A/N: The time line is relevant and I found it helped me whilst writing this chapter so I thought it might help you. But I don't know if its really helpful but it does fit correctly with the ages and the prophecy and stuff so maybe it will help in future chapters.
Time LineJanuary 17th 2001 - Prue Died (I don't know when Prue died exactly so for the purpose of this story it is this date lol!)
October 25th 2001 – Melinda Halliwell - Wyatt born
November 5th 2005 - Melinda and Phoebe taken by the sources men.
November 12th 2005 - Phoebe's return
November 14th 2005 – Melinda's Return
July 3rdrd 2005- Benjamin Halliwell -Turner born
August 21st 2006 – Phoebe gets a job at the Bay mirror as 'Ask Phoebe'
Paige met Alex in July of 2005 – just after Ben was born.
Paige married Alex in April of 2006 (aged 29 roughly)
April 3rd 2011 - Jessica Halliwell – Turner born (Ben aged 6 at the time)
December 12th 2008– Maxine Halliwell – Matthews
May 25th 2010 – Daniel Halliwell – Matthews
A/N2: This is a very confusing chapter but I promise it will make sense at the end...mostly! Also just encase your wondering Paige does get promoted to a social worker and she doesn't quit her job. This chapter is dedicated to my family the Halliwell-Wyatt family and the Wyatt-Turner family. Please, please review I just need to see if anyone is still reading this since I have taken so long!
Disclaimer: See the first chapter.
Chapter 11 – The Enemy lies within the family?
Many months had passed and Phoebe had given birth to the baby, the family were getting back to normal after Melinda and Phoebe had been taken. And all were a little surprised that no demons had come for Melinda due to the prophecy, but of course none of them were complaining. Paige spent most of her free time study the prophecy she wanted to be prepared more than anything else for when the day came, and in this family it could come faster than most days could. For all she knew they could be hurtled through time to that day and not have a clue what was going on, and her motto was 'to be prepared' and she wasn't letting anything stand in the way of that. She had mentioned to Phoebe and Cole that maybe their child could be the one from the prophecy, but they didn't seem very convinced by Paige's theory, although it would explain why the demon/demons hadn't come yet. Although as far as they knew the demons believed Melinda to be the child of the prophecy.
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"He's a sleep." Phoebe said, as she flopped on to the bed exhausted.
"At last." Said Cole as he lay down beside Phoebe. "Listen."
"To what?" said Phoebe.
"Exactly nothing, peace and quiet in the manor."
"You don't hear that often." She commented as she sighed.
"You look tired sweetie." He said as he brushed a stray strand of hair from her face.
"Shall I get us some food? I don't know about you but I am starving. Then if Ben is still asleep we can have some us time." He said with a smile.
"Yes please." She said smiling.
"Okay, lunch first…desert later." He said with a smile, as he left the room.
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Bens unhappy wail woke a dozing Phoebe, as she groggily got up and walked down the hallway towards his room. Remind me never to have any more children she thought as she sighed and opened the door. She never knew being a parent could be so exhausting, all the hours of sleep she never got, all the dirty clothes she had to wash due to baby sick and drool, the horrible smell of dippers when there full! But yet she wouldn't go back if she could and that was the strange thing. Her family were her life, and nothing could change that. She looked at the cot to see a very unhappy baby, that very unhappy familiar face of her son, with his blue eyes just like Cole and her brown curly hair. As she was walking towards the cot to pick up Ben, a demon shimmered in, and she froze in mid step. She recognised this demon, he had tortured her made her believe she would truly die. "You!" She said stunned.
"We meet again." He replied as he reached for the baby.
Phoebe ran over to the cot and grabbed her son before he could get his filthy hands on him; the baby stopped crying as Phoebe shushed him, and began lightly tugging on Phoebe's hair. "What do you want?" she asked.
"Your son." Lucas said as he walked towards her, the evil in his eyes burning into hers.
"Do you think I'll just give him to you?" She spat taking several steps backwards, towards the door, for a quick escape, just encase.
"No but…I'll take you too, and we can begin where we left off." he said with a smile that curled the ends of his lips.
"COLE." She screamed, as she clasped her fingers around the door handle.
"You really think he'll come this time, they never came for you last time."
She twisted the handle but it wouldn't open, what the hell?
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Cole dropped the plate he was holding and it fell to the floor shattering into thousands of tiny pieces, which scattered across the kitchen floor freely. He took off with out even stopping to clean it up, Piper would of had his head if she knew, but now wasn't the time, Phoebe was in trouble. Cole tugged on the handle, and kicked at the door to no avail, but luckily he could still hear Phoebe inside the room. He was just about to shimmer into the room when Ben shimmered into his arms. "Dada" the little boy called cheerfully.
"Ben, is mommy in there?" he said pointing to the door.
"Yah." Said Ben a frown covering his features. "De…De." Ben chanted.
"Demon…you mean demon don't you?"
"Yah." The little boy had no idea what danger his mommy was really in, but he seemed to have some idea that she was in trouble. As if on cue Cole heard a loud crash coming from the nursery, wasting no time he called for Leo, and told him to take Ben. Phoebe would never get over it if something happened to him, and he told Leo to get the sisters just encase. As soon as the chime signaled Leo's departure he shimmered into Ben's bedroom, terrified at what he might find…
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He arrived in the nursery to find Phoebe and a demon In a heated battle, every painting on the way had fallen to the ground, and the mobile that usually hung directly above there sons cot had been singed and was hanging from one weak string. She didn't even notice Cole's presence as he stood in the corner or the room, neither did the demon; he had piercing green eyes, and very dark brown hair. Minutes passed and Cole bounced an energy ball in his hand just encase Phoebe lost control of this battle.
"Belthazor." The demons voice floated towards him.
"Cole." Phoebe said, "Where's Ben? Isn't he with you?"
"He's safe." Said Cole.
Just then distant giggles filled the room, and began to get closer, the air flickered and Ben shimmered in. Phoebe cursed herself for not binding his powers yet.
"Ben." Phoebe said as she held out her arms annoyed, Ben appeared as he looked up at his mom, and gave a goofy smile, and Phoebe smiled sweetly back, but was also really angry. "Cole I thought you said…"
"I…Leo!"
Just then the chimes signaled a very annoyed Leo's arrival, "Sorry he, slipped out of my grasp." He apologised.
"How cosy." Said the demon, bringing everyone back to reality.
He fired an energy ball at Phoebe and she carefully levitated so she missed it, Ben still in her arms.
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Years passed by and the family continued to carry out their charmed destiny, to fight demons, but yet still unable to vanquish source, they had come close once but not close enough. Paige married a witch named Alex, they met during a demon attack in which the charmed ones saved him. They got married in less than year, but it was fast falling for Paige, she knew the first time she saw Alex she felt something. He had a great sense of humour and understood the world of magic, and shared her passion for painting. He had dirty blond hair that fell around his face, and beautiful green eyes. They later had two children Maxine (Max) and Daniel. Phoebe and Cole had another child a little girl named Jessica. Leo and Piper were unable to have another child but were thankful for Melinda, and truthfully they could never ask for more, she could always brighten up their day. The manor was becoming seriously over crowded so Phoebe and Cole moved in opposite the manor, and Paige and Alex were just an orb away, or technically a block away from the manor. The matter of the prophecy was still on the family's mind, but they very rarely talked about it. They were certain they knew who know, especially since the day the day that demon had come, and they had failed to protect their one of their own family against him. They were always reminded of that horrible day when they looked at Lucas's picture in the book of shadows, the day when they had lost someone so precious to evil, would haunt them forever, but they had yet to discover anyway to get him back.
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"LEO WATCH OUT!" screamed Piper as she pushed him to the floor as the darklighters arrow shot across the living room and crashed into the wall.
"What the hell is going on down here?" said Cole as he descended the stairs.
"Darklighter." Said Piper as she and Leo stood up.
"Where did he go?" said Leo.
Cole glanced around the room, his eyes then focused on the dark blue orbs forming behind Leo. "LEO behind you!" he cried as he formed an energy ball in his hands. Piper turned round to blow up the demon but another demon shimmered in, in front of her blocking her view of Leo. She tried to blow up the demon, but it wouldn't work "He's immune to my powers!" Said Piper frantically.
Leo was in mid orb when the darklighters arrow hit him, he painfully grunted and fell to the manor floor as a smiling darklighter disappeared. Cole threw an energy ball that just missed the darklighter as he disappeared. Piper fell to the floor in front, a deathly pale Leo.
"Leo, can you hear me?" she said, afraid he was unconscious.
"Yeah." He muttered as a chill ran down his spine, he could feel the poison working its way threw his system. As Cole and Piper moved him to the sofa in the lounge, and Piper placed a blanket over him.
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"Who could of sent the darklighter after Leo?" said Piper in a hushed voice to the others in the kitchen.
"Well I think we know who it was." Said Paige as she noticed Phoebe cast her eyes down, and Cole place his arm around her waist to comfort her.
"Why would, why would you do such a thing to your own family?" said Piper. "Only someone pure evil could do that." She said as she rubbed her red puffy eyes, from where she had been crying.
"He is under the influence of the source of all evil." Said Alex as he sat down next to Paige.
"I think maybe we should give up and vanquish him, maybe it's the only way." Said Piper, as she turned away from the rest of the family.
Phoebe pulled away from Cole and left the room, a pained look on her face, as the rest of the family expect for Piper stared after her.
"I'll go…uh I'll talk to her." Said Cole as he left the room.
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"I'm so sorry Leo." She cried, "Can you ever forgive me? I'm sorry Paige can't heal you because he has her powers...I'm sorry you going to die because of what me and Cole did." Phoebe said as she wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Phoebe." Cole said softly behind her.
"What Cole?" she snapped.
"You couldn't have changed what happened you know we couldn't stop it?"
"We could of Cole, this wouldn't have happened, if we were never together!"
"Phoebe you don't mean that, there is still time and we can change it before its to late."
"What if we can't Cole." She said her temper rising. "Its our fault this all happened, we should of know, god I should have had a premonition for gods sake he was our…"
"I know sweetie." He said cutting her off and pulling her into his arms, as she rested her head on his chest and gently sobbed.
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He would come for them all in time, take them down one by one. First Leo had gone, now Daniel, Paige and Alex's son, who's next? Was the question on everyone's mind in the family. Everyday Phoebe blamed herself, she had done this to them, it was her fault. Piper and Paige would never say that they blamed her, they wouldn't risk corrupting the power of three. But they would willing take it out with Cole, when Phoebe wasn't around, especially Piper.
"This is much your fault as it hers Cole." Said an annoyed Piper as she slammed the empty plates on the worktop.
"How were we supposed to know Piper? How? Really can you tell me?"
"Well maybe if you could control yourselves this wouldn't of happened."
"That's not fair Piper." He said his temper flaring. "Paige?" Cole said hoping to get some support.
"He killed my baby Cole, I don't want to even think that you brought such an evil thing in to the world." She said coldly.
"What's the change with you two, it never bothered you before you were sure we could fix it, why the change?"
"Because he is slowly killing the one's we love." Said Piper in a shaky voice "How would you like it if he killed Phoebe or Jessica, Cole? Could you go on living?"
"You wouldn't let us vanquish him before saying you had a plan, well we tried your plan, now its time for ours, better one of us who is evil, than the whole of our family die because you and Phoebe won't help."
"When did you get so cold Piper?" Cole asked.
Piper didn't answer that question she just turned to back and began pointlessly rearranging the pots on the worktop. Cole sighed and walked out leaving them to think about what they had suggested.
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"Please don't do this!" pleaded Piper. "We're your family, you're good really, he changed you...there is still time to change back."
"Think about this." Said Alex as he stood in front of Paige protecting her.
"We can help you, do you remember when you were happy here in this family?" said Paige.
"Please! Just Give us our powers back, you hardly defeating us if you have taken our powers, it would be more fun to fight magic to magic." Said Piper hoping to buy them some more time.
"I was never happy here." He said, before he brought the heavy blade down on the powerless family, and thoughtlessly slaughtered everyone in that room, the terrified screams just encouraged him to continue.
"Hi mom." He said waving with a bloody hand "Dad" he said turning to face his parents. "I just dealt with rest of family, they were really getting on my nerves."
Phoebe and Cole stared at the broken and battered bodies at their feet, the blood stained floors and walls, the terrified looks on their cold battered faces, would remain forever in their minds, the pain forever in their hearts.
"Oh god!" Phoebe gasped, as she collapsed in Cole's arms.
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Her scream floated through the manor, disturbing the peaceful night as she sat up shaking, and blindly called out for Cole. Cole woke up after hearing her scream, and looked at his wife, she was white, shaking, and her beautiful features were hidden behind her visible fear. He pulled her into his arms, and she clung to him. "Its okay it was just a nightmare." Knowing that she had been suffering from them lately, since her return from the underworld. "Its okay, you're okay."
"The baby…?" She said panicked, whilst weaving her fingers through Cole's hair.
"Is just fine." Said Cole as he rubbed her swollen belly, he felt her relax a little, but could still tell she was tense with worry, he could see the uncertainty in her eyes.
"It wasn't a nightmare Cole…it was…it felt like a premonition."
TBC...