It was a nice home-coming reading your reviews.
I think they should have given Cole at least a heroic death, not one where everyone hated him in the end and nobody missed him. And the punishment in the 150th episode to live in a loveless void is way too harsh. I can go on for hours about how they treated Cole wrongly inCharmed, but I'll spare you that.
I know Phoebe treats Cole shabbily in my story, but this will change (it's a Phoebe/Cole-story after all) but not in this chapter yet.
"How did this happen?" Phoebe looked confused at Cole who didn't seem to know either.
Phoebe wondered whether it was an accident he got these powers or it was just one of his plans. She didn't know. She had believed him too much times.
"It was...Argentus, a silver demon. If you'll attack him with your powers, you'll lose them...," Piper read aloud out of the Book of Shadows.
"...when someones powers get stripped, these powers go the first best powerless being in the neighbourhood. So it makes sense Cole got those powers now," Leo added.
He looked up and then gave a short gaze at Piper who was still angry.
"I should go...the elders...," He mumbled.
"Don't think we're not going to talk about this situation later," Piper warned him, before he orbed out of the room.
Piper sighed very loudly, wondering if Leo could hear it. Then she brought her attention back to Cole with the powers of Paige.
"Can you orb?" She asked.
"I don't know how...It's not the same as shimmering."
"Paige orbed when she was affraid. We should scare you," Piper noted.
"I don't think there will be anything we can scare him with...perhaps his own reflection," Phoebe said.
For the first time Cole looked Phoebe right in the eyes. Seeing exactly what he had tried to avoid, a glare of anger and pain in her eyes.
Piper felt the tension between her sister and the ex-demon. She didn't know what to think of Coles return. She had been mad, but that was normal. She would be mad at anyone who had hurted her sister. Meant this return he would hurt her again? It was best to make sure he would go away as soon as possible.
Piper looked at her sister with a friendly smile. Phoebe gave a short gaze back. She probably still was angry, because Piper had kept silent about Cole. Piper looked back into the Book of Shadows to get out of this mess.
"It says here we can defeat Argentus by a potion and a spell. I'll go make this potion," Piper said, while she headed to the kitchen.
Phoebe wrote the spell that was written in the Book of Shadows to vanquish Argentus down on a piece of paper. When she was done she looked at Cole who was standing uncomfortably in the room.
She looked away and went to the old closet right in front of her. She took a commuting and a map out of it. She sat by the table and began to scry above the map to look for Argentus. The commuting stopped by a slum.
"A place just as despicable as you," Phoebe said, breaking the akward silence.
"I thought you could make better insults than that."
"Fine, I'll take it back. You're more despicable. And sorry if that wasn't harsh enough, but as opposed to some other people in this room I do have feelings."
Phoebe, you know I did care abou...," Cole started to say.
"Yes, you cared so much that you became the source of all evil."
"You're the one who killed me," Cole said, knowing it would piss her off.
Cole looked at the furious eyes of Phoebe. He didn't want to be here at all. The four weeks he had been alive again he had promised himself to never go to the Halliwels again. But this promise rather turned out to be a curse. Not a long ago he ran into Leo and today he had found a wounded woman attacked by demons, who he couldn't bring to the hospital, because of the horrible wounds he couldn't explain to doctors. The other promise he had made was to be good and this last promise was more important than the first. Somehow he had thought it would have been easier to keep his first promise.
"You're going to blame me now? You lied to me for months. I'm glad I killed you, I would do it again if I had the chance to do it all over again," Phoebe let Cole know and she continued, " No, I would do it better so you couldn't return and bring misery. All you do is bring misery and..."
White blue lights encircled Cole and he dissapeared. He returned to the room a few seconds later. Phoebe looked astonished at Cole.
"Anger, it's anger that makes you orb," She concluded.
"One perfect potion," Piper said who just came back from the kitchen and hold the potion in her hands.
"And one stunning spell," Phoebe said like her fight with Cole never had happened and gave the spell to Piper.
"Then we only need to find Argentus and..."
"Already found," Phoebe interrupted, while she pointed on the map at the place where the commuting had stopped.
"Then we only need to go to..."
"I can orb," Cole interrupted this time.
"...okay. Then we can go, unless there's something else that needs to be done what I can say so you can tell me you've already done that," Piper said who just in time had swallowed her words that they made a good team. Piper walked to Cole, so he could orb her.
"I'm not going to hold your hand," Phoebe struggled.
Piper frowned at Phoebe and Cole didn't seem to be surprised.
"I'm not going to hurt you," He said without thinking.
"It's a little bit too late for that," Phoebe said before she hold his hand with aversion.
It was dark. The woman Cole brought to the manor and Paige were nowhere to be seen. This place seemed to be empty besides some rotten furniture so far as they could see. They were in a muffy old house. It probably had been long a time ago when some someone had lived here. This house was ready to be pulled down. Suddenly the silver demon shimmered into the room.
"Piper!" Phoebe shouted when she saw the demon, who was about to attack Piper.
Piper reached out her hands to freeze Argentus, but it didn't work and she was struck by the lightning balls of the demon.
Phoebe and Cole hid themselves behind a broken closet. They looked from behind the book-case to Piper who laid unconscious on the ground, the potion and the spell beside her. The monster looked around to see any sign of Cole and Phoebe.
"I'll get the monster, you the potion and spell," Cole whispered.
Phoebe nodded. Cole walked away from the closet and Argentus saw a glimpse of him. Argentus began to throw his electric beam at Cole, who orbed just in time to another part of the space.
Meanwhile Phoebe ran to her sister and grabbed the potion, but the spell lay too far way. She started to go to a broken couch, but she stumbled and fell on the floor, through which she attracted the attention of the demon. In panic she threw the potion at him, but unfortunately the potion went right through him like all the other attacks they had made against him. The potion fell on the ground and broke, which maked the substance and the spell belonging to it powerless. The noise of the breaking potion distracted Argentus and gave Phoebe and Cole the oppurtunity to hide behind the broken couch.
Cole gave her a worried gaze and Phoebe pulled a piece of paper out of her trouser-pocket and gave it to Cole. He looked quickly at the things written on the paper.
"...when the people and world are okay?" He read softly aloud with his eyebrows frowned.
"I didn't had much time to write it," She couldn't believe he was mocking about her spell in a time like this.
She had written the spell before they went away in case everyhting went wrong...like now. It was a spell to go back in time, to be precise to go back in time one day ago, before Cole came back into her life.
A yellow light broke the couch into pieces. Cole and Phoebe ran both into a different direction. Argentus doubted for a moment which enemy he would take out first and then decided to go after Cole.
"Say the spell!" Phoebe screamed.
Cole looked once again at the spell at the piece of paper he still had in his hand. The demon held one of his electric energy balls in his hand, had his eyes set on Cole and aimed.
"Are you sure this spell..." Cole said while he tried to see where Phoebe was.
"Would you just say the stupid spell with me!" Phoebe yelled angrily.
She heard a great bang and looked scared into the room what happened. That was hard to do because it was dark. Finally she saw a cloud of smoke coming from where Argentus and Cole had been. She closed her eyes because of the dust that was surrounding her. She opened her eyes again when the dust seemed to be away. She saw a huge hole in the wall and to her relief she saw Cole sitting on the floor right beneath the hole. Argentus stood ready to attack again and she heard Cole talking. Then she realised he was saying her spell and she started to say it with him, remembering how the spell went.
Return to when it all started, that day
when all powers are by the owners
when the dangers were little
when the people and the world are okay
She began to feel very dizzy. The dark room became even more filled with darkness and slowly dissapeared. Her head was getting light, really light.
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Light. Everywhere was light. The light became vague green shapes. The shapes started to become detailed. Green, a lot of green shapes. Trees, bushes, flowers, plants. This seemed to be a forest.
She looked around and stopped when she saw Cole, who was also looking at the new surroundings he got in. On the one hand she was glad to see him, a familiar face. At least she wasn't alone here in the middle of nowhere. On the other hand it meant something went seriously wrong, because if the spell had worked he wouldn't be here. And she knew he was the reason why they had to use this spell. If he hadn't brought that stupid wounded woman to the manor, she never would have known her sisters lied to her, Paige and Piper hadn't been attacked by Argentus and she wouldn't have been in this forest...with him.
"You're okay?" Cole asked.
"Yes. Where are we?"
Cole didn't answer and she hadn't expect him to answer either. How did they get in this realm of nature? An advantage was that the electric demon wasn't here.
"Something went wrong," Cole broke the silence, after they already had started to wander off in the woods.
"You can say that again," Phoebe mumbled.
It was a real pain for her to walk in this scenery. She stumbled a few times, which wasn't a surprise if you were wearing high heels. On top of that the sun was shining fiery. In the distance she saw a figure walking.
"Look," She said to Cole, while she pointed at the figure which seemed to be a young child, now they got closer.
Phoebe walked straight to the boy. Maybe this wasn't the middle of nowhere after all. If there was a child there probably would be a mother and perhaps a whole village. Cole looked surprised at the kid.
"Wait, don't talk to that boy!"
Cole pushed her away behind a couple of bushes. Phoebe sat confused in the grass and watched the boy who still hadn't see them. The young man seemed perfectly normal to Phoebe and she turned again to Cole.
"What? You're affraid he's a demon who will blow us up?" Phoebe asked, remembering how overprotective Cole sometimes could be.
"Eh...maybe, that boy...that's me."
A/N: Sorry for the bit lousy spell, but I'm not so good at riming in English. But as reassurance I can say that I'm not going to have to write another spell in this story. Okay, that's all I'm going to say about the course of Between Good And Evil for now. Till the next update!