Desperate Measures: Chapter III
Back in the living room, a very bored Piper began flicking through TV channels, trying to find something good to watch, while Leo was seated next to the kid and now playing a board game with him.
"Piper, why don't you play this game with us if you're bored?" Leo asked her.
Piper glared at Leo, then went back to flicking channels. Leo sighed, just as Phoebe and Cole re-entered the living room, both with their brooding faces on.
Can't anyone be positive around here? Leo thought.
He went back to his game as Cole sat down on the large chair of the living room and Phoebe sat down on his lap. The two began kissing.
Adam looked up at them.
"Ewww!" Adam yelled.
Leo turned around and saw what he was yelling about.
"Do you two have to do that in front of Adam?" Leo asked them.
Phoebe and Cole ignored them.
That's it. Leo thought.
He stood up, and walked over to them. He tapped Phoebe on the shoulder.
"Can you two stop acting like high schoolers, please?" Leo asked them.
Again, they ignored him.
"STOP!" Leo yelled.
Phoebe suddenly raised one hand, while still in the embrace with Leo, and Leo was sent flying backwards into the wall, knocked unconcious.
Shouldn't I scold her, or something? Cole thought.
Cole couldn't make himself break the embrace.
"Oh come on Phoebe!" Piper yelled. "I can't shatter his head, but you can use Prue's old power on him? Bah!"
Phoebe and Cole ignored her, so Piper went back to flicking channels. Adam, however was freaked out. He ran over to Leo, trying to revive his new friend.
"Leo!" Adam yelled. "Leo, please wake up!"
Leo, slumped against the wall, was unconcious, so obviously he couldn't hear Adam's pleas. Adam stood up, and faced Phoebe, Cole, and Piper.
"Why are you people so mean?" Adam said, tears starting to come down his little cheeks.
Piper didn't seem to care that the kid was crying, as she continued to flick through channels. Phoebe, however, noticed.
"Go console the kid." Phoebe told Cole, breaking the embrace.
"Well, shouldn't you?" Cole said. "I mean, you're the one who knocked Leo out...."
"Cole!" Phoebe said. "You're good. I'm not. I'd just say something mean, like Adam said. Go talk to him."
Cole sighed. Child skills weren't exactly his greatest asset, and it was understanable considering how long he was Belthazor. Demons don't have to raise kids. Cole walked over to Adam, and put his hand on his shoulder as he cried over Leo.
"It'll be alright, Adam." Cole said in the nicest voice he had. "Phoebe just lost her temper, that's all. Leo's just sleeping."
Cole gently wiped away one of Adam's tears and gave him a genuine smile.
"I have to go to the bathroom." Phoebe said. "Seeing this side of Cole has me about ready to puke."
Piper laughed as Phoebe left the living room. Cole stood up and helped the boy up as well.
"Piper, can you give me a hand in moving Leo onto the couch?" Cole asked her.
Piper yawned as she nonchalantly waved her right hand, levitating Leo in the air and then hovering him over the couch. She moved her hand down in a quick motion and Leo crashed awkardly onto the couch as Piper laughed.
"You could have been a bit more gentle with that landing." Cole said.
"Yes, I could have." Piper laughed.
"Glad she's not my wife." Cole muttered as he walked out of the living room.
Leo, meanwhile, finally seemed to wake up.
"Where's Phoebe and Cole?" were the first words out of his mouth, after surveying the living room.
"Oh yeah, that's what you immeaditley notice." Piper said. "Not the fact that I'm here, considering I'm your wife you could at least tell me you love me or some other sappy shit."
"What's the point? You'd just make fun of me anyway."
"Good point." Piper said with a laugh, as she leaned back into the chair. "Well, Cole was consoling little Adam, who was upset because Phoebe knocked you, the only goody-goody left, out, and Phoebe got sick from seeing his good side. Cole's now off trying to convince her he's still bad, so tonight she'll suck his...."
"Okay, Piper, we have a child in the room." Leo interrupted her.
"Yes, I know." Piper said. "Corrupting a young mind is fun! See, you always ruin my fun."
Leo sighed as again, Piper laughed.
He's so easy to torture. Piper thought. His emotions are almost childlike in their innocence. He still beleives that there's good in me, that my heart is not cold. My heart is cold, I haven't had any use for love since Prue died. Phoebe's heart would be cold as well if it was not for Cole. He may have to be dealt with eventually.....
Meanwhile, Cole walked into the dining room, where Phoebe sat with her head down in her hands.
"Phoebe?" Cole asked her.
Phoebe raised her head, a confused and somewhat sad look on her face.
"Cole..." Phoebe said.
Cole sat down next to her, moving one of the dining room chairs next to Phoebe's.
"Phoebe, what's wrong?"
"Cole....I just, don't want to talk about it."
Cole sighed.
"Please, Phoebe, talk to me." Cole said. "Remember, I was there once. I can help you through it."
"Seeing you consoling that young kid....it reached my heart." Phoebe admitted. "The heart I still only have open because of your love for me. I see what Piper's like now, her heart has gone completley cold, and I don't want to be like that, Cole. But I saw you consoling that young kid, and my heart....the real me, it made me realize that I'll never be able to do something like that again. I may still have my heart, but I'm still very much evil. I give off the dark vibe, that child realized it right away when he called me a super-villan. I'll never be able to console a child, or do anything like that again. What good is it to save an innocent who can't stand to be around me, who's disgusted by me? I'm stuck between good and evil, Cole, and evil is winning. I just can't take it anymore...."
Phoebe trailed off, and Cole gently moved her head and held it onto his shoulder.
"You're in the exact same predicment I was, Phoebe." Cole said. "You have to fight the evil and let the good in....."
"I can't!" Phoebe screamed, raising from her chair. "I just can't do it anymore!"
"Phoebe...." Cole began, but he was cut off by a yell from Piper.
"The parents are home!" Piper yelled excitedly.
Something just seemed to go off in Phoebe. The sadness erased from her eyes and was replaced by a black coldness.
"Killing time." Phoebe said with an evil smile.
"Adam!" came a male yell.
"Daddy!" Adam yelled in response.
"Leo, you might want to get the fucking kid out of here, dumb-ass!" Piper snapped.
Leo ignored Piper's insults and grabbed Adam.
"No, Daddy!" Adam yelled, but he was carried out of the living room by Leo, just as Phoebe ran past him, followed by Cole.
Piper and Phoebe waited as the two parents entered the living room. Both of them looked completley normal, except half their faces were now rotting flesh.
"Gross!" Phoebe exclaimed.
"Adam!" the mother yelled.
"Ready?" Phoebe asked her sister.
"Duh." Phoebe replied.
Both sisters simply raised their hands. The mother's dress began to catch fire, and the fire slowly spread to the rest of her body. She collapsed, trying to roll around on the floor to stop the burning, but it slowly burned through her clothes, then her flesh, then her bone, leaving her nothing more than ash. Phoebe layed down in front of the ash and cupped her hand below her mouth. She blew the ashes up into the air.
Meanwhile, the father was now frozen solid. Piper walked up to him, and raised her fist. With an evil grin, she slammed her fist into the frozen head, shattering it.
"That was SO cool!" Piper exclaimed.
"I'm with you, Piper." Phoebe said. "That was a serious rush."
The ashes in the air began to glow white as they fell back to the ground again. After hitting the ground, the ashes quickly reformed into the mother's body, without the rotting flesh on one side of her face. She layed down on the ground, unconcious but breathing.
The father, meanwhile, quickly dethawed, and the frozen head un-shattered and came back onto his body in time to defrost as well. He collapsed to the floor, unconcious but still breathing, as well.
"Can we kill them again?" Piper asked her sister.
Phoebe smiled evilly.
"Well, if you insist."
"Phoebe, Piper, no!" Cole exclaimed, finally breaking his silence.
"Awwww." Phoebe said dissapointingly.
She turned away, and embraced her- well, whatever Cole was now. The two kissed. Piper, however, did not turn away from the father. She got down onto her knees, and leaned her faces inches away from the unconcious face of the father, as Phoebe and Cole broke their embrace to look on.
"You got lucky." Piper whispered into his ear. "You're lucky I'm letting you live. How does it feel to know that I am supreme, that I have more power in my pinky finger than you have in your entire puny, pathetic body. You're a damn lucky man to still be alive, and to still have your family."
Piper stood up, and turned back to Phoebe and Cole.
"So when the fuck is that demon going to show up?" Piper asked them. "Dargos was its name, right?"
"Yeah." Cole replied. "And, I guess he didn't feel like taking on two of the most powerful warlocks out there."
Piper smiled evilly.
It's good to be feared. Piper thought. Very, very good.
Meanwhile, Dargos stood before The Source and the Seer in the Underworld.
"Why are you here, Dargos?" The Source asked him. "You were not summoned."
"Yes, but I expected to be." Dargos replied.
"And why is that, exactly?" The Source asked him.
"Because you are going to kill me for not forfilling my duties by confronting the ones who stopped me from collecting the child's soul for you." Dargos answered. "Just please understand that I had no chance against them!"
"I've read the prophecies." The Source stated. "As I assume you have."
"Yes." Dargos said. "When any of the Charmed Ones completley embrace darkness, they are invinciable."
"But only one of them has completley embraced it." the Seer said.
"I wouldn't have been able to get to her, anyway." Dargos replied.
"Enough!" The Source yelled. "I don't want Piper and Phoebe dead, anyway, you baffoon! We're on the same side!"
"Huh?" Dargos said, questioning him. "They're still fighting on the side of good. They saved that boy from me."
"Yes." The Source said. "But they will not be able to for long. Piper has already completley embraced darkness- the only reason she has not joined me is her hatred for me over ordering Prue's death. And Phoebe's complete embrace of darkness is only blocked by Cole."
"Belthazor, always getting in the way." the Seer said.
"You are dismissed, Dargos." The Source said.
Dargos bowed his head and shimmered out.
The Seer then turned to The Source.
"What do we do about Cole." she asked him.
"We kill him." he replied.
"But wouldn't that make both of the sisters hate you, even if they were completley dark?" she asked.
"Yes." The Source replied. "But hatred is easier to deal with than goodness. I can twist their hatred towards me to my liking."
The Seer nodded in agreement.
"The prophecies will be forfilled." The Source said. "Piper and Phoebe will become the strongest warlocks of all time, invinciable knights that will lead darkness in completley taking over the planet. Good will be no more."
The Seer again nodded in agreement.
To Be Continued....
Back in the living room, a very bored Piper began flicking through TV channels, trying to find something good to watch, while Leo was seated next to the kid and now playing a board game with him.
"Piper, why don't you play this game with us if you're bored?" Leo asked her.
Piper glared at Leo, then went back to flicking channels. Leo sighed, just as Phoebe and Cole re-entered the living room, both with their brooding faces on.
Can't anyone be positive around here? Leo thought.
He went back to his game as Cole sat down on the large chair of the living room and Phoebe sat down on his lap. The two began kissing.
Adam looked up at them.
"Ewww!" Adam yelled.
Leo turned around and saw what he was yelling about.
"Do you two have to do that in front of Adam?" Leo asked them.
Phoebe and Cole ignored them.
That's it. Leo thought.
He stood up, and walked over to them. He tapped Phoebe on the shoulder.
"Can you two stop acting like high schoolers, please?" Leo asked them.
Again, they ignored him.
"STOP!" Leo yelled.
Phoebe suddenly raised one hand, while still in the embrace with Leo, and Leo was sent flying backwards into the wall, knocked unconcious.
Shouldn't I scold her, or something? Cole thought.
Cole couldn't make himself break the embrace.
"Oh come on Phoebe!" Piper yelled. "I can't shatter his head, but you can use Prue's old power on him? Bah!"
Phoebe and Cole ignored her, so Piper went back to flicking channels. Adam, however was freaked out. He ran over to Leo, trying to revive his new friend.
"Leo!" Adam yelled. "Leo, please wake up!"
Leo, slumped against the wall, was unconcious, so obviously he couldn't hear Adam's pleas. Adam stood up, and faced Phoebe, Cole, and Piper.
"Why are you people so mean?" Adam said, tears starting to come down his little cheeks.
Piper didn't seem to care that the kid was crying, as she continued to flick through channels. Phoebe, however, noticed.
"Go console the kid." Phoebe told Cole, breaking the embrace.
"Well, shouldn't you?" Cole said. "I mean, you're the one who knocked Leo out...."
"Cole!" Phoebe said. "You're good. I'm not. I'd just say something mean, like Adam said. Go talk to him."
Cole sighed. Child skills weren't exactly his greatest asset, and it was understanable considering how long he was Belthazor. Demons don't have to raise kids. Cole walked over to Adam, and put his hand on his shoulder as he cried over Leo.
"It'll be alright, Adam." Cole said in the nicest voice he had. "Phoebe just lost her temper, that's all. Leo's just sleeping."
Cole gently wiped away one of Adam's tears and gave him a genuine smile.
"I have to go to the bathroom." Phoebe said. "Seeing this side of Cole has me about ready to puke."
Piper laughed as Phoebe left the living room. Cole stood up and helped the boy up as well.
"Piper, can you give me a hand in moving Leo onto the couch?" Cole asked her.
Piper yawned as she nonchalantly waved her right hand, levitating Leo in the air and then hovering him over the couch. She moved her hand down in a quick motion and Leo crashed awkardly onto the couch as Piper laughed.
"You could have been a bit more gentle with that landing." Cole said.
"Yes, I could have." Piper laughed.
"Glad she's not my wife." Cole muttered as he walked out of the living room.
Leo, meanwhile, finally seemed to wake up.
"Where's Phoebe and Cole?" were the first words out of his mouth, after surveying the living room.
"Oh yeah, that's what you immeaditley notice." Piper said. "Not the fact that I'm here, considering I'm your wife you could at least tell me you love me or some other sappy shit."
"What's the point? You'd just make fun of me anyway."
"Good point." Piper said with a laugh, as she leaned back into the chair. "Well, Cole was consoling little Adam, who was upset because Phoebe knocked you, the only goody-goody left, out, and Phoebe got sick from seeing his good side. Cole's now off trying to convince her he's still bad, so tonight she'll suck his...."
"Okay, Piper, we have a child in the room." Leo interrupted her.
"Yes, I know." Piper said. "Corrupting a young mind is fun! See, you always ruin my fun."
Leo sighed as again, Piper laughed.
He's so easy to torture. Piper thought. His emotions are almost childlike in their innocence. He still beleives that there's good in me, that my heart is not cold. My heart is cold, I haven't had any use for love since Prue died. Phoebe's heart would be cold as well if it was not for Cole. He may have to be dealt with eventually.....
Meanwhile, Cole walked into the dining room, where Phoebe sat with her head down in her hands.
"Phoebe?" Cole asked her.
Phoebe raised her head, a confused and somewhat sad look on her face.
"Cole..." Phoebe said.
Cole sat down next to her, moving one of the dining room chairs next to Phoebe's.
"Phoebe, what's wrong?"
"Cole....I just, don't want to talk about it."
Cole sighed.
"Please, Phoebe, talk to me." Cole said. "Remember, I was there once. I can help you through it."
"Seeing you consoling that young kid....it reached my heart." Phoebe admitted. "The heart I still only have open because of your love for me. I see what Piper's like now, her heart has gone completley cold, and I don't want to be like that, Cole. But I saw you consoling that young kid, and my heart....the real me, it made me realize that I'll never be able to do something like that again. I may still have my heart, but I'm still very much evil. I give off the dark vibe, that child realized it right away when he called me a super-villan. I'll never be able to console a child, or do anything like that again. What good is it to save an innocent who can't stand to be around me, who's disgusted by me? I'm stuck between good and evil, Cole, and evil is winning. I just can't take it anymore...."
Phoebe trailed off, and Cole gently moved her head and held it onto his shoulder.
"You're in the exact same predicment I was, Phoebe." Cole said. "You have to fight the evil and let the good in....."
"I can't!" Phoebe screamed, raising from her chair. "I just can't do it anymore!"
"Phoebe...." Cole began, but he was cut off by a yell from Piper.
"The parents are home!" Piper yelled excitedly.
Something just seemed to go off in Phoebe. The sadness erased from her eyes and was replaced by a black coldness.
"Killing time." Phoebe said with an evil smile.
"Adam!" came a male yell.
"Daddy!" Adam yelled in response.
"Leo, you might want to get the fucking kid out of here, dumb-ass!" Piper snapped.
Leo ignored Piper's insults and grabbed Adam.
"No, Daddy!" Adam yelled, but he was carried out of the living room by Leo, just as Phoebe ran past him, followed by Cole.
Piper and Phoebe waited as the two parents entered the living room. Both of them looked completley normal, except half their faces were now rotting flesh.
"Gross!" Phoebe exclaimed.
"Adam!" the mother yelled.
"Ready?" Phoebe asked her sister.
"Duh." Phoebe replied.
Both sisters simply raised their hands. The mother's dress began to catch fire, and the fire slowly spread to the rest of her body. She collapsed, trying to roll around on the floor to stop the burning, but it slowly burned through her clothes, then her flesh, then her bone, leaving her nothing more than ash. Phoebe layed down in front of the ash and cupped her hand below her mouth. She blew the ashes up into the air.
Meanwhile, the father was now frozen solid. Piper walked up to him, and raised her fist. With an evil grin, she slammed her fist into the frozen head, shattering it.
"That was SO cool!" Piper exclaimed.
"I'm with you, Piper." Phoebe said. "That was a serious rush."
The ashes in the air began to glow white as they fell back to the ground again. After hitting the ground, the ashes quickly reformed into the mother's body, without the rotting flesh on one side of her face. She layed down on the ground, unconcious but breathing.
The father, meanwhile, quickly dethawed, and the frozen head un-shattered and came back onto his body in time to defrost as well. He collapsed to the floor, unconcious but still breathing, as well.
"Can we kill them again?" Piper asked her sister.
Phoebe smiled evilly.
"Well, if you insist."
"Phoebe, Piper, no!" Cole exclaimed, finally breaking his silence.
"Awwww." Phoebe said dissapointingly.
She turned away, and embraced her- well, whatever Cole was now. The two kissed. Piper, however, did not turn away from the father. She got down onto her knees, and leaned her faces inches away from the unconcious face of the father, as Phoebe and Cole broke their embrace to look on.
"You got lucky." Piper whispered into his ear. "You're lucky I'm letting you live. How does it feel to know that I am supreme, that I have more power in my pinky finger than you have in your entire puny, pathetic body. You're a damn lucky man to still be alive, and to still have your family."
Piper stood up, and turned back to Phoebe and Cole.
"So when the fuck is that demon going to show up?" Piper asked them. "Dargos was its name, right?"
"Yeah." Cole replied. "And, I guess he didn't feel like taking on two of the most powerful warlocks out there."
Piper smiled evilly.
It's good to be feared. Piper thought. Very, very good.
Meanwhile, Dargos stood before The Source and the Seer in the Underworld.
"Why are you here, Dargos?" The Source asked him. "You were not summoned."
"Yes, but I expected to be." Dargos replied.
"And why is that, exactly?" The Source asked him.
"Because you are going to kill me for not forfilling my duties by confronting the ones who stopped me from collecting the child's soul for you." Dargos answered. "Just please understand that I had no chance against them!"
"I've read the prophecies." The Source stated. "As I assume you have."
"Yes." Dargos said. "When any of the Charmed Ones completley embrace darkness, they are invinciable."
"But only one of them has completley embraced it." the Seer said.
"I wouldn't have been able to get to her, anyway." Dargos replied.
"Enough!" The Source yelled. "I don't want Piper and Phoebe dead, anyway, you baffoon! We're on the same side!"
"Huh?" Dargos said, questioning him. "They're still fighting on the side of good. They saved that boy from me."
"Yes." The Source said. "But they will not be able to for long. Piper has already completley embraced darkness- the only reason she has not joined me is her hatred for me over ordering Prue's death. And Phoebe's complete embrace of darkness is only blocked by Cole."
"Belthazor, always getting in the way." the Seer said.
"You are dismissed, Dargos." The Source said.
Dargos bowed his head and shimmered out.
The Seer then turned to The Source.
"What do we do about Cole." she asked him.
"We kill him." he replied.
"But wouldn't that make both of the sisters hate you, even if they were completley dark?" she asked.
"Yes." The Source replied. "But hatred is easier to deal with than goodness. I can twist their hatred towards me to my liking."
The Seer nodded in agreement.
"The prophecies will be forfilled." The Source said. "Piper and Phoebe will become the strongest warlocks of all time, invinciable knights that will lead darkness in completley taking over the planet. Good will be no more."
The Seer again nodded in agreement.
To Be Continued....