Section Three:

After getting coffee Pacey made her way up to the observation tower wher Phoebe and Cole were waiting. Coming into the room she noted Cole with his hand around Phoebe from behind and rolled her eyes.

"Barf." She quipped handing Cole the tray of coffees after taking hers out, "Save it for the bedroom, please. Youve got a sister as a third wheel over here." She winked at Phoebes glare, "Any luck?"

Her sister frowned, putting the binoculars down, "Not yet."

"Actually," Cole pointed and handed Pacey the other pair, "Looks like your instincts were right."

They both looked over with them hurriedly and Phoebe put her hand on Coles arm, "We've gotta shimmer over there!"

"And tell her what?" Cole asked, "That a demon's gonna attack? I think we should stay right here."

"He's right." Pacey nodded watching as Paige, oblivious to the looming danger, leads a man to the center of the heli-pad, "Plus, kind of a ball buster if you're on a date." Paige lets go of his hand, then spins around, arms out wide, looking up at the stars before taking her jacket off slightly and then moving in for a kiss, "Oh." Pacey chuckled, "Here we go. Finally some entertainment that doesn't gross me out."

Phoebe rolled her eyes and forcefully lowered Paceys binoculars before turning to Cole pointedly who was still watching, "All right, any ideas?"

He rose a brow, "A couple."

Pacey rolled her eyes yet again, "Gross."

Phoebe smacked him causing him to laugh, "I meant about what we do now. I mean, we can't just keep watching, it's not right."

Cole took the binoculars from Phoebe and takes a look, nodding all the while, "You're right. We shouldn't just keep watching."

Phoebe blocked his view and moved them back, "Okay, very good."

Meanwhile Pacey shrugged and put the binoculars back to her eyes just as a moving tornado materializes out of thin air and races toward the unsuspecting lovers. The demon, Shax, appears and fires a concussive blast just as Paige opens her eyes at the last second and sees it over Shane's shoulder and screamed out. The blast makes Shane go flying backwards, knocking himself out. Paige screams again and Shax throws another concussive blast at her, terrifying her and causing her to orb out and back, somehow. Paige turns the other way and runs to the roof access tower. Shax, surprised at her ability to orb, turns back into a tornado and follows.

"Holy freakin goddesses of the world, she orbed!" Pacey yelled turning to Cole and Phoebe, "Does that mean she's a whitelighter?"

Phoebe bulked as they ran back over to her, "She What?"

"She freakin orbed! That was totally an orb!" She pointed, "Did you see her face after? She looked shocked."

"Come on!" Cole grabbed the both of them and shimmered out

Meanwhile Paige is still running for her life, scampers down the stairs onto the catwalk then stops as she hears the ominous sound of the tornado approaching. She slowly turns to see Shax standing there. But before he can throw another concussive blast, he stops as he sees Cole Phoebe and Pace shimmer in.

Paige turns, just in time to see the tail end of the shimmer, and bulks up at them just as shocked, "What the hell?"

Phoebe looks at her hurriedly, "Get outta here! Hurry! Go! Go!"

Cole started firing energy balls at Shax, but they barely fazed him as Paige, freaked, takes off running up the stairs, he turned to the sisters, "Say the spell, damn it!"

Phoebe and Pacey locked hands and recited it together, "Evil wind that blows, that which forms below. No longer may you dwell. Death takes you with this spell."

Shax, though, manages to get off a concussive blast at Cole, which knocks him over the stairway rail. Just as Shax, in agony, turns into a ghostly wind and streaks away from the scene.

Phoebe, panic- stricken, runs to the edge, "Cole!"

Cole plummets five stories, but just before he pancakes, he recovers enough to shimmer out right next to Phoebe on his feet, who gasps and emotionally hugs him, afraid she almost lost him, "That was too close…"

"It's okay, I'm alright." Cole reassures, "It's your innocent I'm worried about."

"Yeah." Pacey scoffed turning to them, "Why didn't anybody freakin tell us she's a whitelighter?"

Leo sat and listened as the three of them relayed what happened with Piper silent in the background as she did the dishes, he looked at Pacey confused, "Are you sure she orbed? Are you sure that it wasn't something else?"

"Leo, I know what I saw, alright? Bright shiny lights came before she magically appeared. It was an orb." She scoffed, "She's a whitelighter I'm telling you."

Leo shook his head, "It just doesn't make any sense."

"Why not?" Cole asked

"Because why would Shax want to kill a White-lighter?"

Coles voice rose, "Maybe he doesn't know she's a white-lighter."

Leo scoffed, "Right, the Source sends out his personal assassin, but doesn't know who he's after?"

Piper, in the background, clatters the pots that she's washing, noticeably, as a message to the four of them, but they ignored her. Phoebe turned back to Leo, "Is it possible that she didn't know that she was a white-lighter?"

"No. Why?"

"Because she acted as if she didn't." Cole motioned, "She acted just as surprised as we were when she orbed out."

"Well that doesn't make any sense either."

"Thank you, Captain Obvious." Pacey tan her hands through her hair exhausted, "We all get it doesn't make sense but she orbed in and out and acted like it was the first time she'd ever done it and Shaks himself is trying to kill her so we're very limited on time to waste on the guessing game."

Phoebe put her hands out trying to calm the situation before turning to Leo, "Okay, why don't you go up and ask the Elders what does make sense so we don't go risking our lives again?"

Leo looked to Piper who was still turned away from them, "I'll be right back."

After orbing out Phoebe covered her eyes and Pacey took a deep breath and closed hers as she hung her head. Cole turned to his girlfriend, "Maybe I should, uh, go to the other side and see what I can find out."

Phoebe looks at him, "No."

"I'll be careful. Nobody'll see me. Besides, it could be good to me to go back down, confuse any bounty hunters that might be trying to track me. Don't worry. I won't disappear." He leaned down and kissed Phoebe on the cheek before shimmering out

Pacey starts collecting the dishes on the island in the kitchen as Phoebe walked closer to Piper who was hunched over rigidly at the sink, "Hey, you okay?"

"Yeah. Sure, why not? We could have another funeral tomorrow. Hey, why not make it a double? I mean, all the dishes are out and we pretty much know who to invite."

"Piper-"

She held a small white towel in her hands as she turned and faced both of them, "Just tell me one thing. Are you two insane or are you just plain stupid? We bury Prue this morning and you guys go off tonight and nearly join her. What the hell is the matter with you?!"

"Pipes." Pacey scoffed, "We were trying to save an innocent."

"No. You were trying to get yourselves killed, which is what this family does best is get killed." She three the towel onto the counter in frustration and anger, "Isn't it obvious by now that our only destiny is to die? And you two are making it way too easy for them. You are just walking right into it!"

Phoebe quickly embraced Piper into a hug, "I am so sorry."

"We both are, Pipes." Pacey walked over and rubbed her big sisters back

"I cannot handle anything right now, and I certainly cannot handle losing another sister let alone two!"