The sister or your love?
~ Chapter 2 ~
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1 With a shaking voice, Phoebe whispered, " and I killed her Piper, I killed Prue. "
"What?" Piper burst out before she could stop herself. "Omigod, Phoebe! I know that you have some uh… differences and problems with Prue at the moment but this isn't funny! I care about you and I feel sorry for you and Cole but don't joke about with things like this, ok? God, you scared me half to death!
Phoebe's swollen eyes slowly lifted from the ground and trailed slowly towards Piper's feet, then to her shoulders and finally at Piper's shocked face. It was as if she was in a trance. She herself felt so shocked she didn't know what to do anymore. Her brain felt like it had been taken out of her head and she couldn't think straight. What she had just seen, it had to be fake, and it just had to be. How could she kill her own sister? And this was Prue! She couldn't be powerful enough to kill Prue and she knew that their powers couldn't work against each other. So how…? Suddenly, she snapped to reality and realised that Piper was still staring at her with wide-open eyes and waiting for an answer.
"I…I…" Stuttered Phoebe dumbly. This can't be real, she thought. She almost smiled to herself thinking of how silly this premonition was, she knew that this would never happen. She took a deep breath as if her lungs might collapse and forced a tiny smile on her face.
" I was just kidding Piper! " she said almost slyly. "As if I would kill Prue, but my acting skills are good, huh? Maybe I should go and be an actress or something, yeah…" Phoebe trailed off, her voice getting softer.
Thump. Piper punched Phoebe softly on her arm and said with a laugh, " For a moment, I thought it was for real.. Phoebe! Don't even scare me like that again!"
Phoebe smiled for the first time in weeks and her face suddenly filled with colour as if she was alive again, " Thanks for your concern Piper, I think I'll go take a walk in the park or something…" she paused as she noticed Piper's face form into a frown. " don't worry! I'll be fine, be back in half an hour, k?"
Phoebe made a quick dash to the door and after some hesitation flashed another one of her beautiful smiles at Piper. Piper sighed, she was glad that Phoebe had come to life again and that there was actually some colour in her face and some of that old twinkle in her eyes again but she sensed that Phoebe wasn't telling her something. Piper's hand unconsciously flew to her temple as she just got another one of her splitting headaches, which unluckily occurred whenever she had a problem. A big problem. What was she going to do about Prue? Why can't life be easier? She thought with another sigh. She smiled half amused at the thought that she never sighed this much in one day before, must be a record. She took a deep breath and raced downstairs, ready to apologise to Prue.
Phoebe swung her arms confidently in time with the reassuring rhythm of her heels as she walked along the concreted footpath of the local park. For the first time in a week, she actually felt that her body belonged to her. She could smell the sweet sense of flowers as she breathed in the air around her. She was happy that she felt this way and she even dared to think that there was a tiny glimmer or hope that she might have of her getting over Cole. She sat down on a bench and closed her eyes, just embracing in the flowery scents that wafted pass and the soft murmurings of kids playing and shouting to each other with joy. Her mind suddenly seemed to go dark and a face of Cole floated into it. Then she found herself shaking and in her mind she saw Prue, covered with blood and lying on the floor and she and Cole smiling at each other as they peered down at her. Phoebe gasped, beads of sweat breaking out on her forehead and she knew that that premonition was definitely real. She had felt Cole's arm around her and felt a feeling of triumph over killing Prue…?!!
Suddenly heard a noise and felt there was someone beside her. Slowly, Phoebe opened her eyes, bracing herself for anyone… could it be Cole? But instead she saw Leo's concerned eyes burning into hers.
" Phoebe, the elders have warned me of something! You're going to kill Prue, and you're going to have to choose between her life and Coles." Leo's voice was hard and tense.
"What?" Phoebe whispered in shock. This wasn't meant to happen to her. There was no way she was meant to choose between Prue's life and Coles. She was meant to get over her boyfriends! Not choose between their life and her sisters!
" Leo, I don't understand you. I could never kill Prue, not even if I had to choose between her and Cole. Think about it, she's my sister and the power of three would die without her! You know that I would never do such a thing, you know that Leo. Prue would fight back, I know she will and I would never be powerful enough to kill her, Leo, explain to me! Help me!" Phoebe could hear her own voice grow with frustration and panic as her eyes became wide with terror and she found her breathing hard and broken.
" Phoebe, I know that you're scared but there's a reason for this. Let me explain… when a witch falls in love with a demon certain things start to result from this. Your powers become more stronger, have you noticed?" Leo replied as calmly as he could even though he could feel himself starting to panic as well.
Phoebe thought about this for a minute, it was true, her premonitions were much more vivid and she was able to feel certain feelings as if it was the real thing. They were also longer and no longer just flashes.
From the look on her face of dread of the slow realisation that what he had just said was true, Leo knew that this was true so he continued without waiting for a reply.
" The power of love is stronger than any power of three Phoebe. Sh, I know what you're about to say but let me explain; you're about to say that the love of your sisters can fight anything, right? But the love of a witch for a demon is much more powerful. You see, when a demon and witch both feel a love for each other their powers become one and because they share their love their powers start to join into one and that's why you've become stronger. You've had half of Cole's power mixed into yours and it's the same for him! That's why you feel so strong at the moment and I know that your heart aches but if I'm not wrong, I know that you both have extremely strong feelings for each other and that means the power shared between you two is growing."
As Leo finished his explanation, he waited for Phoebe's reaction. He too felt frustrated at the fact that evil and love could combine a power so strong. He had never heard of it until the elders had told him.
"I… I, don't know what to say Leo," Phoebe's voice was trembling as I she was close to tears. " Does this mean I'm actually going to kill Prue?"
Leo paused, his mind aching from thinking of how to respond to her difficult questions. With a final sigh he said " Yes" as calmly as he could, but in his heart he was starting to feel to rise of panic going through him.
A silence followed this as if Leo and Phoebe were both trying to digest what was going to happen. Leo slowly continued, " Until you and Cole's love can break, tonight you're going to kill Prue and save Cole. Phoebe, you have half of Cole's demonic powers now, you're stronger than Prue and you have the ability to kill her. You and Cole… together, with the love that you two share, the power between you two is at least three times as much as the power of three."
Phoebe gasped, the power of three so far had saved countless lives and she had taken that power for granted that she and her sisters were one of the most powerful witches, but could her and Cole's love for each other break in time? How can she control her emotions?
" But… I could never kill my own sister, Leo, I have a conscience you know!" she threw back at him in anger. She felt enraged that Leo could think that she could have the heart to kill her own sister.
" When Prue is fighting you, you'll have no choice but to defend yourself and you'll have no choice but to try to injure her before she injures you." Explained Leo reluctantly. " The elders… they, they can't stop what's going to happen, nobody can… not even you Phoebe, your heart and the love that you have for Cole is the only thing in control of your body."
With his last words, Leo orbed out and left Phoebe in her own confusion and in her own loneliness. Suddenly, the park felt like the most miserable place to be and she felt like she should try to do something to try to save Prue, but what? Tonight… tonight was the night of Prue's death. Yes, tonight she will force herself to hate Cole, for everything that he had done to harm her and surely, surely, thinking of the hurt that he caused her, she could stop herself from killing Prue… right?
Piper stopped, she could feel her heart thumping against her chest as if it wanted to burst out of her body. She was breathing hard like she had just run a 10km marathon, where the hell was Prue? She was here just about ten minutes ago, had Leo come back? If that was true then where was he? Piper still had the nagging feeling that something wasn't right with Phoebe's 'act' earlier in her bedroom but there was no time to think about that now. She knew that when Prue felt angry, she could throw a tantrum and get herself so worked up that suddenly, it was as if this new surge of energy had found its way into Prue's body and she would be able to do anything,
"God, calm down Piper, Prue hasn't done anything, I mean, she's probably just gone to the office or something to blow off some steam or something." Muttered Piper to herself.
She picked up the phone and her fingers soon dialled in Prue's cell phone but no one answered. She rang the office and the people there said that Prue hadn't come in since she had left.
" Are you sure? Positive?" cried Piper out in panic.
"Yes, I am, Miss. Who wants her and is this really important? I can leave a note on her desk to call you back in the morning if you want." The calm voice on the phone helpfully suggested.
"Uh.. No thanks, thanks anyway, um… this is, uh, yeah no thanks, bye." Click. The phone clicked back into its holder as Piper felt her face grow hot with frustration. Ugh! Why had she started blabbering on the phone like an idiot? She often did that when she was panicky or when something was wrong but this time Piper had a feeling something definitely wasn't right… with both her sisters! Piper ran her fingers through her long tangled and now wild hair. Her eyes darted nervously around the room trying to search for a clue. Suddenly, her eyes stopped on the open page of the phonebook that lay next to the phone. She scanned it quickly with her sharp eyes, anything to help her! Cole… 56421257, Phoebe's handwriting read. That's it! Coles! Prue could have gone to Cole's to kill him herself! Piper felt a sudden surge of triumph at her own cleverness but that quickly died as her face lost all it's colour when she realised just how serious this was.
Piper ran as fast her legs would take her; she jammed her hand onto the door handle causing it the front door to open and quickly rushed out. Thinking… Prue, please don't do anything at all!
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Phoebe's heart pounded against her chest as she slowly walked back to the Halliwell Manor, her head throbbed with a growing headache as she tried to work out what to do. She suddenly slapped her hand against her forehead, of course! Why had she been so stupid? The only way to stop herself from killing Prue was to not go to Cole's apartment tonight at all! That way, nothing would happen to Prue! Phoebe sighed with relief as she realised just what a perfect plan it was. She unlocked the front door and went up to her room, wondering where Piper was at the same time, oh well, probably gone out or something. Her body tensed as she saw Cole's twinkling and happy eyes stare at her from the photo on her desk. Cole! What was going to happen to him, he would die of course, but… can she? How can she let Cole die? The man he loved? But how can she let herself kill her own sister. Her own flesh and blood! But Cole… what about him?
Phoebe plopped down on the couch as she tried to concentrate on all the hurt and heartbreak Cole had caused her. She felt the anger start to channel through her again and she felt safe thinking that she could go through tonight without the feeling of regret taking over her heart as she pictured Cole's death. NO! she couldn't let this happen, this was a man that she loved and no matter what, she was going to save him. Wait, I can't go over there, Prue… I'll kill her, no… no that's NOT possible, we're sisters and the love that we share is strong enough to handle this. "
"I can do this, I can go over there and save Cole's life without killing Prue." Phoebe cried out to no one in particular in a determined and hard voice. She almost laughed, hearing her own voice saying something so ridiculous.
Taking a deep breath, she strode confidently out the front door, ready to save both Prue and Cole's life.
20 mins later…
Phoebe found herself standing in the entrance of the corridor in Cole's apartment block. She hesitated before she began walking towards Cole's door.
~ Chapter 2 ~
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1 With a shaking voice, Phoebe whispered, " and I killed her Piper, I killed Prue. "
"What?" Piper burst out before she could stop herself. "Omigod, Phoebe! I know that you have some uh… differences and problems with Prue at the moment but this isn't funny! I care about you and I feel sorry for you and Cole but don't joke about with things like this, ok? God, you scared me half to death!
Phoebe's swollen eyes slowly lifted from the ground and trailed slowly towards Piper's feet, then to her shoulders and finally at Piper's shocked face. It was as if she was in a trance. She herself felt so shocked she didn't know what to do anymore. Her brain felt like it had been taken out of her head and she couldn't think straight. What she had just seen, it had to be fake, and it just had to be. How could she kill her own sister? And this was Prue! She couldn't be powerful enough to kill Prue and she knew that their powers couldn't work against each other. So how…? Suddenly, she snapped to reality and realised that Piper was still staring at her with wide-open eyes and waiting for an answer.
"I…I…" Stuttered Phoebe dumbly. This can't be real, she thought. She almost smiled to herself thinking of how silly this premonition was, she knew that this would never happen. She took a deep breath as if her lungs might collapse and forced a tiny smile on her face.
" I was just kidding Piper! " she said almost slyly. "As if I would kill Prue, but my acting skills are good, huh? Maybe I should go and be an actress or something, yeah…" Phoebe trailed off, her voice getting softer.
Thump. Piper punched Phoebe softly on her arm and said with a laugh, " For a moment, I thought it was for real.. Phoebe! Don't even scare me like that again!"
Phoebe smiled for the first time in weeks and her face suddenly filled with colour as if she was alive again, " Thanks for your concern Piper, I think I'll go take a walk in the park or something…" she paused as she noticed Piper's face form into a frown. " don't worry! I'll be fine, be back in half an hour, k?"
Phoebe made a quick dash to the door and after some hesitation flashed another one of her beautiful smiles at Piper. Piper sighed, she was glad that Phoebe had come to life again and that there was actually some colour in her face and some of that old twinkle in her eyes again but she sensed that Phoebe wasn't telling her something. Piper's hand unconsciously flew to her temple as she just got another one of her splitting headaches, which unluckily occurred whenever she had a problem. A big problem. What was she going to do about Prue? Why can't life be easier? She thought with another sigh. She smiled half amused at the thought that she never sighed this much in one day before, must be a record. She took a deep breath and raced downstairs, ready to apologise to Prue.
Phoebe swung her arms confidently in time with the reassuring rhythm of her heels as she walked along the concreted footpath of the local park. For the first time in a week, she actually felt that her body belonged to her. She could smell the sweet sense of flowers as she breathed in the air around her. She was happy that she felt this way and she even dared to think that there was a tiny glimmer or hope that she might have of her getting over Cole. She sat down on a bench and closed her eyes, just embracing in the flowery scents that wafted pass and the soft murmurings of kids playing and shouting to each other with joy. Her mind suddenly seemed to go dark and a face of Cole floated into it. Then she found herself shaking and in her mind she saw Prue, covered with blood and lying on the floor and she and Cole smiling at each other as they peered down at her. Phoebe gasped, beads of sweat breaking out on her forehead and she knew that that premonition was definitely real. She had felt Cole's arm around her and felt a feeling of triumph over killing Prue…?!!
Suddenly heard a noise and felt there was someone beside her. Slowly, Phoebe opened her eyes, bracing herself for anyone… could it be Cole? But instead she saw Leo's concerned eyes burning into hers.
" Phoebe, the elders have warned me of something! You're going to kill Prue, and you're going to have to choose between her life and Coles." Leo's voice was hard and tense.
"What?" Phoebe whispered in shock. This wasn't meant to happen to her. There was no way she was meant to choose between Prue's life and Coles. She was meant to get over her boyfriends! Not choose between their life and her sisters!
" Leo, I don't understand you. I could never kill Prue, not even if I had to choose between her and Cole. Think about it, she's my sister and the power of three would die without her! You know that I would never do such a thing, you know that Leo. Prue would fight back, I know she will and I would never be powerful enough to kill her, Leo, explain to me! Help me!" Phoebe could hear her own voice grow with frustration and panic as her eyes became wide with terror and she found her breathing hard and broken.
" Phoebe, I know that you're scared but there's a reason for this. Let me explain… when a witch falls in love with a demon certain things start to result from this. Your powers become more stronger, have you noticed?" Leo replied as calmly as he could even though he could feel himself starting to panic as well.
Phoebe thought about this for a minute, it was true, her premonitions were much more vivid and she was able to feel certain feelings as if it was the real thing. They were also longer and no longer just flashes.
From the look on her face of dread of the slow realisation that what he had just said was true, Leo knew that this was true so he continued without waiting for a reply.
" The power of love is stronger than any power of three Phoebe. Sh, I know what you're about to say but let me explain; you're about to say that the love of your sisters can fight anything, right? But the love of a witch for a demon is much more powerful. You see, when a demon and witch both feel a love for each other their powers become one and because they share their love their powers start to join into one and that's why you've become stronger. You've had half of Cole's power mixed into yours and it's the same for him! That's why you feel so strong at the moment and I know that your heart aches but if I'm not wrong, I know that you both have extremely strong feelings for each other and that means the power shared between you two is growing."
As Leo finished his explanation, he waited for Phoebe's reaction. He too felt frustrated at the fact that evil and love could combine a power so strong. He had never heard of it until the elders had told him.
"I… I, don't know what to say Leo," Phoebe's voice was trembling as I she was close to tears. " Does this mean I'm actually going to kill Prue?"
Leo paused, his mind aching from thinking of how to respond to her difficult questions. With a final sigh he said " Yes" as calmly as he could, but in his heart he was starting to feel to rise of panic going through him.
A silence followed this as if Leo and Phoebe were both trying to digest what was going to happen. Leo slowly continued, " Until you and Cole's love can break, tonight you're going to kill Prue and save Cole. Phoebe, you have half of Cole's demonic powers now, you're stronger than Prue and you have the ability to kill her. You and Cole… together, with the love that you two share, the power between you two is at least three times as much as the power of three."
Phoebe gasped, the power of three so far had saved countless lives and she had taken that power for granted that she and her sisters were one of the most powerful witches, but could her and Cole's love for each other break in time? How can she control her emotions?
" But… I could never kill my own sister, Leo, I have a conscience you know!" she threw back at him in anger. She felt enraged that Leo could think that she could have the heart to kill her own sister.
" When Prue is fighting you, you'll have no choice but to defend yourself and you'll have no choice but to try to injure her before she injures you." Explained Leo reluctantly. " The elders… they, they can't stop what's going to happen, nobody can… not even you Phoebe, your heart and the love that you have for Cole is the only thing in control of your body."
With his last words, Leo orbed out and left Phoebe in her own confusion and in her own loneliness. Suddenly, the park felt like the most miserable place to be and she felt like she should try to do something to try to save Prue, but what? Tonight… tonight was the night of Prue's death. Yes, tonight she will force herself to hate Cole, for everything that he had done to harm her and surely, surely, thinking of the hurt that he caused her, she could stop herself from killing Prue… right?
Piper stopped, she could feel her heart thumping against her chest as if it wanted to burst out of her body. She was breathing hard like she had just run a 10km marathon, where the hell was Prue? She was here just about ten minutes ago, had Leo come back? If that was true then where was he? Piper still had the nagging feeling that something wasn't right with Phoebe's 'act' earlier in her bedroom but there was no time to think about that now. She knew that when Prue felt angry, she could throw a tantrum and get herself so worked up that suddenly, it was as if this new surge of energy had found its way into Prue's body and she would be able to do anything,
"God, calm down Piper, Prue hasn't done anything, I mean, she's probably just gone to the office or something to blow off some steam or something." Muttered Piper to herself.
She picked up the phone and her fingers soon dialled in Prue's cell phone but no one answered. She rang the office and the people there said that Prue hadn't come in since she had left.
" Are you sure? Positive?" cried Piper out in panic.
"Yes, I am, Miss. Who wants her and is this really important? I can leave a note on her desk to call you back in the morning if you want." The calm voice on the phone helpfully suggested.
"Uh.. No thanks, thanks anyway, um… this is, uh, yeah no thanks, bye." Click. The phone clicked back into its holder as Piper felt her face grow hot with frustration. Ugh! Why had she started blabbering on the phone like an idiot? She often did that when she was panicky or when something was wrong but this time Piper had a feeling something definitely wasn't right… with both her sisters! Piper ran her fingers through her long tangled and now wild hair. Her eyes darted nervously around the room trying to search for a clue. Suddenly, her eyes stopped on the open page of the phonebook that lay next to the phone. She scanned it quickly with her sharp eyes, anything to help her! Cole… 56421257, Phoebe's handwriting read. That's it! Coles! Prue could have gone to Cole's to kill him herself! Piper felt a sudden surge of triumph at her own cleverness but that quickly died as her face lost all it's colour when she realised just how serious this was.
Piper ran as fast her legs would take her; she jammed her hand onto the door handle causing it the front door to open and quickly rushed out. Thinking… Prue, please don't do anything at all!
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Phoebe's heart pounded against her chest as she slowly walked back to the Halliwell Manor, her head throbbed with a growing headache as she tried to work out what to do. She suddenly slapped her hand against her forehead, of course! Why had she been so stupid? The only way to stop herself from killing Prue was to not go to Cole's apartment tonight at all! That way, nothing would happen to Prue! Phoebe sighed with relief as she realised just what a perfect plan it was. She unlocked the front door and went up to her room, wondering where Piper was at the same time, oh well, probably gone out or something. Her body tensed as she saw Cole's twinkling and happy eyes stare at her from the photo on her desk. Cole! What was going to happen to him, he would die of course, but… can she? How can she let Cole die? The man he loved? But how can she let herself kill her own sister. Her own flesh and blood! But Cole… what about him?
Phoebe plopped down on the couch as she tried to concentrate on all the hurt and heartbreak Cole had caused her. She felt the anger start to channel through her again and she felt safe thinking that she could go through tonight without the feeling of regret taking over her heart as she pictured Cole's death. NO! she couldn't let this happen, this was a man that she loved and no matter what, she was going to save him. Wait, I can't go over there, Prue… I'll kill her, no… no that's NOT possible, we're sisters and the love that we share is strong enough to handle this. "
"I can do this, I can go over there and save Cole's life without killing Prue." Phoebe cried out to no one in particular in a determined and hard voice. She almost laughed, hearing her own voice saying something so ridiculous.
Taking a deep breath, she strode confidently out the front door, ready to save both Prue and Cole's life.
20 mins later…
Phoebe found herself standing in the entrance of the corridor in Cole's apartment block. She hesitated before she began walking towards Cole's door.