-1The Road Not Taken Chapter 10
"Phoebe?" questioned Paige as she pulled away from her sister who had just snapped out of her premonition.
Phoebe looked at her baby sister accusingly.
"You…you did something to Cole" she said tightly. "A spell"
"Phoebe what are you talking about?" asked Piper looking at Phoebe.
Paige looked at Piper before Phoebe grabbed her shoulders roughly and shook her.
"Tell me!"
Paige closed her eyes and took a breath before starting.
"The Angel of Destiny not only showed you that alternate universe" explained Paige. "But Cole also"
"He showed Cole?" questioned Phoebe softly as she adverted her eyes from Paige's. "The Angel never told me"
Paige nodded. "It was planned to be that way…he showed Cole everything from you two having children, to the adultery, to you ultimately leaving him"
Phoebe blinked several times before looking back at Paige. "And that required a spell?"
"The spell was to sort of magnify his pain and his love for you" admitted Paige. "It was supposed to either have him leave town, or get himself killed"
"Y..you tried to send a man to his death with a spell?" cried Phoebe. "That's why he wanted us to vanquish him!"
"I was enlisted by The Elders…I was shown over and over how many witches and innocents he killed and we all know that Cole is easily swayed by evil" said Paige. "I couldn't have that be our fate…not by his hands"
Phoebe blinked slowly and let go of Paige.
"That's what they used to rope you in" whispered Phoebe. She felt bile rise up to her throat and swallowed.
"I'm sorry" apologized Paige. "It didn't go the way I hoped…"
"How can you say that?" asked Phoebe angrily. "He's dead isn't he!"
Paige fell silent.
"And what the Elders didn't tell you was the pain that would bring me"
"The spell made him go crazy put us all in danger" said Piper staring at Paige. "Paige, you put my baby…your niece, your sisters in danger"
"No" said Paige shaking her head her eyes filling up with tears. "I just wanted him out of our lives…out of Phoebe's.."
Suddenly she felt a huge smack on her cheek and looked shockingly at Phoebe. Paige rubbed her stinging cheek as fresh tears spilled down her pale cheeks.
"Phoebe!" cried Piper.
"It was warranted"
"Well you don't have a baby to blame for that one" commented Paige bitterly.
Phoebe felt shock and rage at Paige's words. She grabbed Paige by the neck and pushed her against the wall.
"Don't you dare talk about my s…" she stopped herself.
Paige orbed out of her grasp and orbed by the window.
"Before anyone starts attacking me" said Paige. "My intentions were only on this family"
"Get out" spat Phoebe.
"Phoebe let her explain herself" chimed in Piper. "There has to be a good reason. In fact their better be, because Paige your stupidity…the fact that you didn't come to us first almost had you and Phoebe turned into mummies, had me duel with Cole, heavy emotional stress, almost having our house run by evil. Not to mention putting Phoebe through hell"
"Well we all know she's been there, done that" noted Paige.
"You keep putting that foot deeper into your mouth" said Phoebe glaring at Paige.
"You two would have done the same thing!" cried Paige. "Don't pretend like none of you ran into something half cocked"
"The thing is Paige we learned our lesson the hard way" said Piper. "We advise you to always come to us. We don't keep secrets, especially ones for The Elders. Cole was a problem in all our lives"
"I knew Phoebe wouldn't go for it" said Paige. "I could see her falling back in love with Cole. I could see that she wanted to give him another chance. It was only a matter of time. You had to see his true nature. Now it doesn't matter cause Cole is dead and Piper you are almost due to give birth and we can finally focus on our niece"
Phoebe threw up her hands and snorted.
"So that's it, forget what you did and move on!" cried Phoebe.
"For your own sake…yes" said Paige crossing her arms. "You will meet someone much better, someone who won't poison your soul. Things might look dark now, you might think there's no tomorrow but things will get better I swear"
Phoebe's eyes welled up with tears. She felt betrayed by her sister. She hadn't felt this alone in quite a long time. She closed her eyes thinking that her and Cole we so close at coming to an understand, that they could possibly be friends.
She barely heard Piper and Paige leave her bedroom as she began to think about Paige's hate for Cole. She never gave him a chance, her disdain for Cole was always evident, the mistrust.
Paige had sucked Piper into that and Phoebe feeling cornered and outvoted sided with her family. At least Prue gave Cole a chance, tried to understand him at some level. She sat on Cole's side of the bed, or what was Cole's side.
"I have to see you" whispered Phoebe. "I'm sorry Cole. Please come back to me. You always do"
With that she crawled into a fetus position and layed there no more tears to cry.