Chapter 11: Unhurried

Cole shoved Paige behind him, "say the spell and go!"

"Not before I talk to you!" She pulled Cole with herself while she was climbing a rock behind her, the snakelike creature missing Cole's foot with a mere inch or less.

"We can't keep running from that thing forever!" Cole stopped Paige when he thought they were high enough for the beast not to reach the witch.

Paige nodded, she couldn't wait anymore. She needed to tell him what she wanted to tell him all along, "Cole, I came here using the take me to my love spell."

"What does that mean?" Cole asked baffled, although he did know what it meant, of course.

"It means...I don't know what it means..." Paige backtracked, afraid to have it spelled out in the open, it made her unsure of herself, mazed about everything that happened over the last year. If she would've said it loud that she loved him, it could've changed everything, not just between them, but it would've changed the definition of who or what she was supposed to be, "look, I want to help you. You came out of here before, how exactly did you?"

Cole gave her a cynical grin. Love spell, all right, but if he mentions anything to do with dark magic she'll be running miles, or in fact dimensions away, right away. "There's a spell in the Grimoire that could take me out of here. Last time I gathered enough powers to summon the book here."

"How do I find the Grimoire and how do I touch it?" Paige asked without hesitation.

"That's a...very good...question Paige," Cole stammered, more blown away by what Paige just said, than ever, "you don't touch it. Cause that's the only way of avoiding becoming evil when using a spell from it," Cole changed to speaking quickly, so that he can finish and spurt into action now that the realization of her words hit. He hugged her fiercely, overtaken by a feeling a joy he never thought he could ever experience again. As he held her, he felt that empty space in his heart that Phoebe left starting to tingle and something gently flown into it, something very pleasant, that just like Paige he wasn't ready to call love just yet. "But you don't need the Grimoir Paige. I mentioned it because I was sure you'd say no and leave me alone. I'm here only because I wanted to be here. I had no way of getting to the wasteland without the help of the potion of your sisters, but I can get out of here any time I please. I wasn't dead when I came here and therefore I kept my powers. I could summon the Grimoir from wherever it is, it doesn't matter, but I don't have to either. I simply remember the spell."

"What are you waiting for then?" Paige urged him, seeing how the snakelike beast has slithered higher on the rocks.

"I was waiting for you, I guess," Cole smiled at her, holding onto her even tighter, ready to teleport them both out.

Tbc