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Chapter 12
"Wanted:...Baby Demon." Part I
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"Pass the butter." Cole commanded his little sister as he checked the items inside the car.
"Why? I didn't even want to come in the first place." Alex complained.
Cole just rolled his eyes and ignored her. "When you mentioned shopping the last thing that came to my mind was the supermarket." She added handling him the butter.
Cole eyed her. "It's time for you to learn to do the shopping." He said.
"I know how to do the shopping!." She childishly stated.
"Cosmetics, make up and junk food doesn't exactly qualifies as shopping the grocery." He said putting some milk inside the car. "All you know is how to eat the food, you should learn to fill the kitchen cabinet once in a while." He added.
"High calcium milk?" she questioned Cole's choose. "No, we'll go for Low Fat Milk. High Calcium tastes weird." She said taking the milk and replacing it with her own choice.
"You didn't care about the type of milk when you drank it all and left the carton in the fridge 2 days ago." His brother threw.
Alex just sighed. "Ok, we got eggs, my orange juice, your apple juice, butter, low fat milk..." she checked and Cole gave her a look. "Low Fat is better, to keep a good shape." She said.
"If you trained properly, you'd be in better shape." He told her.
"Yeah, whatever... different meats, fish, turkey, chicken and red meat..." she pointed but then she got the feeling he wasn't listening to her. She turned around to find Cole talking to a baby boy whose sleepy head was in resting on his mommy's shoulder.
"Hey little guy." He said smiling. The little boy just yawned sleepily. The boy seemed strong and maybe like 6 months or some, a little older than Prue. He totally distracted just watching the baby... so young, so innocent, so tiny... just like... Prue. It also made him remember about his first son, the one who never saw the world... before he knew about Prue. he usually tended to think about how his little baby boy would have been, how would have been like to be a daddy...
"Cole?" Alex brought him back to reality.
He just shook those thoughts off his mind and tried to pull it together. "Yeah." He vaguely said still watching the little baby.
"Are you ok?" she asked him.
"Now, we'll go for vegetals..." he stated heading to the vegetals' section without looking at her.
''Hey, what about turkey ?'' she asked him as she followed him.
''We already got it.'' He pointed out.
''This is Turkey ham, what about Turkey meat ? for thankgivings' ?'' she questioned.
''Excuse me ?'' he faced her. ''We don't celebrate thankgivings' day.''
''But we're in America. So we don't celebrate it because... ?'' she asked.
''It's a historical reason. We're not americans.'' He stated. ''We're australians.'' He added. ''It's not a tradition we have.''
''So, you wouldn't mind if I went to the Halliwells' Thankgivings' dinner, right ?'' Alex eyed her brother.
''Did they invite you ?'' he asked her.
''Can I go ?'' she asked back.
He hesitated a little before answering. ''Yeah.''
Still on the Vegatals' Cole took an expert attitude. "Ok, here, you gotta be very careful." He started as he took one tomato. "If one of these guys has at least one little black point, you leave it and take another." He said and she just started at him. "Not too green but not too red either... it's important to touch them to know." He added.
"They're just tomatoes." She said with a 'I don't care' tone.
"Kids." Cole muttered and shook his head. He put the tomates on her hands, then some onions, cucumbers and a lot of stuff till she was having a hard time trying to keep them all for falling.
"Hey! Slavery was left in the last century." She complained.
"I am from the last century." He teased with a grin.
Alex just turned to put all the vegetals on the car while Cole chose more items.
He was now for some carrots, and right next to the stand of those, there was a baby on a car. The little girl was playing with what seemed to be a stuffed yellow chicken.
At the sight of this, Cole couldn't help but star at the little baby. It was a beautiful baby girl, with big round blue eyes; she must had been like four months or so, the same age of his daughter.
He came closer to her and smiled at the baby girl, the baby girl babbled and laughed. He left himself give in the illusion and kept playing with the baby. The cute baby grabbed his finger and played with it and Cole smiled.
It remembered him so much of Prue, his own baby girl. The one who would probably never call him 'Daddy', the one who would grow up away from him, the one who could be in danger because of her demon heritage.
"Hey beautiful..." he said smiling at the baby girl. Suddenly a young woman, probably the mother of the baby came, she gave a look at Cole and he just stepped back. The young woman instantly took the baby girl protectively in her arms.
In that moment Alex came full of items from the cookies hall and put them inside the car.
"What the hell is all these?" he asked frowning.
"Cookies..." she replied. "Don't look at me like that, I know you eat them as well." She added.
They kept their shopping. Alex was the only one talking right now. Cole was quite, just thinking about things... he was kinda sensible when he saw babies, it made him remember about his daughter. Alex kept talking while they continued their shopping. He was just like nodding, giving short answers, or just talking about quality of products.
"Do you buy beers?" she asked him when he put a package on their car.
"Yes." He nodded.
"Where do you keep them?" she asked him.
"Nice try, I won't tell you." He said and kept pushing the car.
Once they had got everything they needed, they were on line to pay for the food. A guy proudly carrying his baby boy stood behind them on the line. Cole starred at the baby, just like he had done before... he did it for a while.
"Hey man, why in the hell you're starring at my son like that?! Are you sicko or what?" the guy reclaimed Cole.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to-" he apologized embarrassed.
"Hey, that man was watching my baby girl suspiciously at the vegetals' section as well." The young mother of the baby girl from the carrots' stand intervened. People started busting and talking around.
"We should call security or the police to check this guy. Our children could be on danger." A woman suggested.
"Yeah!" a crowded nodded.
Cole didn't know what to do or to say.
"Hey, he's my brother..." Alex intervened. "He's not a sicko or trying to kidnap your babies, it's just that he's a... a publicist...uh.. a manager, you know, and he's kinda looking for... uh... new baby talents... you know, for a a commercial..." the demon girl made up. "That's all, really." She assured them.
The crowd accepted this and continued their own business. The guy with the boy in the line gave an angry look at Cole. He just ignored him.
Alex had noticed this behaving on her brother lately. He was like starring and smiling at little babies everywhere, maybe it was a way to fill the void he felt because he had practically lost not one, but two babies now. It was hard.
He was starring at babies on the supermarket, when they were jogging on the park, at the neighbors' babies on their building ; as he did that, he imagined himself with his own baby girl. It was hard because he knew that even if he wanted to be a part of his daughter's life, that was impossible. He sadly sighed and waited to paid for the shopping.
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"He'll see you now." A young assistant informed Phoebe.
"Thanks, Beth." She nodded and smiled. Then she entered the office, similar to her own, but this one belonged to the Accounting Department of the Bay Mirror. "Good Afternoon. Hey Rich, how you doing?" she greeted politely.
"Hey Phoebe, how are you?" A blonde short guy greeted her smiling.
"Good, thanks." She replied.
"Please, sit down." He offered and she did as she was told.
Rich Crane was the head of the Accounting Department of the paper. He was the kind of guy who everyone liked. Phoebe and him had always got along pretty good, as co- workers; Phoebe had even served as a therapist for him a while ago; since she was the one who supposedly resolved everyone's troubles and the only psychology on the Paper's staff, it was usual for her to have co- workers as patient to help them with their personal- emotional crisis.
"Ok, is there anything I can do to help you?" he asked her politely.
"That's actually my work here." She said joking trying to light off a little the air, because what she was about to talk about wouldn't be comfortable for her.
He couldn't help but chuckle. "Yes, so what can I do for you?" he asked as he sat on his chair.
"Well, it's just that... I wanted to check this out... I think there was something with my last paycheck." She started as she handled him her check and some other papers. "It's almost half of what it should be." She said.
"Yeah..." he nodded as he put on his glasses and read at the paper. "I worked with your paycheck myself, because there's a few stuff, let me get your file on Human Resources." He said and left the office. "I'll be right back."
She nodded. "Thanks." She glanced around the office and starred at the family pictures this guy kept in his desk while she sighed. A few minutes later, Rich was back holding a folder and sat on his desk.
"Ok, Phoebe Halliwell." He started as he compared with the paycheck. "Well, you had a contract till last month, right? Because you are an employee from now on." He started and she nodded. "So, you didn't get any pay during your maternity leave," He read.
"Yes, I left a month and half before I gave birth and came back to work two months after." She said. She had taken her Maternity leave with seven and a half months pregnant because Elise had sent her home, since she was too pregnant and wasn't doing pretty good at the office. The last trimester was the hardest for her, so she spent almost a month and half at home before Prue was born. "And I worked on advance from home, to cover almost the following month after I left." She added.
"Yes, and you were paid off that extra work." He said. "All the deductions on this month belong to: part of the lending you asked for to cover your Maternity expenses, since the medical plan didn't cover you then;" she needed the money to buy some of the baby's stuff, even if her sisters helped her, she had to pay the clinic and a lot of stuff. "15% off for every work day you worked from home this month; 5% off for every time you got in late and got off early;" he explained. This was every time she had to watch Prue or a demon showed up or some similar situation. "All the days you missed work as well and the % for the new Medical Plan that covers you and your baby from now on." he explained.
"Will my next paycheck be similar than this one?" she asked him.
He took off his glasses and looked at her. "Well, if you keep missing work and getting late and all that stuff, I'm afraid so, this will be till you finish paying off the lending." He said.
"I understand." She nodded looking down. "Thanks Richie." She said standing up.
"I'm sorry, Phoebe I wish I could do something about it." He said in a comforting way.
"No, it's ok, you've done enough." She replied. It was in fact true; he had helped her to get the lending that the Paper had denied her, grounded on the fact that she had been kinda irresponsible in her work on general terms.
"Thank you. See you later." She said.
"Take care Phoebe." He said as she left.
Her budget was tight; the money wasn't enough and she had so many things to pay for. She had a baby to support now, and she hadn't realized all the things a baby might need until now. Her sisters had helped her, but she couldn't rely on that either; Paige was unemployed and still she had helped Phoebe with some stuff using the money of her savings and Piper, well she had to support the house with the money earned by the club and she also was supporting the food and all the things needed... but Phoebe was on red numbers and she didn't want to tell anyone about it, Prue was her responsibility and she had to cover for it... it was just... so many things to pay... Prue's food, diapers, doctor's appointments with the Pediatrician and Obstetrician, she also had to put something for the house to pay grocery bills, phone and her car... besides all the other stuff that the baby and herself might have needed... she was worried, and mad and tired but she had to keep going and do her best to be a responsible mother... which she was failing since she hadn't start a fond for Prue's future like any responsible parent would because of the lack of money... not only that, the tight budget was starting to get obvious in herself; not more money for expensive make up and face creams, not more fancy clothes, not weekly nails and hair done, not more compulsive shopping of things she didn't need... her paycheck from her work at the paper wasn't enough for all the things she needed to cover for, if she kept like this, she would have to think about getting another job or start sleeping with some old rich guy... god, she had to do something, meanwhile she would have to try to keep it up as good as possible at the paper and try again what she had done that week; she needed cash, her credit cards were all full because of the bills she'd had to pay and if she didn't pay them soon, she would have troubles... she didn't want to ask her sisters for money, it was a pride issue, so she had to sell the silver bracelet her father had given her when she turned 15; it meant a lot to her because her father had given her as something pretty special, it was her first real valuable jewelry; she hadn't gotten a lot of money from it, but she could use the cash for the week... it was hard, but she didn't care, Prue was first...
She sighed once again and tried to focus on her work till it was time to get back home.
"I am home." She said as she hung up her coat and her purse. No one replied. She got to her room where she found Paige and Alex playing with Prue. Prue was happily giggling and playing with both of her Aunties. Phoebe stopped at the doorframe and watched silently for a while.
Alex was forming low energy balls and was balancing them on her hand for and then she undid them shaking her hands together. Prue laughed at this.
"Oh, you think that's funny?" Auntie Paige asked Prue in baby voice. "Look at this." And Paige orbed a teddy bear in front of the little girl.
"Oh, that's cute." Alex said. "But I can do better." She added with a smile.
She shimmered behind the niece and said: "Right there honey."
Prue burst out laughing and Alex shimmered back to her previous place.
When the three girls were laughing, Phoebe intervened. "If Piper or Cole saw this, you two would be hanging by now." She said. "I can not believe you're using your powers to entertain my daughter, besides that's not exactly a good example for her." She said entering her room. "She might think it's right to use her powers anywhere for anything." She said in a very motherly tone.
"Oh, come on, you're only saying that because you're jealous of not having an active power." Paige said to her sister.
"Doesn't she?" Alex asked doubtfully.
"No." Paige shook her head.
"That is not-" Phoebe cut off herself. "... a lie at all." She admitted. "How's my little sweetie?" she asked her daughter as she picked her up from her bed.
"She was a little angel while her mommy was at work." Paige replied.
"And she was playing with her Aunties till you got here." Alex added.
"Thanks guys for watching her." Phoebe thanked.
"Oh, you know how much I love babysitting this cutie little witch." Paige said in baby voice and Alex cleared throat. "Ok, cutie little demon-witch." She corrected herself and Alex smiled.
"I think you can do whatever you want, I'll stay with Prue, I guess you have stuff to do." Phoebe said. "Thanks again."
"Well, we'll go for some shopping because someone's having a date..." Paige teased.
"It's not a date." Alex said almost sadly.
"Who's the lucky guy?" Phoebe asked rocking her baby.
"Mike." Paige replied.
"Paige!." Alex elbowed her.
"Sorry."
"Who's Mike?" Phoebe asked clueless.
"He's the guy we... I mean you guys saved at the Halloween Party." Alex replied. "But it's not a date, I just met him again at the University this morning and I said I would be at P3 and he said he'd stop by." She explained.
"What was he doing at your University?" Paige asked.
"He said he would cover for some classes." She replied. "Can you believe he'll be my teacher?"
"At law school?" Paige asked and her friend nodded. "Hadn't you switched to Arts school?"
"Yes, but now I'll get back to Law School." Alex stated.
"Hold on..." Phoebe intervened getting their attention. "You used to attend to Law School is that right?" she asked Alex and she nodded. "And then you switched to Arts and now you switched back to Law school for a guy?" she questioned.
Alex nodded looking away. "That's not good." Phoebe said.
"I know, but I really like this guy." She insisted.
"You have only seen him twice." Paige said.
"And it had been more than enough to love him." She said with shine of illusions on her eyes. Phoebe saw her and smiled at this. She knew what it was like she you only meet a guy twice and you know you could fall for him, she had gone through it herself with this girl's brother.
"Isn't he a little older for you? He's like my age?" Paige asked.
"Maybe that's one of the things I like from him." Alex said. "The only problem would be that Cole likes him and he likes Cole..." she added.
"How can that be a problem? That's great." Paige asked.
"She's a rebel. She'll take anything that upsets daddy, in this case daddy is Cole... and she really likes the guy and so does daddy." 'Ask Phoebe' replied.
"Ok, I don't want to analyze it anymore, I'll play this out." Alex said.
"Good, Phoebs we're going shopping and to the beauty parlor, you wanna come?" Paige asked.
"It'll be fun, we could take turns watching Prue, while the other is getting hair and nails done." Alex suggested.
"Nah, you guys go ahead, I'll pass this one, some other time." Phoebe said. "I have to give Prue a bath, you have fun and put yourselves beautiful." She added smiling. Of course, the reason was on fact that she didn't have any cash, but she wouldn't let anyone know about it.
"Ok, bye Phoebs!!"
"Bye!." Alex waved.
Phoebe stayed a little more in her bed with Prue and then Piper walked in.
"Hey Phoebe, I'm going out for a movie with Leo tonight, can I borrow your silver bracelet?" Piper asked. "You know the one Dad gave you?" she added.
"Oh.. sorry, I think I lost it." Phoebe replied.
"What? Phoebe... how could you? It was meanfull..." Piper complained.
"Well, I was looking for it last week and I couldn't find it, I think I lost it." She lied.
Piper sighed. "Ok, well you lost it, you lost it, I don't understand how you can be such irresponsible sometimes." She shook her head and left.
'Yeah, yeah, irresponsible Phoebe... she falls for a demon, married him, killed him and then let him knock her up.' She thought madly. "Yeah, stupid Phoebe, who is just trying to be a responsible mother." She said madly. Sometimes she felt very pushed by her older sister.
Phoebe sighed and calmed down, she was now home with her baby and wanted to spend some time with her, she didn't want to look upset and she didn't want Prue to feel that something was wrong.
She took her daughter in her arms and kissed her on the forehead and asked: "Did you Aunties give you something to eat or have they only been showing you how to use powers?"
As a respond, the little girl just babbled and starred at her mother with wide eyes. Phoebe smiled and started playing with Prue's foot.
Suddenly, three demons from The Brotherhood shimmered in the room, circling the bed.
Phoebe immediately knew this wasn't good; she was home alone with no active powers. But that wouldn't stop her from fighting to protect her baby.
The first thing she did, was to instinctively put her daughter on the little blanket she was laying on and grab her tight. She quickly glanced around her room looking for a way out. There was not. In a matter of seconds she thought about a plan. She levitated with her baby in her arms to the other side of the room, right next to the window. She thought about levitating out of the window. But one of the demons was faster when he shimmered right next to her and started forcing her and hitting her on her side. She hit back, but other demon came to her and took Prue from Phoebe's arms.
"NO!" she yelled as she kicked them. The first and the second demon grabbed Phoebe by each arm.
Prue started crying loudly in the third demon's arm.
"You bastards won't take my baby!" Phoebe yelled angrily. She then levitated and kicked the two demons that were forcing her. She went to the demon that was carrying Prue, but this one shimmered out with the baby. "NO!" she screamed.
A fourth demon shimmered in behind her and hit her from the back and knocked her out. She fell on the floor pretty injured and unconscious.
Later, Phoebe was still lying on the floor of her bedroom. She was bleeding a lot; she didn't know how long she had stayed unconscious on the floor.When she opened her eyes, the first thing on her mind was.
"Prue..." she said. She slowly got up, the room was spinning around her, her body was aching so badly that she was unable to tell where she was really hurt. She managed to sit down on her bed, she looked down and picked up all that was left, the little blanket that said 'Prue.'
"No..." she started crying when she realized that Prue was gone... The demons had taken her.
She looked around again, but Prue was nowhere to be found.
"God no." Phoebe whispered, she was shaking like a leaf and tears were streaming down her checks.
"This can be happening." She said again with her hand on her mouth, she just couldn't believe it, she didn't want to believe it, but it was true, her baby was gone.
"No, no, no..." she desperately said tightening her grasp on the little blanket. "This... can't... be happening." She cried out. "Not again." she said shaking. Once again she had lost a baby. Still weeping she fell on her knees, with Prue's blanket on her hand. She cried out.
"NOOOOOOO...." She screamed with all her being. The most presious she had ever had was gone. "PRUUEEEEEE!..." She screamed in pain and kept weeping. Then she realized she had to do something, she couldn't just cry, she had to get her back.
"P...Paige... Le... Leo..." She called.
She was crying and shaking more and more, her throat was tight as hell. She was lost, lost between the reality and a nightmare, she wanted so badly everything to be a nightmare, but the pain of her whole body was making her sure that it wasn't a nightmare...
"I.. I need help. My... baby is gone." She said looking at the ceiling.
Leo, Piper, Paige and Alex appeared before her. They all looked at Phoebe, she was really looking bad, with bruises and cuts everywhere and the expression on her face was awful, it was pure fear.
"Phoebe what happened?" Asked Piper as she walked next to her little sister and sat down on the bed next to her.
"Demons... came here... fought and... took Prue." She explained.
Everyone gasped and Phoebe added: "We have to bring her back."
Leo walked next to the bed as well and said: "Let me heal you first."
"No, I'm fine... I want my daughter back." Phoebe stated.
Suddenly the fear on her face was gone and she was now determinate to bring her daughter back, she couldn't let those bastards hurt her, she couldn't let them hurt her baby.
"We'll scry for her and we're going to find her and we'll bring her back home, and then I'm gonna torture and kill everyone of those bastards for taking my baby." She said madly. She was about to walk away to go in the attic but Alex stopped her.
"We don't need to scry, I know where she is, she's with the brotherhood." The demon said.
"What?" Phoebe asked. "I know that." She said. "I saw them, but I need to scry, because I don't know where they are."
"Those demons from the brotherhood were after me... they wanted Belthazor's child, I guess they found what they were looking for." Alex sadly explained. It was hard, because it was her little niece the one kidnapped. "I think they might have taken her to the Underworld." She informed.
"Ok, I can get there. I've done before and I'll do it now." Phoebe stated.
"We'll all go." Paige said.
"We can't." Alex replied looking down. "They would take us in less than a minute. They too many. I've been hiding from them for months, that's how I ended up at Cole's door." She said.
"I will not sit here while my baby is there with a bunch of demons." Phoebe angrily added.
"Only Cole is able to go there and stay alive. They are probably waiting for us, but not for him and I'm sure he's the only one who can save Prue and trust me, he'll give his life to save your daughter." Alex said.
"She's his daughter too." Phoebe corrected.
"We have to call him." Paige said.
"I'll go get him." Alex said and shimmered out.
"I have to check with the Elders, but Phoebe, let me heal you first. If you have to fight with the demons again you won't be in conditions." Leo said.
Phoebe just starred at all of them with a red face and an angry expression. "I want all of you to leave me ALONE!" she screamed. "I'll find my baby, no matter what." She muttered. She was soo angry, but that anger was for the huge pain she felt.
"Phoebe-" Paige started.
"GET OUT!." She repeated angrily.
"I'll go downstairs to make potions, we'll need them." Piper said and left the room.
"I have to check with the Elders." Leo orbed out.
"Phoebe, let me heal you I think we-" Paige insisted.
"Paige, get out!" Phoebe screamed.
Her sister just hesitated and left the room. Once she was by herself on her room. She glanced around. It felt so cold, so empty. It was definitely that Prue filled her life.
But she needed to be strong, strong to get her back. She heard her sisters on the kitchen, so she walked to the attic. She started fliping the pages of the books just looking for something. Some spell, potion that made her power grow, so she could go and save her baby herself. She was up to anything, even black magic, she didn't care, her daughter was beyond anything.
She worked on potions and spells for a while, then she got back to her room, and the first thing she saw was the empty crib.
She let everything she was carrying on her bed, and got closer to the crib and starred at it. it was so empty, just like inside herself right now. It hurt so much. She took the little blanket and rubbed it with her hand as she thought that maybe her baby might be hungry, or cold or scared because she wasn't with her mommy. She was weeping as she remembered the first time she had put the little girl to sleep on that crib. That same crib which was empty right now.
She felt like the lowest of the worst. She hadn't been a good mom. She should have protected her and she had failed. Prue didn't deserve a mother like her, she thought as she could feel the feeling of the lost once again. It hurt so much when her baby boy could never be able to see the world, but now that life had given her Prue, and she had filled her life, and now that Phoebe life had a meaning for her, and Prue had enchanted her, it was even worst.
She kept weeping and starring at the crib, when she felt his shimmer. She didn't know to turn to know he was there.
"Phoebe..." he said. He had tears in his eyes. He had already cried when Alex told him, but now he was determinate to get her back.
"They've taken her..." she slowly said as she kept weeping. She had her back at him.
He didn't know what to say. He was feeling the same pain. He loved his daughter so much, and now she was gone as well. But he would get her back, even if it cost his own life and the next one.
"The Brotherhood." She added sadly.
"I know." He replied.
They stayed quite for some minutes. He was still behind her and she kept starring at the crib.
"When I was 6, I had this doll my dad had given me, and my Grams' dog broke it. I cried for days, and I felt like I had lost something important. Now, I feel like I lost myself completely." She said.
He looked down, trying to force back his tears. He totally understood the feeling.
"They think she's cursed for who she is. And the kids usually pay for the parents' mistakes, but... that's not fair or true. What could she be to blame for?" she cried and turned to face him. "We're the ones to blame, not her." She said. At this, Cole's first reaction was to hug Phoebe tightly.
Phoebe accepted the embrace. He didn't know what to say. He was so hurt himself. "She's so little, so innocent..." she continued, not leaving Cole's tight and warm embrace. He kissed the top of her head, running his fingers through her hair, not letting her go. She was feeling so good in his arms that she wished that he would never go away from her, that he would stay with her and Prue forever, protecting them and loving them. She knew that the only place where she could belong was in his strong and loving arms. As for Cole it was as fresh air, it was as he had always dreamed except that Prue being kidnapped was his worst nightmare.
He kissed her on the head once again, inhaling her scent, before reluctantly pulling apart. Phoebe was screaming mentally at him to hold her again, her eyes were begging to, but Cole couldn't look at her, he was looking at the empty crib.
It was like his heart had been ripped in a million pieces when he starred down inside the crib. The spot where she should be sleeping in that moment. She wasn't to blame for any of his crimes. She was an innocent.
"A whitelighter should heal all your wounds." Cole said.
"Not before my baby is back with me and safe." Phoebe stated.
"Call Leo, tell him to heal you and during this time I'll get Prue back, I swear." Cole said.
Phoebe slowly nodded and said: "Will you be back?"
"You'll have Prue back, I promise." He told her, approaching her slowly.
"You have to come back, she'll miss you..." She said.
"I'll miss you." She added in a whisper looking in his deep blue his full of tears.
"You'll have her back." He sword.
"I love you." She said. She didn't know why, she just felt like saying it. After this, he kissed her on the lips and said: "You'll have her back." He didn't know why he had kissed her, it'd just been like an impulse and it was feeling good, it was feeling like the right thing to do, her lips were as sweat as he remembered. Maybe this kiss was a goodbye because he didn't want to promise her something he wasn't certain he'd do. He wasn't sure he'd come back, the only sure thing was that he was going to fight to have his daughter back, no matter what, no matter if it costs him his own life. With that he shimmered out.
Once he was gone, she starred at the spot where he had just been. Now not only Prue, the light of her eyes was gone, now she didn't know, if Cole the love of her life would die trying to get her back.
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To Be Continued...
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Chapter 12
"Wanted:...Baby Demon." Part I
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"Pass the butter." Cole commanded his little sister as he checked the items inside the car.
"Why? I didn't even want to come in the first place." Alex complained.
Cole just rolled his eyes and ignored her. "When you mentioned shopping the last thing that came to my mind was the supermarket." She added handling him the butter.
Cole eyed her. "It's time for you to learn to do the shopping." He said.
"I know how to do the shopping!." She childishly stated.
"Cosmetics, make up and junk food doesn't exactly qualifies as shopping the grocery." He said putting some milk inside the car. "All you know is how to eat the food, you should learn to fill the kitchen cabinet once in a while." He added.
"High calcium milk?" she questioned Cole's choose. "No, we'll go for Low Fat Milk. High Calcium tastes weird." She said taking the milk and replacing it with her own choice.
"You didn't care about the type of milk when you drank it all and left the carton in the fridge 2 days ago." His brother threw.
Alex just sighed. "Ok, we got eggs, my orange juice, your apple juice, butter, low fat milk..." she checked and Cole gave her a look. "Low Fat is better, to keep a good shape." She said.
"If you trained properly, you'd be in better shape." He told her.
"Yeah, whatever... different meats, fish, turkey, chicken and red meat..." she pointed but then she got the feeling he wasn't listening to her. She turned around to find Cole talking to a baby boy whose sleepy head was in resting on his mommy's shoulder.
"Hey little guy." He said smiling. The little boy just yawned sleepily. The boy seemed strong and maybe like 6 months or some, a little older than Prue. He totally distracted just watching the baby... so young, so innocent, so tiny... just like... Prue. It also made him remember about his first son, the one who never saw the world... before he knew about Prue. he usually tended to think about how his little baby boy would have been, how would have been like to be a daddy...
"Cole?" Alex brought him back to reality.
He just shook those thoughts off his mind and tried to pull it together. "Yeah." He vaguely said still watching the little baby.
"Are you ok?" she asked him.
"Now, we'll go for vegetals..." he stated heading to the vegetals' section without looking at her.
''Hey, what about turkey ?'' she asked him as she followed him.
''We already got it.'' He pointed out.
''This is Turkey ham, what about Turkey meat ? for thankgivings' ?'' she questioned.
''Excuse me ?'' he faced her. ''We don't celebrate thankgivings' day.''
''But we're in America. So we don't celebrate it because... ?'' she asked.
''It's a historical reason. We're not americans.'' He stated. ''We're australians.'' He added. ''It's not a tradition we have.''
''So, you wouldn't mind if I went to the Halliwells' Thankgivings' dinner, right ?'' Alex eyed her brother.
''Did they invite you ?'' he asked her.
''Can I go ?'' she asked back.
He hesitated a little before answering. ''Yeah.''
Still on the Vegatals' Cole took an expert attitude. "Ok, here, you gotta be very careful." He started as he took one tomato. "If one of these guys has at least one little black point, you leave it and take another." He said and she just started at him. "Not too green but not too red either... it's important to touch them to know." He added.
"They're just tomatoes." She said with a 'I don't care' tone.
"Kids." Cole muttered and shook his head. He put the tomates on her hands, then some onions, cucumbers and a lot of stuff till she was having a hard time trying to keep them all for falling.
"Hey! Slavery was left in the last century." She complained.
"I am from the last century." He teased with a grin.
Alex just turned to put all the vegetals on the car while Cole chose more items.
He was now for some carrots, and right next to the stand of those, there was a baby on a car. The little girl was playing with what seemed to be a stuffed yellow chicken.
At the sight of this, Cole couldn't help but star at the little baby. It was a beautiful baby girl, with big round blue eyes; she must had been like four months or so, the same age of his daughter.
He came closer to her and smiled at the baby girl, the baby girl babbled and laughed. He left himself give in the illusion and kept playing with the baby. The cute baby grabbed his finger and played with it and Cole smiled.
It remembered him so much of Prue, his own baby girl. The one who would probably never call him 'Daddy', the one who would grow up away from him, the one who could be in danger because of her demon heritage.
"Hey beautiful..." he said smiling at the baby girl. Suddenly a young woman, probably the mother of the baby came, she gave a look at Cole and he just stepped back. The young woman instantly took the baby girl protectively in her arms.
In that moment Alex came full of items from the cookies hall and put them inside the car.
"What the hell is all these?" he asked frowning.
"Cookies..." she replied. "Don't look at me like that, I know you eat them as well." She added.
They kept their shopping. Alex was the only one talking right now. Cole was quite, just thinking about things... he was kinda sensible when he saw babies, it made him remember about his daughter. Alex kept talking while they continued their shopping. He was just like nodding, giving short answers, or just talking about quality of products.
"Do you buy beers?" she asked him when he put a package on their car.
"Yes." He nodded.
"Where do you keep them?" she asked him.
"Nice try, I won't tell you." He said and kept pushing the car.
Once they had got everything they needed, they were on line to pay for the food. A guy proudly carrying his baby boy stood behind them on the line. Cole starred at the baby, just like he had done before... he did it for a while.
"Hey man, why in the hell you're starring at my son like that?! Are you sicko or what?" the guy reclaimed Cole.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to-" he apologized embarrassed.
"Hey, that man was watching my baby girl suspiciously at the vegetals' section as well." The young mother of the baby girl from the carrots' stand intervened. People started busting and talking around.
"We should call security or the police to check this guy. Our children could be on danger." A woman suggested.
"Yeah!" a crowded nodded.
Cole didn't know what to do or to say.
"Hey, he's my brother..." Alex intervened. "He's not a sicko or trying to kidnap your babies, it's just that he's a... a publicist...uh.. a manager, you know, and he's kinda looking for... uh... new baby talents... you know, for a a commercial..." the demon girl made up. "That's all, really." She assured them.
The crowd accepted this and continued their own business. The guy with the boy in the line gave an angry look at Cole. He just ignored him.
Alex had noticed this behaving on her brother lately. He was like starring and smiling at little babies everywhere, maybe it was a way to fill the void he felt because he had practically lost not one, but two babies now. It was hard.
He was starring at babies on the supermarket, when they were jogging on the park, at the neighbors' babies on their building ; as he did that, he imagined himself with his own baby girl. It was hard because he knew that even if he wanted to be a part of his daughter's life, that was impossible. He sadly sighed and waited to paid for the shopping.
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"He'll see you now." A young assistant informed Phoebe.
"Thanks, Beth." She nodded and smiled. Then she entered the office, similar to her own, but this one belonged to the Accounting Department of the Bay Mirror. "Good Afternoon. Hey Rich, how you doing?" she greeted politely.
"Hey Phoebe, how are you?" A blonde short guy greeted her smiling.
"Good, thanks." She replied.
"Please, sit down." He offered and she did as she was told.
Rich Crane was the head of the Accounting Department of the paper. He was the kind of guy who everyone liked. Phoebe and him had always got along pretty good, as co- workers; Phoebe had even served as a therapist for him a while ago; since she was the one who supposedly resolved everyone's troubles and the only psychology on the Paper's staff, it was usual for her to have co- workers as patient to help them with their personal- emotional crisis.
"Ok, is there anything I can do to help you?" he asked her politely.
"That's actually my work here." She said joking trying to light off a little the air, because what she was about to talk about wouldn't be comfortable for her.
He couldn't help but chuckle. "Yes, so what can I do for you?" he asked as he sat on his chair.
"Well, it's just that... I wanted to check this out... I think there was something with my last paycheck." She started as she handled him her check and some other papers. "It's almost half of what it should be." She said.
"Yeah..." he nodded as he put on his glasses and read at the paper. "I worked with your paycheck myself, because there's a few stuff, let me get your file on Human Resources." He said and left the office. "I'll be right back."
She nodded. "Thanks." She glanced around the office and starred at the family pictures this guy kept in his desk while she sighed. A few minutes later, Rich was back holding a folder and sat on his desk.
"Ok, Phoebe Halliwell." He started as he compared with the paycheck. "Well, you had a contract till last month, right? Because you are an employee from now on." He started and she nodded. "So, you didn't get any pay during your maternity leave," He read.
"Yes, I left a month and half before I gave birth and came back to work two months after." She said. She had taken her Maternity leave with seven and a half months pregnant because Elise had sent her home, since she was too pregnant and wasn't doing pretty good at the office. The last trimester was the hardest for her, so she spent almost a month and half at home before Prue was born. "And I worked on advance from home, to cover almost the following month after I left." She added.
"Yes, and you were paid off that extra work." He said. "All the deductions on this month belong to: part of the lending you asked for to cover your Maternity expenses, since the medical plan didn't cover you then;" she needed the money to buy some of the baby's stuff, even if her sisters helped her, she had to pay the clinic and a lot of stuff. "15% off for every work day you worked from home this month; 5% off for every time you got in late and got off early;" he explained. This was every time she had to watch Prue or a demon showed up or some similar situation. "All the days you missed work as well and the % for the new Medical Plan that covers you and your baby from now on." he explained.
"Will my next paycheck be similar than this one?" she asked him.
He took off his glasses and looked at her. "Well, if you keep missing work and getting late and all that stuff, I'm afraid so, this will be till you finish paying off the lending." He said.
"I understand." She nodded looking down. "Thanks Richie." She said standing up.
"I'm sorry, Phoebe I wish I could do something about it." He said in a comforting way.
"No, it's ok, you've done enough." She replied. It was in fact true; he had helped her to get the lending that the Paper had denied her, grounded on the fact that she had been kinda irresponsible in her work on general terms.
"Thank you. See you later." She said.
"Take care Phoebe." He said as she left.
Her budget was tight; the money wasn't enough and she had so many things to pay for. She had a baby to support now, and she hadn't realized all the things a baby might need until now. Her sisters had helped her, but she couldn't rely on that either; Paige was unemployed and still she had helped Phoebe with some stuff using the money of her savings and Piper, well she had to support the house with the money earned by the club and she also was supporting the food and all the things needed... but Phoebe was on red numbers and she didn't want to tell anyone about it, Prue was her responsibility and she had to cover for it... it was just... so many things to pay... Prue's food, diapers, doctor's appointments with the Pediatrician and Obstetrician, she also had to put something for the house to pay grocery bills, phone and her car... besides all the other stuff that the baby and herself might have needed... she was worried, and mad and tired but she had to keep going and do her best to be a responsible mother... which she was failing since she hadn't start a fond for Prue's future like any responsible parent would because of the lack of money... not only that, the tight budget was starting to get obvious in herself; not more money for expensive make up and face creams, not more fancy clothes, not weekly nails and hair done, not more compulsive shopping of things she didn't need... her paycheck from her work at the paper wasn't enough for all the things she needed to cover for, if she kept like this, she would have to think about getting another job or start sleeping with some old rich guy... god, she had to do something, meanwhile she would have to try to keep it up as good as possible at the paper and try again what she had done that week; she needed cash, her credit cards were all full because of the bills she'd had to pay and if she didn't pay them soon, she would have troubles... she didn't want to ask her sisters for money, it was a pride issue, so she had to sell the silver bracelet her father had given her when she turned 15; it meant a lot to her because her father had given her as something pretty special, it was her first real valuable jewelry; she hadn't gotten a lot of money from it, but she could use the cash for the week... it was hard, but she didn't care, Prue was first...
She sighed once again and tried to focus on her work till it was time to get back home.
"I am home." She said as she hung up her coat and her purse. No one replied. She got to her room where she found Paige and Alex playing with Prue. Prue was happily giggling and playing with both of her Aunties. Phoebe stopped at the doorframe and watched silently for a while.
Alex was forming low energy balls and was balancing them on her hand for and then she undid them shaking her hands together. Prue laughed at this.
"Oh, you think that's funny?" Auntie Paige asked Prue in baby voice. "Look at this." And Paige orbed a teddy bear in front of the little girl.
"Oh, that's cute." Alex said. "But I can do better." She added with a smile.
She shimmered behind the niece and said: "Right there honey."
Prue burst out laughing and Alex shimmered back to her previous place.
When the three girls were laughing, Phoebe intervened. "If Piper or Cole saw this, you two would be hanging by now." She said. "I can not believe you're using your powers to entertain my daughter, besides that's not exactly a good example for her." She said entering her room. "She might think it's right to use her powers anywhere for anything." She said in a very motherly tone.
"Oh, come on, you're only saying that because you're jealous of not having an active power." Paige said to her sister.
"Doesn't she?" Alex asked doubtfully.
"No." Paige shook her head.
"That is not-" Phoebe cut off herself. "... a lie at all." She admitted. "How's my little sweetie?" she asked her daughter as she picked her up from her bed.
"She was a little angel while her mommy was at work." Paige replied.
"And she was playing with her Aunties till you got here." Alex added.
"Thanks guys for watching her." Phoebe thanked.
"Oh, you know how much I love babysitting this cutie little witch." Paige said in baby voice and Alex cleared throat. "Ok, cutie little demon-witch." She corrected herself and Alex smiled.
"I think you can do whatever you want, I'll stay with Prue, I guess you have stuff to do." Phoebe said. "Thanks again."
"Well, we'll go for some shopping because someone's having a date..." Paige teased.
"It's not a date." Alex said almost sadly.
"Who's the lucky guy?" Phoebe asked rocking her baby.
"Mike." Paige replied.
"Paige!." Alex elbowed her.
"Sorry."
"Who's Mike?" Phoebe asked clueless.
"He's the guy we... I mean you guys saved at the Halloween Party." Alex replied. "But it's not a date, I just met him again at the University this morning and I said I would be at P3 and he said he'd stop by." She explained.
"What was he doing at your University?" Paige asked.
"He said he would cover for some classes." She replied. "Can you believe he'll be my teacher?"
"At law school?" Paige asked and her friend nodded. "Hadn't you switched to Arts school?"
"Yes, but now I'll get back to Law School." Alex stated.
"Hold on..." Phoebe intervened getting their attention. "You used to attend to Law School is that right?" she asked Alex and she nodded. "And then you switched to Arts and now you switched back to Law school for a guy?" she questioned.
Alex nodded looking away. "That's not good." Phoebe said.
"I know, but I really like this guy." She insisted.
"You have only seen him twice." Paige said.
"And it had been more than enough to love him." She said with shine of illusions on her eyes. Phoebe saw her and smiled at this. She knew what it was like she you only meet a guy twice and you know you could fall for him, she had gone through it herself with this girl's brother.
"Isn't he a little older for you? He's like my age?" Paige asked.
"Maybe that's one of the things I like from him." Alex said. "The only problem would be that Cole likes him and he likes Cole..." she added.
"How can that be a problem? That's great." Paige asked.
"She's a rebel. She'll take anything that upsets daddy, in this case daddy is Cole... and she really likes the guy and so does daddy." 'Ask Phoebe' replied.
"Ok, I don't want to analyze it anymore, I'll play this out." Alex said.
"Good, Phoebs we're going shopping and to the beauty parlor, you wanna come?" Paige asked.
"It'll be fun, we could take turns watching Prue, while the other is getting hair and nails done." Alex suggested.
"Nah, you guys go ahead, I'll pass this one, some other time." Phoebe said. "I have to give Prue a bath, you have fun and put yourselves beautiful." She added smiling. Of course, the reason was on fact that she didn't have any cash, but she wouldn't let anyone know about it.
"Ok, bye Phoebs!!"
"Bye!." Alex waved.
Phoebe stayed a little more in her bed with Prue and then Piper walked in.
"Hey Phoebe, I'm going out for a movie with Leo tonight, can I borrow your silver bracelet?" Piper asked. "You know the one Dad gave you?" she added.
"Oh.. sorry, I think I lost it." Phoebe replied.
"What? Phoebe... how could you? It was meanfull..." Piper complained.
"Well, I was looking for it last week and I couldn't find it, I think I lost it." She lied.
Piper sighed. "Ok, well you lost it, you lost it, I don't understand how you can be such irresponsible sometimes." She shook her head and left.
'Yeah, yeah, irresponsible Phoebe... she falls for a demon, married him, killed him and then let him knock her up.' She thought madly. "Yeah, stupid Phoebe, who is just trying to be a responsible mother." She said madly. Sometimes she felt very pushed by her older sister.
Phoebe sighed and calmed down, she was now home with her baby and wanted to spend some time with her, she didn't want to look upset and she didn't want Prue to feel that something was wrong.
She took her daughter in her arms and kissed her on the forehead and asked: "Did you Aunties give you something to eat or have they only been showing you how to use powers?"
As a respond, the little girl just babbled and starred at her mother with wide eyes. Phoebe smiled and started playing with Prue's foot.
Suddenly, three demons from The Brotherhood shimmered in the room, circling the bed.
Phoebe immediately knew this wasn't good; she was home alone with no active powers. But that wouldn't stop her from fighting to protect her baby.
The first thing she did, was to instinctively put her daughter on the little blanket she was laying on and grab her tight. She quickly glanced around her room looking for a way out. There was not. In a matter of seconds she thought about a plan. She levitated with her baby in her arms to the other side of the room, right next to the window. She thought about levitating out of the window. But one of the demons was faster when he shimmered right next to her and started forcing her and hitting her on her side. She hit back, but other demon came to her and took Prue from Phoebe's arms.
"NO!" she yelled as she kicked them. The first and the second demon grabbed Phoebe by each arm.
Prue started crying loudly in the third demon's arm.
"You bastards won't take my baby!" Phoebe yelled angrily. She then levitated and kicked the two demons that were forcing her. She went to the demon that was carrying Prue, but this one shimmered out with the baby. "NO!" she screamed.
A fourth demon shimmered in behind her and hit her from the back and knocked her out. She fell on the floor pretty injured and unconscious.
Later, Phoebe was still lying on the floor of her bedroom. She was bleeding a lot; she didn't know how long she had stayed unconscious on the floor.When she opened her eyes, the first thing on her mind was.
"Prue..." she said. She slowly got up, the room was spinning around her, her body was aching so badly that she was unable to tell where she was really hurt. She managed to sit down on her bed, she looked down and picked up all that was left, the little blanket that said 'Prue.'
"No..." she started crying when she realized that Prue was gone... The demons had taken her.
She looked around again, but Prue was nowhere to be found.
"God no." Phoebe whispered, she was shaking like a leaf and tears were streaming down her checks.
"This can be happening." She said again with her hand on her mouth, she just couldn't believe it, she didn't want to believe it, but it was true, her baby was gone.
"No, no, no..." she desperately said tightening her grasp on the little blanket. "This... can't... be happening." She cried out. "Not again." she said shaking. Once again she had lost a baby. Still weeping she fell on her knees, with Prue's blanket on her hand. She cried out.
"NOOOOOOO...." She screamed with all her being. The most presious she had ever had was gone. "PRUUEEEEEE!..." She screamed in pain and kept weeping. Then she realized she had to do something, she couldn't just cry, she had to get her back.
"P...Paige... Le... Leo..." She called.
She was crying and shaking more and more, her throat was tight as hell. She was lost, lost between the reality and a nightmare, she wanted so badly everything to be a nightmare, but the pain of her whole body was making her sure that it wasn't a nightmare...
"I.. I need help. My... baby is gone." She said looking at the ceiling.
Leo, Piper, Paige and Alex appeared before her. They all looked at Phoebe, she was really looking bad, with bruises and cuts everywhere and the expression on her face was awful, it was pure fear.
"Phoebe what happened?" Asked Piper as she walked next to her little sister and sat down on the bed next to her.
"Demons... came here... fought and... took Prue." She explained.
Everyone gasped and Phoebe added: "We have to bring her back."
Leo walked next to the bed as well and said: "Let me heal you first."
"No, I'm fine... I want my daughter back." Phoebe stated.
Suddenly the fear on her face was gone and she was now determinate to bring her daughter back, she couldn't let those bastards hurt her, she couldn't let them hurt her baby.
"We'll scry for her and we're going to find her and we'll bring her back home, and then I'm gonna torture and kill everyone of those bastards for taking my baby." She said madly. She was about to walk away to go in the attic but Alex stopped her.
"We don't need to scry, I know where she is, she's with the brotherhood." The demon said.
"What?" Phoebe asked. "I know that." She said. "I saw them, but I need to scry, because I don't know where they are."
"Those demons from the brotherhood were after me... they wanted Belthazor's child, I guess they found what they were looking for." Alex sadly explained. It was hard, because it was her little niece the one kidnapped. "I think they might have taken her to the Underworld." She informed.
"Ok, I can get there. I've done before and I'll do it now." Phoebe stated.
"We'll all go." Paige said.
"We can't." Alex replied looking down. "They would take us in less than a minute. They too many. I've been hiding from them for months, that's how I ended up at Cole's door." She said.
"I will not sit here while my baby is there with a bunch of demons." Phoebe angrily added.
"Only Cole is able to go there and stay alive. They are probably waiting for us, but not for him and I'm sure he's the only one who can save Prue and trust me, he'll give his life to save your daughter." Alex said.
"She's his daughter too." Phoebe corrected.
"We have to call him." Paige said.
"I'll go get him." Alex said and shimmered out.
"I have to check with the Elders, but Phoebe, let me heal you first. If you have to fight with the demons again you won't be in conditions." Leo said.
Phoebe just starred at all of them with a red face and an angry expression. "I want all of you to leave me ALONE!" she screamed. "I'll find my baby, no matter what." She muttered. She was soo angry, but that anger was for the huge pain she felt.
"Phoebe-" Paige started.
"GET OUT!." She repeated angrily.
"I'll go downstairs to make potions, we'll need them." Piper said and left the room.
"I have to check with the Elders." Leo orbed out.
"Phoebe, let me heal you I think we-" Paige insisted.
"Paige, get out!" Phoebe screamed.
Her sister just hesitated and left the room. Once she was by herself on her room. She glanced around. It felt so cold, so empty. It was definitely that Prue filled her life.
But she needed to be strong, strong to get her back. She heard her sisters on the kitchen, so she walked to the attic. She started fliping the pages of the books just looking for something. Some spell, potion that made her power grow, so she could go and save her baby herself. She was up to anything, even black magic, she didn't care, her daughter was beyond anything.
She worked on potions and spells for a while, then she got back to her room, and the first thing she saw was the empty crib.
She let everything she was carrying on her bed, and got closer to the crib and starred at it. it was so empty, just like inside herself right now. It hurt so much. She took the little blanket and rubbed it with her hand as she thought that maybe her baby might be hungry, or cold or scared because she wasn't with her mommy. She was weeping as she remembered the first time she had put the little girl to sleep on that crib. That same crib which was empty right now.
She felt like the lowest of the worst. She hadn't been a good mom. She should have protected her and she had failed. Prue didn't deserve a mother like her, she thought as she could feel the feeling of the lost once again. It hurt so much when her baby boy could never be able to see the world, but now that life had given her Prue, and she had filled her life, and now that Phoebe life had a meaning for her, and Prue had enchanted her, it was even worst.
She kept weeping and starring at the crib, when she felt his shimmer. She didn't know to turn to know he was there.
"Phoebe..." he said. He had tears in his eyes. He had already cried when Alex told him, but now he was determinate to get her back.
"They've taken her..." she slowly said as she kept weeping. She had her back at him.
He didn't know what to say. He was feeling the same pain. He loved his daughter so much, and now she was gone as well. But he would get her back, even if it cost his own life and the next one.
"The Brotherhood." She added sadly.
"I know." He replied.
They stayed quite for some minutes. He was still behind her and she kept starring at the crib.
"When I was 6, I had this doll my dad had given me, and my Grams' dog broke it. I cried for days, and I felt like I had lost something important. Now, I feel like I lost myself completely." She said.
He looked down, trying to force back his tears. He totally understood the feeling.
"They think she's cursed for who she is. And the kids usually pay for the parents' mistakes, but... that's not fair or true. What could she be to blame for?" she cried and turned to face him. "We're the ones to blame, not her." She said. At this, Cole's first reaction was to hug Phoebe tightly.
Phoebe accepted the embrace. He didn't know what to say. He was so hurt himself. "She's so little, so innocent..." she continued, not leaving Cole's tight and warm embrace. He kissed the top of her head, running his fingers through her hair, not letting her go. She was feeling so good in his arms that she wished that he would never go away from her, that he would stay with her and Prue forever, protecting them and loving them. She knew that the only place where she could belong was in his strong and loving arms. As for Cole it was as fresh air, it was as he had always dreamed except that Prue being kidnapped was his worst nightmare.
He kissed her on the head once again, inhaling her scent, before reluctantly pulling apart. Phoebe was screaming mentally at him to hold her again, her eyes were begging to, but Cole couldn't look at her, he was looking at the empty crib.
It was like his heart had been ripped in a million pieces when he starred down inside the crib. The spot where she should be sleeping in that moment. She wasn't to blame for any of his crimes. She was an innocent.
"A whitelighter should heal all your wounds." Cole said.
"Not before my baby is back with me and safe." Phoebe stated.
"Call Leo, tell him to heal you and during this time I'll get Prue back, I swear." Cole said.
Phoebe slowly nodded and said: "Will you be back?"
"You'll have Prue back, I promise." He told her, approaching her slowly.
"You have to come back, she'll miss you..." She said.
"I'll miss you." She added in a whisper looking in his deep blue his full of tears.
"You'll have her back." He sword.
"I love you." She said. She didn't know why, she just felt like saying it. After this, he kissed her on the lips and said: "You'll have her back." He didn't know why he had kissed her, it'd just been like an impulse and it was feeling good, it was feeling like the right thing to do, her lips were as sweat as he remembered. Maybe this kiss was a goodbye because he didn't want to promise her something he wasn't certain he'd do. He wasn't sure he'd come back, the only sure thing was that he was going to fight to have his daughter back, no matter what, no matter if it costs him his own life. With that he shimmered out.
Once he was gone, she starred at the spot where he had just been. Now not only Prue, the light of her eyes was gone, now she didn't know, if Cole the love of her life would die trying to get her back.
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To Be Continued...
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