Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed, or its characters. Nor do I own The Wizard of Oz, or its characters.

A/N: I have been debating whether or not this should be marked as a crossover. However, the Charmed Ones and co. never actually meet the Wizard of Oz characters. It is Wizard of Oz in Charmed Style, so start guessing which Wizard of Oz roles the Charmed characters will get. I should also add that this is set post season eight/ultimate battle.

Chapter One: We're Not In San Francisco Anymore

Piper quickly switched off the television as she scrambled for the telephone. She was wearing jeans and a t-shirt with her hair tied up in a ponytail. Piper kept her eye on Chris, who was sitting lazily on the carpet as he played with a toy truck, while she dialled.

It was almost midday and Piper had been relaxing, looking after Chris, while channel surfing. However, a piece of breaking local news had caught her attention and she had to warn her family.

'Piper? Is that you?' Piper heard Leo's voice through the phone as the ringing died down.

'Yes! Leo! Have you heard the news?' asked Piper.

'The quake warning? Yes. They just announced it over the supermarket's tannoy system,' said Leo.

Leo had gone out grocery shopping with Wyatt that morning and they were still at the supermarket.

'Do you think you can get home safely before the quake occurs?' asked Piper, worried for her husband and eldest child.

'Wyatt and I will be fine,' said Leo reassuringly. 'Focus on keeping Chris safe and I will focus on Wyatt's safety, okay?'

'Okay,' Piper sighed into the phone. She bit her lip, unsure whether to say more, like 'Be safe!' or 'Keep away from loose objects!' but she knew that Leo already knew that stuff.

Piper said goodbye to Leo before hanging up and dialling a different number. Neither Phoebe nor Paige lived at the manor anymore, but Piper wanted to make sure that they knew about the earthquake that was expected to hit San Francisco in twenty minutes.

'Hey Piper. I am a little busy right now. I cannot talk,' was Phoebe's starting sentence before Piper could get a word in edgeways.

'Phoebe!' said Piper. 'Have you not seen the news?'

'As I said, Piper, I am a little busy. I need to get this column finished before my dinner date with Coop tonight,' said Phoebe.

'Wait! If you are at work, you should know! It is a newspaper after all!' said Piper.

'Know? Know what?' asked Phoebe, sounding concerned.

'The…' began Piper before she realised that Phoebe's voice had become really faint. Phoebe had started speaking to someone who had entered her office.

Piper sighed. While she waited for Phoebe to return to the phone, Piper watched Chris who had begun to crawl into the next room. Thankfully Piper was using the cordless phone, so she slowly followed Chris into the dining room. Chris grinned delightedly as he found a toy police car on the floor of the dining room.

Piper stood at the dining room entrance as she watched Chris play with the car.

'Sorry about that, Piper,' said Phoebe, who had evidently returned to her phone. 'Elise came in to tell me that there is an earthquake due to hit in approximately ten minutes. It is good we were on the phone, as now I can warn you about it. So what did you want to talk about?'

Piper rolled her eyes. 'Er… it can wait. Thanks for the warning.' Piper hung up, hoping that Phoebe had not noted the sarcasm in her voice.

Piper put the cordless phone down on the dining room table. She picked Chris up off the floor, so as she could carry him in her arms.

'Paige!' Piper shouted. 'Paige!'

Piper waited a minute or two. Paige did not orb in. Piper sighed. Paige was either with a charge or out to lunch with her husband, Henry. Piper put Chris gently back down onto the floor and dialled a new number.

'Thank goodness you phoned me, Piper,' said Paige hurriedly. 'It was my only excuse to get out of here.'

'What? Paige, what's going on?' asked Piper. 'I called for you a few minutes ago. If you wanted to get out of something, you could have just orbed here.'

'I can't orb out of this one,' said Paige.

'Why not?' asked Piper.

'It is a little too public in the middle of a restaurant on a summer's day,' explained Paige. 'Plus Henry knows me too well. He can tell the difference between me bailing for Charmed or white lighter business and bailing because I am uncomfortable. The phone call meant I could walk away from the table… Postpone the talk for a few extra minutes.'

'What talk? Paige, what has he done to make you uncomfortable?' asked Piper.

There was a slight hesitation. 'I… He… He wants me to open up more,' said Paige.

Piper furrowed her brow. 'Paige, you are married. That should not be difficult. Don't you already know everything about each other? I mean, you love him, so why is it so difficult to open up?'

'Of course I love him, Piper,' said Paige. 'I just… Henry says I shut him out a lot. Do I? Do I do that?'

'Er… Well, Paige, er…' Piper did not want to sound harsh. Piper paused. Chris was crawling out of the dining room into the conservatory. Piper slowly followed Chris. 'Look, Paige, I need to look after Chris. I was just phoning to warn you about an earthquake that is due in five minutes.'

There was a pause before Paige whispered into the phone, 'Is that code for an end of the world demon type attack?'

'No. It is code for: Keep away from falling objects when the ground starts to tremble,' said Piper matter-of-factly.

'Oh right,' said Paige, sounded slightly disappointed. 'Thanks for letting me know.'

'No problem. Have a nice chat with Henry,' said Piper.

'At least I can change the conversation topic now,' said Paige. 'Bye.'

'Bye,' said Piper as she hung up.

Piper suddenly noticed that Chris was no longer in the conservatory. Piper ran into the kitchen. He was not there either. Piper found Chris back in the living room just as the ground began to tremble.

'Chris, come here, sweetie,' said Piper as she froze the lamp that was about to fall towards her.

Chris seemed unfazed by the trembling ground. He decided to crawl out into the foyer.

'Chris!' shouted Piper, worried.

Piper tried running after Chris, but kept getting impeded by falling objects that she had to keep freezing. Amazingly Chris was fine. Nothing dangerous – nor anything at all – was falling his way. Piper finally reached Chris. She fell to the ground as the trembling ground caused her to lose balance. Chris sat on the floor, staring at his mother. He had a look of confusion on his face, probably wondering why his mother was lying on the ground. Piper sat up and was about to pick up Chris when a piece of furniture hit her on the head, knocking her unconscious.

Slowly Piper sat up, rubbing the back of her throbbing head. The earthquake was over. She did not know how long she had been unconscious for. Piper blew up the Grandfather clock in anger as she assumed it was the piece of furniture that had knocked her out.

Piper looked around the foyer as she stood up. From the foyer she could see into the living room, the dining room, and the kitchen. All of the aforementioned were a mess. Piper sighed. This was going to take some time to clean up.

Then Piper suddenly noticed that the front door was ajar. Piper went pale as she realised who was missing.

'Chris!' shouted Piper. 'Chris!'

Slowly Piper opened the front door fully. Chris smiled and waved at her. He was sitting on the porch step. Piper breathed a sigh of relief. Chris was safe and unharmed. However, the view of the neighbourhood suddenly caught her eye, because… it wasn't her neighbourhood.

Stepping outside onto the porch step, Piper picked up Chris. The manor stood in the middle of a grassy area of land. The horizon was cut off by a forest of trees. There were no other houses. Plus there were leprechauns staring at Piper from their various positions on the grass. What stuck out most was the yellow brick path (or was it a road?) that disappeared into the forest.

'I don't think we're in San Francisco anymore,' Piper muttered. Piper went pale, when she realised that she recognised those words from somewhere. Piper eventually noticed that while she held Chris securely in one of her arms, on the other arm hung a wicker basket – its contents were covered by a small blanket. Then she noticed that she was wearing a blue and white dress. With the hand that was not carrying Chris, Piper reached for her ponytail only to notice that her hair was now done up in two plaits. 'You have got to be kidding me!'

When the leprechauns started yelling 'She killed the witch!' Piper just shook her head in disbelief. Still carrying Chris and the wicker basket, Piper slowly walked down the manor steps. Standing amongst the leprechauns, Piper noticed two legs sticking out from beneath where the manor had landed.

Piper shook her head. 'This has to be a dream. In the film that this seems to be similar to, it was a dream. Therefore, this must be a dream.'

'What are you on about, lass? This isn't a dream, it is really happening,' said one of the leprechauns.

'Fine. Then it must be a spell gone wrong,' said Piper. Then Piper noticed the sparkling ruby high heels. They were on the feet of who she assumed belonged to the Wicked Witch of the East. Placing Chris gently onto the ground, Piper took the shoes off the witch's feet, threw off her own shoes, and put on the sparkling red high heels. 'I know how the film is supposed to end. I might as well skip to the end.' Tapping her feet together, Piper said, 'There is no place like home. There is no place like home. There is no place like home.'

Piper became disgruntled when nothing happened. In anger, Piper tried to take the shoes off, but they would not come off. They were stuck.

Turning to the leprechauns, Piper said, 'Why didn't it work?'

'Mama!' said Chris, pointing behind Piper. Piper looked to see what Chris was pointing at. Blue and white orbs were coalescing to form a figure.

Paige had orbed in. She looked puzzled when she saw Piper standing there, but not as puzzled as Piper was.

'Paige, since when did you become a red head again?' asked Piper.

Paige frowned, becoming a little self conscious of her shoulder length red hair. 'Piper, what are you doing here? Where is Phoebe?'

'Phoebe? Phoebe's at work,' said Piper. 'I think the question is: Where are we?'

'No. I think the question is: Why is the manor here?' said Paige, pointing at the manor in bewilderment.

'I don't quite understand that part either, Paige,' said Piper. Piper wanted to say: I woke up after an earthquake and Chris, the manor, and I were here, surrounded by leprechauns and apparently in Wizard of Oz attire. If I remember the film correctly, this makes you Glinda the Good Witch, which means you can make these shoes work. However after not helping Paige with her Henry problems earlier, Piper decided not to rant, but only to say, 'Paige, do you know how to make these shoes work so as I can go home?'

As Piper pointed at her shoes, Paige furrowed her brow. 'Piper, those are Phoebe's shoes!'

'Paige, that is not helpful,' said Piper. 'I think someone has cast some sort of spell and I want out!'

'You think this is a spell? Well, go and talk to the guy with loads of magical answers, even if half of them are 'I told you so' type answers,' said Paige.

'Who?' asked Piper.

'Duh! The one with the access to higher powers: Your husband, Leo,' said Paige.

Piper frowned. Leo had been mortal for almost two years now. He had no access to the Elders. Was Paige suggesting that Leo was the wizard? Oddly, Piper found that she could not remember what happened in the film when Dorothy meets the wizard.

Piper sighed. 'Okay, but do I really have to follow some yellow brick road? Can you not just make these shoes work?'

Paige looked confused. 'Yellow brick road?' Shrugging off the weird comment, Paige added, 'Piper, you can make those shoes work by putting one foot in front of the other.'

Piper frowned. She put one foot in front of the other like Paige suggested. 'It is not working.'

'Well, yeah, you have to repeat that action,' said Paige.

'Okay…' said Piper. She began to put one foot in front of the other. After she had ended up walking a few steps away from Paige, she turned around, flushing with embarrassment. 'You meant walking, didn't you?'

Paige smiled. 'Isn't that what you are supposed to do with shoes?' Before Piper could yell at her baby sister, Paige orbed out.

'Well, I guess I have a husband to find,' sighed Piper, figuring that following the path of the film was her only way out. It was odd though. Although she could remember the part about tapping the heels of the ruby (not slippers in this case) high heels, she could not remember much of the rest of the story that took place after the part she had just acted out.

Chris was already crawling along the yellow brick road. Piper caught up with him and picked him up. She smiled at him.

'We're off to see your father, that wonderful husband of mine, because, because, because, he…' Piper paused and shook her head. 'There is no way I am turning this into a musical!'

Chris giggled.