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http://www.majiklmoon.com/ezboardsmilies/Grin_anim.gif ALT=":grin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Part 8</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><br> “How can that be? He tried to kill your sisters,” Leo points out.<br><br> “What happened exactly?” Phoebe asks.<br><br> Her two sisters describe the details of Cole’s attack, and Phoebe ponders briefly and then asks, “I’m sorry. Are you guys OK?”<br><br> “Yes, honey, we’re fine,” Piper reassures her. “Right now, we’re worried about you.”<br><br> “You’re fine only because Leo healed you in time,” Phoebe states, testing her theory.<br><br> “No, no,” Paige chimes in. “We were all fine, really. We didn’t sustain a single injury. Leo didn’t need to heal us.”<br><br> “Interesting, don’t you think?” Phoebe says slowly. “I mean, Cole is pretty powerful right now with all the powers he picked up in the demon wasteland. It doesn’t seem to me that he tried very hard to harm you guys. Doesn’t that seem suspicious?”<br><br> “I guess,” Paige agrees. “But what – what was the point of attacking us then?”<br><br> “I’m not sure, but before we do anything drastic, like - vanquish Cole, I’d like Leo to ask the Elders what they think about my premonitions.”<br><br> “OK,” Leo agrees. “Tell me about them.”<br><br> “Well,” Phoebe carefully avoids Paige’s eyes, “it’s kind of complicated. Can we talk alone?”<br><br> “What?” Piper exclaims. “You don’t want us to know what you’re premonitions were about?”<br><br> “I – I just don’t want to worry anybody unnecessarily,” Phoebe explains looking at the floor.<br><br> “It’s me, isn’t it?” Paige realizes. “One of the premonitions was about me?”<br><br> Phoebe nods reluctantly still looking at the floor. She can still hear Paige’s hurtful words and the effect they had on the man she loved. She knows that Paige had good intentions. Phoebe can still remember feeling Paige’s fear – fear of losing Phoebe forever once her heart turned permanently cold.<br><br> “Don’t worry,” Paige says quickly. “Whatever it is; I can handle it.”<br><br> Knowing she has no choice, Phoebe carefully relates the details of her visions, including the emotions and thoughts of all the characters. When she finishes, Paige quickly begins to apologize profusely.<br><br> “Oh Phoebe, you must hate me right now. I know I haven’t always been supportive of Cole, and after seeing this vision, you must think that I completely hate him. But believe me, I don’t. I don’t hate him; I just don’t trust him. And at the time of your premonition, I thought his obsession for you was the <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>source</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> of the problem. I <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>know</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> I was wrong, and that’s why I went back later and convinced him to go to you. I showed him, magically, how much you <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>did</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> love him.”<br><br> “So, that’s why he called me to him; that’s how he knew that my love for him could bring me back?”<br><br> “Yes.”<br><br> “But those words you spoke, must still haunt him. Haven’t we always said there is a reason for everything? There must be a reason for me to have had that premonition.”<br><br> “As much as I am surprised by it, I must admit that in your description of your vision, it does seem like Cole is the innocent,” Leo answers. Piper nods in agreement.<br><br> “What about you, Paige? What do you think? Do you trust him now?” Phoebe asks pointedly.<br><br> Paige looks guiltily at the small corked bottles of vanquishing potion sitting on the kitchen table in front of her. “No, obviously I don’t. I mean, he attacked us, and . . .” she broke off unable to finish her sentence.<br><br> “Do you trust <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>me</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->? Do you trust my visions?”<br><br> “Of course I trust you Phoebe.”<br><br> “Then why can’t you accept that Cole could be our innocent? Why can’t you begin to trust Cole’s good side?”<br><br> “I don’t know,” Paige admits. “I listen to your premonitions and all I can think is that they are a warning of Cole’s downfall towards complete evil. I just don’t see how he can ever become good. He <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>is</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> a demon.”<br><br> “Half-demon,” Phoebe corrects her.<br><br> “Whatever. How can a half-demon be good?”<br><br> “I don’t know. I agree that I didn’t think it was possible; that is why I was pushing him away. I was afraid that he would always be susceptible to giving in to his darkside, and I couldn’t stand by and watch him fall again. It hurt too much the first time. But I can’t believe I had these premonitions to tell me that I’m doing the <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>right</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> thing. They must be to show me that I need to change something. And I think that means I must change how we’re treating Cole.”<br><br> “OK, we aren’t getting anywhere this way,” Piper interrupts quietly. “You were right Phoebe. We need Leo to ask the Elders to help us interpret these premonitions correctly. In the meantime, we will stay together to stay safe, but will not set out to vanquish Cole unless in self-defense. Agreed?”<br><br> Everyone nods silently, and Leo orbs away. Phoebe walks silently towards her sisters. Paige opens her mouth to apologize again, but Phoebe waves her off.<br><br>        She gestures towards the small black-liquid-filled bottles as she says, “So, I take it this is the vanquishing potion?” Paige nods, and Phoebe reaches for one.<br><br>        As she touches the bottle, she receives another jolting premonition. This time she sees herself in the future. She sees Cole possessing the Woogy, and she sees herself banishing the Woogy back under the house along with him. Then Cole returns, again professing his love for her and again vowing to do whatever it takes to get her back. She is appalled to discover how much Cole has changed. In her previous visions, she could sense good fueled by pure love, but now, she senses evil overwhelming his soul. She feels a strengthening evil fueled by desperation, hopelessness, and despair.<br><br>        However, what shocks her more is the hating words spitting from her mouth.<br><br>        <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>“You just don’t get it Cole. I thought you were dead, and I felt nothing, no pain, no love, nothing. I'm free. We will vanquish you, Cole, somehow, someday. And when we do? I want you to know, I won’t ever look back.”</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>        And alarmingly within herself, she senses the same evil killing her soul as she senses within Cole.<br><br><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center">~~~</div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--><br><br><br><br><br><br> <p><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=
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