I LOVE YOU, PIPER
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Summary of part 8:
- The Seer convinces The Source to allow Cole to be Deputy Source.
- He's back to Piper, but she isn't sure he's the real one.
Part 9
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I'm Cole Turner (cont.)
The chamber was full of upper level demons. Cole knelt in the center of a circle, wearing a black hooded robe. The Source was despensing sacraments to him from his throne. After he finished, Cole stood up throwing his look around, his eyes were completely dark, a sign of his ascendancy.
"Wishing The Source endless life, wishing The Deputy Source all-victorious." – shouted the demons.
The Seer dragged an evil smile. "It is done." – thought her.
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Everyone was at the table for dinner. Prue came in.
"Where's your bastard?" – asked her.
"Don't know." – answered Piper.
"So everything turns normal finally." – she sat on her chair.
"Where's Leo, Prue?" – asked Phoebe.
"Up there." – answered her.
"Fried prawn, my favorite one." – smiled Phoebe.
"It's for Cole." – said Piper.
Prue and Phoebe exchanged their eyes.
"I hope you guys accept it." – Piper paused a second – "I think I. . . start to love him."
"You never said that." – stunned Prue.
"Just the matter of time." – said Phoebe knowingly.
"It's not good." – opposed Prue.
"Actually we have other things to talk now." – interrupted Piper – "I still dreamed of Cole suffering his wounds in the mausoleum. It's worse that I hear him today calling me even though he's on my side."
"What does it mean?" – Prue didn't get what her sister's speaking of.
"Another Cole from somewhere else." – replied Piper nonsensically.
"Are you sure?" – asked Prue.
"His voice sounds like he's in pain. But you saw him, Prue, he's fine."
"Wait a min! I don't get it." – said Phoebe.
"Two Cole." – Prue turned to her youngest sister – "Who's the real?" – she asked Piper.
"I don't know. I haven't met the other yet."
"How about the one last night?" – asked Phoebe.
"Nothing different." – said Piper. He had got some manners different. But she thought they weren't important.
"You've prepared this course for someone you're not sure who he is?" – Phoebe pursed her lips.
"Cole likes prawn. Let see how this one reacts." – said Piper.
"If he doesn't, we have a big new trouble." – commented Prue.
Cole flamed in. Three sisters jumped up being ready to fight.
"Easy. It's me." – laughed him – "I've taken Lychy's title."
"Deputy Source. You're Deputy Source now?" – asked Prue.
"Yes." – answered him calmly – "But I'm still myself. I love Piper and want to be in your family. Look, we have an agreement, and we're family, I won't let them hurt any of you."
Piper stared at him, she found she didn't want him to be her Cole. She was going to ask him for leaving the Underworld and standing in with her fighting for good. It would be more difficult and impossible if he's The Deputy Source. She'd never seen him flame in and out in addition.
Sometimes she caught him to be looking at her and smiling hintingly. Once she realized a hand rolling her skirt up and caressing her thigh under the table cloth, she slapped his hand gently. No one took a prawn during dinner except Phoebe, the dish was laid near Cole therefore she had to reach out for it. After she had finished half, he said:
"Okay, Phoebe. Place it at your hand." – he gave the dish to her.
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Three sisters were in the attic. Phoebe was searching the book, Piper was lost in meditation.
"Some kind of shape shifter." – Prue gave a hint.
"Want to get witch powers by having sex with her three times." – read Phoebe.
"What?" – shocked Prue.
"A demon named Kurl." – answered her.
Prue came to take a look, but Piper stood still.
"How many time, Piper?" – asked Phoebe not looking up to see her.
"One." – answered Piper in a very low voice.
"I saw he look at you cravingly at the table." – said Prue.
Piper bit her lip, she and him hadn't talked much to each other since last night. He'd just appeared, wanted to make love, and fallen asleep. What happened in the kitchen that morning and evening showed he wanted sex.
"I slept with some demon." – thought her bitterly, but she swore that she hadn't found anything different from his way, just a little more hasty. Perhaps that's why he had finished it so soon, he'd been afraid of her discovering something.
"How to vanquish?" – asked Piper.
"None. There's only a spell to get the powers back." – answered Phoebe.
"Have our agreement lost effectiveness? So many attacks recently." – complained Prue.
The door was open, Cole walked in.
"Are you done?" – asked him.
"What's up?" – asked Prue, her hand on her hip.
"Oh, I want to go out with my wife." – smiled him – "We'll go anywhere you want, Piper."
"I'm not interested right now." – refused her.
"Okay." – he looked disappointed – "At least you're at somewhere I can join you. You know, your book don't like me." – he was standing far from them.
His words sounded like he's reminding them that he's evil. Both Piper and Phoebe tried to find a different feature on his face with no luck.
"Her bedroom is the best place, right?" – challenged Prue.
"What?" – gasped Cole.
"You can resume your job, Kurl." – added her.
"Kurl?"
Someone shimmered in. Three sisters opened their eyes wide to see another Cole.
"Piper!" – smiled him cheerfully.
He looked emaciated in the same clothes as he had left her. His bristling mustache made him more wild and attractive. He suited what Piper had imagined for the coming back day. He found something and followed her look to see his double.
"Who are you?" – asked both of them conjuring energy balls.
"Stop!" – cried Piper, she walked to stand between of them facing the new-come Cole.
The first Cole, who was standing behind, got close to her and said to her ear:
"Kill him."
"Stay away from her." – shouted new-come Cole.
The first Cole's eyes turned dark.
"Deputy Source. You've stolen my position." – the second Cole clenched his teeth.
"Zeany, you can't cope with me. Leave, or I have to kill you." – grumbled the first one, his eyes turned normal.
"You may get my title. But I won't let you hurt my wife as long as I'm alive." – the second one formed another energy ball.
"No, you two are not killing each other." – Piper raised her voice looking at the second one, she wasn't sure who was really her husband. He stamped it out.
An athame flied from behind her slicing his flesh.
"No." – shouted her flicking her hands to freeze it, but her power had no effect. Everyone realized freezing power couldn't stop Deputy Source's attack.
The second Cole squeezed his wound shimmering out.
"I told you not to kill him." – said Piper angrily.
"I didn't." – argued the first Cole – "But you'll need his flesh for the potion when he attacks you again."
"Maybe he won't." – said Prue – "Maybe you're the one who is trying to kill us."
"What are you talking about?" – questioned Cole.
"Listen. We don't care what the hell you are." – stated Prue – "We beat The Source black and blue. And I promise your end will be worse."
"You heard me. He's Zeany using my appearance to get close to you."
"Is he?" – Prue propped her hand on her hip again – "Prove us who you are."
Cole shook his head turning to his wife.
"Piper. Tell them."
She hadn't taken her eyes off from the blood on the floor. She took out a flute.
"What's it?" – asked her to him – "Where did you get this flute?"
He gazed at her in rage.
"That's good." – said him coldly – "Witch."
Cole flamed out.
"He's false." – concluded Phoebe.
Piper bursted into tears. Prue came to comfort her.
"Easy, sweetie."
"But how could Kurl be The Deputy Source?" – doubted Phoebe.
"He's posing as Cole." – explained Prue – "That's why he uses us to get rid of him."
Piper wiped her tears out.
"I go to Cole."
"I'm afraid when you get there, he isn't Cole anymore." – Prue was thinking of the bad situation that Kurl would come to kill Cole and wait for Piper in the mausoleum.
"I'll ask him about the flute." – said Piper.
"Let make the potion first. You saw he's immune to your freezing." – Prue led her sister out – "Give him the flute. If he doesn't know it, give him the potion."
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Phoebe entered the P3, she surprised to see Cole – Kurl in his appearance at least – at the bar. She thought he didn't know where the real one was hiding. She had been dreaming of Cole recently, she'd tried a dozen of men, but no one was as good as him. That was a golden opportunity to have him but not betraying Piper. Kurl might get her powers after 3 times, it meant she could have twice with him safely. Furthermore, she had a spell to get the powers back.
"Cole!" – called her.
He turned to her.
"I'm not."
"I believe you are." – smiled her flirtily – "I never mistake your skin. . ." – she ran her fingers on his face – "your smell. . ." – she kissed on his neck – "Let me taste your kiss."
Her lips opened slightly to wait for his. He looked at her for a moment then beginned to touch her. Phoebe deepened their kiss while gripping him tightly – "Oh my god, it's the same." – thought her.
They walked towards the office. The bartender glanced at them, she knew the man was her boss' husband and the woman was her sister. It wasn't the first time anyway.
Cole slammed the door shut by his foot. Phoebe smiled excitedly. His hands wandered under her clothes, she started to loose his tie. Suddenly he stopped.
"What's up?" – asked her.
"I have to go." – he stepped back. It seemed he sensed something wrong. He flamed out.
"Damn you." – cursed Phoebe.
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Piper walked to the mausoleum finding Cole lie on the ground, his wound was bleeding profusely.
"Cole!"
He opened his eyes to see her holding a small vial.
"Come to vanquish me, have you?" – asked him in a weak voice.
She stopped to keep a distance from him.
"All demons are killed finally. It's my honor to be dead under your hand."
He didn't have enough strength to move, but stared at her intensely, his look was still very sharp and passionate.
"You called me?" – asked her.
"I dreamed of you're waiting for me."
Her eyes were wet, she should've come there sooner, but she had stayed with the other one instead.
"Do you take the flute with you?" – asked Cole.
Piper choked in emotion.
"Give it back to me before the vanquishment. You never let me keep your heart, that's all you've ever given to me." – he stretched his arm out.
His move stirred his wound, a fresh stain imbrued his shirt with blood.
"Take care of yourself, my. . . little angel." – he squeezed his eyes then opened them with all remaining strength.
Her tears had already fallen down, he didn't hear she told she loved him yet. If she hadn't asked him to stop, he wouldn't've got injured. She had killed him indirectly.
Piper was about to walk to him, someone flamed in behind her. She turned around and gasped to see Deputy Source-Cole.
He formed an energy ball on his hand. She blew him up on the instant, but he had had enough time to fling the energy ball to the injured Cole before being shattered in pieces. Freezing power couldn't stop his attack, Piper used her own body to cover him without a thought. It hit her violently.
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