Notes: In this chapter are some references to season seven's "Seven year witch".

Visions from the Past

"I had a vision ... to the past", said Phoebe to her sisters, as Lisa and Ranya disappeared.

"And what do you saw?", Paige questioned .

"I saw the day when the Seer stole my ba..., the Source's baby, from me. Ranya was there, watching everything".

"Ranya?", now it was Piper who asked. "But why? What was there to see? She told herself that the Underworld wasn't a free territory for them".

"Can we trust her?", Paige didn't know what to think, after so much time without demons hunting her life was going well and it was frustrating to have to go into battle again.

"My empathic powers didn't work on them. I couldn't read their feelings, but there is something I'm sure. Ranya saved my daughter's life. If she had not come, that monster had taken possession of her soul, and I don't even want to imagine the pain that would come with it. And the other guardian, Lisa, she rescued P. J. from that terrible place", Phoebe said, closing her eyes, trying to forget the thought of her daughter's soul lost somewhere in the shadows.

"Piper, you were in The Cosmic Void between life and death years ago. Did you received the help of some of these guardians? Ranya explained that they guide lost souls ... Do you know anything about them?", Paige turned to Piper.

Piper didn't know what to answer. She never told her sisters who she met during her experience on that fateful day. She understood that this story would only serve to concern Phoebe, who, after all that pain, had moved on.

"What are you exactly? Ghost, demon, poltergeist, nightmare?", Piper asked.

"None of the above. We're caught in a cosmic void... between life and death", Cole replied.

"Earth to Piper ...", Paige let out a laugh .

"I..."

"Piper , what's wrong?", Phoebe casted a worried glance at her sister.

A whirlwind of thoughts invaded Piper's mind. She kept this secret for so long... more than six years... What would be Phoebe's reaction to know what she's kept to herself for so long?

Noticing how her sister was concerned, Phoebe and Paige sat beside her .

Piper then turned to her middle sister, hoping that the decision to tell her what happened years ago wasn't wrong.

"Phoebe, you know how much I love you. And a few years ago, I decided to hide something from you, because I believed it was the best for you. And no regrets. But now the time has finally come for you to know the truth.

"Piper... What are you talking about?"

"I found no guardian in the Cosmic Void between life and death... I met a person who told me he was stuck in that nasty limbo. He told me that he was the one who had to stay there forever and he helped me".

"Who are you talking about, Piper?", Phoebe felt a chill down her spine.

"Cole...", she replied simply.

Phoebe got up and moved away, horrified.

Cole?

"Cole? How? Cole?", Paige swallowed.

"It was Cole. I found him there. But you couldn't see him, nor me. He stayed with me the whole time until I got back to my body. He helped me in the past and I feel that now he might need our help. I'm worried. These enemies are looking for lost souls, especially those who have some sort of power and Cole fits that description perfectly. He told me he was stuck there, and if Kaliel found him?

Phoebe turned her back to her sisters:

"Cole is not our problem, Piper".

"Phoebe, I know it's hard..."

"I don't care what happens or what doesn't happen to his soul. For me, whatever... Cole came out of our lives a long time ago, Piper. And I don't want to hear his name, do you understand me?

"But..."

"No, buts Piper. That... that traitor will not come back in my life, even in past stories! Do I make myself clear?"

Undisturbedly, Phoebe walked to her room and slammed the door behind her.

He helped Piper ...

No... He's evil...

He was the Source of all evil.

He isn't important to me, not anymore.

I will not look back... I don't care about him...

I don't care...

Phoebe wiped a slight tear trickled from the corner of her right eye.

He betrayed me.

I lost him to evil...

Piper came home thinking about everything that happened. She hugged Leo and their children, Wyatt, Chris and Melinda as if the world was ending. They were too precious to lose. After so many battles against innumerous demons, she would not succumb, not now, not ever.

"Piper, we'll get through this together", Leo hugged his wife, willing to comfort her and cheer her as always .

"What do you know about these guardians?"

"They are beings who keep other plans. They help lost souls, but there are those that are extremely powerful, capable of fighting the shadows".

"Like Ranya?"

"Ranya is legendary! She is the most powerful warrior among the guardians!".

Piper cast a warning glance toward her husband. He was too excited to talk about that woman .

"Leo..."

"But she is really legendary! She's a powerful being who chose to lead a simple existence as a guardian. They say she refused to join the Council of Elders".

Piper rolled her eyes...

"Ok... Ok... She's great, but you're mine. Don't forget that".

"You are cute when you're jealous".

"I'm not jealous".

"Of course not, baby, of course not...", Leo said, kissing his wife.