Phoebe Halliwell could practically feel the shock radiating off of her sisters and Cole. She had managed to make the attempted vanquishing stop. "Piper please don't look at me like that," the Middle Halliwell sighed. Piper threw out her hands, managing to put a freeze whammy on the demon standing in the house. "Hey-,"

"No, don't you hey me," Piper growled, but then took a deep breath. Had Cole gone from trying to convince to forcing to convince via a spell? She hadn't thought that the demon would go to that lengths, but maybe with all that magic inside of him, had convinced him to use it for something huge in the personal gain department. "She must be under a spell," she said to Paige.

"Makes sense to me," Paige replied; she sounded so much like Prue at that moment it almost made Phoebe sick.

"Could you two please not talk like I am not in the room?" she said in an exasperated voice. "I am not under a spell!" Her sisters didn't seem to believe her, "Oh come on you guys, you think after five years of living with magic Piper you would see that I'm not-,"

"And he was able to use demons to convince us to fight and use our powers against each other," Piper snapped back.

"He did that?" Paige questioned; she really didn't know that much about Cole and Phoebe's past.

"Yeah, and he also did a lot of other things to make up for that later. Don't you remember when he held off the Source so we could save Paige? Or the time he attacked the Source while he was trying to get Piper to get rid of our powers….or when we fought the Source originally, and he had taken in the hollow!" Phoebe yelled and she had seen that Cole had unfrozen. She had not realized how much Cole had actually done just for her and her sisters until she had blurted it out. For the longest time after they had vanquished her husband, she had held so much against him. She was beginning to see how wrong she and her sisters had mistreated him.

Paige had seemingly forgotten all that he had done; and the first time she had met him she had helped Leo heal him. She bit her lip, and backed off a little bit. She had just been hit with a lot of things at this moment. "So are we ready to talk like civil adults now?" Phoebe sighed, feeling a migraine coming on. "Or are we going to just try and vanquish first and ask questions later?" Cole couldn't believe the words that flew out of Phoebe's mouth. That sounded like the girl he had fallen for two years ago. Maybe things were going to be alright; he knew that he shouldn't get his hopes up too high, but he couldn't help it. He deserved to have his life back didn't he?

"Alright…" Piper sighed. "Apparently me and Paige jumped the gun. But can you really blame us? All this time you have been saying is how much you want Cole out of your life,"

Cole remained silent at the mention of that, remembering how everyone was telling him that she didn't want him anymore. That he should have just stayed dead. It took a moment, and Paige couldn't believe that she was about to say this about Cole and what she had hid from her sisters.

"Well…" Paige piped up and then bit her lip, still wondering if she still wanted to keep this going on. "You know when I let go of Phoebe's hand when we were going to go vanquish what's his name…I went to the Penthouse and convinced Cole that you still loved him," this was a shock to Phoebe; she hadn't heard this from her little sister or Cole. It looked obvious to the clairvoyant witch that the eldest Charmed One had no idea what Paige had done to help save Phoebe.

"I…I just wanted what was best for you Phoebe," he murmured, "if it had meant leaving…it would kill me, but I would have done it," she suddenly reached out for his hand, and grabbed it. Piper didn't seem too happy the way things were going at this moment. She placed a hand on her stomach, and looked towards Cole. It was different when she wasn't pregnant; but now that she has a child inside of her she wanted to be sure that she was protecting her baby.

Piper looked down at her watch and sighed. "I got to go to P3, and you missy have a meeting. We can talk later," she said, grabbing her purse and heading out the door. She knew that she was taking advantage of the hormones raging inside her but at this moment she didn't care. Phoebe bit her lip as the eldest Charmed One walked out of the manor. She knew that she could find an explanation for Elise later; she could just coin the family emergency phrase that she was famous for using.

Paige looked at the couple standing in front of her, and she was suddenly reminded of when she was working at South Bay Social Services. She was reminded of when she even got Cole a job there for him. She wasn't always so nasty to her brother-in-law. As far as she knew, he was still her brother-in-law. She figured that him and Phoebe needed some alone time, and went to turn around. She may as well ditch that batch of potion she was making to try and vanquish Cole. "Paige wait…" Phoebe said to her, "thank you for saying what you did to Piper,"

"Yeah…well," she mumbled awkwardly. "Look, I am going to go nix that batch of vanquishing potion," she said, heading up the stairs not sure about what had just happened downstairs. Cole stood awkwardly in the doorway of the front entrance. Phoebe had never seen him be awkward before, except when he met her father.

"That was strange," he murmured. "But I think Piper is right, we do need to go to work," he was hoping they could just talk later, because right now he had to attempt to do the mortal thing. He knew that keeping Phoebe meant that he needed to be more mortal about things; not using powers for personal gain was something big in her book.

"Yeah…Elise is going to kill me for being late," she chuckled nervously. "We'll talk later ok?" Phoebe questioned, and Cole nodded his head. She wrapped her arms around him for a moment, and breathed him in. Cole was doing the same; not wanting to let go. Things would be different if they were still living in the Penthouse. He shook his head, and reluctantly pulled away.

"See you," he murmured before blurring away. Phoebe let out a sigh, and went up stairs to freshen up and get changed for work. To be on the safe side, she shot Elise a text message saying that she was on her way, and to apologize for being late yet again. As she parked in the parking lot, she saw she wasn't the only one who was late for the meeting.

"I am so glad that I am not the only one late for the staff meeting," Phoebe said to one of her co-workers. He looked at her strangely, "Oh please don't tell me I missed it," she groaned knowing she would really be in for it then.

"What are you talking about?" he questioned. "Elise re-scheduled the meeting," Phoebe looked surprised and looked through her phone. There was no mention of a meeting change, and Elise was meticulous about sending something to her employees if there was a change in anything. She bit her lip and wondered what was going on. There was something fishy going on.

"Right…" she laughed it off to get the weird look off his face. She suddenly wondered if Cole had done any magic to get her out of trouble. This worried her still; even though it wasn't the magic she had woven, it could still negatively affect her. She then stopped herself; it would not do any good to accuse him of doing magic right away. Maybe she just didn't get a text.

Meanwhile Piper was just arriving at P3; she was still shocked and a little pissed off at her sisters. This was not the first time they had given Cole another chance, and even though she had her baby protecting her she hated tapping into her powers. As she started to unlock the doors to her club, and was surprised by someone transporting behind her. She turned around and prepared to blow up whoever was following her and stopped when she saw it was her husband. "Jesus Leo," she sighed, "I could have turned you into confetti," she sighed, putting her hands down.

"What's going on?" he questioned, not knowing what had happened with Phoebe and Cole. "I thought you didn't have to come in until later,"

"Seriously do you even pay attention when you are up conversing with the other Whitelighters?" Piper snapped irritably at him. She opened up the club doors and waited for Leo to come in before closing the doors.

"Well…I was with a charge Piper…I can't keep tabs on you at all times you know," he sighed; and then after the deadly look she sent him he clammed up. "What's wrong?" he questioned, not wanting to have her hormones get the better of her before she did decide to blow him up.

"Phoebe stayed with Cole last night," Piper growled. Before Leo could put any input in, she shot out, "How many times do we have to go through this whole Cole fiasco?" she felt tears forming in her eyes, "first it was him vanquishing an innocent…then him becoming the Source; what more can happen with this family?" Leo put his hands on his wife's shoulders and she stopped her ranting. "I just…" she sighed, and he pulled her into a loving embrace. "I just don't want to see this family hurt anymore,"

"Piper…we are all going to be alright," he whispered softly into her hair. "Wasn't it you quoting your Grams saying that everything happens for a reason?" he questioned, "We can see where this plays out," he promised. Piper just nodded her head, and pulled away.

Across town, Paige Matthews had just orbed to where she had scryed for evil. As the orbs cleared she saw that the building she had orbed into was on fire. Before she could look for survivors, Cole appeared. "Cole…what the hell are you doing here?" she yelled at him.

"Saving an innocent," Cole said. Paige saw a woman in a leather outfit, and just after a glance, she knew it was a demon. She saw Paige and froze for a minute before looking at Cole. She started to hum, and Cole was suddenly drawn to the woman in front of him for a moment.

"Be a dear and take care of that Charmed One for me," and Cole turned to Paige giving the demon ample time to escape. He started towards Paige, and her eyes widened.

"And here I was defending you not even twenty minutes ago," she said, and that stopped him. Whatever spell was used had worn off. "Now you said there was an innocent lets go…"

Sorry to end this chapter so abruptly, I promise I will start on the next chapter first thing in the morning! Anyways, hope you all enjoyed