Desperate Measures Chapter II
The young child from Phoebe's preminition was seated in his living room, playing with some Legos, wondering where his parents were, but not really caring at the moment.
Piper and Phoebe, meanwhile, blinked into the kitchen, with Leo orbbing in, bringing Cole with him.
"So, the plan is that we baby-sit the brat until the homicidal parents show up, right?" Phoebe asked them.
"Yeah." Cole said. "The two of you then kill the parents. Killing them will remove the demonic seed, and Leo can heal them back to life before their spirits rise up. The demon will then show itself, and you two should make short work of it."
"Sounds good to me." Piper said. "I want to be the one to kill the parents, though."
"No, I want to be the one to kill the parents!" Phoebe yelled.
"Look, we'll take one each, okay?" Piper offered.
"Alright, alright...." Phoebe said, a bit dissapoitned.
Cole suddenly realized the risk here.
They're killing, in their minds, at least part-humans. Cole thought. They're fighting over who gets the kill because they want to experience what it feels like to kill a human. I have to make sure to keep them under control, they could easily go out of control from the feeling from killing a human, even a non-innocent, part-demon one.
Cole silently began to remember back to his first kill, only to be interrupted by Phoebe.
"Cole?" Phoebe said.
I wonder what's wrong with him. Phoebe thought. I hope he doesn't go all Leo on me. So far my being dark has brought us closer together....I don't want that to change.
"Sorry." Cole said. "Got lost in thought, that's all."
"Most likely lusting after Phoebe again." Piper muttered.
Piper then turned to Leo.
"Can you talk to the kid?" Piper asked him. "I don't feel like being nice right now, or having to give a pretend goody-two-shoes voice. You, on the other hand, don't have to pretend."
"Can't you just think back to when you were still good, and just bring that part of you to the surface?" Leo asked her.
"She doesn't want to, Leo." Phoebe snapped. "Neither do I. Being good just brings doubts and fears into our mind. As darkness, we are truely free."
Piper nodded, as Cole looked on with a strange smile.
She understands what it means to be dark. Cole thought. And she's enjoying it. Right now, I almost wish I could join her, even though there is a part of me that will always be dark as well.
Cole could not resist his own urges as he turned Phoebe around and kissed her deeply. Piper rolled her eyes and leaned against the wall, while Leo snorted, trying to get their attention. They ignored him. Finally, he took a more direct approach.
"You two can lust after each other when we're done saving that kid." Leo snapped. "Now come on! I'll talk to the kid, whatever you want, let's just get in there."
I should have just let Piper shatter his fucking head. Phoebe thought.
She broke her embrace with Cole, and walked into the living room, her eyes cold. Piper, Cole, and Leo followed, startling the boy.
"Wh-Who are you?" the boy asked as he jumped back.
Leo crouched down and smiled for the boy, trying to get some positive energy in the room to counter the sulking Phoebe and Cole and the just plain bitchy Piper.
"We're here to help you." Leo said with a smile. "I can't explain it, but something bad has happened to your mommy and daddy, and we need to stay here with you so we can save them."
"You're super-heroes!" the boy said excitedly.
"More like super-villians." Piper snorted.
Leo shot Piper an angry glare, before turning back to the boy.
"Yes, I guess you could call us super-heroes." Leo replied.
"You look like a super-hero, but, they don't." the boy said, pointing at Piper, Phoebe, and Cole. "I think the lady was right, they're super- villans. So if you're a super-hero, why are you teaming with super- villans?"
Leo sighed.
"It's.....complicated." Leo said. "We're here to protect you. That's all you need to know."
The boy nodded, satisfied as he went back to his legos. A few moments later, however, he was no longer satisfied. He held his stomach.
"Hungry." the boy said. "My parents never made me lunch."
"I'll go get you something." Leo said, leaving for the kitchen.
"We'll go...ummm...come too." Phoebe said, grabbing Cole by the arm and dragging him into the kitchen.
"Perfect excuse to go suck face again, sis." Piper said with a laugh.
Phoebe ignored her sister as she entered the kitchen with Cole, and the two began kissing again, as Phoebe held Cole against the wall. Leo sighed as he put a Pizza-For-One into the microwave and began pressing the buttons.
"Cole......I....really......do.....understand." Phoebe said between their passionate kisses. "I understand.....why you.....were happy......this way."
Cole didn't respond as the two continued to kiss.
She doesn't understand the other side of this, does she? Cole wondered. The poor girl still has a deeply-buried heart, just as I did. If she ever kills innocents someday, the pain that heart will feel when it realizes it no longer cares about human life, will be unbearable. Someday, no amount of dark pleasure will be able to mask that.
Back in the living room, Piper was still leaning against the wall, staring at the kid as he played with his legos.
So innocent. Piper thought. Innocence is like a disease....it keeps you from the greatest pleasures of life.
Piper finally decided she was bored enough to talk to the kid.
"What's your name, kid?" Piper asked him.
The child looked up.
"It's Adam." he answered.
"And how old are you?"
"Seven."
Piper nodded before stretching out her neck.
"Can I ask you questions too?" he said.
"I guess." Piper replied as she continued to stretch her neck, not really caring.
"Why don't you smile?"
Piper laughed.
"I just did, didn't I?"
"That's not a real smile." Adam replied. "I mean a happy smile."
Piper sat down in front of the kid, any sheds of the laughter erasing from her face.
"Let me tell you something, Adam." Piper said. "There's no such thing as 'happy'. One moment you think you're a good person, and then you lose someone close to you. You realize that being a good person means nothing in the grand scheme of things, because the good guys really do finish last. Being bad is not only more fun.....but it's a hell of a lot easier, and a whole lot more rewarding."
Adam didn't take all of this in, but he seemed to understand some of it.
"You need to smile more." Adam said. "Smiling always helps me when I feel sad, but being bad doesn't help. Being bad is wrong."
Piper smirked as she stood back up.
"Sometimes being wrong is the right thing to do, Adam." Piper said.
She sat down on the couch, and closed her eyes, thinking back to Prue's death.
Being good got me nowhere then. Piper thought. Now that I'm bad, I have all the power I need to prevent that from happening again. I'll never be weak again. Never.
At that moment, Leo walked into the room with the microwaved pizza, cut into eight small pieces and on a plate. Piper opened her eyes as Leo gave the pizza to the child.
"Thank you." Adam said.
"Your welcome." Leo replied. "Piper didn't say anything too bad to you, did she?"
"Nah." Adam replied as he began to scarf down his pizza.
Leo turned to Piper, who now had her eyes open, eyeing her husband, who sat down on the couch next to her.
"Nice homemaking skills." Piper said. "Would have made a great father....."
"I will be when you're good again." Leo replied.
"Who said I wanted to go good again?" Piper said.
Leo sighed.
I knew the evil was going to completley take her over, didn't I? Leo thought to himself. Or maybe I had just been denying it all this time.
Back in the kitchen, Phoebe and Cole had stopped their kissing, or "sucking face" as Piper had so-elegantly put it, long enough to sit at the kitchen table and have some coffee.
"Think the family's going to mind we stole some of their coffee?" Cole asked her.
"I think they'll be too busy trying to kill their kid to notice." Phoebe replied, as Cole laughed.
The bond between the two of us is keeping her love for me alive. Cole thought. The fact that we share the darkness has allowed Phoebe to continue to access her buried heart, and bring it above the darkness. The connection between evil Piper and Leo is not strong enough for her to be able to do the same, which is why she's been a lot bitchier than Phoebe.
Phoebe leaned over and kissed Cole again.
"I wish the fucking parents would show up already." Phoebe said, breaking the kiss. "I want to get home and...well, you know."
"Is that all you think about?" Cole said with a laugh.
"Look me in the eyes and tell me that's not what you're thinking about right now." Phoebe said.
"That's not what I'm thinking about right now." Cole said, looking Phoebe right in the eyes.
"Yup, you do have some evil left in you if you're able to lie to my face that good." Phoebe said, and the two broke out laughing.
To Be Continued.....
The young child from Phoebe's preminition was seated in his living room, playing with some Legos, wondering where his parents were, but not really caring at the moment.
Piper and Phoebe, meanwhile, blinked into the kitchen, with Leo orbbing in, bringing Cole with him.
"So, the plan is that we baby-sit the brat until the homicidal parents show up, right?" Phoebe asked them.
"Yeah." Cole said. "The two of you then kill the parents. Killing them will remove the demonic seed, and Leo can heal them back to life before their spirits rise up. The demon will then show itself, and you two should make short work of it."
"Sounds good to me." Piper said. "I want to be the one to kill the parents, though."
"No, I want to be the one to kill the parents!" Phoebe yelled.
"Look, we'll take one each, okay?" Piper offered.
"Alright, alright...." Phoebe said, a bit dissapoitned.
Cole suddenly realized the risk here.
They're killing, in their minds, at least part-humans. Cole thought. They're fighting over who gets the kill because they want to experience what it feels like to kill a human. I have to make sure to keep them under control, they could easily go out of control from the feeling from killing a human, even a non-innocent, part-demon one.
Cole silently began to remember back to his first kill, only to be interrupted by Phoebe.
"Cole?" Phoebe said.
I wonder what's wrong with him. Phoebe thought. I hope he doesn't go all Leo on me. So far my being dark has brought us closer together....I don't want that to change.
"Sorry." Cole said. "Got lost in thought, that's all."
"Most likely lusting after Phoebe again." Piper muttered.
Piper then turned to Leo.
"Can you talk to the kid?" Piper asked him. "I don't feel like being nice right now, or having to give a pretend goody-two-shoes voice. You, on the other hand, don't have to pretend."
"Can't you just think back to when you were still good, and just bring that part of you to the surface?" Leo asked her.
"She doesn't want to, Leo." Phoebe snapped. "Neither do I. Being good just brings doubts and fears into our mind. As darkness, we are truely free."
Piper nodded, as Cole looked on with a strange smile.
She understands what it means to be dark. Cole thought. And she's enjoying it. Right now, I almost wish I could join her, even though there is a part of me that will always be dark as well.
Cole could not resist his own urges as he turned Phoebe around and kissed her deeply. Piper rolled her eyes and leaned against the wall, while Leo snorted, trying to get their attention. They ignored him. Finally, he took a more direct approach.
"You two can lust after each other when we're done saving that kid." Leo snapped. "Now come on! I'll talk to the kid, whatever you want, let's just get in there."
I should have just let Piper shatter his fucking head. Phoebe thought.
She broke her embrace with Cole, and walked into the living room, her eyes cold. Piper, Cole, and Leo followed, startling the boy.
"Wh-Who are you?" the boy asked as he jumped back.
Leo crouched down and smiled for the boy, trying to get some positive energy in the room to counter the sulking Phoebe and Cole and the just plain bitchy Piper.
"We're here to help you." Leo said with a smile. "I can't explain it, but something bad has happened to your mommy and daddy, and we need to stay here with you so we can save them."
"You're super-heroes!" the boy said excitedly.
"More like super-villians." Piper snorted.
Leo shot Piper an angry glare, before turning back to the boy.
"Yes, I guess you could call us super-heroes." Leo replied.
"You look like a super-hero, but, they don't." the boy said, pointing at Piper, Phoebe, and Cole. "I think the lady was right, they're super- villans. So if you're a super-hero, why are you teaming with super- villans?"
Leo sighed.
"It's.....complicated." Leo said. "We're here to protect you. That's all you need to know."
The boy nodded, satisfied as he went back to his legos. A few moments later, however, he was no longer satisfied. He held his stomach.
"Hungry." the boy said. "My parents never made me lunch."
"I'll go get you something." Leo said, leaving for the kitchen.
"We'll go...ummm...come too." Phoebe said, grabbing Cole by the arm and dragging him into the kitchen.
"Perfect excuse to go suck face again, sis." Piper said with a laugh.
Phoebe ignored her sister as she entered the kitchen with Cole, and the two began kissing again, as Phoebe held Cole against the wall. Leo sighed as he put a Pizza-For-One into the microwave and began pressing the buttons.
"Cole......I....really......do.....understand." Phoebe said between their passionate kisses. "I understand.....why you.....were happy......this way."
Cole didn't respond as the two continued to kiss.
She doesn't understand the other side of this, does she? Cole wondered. The poor girl still has a deeply-buried heart, just as I did. If she ever kills innocents someday, the pain that heart will feel when it realizes it no longer cares about human life, will be unbearable. Someday, no amount of dark pleasure will be able to mask that.
Back in the living room, Piper was still leaning against the wall, staring at the kid as he played with his legos.
So innocent. Piper thought. Innocence is like a disease....it keeps you from the greatest pleasures of life.
Piper finally decided she was bored enough to talk to the kid.
"What's your name, kid?" Piper asked him.
The child looked up.
"It's Adam." he answered.
"And how old are you?"
"Seven."
Piper nodded before stretching out her neck.
"Can I ask you questions too?" he said.
"I guess." Piper replied as she continued to stretch her neck, not really caring.
"Why don't you smile?"
Piper laughed.
"I just did, didn't I?"
"That's not a real smile." Adam replied. "I mean a happy smile."
Piper sat down in front of the kid, any sheds of the laughter erasing from her face.
"Let me tell you something, Adam." Piper said. "There's no such thing as 'happy'. One moment you think you're a good person, and then you lose someone close to you. You realize that being a good person means nothing in the grand scheme of things, because the good guys really do finish last. Being bad is not only more fun.....but it's a hell of a lot easier, and a whole lot more rewarding."
Adam didn't take all of this in, but he seemed to understand some of it.
"You need to smile more." Adam said. "Smiling always helps me when I feel sad, but being bad doesn't help. Being bad is wrong."
Piper smirked as she stood back up.
"Sometimes being wrong is the right thing to do, Adam." Piper said.
She sat down on the couch, and closed her eyes, thinking back to Prue's death.
Being good got me nowhere then. Piper thought. Now that I'm bad, I have all the power I need to prevent that from happening again. I'll never be weak again. Never.
At that moment, Leo walked into the room with the microwaved pizza, cut into eight small pieces and on a plate. Piper opened her eyes as Leo gave the pizza to the child.
"Thank you." Adam said.
"Your welcome." Leo replied. "Piper didn't say anything too bad to you, did she?"
"Nah." Adam replied as he began to scarf down his pizza.
Leo turned to Piper, who now had her eyes open, eyeing her husband, who sat down on the couch next to her.
"Nice homemaking skills." Piper said. "Would have made a great father....."
"I will be when you're good again." Leo replied.
"Who said I wanted to go good again?" Piper said.
Leo sighed.
I knew the evil was going to completley take her over, didn't I? Leo thought to himself. Or maybe I had just been denying it all this time.
Back in the kitchen, Phoebe and Cole had stopped their kissing, or "sucking face" as Piper had so-elegantly put it, long enough to sit at the kitchen table and have some coffee.
"Think the family's going to mind we stole some of their coffee?" Cole asked her.
"I think they'll be too busy trying to kill their kid to notice." Phoebe replied, as Cole laughed.
The bond between the two of us is keeping her love for me alive. Cole thought. The fact that we share the darkness has allowed Phoebe to continue to access her buried heart, and bring it above the darkness. The connection between evil Piper and Leo is not strong enough for her to be able to do the same, which is why she's been a lot bitchier than Phoebe.
Phoebe leaned over and kissed Cole again.
"I wish the fucking parents would show up already." Phoebe said, breaking the kiss. "I want to get home and...well, you know."
"Is that all you think about?" Cole said with a laugh.
"Look me in the eyes and tell me that's not what you're thinking about right now." Phoebe said.
"That's not what I'm thinking about right now." Cole said, looking Phoebe right in the eyes.
"Yup, you do have some evil left in you if you're able to lie to my face that good." Phoebe said, and the two broke out laughing.
To Be Continued.....