Chapter 26
Spike walked into the San Francisco demon bar. It had been tricky getting there, since it had been daylight when he left the Haliwell house.
But, when his eyes spotted who he was looking for, it made it all worth the while. He would be getting his sweet daughter back, not Angel!
Spike walked over and clapped, Clem, his old kitten poker buddy from Sunnydale, and a demon, on the back. Clem grinned!
'Spike! Gosh, I heard the rumors that you were back, but you know, with life the way it is, I just hadn't gotten a chance to stop by.'
Spike gave him a knowing look.
'Problems?'
'Yeah, well, I got married.'
Spike's eyes widened!
'Good God! You? You were the one that swore never to marry! You always said your parents had such a rotten marriage, and that you didn't want some bint telling you what to do.'
Clem nodded sheepishly.
'I know, I know. But I was just hit by surprise. I met her in a Vampire Strip club.'
'Oh, so your wife is a vampire?'
'Was....we got into a fight and I kind of had to stake her. Anyway, her family...'
'She had family?'
'Oh yeah! See that was part of our damned problem! We're married and while I didn't mind the stripping, she had relatives that she was giving a cut of her money. It was a sore spot with me.'
Spike held up a hand, knowing he was getting off topic, but curious as hell anyway.
'Wait a minute! Was the family....'
Clem nodded with understanding and finished the sentence.
'No, they weren't vampires, which really was the problem. For some reason, she kept up a relationship with them. Once the humans saw how much money my wife made stripping, I'll be damned if they didn't quit their jobs! Anyway, to get back to the reason I didn't look you up, Spike, my wife's family has retained the services of Wolfram & Hart in L.A.. They're suing me for 'pain and suffering'. So, I moved out here and have been keeping a low profile.'
'Oh Clem! Listen, maybe I can help still. Find out which lawyer is working on the case and maybe I can beat them up or something?'
Clem looked him up and down.
'Have you been to work, Spike? I don't mean that to be sarcastic, but the news about that place travels fast.'
'News?'
'Belthazor is running that place now! I heard Angel barely managed to get the hell out of there without burning to a crisp! I just assumed you knew.'
Spike sighed heavily, then shook his head. Damn! That ponce Bethazor was getting the upper hand at every turn! Spike laid a hand on Clem's arm.
'Clem, I need your help.'
Clem reached for his drink.
'Sure, anything.'
'I need to find Tempest.'
Clem pushed his drink aside.
'That demon that reverses time? Why?'
Spike looked around. No one else seemed to take any notice of them.
'You know that Dru and I had a baby, right?'
Clem's mouth dropped open!
'No! I didn't even know you were with her again! I heard she was seeing Belthazor.'
'No she most certainly is not! Look, we...'
'She's human again, right?'
Spike nodded.
'Yeah.'
'Is she still crazy?'
'No, Clem! She's normal! Look, Bethazor swooped in and stole our daughter. I want my baby back and I figure this Tempest could help.'
Clem slowly stood up, realization dawning on his features.
'You're the father of THAT baby.'
Spike stood up as well.
'Why did you say it like that?'
Clem looked around shiftily.
'Spike, have you actually been asleep in a coffin or something? I've never seen you this out of touch with what's happening in the demon world.'
'Dru....Peyton....'
'Peyton?'
Spike smiled.
'Yes, that's my daughter's name.'
'Uh, I don't like the name.'
Spike shrugged.
'Truthfully, neither do I. But Dru is a Haliwell. A Charmed One. Which makes my little girl a Charmed One as well. The babies always have 'P' names. I don't want to take anything away from my daughter's heritage.'
'That boy baby, the one witch had, doesn't have a name that starts with 'P'. I don't know what his name is but.... 'Clem, can you just tell me where to find Tempest?'
Clem pointed a scaly finger over towards the bar. Spike gasped!
'You mean the ponce was in here the whole time?! What the bloody hell is a time shifting demon doing in a place like this?'
'That's what I've been trying to tell you, Spike! Things have really gone to hell in a handbasket, literally! Raagon was really bringing some order to the underworld, ever since Bethazor screwed things up during his reign. But now, Belthazor has murdered Raagon and his daughter...'
'Belthazor killed Fiathna? The worthless seer girl?'
'Yeah. That was kind of sad, because she did try, but just couldn't get those premonitions right. I think she knew that her time was coming, once Belthazor killed her father. Anyway, there are a lot of demons that are working on their own. There are also many that would love to see Belthazor fail at Wolfram & Hart.'
Spike smiled.
'Then it sounds like Tempest and I have something to talk about.'
It was evening, when Phoebe almost ripped a page in the Book of Shadows! She had been flipping the pages so fast, that she tore a page on....
Phoebe shook her head. It was page on Angelus. Funny. Funny that that would be the page that would have a slight tear in it. She took a deep breath and stared at Angel's evil alter ego.
After Leo had healed Angel's burns, Angel had spent the rest of that time comforting a sobbing Drusilla. Needless to say, Phoebe was annoyed to see that Spike was nowhere around again! He was the one that should be comforting Dru over the loss of their child, since he was Peyton's father.
Phoebe shook her head and continued to flip through the book, just as Angel walked into the attic. He looked around and smiled.
'Cozy place.'
Phoebe smiled up at him.
'I never really thought of it like that. I suppose you're right. What are you doing up here? Angel crossed his arms.
'Paige and Piper bitched me out downstairs.'
Phoebe tilted her head in surprise.
'Bitched you out? Over what?'
'Over getting in Dru and Spike's affairs again, and leaving you by the wayside.'
Phoebe wanted to tell him it wasn't true. She wanted to tell him that she understood his need to be there for Drusilla.
But the words would not come. Angel nodded with understanding. He walked over to her and was about to reach out and touch her, when he looked at the book. He then looked at Phoebe.
'I'm in the Book of Shadows? Why?' he asked, his tone sounded offended.
'Angel, anyone demon like that's an enemy, is in there. There really aren't that many vampires in there.'
'Oh. Look, Phoebe, once we get Dru's baby back, we can concentrate on us.'
Phoebe took a deep breath, then shook her head. Angel peered at her.
'What?' he asked.
'Once Dru gets Peyton back, it will be something else. Just the fact that you refer to Peyton as just Dru's alone, and not Spike's as well, tells me that you're never going to be able to stay out of it.'
'Phoebe, I can't just let Dru go down like this.'
'I know, Angel. That's just how you are. And I will never stop helping innocents. We're very much alike. Too much alike to be together.'
Angel stared at her, stunned that he was being dumped in an attic, poised over some cartoon likeness of himself in a spell book! He was about to respond, when Wesley's voice, calling for the both of them to come down, stopped him.
Phoebe closed the book and hurried after the attic. Angel watched her run and felt as if Phoebe wasn't running towards Wesley and the others downstairs, but away from him. Angel closed his eyes briefly, then opened them. He walked out of the attic.
Drusilla stared up at Spike, and the demon called 'Tempest', as Spike outlined a plan that called for the resetting of time, so they could stop Belthazor at the moment he arrived to take Peyton, and vanquish him at the same time.
Spike looked at Drusilla.
'Dru, this can be done if you use the power of four. I know you all tried to do this once before, with just Dru's voice on a tape recorder.'
'And I stopped them.' Drusilla said quietly, wishing like hell she could take that moment in time back.
Angel looked at Tempest.
'What do you get out of this?'
Tempest nodded to Angel, who he had heard of only by reputation, as Angelus.
'Belthazor has caused disorder in the underworld, again, with his promises of a new order. He got waylaid, not by one witch, but two. His destruction would mean we could begin anew.'
'Evil, 'beginning anew', ' Piper sneered, 'how quaint!'
Spike looked over at her.
'It's all we've got if we're going to get Peyton back.'
'And without that baby,' Wesley said, 'Belthazor will have lost his footing at Wolfram & Hart.'
Drusilla stood up.
'Let's do this. I want my baby back.'
Paige nodded.
'We need to get some of Belthazor's flesh.'
'How are we going to get that?' Dru asked. Spike reached out and squeezed her hand. Dru looked at him, grateful that he had come up with some way of getting their child back. Angel watched the two of them, then looked at Phoebe, who was staring at him. She turned away and looked at Tempest.
'So, you just want to take Cole down, hey? Somehow that doesn't seem like it would be enough for the likes of you.'
Tempest smiled knowingly.
'You're right, witch. Reversing time and vanquishing Belthazor, would help me tremendously in other ways.'
Drusilla stared at the demon as well.
'You want to be the new Source.' she said simply. Spike eyed Tempest, as if sizing him up as an enemy.
'Maybe.'
'No, there's no maybe about it.' Angel said, peering at him as well. 'You want to take power in the underworld. Spike, I don't know about this....'
'Look, it's the only bloody way I can see that we're going to get Peyton back! None of you all have been able to come up with anything different!'
Leo nodded slowly.
'Alright, so what are we talking here? Tempest reverses time to when?'
Spike eyed him.
'Back to when Belthazor first entered Peyton's room. Dru, Piper, Phoebe and Paige will be waiting, ready to vanquish him.'
Leo looked at Wesley, who nodded as well.
'It sounds like a plan, sort of. For now it's all we have.'
Piper shook her head.
'I don't know, I mean if we fail, then Cole will make it all the more harder for us to find Peyton. I think it's risky....'
'Let's do it.' Phoebe said firmly. 'Let's get Peyton back and Cole out of all of our lives for good.'
'Alright, but that still leaves us the little problem of the Belthazor Flesh. How do we get close enough to get it?' Angel asked.
'Leave that to me.' Paige purred.
Cole refrained from yawning, as Harmony, who he decided to keep on, showed a demonic couple out of his office. They wanted their child back from a rich, affluent, human family that had adopted their little boy. Cole planned to arrange a plane crash for the parents. Shortly after, baby 'Lucifer', would be back with his natural parents, where he belonged.
Cole swung around in his new chair, and wondered if Phoebe hated him even more, now that he gave Dru and Spike's baby to Wolfram & Hart? He wondered if there was any hope now at all, of getting her back?
Cole swung back around and almost jumped! Phoebe was standing right in front of him, in nothing but a bra and panties!
Cole stood up.
'Phoebe?'
Phoebe walked around to his desk, pulled on his tie and yanked him to her for a kiss! Cole's thoughts began to spin, as Phoebe's mouth plundered his own! What the hell?!
Cole was the one that broke it off, as he stared down at his ex-wife.
'What is this? Some attempt to seduce the truth out of me?'
But Phoebe pulled him to her again, and Cole decided that he didn't care why this was happening! He pulled her down into the chair with him, still kissing her. Phoebe began to undo his belt buckle, and Cole stood up a little, as his pants fell to the floor. He then sat down again and began to reach for Phoebe's bra, but her hands stopped his.
'Cole, let me pleasure you, please? I want to make it up to you. I should've known Angel wasn't man enough for me.'
Cole closed his eyes, as he felt her take his member in her hands. It was then, that something began to bother him. Maybe it was Phoebe's words, or her aura, but it began to dawn on him that this was not Phoebe!
It dawned on him too late.
Paige morphed back to herself, and took some of Belthazor's flesh from the last place in the world a man would want it taken!
'AAAAAAHHHHHHH!' Cole screamed, as he fought the pain to jump up and backhand Paige! But she recovered and held the bloody flesh up for him to see.
'You're through, you evil sonofabitch!' she hissed, then orbed off. Harmony came running in and saw that her new boss was bleeding from his privates. She licked her lips! She hated pig blood! But, somehow, she didn't think Cole would like it if she asked for a little taste!
Cole knew he was about to be vanquished. It was not going to happen! He shimmered off to the Haliwell house.
'He's coming!' Dru cried, seeing it in her mind. Piper grabbed her hand, and they, along with Phoebe and Paige, waited for Cole to arrive.
Spike, who was out in the hallway, with Wesley, Leo and Angel, poked Tempest in the chest.
'Now you do your part!'
Tempest rolled his eyes, then closed them. A strong wind began to kick up, and there were shouts and screams, as the house suddenly spun around on it's own,as if they were all on a big merry go round! Spike actually began to wonder if this had been a good plan after all!
Then, as suddenly as the wind had begun, it stopped. Tempest was gone and baby Peyton was back in her crib.
Drusilla smiled and began to move forward, but Paige held her back.
'We have to finish this.' she said firmly. 'I also altered the spell a little, to give it more kick!'
'You altered the spell? Great, Paige! We don't need anything altered right now!' Piper snapped.
But before Paige could respond back, Cole shimmered in. He looked as he did before, dressed in a designer suit, and not missing his private parts.
He seemed stunned to find the Charmed Ones waiting for him. Cole smiled.
'Well, well, well! What's this!' he grinned.
Drusilla threw the potion at him! At that same time, a vision came to her. One that had impending death.
Piper, Phoebe and Paige began to chant. Drusilla looked over at her baby, then began to chant as well, ignoring the visions. They had to be wrong. She looked back at Spike, Angel, Leo and Wesley, who were in the hall watching, perched.
'SPIRITS OF AIR, FORESTS OF SEA, 'SET US OF THIS DEMON FREE,
'BEASTS OF HOOF AND BEASTS OF SHELL,
'DRIVE THIS EVIL BACK TO HELL!'
Fire and lightening began to flash and take Cole out of this world! Drusilla leaped forward to grab Peyton, and Cole tried to reach for her as well, as if trying to take her out of this world with him!
Phoebe leaped towards him instead, and Piper and Paige screamed, as both Cole and Phoebe began to disappear, alternating between flesh and skeletal form.
'NO!!!!' Angel screamed and hurried into the room to grab Phoebe! But he too began to get caught up in the vanquish, and soon, all three of them disappeared.
'No!' Piper cried out, sinking down to her knees. Leo ran in and held her while she sobbed on the floor. This couldn't be happening! This could not be happening! She couldn't lose another sister, they just couldn't!
Meanwhile, Drusilla grabbed on to Peyton and held onto her baby for dear life! Spike rushed in as well and held onto both of them.
'We'll get Angel and Phoebe back!' Wesley comforted Paige. 'We'll get them back.'
Spike walked into the San Francisco demon bar. It had been tricky getting there, since it had been daylight when he left the Haliwell house.
But, when his eyes spotted who he was looking for, it made it all worth the while. He would be getting his sweet daughter back, not Angel!
Spike walked over and clapped, Clem, his old kitten poker buddy from Sunnydale, and a demon, on the back. Clem grinned!
'Spike! Gosh, I heard the rumors that you were back, but you know, with life the way it is, I just hadn't gotten a chance to stop by.'
Spike gave him a knowing look.
'Problems?'
'Yeah, well, I got married.'
Spike's eyes widened!
'Good God! You? You were the one that swore never to marry! You always said your parents had such a rotten marriage, and that you didn't want some bint telling you what to do.'
Clem nodded sheepishly.
'I know, I know. But I was just hit by surprise. I met her in a Vampire Strip club.'
'Oh, so your wife is a vampire?'
'Was....we got into a fight and I kind of had to stake her. Anyway, her family...'
'She had family?'
'Oh yeah! See that was part of our damned problem! We're married and while I didn't mind the stripping, she had relatives that she was giving a cut of her money. It was a sore spot with me.'
Spike held up a hand, knowing he was getting off topic, but curious as hell anyway.
'Wait a minute! Was the family....'
Clem nodded with understanding and finished the sentence.
'No, they weren't vampires, which really was the problem. For some reason, she kept up a relationship with them. Once the humans saw how much money my wife made stripping, I'll be damned if they didn't quit their jobs! Anyway, to get back to the reason I didn't look you up, Spike, my wife's family has retained the services of Wolfram & Hart in L.A.. They're suing me for 'pain and suffering'. So, I moved out here and have been keeping a low profile.'
'Oh Clem! Listen, maybe I can help still. Find out which lawyer is working on the case and maybe I can beat them up or something?'
Clem looked him up and down.
'Have you been to work, Spike? I don't mean that to be sarcastic, but the news about that place travels fast.'
'News?'
'Belthazor is running that place now! I heard Angel barely managed to get the hell out of there without burning to a crisp! I just assumed you knew.'
Spike sighed heavily, then shook his head. Damn! That ponce Bethazor was getting the upper hand at every turn! Spike laid a hand on Clem's arm.
'Clem, I need your help.'
Clem reached for his drink.
'Sure, anything.'
'I need to find Tempest.'
Clem pushed his drink aside.
'That demon that reverses time? Why?'
Spike looked around. No one else seemed to take any notice of them.
'You know that Dru and I had a baby, right?'
Clem's mouth dropped open!
'No! I didn't even know you were with her again! I heard she was seeing Belthazor.'
'No she most certainly is not! Look, we...'
'She's human again, right?'
Spike nodded.
'Yeah.'
'Is she still crazy?'
'No, Clem! She's normal! Look, Bethazor swooped in and stole our daughter. I want my baby back and I figure this Tempest could help.'
Clem slowly stood up, realization dawning on his features.
'You're the father of THAT baby.'
Spike stood up as well.
'Why did you say it like that?'
Clem looked around shiftily.
'Spike, have you actually been asleep in a coffin or something? I've never seen you this out of touch with what's happening in the demon world.'
'Dru....Peyton....'
'Peyton?'
Spike smiled.
'Yes, that's my daughter's name.'
'Uh, I don't like the name.'
Spike shrugged.
'Truthfully, neither do I. But Dru is a Haliwell. A Charmed One. Which makes my little girl a Charmed One as well. The babies always have 'P' names. I don't want to take anything away from my daughter's heritage.'
'That boy baby, the one witch had, doesn't have a name that starts with 'P'. I don't know what his name is but.... 'Clem, can you just tell me where to find Tempest?'
Clem pointed a scaly finger over towards the bar. Spike gasped!
'You mean the ponce was in here the whole time?! What the bloody hell is a time shifting demon doing in a place like this?'
'That's what I've been trying to tell you, Spike! Things have really gone to hell in a handbasket, literally! Raagon was really bringing some order to the underworld, ever since Bethazor screwed things up during his reign. But now, Belthazor has murdered Raagon and his daughter...'
'Belthazor killed Fiathna? The worthless seer girl?'
'Yeah. That was kind of sad, because she did try, but just couldn't get those premonitions right. I think she knew that her time was coming, once Belthazor killed her father. Anyway, there are a lot of demons that are working on their own. There are also many that would love to see Belthazor fail at Wolfram & Hart.'
Spike smiled.
'Then it sounds like Tempest and I have something to talk about.'
It was evening, when Phoebe almost ripped a page in the Book of Shadows! She had been flipping the pages so fast, that she tore a page on....
Phoebe shook her head. It was page on Angelus. Funny. Funny that that would be the page that would have a slight tear in it. She took a deep breath and stared at Angel's evil alter ego.
After Leo had healed Angel's burns, Angel had spent the rest of that time comforting a sobbing Drusilla. Needless to say, Phoebe was annoyed to see that Spike was nowhere around again! He was the one that should be comforting Dru over the loss of their child, since he was Peyton's father.
Phoebe shook her head and continued to flip through the book, just as Angel walked into the attic. He looked around and smiled.
'Cozy place.'
Phoebe smiled up at him.
'I never really thought of it like that. I suppose you're right. What are you doing up here? Angel crossed his arms.
'Paige and Piper bitched me out downstairs.'
Phoebe tilted her head in surprise.
'Bitched you out? Over what?'
'Over getting in Dru and Spike's affairs again, and leaving you by the wayside.'
Phoebe wanted to tell him it wasn't true. She wanted to tell him that she understood his need to be there for Drusilla.
But the words would not come. Angel nodded with understanding. He walked over to her and was about to reach out and touch her, when he looked at the book. He then looked at Phoebe.
'I'm in the Book of Shadows? Why?' he asked, his tone sounded offended.
'Angel, anyone demon like that's an enemy, is in there. There really aren't that many vampires in there.'
'Oh. Look, Phoebe, once we get Dru's baby back, we can concentrate on us.'
Phoebe took a deep breath, then shook her head. Angel peered at her.
'What?' he asked.
'Once Dru gets Peyton back, it will be something else. Just the fact that you refer to Peyton as just Dru's alone, and not Spike's as well, tells me that you're never going to be able to stay out of it.'
'Phoebe, I can't just let Dru go down like this.'
'I know, Angel. That's just how you are. And I will never stop helping innocents. We're very much alike. Too much alike to be together.'
Angel stared at her, stunned that he was being dumped in an attic, poised over some cartoon likeness of himself in a spell book! He was about to respond, when Wesley's voice, calling for the both of them to come down, stopped him.
Phoebe closed the book and hurried after the attic. Angel watched her run and felt as if Phoebe wasn't running towards Wesley and the others downstairs, but away from him. Angel closed his eyes briefly, then opened them. He walked out of the attic.
Drusilla stared up at Spike, and the demon called 'Tempest', as Spike outlined a plan that called for the resetting of time, so they could stop Belthazor at the moment he arrived to take Peyton, and vanquish him at the same time.
Spike looked at Drusilla.
'Dru, this can be done if you use the power of four. I know you all tried to do this once before, with just Dru's voice on a tape recorder.'
'And I stopped them.' Drusilla said quietly, wishing like hell she could take that moment in time back.
Angel looked at Tempest.
'What do you get out of this?'
Tempest nodded to Angel, who he had heard of only by reputation, as Angelus.
'Belthazor has caused disorder in the underworld, again, with his promises of a new order. He got waylaid, not by one witch, but two. His destruction would mean we could begin anew.'
'Evil, 'beginning anew', ' Piper sneered, 'how quaint!'
Spike looked over at her.
'It's all we've got if we're going to get Peyton back.'
'And without that baby,' Wesley said, 'Belthazor will have lost his footing at Wolfram & Hart.'
Drusilla stood up.
'Let's do this. I want my baby back.'
Paige nodded.
'We need to get some of Belthazor's flesh.'
'How are we going to get that?' Dru asked. Spike reached out and squeezed her hand. Dru looked at him, grateful that he had come up with some way of getting their child back. Angel watched the two of them, then looked at Phoebe, who was staring at him. She turned away and looked at Tempest.
'So, you just want to take Cole down, hey? Somehow that doesn't seem like it would be enough for the likes of you.'
Tempest smiled knowingly.
'You're right, witch. Reversing time and vanquishing Belthazor, would help me tremendously in other ways.'
Drusilla stared at the demon as well.
'You want to be the new Source.' she said simply. Spike eyed Tempest, as if sizing him up as an enemy.
'Maybe.'
'No, there's no maybe about it.' Angel said, peering at him as well. 'You want to take power in the underworld. Spike, I don't know about this....'
'Look, it's the only bloody way I can see that we're going to get Peyton back! None of you all have been able to come up with anything different!'
Leo nodded slowly.
'Alright, so what are we talking here? Tempest reverses time to when?'
Spike eyed him.
'Back to when Belthazor first entered Peyton's room. Dru, Piper, Phoebe and Paige will be waiting, ready to vanquish him.'
Leo looked at Wesley, who nodded as well.
'It sounds like a plan, sort of. For now it's all we have.'
Piper shook her head.
'I don't know, I mean if we fail, then Cole will make it all the more harder for us to find Peyton. I think it's risky....'
'Let's do it.' Phoebe said firmly. 'Let's get Peyton back and Cole out of all of our lives for good.'
'Alright, but that still leaves us the little problem of the Belthazor Flesh. How do we get close enough to get it?' Angel asked.
'Leave that to me.' Paige purred.
Cole refrained from yawning, as Harmony, who he decided to keep on, showed a demonic couple out of his office. They wanted their child back from a rich, affluent, human family that had adopted their little boy. Cole planned to arrange a plane crash for the parents. Shortly after, baby 'Lucifer', would be back with his natural parents, where he belonged.
Cole swung around in his new chair, and wondered if Phoebe hated him even more, now that he gave Dru and Spike's baby to Wolfram & Hart? He wondered if there was any hope now at all, of getting her back?
Cole swung back around and almost jumped! Phoebe was standing right in front of him, in nothing but a bra and panties!
Cole stood up.
'Phoebe?'
Phoebe walked around to his desk, pulled on his tie and yanked him to her for a kiss! Cole's thoughts began to spin, as Phoebe's mouth plundered his own! What the hell?!
Cole was the one that broke it off, as he stared down at his ex-wife.
'What is this? Some attempt to seduce the truth out of me?'
But Phoebe pulled him to her again, and Cole decided that he didn't care why this was happening! He pulled her down into the chair with him, still kissing her. Phoebe began to undo his belt buckle, and Cole stood up a little, as his pants fell to the floor. He then sat down again and began to reach for Phoebe's bra, but her hands stopped his.
'Cole, let me pleasure you, please? I want to make it up to you. I should've known Angel wasn't man enough for me.'
Cole closed his eyes, as he felt her take his member in her hands. It was then, that something began to bother him. Maybe it was Phoebe's words, or her aura, but it began to dawn on him that this was not Phoebe!
It dawned on him too late.
Paige morphed back to herself, and took some of Belthazor's flesh from the last place in the world a man would want it taken!
'AAAAAAHHHHHHH!' Cole screamed, as he fought the pain to jump up and backhand Paige! But she recovered and held the bloody flesh up for him to see.
'You're through, you evil sonofabitch!' she hissed, then orbed off. Harmony came running in and saw that her new boss was bleeding from his privates. She licked her lips! She hated pig blood! But, somehow, she didn't think Cole would like it if she asked for a little taste!
Cole knew he was about to be vanquished. It was not going to happen! He shimmered off to the Haliwell house.
'He's coming!' Dru cried, seeing it in her mind. Piper grabbed her hand, and they, along with Phoebe and Paige, waited for Cole to arrive.
Spike, who was out in the hallway, with Wesley, Leo and Angel, poked Tempest in the chest.
'Now you do your part!'
Tempest rolled his eyes, then closed them. A strong wind began to kick up, and there were shouts and screams, as the house suddenly spun around on it's own,as if they were all on a big merry go round! Spike actually began to wonder if this had been a good plan after all!
Then, as suddenly as the wind had begun, it stopped. Tempest was gone and baby Peyton was back in her crib.
Drusilla smiled and began to move forward, but Paige held her back.
'We have to finish this.' she said firmly. 'I also altered the spell a little, to give it more kick!'
'You altered the spell? Great, Paige! We don't need anything altered right now!' Piper snapped.
But before Paige could respond back, Cole shimmered in. He looked as he did before, dressed in a designer suit, and not missing his private parts.
He seemed stunned to find the Charmed Ones waiting for him. Cole smiled.
'Well, well, well! What's this!' he grinned.
Drusilla threw the potion at him! At that same time, a vision came to her. One that had impending death.
Piper, Phoebe and Paige began to chant. Drusilla looked over at her baby, then began to chant as well, ignoring the visions. They had to be wrong. She looked back at Spike, Angel, Leo and Wesley, who were in the hall watching, perched.
'SPIRITS OF AIR, FORESTS OF SEA, 'SET US OF THIS DEMON FREE,
'BEASTS OF HOOF AND BEASTS OF SHELL,
'DRIVE THIS EVIL BACK TO HELL!'
Fire and lightening began to flash and take Cole out of this world! Drusilla leaped forward to grab Peyton, and Cole tried to reach for her as well, as if trying to take her out of this world with him!
Phoebe leaped towards him instead, and Piper and Paige screamed, as both Cole and Phoebe began to disappear, alternating between flesh and skeletal form.
'NO!!!!' Angel screamed and hurried into the room to grab Phoebe! But he too began to get caught up in the vanquish, and soon, all three of them disappeared.
'No!' Piper cried out, sinking down to her knees. Leo ran in and held her while she sobbed on the floor. This couldn't be happening! This could not be happening! She couldn't lose another sister, they just couldn't!
Meanwhile, Drusilla grabbed on to Peyton and held onto her baby for dear life! Spike rushed in as well and held onto both of them.
'We'll get Angel and Phoebe back!' Wesley comforted Paige. 'We'll get them back.'