Capture of the Heart

Chapter 9

It was shortly after noon as Phoebe and Cole were back in "their" room in Berlin. Phoebe started unpacking her things, while Cole sat on a couch reading some files.

"Are you finished?" he asked Phoebe after some time.

"Almost. Why?"

"Because we are leaving in about half an hour." He said in a business like manner.

"Where?" Phoebe felt like a little child asking silly questions like "why" "where" and so on.

"You'll see soon enough."

Phoebe started to reply something but was cut off by him.

"I don't know yet where we are going

This made absolutely no sense to Phoebe. "So we are leaving, that you know for sure, but you don't know where we are going. You do understand that this makes little sense…"

"I'm trying to find out, where we need to go." he said. "Of course!" he exclaimed suddenly, "Why didn't I think of that sooner, it was so obvious"

Phoebe didn't understand a word and was still puzzled as he grabbed her hand and shimmered them away.

He shimmered them back to the underworld, outside a cave which was Raynor's, Cole's former mentors, "home".

"What are we doing here?" Phoebe questioned.

"We are looking for something. I don't know what it looks like, but I recognize it when I see it. Now be quiet, someone could hear us!"

So Phoebe did as he told. She watched Cole as he closed his eyes, it was similar to what Leo did when he tried to locate on of his charges.

"He's not here, we can go in, but be careful, there could be traps." Cole said.

They entered the cave and it looked like a place to live. Phoebe had absolutely no idea of what to do, so she was just standing there and watched Cole as he searched for something on the wall.

"It must be here somewhere, why did I never pay attention to such things?" he said.

Cole was searching for some hidden place behind the wall. But he didn't remember were it was, and how it can be opened. He never paid attention to such things or Raynor had made him forget about it.

"What are you searching for?" Phoebe asked.

"For some hidden place behind this damned wall." he replied angrily due to the fact that he didn't find it. Then suddenly he sensed another demon that wasn't very strong. This must be Raynor's disciple, he thought.

"We must hide, another demon comes. And if we are lucky, he will show us what we are searching for."

"What?" Phoebe asked not understanding what he meant. She saw no other demon. "Where is another…" In this moment the demon shimmered in and Cole took Phoebe and pressed her in a corner, her back touching the wall. He stood only a few millimetres away from her, facing her.

Both forgot where they were, so close to one another. Their eyes locked and both were unable to look away. All they could think about were one another's lips and how it would be to kiss them.

So it came that neither of them noticed that the demon was aware of their presence. He saw them and knew they weren't aware of his presence. This was his chance and so he smashed an energy ball right in their direction.

Cole sensed magic "Down!" he cried and instinctively grabbed Phoebe and threw them both to the ground. The energy ball hit the wall and left them both unharmed. They stood up and Cole immediately smashed an energy ball back, but missed too. Meanwhile Phoebe starts to attack the demon. She ran to him, jumped to kick him, but she stays in the air, turning around herself.

The demon again wanted to throw an energy ball at Phoebe, but Cole blocked his and Phoebe fell down. She stood up and started running towards Cole as again an energy ball is smashed at her.