A.N. I have had a teacher do to me what I'm having this teacher do to Liz. I was very embarrassed after because I ended up having a very private conversation on the phone with my class and teacher listening in, because the guy I was talking too wanted to have the conversation right then. I suppose I could have hung up but at that time I wasn't as rude as I learned to be.

Chapter 3

October 1, 2001

After a rather restless night last night Liz can barely keep her eyes open as she continues through her classes. Sleeping in Cole's arms, she was absolutely content and happy, this morning it felt weird waking up alone.

Her Spanish teacher is explaining how to pronounce numbers in Spanish and as of now she can ignore the lesson, she knows how to count to 29 in Spanish and the teacher is only on the teens. Suddenly her cell phone rings cutting through the almost completely quiet room.

"Sorry." She embarrassingly tells the class, Liz is about to turn off the phone not going to bother to answer it but Senora Larson told her to answer it.

"Go ahead, answer it Miss Parker."

"No that's alright."

"I insist."

Not sure what else to do Liz does what the teacher told her to do. "Hello?"

"You left me yesterday morning without even a good-bye. I would have thought after our night and morning together you would have at least given me a kiss." Cole's anger seeps through the phone, to wake up with just a note and not the warm body he made love to the entire night was not a great way to make him happy.

"Cole? Umm, I…uhh. Can I call you back?"

"No, I want an answer Liz. How come you left, not even bothering to wake me up? Instead of waking up with the woman I spent the most amazing night of my life with I woke up to a note."

"I'm sorry Cole, I just…" Liz forgets about everyone in the room who's listening and concentrates on the voice that's angrily speaking into her ear. She remembers what his voice did to her two nights ago, God he made her come with just the sound of his husky voice telling her everything he was going to do to her.

"Do you regret being with me that night?" Worried that he may have scared her with how aggressive he had been, but then again she had been fairly aggressive too, he had the bite marks and scratches to prove it.

"No, I don't, I really don't, it's just I had to leave and I couldn't…" Liz glances around the room realizing that she was still in school and more importantly still in class. "Can I call you later, I'm in class right now and I don't really want to get into this during class."

"Fine. But I'll call you at 8 tonight and please pick up baby, we really need to talk." Cole sighs; she can almost see him pinch his nose in frustration.

"Ok, thank you. Bye."

"Bye." They hang up.

Liz sets the phone back into her backpack. "Sorry about that." She twirls the pencil that was resting on her desk in her hand and stares at the blackboard.

"I hope that call was important enough to have it interrupt my class." Senora Larson raises her eyebrows at her student.

"As a matter of fact it was." The minute Liz says that she wishes she could take it back. She's tired and cranky and now feeling guilty for how she treated Cole so her mouth filter was pretty much non-existent.

"Really? Well in that case class you can thank Liz for giving you an extra assignment to complete by Wednesday. I want you to read Chapter 2 and answer the questions in the back, along with the other two assignments you were given at the beginning of the class."

A wave of hostility rises inside of Liz, the groans of the class fall into the background; all she can see is the teacher staring at her smugly. Out of thin air the blackboard behind Senora Larson burst into a wall of flames.

The teacher and students scream and rush away from the wall of fire. Liz is the only one who stays put in her seat as she watches the flames lick the walls eating away at the posters and paint. Did she do that? If she did how could she do that?

Quickly she gathers her things and leaves the room while all the chaos is going on. What she doesn't see is the minute she leaves the room the flames recede till there's nothing left but a burnt wall and scared students.

Cole's Penthouse

He just got off the phone with Liz and it was going to be a long 7 hours to wait to call her back again. When he woke up yesterday morning he wanted to bask in how perfect everything was, he had a beautiful woman in his bed, one who he had very strong feelings for. All he hoped for was to make love to her again that morning and then drive her to the airport, make plans for a long distance relationship.

Granted he was still dodging bounty hunters when they popped up every now and then but nothing he couldn't handle. But when he woke up that morning without her in his bed he was heartbroken, all he had left of her was the note she left and her sweet strawberry and cream smell that clung to his sheets.

Without warning two of the Charmed Ones barge into his penthouse, they seem to do that a lot with demon's homes, intrude on them uninvited quite frequently. "Don't you people knock? It's what people do in polite society." He rises from his chair.

"You're not people Cole. You're a demon." Phoebe seethes.

"Oh, so I break up with you and now you and your sisters are here to vanquish me. Well, let me tell you something sweetheart breaking up with you doesn't condone vanquishing." His voice rises with each word spoken.

"As much as that hurt Cole that's not why we're here." The once love of his life crosses her arms over her breasts and glares at him.

"Well, if it's not that then what the hell is it? What was so goddamned important that you had to storm into my home uninvited?" He flings his arms out.

Phoebe smells a strange aroma in Cole's penthouse. It wasn't a bad smell, but she smelled something similar to it before, sniffing again she realizes what the penthouse smells like. The aroma of sex is what is wafting around the room.

"Why are you so upset about us coming to your place. What were you doing that would cause this smell to greet us at the door?"

"What smell?" His apartment smells like Liz, that much he knows, but it was dissipating with every second Liz wasn't in it.

"I can smell the sex Cole, so where is she? Where is the little slut that took you away from me?" Almost as soon as the sentence is out of her mouth Cole's hands are gripped tightly around her arms as he pulls her close this time the embrace is nothing sexual.

"Don't you ever talk about Liz that way. I hear you talk that way about her again I'll rip your tongue out. You may have forgotten but am not sweet and kind, I am a demon and I will have no problem disfiguring you." He shoves her away violently away into Piper's arms who steady's her.

"Cole, we need your help, vampire's have Paige and we need to know everything you know about vampires." Piper pleads with Cole.

Reluctantly he gives them the answer, anything to get them out of his home. "Get the Queen you get them all. As long as Paige hasn't killed yet she'll be changed back into what she was before. There now get out, I have things to do." He moves back to his dining room table and sits at the chair in front of his laptop not bothering to see if the witches left or not. He has to get some work done or he was going to be swamped tomorrow.

TBC