TrueLoveLivesForever - Nice you guessed how they were going to react. That must mean I didn't write them out of character. This isn't my favorite chapter of the story anymore, because I changed very much in the coming chapters. My favorite chapter is now7 or 10 actually.
ColePhoebe4eva - Hey Loz, cool you registered. Yup, Phoebe isn't the evil one of the family for a change. :)
Phoebe Turner Halliwell - Thanks for saying I'm a great writer. That really means a lot to me. Well, Cole & Phoebe (from the past/present) are going to kiss again, but not in this chapter yet.
mandymoore1 - Thanks for your review.
Barb6 - That was just the reaction I was hoping for. I loved writing about Phoebe and Cole being happy together and having a family. I'm glad you loved their family.
You people did like the fights between Peyton and Justin. :D I'm still making it up now though, because I said so in last chapter.
I wanted to post this chapter sooner, but I changed this chapter a lot from what I actually planned at first. But I think it's definitely for the better.
I wanted a lot too happen in one chapter, but it became one very long chapter, so I decided to split that one chapter in two. And here's the first part of it. The second part I haven't finished yet (... else I would have posted it as well.)
"Evil?"
"Evil is just relative. Everyone decides for oneself what's good or evil. If you decide something is evil you reject it, when something is good you accept it," Peyton interrupted them.
She overheard their conversation as she walked to the living room.
"Sweetie, they tried to kill us several times. I think you can call them evil then," The future Phoebe said to her daughter with a sadness in her voice.
Phoebe still wasn't over the shock of hearing her sisters were evil.
"But... how can they be evil?" She asked.
The future Phoebe sat uncomfortably on the couch. She didn't like to think about her sisters, talking about them was something she liked to avoid. After years of trying to make her sisters good again and failing so many times, she gave up. Nowadays she pretended her sisters didn't exist and sometimes she would even forget about them... for a brief moment.
The future Cole saw his wife struggling to say something, so he began to talk for her.
"Argentus turned them evil."
Cole and Phoebe were a bit surprized by this news. They wouldn't have thought the demon they saw this morning could be so strong to affect their whole live.
"So that's why we're here... we only have to vanquish him in the present and we're done," Phoebe smiled, she wouldn't have thought it was going to be so easy.
The couple from the future looked to each other and Phoebe didn't know what to think of it. Had she said something wrong? Cole noticed the bit shocked expression on their future-selves' faces as well, which gave him an omnious feeling. The future couple restored their faces soon back to normal.
"That must be the reason why you're here," Cole from the future stated calmly.
Peyton followed their conversation and now there was a silence she suddenly realized why she came here in the first place.
"Oh, what I wanted to say was that in the kitchen..."
The future Phoebe jumped up from the couch.
"No! My chicken!" She yelled, while she ran to the kitchen.
They all looked at her. The old Cole brought his attention back to their conversation.
"If you're going to vanquish Argentus, I shall take you to the manor."
"I can orb," Cole said.
"That's not going to work. The manor is protected from good magic."
The Phoebe from the future came dissapointed back from the kitchen. Her chicken obviously didn't make it.
"Don't worry about it. I'll get some food on my way back," Her husband reassured her.
"You're going to the manor?" she asked.
"Yes, if that's okay with you..."
The future Phoebe looked hard into the eyes of her man before she nodded. She kissed him. The three of them left the apartement. Just as Cole wanted to orb them downstairs, the door of the apartement opened. It was Peyton.
She grabbed something out of her pocket and laid it into the hand of her father who didn't know what to expect.
"I kind of broke Justin's skateboard and... well he looked very sad then. And I know we don't have much money, so... well... I thought you could use my pocket-money for a new skateboard," Peyton said.
Her father smiled to her and gave the money back to her.
"That isn't necessary."
Peyton kept looking at her father. She hesitated a moment before she accepted the money she had given to him. She watched her father, Phoebe and Cole as they orbed. After looking at the money in her hand, she put it back in her pocket. She opened the door to the apartement again, back to her family.
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A young man, about 18 years old, welcomed them into his room. They arrived to this students' club after a walk. The young man had brown hair and hadn't even been so surprized to see them. His room was a total mess, which wasn't very different from the other student rooms here.
"This is Chris," Cole from the future introduced them, "... and Chris, this is me and Phoebe from the past."
"Nice to meet you."
"So you're time-traveling, how does that feel like?" Chris asked curiously.
When Cole wanted to answer something, his future-self interrupted him. Cole from the future knew they hadn't much time to stay here. If someone would see them and recognize the ressemblance between them, they would get suspicous. Besides it was getting late and if Cole and Phoebe were going to the manor, it would be very dangerous for them to be there in the middle of the night. Around that point of time there would be the most demons in the manor.
Cole asked for the key of the manor and Chris gave it after he found it lying under a couple of books. He didn't ask why they needed the key. He didn't use it much anyway, seeing his parents wasn't something he liked to do. They wanted him to kill people so they could spread the power of their family. But he couldn't do that, as a consequence they banned him out of their lives.
"Why does he have a key of the manor?" Phoebe asked.
Cole and Chris exchanged a wondering look to each other. How much could they tell?
"...you'll find out in the future," Chris decided to say.
"We have to go. Sorry for the quick visit, Chris," Cole apologized.
"You're welcome anytime you want, unc... uh... Cole."
Cole from the future walked fast with Phoebe and Cole outside. The manor wasn't far away from the students' club. They stopped by the back-door of the manor. It was time for the Cole from the future to say goodbye.
"Promise you make sure that they don't see you. They're very powerful and will kill you in a blink of an eye," He warned them.
He handed them the key over."Now you can go into the manor. Cole, can I talk to you for a moment?"
Phoebe and Cole looked surprized to each other, before Cole walked away from her to his future-self.
Something changed in the way he looked. There was nothing left from the way he had smiled to his children and wife. He looked serious now. From a happy, tired father he changed into a sad man. But he accepted it. This was the way it was going to be. The Cole from the future gave a potion to Cole.
"You're going to need this if you want to vanquish Argentus. It took me years to make this and then when I wanted to use it... Phoebe got pregnant of Justin... she forbade it... But it's going to be for the best... There's no turning back after you'll use it."
Cole looked confused to the potion in his hands.
"You'll understand... sooner than you want."
With these last words the Cole from the future left, back to his home and family.
"What was that all about?" Phoebe asked when Cole returned to her.
"I'm not sure," Cole answered honestly, while he felt the potion in his jacket pressing against his chest.
Cole and Phoebe sneaked into the manor, which had changed a lot, there were statues and paintings glittering in all the rooms, many of them were made of gold. There wasn't a familiar decoration or furniture to be seen that had been in this house when Phoebe still had lived here. Her sisters sure were much wealthier than they were in this time. It looked like they could afford everything they wanted.
They heard laughing and talking coming out the living room. The room they had to walk past to get to the attic. Luckily there wasn't much light in the manor. In a glimpse Phoebe saw her two sisters talking to some demons. She almost hadn't recognized them, their appearances changed a lot. They wore all kinds of jewellery, which contrasted to their black outfits.
Cole took hold of Phoebe's hand to get her along. They both walked silently upstairs. The first floor was just as out of all recognition as the ground-floor. They finally arrived at the attic.
It was amazing to see the thousand of potions, spells and books stored in this chamber. The Book of Shadows was in the centre of the room. However the book wasn't changed at all. Phoebe went to a rack with potions, while Cole inspected a closet full of spells.
They were looking for a way to get back to the present and something to destroy Argentus. How on earth were they're going to find the right tools between all this stuff?
Phoebe grabbed a potion out of the rack and showed it to Cole. It was the potion she used for Argentus this morning, which went right through him. She still didn't know how that had been possible.
She only had read the page of Argentus quickly this morning, because she was distracted by Cole's presence and Piper already read it before her. Phoebe decided to go to the Book of Shadows. Carefully she touched it's front side. She thought the book would jump away from her, but nothing happened. The book was still good. She turned the leaves till she found the right page.
"Argentus... a silver demon... shows up by distrust... by attacking him with magical powers, those magical powers go away..." Phoebe read softly aloud.
She read nothing new. The same spell and potion were still in the book. No remarks or warnings. She read the page again and again, but she didn't find anything.
Cole had been searching in the closet with the spells, but he had just as bad luck as Phoebe. He found spells for preventing rain, turning a frog into a horse and killing witches with a sneeze, which were all useless.
He went to another closet. This closet was full of potions. He soon noticed all the potions in this closet were to go to another time. They were sorted by data, from 1500 million before Christ till 30000 million after Christ. However it was still hard to find the right potion quickly between all the others.
After Phoebe had read the page for the hundreth time she suddenly thought of something. It was actually really stupid she hadn't thought about that before, but maybe there was nothing written there. She flipped over the page and to her relief that she found something there was a little sentence written.
"That can't be possible," Phoebe stared at the page.
"What?" Cole asked, while he just grabbed the potions they needed out of the closet.
"It says here that if you want to vanquish Argentus..."
The door swung open and they stood face to face with a man with blond curls. His surprizement quickly changed into a grin. He laughed unpleasuntly. He didn't expect to see his aunt and uncle here, but now they were here, he was going to make the best out of it. Torturing people was something he loved to do.
The man was about to throw a fire ball as Cole threw one of the two potions to go back in time to Phoebe.
"Door!" Cole screamed.
With the powers he got from Paige, Cole made the door swung to right in front of the nose of Wyatt. Cole looked to Phoebe who catched the potion and now ripped the page about Argentus off the Book of Shadows.
Wyatt stood astonished at the other side of the door that hit him. He hadn't born in mind his uncle would have magical powers. He blasted the door into million of a pieces, seeing the two people in the room drinking a potion. He threw fire balls at them, but they dissapeared before they could get hit, leaving Wyatt angrily alone in the room.
"What the hell..." He mumbled.
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"I've studied real hard, really."Cole nodded as a sign he believed his 12-year old son, against his better judgement. It was a fact that his son didn't study at all, why would he? He already know what the questions and answers were in advantance. Cole would never say it aloud, but if he had those powers he would do the precise same thing.
Teachers called Justin a wonderchild and Justin loved all those laudations. Children envied him for always getting an A+ and some teachers were desperated to prove that Justin was a fraud, but they never found evidence.
"Good night," Cole said to his son.
"Wait," Justin said from out of his bed, while Cole already wanted to step out of the room.
"Dad?"
He looked worried to his son and saw the big dark eyes which were filled with fear.
"Is there something wrong?" Cole asked walking back to his child who doubted a bit. He couldn't tell it to his mother, because he didn't want to worry his mother if it wasn't necessary. A quality he inherited from his father. He had to tell his fears to someone, he had tell his father.
"When I... I wanted to know what was going to happen tomorrow, but... I don't see anything, it's all black. Is there going to happen something terrible? Should I have done something to stop..."
"No, there's nothing going to happen. You're probably just a little bit sick, then your powers go off," Cole reassured him.
The boy smiled at his father. It was disturbing to see how easily the boy believed the lie. It was a good thing Justin couldn't read thoughts.
"Good, because I don't want anything to change, not even Peyton... but don't tell her I said that."
"I won't."
Cole hugged his son, knowing that it maybe was the last time he could do this. He held him very tight, but after a few seconds he had to let go of his child, before he would get suspicous.
"I love you," Cole said.
"Love you too."
The father tucked his son in and the son closed his eyes, free from care what was going to happen tomorrow. Cole kept sitting with his son for a while, seeing how peacefully he fell a sleep. Then he stood up and saw his wife looking at him who was standing in the doorway. He walked towards her with a smile on his face, she still looked beautiful after all those years. In his eyes she would always be beautiful.
She already had wished Justin goodnight before Cole did. She had seen something was troubling his mind, but she couldn't put her finger on it. Now she had seen how Cole somehow had managed to reassure their child. He was a better father than she ever could have imagined. He looked so sweet when he was with the children. In her eyes he always was sweet, even after knowing all his dark sides.
She closed the door to the bedroom of Justin. Beside the room of Justin there were the rooms of Peyton and Pearl who already went to bed earlier. It gave Cole and Phoebe a feeling of bliss, knowing that their children were safely sleeping behind those doors.
Cole put his arms around her and saw her neck slowly fading away. Phoebe felt her toes and legs getting very light. She looked at Cole. His body also dissapeared slowly.
"I guess we've changed the past," Phoebe said Cole's mind aloud.
They didn't need to say anything to each other anymore. They knew each other, they knew the other loved them, they had no regrets. In the last seconds they had their lips touched each other one more time before they vanished forever.
A/N:I know it was a bit mysterious, but maybe you can already correctly guess what's in the potion the future Cole gave to Cole. Let me know what you thought of this chapter...