Chapter 3… Where's Phoebe?

Phoebe was sat on her bed watching the rain fall down the window pane. She had been thinking a lot recently. About Coop, Steph …Cole… weirdly enough she had been thinking about him more and more each day. She began to think about the day she had to vanquish him with Paige and Piper and cringed. But she hadn't thought of Cole for a while, why all of a sudden is she thinking of him again?

In the kitchen, Paige was getting the boys ready for bed. She was being watched from outside the Manor again. By the same person, if only she had seen his face they would be able to prepare properly for this battle. That's why they were being watched. Since he had been vanquished and banished to the wasteland things have changed in the Halliwell Manor. So day by day he'd watch all of them closely even Leo and the 2 boys. He wanted to know everything about them. He wanted to be ready. He shimmered away as he saw the girl he once loved look straight at him from her bedroom window. He could not be caught, especially not by her.

Everyone had decided to go to bed. Steph and Chris shared Paige's room as she wanted to spend the night with Henry to explain what was going on. It was about 3 o'clock in the morning and a vase fell to the floor waking Phoebe up with a jump. She cautiously got out of bed and looked around "Hello?" She whispered but nobody answered… suddenly Phoebe got grabbed from behind. She tried to struggle free but couldn't. "Hello Darling" He remarked just as Phoebe went to squeal for help she had been shimmered away to the underworld.

The demon had put a blindfold on Phoebe so she couldn't tell who they were. From their build, Phoebe had guessed it was a guy. Her hands and feet were tied to the back of a chair.

"You know, I could just easily kill you now." He whispered in Phoebe's ear.

"Who the hell are you? Why the hell have you brought me here?" Phoebe questioned the man. His voice seemed somewhat familiar to her.

"Ah ah… I'm afraid that's enough talking for you Miss Halliwell." He whispered once more and gagged her.

Phoebe struggled for hours trying to undo the knots but it was no use. She was stuck here. But hopefully Paige and Piper would figure out where she had been taken to. She had no idea where she was all she knows is that she was with somebody powerful a demon, witch, warlock? She was clueless.

BACK AT THE MANOR

Chris had decided it was best for him and Steph to stay out of the way whilst everything was leading up to the big battle. They said their goodbyes and waited for Phoebe to arrive so they could say bye to her.

"Where is she? I've tried her mobile thousands of times and she isn't answering and Coop doesn't have a clue where she is. He hasn't heard from her since yesterday." Piper said.

"Something's not right, I can't sense her." Leo said worryingly.

"What? I thought something was wrong. Is mum ok?" Steph asked

"Look it'll be best if you two both go back to your right time… go, we'll find her." Piper said. Chris and Steph just looked at her worried. "I promise we will ok? Now go." Steph hung onto Chris tightly and they disappeared in a ray of blue orbs.

"I can't believe she has gone missing." Paige said. "How could she have gone missing and we didn't notice?" She hung her head in shame.

"We've got to find her… and we will." Piper said hesitantly. They both hurried up to the attic and started scrying for her. Where could she be?

BACK WITH PHOEBE

'Where the hell am I?' Phoebe thought to herself. She was still blindfolded but seen as she gave up struggling, the demon decided to take the gag out of her mouth. "How are we this morning Miss Halliwell?" He said sarcastically.

"Why the hell are you keeping me here? Just let me go, and take off the damn blindfold." She replied angrily.

"I'm afraid I can't do that, you see. If I undo the blindfold you'll know who I am… and I can't have that. Not yet anyway." He whispered.

His voice sounded so familiar but she couldn't think who. She had heard it so many times before. But couldn't put her finger on who it was. The only person who came to her mind was Cole… Cole? It couldn't be. He was long gone. Has this been why she had been thinking about him? It couldn't be though. She saw him die. Unless, this was it, he was the one back from the wasteland with enough power to kill them? No way… but it sort of made sense. There was only one way to find out.

"Cole? Is that you?" Phoebe asked and her breath got heavier. She was scared.

"Well done Phoebe. It is me your lovely ex back from the wasteland. Bet you never thought this was going to happen?"

He walked over to her and undid her blindfold. It took a while for her eyes to adjust to the light and to get her vision back but when she did. She saw Cole, stood right in front of her with the cheesiest smile on his face. He looked just as gorgeous as ever. He looked her straight in the eye and lit an energy ball.

"Like I said Phoebe, I could easily kill you. I saw Chris tell you I was back. I've been watching you 3 for a matter of time now. Since I was last here a lot has changed. I had to know everything about you all. Your strengths and weaknesses, you aren't getting away from me again."

"But why are you doing this Cole? We vanquished you because that was what you wanted. Why are you back?"

"I've suffered for years in the wasteland, heartbroken over you. You see Phoebe, I never stopped loving you. I hate it that I love you. You're going to feel the pain as I did. All 3 of you, one by one." He chuckled to himself and put out his energy ball.

WITH PAIGE AND PIPER

"I've tried everything. She isn't here Piper, and Leo can't sense her. What are we supposed to do now?" Paige asked putting down the Book of Shadows.

Piper paused for a moment before answering Paige back. "The underworld, how stupid are we? The underworld, she has to be there." She walked over to Paige and called Leo.

"What is it? Have you found her?" Leo asked.

"No, but we have a feeling she'll be in the underworld. Can you orb down there and see if you can sense her?" Piper replied. Leo didn't even answer he just orbed away and then was back within 5 minutes.

"She's there." He said.

I hope you like the new chapter, please review to tell me what you think. All comments are appreciated if they're to the point. Chapter 4 will be out shortly. Vicky x