Chapter 2
"He's very sick, Phoebe," Leo reported back in a couple of hours time after Phoebe sent him to check on Cole. At first, they tried to use a demon locator spell just to verify the allegations of old Phoebe, but they could only find him with the lost love spell. Phoebe was too wary of the situation still to go herself, so she sent the Elder. In this way, Leo could also stay undetected by Cole until they decided what to do about him. Leo continued his account, "I found him at hospital. He's human, but he seems to be drinking as if he still had his demon constitution. He was just released after being treated for some bleeding of the stomach lining, very common with alcoholics…honestly, I can hardly believe he's supposed to turn up dead in two month time and not tomorrow. After such a complication, it's very dangerous to drink again right away, but alcoholics always do and there's not much people could do to stop it from happening over and over again. And I can't heal damages caused by alcohol. It wouldn't be a fair thing to do, so we weren't given the capacity to heal self harm…"
"Then I will just have to go right now to try to convince him not to drink, don't I?"
"Phoebe, are you sure about this? If not for anything else, but because you can't play with him again. Give him hope, take it back, give him hope, take it back, this is what ended him in this situation in the first place. He was only holding on to his humanity while you helped, closely supported him. He will probably be able to, on his own, in time, but there's no going back if you see him now. You either go into this relationship or you don't. At all. He loves you and it is you he wants from life. If you can't give him that, you shouldn't try."
"Don't worry, Leo, I won't mess it up again."
"But why? Why now?"
"Because later it will be too late? You said yourself, you can't heal him if he has already drunk himself to half death. And because I don't wanna be like my possible old self that came back to warn me. And…because he's different, he's completely human. He's an innocent. We help innocents, right?"
"Okay Phoebe, but what if he gets powers again somehow? Will you just reject him at first sight again?"
"I used to love him with powers, didn't I? Besides, when I rejected him, that was long ago, Leo. I've learnt a few things since then, here and there."
"Such as?"
"Prejudices, power struggles, the difference about what makes somebody good or evil, emotions…" She finally mentioned the main point, yes, she'd learnt quite a lot because of her empathic ability. Maybe the Elders gave that power to her on purpose, so she does learn all those things, "…orb me please."
tbc
