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Phoebe Turner Halliwell- The best fic you've ever read?Whoa!didn't see that one coming. Cole dead? ... I'm not going to tell that... at least not yet now.
Thanks to the people who are still reading this fic, because it's a complex story with a lot of twists. Just hang on, I think the best chapters are yet to come. This chapter became a bit more sisterly than I planned, but anyway...how would a world look like if Cole hadn't had his evil powers? Oh and before you get too confused please read the last sentence of this chapter... well, maybe you'll get even more confused after reading that... anyway, here's the chapter...
Phoebe stared with disbelief at the old woman, who wanted to shut the door.
"Wait! Wait," Phoebe shrieked, while the words of the woman still echod in her head.
"Do you know where they're now?"
"I'm sorry."
Phoebe looked dissapointed at the woman who couldn't help her. The old lady shut the door and Phoebe could only stand helplessly in front of it. What was she supposed to do now? She went to a world where clearly a lot of things were changed. She had no idea where her sisters could be and Cole probably died a long time ago without his powers.
She looked at the door of the manor. The manor had become her home and it somehow made her feel safe, although demons attacked this place often and often. She touched the door to feel the wood, maybe this was the last time she would be here. But to her surprise she didn't feel wood, she felt a shock.
She saw a woman walking with a removal box, she was walking slowly, maybe because the box was heavy or there lay something precious in it, to an impatiently waiting man who was sitting in a van. "That really was the last one," She heard the woman say vaguely. Then the woman arrived at a new house. She looked happily at it and Phoebe could see her face clearly now. The woman was Paige.
She blinked her eyes and she was again looking at the door of the manor, beginning to realize what she just had seen. It had been a while since she had had a premonition. Phoebe had recognized the new house of Paige, it wasn't far away from the manor, so she decided to walk.
While she walked, she observed the neighbourhood to see if there was any difference. Nothing seemed to be changed. The same houses, same gardens, same cars and same people as far as Phoebe could remember. It was just an ordinary day for all those people, they would eat, go to work, come home and at the end of the day they would fall asleep, waiting for the next day to come. Phoebe longed for an ordinary day, an ordinary day would be good for a change.
She stood in front of the house she had seen in her premonition and wondered why Paige had moved. Although the door was standing wide open, she rang the bell. However there was no reaction. She looked through the window, but no one seemed to be home. She did see the old familiar furniture in the room. After a short time of hesitation she went into the house.
Walking from the corrider to the living room she heard a low noise. It was surprizingly dark in the house, so it was hard to see what hadcaused that noise. Suddenly she saw a heavy colossus coming towards her. If she would have ducked the thing most likely would have hit her anyway, so she gave it a powerful kick through which the thing broke and fell on pieces on the floor.
"Stop, it's Phoebe," She heard a voice in the distance say.
She looked at the pieces of the floor, it was glass. They had attacked her with a mirror? Phoebe narrowed her eyes to see the mysterious figures in the dark. She looked right in their brown eyes.
"Paige...Prue?" She asked amazed.
"Are you crazy? We could have killed you. Why didn't you use the back-door?"
"The back-door?" Phoebe asked muddled, she still couldn't believe Prue was actually here, just standing in the same room as her.
Phoebe walked towards Prue and gave her a big hug. When Phoebe saw the confusion in the eyes of her sisters, she realized she was acting crazy for her in this life. So she gave Paige a big hug as well to make it less akward.
"Phoebe, we have to be careful, what if Belthazor attacked us?" Prue asked not very impressed with Phoebe's strange behaviourand with a severe look on her face atPhoebe. The imprudence of her sister could sometimes truly drive her mad.
"Belthazor?"
Paige and Prue looked surprised at Phoebe.
"The demon who has been attacking us the last few weeks," Paige explained.
"No, it can't be Belthazor," Phoebe shook her head, thinking back at Cole.
Prue and Paige exchanged a worried look to each other. Then Paige shrugged her shoulders and looked back at Phoebe, who was trying to understand this world she landed in.
"Shax, what happened to Shax?" Phoebe suddenly said, when she remembered the demon who had killed Prue.
"Shax, what's that? A new kind of milkshake?" Paige asked.
Phoebe stared with disbelief to Paige and then to Prue who didn't seem to know either who Shax was. Maybe Shax didn't exist or maybe he just hadn't attacked them yet.
"Are you alright, Phoebe?"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine," Phoebe answered Prue's question.
"Well, we'll better go to P3," Prue said, not completely convinced that Phoebe was alright. Meanwhile Paige walked to the corridor to get her coat.
"Oh, we're going to Piper?" Phoebe asked, wanting to see her absent other sister as well.
Prue stood still and looked at Phoebe. She was sure she had misunderstood the words of Phoebe. Her younger sister clearly had said something else than she had heard, Prue thought.
"Do you want to go to Piper?"
"Yes," Phoebe answered a bit uncertain, now Prue had asked this question.
"Okay, but we haven't got all day."
"Let's orb to it, I don't think there will be people right now," Paige said from out of the corridor, hearing the conversation.
While Prue and Phoebe just walked into the corridor to Paige, there came a shock on Prue's face after hearing Paige's words. Paige held her hand before her mouth, when she saw the look on Prue's face.
"I...I didn't mean to..." Paige stammered.
"Fine, we orb," Prue gave in reluctantly.
Phoebe didn't know what to think of what just had happened. It was for sure a lot of things had changed. She stood next to Paige, grabbed her hand and Prue held Paige's other hand. Then they orbed out of the dark house.
Fresh air, they were in the open air. The cold wind blew hard in their faces. ToPhoebe's astonishment they were at a graveyard. She saw the faces of Piper and Paige next to her, they both staredto a low spot in front of them with a sadnees in their eyes.
Phoebe looked in the same direction as her sisters. She let her eyes rest on the tomb-stonein front of her, reading the name she was affraid to read : Piper Halliwel.
"She died..."
She felt like she was stupid. Stupid to believe that all her three sister would be alive.
"But how..." Phoebe could hardly speak, tears were coming into her eyes. She knelt in front of the grave.
Her hands were lying on the tomb-stone and she felt a shock. The same shock she had felt by the manor.
She saw the attic of the manor. The door slammed open and Piper ran into the room heavily breathing. Piper glanced hastily through the Book of Shadows, while she sometimes looked up to the door, expecting to see someone. She reached out to her stomach and saw that her hand was covered with blood. She seemed to panic, she still hadn't found the right page in the book. A flaming light came towards her, although she moved away she felt the heat of the energy ball that had hit her. She fell on the floor and looked at the evil creature that had injured her. The demon was ready with a fire ball in his hands to attack again. Piper studied the face of her attacker accurately, she couldn't believe that this was her way to go. All she could think before she saw the fire coming to her and she closed her eyes for good was that she was going to be killed by Belthazor, who had seemed to be so harmless the first time she had seen him.
Anger filled Phoebe's heart, how could he have done such a thing?
"And Leo? Where's Leo?" Phoebe started to panic.
Paige and Prue were surprized by the question of their sister. What had gotten into her that she didn't know anything? She really wasn't fine at all.
"After Piper died he..." Paige began.
"...he lost his strength of will," Prue finished Paiges sentence and she looked hastily on her watch.
"You mean he died as well?"
"I really have to be in P3 now. Paige, take care of Phoebe, okay?" Prue said, while she gave a worried gaze at her sister.
Paige held Phoebe's hand and watched the tomb-stone of the sister she never had known, before they orbed back to their home. After a glass of water and some bites of a sandwich, Phoebe had somehow managed to calm down. She kept thinking that this wasn't her life, she was going to do everything she could to get out of here. Paige sat beside her in the kitchen.
"So now Prue is gone, when is Belthazor going to attack us next?" Paige asked curiously.
"How am I supposed to know?"
Paige rolled her eyes.
"Maybe because you're the witch with the premonitions."
"Yes, but I can't decide when I have a premonition about what I want to see."
Paige frowned her eyebrows and looked incredulously. She wondered if her sister was making a joke, but seeing her serious face Paige knew she wasn't.
"Yes, you can," Paige said.
Phoebe looked surprized at her younger sister. Paige gave a pervading gaze as return and was now wondering if Phoebe had fallen on her head and got amnesia. When Paige saw that Phoebe still had a questioning look on her face, she began to tell about last year.
"You've studied everything what's there to know about premonitions for one year."
Phoebe couldn't believe that she had done that willingly, but it did explain why she already had gotten two premonitions in the short period of time she was here.
"Why would I do that?" Phoebe asked, eagerly to know what kind of person she was in this world.
"Well, you had a lot of terrible dates for a long time and then you desperately wanted to know if you were ever going to find the love of your life so..."
"...I've studied premonitions for a year and now I can call a premonition everytime I want about everything I want," Phoebe completed the words of Paige.
"And did I see the love of my life in my premonitions?"
Paige shrugged her shoulders.
"You wouldn't tell. Are you sure you're alright?"
Just when Phoebe wanted to say something to reassure Paige she was fine, although she didn't feel fine at all, they heard a scream coming from the corridor. Paige and Phoebe ran to the corridor, seeing Prue... and Belthazor.
Paige reached out in the direction of Belthazor, there came blue sparkles out of her hands and to Phoebe's surprise the red demon stood still. Prue immediately ran to her sisters.
"You can freeze time?" Phoebe asked to Paige.
"Yes, what else should I do?"
This time it was Phoebe who shrugged her shoulders. Belthazor was slowly getting out of Paige's magic and was ready for a next attempt.
"Don't we have a spell we can use?" Phoebe asked her sisters.
"We're not going to use any spells," Prue screamed, the anger was clearly to be heard in her voice.
Phoebe looked at Prue like she was insane. They had been attacked by Belthazor for weeks now and they didn't have a spell or anything else to vanquish him? They had no plan at all. Everything that was magical seemed to be banned out of this house.
With spells or without spells she wasn't going to wait for her death, at least not without a fight. She jumped to the demon, hitting him on his chest.
Again a shock. She saw short images of innocent people screaming, looking scared at Belthazor. She saw images of him killing them. Then she saw Piper again on the attic, who looked hurt. And as last she saw other people, the most in dark places. When she saw that one of them was Shax, she knew that this were the demons he also had killed.
"Stop it," Phoebe said more to herself than to the demon. She didn't want to see more of the terrible things he had done.
Her smack against his chest didn't have an effect on him at all and now they were standing very close to each other. She looked with horror at him.
"Cole, what the hell have you done?" Phoebe yelled.
A burning flame appeared in the demon's hands. Phoebe looked in fear at the flame she had seen so many times before. He was going to kill her and there was nothing she could do. She saw a flash of black coming towards Belthazor. A moment later she realized that Prue had thrown the piano at the demon by using her telekinesis, when she saw Belthazor lying helplessly underneath the musical instrument. His dark red face began to change into a human form. She looked into his blue eyes.
"You're not Cole..."
