When Phoebe initally found out he was a demon, she refused to vanquish him and allowed him to escape. When he returned, she was bent upon staying away from him, but she realized how much she loved him and needed him. Cole then volunteered to go undercover in a demonic Brotherhood in order to stop their evil plans. While undercover, his old mentor lured him back to the dark side by destroying Phoebe's love for him. Phoebe managed to reverse the spell his mentor had used to turn him evil and he began helping the sisters fend off demons. By accident, Cole's demonic powers were stripped from him and now he is just human. He proposed to Phoebe, but she told him that she wasn't ready to get married yet. She finally accepted his marriage proposal, and they recently married.
Without Phoebe's knowledge, Cole had been possessed by the magic of the Source when the Charmed Ones vanquished him. With the Seer's help, Cole tricked Phoebe into marrying him in a dark way. Because of this dark ceremony the son that Phoebe concieved was evil rather than good. When Phoebe discovered that Cole had turned, she initially supported him as his Queen of the Underworld, but quickly she realized that as much as she loved him she could not give into evil. With the help of her sisters she vanquished Cole. The Seer then tried to steal Phoebe's baby in efforts to claim the throne of the Underworld. When she succeeded in transferring the baby from Phoebe's body to her own, she revealed that the baby had never been Phoebe's or Cole's but her own. (She had manipulated them both into creating her child with the investments of the Source's magic.)
After the baby caused the Seer to self-destruct, killing many high-level demons as well as herself and finally vanquishing the Source, Phoebe began receiving psychic messages from Cole. Phoebe discovered that Cole was caught in the wasteland where demons go when they are vanquished. While the Source's power had been devoured by the beast that guards the wasteland, Cole managed to hang on because of his soul. He accidentally stumbled upon the discovery that if he absorbed the powers of vanquished demons before the beast could devour them, Cole could receive the powers. Through this method Cole managed to pull himself out of the wasteland. He continued to pursue his relationship with Phoebe, even though she did not see much hope for their marriage and divorced him.
More recently Phoebe has been pursuing a relationship with Jason Dean, the businessman who purchased The Bay Mirror. While Phoebe felt attracted to Jason she was hesitant to date him at first because of their clashing personalities and their work relationship. But eventually, Phoebe found Jason's softer side and decided to take the risk of dating her boss. Soon their relationship hit another obstacle when Jason's work took him overseas, and they have been striving to keep their long-distance relationship thriving. Recently she moved to Hong Kong to live with Jason. After Jason finally found out that Phoebe is a witch, very unexpectedly, he was angry with Phoebe for having lied to him for so long. His temper eventually subsided but his decision to end their relationship remained firm. Both Phoebe and Jason recognized their shortcomings in the relationship and they parted amiably, so perhaps their relationship is not completely finished. |
