This cannot be happening...

[absolutesnark]

You know what upsets me more than anything? Seeing my sisters in pain. When Phoebe came to me in tears last night, it was painful to watch. She told me she had been seeing someone named Cole and that he cheated on her with some skank. She told me she thought she had found love with this person.

Being the older sister ready to kick the ass of the person who hurt her so badly, I demanded that she tell me who he was and where he lived. She didn't want to tell me. Eventually, she dealt the crushing blow. "You know him as Belthazor," she said. She must have noticed some sort of reaction from me. I know I was fighting back my own tears. I couldn't fall apart on her, though. She actually told me she was sorry because she knew I had feelings for him. And that's when I started crying. I hugged her and told her she did nothing wrong, that I was crying because I hated seeing her in pain. It was the partial truth. I couldn't tell her that it felt like my heart, too, had been stomped on.

How could I tell her? Finding out he was cheating on her with some random chick was bad enough. I wanted to tell her at first. I wanted to tell her she wasn't alone. I wanted to get my feelings out, too. But I just couldn't do that to her. It would devastate her more than she already was.

She wanted me to promise not to confront him. I told her I couldn't keep that promise.

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[demonbelthazor]

"You don't want to know, little witch," he said darkly. His hand shot out and encircled her throat. "And you don't want to know what I do to witches."

[absolutesnark]

Piper threw her hands up to freeze him, but instead she blasted him into the wall. She was horrified by what just occurred. "Oh god. I didn't mean for that to happen..."

[demonbelthazor]

Belthazor hit the wall and fell to the floor. With a low growl he picked himself up, unconsciously shifting into his demonic form. "You'll pay for that, witch," he roared. He grabbed her by the throat again, lifting her up and pinning her to the wall. An athame appeared in his free hand, and he raised it to strike.

He used to love the last look of fear and desperation in a witch's eyes before he killed her. But this time he hesitated. Her eyes were so much like Phoebe's. And if her sister died here, that would hurt her worse than what he had already done. He couldn't do that to her.

The athame vanished and he let Piper drop down, taking an unsteady step backwards.

[absolutesnark]

Piper backed away slowly, horrified by what just happened. "You're a demon, aren't you?"

[demonbelthazor]

He looked down at his hands and quickly shifted back into his human form. "I...I'm sorry, Piper," he said. "I didn't mean to...scare you."

[absolutesnark]

"I guess we do have secrets after all."

[demonbelthazor]

The demon in him screamed to destroy the witch, but he fought the urge. "You should...you should go," he said shakily. It was an effort to quell his instincts and force the words out.

[absolutesnark]

Piper did as she was told. She didn't want to be there any longer than she had to.

[demonbelthazor]

It took several long minutes after she had gone for his ragged breathing to return to normal. A witch. Great. His soulmate's ex's sister was a witch. And it was his duty to, if not kill her, report her to Raynor and the Source. Fuck.