Here's the next chapter. I gotta say that I loved writing this chapter. It was really fun.

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Chapter 5-Confrontation

Pheobe stood there motionless. Part of her wanted to pull them into a big hug and be part of the family again, but the other part of her couldn't trust that their arrival was just to see her again. She could tell that they wanted something.

"What are you doing here?" she finally asked.

"The Elders sense that a powerful being has been brought back to life in the past month. They don't know who it is, but we have to vanquish it," Piper explained. "We need the Power of Three."

Pheobe knew that it was Cole they were after and they actually expected her to just go with them and kill him. After all that time, they come back expecting her to vanquish him. She wouldn't help them. She knew that much.

"There is no Power of Three," Pheobe stated.

"Pheobe, what if he attacks you," Paige said.

Ben could be heard giggling from the living room.

"Or your son," she added.

"So now you decide to care about his well-being. You didn't on the day he was born. You can't use my son to manipulate me. Neither of you have control over me anymore. I'm finally in charge of my own life," Phoebe told them.

"We can't vanquish him without you," Piper said. "Please, mother to mother. I'm afraid they might come after my son."

"Of course I'll help now," Pheobe said sarcastically, "because you're precious child is in danger and by the way he's not after your son."

Piper started to say something but saw someone shimmering in behind Pheobe.

"Demon," Piper screamed and Paige pulled a vial out of her bag.

"Throw that vial and I swear..." Pheobe threatened.

"What?" Paige asked.

"So, these are your sisters," Elizabeth said looking at the two women standing in the doorway.

"Yep. Can you go in there with Ben and ..." she motioned with her head toward the living room. "I have some family business to take care of."

"Of course, dear. Call for me if you need me," she said walking to the living room.

"Who the hell was that?" Paige asked. "I thought you said that no one could orb or shimmer in here."

"That was Elizabeth, Ben's grandmother. She and Ben are the only beings that can shimmer in my house," Pheobe told them, although she didn't know why she was explaining herself to them.

"Ben's grandmother. Cole's mom! She's a demon, Pheobe," Piper screamed.

"She had demonic powers. She's a witch," Pheobe said.

"I didn't think you were this stupid, letting a demon live with you," Piper said.

"She's been a hell of a lot better to him than you ever were. She loves him and she's never wanted him dead, so that makes her a good person in my book. You, on the other hand," Pheobe told her older sister, her eyes full of anger.

"What did you mean when you said that the demon wasn't after Wyatt? How did you know?" Paige asked, cutting through the tension between her sisters.

Pheobe really did not want to answer this. Paige had a lot of vials in her bag and even if they needed the Power of Three to vanquish Cole, those potions would at the very least know him out.

Ben started to cry and Elizabeth walked into the foyer with the baby boy.

"We couldn't calm him down," she said handing the boy to his mother.

"Oh, come here baby," Pheobe said, the look in her eyes changing from anger to love as she looked at her child.

"Can we come in?" Paige asked.

"If you must," Pheobe told them and they followed her to the kitchen where she got Ben his juice.

"Why did she saw 'we'?" Piper asked. "Who else is here?"

"And this is your business because...?" Pheobe asked but after a minute answered them. "My husband is in the living room."

"Who is he? Can we meet him?" Paige asked, oblivious to how the facts were adding up.

"Pheobe, no," Piper said. "I can't believe you are with that..."

Pheobe stopped her.

"Keep your voice down," Pheobe said through gritted teeth.

Cookies shimmered in front of Ben.

"No. No," she said. "No cookies. It's bed time."

Pheobe picked the baby up and walked into the living room knowing that her sisters were going to follow her.

"Cole, can you go put Ben to bed?" Pheobe asked handing the baby to him.

"Yeah. I guess we'll have to finish the movie tomorrow," he said with a smile.

Piper and Paige walked into the room.

"You son of a ..." Paige started.

"Don't you dare. You may subject Wyatt to that but not Ben," Pheobe said. "Cole, take him upstairs.

Paige reached into her bag and got a vial. She turned toward Cole who was walking up the stairs talking to his son.

"Drop it," Elizabeth said, an energy ball in her hand.

"Pheobe," Paige said. "Aren't you going to do something?"

"Drop the vial or I'll step out of her way," Pheobe told her younger sister, standing between Elizabeth and Paige.

Paige lifted her arm to throw the potion anyway knowing she could easily dodge the energy ball.

She wasn't expecting to be tackled though, and before she had a chance to harm Cole or Ben, Pheobe had her pinned to the floor.

When Cole and the baby were upstairs and out of harm's way, Pheobe let go of Paige.

"Why did you do that?" Paige asked, getting up.

Pheobe just stared at her sister. Was she really that stupid? What kind of question was that?

"Well, I don't know. It probably had something to do with the fact that you were going to hurt my husband and my baby," Pheobe said in a tone used to explain things to four year olds. "Get out of my house."

"I can't believe you're choosing him over your own sisters," Piper said.

"Oh, my God. Did you really just say that? Me, choosing him over you. I helped you vanquish him, the father of my child, and then you just abandoned me. I haven't heard anything from you for over a year," Pheobe said.

"You were the one that left," Piper said.

"Because you, Leo, Paige, and the Elders would've killed my son if I stayed," she explained.

She looked at her sisters and didn't even see a glimpse of sympathy in their eyes.

"Okay, Piper, suppose on the day Wyatt was born that someone walked into the room, ripped him out of your arms, and promised to kill him. Would you have let them?" Pheobe asked.

Piper looked down.

"That's what I thought, and yet you expected me to let them kill my child. I don't want anything to do with either of you. I'll stay out of your life and you get out of mine," Phoebe said.

"We have to get rid of him," Paige said.

"Why? So that you can take away my happiness. It's not my fault that you can't find love," Pheobe told Paige. "I'll be damned if I'm gonna let you kill my husband. Leave," she screamed.

Piper and Paige finally listened to their sister and walked to the door.

"I'll make a more powerful potion and we'll come back when Pheobe is at work," Paige told Piper when they were out of Pheobe's house.

Piper agreed, her excuse being that she feared for Wyatt's life.

They orbed out.

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