Okie Dokie, I have so many thoughts brewing in my mind about this story. Thank you so much for your awesome reviews… Keep it up! This will most likely be my last update in a while.. Damn finals :P I should be studying right now but if I didn't get these ideas down I'll have them forgotten, so you guys got lucky! lol Hope you guys like this chapter! Here it is:

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Chapter 3: A Fairytale Love

He shuddered, realizing that the loss of that spark was mostly his fault. She hadn't said anything so he continued, "We can't continue talking about this now, we don't have the time."

"What are you talking about? What do you mean, not enough time for what?"

"Just sit down," Cole motioned towards the couch across from the chair he had just sat down in himself, "I'll explain everything."

"Phoebe! Phoebe!" She called as she raced down the staircase, almost tripping over her sisters unconscious body, "Oh my God! Phoebe! Wake up!" She picked up her body and began to cradle it next to her, tears streaming down her face, "Come on Phoebe! LEO! GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE! …Leo… " sobs prolonging her words.

Paige tried to heal her herself, it wouldn't work, "Damn it! I'm part whitelighter too! Why the hell do I have these powers if I can't even use them! What are you trying to do to us!" she cried to the heavens above, "…why…" Paige continued to sob while holding Phoebe close to her.

Phoebe sat apprehensively on the sofa, not taking her eyes off Cole. When she was situated she spoke up, "Okay, you said you'd explain things, let's her it."

"Okay, well first of all, your body is not dead. At least not yet anyway. We have some time before that happens. For now, you are stuck here, a parallel universe, between life and death so to speak. Those thorn demons you encountered, you didn't know that the females could actually fire thorns, did you?" Phoebe shook her head, he continued, "I didn't think so. I noticed you hadn't checked the Book of Shadows for.."

"What! Checked! You've been watching us!" Phoebe butted in angrily.

"At times I've checked in. I can control at which times I can view the real world, such as now, we can't. Right now it's just us."

"But you've been WATCHING us!" Phoebe couldn't grasp it.

"Just think of me as your guardian angel."

"You're no angel, Cole."

"Neither are you."

"Plus, we have Leo looking out for us."

"Oh yeah? Where is he half the time? Being an Elder, an Avatar, missing, dead? I can't keep track lately."

"That's not the point, I don't need my ex-husband spying on me and my relationships."

"Oh please… It's not like you're on my own personal Tivo, get over yourself. Look we don't have time for this. Shall I continue?"

Phoebe nodded reluctantly.

"Well those demons you attacked, and apparently attacked you, they were extremely dangerous, not upper level dangerous, but their thorns are lethal to a broken hearted witch. Much like that of a darklighter's arrow is to a whitelighter. They feed upon loneliness, desperation, and heartache, quite like a banshee actually," Cole chuckled, and Phoebe rolled her eyes, "The witch becomes comatose to the outside world, while her spirit, or soul, travels to a different plain where there, they have a time span of seven hours to figure out… how can I put this… How to love again. Most witches perish because they are not able to do this, their heart is beyond repair. But you have me. Are you following?"

Phoebe sorted out all of her questions and thoughts that were flying to her, she had been following quite well actually. After seven years of being a witch, you catch on quick to things of this sort. She had been ready to nod in agreement until she heard the last part, "Wait, how can you help me?" she said stubbornly.

"I'm here to help you break the wall you have surrounding your heart."

"What wall?"

"The wall you built. And the one that I am responsible for. I hurt you so bad Phoebe and I am so sorry for that. I thought I was making the right choices when I was with you but it seems like when all I did was try to protect you, I did just the opposite, and that was never my intention. I loved you with all my heart, and you used to love me at one time. So I'm here now to help you break the wall that I helped you build."

"God Cole," Phoebe looked bewildered, "I need some air!" she ran out of the living room and down the main hall.

"Phoebe NOO!" before he barely got his last word out Phoebe had flew back across the hall and landed on the floor where, in reality, her unconscious body once lay.

Paige had managed to bring Phoebe's wilting body to a couch in the living room. She wasn't dead, but she was barely alive. Paige had no idea what to do, Leo wasn't around, neither was Piper. If only she had got to Phoebe sooner, she could have saved her. Now she was in some parallel universe, and more than likely, she would never be back.

Paige was freaking out, thoughts were flying through her mind, what the hell was she going to do? There was no one to call, Darryl wasn't on good terms with them, Victor was with the kids so she couldn't call him, she had no one… One name then flooded her mind, one that said he'd always be there for her. She knew she shouldn't and that she probably had no right to even say his name, but she was desperate.

"Kyle," she said slowly low at first, but her voice grew steadily louder, "Kyle! Kyle! I need you! Please!" the hint of sobs could still be traced to her voice.

After a few moments, Paige stared down defeated, he hadn't come. She hadn't expected him to, but there would always be that hope in her, that hope that he would once again come to her rescue. 'I guess I was wrong,' she thought.

Then almost instantaneously, a mass of electric blue orbs erupted next to Paige. They formed he shape of a well built man with ruffled dark brown hair.

"What is it Paige? What happened?" he said with as much concern as Paige felt for her sister.

Paige said nothing. Instead she stood up and threw her arms around the man and broke down. Her head sunk deep into his shoulder and his arms automatically wrapped securely around her, pulling her closer to him. As she wept into his chest she could feel her knees start to give way, she was getting weak, but she knew that she was safe, he would never let her fall.

Phoebe got up for what it felt like the thousandth time that day and dusted herself off. "You want to tell me what the bloody hell just happened!" She was out of breath and didn't feel like screaming anymore, actually she didn't think she had the strength to.

"You cant leave the house, you're kind of attached to your body, you have a limit of how much space there is between the two of you."

"Damn it, I thought ghosts could go wherever they wanted to."

"They can, but remember, you're not a ghost."

"I'll try and keep that in mind," she still wasn't being pleasant with Cole, his explanation had gotten to her, but she wouldn't let it show.

"Okay, may I keep going now?"

"Sure." she spoke bluntly.

"I know what happened to Leo…"

"WHAT!"

"Will you let me continue, For God's sake Phoebe, can't a man get a good word in around here?"

Phoebe merely nodded.

"The Elders took him and erased his memory. They needed him to make a decision once and for all, you guys or them."

Phoebe was stunned, "but Leo would never pick them, he'd never leave his family."

"But without his memory, he only has his instincts and wherever they tell him to go. He has no recollection of his family whatsoever. Truthfully, I believe the Elders have taken advantage of the situation and have been trying to convince him to go with them."

"But that means that he doesn't know about magic either, how can they convince him to be an Elder?"

"They can explain to him about the 'greater good'" Cole used finger quotations to stress the two words, "they don't even have to tell him about magic."

"So they're playing dirty!" Phoebe was outraged. Nobody had the right to do this to Leo, to Piper, to their love. Especially the Elders, for all they had already done to them.

"I'm not sure, but from what I can tell, they're desperate. That whole mess with the Avatars really screwed them up."

Phoebe shot him a dirty look, then squinted her eyes in effort to understand the situation, "Hold up… How do you know all this?"

"I have my sources," Phoebe looked at him angrily, a look filled with discontent, and he realized instantly what he said, "Sorry, wrong choice of words. Demons sometimes pass through here, some hiding, some are just making their way to another plain, and some are moving on to another world. Most of the time it's just me though. Before you came, I had been checking up on things around her," Phoebe still wasn't comfortable with the fact that he had a sneak peak into their lives, he could tell, "I noticed that the Elders wanted to see Leo and I got curious."

"Curious?" She lifted an eyebrow, engaging a suspicious look towards Cole.

"Yes, so I kind of followed him. No one would know I was there. From what I saw, they took him to another state and are trying to convince him that he has a higher calling or something.

"Oh my God! So we might never see him again?" She wasn't thinking about herself, more of Piper, what would her sister do without the love of her life.

"I highly doubt that. Piper and…" he paused for a moment as if struggling to say the name, "… Drake are hot on his trail," his momentary pause had not gone unnoticed by Phoebe yet he continued, "Plus, as you said, there's no way Leo would leave his family, and when Piper finds him, I'm pretty sure there's a good chance his memories could come flooded back. I'd actually count on it. A love like Piper and Leo's, its epic. It's the kind of love that little girls dream about, a fairytale love. They're like Romeo and Juliet or Jack and Rose. True, they did end in tragedy but it doesn't mean that Piper and Leo will. I know we were doomed from the start but… their love is what we should have had."

"We did have that love Cole," she looked at him with the first bit of sincerity since their eyes had met a little over an hour ago, "We were just a little star-crossed." she added a slight smirk, the one that made him weak in the knees.

'God, not again,' he thought to himself, for he was once again he was under her spell.

Subconsciously, she was under his too, but she would never ever admit it.

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