Part Three

Summary: The Avatars have turned down Cole's request to stop Richard Montana using his magic after he had a vision of him doing evil. Cole takes matters in to his own hands and returns to Earth, threatening Richard to stop using magic. In part three Cole has some explaining to do!

Montana Estate, same evening

"I'll do a spell, find out who it is that's after me." Richard suggests, getting up from the couch he heads in to his study and over to the book shelf.

"Richard, no!" Paige quickly follows him to his study. "I'll do it, you just sit tight." She tells him, trying to get him away from his book shelves.

"Paige no offence but I can take care of myself." The eager Richard tells her, running his finger along a large collection of books.

Paige sighed, shaking her head. "Fine, sorry Richard but you don't leave me with any other options… Chris!" She shouts, summoning her white lighter. "Chris!" She shouts again immediately.

Orbs begin to appear in the room, forming a silhouette and eventually, Chris. "What are you doing?" Richard asks his girlfriend just as Chris fully forms.

"Paige, what is it?" Chris asks, checking out his surroundings he sees Richard but says nothing.

"Richard needs our help, there's a demon after him."

"What kind of demon?" He asks his future aunt, folding his arms awaiting her reply.

"One that was immune to his powers. It attacked him in the restaurant we doubled earlier." She explains.

Chris raises his eye brows and looks to the male witch, "Why would it do that?" He asks Richard, not seeming too shocked to hear this.

Richard stuck his head up from a book he'd began studying, looking at his lovers white lighter and gritting his teeth, "I wish I knew!"

"Are you going to bring your sisters in on this? We could be dealing with something really dangerous." Chris asks Paige, unfolding his arms and walking over to her more concerned than before.

"Not yet but I will." Paige continued to glare at Richard, she hated him using magic now that she knew what it did to him.

"Look I don't need all this, I can handle myself." Richard tells Paige, not one for wanting such attention. He bowed his head back to the back, furiously flicking threw the pages. "I know it's in here somewhere!"

"Go and tell my sisters I need them here. Richard and I are going to look through some of his books and find a spell to reveal who's after him." Paige told her white lighter, surrendering to Richard's insistence on looking for a spell.

Chris nodded and orbed out. Cole, who by now had began looking over Richard's shoulder to study his texts too, still watching on unseen, looked over to Chris and disappeared as well.

Mystery room

Chris checked out his surroundings, a grey misty large empty space, this wasn't the Manor it looked like he was in a foggy field except there no grass but he could feel the coldness of the night.

"I intercepted your orb." A voice told him. "I'll let you go after we've had a little chat."

Chris backed away, "Then come out invisible man, and let's chat." At this point, the young white lighter had a feeling he knew whom he was dealing with,

Cole appeared before him.

"Cole." Chris simply said, "I shoulda guessed sooner. Only you or elders could intercept my orbing. Where are we? And what do you want?" His tone was low; he spoke to him more like an enemy than ally.

"A plane between earth and the clouds, do you like it? I created it myself, just so we could… talk, away from prying eyes. Know what I mean?" Cole was circling the Halliwell's guardian angel, his voice sounded almost menacing, like he was trying to intimidate the boy.

"Like Elders, Avatars and witches?" A slightly cautious Chris asked him.

"Do I have your backing on this one…? Future boy." He asked Chris, ignoring his question and implicating the two had met before.

"If he hurts my aunt I'll kill him myself!" Chris angrily responded.

"You've seen the future; you know what he's capable of. He'll do more than hurt her if he's allowed to continue with his magic, the Charmed Ones won't be able to match his power." Cole continued to explain, he knew the white lighter wasn't like Leo which is why he came to him. He had mastered the art of manipulation a long time ago. "You know you can't go to daddy about this, don't you?"

Chris now looked more confused then angry, "Why not? He'll be with us all the way if he knew it meant saving his precious wife and child." Chris answered with a hint of jealously, something that always crept in to his voice when he spoke about his father.

"Cos he's an elder now, remember? They can't do anything without meetings and picket signs. Plus he can't keep anything from your mom, never could."

Chris thought for a moment before simply nodding in agreement. "You're right. So who do you wanna play this?"

"I'll give you some borrowed powers, but you have to kill him for me; if I do it I'll be stripped of my power and sent back to this time. I'm forbidden to interfere in earth matters." This was Cole's problem, having grown up with it for most of his life his first instinct when solving a problem was to kill.

"Me? No way I'm supposed to watch over witches - not murder them!" Chris quickly responded.

"Listen junior!" Cole barked, grabbing the young man by his striped shirt collar. "You'll be saving thousands of lives to end his. Right now you're the only one I can trust, kill him and then you can go back to pretending you're only here to watcher over the girls!" He let go of Chris's collar and stepped back.

"And what about dad? You think he doesn't know everything I'm doing? You think he won't turn me over to the Elders once I do it?" A more nervous and shaking Chris asked the Avatar.

Cole took in his response for a moment; on this occasion he knew Chris was right and nodded. "Okay, maybe his death was a little too easy. Nevertheless, I have to stop him, from here on out he only becomes more dangerous." He stood silently for a moment looking at his white lighter counter part and then smiled. "Keep doing what you're doing kid." He told him, nodding his head.

Looking at Cole puzzled for a moment, Chris braced himself to orb out. "Okay… And what are you gonna do?"

"Talk to your daddy!"

TO BE CONTINUED!