A/N: Ok. So. This one is early. I'm waiting for my bf to show up online and don't have much else to do. Actually not really much going on either. Boy, I love summer. lol. Hope it's just as restful for you guys too!

Charmed-Snow: Thanks. :) I hope the conversation is good enough. I didn't really add a lot of comic relief in this story, so they're more or less serious. I tried to sprinkle some in there for you though. I hope you enjoy!

whatever (): Well, I'm gald you liked the first part at least. The reason why Paige didn't follow Leo was because she was devastated. Kyle had just died and all...Plus, I think by 7th season Paige finally learned that she couldn't run after a demon or killer or whatever without the power of three. I think that all in all, Paige really just needed her support system more than immediate answers. In the next chapter after this you'll see more of her reaction. But now do you understand? More so, do you agree?

Ok. On with the show!

luv,
bunn

Point of no return

Chap 7

"I'm going home," Leo announced.

"You can't." Sighing, Cole wondered why he cared.

Leo remained convinced. "Yes, I can. Piper knows me. She'll understand; I'll make her see."

"You know that Phoebe used to understand me, too? She knew that everything that I did was for her, but it came to a point where she wouldn't allow me to use her as an excuse. I turned her into the Queen of All Evil. That was my point of no return. You killed an innocent, who Paige loved, for your kids. That was your point of no return."

Leo shook his head. Gravity finally took in, and it hurt. "I can rewind this. I can make it like none of this ever happened."

"It'll weaken the collective, not that I give a damn or anything. Except you do care, don't you? Save Piper and your boys?" Cole taunted.

"That's why I'm in this whole mess!" Leo yelled.

He remembered. Cole knew how it was like to love someone so much that you were willing to ruin your own life to save hers. "It doesn't matter. "You can't do anything now. You're stuck with the Avatars. There's no escaping them. If you hide, they will find you. If you run, they will bring you back. If you die, they'll revive you. Trust me I know. You just better hope that you did the right thing because there is no fixing it now."

"I'm going to Piper. She'll know how to fix it." Leo orbed away sinking back into denial.

Again, Cole wondered, "Why do I care?" Then he checked his watch. "Damn. There are only soaps on now."

Piper stood in front of the Book of Shadows desperately searching for an answer. Leo didn't kill Kyle. Now, she just needed to prove it. There had to be something on shapeshifters that take their form's powers or spirits that could've taken over such a powerful being. Leo orbed in. "Oh my G-d, Leo! I have been so worried about you! Paige said that you-"

"Killed Kyle, I know," Leo answered Piper somberly.

"Yeah, she said that. How'd you know?"

"Because I did."

Piper's face betrayed a moment of panic, but it was quickly replaced by determination. "Okay, we can manage this. What happened? Were you possessed?"

Leo shook his head. "No, I wasn't."

"Brain washed?"

"No."

"Tricked?"

"No."

"Then what, Leo?"

"I was working for the Avatars."

"WHAT!"

"I thought they were good. They preached peace. They said they'd eventually rid the world of demons. I thought if I joined them that I could save you and our sons from…"

"From what?"

"Demons killing you."

"Death is inventible. That is not an excuse."

"I thought it was for the best." Leo squirmed under her harsh gaze.

"Killing Kyle was for the best? Because if it was, maybe you should go downstairs and tell that to Paige," Piper yelled.

"Piper, please," Leo begged.

"No, Leo. How long have you been an Avatar?"

"I thought they were good, Piper."

"Danmit, Leo, how long?"

"A little over a month. They were my reason for recovery."

Piper shook her head in disbelief. "I can't believe you. You've been an Avatar for all this time and you never told us? You knew we were searching fro answers about them. You knew we thought they were a threat. Yet, you join them.,"Piper said as her anger mounted. "Then you kill Kyle. Now you think you can say that you did it for us?" She roared, "GET OUT!" Her rage finally expolded. A shelf blew up behind him, leaving only bits of dust where it had been.

"You're not being fair."

Enraged Nikolas argued with Lucky, "Fair? Fair? What's fair? This? No, it's not, but that's the way things happened."

"It sounds like you're giving up," Lucky observed. (1)

Cole sat watching the actors recite their words. "I hate daytime TV," he thought aloud. "This is crap." He violently hit the power button the remote and then threw it at the TV. It bounced off it and landed on the ground intact. "The world hates me," Cole thought sarcastically bitter.

Leo orbed back in. "She didn't…"

"Told you so," Cole responded bored.

"We need to change this," Leo demanded.

"We can't. I've told you that already too."

"I have an idea."

"It won't work. I've tried everything."

"It sounds like you gave up."

"What is this General Hospital?"

Leo ignored him. "I haven't given up. Trust me; I have a plan that'll work..." Cole resisted the urge to slam him into a wall.

(1) That was an old quote from General Hospital. I pretty muchused it as an inside joke. Greg Vaughn plays Lucky, but you may remember him as the girls' neighbor Dan. Tyler Christopher plays Nikolas, and guest stared on Charmed. He was the warlock Anton in the episode Pardon my Past. That and Cole was cursing soaps yet Julian and Brian were both on soaps (Another World, I believe, but don't quote me there...).

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