Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed or any of their characters.

Summary: An alternate ending to We're off to see the wizard. The Charmed ones have to come to terms with their feelings with betrayal, a loss and a new source.

Spoilers: Refers to the episode we're off to see the wizard.

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"How much longer?" Cole demanded, pacing in front of the wizard impatiently.

"Give me a break, will you, this is tricky stuff. It'd be a lot easier if I could do this in friendlier confines," the wizard answered, smirking slightly.

"There are no friendly confines, not anymore. This had better work or you'll be joining the rest of your kind and not in the way you hoped for." God, I hope Phoebe will forgive me. I hope she knows how sorry I am. I hope she knows that I'm doing this for her, Cole thought.

"Little tip. Pressure's not the best motivating technique. If you wanna lose the Source's powers, don't rush me."

"Fine, but just so we're clear, once you get the Source's powers I never hear from you again," Cole instructed, his hand folded across his chest. That way Phoebe will believe that I'm not lying about not being the Source anymore.

"Understood. Not that I'm ungrateful, but why are you so willing to do this?"

The wizard placed some lit candles on the floor.

"I lost someone I love and I want her back. That's all you need to know." I don't need some nosy wizard poking into my private life, Cole added silently.

"Love? The Source can love?" the wizard asked, thoroughly shocked. Now I've heard and seen everything, the wizard thought sarcastically.

"Just keep working," Cole ordered, knowing what was going through the wizard's mind.

"I'm done. Now, if the spell's going to work, blood needs to spill." Carefully, the wizard picks up a dagger and Cole holds out his arm. He cuts Cole's arm. "Now me." He cuts his own. Both of their blood fell onto the Grimoir. Smoke starts to rise from the Grimoir. "Holus into exitus omne. Holus into exitus omne. Holus into exitus omne! Holus into exitus omne," the wizard chanted.

They both rise off the ground, their bodies glowing. The source's body essence starts to be pulled from Cole's. The source's essence is transmitted to the wizard's as Cole falls to the ground.

The Seer appears a moment later... without Phoebe like she intended. She looked around confused; she could've sworn she had shimmered in with Cole's witch.

"Damn," she cursed as she looked at the new source and Cole's stirring human form. If the witch had killed the wizard, I would be the source, the seer thought, no matter, my plans have not changed. With that, she shimmered away setting her plans into motion.

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Phoebe had shimmered away from the Seer's shimmer to her bedroom at the manor. (A/N: I know that sentence sounded weird.) Lying down on her old bed, she mused back on the events that had occurred. Suddenly, she felt like she could still smell Cole on that bed, and it pushed her to burst out in tears.

Tears streamed down her cheeks as she muffled her cries with her hand. "You betrayed me," she whispered out loud. "You lied to me."

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Paige lay in her bed, tired from finding out that she was right in her suspicions in Cola and tired from comforting Phoebe before and after she had killed Julie, Cole's demon assistant. Paige was just tired of it all. She loved her sisters, but if she had known how much baggage they had she would have... actually she didn't know what she would have done. She just knew that before she actually had sisters she had thought that they were a lot more fun to have. But of course not the typical sister is a witch.

Paige fell asleep, her mind triggered on what would happen to Phoebe and Cole... and their son.

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Two days later...

Phoebe stood in the elevator that quickly moved upward. She wrung her hands together nervously. The doors opened and Phoebe stepped out into the penthouse. Cole was sitting at the table, the phone pressed to his ear as he listened to the insistent ringing. He looked over with worried eyes, hung up the phone and stood up.

"Phoebe, I've been so worried. I was just calling you, I've been calling you. Did you get my messages?" Cole frantically asked.

"I got them," Phoebe answered quietly. "I'm just here to pick up my things and then I'm out of here. When our son is born you'll have him on weekends and I'll let you come to doctor appointments while I'm pregnant. I'll send the divorce papers in the mail, but if you try to turn me or my son evil, I will vanquish you." Phoebe stormed into their bedroom and threw some of her clothes into a suitcase.

"Phoebe..." Cole started.

"Don't say anything, Cole, you can't change my mind," Phoebe answered, punching the button for the elevator.

"Phoebe..."

"Just leave me alone," Phoebe cried, pain coating her voice as she stepped into the elevator.

"Phoebe, I'm not the Source anymore..."

"How can I believe you?" Phoebe said as the elevator doors closed and she was taken away from Cole.

Cole was about to go after her. Suddenly the seer appeared in behind him and grabbed his arm, shimmering him away... from Phoebe, his child and his life.

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