Mortality to magic (Book One) ✔

Chapter 14

Colette breathe's in a panic curled up against the corner of the magical cage rocking back and forth in tears. She thinks to herself "Why did I ever come back here?, I knew it would be hard but I never thought it would be this painful and heartbreaking." She sighs and shivers. She lays down and tries to get to sleep but its impossible in this cold damp cavern.

Cole flames into the cavern. Colette stands up carefully so she doesn't bang her head on the roof of the cage. She looks at him "Come to gloat?". Their eyes meet for a moment and she looks at him and then turns away unable to look at him so she decides to stare at the floor.

He touches her hand "Of course not... I don't do that." she looks at him and raises her eyebrow. He sighs "Okay maybe I do that sometimes.." Colette frowns at him. He smiles slightly "Okay all the time... but not anymore." he sighs.

She looks deeply in his eyes "What's changed?" He looks away for a moment and then looks back at her again. "If I'm honest.. You." She sighs and sits back down in her corner. "You're lying...You've hated me since I got here."

He walks around the cage to get to her and puts his arm through the holes touching her leg. "That's not true, I may have gone the wrong way about things at the start I admit. But I started to like you."

She pushes his hand off her. "I'll never understand you sometimes... You hate me then you like me...." She sighs deeply. "I'm starting to think I should've never have come back here."

He smirks at her slightly. "Well.. I'm glad you did. Colette shuffles back away from him to the back of the cage.
She looks at him sadly. "I..." She struggles to get her words out. "I can't trust you anymore."
He frowns "Of course you can.. It's like you've said in your diary, you embraced me and you saw past the whole demon thing... You know that the evil side of me isn't me really."
She looks at the floor of the cage. "I was wrong... Paige was right... You can never trust a demon."

He shrugs at her."So that's it?." She frowns. "What do you mean is that's it?".

He folds his arms "I mean are you just gonna give up now, at the first hurdle...after everything you've been through?".

She felt like screaming at him. A billion thoughts went through her head. No it's more than that sometimes she really wanted to kill him. "NO STOP IT! STOP ACTING LIKE YOU CARE ABOUT ME WHEN YOU DON'T." She grabbed her head and cried in her corner.

Cole tries to touch her but she moves away from him.
The seer shimmers into the room. The seer takes one look at Colette and looks at Cole."Is everything alright?." He raises his eyebrows at the seer. "Does it look like everything is alright?." He sighs and sits on his throne.
The seer walks towards him "Perhaps it would be better if we left her to calm down a bit?." He looks up at the seer and nodded. "Maybe your right..."

Colette sat there hearing all this. She was both cold and fearful. Could he really care about her like he said?. "WAIT!"
Cole looks up to her shouting. He turns to the seer "Leave us." She bows her head and shimmers out.

He walks towards the cage, as close to Colette as possible. He holds onto the railings. "Are you okay?".

She nods and wipes her tears on her sleeve. "I just wish things had been different that's all.."
He nodded at her. He understood how she felt after all, He did read her diary. "I'll let you out on one condition."

She crawls toward him. "Anything.."

He walks around the cage with Colette following his everything move with her eyes. "You have two hours to decide Whether or not you want to be with me."

She takes that in for a moment. "Two hours is impossible to decide that kind of thing.."

He smiles "You'll figure it out." He calls the seer. She shimmers into the room. "Yes?"
He looks at the seer and points to Colette "let her go." 

The seer looks shocked. "Are you sure that is wise? We could use her as leverage against the witches."

Cole walks towards the seer angrily."I SAID LET HER GO!" She bows her head. "As you wish." The seer walks to ward the cage. She waves get right hand and a magical force field comes down and the bolts open.

Cole walks toward the cage and looks to the seer. "GET OUT OF MY SIGHT." she bows her head and shimmers out.

Cole opens the door of the cage and holds his hand out. Colette hesitates to take it. "It's okay I'm not gonna hurt you." She sighs and takes his hand.

He helps her out the cage. As he does she stumbles out and almost falls. He catches her."You okay?" She nods.

She thinks to herself "No I'm far from okay..." She smiles at him falsely.
He looks at her. "So is it agreed?"
She looks around at the cavern in her own world at the moment. Cole rubs her shoulder to get her attention. "What did you say?".
He smiles "I said is it agreed?.. Two hours to decide if you want to be with me."
She shrugs her shoulders "Doesn't seem like I have much choice...
She walks toward the throne and touches the arm of the throne. "Cole?."

Cole watches her. He replies with a grunt "Hmm?" Colette turns toward him. "What stops me going to Phoebe and ending all this?"
He sighed. He really didn't wanna threaten her again, is it really in his nature to be like this? He refused to believe it. If there's a future where someone finally accepts who he is and no family to speak of then he was gonna take it. "Then I'd have to stop you."
She frowns "How?" He grins "I'll leave that to your own imagination."

She crosses her arms. "And Phoebe...what are you gonna do about her that is, if I decide to be with you."
He shrugs "I don't know...I'll have to talk to her I guess."

She nods like she accepts that explanation. "How do I know nothing like this will happen again?".

She points to the cage and around the room. "You don't."

She sighs. He walks towards her "what was you expecting me to say?." She doesn't reply. "You was expecting me to comfort you weren't you?". She looks away.

"I should've known nice Cole wouldn't last.." She starts walking out the cavern and Cole grabs her hand. "Remember Two hours..." 

She frowns at him annoyed with him. He smiles back at her "Want me to take you back? Your still weak so your not gonna be able to use your powers out of here...and I really don't see you as the walking type."

She nodded. As usual she wasn't gonna have a choice. "First things first... My diary?". He waves his hand and the diary appears on the throne. 

She grabs it and hugs it protectively.

"Ready?" She nods at him.
They flame out together. The game has begun.