Return of the Dead
Chapter 4 – Where is Phoebe?
Phoebe sat up drowsily. She looked around her but her vision was blurry. She rubbed her eyes. She felt a sinking feeling in the bottom of her stomach as she looked around the second time, this time her vision was perfectly clear. She was sure that she was in the Underworld!
"Leo can you sense her?" Piper cried frantically.
Grams, mum and Prue left just after they discovered that Phoebe was missing so that they could leave the girls and Leo to concentrate on finding her.
Leo concentrated hard before he answered…
"No." He replied defeatedly.
"Oh my God!" Piper cried again.
"It doesn't mean that she is dead, she could be in the underworld." Leo said reassuringly.
"Oh yeah, that's much better, she's perfectly safe down there, I don't know what I was worried about." Piper said sarcastically.
"Look Piper calm down we'll orb down to the Underworld and try and sense her there." Paige suggested.
"You can't just orb down there unprepared, we need to think about this!" Leo reasoned.
"Look Leo, we don't have any other choice, we need to save our sister!" Piper exclaimed.
With that they orbed out leaving Leo talking to himself.
In the Underworld Paige tried to sense Phoebe but with no luck. Piper began to panic again.
"Her sense is blocked!" Piper said the minute they orbed back.
"How do you know, she could be…" Leo began sadly.
"Look she is fine Leo, she's not dead!" Piper interrupted.
"What do we do n…" Paige began.
A demon shimmered in and threw a fireball Paige's way…
"Fireball!" Paige shouted.
… It sped towards the demon but he shimmered out.
In the Underworld-
"Ah, your awake," A voice said.
The sound of the voice made Phoebe shiver and she looked round startled.
"Cole?" She breathed.
"Yes that's right Phoebe, long time no see." Cole said smirking.
"Not long enough!" Phoebe spat.
"That's a bit of a cold welcome for your ex-husband!" Cole said pretending to look hurt.
"Have you forgotten why we got divorced? Let me refresh you're memory, you turned into the source of all evil, you turned me against my sisters and then tried to kill us!" Phoebe rambled angrily.
"Well, I was hoping that we could put all that behind us" Cole sighed.
"You know what Cole just… how are you even…" Phoebe rambled.
"I guess you are wondering how I got here and how I am alive eh?" Cole asked. "Well let me explain, the Underworld has been a mess recently and they haven't had a good leader since me so they decided to resurrect me." Cole said simply.
"So you are the new source then, you've got what you wanted, what more do you want?" Phoebe asked.
Cole walked towards her and Phoebe stepped back until she could no longer and she was backed up against the wall.
"What have I always wanted… you," Cole answered.
He was now so close to her she could feel his breath on her face as he spoke to her.
In the attic-
"Have you found the demon yet in the book?" Piper asked.
Just then Leo orbed in.
"Do the Elders know anything" Piper asked.
"No they don't have a clue…sorry." Leo sighed.
"Aha! I have found the demon, Craton, lower level demon, hmm a simple vanquish potion, this shouldn't be hard." Paige explained.
"Well that can't be who has captured Phoebe, he isn't powerful enough to block her sense." Piper stated.
"Maybe he's working for an upper level demon." Leo offered.
"We'll trap him in a crystal cage and torture him until he tells us who sent him." Paige suggested.
"Good idea Paige, you go and work on the vanquishing potion, I'll look out the crystals and Leo, you go and check on Chris and Wyatt." Piper instructed.
In the Underworld-
Phoebe pushed Cole away from her.
"Me…you can't have me, my sisters are going to…" Phoebe began to protest.
"Yeah, you're sisters do tend to get in the way a lot don't they." Cole interrupted. "I have sent a lower level demon up to keep them off my track and to keep them occupied for a while."
Seeing the look on her face he added,
"Calm down they wont get hurt, it's not them that I'm after."
"You can't have me either," Phoebe added.
Cole stepped towards her again and grabbed her and locked her in a kiss.
She pulled back disgusted.
"If you think that's going to get me to come back to you, you're way wrong!" Phoebe assured him.
"No but this will," He threw a potion at her.
"Feel any different?" He asked hopefully.
She stepped towards and kissed him in the most passionate she had kissed anyone in long time
