Chapter 2: Prohibited

"Come on Piper," the queen of the underworld started with the pleading, "I am still your sister and Cole is part of the family too."

"It didn't seem like that earlier on," Piper retorted and walked towards her, "when you were flaming out on us with that book. You're evil."

"No. I was protecting Cole."

"Just like you are now when you need us to help him? Phoebe, you turned against us. When you've chosen evil, you're evil, end of story."

"I don't feel all that evil."

"You'll get into it, Cole will show you the way."

"He can't!" She glanced at her husband, who was sweating and breathing heavily, "please, he will die!"

"Good!" Piper cheered.

"Don't you understand?" Phoebe shouted, "Cole will die, my Cole and not the Source! Its powers will just be out in the open like last time, and it will switch to the next available body, who knows who."

"Phoebe is probably right," Leo said, "we have to reach some sort of agreement with them, or we will be back to square one."

"You have to find some way of containing it," Cole joined the land of the fully conscious, although making no attempts at leaving Phoebe's lap.

Piper stopped in her tracks, looked at him carefully and studied him through-out, noting his faintness and the pain in those green eyes for an instant that had nothing to do with physical suffering, but guilt over not being able to fight being taken over by the Source, then a feeling came over her, like they all belonged together, and she was the one, as the oldest, who was meant to save her sister, and for her happiness, Cole.

"Paige, I don't trust Phoebe with this, you change the words of the spell into one where instead of vanquish you say transfer this evil into whatever, come up with something. Leo, get the crystals and everybody in position," she couldn't help but turn her attention at two forms on the floor, one hollering in pain, the other soothingly whispering to him, holding him close, "we made a lot of different potions in any case, cause we couldn't think of anything better and we tried to do something nevertheless," she explained to Phoebe, taking a vial from the table and uncorking it, "healing potions too, for every eventuality...it might reduce the pain for now," she poured the fluid into Cole's mouth, making him cough.

"Any more of that?" he came alive once more.

"No more, not time like the present," Paige orbed the crystals Leo brought into place, "I've got the spell. Phoebe come away."

"You will be okay, I promise," Phoebe nonetheless gave Cole a wet drawn-out kiss, "I love you," she was somewhat worried about the outcome of the spell however she trusted her sisters.

Piper rolled her eyes, finding the kiss Phoebe gave to the still Source a bit prolonged for her taste, "come on, you're gonna be able to do this again in about the time we read up four lines. So save some for tonight, that is after you explain how you got into this mess in the first place?" She frowned.

Paige held the bit of paper in front of her sisters for everybody to read, "Prudence, Patricia, Penelope, Melinda, Astrid, Helena, Laura and Grace,

Halliwell witches stand strong beside us, restrain this evil in the empty jam jar on the buffet."

"What?" Piper shouted the moment she realised what she was reciting.

"Well, I told you I can't write spells!" Paige lifted her shoulders.

"Guys? It's working!" Leo indicated the lifeless Cole and the big flame that lifted out his body, making its way sizzling into the very jar mentioned.

Piper ran to it and lifted it, "no way! This is ludicrous! Thank God you didn't mingled it up with jam!" She barked at her sister, vaguely amused, despite the circumstances, "how can this be?"

"Those powers are just compacted evil energy, without anybody to infect to use them, carry them, they are meaningless. Question is," Leo remained professional, "what we gonna do with the Jeannie in the bottle?"

"I say we cement it into the ground and keep it with the shadow. Similar evils to similar place," Phoebe recommended.

"Could that work?" Piper asked her husband.

"I don't see why not if you add a clever little spell to keep it there," he suggested.

tbc