[East Attic -- locked to Belthazor and Phoebe and any roommates who might show up]

[demonbelthazor]

Phoebe was back. And she'd agreed to see him. Belthazor shimmered upstairs to the East Attic, appearing outside the door. His heart was racing. He didn't know why he was doing this. He'd decided his necessary course of action last night -- get rid of the soul, and the pain and confusion would all stop. No more human weakness to hinder him. But still she called to him like a Siren. He had to see her or he'd go crazy. But what the hell was he going to say?

He took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

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[sensethevisions]

Phoebe looked at him. "Then tell me why, Belthazor. why did you do that to me if you really loved me?"

[demonbelthazor]

"Because you're better off without me!" he snapped. "I can't...you don't know what I am."

He smiled humourlessly. "But you will soon enough. Your friends on the 'Hottest Ticket' have seen to that. Cute little attack there. And I'm not even really running. My name just somehow ended up on the ticket."

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe throws a pillow at his head.

"I am so sick and tired of people telling me who I'd be better off with or without."

She throws another pillow.

"So they found out you're not human, big fucking deal! Very few people here are human."


((OOC: no, Pheebs hasn't seen all of the tape yet. She's just assuming that Cole is a vampire because he's so close to Angelus.))

[demonbelthazor]

He ducked the pillows, looking at her in surprise. She'd seen what he really was and still she said she loved him? "You...saw what I really look like already?" he said slowly. "You know I'm a demon?"


[Ha! I can see that. But he's going to assume she's seen the tape now. ;) Since this is before your drunken binge we may want to talk how this is going to finish before you react to anything they might tell you because you might already know.]

[sensethevisions]

"You'd have to be to spend so much time with Angelus!" she muttered. "Maybe I'm one, too. Ever think about that?"

Phoebe sank back down on her bed.

[demonbelthazor]

"I already know what you are," he said. "You're a witch. And so is your sister. And your other sister is half a witch, half a whitelighter. Your kind and mine...aren't supposed to be together."

[sensethevisions]

"Why not? Who gets to dictate any of that?"

[demonbelthazor]

"People who will kill both of us," he said. "And your sisters. I'm supposed to report you, but...."

[sensethevisions]

"But what?" Phoebe asked softly, tears sliding down her cheeeks. "Love is supposed to conquer all."

[demonbelthazor]

"You've seen what I look like...can you love that?" he said. Her tears were bringing fresh pain to his heart. He should leave, walk away from her, stop this madness...but he couldn't bring himself to do it.

[sensethevisions]

"You're still you."

[demonbelthazor]

"You don't know the things I've done," he said, shaking his head. "Your friends all hate me for what I am. Why don't you?"

[sensethevisions]

"I'm not my friends and I fell in love with you."

[demonbelthazor]

Part of him had hoped that even knowing what he was she would still love him; part of him feared it. "You...you can love this?" He shifted into his demonic form.

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe lets out a yelp and she falls off the bed. She gets to her knees and just stares at him in shock and a little fear.

"I didn't know vampires could look like that."

[demonbelthazor]

He realized he'd made a mistake. She hadn't seen what he looked like in demon form. Fuck. He quickly shifted back to his human form. "I'm not a vampire," he said. "I...thought you knew. Your friends made a tape and they played it all over the internet to try to humiliate me...."

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe got slowly to her feet, her gaze still fixed on him. "I didn't see the tape. I'm not one to get involved with too much of the mud-slinging. Don't get me wrong, I want to win. But...it would have hurt too much to watch that tape."

She looked at him, leaning against the wall.

"What are you?"

[demonbelthazor]

((<-- shifting the thread over))