Phoebe was sitting at her desk "reading" the letters her fans had written her. "Screw this." She said quietly and threw the letters back on her desk. Why had she even come to work if she wasn't going to actually work? "I guess I just wanted to get out of the house." She thought. She hadn't really wanted to be there when the whole Halliwell clan awoke. She looked around her office to see if there was anything she could do besides just sit there. She glanced over at the TV and decided to turn it on to see what was happening in San Francisco. Phoebe pushed a couple of papers around until she finally found the remote. She hit power and turned to channel 4, the news station. Leaning back a little in her chair she watched. "And in more braking news," The anchor woman said, "People all over San Francisco have gone missing. The police have no definite number but so far thirteen people have gone missing. Police reports say this could be the work of a serial killer but there is no evidence that these people have been killed. If you have seen any of these women please call our hotline number." Then the TV flashed to the pictures of the people gone missing, one by one. All of them seemed to be about twenty-five with dark brown hair. The realization hit Phoebe that all these women looked alike, looked like her. Phoebe gasped and jumped when her phone rang suddenly. She switched off the TV and checked the caller ID, but it was an undefined number. "Hello? Hello?" she said twice before she just hung up figuring it was a prank call. She picked up her letters and looked at them once more. She leaned back in her chair a little more and within 10 minutes she was fast asleep. RING! The sound of the unpleasant telephone had awoken her with a start. Checking the caller ID just to make sure it wasn't the same prank caller, but no, it was Piper's cell phone. "Hello," She said with a slight yawn.
"Umm, hey Pheebs. I need to talk to you about something." Piper said in a voice that sounded quite concerned. Phoebe figuring she just wanted to talk to her about her shower dilemma this morning, ignored her comment, and looked at the clock realizing that she needed to go home now. "Piper, where's Paige? She was supposed to pick me up after work today."
"That's what I needed to talk to you about..." Piper said sounding so faint that Phoebe had to listen really hard just to hear.
"Piper," Phoebe said raising her voice in concern, "What's wrong?"
Piper finally responded, "Paige is in the hospital, she's dying."