Chapter 7

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I wish to meet each one of you
And you, me, you, if I can and I can
We have many things in common, name three

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"Cole what are you doing here?"

"Phoebe we have bigger trouble.  Amber Casey was found murdered last night."

Phoebe let him into the hotel room and let him sit down on her bed.  Piper and Prue had just gone downstairs to get breakfast.

"Amber Casey was my ex-wife.  Years ago.  When I went to talk to Stefan to get him rattled he gave me an alibi.  That he was with Amber.  That was confirmed.  And yesterday she called me.  I had Drake, an investigator friend of mine, find out where she was calling from.  She was calling from your apartment.

I went there.  To see if she was still there and to find out why and when I got there she was murdered."

"Oh no.  Do you have any ideas?"

"No.  Just that this is between Amber, Stefan, and Clay.  And that I haven't figured out."

"Do you think they killed her?"

"Possibly.  The more pressing issue is to convince the city that I didn't kill her.  That is two murders in your apartment.  If we don't find out what is going on now we might both end up in prison."

"What's going on?"

Phoebe and Cole didn't even notice when Prue and Piper walked in. 

"Another person was murdered at my apartment."

"What?  What on earth is going on?" Prue asked.

"I think that the woman that was murdered, my ex-wife, has something to do with all of this, but I don't know what.  I need to find Stefan or Clay and see what I can come up with."

"I'm going with you." Phoebe declared.

"We'll help." Piper claimed.

"Great.  Why don't you and Prue go and see if you can find Clay.  I'll give you the address where I've last seen him and so on.  Phoebe and I can go and find Stefan."

"By the way I'm Piper." she said sticking out her hand.

"Where are my manners?  I'm Cole Turner, pleasure to meet you."  And they shook hands.

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"Cole Turner's phone."

"Phoebe its Prue.  I think you better come down here."

"Where is here?"

"Your apartment."

"What's going on?"

"We found Clay.  And Stefan.  You really need to get down here."

"We'll be right there."

She hung up the phone.  "What's going on?"

"Piper and Prue found Clay and Stefan at my apartment."

"Did they say what was going on?"

"No just that we needed to get down there."

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No words were spoken as they drove back to her apartment.  When they got there they had a difficult time getting around all of the cop cars.  "What is going on?" Cole asked.  No one answered their question and Cole and Phoebe had to fight their way to get into the apartment.

Once they got in they saw an EMT with Clay and cops talking to Prue and Piper.  Piper was the first to notice them, "Phoebe." she called and walked away from the officer.  "Piper what is going on?"  "Well we found Clay.  Being attacked by Stefan." she pointed to a body outline on the floor.

"What happened?" Cole asked.

Prue who had just finished walked over to them.  Well we went here to see if we could find Clay's address because Piper got it lost in the wind.  When we got up here these two were fighting.  Clay grabbed at the gun Stefan had and shot him before he could shoot us."

Just then an officer walked by with Clay.  "I'm sorry Phoebe.  I never meant for any of this to happen.  I'm truly sorry."

Cole looked around the apartment.  As did everyone.  What in the hell had happened?

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End of Chapter 7