Hey guys! Me again… I know a lot of you probably didn't like last chapter but have no fear… they will get their happily ever after. It just will take some time. Another Songfic Chapter for you guys!

Okay and the thing about Cupid… I kinda needed to put in someone Phoebe already knew, and knew about her being a witch. I felt that it wouldn't make sense to bring in someone who Phoebe had never seen before.

I recently watched Season 5 of Charmed again … well the episodes with Cole anyway and it really pissed me off at how they treated his character. So I'm a little depressed at the moment after watching Centennial Charmed… Hopefully it wont come out too much in my writing :P

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Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed or any of it's characters… nor due I own the song the song used in this chapter

Chapter 8: All I Am Is The Invisible Man

Every time I think of you
I always catch my breath
I'm still standing here
And your miles away
And I wonder why you left

Cole watched as Phoebe left the attic, arm in arm with the cupid. Tears glistening in his eyes as he overcame the initial shock of what had just happened. He knew that she had summoned him. The white lights and the echoing chant in his head kind of gave it away. But he could still hear those words… those last words that brought him to her: 'Bring to me my true love here'. It left him speechless.

So he really was her true love? He had begun to wonder over the years if their love had really been true. Though their encounter had proved it in some sense for him, there was a big part of him that was steadily growing which knew that they would never be together again, seeing as though she was moving on with the cupid and he was… well… dead. That kinda puts a stopper on your relationship, Cole thought. He was summoned though… he had came upon her command.

The only part that had gone wrong was that she couldn't see him. After all she had gone through, he was still stuck in the separate plane. He also didn't understand why that goddamn cupid was there. Coincidence, maybe? Cole didn't think so. He had been around in the magical world long enough to know that everything happened for a reason. Something wasn't right. And for some reason, the Elders were instantly brought to his mind.

And there's a storm that's raging through my frozen heart tonight

He swore to himself, and the love that he shared with Phoebe, that he would find out what was going on, and hopefully find a way back to her… someway… somehow he'd make it back to her arms.

Phoebe led Cupid to her bedroom. She wanted to wait until morning to tell her sisters that she had summoned the guy she was meant to be with. Maybe it was because she wanted to spare the whole personal gain speech for a few hours? Maybe it was because she wanted to catch up with this guy who had to leave her five years ago? Phoebe wasn't so sure, but hell, what exactly was she sure about the past couple days? She was just following her instincts, or at least trying to.

I hear your name in certain circles
And it always makes me smile
I spend my time thinking about you
And its almost driving me wild

Once they had both awkwardly situated themselves on her bed, they sat, staring at each other silently. She didn't know what made the encounter feel so odd. Yes, she hadn't seen him in so long, and so much had happened since then, but he was Cupid, he probably knew her better than anyone ever did. Not everyone, she thought as she criticized herself mentally.

She smiled as she remembered how she and Cole once knew each other's thoughts. He had probably known her better than her sisters did at most times. They had been so close and it was horrible to think that they had been driven so far apart.

"It's great that you're thinking about Cole in a good way again." said Cupid breaking the silence after what felt like hours.

But its my heart that's breaking down this long distance line tonight

"Pardon Me?"

"You're thinking about Cole. And not in the distrusting way that you used to. You're thinking about when the two of you were at your best."

Phoebe looked him in the eyes and spoke with the utmost sincerity, "How can you know so much about me when I know absolutely nothing about you?"

"Of course you know me Phoebe. You've known me for years. I'm that feeling you get when you think about Cole. I'm that feeling that sparks in your soul when you envision his face. We both know that that feeling hasn't went away even after all these years. But hopefully… ," he brought a hand to her face and cupped her cheek. It surprised him when she didn't pull away, "hopefully, I can also be the feeling that you, one day, get when you look at me."

And I ain't missin' you at all
Since you've been gone away
I ain't missin' you
No matter what I might say

Phoebe took his face in her hands and brought it closer to hers so that their lips could softly connect, telling him all that she could with one simple gesture. Tonight she didn't want her visions clouded with thoughts of Cole. Tonight she wanted her thoughts to remain with this godly being, who was the epiphany of love, in many more ways than one.

Cole appeared in the Mausoleum seconds after leaving the manor. He didn't know exactly what he was doing but he knew he could rely on someone to help him.

There's a message in the wires
And I am sending you a signal tonight
You don't know how desperate I've become
And It looks like I'm losing this fight

So he hadn't been completely honest with Phoebe about his afterlife, but they didn't have enough time for chit chat. The truth was he had connections… strong connections. Maybe not strong enough to get him out of his plane, but strong enough to maybe influence separate planes. He hadn't exactly practiced enforcing these connections given the fact that he still felt some guilt after using every trick in the book (perhaps even the ones that were too ghastly to even be mentioned in the book) to get Phoebe back while he was still alive.

All this didn't matter now. Desperate times called for desperate measures.

"PRUE!" Cole called at the top of his lungs, "PRUE! GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE RIGHT THIS INSTANT!"

An angelic figure with long dark hair and piercing eyes was cast down in a ray of white lights. Though however beautiful she may have looked, an annoyed expression was set upon her face.

"What is it Cole?" she looked at him, with one eyebrow arched.

"What are they up to with Phoebe?" Cole sounded extremely bitter, though he did not mean to sound this way. He only wanted to expose the truth.

"They who?" Prue acted as if she had no idea who Cole was talking about but she knew exactly who Cole was referring to.

"Damn it Prue! You know exactly who the hell I'm talking about! She summoned me! Did you know that! But that moron showed up at the same time!"

"Calm down Cole!"

"I will not!" he started but Prue shot him a menacing look which automatically told him to shut up.

In your world, I have no meaning
Though I'm trying hard to understand

"First of all: He is not a moron, he is a cupid. And I actually picked him out myself-"

"Wait, what do you mean picked out!" Cole interrupted, squinting his eyes, as if it would help him to understand the arrangement any better.

"Will you let me get this out!" Cole nodded defeatedly, and let Prue continue, "Okay. Cole, you have to understand that you could only help her so far. Even if I'm not too keen on your methods, you did help her and I'm thankful for that. You helped my baby sister to believe in love again. But that's as far as you can go. You can't be there for her any longer, and that is why the Elders sent someone else for her. Believe me, I dislike this just as much as you do."

"Hardly," Cole contradicted, "So let me get this straight. All this was some plot to get Phoebe to believe in love again?"

"Yes, but I thought you already knew that?"

"I knew that she got attacked by the thorn demons, and I knew what would happen to her afterwards. But you're telling me that even the attack was set up? And that they made sure that I saw it?" Prue merely nodded, "Unbelievable! This is insane! They are turning into the damn Avatars, messing with people's lives like this. It isn't right. What would have happened if her time had run out… if she had to stay? How would the Elders deal with that?"

"They had faith that you would pull through. They knew that you would help her. They counted on it."

Cole laughed sarcastically, "Since when have the Elders ever had faith in me?"

"Well since you were the one that messed her up in the first place, the figured that you would be the one to fix it."

But it's my heart that's breaking down this long dusty road of mine

Cole walked around the mausoleum, and fell against the wall. He slowly slid down with his head placed in his hands. He leaned against the crypt where Prue's mortal body lay, "So what am I supposed to do now? Just sit around and watch while the woman I love, starts a life with a fraud. This guy who doesn't really love her… who was just ordered to." his voice came out shaky and full of distain, "She asked me to let her feel, Prue. I don't want some random guy trying to make her feel."

"You're not supposed to do anything about it, Cole. And Cupid, he does love Phoebe. They had this connection. Granted, it wasn't like yours, but it was still there. It was before you came along. That's part of the reason I picked him out. I mean, what better a man to move on with than love himself right?"

"It doesn't make it any easier," Cole removed his hands from his face and looked Prue in the eyes, "And back to that, how did you get mixed up with the Elders anyway? Last time I heard, you were enjoying the afterlife with Grams, Patty, and… what's his name?"

"Andy," Prue answered with a confident grin, "And yes, I was enjoying the afterlife until word spread about what was going on back at home, with the Avatars, Elders, and my family. I just couldn't sit back and watch it all happen. So I went to them, pleaded my case that I was an ex-Charmed one and that they could benefit greatly if I worked with them, and they bought it. At least now, I can still look after my sisters, even if they don't know it."

"Did you have anything to do with what happened to Leo?"

"No, the Elders had their own beef to pick with Leo. I tried to make them stop, but they wouldn't listen. Just like they wouldn't listen when I told them that they shouldn't make this attack happen on Phoebe. All I had influence on was how it all happened. I'm sorry it had to happen this way Cole. I know it couldn't have been easy for you to let her go again," Prue sat down next to Cole, "Especially if what I suspect happened actually did."

Cole turned his head to face Prue, "th… they… you… weren't… umm… watching us, were you?"

"Oh of course not, they're not that perverted. But it's you and Phoebe, Cole. It's not that hard to guess what had happened. Your track record is proof of that."

"But it wasn't like that this time. It was different. I mean, after all this time, I thought she hated me." Tears were once again threatening to fall from Cole's crystal eyes.

"She could never hate you, and you know that! You guys had been through way too much for her to despise you."

"But she should have! Those last few months that I was alive, I put her through HELL. I attempted to take away her whole world, just because she refused to be a part of mine. Just by trying to get her back I pushed her away even further. How could I have been that evil! I even went so far as saying that if I couldn't have her, no one would. I could have killed her," before Cole could get his last word out he choked on a mouthful of tears.

Prue put her arm around her ex-brother-in-law and comforted him as she stroked his shoulder, "You didn't though, and that's all that matters! You could NEVER kill Phoebe, and we both know that. She knows that too." The pitch in Prue's voice became increasingly higher yet stayed intense. She could tell how much this man loved her little sister and it killed her to think that he was doubting that now. Well technically she was already dead, but that was besides the point. "Your love trumped everything else that happened to you guys. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul, and that is what you two had. She brought out the human in you, she taught you how to love."

And I ain't missin' you at all
Since you've been gone away
I aint missin' you
No matter what my friends say

"Everything is just taking its toll, you know? The last time we said goodbye, she hated my guts so it was easier to let go. But this time, I know that she loves me. And I know that if I was with her right now, we would have a fighting chance. It makes it all the harder to let go this time."

For moments they sat there silently, not looking at each other or even moving at all. Prue, then, rested her head on Cole's shoulder and spoke softly, "You really miss her, don't you?"

Cole said nothing. He continued to stare at the opposite wall, displaying no aspect of emotion at all.

"Yeah, I do too." Prue replied for him.

It took minutes for Cole to find his voice again, being still shaky he spoke to Prue, "Thank you."

"For what?"

"Just being here. Who would have known four years ago that we would end up being best friends?" Cole smiled as he said it.

"Okay, don't get ahead of yourself now. I wouldn't put it so far as best friends," Prue giggled, "But I see you for who you really are now. I don't see you as Belthazor anymore. And remember, I witnessed the whole mess with the Source. I know that you always had good intentions with every decision you made. And I think Phoebe knows that now too, maybe that can give you some piece of mind."

"I hope so," Cole turned his attention back to Prue, "So how weird is it that you and I once hated each other, but now you're my second favorite Charmed one?"

"I know, pretty freaky huh? So what's the deal with Piper and Paige again?"

"Truthfully, I have nothing against Piper. She was always supportive of me and Phoebe. But before I was finally vanquished, we kinda had an all out war on each other. Despite the fact that we were both invincible. It didn't stop us from trying." Cole laughed at the thought, "As for Paige, we never really got along from the get go. There was always something that ticked me off about her." Prue began to laugh too.

"Yeah, I know what you mean."

Cole looked at Prue questioningly, "Do I sense a touch of resentment there? I noticed earlier that you still referred to Phoebe as being your baby sister."

"I don't know. I love Paige, I really do. Come on, she's my sister. But there is still this part of me that feels she is taking my place somehow. I know that's selfish of me but I don't want them to forget that they also had an older sister."

"They would never let Paige replace you in their hearts and you know that. You will always be their big sister, no matter what. I was there when Phoebe and Piper lost you, and they were a wreck. But when Paige came along, they made sure that there was room in their hearts for the both of you. They made sure that you would never be forgotten."

"I guess I owe you a thank you for that too then."

"You don't owe me anything Prue. You've helped me through this and that is far more than I deserve. But could you do me this one favor? Check on him please"

Prue gave Cole a friendly hug and stood up, "Sure, I have to go anyway. I promised Andy that I would meet with him. You just have to promise me that you will not linger in this moment for too long. It will get easier, you just have to let it."

"Okay." Cole chose not to look at the woman standing in front of him because he wasn't sure if, by looking in his eyes, she could tell that he was lying.

She didn't have to look in his eyes to know.

Phoebe laid on her bed with Coop's arms draped over her. He had told her that she could call him 'Coop' as sort of a nickname since there were more than one cupid. She liked the name still felt the uneasiness learning that it started with the letter 'C'. She pushed this feeling away and leaned closer into Coop. There was part of her that already loved this man and could see her future with him. Nut his touch, the way placed her head under his chin, the sex, was almost perfect… but not quite.

Just then the man beside her began to move. He opened his eyes to her and smiled.

She whispered sweetly, "Go back to sleep, it isn't nearly time to get up yet."

Coop nodded and closed his eyes again, but pulling Phoebe closer to him. Phoebe couldn't even think of sleep at the moment, she had far too many things on her mind.

And there's a message that I'm sending out
Like a telegraph to your soul
And if I can't bridge this distance
Honey, stop this heart ache overload

Cole shimmered into the bedroom and took a glimpse at the scene in front of him. The bed was a mess, there were clothes strewn across the floor, and there she was, tangled in the middle of it all, with the guy's arms around her. If he could actually make contact with that plane he would have strangled the Cupid. He chose instead to focus all his energy on Phoebe. He was sure that it wouldn't work, but what did he have to lose.

"Phoebe," Cole began softly, "Phoebe, can you hear me? Phoebe?"

Phoebe shot up bringing the sheet to cover herself. Her eyes wide and hopeful. Coop followed her, squinting to regulate his eyes to the light.

"What is it? What's wrong," Coop asked.

"I could have sworn…" Phoebe spoke quietly but then turned to Coop, "Nothing… It's nothing. I must have had a nightmare or something. I'm fine. In fact, I can't sleep anyway so I'm just going to go downstairs and get some coffee, okay?"

"Do you want me to come with you?"

"No that's fine, you should get some rest. And besides, I haven't exactly figured out what I'm going to tell my sisters about you yet."

"Okay," Coop's voice came out somewhat disappointed.

She gave him a light kiss before leaving the room. Cole followed her.

"Listen Phoebe, You have to realize what is going on here. This is all a set up! That guy is a fraud! Phoebe! Phoebe!"

If Cole had thought he was making progress before, he certainly wasn't now. She hadn't even tensed a muscle when he called he name. This was getting him no where. Maybe Prue was right, maybe he did need to let go… move on. Phoebe seemed to be moving on with her life so why couldn't he? It would just take time. And Cole had all the time in the world… in fact, he had eternity.

I ain't missin you at all
Since you've been gone away
I ain't missin' you
I keep lying to myself

There you have it.. My longest chapter yet. Hope you liked it! It might be a while before I get another update due to family coming home.. But I will try my best to get some writing in…

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