Part Four

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. He enlists the help of future white lighter Chris who agrees Richard needs to be stopped. In part four Cole keeps a promise.

The remaining sisters orb in to the Montana estate with Chris where Richard and Paige are in the kitchen. "Alright I left Wyatt with his father what's the happening people?" Piper says standing side by side with Paige she peers in to the book she and Richard were reading.

"Yet another spell book Richard?" Phoebe asks, noticing what her sisters were looking at.

"Phoebe…" Paige's warning tone is clear for all to hear, Phoebe nods. "So Chris filled us in, looks like you got a secret admirer Richard."

"I woulda settled for some flowers." Richard replies to the middle sibling, sipping on his mug of coffee.

"I'd take this mater very serious; if he's immune to Richard's magic he could be immune to yours as well." Chris informs the sisters, coming away from the book shelf he had been examining in Richard's study.

"At best he's an upper level demon or a Warlock with some parlour tricks; we'll just do a reveal spell and kick his ass." Piper replies to the white lighter, still oblivious as to whom he really was.

Manor, same evening

At the Manor Leo lovingly cares for his son, sitting on a chair in the lounge room he's singing Wyatt to sleep.

Cole appears in the room to a startled Leo, he immediately stands, Wyatt in his arms he faces the former demon, "I thought you were dead."

Cole grins slightly, "I'm better than dead Leo." He tells him, winking at little Wyatt and tickling his chin with his left index finger.

Leo stares at his former brother in law, "You're not a demon, and you're not human… What are you?" He asked, in a very serious tone.

"More powerful than you can possibly imagine." He tells Leo, lowering his voice he sounds a lot more sinister than and as serious as Leo.

"What's that supposed to mean? Am I meant to be afraid?"

"You asked what I am, but it's not just me Leo. There's more like me, and who knows… Maybe one day you'll be like me as well. One day."

"I'll never be like you, fighting the temptation to be evil, obsessing over someone you can't have. As powerful as you think you are Cole, you'll always be that bitter man who turns to evil when the going gets tough. You're not powerful, you're nothing." He bluntly tells him, seemingly having no time for the man he once respected.

The truthful words were like a sword cutting deep. His superhuman powers didn't help numb the pain. "She didn't tell you just how close you all came to death did she?" He simply replies to Leo's painful words as he strolls around the lounge. "I see you haven't redecorated since the last time I was here, Piper likes the old fashioned look huh?" Cole chuckles to himself, looking down at the floor and then back at Leo. "Of course she does, she married you."

Leo turns his back on the former demon and puts Wyatt in to his cot they kept downstairs for him. He turns back to face Cole, "What do you want Cole?" He asks, wanting to get to the point. "You shouldn't be here."

"So Phoebe didn't tell you how she secretly came back in to my life last year, how I put my life on the line once and for all to stop a new Source being born, a source so powerful that the Charmed Ones wouldn't have been able to face up to him!" He was starting to get angry at his hostile reception; he knew Phoebe wouldn't have told anyone about him.

Leo knew exactly who Cole was talking about, "You're referring a demon named Tyne, but that's impossible; the Source banished him to a prison dimension two hundred years ago. He was too powerful to vanquish."

"Not impossible Leo, that prison dimension was the Walls; where all the powerful demons go when they break Underworld laws. The first Source created it, as a way to avoid having to vanquish powerful demons. Spent a bitter time there myself recently, met Tyne."

"You set him free?" Leo asked.

"Not quite, he hitched a ride back through a friend." The Avatar sat down opposite a still standing Leo on the couch, "I'd forgotten how comfy this sofa was." He playfully told Leo, leaning back and lifting his right leg across his left knee whilst draping his right arm across the back of the sofa.

"So what happened?" Leo asked, taking a seat by his baby boy's crib. "Play the hero for once?"

Cole nodded, "You're not far wrong. But I'll tell that story another day, let's just say you won't have to worry about him now."

"Phoebe didn't mention any of this…" Leo muttered to himself.

"Well, where I'm involved she tends to have short term memory loss."!

Leo raised his eyebrows at Cole, "Can you blame her? After all you've put her and this family through?"

"Believe it or not, I'm not the bad guy anymore my friend. I'm actually here to help." Cole explained.

Leo laughed at loud, "Well like Alice I do try and believe three impossible things before breakfast. You're not a bad guy, you wanna help, what else? You helped a little old lady cross the road on your way over here?"

Cole said nothing, simply glared at the Elder.

Leo stood up and gestured his head towards the front door, "I think you should leave before the girls find you here."

"They're too busy trying to track a demon that attacked Paige's boyfriend earlier tonight." Cole told him, remaining in his seated position.

Leo nodded at Cole, putting the pieces together. "Chris said Richard got in a little bother earlier that was you, wasn't it?"

Cole shrugged, smiling slightly.

"Get out!" Leo demanded.

"Come on Leo, I thought you were a smart guy. You actually trust him?" He asked, referring to Richard.

"Are we just gonna go round and round?" Leo quizzed, becoming more and more agitated by the man seated before him.

Cole finally stood up and sighed, moving away the curtain behind him and peering outside before looking back at Leo. "I'm an Avatar; I can't do you or the girls any harm. Seriously, study me. Talk it over with your bosses, I'm not a demon anymore."

Leo didn't know what to say, his anger was turning to a more confused kind of behaviour.

Montana estate

Back at the Montana estate Piper has been making a potion, "I gotta hand it to you Richard; you've got every ingredient a witch could want." She steps away from the pot and throws in a pig's foot – the pot flames up. "Alright then we're done.

"What will this do?" Richard asks as he holds Paige's hand.

"Tell us who your stalker is." Piper replies.

"Gone are the days you make notes and tell the Police." Phoebe says sarcastically.

"Okay Richard throw in a bit of skin." Piper tells him.

"Why does he need to do that?" Paige protectively asks.

"Because he said the demon used some sort of magic on him, which means it'll still be in his skin." Chris stepping forward tells Paige, beginning to talk more than he had been.

Richard nods and takes a knife from the counter, gently slicing a bit of skin away from the side of his neck, he throws it in and Paige passes him her hanky for the blood.

"Alright we're in business, let's do this." Piper, Phoebe and Paige all chant the spell at the same time.

"Land and sea set us of this being free;

Beasts of hoof and beasts of shell,

Reveal who this being be."

As the potion bubbles they all look on, "I think it's starting to form." Paige says, as smoke arises and takes shape from the pot.

"That's him!" Richard says when the smoke finishes its form.

"Cole?" Paige asks looking to Phoebe.

"Cole." Phoebe simply says, not in the least impressed…

TO BE CONTINUED!