Selkie Cove, Friday afternoon

[demonbelthazor]

Okay, so his girlfriend was a mermaid. And it was all his fault because he was keeping things from her.

He'd done some research and found a demon who could transform Phoebe back. But the price she wanted was his soul, and after the "useless" human Lana freed Piper from the Sea Hag's trap, Piper blew up the demon.

He'd talked to Blair in Sex Ed the previous day. Blair had suggested talking to Phoebe and "opening his mind" to her, fulfilling the spell she intended to cast. Maybe that would fix the backfire. Seemed like now that was his only choice. But would she hate him for it? He'd gone to see her the previous night and couldn't bring himself to do it. Now he was running out of time. She'd already swum out to sea to escape him once. She might not come back next time.

He shimmered to Selkie Cove, closed his eyes, and used their soulbond to summon Phoebe to him.

[Locked to future_visions. Specific details of the conversation are NFB. That Phoebe and Bel were at Selkie Cove and something may or may not have happened is fine.]

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[sensethevisions]

Phoebe had been far out into the ocean, sitting under the water and trying to think about what people had been telling her that she forgot. She was moving her hands through the water when she felt something pulling at her. Only, this pull was different than it had been the last couple of days. This pull was from the opposite direction... from the island instead of from the sea.

She stayed sitting under the water, trying to resist the pull that she didn't understand... but it was very strong. Not able to resist whatever was calling her, she swam back to the island and pulled herself up on the rocks next to the dolphin.

"Cole?"

He was what had managed to call her to the island?

[demonbelthazor]

She'd come. It wasn't too late.

He crouched down beside her. "Phoebe, we need to talk."

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe was looking at him, thinking about how beautiful he was and wondering if he'd come with her sometime.

"We do?"

[demonbelthazor]

"If I promise not to shimmer away with you, will you let me sit next to you?" he asked.

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe looked at him and then nodded slowly.

"Okay."

[demonbelthazor]

Cole settled down beside her. "You know I love you, don't you?" he asked softly.

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe nodded, holding up her bracelet. "Yes. You gave me this."

[sensethevisions]

"Is the fact that you want to be with other person what is causing the pain?"

[demonbelthazor]

"It's causing...confusion," Cole admitted.

[sensethevisions]

The rocks beneath her were very fascinating. "Do you want to go to this person?"

[demonbelthazor]

"I want to be with you, Phoebe," Cole replied truthfully. "You're the most important thing in my life. You're the light in my darkness. I love you more than anything."

[sensethevisions]

She moved a little closer to him. "You do?" She looked down at his hands. "Why didn't you tell me?"

[demonbelthazor]

He blinked. "I thought you knew that?"

[sensethevisions]

"That you had feelings for someone other than me? No. I thought I did something to make you not trust me and you shut me out." She looked at him. "I thought you were already seeing someone else."

[sensethevisions]

"Cole?" Her voice sounded different than it had earlier.

[demonbelthazor]

He leaned forward and gently kissed her. "Come back to me, love."

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe kissed him tentatively at first, and then she deepened the kiss. After a moment, she pulled back and looked at him.

"Cole... the rock's hurting my legs."

[demonbelthazor]

"Legs?" he repeated, looking down. He grinned. "You're not a mermaid anymore! And, umm, you're naked, love." He helped her to her feet, then offered her his coat to cover herself.

[sensethevisions]

It was a good thing he was so much taller than she was as when she got finished buttoning his coat over her, it conevered everything to her knees.

She felt a bit disoriented and maybe a new kind of confused as she tried to piece together things from the last few days.

Biting her lip, she looked up at him. "Where does this leave us, love? Where do we go from here?"

[demonbelthazor]

"I love you, Phoebe, and nothing's ever gonna change that," Cole said. "I'm not going to leave you as long as you'll still have me."

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe leaned up and pulled his face down to hers. Then, she kissed him deeply. When she pulled back, she kept ahold of him.

"I love you... I need you... and I just cannot imagine not having you in my life, Cole."

[sensethevisions]

"Oh, soulmate... no one is worth the cost of your soul. That is one thing you must never give up. No one is worth your soul."

She tightened her arms around him.

[demonbelthazor]

"You're worth it," Cole said fiercely.

[sensethevisions]

She wasn't going to try to argue with him.

"Can we go home? For some reason I'm really tired and I just want to take a shower and then hold you and talk... and hold you..."

[demonbelthazor]

He wrapped his arms tightly around her. "Whatever you want, love," he said, then shimmered both of them back to their room in the dorms.