I LOVE YOU, COLE
GrantingTroyTurner & Charmed-Snow
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CHAPTER 3 : WHO IS CHRIS
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Part 1.
"What've you told him, Piper?" – scolded Phoebe.
"Nothing." – replied her.
"I doubt that."
"Depend on you." – said Piper leisurely.
"How are you today, Piper?" – Paige entered the kitchen to join her sisters.
"I'm fine. Thanks, Paige." – answered Piper.
"You know what?" – said Phoebe – "Cole slept on the couch last night, and go for work before I get up."
"Why?" – surprised Paige.
"Ask her." – Phoebe pointed at Piper.
"Piper?"
"I give up. I won't talk about it anymore. You can do whatever you want." – said Piper. She wanted to take Cole's advice that healing the sisterly relation. She also knew they wouldn't get the chance of vanquishing him again.
"Why don't you call him?" – suggested Paige.
"I've already done. He asked me to have dinner tonight." – said Phoebe.
"So I don't see what's wrong." – concluded Paige.
"But what's changed your mind, Piper?" – asked Phoebe.
Suddenly, orbing light appeared, three sisters guessed Leo to come back. But the dust formed into a younger man.
"Chris?" – gasped Paige.
Piper's about to blow him up, she'd experienced the demons orbing before. But Chris smiled and waved his hand to defend:
"Relax! I'm not demon. We're family."
"What?" – said Paige.
"How?" – said Phoebe.
"I'm sorry, Paige, but I think we've always behaved ethically." – said Chris.
Piper and Phoebe stared at Paige.
"He kissed on my cheek. . . once." – said Paige.
"Exactly." – affirmed Chris.
"Who are you?" – asked Piper.
"I'm your son, mom." – answered him.
To prove his words, he took a spoon and tossed it into the air, then flinged his hands to freeze it.
"See?" – smiled him.
"So it's you?" – Piper rubbed her belly.
"No. I'm the second."
"What? The Halliwells haven't got a son." – doubted Phoebe.
"Yes, in the past. But you will. All of us are boys, mom." – he answered Phoebe's question, but kept looking at his mother admirably.
He turned to Paige:
"I still have another proof. Do you realize it, Paige?" – he gave her a gold chain.
"It's my adoptive parent's gift on my fifteenth birthday." – choked her – "How did you get it? I always keep it carefully."
"Since Paige wants her past self, I mean you, to trust me." – said Chris – "I'm going to give all of you a warning."
Paige held the chain tenderly in her hands, she knew she wouldn't give it to a stranger. He not only got the most important souvenir of her as a proof, but he also got Leo's and Piper's powers to prove who he was. Piper just looked at her son, she easily and quickly cherished him as if they'd got a very close relation, the motherly love.
"What's it?" – asked Phoebe.
"About your future." – answered Chris – "I won't intervene in your affairs and change the past. You have to do it yourselves to evade this wrong future."
"How's wrong?" – asked Paige.
"You're alone, Paige." – said Chris – "Mom goes away, and Phoebe turns evil."
Phoebe dropped her mouth:
"That bastard! I swear I'll vanquish him before he has this chance." – cursed her.
"Nobody tempts you, Phoebe. You choose it on your own." – said Chris.
"I'll never choose it myself. That son of bitch cheats me." – accused her.
"Phoebe, that hasn't happened yet." – defended Piper.
"How about your father?" – asked Paige.
". . . And Cole?" – added Piper.
"Leo's dead." – Chris looked at his mother – "Cole's not here."
"Because he'll already been vanquished." – said Phoebe.
"Why and when'll we end up to that?" – asked Paige.
"Look, I won't take your hands and lead you go through it. I just come to leave a warning. Now you know how tragic it is, you have to do the rest to avoid it."
"It seems you don't care if we fail." – growled Paige.
"I've got a lot of things to do, Paige. You need to know I must have a great regard for you to accept your request coming here to warn you." – retorted him.
"Can you give us some advices, Chris?" – asked Piper – "I'll try to give you a better family. You're sort of rude to your aunts."
"I'm sorry I can't tell you what to do or what not to do, mom." – he stared at her softly – "But the most important thing is keep your bond, keep your close relation. As long as you're together, you'll overcome everything."
The Charmed Ones knew they're having a big trouble which they wasn't able to be unanimous in.
"I hope all of you to make concessions to each other until reaching the same mind." – spoke Chris as if he knew what they're thinking – "Don't let anything part you. If there's something you can't get a unanimity, give it up!"
He stepped back from Piper.
"Take care, mom!"
"Will I see you again?" – asked her.
"I'll come to see you when it's time." – answered Chris before orbing out.
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Cole and Phoebe were having dinner in a restaurant. After the conversation to her nephew coming from future, Phoebe's determined to kill her husband as soon as possible to prevent turning evil.
"You won't have any urgent case tonight, will you?" – asked her.
"No."
"Good." – smiled her sweetly.
"How is Piper?" – asked Cole.
"She's fine."
They kept silence a little.
"Can you drop in the penthouse for a while? I need a private talk." – suggested Cole.
"If you want." – smiled her affectedly. She thought it wasn't the problem for her to execute her plan there.
Phoebe walked straight to the bathroom right after entering the penthouse. She wanted to smarten herself up. Luckily, she still kept the knife in her handbag. Turning around in front of the mirror to make sure she looked perfect, she went out. Cole'd been waiting for her in the living room.
"I haven't got a bedgown to change." – shrugged her – "Or you think I don't need it tonight?" – she's smiling erotically.
Cole sighed seeing the woman he'd loved with all his heart, it's ignoble that she's ready to do it for gaining her purpose regardless of the fact that she didn't love him.
"I've signed all the papers you want." – he gave her a file – "Our divorce will be done soon."
"What?" – surprised Phoebe.
"You're free, Phoebe." – said Cole – "When I first came back, I thought you still loved me, just not admited it. I've tried to prove that we're meant to be, and you're wrong denying it. But I discover I'm wrong. So I return you your own life. I'm sorry for causing so much trouble."
He didn't look at her, and saying with a calm voice as if he'd been beyond all of them. Phoebe couldn't believe in her ears, she never expected something like that from him. She would've been so happy hearing it before, but now she didn't believe. "He must have a plan behind, or he's planning to turn me evil." – she thought.
"No, Cole! I think we're over it." – said her.
"Yes, we're over. It's time to move on with our own lives."
"What did Piper tell you?" – she raised her voice up.
"Did she have something to tell me?" – challenged him.
"No." – she couldn't say she's hiding anything, but a second thought flashed – "Yes. As I told, she wants you, she must've sowed division between us."
Cole closed his eyes, being embittered.
"Phoebe! Please let me keep a fair impression of you." – he looked straight at her – "You're the one woke my humanity up. I'll always remember how much you loved me and helped me to start a new page of my life. We promised to share our lives together in weal or woe. But everything has showed we couldn't do our vow. So be it."
He didn't want to say she's the only one broke their oath. He had sacrificed himself to save her and her family, and she'd repaid by leaving him in the Wasteland, then continually accusing and driving him away after he came back. He didn't blame her since she wasn't his soulmate, she couldn't sympathy for him. Even the truth that she wanted to kill him, he forgave her, he himself had wanted to mummify her, although their motivations were entirely different.
"You dump me?" – asked her trying to be innocent.
"No, Phoebe! You're not as simple-hearted as the one I fell in love two years ago. Go with your life, and leave me alone."
Phoebe stared at him inquisitively, she knew it wasn't easy for him to say that. He still loved her, and it meant he would find a way to turn her evil. He just wanted to be alone to fulfil his plan. The only way to make certain he wouldn't harm her was vanquish him. She knew what she had to do.
Phoebe rushed to hug Cole fondly:
"I love you, Cole! And I'll always love you. Nothing can change that."
He closed his eyes the second time. That's his sweet Phoebe, the one he had never denied anything. It's bitter to hear those words again realizing it's just a delusion.
"Keep our belief, Cole! We belong together. . ."
The warm voice of his real soulmate resounded, he opened his eyes seeing Phoebe:
"Prove it!" – said him firmly – "Paige used to read a spell to show your heart to me. Can you do it again?"
Phoebe parted away looking at him with wide-opened eyes.
"You'll regret it, Cole!" – growled her – "Remember that!"
She rushed out of the house in rage.
CHAPTER 3 : WHO IS CHRIS
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Part 2.
The door opened, Phoebe threw herself into Jason, but he stretched his arms out.
"Phoebe?"
"Hold me!" – said her.
Jason still kept his arms outstretched. A young girl in a thin bedgown walked out:
"Who's that, honey?" – asked her.
"Oh, she's leaving, baby!" – answered him.
Phoebe stared at her, her surprise immediately turned into fury.
"Who's she?" – asked her.
"My new love." – said Jason leisurely.
She raised her hand going to slap him. He evaded and smiled vulgarly.
"Wait. Who you think you are?"
"I thought our affair is serious." – cried her.
"Of course it is, until I'm sick of you. Look at yourself, women like you are not lacking."
"Jason, I've just forgiven you about that bitch Eros. And you're betraying me again?" – blustered her.
"Don't play virtuous with me, Phoebe. I'm sure I know you enough. Now get out!" – shouted him.
Maybe that girl was evil too. Phoebe thought quickly and jumped off beating her.
"Stop! Stop! Stop!" – cried Jason.
Phoebe pushed him back keeping scratching and slapping the girl.
"OK, I call the police." – gritted him.
She ceased, and stood up. He probably wanted to threaten her since he would hate to get the bad reputation of womanizing. But those words had calmed her more or less. She always considered herself as a noble woman, how should she get involved in such people. She walked straight out of his apartment.
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Piper, Paige, and Phoebe were having lunch in the kitchen, they decided to talk together and restore their relationship.
"OK, Cole's voluntarily out of our lives, and Leo's going to come back a few day later. I think the peace's returning to our family." – said Paige.
"Yes. I hope we never have different ideas again. We're sisters after all, and we live under the same roof." – agreed Piper.
Both of them raised their glasses, but Phoebe didn't touch her one.
"It's too early to drink." – said her – "Unless you have the same mind with me about vanquishing Cole."
"Phoebe!" – sighed Paige.
"He's gone away. It's time to leave this stuff behind, Phoebe!" – said Piper.
"As long as he's alive," – said Phoebe – "he's still a menace to my life."
"I think you're sort of paranoid." – spoke Paige – "You've just finished your divorce, and he hasn't showed up a few last day. Did you see that before?"
"He's planning something. He's trying to turn me evil. That's why." – snorted Phoebe.
"Pheebs, It's only what you're thinking." – shouted Piper.
"Good. Now you two have the same mind." – snapped Phoebe – "It's ok. If you think I need you, you're wrong."
She stomped off.
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Phoebe's thinking in her bedroom, she wasn't able to find any possible way to vanquish her one-again-ex-husband. And the future of being evil kept haunting her endlessly. He had to be the one took responsibility of it.
"I should've vanquished you at my very first chance." – cursed her.
Recollecting how Piper had destroyed her good chance of killing Cole at the other night in her bedroom, she scolded her:
"I'm sorry that he wasn't crazy enough to kill you on the spot."
All of a sudden, she vanished and re-appeared in the Underworld. She gasped seeing a dark priest in front of her. Actually he was more astonished.
"A Charmed One?" – blurted him.
"What do you want?" – asked Phoebe.
"I've been finding a co-operator."
"I won't work with demon."
"You think I love to work with witches?" – snorted the priest.
"So why brought me here?"
"I didn't. I just chanted a spell to find a co-operator. And it brought you to me."
Phoebe frowned, the demon she's talking to was a dark priest, he didn't kill people or spread crimes. His responsibilities were celebrate the rituals in the Underworld as well as keep all of ceremonial things and traditions. Maybe he's lying, maybe he's honest. Anyway she found no one there except him and her and some ingredients for a summons.
"What's it mean?" – asked Phoebe.
"It means you need something that I'm the only one can help, and vice versa." – explained him – "You help me, and I'll help you."
She thought about vanquishing Cole immediately, could he probably help her? Should she take that chance? She didn't want to be involved in evil, but the only thing she couldn't do since becoming witch was vanquish Cole. She just need that priest to help her get rid of him. If there's a trap behind, whatever it was, she's confident enough to conquer it.
"Deal."
His eyes sparkled hearing her agreement.
"Good. So what can I help?" – asked him.
"Kill Cole Turner." – said Phoebe firmly.
"The demon came back from the wasteland?" – he paused a little – "He's so powerful. No demon can kill him. Even The Charmed Ones can't."
He said Cole's powerful, not invincible. It made him more wise-experienced than her and her sisters.
"I do have a plan to kill him." – said Phoebe – "But I can't lure him in. . . my trap. May you help me this step?"
The dark priest thought for a while,
"Yes. It's in my ability." – he saw her eyes flashing a ray of hope – "But you'll help me first."
"No."
"No, missy." – interrupted him – "That's how our contract works."
"What do you want?" – Phoebe decided to listen to his request before arguing.
"The Book of Shadows."
She opened her mouth.
"Calm down! I don't want to own it. I recognize I can't touch it. All I want is you bring it to me and get it back later."
"Why do you need it?" – the dark priest was right that he couldn't touch the book, so he couldn't read it. It made Phoebe curious.
"I don't ask you why you want to kill that demon." – said him – "I think it's not necessary to remind you of your book won't be destroyed. It can protect itself. You've got nothing to worry."
"OK." – promised Phoebe. She didn't know clearly what she's saying.
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Paige and Piper were going shopping.
"Take some coke for Leo. We should prepare a reunion party to welcome him home!" – suggested Paige.
"Uh huh!" – agreed Piper.
They pushed their cart to the soft drinks area. While Paige's reaching out for some drinks, Piper saw Cole's in the contrary direction. They stared at each other a few seconds in amazement.
"Hi!" – greeted him.
"Hi!" – answered Piper, she glanced at his cart that full of canned food.
Paige turned around to see him.
"How are you these days?" – asked him.
"We're fine." – said Piper, she didn't meet several days, but she didn't stop thinking of him for a second – "You?"
"Not bad." – murmured him.
Looking at his eyes, she could say he missed her.
"If you ever need my help," – said him – "just call."
"When Phoebe have trouble?" – doubted Paige.
"I mean anyone, anything." – replied Cole.
He didn't take his eyes off from Piper.
"Bye!" – whispered him, he pushed his cart forward.
"Do you think he still love Phoebe?" – asked Paige.
"How about you?" – questioned Piper.
"He hasn't asked her."
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Phoebe appeared in the Underworld again, holding the book carefully.
"OK, put it here." – the dark priest pointed at one of two book-stands in front of her.
She's walking forward, stopped in midway hesitantly.
"Help me, and you'll get what you want. We need each other." – said him.
Phoebe put the book down, sighing of relief since nothing happened. She looked up to the priest.
"Now take a nap."
She didn't have enough time to surprise before falling down in her nap.
A flash of lighting formed into a figure. The dark priest smiled seeing him.
"Everything's ready." – said him.
"Good." – said Chris, the newcomer. He walked to the book-stands and checked the book. He smiled satisfactorily. Then he lifted his hands facing down on each of the book-stands, chanting.
After he finished his words, the empty book-stand sparkled and a book appeared. The Grimoir.
The dark priest's eyes twinkled with joy seeing it again. Chris opened a few pages of the Grimoir, then walked down.
"It's done." – said him – "You have to keep it carefully in secret until The Source shows up."
"I'll try all my best." – promised the priest.
"You should do. Don't let the wrong one usurp the throne." – warned Chris.
"But the essence of The Source was vanquished completely. I'm afraid there's no one capable enough. . ."
"The son of the most powerful demon and the most powerful witch will be born someday. " – said Chris – "He's the right Source."
"A son of a witch?"
"You doubt me?" – challenged Chris.
The dark priest looked at him, Chris was too young, but the appearance didn't imply the age for magic beings. He would never believe Chris's actually 23 years old.
He glanced at Phoebe lying on the ground and licking his lips:
"I'm wondering if I should fulfil my promise to her." – said the dark priest – "I think she wants to kill the most powerful demon in this universe. The Source's father in this case."
Chris gazed at her, then turned to the priest.
"Help her!" – he orbed out.
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