"What is taking so long?" Phoebe asked nervously.

"When you live forever, time has very little meaning" Leo told her.

"Yeah, well us mere mortals are growing a little tired of waiting, so they better move their butts or head are going to roll" Piper said irritated.

"Piper!" Leo exclaimed.

Prue grinned and said "I wonder if that would do it? Could they really survive having their head chopped off?"

"Ahem!" A voice said loudly from behind them.

"Oh, you're finally back" Piper said irritated.

The elder gave her a cold look, which she returned.

"I assume you have come to a decision?" Phoebe asked, trying not to show how nervous she was.

"We have. In light of your testimonies…"

"And threats" Prue added smugly.

The elder glared and continued on ignoring her. "In light of that, we have decided to put Mr. Turner on probation, for the duration of six months. If in that time it is shown that you are an asset to the side of good, than you will be allowed to live, if not, that the sentence previously mentioned will be carried out."

"Cole an asset to the side of good?" Paige muttered and then shut up as her sisters gave her a warning glare.

"Mr. Turner, you will be assigned probation white lighter who will observe you and pass judgment" the elder told him.

"Alright" Cole said neutrally.

"He will come by within the next week to see you" the elder said and without another word orbed out.

"What a bastard!" Phoebe exclaimed furiously.

Prue grinned and said "Talk about having a stick up his…"

"Prue!" Leo said interrupting.

Everyone laughed, trying to let go of their tension. They all exchanged weary relieved smiles, glad that this ordeal was finally over and settled, at least for the time being.

"Well let's get out of here" Paige said.

"Lets go home" Phoebe said cheerfully, her good mood restored with the knowledge that Cole was not going to be taken away again.

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"Cole, why don't you stay for dinner" Piper asked as he turned to leave the house.

"What?" Cole asked looking surprised.

"Yeah! We should have a celebratory dinner for Cole getting probation" Prue said cheerfully.

"I don't want to impose" Cole said quietly.

"Oh be quiet, if it was imposing I wouldn't have asked you to stay" Piper informed him tartly.

"Oh, well if you won't mind, then yes I'd love to say, I always enjoy having Piper's cooking" Cole said.

"Is probation really something to be celebrated, it just means we have six month of stress and worry" Paige said walking into the kitchen.

"Oh don't be such a downer" Prue said happily.

"Besides its better than their first offer, so we need to just be grateful that we got this" Phoebe said.

"I wonder who the white lighter will be?" Leo asked.

"Yeah, hope its not some totally uptight rule person like that friend of yours was Leo" Prue said, and Piper and Phoebe both burst out laughing.

"You shouldn't speak ill of the dead" Leo said firmly.

"We weren't exactly speaking ill, besides, what difference does it make, we spoke about her like that when she was alive, to speak otherwise now would just be hypocritical of us" Piper told him.

Paige looked left out, and turned to leave the kitchen.

"Where are you going?" Cole asked in an undertone.

"None of your business" Paige muttered.

"I don't know what they are talking about either, that's just how it works. There will be times that you don't know things, and that Prue doesn't know things, you can't storm off each time" Cole told her in a hushed voice.

Paige looked surprised, but then nodded and turned back to the others.

"I hope its someone nice like Leo was" Phoebe said.

"Yeah, this could totally be a trap, I mean not too many whitelighter are going to like the idea of watching a demon, they will likely be prejudiced from the start" Piper said.

"Most whitelighter do seem to be that way" Prue said irritated.

"You're a whitelighter too" Paige said.

"Kinda, but I don't really associate with my fellow whitelighters, I don't go up there often and when I do, we just aren't the same so we don't talk" Prue said.

"Well we'll find out soon enough what kind of person he is, so there is no use worrying about it now" Leo told them.

"True, it's much better to worry about dinner" Prue said looking smug.

"What?" Piper said.

"The pans on fire" Prue told her grinning evilly.

Piper jerked around to the stove to see her pan burning brightly.

"Ah!" Piper yelled and froze it.

Paige grabbed the extinguished and sprayed down the stove, and mistakenly catching Piper too.

Piper turned slowly, covered in white, and gave Paige a look. Paige cowered back and rushed out of the room called behind her "Sorry! It was an accident!"

"Paige!" Piper yelled and raced after her.

"Its really never quiet in the Halliwell house" Cole said laughing.

"Maybe we should order out?" Phoebe said.

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Okay everyone, I'm really sorry I haven't updated in so long. I've been so busy with college that I really haven't written anything in a long time. But finally I have a little time, so here is another chapter.

On another note… a question for everyone. Who should the new whitelighter be? I have a few ideas, but I'm open to suggestions. So if anyone has ideas of preferences let me know. Bye!