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Witch Way Now?

Chapter 13

(10 days later)

"So Turkleton and that J.D. intern I've been telling you about were gurney surfing as they called it," Bob Kelso was sitting on the couch with Cole the both of them deep in conversation laughing away for some reason.

"Gurney surfing?" Cole said in a confused manner.

"Oh yes it's when you stand on a hospital gurney and someone pushes you down the hall," Bob explained quickly then returned to his story. "So J.D. or Dr. Dorian was surfing down the hall on this gurney and WHAM he smacks his head on a low sign and flips backwards onto the floor."

Bob and Cole broke into hysterical laughter imagining the hilarious event over and over in their minds. They had been sitting up all morning telling each other about funny events from their past and Bob was doing the most talking so far. As Cole found out when he tried to think of funny things, his past wasn't something one could laugh at easily.

"That Sacred Heart must have been a fun place to work," Cole commented wiping a tear from his eye.

"Yea some of the best years of my life," Bob said with a sigh leaning back against the couch. "Somebody even switched the letters up so the hospital said Sacred Fart one day,"

More laughter filled the penthouse for the next few moments. Thor came bouncing around the corner in St. Bernard form followed by Hercules. They were play fighting with each other knocking things over and nibbling on each others necks. Cole was ecstatic to see his pets were completely healed and back on their feet. He had been worried about them healing properly the entire two weeks they had been laid up.

His pets leapt over and landed on him and Bob licking them both happily interrupting their laughter. Both men managed to push the giant beasts off them and down to the floor calming them down. Thor was full of energy he had been on bed rest for quite a while and needed to be taken somewhere to get it all out.

Bob stood to his feet and picked up the dishes and coffee mugs that were sitting on the table in front of Cole and him. "I'll take care of these," he said in a weary tone.

"Oh no Bob I cant let you do that," Cole said attempting to stand up.

Bob stopped him. "You've been such a good house guest and I've even grown fond of your demon pets," Bob told him moving slowly to the kitchen. Cole followed him and took a seat at the counter closely followed by Hercules and Thor.

"Since my wife died and my son disappeared with his gay lover I've been alone a long time," Bob continued. "I admit I was scared when your first appeared but there is something genuine and trust worthy in your eyes that makes me believe you."

Cole couldn't help but smile. "You seem like a kind hearted person who just always seemed to catch the bad end of the deal," Bob said over his shoulder while he placed the dirty dishes into the dishwasher.

"Thank you Bob," Cole said feeling a rush of joy float over him. Bob was the first person to really understand him in a while and it made Cole feel right about his choices since somebody could see the good underneath all the bad.

"I really do hope you accomplish the goals you're setting out to do," Bob interrupted Cole's thoughts.

"Well I have a few things that have to be taken care of first but for the most part I think its going to happen," Cole replied while he rubbed Hercules head.

"Things like what?" Bob questioned. "If you don't mind me asking." He added quickly seeing a look of surprise on Cole's face.

"My ex-wife and her family might try and stand in my way," Cole said.

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," Bob remarked with a grin patting Cole on the shoulder.

"Yea," Cole said uneasily. "Except I was the one scorned."

"Oh," Bob let his voice trail off. "Hell really hath no fury like Cole Turner scorned then." Cole and Bob began their usual routine of pure joyous laughter.

Thor and Hercules broke into more fighting behind them knocking over a table and breaking some glass. Cole stopped laughing "I'll handle all the damage Bob," he told the older gentleman.

"Don't worry about it," Bob replied. "Besides it'll give me a reason to get out of the house and go buy some new things. I am rich after all." He winked at Cole. "You should probably take your pets to the park or something so they can work out the two weeks worth of energy they have built up inside them."

"I should," Cole whispered looking over at his beautiful pets he loved so much.

Piper came stomping down the stairs carrying a full bag of laundry in her hands not even attempting to watch where she was stepping. She had been coming up and down those stairs for so many years now she didn't even need to see where she was going anymore. At the bottom of the stairs were piles of clothing thrown together in no particular order. She sighed and took a seat Indian style on the floor to begin sorting the clothing.

Pipers mind was on nothing but Chris and murdering Cole. Since the funeral she had made it a point to put on the strong front for her sisters and nieces and keep her crying to a minimum in public. She kept from crying by constantly imagining Cole's death at her own hands over and over and over again like a CD skipping in her mind.

Piper finally got the cloths separated by color and picked up all the dark ones to take them to the washing machine. As she came around the corner carrying the pile of clothing a demon shimmered into the room right in front of her with his back turned. Piper couldn't see him, he couldn't see her and they collided sending cloths flying into the air.

"C'mon guys you have to-

Piper looked up and saw it wasn't one of her family members she had bumped into but a demon. She flicked her wrist and blew the demon to pieces in a matter of seconds. Two more demons quickly appeared in his place, Piper climbed to her feet and bolted towards the hallway.

"DEMONS!" she shouted trying to make her way to the staircase. Two demons were standing in the middle of the stairs. Piper barely dodged their energy balls rolling and ducking behind the sofa in the living room.

"HELP ME!" she screamed as energy balls floated overhead and slammed into the couch.

She heard several loud footsteps then the sound of demons being vanquished come from the hallway so she stood up only to be greeted by three more demons. Piper barely had time to freeze them all stopping their energy ball attacks in place. Wyatt came from around the corner and drove Excalibur through a demons chest vanquishing him while Piper quickly blew up the remaining two.

Swirls of blue and white orbs floated from the roof and let Paige step out into the living room beside Piper. "What's going on?" Paige demanded quickly.

Phoebe flew in from the hallway and slammed into the floor hard followed by three more demons. Piper bent over to help her sister to her feet. "There are freaking demons everywhere!" Piper shouted.

The demons each launched energy balls at the sisters. Paige orbed one to her and sent it right back at the demon vanquishing him immediately, her sisters dodged the other two. Wyatt twisted sideways and sliced both the remaining demons in half with one stroke ending the rampage.

"Nothing to worry about mom," Wyatt said with a grin.

"Look out!" Paige screamed barely pushing Wyatt out of the way of a dark lighters arrow. The both of them quickly orbed upstairs away from instant death the dark lighters carried with their crossbow.

Piper came from around the couch and blew up the dark lighter only to see at least three more and a few warlocks stalking towards them. Phoebe finally opened her eyes and was up to her feet in a sudden burst of energy but quickly ducked back down behind the couch dodging several arrows.

"What in the hell is going on today?" she said breathing heavily. "Demons, dark lighters and warlocks working together?"

"This is Cole's doing!" Piper roared standing to her feet and blowing up one of the warlocks nearby.

The wall beside them exploded inwards forcing them to dive from their cover. Three Minotaur stomped into the room grunting loudly each armed with giant battle axes. The Minotaur looked around and upon noticing the Charmed Ones started lumbering towards them.

"Fucking Minotaur?" Phoebe exclaimed in fear.

"LEO!" Piper screamed so loud the entire manor seemed to rumble. She flicked her wrist causing an explosion to collide with the Minotaur weapon barely stopping the giant battle axe from tearing her in half.

Phoebe grabbed her arm and they dove out the front window leaving all the demonic creatures in the house. "Paige, Wyatt we're outside" Phoebe called to them. Moments later blue and white orbs produced the two half white lighters who quickly sat them next to the sisters.

"What's going on mom?" Wyatt asked crouching down to the ground in front of the Halliwell home.

"There are freaking Minotaur stomping around my house!" Piper shouted.

More orbs fell from the sky and floated through the roof of the Halliwell home this time Leo stepped from the blue and white light out into the living room. He immediately wished he hadn't done that, when he caught a glimpse of all the evil creatures moving in the area.

All the windows exploded outwards sending glass flying out into the yard. The front doors pulled from the hinges and flipped out into the street and the entire foundation of the home rocked back and forth a few times. Piper was the first to her feet rushing into her home fist clenched and ready for battle leaving her sisters and son.

The inside of the house was a complete wreck and filled with smoke, dust and rubble. Piper pushed through the disaster and continued moving back into the living room. As she came around the corner she caught a glimpse of Leo slapping a Minotaur in the head with a Poseidon's trident and vanquishing him with a powerful jolt of lightning.

Piper stepped lightly over all the rubble and debris moving towards Leo with a seductive smile spread across her face. Seeing him throw away his pacifist ways and get down and dirty always made Piper so-

"Everything's ok honey," Leo said interrupting her thoughts.

"You vanquished all of them?" Piper asked in the sexiest voice she could muster.

"Yea," Leo replied.

Phoebe, Paige and Wyatt came around the corner and saw Leo and Piper embraced in a magical slow passionate kiss like the house wasn't completely destroyed. Phoebe thought the two would have kept kissing until the sun set but a loud and painful series of coughs began to fill the air. The Halliwell family followed the sounds until they reached the old grandfather clock that somehow always got destroyed in a fight. A demon was stirring back to consciousness and shifting around in the remains of the clock.

The demon rubbed his forehead and grunted a little mumbling some words to himself before he stood up and looked around at his surroundings. Piper quickly froze him in his tracks before he could shimmer away then unfroze his head so they could question him.

"w-what? W-what's going o-on?" the demon stammered and stuttered on his words, he didn't understand how he was unable to move.

"Who sent you?" Phoebe asked him.

"Why are all of you working together?" Piper followed.

"And why the hell did all of you attack us?" Wyatt finished. The demon broke into a short laugh and closed his eyes attempting to ignore the questions.

Paige orbed a knife from the kitchen and placed it hard up against the demons neck. "Tell us everything you know now." She demanded with a hint of evil in her eyes.

"t-th-the Source," the demon began. "H-he ordered us t-to at-attack and kill the C-Charmed Ones."

"Nothing out of the ordinary," Piper said sarcastically. "Why were you working with the other evil beings?"

"H-he ord-ordered us to work together," the demon continued. "The So-Source has built an arm-army of evil."

"An army of evil?" Leo repeated in a puzzled tone.

"Why?" Phoebe asked.

"He-he'll kill me if I tell you," the demon said.

Paige dug the knife a little deeper into the demons neck choking him and making a little blood trickle out. "We'll kill you if you don't," she said sternly.

"he-he's going to use the army t-to wipe out humanity and k-kill Cole T-Turner," the demon finished.

"Oh no," Piper said finally putting the puzzle together.

The sun was setting over the beautiful African savanna making the shadows lean and twists to the side. Cole stood in the midst of the dry grass that stretched from the ground and reached his waist. He had brought Hercules and Thor out to the middle of the savanna so they could run around and hunt freely to release all that build up energy.

The beasts had already taken down two elephants and ate a pride of about five lions. He could see their flaming bodies creeping through the high grass stalking closer towards a herd of wildebeests. Cole stretched his arms upwards and yawned loudly while staring at the setting sun and daydreaming.

These past two weeks had been nothing but pure nirvana for Cole as he teleported and moved all over the world enjoying the sights and pleasures of other countries. Now on this day his pets were finally healed and out 'playing' with the other animals in the savanna. Cole couldn't be happier really. No demonic attacks, no Charmed attacks just pure relaxation. If it kept up like this Cole felt like he might be able to begin his peaceful future right now…