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"Nothing, nada, zip, zilch." Piper closed the back cover of the book of shadows in frustration. "I'm sorry Phoebe, but I've gone through the book page by page, word by word twice but there's nothing about how to bring someone back from the cosmic void." She got up out of her chair to place the book back onto its familiar stand before sitting back down.

The three sisters were in the attic each with piles of magic books surrounding them. It has been a week since Piper told Phoebe about her encounter with Cole. They've spent more times than not in the days since trying to find a spell or potion to bring him back.

They had used the Power of Three and tried numerous spells their ancestors had developed over hundreds of years without any success. The magic calling magic spell hadn't worked. Maybe there's no magic in the void. The time-travelling incantation was a lost cause, since Cole was not lost in time but in space.

Their best chance had been the 'To Find a Lost Love' spell. Hoping to astral project Phoebe to where Cole is then have her sister call her back along with Cole. But that had garner nothing more than a slight tingling sensation on Phoebe's part. Resulting in her body flickering like an old projection film movie but going nowhere.

"I wish we can go to magic school," Phoebe said. "There's thousands of books in that place. There's gotta to be something about the cosmic void."

"Phoebe, we've had this discussion already." Paige said tossing another book onto the ever growing pile. "The demons have the run of the place now. We can't go back, it's too dangerous."

"I know, I know." Phoebe sighed burying her head in her hands. "But we've gone through everything we can get our hands on and nothing has worked. I can't… I won't accept that Cole is out there somewhere and there's nothing I can do to bring him back. We're meant to be together, there has to be a way."

Just then a strong breeze blew through the attic flipping the pages of the book of shadows. The sisters rush over to look. Hoping there was some minute detail they had missed when they went through the book that would help. The book had settled on the spell to summon Belthazor. "We've tried that already. It didn't work." Phoebe said dejectedly.

The breeze whispered in Gram's voice 'Look within your heart.'

"Okay, can you get more cryptic?" Phoebe stare up into the ceiling in slight annoyance.

'Look within your heart. Trust your love. Have faith in your bond.'

With that, the attic settled into quietness once again. It was a while before anyone spoke, taking time to digest the meaning of the words. "Maybe we've been going about this the wrong way." Piper mused. "Maybe we don't need the Power of Three."

"What do you mean? What's more powerful than the Power of Three?" Paige asked confused.

"The power of love." Piper said simply then continued, "Phoebe, you said you and Cole have a special bond. Something that goes beyond the physical, that transcends life and death. Maybe you should use that bond to call for him."

Phoebe looks at her sister contemplatively.

15 minutes later Phoebe stands in front of a circle of candles she set up on the attic floor, her sisters standing off to the side offering quiet support. Holding the spell she had re-written from the Belthazor summon, Phoebe took a deep breath and open her heart and chanted:

Magic forces hear my cry, forgive my trespasses let my dream take flight;
Reaching out through space and light;
Be he far or be he near;
Bring to me now my one true love here.

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A/N: I think I'll stop here. I had intended for this chapter to be longer but well I'm a really slow writer and it's getting late. So I'll just post what I have for now and write the rest in the next chapter. Cheers!