Chapter 2: Demons shadows
"Leo!" Paige yelled into the empty air inside the Manor. "Leo, we need you…"
Within seconds, Leo orbed in and experienced as he was, he directly noticed a dangerous problem. Before he kneeled next to the couch where Phoebe laid, he pushed the girl back to create a bigger distance between her and his sisters in law.
The girl wasn't shocked, irritated or scared; she only stepped back to avoid a conflict with Leo and watched him healing Phoebe. With cold eyes she observed the situation and in no way she seemed emotionally upset.
Phoebe opened her eyes and almost immediately she rose up in position to attack. Both Paige and Leo did not know why and they might were confused; they did know that Phoebe was in danger somehow. Leo placed himself between the girl and Phoebe while Paige dragged her backwards.
"What's going on?' Leo repeated the question that Paige had tried to ask before.
"Nothing..."
Like a bull reacting on a red sheet, Phoebe screamed; "Nothing? Nothing!!! You are dead, you're evil and… I know what happened; Cole did this, didn't he?" Phoebe swallowed and turned to Paige to express the need to believe her. "Cole did this, to get me back… I know he did, why else would The Source pump up out of nowhere?"
The girls raised her head, her eyes were twinkling and she said firmly, "I'm not The Source. I killed him. And Cole –apparently you prefer to call him that instead of Belthasar- has no idea that I am here."
Everyone accept the girl was speechless. So she continued. "I just wanted to get to know you, Phoebe. You're strong, you've always been and I wanted to make sure that my memories aren't just dreams or hopes."
"Thure?" Phoebe gasped and she slowly walked to the girl. "No… " And she whispered to Leo; "Tell me this is not happening, that I'm going crazy here and that this is some sort of attack from a reality-demon or something like that. Anything but this… Leo?"
The girl, that Phoebe had called Thure, shrugged. "Then don't believe me, you're acting very cowardly and easy. I hope I'll never do such cowardly things when I'm older."
Before those seconds had passed, Phoebe knew it was happening. Her demon-baby wasn't vanquished or dead. It was alive and apparently it appeared to be a teenage girl. The cold eyed, girlish young woman in front of her was indeed her daughter.