Monday Evening at the Arms

[sensethevisions]

After classes, Phoebe dragged herself to town to the hotel. She was worn out and emotionally drained. She managed to get to her room and she kicked the door shut behind her, but there was a good chance it didn't shut and lock.

She dropped her books and bag on the table and took out her laptop and as it powered up, she got a very quick shower, hoping to ease the ache in her neck. Once out of the shower, she changed inbto something comfortable and settled against the pillows on the bed with her laptop.

She was writing a new story about a girl who was having an affair with a dream demon, only didn't know about it because she thought everything that was happening between them was only happening in her dreams.

Phoebe stared at the screen for a very long time. She wanted this next part to be the pr0n sexy lust-inducing attention-holding and she was stuck as to how to do so.

She was still trying to figure out what to write next when she fell asleep.



[[OOC: Open only to Belthazor or Crowley as they would be the only ones able to get to her.]]

Comments

[godinakilt.livejournal.com]

[[*is cracking up over the pr0n sexy lust-inducing attention-holding story* Love the icon, darlin']]

[sensethevisions]

[[*snickers* I just couldn't resist dearheart.]]

[demonbelthazor]

Unable to resist confronting Phoebe after all the dodging glances throughout the day in the classes they shared, Cole shimmered to the Hotel. He didn't need to ask what room she was in. He could still feel her.

She was asleep when he shimmered into the room. For a long moment, he just watched her, wishing things were different.

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe's sleep was restless. Her dream was tying her in knots and without the prtective presence she was used to when she slept, her nightmares were able to trap her sometimes.

"Cole," she murmured as she tossed. "Why?"

[demonbelthazor]

He ached to take her in his arms. Instead he said coldly, "I thought I'd ask you the same question." His voice was loud enough to pierce her dreams.

[sensethevisions]

The voice did penetrate her nightmare and Phoebe threw herself awake. In ding so, her hand sliced against a shard of the shattered lamp from Saturday and she hissed, hiding the wound under the comforter.

When she looked back up, he was still glaring at her.

"Come to finish what you started," she asked in a voice just as cold. She could feel the hand start to bleed, but there was no way she was letting him know she was wounded.

[demonbelthazor]

"No, I came to find out why you" -- his face twisted in disgust -- "why you and...Crowley...."

[sensethevisions]

This time Phoebe didn't look away. She had told Veronica that she felt like she had betrayed Cole and she did.

"It's not like you'd believe me," she said softly. "Today showed that."

[demonbelthazor]

Cole grabbed Phoebe by the shoulders. "Phoebe, I. Wasn't. Here," he said. "You must've been dreaming or something."

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe turned her head to look at him. "I didn't dream it, Cole...no one touches me like you do or sounds like you do." Her eyes aren't angry or accusing, just sad...very sad. Her head dropped. "I stood on that railing and I was going to do it, I was going to jump. In my mind, I had lost everything. I had signed myself over to Crowley, we had fought and I had left...the radio said you and Piper...and then Saturday night..."

[demonbelthazor]

"There is no me and Piper!" Cole snapped. "I told you -- that was just one time, months ago. And if you felt the need to sign yourself over to Crowley to keep me away from you, then I'll just leave now."

[sensethevisions]

Now it was Phoebe's turn to be confused and upset.

"What?! No! How could you think that?" Her face was full of shock. "If I wanted to get away from you I would have gone home! I signed myself over to Crowley before the demon attack...after the phone calls! I did it so he would quit tormenting you, damn it!" There were tears in her eyes. "I saw what he did to you New year's Eve and I didn't want him to be able to hurt you like that again. So I agreed to sign the contract if he would back off of you!"

Phoebe was shaking and now there was hurt directed at Cole. "How could you think that I would..."

[demonbelthazor]

Cole threw up his hands. "I don't know what to think anymore!" he said. "You signed yourself over to a 6,000 year old demon who likes nothing better than to tempt humans with sin, and I'm supposed to be okay with that? Even if you did it to protect me, Phoebe, you're a Charmed One! You don't make agreements like that with evil! Your grandmother is going to kill you if Crowley doesn't corrupt you first."

[sensethevisions]

"The man I love is a demon who used to care about only his own satisfaction!" Phoebe snapped back tears in her eyes. "Damn it, Cole, yeah, I wasn't thinking straight, but he kept fucking hurting you and I wasn't okay with that! Crowley could have demanded anything from me at anytime after that meeting and he didn't...hasn't!" Phoebe kicked at the wall, not the smartest thing in bare feet.

"You're the only sin I've ever wanted. I would never have signed such a thing to get away from you, where in the hell did you get that idea?!"

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe could almost see her heart on the edge of that knife.

"I guess not." She looked into his face, searching for something, but apparently not finding it, or feeling it.

"You know what? Never mind. I don't want your help. I'll find out who wants me dead on my own. Or I'll ask Crowley to help me, after all, I do belong to him now." She sat back down. "At least he only wants my body and soul, and won't throw my heart away for vengeance on a tiny blonde girl." Her smile is cold, even if her heart is not. "For the price of my body, I'm sure he'll want to track down who tried to kill me."

[demonbelthazor]

"If that's what you want to do, far be it from me to stop you," Cole said, angry again. "Just like you can't stop me from what I need to do."

[sensethevisions]

Anger, yes anger is good. If they both got angry, then this wouldn't hurt as much. Yes, this was a good plan. If they fought, they'd survive and be who they had to be now. If she could get him to fight with her, then she wouldn't lose her resolve to stay away from him. If they fought...she wouldn't slam him against the bed and kiss him. If he fought back...she could stay away from him.

If she...pretended to be sliding down the path to evil and Crowley...if she...

Phoebe got into his face, her eyes burning into his. "Might be fun to try," she said lowly. "I think I could take you, Belthazor."

[demonbelthazor]

It stung more than he expected to hear her call him "Belthazor." He was so used to thinking of himself as "Cole" in her presence. "Don't get too full of yourself," he warned. "We never did get to really teaching you how to fight."

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe hated calling him that, that wasn't who he was to her.

"Don't get too complacent with underestimating me, either Co-" She shoved him back against the wall.



[[*wibble*]]

[demonbelthazor]

Cole caught her wrists before she could shove him again. "Stop that," he growled.

After Cole Has Left (For Crowley)

[sensethevisions]

After Cole left, Phoebe sat in the chair for a very long time, hardly believing what she had just done. Cole had no way of knowing that Crowley had never asked anything like that of her. He couldn't know that until Saturday night, all Crowley had ever done was hold her.

She looked around the room, and then looked to Crowley's door. She knew he wasn't here right now, and she didn't know when he would be back. Right now, there was so much anger and pain and disgust in this suite that it was beginning to overwhelm her empathic senses.

Taking a deep breath, she got up from her chair and moved through the connecting doors and past the siting room into Crowley's bedroom. She climbed up onto the bed and curled up in the middle of it, hoping he wouldn't mind it if he found her here when he returned.

Re: After Cole Has Left (For Crowley)

[flash-serpent.livejournal.com]

Making his way back from getting trounced (http://a-phale.livejournal.com/24814.html?mode=reply), all he wants is a cup of tea and bed. He simply cannot deal with Phoebe and her weeping tonight.

Entering his suite his gaze is drawn to her form in his bed.

"Oh, bugger...I'm not up for this tonight."

Too tired to resist the call of the covers, he manifests a weak cup of tea and banishes his clothes. If she's going to be in his bed...she will just have to deal with it.

He slips between the covers and barely brushes her skin...and her Grace warms him through and through.

Re: After Cole Has Left (For Crowley)

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe wakes up when she feels him get into bed and she curls up gently against him. Her sigh is soft and her eyes open for a moment. She frowns as she senses something different.

"Are you alright," she asks in a soft voice.

Re: After Cole Has Left (For Crowley)

[flash-serpent.livejournal.com]

"Not tonight, pet. I will be though. I just need to rest." He stretches, catlike, and there is a ghastly sound of flesh and bone popping inside of him as his ribs right themselves. "Go back to sleep, love. No need to worry about an old demon like me."

Re: After Cole Has Left (For Crowley)

[sensethevisions]

"Tell me how I can help you," Phoebe says in a stronger voice than she has used in a few days.