Unreal World
Poof. Poof. Poof.
Three charming actresses found themselves sitting together in a living room that was familiar, but strangely different. Alyssa, Shannen and Holly looked quite shocked as they gazed at their surroundings.
"How did we get to stage 10?" asked Shannen.
"This is no a set! Four walls, ceiling, neighborhood outside," added Alyssa pointing to the window.
"It's either a very expensive joke or a Charmed fan has one hell of an imagination. The detail is perfect!" said Holly. "But that doesn't explain how we got here. We have got to get back to the set. I'll get a car!"
As Holly headed for the phone, Alyssa picked through the Book of Shadows that she had found on her lap. Not an uncommon sight for her alter ego Phoebe to be picking through the book.
The telephone rang before Holly even reaches it.
"Hello?" asked Holly after she picked up the phone.
"Hi, Piper?" said the caller.
"Uh, sort of," said a confused Holly.
"Would you tell Pheebs I can't study with her tonight. My Mom has been taken ill," said the caller.
"Yes. I will. Hope your Mom feels better," said Holly as a chill rang down her back.
"Thanks. I appreciate that, Piper. Bye," the caller said hanging up.
"Holly, why the perplexed expression?" asked Shannen looking around the living room.
"That call was for PHOEBE!" said Holly pointing at the phone.
"It's all part of the gag!" said Shannen.
"It's all too real for me. Look at this book. It really feels like its 300 years old. Not like that funny paper in our prop book. And it's fully bound, too!" said Alyssa.
"Let me see that. There's a lot of spells in here that were never in ANY of our episodes!" said Shannen flipping through the book.
"Something is wrong. You two check up stairs, I'm going to outside!" said Alyssa.
The women rummaged through the rooms and the grounds around the house. Several minutes later they met back in the living room.
"The upstairs are complete down to the used toothpaste tubes," explained Shannen.
"And the attic is just as you would expect complete with dust on all the untouched items," explained Holly. "There is junk in their that hasn't been touched for years."
"Outside, two sets of little old ladies waved to me and called me, PHOEBE. This is nuts!" said Alyssa.
"The Halliwell's are in the phone book and according to LA information, we are not! My number doesn't answer as does everyone else I know!" said Holly. "This IS the world of Charmed my dear Prue and Phoebe."
"So do I have their powers?" asked Shannen. She tried to move several things and nothing happened.
Holly did the finger thing she did to indicate freezing things and nothing happened.
"So we're here with demons after us and NO POWERS!" said Alyssa.
"Do you know what you just said? This can not be real!" said Shannen raising her voice.
"One more try. LEO. LEO. LEO," Holly called to the ceiling.
In orbed their favorite white lighter. "Hi, beautiful!" he said as he kissed her.
"Oh my God! This guy just came from nowhere!" cried Holly.
"Uh. Piper? Why the fright?" asked Leo.
"Do you know a Brain Krause, Leo?" asked Alyssa. "Tall, good looking? A lot like you."
"No, is he in trouble?" asked Leo.
"No, but we are. You may see three witches, but we are not them," said Alyssa.
"Phoebe, what's the joke?" asked Leo smiling.
"Well, have you ever watched television and wondered if the characters really exist? If they live beyond what is shown on TV?" asked Shannen.
"No. Don't watch much TV. Before my time," said Leo not getting the illusion.
"All right then." tried Holly. "Ever want to wander around the world of say "Gone With The Wind?" Meet the characters as more like flesh and blood people."
"Like with the Demon of Illusion? Be inside the movie?" said Leo.
"Right. The three of us play witches in a TV show called Charmed. We pretend to be the Halliwell's in a show produced in Los Angeles," explined Shannen.
"We're not even witches. We just pretend and let the special effects people do the rest," said Alyssa.
"Do you believe us?" asked Holly.
A strange message sound came from the elders.
"I guess I do. The Elders just informed me that since my friends took their witchcraft with them, we have to wait until they get back here. IF they get back here. For now you are the Halliwell's. Welcome to our world, ladies," said Leo.
"Thank you," said Holly. "My name is Holly, and this is Shannen and Alyssa."
"Please to meet you both,. I will be your guide and the only one who knows the difference. Piper and her sisters live in a very dangerous world," said Leo.
"We know something about it. It's just we go home after they yell, cut," said Shannen cutely.
"There are forces out there that you cannot believe. They would do anything to kill the Charmed Ones. And if they knew there were no magical powers here now, then they would come even faster. No one is going believe that you aren't the Charmed Ones. Even I have problems with that idea, except that your personalities are different than the women I know," explained Leo.
"So how do we get home and Prue. Piper and Phoebe back here?" asked Alyssa.