It took me a bit longer than a week this time to update, but that's because I made this chapter extra long. So here's the final chap!

Before you read I just wanted to say thanks to all you people who reviewed this story. Every review I got made me so happy and made me wanting to write more. I don't think I would have finished this story without your support, so thank you! You reviewers rock!

So, the main question now is how I will end this fic. Well, if you hadn't noticed already, I adore unexpected twists in a story. And this is the most complex story I've written so far, so expect a lot of explanations to come... Enjoy (hopefully)!

"We've already got all the potions and spells."

"I know... it's just..." Phoebe turned over the leaves of the Book of Shadows. She knew she wasn't going to find anything, but there was no harm in looking.

She and Cole were in the kitchen of the manor. This morning they talked the most of the time about how they were going to vanquish Argentus. They barely had eaten something as breakfast and thereupon they had waited near the manor, seeing Cole and the red-haired woman coming in the manor, Phoebe's furious reaction, Argentus appearing, Paige trying to save the woman, Argentus shimmering with them and finally themselves with Piper orbing out of the manor.

They prepared an almost finished vanquishing potion for Belthazor and found a spell to take away the orbing powers Cole got. He couldn't become fully Belthazor if he had a strong good power inside of him.

Phoebe hadn't seen anything helpfull in the Book of Shadows, while she already looked it through a couple of times. She stared at the page of Argentus again, nothing new there. She flipped over the page, expecting to see the line about Belthazor, but to her surprise the page was completely blank.

She looked a bit surprized to Cole who stood a few metres away from her, staring at nothing. Had she imagined what stood in the Book of Shadows in the future? She realized she ripped off that page out of the book and still had it. She pulled out the ball of paper out of her trouser-pocket.

She laid the page from the future next to the other page in the Book of Shadows. The line about Belthazor did stand on the future page. Slowly the same line suddenly appeared on the present page as well. Phoebe stared confused to the two pages. Why did that sentence about Belthazor appear today in the Book?

"We should go," Cole interrupted Phoebe's thoughts.

He had given her some minutes to look in the Book of the Shadows and somehow he had hoped she would find a miraculous solution, but they were running out of time. It had taken them some time to make the potion and who knows what Argentus already had done with Piper and Paige.

Phoebe walked to Cole and held him tight, while he orbed them to Argentus' hideout. They were again in the dark room with the rotten furniture. The spot where Piper had lain unconscious was empty.

Phoebe and Cole narrowed their eyes to see something in the darkness. Cole saw a person moving in the distance and brought it to Phoebe's attention as well. Phoebe pointed at another corner of the room where Argentus was.

They started to say the spell to make Argentus visible for the potion, through which Argentus noticed them as well. He threw a couple of electric energy balls at them. While dodging Argentus' attacks and hiding behind different pieces of furniture, they finally finished the spell.

Argentus still looked the same though and Cole and Phoebe exchanged a gaze to each other, wondering whether the spell had worked. Phoebe threw the potion at Argentus, because it was the only way to find out. This time the potion didn't go through the demon like before.

Argentus was startled by the potion that hit him and didn't pay attention to Phoebe and Cole for a moment. Cole took advantage of this occasion, he went to Phoebe and orbed to the hall, away from the room and Argentus.

"Well... this is it," Cole whispered.

"You were a great Charmed One," She said.

Cole gave Phoebe a slight smile before she said the spell to take away his powers. The powers of Paige left Cole's body, searching for another soul. They didn't know where Paige's powers would go to, but it would only be for a short moment. Because after they vanquished Argentus the powers would come back to Paige.

Argentus and the other person in the room still hadn't noticed their presence. Cole untwisted the lid of the potion that was meant to make him Belthazor again before Phoebe took a hold of his hand. With the knife in her other hand she cut in Cole's hand, just like they planned.

"Don't lose yourself again, Phoebe. I want you to be happy."

Phoebe looked sadly up to Cole who didn't want this to happen either. They kissed each other one more time before Cole completely took in the potion to become Belthazor again.

"I love you, Cole. I will always love you," Phoebe said, even though she was sure he already knew that.

She saw his lips moving, saying without using his voice I love you too before he slowly morphed into Belthazor.

The normal color of his skin changed into red. She still held his hand, in which she cut. His hand grew and became red as well. Phoebe quickly let the blood of the wound in his hand drip into the potion. She couldn't vanquish Belthazor if there wasn't a piece of Belthazor's flesh in the potion.

A door in the hall suddenly fell down. A woman with brown hair stood in the hall now as well, looking to Phoebe and Belthazor. It was Piper. Her eyes were completely grey without pupils. She was possessed by Argentus.

Phoebe let go of Belthazor's hand and put the vanquishing potion in her trouser pocket. Piper began to throw electric energy, the same power as Argentus had. Phoebe ducked just in time and looked at Belthazor, but he apparently already left the hall, because she didn't see him anymore. Piper stood nearby and wanted to attack again.

"Sorry, Piper," Phoebe apologized before she kicked her sister in the stomach.

However Piper didn't seem to be hurt of the kick. She fired another electric beam to Phoebe, which Phoebe failed to dodge. Phoebe flew through the air because of the beam and landed hard against a wall. Her shoulder hurted a lot, but she had no time to think about that, because Piper was coming towards her.

Suddenly Piper collapsed and lay on the floor. Phoebe slowly got up from her position and walked to Piper. Piper's eyes were closed. Phoebe went to another room and saw Paige and the woman with the red hair lying on the floor as well.

She walked into the darkness, seeing the shade of someone in the distance. It didn't take long before she looked in the dark eyes of Belthazor. He stood near a black spot on the floor. He vanquished Argentus.

They stared a few seconds in each other's eyes. She knew he was waiting for her to vanquish him. Phoebe let her hand slip in her trouser-pocket and felt the potion, but she didn't take it out.

She knew what Cole said to her, that there was nothing left of him in Belthazor this time. But she also knew he lied. The part of his that loved her would never go away. There wasn't one potion to vanquish that.

She just couldn't vanquish him now. It was too soon. Belthazor was the only tangible thing left of Cole. By letting him live, it was the only mainstay their relation wasn't done yet. She eventually had to kill him, she would kill him before he would kill anymore innocent people. She owed him that.

Belthazor shimmered out of the room and Phoebe kept staring at the place where he had been until she heard voices behind her.

"What happened?" Paige asked, rubbing her head, because she had a headache.

"Something evil," Phoebe mumbled.

Paige looked confused to Phoebe, while Piper and the red-haired woman came to Phoebe as well.

"Let's get out of here," Paige said, looking to the muffy room before she orbed them to the manor.

>>>

"I'm Sophie, a witch. I get attacked by demons very often, but you should know what's that like. I mean you are the Charmed Ones," the red-haired woman said.

She, Piper, Paige and Phoebe were in the living room of the manor.

Phoebe heard the words they were saying, but the words didn't get through her. She was numb. How could anyone still be talking so carefree? How could those people still have hope in the future?

Sophie smiled friendly to Phoebe in a glimpse. Phoebe looked astonished back at her. She couldn't imagine she would smile again someday.

She closed her eyes. Maybe she should go to her room and cry, but she didn't. She was afraid she wouldn't be able to stop the tears if she started to cry.

She had imagined this morning how she was going to feel at this moment. She would have thought she was going to be overwhelmed with emotions, that her emotions would take over her. But there was no feeling in her. Something died in her. She was hollow.

Her soul had been too hurt too feel anything. She didn't want anything anymore.

She lost so many people in her life. She already lost him twice before. Losing him for the third time had been too much. Too much someone could ever ask of her.

This third time was different. The first two times he died, she could blame him for becoming the Source, for lying to her, for betraying her. She sometimes could even convince herself he deserved to die, that she was better of without him. But now she knew the truth, he became the Source for her, only to save her.

He was the only one who would do anything for her. He sacrified himself, in the past, present and the future. Why wasn't it enough? Why had he to turn in a demon again? Why didn't he deserve to be good after everything he tried?

There was a thin line between good and evil. Since when had it become good killing the one you love and since when had it become evil wanting to be with the one you love?

Why didn't they deserve to be with each other? They could have been happily together. They had seen it in the future.

She saw his eyes again. His blue eyes turning black. The next time she would see them again, it would be for the last time.

"Phoebe, are you alright? You look very pale," Piper asked worried.

Phoebe was started out of her thoughts by Piper's question. She gave a weak nod to Piper that she was alright, although she wasn't.

"What did happen to Cole actually?" Paige wondered.

Phoebe had already feared for the questions to come. She really didn't want to talk about all what happened today, especially not now Sophie was here in the room too.

"He... he became evil again," Phoebe stammered a bit and she looked at Piper and Paige to see how they were going to react.

Phoebe had somehow thought her sisters would have expected that answer. Piper and Paige didn't trust Cole at all after he became the Source, Paige already didn't trust Cole after she found out he was a half demon. So Phoebe expected them to say something bad about Cole, that it would figure, that Cole would always be evil, but it wasn't one of her sisters who reacted as first.

"So our plan was all for nothing?" Sophie asked.

Phoebe looked surprized from her sisters, Paige, who looked shocked and Piper, who looked confused, to Sophie, who realized she said something she shouldn't have said.

"Plan? What plan?" Phoebe asked.

"Don't look at me. I don't know anything," Piper answered.

"It's nothing," Paige mumbled, while she gave an irritated gaze to Sophie.

However Piper and Phoebe kept staring at Paige for an explanation. For a moment Paige tried to think of a good excuse, but this time she didn't know anymore. Besides she already got tired of all those lies the last four weeks. And because of Sophie's comment it was too late now to keep it a secret.

"Promise you're not going to be mad?" Paige asked carefully.

"Paige! What's going on?"

Paige sighed, especially since she had no guarantee of no angry sisters. She had already imagined how her sisters were going to react if the truth would come out and it never was a very peaceful conversation in her imagination.

"You know, you were right, Phoebe. It was indeed a trick Cole came here with Sophie, but it wasn't a trick of Cole's, it was mine."

Phoebe stared unbelieving to her younger sister.

"I already knew Sophie before she came here. I met her a while ago when she tried to vanquish the same demon as me."

Phoebe and Piper looked still confused to Paige. What was she talking about?

"This morning when she came here... She wasn't really wounded and there wasn't a real demon who attacked her. She had a small gall, which Leo could heal. I just used a spell to make the wound look worse. And Cole only saw the so-called demon in a glimpse, because else he probably would have known I magically made him. It was all an act."

"What? Why would you do that?" Piper asked, not believing what she heard.

"To bring Cole here."

Piper and Phoebe looked at Paige, wondering whether Paige was the one who was insane or they were.

"Before you're going to yell... let's give me you some more reasons to... I'm the one who brought Cole back after we vanquished him," Paige confessed, while she narrowed her eyes a bit, because she was afraid of how her sisters were going to react.

"You did what!" Piper yelled.

"But you hate Cole," Phoebe said, she didn't understand one thing of what Paige just said. It didn't make any sense. Of all people she would have thought Paige would be the last person to bring Cole back.

"Yes, but.."

"So you thought let's bring him back, because you wanted to have someone in your life you hate?" Phoebe asked sarcastically.

"No, it was an accident I brought him back... I didn't mean to. I was actually trying the opposite thing. After we vanquished him, I was sure it was for good, but then Piper said it seemed far too easy and I told Piper she shouldn't think like that... but actually after a while I began to doubt as well... Do you remember when we all had those nightmares?"

Piper and Phoebe nodded. Phoebe had thought the person who wanted to kill her in her dream was Cole. But it turned out to be herself, she thought she didn't deserve to move on.

"Well... after you said what your dream meant, I just wanted to make sure Cole wasn't going to come back, so that you really could move on. So I began to search for Cole, because I wanted to know if he was truly vanquished this time."

"And was he?" Piper asked, while she still wasn't quite over the shock what Paige just told.

"I found out he was in a loveless void as a punishment, but I was so stubborn of wanting to know whether he would ever have the chance to come out of it again, that I used a spell which went completely wrong and then..." Paige paused.

"... Cole was here again," Phoebe added. Her thoughts went back to four weeks ago. Paige knew all this time Cole was back and Phoebe nor Piper hadn't noticed a thing about her.

"I didn't know what to do after that. I didn't know if he was still an invincible demon. I didn't know if he knew I was the one who brought him back. So I ran away from him... And I didn't want to tell you... about my mistake..." Paige explained.

Paige sighed again. She tried so hard to be a good witch, especially since Prue had been that. Such a mistake as this, was something Prue never would have made. Paige had considered it to tell her sisters, but the thought of dissapointing her sisters scared her more than an invincible Cole.

The memory of the last time she had a mistake like this was still fresh. She had stripped the powers of Cole, but the powers went to another demon. Which brought them in trouble and she had apologized more than a 100 times for that. She didn't want to go through that again.

Paige continued with her explanation.

"I searched for Cole again, because I wanted to vanquish him. I found out where he was and I followed him to see what he was up to, but he catched me out after a few days. We talked... yelled actually... and he said he wasn't planning on something evil, that he wasn't a demon anymore. But of course I didn't believe him... and I kind of attacked him several times after that with potions and spells to find something demonic in him that I could vanquish."

For the first time Paige looked Piper and Phoebe in the eyes, while she told this story. She wondered what her sisters were thinking now.

"Then one day Leo had seen Cole on the market and that scared the hell out of me. I thought Cole maybe told Leo about me... that I brought him back or that I knew he was back again... but to my relief he had told Leo he was in hell and suddenly alive again."

Piper tried to remember the moment when Paige found out Leo had seen Cole. Paige had been shocked, but Piper had thought that was only a natural reaction after hearing Cole returned.

"Hell just isn't anymore what it used to be?" Piper remembered Paige's comment, after Leo said Cole told him he returned from hell.

Paige rolled her eyes. That was about the only thing she had said aloud of what she really was thinking at that moment. The last time they vanquished Cole, he landed up in waste-land and this time he ended up in a loveless void. Hell was definitely different this time.

"So when I asked you whether we should tell Phoebe..." Piper said.

Paige remembered that moment very well. It was the first time she really had thought about the reaction of Phoebe if Phoebe would know Cole was alive again, without knowing her youngest sister had something to do with it.

Paige actually had doubted then to tell everything to Piper, but she decided to keep her secret. Now there still was a chance to do that. And the fewer people who knew about Cole, the fewer chance her mistake would come out. She wished Leo hadn't been so stupid to have met Cole.

"... I decided to convince you not to tell Phoebe," Paige completed Piper's sentence, " But you still doubted about telling Phoebe, because you don't like to have secrets for your family. I guessed it only would be a matter of time before Cole's name would be mentioned again, and you would wanted to know how he possibly could return... so I went to Cole again to make sure he..."

"... would keep his mouth closed?" Phoebe asked.

"Uh... yeah, actually at that time I still didn't know if he knew I was the one who brought him back. Well, it turned out he really didn't know I did that, but... me asking him about his return made him suspicous... and he was already suspicous, because I had found out he was alive so soon and the weeks before I was the one throwing all those potions at him... so then he did figure I had something to do with it. But he promised me he wouldn't tell anyone about my mistake and already knowing he returned some weeks ago."

"Wait, this morning in the living room... that was the actual reason why you said to Cole and Leo not to whisper about you either?" Piper asked, remembering that strange comment of Paige.

"Yes, I actually said that to Cole... As a reminder," Paige confessed.

Phoebe tried to summarize everything Paige just said in her mind. Paige brought Cole back by mistake, Paige tried to vanquish Cole, Leo had met Cole, because of that Piper heard Cole returned and doubted to tell her, Paige convinced Piper not to tell, Cole promised Paige not to tell anyone about her mistake.

"It still doesn't explain why you set up this whole thing with Sophie," Phoebe said confused.

"Well, Cole only wanted to make that promise to me on the condition that I would answer his question in complete honesty."

"His question? A question about what?" Phoebe asked.

"Come on, Phoebe. What do you think? It was about you of course. I don't know what you've ever done to him, but any fool can see you mean the world to him. Even I know that," Paige rolled her eyes.

Phoebe looked a bit surprized to Paige. She hadn't ever expected Paige to say something like that.

"The several times I saw Cole after I brought him back... he wanted to know whether you were happy without him. That was the only thing he just kept wondering about all the time. Each time he asked me that I told him you moved on easily, you were over him and it was obvious you didn't love him anymore."

Phoebe felt her heart break again. She didn't even want to imagine how Cole must have felt hearing that.

"So that last time when I said I would answer one question of his in complete honesty, he simply asked me if you were happy."

"And what exactly did you say?" Phoebe asked.

"Uh... my exact words? I said 'Yes, I think so', because I honestly did think that then. I mean you said yourself you were over him. I thought Cole was the only one who wasn't over your relation yet..."

"And now you don't?"

"Well, I left Cole after giving that answer, but that question he asked made me think... It just kept repeating itself in my head. I convinced myself it was nonsense to think you weren't happy, that you weren't over Cole, but the next morning..."

"What the next morning?" Phoebe said curiously. She couldn't remember she had said or done something that showed she wasn't over Cole.

"I found you sleeping in the kitchen next to your lap top. It reminded me of what Cole did after I brought him back. Cole who obviously weren't over you."

"What did he do?"

"He desperately searched for a job."

Phoebe and Piper stared a bit confused to Paige.

"You both tried to escape. You completely buried yourself in your work. When I had a new potion I wanted to throw at him, I usually found him at his office. The most of the time he slept there, you know. That morning I realized you slept here at the kitchen table with your lap top many times before."

Phoebe realized Cole probably had slept at the office last night as well. She hadn't even wondered why Cole hadn't been in his apartement last night, when they had been there.

"Then I thought about all those dates you had after Cole, they were all hopeless... you didn't give one of those men a real chance," Paige stopped for a moment with talking, she would have thought Phoebe would contradict her now, but her older sister didn't.

"And last night... you completely flipped when I wanted to have a serious talk about Cole, you just stormed off to the manor. That was the final prove for me to know you weren't over him..." Paige explained, " Everything happens for a reason, right? So... I thought that that maybe was the reason why I brought Cole back and why Cole bumped into Leo at a market... maybe fate wanted him back in your live, so that you both could find closure."

"Closure?"

"Yeah, you killing him wasn't a real healthy way to end a relationship. Besides I knew Cole wasn't evil anymore... I mean I tried every single way to find evil in him that I could vanquish, but I didn't find anything. And he promised me not to tell anyone about my mistake. What was the harm in bringing you together?"

"Why did you come up with such a complicated plan to bring him here then?" Piper asked Paige, looking at Sophie for a moment.

"Because of all my lies... I already agreed with Piper and Leo upon not telling Phoebe about Cole, I already said Cole a million times Phoebe was happy without him and Phoebe already got hysterical when I wanted to talk about Cole... So I had to come up with a situation in which Phoebe would get less distrustful of Cole... An innocent seemed the best option," Paige explained.

"Now I think about it... you weren't that suspicous when he got here with Sophie," Piper noticed.

"And you were the one who suggested to let Leo heal Sophie," Phoebe added.

"And Argentus? You planned Argentus as well?" Piper asked.

"Argentus?"

"The name of the silver demon," Piper explained to Paige, who shook her head.

"No, Argentus shows up by distrust..." Phoebe remembered what she read in the Book of Shadows.

"So he came here... because of the distrust between us and Cole. Me and Piper didn't trust Cole to be good" Phoebe realized," it appeared in the Book of Shadows that Cole had to become Belthazor to defeat Argentus, and that's what Cole did. He became Belthazor to save your lives."

Piper and Paige were a bit surprized by this information. Cole saving them from becoming evil, that wasn't something that happened everyday.

"And Cole is still Belthazor now? Even after he defeated Argentus?" Paige asked.

Phoebe nodded. She actually had hoped he would become Cole again. Sometimes after they vanquished a demon, all the damage the demon made dissapeared as well, but not this time.

"You said it appeared in the Book that Cole had to become Belthazor to vanquish him? That's strange," Piper said.

"Yes, it appeared today... after Argentus came here and had the three of you under his power..."

"So you can say Argentus made Cole become exactly the thing we distrusted him for. Cole became evil again," Piper concluded.

Phoebe thought about Piper's comment and the fact that today the solution of Cole becoming Belthazor to vanquish Argentus appeared today in the Book of Shadows.

"Do you think that the solution to vanquish Argentus is different everytime? That when Argentus senses distrust somewhere, he goes away if the distrust comes true?" Phoebe asked.

"Yes... because if what you distrusted comes true, the distrust goes away," Sophie answered.

The Halliwell sisters looked a bit confused to the red-haired witch who hadn't said much before.

"Uh... for example... a woman thinks her husband cheats on her, she distrusts him. One day she finds him in bed with another woman, then she knows he indeed cheats on her. So she doesn't have to distrust him anymore for that, because she knows it's already true. Then her distrust changes into anger or hate or whatever," Sophie tried to explain.

"But it's not fair. We distrusted Cole for something what he wasn't was. Why does he have to end up like this?" Phoebe sighed. If she didn't feel bad enough already before, she felt even worse now she knew it was her distrust that made him evil.

"Maybe he doesn't have to..." Paige mumbled.

Phoebe stared curiously at Paige. Did she just hear correctly what Paige said? Was there still some hope for Cole?

"Maybe... just maybe... if we took away what caused Argentus to come here, Belthazor becomes Cole again. If your distrust in him makes him evil, maybe your trust in him to be good can make him good again... does that make any sense?"

"But I already trust him to be good now," Phoebe said.

"Yes, but Argentus showed up, because of my distrust as well. I didn't trust Cole... I mean I didn't until I heard all this," Piper realized.

Phoebe hesitated. If this was the solution to solve everything, shouldn't her future-self have thought about that? However Phoebe realized her future-self probably thought her sisters would never trust Cole to be good... especially not Paige. But her future-self didn't know about Paige being the one bringing Cole back and throwing every possible potion at Cole to find evil in him. Her future-self didn't know Paige had set this whole thing up with Sophie.

"So... now all our distrust is gone... Belthazor already became Cole again?" Phoebe asked.

"There's only one way to find out..."

>>>

"Don't make me kill you again, Cole," Phoebe screamed, while she ran away from an energy ball.

She ran to Cole's bedroom in his apartement to hide. Piper and Paige were waiting for her here, since Phoebe wanted to see Cole back again as first, but she didn't see Cole when she arrived in his apartement. She saw Belthazor.

"Damn it. Why is he still Belthazor?" Phoebe gasped.

"Maybe I was wrong and it doesn't work like this," Paige said.

"Or maybe one of you still doesn't trust him," Phoebe snapped.

Belthazor entered the bedroom, seeing the three Halliwell sisters. He threw more energy balls.

"Energy ball," Paige yelled.

Paige threw the energy ball in her hands back at Belthazor, which hit him and he fell hurt on the ground. Phoebe looked sadly at him and pulled out the vanquishing potion out of her trouser-pocket.

"Wait! There was another person in the room when Argentus appeared, someone who didn't trust Cole as well," Piper stopped Phoebe. Phoebe stared not understanding to Piper.

"Leo!" Piper began to shout and Phoebe started to shout with her.

After some seconds Leo orbed into the room. He looked confused to the surroundings, especially after he saw Belthazor lying on the floor with a wound.

"You need to trust Cole," Piper ordered him.

"What?"

"I know this sounds insane, but you have to trust Cole didn't come with evil intentions to the manor this morning, that Cole can be good," Piper explained, while Belthazor tried to stand up again.

Piper gave a short gaze to Phoebe. She didn't want to see her sister get hurt again, but she also knew Leo couldn't trust Cole from one second to the other. However Piper had no time now to tell Leo the whole story about what happened since Belthazor wanted to attack again.

"Please, trust me on this one. I trust Cole to be good. If you trust me, trust Cole as well," Piper used the love between her and Leo as a way to save Phoebe and Cole from another tragic ending.

The red skin of Belthazor turned into the flesh of an human. His dark eyes changed in the blue eyes. The blue eyes she loved.

"Cole," Phoebe said, while she ran towards him, not really believing that he actually did return. She had thought she would never see him again.

She knelt down beside Cole who lay on the floor with the wound Belthazor had. She stroked his forehead, while Leo began to heal Cole's wound. Phoebe looked at Leo after he was done.

"You completely healed him... that must mean..."

"There isn't anything demonic left in him," Leo gave Phoebe a smile.

Phoebe hugged Cole, slowly letting the feeling of unbelievable happiness flow into her body. Cole was still a little confused about what happened, but he knew for sure something good happened if he was here with Phoebe who hold him tight.

"I thought I lost you," Phoebe said, while she held him even tighter, because this time she wasn't going to let him go. She would never let him go again.

"We definitely need to find that marvellous clock we had in the future... Too bad I didn't ask my future-self where we bought it," Phoebe said before she took a sip of her coffee.

She and Cole were going to look for furniture after breakfast. Cole had asked her help for decorating his apartement, especially since she someday would move in with him. Indeed someday, because they decided to take it slowly this time. For now Phoebe still lived in the manor and Cole in his apartement, but it felt more like they had two houses now. The one day they were in the manor, the other in Cole's apartement.

Paige walked into the kitchen of the manor with her eyes half open. She rubbed sleepily in her eyes before she grabbed a bowl and the package of cereals from the table.

"What? We're out of cereals... again?" Paige mocked as she held the package cereals upside down and nothing came out of it. She looked accusing to Phoebe.

"I swear I didn't eat much out of it," Phoebe said.

Paige turned her accusing gaze to Cole, who was eating the last of the cereals in his bowl.

"Okay, this was the last bit of the package..." Cole admitted," but Leo already ate the half out of the package before I even began to eat."

Paige sighed. She kind of was already forgotten how it was to live with her sisters and partners in one house before Cole came back. She just had to got used again of finding no cereals left in the morning.

"Remind me not to go out with a man who likes cereals as well, because else I never have the chance to eat some cereals in this house," Paige said as she began to search in the refrigerator for something to eat.

Phoebe smiled. A few years ago she had said that her perfect man shouldn't like cereals, but well, that was before she met Cole. And Cole did like cereals. Cole wasn't who she imagined the perfect man to be like. A perfect man wouldn't lie, a perfect man wouldn't have an evil past. But she didn't want that perfect man. She wanted Cole, he wasn't the perfect man, but he was perfect for her.

They heard Piper and Leo's voices in the distance, slowly getting louder as Piper and Leo came closer to the kitchen. It sounded like Piper and Leo had a fight again.

"Oh, I say Leo did something stupid," Phoebe guessed.

"No, Piper's hormones," Paige said.

"I'll go for the Paige made a mistake," Cole added.

"How strange you always choose that option," Paige sarcastically said.

Paige trusted Cole to be good now, but it didn't mean they got along very well. A past like they had, in which they tried to kill each other, wasn't something that would go away in one day. It would take time and maybe... someday they would like each other, but for now they tolerated each other for Phoebe's sake.

"But I wanted to wear that blouse today," The pregnant Piper said who just walked in the kitchen with Leo.

"You didn't tell me I only had till yesterday to fix the washing-machine," Leo contradicted.

"Well, I can't wear a filthy blouse now, can I ?" Piper asked, while she grabbed some food out of the refrigerator and walked out of the kitchen again as Leo followed her.

"We should go as well, honey," Phoebe said to Cole, while she got up from her seat.

"Whoa, were are you going, people? You owe me some money, because I was right," Paige stopped Phoebe and Cole from going,"... it definitely was Piper's hormones, else she never would have become so upset of not being able to wear that blouse."

"Yes, but Leo already promised to make that washing-machine a week ago," Phoebe said, trying to persuade her sister and boyfriend she won the bet this time.

"You both are forgetting some important information. Who was the one who broke the washing-machine in the first place?" Cole interrupted the sisters.

"Oh..." Paige moaned, remembering she was the one who accidently broke the washing-machine in the first place.

Paige pulled out twenty bucks and wanted to give it to Cole, but Cole didn't take it.

"You can keep the money this time, Paige," he said.

Cole wrapped his arms around Phoebe and kissed her. Paige watched them and surpressed the need to say they should get a room, but luckily for her the kiss didn't last hours this time. Paige still looked a bit wondering to Cole why he didn't take the money from the bet.

"Let's say, you don't have to pay for making mistakes. Me and Phoebe are happy you sometimes make mistakes," Cole gave as answer.

"Oh, definitely," Phoebe agreed.

Paige saw the shining sparkles of happiness in Phoebe's and Cole's eyes, that hadn't been there a few weeks ago.

"Yeah, me too," Paige smiled, agreeing with them.

A/N: I hope I didn't dissapoint you people with this chapter, because it was mostly explanations and there actually wasn't manyPhoebe and Cole talking to each other, but I thought Phoebe and Cole already said the most of how they felt about each other in the last chapter.

Anyway, I wanted a happy ending in which Leo, Piper and Paige would have trust in Cole as well... because in almost every episode in Charmed there was always someone of Phoebe's family against their relation and it really annoyed me.

I have no plans of making a sequel to this story... but maybe I will write another Phoebe/Cole fic soon. I actually would lik to write an AU story about them in another time era... maybe when they're in the wild, wild west in the time of cowboys and stuff. But I will think about that the coming days.

Let's finish this fic with the words we all love to hear (and as a reminder to Brad Kern, that he has to let Phoebe end up with Cole as well) :

Phoebe & Cole forever, always...