I've changed this chapter slightly to what I planned so there is now no longer 3 attempts at Prue and Andy's wedding; mainly because that didn't fit in and this new route for the chapter has given me the chance for a mini sequel (which will be explained more and the end of this).
Thank you SO much everyone who reviewed last chapter and every other chapter of this fic, you've all inspired me to write more and I hope you will continue to read the mini sequel and sequel! It feels so sad that this is ending, but as I have already said, twice, there's a mini sequel and then a long sequel on the way!
Goodbye:
"Are you telling me you killed my daughter?" Cole asked, Phoebe opened her mouth to speak…
"she's not your daughter Cole and you know it," the seer whispered,
"I don't need a biology lesson," he snapped, pushing her aside and making his way towards Gabrielle and Megra.
"I'm so sorry, I wish I could go back and stop this from happening, but I can't," Phoebe said,
"call your damn whitelighter," Gabrielle growled,
"he can't heal demons," Phoebe said softly,
"he's healed me before so he can heal her," Cole hissed, Phoebe merely nodded,
"Leo! Leo!" Phoebe called. Orbs shifted around in the air beside her and morphed into Leo,
"Leo, please, heal her," Cole begged, stepping back to reveal Megra's body, the elder knelt down and tried with all his might to heal the child; shaking his head as he failed.
"No, she can't be, she can't be gone," Gabrielle sobbed,
"shush, it's gonna be okay, everything's gonna be okay," Cole assured her, as he held her close,
"are you trying to convince me that or yourself?" she asked,
"both of us," he replied, wiping tears from her cheek.
Two days later, Prue and Andy had already put their wedding on hold for three days, and weren't about to do it again, even though it was also the day of Megra's funeral.
"C'mon, we need to get this over and done with," Cole whispered to Gabrielle, as he walked with his arm around her; behind where the pearly white coffin was being carried,
"my little girl, my innocent little girl," Victor murmured, as Gabrielle and Cole approached him.
"We can do this together," she told him, linking hands with both them as they continued to trail behind the coffin carriers.
Meanwhile, at the Halliwell-Trudeau manor, the family (par Cole) were gathered in the garden for Prue and Andy's second wedding.
"Prudence, Andrew, I'm so proud of you both," Penny beamed, from where she stood at the head of the alter, the happy couple standing opposite her.
The wedding was over as soon as it had began and Phoebe was getting worried about Cole and decided to give him a call,
"hi, Cole, how was everything at the funeral?" she asked,
"it was a funeral, how do think everything went?" he replied coldly, before hanging up on her.
"I need to get down there, see him," Phoebe said, walking passed Charley, Cassie and Aurora and straight through Prue and Andy as they prepared to dance the first dance,
"Phoebe, where are you going?" the eldest called after her, running after the Angelic Seer, followed by Piper and Paige.
"I killed a child, I killed my own baby sister, and I just can't cope anymore, and neither can Cole," she said, as they caught up with her,
"what are you saying?" Piper asked,
"I think my marriage is over," Phoebe sobbed, breaking down before her sisters and dropping to her knees.
At a nearby hospital, the weak, comatose, body of Katrina lay beneath the white cotton sheets of her bed, her breathing raspy and dull.
Back at the wedding,
"hey, how is she?" Kyle asked, glancing into the sitting room where Piper and Prue were trying to comfort and calm down Prue,
"awful, she's convinced Cole's going to filing for divorce by the time the day's over," Paige replied, as he followed her through the kitchen.
"Would you divorce me if I killed the child you had believed to be your own for two years?" she questioned, "man, that's one thing I never thought I'd say,"
"that's one thing I never thought I'd hear," he chuckled.
"So, would you?"
"I don't know Paige, I love you, more than I've ever loved anyone or anything in the entire universe, and I would hate to lose you…so, no, I don't think I would, I love you too much," he replied.
"Thank you sweetie, I love you," she beamed, linking her arms around his neck as he ran his hands up her back and their lips met in a deep, meaningful, kiss.
"Paige, you got that water for Pheebs?" Prue asked, popping her head into the doorway,
"I kinda got caught up, sorry," the witchlighter said, pulling away from Kyle and brushing down her short, jade green, dress, before clicking her fingers and making a bottle of cold water orb from the fridge into Prue's hands.
"Thanks," Prue smiled, walking back into the sitting room where Phoebe and Piper; both wearing bridesmaid dresses like Paige's, were talking.
At the church, Gabrielle stood alone at the grave of her baby daughter,
"poor little demon," a voice sighed,
"go away," Gabrielle hissed, wiping the tears from her eyes and turning to face the being who stood behind; her mother.
"I'm here to mourn my granddaughter," Hecate told her,
"no, you're here to boast about how I couldn't raise the devil child properly, how I couldn't bring her up evil enough, how it's my fault she ended up like this," Gabrielle growled, "well you don't need to tell me, because I know, I know I failed bringing her up for the short time she had; at that's because I tried to bring her up the way you wanted me to, like she was a demon, not a little girl; but that's what she is…what she was; she was a little girl, she was my little girl." As Gabrielle openly let the tears roll down her cheeks, Hecate fought against the single one of her own which sat in her eye,
"goodbye Megra," the demonic goddess whispered, staring at the grave before turning her head away and flaming out. Gabrielle began to cry again, only for a bunch of demons to shimmer in around her,
"LEAVE!" she bellowed, the ground quaking with the power of her voice, "NOW!"
"Grab her!" one of them screeched, all seven of them charged at the fashion columnist, two of them grabbing her while the others knocked her out with low voltage energy balls.
Not much later, in the underworld,
"are you sure she's Belthazar's love?" an upper level demon asked,
"we're positive Raynor," one of the lesser demons replied, "they were together at Belthazar's home and the brat's funeral."
"Looks like my student has good taste in demons, I sense power from this one, though I also sense she is good, which could make this even more interesting" Raynor grinned, stroking Gabrielle's face before standing at her head and focusing energy into her mind.
"What are you doing?" Luna, the head of Raynor's lower demons, questioned,
"filling her mind with illusions, we don't want her linking to Belthazar with her mind now do we," he explained,
"so these illusions will make the demoness think she is back at home with Belthazar?" Luna said, Raynor nodded,
"I see they're not married," one of the other demon spotted,
"I wonder what happened to his little witch," another said,
"I always knew they wouldn't last," Raynor sighed, smiling as he concentrated more energy into Gabrielle's mind and conjuring up a dream:
The warm sun loomed through the window and crept across Gabrielle as she slowly awoke in the main bed of the Turner Penthouse,
"hey honey," Cole greeted, from where he lay next to her.
"Honey?" she repeated,
"don't u like being called honey?" he asked, as he climbed out of bed to reveal he was completely naked; and when she looked under the sheets she found that so was she.
"I hope this isn't a dream," she whispered to herself, as she sat up and formed a blue blast which wrapped around his waist and pulled him back onto the bed,
"lets not get up yet," she grinned, getting on top of him and beginning to nibble at his ear. A set of small fists banging on the door brought their passion to an end before it could properly begin,
"that'll be the girls," Cole stated, grabbing a towel from beside the bed and wrapping it around his waist, while Gabrielle got back under the sheets,
"girls?" she whispered, only for Cole to open the door and Megra and Cassie to run in.
"It's strange how they're twins and yet they don't look alike," Cole said to his love,
"hmm, it is," she nodded, not able to take her eyes off Megra.
Later on, Gabrielle and Cole were down in the underworld hunting for demons, and she had just told him how she had been kidnapped by demons and woke up in bed with him,
"so you're telling me none of this is real?" he asked, in complete and utter shock,
"I don't know whether this is real or that was real, but, honestly, I hope this world is the real one," she replied.
"me too," he smiled, planting a kiss on her lips. Suddenly, a swirl of darkness brought Phoebe before them,
"oh god, I bet she's pissed that I'm with her husband," Gabrielle whispered to Cole,
"I'm not her husband, haven't been for nearly three years, remember? we were only married for a little while and then I realised I loved you more and I divorced Phoebe," he said.
"So why is she evil?" Gabrielle asked, dodging an energy ball which Phoebe had thrown,
"she can't have kids, I divorced her; she got depressed, and then became addicted to power, especially dark power, but she's not necessarily evil, just confused," Cole explained.
Back in the real world, Cole shimmered in next to where Phoebe sat,
"Gabrielle's missing," he stated,
"what do you mean 'missing'?" Piper asked,
"she wanted to spend sometime at the grave alone and then I went out to get her and she was gone, but there was a small crack in the ground and a scorch mark or two," he told them,
"sounds pretty demonic to me," Paige said.
"Well then lets go find her," Phoebe decided, standing up,
"you actually want to go find her?" Cole asked,
"she needs help, we help people, and, besides, if it wasn't for me she wouldn't be in this mess," she replied,
"don't say that," he said,
"why not, it's true," she stated, before flashing to the penthouse to get changed.
"You three stay here, me and Phoebe can handle this together; we need to handle this together," Cole instructed, and then shimmered out.
In the underworld, Raynor released Gabrielle momentarily as his control began to waver, but then once he had regained some of his strength, he channelled more energy into her mind and continued on with the illusions:
Phoebe charged up another energy ball and shot it at Gabrielle; blasting her through the air and into the wall behind.
"Gabrielle!" Cole exclaimed, as he ran to his love and saw that blood was trickling from her ear,
"LEO! LEO!" the half demon hollered, after finding that Gabrielle currently had no pulse.
"Oopsies," Raynor chuckled, as blood began to drizzle from Gabrielle's real ear,
"she's dead," Luna stated, "so now she's useless,"
"I can fix that," Raynor assured her, as the energy flow increased and a golden light partially shone over Gabrielle; signifying that Leo had healed her in her dream universe.
"Raynor," a voice growled, as the demonic leader turned to see Cole and Phoebe; who was now dressed in jeans, a dark blue tank top and black boots.
"I should have known," Cole said,
"yes Belthazar, you should have," Raynor agreed,
"come to save your love?" Luna asked, "and you've even brought your little ex along for the ride," she added, glancing at Phoebe,
"love? ex?" the Angelic Seer repeated.
"I think we may have made a mistake," one of the lesser demons mumbled,
"but no! we can't have! we saw Belthazar and her in bed together!" another objected, pointing from Cole to Gabrielle,
"what?" Phoebe gasped, tears beginning to line her eyes.
"I'm so sorry Phoebe," Cole apologised, reaching out to hold her in his arms,
"stay away from me," she ordered, storming away as she sobbed.
"You're gonna pay…" Cole promised, before he morphed into Belthazar and conjured up a giant energy ball between his crimson palms,
"it takes true evil to kill with such a vengeance," Raynor grinned, stepping away from Gabrielle and towards Belthazar,
"those little comments may have worked on me years ago," Belthazar growled, "but not anymore," and then he fired the energy ball at his enemy.
"Looks like you're not the only one who's gotten stronger," Raynor said, as he caught the energy ball in his hands and absorbed it's power; flickering sparks travelling across his body as it pulsed through his system. With an almighty gasp, Gabrielle awoke from her supernatural slumber and threw Luna away with a blue blast,
"Cole, what are you doing here?" she asked, seeing Belthazar,
"I've come to save you," he growled, as Raynor shimmered out and he returned to his original form.
"By yourself? that's suicide!" Gabrielle stated,
"I wasn't by myself, Phoebe was here, until she found out about us from them," Cole replied, glaring at the lower level demons and vanquishing them all with energy balls.
"Did Raynor do anything to you?" Cole asked,
"no, well yeah, I think he made me dream about a world where we were together and Phoebe's depression had driven her to the dark side," Gabrielle informed him,
"well if I don't find my wife and sort this out than that second part might just come true," he stated.
"You don't need to go trying to find me, I'm right here," Phoebe said, after flashing in,
"I'm so sorry Phoebe, please forgive me," Cole begged, walking towards her,
"I've forgiven you once," she whispered, "and that made my life hell trying to get over that…" she began,
"your life hell? you're not the one who has a daughter in a coma and another one six feet under, you don't know what it means for your life to be hell," Gabrielle spat.
"Gabrielle, don't," Cole warned,
"no, let her, let's hear what she has to say," Phoebe said,
"there's only one thing I have to say to you; you're a murderer, you killed a baby girl!" Gabrielle hissed,
"I killed a monster!" Phoebe argued,
"how dare you say that!" Gabrielle yelled, holding out her hand and making a gun materialise in her hand.
"If you shoot me then you're just as bad as you say I am," Phoebe stated,
"I'm not shooting you in hopes of murdering you, I'm shooting you in hopes of avenging my daughter's death and gaining justice," Gabrielle told her, before her shaking hands gripped the gun and she pulled the trigger; releasing a bullet through the air. Cole saw that Phoebe had practically frozen and knew that there was only one thing he could do; take the bullet himself. So that's what he did, he leapt in-front of his wife and allowed the bullet to enter his chest…
To be continued…
So, will Cole survive? Will Gabrielle finally pack her bags and leave? Will Phoebe's power be darkened by her anger and possibly grief? Find out in the mini sequel 'Grave'.
After 'Grave', I am going to do a sequel 40-50 chapters long called 'Magic Is Charmed' which will not only deal with the magical problems, but also the mortal ones too!
'Grave' should be up during this week and will be a maximum of 3 chapters, but they'll all be long!
'Magic Is Charmed' will be up after my holiday (early August, about the fourth or the fifth).
Once again, thank you all SO much for reading and hope you enjoy the mini sequel when it's done!