Chapter 25 - "I also came to give her..well all of you a message."
Phoebe couldn't think of anything about Alec that could help her write the vanquishing spell.
"I'm not getting anywhere, dammit." Phoebe said to herself. Prue and paige could hear her
muttering from the shed. They hadn't had any luck with the B.O.S either. They joined Phoebe
out on the deckchairs.
"I'm starting to think..."
"Wow Paige, you can think?" Phoebe joked at Paige, Paige wasn't laughing. "Sorry, i'm just pissed
off, i should have something by now. Oh, go ahead."
"As i was saying, i'm starting to think that all we need is the 'power of three spell'. We aren't
getting hints from any past Halliwells and we have bugger all info. I say we just summon, throw
potion at his head and send him to bed."
"Nah, i think i'd rather send him to hell." Prue joked, this time Paige laughed. Phoebe agreed.
The three sisters headed inside and into the kitchen. They came to find muck everywhere, even on
the cooks.
"What happened in here?" Phoebe asked and stood back so she wouldn't get stuff on her.
"It was watermelon." Piper told.
"Watermelon again?! Honey we told you before, if you don't like the fruit don't vanquish it just
leave it alone - it's defenceless." said Prue with a 'slightly psycho' grin.
"I didn't vanquish watermelon again! James did." Piper told after laughing at her sister's
crazy face.
"James has powers? You have powers?" Paige asked and stepped forward in anticipation of what she
might hear next..but she stepped in something gooey. *Oghrr not again!*
"No i don't have powers. I grabbed some watermelon out of the fridge and cut it up. Then i went
to hand Bane a slice when it slipped out of our hands and into the potion." he told.
"The watermelon didn't mix with the potion too well and it exploded on everything." James said
and teased Paige with his eyes about her shoes.
"Including us." Piper added, wiping watermelon pieces off her chest.
There was a short silence. "This might sound weird but i think that - in a weird sort of way -
that the potion exploding before it reached the desired target Alec was a sign that we don't
need a potion to kill him. Alls we need is the power of three..well technically four."
"I think Prue's right. I couldn't get anything when i tried to write an extra spell." Phoebe
added.
"Then what's that on your note pad?" Paige ignored James' cute face and looked at the piece of
paper.
"Uh, that just said 'We gotta vanquish this evil guy, cause he put a hole in Piper's thigh' "
Everyone grunted at Phoebe's lack-there-of-spell.
"Yeah that's a real mature spell that surely would get the job done, i can feel it!" Piper
sarcastically remarked and shot the evils at Pheebs.
"I told you i couldn't write the spell." Phoebe felt so stupid but laughed anyway.
"You really think the Po3 spell is all we need?" Piper had a bad feeling about it.
"Yes." Prue answered back, Phoebe and Paige nodded their heads too.
"I REALLY want to kill that guy, but i dunno, something is now telling me that we'll need more
than chanting the same eight words over and over." Piper felt torn for some reason.
"I..we feel so confident about this. This feels right, for us anyway."
"Are you going to do it then?" Bane furrowed his brow.
"We should. Although we all gotta be giving 100% if we want to really get the job done. If Piper
doesn't feel right about doing this now maybe..." Phoebe was interrupted by a knock at the door.
"I hope that's not him..unless he's learned some manners while he was away and now knows how to
knock." Paige said. James looked at her. "You're right, that wouldn't matter."
Prue, Piper and Phoebe went to turn the door handle.
"It's me Cole!" Cole yelled from outside, the three girls nearly jumped out of their skins.
Phoebe opened the door. "Hey Cole, i wasn't expecting you back so soon...um, this is not really
a good time, can we catch up later?"
"Not a good time? Ohh. Well i can wait out here until you're done." He suggested.
Pure and Piper whispered under their breaths to Phoebe. "Uh, Cole i think this might take a while.
If you could see me later. I'll call you." Phoebe went to shut the door.
Cole put his hand in the way to stop it. "Phoebe wait! I came here to see you..."
"Yeah okay, well you've seen her. Now you go..go on, go." Piper patronised him.
"I also came to give her..well all of you a message."
"Huh? Make it fast." Prue ordered.
"It's from the guy that called me the other day Phoebe. He asked me to come down and see him, but
when he told me i had to leave."
"And what he told you was..." Paige had stuck her head in the doorway to see what the hold up was.
"Hi Paige. Um, he told me that you lot were..witches, evil witches. I didn't believe him and went
to come back home. He said he needed something from you, i think he wanted a book or something
then he went on about powers..he really creeped me out."
Prue stared Cole in the eyes. "What was his name Cole?"
"Alec."
Prue slammed the door in Cole's face.
"Uh Prue, what are you doing? If Cole pissed Alec off by not believing him, he probably needs
protection, we gotta get him inside!" Phoebe protested.
"What was Cole doing talking to Alec in the first place Phoebe?" Paige asked.
"I'm not sure..actually he told me that he had to go meet a friend..." Phoebe trailed off. "But
that doesn't make him evil. Alec probably used Cole to get to me maybe."
*Why does my sister have to be a demon magnet?!* thought Piper.
"Pheebs..maybe Cole is a Warlock too working with Alec." Prue reluctantly suggested.
"No, i'm sure he isn't. You can even do the blood test on him if you want to, just let him inside."
Phoebe pleaded. Prue hesitated for a second.
"I don't think Cole is evil either Prue. I've met with him a few times and never got a bad
feeling from him. We should let him in." Paige pleaded too.
"Piper?"
"Yeah, let him in." Piper told Prue. Piper figured if Cole knew their secret, it would be easier
to tell Leo after she vanquished Alec. *Now i want to vanquish him?? What the hell is up with my
instincts?!* Piper was getting more and more confused about what she felt.
Phoebe approached the door. "Cole, you can come..." she opened the door, "in. Where'd he go?"
Phoebe looked around but Cole was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly she felt someone grab her arm,
she swung around and smacked him in the stomach with a punch.
"Ph...ohhh. It's me..wow, you have one hell of a swing." Cole was holding his stomach.
"Oh Cole! I'm so sorry, i was just not expecting that. Come in." Phoebe went to help him in but
he brushed away her hand. He was doing the 'macho' thing by not needing her help. Cole sat down
on the couch, facing the girls.
"Okay..are you okay?" Prue was going to ask him something but noticed his face.
"Yeah, i was just caught off-guard is all." he looked at Phoebe and then back to Prue.
"Okay so, what else do you know about Alec, Cole?"
"Not too much. I was introduced to him by one of my clients."
"What were you helping your client with, a ticket for shapeshifting in the non-shapeshifting
zone?" Piper tried to ignore her thoughts by firing away with her perfectly timed sarcasm.
"Shapesh..wha?" Cole was confused.
"Never mind." Phoebe said and smiled.
"Yeahhh, my good friend Andy asked me if i could help his new friend Alec. I didn't really think
much of it at the time, but Andy had been acting a little strange lately. Alec never creeped me
out before until he called me to him the other day. He seemed normal enough before..it's like i
trusted him as soon as i heard his name." Cole only realised this now, after he had been away
from Alec's presence.
"Well you are mortal and Alec has a hold over mortals, so it makes sense that you and your pal
would trust him." Bane said.
"How come he doesn't affect you?" Cole asked. *Is Bane magical too, how did i miss that earlier?*
"..My parents worked bad magic, they also worked with Warlocks a lot. Because i was the child of
my parents, i automatically became respected and trusted by those they worked with."
"Not any more." Prue added. She knew Bane was untusted by the Warlocks, so he really had to be
careful these days, she had to protect him.
"Not to sound rude, but that didn't really answer my question."
"I didn't did i? My parents, when they were getting really good with Charms, cast one on me so
that i wouldn't be on the Warlocks radar as a mortal or enemy. That way if a deal of theirs went
bad, i wouldn't get hurt. I'm still surprised that it's still protecting me after all these years."
"Yeah me too, that must've been one hell of a charm. Maybe one day i can work out how they did it
and make some similar ones for ourselves." Piper said.
The longer the conversation went on, Piper wished and wished that she could be rid of all things
evil and hoped that she could be with her Leo, who she hadn't seen or heard of in two days. Prue
was itching for a vanquish, she was so confident. Paige thought she could take on a damn Warlock,
Demons were always worse so Alec should be a piece of cake. Yeah he had holds on humans, but the
Halliwells weren't exaclty human are they. Phoebe wanted to kill him, kill him because she felt
that Alec had cursed his brother and her friend Kaleb with evil. She was now really starting to
regret having not helped him weeks and weeks ago when he pleaded for her help. She also wanted
him dead so he wouldn't be a threat to Bane, Leo, James and especially Cole.
Phoebe couldn't think of anything about Alec that could help her write the vanquishing spell.
"I'm not getting anywhere, dammit." Phoebe said to herself. Prue and paige could hear her
muttering from the shed. They hadn't had any luck with the B.O.S either. They joined Phoebe
out on the deckchairs.
"I'm starting to think..."
"Wow Paige, you can think?" Phoebe joked at Paige, Paige wasn't laughing. "Sorry, i'm just pissed
off, i should have something by now. Oh, go ahead."
"As i was saying, i'm starting to think that all we need is the 'power of three spell'. We aren't
getting hints from any past Halliwells and we have bugger all info. I say we just summon, throw
potion at his head and send him to bed."
"Nah, i think i'd rather send him to hell." Prue joked, this time Paige laughed. Phoebe agreed.
The three sisters headed inside and into the kitchen. They came to find muck everywhere, even on
the cooks.
"What happened in here?" Phoebe asked and stood back so she wouldn't get stuff on her.
"It was watermelon." Piper told.
"Watermelon again?! Honey we told you before, if you don't like the fruit don't vanquish it just
leave it alone - it's defenceless." said Prue with a 'slightly psycho' grin.
"I didn't vanquish watermelon again! James did." Piper told after laughing at her sister's
crazy face.
"James has powers? You have powers?" Paige asked and stepped forward in anticipation of what she
might hear next..but she stepped in something gooey. *Oghrr not again!*
"No i don't have powers. I grabbed some watermelon out of the fridge and cut it up. Then i went
to hand Bane a slice when it slipped out of our hands and into the potion." he told.
"The watermelon didn't mix with the potion too well and it exploded on everything." James said
and teased Paige with his eyes about her shoes.
"Including us." Piper added, wiping watermelon pieces off her chest.
There was a short silence. "This might sound weird but i think that - in a weird sort of way -
that the potion exploding before it reached the desired target Alec was a sign that we don't
need a potion to kill him. Alls we need is the power of three..well technically four."
"I think Prue's right. I couldn't get anything when i tried to write an extra spell." Phoebe
added.
"Then what's that on your note pad?" Paige ignored James' cute face and looked at the piece of
paper.
"Uh, that just said 'We gotta vanquish this evil guy, cause he put a hole in Piper's thigh' "
Everyone grunted at Phoebe's lack-there-of-spell.
"Yeah that's a real mature spell that surely would get the job done, i can feel it!" Piper
sarcastically remarked and shot the evils at Pheebs.
"I told you i couldn't write the spell." Phoebe felt so stupid but laughed anyway.
"You really think the Po3 spell is all we need?" Piper had a bad feeling about it.
"Yes." Prue answered back, Phoebe and Paige nodded their heads too.
"I REALLY want to kill that guy, but i dunno, something is now telling me that we'll need more
than chanting the same eight words over and over." Piper felt torn for some reason.
"I..we feel so confident about this. This feels right, for us anyway."
"Are you going to do it then?" Bane furrowed his brow.
"We should. Although we all gotta be giving 100% if we want to really get the job done. If Piper
doesn't feel right about doing this now maybe..." Phoebe was interrupted by a knock at the door.
"I hope that's not him..unless he's learned some manners while he was away and now knows how to
knock." Paige said. James looked at her. "You're right, that wouldn't matter."
Prue, Piper and Phoebe went to turn the door handle.
"It's me Cole!" Cole yelled from outside, the three girls nearly jumped out of their skins.
Phoebe opened the door. "Hey Cole, i wasn't expecting you back so soon...um, this is not really
a good time, can we catch up later?"
"Not a good time? Ohh. Well i can wait out here until you're done." He suggested.
Pure and Piper whispered under their breaths to Phoebe. "Uh, Cole i think this might take a while.
If you could see me later. I'll call you." Phoebe went to shut the door.
Cole put his hand in the way to stop it. "Phoebe wait! I came here to see you..."
"Yeah okay, well you've seen her. Now you go..go on, go." Piper patronised him.
"I also came to give her..well all of you a message."
"Huh? Make it fast." Prue ordered.
"It's from the guy that called me the other day Phoebe. He asked me to come down and see him, but
when he told me i had to leave."
"And what he told you was..." Paige had stuck her head in the doorway to see what the hold up was.
"Hi Paige. Um, he told me that you lot were..witches, evil witches. I didn't believe him and went
to come back home. He said he needed something from you, i think he wanted a book or something
then he went on about powers..he really creeped me out."
Prue stared Cole in the eyes. "What was his name Cole?"
"Alec."
Prue slammed the door in Cole's face.
"Uh Prue, what are you doing? If Cole pissed Alec off by not believing him, he probably needs
protection, we gotta get him inside!" Phoebe protested.
"What was Cole doing talking to Alec in the first place Phoebe?" Paige asked.
"I'm not sure..actually he told me that he had to go meet a friend..." Phoebe trailed off. "But
that doesn't make him evil. Alec probably used Cole to get to me maybe."
*Why does my sister have to be a demon magnet?!* thought Piper.
"Pheebs..maybe Cole is a Warlock too working with Alec." Prue reluctantly suggested.
"No, i'm sure he isn't. You can even do the blood test on him if you want to, just let him inside."
Phoebe pleaded. Prue hesitated for a second.
"I don't think Cole is evil either Prue. I've met with him a few times and never got a bad
feeling from him. We should let him in." Paige pleaded too.
"Piper?"
"Yeah, let him in." Piper told Prue. Piper figured if Cole knew their secret, it would be easier
to tell Leo after she vanquished Alec. *Now i want to vanquish him?? What the hell is up with my
instincts?!* Piper was getting more and more confused about what she felt.
Phoebe approached the door. "Cole, you can come..." she opened the door, "in. Where'd he go?"
Phoebe looked around but Cole was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly she felt someone grab her arm,
she swung around and smacked him in the stomach with a punch.
"Ph...ohhh. It's me..wow, you have one hell of a swing." Cole was holding his stomach.
"Oh Cole! I'm so sorry, i was just not expecting that. Come in." Phoebe went to help him in but
he brushed away her hand. He was doing the 'macho' thing by not needing her help. Cole sat down
on the couch, facing the girls.
"Okay..are you okay?" Prue was going to ask him something but noticed his face.
"Yeah, i was just caught off-guard is all." he looked at Phoebe and then back to Prue.
"Okay so, what else do you know about Alec, Cole?"
"Not too much. I was introduced to him by one of my clients."
"What were you helping your client with, a ticket for shapeshifting in the non-shapeshifting
zone?" Piper tried to ignore her thoughts by firing away with her perfectly timed sarcasm.
"Shapesh..wha?" Cole was confused.
"Never mind." Phoebe said and smiled.
"Yeahhh, my good friend Andy asked me if i could help his new friend Alec. I didn't really think
much of it at the time, but Andy had been acting a little strange lately. Alec never creeped me
out before until he called me to him the other day. He seemed normal enough before..it's like i
trusted him as soon as i heard his name." Cole only realised this now, after he had been away
from Alec's presence.
"Well you are mortal and Alec has a hold over mortals, so it makes sense that you and your pal
would trust him." Bane said.
"How come he doesn't affect you?" Cole asked. *Is Bane magical too, how did i miss that earlier?*
"..My parents worked bad magic, they also worked with Warlocks a lot. Because i was the child of
my parents, i automatically became respected and trusted by those they worked with."
"Not any more." Prue added. She knew Bane was untusted by the Warlocks, so he really had to be
careful these days, she had to protect him.
"Not to sound rude, but that didn't really answer my question."
"I didn't did i? My parents, when they were getting really good with Charms, cast one on me so
that i wouldn't be on the Warlocks radar as a mortal or enemy. That way if a deal of theirs went
bad, i wouldn't get hurt. I'm still surprised that it's still protecting me after all these years."
"Yeah me too, that must've been one hell of a charm. Maybe one day i can work out how they did it
and make some similar ones for ourselves." Piper said.
The longer the conversation went on, Piper wished and wished that she could be rid of all things
evil and hoped that she could be with her Leo, who she hadn't seen or heard of in two days. Prue
was itching for a vanquish, she was so confident. Paige thought she could take on a damn Warlock,
Demons were always worse so Alec should be a piece of cake. Yeah he had holds on humans, but the
Halliwells weren't exaclty human are they. Phoebe wanted to kill him, kill him because she felt
that Alec had cursed his brother and her friend Kaleb with evil. She was now really starting to
regret having not helped him weeks and weeks ago when he pleaded for her help. She also wanted
him dead so he wouldn't be a threat to Bane, Leo, James and especially Cole.