Chance Encounters
"Look out!" Prue screamed.
Piper leaped out of the way, barely dodging a thrown knife.
"Oooh you are so going to pay for that!" Piper yelled.
She moved her arms and froze the knight dressed in black armor who had thrown the knife.
Prue and Piper were in the apartment of their latest innocent, a young woman being hunted by a demonic knight. As he was frozen, Prue used her power to send him flying out the window to the ground below.
"Come on, let's get out of here until Leo finds out how to vanquish him!" Prue yelled.
Phoebe shimmered into The Source's chamber, standing in front of him. She immeaditley kneeled before him.
"Phoebe, I have another mission for you." The Source said.
"I am ready to serve, my liege." Phoebe replied as she remain kneeled.
The Source waved one arm and a holographic image of a young man, with blonde hair and dressed in a torn shirt and jean shorts, appeared.
"He looks pathetic." Phoebe said with a slight grin.
"Do not laugh." The Source said. "This man is Thomas Ford, and he has cost us many potiental demons. He lives out on the streets with troubled youths and tries to convince them to turn their lives around. Thus, the horrible- looking clothing."
"He should be killed just for wearing that." Phoebe said as she stood up. "Well, no big deal. He'll be dead quickly enough."
"I trust you, Phoebe." The Source replied. "Now go, and do not betray my trust!"
Phoebe nodded and shimmered out.
Prue, Piper, and the young woman pulled up to the Halliwell Manor in Piper's jeep.
"Who are you people?" the woman asked them.
"Umm....well, think of us as your protectors." Prue replied. "That knight is out to kill you, and we need to protect you and vanquish him."
"What?" she asked them. "Why is he out to kill me?"
"It's complicated." Prue replied as she and Piper got out of the jeep.
The woman followed as the three of them entered the manor. Just then, Leo orbbed in.
"Ah!" the woman screamed.
"I don't have a lot of time, I have another innocent I have to go see." Leo said. "But I do know how to vanquish the demonic knight. Stab him right through the armor and through the heart with his own sword. It's magical so it will be strong enough to break through the armor."
"Thanks Leo!" Piper said and gave him a quick kiss before he orbbed out.
"Now, all we have to do is wait for the knight to follow her here." Prue said.
Tom helped a young woman, dressed in torn clothing, stand up. It appeared that she was pregnant.
"Are you okay?" Tom asked her. "You need to be more careful with your baby."
"I am, thank you Tom." the woman replied. "Without you, I don't know what I would have done."
"Touching."
Tom and the woman turned to see Phoebe, dressed in a red top and black, leather pants, walk out from the other area of the alley, a sly smile on her face.
"Who are you?" the woman asked her.
"Shut up." Phoebe replied, and sent out a stream of fire that engulfed the pregnant woman, killing her in a violent explosion of fire.
"How could..." Tom began to say, but was knocked down by a swift kick to his head.
"Spare me the 'how could you kill a preganant mother' crap, please." Phoebe said. "I'm evil. It's what I do."
As Phoebe raised her right hand to kill the man with that same fire- throwing power, Leo suddenly orbbed in.
"PHOEBE DON'T!" Leo screamed out, and on reflex Phoebe turned and blasted Leo!
Leo hit the wall, falling to the ground. Of course, fire couldn't kill a Whitelighter- but it sure did hurt like hell.
"Leo!" Phoebe yelled out.
Tom took off down the alleyway, but Phoebe turned back around and sent another stream of fire at him, hitting him and killing him. Leo screamed out, not only in his own pain but for Tom's death.
"Phoebe, he was my charge!" Leo said. "How could you?"
Phoebe looked down at him, a bit of sadness in her eyes.
"We're on different sides now, Leo." Phoebe said. "I'm a demon. This is what I do. Kill innocents. You need to stay away, and not beat yourself up over it."
"Phoebe, wait!" Leo said, but Phoebe turned and shimmered out.
Back in the manor, Prue and Piper were seated on the steps, trying to calm down the young woman they were protecting, when Leo orbbed in.
"Leo, are you okay?" Piper asked him. "You don't look so good."
"A demon got one of my charges." Leo replied.
"Awww, honey." Piper said, and gave her husband a hug.
However, their embrace was quickly broken as the demonic knight shimmered in. Piper quickly waved her hands, freezing him.
"Good thing you didn't try and make him blow up." Prue said. "It said in the Book that powers that directly harm him bounce off his armor."
"Well, thanks for telling me NOW, Prue!" Piper yelled. "Get the sword before he unfreezes!"
Prue ran over and pulled the sword out from behind his armor. Then, she put the sword through the armor and through his heart. He unfroze, and screamed in pain as he was vanquished.
"Well, that's that." Prue said, watching as the sword dissapered in her hands.
"You can go back to your life now." Piper told the young woman. "Just don't tell anyone about us, okay?"
"You have my word." she replied, and headed for the door.
Piper turned and noticed that Leo still seemed upset.
"Leo, are you sure you're okay?" Piper asked him. "You look like you've just seen a ghost."
In a way I just did. Leo thought. The ghost of Phoebe Halliwell.
"No, I'm alright." Leo said, trying his best to put on a slight grin.
Piper hugged him again and kissed him on the cheek, while in the back of her mind trying to figure out what's bothering Leo.
He's probably still just sad from having to deal with Phoebe's death. Piper thought. We all are.
Phoebe shimmered into her's and Cole's chambers in the Underworld, which she found empty.
Must be out doing some work of his own. Phoebe thought.
She sat down on their bed, which was an actual bed and not straw, as most demons used.
"Nice of The Source to give us a real bed, I guess, knowing that's what I've been used to as a human." Phoebe said to herself.
"The Source doesn't do anything for niceness." Cole said. "A happy Phoebe is a more powerful Phoebe, which is beneficial to him."
Phoebe turned to see hur lover, who had just shimmered in.
"Standard mission?" Pheobe asked him, and Cole nodded. "How'd it go?"
"I killed the innocent." Cole said. "It still hurts, but less and less as I get back into evil."
Phoebe nodded.
"Yeah, it hurts less with each kill for me too." she said. "Mine didn't go off as well, though. I killed him, but I ran into Leo as well."
"Were your sisters there?" Cole asked her.
"No, just Leo." Phoebe said. "The innocent was his charge."
"Phoebe....you're doing evil in the same town your sisters are doing good." Cole said. "You're going to eventually run into them. You need to be prepared to shift into your demonic form to hide your idenity from them. Since we share the same demonic blood, it should look a lot like mine. Are you ready to try it?"
"Cole....no, not yet." Phoebe responded. "I'm just- I'm not ready yet. I want to cling to what humanity I have left."
"I understand." Cole said, and kissed her on the forehead. "I love you."
"I love you." Phoebe responded, and the two kissed passionatley.
Next Up: Secret Idnetities
Phoebe encounters Prue and Piper, who are protecting the innocent she's trying to kill, and is forced to change into her demonic form for the first time to stop them. Prue and Piper do not realize that this new "female Belthazor" is Phoebe, and try and find a way to vanquish her, while Phoebe battles her own conflicting emotion as she tries and figures out a way to complete her mission without having to kill her own sisters.
"Look out!" Prue screamed.
Piper leaped out of the way, barely dodging a thrown knife.
"Oooh you are so going to pay for that!" Piper yelled.
She moved her arms and froze the knight dressed in black armor who had thrown the knife.
Prue and Piper were in the apartment of their latest innocent, a young woman being hunted by a demonic knight. As he was frozen, Prue used her power to send him flying out the window to the ground below.
"Come on, let's get out of here until Leo finds out how to vanquish him!" Prue yelled.
Phoebe shimmered into The Source's chamber, standing in front of him. She immeaditley kneeled before him.
"Phoebe, I have another mission for you." The Source said.
"I am ready to serve, my liege." Phoebe replied as she remain kneeled.
The Source waved one arm and a holographic image of a young man, with blonde hair and dressed in a torn shirt and jean shorts, appeared.
"He looks pathetic." Phoebe said with a slight grin.
"Do not laugh." The Source said. "This man is Thomas Ford, and he has cost us many potiental demons. He lives out on the streets with troubled youths and tries to convince them to turn their lives around. Thus, the horrible- looking clothing."
"He should be killed just for wearing that." Phoebe said as she stood up. "Well, no big deal. He'll be dead quickly enough."
"I trust you, Phoebe." The Source replied. "Now go, and do not betray my trust!"
Phoebe nodded and shimmered out.
Prue, Piper, and the young woman pulled up to the Halliwell Manor in Piper's jeep.
"Who are you people?" the woman asked them.
"Umm....well, think of us as your protectors." Prue replied. "That knight is out to kill you, and we need to protect you and vanquish him."
"What?" she asked them. "Why is he out to kill me?"
"It's complicated." Prue replied as she and Piper got out of the jeep.
The woman followed as the three of them entered the manor. Just then, Leo orbbed in.
"Ah!" the woman screamed.
"I don't have a lot of time, I have another innocent I have to go see." Leo said. "But I do know how to vanquish the demonic knight. Stab him right through the armor and through the heart with his own sword. It's magical so it will be strong enough to break through the armor."
"Thanks Leo!" Piper said and gave him a quick kiss before he orbbed out.
"Now, all we have to do is wait for the knight to follow her here." Prue said.
Tom helped a young woman, dressed in torn clothing, stand up. It appeared that she was pregnant.
"Are you okay?" Tom asked her. "You need to be more careful with your baby."
"I am, thank you Tom." the woman replied. "Without you, I don't know what I would have done."
"Touching."
Tom and the woman turned to see Phoebe, dressed in a red top and black, leather pants, walk out from the other area of the alley, a sly smile on her face.
"Who are you?" the woman asked her.
"Shut up." Phoebe replied, and sent out a stream of fire that engulfed the pregnant woman, killing her in a violent explosion of fire.
"How could..." Tom began to say, but was knocked down by a swift kick to his head.
"Spare me the 'how could you kill a preganant mother' crap, please." Phoebe said. "I'm evil. It's what I do."
As Phoebe raised her right hand to kill the man with that same fire- throwing power, Leo suddenly orbbed in.
"PHOEBE DON'T!" Leo screamed out, and on reflex Phoebe turned and blasted Leo!
Leo hit the wall, falling to the ground. Of course, fire couldn't kill a Whitelighter- but it sure did hurt like hell.
"Leo!" Phoebe yelled out.
Tom took off down the alleyway, but Phoebe turned back around and sent another stream of fire at him, hitting him and killing him. Leo screamed out, not only in his own pain but for Tom's death.
"Phoebe, he was my charge!" Leo said. "How could you?"
Phoebe looked down at him, a bit of sadness in her eyes.
"We're on different sides now, Leo." Phoebe said. "I'm a demon. This is what I do. Kill innocents. You need to stay away, and not beat yourself up over it."
"Phoebe, wait!" Leo said, but Phoebe turned and shimmered out.
Back in the manor, Prue and Piper were seated on the steps, trying to calm down the young woman they were protecting, when Leo orbbed in.
"Leo, are you okay?" Piper asked him. "You don't look so good."
"A demon got one of my charges." Leo replied.
"Awww, honey." Piper said, and gave her husband a hug.
However, their embrace was quickly broken as the demonic knight shimmered in. Piper quickly waved her hands, freezing him.
"Good thing you didn't try and make him blow up." Prue said. "It said in the Book that powers that directly harm him bounce off his armor."
"Well, thanks for telling me NOW, Prue!" Piper yelled. "Get the sword before he unfreezes!"
Prue ran over and pulled the sword out from behind his armor. Then, she put the sword through the armor and through his heart. He unfroze, and screamed in pain as he was vanquished.
"Well, that's that." Prue said, watching as the sword dissapered in her hands.
"You can go back to your life now." Piper told the young woman. "Just don't tell anyone about us, okay?"
"You have my word." she replied, and headed for the door.
Piper turned and noticed that Leo still seemed upset.
"Leo, are you sure you're okay?" Piper asked him. "You look like you've just seen a ghost."
In a way I just did. Leo thought. The ghost of Phoebe Halliwell.
"No, I'm alright." Leo said, trying his best to put on a slight grin.
Piper hugged him again and kissed him on the cheek, while in the back of her mind trying to figure out what's bothering Leo.
He's probably still just sad from having to deal with Phoebe's death. Piper thought. We all are.
Phoebe shimmered into her's and Cole's chambers in the Underworld, which she found empty.
Must be out doing some work of his own. Phoebe thought.
She sat down on their bed, which was an actual bed and not straw, as most demons used.
"Nice of The Source to give us a real bed, I guess, knowing that's what I've been used to as a human." Phoebe said to herself.
"The Source doesn't do anything for niceness." Cole said. "A happy Phoebe is a more powerful Phoebe, which is beneficial to him."
Phoebe turned to see hur lover, who had just shimmered in.
"Standard mission?" Pheobe asked him, and Cole nodded. "How'd it go?"
"I killed the innocent." Cole said. "It still hurts, but less and less as I get back into evil."
Phoebe nodded.
"Yeah, it hurts less with each kill for me too." she said. "Mine didn't go off as well, though. I killed him, but I ran into Leo as well."
"Were your sisters there?" Cole asked her.
"No, just Leo." Phoebe said. "The innocent was his charge."
"Phoebe....you're doing evil in the same town your sisters are doing good." Cole said. "You're going to eventually run into them. You need to be prepared to shift into your demonic form to hide your idenity from them. Since we share the same demonic blood, it should look a lot like mine. Are you ready to try it?"
"Cole....no, not yet." Phoebe responded. "I'm just- I'm not ready yet. I want to cling to what humanity I have left."
"I understand." Cole said, and kissed her on the forehead. "I love you."
"I love you." Phoebe responded, and the two kissed passionatley.
Next Up: Secret Idnetities
Phoebe encounters Prue and Piper, who are protecting the innocent she's trying to kill, and is forced to change into her demonic form for the first time to stop them. Prue and Piper do not realize that this new "female Belthazor" is Phoebe, and try and find a way to vanquish her, while Phoebe battles her own conflicting emotion as she tries and figures out a way to complete her mission without having to kill her own sisters.