Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed – and yes I realise that on one of my chapters I said that this applies to every other chapter in this fic but I just want to be careful.
Invisible To Everyone But Me
Piper stood in the kitchen just after Paige had walked through her, suddenly she felt a weird surge of words in her head. What's wrong with Piper? How can I help… why didn't we leave her in that other dimension? What's for dinner? These were not Piper's thoughts; they were Paige's… what was happening here? How could she hear Paige's thoughts and how could Paige walk through her. Piper fled from the room and reached her bedroom door. She reached out for the handle and her hand went through it,
"What the hell?" she swore under her breath and tried the handle once more… again her hand went through it. Suddenly catching onto the fact that she wasn't corporal she wondered if she could walk through walls. She took a couple of steps backwards and then ran at the door. She felt something moving through her, but it was more a chilling breeze than anything physical. When she reopened her eyes, which she had shut before running, she was inside her bedroom. She looked around the room and saw someone lying underneath the bed sheets,
"Hey!" she said aloud and walked over to them, "Who the hell's in my bed?" she questioned as she tried to see the peeping eyes that were just visible from underneath the duvet, it was her eyes that looked back at her.
"What? How can I be in my bed, if I'm here?" she asked herself,
"Confusing, isn't it," said the Piper that was in the bed, she pushed the blankets off and climbed out the bed.
"What? You can hear me?" asked Piper,
"Of Course I can hear you… if I couldn't then you'd really be stuck," said the other Piper as she walked over to the closet and began pulling clothes out right, left and centre, "God you don't really have very good taste in clothes do you?"
"Wait… if you can see and hear me then you can tell me what the hell is going on, right?" asked Piper,
"Wrong," replied the other, "I'm just hear to replace you until you sort things out,"
"What do you mean replace… what do you mean until?" asked Piper walking over to herself,
"Well you have some stuff to work through and when you cast that spell it created me… an exact copy of you so that you could work through things whilst I deal with everyday life on this plain, it makes sense once you think about it,"
"No, I really doesn't make sense… in order for me to work through things I need to be on whatever plain you're on! And that still doesn't explain why my eyes were glowing green before I cast the spell," said Piper,
"Well, when you're eyes were glowing you were being copied identically so that you're spell would have this effect. And it can't be reversed until you truly have worked through your issues… so you better get started on them! Because I really don't like this attire!" Replied the other Piper closing the closet,
"But how can I work through things without my sisters?" asked Piper,
"That's up to you to figure out, I can't help you anymore at the point," said the other Piper before she snapped her fingers and Piper felt herself being pulled back in another vortex and she landed in the dark room once more.
"Hey!" she yelled as she picked herself up off the ground, "You get me back to the manor this instant! I mean it!" she yelled into the darkness, "Hey! Come back here!!! I need to get out of this weird place… now!"
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Phoebe and Paige sat down stairs in the kitchen, they were quietly chatting when Piper walked in,
"Hey honey, how are you feeling?" asked Phoebe, unaware that it was not actually her sister that she was talking to,
"I'm doing alright, I suppose," replied the fake Piper,
"That's great… so do you think you want to re-open P3 today… because well we couldn't keep it running and we know it would take your mind off things if you were to open it again," said Paige placing her coffee mug down on the table.
"P3?" questioned Piper, "Oh yeah… P3. I should head down there just now, I'll see you guys later," she finished then walked out without another word.
"She seemed… umm, different," said Paige turning to face Phoebe,
"Well she has been through a lot I'm sure she's just settling back into the swing of things…" hesitated Phoebe, as she looked out the kitchen door and watched the front door slam. "I got to go," she said quickly and then walked upstairs to the attic. She pushed open the attic door and sat down beside the map they used for scrying. She picked up the crystal and began to concentrate on Piper, the crystal swung over the map a couple of times and then landed dead on the spot, Phoebe placed her finger where the crystal had landed and looked down at the map.
"The manor?" she said aloud and looked at where her finger was sitting, then looked to the door. Paige was standing looking in at her,
"What are you doing?" she asked walking over to join her,
"Well I thought that something was I don't know… wrong with Piper so I scryed for her and the crystal says that she is in the manor. But we saw her leave, five minutes ago," she said looking into Paige's eyes.
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Piper stood in the pitch black room; she was just casually looking round in circles. Watching the darkness as if somewhat mystified by it,
"Issues… I don't have any issues. I don't think any ways. Why am I so confused?" she said and sat down on the ground, "Wait that could be an issue. Well lets see, I'm confused because I'm locked in this room without my sisters, and because I have left Leo and my perfect life and well everything an umm… well I just don't know how to feel about everything and umm… maybe that's the issue I have to work through? Hey up there is that right?" she said shouting the last sentence. She saw a light come on at the far end of the room, she began walking towards it and soon found herself running at it. "Why am I so desperate to get to this light… maybe that's my way out," she stopped talking and continued running. She arrived at the light a few moments later, and just stood there for a few moments before realising that it wasn't going to help her out at all. She slumped down onto the ground and began to sob, hearing her cries echo around the room.
"Will I ever get out of here?" she sobbed,
