1 Phoebe… wanted for murder
1.1 Chapter 3
1.1.1 Half an hour ago…
Piper frantically pressed the "up" button on the elevator in Cole's apartment. Come on! She thought, is this thing broken or something? Ugh… she couldn't believe that this was happening to her, if only she had never said those things to Prue, she wouldn't have stormed out of there and she could be killing Cole at the moment! Oh my god, Phoebe was going to hate her so much, this is all her fault! A huge wave of guilt engulfed her heart completely. Impatiently Piper ran blindly to the fire escape door, slamming both of the heavy glass doors open with the sweaty palms of her hands.
15… or was it 16? Uh.. What was the number of Cole's apartment again? Damn.. She should've been listening to Phoebe's endless and happy chattering about Cole when they were together. Piper suddenly wanted to collapse on the floor with exhaustion. She bent down, her hands gripping her knees tightly as she tried to get her breath back. Charging up 7 flights of stairs hadn't exactly been the highlight of this nightmare day. Piper stood up again, and ran her trembling hand through her messed up hair. Here goes nothing she thought as she knocked on 15. The door, she found was unlocked and she stepped uncertainly into the apartment, luckily her reflects were on alert that day and she ducked wildly as a chair flew towards her, just skimming her head.
Piper bounced back up immediately finding Prue, her eyes blazing with rage, burning into Cole's terrified and shocked wide eyes. Prue was standing directly opposite from him, her hand raised slightly, and ready to attack. Cole surprisingly wasn't in the form of belphasoar and his eyes were darting nervously around the room looking for something to defend himself with.
"Prue! What are you doing?" yelled Piper suddenly, cutting through the tense atmosphere like a sharp knife.
They both jumped and glanced over to her briefly before they continued to stare at each other. The expression on Prue's face was twisted with disgust and hate, Cole's face glistened with sweat and his face showed nothing else but fear.
"Piper, stay out of this!" thundered Prue, not taking her eyes off Cole. "This is between me and this.. This demon" She nearly spat out the last word in disgust.
"No, Prue! This isn't right!" Piper snapped back, gaining back her self- control. "Think about Phoebe…"
Cole's face relaxed for just a minute, "Phoebe…" his voice trailed off as he thought back to the beautiful and enchanting witch that he loved. Prue took this as an opportunity and with a strong wave of her hand; she threw a sharp piece of wood from the carpet of debris on the floor. The piece of wood whirled itself towards Cole like a sharp spear. On reflects, Piper raced towards Cole without thinking and pulled him down just as the piece of wood stabbed neatly into the wall.
"Come on Belphasoar!" sneered Prue. "Fight me and fight me to the death now!"
"No, Prue!" Cole threw back, suddenly finding his voice. "I don't want to fight you!"
Piper, still crouched down on the floor whispered to Cole, "Uh… this might be the wrong time to ask but why aren't you in your demonic form?"
"Because I don't want to fight your sister, you know that if I transformed into Belphasoar I could kill her easily and I don't want to… for Phoebe." his face suddenly grew sad, thinking about Phoebe. He wondered where she was right now? Probably still crying about her and Cole. What the hell was Prue doing here trying to kill him? He didn't understand it. But whatever happened, he swore to himself not to change into his demonic form for Phoebe. But his demonic instincts were surging through him, tempting him to change into the powerful demon but he fought it, which drained most of his energy but he would do anything for Phoebe.
"Piper, get over here! Whose side are you on anyway?" snapped Prue angrily.
Piper stood up reluctantly and Cole turned his head away, he sighed, he had just lost another ally which he desperately needed right now.
"No Prue, I'm not going to let you do this towards Cole. There's Phoebe to think about, look at how out of control you are at the moment!" Piper's steady voice echoed around the wrecked room.
Prue's eyes grew small and she ran towards Cole screaming and landed a strong kick onto his jaw.
"No Prue!" screamed Piper, frantically trying to duck Prue's blows and pull Cole away with her at the same time. Her witch instincts took over and her hands quickly flew up, freezing Prue and Cole. She was surprised, remembering for a second that her powers didn't work against her own sisters. Then remembered that when a witch was desperate enough she could use her own powers against her sisters. She inhaled a deep breath, a coughing fit took over her as she inhaled mouthfuls of dust from the broken furniture scattered on the floor. She quickly unfroze Cole.
"Piper, we've got to get out of here" said Cole weakly, blood was dripping from his lips as he talked, he looked as if he was about to collapse and Piper nodded without hesitation, she didn't exactly want to carry a unconscious full-grown man out of the apartment because she was exhausted herself. Just then, Prue unfroze and because Cole had moved, kicked the wall instead, causing splinters of wood to rain down on Piper and Cole. Piper quickly froze Prue again and half supporting Cole, though her knees felt like they were going to snap underneath her, she made her way towards the door. Piper kicked through the broken furniture beneath her feet, desperately trying to make a clear path for Cole to walk. Just then the door burst open.
1.1.1.1 In the present…
Before Phoebe could even work out what had happened, she saw Cole, blood dripping onto the carpet and he looked like he was growing weaker by the minute. Phoebe raced towards Cole, putting her strong arms around him. She and Piper struggled to support him, each putting one of Cole's arms over their shoulders.
"Oh my god, Cole!" screamed Phoebe, "What has Prue done to you?"
As if on signal, Prue unfroze and turned towards Cole's direction. Seeing Phoebe there, her face immediately held a shocked expression. She knew that Phoebe would defend Cole but she didn't care. The desire she felt right now to kill Cole rushed through her like adrenaline. She was like a ball, rolling and she couldn't stop now. Prue's mind quickly worked out how weak Cole would be right now, especially in his mortal form, this was the perfect opportunity to kill him. She ran towards them, kicking her feet strongly off the ground and aimed an air kick towards Cole.
Piper and Phoebe quickly ran to a side of the room, Cole tried to move as quickly as he could but he was feeling so weak.
"Piper, listen to me, I'm going to go and try talk to Prue and calm her down. Try to get Cole out of here and just take him to some place safe, ok?' Phoebe whispered urgently to Piper.
Piper nodded slightly without hesitation. She put Cole's heavy arms around her shoulders n started to drag him towards the door.
"Oh no you don't!" screamed Prue in rage; she flung Cole out of Piper's arms towards the wall in which the sharp wood had stabbed into earlier. Phoebe realised the danger Cole was in, if Prue had flung Cole that hard, then his back could easily be stabbed by the piece of sharp wood any second! Phoebe ran towards the flying Cole and crashed herself on top of him and they both landed hard on the ground with Cole underneath her, luckily missing the piece of sharp wood.
"Phoebe, just get out of the way!" Cried Prue.
Meanwhile, Piper once again tried to drag Cole towards the door. Phoebe was moving along with them, in front of them and shielding them.
"Prue, listen to me! Why are you doing this? You don't have to kill him, look at him, he's not in his demonic form and I know that he wants to be but he's not! Look, he doesn't want to fight, just leave it as it is Prue, please?" begged Phoebe, hot tears burning her face as they streamed involuntarily.
Prue hesitated, but anger now channelled throughout her body and she knew that she wouldn't stop until she had Cole dead.
" I'm warning you Phoebe, get the hell out of the way, I'm going to kill Cole no matter what! And I'm willing to kill anyone else who gets in the way!" Prue's angry eyes flashed towards Piper and Phoebe.
She flung Piper against the wall and Piper slumped down onto the floor unconscious. Immediately, Phoebe felt double of the weight of Cole that she had been trying to hold up, she gently lay Cole onto the floor and raced towards Prue, levitated up in the air and kicked her, causing Prue to fall onto the floor.
"I don't want to fight you Prue! Just get back and stay away from Cole!" screamed Phoebe, frustrated.
Prue brushed the dust off her and started towards Phoebe. Piper 's heavy eyelids opened, she saw the scene in front of her and quickly froze Prue. She got up, heaving her body, which seemed to weigh 1000 tonnes now. Phoebe was crouched beside Cole, asking him something.
"Cole, Cole, can you hear me?" whispered Phoebe.
Cole groaned trying to tell Phoebe to leave him but Phoebe quickly put her fingers on his lips to quieten him.
"Cole, Leo told me that I have half of your powers, tell me, how do I shimmer and throw power balls? Tell me Cole…. this may save your life, I'm going to try to injure Prue, then let's get the hell out of here!" Phoebe's voice remained calm, she knew that the best way to calm someone down is to appear calm yourself even though her heart was pounding and she could here it in her ears.
"Just…just think of a place and shimmer and gather your energy and try to re…re…lease it" Cole stuttered after some hesitation. He wanted to tell Phoebe to just let Prue kill him but when he looked into those watery chocolate eyes of Phoebe's, looking down at him with a pleading look… he finally gave in.
"Wait Phoebe, you don't know how strong these powers are! How are you going to control them…?" Cole croaked, desperately trying to make him heard but he could see that Phoebe had already started off towards Prue.
Piper had managed to stumble blindly to Cole's side. She tried to help him up but he was too heavy for her.
"Stop Phoebe, Piper, she doesn't know how to control my powers… she could kill Prue!" Cole's voice had an edge of panic in it now as he said this.
"What? Your powers?" Piper asked, confused.
Prue unfroze and stood there, standing face to face with her sister. She couldn't believe that Phoebe was prepared to fight her. She sneered; the only powers Phoebe had were to get premonitions and levitation. She could easily win with her own powers, they were much more stronger than Phoebe's. Prue suddenly felt herself hurled forward as she was kicked from the back. She fell onto the ground. What the hell? She thought, had Phoebe just shimmered? Ha! I'll show her. Prue closed her eyes and split herself in half, and shimmered next to Phoebe. This power was useful but the problem was that the original body of herself was still on the ground, if Phoebe killed her body, she wouldn't be able to live.
Phoebe closed her eyes for a second, gathering all her energy, she suddenly flung her hand towards Prue's direction, a power ball shot out aiming towards her original body. Cole closed his eyes, afraid of what he'll see next, he knew that Phoebe's power ball was strong enough to destroy the whole of Prue's body, which meant that she was going to die. He knew he had no choice but to turn for his demonic side for help. He felt his energy surged through him as he stood up, as belphasoar. He quickly fired a power ball that collided with Phoebe's, causing it to explode in the middle of it's tracks.
" Phoebe, no!" he yelled out to her but Phoebe wasn't listening, she was firing power balls towards Prue's body. Cole in return, had to fire endless power balls to prevent hers from hitting Prue's body. Prue suddenly returned to her body, exhausted. She saw what was happening and quickly flung both Cole and Phoebe against the nearly crumbling walls of his apartment.
Cole turned back into a human, blood saturating his body, he was probably close to dieing now, and he knew how weak he was at the moment. He saw Phoebe rush to his side and Piper trying to freeze Prue but it didn't work. Prue was coming towards them. Phoebe suddenly shimmered behind Prue, picked up a dagger from the floor, her eyes flowed hot tears down her face, her expression showed nothing else but pure rage and hate. Phoebe could feel the anger flow through her like a drug, making her stronger and more determined than ever to defend Cole. She raised the dagger high into the air and brought it down with a swift motion just as Piper and Cole both screamed out "No! Phoebe!" in unison.
1.1 Chapter 3
1.1.1 Half an hour ago…
Piper frantically pressed the "up" button on the elevator in Cole's apartment. Come on! She thought, is this thing broken or something? Ugh… she couldn't believe that this was happening to her, if only she had never said those things to Prue, she wouldn't have stormed out of there and she could be killing Cole at the moment! Oh my god, Phoebe was going to hate her so much, this is all her fault! A huge wave of guilt engulfed her heart completely. Impatiently Piper ran blindly to the fire escape door, slamming both of the heavy glass doors open with the sweaty palms of her hands.
15… or was it 16? Uh.. What was the number of Cole's apartment again? Damn.. She should've been listening to Phoebe's endless and happy chattering about Cole when they were together. Piper suddenly wanted to collapse on the floor with exhaustion. She bent down, her hands gripping her knees tightly as she tried to get her breath back. Charging up 7 flights of stairs hadn't exactly been the highlight of this nightmare day. Piper stood up again, and ran her trembling hand through her messed up hair. Here goes nothing she thought as she knocked on 15. The door, she found was unlocked and she stepped uncertainly into the apartment, luckily her reflects were on alert that day and she ducked wildly as a chair flew towards her, just skimming her head.
Piper bounced back up immediately finding Prue, her eyes blazing with rage, burning into Cole's terrified and shocked wide eyes. Prue was standing directly opposite from him, her hand raised slightly, and ready to attack. Cole surprisingly wasn't in the form of belphasoar and his eyes were darting nervously around the room looking for something to defend himself with.
"Prue! What are you doing?" yelled Piper suddenly, cutting through the tense atmosphere like a sharp knife.
They both jumped and glanced over to her briefly before they continued to stare at each other. The expression on Prue's face was twisted with disgust and hate, Cole's face glistened with sweat and his face showed nothing else but fear.
"Piper, stay out of this!" thundered Prue, not taking her eyes off Cole. "This is between me and this.. This demon" She nearly spat out the last word in disgust.
"No, Prue! This isn't right!" Piper snapped back, gaining back her self- control. "Think about Phoebe…"
Cole's face relaxed for just a minute, "Phoebe…" his voice trailed off as he thought back to the beautiful and enchanting witch that he loved. Prue took this as an opportunity and with a strong wave of her hand; she threw a sharp piece of wood from the carpet of debris on the floor. The piece of wood whirled itself towards Cole like a sharp spear. On reflects, Piper raced towards Cole without thinking and pulled him down just as the piece of wood stabbed neatly into the wall.
"Come on Belphasoar!" sneered Prue. "Fight me and fight me to the death now!"
"No, Prue!" Cole threw back, suddenly finding his voice. "I don't want to fight you!"
Piper, still crouched down on the floor whispered to Cole, "Uh… this might be the wrong time to ask but why aren't you in your demonic form?"
"Because I don't want to fight your sister, you know that if I transformed into Belphasoar I could kill her easily and I don't want to… for Phoebe." his face suddenly grew sad, thinking about Phoebe. He wondered where she was right now? Probably still crying about her and Cole. What the hell was Prue doing here trying to kill him? He didn't understand it. But whatever happened, he swore to himself not to change into his demonic form for Phoebe. But his demonic instincts were surging through him, tempting him to change into the powerful demon but he fought it, which drained most of his energy but he would do anything for Phoebe.
"Piper, get over here! Whose side are you on anyway?" snapped Prue angrily.
Piper stood up reluctantly and Cole turned his head away, he sighed, he had just lost another ally which he desperately needed right now.
"No Prue, I'm not going to let you do this towards Cole. There's Phoebe to think about, look at how out of control you are at the moment!" Piper's steady voice echoed around the wrecked room.
Prue's eyes grew small and she ran towards Cole screaming and landed a strong kick onto his jaw.
"No Prue!" screamed Piper, frantically trying to duck Prue's blows and pull Cole away with her at the same time. Her witch instincts took over and her hands quickly flew up, freezing Prue and Cole. She was surprised, remembering for a second that her powers didn't work against her own sisters. Then remembered that when a witch was desperate enough she could use her own powers against her sisters. She inhaled a deep breath, a coughing fit took over her as she inhaled mouthfuls of dust from the broken furniture scattered on the floor. She quickly unfroze Cole.
"Piper, we've got to get out of here" said Cole weakly, blood was dripping from his lips as he talked, he looked as if he was about to collapse and Piper nodded without hesitation, she didn't exactly want to carry a unconscious full-grown man out of the apartment because she was exhausted herself. Just then, Prue unfroze and because Cole had moved, kicked the wall instead, causing splinters of wood to rain down on Piper and Cole. Piper quickly froze Prue again and half supporting Cole, though her knees felt like they were going to snap underneath her, she made her way towards the door. Piper kicked through the broken furniture beneath her feet, desperately trying to make a clear path for Cole to walk. Just then the door burst open.
1.1.1.1 In the present…
Before Phoebe could even work out what had happened, she saw Cole, blood dripping onto the carpet and he looked like he was growing weaker by the minute. Phoebe raced towards Cole, putting her strong arms around him. She and Piper struggled to support him, each putting one of Cole's arms over their shoulders.
"Oh my god, Cole!" screamed Phoebe, "What has Prue done to you?"
As if on signal, Prue unfroze and turned towards Cole's direction. Seeing Phoebe there, her face immediately held a shocked expression. She knew that Phoebe would defend Cole but she didn't care. The desire she felt right now to kill Cole rushed through her like adrenaline. She was like a ball, rolling and she couldn't stop now. Prue's mind quickly worked out how weak Cole would be right now, especially in his mortal form, this was the perfect opportunity to kill him. She ran towards them, kicking her feet strongly off the ground and aimed an air kick towards Cole.
Piper and Phoebe quickly ran to a side of the room, Cole tried to move as quickly as he could but he was feeling so weak.
"Piper, listen to me, I'm going to go and try talk to Prue and calm her down. Try to get Cole out of here and just take him to some place safe, ok?' Phoebe whispered urgently to Piper.
Piper nodded slightly without hesitation. She put Cole's heavy arms around her shoulders n started to drag him towards the door.
"Oh no you don't!" screamed Prue in rage; she flung Cole out of Piper's arms towards the wall in which the sharp wood had stabbed into earlier. Phoebe realised the danger Cole was in, if Prue had flung Cole that hard, then his back could easily be stabbed by the piece of sharp wood any second! Phoebe ran towards the flying Cole and crashed herself on top of him and they both landed hard on the ground with Cole underneath her, luckily missing the piece of sharp wood.
"Phoebe, just get out of the way!" Cried Prue.
Meanwhile, Piper once again tried to drag Cole towards the door. Phoebe was moving along with them, in front of them and shielding them.
"Prue, listen to me! Why are you doing this? You don't have to kill him, look at him, he's not in his demonic form and I know that he wants to be but he's not! Look, he doesn't want to fight, just leave it as it is Prue, please?" begged Phoebe, hot tears burning her face as they streamed involuntarily.
Prue hesitated, but anger now channelled throughout her body and she knew that she wouldn't stop until she had Cole dead.
" I'm warning you Phoebe, get the hell out of the way, I'm going to kill Cole no matter what! And I'm willing to kill anyone else who gets in the way!" Prue's angry eyes flashed towards Piper and Phoebe.
She flung Piper against the wall and Piper slumped down onto the floor unconscious. Immediately, Phoebe felt double of the weight of Cole that she had been trying to hold up, she gently lay Cole onto the floor and raced towards Prue, levitated up in the air and kicked her, causing Prue to fall onto the floor.
"I don't want to fight you Prue! Just get back and stay away from Cole!" screamed Phoebe, frustrated.
Prue brushed the dust off her and started towards Phoebe. Piper 's heavy eyelids opened, she saw the scene in front of her and quickly froze Prue. She got up, heaving her body, which seemed to weigh 1000 tonnes now. Phoebe was crouched beside Cole, asking him something.
"Cole, Cole, can you hear me?" whispered Phoebe.
Cole groaned trying to tell Phoebe to leave him but Phoebe quickly put her fingers on his lips to quieten him.
"Cole, Leo told me that I have half of your powers, tell me, how do I shimmer and throw power balls? Tell me Cole…. this may save your life, I'm going to try to injure Prue, then let's get the hell out of here!" Phoebe's voice remained calm, she knew that the best way to calm someone down is to appear calm yourself even though her heart was pounding and she could here it in her ears.
"Just…just think of a place and shimmer and gather your energy and try to re…re…lease it" Cole stuttered after some hesitation. He wanted to tell Phoebe to just let Prue kill him but when he looked into those watery chocolate eyes of Phoebe's, looking down at him with a pleading look… he finally gave in.
"Wait Phoebe, you don't know how strong these powers are! How are you going to control them…?" Cole croaked, desperately trying to make him heard but he could see that Phoebe had already started off towards Prue.
Piper had managed to stumble blindly to Cole's side. She tried to help him up but he was too heavy for her.
"Stop Phoebe, Piper, she doesn't know how to control my powers… she could kill Prue!" Cole's voice had an edge of panic in it now as he said this.
"What? Your powers?" Piper asked, confused.
Prue unfroze and stood there, standing face to face with her sister. She couldn't believe that Phoebe was prepared to fight her. She sneered; the only powers Phoebe had were to get premonitions and levitation. She could easily win with her own powers, they were much more stronger than Phoebe's. Prue suddenly felt herself hurled forward as she was kicked from the back. She fell onto the ground. What the hell? She thought, had Phoebe just shimmered? Ha! I'll show her. Prue closed her eyes and split herself in half, and shimmered next to Phoebe. This power was useful but the problem was that the original body of herself was still on the ground, if Phoebe killed her body, she wouldn't be able to live.
Phoebe closed her eyes for a second, gathering all her energy, she suddenly flung her hand towards Prue's direction, a power ball shot out aiming towards her original body. Cole closed his eyes, afraid of what he'll see next, he knew that Phoebe's power ball was strong enough to destroy the whole of Prue's body, which meant that she was going to die. He knew he had no choice but to turn for his demonic side for help. He felt his energy surged through him as he stood up, as belphasoar. He quickly fired a power ball that collided with Phoebe's, causing it to explode in the middle of it's tracks.
" Phoebe, no!" he yelled out to her but Phoebe wasn't listening, she was firing power balls towards Prue's body. Cole in return, had to fire endless power balls to prevent hers from hitting Prue's body. Prue suddenly returned to her body, exhausted. She saw what was happening and quickly flung both Cole and Phoebe against the nearly crumbling walls of his apartment.
Cole turned back into a human, blood saturating his body, he was probably close to dieing now, and he knew how weak he was at the moment. He saw Phoebe rush to his side and Piper trying to freeze Prue but it didn't work. Prue was coming towards them. Phoebe suddenly shimmered behind Prue, picked up a dagger from the floor, her eyes flowed hot tears down her face, her expression showed nothing else but pure rage and hate. Phoebe could feel the anger flow through her like a drug, making her stronger and more determined than ever to defend Cole. She raised the dagger high into the air and brought it down with a swift motion just as Piper and Cole both screamed out "No! Phoebe!" in unison.