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Authors note: Okay, here's Ky again. Dammit, I don't know why I keep putting off her finding out the switch. I swear I meant to do it in the first one with her then skipped it, then skipped it again in intermission 2! Oh well, I'll get there eventually, namely in THIS one

Intermission 3

Kyra stepped out of the shower, feeling a lot more relaxed, and reached for the towel she'd hung on the back of the door. She was actually starting to feel alive again, for the first time in a while. In fact, almost for the first time since her mom had died. Recently, she'd been wandering around in her own little world, paying attention to nothing. She couldn't blame her twin and everyone else for starting to act a little worried around her.

As she turned, she saw something that made her move back where she had come, and stare into the mirror. The face reflected there was not hers. Though it was almost as familiar. It was a face she had known her whole life, and one she missed terribly.

She spun around, almost expecting to see her mother standing behind her, but no. The bathroom was still empty apart from her. She walked to the mirror, incredulously, and gently put her fingers to the face reflected there, then to her own face, watching the reflection do the same.

She sat down on the floor with a thump, the towel cushioning her landing a little. Well, that sort of explained all the calling of her Paige. Although really, Aunt Piper should have found it a little odd that her dead sister was just wandering round the Manor…

Kyra pushed herself back to her feet, pulling on some clothes in a hurry. There was definitely something odd going on here, but what? Her sense of curiosity was piqued, and she was no-where near as freaked out by this as she normally should have been. Nothing shocked her anymore. She'd seen so much weird stuff, so much terrible stuff, that it really wasn't worth getting too upset over something like the fact that she was apparently wearing her dead mother's body. Although she really wouldn't mind finding out why this had happened. All she had done was a spell to talk with her mother's spirit, not try to bring her back from the dead or anything.

Once she was fully clothed, she ran downstairs to find Piper, tossing everything over in her mind and trying to figure out what seemed to be a reasonable explanation for it all. And came up with a rather far-fetched one that fitted all the facts, that was worth trying out on her aunt, at least as a starting point.

"Hey, Aunt Piper, there's something wacky going on again," she announced, grinding to a halt in-front of the kitchen bench where her aunt was preparing what looked like dinner. Although a terribly small amount of it considering the rather large number of people who as far as she knew were going to be home. She snorted as she saw some of it, "And of course, Rinna and Daley aren't going to hate eating spinach and cheese pasta at all!" Her little cousins were notoriously picky eaters in the little kid way that anything green was bad. She was surprised Piper was even trying. Until Kyra remembered the rest of her theory and shut up.

Piper raised her eyebrows at her "Paige, again with the 'aunt', what is the matter?" Seemingly rest hadn't done too much to alleviate her sister's current weirdness.

"Oh, right. I almost forgot what I had to tell you!" Kyra shook her head at her own ditzyness. She really could be so vague and confusing at times. Hell, a lot of the tie she did it on purpose. No-one expected too much of you if you seemed a little weird and slow.

"Oh good, we're getting somewhere," Piper sighed tiredly. Really, she was starting to wonder if her sister had been possessed, she was being so odd.

"Well, you see Aunt Piper, I appear to be in mom's body," Kyra told her matter-of-factly. "And for some reason you find that less odd than the fact that I call you aunt, like I always have. In fact, if I were to wager a guess I would expect, going on evidence collected, that I have somehow time-travelled and ended up in her body when she was several years younger."

She thought that sounded nice and logical-like.

Piper apparently didn't agree.

"O…kay Paige," she muttered, "If this is a joke, now is a good time to stop. If it's not, possibly it's time we took you to see a doctor."

Apparently her younger sister was feeling a little unstable in her sanity today. Well, it had been a difficult time for everyone, and Paige had been overworking herself. Hopefully it would wear off if Piper had a little chat about how things were.

"Okay Paige, it's 2002 and the only child we have around here is Wyatt. And he doesn't tend to call me anything yet since he can't talk. There is no-one that would call me 'aunt', and from the way you and Phoebe are going with men, there doesn't seem to be any chance that there will be in the near future."

Kyra nodded, good her aunt had just clarified the time-travelling thing. "You're right, there won't be for another year and a half. Then mom- Paige- will meet a really great guy who will become my dad; and my twin's too of course! My present is 2018, when we're 14 and Wyatt's 16."

Piper had to admit her sister (niece?) was getting through to her. This was just about too weird to not be the truth. And Paige or whoever was in her body certainly seemed to believe it. Pity there wasn't really anything that she could really ask to check the truth of it. Paige knew the answers to everything she could think of asking to confirm that this person in Paige's body wasn't Paige. And that it was a time-traveller, namely her niece.

But she did know a way to endure that it wasn't a demon possessing her sister's body and trying to trick her into trusting it.

"Do I have a daughter in your future?" she enquired.

Paige – or the person in her body – nodded. "You have two. Clayre and Melinda."

Piper relaxed. No-one outside of the family knew that she planned to call a daughter Melinda. "Which is which?"

The person in Paige's body – Piper was sure by now that it was her niece sent her a look, "Aunt Piper, you know I'm not allowed to tell you much about the future. Hell, you're the one that's drilled that into me for the past 14 years- anyone going through time has to try and leave things as much as they were as possible."

Now there were no doubts. "Okay, I believe you… What's your name, anyway?"

"It's Kyra," Kyra smiled. It was ironic that something she had learned from her aunt eventually helped convince that aunt that she was who she said she was.

"That's a very Paige-like choice," Piper smiled. "I always have thought she was going to go with something a little unusual when she had kids. Now, do you have any idea how you ended up here, and in Paige's body?"

Kyra considered. She couldn't tell her Aunt that she'd been trying to summon her mom's spirit. Telling someone that their sister was going to die, that was pretty certain to muck with the way things were meant to be.

"I was…just trying a spell I probably shouldn't have done on my own," she said, "There's not a lot more I can say about that."

Piper nodded, accepting that. This kid seemed pretty smart and would know what it was and wasn't possible to reveal without going against the rules that they all tried to abide by.

"Well okay. I'd better call Phoebe, so we can try and get you back where you're meant to be. And get Paige back as well. Got any idea on where she could be?"

Kyra shrugged. "I guess since I'm in her body, maybe she's in mine." She grinned as a thought occurred to her, "Hey, this is sorta like that movie 'Freaky Friday', only Halliwell style!"

Piper waved to her to be quiet as she picked up the phone and dialled Phoebe's cell, "Hi Phoebs, not in the middle of anything too important? Good, can you come right home then; we've got a bit of a situation. No, no demons, everyone's perfectly safe. I'll explain when you get here. Okay. See you soon." She placed the handset back down and turned back to Kyra. "Okay, she's on her way. Let's get the book and start with the research for getting you back to yourself, okay?"

Kyra bounded up the stairs to the attic, and quickly came back down again, lugging the book in her arms. "I think we should find something to get in touch with my family, fill them in a little before we try a switcheroo spell," she told her aunt. If Paige hadn't figured out what had happened, or indeed if her mom wasn't in Kyra's body, it might scare people if magic suddenly happened. Plus, they might need both ends to get anything to work!

Piper nodded, impressed with the girl's knowledge and matter-of-fact manner in dealing with this. Obviously, the magical nature of their lives was not going to change too much since Kyra didn't seem too surprised with using magic and seemed in fact truly comfortable with it. She had probably grown up with it as part of almost every-day life.

Kyra flipped through the pages of the book, stopping when she came to a spell entitled simply 'Communication with loved ones'. It seemed likely and said that the meeting took place out of time and space, so the difference in times shouldn't affect it too much.

She turned the book to show to Piper, "I think this one will work for filling in everyone," she told her, and got an answering nod. She quickly jotted it down and noted what was needed for it, just a normal circle made with crystals basically. Simple enough and the sort of thing she had done heaps of times. The 'switcheroo' spell was going to be more difficult to find, probably. But there was generally something in the book that could be adapted to the purpose. If this sort of thing hadn't happened before of course, in which case there would probably be a spell created for the situation. She shut the book, then let it fall open where it would. That generally got something reasonable. And it didn't fail her, 'For displaced Souls'. If she and Paige weren't that, she didn't know what they were!

The front door slammed, and Phoebe's voice floated through to them, "Hellooo, where you guys?"

"We're in the living room!" Kyra called back. Phoebe appeared and sat down in the closest arm-chair.

"Okay, what's so urgent?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.

Kyra turned to Piper, "You wanna explain, and I'll get the spells ready?"

"Of course," Piper said warmly, "We'll meet you up in the attic in a few minutes, Kyra."

Kyra went upstairs again, copying the switcheroo spell out for Jordyn, who she figured would be the best to use for the communication spell. Twin bond and all. That should help even with the whole future thing.

She wondered if her twin had noticed that she wasn't herself. Had anyone noticed? Probably not, since everyone had always said how alike she and her mother were in temperament and the fact that everyone knew she could be a little odd. They had probably just thought she was in one of her odd moods if Paige had been as confused as she had been.

Her two aunts came up the time and Phoebe gave her an odd look, "Well Piper …if you say she's not Paige I'll take your word. But she sure seems like it."

Kyra wondered if that could be the fact that she was in Paige's body. But she knew what her aunt meant, you recognised people by the way they moved and their mannerisms, not just their appearance. It was comforting somehow to know that she was so like her mother. She missed her so badly.

"Okay, I'm ready," she said, taking a deep breath and ensuring that the spells she needed to give her sister were securely in her pockets. Hopefully they'd stay with her, but she thought she'd read over them enough times to be able to accurately tell them her sister even if they didn't.

She stepped into the crystal circle and sat in the middle of it and began.

"By the blood that share we do,
Come to me, I call to you.
Take us to where talk we may
So I may tell what I must say
Take us safely, take us well
So Jordyn, I may tell you all."

Piper and Phoebe felt the familiar rush of magic in the air, and then Paige's body slumped to its side, unconscious. The spell was in effect.

Authors Note: Well, I'm fairly determined to actually finish this fic sometime in the not too far distant future, and have the rest of it planned out, so chapters will be a bit longer and actually be moving for a change! If you've bothered reading this entire thing, please just take another minute or so to review :o)