A/N – Thanks for all your reviews, you encouraged me to update. So, chapter four is ready! Enjoy
Ps: sorry if I made some grammer mistakes
Chapter 4. Consequences
Golden swirls appeared in the manor living room and materialized into the girls.
"Paige, thanks godness!" cried Phoebe pulling Paige into a thight embrace "we've been looking for you"
"What took you so long?" moked Paige hugging Piper
"Sweetie," began Phoebe "are you ok, did Co-, Cole do something to you, did he hurt you-"
Paige looked warmly at Phoebe and took her hands into hers "I'm ok, hopefully you've arrived in time" she giggled
"Yeah, a couple of minutes later and we'd get to see you," Piper chuckled "and Cole getting busy!" she laughed and looked at Paige who grew pinker any second "just joking sis!"
"Anyway-" Phoebe broked the silence "we have to find a way to vanquish him, quickly before he gets Paige – again"
"You're right" her younger sister said "what about the spell to destroy the source, maybe?" shed looked at both Phoebe and Piper who nodded
"I don't think it will work" said Piper "and we don't even know how the heck did he 'revived'!" Piper joined her sister in the living room
"Wait – " the middle sister looked suspiciously at Piper "when Cole shimmered here you said that you've already seen him!"
Piper sighed and turned to Phoebe putting the coffee she was drinking on the table near the sofa "right. Remember when I almost died last year, and you searched for Leo because the Elders sent him without any memory far away?"
"Yeah…but I still don't understand" said Paige sitting on the cozy sofa
"I wasn't quite unconcious, I was there – in the room but you couldn't see me in the spirit world, and guess who stayed with me?"
"Cole?" asked a shocked Phoebe
"Exactly" said Piper "He helped me there, he helped my spirit return to my body"
"Cole- good?" exclamed Paige
"I don't think he's good anymore" began Phoebe "He's now alive and he said we cannot vanquish him" she sighed "it's a nightmare"
"Don't lose your hope, people!" said Piper "We won't quit and let him kill us! We won't let him take Paige! We're the Charmed Ones for god's sake!" Piper rose and approached Phoebe
"Piper's right" said Paige "we need to find a way to destroy him – forever, and we'll need the power of three to do this"
"Allright. I'll go check on the book" Piper turned to Phoebe "and you'll go prepare some potions"
"And I'll – "
"You'll get some rest, Paige, you need it" Piper turned to Paige "but first we need to be sure he won't come here. He'll come looking for you"
"But why? Why me, he hates me!" protested Paige
Piper giggled "I think he has…a crush on you"
Paige sent Piper a death glare and continuated "that's not funny Piper"
"You're right it's not, but until he gives us a more specified answer , we have to keep you away from him"
"He won't give us an answer because we'll sent his demon's ass to hell by then!" said Paige and followed her older sister to the Attic, climbing up the stairs.
They entered the attic and went straight to the Book of Shadows. "I don't think we'll find anything here" Paige sighed and turned to the book "last time we vanquished Cole -"
"You and the other Phoebe and Piper from Cole's 'perfect plane' vanquished him" said Piper
"Same" Paige started "he wasn't immortal there and that's why we could vanquish him!"
"I know sweetie," Piper said and looked at Paige "don't lose your calm yet, we'll find a way – and I promise he won't hurt you anymore!"
Their talk was interupted by a shimmering. Cole appeared in the middle of the Attic, smiling "I knew you'd come here" he said "I would have thought you smarter. Piper, but I clearly see that I was wrong" Cole turned from Piper to Paige who startled by his presence, jumped in surprise but quickly regain self-control "Okay, Cole, let's be rezonable people, we want you dead – and by dead I mean not to see you again, dead! And you want…?"
Cole laughed "Oh, Paige, dear Paige, I want you, haven't you figured out by now, I thought I married a smart witch"
"You hate me, I hate you, why do you want me! All the time when you were with Phoebe, you wanted me killed, dead, and now you say you want me?" she cried and Piper looked at her worried "calm down, sweetie, don't lose your temper, that's what he wants" she whispered
"Cole" said Piper "it's time to tell us; how did you return here? And save your lust for Paige, you know it's not true, what's the real reason for this appearance?
He smiled "I'm afraid I don't have to tell you that, but,"he paused "my desire for Paige is a strong reason for this". Cole wasn't paying attention that another person just entered the attic.
"I don't believe this crap Cole" the middle sister said
Cole turned behind him and saw Phoebe armed with potions. "Hello Phoebe, nice to see you – again" he smirked and Phoebe just stared at her and turned to her sisters
Paige came closer to Piper and Phoebe as well. The three of them were standing in front of him, prepared with a potion which they didn't know if it will work, but not afraid, certainly not that.
"I need to talk to you, Paige" he simply said "alone"
"And why alone?" she replied
"Do you want to know why I came here, for you, or not?"
Paige remained silent for a few moments, glaring at her newly husband standing in front of her, and then turned back to her sisters "Fine. Piper, Phoebe,"
"No, Paige it's to dangerous!" said Phoebe
"It's my decision Pheebs, so please –"
Cole waited patiently while the three sisters talked
"Paige's right, I think she can handle this, we'll right in the living room, so if you don't come back in ten minutes, we'll come here" said Piper grabbing Phoebe's hand and leading them outside the attic;
Finally, they were alone;
"Why don't you sit down, it might take a while, you know" Cole said
"And when I turn my back, you could just kill me, right?" laughed Paige "no, thanks"
"I won't kill you honey"
"Don't call me 'honey' Cole, just say what do you want!" her eyes flashed angrily as she tightened her grip on the small veil inside her hand
"Fine" he looked in her hazel eyes, as Paige turned her look away from Cole, because she knew he was staring at her
"First, you cannot kill me, Paige" he began and sat on the old couch behind him
"And why not?" Paige moved near him
"Because – I'm dead"
"What - ?" Paige looked at him confused
"I'm not quite dead, but not alive either; you see when you vanquished me, three years ago, I was sent in the Purgatory but somehow, someone helped me, a bit, to escape" he sighed "And I'm not fully alive until I – " he rubbed his forehead hard regretting his last sentence.
"Until you…?" Paige raised an eyebrow
"Forget that," he said
"Who helped you then?" she asked angrily
"Someone who wanted me here"
"Who?"
"And why do you think I'm going to answer this question Paige?" he chuckled and realised that Paige was fussing all around the attic nervously. He kept staring at her moving body. She changed her clothes now, her wedding dress from her was changed with a blue shirt and dark blue jeans that fitted her perfectly. He imagined her fighting him again, in his arms as he enjoyed the struggle in his underworld suite. He grinned at this image but his daydream was interrupted by a yelling "Cole!"
He looked back at Paige and saw her angrier than she already was. "Yes baby?"
"Don't dare call me baby Cole!" her face was now darker as she looked at him "You are pathetic. What do you want for me? It's your lust speaking through you, and you want me to love you?" she frowned
"I'm not asking for love" he said
"But what do you want?" exasperation grew inside her as she said this last words almost killing him with her eyes
"I want you, I love you dammit!" he got up angrily and grabbed Paige by her neck, lifting her up. She gasped for air and struggled until Cole realised what he was doing.
Meanwhile, Phoebe and Piper heard Paige's struggle and without waiting any second, Piper blew up the door to the attic, the view in front of her shocking them. Cole grabbing Paige's neck and then shimmering away.
"Paige!"her two sisters came rushing at her and helped her lifting from the floor
"Are you allright sweety?" asked Piper
"Not sure" said Paige touching her neck and coughing she turned to them
"I'm going to kill him with my own hands that sick evil," Phoebe began
"We're going to vanquish him" Paige interrupted an angry Phoebe, Piper eyeing her "right now"
After a long conversation about Paige's wrong idea of talking to Cole in private, the three of them gathered in the living room for some cofee to stay up all night resuming later the search of a way to vanquish him.
Cole shimmered back to the Underworld, his face became darker as he remembered almost killing Paige. How could he so stupid? He completely forgot that Paige had to be alive if he wanted himself alive too.
He continuated to blame his stupidity until his thoughts were interrupted by a shimmering. Cole turned his look up and adressed to the figure that just bowed in front of him
"What?"
"They want to know if you made any progress in your search my Lord" the cloaked man said to him
Cole glared at the servant and noticed a scar on his shady face. The scar was bloody red and included all his right cheek and a part of his forehead. "Tell them to wait, I'll call them when I'll find it"
"The days are numbered"
"No need to explain, I know" Cole sighed "in a couple of days. I have a lead. That's all for now" he didn't want to anger him
The cloaked figure bowed again and dissppeared in swirl of black lights leaving Cole worried, sitting on his bed and meditating the posibilities to find the athame that is needed to bring him back to life in an ancient place somewhere in Europe.
An hour past and finally Cole decided it was better to resume his search in finding the dagger. He shimmered away leaving an old parchement on the bed that had written on a side a spell in an odd language not yet descifrated by him
End of chapter four
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