Part 6: Answers to Premonitions Never Received
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-Phoebe's Premonition-
/ Paige, Phoebe and Piper were standing at the base of the stairs in the Manor, everyone except Paige looking very different. Phoebe looked like she had become a dark witch again, and Piper looked as if she had been going on killing sprees for years – with bruises from said battles still visible on her body. All of the sisters were facing someone in black, and they began to throw vanquishing potions towards this being.
When it was down to Phoebe being the last with a vial of the potion, the demon they were vanquishing pleaded with her.
"Phoebe, you won't do this. I love you," the voice and words were all too familiar to Phoebe, it was her ex-husband Cole. "I know you feel the same way."
"Thing's change Cole," and with that Phoebe watched as her dark-self threw the vanquishing potion at Cole. Flames engulfed him as he screamed out in pain, yet managed to confess his undying love to her after what she had done.
"I'll always love you," he said as his body was turned in to nothing more than a pile of ash. When the last bit of flames faded off Paige vanished, leaving Phoebe and Piper alone in the Manor.
They exchanged a confused look with each other as several demons shimmered in. \
Phoebe gasped and pulled away from the Book of Shadow's perch, eyes wide and full of her own confusion.
Piper: What did you see?
Phoebe: Cole.
Paige: What? But – he's GONE.
Phoebe: I know, that's what I saw.
Piper: Want to elaborate a bit?
Phoebe: I saw him being vanquished, by ... us?
Piper: Why the uncertainty?
Phoebe: It wasn't us, not all of us. (looking at Paige) It was just you, Piper and I, we were different. The Manor was different. It didn't seem right.
Paige: Oh... (realizing) You mean you saw the vanquish of Cole in that alternate reality.
Phoebe: I think so.
Piper: But why?
Phoebe: (shrugging) No idea, but it was strange. After Paige, uh, we vanquished him Paige vanished and a bunch of demons appeared in the Manor before you and I, Piper.
Paige: How is that possible? The alternate reality was destroyed when Cole was vanquished.
Phoebe: You've just made my premonition more confusing...
Paige: Sorry, but you're right. It doesn't make any sense. Both you and Piper changed back in to, well, yourselves.
Piper: Before we get too far in to this.. Is it possible that the reality wasn't destroyed somehow?
Paige: I guess?
Piper: Then perhaps Phoebe's premonition was just letting her know what happened after you left. (a beat) Oh my..
Phoebe: What, what is it? Did the baby kick?
Piper: No, I think I just figured out the answer to our recent demon problem.
Paige: Hmm?
Phoebe: You mean..
Piper: (nodding) Yeah. Those demons that were resurrected, yet not, could have come from that reality. That's why the Elders couldn't explain it.
Paige: Makes sense.
Phoebe: Makes a LOT of sense. Also explains why I'd have a premonition of that particular event.
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Chris is in Wyatt's room, just watching his brother sleep peacefully. Leo enters from the hall, a bit hesitant at first.
Leo: Chris, can I talk to you?
Chris: (not looking towards Leo) You might wake Wyatt.
Leo: I'll keep my voice down. (moving further in to the room) How did you know where to find me?
Chris: Lucky guess.
Leo: Chris. You knew exactly where I was, and you managed to free me from that place. It can't have just been coincidence.
Chris: Are you accusing me of something?
Leo: Yes, of lying.
Chris: (stalling) About?
Leo: Not knowing where to find me, and about the fever that struck Phoebe before those two demons attacked.
Chris: (leaving Wyatt's room) I told you, I don't know what happened to Phoebe, and I'm not hiding anything about that.
Leo: (following) Let's say that's true, you're still holding back about the other subject.
Chris: (heading for the attic. Muttering) This has to be the most interested in my life you've ever been.
Leo: (not hearing) Chris?
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Chris and Leo enter the attic to find the sisters all sitting upon the couch, in the middle of a conversation of their own.
Phoebe: If these demons are coming from an alternate reality, then we'll have to seal the tear?
Piper: Sounds about right.
Paige: Without the help of the Book of Shadows..
Phoebe: Yeah, it'll take a while..
Piper: That's for sure. (noticing Leo and Chris) We think we know how the demons are coming back to life.
Chris: (ignoring Leo) How?
Phoebe: Well.. It seems these demons might be coming from an alternate reality.
Chris: (impressed) That would account for the demons being resurrected without really being brought back.
Paige: That it would. Now we just have to figure out how to stop these demons from crossing over. (looking at Leo) Say... Do the Elders know anything about this particular type of situation that could help us out?
Leo: I'll check with them. (turning to Chris) When I get back, we're going to finish this conversation. (orbs out)
Phoebe: Well, I guess we just wait now.
Piper: Yep.
Phoebe: Chris..
Chris: Yeah?
Phoebe: You're actually talking to your father now? (Piper winces, expecting her son to go over the deep end)
Chris: (silent for a moment) Sort of.
Paige: What's that supposed to mean?
Piper: (whispering to Paige) It means he's 'sort of' talking to his father, and his father is 'sort of' talking to him. Nothing to get too excited about...
Chris: (changing the subject) What did you see in your premonition exactly?
Phoebe: An alternate reality, one where your Aunt Paige got sent. She was vanquishing Cole with that world's Piper and I.
Chris: Oh, so then... You saw them...
Phoebe: Yeah. I did, and I feel sorry for them. They looked so confused and lost.
Chris: Well, they did just see their father vanquished.
Paige, Piper and Phoebe all give Chris an odd look.
Phoebe: (brow raised) What?
Chris: (startled) Oh, um..
Paige: Did we just hear you right? Did you say they saw their FATHER vanquished?!
Phoebe: That's what I heard. Care to explain?
Chris: Sorry, I'm thinking about something else..
Phoebe: (reading his emotions) No you aren't. Tell me the truth Chris; just who were you talking about?
Chris: (glancing between his mother and aunts) it's... Well... I can't.
Piper: Please, Chris. This seems to be something we need to know.
Phoebe: That's right it's something we DO need to know. You said they saw their father being vanquished, and the only one in my premonition who got vanquished was COLE.
Chris: Yeah, Cole... (lowering his voice) Was vanquished, and his children were witness to his death.
Phoebe: (confused) He had... No, WE had..?
Chris: Yes, you and Cole. You had children in that reality.
Paige: Wait, I don't remember seeing any kids. (pause) Then again I didn't really stick around the Manor...
Phoebe: Oh my God. I'm a horrible mother; I vanquished my own children's father in front of them?!
Chris: No, Phoebe – that wasn't you.
Paige: Chris is right.
Phoebe: It doesn't change anything.
Piper: Yes it does. You didn't vanquish Cole, YOU had NO part in it.
Paige: But I did.
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On the roof of the Manor Cole was standing beside the barely opened window, listening in to the girl's conversation. Adamant appears beside him.
Adamant: It sounds as if your risk is becoming too much of one. Your children have taken the Charmed Ones' Book of Shadows, leaving them all but defenseless and their own identities almost exposed.
Cole: Are you not amused Adamant?
Adamant: Oh, I am amused Cole. Highly amused; at your lack of power over this whole ordeal, it's quite laughable. Once the Charmed Ones find out that the demons who attacked them tonight are indeed Phoebe's children they'll eventually discover that you're still alive.
Cole: They may discover Pyrena and Nethaniel, but my existence here is in no danger of being found out.
Adamant: You say that now, but we shall see Cole... We shall see...
The blonde Avatar, Adamant, vanishes soon followed by Cole's own departure.
~~ -To be continued...
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-Phoebe's Premonition-
/ Paige, Phoebe and Piper were standing at the base of the stairs in the Manor, everyone except Paige looking very different. Phoebe looked like she had become a dark witch again, and Piper looked as if she had been going on killing sprees for years – with bruises from said battles still visible on her body. All of the sisters were facing someone in black, and they began to throw vanquishing potions towards this being.
When it was down to Phoebe being the last with a vial of the potion, the demon they were vanquishing pleaded with her.
"Phoebe, you won't do this. I love you," the voice and words were all too familiar to Phoebe, it was her ex-husband Cole. "I know you feel the same way."
"Thing's change Cole," and with that Phoebe watched as her dark-self threw the vanquishing potion at Cole. Flames engulfed him as he screamed out in pain, yet managed to confess his undying love to her after what she had done.
"I'll always love you," he said as his body was turned in to nothing more than a pile of ash. When the last bit of flames faded off Paige vanished, leaving Phoebe and Piper alone in the Manor.
They exchanged a confused look with each other as several demons shimmered in. \
Phoebe gasped and pulled away from the Book of Shadow's perch, eyes wide and full of her own confusion.
Piper: What did you see?
Phoebe: Cole.
Paige: What? But – he's GONE.
Phoebe: I know, that's what I saw.
Piper: Want to elaborate a bit?
Phoebe: I saw him being vanquished, by ... us?
Piper: Why the uncertainty?
Phoebe: It wasn't us, not all of us. (looking at Paige) It was just you, Piper and I, we were different. The Manor was different. It didn't seem right.
Paige: Oh... (realizing) You mean you saw the vanquish of Cole in that alternate reality.
Phoebe: I think so.
Piper: But why?
Phoebe: (shrugging) No idea, but it was strange. After Paige, uh, we vanquished him Paige vanished and a bunch of demons appeared in the Manor before you and I, Piper.
Paige: How is that possible? The alternate reality was destroyed when Cole was vanquished.
Phoebe: You've just made my premonition more confusing...
Paige: Sorry, but you're right. It doesn't make any sense. Both you and Piper changed back in to, well, yourselves.
Piper: Before we get too far in to this.. Is it possible that the reality wasn't destroyed somehow?
Paige: I guess?
Piper: Then perhaps Phoebe's premonition was just letting her know what happened after you left. (a beat) Oh my..
Phoebe: What, what is it? Did the baby kick?
Piper: No, I think I just figured out the answer to our recent demon problem.
Paige: Hmm?
Phoebe: You mean..
Piper: (nodding) Yeah. Those demons that were resurrected, yet not, could have come from that reality. That's why the Elders couldn't explain it.
Paige: Makes sense.
Phoebe: Makes a LOT of sense. Also explains why I'd have a premonition of that particular event.
~~
Chris is in Wyatt's room, just watching his brother sleep peacefully. Leo enters from the hall, a bit hesitant at first.
Leo: Chris, can I talk to you?
Chris: (not looking towards Leo) You might wake Wyatt.
Leo: I'll keep my voice down. (moving further in to the room) How did you know where to find me?
Chris: Lucky guess.
Leo: Chris. You knew exactly where I was, and you managed to free me from that place. It can't have just been coincidence.
Chris: Are you accusing me of something?
Leo: Yes, of lying.
Chris: (stalling) About?
Leo: Not knowing where to find me, and about the fever that struck Phoebe before those two demons attacked.
Chris: (leaving Wyatt's room) I told you, I don't know what happened to Phoebe, and I'm not hiding anything about that.
Leo: (following) Let's say that's true, you're still holding back about the other subject.
Chris: (heading for the attic. Muttering) This has to be the most interested in my life you've ever been.
Leo: (not hearing) Chris?
~~
Chris and Leo enter the attic to find the sisters all sitting upon the couch, in the middle of a conversation of their own.
Phoebe: If these demons are coming from an alternate reality, then we'll have to seal the tear?
Piper: Sounds about right.
Paige: Without the help of the Book of Shadows..
Phoebe: Yeah, it'll take a while..
Piper: That's for sure. (noticing Leo and Chris) We think we know how the demons are coming back to life.
Chris: (ignoring Leo) How?
Phoebe: Well.. It seems these demons might be coming from an alternate reality.
Chris: (impressed) That would account for the demons being resurrected without really being brought back.
Paige: That it would. Now we just have to figure out how to stop these demons from crossing over. (looking at Leo) Say... Do the Elders know anything about this particular type of situation that could help us out?
Leo: I'll check with them. (turning to Chris) When I get back, we're going to finish this conversation. (orbs out)
Phoebe: Well, I guess we just wait now.
Piper: Yep.
Phoebe: Chris..
Chris: Yeah?
Phoebe: You're actually talking to your father now? (Piper winces, expecting her son to go over the deep end)
Chris: (silent for a moment) Sort of.
Paige: What's that supposed to mean?
Piper: (whispering to Paige) It means he's 'sort of' talking to his father, and his father is 'sort of' talking to him. Nothing to get too excited about...
Chris: (changing the subject) What did you see in your premonition exactly?
Phoebe: An alternate reality, one where your Aunt Paige got sent. She was vanquishing Cole with that world's Piper and I.
Chris: Oh, so then... You saw them...
Phoebe: Yeah. I did, and I feel sorry for them. They looked so confused and lost.
Chris: Well, they did just see their father vanquished.
Paige, Piper and Phoebe all give Chris an odd look.
Phoebe: (brow raised) What?
Chris: (startled) Oh, um..
Paige: Did we just hear you right? Did you say they saw their FATHER vanquished?!
Phoebe: That's what I heard. Care to explain?
Chris: Sorry, I'm thinking about something else..
Phoebe: (reading his emotions) No you aren't. Tell me the truth Chris; just who were you talking about?
Chris: (glancing between his mother and aunts) it's... Well... I can't.
Piper: Please, Chris. This seems to be something we need to know.
Phoebe: That's right it's something we DO need to know. You said they saw their father being vanquished, and the only one in my premonition who got vanquished was COLE.
Chris: Yeah, Cole... (lowering his voice) Was vanquished, and his children were witness to his death.
Phoebe: (confused) He had... No, WE had..?
Chris: Yes, you and Cole. You had children in that reality.
Paige: Wait, I don't remember seeing any kids. (pause) Then again I didn't really stick around the Manor...
Phoebe: Oh my God. I'm a horrible mother; I vanquished my own children's father in front of them?!
Chris: No, Phoebe – that wasn't you.
Paige: Chris is right.
Phoebe: It doesn't change anything.
Piper: Yes it does. You didn't vanquish Cole, YOU had NO part in it.
Paige: But I did.
~~
On the roof of the Manor Cole was standing beside the barely opened window, listening in to the girl's conversation. Adamant appears beside him.
Adamant: It sounds as if your risk is becoming too much of one. Your children have taken the Charmed Ones' Book of Shadows, leaving them all but defenseless and their own identities almost exposed.
Cole: Are you not amused Adamant?
Adamant: Oh, I am amused Cole. Highly amused; at your lack of power over this whole ordeal, it's quite laughable. Once the Charmed Ones find out that the demons who attacked them tonight are indeed Phoebe's children they'll eventually discover that you're still alive.
Cole: They may discover Pyrena and Nethaniel, but my existence here is in no danger of being found out.
Adamant: You say that now, but we shall see Cole... We shall see...
The blonde Avatar, Adamant, vanishes soon followed by Cole's own departure.
~~ -To be continued...
