"Damn it! I just can't remember these lines. It's no use Alyssa, I can't do it. The Season Eight Finale is in three days, and I just can't get these lines down."

"Holly, calm down. Everything is going to be fine. Let's go over it one more time, okay?"

Two women sat in a nice homely house with two stacks of white typed paper in front of their dashing features. They had been there for two hours, Alyssa desperately trying to help her friend remember her lines before the taping of her part. The beginning had been taped already, but they couldn't get the end down without Holly.

"Shannen could have done it. She only had to look at it before we shot, and she would know it."

"You can do this Holly. You're just psyching yourself out. Concentrate. Okay, I'm going to start from right here. See if you can follow me."

"Piper, without Leo we can't get back. He has to heal Paige! You have to call him."

"Why don't you call him?"

"I've tried Piper, he can only hear you."

"I can't. I'll be admitting weakness. You know we had that argument."

"Yeah, you blew up the TV and the couch. Just call him."

"But if I call him he may not come because... um... because."

Alyssa sighed and completed the sentence she was struggling on.

"Because our love is no more and the bounds that once connected us have been eternally broken."

"WHAT!?" Holly yelled, nearly jumping off her chair, disgusted and enraged, not to mention aggravated. "Piper wouldn't say anything like that. Who wrote that crap?"

"Why are you surprised, Holly? You read the script." Holly hung her head, and Alyssa's hand dropped silently from her head to the table. "Holly! You promised me you'd read the script last night. If we don't get this done tomorrow we're in trouble. Rose has been offered a spot as Producer, and we're going to get a $4,000 pay raise!"

Holly sighed and looked down.

"Holly," Alyssa said, picking up her friends head. "I'm trying to help you, but you gotta try, sweetie. Look, it's 8:00 what do you say we go for breakfast?"

"Alright, I'll call Rose."

"I'll drive." They grabbed the keys and Holly got her coat.

"You know, I never understood why you wear a coat, in LA, in the middle of July." Alyssa said as Holly dialed her number.

"And you never will." She said as the phone started to ring. On the third ring it picked up. "Hey Rose. Alyssa & I are going for breakfast at Dan's Pancake House. Would you care to join us?" There was a lot of background noise, and behind rose shouts could be heard. Rose yelled into the phone.

"Um... Yeah! I'd love to! I have my lines memorized and I'm done here, so I'll come."

"Where's 'here'?"

"Um... shopping. Yeah, I'll meet you at Dan's in ten."

"See you the." Holly hung up the phone. "Drive onward!"

Alyssa drove the small car down to Dan's. Halfway there they disappeared from their car. Holly's cell phone dropped to their floor.