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Love Conquers all part 2 – Chapter 7"Honey I'm home." Came his sarcastic voice as it echoed through the strange world. She shivered at the sound of his voice but made no attempt to get away knowing that she didn't know a way out.
"I thought we could get started having fun." He said as he strolled over to her much to casually.
"Why do this to me, don't you have anyone else to have fun with." She replied, bitterness in her voice.
"Maybe I do…but as I said I like witches." He grabbed her roughly by the waist in a dangerously strong grip, as she struggled against him in a failed attempt to get away, he said "Anxious to get it over with?"
"Please…its not good for my emotions I could loose the baby if I get to upset."
"I'm heartbroken." He said mockingly whilst placing one hand over his heart (well that's if he had one). He waved his hand and a double bed appeared in front of them. He roughly pushed Phoebe onto the bed against her will, but before he could stop her she kneed him painfully in the groin again. He bent over in pain releasing his grip on her. Phoebe didn't know where to go but she didn't want to stay here with him. She ran towards the portal that behind it held earth, and she didn't really know why she thought maybe she could get to Cole and call for help. He ran after he outraged, this time she wouldn't get away he shimmered in front of her and grabbed her by the shoulders. "What does it take, to make you understand you can't run away from me?"
"You are sick, perverted demon." She spat back "That you have to take me against my will, haven't you got any demon to give it up for you?"
His face, which turned from a look of lust to a mask of anger in that of a second as he extended his fist and connected it roughly with her stomach; she bent over in pain thinking of the baby inside. "My baby." She cried "You son of a bitch you hurt my baby." She rubbed her stomach in attempt to try and stop the pain but it didn't help.
"Pain is always the best kind of pleasure for me." He said, as he turned away and she fell to the floor rubbing her stomach affectionately and sobbing into her knees, wishing someone would come rescue her why hadn't Piper, Paige, Leo or Cole saved her yet, she had reached Cole and he still hadn't come. Would they come?
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"Paige I have an idea and I think it will work." Piper ran into Paige's room and looked at her sister crashed out on the bed asleep, the overwhelming need for sleep had finally gotten the best of her. Piper decided it best not to wake her she was feeling better now having a plan and all, so she decided to prepare herself and wake Paige later, so she could help with the spell.
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As she continued to cry alone, where she sat curled up like hours before when she had fallen to the floor, holding her stomach. She heard his voice "Phoebe." It floated towards her and swept over her body like a soft caress.
"Cole." She lifted her head to look up, and there he was ready to save her. He came towards her as she stood up and he encircled her in his loving arms. Kissing her face and hair. "I missed you so much…I love you…I knew you would come for me." She said between butterfly kisses. She wrapped her arms around his neck and he grabbed her and picked her up as she wrapped her legs around his waist, their lips joined in a passionate kiss. Cole guided her to the big double bed, which still remained after the demons departure Phoebe surrendered to Cole needing to feel his kisses on her skin, and sighed as he caressed her softly, as he kissed her burns and scars softly as if he was trying to sooth her pain. As he came to look in her eyes Phoebe noticed something scary, they weren't Cole's eyes they were empty, hollow and dark. "Cole?" she questioned.
"What?" He replied as he kissed her hair, cheeks, and neck and continued back down her body again, dragging his fingers nails over her. Phoebe failed to notice every kiss Cole gave her; brought pools of blood the surface of her skin, and every piece of skin his fingernails brushed scratched deep cuts into her pale skin, it was as if she couldn't feel the pain.
"Nothing." She said dismissing it thinking it was probably the effects of little sleep and food, or maybe she was dreaming?
"Good." He said.
A premonition shook her body as she entwined her hands with Cole's, minutes later. She saw them all here just like she was. Each believing he was someone else…their lover, as he manipulated each one into giving herself to him. Then he would kill them all, every single witch. As the images flew by in her mind, she saw each body, each tortured battered body pile up, and she felt their pain and heard their tortured screams as he tortured them endlessly. Her eyes flew open and she gasped in shock. "You." She screamed, "Get off me." She pushed him off her and sat up, pain spreading over her body, she looked to see her body was bleeding everywhere he had touched her, just like those other women. She should of guessed It wasn't him, he played so many tricks on her she had seen Piper, Paige, Leo and even Prue in the last 2 hours before he had left, or that's what she thought anyway, each telling her they were here to save her and each time she fell for it, even if she knew it wasn't them. She couldn't help but have some hope that maybe this time it wasn't him. She should have known it wasn't Cole, but still she was so weak she wanted to believe. Needed to believe. She rolled off the bed and ran, as fast as her bleeding legs would take her, as she charged through each strange wall towards the portal, where earth belonged just a few planes away she had to escape, but she didn't know how. He shimmered in front of her, and grabbed her bloody shoulders, as she was just outside the earth portal "Oh I love you so much Cole, you came for me." He mocked.
She kicked him over and over again in rage, as they continued to fight, Phoebe could feel herself draining she could barely levitate to avoid his punches. As he threw another punch towards her she jumped into the portal, but this time something was wrong…very wrong…she was falling in some sort of vortex.
"Stupid witch, you can never access a portal twice, it will swallow you hole and spit you out." He shouted after her. "I know you went there before I watched you, and now your fall to your death." He laughed as he turned away to tell the source the good news, at least he would not kill him for taking the witch for his own pleasure.
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He was trying to sense Phoebe again but it was harder for some reason, he could sense some sort of magic block covering the manor not very strong, but in the way slightly and sending his senses a little off. He had fallen asleep after Phoebe's visit, just like Paige sleep had finally caught up with him and he could take it no longer. Knowing Phoebe was safe even for a little while helped, and he had given in and fallen into a deep sleep. As he lay there now concentrating, he heard her terrified scream call his name, and without thinking he thought Phoebe and shimmered out, not even caring if his senses were a little off.
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As Phoebe began to fall at first nothing was wrong, but as time went on it felt as if someone was suffocating and crushing her from the inside out she screamed Cole's name even though it hurt to shout as she continued to fall. To what she believed to be her death…as her insides boiled painfully and her power of levitation failed to get her out, or even the baby's power to shimmer.
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He had no idea where he was a swirling vortex of some kind, he could feel his insides being crushed and he could hear his heart pounding in his ears, he called out her name, and turned his head to look for her, he saw her falling towards him. So he shimmered out and caught her as she passed by a smaller section of the vortex a little further up than he had been. He then shimmered out to the manor, with a very weak and bloody Phoebe in his arms.
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"Your not real." She said as she weakly hit him with her bloody hands. "Please just leave me to die, to die free from you and your torture." Cole's stomach twisting in knots as he listened to her weak protests, what had they done to her? The Phoebe he knew would not give up for anything.
"Phoebe it's me, Cole."
"Please leave me alone, I just wanna die in peace." She coughed
"Phoebe, please you have to believe me." He gently placed her on the bed, and she feared worse was to come, not having a clue if Cole was real or not but she didn't want to take any chances. She sat up and roughly pushed Cole away with what strength she had left, as he fell in a crumpled but not very painful heap, she ran out the room, straight into Piper and Paige.
"Phoebe watch where you're going?" replied Piper without thinking.
"Phoebe." Said Paige shocked.
"Phoebe." Said Piper as if she had finally acknowledged the fact that Phoebe was there. "I didn't know Phoebe was back, did you?" she said looking at Paige.
"No." Paige turned to a very battered and scared looking Phoebe and said "Oh Phoebe! What did they do to you? Let us help you, we can help you." She said as she reached out to help Phoebe.
"No stop tormenting me I know you're not real just like Cole isn't real." She said as she placed her hands over her ears.
"What?" said Piper "Phoebe honey we're real." She said reaching out and brushing a strand of hair from her face, Phoebe shrunk back slightly, and Piper looked at Phoebe as she bled continuously.
"Phoebe." Said Cole from behind her.
"Cole why didn't you tell us Phoebe was here?"
"How is she here?"
"I'll answer later something is wrong, really wrong."
"What's wr…"
Cole cut Paige off with a look and then turned to Phoebe and said "Sweetie your home now its okay we are not going to hurt you." Cole stopped and pointed to him, Piper and Paige, and said, "We're real."
Phoebe was lost she didn't know if these people were real, if this demon could shape shift into more than one person, she was so lost and afraid, and her dark eyes showed only fear, which scared the others. All she knew was that the crushing pain inside her body was increasing and she needed to lie down.
"Help me." She coughed, and in horror the others watched as she coughed up blood. Her breathing turned from vaguely normal breathing to sharp gasps for air. It felt like her body was crushing from the inside out; it was so painful all of a sudden, why now? What if there really here? What if they're real? Her mind screamed. The blood was sweeping from her open wounds and the pain was becoming unbearable, she collapsed as the others watched paralysed to the spot. Cole's arms shot out behind her, before she hit the ground and he caught her. That was the good thing that came with the demon gig, good reflexes. He carried her to the bed and once again laid her down, but this time she made no attempt to escape, in fact she was hardly moving.
"Phoebe talk to me." He looked at her she was very pale, and the cuts and bruises on her body stood out clearly, his heart tore its self-apart as he looked at her, her clothes torn, hair tangled. "Phoebe." He said as he smoothed her tangled hair from her cold face.
"Cole." She whispered, as she looked into those beautiful blue eyes, this time knowing it was him, "Hurts."
"Its okay where does it hurt?"
"Everywhere." As on cue a pain shot rapidly from her stomach as she sat up her arms around her waist screaming.
"Phoebe, its okay it's going to be alright." He gently laid her back down, and stroked her stomach trying to sooth the pain, he noticed a little rounded bump, but dismissed it, and turned his attention back to Phoebe's words.
"I'm dieing, Cole I can feel it," She whispered.
"No your not Phoebe we were going to die together remember…not here not now…Phoebe please don't die." He pleaded, but he didn't exactly know how to stop it from happening, without Leo who still wasn't here. "I'm so sorry I didn't save you…I could of saved you before."
"Don't be sorry your love saved me, you kept me alive out there when I was all alone." She paused to cough and Cole watched wide-eyed as blood spilled onto her lips and fell down her chin. "And now I'm going to die by your side, not alone…you did that for me."
"Phoebe, I'm…don't die…I love you so much…you can't leave me." He cried, as he removed his shirt and used it in a useless attempt to stop the blood.
"I'll always be with you Cole in your heart."
"Take care of Piper, Paige and Leo, and save Melinda she's in the underworld." She coughed again, and turned her head weakly to look at Piper and Paige as they watched in horror, tears streaming down their eyes. "I love you." She whispered to her sisters. "We love you to Phoebe." Said Paige as Piper held on to Paige to steady her shaking legs and call for Leo again, but he did not come.
"I'm sorry you never got to be a daddy." She said between gritted teeth as the pain shook her body, and she turned to look at Cole.
"Don't be sorry, please don't be sorry, I had you that was more than enough." He replied, as he held her hand, which was slowly turning cold in his, and bent to kiss her lips, she returned his kiss weakly but used all her strength to show him how much she cared.
"Cole." She coughed, as he brought his now blood covered lips away. "I have to tell." She whispered, as he felt her hand loosen its grip slightly.
"What, what do you need to tell Phoebe?"
"I'm sorry…" she wanted so desperately to tell him about the baby but knew it would he would blame himself even more, she felt her body start to turn cold and began to gasp for breath again. "Sorry baby…" She whispered as she apologised to the small child within her, as tears fell from her eyes, she didn't finish her sentence, as her hand fell and brushed against his bare skin sending a chill along his body. Tears streamed down his face as he hugged her cold body, as she no longer spoke, and her heart was slowly stopping, her lips slowly turning blue and her home slowly fading away, along with her soul. "Phoebe." Was all he could say, in to her cold unmoving body.
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That's just the beginning of my story; some people ask me how I can know that when I wasn't even there when it happened. I just tell them that I was supposed to know that, and I was there…and the journey I took next was amazing. But my story continues…for better or for worse…
A/N2: I know that wasn't probably what you expected the ending for love conquers all to be, but do you really think I will let Phoebe stay dead? Get reviewing and your find out.
A/N3: I hope you got that clue about the prophecy at the end there, I was debating whether to post that little clue because I didn't know whether it would ruin this chapter or not, because I wrote that part ages ago. So let me know what you think. I apologise if there are lots of spelling and grammar mistakes in this chapter I edited in rather a hurry, and will probably renew if there are lots later on.