DUDE!! ANOTHER ONE!!! WOW!!! (lol), anyways, I will explain in this chapter why Cole is "afraid" of Phoebe, and maybe a lot of dialogue, not much action (of any kind, you dirty people!), hope you guys like it, and thank you all for the reviews, it only encourages me to keep on writing, thanks!!!
Phoebe stood from a distance, clutching Paige's arm, not really understanding Cole's behavior. He wasn't like that, he was a confident man, a cocky man. He jumped at any opportunity of looking superior, and now, he was almost crying...
Paige watched Cole, Phoebe's hand was carving into her arm, but she wasn't gonna call her on it, she was to busy being shocked by Cole's behavior. She didn't understand it, Cole was actually afraid of Phoebe? Was it possible that Phoebe had gained some sort of new power that they didn't know of? No...Phoebe would speak up about something like that, she thought.
Piper looked at Cole and then down at Parker, who was asleep in her arms. Maybe he was afraid of the baby. Parker was quite powerful. And he was always alert when evil was around, except this time, he wasn't...so that had to mean that Cole wasn't evil, or Parker was losing his touch...
Leo watched all of the girls, as they just sat back and watched Cole's reaction. Granted, he was as surprised as they were, but they couldn't just stand there and watch the man they had once called a friend wig out like that. Leo took a step forward with a deep breathe "Cole...it's ok, we're not here to hurt you" he said quietly. This made Cole even more nervous and he pointed a quivering hand at Phoebe. "make her stay away..." he said.
Leo nodded and stepped forward grabbing Cole's arm. Cole let it rest at his side and looked at Leo. "why are you here?" he asked them. Leo looked at Cole and then at the girls, "cause you're here..." he said. "you can't vanquish me!" Cole screamed, "I can't...get her out, she's making me crazy.." he said to Leo. Leo looked at Cole and put a hand on his shoulder. "Cole, it's alright, we're not here to do anything to you..." he said, "the elders told me that you were her to help us.." he explained.
Cole looked at Leo and then at the girls, his eyes glued on Phoebe, who shifted uncomfortably under his stare. "I'm not here to help you.." he said silently, still looking at Phoebe. It was like the mere sight of her made him go crazy, it made him lose all his senses. It had taken him so much to get his life back on track without her. And now, it was 6 months down the drain. All his efforts didn't count for anything, because Phoebe was right in front of him, looking at him, and he just wanted to ravish her.
"you're not?" Paige said, "great, then we can go, have a nice life.." she said as she began to walk to the door but Phoebe grabbed her arm. "why would they tell us you're here to help when you're not?" she asked Cole. To which he responded with a simple nod "I don't know, they sent me here on a mission about some demon, big snaky thorny bad demon.." he explained. Piper immediately jumped in, "we fought him!" she said, clutching Parker to her chest.
Cole noticed the baby and smiled, "is that..?" he said looking at Leo. Leo nodded proudly, and Cole smiled, "good..." he said. He was happy for them. "well, either way, I'm not here for you guys" he said, "It took to long to...I wouldn't JUST come back" he said to Phoebe. "don't flatter yourself.." he said to her. She winced as if it were a slap, but it was, it was big low blow...
"ok...so, are you sure, cause if you're here for the same demon that we were fighting, then...maybe..." Piper said. "No..." Cole said. He couldn't help them, he would get caught up and...all he could do was stare at Phoebe. Phoebe's eyes, and her neck, and that more then sutil cleavage, those legs, the way her skirt fell softly around her thighs... "Cole.." he heard. It was Piper...
"look.." he said, giving them a piece of paper, "that's the demon I came to suppress, they never told me anything about helping you, I planned on not even running into you, what the hell were you doing at a coffee house across town from your work and your house?" he asked Phoebe. Phoebe just looked uneasily at him, "they have good scones..." she said softly.
Cole held back a chuckle, and continued to look at her, and then at Piper who was nodding, "yeah, this is him...how do we kill him?" she asked. "potions and a good slayage.." he said. "what potions?" Piper asked, "I'm not sure...they didn't give me...oh...of course..." he said, it all came together. They didn't give him the potions cause he had to find that out with the charmed ones, a fact that Mike left out very conveniently, he was gonna kick his ass so bad...
"ok..." he said, "so I have the slayage, you have the potions, where do we start?" he asked grabbing his files. Paige looked at him and then at her sisters, "wait, wait, he's not just gonna help us, is he?" she asked, "he tried to turn you evil, what if this is a plan to get her back?" Paige asked Piper, Piper was about to say something when Phoebe quickly jumped in, "I'm right here you know? Jesus, you people have been ignoring me since we got here..." she said angrily. "oh, Phoebe, don't start.." Paige said, "well, Paige! You have!! I'm standing right next to you and..." she began, but then looked at Cole, who seemed to be a little taken aback by their argument
"look, let's just get this over with..." she said. After a few minutes of glancing at each other, as if they were strangers, they shimmered and orbed respectively into the manor attic. Cole looked around, it was strange to be back here. It looked exactly like it did when he left, it smelled the same, it felt the same, because it felt like home...
"ok, Piper, Paige and Leo..." Phoebe said, breaking Cole's train of thought, "take the book downstairs and check out some potions, I'll stay here with Cole and check his files and see what we can find..." she said. Paige immediately jumped in, a bit distressed, "I'm not leaving you here with him" she said. Phoebe nodded and shooed her out of the attic, "nothing's gonna happen, the guy hates me.." she said as she shut the door. She turned around and was staring directly at Cole, who wasn't smiling, he seemed a bit tense...
"I don't hate you" he said quietly, as he set down the files on the table. "don't you?" she asked, "NO" he said quickly. "then what the hell is wrong with you?" she asked, "I don't have to tell you what's wrong with me..." he said eyeing his files, although he wasn't really paying attention to them.
"Fine..." she said sitting at the table angrily and grabbing his files. "is this what they gave you?" she asked. Cole sat down next to her and nodded, "I know it looks like a lot, but..." he said. "no, it's enough.." she said quietly. She began reading them, as she felt Cole's stare rest on her image, it was...comforting...
"how have you been?" he asked, "good...ok...dealing..." she said nodding. "are you having a tough time with your sisters?" he asked, "cause at my apartment it seemed you and Paige.." he began, Phoebe nodded with a chuckle, "yeah...we haven't been getting along very well..." she said rubbing her temples. "sometimes I even regret killing you..." she said looking into his eyes.
Cole stared at her, the comment completely caught her off guard. "I don't..." he said quickly, "you did what you had to do, you helped me move on, I have a whole new life, a new job.." he began, but Phoebe cut him off, "a new wife?" she asked, "no.." Cole chuckled, "you're still the only one..." he said.
Phoebe smiled and was about to go in for a kiss, something she knew she HAD to do, or else she'd die, but Cole leaned away. "no..." he said, "please, no...I can't...you said it yourself when you killed me, this wasn't meant to be..." he said somberly. Phoebe looked at him, and nodded, "yeah, maybe you're right but I still...I can't help but think that if you were here, things were different, I'd be happy Cole, I'd want to live..." she said. Cole looked at her surprised, and was about to say something when her sisters stepped in the attic.
He sat up straight and cleared his throat, still looking at Phoebe. "ok, we have potions and salt and all sorts of wiccan goodies..." Paige said setting them all on the table. "yeah, yeah...good..." he said getting up. "ok, lets' go.." he said. He needed to get out of there, it seemed stuffy and suffocating and, he just needed out...
Phoebe nodded as she looked at Cole. She knew her comment caught him off guard, it caught her off guard too...she hadn't realized how bad a time she was having until she looked into Cole's deep blue eyes, and she realized that all her good times were in those eyes, nothing ever worked without those eyes....but now, she couldn't let herself get sucked into those eyes, she had a demon to kill and a broken heart to mend...Cole's...