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Together Forever As One
Chapter 16: Reality Check

Prue and Paige exchanged glances.

"What the heck was that about?!" Paige asked, as she stared at the crystal and then to the other objects that had been pulled to the map.

Prue shook her head. "I...I don't know...." She stuttered.

'Wait...maybe...' Paige thought. "Scry for Phoebe!" Paige commanded.

The 2 sisters held onto each other's hands and the crystal began to swirl again, this time it didn't take as long, it soon landed on the piece of the picture that Phoebe was on. Prue and Paige looked up at one another, again.

Prue gulped. "If that picture is where Piper is and that picture is where Phoebe is...." Prue began.

"Then what do my ring and your picture mean?" Paige finished.

Prue slowly nodded.

"Did we go back in time?" Paige asked.

Prue shook her head. "No, becuase this never happened....And even if it did, we wouldn't have our powers in the past, our past selves would. Unless we had done a spell to ensure they stay with us, but we didn't." Prue said.

"The future?" Paige asked. She cringed at the thought of the future being like this.

"I doubt it. Because we should have been taken into our future bodies if it was the future...." Prue said.

"Providing that we weren't dead." Paige added, as she remebered the time that their future children had summoned them to the future, but they had already died.

"Then where could we be?" Prue asked, aloud.

Paige hesitated for a moment, then slowly opened her mouth to speak. "An..an alternate reality?" Paige suggested.

"An alternate reality? But who could do that? And why? When?" Prue asked.

Paige considered Prue's questions for a moment. "Well....Remember the sudden earthquake? What if it was part of a spell or something?" Paige asked.

"And then you orbed us out before I could get hit by that picture...." Prue continued.

"And when I orb, I'm not really 'in' the Earthly plane..." Paige added.

"So if this, possible, change occurred..." Prue carried on.

"We wouldn't be affected until we reappeared so we'd have to reappear in this reality!" Paige finished.

"We need answers." Prue said.

"Then I suggest we orb to, 'you', first." Paige said.

Prue nodded. "Good idea." She said. She lifted up the place where her picture had fallen and she looked at it.

Paige stared down at the space as well. "I know where that is. I used to have a boyfriend who lived there, in high school." Paige said. She grabbed Prue's hand and orbed them out.

Paige orbed herself and Prue into a dingy old room. The walls, curtains, and furniture were yellowed with cigar smoke and the entire place smelt like cigar smoke. The carpet was thin and covered in disgusting crumbs and garbage. Ants scurried across the floor. Paige pulled back and stared in disgust. There was hardly any light in the room, just a little bit that happened to seep through the yellowed curtains. Then Paige heard footsteps.

"Hurry!" Prue whispered, in a hushed tone. She grabbed Paige's arm and turned them phasable, then phased them through a nearby couch, finally returning them to their normal solid state.

'Thanks.' Paige thought, knowing that Prue would hear her thoughts.

Prue nodded in response.

The 2 sisters slightly peeked their heads over the couch and waited for someone to come in.

"Hurry up!" A male voice said, in a harsh tone. Then a man walked in through a small hallway. He was about 5'8" tall, he had dark brown hair with grayish streaks, his skin was leathery and had a deep tan, his eyes were dark brown almost black and looked terribly cold and evil. He had large rings on his fingers and he wore a scruffy soiled white shirt and greese stained blue jeans.

Paige felt a rush of chills run of her spine. 'This guy is definitely evil!' Paige thought.

Prue, again, heard her sister's thoughts. She nodded in agreement, again.

The sisters turned their attention back to the hall entrance. Then at once, their mouths dropped open, when they saw what else walked into the room.... TO BE CONTINUED....