A/N: Sorry this has taken me so long, but for some reason, I have not been able to bring myself to writing this. Though I have been cured, I make no promises of when I will be able to update since I tend to not make the deadline I make for myself and instead end up delaying my writing even more.

Because I would not be able to do just to scenes in the memory sequence, which will be coming straight from the show, I will only includes the dialogue of the scenes, with the following being the structure:Phoebe, Cole, Piper, Paige . If that confuses anyone, I could try to fix it, but I felt it fit better in that way with my writing, as I would probably describe the scene wrong, since I don't have my DVDs with me to review such material.

Also check out my new LiveJournal, link is my homepage, for updates on my writing.

Well that's all I have to say for now, I hope you guys enjoy it.

Disclaimer: Charmed is owned/was by the WB (now the CW) and everyone who has a share in it. The lyrics in the beginning of this chapter belong to K-Os and their song The Rain. I recommend them a lot, especially Super Star Pt. 0.

Chapter 4: The Rain

You say you love me, but then you turn and walk away
All for a love not even born yesterday
I see you on the streets and you just pass me by
You think I got no feelings, think I'm living high
But let me tell ya…
I could be on the TV, I could be in their magazines
But it's never enough when you felt the touch
Of an angel that's rocking your soul

Phoebe looked up at the figure in front of her, not knowing how to answer his question. She didn't even know why she had just called him Cole, which, as she recalled back to earlier that day, when Paige had asked her who Cole was. Maybe the name had been stuck in her memory, but that didn't explain why she had that sudden urge to call the Liang Yi that. She opened her mouth to say something, but closed it again; unsure of what to say that would satisfy his answer.

Phoebe looked down to Coop, who was still kneeling, but know had turned his head up to look into her face. Phoebe knew that she would have to answer the Liang Yi pretty soon, aware that he was used to have his every question answered. With all these thoughts running into her head, she failed to notice the disturbance she was creating, strong enough to make the Liang Yi lose his own balance.

"Explain Cupid."

Phoebe cringed at his harsh tone, knowing that she had disturbed him. She looked on as she noticed Coop stand up and stand up straight in front of the Liang Yi.

"She is one of the Charmed ones, Liang Yi."

"I am not stupid Cupid; I know full and well who she is. I rather you explain to me what she is doing up here, especially in these sectors."

"I was assigned to her by the Elders. Her emotions are imbalanced and so her powers are not developing as they should, and they fear it will cause major consequences in the near future. It seemed that a potion had helped her out, but there was serious disturbance around her, so I hearted out to inform the Elders and seek their advice, but as I traveled, I felt as if I had gained then lost something. I had just found her, when you arrived, Liang Yi."

Phoebe nodded her head, agreeing with what the Liang Yi had said. She watched as the baby that was once still, began to move around, as if awaking from slumber, and noticed as the Liang Yi face softened a bit. The next events happened very quickly, leaving Phoebe, at the end of them all, feeling very lightheaded.

The Liang Yi faced Coop and handed him the baby, and as if they had communicated silently, Coop and the baby disappeared in a flurry of hearts. He ten proceeded to grab onto Phoebe and encompass her in his wings, spinning her around in darkness.

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Cole expanded his wings as he came to a stop, and looked down at the woman he held in his hands. Phoebe. A Charmed One.

He had never met any of them in person, except for the one that now helped in the training and overseeing of the Ying Yang recruitment, Pru. He looked down to the one currently in his hands and noticed that she had become rigid and look slightly confused and afraid, and he then realized that he had not explain to her what was to go on. He let go of her and placed her in the middle of the meditation room.

"This is the Taaiijtu room. It represents the symbol which humans call the Ying-Yang symbol. You are in a serious state of dis-balance, and this affects your power. Usually it would take years to find balance to a disturbance such as that, but that is something you don't have, so I decided to take over you meditation training and help you achieve that faster."

Cole looked onto Phoebe as she reeled in all the new information he had just given her. He turned his back towards and outstretched his hands, conjuring 7 white candles and 7 black candles, then placing them outside of the Taaiijtu symbol on the floor. He turned back to Phoebe and could sense that she still had many unanswered questions for him. He walked over to her and stood before her.

"Was it that you want to know? It will be best now so that these questions do not bog you down while you are meditating." Cole looked on to Phoebe expectantly, waiting for to open her mouth and ask her questions, but once they came, they came in rapid fire.

"Where is Coop?"

"Cupid is with Aphrodite." Cole stated simply, he watched her eyes go wide.

"As in the Greek Goddess?"

"Shouldn't you know this? You are a Charmed one, this should have been taught to you."

Noticing the look of frustration on Phoebe face, Cole decided to keep answering her question.

"No and yes. A long time ago, the different gods and goddess, joined there different deities of the different powers and came together under one uniformed deity, and the power choose which deity to exist in. Love and War choose Ares and Aphrodite, and so forth, they formed the first band of Elders. As time went on, the structure began to form more sophisticated, and white-lighters became elders, while the gods ruled from above."

Cole watched as Phoebe reeled in all this information. He was confused as to why a Charmed one did not already have this information but decided that question would be for another time.

"Ok. Why was Coop sent to Aphrodite?"

"To take my son to her."

"You can have children?"

"Yes, it is a possibility, I suppose, but the baby is not of my seed."

"Then how is he your child?"

"I rescued him from a different dimension, where his mother was blinded into given him up."

"Why him?"

"He is a powerful baby. Like myself he was born from very powerful good and evil, thus perfect for me to care. Anymore question?"

Cole watched as Phoebe shook her head, and then with a wave on his arms, he placed the candles symmetrically apart from each other on the border of the symbol, with the black candles on the border the white side, and one black candle in the white dot, and vice-versa. He now stood outside the circle and motioned a lighted stick towards Phoebe.

"Take it and light the candles on the perimeter of the Taaiijtu in clockwise motion. Don't light the two on the dots."

Cole stood there as Phoebe did as she was told. After lighting the last candle, Cole snapped his finger, extinguishing the fire from the stick and then snapped them again, lighting up the two candles left with a black and white flame. Cole watched as Phoebe grabbed her head and then fainted onto the ground, the darkness soon consuming him as well.

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Phoebe stood up, looking around and noticed that she was no longer in the previous room. Instead she seemed to be stuck in an endless grayish fog. She feared moving, not knowing whether or not the floor was stable past where she stood. A booming voice overhead broke her thoughts.

"Phoebe, just relax. This is your mind, and for what you and I can see, there is something that is clouding it, preventing it from being at peace. Just relax and we will be able to deal with this. Do you trust me?"

Phoebe just nodded, unaware if the voice could hear her. Soon she was stuck in a whirlwind and a flash of white light blinded her.

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Phoebe looked onto a couple, though she couldn't see to well. They seemed to be discussing something though Phoebe couldn't exactly hear what. She moved in closer, sensing something strangely familiar about the setting. She looked around, and noticed that she was in front of the manor, and that girl in front of her was actually herself, a younger version of herself. She then noticed her outfit, and it reminded her much of the outfit that she had been wearing when she had her first date with Caleb.

Phoebe stood there shock, realizing that the man who she was talking to must have been Caleb. She looked up to see the face of the man, and noticed that like many things in the distance, she couldn't see his features. But she had a gut feeling all of a sudden that it wasn't Caleb. This man seemed stronger, taller, more assure of himself and he was also wearing different clothing from the one's Caleb was wearing on that night. All of sudden Phoebe was able to hear the conversation.

Uh, you know what, uh, is there something wrong?
No.
It's just you haven't said anything since we left the restaurant.
A lot on my mind, I guess.
Work?
Yea, sort of.
[pause

I don't know how to say this...
Uh-oh. Don't ever start a sentence like that with a girl...
[pause
You don't want to see me anymore? Right? Never accept a lunch date.
It's got nothing to do with you. I mean, how I feel about you.
I don't understand.
It's complicated.
I think that I deserve to know.
I promise you'll understand soon, maybe more than you'd want to.

"That voice, it's not Caleb's," Phoebe thought to herself as the scene disintegrated before her. This assured her suspicions that it had not been Caleb. Phoebe recognized the voice, but try as she might, she could not put her finger on whoever it was. She did not have much time to ponder over this because the next thing she knew, she was caught in another whirlwind of fog.

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Phoebe was back to the original foggy grey room from the beginning. This time little cloud bubbles passed her by. She put her hand up to one and a scene of her and the mysterious man projected before.

You're the only one who knows I'm alive.
Actually that's not true. I couldn't keep lying to my sisters. I had to tell them.
Okay. That's okay. I understand, as long as you didn't tell Leo.
[pause, Phoebe turns her head
Oh for God's sake, Phoebe, why didn't you just put an ad in the paper? Tell the whole damn world.
Maybe I should have

Phoebe, following the pull of curiosity, and feeling the clarity that the last two scenes she had witnessed brought her hand up to another one. As in the last one, a scene projected in front of her.

Don't you think we should talk about this?
Talk about what?
Wow, looks like you two got a juicy one.
Yeah, but unfortunately no the one who kills witches.
How do you know?
Because upper-level demons have a human form and they bleed red, not green.
Ah.
[Phoebe heads upstairs
 Where are you going?
I'm going up to take a shower first and then I'm going to check The Book of Shadows. I wanna ID this demon I'm wearing, try to find some answers.
Speaking of unanswered questions...
There is a demon in the loose Cole, we don't have time for this.
Shouldn't we make time for it?
No, not now we shouldn't.
What are you guys talking about?
Nothing.
Nothing.
[shakes head
Please Cole, let's just focus on vanquishing the demon.
Fine. I'll go see what I can find out.

After a couple, Phoebe found it weird that even though she was completely confused about who had replaced Caleb in these "memory" sequences, as she had to come call them, she felt that these were more right than, the memories she held with Caleb. Phoebe put her hand up to the next bubble, this time determined to be prepared, and figure out who this mystery man was.

Oh Cole.. You scared me.
Sorry. Didn't mean to; with the rain outside and everyone on Yenlo alert.
Yeah, Yenlo. That's why I rushed home.
You're chilled. Here put this on.
[he goes to give her his jacket
Oh, you keep it.
I'm sorry. Am I making you feel uncomfortable?
No of course not, I was just wondering what Phoebe would feel about this.
Phoebe?
Uh, yeah, your girlfriend, Phoebe, remember?
 Yeah, you see the problem with Phoebe is she's so obsessed with training. She's not interested in
[pause
romance anymore.
That's not true, uh, I mean, she...
You on the other hand, strike me as being full of passion, desire. I miss that.
I gotta go.
[she moves to get away. Cole kisses her passionately, and Paige in Phoebe's body comes downstairs
Hey!
[Paige grabs Cole by the hand and flips him onto his back
How could you do this to me?
Oh, come one
[laughing, then to Paige
I'm just trying to have a little fun Phoebe. Isn't that what you were complaining about me not doing?
Yeah, but I never meant for
[pause
did you just call me Phoebe?
Would you rather I kissed her?
[looks at Phoebe
No.
No? How do you know?
Well, for one thing
[talking to Phoebe
you suck at levitating and for another you set me straight about the way I've been treating the real Phoebe, as only a sister could.
You did?
Someone had to.
Okay. I'm gonna go. Let you guys work this out. When you're yourself again, Give me a call.
[he grabs Paige's butt
We'll have some fun.

Phoebe focused hard on the figure that had just shimmered in front of her, and the features became more apparent the harder she concentrated, and soon it hit her who it was. The Liang Yi. Cole. The fog became thicker, seemingly choking her, and it soon became hard to breathe. Phoebe felt the familiar feeling dropping to the ground and having the wind knocked out of her. The darkness behind her eyelids was all she saw.

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Cole fell out of his meditation position in the air, his body coming in full contact with the ground. He groaned as he tried to lift himself of the ground, his body feeling sore, but he was well aware that it wasn't from the fall that he felt sore all over, but more from the full force of the Charmed One memories, knowing that they were truly hers was a big factor that threw him off completely. Cole heard a groan from the middle of the room and knew that the Charmed One, Phoebe, would waken soon, and made a split second decision.

It was obvious that these memories were to strong from a memory block to just contain, plus Cole felt a connection towards them, which took destroying them out of the picture. Cole, knowing that it was the only option he had, placed his hand over the Charmed One's forehead, a searing yellow light emanating from his hand and covering her face. The light then turned blue and went full force into Cole, knocking him back to the other side of the room, crushing his left wing in the process. The force knocked him out, and Cole slumped to the ground.

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Phoebe gasped, as if she had just been drowning, trying to fill her lungs up. Her whole body felt sore, but her mind felt empty, as did her heart, as if she was missing something. Then, Phoebe noticed, she was able to completely feel all her emotions, despite this void she felt.

"The meditation must have worked!" Phoebe thought, excitedly. She got up quickly, soon regretting this choice, for it only caused for a sharp pain to run up her leg, most of the pain concentrating at her ankle. Phoebe raised the hem of her pant leg and noticed the swelling around her ankle and figured she must have sprained, having remembered falling at one point, but not much else. Phoebe finally got the time to look around the room and try to figure what had happened, when her eyes happen to fall on the Liang Yi, slumped on the floor, on the other side of the room.

Phoebe rushed over to his side, noticing at once, that his wing was broken and that he seemed to be unconscious. Phoebe touched the broken wing, and noticed a silver substance covered the wing. Soon the substance seeped through her skin, and all her bruises and cuts, even her sprained ankle, seem to heal. She soon did the only thing she knew how to do when it times of crisis.

"LEO!"