Phoebe looked up at her and sighed.

"Not well. She had this dream..."

"About Leo." Piper finished, sitting down next to her.

"I've never seen Prue like this before, Piper. It's like she's completely given up."

"Prue never gives up. On anything."

"I know." Phoebe closed her book. "That's why it's so worrying."

"He asked you out?" Phoebe asked as she and Piper started over to Kate's house.

"Uh, Phoebe, I think we have bigger issues right now, don't you?"

"Yeah." She paused. "So, did you say yes?" Piper rolled her eyes in exasperation and pulled Phoebe up Kate's driveway.

Piper leaned back against the door after they had rushed Cole out the door, feeling like a complete idiot. She had just met the guy and was already racking up unexplainable events. Sighing she looked over at Phoebe.

"Stairs can be sobering?"

Prue stood in the driveway, still staring up at the sky and feeling like maybe she would break down again. She hated them in that moment, hated them so much for taking him away from her.

She was so angry. Anger was something she did well. It was even the emotion that fueled her telekinesis. And she felt like she could probably move the manor at the moment if she wanted to.

Sighing, she started home. She couldn't let a little girl die because she was angry.

"I can't believe you're here." Prue said, resting her chin on Leo's chest.

"They didn't do it to torture you, Prue." She rolled her eyes, and slapped him lightly on the chest.

"I know that now. If I didn't they probably wouldn't have let you come back." She grinned and rolled over on top of him. "I'm glad you are back."

"Me too." He grinned back at her and she leaned down to kiss him.

Piper hung up the phone with a smile on her face and Phoebe pulled her towards the stairs.

"Looks like everything's going to work out after all." Phoebe said, smiling as well. "So, are you and Cole dating now?"

"Phoebe…"

"What? Kate's safe, Prue and Leo are together. No more pressing issues." Piper simply removed Phoebe's arm from her shoulder.

"Actually there is. Sleep. Good night." She smiled, closing her door on her sister.

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"Wow." Prue stared at Leo as he came into the room. He smiled at her.

"What?"

"It's just…I mean, I felt it with Piper and Cole, but it's completely different when it's directed at you."

"Prue, what are you talking about?" Prue didn't answer, though. Instead, she walked over to him and brought him down to kiss him.

"Piper, what are you doing here?" She stood nervously in Cole's door and walked inside when he opened it wider.

"I…I came to tell you something, actually." She looked down for a moment, doubt creeping in. What if Prue was wrong?
"What's that?" Piper looked up into his eyes again, hesitating for a moment.

"Oh, screw it." She whispered before wrapping her arms around his neck and bringing his head down so she could kiss him. Cole immediately returned it and lifted her up. She wrapped her legs around his waist.

"You have no idea what you're getting into." He said when he finally pulled back, still supporting her. She smiled, putting a hand on his cheek.

"Neither do you."

"I was so worried about you." Leo said, wrapping one arm around Prue's shoulders.

"I know." She said. "I could feel it, remember?" She smiled, leaning against him. "Something good came from this."

"Yeah, you restored a man's faith and vanquished an unstoppable demon."

"That's not what I meant. I didn't just feel worry from you. I felt…I think I felt your heart. The way you felt about me. It was…" She shook her head, smiling wider. He smiled as well and leaned down to kiss her.

"I'm glad you're not leaving." Piper said, resting her head on Cole's chest. She knew that he was hiding something from her, something big, but Prue was right after all. She loved him, and she wasn't willing to give that up yet. Besides, whatever secret he was hiding couldn't be as big as what she was.

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Piper hesitated for just a moment and then she lifted up and kissed him, almost desperately. She pulled back when she heard her sisters yelling for her.

"Piper…"

"Don't worry." She said softly, putting a hand on his cheek. "I wont let anything happen to you." He looked towards the entrance of the mausoleum uncertainly.

"Trust me." Piper said, forcing him to meet her gaze. After a moment, he nodded and she turned to face her sisters, standing in front of Cole and still gripping his forearms.

"Piper!" Prue and Phoebe both ran in and stopped short when they saw Piper and Cole, the both of them holding vanquishing potions.

"Don't!" Piper yelled, holding up one hand and stepping back further so that she could feel Cole's chest against her back. "You throw that potion and it'll kill us both!"

"Let her go." Prue said, glaring at Cole. Piper just squeezed Cole's arm, hoping that he wouldn't shimmer out.

"He's not holding me here." She said calmly, although she was terrified of what her sisters would do, of them not believing her and killing Cole. "He saved my life today." She started.

"Piper, look. I know that you cared about him-"

"I don't just care about him!" Piper said angrily. "Prue, you felt it when you were an empath. You know that I love him, that he loves me."

"Yeah, well, I was wrong, obviously. Demons don't love, Piper."

"But humans do." Cole spoke up for the first time. "And I am half human." Prue and Phoebe both stared at him. If anything, Prue looked even angrier when she met Piper's gaze again.

"Piper, you can't believe this. He's evil. He's tried to kill us several times now. Whatever lie he's feeding you…"

"It's not a lie!" Piper said firmly. "I've seen it, I've felt it. I know what he's done in the past, but the important part is he couldn't do it in the end. How many times could he have killed us and didn't? I went to his apartment when we lost our powers. I was alone with him and defenseless and he didn't do anything. He loves me." Piper gripped Cole's arm as she watched her sisters, at the disbelief still in their eyes.

"What if I could prove it to you?" She asked, somewhat desperately now.

"How?" Phoebe spoke up for the first time. She had mostly been watching the argument unfold. She found herself wanting to believe Piper, because of the simple fact that she could see how much Piper truly did love Cole. She couldn't see how Cole could love her the same, though.

"Uh…" Piper though, still terrified that Prue would simply ignore anything she said and vanquish Cole on the spot. She turned to Cole when an idea hit her. "Can I…?" Cole frowned.

"Whatever you're thinking, if it will keep me here, go ahead." She smiled at him before turning back to her sisters. She took a moment to think of the right words. She didn't know if it was the desperation or the need to simply have Cole in her life, but they came to her in just a minute.

"Open my sister's hearts to reveal

That which only Cole feels

Show his heart to these two

So that they may know what's true."

As soon as she said the last word, red lights emerged from Cole chest and split off, hitting both Prue and Phoebe in their chests. Piper watched apprehensively. She didn't know where she got the inspiration for that spell, but she was glad for it. If this didn't work, she didn't know what she'd do.

It felt like the emotion slammed into her. Prue gasped and held a hand to her chest, almost falling to her knees. Pain. There was so much pain and guilt, enough that she wondered a moment if she had gotten the empath power back.

He was struggling, she could feel it. Struggling with what he had done, struggling with what he had almost done to Piper. She could feel the demon half of him, but it was faint, barely there, suppressed.

There was something else, too. Something that overrode the pain, and guilt. Love. Pure, simply love. Prue felt like she might cry at the power of it. She had felt something of that when she was an empath, but this was stronger, so much stronger.

Piper watched her sisters warily, unwilling to let go of Cole in case this didn't work and they decided to vanquish him anyway. She wouldn't let that happen. He'd have to leave if it came to that. She'd rather not be with him than know that he was dead. Cole wrapped his arms around her from behind as Prue and Phoebe both finally straightened up and looked at them.

"Do you believe me now?" Piper asked. Prue nodded mutely and looked at Cole.

"Yeah, I believe you."

"So, wait! You just let him go."

"No, actually I think he's in Piper's room. They've got a lot to talk about, you know." Leo stared at her like she was crazy.

"Prue, how could you condone this?" Prue stopped in the kitchen, turning to him.

"He loves her, Leo. I felt it when Piper cast that spell. He's suppressing his demon half for her."

"And you trust him?" Prue shook her head.

"Not completely, no. But…if Piper even feels half for him what he does for her, I can't be the one to rip them apart. I wont hurt her like that." Stepping closer, she hugged him, resting her chin on his chest.

"I know what it's like. When the elders took you away, I almost gave up. I know it's crazy, but they love each other, and I won't…I can't be the one to take that away from them. I think we should give him a chance."

"I just don't want to see you guys hurt." Leo said, wrapping his arms around her. Prue smiled.

"Don't worry; we can take care of ourselves. Besides, if he does hurt my sister, I can still vanquish his ass."

"You're not leaving." Piper said stubbornly, crossing her arms and staring at Cole. "I didn't go through all that to convince my sisters so you could just shimmer away."

"Piper…" Cole put his hands on her shoulders. "I don't think you understand. The Source will be sending people to find me. I betrayed him, killed the triad. He'll send demons to kill me. I'd be putting you in danger."

"Cole, the Source has been trying to kill us for a while now. We've got demons coming into the manor every day. I don't think a few more is going to make much of a difference."

"I love you." She said, smiling up at him. "If I have to fight off a few more demons for you to stay, that's what I'll do. I don't want to lose you, Cole. Just stay. Stay with me." Cole was silent for a moment before he pulled her to his chest. Piper smiled as she wrapped her arms around him. She knew that he would stay.