A.N. Sorry this part is kind of short the next part will be longer.

Chapter 7

October 10, 2001

It's been over a week since she caused a lightning bolt to slice through the tree almost killing her and her friends. So far there hasn't been another flare of powers. At first she thought she was becoming an alien but after thinking about it for a few minutes she realized she couldn't be.

From what she knows about the aliens and their powers they can't control the weather or cause blackboards to burst into flame. That week she's noticed that her father has been acting…different. He'll stare at her like he's trying to find something, a sign of something. She's positive that he knows something besides a quick 'hello' went on between her and Cole, but she also knows so far he has no proof of that.

Liz's phone conversations with Cole were becoming more frequent, for the first couple of days Cole would call once a day and they'd talk for about an hour then one of them would have to go. But these past couple days he would call twice sometimes three times a day his voice sounded extremely tense and worried. When she would ask him about it he would just tell her he had a rough day at the office and needed to hear her voice.

Glancing at the digital clock beside her bed she decides she has enough time to take a shower before Cole calls. Liz disrobes and carries her bathrobe into her bathroom; she closes the door and places the robe on the hanger she installed on the door.

Starting the shower, Liz makes sure the temperature is where she wants, very hot, she loves the almost burning water pelting her skin easing away all her aches and worries. She has the shower so hot that it turns the bathroom into a sauna with in moments.

Liz steps insides moaning with pleasure the heat wrapping her in a secure blanket of comfort. Her hair wet she grabs her strawberry smelling shampoo, she pours some into her hand, bringing her palm up and onto her hair she begins to lather the sweet shampoo into her soaked hair.

For almost 20 minutes she's in the shower mostly just letting the scalding water ease her stress and taunt muscles away. Last week she told Maria about Cole, it wasn't like she could hide it from her best friend, they've known each other since they were in play group together at Miss Daisy's Day Care Center.

As always Maria flipped out, although she knew what happened from passing the notes back and forth in the car from the airport, hearing Liz say what actually happened brought it home. But after the freak out she calmed and was 110 supportive, telling Liz that she would be there for her no matter what.

The shower water begins to lose its heat, sighing she turns off the faucets and flings the curtains back. From the corner of her eye she notices a figure standing by her door but when she turns there was nothing there, odd, she could have sworn there was something there. Shaking her head she wraps her towel around herself and does her nightly routine as she waits for Cole's phone call.

Cole's Penthouse

That was close, he only meant to shimmer in for a moment, he had to be sure she was all right he couldn't help but feel something was happening to Liz. The overwhelming desire to protect her was strong, all he planned was to check on her but the second he caught a glimpse of her in that shower he wouldn't, couldn't leave.

The water cascading down her hair and body, Liz's eyes were closed just reveling in the steamy water. When she turned he practically drooled at her full pert breast jutting out begging to be cupped in his hands. He'd give anything to be able to strip down and join her in that shower and show her how much he missed her.

But if he did that he'd have to explain how he got in there and knowing how much Jeff wants to keep his little girl as normal as possible for as long as possible it's a safe assumption she has no clue that she's different. Not to mention she would have recognized him or at least his powers anyway in San Francisco when she first touched him if her father had told her. Fellow demons tend to know each other's powers from just walking past each other.

He gazed at her, salivating at her small hands moving the sweet smelling lavender soap from her breasts to her stomach. She lingered for a few moments on her stomach, his teeth marks are still there, faint, but there. Standing there soaking her in created a painful tent in his jeans, when he was about to say screw it and reacquaint himself with her body she reached for the faucets turning the steaming shower off.

Quickly he shimmered out of there as the curtain was pulled back and he knew Liz saw a glimpse of him, not enough to be curious but enough to question momentarily. Safe in his penthouse he breathes a sigh of relief that she didn't catch him, but he can't help the ache he feels in his heart at not being caught.

"So, where the Hell were you?" Phoebe glares at her once lover. She knows he's been seeing someone else, when she scryed for him earlier that night her crystal zoomed across the room needing a larger map and landed in the globe on New Mexico. Where in New Mexico she didn't know because the crystal put a large hole where the city should have been.

Cole tosses a low voltage energy ball at Phoebe just so she would get off his couch. "It's none of your business where I was, we're not together anymore little girl so you need to stop letting your skanky ass into my penthouse."

"Don't you speak to me like that. How could you just toss me away after everything that we have been through together? Didn't what we had mean anything to you?" She whines, blubbering through her tears.

"Why are we rehashing this, we went through all this weeks 2 weeks ago, move already, this is getting pathetic." Cole degrades her; he wasn't about to admit to her that yes at the time her love and what they had meant something to him. However things change, especially feelings, his just changed in a way Phoebe didn't like one bit.

When Phoebe doesn't speak Cole continues, "Now I told you to not come back here, we are not together anymore, meaning you can't come here without an invitation, guess what you're not invited." He stalks passed her not waiting to see if she left walks into his room and changes before he calls Liz.

While changing he hears the door opening and closing followed shortly by the ding of the elevator. "Good riddance." He mumbles changing into more comfortable clothes, getting ready for hours of talking with Liz on the phone. It's hard to believe that he looks forward to those phone calls but he does so much so that he thinks about it all day wondering what they're going to talk about this time.

TBC

Next Chapter: It's two weeks later, Liz's birthday and her life gets much more complicated in more ways than one.