K guys, sorry it took so long for me to post… kind of a long week :P But I got m very first vinyl! YAY! Anyways, enough bout me and my boring life and back to the oh-so dramatic lives of the Charmed ones. Please review it guys!
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Chapter 5: Let Me Feel
"No where near Phoebe, but we need to go, we need to help find Piper and Leo."
"Okay," Paige replied innocently nodded her head, "But first…" Paige made her way over to Phoebe's body and gently placed a kiss on the top of her head, "I love you Phoebe, don't give up."
Paige walked back over to Kyle and took his hand in hers, it fit so perfectly. He brought her hand to his lips and kissed it gently, and with that both vanished into blue orbs.
Phoebe kissed him with every emotion she held within her body. She didn't want this to end. She wasn't even sure she wanted to go back to her own plain anymore. She knew she had to, for her sisters, but it didn't change the fact that the love of her life was here, and she was more in love with him now than she had ever been. Suddenly she felt another passion brewing in her body.
She broke the kiss long enough to pant to Cole, "Do you think my body will let us get to my bedroom?"
Cole, also panting, nodded, "I think we can make it."
In an instant, Cole and Phoebe vanished from the living room.
Cole and Phoebe lay entangled in each other's arms. Both wrapped up in each others essences, alone in their own little world. Phoebe's head lay on Cole's chest, tucked under his chin, and she was gently stroking the hair which resided on her lover's body.
Cole lay still, his arm protectively wrapped around Phoebe, pulling her closer, as if someone would come and take her away from him. He intensely listened to each breath she took, he waited for each exhale, and anticipated each new inhale. She looked so peaceful, more peaceful than he had seen her in months… years maybe. Suddenly her petite figure started to shaking, "Phoebe?" he questioned, a touch of concern in his voice. He looked down onto her face, she was laughing.
"How did I not expect that this was going to happen?" she giggled, cuddling deeper into him.
"Well would you really predict that we'd end up sleeping together between all the yelling? But then again you are supposed to be the one with the premonitions here," Cole also began to chuckle.
"Well, you alwaysdid havethis funny way of keeping me on the edge of my seat," Phoebe lifted her head and looked lovingly into his pools of blue, "How much do you still love me, after everything I mean, everything that I did you, to us, to our family."
"Take love, multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever.. and you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for you," He looked back with just as much affection as she did.
"Wow, quoting Brad Pitt movies I see. Did we watch that movie together?"
"What? Meet Jack Black?" Phoebe burst into hysterics, "What?" he questioned.
"Joe," Cole still wore a confused look upon his face, "It's Meet Joe Black, the movie title. How is it that you recite full quotes but you cannot even remember the movie's title?"
Cole also began to laugh, "Well I tend to remember the important things, titles don't count. And to answer your question, no, we didn't watch that movie together, we were too busy watching that horrid film… ohh what was it's name? Ohh yes, Kill It Before It Dies!"
"Hey," She playfully slapped him on the chest and he mocked being hurt, "That movie was really good, and that's how you came back to me the first time, you remember that?"
"How could I forget? And how could I not come back to you, I mean, you were so swell Sally M… ohh I mean Phoebe," He grinned seductively.
"Stop making fun!" she hit him again and he laughed at her this time, "And if I remember correctly, watching that movie wasn't all we were busy with," she smiled, biting her lip and raising an eyebrow. She leaned towards him, inching their lips closer and closer.
"Oh yeah?" he tilted his head forward.
"Oh yeah!" She added before their lips collided and pulled the bed sheet over their heads.
"God!" Piper yelled as Paige orbed four figures into the living room, "That is the LAST time we deal with any Elder. At this moment we cut ALL ties!"
"Calm down Piper, it's okay," A masculine figure said as he walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her. Piper turned around and looked into the warn eyes of her husband, Leo.
"I know, it'd just that, we were so close to losing you this time. We almost didn't make it. I don't know what the boys and I would have done without you."
Flashback
Three people were standing high on top of the Golden Gate Bridge shouting to the heavens.
"Bring him down here now! Or I swear to God I'll find a way up there and blow up all your asses!" A feminine figure yelled.
"Now Piper, no need for language," another two figures formed on the bridge from lightning blue orbs. One man being much older than the other, the older man speaking.
"Leo," Piper said softly.
"I'm sorry, do I know you?" The last four words broke Piper's heart to pieces and she could feel that she was on the verge of tears.
"You should, she's your wife! But no, you wouldn't know that because someone here has been brainwashing you to leave your life! You have a family Leo!" Paige struggled to regain her brother-in-law.
"Is this true?" Leo asked the Elder standing next to him.
"Parts, but Leo, you've already chosen the greater good. You can help so many people by coming with me, even your family. They will know that you are safe and you can keep them safe. You can have immortality."
Paige had to admit, this guys was good, but he wasn't going to be better than Paige Mathews, oh no he wasn't, "Le-"
She was stopped by Leo raising a hand to silence her. So this was it, she thought, he hadn't chosen his family?
"There, I knew you would make the right decision." the older Elder said.
"Yeah," Leo spoke quiet and calmly, "Me too." He looked to the man at his side and instead of orbing away with him, he walked past the elder and wrapped his arms around an unsuspecting Piper and catching her lips in his. She put her arms around his neck and pulled him closer to her, deepening the kiss. When they broke apart, he looked into his love's eyes and whispered, "I know I made the right decision. Let's go home."
End of Flashback/
"That doesn't matter now Piper," Leo said, "It's over, we just have to concentrate on Phoebe now, and getting her home."
"That could be easier said than done," Paige was the one to reply, "We only have about an hour till her seven hours are up, let's hope that she made some progress wherever she is and that she's not still stuck in some rut that she's been in since He Who Must Not Be Named"
"Who's that?" Kyle asked.
"Long story, I'll explain later," Paige said as she began to once again go upstairs to check the book, which she knew had nothing useful in it. But it was the only thing she could think of to do for her big sister.
'I love you, you know that right? I've always loved you, and I always will. I'll remember this moment for the rest of my life." she added with a smile as she finished getting dressed.
"No you won't" Cole said tentatively, almost in a whisper, while buttoning his shirt.
"What did you say?" unsure of what he said.
"I said that you're not going to remember this, any of this. You won't remember me or any of the moments we've shared. You will only take back your heart, barrier free, by which you will be free to love. Not me, but someone else, someone very lucky."
"You mean I'm not going to remember anything from the past six hours! That everything that has happened between us is all for nothing? What the Hell?"
"Wow, you catch on quick," Cole mentioned jokingly.
"This is not a time for sarcasm Cole… How am I supposed to deal with this!"
"You don't, and I'm sorry I can't help you more… but there's nothing I can do, you leave in less than an hour, leaving the memories of your past seven hours behind." Cole looked to his feet. He couldn't bare to see the disappointment in her eyes. He didn't want to witness the fact that he failed her again.
"Or I don't," Phoebe added hopefully.
Cole retreated his head quickly, unsure of what she had just said, or meant, "What are you talking about Phoebe? I can't change the fact that you leave without your memories."
"I know you can't," She gazed into his eyes, "but I was thinking that maybe… I could stay here, with you."
"You're crazy Phoebe! You know that?" he said, before even completely contemplating her words.
"No it's completely logical, I'll stay here with you, and we can be happy, with no one to bother us, and no chance of you hurting me."
"You're Psychotic! You really are!" he yelled, not necessarily at her, but mainly to vent his frustration. He paused for a moment then spoke, "Love is many things, none of them logical."
"But why can't this work?"
"The fact is Phoebe, You have to go home, you're family needs you. I'm going to have to stay here and there's nothing you can do about it. I am trapped here for all eternity, destined to alone"
"No, not right now. Right now, I'm here, with you. You're wrong! The fact is: I'm here, nothing but a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her."
"You know I love you Phoebe."
"Then why? Why is this so hard? You know, you find one piece of happiness in this world and there is always someone trying to take it away. I don't want this to be taken away Cole! I want to be with you, and only you."
"But you know you have to go back! Your sisters need you, your nephews need you, the Power of Three needs you!"
"Screw The Power of Three!" Phoebe spat back.
Cole chuckled softly, "You don't mean that."
"The hell I don't!"
"Just stop Phoebe. Listen to yourself! You know full and well what happened last time you guys lost the power of three, and I doubt that there are anymore long lost sisters out there for your sisters to find. And, would you really want to do that to Prue?"
"Do what to Prue?"
"Act like her death meant nothing!"
"What the hell are you talking about!" She yelled.
"By staying here, your abandoning your heritage! You're a Charmed One for God's Sake! You need to go back and fight for the innocents that she died trying to save!" He knew that this hit a nerve with Phoebe but he didn't back down, he couldn't handle it if he ruined her life already more than he had.
Phoebe's eye's began to well up with tears and they were temping to fall, "Well then I can bring you back!" she spoke hopefully.
"No," he said fiercely, "I don't want you too!"
"You don't want to be with me?" she asked questioningly, "okay I get it now… So you just had sex with me because I was the only way you could get a lay on this fucking plane!" she spat bitterly, her voice barely above a whisper.
"NOO! I don't want to come back because I don't want to kill you again!"
"You never killed me Cole, what kind of bullshit are you trying to pull now?"
"Not Physically. But I could have, and God knows that I killed you on the inside! I don't want to be always hiding in the shadows, afraid of what I could become, afraid of what I could doto you. I don't want to take the chance of hurting you again."
"Every passing moment is another chance to turn it all around" she said quietly, as if speaking any louder would set off another chain of explosions.
"Cameron Crowe huh? Truthfully, I wasn't that big a fan of Vanilla Sky, or Tom Cruise for that instance." Cole responded nervously, after just expressing his soul to the woman standing in front of him.
"Stop trying to change the subject Cole." She added sharply.
"Fine… But, hey, I remembered the movie title," He smiled but she shot him an evil glance, the glance he knew all too well, it urged him not to continue down the path he was following in the conversation, "Well we better get back to the task at hand, you're time is soon up and we need to get that wall down."
"What's the point Cole? If I'm not going to remember any of this, if I'm not going to remember loving you right now. I'm telling you, if I have to go back without this feeling, this feeling of lov- " she was silenced by Cole.
"You know that place between sleep and awake? That place where you still remember dreaming? That's where you'll always love me."
"But I want to love you consciously, not just subconsciously!" she moved towards the figure standing in the middle of her bedroom, "I wanna know that I love you, I want to remember every feeling that I get when I'm next to you. I want to remember the shivers that go down my spine every time you touch me."
"You'll always have those memories Phoebe," he stepped towards her, "Nobody can take then away from you… Nobody! But you also need to have those feelings for someone else, you just can't waste your life on me anymore. You need to move on, without me."
"How can I move on, if I'm numb. I need you to let me feel, Cole, I don't care if I breakdown. I don't care if I hit the ground when I fall, just let me feel," she looked up at him, pleading, tears were trailing down her face. Cole gently cupped her face and wiped away her tears with his thumb. She sunk into his hand, savoring his every touch.
"Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened." He grinned at her, a look of loss and sorrow in his eyes, for he knew that he was about to lose her once again. She finally opened up, let her emotions unfold. She would not be with him much longer.
And as if on cue, Phoebe began to glow. At first she looked confused but then realized what was going on, she suppressed her sobs as Cole backed way from her, "No," she pleaded, "I don't want to go, I WON'T GO!" She screamed, tears streaming down her face once again.
Cole took one last look at the woman standing in front of him. A woman who would have his heart completely for the rest of both their lives. The last look of love. The aura around her became brighter and her bodily figure becoming transparent and he knew that he needed to say this now or he would never have another chance, "You did it, you're feeling. You got what you wanted. Goodbye Phoebe. It will never get better or sweeter than you. You are my forever. In a lifetime of war, you gave me peace. And even though you may not see me, I'll be there. Every second of every day, I'll be there. I love you."
"I love you too," she whispered, but with more passion and love than she had ever spoken to him with before, because she knew this would be the last time.
With one blinding white flash, she was gone, leaving behind the happiness she and Cole had just shared, the memories of how great her life could be.
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