The youngest sister
Phoebe and her older sisters Prue and Piper were collectively called the "Charmed Ones".[episodes 8] They served as powerful good witches who protected the innocent as best as they could. As the youngest, she had a rebellious streak. Compared to her sisters, Phoebe wholeheartedly embraced her destiny from the beginning. She often wanted to use magic for fun, and was the first to tragically learn that breaking the rules of personal gain will lead to serious consequences.[episodes 9] She was also the one who desired meeting her mother,Patty, the most, because she could not remember her (Phoebe was only three when her mother died). She missed her mother to such an extent she was willing to change history by trying to inform her mother of her coming death.[episodes 4]
The next three years saw Prue and Phoebe become much closer than they ever had been, and they gradually confronted their issues.[episodes 10] Phoebe desired an active power, and finally her wish came true in the season three opener.[episodes 11]
During the show's first three seasons, Phoebe was often the first to discover facts. She was the one who first discovered that they are the Charmed Ones, beginning with a series of events with their old spirit board that was left behind by their mother up until she got to the Book of Shadows in the attic.[episodes 8] She also was the first one to know that Leo was their Whitelighter, catching him while hovering to replace a light bulb. Leo made Phoebe swear not to tell her sisters about him. She revealed the truth to her sisters, but they thought she was just joking around.[episodes 12]
Out of all the sisters, Phoebe is seen to be the master of spell-writing. Phoebe authored a spell for vanquishing The Source that drew on the magic from the Charmed Ones' ancestors. She also helped The Seer to put the Hollow back in its crypt.[episodes 13]
Phoebe learns one of her past lives was that of her great-aunt P. Russell, a good witch who turned evil under the influence of her boyfriend Anton, a warlock. Anton seduced Russell to kill her cousins, P. Bowen and P. Baxter—the past lives of Prue and Piper, respectively—for their powers. Bowen and Baxter feared that Russell and Anton would be too much for their descendants to handle if they got back together in the future, so they cursed Russell's soul to make her future lives die at 24. However, they were able to fend it off by finding an amulet that protected its wearer from all magic.[episodes 3]
Phoebe is also noted as the weakest Charmed One by some demons (like the Source) because her powers are the weakest out of the four. But due to her power of empathy she became much more powerful,as Phoebe could channel others powers, thus giving her the power to reflect energy balls and fireballs demons threw at her. It should also be noted that Phoebe could channel good witches powers to use as her own. It is now also noted Phoebe could projectively levitate things around her as she did in Forget Me Not when she levitated a camera that was near her at the time with no physical contact.
[edit]The middle sister
After the death of her sister Prue,[episodes 14] Phoebe met a woman named Paige Matthews at the funeral for Prue. It turned out that Paige was her younger half-sister. Phoebe and Cole witnessed Paige inadvertently orb out from a demonic attack, and realized that she was halfWhitelighter, signifying that her mother had a relationship with a whitelighter. This Whitelighter was Sam Wilder. He and Patty Halliwell left the baby girl on the door step of a church with the instruction that her name begin with a "P". Phoebe and Piper helped convince Paige to join them and reconstitute the Charmed Ones, and subsequently vanquished Prue's demonic killer, Shax.[episodes 15]
For awhile, Phoebe must get used to the fact that she is no longer the youngest sister. At first, she doesn't like the idea of stepping into Piper's shoes as Piper is filling Prue's, though in the end Phoebe loves the idea that she finally can have someone around who is younger than her. She also finds it difficult to play the traditional middle sister's role of mediator. However, she once told Leo that mediating between Piper and Paige reminds her of how Piper had to mediate between her and Prue for so many years.
Phoebe followed a wolf that she saw in the hallway of the Magic School. The wolf lead Phoebe to Enola the shaman, a student at the school, who sent Phoebe on a vision quest to help her see her own future more clearly. On her quest, Phoebe finally managed to reach the portal that took her to the future. There she saw Piper, an older Wyatt, and a younger boy that turns out to be Piper's second son. Paige had become a teacher at the school, Phoebe is pregnant with a little girl, and they are living a life without demons. Wyatt's brother approaches her, saying, "Aunt Phoebe, we need your help," and she is returned to the present to hear Chris asking, "Phoebe, we need your help." Phoebe thus becomes the first one to know that their new whitelighter, Chris Perry is actually Chris Halliwell, her nephew and Piper and Leo's second son.[episodes 16] This in itself is ironic as she often describes herself as "the wrong Halliwell" to keep secrets.
Chris tried to enlist Phoebe's help to get his parents back together, but Phoebe felt that meddling with Piper and Leo's relationship would be wrong. As Chris tried to persuade his aunt to join his cause, Phoebe gets a premonition and they go to a Middle Eastern desert where they rescue a female genie named Jinny from her demonic master. Jinny says that she wrote to Phoebe because her former master, Bosk, is trying to raise an ancient demonic city – the lost city of Zanbar – and she thought that if Phoebe became her master, Phoebe would wish her free so that Bosk could not use her to resurrect the city.
Bosk soon enough attacked the manor, and because of his protective amulet that blocked her vanquishing potion, Phoebe wished Jinny free. Apparently, Jinny was actually a demon, and she could be freed only at the expense of the one who freed her, so now Phoebe would have to pay the price: she had become a genie herself, with Chris as her new master. Chris accidentally wished for Leo to get over his issues with Chris, and Phoebe made Leo become very friendly toward Chris. Chris decided to take advantage of the situation and wished for Piper and Leo to sleep together and it worked, just not as he planned: Piper and Leo fall asleep on the floor. Richard takes the genie bottle, with Phoebe in it, and attempts to use it to have Paige love him forever. To make up for his mistake, Richard wishes Phoebe free, and Phoebe and Paige manage to get Jinny back in the bottle.[episodes 17]
[edit]Loss of active powers
Later, the Charmed Ones go on to trial against Barbas the demon. He admits to mediating a plan to trick them out of their powers, but argued that he still had a point – the Charmed Ones are risky with their magic. He turns the bulk of his accusation against Phoebe, who had recently been using potions to force premonitions; an action Paige believed might have led to Inspector Sheridan catching them. The Tribunal reversed their decision to kill their ally Darryl Morris, but they decided Phoebe must suffer the consequences for using her powers for personal gain. She lost her powers of levitation and empathy. This was a "temporary" punishment, and she had the possibility of earning them back if she used her magic correctly.[episodes 18]
[edit]Utopia and retirement
Phoebe earned her power of premonition back again, but her powers of empathy and levitation were much harder to come by. In hopes of having a demon-free life, Phoebe and her sisters joined with the Avatars, powerful beings who are neither good nor evil, in their plan to turn the world into a utopia.[episodes 19] However, Phoebe realized that the Avatars had not only taken away free will, but the ability to feel grief or mourning. She convinces her sisters that having a normal life isn't worth that price. The world was returned to normal, but a powerful demon named Zankou was released from his prison.[episodes 20] He attempted to gain control of the manor to receive the power of the Nexus. By turning the Book of Shadows against the sisters, Zankou was able to use the spell and potion to steal a witch's powers. Zankou stole Phoebe's power of premonition so that he could anticipate their attacks and see what they were doing.
Phoebe and her sisters destroyed Zankou and the Nexus.[episodes 21] Everyone, both normal and supernatural, believed they were dead. This was their chance to finally get a normal life.
[edit]Rewitched and the Ultimate Battle
Phoebe's new alias was Julie Bennett and everyone else but her loved ones could only see her "new look".[episodes 22]
The Charmed Ones then met a young witch named Billie Jenkins, they revealed their identities to her and agreed to teach her everything they knew. Although Billie was Paige's charge, she eventually grew much closer to Phoebe, in part because Phoebe was always there for her.
They soon realized that hiding from their identities was a mistake however, so after consulting a Homeland Security agent who had been investigating the sisters' "deaths", Phoebe and her sisters returned to their normal lives.
Phoebe got her old job back and was dating a guy named Dex Lawson, who she had a premonition of marrying.[episodes 22] She did marry Dex while under a spell cast by Billie. The marriage was annulled since both participants were not in their right state of mind. Phoebe was no longer romancing Dex. Phoebe lost her faith in her gift, until she had another premonition of the future. She was talking to her older self 6 years from now, and she was still supposed to have a daughter.
Phoebe soon moved out of the manor and got her own condo in the city.
When Phoebe found out that Billie was the Ultimate Power, she was reluctant to vanquish her and she and Piper were at a disagreement until a spell was cast on her because of Billie. She and her sisters had to hide out in the Underworld, as the magical community had turned their backs on them but later she fought against Billie and Christy and was killed in the process when the manor exploded.[episodes 23]
Phoebe married Coop the Cupid in the series finale[episodes 24] and gave birth to three daughters one of which she had foreseen with her premonition. Phoebe has turned into a warlock, a banshee,[episodes 25] the Queen of the Underworld,[episodes 26] a mermaid,[episodes 27] a superhero,[episodes 28] a Greek goddess (of Love),[episodes 29] a genie,[episodes 17] a ghost, a mummy,[episodes 30] a Valkyrie, a witch beast that came out during a blue moon[episodes 31] (along with Piper and Paige), a 1950s housewife and was trapped in the body of an evil sorceress.[episodes 32]
[edit]Powers and abilities
Phoebe has the power of premonition, a passive power. She triggers this power when she touches or is in presence of something that has to do with what her premonition is about.[episodes 33] This power was initially uncontrollable, but in later seasons if she wanted or pleaded for a premonition, she usually got it. While her premonitions are shown as black and white in the show, it is mentioned several times that Phoebe experiences them in color. As her power grew, her premonitions become more vivid to where they become slightly colored and she can hear and feel what is going on and to hold her premonition longer. (Phoebe's premonition increases in "The Eyes Have It" episode to include astral projection into her visions and also in "Hulkus Pocus" episode when she is able to interact and communicate with her future self in her premonitions).
Her premonitions are triggered by objects or strong psychic auras, making them a form of psychometry. This originally only encompassedprecognition, to see the future, but grew to include retrocognition, to see the past, too.[episodes 34] Phoebe also developed the power to trigger a vision in somebody else with similar powers, "sharing" visions with Elders and knowing how to trigger a specific "trap" premonition in Mitzy, who had stolen her powers. Kira, a powerful demonic seer, told Phoebe her powers were once limited to psychometry but they grew, like Phoebe's will in time. Phoebe's premonition powers also grew to her visions always revealing the truth, and in one episode, it gives her enhanced intuition as she was hiding to anticipate when demons were firing fireballs,[episodes 35] and in many instances Phoebe has sidestepped and jumped out the way of incoming fireballs and energy balls with perfect timing.
Within her premonitions, they gave Phoebe the gift of Intuition this allowed Phoebe to sense whether she was in danger. Like in the Season 7 episode Freaky Phoebe where she was able to sense the demon was behind her with a pair of scissors, or the Season 7 episode Ordinary Witches where she and Piper lose their powers to mortals and the mortal who has her powers is able to sense when and where the next fireball was going to be launched. This aspect of her character wasn't really explored on the show and was applied inconsistently.
At first Phoebe was unhappy that she only got a passive power. However, it is actually highly sought after; at least one warlock the Charmed Ones faced specifically wanted this power for herself. Earlier, Melinda Warren had told her that premonitions help good witches see how to protect and heal. It also appears that she only got a passive power as punishment for her past life turning evil.
Phoebe realized her power was actually fairly useful when the demonic time sorcerer Tempus trapped them in a time loop in an effort to help a low-level demonic fixer kill them. She was the only one who realized the same day was repeating over and over again because of her ability to see the past as well as the future.[episodes 36] Later, her premonitions helped to revive Prue from death after a dragon warlock killed her.[episodes 37]
Later on Phoebe obtained her first active power of levitation, to defy gravity and float in the air.[episodes 38] This power was uncontrollable when she first obtained it but she later gained complete control over it. She cannot usually move horizontally, and at one time, Prue has to use her telekinesis to move Phoebe over to another side of a cave while she was levitating.[episodes 39] Phoebe usually mixed her martial arts and kick boxing with her levitating power to knock out her enemies. In Season 4, she was able to glide short distances with this power and walk on walls. In Season 5, she was able to propel herself through a ventilation duct with this power.An advanced form of this power gave Phoebe the form of projective levitation to which she levitated a camera in forget me not also the man she was holding at them time.
Prior to their wedding, Cole became the Source. Once Phoebe became Queen of the Underworld, she acquired the ability to throw fire, which Leo told her was an upper level demonic power. She uses this power to vanquish several demons who upset her during Cole's reign as the Source. She also teleported by flaming, the same method Cole used. Phoebe learned that she was manifesting these powers under the influence of her baby son, which was really the spawn of the Source. After she renounced her crown, the baby started manifesting fierce demonic powers of his own through her, including the ability to shoot potent beams that destroyed even the most powerful demons. Later, when the Seer magically transferred the child into her own womb, Phoebe lost all of her offensive demonic powers, and she later vows never to use black magic again.
Season six saw Phoebe develop the power of empathy. Being an empath allows her to channel the emotions of those around her. This initially caused considerable problems, as she would encounter other's emotions and act on their whims. Since powers are tied to emotions, (and Phoebe could feel other's emotions) she could sometimes tap into their powers. This was shown when Valkyrie Piper attacked and Phoebe was able to channel Piper's telekinetic Valkyrie powers to where she could use them herself, and also to the point where when used against her, they had no effect.[episodes 40] This also allowed her to backfire energy balls and fireballs. When the sisters traveled to the future, it was revealed that Phoebe had used electrical powers to kill a man named Cal Greene,[episodes 9] although it was never clarified if this was an expansion upon/usage of an existing power or an entirely new one.
Phoebe's powers were stripped by the Tribunal because she was misusing her powers for personal gain.[episodes 18] She received back her premonition power in "Styx Feet Under". Like the other Charmed Ones, Phoebe can also brew magical potions and recite/write spells. Even in the flash-forward in the series finale,[episodes 24] it was never made completely clear if Phoebe ever did get her powers of levitation and empathy back. Although in the last Charmed novel, Trickery Treat, Phoebe has already had her Empathy power back. That means that she got it back at some point between the last episode of the series and the timeline of the novel (Halloween 2006).
To make up for initially only having a passive power, Phoebe took classes in self-defense. She gradually became the most effective hand-to-hand fighter out of all the four sisters due to her martial arts training. She managed to hold her ground fighting demons notably fighting demonic wrestlers, Furies and vampires. Phoebe mostly uses her abilities of levitation to knock out her opponents in one blow.
[edit]Romantic life
[edit]Clay
Phoebe has had the most tumultuous love life of all the sisters.She is probably the only Halliwell to have the take-a-chance gene. Early in the show, Phoebe's former boyfriend Clay came into town after helping steal a cursed urn in Egypt. He tried to have Prue auction it off, but when she learned it was stolen she had it removed from the auction. The guardian of the urn attacked Clay, and the sisters saved him. Their relationship was not exactly successful, since Clay essentially tried to give them a curse.[episodes 41]
[edit]Cole Turner
She started a romance with district attorney Cole Turner,[episodes 38] who turned out to be a half-demon named Belthazor, sent to kill the Charmed Ones. Although Cole had started out using her to get close to the sisters, they fell in love. Cole's growing love for Phoebe soon overwhelmed his demonic nature; demons can't handle human emotions.
When Phoebe found out that Cole was half-demon, Cole told her that he'd suppressed his humanity for over a century. However, he said, her love for him helped him rediscover it. Phoebe helped him fake his own death and then let everyone, including her sisters, believe he was dead.[episodes 42] Phoebe then spent time researching Cole's past, confiding only in Leo that she did not really vanquish Cole.[episodes 43] She eventually told her sisters, which briefly strained their sisterhood. Cole and Phoebe had a chaotic romance at best, constantly threatened by each their conflicting feelings and doubts, not to mention demonic interference.
Cole's former compatriots in the Brotherhood of the Thorn, a society of upper-level demons, believed Phoebe's love for Cole was all that was keeping him good, so they goaded him into killing a witch the Charmed Ones were helping protect. This temporarily destroyed Phoebe's love for Cole, but by the end of season 3, they finally commit to making the relationship work.
Early in season 4, Cole proposes marriage to Phoebe. Shortly afterward, Cole's demon half is vanquished, leaving him fully human. A few weeks later, Phoebe's half-sister Paige, along with Leo, goes back in time to see why her parents died in a car accident and how she managed to survive. Two spirits, Lulu and Frankie, escape through the time portal and possess Phoebe and Cole. The two go on a crime spree, holding up a jewelry store to take a diamond engagement ring, steal a wedding gown and head to the local church, where a possessed Cole holds a gun to the reverend's throat, forcing him to marry the couple. Before they can say 'I do', the spirits of Lulu and Frankie escape their bodies, leaving Cole, bleeding to death after being shot by Darryl Morris. Leo heals him, and Phoebe and Cole vow to marry each other.
Shortly afterward, the Source unleashed the Hollow, and Cole was persuaded to take in the Hollow by the Seer, ostensibly to save all magic and protect Phoebe. Cole ran in front of a fireball thrown by the Source, thus absorbing his powers; this enabled Phoebe and her sisters to vanquish the Source. What no one knows is that the Seer deliberately intended for Cole to become the new Source, whose powers entered the "void" left by Belthazor's death.
Cole started getting nightmares of becoming the new Source, but was unable to keep the Source from completely taking him over. Eventually, little was left of Cole's humanity except his love for Phoebe. Rather than renew the previous Source's war against the Charmed Ones, Cole instead hoped to destroy the Power of Three by using Phoebe's love for him to turn her evil. Phoebe started to get a bad feeling about her upcoming marriage, so Piper suggested she use magic to find out what her heart felt. Phoebe cast the spell to hear her heart's desire, which ended up summoning her future and past selves. Older Phoebe refused to tell Phoebe about the events of the future for fear of changing things for the worse. Little Phoebe reminded Present Phoebe of her favorite fairy tale, Cinderella, and her dreams of finding her prince. Older Phoebe admits to Cole privately she broke off their engagement and helped vanquish him after finding out he was the Source, but sacrificed herself to save Cole from a demon attack. Although Phoebe didn't know it, the Seer was trying to have Phoebe killed in hopes of becoming Queen of the Underworld in Phoebe's place.[episodes 1] The spell reversed itself, and Phoebe decided to go through with the wedding.
On the day of the wedding, Cole uses his evil magic to bring chaos into his bride's life and sabotage his own wedding in hopes of luring Phoebe into a dark wedding in a cemetery. The Seer had told him that if he married Phoebe in a normal wedding, he'd never be crowned as the Source and that he would have a child that would become the most powerful good witch the world had ever seen(but due to the Seer's meddling that never happened and that title went to Wyatt as he was now the first born in the Charmed line). Cole made Phoebe's wedding gown several sizes too big, and reorganized the letters on the tag to say "Millie Platt." Phoebe blames the mess on Paige. To make up for it, Paige gives Phoebe an all-natural face cream, but Cole intervenes again, making the cream give Phoebe acne. To prove she is not sabotaging the wedding, Paige casts a vanishing spell to get rid of Phoebe's pimples, but instead make Phoebe disappear completely. While the girls prepare for the ceremony, they transfer the vanishing spell from Phoebe to Paige. Victor walks her down the aisle, but a Lazarus Demon attacks outside the sanctuary on Cole's orders. Paige is nearly killed, and, still being invisible and now unconscious, Leo initially could not see her to heal her. Cole saw a growing puddle of blood; realizing it was Paige, he kept quiet as he wanted her dead. However, after Phoebe grew hysterical at the thought of Paige dying, Cole pointed out where she was and Leo healed her. The sight of Paige nearly dying is enough to make Phoebe call off the wedding. Just when the girls think there's nothing that can be done, they come up on a chapel in the mausoleum and conduct the ceremony there. They don't know, however, that a dark priest is conducting it.[episodes 44]
To her shock, Phoebe finds herself to be pregnant; unknowingly, she is carrying the next Source. The baby had been made pure demon as a result of the dark wedding; had the wedding been a normal one, the baby would have been born as a powerful good witch.[episodes 44] Under the baby's influence, Phoebe began manifesting the ability to throw flames from her hands—one of the powers of the Queen of the Underworld. Paige, and later Piper, suspects that Cole has turned evil again, but don't know that he is the Source. Paige finally tells Phoebe of her suspicions, but Phoebe initially doesn't believe her. However, when she tells Cole that she's worried about her new fire-throwing powers, she gets a premonition of his recent dealings with demons. Realizing that Paige was right all along, she immediately leaves him. Shortly afterward, she found out that Cole's new personal assistant, Julie, was really a demon sent to seduce Cole away from her, and killed her with fire. Cole attempted to give up his powers to an evil wizard, but Phoebe (under the Seer's coaching) killed the wizard before the transfer was complete. The two are then duly crowned as rulers of the underworld.[episodes 26]
Due to their son's influence, Phoebe was able to touch the Source's Grimoire, an evil version of the Book that normally repelled good beings' attempts to touch it. She began teleporting by flame-based teleportation, a power usually associated with high upper-level demons.[episodes 26] She also tried to suggest that one of her readers beat her cheating husband over the head with a stapler. However, she tried to play both sides of good and evil. For one thing, she was not willing to kill innocents. In fact, when she got a premonition that a demon was sent to kill an innocent, she offered to help her sisters stop him. However, she merely ordered the demon to leave, much to Piper, Paige and Leo's dismay; they are unwilling to have Phoebe as playing both sides.[episodes 45]
Phoebe's attempt to play both sides also undermined Cole's support in the underworld. Several demons were also upset that Phoebe had killed several of their compatriots, but Cole blamed it on hormones. Ultimately, Phoebe found out that the Seer was giving her a tonic designed to destroy her good side—under orders from Cole. She also found out that Cole had personally killed the innocent she'd seen in her premonition. She renounced her crown and joined her sisters in vanquishing Cole, using the spell she wrote to vanquish the Source. Phoebe cried through most of the spell, and was inconsolable for some time afterward.[episodes 45]
After Cole died, he ended up in the demonic Wasteland, where all demons go after being vanquished. His powers as the Source were absorbed by the creature there, but he survived by clinging to his love for Phoebe. He tried to get Phoebe to help bring him back to life using a resurrection spell in the Grimoire, but Phoebe didn't want to ever use dark magic again and asked him to move on. When Cole learned he could absorb the powers of other demons when they were killed in the Wasteland, he picked up massive demonic powers and escaped, just in time to save Phoebe's life.[episodes 27]
Phoebe was transformed into a mermaid by a spell, but was turned back when she admitted she still loved Cole. However, she told him that their relationship was completely over. She pushed through with efforts to obtain a divorce.[episodes 27] Cole repeatedly tries to prove he's still good in order to win Phoebe back, but Phoebe isn't willing to accept him anymore. Despite her earlier efforts to save him, she now believes that it's only a matter of time before his demonic powers make him give in to that evil again. Additionally, mortals can't handle having magical powers of any sort in them; their weight will eventually drive them insane. Cole makes numerous attempts to prove that he's good, only to be rebuffed each time by Phoebe and her sisters. Just as Phoebe wonders if she was being too hard on him, her fears are justified when he nearly strangles her to death under the influence of a siren's magic.
Eventually, Cole goes insane due to the combined weight of his despair over Phoebe's rejection of him and the numerous demonic powers he has absorbed. He tries to get the Charmed Ones to kill him and end his misery, but by this time he has become invincible, and not even a Power of Three spell can vanquish him. Not long afterward, in the depths of his madness, he joins forces with the ancient Egyptian demon Jeric, who is trying to find a host body for his lover, an evil witch named Isis. He'd kidnapped Phoebe in hopes that Isis could tap into her powers and take over her body permanently. In the depths of his madness, Cole thought that with Jeric's help, he could get his lover back as well. He had Jeric mummify Phoebe and transfer Isis' soul to Paige. He then tried to trick Piper into saving only one of her sisters, since a body can't handle having two souls in it. However, Piper turned the tables on Cole and Jeric by casting a spell that sent Isis' soul into the afterlife rather than Paige's. Having learned the necessary spell from Isis, Paige revives Phoebe. When Phoebe asks Cole how he could even consider working with demons again, Cole replies that he's insane and leaves. A disillusioned Phoebe realizes that Cole has turned evil again, just as she feared.
Cole's obsession with Phoebe rapidly consumes him, to the point that he stirs up legal troubles for Phoebe and her sisters in a twisted plot to win Phoebe back. All this does is make Phoebe hate him with a passion. His real plan was to trick the sisters into giving up the manor so he could get the Nexus. He then planned to take the Woogyman into him and use the Nexus' power to turn Phoebe evil, then kill her sisters and take over the city. However, Phoebe managed to bluff her way into the basement just as Cole was summoning the Woogyman. With scarcely any emotion, she spoke the banishing spell, and Cole was sucked into the ground along with a crowd of other demons he'd invited into the manor. Cole, however, manages to survive (he was invincible by this time), and Phoebe tells him to his face that he's nothing to her now—and won't feel a thing when she and her sisters figure out a way to vanquish him.
In one final effort to win Phoebe back, Cole became an Avatar. He cast a spell which altered reality, making it so that Paige had been killed shortly after Prue's death, preventing the Power of Three from being reconstituted. He felt Paige was responsible for turning Phoebe against him. In this reality, he and Phoebe are married and rule the underworld from the manor. However, he discovers that Phoebe has long since fallen out of love with him in this reality as well. She only remained his wife to keep the Source from killing Piper. He also finds out that he is Belthazor in this reality, leaving him vulnerable to being vanquished. However, Paige was unaffected by the spell, and was able to reunite with this world's Piper, Phoebe and Leo. After making the Belthazor potion, Paige, Piper and Leo slipped into the manor and confronted Cole. Paige was about to throw the potion when Phoebe took it out of her hand. Cole didn't think Phoebe could ever bring herself to kill him. However, after staring him down, Phoebe threw the potion and vanquished him once and for all. It is later revealed in Season 7, that due to Cole's actions that he was sentenced to life out the rest of his life in limbo. There he has kept an unseen eye on Phoebe and her love life and has helped to heal Piper so Phoebe wouldn't give up on love because of everything he'd put her through.[episodes 46]
[edit]Jason Dean
Phoebe then dated the new owner of the paper she writes for, Jason Dean (played by Eric Dane). Their relationship was very serious and Phoebe even went to live with Jason in Hong Kong. After 15 months, Jason finally finds out Phoebe is a witch, as opposed to her telling him. He reacts negatively, and they ultimately break up.
[edit]Others
After Phoebe had a vision about life without demons and her being pregnant, Phoebe does math and decides she needs to find a husband urgently. She uses her empathy to find out if her dates feel love or committed, and if they do not she dumps them. She even went so far as to force her premonitions, so she can have more time for her dates. Her active powers were stripped because of this abuse. (but it is fare to note that all the sisters at a time, have abused their powers and none of them were stripped of them)
Much later, Phoebe decided to take a sabbatical from work. Her editor Elise Rothman, instead of just rerunning Phoebe's column for two months, hired a ghostwriter, Leslie St. Claire (played by Nick Lachey). Phoebe immediately fell in lust with him, though she did not want her column to be written by a male writer.[episodes 47] After a brief tryst, Phoebe eventually got her column back as well as her power of premonitions. Leslie moved on after his ghostwriting job was over,[episodes 31] feeling that Phoebe has too much to hide for his taste (Phoebe kept on standing him up at their dates, and never explained it—she was always doing witch-related activities).
Phoebe gained a romantic interest in the new literature teacher at Magic School, Drake (played by Billy Zane).[episodes 48] Unfortunately his only problem was that he was destined to die after two weeks. However, he managed to fulfill his mission; he was sent by none other than Cole, to restore Phoebe's faith in love.[episodes 49]
At the beginning of season 8, Phoebe had a premonition that she would marry an acquaintance named Dex Lawson. She decided to pursue a relationship with him, and later married him while under a spell gone awry. Instead of getting the marriage annulled, she convinced Dex to stay married to her. When Phoebe revealed to him she is a witch, Dex had a similar reaction to Jason's (rather negative). He learned that his relationship with Phoebe was solely motivated by spells and premonitions, not Phoebe's own heart. When Phoebe agreed with this conclusion, they annulled the marriage and broke up.
Later in season 8, Phoebe falls in love with a Cupid named Coop. It was revealed in the series finale, by future Wyatt and Chris, that the elders sent Coop to Phoebe hoping that she would fall in love with him to make up for a little of what she had lost through the years. Although it is "against the rules" for a Cupid to find love for themselves, the Elders lifted this restriction for Phoebe. The finale shows that in the future Coop and Phoebe are married by the Angel of Destiny in Magic School and that they will have three girls.[episodes 24] As a sidenote, Phoebe almost fell in love with another Cupid who had to leave her to keep his job.[episodes 50]
Once marrying Coop, the couple have three children, all girls. Also, it seems as Phoebe and Billie are still close as the finale season showed their relationship and how well they connected and cared for one another, as Billie is seen watching Phoebe's older two daughters as she's on her way to give birth to a third. In the Charmed comics we learn that Phoebe and Coop have named their first daughter Prue in memory ofPrue Halliwell. She has a power similar to that of her fathers.
