"Come on, that is so unfair Piper! I was kicking your butt!!" Phoebe cried as Piper turned off the video game.
"Yea, and now some of us have to go to work!" Piper called out as she picked up her keys from the front table. She turned around and froze the room, knowing instinctively that there would be a pillow flying at her. Laughing she moved out of the way and grabbed the pillow to throw back at her sister.
"Okay, so now who has premonitions?" Phoebe asked sarcastically.
"It wasn't a premonition, just common sense." Piper giggled. She unfroze the room and headed out the door for work, just in time to miss Phoebe sticking her tongue out at her. It was going to be a long day at work Piper figured. She had a band coming in for a sound check at 11, and then at noon she had to immediately switch gears and interview people for a second security guard. There had been some trouble with break-ins and fights in the area and Piper wasn't ready or willing to take any chances.
"Okay, here we go…" Piper thought to herself as she got out of the car and unlocked the back door to P3. Jiggling the handle she found that it was sticking, so she pushed and pulled until finally the door popped open revealing her treasured club. More and more people had been coming to the club lately which gave Piper some room to sit back and enjoy some of the profits.
When walking through the door, however; to Pipers dismay she found a message on her machine stating that the band wouldn't be able to do their sound check until noon, so she would have to deal with interviews and the band at the same time. She was just about to sit down and relax when the phone began ringing harshly, and insistently. She sighed and set down her cup of tea and pressed the speakerphone button.
"Hello, this is Piper…" a hoarse voice on the other end of the line whispered something to her that was utterly inaudible to the human ear. "Who is this?"
The other party hung up and Piper was left puzzled. Just to be safe she called Prue at the office and inquired as to whether it was she who had just mysteriously called.
"Me, call? No, me swamped! Okay, bye Piper!" Prue slammed down the phone and stared at the mess that was her desk. Not only did she have about a dozen artifacts sitting on her desk, but she had ten phone messages, five inquiry files, 16 closing files, and 13 new client papers. Prue wondered how she was able to see over her desk as Jack waltzed in wearing a goofy Hawaiian shirt and jeans. He was smiling so smugly that Prue couldn't help but desire to move a chair in front of him just so he could trip and fall on his face. Seeing Prues glare Jack stopped dead in his tracked and moved to the side of the room. Jokingly he tiptoed against the wall over to her desk and pantomimed being threatened with many large objects.
"What's with you?" He asked her smiling. Continuing over to her desk he leaned over the piles of paper and stared at her. "A little behind on your paperwork… or maybe I should say… a little below…"
"Shut up Jack… today is not the day for idiotic wisecracks." Prue went back to her paperwork and tried to prepare herself for whatever comeback Jack was going to shoot at her. Although she seemed annoyed at his relentless teasing, sometimes it was fun for her to step back and laugh at herself. Today, however; was not one of those days. She had promised her sisters that she would go to the club with them at 8 and at the rate she was going, Prue wasn't sure that she would be out of the office until 8 tomorrow morning.
"Fine! Then I won't help you! Sheesh, a guy comes in to help his partner out, and what does he get? Nothing! Must be that time of the month again!" Jack walked away disappointed and Prue looked up just as he was walking out the door to apologize. She figured that it would be better to take care of work and apologize later… she could always apologize, but who knows how long she'd have a job.
Back at the manor Phoebe had just settled down to some good cartoons and a bag of carrots when she heard the phone ring. It was the same kind of urgent ring Piper had heard at the club. Phoebe got up and walked over to the phone… when she picked it up she heard nothing but some faint hoarse whispers. Just as she was about to hang up Phoebe experienced a premonition. She once again tried to make out the words of the person on the other end of the line before hanging up and calling Piper. There was no answer so Phoebe decided leave a message and started walking down to the bus stop.
After five minutes of tapping her foot Phoebe had just about given up on the bus.
"Rapid transit my…"