In the darkness
Disclaimer: Of course I don't own anything.
Summary: Season 4 (as I haven't seen season 5 yet!) the Source just started to obsess Cole, and there might be somebody who can help him and the girls to avoid the sad future. My "what if", because I think (just like a lot of you) that they wasn't fair with Cole.
AN: This is my first fic I post, and my first story in English so please be kind with me and overlook my mistakes. Anyway, please review!
I.
A young woman is sitting in a run-down apartment. She is sitting on the dusty floor, legs crossed and eyes closed. She is about twentyfive, has dark hair and is definitely pretty. After a long moment she opens her eyes - these are dark-blue, but look blindly at the world. She is tracking on the floor, and grabs her stick as she finds it. Stands up, and puts on her sunglasses.
"The timing has to be perfect" she mumbles to herself and walks out of the flat.
***
Phoebe, Piper and Paige are in their kitchen, preparing for breakfast. Or rather, Piper is preparing the other two are sitting at the table.
"What's up Phoebe? You had a busy night as I see?" mocks the eldest sister.
Phoebe is quite sleepy at the moment.
"No, not in the way you think!"
"Oh!" sighs Paige. "The honeymoon is over!" she jokes, but Piper sees, something is really wrong.
"What happened?"
"I think, Cole has nightmares, or something. Ha was tossing and turning the whole night. And it wasn't the first time!"
"Did you ask him about it?"
"Yeah, but he told, he didn't remember anything!"
"Where is he now, by the way?"asks Paige.
"Out for a walk. He got up quite early I suspect."
"You should talk to him! I think it must have been a great shock for him to lose his demonic side. Maybe that's what bothers him!" suggested Piper. "I don't know. He was quite O.K. with it! But maybe you're right. But now, I have a job, so...
And with that she vanished upstairs to get ready.
***
In the editorial office she coldn't really concantrate on the letters. She was tired and grumpy after awekening every half an hour during the night. Cole really scared her. First she woke him up, but he said he didn't remember having a nightmare. But he was pale and ragged, and looked somehow...frightened. It might be a demon as well or some dark magic - they'd had similar experiences before. She decided to talk to him as soon as she gets home. This helped a little bit, so she grabbed the next letter - and then had a vision.
A young woman, about her age, is walking on a street. There's nobody else there, but the next moment a demon shimmers in, next to her. He has an athame in his hand. The woman doesn't recognize him - and Phoebe sees it's because she's blind. She has on dark sunglasses and has a slender white stick. The demon grabs her hand and that's when the woman recognizes, she is in danger, but it's to late. He cuts her throat and Phoebe almost feels the blood in her mouth...
She looks around - she's back in her office, but is still under the effects of the vision. She never had such a vivid one. They mostly are like she was watching them on TV, but this...it was as if she was the woman...as if she was killed...
Her next thougt was: I know where it happened. And indeed she did - the street was near the office, she walked through it every morning. When will this happen? She had the feeling that quite soon, so she let the letters and stormed out of the office.
***
The street was abandoned. She stopped in a gateway where she couldn't be seen but she could keep an eye on everything. Moments passed by and she started to think that she had been wrong. Maybe it hadn't been this street, these alleys are not that different! Or maybe it will happen in the farther future... In that exact moment the woman from her vision appeared at the end of the alley. She walked surprisingly fast for a blind, or so Pheobe felt. Every now and then she knocked with her stick on the wand or on the pavement. Phoebe tensed and waited for the attack, the woman almost passed her and still nothing happened. What's going on? Was she wrong or... The woman stopped and looked at her... or of course she didn't look, but turned her head in Phoebe's direction.
"Hi, Phoebe Halliwell if I'm correct?" she told in a soft voice.
Phoebe gaped.
"How do you know...?" "How do I know you are here? Or how do I know who you are?" she asked.
"Both, I think" she felt almost shocked.
"To answer your first question: I locked you here. And the second: I suppose there isn't a demon who doesn't know the Charmed Ones."
"You are..."
"Yes, in a way, but you don't have to worry, I'm not your enemy. I just wanted to talk to you."
Phoebe didn't know how to react. The woman didn't seemed dangerous, more over she seemed rather fragile and vulnarable. In the end she decided she would listen.
"And what would be the topic."
"Cole."
She felt her jaw drop.
"What...?
"Let's take a walk with me."
They started walking down the street and the woman...or demon started to speak.
"I don't really know how to tell it subtly, so this is it: Cole is in big trouble and so are you and your sister. I know that a few weeks ago you vanquished the Source, or so you think. Correct?"
"Yes. But what do you mean with: so we think?"
She sighed.
"The thing is: the Source isn't dead. He, or rather his essence stayed alive. It looked for a new keeper..."
"But who...Oh, my god!" everything started to make sense now. His strange behaviour lately, his nightmares, those scared and strange looks. "This can't be true!"
"Unfortunately, it is. I wish it wasn't" she spoke in such a sad tone, that it made Phoebe's head jerk up.
"Who are you, really? Why would a demon want to rescue Cole?" she asked.
"I'm his sister."
"What? He never talked about a sister!" Phoebe stated a little bit suspciously.
"Maybe he didn't know how you would react. My name is Rose, by the way."
Maybe it was a stupid idea but Phoebe trusted this woman. It might be because of the definite resemblance with Cole, that she only now realized.
"What can we do?" her worry came back again. The Source took Cole over! Her love! The man she wanted to marry! It can't happen, not now when everything seemed so perfect!
"The Source hasn't took him over perfectly, not yet. Cole is still in ther, but... I don't know how long he can hold on. The Source is very strong and powerful, and as Cole is only human now..."
"How do you know so much?"
"It's part of my power. I'm a kind of...telepath, if you want. That's how I locked you here: I influenced your mind. And I have a special connection with Cole. I feel him...almost all the time."
"What shold we do?"she asked again.
"I don't really know. But you have to find a way to help him. If you don't...He will be destroyed totally and your relationship with it..."
"We should talk to my sisters!"
"But he can't know about it...or me. I suppose that most of the time the Source is in power. If he recognizes that you know, he will act. At the moment he isn't ready yet, but if he suspects something he will take the risk and attack you in one way or another. And he knows me..."
Suddenly Rose swayed and would have collapsed if Phoebe hadn't grabbed her. She became pale as ashes.
"Are you all right?" asked Pheobe as she tried to support the woman.
"It's Cole" her voice was only a whisper."He is...suffering."
Disclaimer: Of course I don't own anything.
Summary: Season 4 (as I haven't seen season 5 yet!) the Source just started to obsess Cole, and there might be somebody who can help him and the girls to avoid the sad future. My "what if", because I think (just like a lot of you) that they wasn't fair with Cole.
AN: This is my first fic I post, and my first story in English so please be kind with me and overlook my mistakes. Anyway, please review!
I.
A young woman is sitting in a run-down apartment. She is sitting on the dusty floor, legs crossed and eyes closed. She is about twentyfive, has dark hair and is definitely pretty. After a long moment she opens her eyes - these are dark-blue, but look blindly at the world. She is tracking on the floor, and grabs her stick as she finds it. Stands up, and puts on her sunglasses.
"The timing has to be perfect" she mumbles to herself and walks out of the flat.
***
Phoebe, Piper and Paige are in their kitchen, preparing for breakfast. Or rather, Piper is preparing the other two are sitting at the table.
"What's up Phoebe? You had a busy night as I see?" mocks the eldest sister.
Phoebe is quite sleepy at the moment.
"No, not in the way you think!"
"Oh!" sighs Paige. "The honeymoon is over!" she jokes, but Piper sees, something is really wrong.
"What happened?"
"I think, Cole has nightmares, or something. Ha was tossing and turning the whole night. And it wasn't the first time!"
"Did you ask him about it?"
"Yeah, but he told, he didn't remember anything!"
"Where is he now, by the way?"asks Paige.
"Out for a walk. He got up quite early I suspect."
"You should talk to him! I think it must have been a great shock for him to lose his demonic side. Maybe that's what bothers him!" suggested Piper. "I don't know. He was quite O.K. with it! But maybe you're right. But now, I have a job, so...
And with that she vanished upstairs to get ready.
***
In the editorial office she coldn't really concantrate on the letters. She was tired and grumpy after awekening every half an hour during the night. Cole really scared her. First she woke him up, but he said he didn't remember having a nightmare. But he was pale and ragged, and looked somehow...frightened. It might be a demon as well or some dark magic - they'd had similar experiences before. She decided to talk to him as soon as she gets home. This helped a little bit, so she grabbed the next letter - and then had a vision.
A young woman, about her age, is walking on a street. There's nobody else there, but the next moment a demon shimmers in, next to her. He has an athame in his hand. The woman doesn't recognize him - and Phoebe sees it's because she's blind. She has on dark sunglasses and has a slender white stick. The demon grabs her hand and that's when the woman recognizes, she is in danger, but it's to late. He cuts her throat and Phoebe almost feels the blood in her mouth...
She looks around - she's back in her office, but is still under the effects of the vision. She never had such a vivid one. They mostly are like she was watching them on TV, but this...it was as if she was the woman...as if she was killed...
Her next thougt was: I know where it happened. And indeed she did - the street was near the office, she walked through it every morning. When will this happen? She had the feeling that quite soon, so she let the letters and stormed out of the office.
***
The street was abandoned. She stopped in a gateway where she couldn't be seen but she could keep an eye on everything. Moments passed by and she started to think that she had been wrong. Maybe it hadn't been this street, these alleys are not that different! Or maybe it will happen in the farther future... In that exact moment the woman from her vision appeared at the end of the alley. She walked surprisingly fast for a blind, or so Pheobe felt. Every now and then she knocked with her stick on the wand or on the pavement. Phoebe tensed and waited for the attack, the woman almost passed her and still nothing happened. What's going on? Was she wrong or... The woman stopped and looked at her... or of course she didn't look, but turned her head in Phoebe's direction.
"Hi, Phoebe Halliwell if I'm correct?" she told in a soft voice.
Phoebe gaped.
"How do you know...?" "How do I know you are here? Or how do I know who you are?" she asked.
"Both, I think" she felt almost shocked.
"To answer your first question: I locked you here. And the second: I suppose there isn't a demon who doesn't know the Charmed Ones."
"You are..."
"Yes, in a way, but you don't have to worry, I'm not your enemy. I just wanted to talk to you."
Phoebe didn't know how to react. The woman didn't seemed dangerous, more over she seemed rather fragile and vulnarable. In the end she decided she would listen.
"And what would be the topic."
"Cole."
She felt her jaw drop.
"What...?
"Let's take a walk with me."
They started walking down the street and the woman...or demon started to speak.
"I don't really know how to tell it subtly, so this is it: Cole is in big trouble and so are you and your sister. I know that a few weeks ago you vanquished the Source, or so you think. Correct?"
"Yes. But what do you mean with: so we think?"
She sighed.
"The thing is: the Source isn't dead. He, or rather his essence stayed alive. It looked for a new keeper..."
"But who...Oh, my god!" everything started to make sense now. His strange behaviour lately, his nightmares, those scared and strange looks. "This can't be true!"
"Unfortunately, it is. I wish it wasn't" she spoke in such a sad tone, that it made Phoebe's head jerk up.
"Who are you, really? Why would a demon want to rescue Cole?" she asked.
"I'm his sister."
"What? He never talked about a sister!" Phoebe stated a little bit suspciously.
"Maybe he didn't know how you would react. My name is Rose, by the way."
Maybe it was a stupid idea but Phoebe trusted this woman. It might be because of the definite resemblance with Cole, that she only now realized.
"What can we do?" her worry came back again. The Source took Cole over! Her love! The man she wanted to marry! It can't happen, not now when everything seemed so perfect!
"The Source hasn't took him over perfectly, not yet. Cole is still in ther, but... I don't know how long he can hold on. The Source is very strong and powerful, and as Cole is only human now..."
"How do you know so much?"
"It's part of my power. I'm a kind of...telepath, if you want. That's how I locked you here: I influenced your mind. And I have a special connection with Cole. I feel him...almost all the time."
"What shold we do?"she asked again.
"I don't really know. But you have to find a way to help him. If you don't...He will be destroyed totally and your relationship with it..."
"We should talk to my sisters!"
"But he can't know about it...or me. I suppose that most of the time the Source is in power. If he recognizes that you know, he will act. At the moment he isn't ready yet, but if he suspects something he will take the risk and attack you in one way or another. And he knows me..."
Suddenly Rose swayed and would have collapsed if Phoebe hadn't grabbed her. She became pale as ashes.
"Are you all right?" asked Pheobe as she tried to support the woman.
"It's Cole" her voice was only a whisper."He is...suffering."