DarkPriestess66 says, I have no clue when Cole really started drinking, but I'll say it was right when he realized Phoebe's trust in him was gone completely, so sometime after he saved her from being a Mermaid forever, and I have to add some of the Happily Ever After ep to this, because it doesn't seem fair to Phoebe that she still doesn't trust men.
Lillith watched as men and women are waltzing in the center of a room, and she suddenly felt back in her old life. She was having flashbacks of her previous life, of being a spoiled brat.
"You miss it don't you?" asks Cole, looking at her. They were waiting for Phoebe to show up, since she was trapped in a fairy tale, Lillith had done some reconnaissance work and found all the fairy tales were true in some point.
"Sometimes," Lillith replies, "It's hard to image what my life could have been like, I could have been stuck in a pointless marriage to some horrid old man of my father's choosing."
"It might be awhile, till Phoebe arrives, may I have this dance?" Cole replies holding out his hand.
"I would love too," Lillith answers, as she takes his hand and Cole spun her onto to the dance floor.
Lillith listened to the sound of the music, and Cole's heartbeat as well, until a voice interrupts.
"Excuse me, pardon me, comin' through." Phoebe's voice states, and the crowd parts allowing her access,
Lillith looks at Cole, his eyes weren't on Phoebe they were on the human that the witch stop in front of.
"Can you hear what they're saying?" Cole whispers,
"Yeah, want me to eavesdrop?" Lillith answers, she focused on the distinct voices of Phoebe and the guy, she was with.
"Phoebe, you came. I'm so glad." the guy states and Lillith murmured to Cole,
"Yeah, well, I didn't really have much of a choice." Phoebe replies,
"You look fabulous." the guycompliments
"Thanks." Phoebe states,
"Sounds like Cinderella to me," Lillith states, "Now what could go wrong with this," she then went back to giving a play by play,
"I just hope you're not here with someone else." the guy states,
"Oh, no, I am definitely not here with someone else, even if that someone else thinks I am." Phoebe replies and even Lillith had trouble understanding that statement.
"Sorry?" the guy asks
"I think it's time to interrupt, don't you?" Lillith asks, she and Cole made their way over, Phoebe sees them approaching.
"Oh. Well, speak of the devils." Phoebe groans,
"What are you doing here?" Cole asks
"As if you don't know." Phoebe replies, pretending not to know Lillith, who stared at her,
"Actually, I don't." Cole states, Lillith gave his hand a gentle squeeze in reassurance
"Listen, Cole, these boots may be made for walking, but they're never walking back to you, buddy." Phoebe states,
"Boots?" Cole asks
"You know what I mean." Phoebe replies,
"Am I up to something again?" Cole asks
Lillith widened her eyes in surprise, "Oh you must be Phoebe, I've heard so much about,I think we can be great friends,"
"why don't we get a drink?" The guy asks
"Okay." Phoebe agrees,
"Oh. You two here together?" Cole asks surprised
"Yeah, yeah, isn't that part of your master plan?" Phoebe asks, "What is she doing here,"
"I'm his date," Lillith replies, "We go way back,"
"There is no master plan." Cole replies,
"At least not one that'll work. Okay, you ready?" Phoebe states,
"Yes." Phoebe's date replies,
Phoebe and her date start to walk away.
"Phoebe, wait, listen." Cole states,
"Why don't you back off, pal?" Adam asks, He grabs Cole and Cole twists his arm. It doesn't seem to hurt him. Lillith sensed something was wrong with him,
"Excuse me." Cole states,
"Okay, you know what? Leave him alone, Cole. Let him go." Phoebe states, and Cole lets go. She turns to her date "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. You ready?" the guy Lillith sensed that his name was Adam replies,
They start to walk away again.
"Phoebe, I don't think you should..." Cole starts to warn her,
"I agree," Lillith whispers,
"I don't care what you think. Just stay the hell away from me, both of you." Phoebe interrupts, they walk away.
"The best we can do, Cole; is keep watching her. He's bound to slip up somewhere," Lillith replies, "i don't trust him, and I have about three hundred years of experience to go on."
"How are we going to do that, she won't let us near her?" Cole asks,
Lillith wrapped her arms around his neck, "That is what dancing is for, she can't really tell us where to dance, my dear."
"Are you sure, you just don't want me to yourself, I see some guys have their eyes on you," Cole replies,
"I wouldn't say that," Lillith states,
They danced closer to Phoebe and Adam, until Lillith stiffen up, her eyes scanned the room wildly,
"What's wrong?" Cole asks concerned for the woman in his arms,
"I sense a whitelighter," Lillith murmured against his neck, her eyes spotted a blonde haired, blue eyed man just as Phoebe was going over to him. "Something must be wrong with the Charmed Ones if their whitelighter is here."
"We got to stop Adam," Cole replies,
Lillith nods, "We better hurry,"
Adam starts to follow Phoebe but Cole and Lillith stops him.
"I don't know what happened to you, but I do know evil when I see it. And you're it." Cole states,
"I don't know what you're talking about." Adam denies,
"No, of course you don't. But if you try to hurt Phoebe; I'll kill you." Lillith replies, "Keep an eye on him," she states after Adam walks off, "I'm going to follow Phoebe and the whitelighter."
Lillith walks off, she glides along the dance floor, to the people who sees her, she's just dancing. She finally made it out of the ball room, and followed Phoebe ducking around corners when she thought she would be spotted. She was in hearing range now.
"Paige's dead? What do you mean she's dead?" Phoebe asks,
Lillith raises an eyebrow at this, Paige ate an apple and seemed to drop dead.
"Don't worry the dwarfs are all over it." Leo replies
"The dwarfs?" Phoebe repeats,
"Piper cast a spell that wound up summoning the descendants of the seven dwarfs. Actually, they prefer to be called little people now." Leo explains,
"Snow White and the Little People." Phoebe states,
Lillith bit her lip to keep from laughing, Snow White and the Little People.
"Look, the point is that they preserve the dead, it's what they do. At least it'll buy us time until we can vanquish the evil witch who's behind all this." Leo states,
"Cole is behind all of this." Phoebe replies, "And Lillith too,"
The vampiress rolled her eyes, 'Sure blame me, after all every vampire you came across was Evil.'
"Not according to the Elders he's not." Leo replies, "And they were quite closed mouthed about what Lillith is doing with Cole. They told me it was none of my business."
"Wh-?" Phoebe asks
"Look, even if they were responsible there's nothing more that you can do here. Piper needs you back home to try and save Paige." Leo replies,
"Okay." Phoebe replies,
Phoebe and Leo run into a different hallway were there were no people around.
"okay, Let's orb." Phoebe states,
Lillith watched from a different corner having to double back, good thing she knew the building by heart. She growled when Adam walks around the corner.
"Phoebe. Where are you going? Who is this guy?" Adam asks
"This is my brother-in-law. Something's happened and I gotta get home. I'm really sorry, Adam." Phoebe explains
"Then let me give you a ride." Adam suggests,
Cole shows up. "Don't go anywhere with this guy."
Phoebe punches him in the face.
"Cole!" Lillith exclaims, and runs out of her hiding spot, "Are you alright?" she looked him over and didn't see anything wrong.
"How could you have done this?" Phoebe asks
"Ah, done what?" Cole replies "I'm fine, Lily, she didn't hurt me."
"You're crazy, he didn't do anything. Hell's bells, he's been sleeping all day." Lillith adds.
Adam takes Phoebe's hand. "Come on."
"Phoebe, wait." Leo states,
Adam and Phoebe walk away.
"Leave her alone." Lillith warns,
"Keep them away from me." Phoebe states to Leo
Leo stands in Cole and Lillith's way.
"Leo, he's evil." Cole states
"Really? And what are you?" Leo asks
Lillith growls and darts forward and grabs Leo by the collar of his shirt, and raises him up in the air, "I'm just about tired of your kind," she doubles over in pain as she hears a loud jingle in her head, she drops Leo to the ground and fell to her knees.
"Lily?" Cole asks worried as he touched her shoulders.
"Alright, I won't threaten your whitelighter ever again, just stop with the jingle, Cecil." Lillith states, she straighten up as the loud jingle in her head disappears, "Goodness, I don't know how you whitelighters put up with that jingle, it's loud."
"How did you hear that?" Cole asks while Leo looks at Lillith with a strange expression on his face.
"The Elders decided they needed a way to keep track of me, so they put me on their radar" Lillith replies, "It's like having a leash on me,"
"I'm going to follow Phoebe." Leo suggests, "I want to talk to you later, Lillith."
"Fine." Lillith agrees. She looks at Cole, "We need to get moving, if Phoebe is in the Cinderella fairy tale, Paige is Snow White, something bound to happen to the other Charmed One."
The clock chimed midnight as they followed after Leo, only to find him gone, when they reached Adam, he was holding a pumpkin up in the air.
"Put it down." Cole warnsAdam turns around with the pumpkin still raised. "Gently."
"I can't. The witch'll kill me." Adam replies,
Lillith felt her fangs sliding down, she bared them, "So will I. You don't wanna hurt her."
Adam throws the pumpkin and Cole freezes it. He walks over and picks it up. "Oh, what am I gonna do with you?" He unfreezes Adam and punches him in the face. "We told you to stay away from her,"
"We're going to have a long talk about this freezing time bit," Lillith states,
Cole rolls his eyes and puts his other arm around her waist and shimmers away,
Cole and Lillith appears in the manor's attic, Cole is holding the pumpkin.
"Your sister, and, uh, I had nothing to do with this, I swear." Cole states,
"Don't look at me, I don't have powers like that." Lillith adds, she sniffs in a scent of wolf, "Let me guess the big bad wolf showed up."
"Oh, my." Piper gasps
"What are we going to do now?" the Charmed Ones' Grams asks, anyone from the supernatural would know who she is.
"Well, we do what we were gonna do in the first place. We find the witch who did this and vanquish her." Piper replies
"Do you know how to find her?" Cole asks
"No." Piper replies
"Wait a minute, I think I do. The wolf was trying to get into the book of fairy tales. Perhaps it's a portal of some sort. Although I don't know how we access it." Leo suggests,
"Well, we can't. But maybe Little Red Riding Hood can." Lillith states, as she holds a red cloak up.
"I knew I was gonna have to put on this stupid thing sooner or later." Piper groans, as Lillith hands her the cloak, She puts it on. Grams hands her a vial of potion. She disappears into the fairy tale book.
"Leo, Ms. Halliwell, go down to the living room, and check on Paige." Lillith suggests
"You were listening to us?" Phoebe asks
"Guilty, sue me. Well please don't, because I really love my treasures, and I wouldn't like to give them up." Lillith replies,
"Lily, you'll learn to love her" Cole replies,
Lillith kisses his cheek, "See I told you so,"
"You're an annoying vampiress" Cole states,
"But I'm your annoying vampiress" Lillith smiles, "Get use to it, you're stuck with me."
"I want to go downstairs," Phoebe states, "This is getting to weird even for me."
Phoebe, Lillith and Cole come down the stairs.
"Paige! You're okay." Phoebe states, she hugs Paige.
"Which means the witch is vanquished. So where's..." Cole begins but is cut off when a swirl of light comes and Piper appears wearing the red ruby shoes.
"Piper." Leo states
"Is everybody okay?" Piper asks
"Well, thanks to you they are. Well, I suppose that means it's time for me to go." Grams replies then turns to Leo "Mind giving me a lift?"
"Well, why do you have to go at all?" Piper asks
"Because I don't belong here anymore." Grams answers, she puts her arm around Piper. "See, you thought you needed me, but I was only here to remind you that you don't. Not even for her."
"Okay, but what about me? I feel like I didn't get to spend any time with you." Phoebe replies, she puts her arms around Piper and Grams.
"That's okay. I don't stay dead long." Grams replies
"Good point." Phoebe agrees,
"Well, do I at least get a hug goodbye?" Grams asks Paige
"It was great to finally meet you." Paige answers,She hugs Grams. "Grams."
"You come here," Grams ordered looking at the vampiress who was standing next to Cole.
"Me? am I in trouble?" Lillith asks, as she walked over.
"No, I just wanted to tell you, that your parents are very proud of what you've become." Grams replies, "Oh and you will not call me Ms. Halliwell. It's Grams to you."
"Yes, Ms...Grams." Lillith replies,
Grams did something that shocked Lillith, she hugged her too, "I hope you are able to keep him on the side of good,"
"I promise, if not you can come back and vanquish me personally," Lillith replies,
"Be safe, my darlings." Grams states,
Leo and Grams orb out. Paige heads for the stairs.
"Where are you going?" Piper asks
"I need to catch up on my fairy tales." Paige answers, she goes upstairs.
"Uh, I guess I'm gonna catch up on some sleep." Piper replies,she too goes upstairs.
Phoebe turns to Cole and Lillith
"Okay, you want me to say it, don't you? I was wrong, okay, I'm sorry. I really am." Phoebe apologizes,
"It's not your fault. I lost your trust a long time ago I can't expect to earn it back overnight." Cole replies, "I wouldn't have met Lillith, if you still trusted me,"
"I don't think I'm gonna trust anyone any time soon." Phoebe replies,
"Don't you mean Adam? He was just being used by the witch. He's a good guy." Lillith states,
"Really? I don't think I can even tell anymore." Phoebe replies,
"Well I can, come on. Cole, I'll meet you back home." Lillith states, she grabs Phoebe's arm and pulls the witch on her back, and races out the front doors,
They made it back to the St Regis. Everyone has gone. Adam picks up the glass slipper. Lillith and Phoebe watch him from nearby.
"What are we doing here?" Phoebe asks
"Rebuilding your trust. You liked him when you first met him, right?" Lillith replies,
"Yeah. So?" Phoebe answers,
"So, he's not under a spell. Why don't you see if your original instincts were right? Look, you don't need to fall in love with him, Phoebe. But you need to realize he's not evil." Lillith explains,
"Why are you doing this?" Phoebe asks
"Because unless you learn to trust yourself again, you'll never learn to trust any guy you meet." Lillith replies, "And helping you helps me,"
Phoebe walks over to Adam. Adam puts the slipper on a chair and they walk off. The slipper disappears. Lillith walks away with a smile on her face.
Cole shimmers in beside her, "That was really nice of you,"
"Yeah, I know." Lillith agrees, "What are you doing here?"
"Coming to escort you home, after all you're my date." Cole replies.
"Good, I just want to relax before I have to have a talk with Leo." Lillith replies,
they walked out of the St Regis, and Lillith scents something's scent she hasn't smelled in one hundred and seventeen years.
She looks at Cole, "I smell her scent,"
They came to a place where two people were on a bench making out,
"Hello Elizabeth," Lillith greets with malice in her normally warm voice.
The woman's head snapped up at the name, and she turned and her mouth drop open at the two people there. "Lillith, Cole."
"I see your old tastes haven't changed," Lillith replies, "Going to murder him too?"
"I don't know what you're talking about," Elizabeth Turner answers,
"Benjamin, was one of my best friends and you murdered him because he found out what you are." Lillith states, "As long as I exist, I will find a way to vanquish you,"
Elizabeth shrugged her innocent took the chance a ran away, "I see, you have seduced my son's weak human half."
"Your son was vanquished long ago," Lillith taunted.
Cole watched as his mother and Lillith battled with words, he didn't know if it came to blows who would win. "Lily, it's getting late,"
"Yes, run along to your crypt, you mustn't be awake during daylight," Elizabeth taunted.
"Cheap ass whore," Lillith mutters, before her and Cole shimmered away.
They reappeared in Lillith's apartment and the vampiress goes over to the fridge and takes out a packet of blood, she opens it and pours it into a wine glass. "I haven't the bitch in years, and she tries to bait me again."
"What happened between you two?" Cole asks
"She framed me for your father's murder, and then she tries to get back on my good side, saying she wants me to look after you if someone should vanquish her," Lillith answers, "I'll bet, she's the one who taught you all vampires, along with humans are scum too."
"Lily, I think you should go to sleep early, you look like you need it, matter of fact so do I" Cole suggests,
"I think you're right," Lillith agrees, and finishes her glass, and washes it and put it in the dish rack, she goes into her bedroom, and Cole follows.
"I don't suppose, I get to see you change?" Cole asks,
"Nope," Lillith replies before going into her closet and changing into a pair of silk shorts and shirt. She walks back out and over to Cole, and wraps her arms around him, she leans her head against his chest, and breathes in his scent.
"So many things are getting in the way of what I'm suppose to do," Lillith states,
"I know," Cole replies before walking her over to her coffin, "Sleep, my annoying vampiress."
Lillith smiles and climbs in, "I never thought I would come to need someone as much as I do now,"
"We can talk about that tomorrow night," Cole replies, he closes the lid and walks back out to his couch, and lays down with his arms pillowing his head, "I agree with you,"