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Charmed in the Afterlife: Ice Cream and Mud Don't Mix

Golden Door SPA in the NAPA Valley
Calistoga, California

A women dressed in a black pants suit, led Prue down an elegant corridor decorated with gold trim and modern art. "I trust you found everything satisfactory with your room?"

"I did" Prue smiled looking to her left as she felt Andy's invisible hand slide into the small of her back. Not able to be seen by mortals in the present world, Andy had taken to roaming through the hotel in his invisible form or orbing when he and Prue felt the need to leave the room.

The women smiled back as she led Prue outside to secluded bungalow and unlocked a double set of French doors. "Your own private mud suite"

"Mud?" Prue stopped abruptly, gazing at the large in ground rectangular shaped tub that was filled with bubbling mud.

Still smiling the women clasp her hands together speaking cheerily, "our mud treatments are one of Calistoga's most relaxing luxuries. While bathing, our mud gently exfoliates all of your dead skin cells and relives tension by lifting all of your worries away. Our mud is preheated to a temperature of 104 degrees and has been specially scented with a just a hint of lavender, to give it a nice clean feel"

"You let Phoebe plan this didn't you?" Prue said under breath to Andy as the women continued to ramble.

"The changing room is over there, and when you are finished you can enjoy and nice relaxing shower with pulsating spray followed by a herbal mint rub down by our house masseuse"

Sounds great, but I have my own personal masseuse" Prue beamed with a large fake smile. Cordially she waited for the women to leave before unleashing her wrath upon Andy.

"Okay what's with the mud?" Prue crossed her arms over her chest, with her eyes blazing. "I thought we were here to work on our grief"

"We are" Andy replied making himself visible, "mud can be very therapeutic"

"I am so not getting into the mud"

"Why not?" Andy laughed grabbing her hands.

"Because next to drowning in water, my greatest fear is to drown in mud. I can already see Barbus standing over me laughing as the mud rises up past my neck"

"Prue, Barbus isn't going to attack" Andy said gently placing his hands on her shoulders. "This is only meant to help you relax, it's no different than sitting in the Jacuzzi "

Stalling Prue pulled away and began to digging through her purse for cell phone, "you know, maybe I should call Piper and check on Amanda."

Andy's brows knitted as he pulled her bag from her hands on tossed into one of the whicker chairs, beside them. "Prue, Amanda is fine. Your sister's will come get us if anything happens". Prue looked at him skeptically as his hands cupped her face. "Prue we just got here, what could possible happen?"

"Ok" Prue resided as he kissed her forehead and pulled her against his chest, "but you are getting in here with me"

"That's why I brought my swim suit"

"Swim suit aye?" Prue smirked flirting for the first time in weeks, "You're playing it a little cautious aren't ya? " Taking a hold oftwo of his fingers, Prue started for the dressing room.

Andy followed willingly, speaking to her back. "Well I don't want to assume, something I shouldn't be assuming"

"Then maybe you should have gotten adjoining rooms"

Manor

Piper paced the kitchen floor in disbelief, "A demon took our niece, Phoebe, I don't believe this! Prue is going to freak!"

Phoebe shook her head, "No she isn't because we are not going to tell her.

"What? Are you out of your freakin' mind?"

"No, Piper, I'm not. Prue just lost one child, I don't think she'll handle the thought of losing another"

Paige opened her mouth to speak but nothing came out due to Piper's words of frustration.

"Then what are we suppose to do? Without Prue's powers we are screwed!"

"We'll find Amanda ourselves. And Prue will never have to know," Phoebe replied casually, as if finding an unknown demon were an easy feat.

"Hello, third sister here," Paige cajoled waving to her oblivious sisters.

NEVER HAVE TO KNOW? Phoebe we cannot keep something like this from her! Amanda is her child!

"Then we'll tell her after she and Andy get back" Phoebe retorted through gritted teeth, with her voice softening. "Piper if we tell Prue now this could destroy her"

"You could be right" Piper rubbed her chin, missing Paige's reaction.

Paige rolled her eyes and slapped her hands to her thighs, "while you two, argue about how to tell Prue. I'm going to save Amanda" In a flurry of orbs she disappeared.

"Where'd she go?" Phoebe's head whirled around. "Why is she leaving at time like this?"

"I don't know," Piper replied. "All I know is that Prue is going to vanquish our ass if we don't get Amanda back before she gets home"

Phoebe began to move out of the kitchen, "Let's go check the book"

"The book? How is the book going to help us when we don't even now what we are looking for?!"

Shaylee stayed close to the window listening to the tune of the devil's chord as it floated from the truck. "I don't hear this" she chanted plugging her ears, "I don't hear this" Several demonic children had gathered around eagerly waiting for the ice cream man to serve them.

The darklighter stood behind them, guiding Amanda to join the line. "You know that the "Nothing" inside the is truck evil. You want to help the others"

Upstairs, in Amanda's room, Paige paced nervously. In her hands she held one of Amanda's favorite dolls. "C'mon, what good is sensing power if I can't use it when I want too!" Aggravated, Paige tossed the doll to the bed, and walked reluctantly towards the window. "Is that an ice cream truck?" Her eyes widened when she saw Amanda standing amongst the line of children.

"PIPER! PHOEBE!" I can't wait, Paige thought orbing herself onto the street. The ice cream man inside the truck had just opened the window releasing a rainbow colored vacuum when Paige materialized onto the sidewalk. Instantly all of the children including Amanda were sucked into the truck.

"Amanda!" Paige reached for Amanda's hand, barely missing it. Her tiny fingers scraped against, Paige's slipping though her palm. "Let her Go!" Paige demanded against her niece's frightened scream.

From the window, Shaylee watched as the gravitational pulled engulfed Paige whole and then disappeared pulling her inside the truck."NO NOT PAIGE!"

"Shaylee? What happened?" Phoebe entered the kitchen followed by the Piper. The two had just come from Paige's room, finding nothing.

"The Ice Cream Truck! It took Paige!" Shaylee yelped, darting for the back door.

"Ice Cream Truck?" A loud gasped escaped from Piper's throat as she and Phoebe looked out the window. "This is not happening...this is can't be happening" Both sisters still clearly remembered, Prue's encounter with the ice cream man and his quest to help the "Nothing" vanquish demonic children. Twice in her life, Prue had been lured to the truck by her need to save innocents. Once when she six, and then again just before she had been reunited with Andy. On both accounts she had nearly been destroyed by the "Nothing" that lived inside the playground within the truck.

"It is" Phoebe swallowed taking a hold of Piper's hand. "Shaylee! Piper and Phoebe were half way down the lawn when they saw, the ice cream man reopen his window. The hypnotic tune had stopped, signaling that the "Nothing" had taken its fill for the moment.

"Do you want some ice cream little girl?" the man asked. "Say Please"

The words had just left his lips when Shaylee placed her hand over his, using her power to absorb his life. "You can't take Paige!" she ground, watching his body grow limp.

"Shaylee, Shaylee Stop!" Phoebe's cry's fell upon deaf ears as the ice cream's man body fell lifelessly from the truck, slumping to the sidewalk. The window to the truck then slammed shut, locking against magical intrusion

"Oh no" Phoebe's heart began to bleed with sadness. "It's Caleb". Caleb had been the mortal chosen by the elder's to assist the "Nothing" in capturing demonic children. The chosen mortal was said to be the only one with the ability to enter the snow covered playground inside and lead innocent victims back to safety.

"Oh...Oh Phoebe" Piper's eyes shifted meeting Phoebe's. "What are we going to do?"