Disclaimer: Don't own Charmed!

A/N: Hope you like this chapter!

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"So, you're never going to see Cole again, unless it's necessary?" Paige asked, staring at Phoebe. Phoebe nodded. "Good!"

"I guess," Phoebe answered her eyes downcast.

"Pheebs, are you--" Piper began to ask when Leo orbed in. He glanced worriedly over at Phoebe, who continued to pick at the sofa's seam.

"Um... do you guys remember the evil wizard that we helped?" Leo was met with silent nods. "Well, he's resurrecting his ancestors. If we don't stop him, he will have enough wizards to help him take over both sides."

"But only the Source can resurrect those wizards and Cole is the..." Piper trailed and glanced over to Phoebe before continuing, "source."

"The wizard took the Source's powers, Cole is human now," Leo answered.

Phoebe's head shot up and looked at Leo in shock. "So... Cole was telling the truth," Phoebe whispered, smiling for what seemed like the first time since she found out the truth about Cole. Standing up, she raced out the door, pausing briefly to grab her coat and keys.

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All the way to Cole's penthouse, Phoebe thought of all the ways she could think of to apologize for not believing in him in the first place.

As she stepped into the penthouse, she called out Cole's name and searched for him. He wasn't in the bedroom, the kitchen, he wasn't anywhere in the penthouse. Phoebe couldn't find his clothes and there was a note on the glass table in the foyer. (A/N: I didn't know what room that was.) The note read:

"My dearest Phoebe,

I'm sorry I have to leave like this. It's the best for you and our son. I had to get away; I couldn't stand not being with you. I couldn't stay around, not even for our son. I guess you now know that I am no longer the source, but I can't stay here. I have to once again find myself. Forgive me. I love you and our son!

Love always, Cole"

Phoebe stood rooted to the floor, gaping at the letter in her hand. She couldn't believe it, Cole wouldn't leave her. He wouldn't leave the son that he had wanted so much. No, I don't believe it, Phoebe thought. "I don't believe it!" Phoebe screamed. "Do you hear me? Whoever took Cole, do you hear me? I don't believe it." Phoebe's bottom lip trembled as the unshed tears shined in her eyes. Tear streamed down her face as she fell to the ground, hugging her knees and whispering, "I don't believe it."

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The Seer stood by the cage that Cole was contained in. (A/N: It's the cage that the Seer held the charmed ones in, in Womb Raider.) "Your witch will believe that you have left her in time. I've got to tell you, writing that letter almost made me sick. I had to be mushy and human like," the Seer gave a slight shudder, "disgusting."

"Phoebe won't believe it and she'll look for me."

"That may be true, but she won't find you. That's why I put you in here; she can't track you or find you. I might just let you go after my plan succeeds and I become Source. For that to happen, I need patience, and then when they least suspect it I'll attack. I've been planning from the start to be Source. You were just a pawn in it all, so are Phoebe and your son. Doesn't matter though, you'll all die by the end of my plan.

"You can do anything you want to me, just leave Phoebe and my son out of this," Cole ordered, pressing himself against the bars.

"I'm sorry, doll, but I can't leave them out of this. It's too bad, as I've said before; we could have done great things together." The Seer walked over to the cage and stroked Cole's cheek as he pulled away from her. "Great things," she whispered again with lust in her eyes, "I guess those great things could still happen."

"I'll die first," Cole spat, disgusted with her proposal.

"That can be arranged, my dear, so watch your words carefully," the Seer threatened. "Goodbye for now, I have a house call to make to your lovely wife." Shimmering away, the seer still had a glint of lust in her eyes. Lust that had never been extinguished, a lust that could only be satisfied with the one man she couldn't have... Cole. He would never know that he had known her before in a previous life, where she wrecked his relationship with Phoebe's past life. She remembered that life because of her powers and she was going to make sure Cole and Phoebe remembered as well and maybe relived the pain, just like she had.

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