Phoebe clutched onto Cole as tight as she could as the attractive, strong man began shaking violently again. Tears streamed down her cheeks and into his dark, mussed up hair as he clutched onto her arm, as if she was his anchor.
"Oh, Cole." She whispered repeatedly, sniffling as he continued shaking violently in her tight embrace.
Cole squeezed his eyes shut and let out a moan of pain, no longer able to hide it any longer with lies and masks. Suddenly there was an abrupt flash of white light that surrounded Cole's body, as soon as it had come it disappeared, leaving Phoebe confused and worried.
"What was that, Cole? What was that?"
Cole managed to open one eye and look at her with the bright blue orb, tears threatening to fall once more upon his handsome pallor. He opened his dry mouth a crack and whispered hoarsely, "My powers…leaving…"
Phoebe nodded her understanding and cradled his head in her lap, trying to make him as comfortable as possible as she ran her slender fingers through the damp, thick dark hair that crowned his attractive face. She splayed her right hand in the mane, relishing the feel of it, savoring the feel of his warm body against hers as another bright flash enveloped him and disappeared once more.
With each flash of white light, Cole's trembling body bucked and he grew weaker and weaker, groaning in agony as the powers slowly left his fragile body every few minutes. Phoebe could barely watch, even if she could have fully looked at him the tears that blurred her eyes obscured her vision further.
Leo knocked softly on the door and let himself in, in time to see another white light come and go from Cole's convulsing frame. Leo watched horrified, wishing he had never set foot in the room.
"Phoebe, you need to write the spell soon so that we can be ready."
"I need to be here, Leo, when it happens…he needs me."
"I understand, Phoebe." Leo claimed softly as Cole let out an animalistic howl of pain as another flash came, this one slightly longer than the others, and then went.
Leo winced, feeling nauseas as Cole writhed in excruciating pain, perhaps it was the fact that he was a White Lighter and he could do nothing to stop the pain Cole was going through as he slowly, and agonizingly died in his love's fixed embrace.
"How long Leo?" Phoebe asked tersely, tear flowing down her pink cheeks like twin raging rivers.
"I don't know, how many flashes were there so far?" He asked, still speaking softly, but loud enough to be heard over the writhing man's grunts and groans.
"Too many." She responded softly.
"I really don't know, Phoebe. I don't know how many powers he possessed."
"Alright…okay…" she continued in her softest voice manageable as her ex husband howled himself raw.
Leo backed out of the room to see the other sisters who gathered by the sofa white-faced and shocked. Leo gave them a sad look and shook his head as he said, "He's suffering and I can't do anything about it."
Piper walked over and hugged Leo tightly, "God if that were you, those noises Leo…is that Cole? It's terrible…it's so terrible…"
Paige shook her head slowly as she murmured, "Hot damn…"
Leo hugged Piper back, tears both in their eyes as they held each other closely, the faint sounds of howling pain reaching their ears downstairs causing them to wince and clutch each other tighter.
Meanwhile, Cole was beginning to feel the end coming near…he forced himself to open his eyes and look at Phoebe. He reached up and brushed her cheek with a large, shaky hand forcing himself to give her a soft smile that spelled pain, pain, pain although all he wanted to do was tell her how much she meant to him, how he wished he could be holding her instead, in love and not in pain.
"Cole, please go. You need to hurry up and go, I can't do this any longer…I'm sure you can't either," she demanded, her voice full of love but her tone worried as hell.
"I…Phoebe, I…" Cole squeezed his eyes shut as he tried to form a coherent sentence with his dry mouth, "Love-love, you…"
"I love you too." She murmured planting kisses all over his pale face and neck as he tensed up and let out a low growl. She held back and watched as one last final flash came and went, brighter and longer than the others.
Cole bucked once more, the pain gone as he allowed his eyelids to slide over his bright blue orbs full of unshed tears of anguish and passion, allowing Cole to delve deeper into the darkness and until he saw what he was looking for.
Phoebe's body was racked unmercifully with sob after sob as Cole became in limp in her arms, his body was enveloped in a bright pinkish white light and Cole's body flashed out of the room and out of her tight embrace.
Phoebe swiped at her eyes and darted out of the room, she found herself in front of the teary-eyed Piper, Paige and Leo, gathered by the couch quietly.
"He-?" Paige started.
"Gone." Phoebe managed to murmur.
"Spell?" Leo asked.
"Up here." Phoebe pointed to her head.
"Ready?" Piper asked.
"Forever and always." Phoebe responded, grabbing hold of her both of sister's hands tightly, dragging them upstairs into her bedroom she and Cole had just occupied.
"Repeat after with me after I say it, okay?"
The other women nodded as they waited for Phoebe to recite the spell.
"I call upon the Powers That Be,
I call upon the Power of Three,
Save the man Phoebe loves from a hellish place on Earth,
Allow him to live and prove his good worth!"
Piper and Paige glanced at each other and shrugged, bracing themselves they shouted as loud as they could along with Phoebe.
"I call upon the Powers That Be,
I call upon the Power of Three,
Save the man Phoebe loves from a hellish place on Earth,
Allow him to live and prove his good worth!"
The room was suddenly dark, the girls screamed as they reached forward to find the light switch. The light flickered on and off as a shadowy figure started to appear beside Phoebe's window.
"Cole?" she called out, worry etched in her voice.
"Phoebe, get the lights!" Paige yelped, stumbling to the floor with a thump.
"Cole!" Phoebe shouted over the hysteria the others were causing, wondering if her spell had worked, if she saved Cole.
"Phoebe?" a familiar deep voice called out, it sounded relieved and exhausted.
"Cole! Oh my God, you're okay!" Phoebe shouted as she ran forward in the dark and jumped into Cole's strong, outstretched arms.
The lights flickered once more before they finally stayed on; the other women heaved a collective sigh of relief as they edged their way towards the beaming ex demon.
"For a guy who just died, again, you don't look half bad." Paige joked.
Cole chuckled as he clutched Phoebe tighter, burying his head by her neck in order to plant frantic, yet tender kisses along her collarbone.
"You're back, you're okay…" Phoebe continued murmuring as she too placed kisses all along Cole's strong jaw line and collarbone, "God Cole, it was awful having to watch you like that…don't do that again!"
"If it mean you're going to greet him like that every time he comes back, I'm pretty damn sure he'd do it again." Piper stated, both her head and Paige's cocked to the side as they watched the public display of intimacy.
"I certainly hope to be greeted like this more often, but I don't think I'd go as far as that again…the pain was the worst, I can't even describe the pain…" Cole murmured as he held Phoebe, rocking her back and forth in his strong arms as she placed her head against his chest.
"Trust me, we all heard it." Leo muttered from the doorway.
"Leo, thank you. All of you thank you so much." Cole thanked them, tears stinging the corners of his eyes again.
Phoebe nodded, sniveling once again.
"We're back…we're finally back." Cole murmured as the others dispersed.
"Yeah, finally." Phoebe whispered, trailing kisses on Cole's stubble jaw once more.
THE END...
I may just write a sequel to this since I think I ended it to short, but who knows. It's up to the readers.
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