Another co-write. but this time with my friend Dreamweaver. You can find all her fasinating stroies at my web site Mystical Tomes. But for now we hiope you like this one. We wrote this a LONG time ago hehe. This is set season one. Enjoy
Hide and Seek. A child's game right? Or is it? They all hide, as one seeks. What if one hid and many sought? What if it was more of a challenge then a game? But a game none the less.
A game that takes one across city, across country borders. That is the meaning of the game. To hide wherever you can to win the game.
But what would happen if the pretense of a child's game got out of hand and turned into a game of life and death?
What would happen if two lost the one and evil decided to get into the game also seeking the one? How would the power of three ever defeat those that are everywhere but no where.
Can two save one before it is too late? Or is all lost?
Read on and begin the journey that answers all the questions at hand, but be prepared for an outcome that you might not all like.
"You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you're morally reprehensible, vulgar, insensitive, selfish, stupid, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humor and you smell. You're not even interesting enough to make me sick..."
Phoebe let the annoying voice of Cher trail off into a palatable drone. Normally she would be the one laughing her butt off, but not even the hilarity of the Witches of Eastwick could get her out of the funk she had been in all week.
She sat there simply staring at her sister... the sister she had watched nearly drowned just the week before. She watched as the roaring fire's flame danced in the crystal blue of her eyes... eye's that stopped making contact with her own chocolate brown view. She listened to her laughter reflect above the comical punch lines, as the room was filled with her delightfully raspy mirth. She observed the beautiful smile that filled her face... a smile that was rarely curved in her direction. She forced herself to look away; she had to close her eyes to the hurt and disappointment. "You don't even know me. I mean a demon... a frickin' demon knew my deepest fear, but not my OWN sister. How can your own flesh and blood not know your most intense terror? Even Piper didn't know. I know Prue's greatest fear... Drowning... I know Piper's greatest fear expecting tragedy to follow any happy event in her life. Neither had to tell me in words... I just knew. If you take the time to know a person, really get to know them, then you can hear what their heart tells you... Phoebe was pulled back into the moment by her middle sister's voice.
"Hey Phoebs, something wrong honey? You missed the whole cherry spell?"
"Yeah Phoebe that's your favorite part." Prue added as she grabbed for a hand full of popcorn.
"Like either of you would know if something was wrong." Phoebe muttered, but loud enough for both her sisters's to hear.
Prue ever on the defense when if came to Phoebe, said. "What the hell is that suppose to mean?"
"Nothing... Just forget it ok?" She countered, getting up and heading for the stairs. But two little words stopped her dead in her tracks. Two words she heard all her life, two words that could pissed her off faster than just about anything else... Two words.
"Classic Phoebe!" Prue described as her sister made her way out of the living room.
Masterfully turning on one foot and dramatically placing her hands on her hips she glared at her oldest sister and her over used adjective.
"Ok my turn... What the hell is that suppose to mean?" Shooting venomous arrows of invisible anger in Prue's direction.
"Oh come on... You are such an easy read! You always run, never willing to face the problem. I so know you..." But Prue was taken aback by the controlled fury behind the words of her baby sister.
"Give me a break Prue YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME. We stopped communicating the day I began to talk."
Piper seeing the flashes of hurt and anger rising in her sister's eyes, tried to extinguish the blaze before it got too out of hand. "Phoebe!!"
"And you Piper... you are no better... You guys were never very good at keeping tabs on me when I was in high school... or ever for that matter. So don't sit there on your high horse and tell me you know me when neither of you ever took the time to know me... I mean REALLY know ME!!"
"That is so not true Phoebs. Don't you remember how many nights we stayed up and talked about your life, your boyfriends, your hopes and dreams?" Piper attempts to weakly justify her actions, or lack thereof.
"No Pipe, it is you my dear sister who have forgotten. That would always be how it started, but THEN you would cleverly turn the subject and we would end up talking about YOUR boyfriend... what was his name? Oh yeah Billy Wilson..."
"Who you stole from me I might add." Piper heatedly countered, pissed all over again about something that happened all the way back in high school.
"See, there again you so don't know me..." But she wisely stopped herself from saying what she was really thinking, Just as she was about to rephrase her pent up frustration, a clever thought came to mind. An idea so outrageous that it just might prove her point. So she paced back and forth, east to west, west to east.
Her dumbfounded sisters couldn't think of anything to say as they watched their agitated sister tread, nodding her head in agreement and mumbling affirmation to no one but herself. Finally when her one on one huddle seemed to come to an end, she turned and with a cunning grin presented her proposition, her game of chance, where the odds were definitely stacked in her favor.
"I'll tell you what... I'll bet you ALL of what I owe on your credit cards, that you can't find me in a time frame of a... lets say 48 hours; of which I will never even leave the city..."
"Phoebe this is insane! How did a quiet, relaxing Sister Night turn into You Bet Your Life?" Piper's voice raised in anxious confusion.
"Actually, it would be more like Hide and Seek or Marco Polo. I will hide in and around town in place that you SHOULD know where to find me... Which by the way will never happen... I'll even spot you clues, lets say every two hours, and ya know something? You'll still be clueless." Phoebe scoffed the last line between a mocking chuckle.
"And what's in it for you?" Prue asked, as she inwardly grinned at how easy this would be to get her credit rating back to normal.
"PRUE!! You can't be seriously thinking of encouraging her?" Piper said, always the voice of reason, as her instincts told her this was only going to lead to trouble.
"Why not Pipe, I mean how hard can it be? She's our sister for pete's sake, we practically raised her, this will show her once and for all that no one knows her better than her sisters!! Now Phoebs, tell me what do you get if we... cough, cough, should lose? I mean it has to be worth your while too if you are so hell bent on proving your point." Prue asked, sarcastically toying with her sister's naiveté.
But when it came to one-upmanship Phoebe could hold her own. Her sneer confirmed her to be a formidable foe. "Like I said IF you should possibly win I start out bright and early the next day, and look for a job... a real job that will allow me to pay you BOTH back in full... But if... I mean WHEN I win you pick up my current running tab AND buy me a brand new outfit!!"
"Soooo? Are you two Chicken Littles willing to stake your VISA cards on how well you THINK you know me?"
"YES!"
"NO!"
"Then let's vote. All in favor of playing Marco Polo raise their hands."
Prue and Phoebe both lift their hands, squaring the other to a battle of skill and knowledge.
"Those opposed."
Piper heaved her hand in the air her inward frustration in both her sisters' stubbornness, coming through in her body language.
"Two to one, sorry Sis majority rules." Phoebes said, her voice reeking in triumph.
"Well ladies, I will leave you two to discuss your pathetic strategies while I get my beauty sleep. You'll have from 6:00 am tomorrow to 6:00 am Monday morning to find me... Catch me if you can!!"
Phoebe's laughter trailed her up the stairs leaving her sisters speechless.
Once Phoebe was out of earshot, Piper walloped her big sister in the arm.
"Hey!!" Prue said as she glared at Piper's equally sharp scowl.
"How the hell could you go along with such a cockamamie plan as that? You know you just egg her on to rebel. If this comes back and bites us in the ass, don't say I didn't warn you. Not to mention YOU will be paying me back what she owes me.""
"Easy Piper, easy. We've already won." Prue grinned in self-satisfaction.
"Wha.. What do you mean?" Piper returned, not at all pleased with either of her sisters at the moment.
"She said the bet, begins at 6:00 am... Since when has she ever gotten up before noon? At least since she's been back home anyway. The game is ours, when at 6:01 we find her twisted in her comforter, snoreing away."
"I don't know Prue, she seemed pretty determined." Piper said as they each grabbed for the snacks and sodas, and headed to the kitchen.
"Relax Piper, you worry too much."
5:55 am Prue drags a sleepy Piper towards Phoebe's room. Yapping the whole way about how she would demonstrate her worthiness to hold the esteemed position of being the oldest, by pointing to the still sleeping form on their baby's sisters double bed.
Slowly she opens the door and dramatically points her finger in the direction of the four posters and triumphantly says "SEE!"
"Uh no Prue... I don't." Piper said, as she inwardly had to give her little sister her props.
Confused Prue flipped the light on to see a perfectly made bed, with nothing but a bunch of overstuffed pillows that had a perfectly penned note leaning into its softness.
My Dear Sisters,
I see you have already made your first mistake, that is if you hold this note in your hands. Prue your cockiness lead you to believe I would still be snoozing away, thus making our little wage null and void, and Piper, I know you tried to talk her out of it, but I see not hard enough.
I shall be ringing at precisely 8:00 am so I suggest you stick close to your cell phones.
Having fun yet!!
Phoebe
"Well Almighty Wise One, what does your brilliance suggest we do now?" Piper sounded off as she headed to make the coffee she would need to keep from finding a way to freeze both her lovable, yet pain in the ass sisters.
