Phoebe's heart felt like a ton of bricks had wrapped themselves it and was
weighing it down through the floor, she could practically feel it drag
along the floor as her hot tears burned down her face. She was still
waiting for Cole to shimmer in but with every tick the second hand gave on
her clock, the shadow of despair slowly darkened her small glimmers of
hope. She wondered where Cole was and why he hadn't come up after her. Why
did I have to get so angry? Phoebe thought biting her bottom lip, Cole was
only trying to defend his friend and to protect her. But the seeds of
jealousy and hurt were planted within Phoebe's soul and its murderous roots
dug their way through her soul and slowly suffocated all her love for Cole.
Phoebe sighed, slowly wiping her tears as her shoulders heaved up and down
with every sob. Every inch of her body itched to shimmer back downstairs to
check on Cole but Phoebe's fear of going downstairs and confronting a hurt
Cole created a thick barrier that she couldn't get past.
"Phoebe?" Piper's voice drifted into Phoebe's room as she sat still on her bed.
Piper suddenly came in and saw Phoebe, her makeup smudged with tearstains saturating her face.
"Oh honey, what happened?" whispered Piper, as she ran over to the bed and let Phoebe sink thankfully onto her body.
"I… I was angry at Cole for defending that Aridella but he was only trying to help her." Whispered Phoebe, her voice shaking and she started to tremble. "I just wanted our wedding to be perfect, Piper, and I was so stupid that I lashed out all my anger at Cole. I've lost him Piper, I've lost him…"
"It's ok, honey." Piper's soothing voice echoed into Phoebe's ear as she smoothed out her hair and slowly pried Phoebe's arms off her. "Listen, you didn't lose him Phoebe, find him and tell him what you told me."
"I'm scared he won't believe me." Phoebe's face was now white and she suddenly looked exhausted and drained of all her energy.
"Phoebe, just listen to me, ok?" Piper said sternly as she forced Phoebe to look at her. "Cole and you share a special love and it's the power that comes from that love that gives you the ability to shimmer. This power of love has saved you so many times and it still exists because you still have half of Cole's power. Oh Pheebs, can't you see? The love between you and Cole is still there and if I know Cole well enough, then I know that he loves you and would risk his life for you, and I know that you feel the same way. So don't give up on him just because your wedding day is ruined, wedding or not, Phoebe, you and Cole are destined to be with each other and if either of you try to deny that destiny then you're crazy!"
Phoebe's watery eyes gazed into her reflection in Piper's clear hazel eyes as she slowly absorbed what Piper had said. All her hopes fluttered through her heart like a playful butterfly and she felt her heart jump with happiness as she realised that Piper was right.
"Come on Pheebs! Go for him, I know you're not going to lose him!" Piper urged, nodding slightly at the direction of the door and giving Phoebe a quick hug.
Flashing a hopeful smile, Phoebe shimmered herself downstairs, "Cole!" she called out. She frowned as she strained to hear even a slight sound of movement; she whirled around as she heard the stairs creak.
"Cole! Oh my god, I'm so-" she cried out then stopped when she saw Piper's worried face.
Phoebe could feel her heart raging with worry and her heart pounding against her chest as her forehead began to glisten with sweat. "Cole!" she started to scream, the hot tears brimming in her eyes.
Leo suddenly orbed in, "Phoebe, wha-"
"Leo, can you try to sense Cole for me?" cried out Phoebe, running to Leo, her voice trembling.
One look at Phoebe's distraught expression painted on her face was all Leo needed to hear to understand what had happened, he closed his eyes and tried to sense Cole.
"Phoebe, I… I can't sense him anywhere." Leo's eyes fluttered open, his voice thick with worry.
Suddenly the ground loomed up towards Phoebe and she felt her legs collapsing under her as if they were a pile of bricks tumbling heavily to the ground. She ran a shaking hand through her messy hair and bit her lip as her breaths came out shaking and she found herself gripping tightly, almost hugging herself as she rocked back and forth allowing the voice of Leo to echo inside her mind. Leo and Piper immediately dropped next to Phoebe and slowly helped her up. They sat her down on the couch. They knew that she was a fragile creature like a butterfly, her wings so easily broken with just one touch and she would break down and be drowned into her own screams of despair and pain.
"Shh, Phoebe… I'm sure he's fine." Comforted Leo, allowing Phoebe to rest her heavy head on his shoulder.
"He's right honey, Cole would never do anything to hurt you, look, what happened today was a misunderstanding, he loves you and always will. The power of love between you two has fought endless hard battles."
Phoebe slowly shook her head and the tears continued to stream down her face, she could feel her eyes stinging and the revenge of pain rushed through her body like an overaged sea crashing against her insides and mercilessly seeping deep into her heart.
Cole's POV
I opened my heavy eyelids and I felt like I had just woken up from a nightmare, I could feel that my skin was clammy and sweaty. Inside, I could still feel the hurt and the burning of pain slowly seeping deep into my soul, it spreads like poison and slowly takes over my soul as my head pounds and echoes with the same harsh voice of Phoebe, over and over again, torturing me. In my heart, I didn't dare question myself with the most difficult question I could ever ask myself. Does she still love me? It was almost the most unthinkable answer if the answer was no. I don't know what I would do, risking my soul, my life and my whole heart for her, I feel trapped like I couldn't think of anything else to give to her. Now I close my eyes to try to block out the excruciating pain that pounded all around my body and I flinch with every bullet of pain that spears through me like I'm being shot, over and over again. I use all my strength praying that this was a nightmare and that I would wake up to the familiar and blissful sounds of Phoebe's laughter and the angelical image of her smile. But dreams cannot come true, and even if they did, somehow, they always twisted themselves into a nightmare I couldn't wake up from and I would sink deeper and deeper into an ocean full of disappointment and heartbreak. I shiver as feel the lingering touch of the Source's hand moving over my head as he reads every dark secret and every thought. I try to scream and fight against the Source's power over me, how can I be so weak? How could the Source capture me so easily? No sound comes out of my mouth and I feel the shadow of evil slowly blocking out the radiant and angelic sunlight of Phoebe's love. I snap my eyes open and I see the Source's eyes, cold and dark filled with nothing but rage and darkness staring blankly into mine and once again I feel like I'm under his control, my soul screams out as I feel my demonic side fighting to burst out and take over my heart. In my head I see flashes of the Source, his hands beckoning towards me, the feeling of evil and darkness embracing me inside my skin and suffocating my every bone and vein as it takes over me and I know that it's too late.
Phoebe slowly sank to the ground and she sat there, rocking slowly back and forth, portraying the image of a tired wooden rocking horse. Why hadn't Cole come back? Where was he? Questions raced through her mind and she longed to find Cole but she felt like her limbs were paralysed, she couldn't move and she felt weak and vulnerable in this world. It was like she had just been exposed to evil and she was forced to face the pain and torture of reality. Phoebe could feel her energy drain from her as she rocked back and forth, her body growing heavier and she felt like the shadow of death was slowly taking over her.
"Leo, what's wrong with her?" asked Piper, her face filled with worry.
Leo sighed, "Honey, I think that the power of love has died between Phoebe and Cole, the elders told me that when the power of love died, then they would both become weak and vulnerable. I think that the fight they just had planted seeds of doubt in their hearts and that's why the love between them is broken."
"Tha… that doesn't mean that they're going to die, right?" cried Piper, sweat breaking out all over her body.
"Not unless that spell to suppress her guilt is removed." Leo's eyes became tense as he stared into Piper's wide eyes. "At the moment, they both still can't remember Prue so they're going to be fine though I don't know about the love they have but the main thing is that if that spell is removed from them, they're both going to die and drown in their own guilt."
Piper glanced at Phoebe who was still rocking on the floor as if she was in a trance. She ran a shaking hand through her long tangled hair. Her heart felt like it was about to burst and her head throbbed every time she thought about her weak sister. Why does everything have to be so complicated? First I lose Prue, now Cole and Phoebe's love is broken, Cole's missing and I'm about to lose another sister! Thought Piper, great, just great!
"Leo, what am I going to do?" yelled a frustrated Piper and her voice broke as she sank thankfully into the soft body of Leo, crying out in her own frustration.
"We have to find Cole and help him build up his love for Phoebe again, it's the best chance we have of Aridella not taking off the spell because if she does, they're both dead anyway." Said Leo in a determined voice as he gently pried a distraught Piper off him.
"What about Phoebe?" whispered Piper, her eyes wide with fear and worry, "should we just leave her here?"
"She'll be okay, she can hardly stand up right now so there's no point in taking her with us to find Cole, we'll bring him back here." When Leo saw the mask of doubt on Piper's face, he quickly said, "Everything's going to be okay, Piper, don't worry."
With one last glance at her weak sister sitting in her own world of vulnerability and hurt on the ground, Piper held on tight to Leo and they slowly orbed out.
Cole felt the power surge through him as he slowly transformed into Belthasor. He felt the darkness slowly seep itself into his skin and into his soul. He felt powerful as he sank into the pleasure of the feeling of power and evil. Slowly this feeling of pleasure melted all his thoughts of Phoebe and his dreams of the world of love that he once shared with Phoebe shredded and shattered into darkness. Cole sat up slowly as he finished transforming into Belthasor. He had never felt so powerful and so in control.
"Welcome back, belthasor, you spent much, much too much time in the world of mortals." Crooned the Source from behind him.
"What happened?" asked Cole as he went back to his human form.
"I rescued you from the mess you had gotten yourself into, remember? Your mortal half was too weak to resist the seduction of that witch but now I have strengthened your demonic side and soon you'll be able to suppress your humanity fully." The Source stretched each word out syllable by syllable; he wanted belthasor to hear every single word he was saying. The source knew that now that belthasoar had embraced his demonic side fully, he had to make him absorb his every word of evil so that he could become stronger.
"Yes I remember, but what of the witch?" Cole's eyes filled with hatred and his face immediately wore a mask of darkness.
"I wouldn't worry about her if I were you belthasor, unless you want to be sucked into her world of GOOD…again." Thundered the Source.
"So she was the one that caused me to be vulnerable to good." Whispered Cole, he could feel the anger surge through him and his mouth twisted with disgust when he thought about the witch.
He no longer saw her face as beautiful but as a disgusting image of good, so good that he wanted to wipe that smile off her porcelain face and to shatter her mind, her soul and mostly her love for him. Cole's eyes glinted and reflected from the roaring fire in front of him. Looking at him, you wouldn't be able to tell if it was the reflection or his own rage and desire to kill Phoebe. A laugh vibrated around the dark room, which suffocated with the feeling of the big dry chilling hand of evil squeezing all oxygen out of it. Cole kept laughing with glee as he sank deeper and deeper into his own pleasure at the knowledge he had of Phoebe, he knew that her heart was like glass, so easily shattered within a second and when her window pane of their love crumbled and fell in sharp splinters of pain and hurt on the floor of her own misery, then she would be vulnerable to all of the world.
"I will hunt you down witch, and I will torture you for all the good you've poured into my heart and slowly shred your soul until it becomes tatters of your own pain." Droned Cole to himself, his voice emotionless.
Ahh, Belthasor," The Source hissed, "Welcome home at last."
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"Phoebe?" Piper's voice drifted into Phoebe's room as she sat still on her bed.
Piper suddenly came in and saw Phoebe, her makeup smudged with tearstains saturating her face.
"Oh honey, what happened?" whispered Piper, as she ran over to the bed and let Phoebe sink thankfully onto her body.
"I… I was angry at Cole for defending that Aridella but he was only trying to help her." Whispered Phoebe, her voice shaking and she started to tremble. "I just wanted our wedding to be perfect, Piper, and I was so stupid that I lashed out all my anger at Cole. I've lost him Piper, I've lost him…"
"It's ok, honey." Piper's soothing voice echoed into Phoebe's ear as she smoothed out her hair and slowly pried Phoebe's arms off her. "Listen, you didn't lose him Phoebe, find him and tell him what you told me."
"I'm scared he won't believe me." Phoebe's face was now white and she suddenly looked exhausted and drained of all her energy.
"Phoebe, just listen to me, ok?" Piper said sternly as she forced Phoebe to look at her. "Cole and you share a special love and it's the power that comes from that love that gives you the ability to shimmer. This power of love has saved you so many times and it still exists because you still have half of Cole's power. Oh Pheebs, can't you see? The love between you and Cole is still there and if I know Cole well enough, then I know that he loves you and would risk his life for you, and I know that you feel the same way. So don't give up on him just because your wedding day is ruined, wedding or not, Phoebe, you and Cole are destined to be with each other and if either of you try to deny that destiny then you're crazy!"
Phoebe's watery eyes gazed into her reflection in Piper's clear hazel eyes as she slowly absorbed what Piper had said. All her hopes fluttered through her heart like a playful butterfly and she felt her heart jump with happiness as she realised that Piper was right.
"Come on Pheebs! Go for him, I know you're not going to lose him!" Piper urged, nodding slightly at the direction of the door and giving Phoebe a quick hug.
Flashing a hopeful smile, Phoebe shimmered herself downstairs, "Cole!" she called out. She frowned as she strained to hear even a slight sound of movement; she whirled around as she heard the stairs creak.
"Cole! Oh my god, I'm so-" she cried out then stopped when she saw Piper's worried face.
Phoebe could feel her heart raging with worry and her heart pounding against her chest as her forehead began to glisten with sweat. "Cole!" she started to scream, the hot tears brimming in her eyes.
Leo suddenly orbed in, "Phoebe, wha-"
"Leo, can you try to sense Cole for me?" cried out Phoebe, running to Leo, her voice trembling.
One look at Phoebe's distraught expression painted on her face was all Leo needed to hear to understand what had happened, he closed his eyes and tried to sense Cole.
"Phoebe, I… I can't sense him anywhere." Leo's eyes fluttered open, his voice thick with worry.
Suddenly the ground loomed up towards Phoebe and she felt her legs collapsing under her as if they were a pile of bricks tumbling heavily to the ground. She ran a shaking hand through her messy hair and bit her lip as her breaths came out shaking and she found herself gripping tightly, almost hugging herself as she rocked back and forth allowing the voice of Leo to echo inside her mind. Leo and Piper immediately dropped next to Phoebe and slowly helped her up. They sat her down on the couch. They knew that she was a fragile creature like a butterfly, her wings so easily broken with just one touch and she would break down and be drowned into her own screams of despair and pain.
"Shh, Phoebe… I'm sure he's fine." Comforted Leo, allowing Phoebe to rest her heavy head on his shoulder.
"He's right honey, Cole would never do anything to hurt you, look, what happened today was a misunderstanding, he loves you and always will. The power of love between you two has fought endless hard battles."
Phoebe slowly shook her head and the tears continued to stream down her face, she could feel her eyes stinging and the revenge of pain rushed through her body like an overaged sea crashing against her insides and mercilessly seeping deep into her heart.
Cole's POV
I opened my heavy eyelids and I felt like I had just woken up from a nightmare, I could feel that my skin was clammy and sweaty. Inside, I could still feel the hurt and the burning of pain slowly seeping deep into my soul, it spreads like poison and slowly takes over my soul as my head pounds and echoes with the same harsh voice of Phoebe, over and over again, torturing me. In my heart, I didn't dare question myself with the most difficult question I could ever ask myself. Does she still love me? It was almost the most unthinkable answer if the answer was no. I don't know what I would do, risking my soul, my life and my whole heart for her, I feel trapped like I couldn't think of anything else to give to her. Now I close my eyes to try to block out the excruciating pain that pounded all around my body and I flinch with every bullet of pain that spears through me like I'm being shot, over and over again. I use all my strength praying that this was a nightmare and that I would wake up to the familiar and blissful sounds of Phoebe's laughter and the angelical image of her smile. But dreams cannot come true, and even if they did, somehow, they always twisted themselves into a nightmare I couldn't wake up from and I would sink deeper and deeper into an ocean full of disappointment and heartbreak. I shiver as feel the lingering touch of the Source's hand moving over my head as he reads every dark secret and every thought. I try to scream and fight against the Source's power over me, how can I be so weak? How could the Source capture me so easily? No sound comes out of my mouth and I feel the shadow of evil slowly blocking out the radiant and angelic sunlight of Phoebe's love. I snap my eyes open and I see the Source's eyes, cold and dark filled with nothing but rage and darkness staring blankly into mine and once again I feel like I'm under his control, my soul screams out as I feel my demonic side fighting to burst out and take over my heart. In my head I see flashes of the Source, his hands beckoning towards me, the feeling of evil and darkness embracing me inside my skin and suffocating my every bone and vein as it takes over me and I know that it's too late.
Phoebe slowly sank to the ground and she sat there, rocking slowly back and forth, portraying the image of a tired wooden rocking horse. Why hadn't Cole come back? Where was he? Questions raced through her mind and she longed to find Cole but she felt like her limbs were paralysed, she couldn't move and she felt weak and vulnerable in this world. It was like she had just been exposed to evil and she was forced to face the pain and torture of reality. Phoebe could feel her energy drain from her as she rocked back and forth, her body growing heavier and she felt like the shadow of death was slowly taking over her.
"Leo, what's wrong with her?" asked Piper, her face filled with worry.
Leo sighed, "Honey, I think that the power of love has died between Phoebe and Cole, the elders told me that when the power of love died, then they would both become weak and vulnerable. I think that the fight they just had planted seeds of doubt in their hearts and that's why the love between them is broken."
"Tha… that doesn't mean that they're going to die, right?" cried Piper, sweat breaking out all over her body.
"Not unless that spell to suppress her guilt is removed." Leo's eyes became tense as he stared into Piper's wide eyes. "At the moment, they both still can't remember Prue so they're going to be fine though I don't know about the love they have but the main thing is that if that spell is removed from them, they're both going to die and drown in their own guilt."
Piper glanced at Phoebe who was still rocking on the floor as if she was in a trance. She ran a shaking hand through her long tangled hair. Her heart felt like it was about to burst and her head throbbed every time she thought about her weak sister. Why does everything have to be so complicated? First I lose Prue, now Cole and Phoebe's love is broken, Cole's missing and I'm about to lose another sister! Thought Piper, great, just great!
"Leo, what am I going to do?" yelled a frustrated Piper and her voice broke as she sank thankfully into the soft body of Leo, crying out in her own frustration.
"We have to find Cole and help him build up his love for Phoebe again, it's the best chance we have of Aridella not taking off the spell because if she does, they're both dead anyway." Said Leo in a determined voice as he gently pried a distraught Piper off him.
"What about Phoebe?" whispered Piper, her eyes wide with fear and worry, "should we just leave her here?"
"She'll be okay, she can hardly stand up right now so there's no point in taking her with us to find Cole, we'll bring him back here." When Leo saw the mask of doubt on Piper's face, he quickly said, "Everything's going to be okay, Piper, don't worry."
With one last glance at her weak sister sitting in her own world of vulnerability and hurt on the ground, Piper held on tight to Leo and they slowly orbed out.
Cole felt the power surge through him as he slowly transformed into Belthasor. He felt the darkness slowly seep itself into his skin and into his soul. He felt powerful as he sank into the pleasure of the feeling of power and evil. Slowly this feeling of pleasure melted all his thoughts of Phoebe and his dreams of the world of love that he once shared with Phoebe shredded and shattered into darkness. Cole sat up slowly as he finished transforming into Belthasor. He had never felt so powerful and so in control.
"Welcome back, belthasor, you spent much, much too much time in the world of mortals." Crooned the Source from behind him.
"What happened?" asked Cole as he went back to his human form.
"I rescued you from the mess you had gotten yourself into, remember? Your mortal half was too weak to resist the seduction of that witch but now I have strengthened your demonic side and soon you'll be able to suppress your humanity fully." The Source stretched each word out syllable by syllable; he wanted belthasor to hear every single word he was saying. The source knew that now that belthasoar had embraced his demonic side fully, he had to make him absorb his every word of evil so that he could become stronger.
"Yes I remember, but what of the witch?" Cole's eyes filled with hatred and his face immediately wore a mask of darkness.
"I wouldn't worry about her if I were you belthasor, unless you want to be sucked into her world of GOOD…again." Thundered the Source.
"So she was the one that caused me to be vulnerable to good." Whispered Cole, he could feel the anger surge through him and his mouth twisted with disgust when he thought about the witch.
He no longer saw her face as beautiful but as a disgusting image of good, so good that he wanted to wipe that smile off her porcelain face and to shatter her mind, her soul and mostly her love for him. Cole's eyes glinted and reflected from the roaring fire in front of him. Looking at him, you wouldn't be able to tell if it was the reflection or his own rage and desire to kill Phoebe. A laugh vibrated around the dark room, which suffocated with the feeling of the big dry chilling hand of evil squeezing all oxygen out of it. Cole kept laughing with glee as he sank deeper and deeper into his own pleasure at the knowledge he had of Phoebe, he knew that her heart was like glass, so easily shattered within a second and when her window pane of their love crumbled and fell in sharp splinters of pain and hurt on the floor of her own misery, then she would be vulnerable to all of the world.
"I will hunt you down witch, and I will torture you for all the good you've poured into my heart and slowly shred your soul until it becomes tatters of your own pain." Droned Cole to himself, his voice emotionless.
Ahh, Belthasor," The Source hissed, "Welcome home at last."
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