Chapter-15 Finally, The Solution
"Who the Hell are you?!" Prue exclaimed in surprise as she looked at Cole.
"Hello Prue, long time no see. Especially since you're dead where I come from," Cole said, smiling at the absurdity. He glanced back at Brad who had turned pale when he had blurred in.
"A better question would be what are you?" AR Phoebe asked, looking him over, clearly interested. Cole smiled at this, and when he looked back at Brad, his face turned from one of complete shock, to one of complete rage.
"Uh, guys, you can come in now," Cole called out, signaling Phoebe and AR Leo to enter.
The AR Charmed Ones and Brad looked at Cole like he was insane, and then gasped as Leo and, oddly enough, another Phoebe orbed in.
"Leo!" Piper exclaimed. She was at first extremely happy that Leo had come back, and then she remembered Dan and how she was with him now.
"Okay, now this is getting way too weird, even for us!" Phoebe exclaimed.
At the sight of Leo, Brad became nervous. He knew that Piper was supposed to be with Dan now, and she would go to Leo now, if he weren't taken care of. Brad slowly put his right arm behind him, making sure no one saw him. He made a crossbow appear behind him, and he gripped it tightly, waiting to see what would happen. If worse came to worse, he would shoot Leo, and kill him if necessary.
"Leo, what's going on, and who the Hell is this?" Prue asked angrily, indicating Phoebe.
"Well, this is Phoebe. I mean, another Phoebe from a different reality," Leo answered. He turned to Piper, and for a second, you could see the longing and desire flicker through his eyes. He quickly hid it though, and turned his attention to Brad.
"Who are you?" Leo asked, wondering whom this man was.
"Oh, Leo, Brad, Brad, Leo. But you know that all ready don't you?" AR Phoebe asked looking at the two confused.
"No, I don't know him. What is he?" Leo asked, looking just as confused as Phoebe and Piper.
They all turned to Brad, who was clutching the crossbow behind him even tighter. He quickly leapt from away from Phoebe and shot an arrow to Leo, which was instantly replaced by another one, ready to shoot. Piper tried to freeze it, but was too slow. It hit Leo in the arm, and he fell to the ground, as the poison began to run through him. AR Piper ran to him, horrified.
Cole quickly reacted, and trapped Brad in a force field before he could orb out. He turned to Leo, and looked on as he saw Leo being over come by the poison that he knew was running it's course.
"Leo, oh my God, Leo," Piper cried. She was on the floor next to him, not knowing what to do.
Phoebe knew that they had to at least stop the poison before it spread too much. She found a piece of cloth, and wrapped it tightly around his arm above the arrow.
"What are we going to do? What's wrong, why is he in so much pain?" Piper asked helplessly, as she stroked Leo's forehead, where he had started to sweat.
"It's the poison," Cole answered, knowing that Phoebe was too busy to answer her. It seemed that they hadn't encountered a dark-lighter yet.
"What poison? Who the Hell are you?!" Prue asked angrily. She didn't know what to do either, and if this guy, whoever he was, could help Leo, then he better help.
"Well, I'm just someone here to help make your live the way it should be," Cole answered. He turned back to Leo, and felt a pang of pain stab at his heart. When he had been human, he and Leo had become closer friends and he hated seeing him like this.
"Phoebe, do you know what you can do for him?" Cole asked, kneeling next to Phoebe, AR Piper, and AR Leo.
"Well, there are two things we could do. One, find another White-lighter, or two, switch powers with Leo, so one of us can heal him," Phoebe said, looking up at Cole. Through her eyes, and link, he could tell that she was feeling just as helpless.
Through all of this, Brad was desperately trying to orb out. He kept running into the force field and eventually gave up. So he decided to watch them. He looked at Cole, who he didn't quite get how he was here and then looked at the other Phoebe. Then it clicked. 'They're from another reality, like I am!' Brad thought in revelation.
Cole looked up, noticing that Brad was still there. He approached the field and grabbed Brad by the throat. He slammed him against the wall, and stared at him angrily.
"Why the Hell did you do that?! Who are you?!" Cole yelled at him angrily through clenched teeth. Brad merely smirked back at Cole. Apparently, this wasn't the same Cole that had killed him. Unfortunately for him, that smirk only earned him another hard slam against the wall.
"Ow," Brad said simply, as he felt something click in his back.
"Are you working for Scier?" Cole asked angrily. He was still angry as Hell at this Brad person for what he had done to Leo.
"Cole, could you put him down for a minute?" Phoebe asked him, placing her hand on his shoulder, trying to calm him down a little bit before he killed him.
"Thank you," Brad said, looking at this new Phoebe. She threw him a face of disgust.
"Shut up. I only told him to put you down just so that he wouldn't kill you before we got some answers. Now, answer his question, are you, or are you not working for Scier?" Phoebe asked.
"No, not really. You could just say that Scier did me a favor. You see, here, I was able to get something that I wasn't able to get in my own reality," Brad said, glancing at the other Phoebe that was looking at herself and a tall dark gorgeous guy interrogate her former boyfriend.
"Phoebe. You couldn't get Phoebe in your own reality, so I'm supposing that Scier brought you from your own reality to this one, didn't he?" Cole said, figuring what had happened.
"But why would he choose him? What would make Scier choose this dark-lighter?" Cole asked puzzled, turning to Phoebe.
"I don't know Cole. Hey wait, why don't you try to look into his reality? I mean, if it works like my premonitions, than you can look into his by just touching him," Phoebe suggested.
"Hey, that's a good idea. Hold on, and make sure that he doesn't get away," Cole said, as he concentrated on looking into another reality. He focused onto Brad's unique wave, and found the reality he came from. He looked in, a little bit into the past. What he saw, he gasped. He opened his eyes, and backed away in horror.
"Cole? Cole, what is it?" Phoebe asked concerned, stepping in front of Cole, getting between him and Brad.
"Phoebe, get away from him," Cole whispered, his shock still apparent in his voice. From Brad's smirk, he could tell that he knew what he had seen.
"What happened? What did you see?" Phoebe asked, wondering what could have rattled Cole this much.
"He...he...he raped you," Cole managed to make out.
Phoebe looked at Cole, stunned. Near them, they could hear two sets of gasps, and heavy breathing, from AR Leo of course.
Cole suddenly woke up from his state of shock, and lunged at Brad.
"You bastard!" Cole said, as he punched Brad hard in the jaw.
Brad staggered back from the force of Cole's punch. He didn't remember Cole being that strong. He must be much stronger than the Cole that he knew.
Phoebe looked up into Cole's eyes and was scared from what she saw. She saw a rage and anger that she had never seen before in him, and she was scared stiff. If she didn't stop him, he probably would kill Brad.
"Cole! Wait, we need to help Leo first, then deal with this scum," Phoebe said, holding him back.
"Fine, but I want him after we help Leo," Cole spat out, his rage still there, but lessened by Phoebe. When he turned back to Phoebe, his anger softened even more as he saw the fear that was there. Fear that he had made. The type of fear that he had vowed not to create ever since he had regained Phoebe's friendship.
"I'm sorry," Cole said, looking down.
"It's all right, I understand, believe me," Phoebe said, giving Brad a cold stare.
"C'mon," Phoebe said, pulling him away from Brad, but not before she put up a force field.
"Um...I can see that there's something going on, but frankly, I don't care. Can you help Leo or not?" AR Piper asked anxiously still horrified that her baby sister had almost gone out with someone who had raped her somewhere else. She still didn't quite get the whole thing, but she got most of it.
"Yes, we can still help him. You two can switch powers, and you can heal him Piper," Phoebe said, looking from AR Leo to Piper.
"How?" Piper asked, looking desperately between Cole and Phoebe.
"C'mon, I'll cast the spell," Phoebe said.
30 min. later...
Piper had healed Leo after they switched powers, and both had their own powers back now. Cole and Phoebe had filled in AR Piper, Phoebe, and Prue on why they were there.
Phoebe looked at the two, and knew she had to get them back together, but how?
"Prue, you know how Piper and Leo belong to each other right?" Phoebe asked Prue. She deadly wanted to hold her, and warn her of her upcoming death, but knew she shouldn't tamper with what was supposed to actually happen.
"Yea, I mean everyone here can see that they're soul mates," Prue said.
"Well, they're supposed to be together now. When Brad came, either he or Scier had screwed this reality up. So now, Piper needs to leave Dan, and go with Leo," Phoebe explained.
"Well, we could always go with the direct approach," Cole suggested, hearing their conversation.
Before Phoebe could stop him, Cole had all ready walked over to where AR Leo and Piper were talking and staring at each other in longing.
"Okay, everyone here knows that you two belong together," Cole blurted out. He really didn't feel like going through the whole Oprah thing, so he just said it. AR Leo and Piper looked at him, with their mouths hanging agape.
"Now Piper, I know that you think that you should stay with Dan, and you're being torn between the two. Let me assure you, Leo is your true soul mate, and you belong to him, just as he belongs to you," Cole said. Though how blunt Cole was, he was right as he was straightforward.
"Now, you two get back together so me and Phoebe could deal with this Brad character," Cole said, eager to turn his attention back to Brad who was still trapped within a force-field.
"But, Dan..." AR Piper began to object, but Cole cut her off before she could continue.
"Will be all right. I know for a fact that you two are supposed to end up together, and are going to have a beautiful baby daughter," Cole said, dismissing her excuse with a wave.
The news of them having a daughter shocked AR Piper and Leo.
"Wh...What? Did I hear you correctly?" AR Leo asked, not believing his own ears.
"Yes, it's true. You two are going to have a wonderful baby daughter," Phoebe interjected, approaching them. 'Maybe this approach is better than I thought' Phoebe thought to herself.
"Okay, you two now go make-up while Phoebe and I handle Brad," Cole said, his tone quickly turning acidic.
Cole turned back to Brad, who was starting to get worried. Cole and Phoebe had managed to heal Leo, and he seriously doubted that Scier would come back to save him.
"Wait Cole. I want to know what's going on in his reality before we do anything," Phoebe said, noticing that Cole was about to jump on Brad again.
"Oh fine then Phoebe," Cole said exasperated. "You know, you're really lucky."
"I know," Brad replied.
Cole grumbled at his response, wishing that he could just beat off that annoying smirk. One look at Phoebe thought told him that he wouldn't be able to.
Cole sighed audibly, then concentrated on looking into Brad's reality. He decided to use himself as a conduit again so that Phoebe could see too.
What he saw was really surprising. He saw himself, Phoebe and two kids. From what he saw, it was relatively the same point in time that they were currently in, but better. He and Phoebe were married, and had a son and daughter named Tom and Elizabeth. He smiled as he saw Liz crawling all over the AR Cole, and how happy he and Phoebe seemed. Then he saw Brad come in, and how he tried to steal Phoebe from him. When it was apparent that she would not leave Cole, he raped her.
His heart broke again as he saw that horrifying scene again. Then, it got a little better when he saw AR Cole kill him with a fireball. He smiled at that, wondering if he could do that too.
"So, ah, do you know what they're doing?" AR Prue asked her sisters as she stared at the two who seemed like they were meditating.
"How should I know?" AR Phoebe shrugged as she looked on at a duplicate of herself and a really cute guy. She suddenly wondered how the other her knew him, and was there another him here?
Cole fast-forwarded his sight about four years forward.
He saw that their two children were safe, but he became worried as he saw Brad tricking Phoebe into thinking that he, or rather, AR Cole had cheated on her. He skipped a couple days, and saw that Phoebe had forgiven him, and understood that it wasn't really him, thanks to the premonition that Liz had in ht form of a nightmare, and he nearly laughed out right when he saw Tom scared out of his wits when he levitated.
When Cole stopped looking into the other reality, he grimaced at what he had to do. He didn't want to send Brad back, especially after what he had done to Phoebe, and what he almost did to their marriage in another reality. For all intensive purposes, he wanted to kill Brad.
Phoebe could feel the anger that was seeping through the link between them. She had never really seen Cole this angry, not even when he was evil. 'Oh my God, what if he becomes evil again?' Phoebe thought for a moment. If he became evil, she wouldn't know what to do, he was too powerful to vanquish before the gate, but now that he had it? She wouldn't be able to stop him at all.
Cole felt Phoebe's anxiousness, and knew that she was worried about him turning evil.
"Phoebe, what do you want to do?" Cole asked tentatively as he looked into her eyes.
"Phoebe was startled by his question. The change from hate to kindness was too sudden, and it took her by surprise.
"I don't think we should kill him Cole," Phoebe said. She could easily see the sag in his shoulders when she said that they shouldn't kill him. That also meant that he wouldn't kill him, unfortunately.
"Fine, we won't kill him, but I don't think that we should leave him with all his memories intact," Cole advised.
"Okay, and of course we can't leave him here," Phoebe said, indicating the reality.
"Of course. He unfortunately needs to go back to that other reality where...you know," Cole said uncomfortably. To see it was one thing, but to actually admit to it was completely different.
"Yea," Phoebe replied, equally uncomfortable.
"Okay, hold on!" Prue said, interrupting their conversation. Cole and Phoebe looked up in alarm, and relaxed when they saw it was just Prue, albeit Phoebe's dead sister, but she could handle that.
"Just exactly are you talking about. When you explained the whole alternate reality thing, we didn't quite get it," Prue said, taking her 'Prue' stance. She always took the initiative, and always led the group.
Phoebe smiled at that thought, and saddened a little at that as well. She had come to turns with the death of her sister, and seeing her again brought pain as well as happiness.
"Well, mainly, what needs to be done in this reality is that you," Cole said, pointing at AR Leo, "and Piper need to get back together, as soul mates. While him," Cole said, pointing at Brad, "needs to get back to his own reality."
"Oh, that's all," Prue said sarcastically, rolling her eyes at them.
"Wait, I've got a question," AR Phoebe asked.
Phoebe turned to her AR self, and looked at her. It was kind of creepy, but kind of cool at the same time, and AR Phoebe was thinking the same thing.
"Sure, what is it?" Phoebe said.
"What are you going to do with Brad?"
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Oooh, cliffhanger! Now all I have to do is actually decide what I want to do with Brad. So many choices, only one way I can go. :sighs: Darn. Oh well, tune into the next chapter and see what will happen to Brad. Oh, and thanks for the review Cole-Phoebe-Lover. Sorry to hear about that writer's block. I hear those are going around. ;-) Hope you get over it, would love to see what goes on in your story. And for everyone else, as per always, read and review! ^_^
"Who the Hell are you?!" Prue exclaimed in surprise as she looked at Cole.
"Hello Prue, long time no see. Especially since you're dead where I come from," Cole said, smiling at the absurdity. He glanced back at Brad who had turned pale when he had blurred in.
"A better question would be what are you?" AR Phoebe asked, looking him over, clearly interested. Cole smiled at this, and when he looked back at Brad, his face turned from one of complete shock, to one of complete rage.
"Uh, guys, you can come in now," Cole called out, signaling Phoebe and AR Leo to enter.
The AR Charmed Ones and Brad looked at Cole like he was insane, and then gasped as Leo and, oddly enough, another Phoebe orbed in.
"Leo!" Piper exclaimed. She was at first extremely happy that Leo had come back, and then she remembered Dan and how she was with him now.
"Okay, now this is getting way too weird, even for us!" Phoebe exclaimed.
At the sight of Leo, Brad became nervous. He knew that Piper was supposed to be with Dan now, and she would go to Leo now, if he weren't taken care of. Brad slowly put his right arm behind him, making sure no one saw him. He made a crossbow appear behind him, and he gripped it tightly, waiting to see what would happen. If worse came to worse, he would shoot Leo, and kill him if necessary.
"Leo, what's going on, and who the Hell is this?" Prue asked angrily, indicating Phoebe.
"Well, this is Phoebe. I mean, another Phoebe from a different reality," Leo answered. He turned to Piper, and for a second, you could see the longing and desire flicker through his eyes. He quickly hid it though, and turned his attention to Brad.
"Who are you?" Leo asked, wondering whom this man was.
"Oh, Leo, Brad, Brad, Leo. But you know that all ready don't you?" AR Phoebe asked looking at the two confused.
"No, I don't know him. What is he?" Leo asked, looking just as confused as Phoebe and Piper.
They all turned to Brad, who was clutching the crossbow behind him even tighter. He quickly leapt from away from Phoebe and shot an arrow to Leo, which was instantly replaced by another one, ready to shoot. Piper tried to freeze it, but was too slow. It hit Leo in the arm, and he fell to the ground, as the poison began to run through him. AR Piper ran to him, horrified.
Cole quickly reacted, and trapped Brad in a force field before he could orb out. He turned to Leo, and looked on as he saw Leo being over come by the poison that he knew was running it's course.
"Leo, oh my God, Leo," Piper cried. She was on the floor next to him, not knowing what to do.
Phoebe knew that they had to at least stop the poison before it spread too much. She found a piece of cloth, and wrapped it tightly around his arm above the arrow.
"What are we going to do? What's wrong, why is he in so much pain?" Piper asked helplessly, as she stroked Leo's forehead, where he had started to sweat.
"It's the poison," Cole answered, knowing that Phoebe was too busy to answer her. It seemed that they hadn't encountered a dark-lighter yet.
"What poison? Who the Hell are you?!" Prue asked angrily. She didn't know what to do either, and if this guy, whoever he was, could help Leo, then he better help.
"Well, I'm just someone here to help make your live the way it should be," Cole answered. He turned back to Leo, and felt a pang of pain stab at his heart. When he had been human, he and Leo had become closer friends and he hated seeing him like this.
"Phoebe, do you know what you can do for him?" Cole asked, kneeling next to Phoebe, AR Piper, and AR Leo.
"Well, there are two things we could do. One, find another White-lighter, or two, switch powers with Leo, so one of us can heal him," Phoebe said, looking up at Cole. Through her eyes, and link, he could tell that she was feeling just as helpless.
Through all of this, Brad was desperately trying to orb out. He kept running into the force field and eventually gave up. So he decided to watch them. He looked at Cole, who he didn't quite get how he was here and then looked at the other Phoebe. Then it clicked. 'They're from another reality, like I am!' Brad thought in revelation.
Cole looked up, noticing that Brad was still there. He approached the field and grabbed Brad by the throat. He slammed him against the wall, and stared at him angrily.
"Why the Hell did you do that?! Who are you?!" Cole yelled at him angrily through clenched teeth. Brad merely smirked back at Cole. Apparently, this wasn't the same Cole that had killed him. Unfortunately for him, that smirk only earned him another hard slam against the wall.
"Ow," Brad said simply, as he felt something click in his back.
"Are you working for Scier?" Cole asked angrily. He was still angry as Hell at this Brad person for what he had done to Leo.
"Cole, could you put him down for a minute?" Phoebe asked him, placing her hand on his shoulder, trying to calm him down a little bit before he killed him.
"Thank you," Brad said, looking at this new Phoebe. She threw him a face of disgust.
"Shut up. I only told him to put you down just so that he wouldn't kill you before we got some answers. Now, answer his question, are you, or are you not working for Scier?" Phoebe asked.
"No, not really. You could just say that Scier did me a favor. You see, here, I was able to get something that I wasn't able to get in my own reality," Brad said, glancing at the other Phoebe that was looking at herself and a tall dark gorgeous guy interrogate her former boyfriend.
"Phoebe. You couldn't get Phoebe in your own reality, so I'm supposing that Scier brought you from your own reality to this one, didn't he?" Cole said, figuring what had happened.
"But why would he choose him? What would make Scier choose this dark-lighter?" Cole asked puzzled, turning to Phoebe.
"I don't know Cole. Hey wait, why don't you try to look into his reality? I mean, if it works like my premonitions, than you can look into his by just touching him," Phoebe suggested.
"Hey, that's a good idea. Hold on, and make sure that he doesn't get away," Cole said, as he concentrated on looking into another reality. He focused onto Brad's unique wave, and found the reality he came from. He looked in, a little bit into the past. What he saw, he gasped. He opened his eyes, and backed away in horror.
"Cole? Cole, what is it?" Phoebe asked concerned, stepping in front of Cole, getting between him and Brad.
"Phoebe, get away from him," Cole whispered, his shock still apparent in his voice. From Brad's smirk, he could tell that he knew what he had seen.
"What happened? What did you see?" Phoebe asked, wondering what could have rattled Cole this much.
"He...he...he raped you," Cole managed to make out.
Phoebe looked at Cole, stunned. Near them, they could hear two sets of gasps, and heavy breathing, from AR Leo of course.
Cole suddenly woke up from his state of shock, and lunged at Brad.
"You bastard!" Cole said, as he punched Brad hard in the jaw.
Brad staggered back from the force of Cole's punch. He didn't remember Cole being that strong. He must be much stronger than the Cole that he knew.
Phoebe looked up into Cole's eyes and was scared from what she saw. She saw a rage and anger that she had never seen before in him, and she was scared stiff. If she didn't stop him, he probably would kill Brad.
"Cole! Wait, we need to help Leo first, then deal with this scum," Phoebe said, holding him back.
"Fine, but I want him after we help Leo," Cole spat out, his rage still there, but lessened by Phoebe. When he turned back to Phoebe, his anger softened even more as he saw the fear that was there. Fear that he had made. The type of fear that he had vowed not to create ever since he had regained Phoebe's friendship.
"I'm sorry," Cole said, looking down.
"It's all right, I understand, believe me," Phoebe said, giving Brad a cold stare.
"C'mon," Phoebe said, pulling him away from Brad, but not before she put up a force field.
"Um...I can see that there's something going on, but frankly, I don't care. Can you help Leo or not?" AR Piper asked anxiously still horrified that her baby sister had almost gone out with someone who had raped her somewhere else. She still didn't quite get the whole thing, but she got most of it.
"Yes, we can still help him. You two can switch powers, and you can heal him Piper," Phoebe said, looking from AR Leo to Piper.
"How?" Piper asked, looking desperately between Cole and Phoebe.
"C'mon, I'll cast the spell," Phoebe said.
30 min. later...
Piper had healed Leo after they switched powers, and both had their own powers back now. Cole and Phoebe had filled in AR Piper, Phoebe, and Prue on why they were there.
Phoebe looked at the two, and knew she had to get them back together, but how?
"Prue, you know how Piper and Leo belong to each other right?" Phoebe asked Prue. She deadly wanted to hold her, and warn her of her upcoming death, but knew she shouldn't tamper with what was supposed to actually happen.
"Yea, I mean everyone here can see that they're soul mates," Prue said.
"Well, they're supposed to be together now. When Brad came, either he or Scier had screwed this reality up. So now, Piper needs to leave Dan, and go with Leo," Phoebe explained.
"Well, we could always go with the direct approach," Cole suggested, hearing their conversation.
Before Phoebe could stop him, Cole had all ready walked over to where AR Leo and Piper were talking and staring at each other in longing.
"Okay, everyone here knows that you two belong together," Cole blurted out. He really didn't feel like going through the whole Oprah thing, so he just said it. AR Leo and Piper looked at him, with their mouths hanging agape.
"Now Piper, I know that you think that you should stay with Dan, and you're being torn between the two. Let me assure you, Leo is your true soul mate, and you belong to him, just as he belongs to you," Cole said. Though how blunt Cole was, he was right as he was straightforward.
"Now, you two get back together so me and Phoebe could deal with this Brad character," Cole said, eager to turn his attention back to Brad who was still trapped within a force-field.
"But, Dan..." AR Piper began to object, but Cole cut her off before she could continue.
"Will be all right. I know for a fact that you two are supposed to end up together, and are going to have a beautiful baby daughter," Cole said, dismissing her excuse with a wave.
The news of them having a daughter shocked AR Piper and Leo.
"Wh...What? Did I hear you correctly?" AR Leo asked, not believing his own ears.
"Yes, it's true. You two are going to have a wonderful baby daughter," Phoebe interjected, approaching them. 'Maybe this approach is better than I thought' Phoebe thought to herself.
"Okay, you two now go make-up while Phoebe and I handle Brad," Cole said, his tone quickly turning acidic.
Cole turned back to Brad, who was starting to get worried. Cole and Phoebe had managed to heal Leo, and he seriously doubted that Scier would come back to save him.
"Wait Cole. I want to know what's going on in his reality before we do anything," Phoebe said, noticing that Cole was about to jump on Brad again.
"Oh fine then Phoebe," Cole said exasperated. "You know, you're really lucky."
"I know," Brad replied.
Cole grumbled at his response, wishing that he could just beat off that annoying smirk. One look at Phoebe thought told him that he wouldn't be able to.
Cole sighed audibly, then concentrated on looking into Brad's reality. He decided to use himself as a conduit again so that Phoebe could see too.
What he saw was really surprising. He saw himself, Phoebe and two kids. From what he saw, it was relatively the same point in time that they were currently in, but better. He and Phoebe were married, and had a son and daughter named Tom and Elizabeth. He smiled as he saw Liz crawling all over the AR Cole, and how happy he and Phoebe seemed. Then he saw Brad come in, and how he tried to steal Phoebe from him. When it was apparent that she would not leave Cole, he raped her.
His heart broke again as he saw that horrifying scene again. Then, it got a little better when he saw AR Cole kill him with a fireball. He smiled at that, wondering if he could do that too.
"So, ah, do you know what they're doing?" AR Prue asked her sisters as she stared at the two who seemed like they were meditating.
"How should I know?" AR Phoebe shrugged as she looked on at a duplicate of herself and a really cute guy. She suddenly wondered how the other her knew him, and was there another him here?
Cole fast-forwarded his sight about four years forward.
He saw that their two children were safe, but he became worried as he saw Brad tricking Phoebe into thinking that he, or rather, AR Cole had cheated on her. He skipped a couple days, and saw that Phoebe had forgiven him, and understood that it wasn't really him, thanks to the premonition that Liz had in ht form of a nightmare, and he nearly laughed out right when he saw Tom scared out of his wits when he levitated.
When Cole stopped looking into the other reality, he grimaced at what he had to do. He didn't want to send Brad back, especially after what he had done to Phoebe, and what he almost did to their marriage in another reality. For all intensive purposes, he wanted to kill Brad.
Phoebe could feel the anger that was seeping through the link between them. She had never really seen Cole this angry, not even when he was evil. 'Oh my God, what if he becomes evil again?' Phoebe thought for a moment. If he became evil, she wouldn't know what to do, he was too powerful to vanquish before the gate, but now that he had it? She wouldn't be able to stop him at all.
Cole felt Phoebe's anxiousness, and knew that she was worried about him turning evil.
"Phoebe, what do you want to do?" Cole asked tentatively as he looked into her eyes.
"Phoebe was startled by his question. The change from hate to kindness was too sudden, and it took her by surprise.
"I don't think we should kill him Cole," Phoebe said. She could easily see the sag in his shoulders when she said that they shouldn't kill him. That also meant that he wouldn't kill him, unfortunately.
"Fine, we won't kill him, but I don't think that we should leave him with all his memories intact," Cole advised.
"Okay, and of course we can't leave him here," Phoebe said, indicating the reality.
"Of course. He unfortunately needs to go back to that other reality where...you know," Cole said uncomfortably. To see it was one thing, but to actually admit to it was completely different.
"Yea," Phoebe replied, equally uncomfortable.
"Okay, hold on!" Prue said, interrupting their conversation. Cole and Phoebe looked up in alarm, and relaxed when they saw it was just Prue, albeit Phoebe's dead sister, but she could handle that.
"Just exactly are you talking about. When you explained the whole alternate reality thing, we didn't quite get it," Prue said, taking her 'Prue' stance. She always took the initiative, and always led the group.
Phoebe smiled at that thought, and saddened a little at that as well. She had come to turns with the death of her sister, and seeing her again brought pain as well as happiness.
"Well, mainly, what needs to be done in this reality is that you," Cole said, pointing at AR Leo, "and Piper need to get back together, as soul mates. While him," Cole said, pointing at Brad, "needs to get back to his own reality."
"Oh, that's all," Prue said sarcastically, rolling her eyes at them.
"Wait, I've got a question," AR Phoebe asked.
Phoebe turned to her AR self, and looked at her. It was kind of creepy, but kind of cool at the same time, and AR Phoebe was thinking the same thing.
"Sure, what is it?" Phoebe said.
"What are you going to do with Brad?"
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Oooh, cliffhanger! Now all I have to do is actually decide what I want to do with Brad. So many choices, only one way I can go. :sighs: Darn. Oh well, tune into the next chapter and see what will happen to Brad. Oh, and thanks for the review Cole-Phoebe-Lover. Sorry to hear about that writer's block. I hear those are going around. ;-) Hope you get over it, would love to see what goes on in your story. And for everyone else, as per always, read and review! ^_^