38A/N: A little bit in the future. Piper had her baby boy, Tristan.
Chapter 1
Cole stood, for the first time in two days, in which he ate pretzels and drank beer. His beard had obviously been growing, as he looked out the cracked window of his bedroom.
"Ha. This is what demons in the underworld truly raise you to be." Cole mumbled to him self. He glanced to his side and saw a mirror; that showed him the truth. His eyes were now dull, and under were deep dark circles. His face pale, or of what you could see under his facial hair. His hair was growing, now to a slight curl. He thought of three days ago... Phoebe, how he'd welcomed her back into his life, but according to her that was one of the many mistakes she's made, including loving him in the first place.
He remembered waking up to her leaving, and laughing in her face. Putting on the act of not caring. That was what put him over. She knocked on his door that night, and he let her in. Wiping the tears from her face, he helped her though the 'hard time' she claimed to be going through. If that wasn't enough, after cutting his heart into two, he saw her slow dancing with some jerk at Piper's club. He could sense him, oh yeah, he could sense that evil bastered. Another demon, she was in for a shock.
Cole chuckled at himself. He loved Phoebe, but that was fading. That layer of feeling was getting things on top of it, hate, anger, jealousy. Maybe she would find out, just in time. Maybe the son of a bitch wouldn't fall for her, and maybe she'd come crawling back to him. Again. He wasn't certain of what he would do, but he was sure it'd involve forward language, and strong content.
He decided to clean up, start taking his life seriously. Bring on his goal. Depression was just another way from him finding true peace. The thought entered his mind that maybe Phoebe wasn't the one. He'd decided that even if she wasn't, she was pretty damn close.
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Phoebe sat on her bed, a month later. She looked to the side of her bed, on the dark oak nightstand she had a picture of the new dark-haired man that entered her life. The thought of his hazel eyes gave her small comfort. She fiddled with the small object in her hand. The one that would change her life. She checked again, knowing the two blue, straight lines would be there.
Pregnant. God, and the worst part was she didn't know who the father was. Cole, it was possible, she'd slept with him just enough so she should start showing soon, but almost right after that Justin entered her life.
She though about Tristan, Piper's baby. Her nephew had arrived at a pretty bad time, she hadn't played with the adorable child in weeks. Maybe it was wrong. Reality struck her as she found the top part of the box that in italic blue letters read '100% accurate'. She bowed her head again, letting the tears fall off her face.
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"I'm worried about her. And I'm not saying that's you. I'm just saying if it is you need to sort it out." Piper said, bouncing brown-eyed Tristan on her lap. The light brown headed baby was getting less playful energy, and looked at Justin. Justin looked down.
"Piper, I'm telling you. I haven't noticed anything. I mean, sure she's not as talkative, but everyone goes through stages like that. I mean, woman, times of month I know nothing about." Justin replied, fiddling with the flowers he had for Phoebe.
Piper looked at Justin in the eye. If he'd known Phoebe as well as she said he did, he would have known that 'not as talkative' qualified in the something wrong category. She nodded, still hesitant about this guy. Paige had been listening, and cut through the parlor, and went up the stairs. She ran into Phoebe when she got to the top.
"Oh, sorry Pheebs ya look great." Paige exclaimed. Phoebe smiled and nodded.
"Thanks." Phoebe said. Her forced smile suddenly showed as a nervous grin, and Phoebe knew it showed. Paige pretended to ignore it, gave her sister a hug than carried on, making sure Phoebe went all the way down the stairs. Paige took a deep breath, and went into Phoebe's well kept room.
She knew what ever was wrong with Phoebe, could very well be somewhere in the room. She walked into the bathroom. She found normal things, of course her tooth brush, face wash. Her right hand knocked the small candle off the shelf right into the garbage.
Paige smiled, and giggled inside. She seemed to be doing a lot of that lately. She pulled out the candle, and a small box almost stuck to it, revealing the pregnancy test under it. She gasped, and picked up the test.
"Two blue lines." Paige whispered to herself. She checked on the back of it.
"That's positive." She whispered again. She heard Piper's call, and put the candle back on the shelf. She dropped the test again into the garbage. She stared at it again, then sighed. She would keep Phoebe's secret, hoping it wouldn't get out of hand.
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Well, that's it so far. Don't get me wrong, there's still one, or should I say 'two' very important parts to the story line. PLEASE REVIEW! better bad new than no news, but I prefer good news! lol you guys can use flames, that just means I have something to correct! PLEASE REVIEW!