Chapter 9
The next few minutes that followed Mr. Turner's arrival was a blur to Prue, seeing as how most of her time was spent crying into his shoulder about the current situation. Once she was able to catch her breath the woman decided that it was time to fill the man in on the events that took place before. "Listen I know that you don't really know me or my family but I need your help" Prue spoke. "No I don't know you, but I do know Leo and he's like family to me, so just let me know what it is that you need me to do" The man's response was exactly what she needed to hear at that moment. "Well it all started about two months ago when a demon named Zalil infected Paige with a poisonous energy ball. He said that he would cure her if we took out a faction of demons for him. At first we resisted but then we realized that he was the only one who could save her so we went along with his plan. In the end the demon turned out to be Paige's boyfriend Mike who was in fact a demon/whitelight, yeah I know don't ask. Anyway after we got rid of them Zalil saved Paige and then we vanquished him. But at that time we didn't know that Leo was Mike's older brother and the whole thing was a really big set up. So now Leo has infected Piper, Paige, Phoebe and Justin with evil and they've all turned against me" she paused as she walked over to the table where the potion pot was. "I have the ingredients necessary to make the reversal potion, but it also needs a drop of the evil potion to work. Now we had enough drops for three tries, needless to say I'm done to may last try and if this doesn't work…" the woman trialed off as the tears started to fall once more.
"Oh God, why is this happening?" Prue yelled as she fell to her knees. "I finally have my family together and now they're all crazy and out there killing innocents" Cole couldn't move or speak. His heart actually broke from seeing Prue in this state. After a few seconds he went over to her and tried to ease her pain. "Hey, it's going to be alright. I promise you" he said. Deep down inside he knew Leo would kill him for his betrayal, but he didn't care, helping the woman that he love, wait loved, the man thought as he shook his head. That can't be, I just met her for crying out loud. Her violent jerk brought his focus back to the matter at hand. "It's ok honey. Listen to me" he began pulling back. "I think that I might be able to make the potion. My last umm(what was that word that whitelighters use, damn it Cole think. Charge! That it's it Charge) My last Charge had a problem similar to the one you're having right now. And I think that I can make the potion, only if you want me too and if you feel that you can trust me." Looking into his eyes the woman saw all that she needed to see. The trust, the understanding and the willingness to help was all there. "Sure. I trust you. Give a shot and we'll see what happens" she said as she rose from the floor and slowly made her way over to the couch.
The few seconds that her back was turned was all that the man needed to wave his hand over the potion pot and made what he needed appear, but he waited a little while before saying anything so he wouldn't get caught. "Hey Prue I remember that the potion was supposed to change colors but is it supposed to be green?" the man questioned already knowing the answer. "Wait, it's green?" Prue asked as a smile spread across her face. "Yeah, is that a good thing or a bad thing?" the man spoke with a skeptical look on his face. "It's not just good Cole, its great! Oh my God, you're great" she said as she absent mindedly kissed the man. The too held the affectionate kiss and embrace for a while before letting go of each other only to be drawn back into the same position.
When they pulled back for the second time it was Prue who spoke "As much as I would love to take this one step further, I do have three sisters and a brother in law to save" "I understand, but I would like to pick up where we left off a little later" the man spoke with a slight smile. "No problem. But for now we need a summoning spell. So I'm going to go work on that and you put the potion into four bottles" "You mean five. Prue, Leo wasn't always like this" Cole said trying not to give the woman the whole story about how the man was actually good and it was his family that made his demonic side take over. "I can't give you all the details right now, but I'm betting that the potion will work on him as well" "Well you haven't let me down so far. So I hope for Piper's sake that you're right" "HE IS" came a voice from behind them that neither one recognized. The paired turned around to see two young men. One was tall with blond hair, blue eyes and a muscular build. The other one was still quite tall but not as tall as his blond counter part. He had dark hair and piercing green-blue eyes and a smaller frame, all of which reminded her of Piper and as she thought about it some more the other man kind of looked like Leo. After taking them in for a while she finally had the nerve to ask what she already knew "Who are you two?" It was the dark haired boy who responded "I'm Chris and this is my brother Wyatt. We're Piper and Leo's sons"