Chapter 10: Three times is the charm

"What do you mean, not only Phoebe ?" Paige asked

Cole looked at her and she noticed tears were forming in his eyes. Phoebe couldn't take the silence anymore.

"Who else is there, Cole ? Tell me what happened between us" she insisted

Cole took a deep breath. "When you vanquished me in that alternate reality, I was sent to hell. Surprise surprise but after six months or so, an Elder came to visit me"

Leo raised his eyebrows. "An Elder ? Why would a being of light come to visit you ?"

Cole now looked amused. "Well, you should know that better than me Leo because that Elder was you"

All eyes now rested on Leo. "What ?" the three sisters exclaimed

"You wanted to make me a deal, in order of my full cooperation to vanquish a great evil. The kind only I had the power to of defeating" Cole said

"Oh yeah ? Then who was this great evil ?" Paige asked unimpressed

Cole's eyes met hers. "My sister"

"You don't have a sister" Piper said not believing his story

Cole nodded. "You're right, Cole doesn't have a sister. But Balthazoar does. Aeriyana didn't have a mortal side, only a demon one."

"And you destroyed her ?" Phoebe asked

Cole nodded. "She was just another demon and to her I was just another magical being that wanted to kill her. Demons don't have human emotions and she couldn't care less if we shared a mother or not. Aeriyana was unstoppable at one point, I had no choice and I had made a deal."

Phoebe looked into his eyes. "And after we…."

Cole shook his head. "Oh no, it wasn't as easy as that. It took us months to build up our new relationship….our new marriage."

Phoebe gasped. Marriage, she was going to marry Cole again. And she instantly knew how her marriage would be. Happy, just like it was supposed to.

Paige and Piper looked at eachother, so Cole was back to being a family member again.

"And nine months after our marriage, we became parents to a beautiful baby girl" Cole continued

Phoebe's eyes couldn't hold the tears anymore now, her dream was coming true. A happy marriage with Cole, a baby with Cole but there was a downside to all of this.

"But then I got killed" she said softly

Cole couldn't stop the tears now either. "No, we all got killed. Victor took care of the girls but the only surviving members of the Charmed family were very high on the demon hit-list, especially after Wyatt's turn."

Phoebe's head snapped up. "W-what do you mean ?"

"Prue did the best she could but a ten year old doesn't have the power to stop 3 demons and Pattie was hit. Deadly hit. She didn't make it." Cole forced out

Phoebe sat down reaching for her heart. "Oh my God"

"You really should stop now, Cole. You already told them too much about the future. They can't know anything more" Chris interuppted and knowing how the story went further.

Cole nodded but turned to the sisters. "Now, I want to know where Prue is and what happened to her"

Paige flinched 'cause of his protective tone. He really cared about Prue, she didn't think he'd like the news of her turning.

"Selene ?" he asked

Selene faced him. "She turned, sir. He got her"

"What ? That's not possible, Prue would never turn to Evil. Not the same Evil that took her entire family. WHAT HAPPENED ?" Cole yelled

Selene flinched at his tone but she knew he was right. Prudence Melynda Halliwell would never turn dark, it wasn't in her nature. She had her friends here, the Alliance, Chris….

"Chris" she whispered

Every eye in the room turned towards her. Selene looked at her leader's whitelighter with confusion in her eyes.

"She attacked you first, she told you that she wasn't done with you yet. What did you do ?" she said mildly accusing

Chris opened his mouth but no sound came out. He couldn't tell them what he had done, he couldn't tell them that he had broken the trust of someone that loved him. That needed him, that needed him to rely on. Cole's eyes flashed with anger.

"What did you do whitelighter ?" he said seemingly calm

This time it was Phoebe that flinched. She knew the tone that Cole was using, it was the same one that he used when he could barely control his anger. She hoped for Chris' sake that he couldn't step out of that circle.

"I…………I broke her trust when I was in the past." He said sofly

Selene's head snapped up. "What do you mean ?"

Chris couldn't look anyone in the eye. He hated himself for what he had done but he was missing Prue like hell and in an attempt to forget the pain, he had gotten drunk.

FLASHBACK

"Is this seat taken ?"

Chris looked up from his seat at P3 and stared at the beautiful woman. Her long brown hair was loose unlike her red dress that hugged her every curve.

"No" he answered

She smiled and sat down. "So, why are you sitting here all by yourself ?"

Chris looked at his drink again. "No special reason"

The bartender gave the girl her apple martini and she took it with a smile on her face. "I'm Kia by the way"

"Chris" he answered now smiling also

"Well Chris, are you up for a little fun ?" she asked softly putting her hand on his leg

Chris watched her hand stroking his leg up and down. It had been so long since he had seen Prue and in his drunken mind he could almost see her sitting in front of him.

Chris let Kia pull him off his chair, he let her push him into his room and he let her kiss him.

END FLASHBACK

He had woken up that morning with a killer headache and with a brunette sleeping on his chest. He had freaked out and had vowed to himself that Prue would never found out but he hadn't counted on Wyatt telling her.

"Look, it doesn't matter what he did. The only thing that matters is how we get her back" Piper came to his rescue

"She is so powerful now" Paige said

Cole looked at his sister-in-law. "She has always been powerful but always afraid to release her power. She always felt the lesser of the two remaining Charmed childeren and that's what held her back. Now that she doesn't care about that anymore, she released everything."

"And now teamed up with Wyatt, who knows what they can do ?" Selene stated

Prue looked at herself in the mirror. Her long, dark green dress looked absolutely stunning on her. She also took a liking to her black hair, it was a nice change. But she was addicted to the immense power she felt.

In her whole life, she had been holding back and for what ? She always got hurt and now she had everything. She was feared, powerful and soon everyone would bow down at her feet.

"The dress looks amazing on you, milady"

Prue turned around and saw the Seer entering the room. She watched as the dark skinned woman made her way towards her.

"Did you want something ?" Prue asked coldly

The Seer smiled. "Your brother requests your presence, milady. He wants you to meet someone"

"Who ?" she sneered

"Why don't you go and find out ?" the Seer said

Prue looked at the woman and rolled her eyes. Then she stepped out of the room and made her way towards Wyatt's chambers. A few demons crossed her path and a few bowed their heads when she walked past them.

She reached her brothers chambers and without knocking the opened the door. Wyatt was standing in the middle of the room together with one of his demons. Prue looked him over. Black thick hair, green eyes and a body to die for.

"You asked for me ?" she said

"Yes Mel, I want you to meet someone. This is Neal, my most loyal demon." Wyatt answered nodding his head towards the demon

"Good for you" she remarked dryly

Neal smiled and suddenly she felt weak in the knees. He had a killer smile, the kind of smile that went straight to your soul.

"I'm a half-demon, milady. My mother was human" Neal said

"Why did you want me here, Wyatt ?" she said annoyed

Wyatt picked up from her tone that he shouldn't press the matter now. "Well, the Manor has been taken over by your former followers. I shouldn't really tell you that I want it back and I was hoping you were going to take it back for me"

Prue turned her head. "You want me to attack those who used to be my friends ?"

"Is that going to be a problem ?" he asked

Prue flashed a deadly smile. "Not at all"

A/N: Thank you to all who have reviewed my story, you are my inspiration !!! Next chapter shouldn't take as long as this one has (I hope) 'cause I finally got rid of that damn writer's block ! Hope you enjoyed this one and don't forget to review ! Thankx