-1The Road Not Taken

Epilogue

A/N: Two years and eight months later this story is finally completed. I hope I have satisfied my readers, I'm happy to have completed another story and my apologies for the huge delay.

I would like to thank all that reviewed and even those who just read because hopefully you will read my past and future stuff. Here's the final chapter…

Phoebe blindly reached out for Cole as she began to wake up from her long nap. When she felt nothing she opened her eyes and stared at the empty space. Phoebe groggily sat up and rubbed her eyes. She was tired of crying. Her bedroom was engulfed in darkness and it was almost 9 at night. Phoebe pulled herself out of bed. She had been on that bed long enough. Opening her bedroom door she could hear voices coming out of Piper's bedroom.

Phoebe stepped out into the hallway.

"I swear Piper I didn't have any idea" swore Leo. "I can't believe Paige would do that…could do that without us knowing"

"Phoebe was pretty much destroyed" said Piper. Phoebe walked closer to the bedroom.

"She misses him Piper, we knew that" explained Leo. "Trying to replace Cole with men after men"

"Well I don't condone with what Paige did, but her intentions were well" sighed Piper. "And those actions finally vanquished Cole, got him out of our lives for good"

Phoebe walked away towards the attic sadly. Why couldn't anyone understand the love they had shared? Couldn't see that she needed Cole to survive. Phoebe closed the attic door and collected five white candles. She placed them in a pentagram shape, then stood back.

Hear these words, Hear these cries, Spirit from the other side.

Come to me, I summon thee, cross the great divide.

A small wind circled the attic and Phoebe looked around then back to the circle. There was nothing there.

Hear these words, Hear these cries, Spirit from the other side.

Come to me, I summon thee, cross the great divide.

She waited a few moments as the wind passed once more but there was nothing there.

"Come on Cole" whispered Phoebe.

In this tween time, this darkest hour

I call upon the sacred power

I myself stand alone

command the unseen to be shown

in innocence I search the skies,

enchanted are my new found eyes

She was growing more annoyed at the second. Why couldn't she communicate with him?? Where was Cole?

As the flame light shadows

and truth ends fear

open lost thoughts

to my willing ear,

may the smoke from this candle

and to everything it creep

bringing inner most voices

to my mind and speech"

She closed her eyes her face contorted in anger and then she pushed the podium that held the Book of Shadows on the floor.

"Is this what you wanted?!" cried Phoebe as she looked up. "Us separated…The great Balthazar gone. Another one of your precious Charmed Ones unhappy. You take my mother, my sister, my grandmother, and now my husband"

She grabbed an athame from the altar. "Maybe I should just end this right here. Give him back to me!"

She placed the tip of the athame to her wrist and pierced it. She flinched as blood started to drip down her arm. Before she could go any further the athame was forced out of her hand and thrown across the floor. She stumbled back startled and fell to her knees in defeat. She looked up as the Quija board floated towards her. Phoebe grabbed it and put it at the floor.

"Who are you?" she whispered. The indicator began to move and Phoebe grabbed the notepad and pencil off the alter.

"Phoebe?"

Piper knocked on the attic door.

L…I…V..E..4...M…E

Phoebe eyes welled up in tears once more. "Cole?"

She jumped up as she felt the hairs on her arm stand and felt a chill. A piece of cloth was being wrapped around her arm. Then she felt the chill on her face.

Something right out of ghost, she thought

"I love you" whispered Cole in her ear.

Phoebe smiled. "I love you too"

"Then that's all we need to say"

Phoebe's smile faltered. "You're never coming back are you?"

With that the presence was gone and the attic door was shoved open. Piper and Leo walked in looking at the mess in the attic.

"Phoebe what the hell is going on?" asked Piper.

"I'll clean everything up in the morning and I'll be okay too" she said before walking out of the attic.

I'll be fine because I know Cole is with me and I will bring him, she thought.