-1Charmed: A Half-Breed's Redemption?

By: Lunara Dragon/Dragonstar

Chapter 2: Trust at first fight?

Author's Note:
I do not own Charmed or any of the original characters, however the characters of Lillith and Maria are my own creation.
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Enter the Halliwell Manor, on the plane of Limbo

Cole Turner continued staring at this girl as she seemed to be pondering what was best to say next. He had continued to push the distance between himself and this new girl that appeared by standing from his seat in the chair and taking a few steps away. When the taller man did this, Lillith seemed a bit frustrated and stood to her full height and stared in to his green eyes.

"Do you care for the Halliwells?" Lillith asked as she continued to stare in to his face and study his reactions. The question was not what she had expected to start off with but the way he was watching the family and how he had ended up being stuck there for eternity, Lillith already knew the answer to the question. But she wanted him to say something and start the conversation.

Cole looked away from her and back to the two boys who were playing with their parents. Piper and Leo had picked up the coloring book items and were now just playing with their two boys on the ground with blocks, cars, and other assorted toys.

He finally answered the question with an angry tone "Yes and if you plan on…"
Lillith held up her hand in a gesture to cut him off and replied "NO! That is far from my purpose here. Perhaps I should have started off with an introduction instead. Let me explain. Please?"

"It's not like I have anything else to do. As long as your in Limbo what can you do anyways. Kill me? You are a little late for that!" He responded but continued to eye this new woman suspiciously. Lillith took another deep breath and tried to close the space between them.

Stepping closer to Cole, Lillith still kept some of the distance so as not to make her new charge feel more uncomfortable then necessary. She did after all need him to trust her even if that was not in his nature. She swept a few strands of hair out of her face and then took a deep breath before launching in to her full explanation, or at least the parts that were necessary at the moment.

"Where to begin? Well my name is Lillith and I am here to help you. The Charmed ones are in danger, more specifically their children. I work for, um, someone who wants to help and my job is to carry through with her plans. It may be hard to believe but it is true." She stated simply with out revealing who Maria was or exactly what she herself was.
Cole looked at her "Yes that makes perfect sense to me. Forgive me but the last woman who told me she had foreseen something and that she was trying to help me lead to my destruction! Give me one good reason why I should trust you!" He said with a skeptical tone and took a few more steps back from this Lillith woman.

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At the office of Maria Infintia

Maria waved her hand over the mirror and watched the on going conversation between her employee, Lillith, and her new charge Cole Turner who was known better as Balthazar. She smiled at his reaction as she remember the rumors that The Seer had tricked him in to becoming the next Source. She then looked back to the cloaked man standing behind her.
"The trouble is near and the time is close. I am interested to see how she reacts and speeds up this process of getting him to trust her." She said to him as a smirk came across her face. The man stayed in the shadows and just simply watched the mirror.
Then in his deep voice simply stated "Rules are meant to be broken."

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Back at the Halliwell Manor

"Will you stop interrupting me!" Lillith finally cracked and let her temper slip a little. Her anger shone in her violet eyes as she stepped with in inches of Cole and now stood on her tip toes to get closer to his face and make herself seem more threatening.

Cole responded by laughing a little and then put his hands on her shoulders and pushed her back down to her normal height. "Sorry that is not in my nature." he then stated simply. Lillith let out another sigh of frustration as she then reached up to her left shoulder and pulled on her sleeve while turning over what he had said.

"Nor is it in mine to just simply try to be honest with my charges. It has been decided that there is a possibility you are to be their new protector." Lillith added and looked back up to see his reaction.
"Now they decide to give me a get out of jail free card?" Cole shot back.

"No. Listen nothing is free for one, for two if you would stop talking and ignore your nature long enough to let me finish talking may be I could explain better!" She shot angrily back. Cole froze and rage filled his face at what Lillith had said.

"Oh so even the one sent to help me doubts my nature. What nature is that? My demonic half?" He questioned to her. She shook her head

"No you ass. Your male nature!" She yelled back and glared in to his face. She then took a deep breath and continued "What I mean is it is not just a second chance. I do not doubt that you can be good if you make that decision on your own. But you do have to prove it and furthermore you can only decide on one sister for the time being to know this proposition. There is however one…" Lillith continued and once again was interrupted but it was not the answer she was expecting to hear.

"Piper." Cole answered quickly without even giving it a second thought. Lillith was caught off guard and stared at him with shock. She was completely ready to deny this half-demon from choosing Phoebe as the one he talked to about it.

However before she could continue what she was saying her face froze in fear and shock as she turned around to stare at the door and then back at Cole. The expression on the woman's face showed that something was about to happen and Cole turned to stare at the door just as it was shattered as a huge demon with blue skin and emerald eyes stepped through the shambles. The two then turned to watch what Piper and Leo would do.

Piper jumped and stared surprised for a few seconds. The demonic threat of their lives had nearly ended almost three years ago and she had not had to fight in awhile. Leo grabbed Wyatt and told him to orb himself and his younger brother upstairs to the attic. The former white lighter then followed his old instincts and stood defensively in front of Piper.

Finally regaining her composure Piper's face turned to one of anger and she threw up her hands to blow the demon up with her powers. The first one when up in ashes but revealed that there was another one and a third shimmered in behind the couple.

"Cole! Give me your hand now!" Lillith yelled breaking the former demon out of his shock. He turned and shook his head no.

"Bull shit. How do I know you are not the one who sent these demons? They did show up not long after you got here and you may just take me from the Manor so I can't…"

Lillith was the one cutting him off this time "So you can not what? Protect them? In case you have forgotten you can not do anything while being stuck in the in between. You are dead remember?" She shot back. He stared at her angry and watched as the demons surrounded them. Lillith shook her head in frustration.
"Why did Maria not inform me of what she had foreseen if she knew I would be here when this occurred." Lillith thought to herself. She closed her eyes to see if she could sense anything else. She then opened her eyes and turned back to face her charge.

"Paige will not be coming she had troubles of her own at Magic School but Phoebe will be alright for now I think. You however need to trust me." Her tone caught his attention again and his face calmed at the mention of Phoebe's name. Lillith rolled her eyes seeing he still was not going to trust her. Turning her attention back to the fight Leo was pinned to the wall and Piper's powers were only enough to temporarily keep the second from getting through the entrance. That meant these demons were to strong for just one of the sisters. She saw the one that had been blown up before then self-resurrect himself and near the stairs. He was only a distraction and was heading for the boys upstairs.

On a spur of the moment decision Lillith turned back to Cole and grabbed her left sleeve, lifting it to reveal her tattoo that was seared in to her flesh. This caught the man's attention as he then looked back up in to her eyes and reached his hand out to her.
"The marking of Maria. You're a Soul Guardian. Why didn't you say so from the beginning?" He questioned in anger as he waited for her to grab his hand. She shook her head and with out answering she intertwined her fingers with his masculine hand and then shifted them from the plane of Limbo to the normal plane, orbing them in to just on the landing of the stairs.

On the normal plane of life

Piper kept freezing the female demon who seemed slightly immune to her powers. She turned to see Leo throwing anything he could and getting pretty hurt himself in the process. Then she got mad and wondered where these three demons came from.

"Paige!" Piper yelled, but for the second time she got no response from her sister. When the brown haired, eldest witch of the Charmed sisters took a moment to yell for Paige the demoness she was battling took the chance to kick her. She flew across the room in time to see the first demon she had blown up self resurrect himself in front of the stairs. Before she could react the female demon was on top of her. Piper tried blowing her up again but all it did was send her a few feet away and give Piper a chance to stand up.
The next thing she saw however convinced her she had hit her head to hard. Leo looked to her in confusion as what appeared to be a white lighters orbing light appeared on the landing but it was different it had light red tones in the lights. Then neither of them believed who they saw standing in the way of the demon heading towards the upstairs.

"Going somewhere?" Cole questioned as his eyes glimmered with rage. The blue demon stood a head taller then Cole and was wider to. In fact in front of the two Lillith could not even be seen from behind the demon. While watching in amazement Leo was the target again.

"Look out!" A female voice yelled to Leo who rolled out of the way of a bolt of flames. He realized it was not Piper's voice that had yelled to him as Piper was still battling the female demon by blowing things up around the demon at this point.
Cole tried to force the blue demon down the stairs to no avail. Finally tiring of the game that was a stand still he tested to see if he still had his powers and smiled when he managed to summon an energy ball. The demon looked back at him and shook his head as Cole amped up the energy in the ball and shot it at the demon.
"You made a mistake coming here today." Cole told the demon before he let the energy ball incinerate him on the stairs. The two then headed down the stairs to help Piper. Cole stood next to his former sister in-law and smiled.
"Need some help?" He asked. She just nodded and rolled her eyes.

"No not at all. I am having fun just exploding half of my downstairs to try and make little scratches in her!" Piper shot at the taller man who now stood next to her. He smiled down at her and looked her in the eye.
Lillith continued to watch from the stairs as the two battled the female demon who she recognized from one of the few times she was in the Underworld. She shook her head in more confusion these were just the underling demons with out names the last time Lillith had seen them. She then heard a yell of anger and Leo once again was knocked down.
"Oh shit I forgot about the mortal man." Lillith scolded herself. Cole turned to try and get to him but he couldn't get close enough to the other demon. Piper turned to try and blast the demon who was harming her now human husband but all it did was send him away. Lillith took a deep breath as she tired of this. She still had to explain what she was so she was going to break another rule in one day.
"Maria is not going to be happy about this." The Soul Guardian stated as she stepped around the corner and took a stance in front of Leo. She then looked over her shoulder while facing the opponent. "Are you ok?" she questioned. Leo did not recognize her but nodded his head yes.

Leo studied Lillith as she looked at the demon, studying where his weak point would be, or so the former white light assumed. She then did something else he did not expect to happen. The girl who had entered with Cole through the way a white lighter or an elder would have, summoned an energy ball but those two powers together contradicted each other. Lillith held the energy ball in one hand but with the other hand amped up its power by calling on the lights used in orbing and combined it with the energy ball.

As Lillith released her own form of an energy ball the demon went up in a flurry of lights and smoke. She then turned to Leo.
"Go check on your boys now." She stated while offering him a hand to help him stand. He nodded and while he took the offered hand looked to see that Piper and Cole had defeated their own demon and saw the last couple seconds of the battle. They two stared at Lillith in confusion. Leo then nodded at Piper and went to check on his sons.

"Alright not that I am not glad by some twisted form of a miracle you managed to get here and save our asses Cole. But what the hell is going on and who is she?" Piper finally broke the after battle silence.

Cole looked down at Piper and a smile crossed his face "You want to know my answer to that?" Piper nodded.
"I can honestly tell you I have no idea." He said with a smirk. They both turned to Lillith and waited for an answer. Lillith looked to meet both of the questioning stares.

To be continued--

Ok this chapter turned out to be a lot longer then I expected but I kind of wanted it to be. In the next chapter Lillith gets to take Piper out for coffee and try to explain what is going on with out exactly explaining what she is and her nature. She also has to explain herself and her actions to Maria and I promise the other sisters will be in the next chapter as well.