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EPISODE: DEAD MAN DATING
SEASON: 1
EPISODE: 4

PART: 1

I was in the kitchen, helping Piper with the invations for Prue's surprise party - the Phoebe was supposed to mail out a week ago.

Speaking of the devil, she came into the kitchen.

"Good morning," she said, then saw what we were doing.

"What are you doing? Prue's coming down!" Phoebe worried, starting to clean up.

"Well, you were supposed to send them out last week." I reminded her. "The party is Friday!"

"We're on schedule. The-" I started to lose interest in what Phoebe was saying.

"That's because we did all those things." Piper told Phoebe, putting something in the trash.

"Gosh Phoebe, you should start being... what's the word, organized?" I suggested.

"Oh, and you could get her something else then your tradtional gift." Piper added.

"What's my traditional birthday gift?" Phoebe wondered.

"A birthday card. Three days late." I answered.

"Yeah... Well, I decided to break that tradition and start a new one." Phoebe told us.

Whatever.

"You know what? I'm just gonna tune you two out." I told them, going to the fridge.

Suddenly, the faucet started to run.

"Parker, stop it." Piper told me.

"Stop what?" I asked.

"Don't play dumb."

"I'm not!"

Then, the faucet shut off.

"Freaky." I muttered.

Prue came into the room.

"Morning." she greeted.

"Morning." Phoebe greeted back. "Hey I forgot to ask, how was your date with Andy?"

Prue looked at her. "Great. Until he asked me to spend my birthday at a spa." she answered, putting her orange juice on the counter.

"Oohh, this is gonna be interesting." I said, smirking.

"For this weekened? You didn't say yes, did you?" Piper questioned.

"Well, my body did. Screamed it, actually." Prue admitted. "But, I don't know I just have to think about it."

"What's to think about?" Phoebe wondered.

Piper and I looked at her. She caught this.

"I mean um, you, you could be right. Going away with a guy is like, is like,"

"Bringing them home to mom and dad." Piper said.

"Or, it's like your married." I came up with. Then the water in my water bottle exploded, getting Phoebe, Prue and Piper wet.

"What the hell?" I wondered.

"Your dry." Piper observed. "Why's that?" she asked.

I shrugged. "No idea."

Prue glared at me.

"Well, I'm sorry! I'll just, go..." I said, leaving the room.

I walked up the stairs, going straight to my room, lying on my bed, watching TV.

What felt like hours later, Piper called for me.

"Parker! Get down here!"

I groaned, going downstairs, seeing Piper holding the paper.

"Did you know that Phoebe is doing a job, involving physics?" she asked, letting me see the add.

I shook my head.

"That's it, we're getting her." Piper said. I nodded and we both left the house.

We got to a hotel, seeing Phoebe. She was holding up a jar of money, shouting after someone.

"You want me to lie next time, just say so!"

"Phoebe, what the hell?" I asked her.

"What?" she asked, acting innocent. She then saw Piper, and put her money down.

"Piper, Parker... Hi. I am so busted, are I?" she asked.

"Are you out of your mind, again?" Piper asked her.

"No... I am the 'Amazing Phoebe'." she answered.

"This is not funny, our powers are supposed to be a secret." Piper told her.

"Relax, they didn't hire me because they thought I was a witch. They hired me because they think I'm a physic!"

"You know you can't use your powers for personal gain, remember the consequences!"

"No, I'm doing this for Prue!" Phoebe defended. "It's to pay for her present, it's completley selfless!"

They kept bickering.

"Which one of you is the physic?" a man asked. He was young, and I think Korean.

"She is." Piper pointed at our sister.

"Yes, I am." Phoebe said.

"God Phoebe..." I muttered.

"Oh good, I've been trying to communicate with every physic in this city, you were my last chance." he explained.

Wait a minute... he's dead.

"You're dead."I clarified.

He nodded.

"I'm a "physic" too, but I'm... a medium instead." I explained to him. He seemed hopeful now, with his little expression.

"Phoebe? What are you doing?" a man came up to us, probably her boss. "You got customers waiting!"

"Please, you're the only ones who can help me." he pleaded.

"Would you back off we're trying to have an argument here!" Piper shot at him, while the man looked at her like she was crazy.

"Who are you two?" the man aksed.

"They're uh, just leaving." Phoebe explained, smiling. "Bye go, now."

Piper groaned as we both left, the ghost walking in the middle of us.

"What a minute, I still need your help!" the man told us.

"Yeah yeah, talk to my sisters." Piper told him.

"Piper, don't be so rude, he's, dead!" I told her.

"Not you, too." Piper moened.

We walked out the door and down the steps.

"Please, help me I was murdered last night!"

"Stop harrasing us, buddy." Piper told him.

"Piper!" I tried to reason her.

"Please, I'm desperate, you gotta help me!" the man begged.

"I'm in." I told him.

"All you have to do is come to Chinatown and see for yourself!" the man told us.

"No thanks." Piper said, then a bike was going to go through him.

"Look out!" Piper said, and the bike and it's rider went through him. Now Piper believed.

"Thanks for helping me." Mark thanked us.

"Well, when you wouldn't leave our doorstep I didn't have much of a choice. And Parker didn't either since she said she'll help." Piper sighed.

Mark was leading us to his corpse. And he was actually Chinese, my bad.

"Please, I don't have much time. Someone has to find my body before it's too late." Mark begged.

"What do you mean, "too late"?" I asked.

"It's a Chinese myth - or at least I thought it was a myth." Mark started to explain. "It's called," he spoke in Chinese so I didn't know what he said. "When the Gates of Hell open. We're almost there."

"The Gates of Hell? I don't understand." Piper told him.

"If the gatekeeper, Yama captures my soul before my body is properly buried, he'll take me to Hell. Forever." Mark explained.

"Oh, that sounds like fun." I said, sarcastically.

"Very funny, Parker." Piper said to me. "But, you said you were murdered can-"

"Yama doesn't care if your good or evil, he just wants souls." Mark interuppted Piper's question. "I should've listen to my mother..."

We stopped and Piper gasped. We saw a body, it was burnt.

"Dayum, is that you?" I asked.

Mark nodded. Then he gasped, "Yama."

Piper and I looked up. I found out I had a mental shield, so I mentally froze his thoughts.

He looked at us, confused.

"What did you do?" Mark asked.

"I mentally froze his thoughts, which won't last long." I explained. Piper then froze him.

"What-?" Mark started.

"I just froze him." Piper interuppted.

"How long does it last?" Mark asked.

"Not long, run!" Piper shouted, and the three of us ran back to the manor.