-Authors Note-
Hey I'm sorry that I abandoned my fanfictions for a while but all my files and things deleted themselves. When I have more time I will go back to them. Until then I am going to try a new couple Paige and Cole. Sorry for my change in characters I just want to try a new thing.

-Plotline-
Phoebe and Cole have only just broken up and are both still in pain over the break up. Cole in this does not go nuts or mad, but instead lets Phoebe go. Paige is still kind of wary around him but is starting to warm to him more than she thought she ever would.

-Disclaimer-
I don't own any of the characters from charmed.


The Angels Devil

Chapter 1: Breaking up and making up.

Phoebe sat in the sunroom watching the sunset behind the trees and houses, she sighed slightly to herself as she thought of the bitter breakup she had just been through with Cole. The heartache he had caused her was nothing compared to the now empty feeling she had inside of her, Cole was her, he was meant to be her soul mate forever but yet again her second life got in the way of it. She folded her fingers around her coffee cup and took a small sip, it had gone cold but she didn't really notice, her thoughts wandered between Cole the man she had once loved, still loved on some level and her sister Paige the one who had known all along Cole had been evil but she still didn't listen to her, she would rather follow her heart than read the obvious signs. Sometimes she wished she was like Paige, carefree yet not as naive as her when it came to love; Paige was more wary maybe because of all the times she had been let down in the past. Phoebe got up slowly as she heard Piper and Leo walk in through the manor door, she let a small smile play on her lips as she thought how in love they were, there were no secrets between them and she envied it. Phoebe walked into the living room and greeted the laughing couple with a small smile, Pipers laugh grew quieter until it died out completely she knew Phoebe wasn't ready to see her and Leo being so…together.
"Hey Pheebs" Leo said warmly feeling the tension in the room, Phoebe gave him a sideways glance and smiled more openly
"Hiya Leo" she looked at Piper, she knew what she was thinking "Piper, sweetie its okay you and Leo you deserve to be this happy all the time, what happened between me and…" she trailed off although she didn't mean to, she could feel the hard sting of tears in her eyes, the wound was too fresh to talk about just yet
"I know hun" Piper said slowly "Maybe you should go get some sleep, we can go shopping tomorrow me you and Paige how about it?" Phoebe laughed quietly she knew what Piper was trying to do she looked at her sister the pain fresh still in her eyes,
"I'd like that Piper, really I would" Phoebe replied, Piper smiled and her and let go of Leos arm, he looked at her and let out his defeated husband sigh
"I'll be upstairs" he said with a quick glance at Piper "Let you two talk in peace without me" Piper grinned
"I love the way you know me so well" she reached up and lowered his head "I'll be up soon" she kissed him lightly. Phoebe looked away almost automatically but regretted doing, why should she make Piper and Leo feel bad about their relationship, after all they had done nothing wrong. She heard Leos footsteps walking up the stairs and closed her eyes,
"Sorry Piper I didn't mean to make you and him feel uncomfortable" she felt Piper move her arm round her shoulders "I just…how could he do that" Phoebe let the tears fall and she clung onto her older sister, "he meant everything to me, I loved him so much and he threw it in my face. He could see Paige knew about him and he stood back and watched me grow further away from her with even lifting a finger" Her shoulders shook violently as the anger and betrayal took hold of her. Piper closed her eyes and held her fragile sister tightly she was relieved that finally she was opening up to her. She heard the front door close and she knew Paige was home she opened her eyes and she gently stroked Phoebe's hair, as she watched Paige enter the room. Paige stopped for a moment and then slowly walked to her sisters feeling slightly out of place. Phoebe pulled away from Piper and saw Paige, she didn't say anything Paige saw it in her eyes, she quickly moved across the floor to her sisters and hugged them both tightly, finally glad to have her two older sisters back under the same roof without Cole or evil ruining it.

Cole sat in his lonely house, a cold sharp wind blew in from the window he shuddered slightly but made no attempt to move there was no point. He had lost the most important thing to him, the only woman he had ever loved probably ever would love, all because he wanted power. He would do anything to be back in Phoebe's arms again but she knew it wasn't meant to be and he would have to learn to accept it, they had made several attempts to have a normal relationship and no matter how hard they tried, no matter how much love they had for each other nothing would make it work for them. Cole breathed deeply and looked up at the bare ceiling, he was going to have to let her go, it too painful to even think about letting her go never mind actually doing it. He looked at his wedding band on his finger and played with it, the clock ticked in the corner of the room he glanced at it his eye caught the picture of him and Phoebe next to it, he got up and walked to it slowly. His finger traced the outline of the frame,
"How did I let this happen to us?" he whispered to himself, he continued looking at the picture of the smiling Phoebe, her arms wrapped around Cole's chest, he didn't hear or see the blue light that surrounded the small room. "I wish all of this could go away" he said sadly lowering the picture so it couldn't be seen.
"First sign of madness talking to yourself Cole" a female voice told him, he didn't have to look up he knew that voice, it was the same one that had told Phoebe over and over again to leave him, not that he could really blame her but it was easier than admitting that him and Phoebe weren't meant to be.
"Paige. What do you want?" his voice was rough and slightly scratchy as if he hadn't been to sleep or just woken up. She folded her arms,
"I just thought you should know, me and Piper have spent the last hour consoling Phoebe over the loss of you" she kept looking at Cole expecting a quick remark, or an insult, she didn't even know why she was here.
"Oh" was Cole's short answer "Well…I guess I'm sorry, you and Piper shouldn't have been involved in this"

"We are her sisters Cole what do you want us to do? Take a backseat? Pretend we couldn't see what was really happening?" Paige started to feel herself hating Cole again, not that he had actually said anything as such yet. He turned to her his deep eyes boring into her she took a deep breath but stood firm and kept her arms folded, almost like a barrier between her and him.
"No Paige I don't, in fact I just want all this to go away. You and Phoebe and Piper don't want me in your life anymore so I won't be. I've made too much of a mess of everything to stay around, so why don't you just go. I'm not going to bother you or your sisters again" he looked down at his hand and put his finger on his wedding band, slowly he took if off and hesitated before he held it out to Paige "I don't know if she wants this or not" Paige stared at him in disbelief this wasn't the man only a few weeks ago was fighting for Phoebes love and was trying to kill her and Piper, this was a shell of that man. The Cole than stood in front of her hadn't shaven for a while, his eyes had bags forming under them and were tired and low, his clothes hung loosely off his body and were slightly crinkled. Paige wanted to laugh in his face, she wanted to smile at the pathetic excuse of a man that was all that is wrong in the world but she couldn't, instead she couldn't she felt more than sorry for him, she actually felt like crying for him. She reached out and took the ring from his hand and looked at him, she made eye contact but only for a moment.
"I'll make sure she gets it Cole" she put the ring in her pocket he smiled weakly and brushed past her to sit down she looked at him "Your serious about leaving us arnt you?"
"Yes" he replied bluntly
"Don't be so sure all of us want you to go" She told him, then cursed herself what was she saying she hated him didn't she? He grumbled in reply "I'm going to go now" she looked at him, wanting him to reply but he just nodded, as she orbed back to the manor she couldn't help feeling a small feeling that was there she shook her head, she didn't like Cole, he was pathetic he was lower than pathetic he nearly killed her after all but still he had that edge she had always liked, "Get a grip Paige" she told herself quietly "Coles leaving it's a good thing" she changed and got into bed "I think" she mumbled before she fell into a deep sleep.

((Ok…so what did you think? Did it suck? Am I doing the wrong thing about Paige and Cole? Or do you think that this story could be going somewhere? Please review and tell me what you think. Ta xxx))