Charmed. Cole and Phoebe Guardian series. To know Phoebe is too...

Charmed. To know Phoebe is to... Chapter 22

Part 3:Keeping it in the Family

Chapter 22

When Phoebe told Piper and Paige she was spending a weekend with the unnamed man who she said was very important to her, Piper, already in a temper from arriving home and seeing the supposed demon damage done to the mirror and lamp, was furious with her and made it very clear it was not the weekend away but the rush into committing that was angering her.

Piper could not resist getting in another crack about the damage to the mirror. Paige waited ready to get angry in self-defence because Phoebe had a great affection for Jemima's mirror but Phoebe ignored the news it was broken and went on to furiously telling Piper she had a right to a life. When Piper had yelled herself out, Phoebe in a high temper bounced herself upstairs to pack and Piper was not mollified when Paige wondered out loud why Phoebe was not upset about the mirror

"To busy being besotted about this, this man." Piper snarled "and don't think you're off the hook Missy" she added to Paige.

Cole picked Phoebe up at the manor stopping a few houses down. When she went outside to retrieve a jacket from her car Mrs Taylor took great delight in passing on to Piper that Phoebe had run out and jumped into a new green Mercedes.

Piper was tempted to call Darryl and ask him to run a check on the car. Leo had to be very firm to stop her.

The trip to the small bed and breakfast about an hour north of San Francisco that Cole, had booked, was strained because Cole immediately demanded to know why Phoebe had told Victor they were together without warning him. "Because he's my father" she said "and we talk to each other. "

"One hurdle down" she thought to herself.

"And are you going to tell me before you tell the rest of the family?" Cole demanded.

"Maybe" Phoebe said. Because she knew as soon as she brought up the subject of dealing with her family the romance was over and they would have to face some very hard facts. She avoided the subject by demanding to know whether Cole thought she was having second thoughts and he said he thought about 4th or 5th by that stage.

"What do you mean?" she asked, indignant.

" I know you." he said. "Two steps forward and one back?" he said.

"Better than the other way" she answered with the expression of someone who thought she had won the argument. Cole sensed the emotion coming from Phoebe was one of feeling in control and he was so annoyed he refused to talk the rest of the way.

Phoebe stayed in the car while Cole paid for the room, a really lovely top floor room with a view of the Pacific and a big comfortable brass bed. Phoebe stalked in ahead of Cole.

"I'm tired" she announced and disappeared into the bathroom, to get ready for bed out of his sight, and finally returned wearing pink pyjamas with blue kitten pattern. She brought the pyjamas because in his demon days when Cole had shimmered in unexpectedly he had liked to find her in pyjamas. He liked to rip them off. She insisted that if he was going to sleep with her he was going to shower and shave. When he returned she was lying on the side of the bed nearest the door. Cole did not have a thing about which side of the bed he slept on. He just liked it to be on the one nearest the door. She looked up at him with a smug expression. He bent down picked her up and dumped her none to gently on the other side of the bed.

Phoebe was intensely annoyed. To the point where she turned her back on him, getting as far away from Cole as possible. Only he was better at that game than she was and just waited, lying on his back not to concerned. She finally gave in rolled over and flung herself on him wrestling and fighting as hard as she could. He may have been stronger than her, but as she knew where he was ticklish, it did not take that long for her to get him to say she had every right to tell her family what she wanted then she hit him for lying.