The Almighty Choice: A Charmed Fanfiction

Chapter 18: I've Got You Under My Skin

CHRIS' POV

Chris paced the underworld, squeezing his head as a pain so unimaginable gripped him. Guilt, its eating me alive...He tought as he squeezed his eyes shut. He growled as the Source tried to break free of the human emotion that was ripping its way through him. The Source was splitting Chris in two, tearing him apart from the inside out. He growled and dropped to his knees, tears dotting his eyes. "Stop! Stop stop stop!" He screamed in agony. The Source's power was destroying him and Chris could feel, for the first time in weeks, what it felt like to be human.

But then, as quickly as it had appeared it vanished. The darkness encasing Chris' humanity, drowning it to become a numbing, unnfeeling state that allowed Chris to rise to his feet, his eyes completely black. "I am the Source." He said. "And the Source feels nothing."

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PHOEBE'S POV

Phoebe sat with Wyatt in his room, watching as he threw his balls of energy around the room and laughing as they bounced off of the walls. Piper and Leo had gone out for lunch and Phoebe had offered to watch her favourite little nephew. She smiled at him as he ran around the room, screaming. She laughed, he takes after his Aunt Phoebe. She thought, little trouble maker.

Phoebe had awoken that morning to find her husband gone, his running shoes missing from the closet. Phoebe assumed he had gone out with Leah, as he usually tended to do. But it had been hours since they had gone and something was pulling at Phoebes mind. She felt as if a premonition was about to come on, but it was still on the cusp of appearing.

She watched Wyatt, smiling to herself as she thought things over. Where could they be? Though she tried to assure herself that everything was fine that feeling that it wasnt kept pulling at her conscious. "They are fine." She repeated to herself. "Im being paranoid."

Little did she know that she was about to be hit with a premonition like no other...

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COLE'S POV

"Alright, lets run through this again." Cole said to Leah. They were in the depths of the Underworld, seeking out Chris. Leah had begged for Cole to come with her after their run so that she could see what he was up to and plan her attack. Cole, reluctantly agreed on the terms that he decide how they were going in and out. "When you get in there what are you doing?" She rolleed her eyes and sighed. "Im going to kill-"

"Knock out!" He said between his teeth for the thousandth time. She narrowed her eyes at him. "Cole please. Youre a demon so I dont know why it bothers you so much that Im not eliminating some of your competition."

"They arent my competition if Im not on their side anymore." He sneered "I just dont want anyone after us as we try and make our, subtle yet brilliant, exit." Leah sighed. "Ok ok. Ill try and knock them out, but Im not promising anything." She said as she riased her hands. Cole chuckled "youre more demonic than you think."

"Yeah yeah yeah." She said before turning around and starting forward.

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I had to see her. I had to know if she was actually here, so close to San Francisco. Melaina had haunted me in my dreans and I needed to know why. I only ever had those dreams when she was close and this haunted me. I needed to kill her, kill her before she killed me.

I started forward with Cole on my heels, I had told him we were here for Chris, knowing that if I told him the truth he would forbid me to come down. Something I was not prepared for. We moved quickly, suddenly springing forward and and surprising the guards standing there. I shifted and multipiled around them, confusing the two upper level demons that watched over the Source's lair. "What the hell!?" One said as he looked around them. We stared at him unmoving.