Chapter 5 Magic connections
It was a gentle kiss, innocent and as chased as a virgin in a chastity belt. Still that old fire licked slowly between them, ebbing like the tide going out and then rising like the evening stars.
"I can't believe this." Phoebe breathed when Cole finally lifted his head. She felt s if the floor was no longer beneath her, the world having fallen away.
"Why? Do you want to leave?" He asked afraid that had been too fast, he didn't want her scared off. God no, their time here would be short enough.
"No," she smiled up at him a little. "No it's not that I just… Cole I feel as if I've played that scene before."
"We have. Phoebe do you ever remember your dreams at night?" Cole asked her softly and his cobalt eyes glittered in the dim lighting.
"Yes, why?" She asked a little confused, but then she was a witch.
"Since I left you I've had the same, of a life I think we shared." He said softly and her eyes widened slightly. Not that she didn't believe in past lives but mostly with witches.
"We were robin hood and maid Marion?" She could only breathe as he flashes form earlier hit her once more a then also there was the feeling she'd already played out the scene of the archery contest.
The sound of the water rushing past seemed to magnify, the stars beyond the glass enclosure to intensify and Cole thought perhaps if they got out of there things might take on a normal cast once more.
"Phoebe I think we should talk." Cole told her and she thought a moment, taking a look around the enchanting area. It did all seem so out of place now that she managed to see it here and now.
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"There were more reasons I left you in San Francisco. The day I saved you I was on my way home trying to think how to prove I was not what you thought when I kind of had this vision." Cole began as he handed Phoebe a glass of iced water. They were in his quarters, in the lounge. She'd changed on the way up as had he and now they were having their talk. "You had to vanquish me."
"I…" that took Phoebe off center and he gave her a rye smile. She wondered what would have made her so that. She cared for him, even with Jason. Hell Jason was not but a drop in a bucket compared to Cole. She knew there was pretty much only one reason she'd have vanquished him. "Were you taken over again?"
"No, I received new powers from the wasteland and they drove me mad. At least that's what it seemed." he told her quietly and waited or her reaction.
"So we killed you." Phoebe murmured gazing into her glass. For a moment, only one she thought of calling her sisters to tell them but it was over, besides it had been apparently averted.
"Phoebe you had no choice, you'd fallen for Jason and I was destroying everyone's lives. I destroyed the club and cost Paige her job and…"
"Cole?" She asked hearing the pain and guilt in his deep voice. He was at the window and setting down her water she didn't think about it, just went to him.
"Phoebe, that vision was the first but not the last." He murmured softly, as if it cost him a great deal to speak the words.
"You've been having them?" She asked moving to stand beside him, so she could see his profile.
"Yes." He said and there was something in his voice, sadness?
"Were they all like that one?" She asked gently.
"No, I saw what you saw in the chimera room. I saw a whole life set like that. It may have just been a dream but Phoebe…" Cole couldn't go on; it had always felt so real, as real as the warmth coming off of her now.
"It wasn't, Cole I felt that when I was sitting with you, I could see so much in that room, or actually the true surroundings." Phoebe began and as he turned to her she went on. "I saw us by a stream, I was worried and…"
"I tried to laugh it off." He nodded and without thinking his arms slid about her waist, as they had in the vision.
"Yeah." She murmured feeling safer than she had in a long time. "I knew you hated being mothered." Phoebe breathed remembered that feeling, that knowledge.
"I built the chimera room for that reason." Cole told her running a finger over the curve of her cheek, tracing its softness. "If I couldn't have my dreams or even the one in them I could have the illusion." He dropped his hand as if burned by the touch.
"But Cole you avoided that future, we could still…" Phoebe broke off when she realized what she was about to ask of him. She was about to try and pull him back into her world of magic and danger. Dropping her arms from about him she turned and headed for the door.
"Phoebe?" His voice was low, questioning as he started after her.
"I can't do this."
"Phoebe do what?"
"Cole I can't pull you back into my world, not even for a short time."
"Phoebe, I told you I still have to deal with it."
"that's not the same Cole; you know that even being associated with one of the charmed one's is an invitation for turmoil and destruction."
"Phoebe," and he was turning her to face him, his eyes dark as they searched hers. "left you then to save us all but Phoebe, things have changed, neither of us are who we once were."
"No but." God she wanted this, wanted these words but she was scared. If they messed it up, if evil messed it up?
"I have new powers and I'll bet you've learned a few new tricks to the trade." he touched her cheek lightly a knowing smile on his handsome face. "Phoebe that's ok but I think in some ways it gives us a better chance now, we're both stronger, we know we can handle things alone or with someone."
"Cole…" she knew he was right and those blue eyes, those eyes she'd loved from the start…
"Phoebe I know you have more than a million reasons not to trust me but please Phoebe just give it a chance. Not a big one but while your hear." He hoped he didn't sound like he had in those visions, he never wanted her to feel pressured but he had the feeling if she left him there tonight then it would be the end of it.
"I can show you around, we can try the slopes, go bowling, swimming or anything you like." She wanted to smile, he sounded like a teenager trying to ask out the girl of his dreams.
"Cole…" she began but he again cut her off.
"Just please Phoebe give it a chance." he begged.
"I will if you let me get a word in edgewise." She said grinning up at him and it took a minute before her words soaked in and Cole was smiling back at her.
TBC
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Ok another one finished. Is it too sappy? I don't know but I think that this couple deserved a little sap. they got enough of the angst thanks t the writers of the show. anyway please review and let me now if you liked it or have a suggestion or two.
Sincerely Crimson Nova
