A/N: Okay, I forgot to mention this before, but for those who don't watch Alias, Donovan is Vaughn's dog's name. There's the humor. So if you were confused by my choice in names, maybe now you can laugh. Or if you already thought it was funny, now hopefully it's funnier.
"Sydney? Where are you going?"
Sydney cringed hearing Jack yell after her. She had hoped to escape the house without him noticing but apparently he didn't have the same idea. "Out." She answered simply, pulling her sneakers on.
"A little more specific, please."
"For a run," She yelled, running out of the house. This was what her relationship with her father had been reduced to. Him asking simple questions and her giving him short answers. But ever since she had learned the truth, Sydney had made her mission to give him the cold shoulder any time she could. Stubbornness ran deep in her.
She considered going to Vaughn's. It was Saturday which meant that his mother would be baking something, most likely something French and Claire Vaughn loved to spoil Sydney. And Sydney could hang out with Vaughn, maybe not having to wait until that evening at Weiss's party to see exactly were they stood. Impatience was another of her nasty traits. But half way to Vaughn's she decided not to go and headed straight for the UCLA track. She couldn't explain why but she just had to go to the track instead of Vaughn's.
After six laps around the track, Sydney stopped at a bench and stretched her legs. She was about to start running again when she noticed a white envelope on the bench. Curiosity getting the best of her, Sydney reached down and picked up the envelope. Turning it over in her hand, she stopped, confused by the name sprawled on it. It was addressed to her. She was about to open it when her cell phone started ringing.
Reaching into the pocket of her track pants, she pulled out the phone that she had forgotten that she had stuffed in there. She smiled at the caller ID, Piper. A welcome distraction, and Piper had seemed to be having weird things happening to her too as well. "Hey."
"You should really learn to answer the phone when it rings the first time," Piper said with a laugh.
"It was ringing before?"
"Yeah," Piper answered, laughing again.
Sydney shrugged; she did have a tendency to ignore everything around her when she was running. So if the phone had gone off, she most likely wouldn't have heard. "Okay, point taken. So what's up?"
"Just wondering if you're coming over to my house tonight or if you want me to pick you up?"
Sydney thought about it, "Why don't you pick me up. I really don't want to have to deal with driving tonight."
Piper laughed again, "You always say that."
"Ha. Ha." Sydney answered, "I'll see you tonight."
"Okay, bye."
"Bye." Sydney shoved the phone back into her pocket and stared at the letter in her other hand. Deciding not to open it, she folded it and shoved it into her pocket as well. As an afterthought, she pulled the phone back out and dialed Vaughn's number.
"Vaughn residence," Vaughn's sister, Aurelie, more affectionately known as Lea answered. She sounded incredibly bored.
"Hey Lea, can you put your brother on the phone?"
"Sure Syd, hold on," It would be kind of strange that Sydney didn't even have to say who was calling considering the Vaughn household phone did not have the caller ID feature on it, but Lea knew Sydney's voice by now considering Vaughn and Sydney had been friends since they were like six. "Mikey! Sydney's on the phone!" Lea yelled, very loudly and unladylike.
"How many times do I have to tell you not to say Mikey when Sydney can hear you?" Vaughn asked, feigning being irritated and grabbing the phone out of his sister's hand.
"Whatever you say, MIKEY!" Lea yelled Mikey just to make sure that Sydney heard it. Sydney did and bit her lip to keep from giggling.
There was silence over the line, which Sydney presumed to be Vaughn giving his sister the death glare, then a heavy sigh, "Hey Syd."
Smiling, Sydney said in a happy voice, "Hey Mikey."
She could almost hear him scowl over the phone, "I'm going to hurt that brat," He muttered.
"Don't be sad Mikey," Sydney said, just as sing song as she was before, "I still love you."
"I thought my new name was Donovan," Vaughn said, ignoring her happy tone.
"Hmmmm, Mikey Donovan or should it be Donovan Mikey, I can't decide. What do you think?"
"I think it should be Vaughn or Michael or I'll even settle for 'hey you, hockey boy'. But there will be no Mikey or Donovan, ever."
"Party pooper," Sydney pouted, trying not to laugh.
"Is there a reason to why you called?"
"No, not really, although I was kinda wondering if your mom baked anything today?" Hopefully he'd understand her not so subtle hint.
Vaughn sighed, lightly, "Yes she did, chocolate macaroons, les dames blanches, and chocolate mudslides." Sydney inhaled sharply and he laughed, "Why would you like me to bring you some tonight?"
"Uh-huh," Sydney said, swallowing to keep from drooling.
He laughed again, "Alright, I will bring you some of my mother's cookies tonight, would you like flowers with your massive amount of sugar?"
Sydney pursed her lips, thinking about the offer. She knew he was joking but that didn't mean she couldn't make him suffer a little bit. "Well, flowers earn you brownie points."
"Honestly, I think the sugar induced coma I am bringing you tonight will earn enough brownie points to last me a very long time."
She laughed, knowing he was right, "Yeah, okay, just don't forget my cookies, Vaughn or I will call you Mikey in front of everybody."
"Syd, you wouldn't do that, would you? Syd?" She laughed, not answering his question, "Syd, seriously, you wouldn't do that? Come on Syd, you wouldn't." She could tell he was starting to get worried but she just laughed again and hung up the phone.
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"Hello?" Paige answered her cell phone, flipping though a magazine absentmindedly on her bed.
"Paige we need you at home immediately," Piper said, urgently.
Paige narrowed her eyes confused, she was at home. "Piper?" She asked. Maybe her ears heard wrong and it was some weirdo calling her.
"Yeah, it's me. What's the matter with you? I said we need you and I ain't seeing any orbs coming from you missy."
"Orbs?" Paige squeaked. What were orbs? What kind of weird game was Piper trying to play?
"Paige, come on we need you. Demons don't vanquish themselves." The "Piper" on the phone didn't seem to hear her squeak "Orbs?"
"Demons? Vanquish? What the hell are you talking about?" The magazine fell of her lap farther onto the bed when she sat up, really confused by the phone call.
"Paige, this really isn't the time for your jokes." "Piper" sounded annoyed, very, very annoyed.
"What's the matter with her?" Paige heard, what sounded like Phoebe ask in the background, "Where is she?"
"I'm trying to find that out," "Piper" answered through clenched teeth, "Whatever you are doing, Paige, you know that the..." The phone started to crackle. "...three..." More static.
"Piper?" Paige asked loudly, trying to talk over the static that seemed to come from nowhere. "Piper, can you hear me? Piper?"
"...first...know it." The phone cut off and the line went dead. Paige lowered the phone from her ear and stared at it. Sure, she had gotten prank phone calls from friends and her sisters but that was the strangest one she had ever received and she wasn't afraid to admit it.
Coming over her shock, Paige redialed Piper's phone and waited impatiently until Piper picked up, "Hey," She sounded normal. Normal in the sense that she didn't sound pissed and urgent.
"What was with the weird phone call?" Paige decided not to waste anytime.
"What weird phone call?" Piper asked with a sigh. "Who called you?"
"You called me." Paige insisted.
"I did not," Piper protested, "And can I ask why we are talking on the phone when we are in the same house?" She asked, appearing at the doorway, holding he phone to her ear and staring at Paige like she was nuts.
Paige lowered her phone and pressed the off button. Piper did the same. "You've been here the entire time?"
Piper nodded, slowly, still trying to comprehend what Paige was talking about. "Yeah, Paige, I've been home all day. What's with you?"
Paige shrugged, trying to brush off the weird creepy feeling she had, "It's nothing. Forget it."
Piper studied her younger sister, then made her way to Paige's bed. She sat on the edge and said quietly, "What happened?"
Paige shrugged again, but this time she it was a gesture of saying she had no idea, "I got this weird call from you, I think, and you said something about a demon and a vanquish and wanting me to come home immediately."
"I don't know what to tell you, are you sure it was me?"
Paige nodded, "Yeah, you said so."
"Well, the phone company's always screwing up; maybe you got someone's conversation jumbled into one that we had." Piper stood up and started to walk back out of the room.
"You got a weird phone call from Phoebe before. Do you think that has anything to do with the one I just got?" Paige asked when Piper reached the doorway.
Piper turned back and looked at Paige, "I don't know, Paige but try not to think about it. We just need a new wireless plan. That's all, nothing more." Paige gave Piper a forced smile and Piper left the room.
Paige settled back on her bed and looked up at the ceiling. Something wasn't right. There was no way it was just the phone company messing up. She had had a conversation with that Piper and had heard Phoebe, she knew she did.
A/N: Oh, some wierd things are going down at the Halliwell house. I wonder what it could be. ::glances around, and laughs minically:: and no, I was not just laughing like an evil person. You must have imagined that. ; )
Okay, I just want to say that the name Lea is inspired by my bestest friend in the world! (well one of them, anyway). I just love her so much and would do anything for her. Except give her my chocolate(and other various sweets), Vaughn, or Chris, or Ben McKenzie. That is where I draw there. hehe, here's to hoping that she doesn't read this. Cause she's gonna kill me if she does.
Okay, I know that there was absolutely no Piper and Leo in this chapter. There was lots of Sydney and Vaughn and some Paige but none of the Piper/Leo. I am sorry for this but there will be some next chapter, I'm hoping. Two chapters away at the most. In other words, that means that there is P/L coming. Like I said before me and my muse do not get along and she didn't want to give me any P/L inspiration, so yeah, blame her.
lil-whitelighter1114888- Maybe something will happen at the manor, maybe something won't. That's my futile attempt at being subtle. hehe.
x3Tinkerbell07- hehe, I have no other life but to write this fanfiction, so we go together very well. I hope things go better between my muse and me, she's very pissy. Maybe I'll just disown her and find a new one.
p3charmed4eva- I know, I know, there wasn't any Piper/Leo fluff. I'm very sad too. I'm working on getting some p/l stuff in the next chapter. I should do another Piper/Leo chapter. I should, but my muse has other ideas.
Lost Darkness- My personalities fear me cause I blackmail them. It works every time. Some advice so maybe you can get a tighter ship going with your personalities. I loved the Donovan thing, too. I think I modeled Sydney too much after me and not the Sydney on the TV show. Oh well, she's funnier this way.
pyschokitty3- I'm gonna have to check out your fic sometime. If I can ever find the time to read fanfictions anymore. Ever since I got back, things have been a little hectic around my house. I've noticed that the keyboard makes noises. Although when I write, it's always rapid click-click-click and some thumps in there. I type really fast. Faster than my dad and he works with computers almost all day. Oooh, I like the ideas that you gave me. I think I'm gonna fire my muse and hire you. hehe, I'll email you if I need any more help.
LeoPiper24/7- Yeah, that's my wierd way of saying yes. I have a very strange mind. hehe, I just love renaming Vaughn Donovan. That's one good thing my muse has going towards her. Maybe that's why I tolerate her so much.
CHARMEDAND BHFAN- Thanks. Me very happy now.
JanaRose- Yeah, whenever that is. Stupid ABC is making me so mad and not showing any reruns for Alias. The WB is showing Charmed reruns, why can't ABC? Stupid ABC.
Jules713- I'm working on the Piper/Leo, like I said before my muse is messing with me and I'm to the point where I'm just going to write it with or without her help. I don't need her. Okay, maybe I do, but I'm gonna write it no matter what.
syad yniar- I've read spoilers for the first episode of the next season and it's telling me very little on where Piper and Leo stand. Can you believe that Nick Lachey is going to be on the show in the next season? They ditch Drew Fuller and bring on him. Grrr, me very angry with them. Yeah, they'll be going to the manor in a few chapters. And I'm not saying what's gonna happen there. I'm not really even sure myself. hehe.
Princess Pinky- I can't tell you what's gonna happen at the manor. That would spoil it and I don't really even now what's gonna happen myself. ::shrugs:: oh well, maybe my muse will help me then. And I don't really know what's going on with her, she's been like this for a very long time that I can't remember why I let her become my muse.