Chapter 3: Under Instructions
"You actually made Leo lie to me," Cole shimmered into Phoebe's office at the Bay Mirror upset and offended, not caring about the repercussions of his actions, "so she can what?" He asked angrily, "seduce me into bed? And even if it happened that's gonna change what?" His eyes sparkled with anger, his features were stony. He shook his head in revulsion, "you know what it changes you sending me there? That I know you're not the saint you pretend to be," he blurred away, his eyes overflowing with tears again.
"You don't give me a choice Cole," Phoebe sat down at her desk, "making myself undesirable in your eyes is just about the only thing I haven't tried yet..."
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"I'm sorry Cole, I really am," told him Diane where he blurred back to after the row with Phoebe and she shimmered right next to him from a few steps away, embracing him for solace.
He didn't refuse it. Actually, he nestled into her neck, "what should I do?"
"Stop hiding from reality. If anyone, I know what that's like to be part of two worlds, but neither of them really accepting you because you are different. You have to accept that if you want to find a way to happiness, cause fighting against it won't get you anywhere. But you don't have to do it alone though. I'm here you know," she touched his face lightly to make him look into her eyes and seeing no resistance there she gradually reached up to his mouth with hers, uncertainly this time.
He grabbed her arms, shoved her back. "I don't wanna play. I want the real thing. I want a partner in all."
"Yeah, that's what I would've wanted as well when you were Belthazor, you remember that don't you? I could only hope you would be more like me one day."
Cole didn't answer back at first. Finally, was all he could think. At long last. Somebody loved him. She loved him, a good-looking, incredible, attractive woman who he always admired for double crossing the source and living her own life. Rationally, he realized she was the most essential being in his life just because she loved him. But was he able to love her back and forget about Phoebe? He had spent years of training in the brotherhood hankering after Diana, but it was another period of his life, when he didn't experience genuine love yet. After meeting Phoebe, he would've never thought it will be another demon who exhibits love towards him, as they should be incapable of real love, but she was not. And she had always loved him, but he was too demonic to notice before. This was what he had always wanted. When he pulled her close, he felt something deep inside of himself awaken. And it felt terrific and liberating like real love should.
The End.
