A/N: Hey! Sorry it took so long to update. I was on vacation and, although I brought my laptop, the hotel didn't have a stupid Internet connection. Blah. But I'm back! So here's the new chapter!

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Piper hadn't moved since the image of her mother had gone. She felt like all the energy in her body had been sucked away and she couldn't move another inch. If she did, she felt she'd pass out and she couldn't afford to do that now. Truthfully, she couldn't just sit there, either. She had to find Paige. If whoever was doing this was trying to trick her into cutting again, it was a sure bet they were doing the same thing to Paige.

With great effort, Piper pushed herself up and began to walk, slowly and clumsily, down the hall, looking around and squinting through her blurring vision.

"Paige, please," Piper called weakly. "If you can hear me, please, say something!"

Silence. Then –

"Piper?" someone called weakly.

"Paige?"

Piper quickened her steps as much as she could and rounded the corner to find a scared, sobbing Paige, her knees to her chest, curled into a corner. Piper hurried (as much as she could) to her half-sister's side and knelt beside her.

"Paige, is it really you?" Piper asked, her throat dry and her voice hoarse.

Paige nodded. "You're mother, Patty, h-had an affair with her Whitelighter, S-Sam, and that's how I was born."

Piper hugged her gently. Paige began to sob harder.

"Shh, it's okay," Piper croaked. "We're together now. Nothing can happen to us as long as we're together. I promise."

She could only hope.

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"Found something!" Phoebe said, after three quarters of an hour. "Oh-" she mumbled, scanning the page.

"'Oh'? I don't like the sound of that 'oh'," Prue said with a frown. "What is it?"

Phoebe swallowed. "There's a spell in here that will get Piper out of Dreamland. But we need a potion – that will send one of us in to get her."

"The problem?" Prue questioned, frowning still.

Phoebe looked up at her. "Aside from the impossible potion and hard to find ingredients, there's one tiny problem: The potion sends us in, but the spell will only send one of us out."

There was a pause.

Prue shook her bangs out of her eyes, arms crossed. "That is a problem."

Another pause.

"What are we going to do?" Phoebe asked.

Prue hesitated, thinking before answering. "We think of a Plan B. We can alter the spell to get in and the potion and make a new spell to send multiple people out once Piper's out."

"A plan where so much could go wrong, if ever I heard one," Phoebe replied dryly.

"Have you got a better one?" Prue asked.

Phoebe started to shake her head – but stopped and smirked, nodding slowly. "I do."

Prue recoiled with wide eyes. "Uh-oh. That's never good . . ."

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Piper opened her eyes and glanced at Paige.

"Can you get up yet? We shouldn't sit in one place too long or they'll get us."

Paige chuckled insanely. "They've already got us, Piper. Why keep running? It's just draining us of what energy we have left. Why keep running when we're trapped?"

She sounded so crestfallen and helpless, it made Piper's heart clench.

"Don't," Piper said firmly, "give up." She had to force her voice not to shake as she spoke. "Prue and Phoebe are working on a way to get us – well, me since they don't know about you, but I'm sure they can get you out, too – out of here."

"How do you know?" Paige asked, still red-eyed.

Piper didn't answer right away. She didn't know for sure, but she was pretty damn close to knowing they were working on getting her out.

"Because I just do," she answered finally. "They're probably looking in the Book right now for a spell or potion or something. Until then, we need to buy some time and keep those creeps from finding us."

Paige said nothing.

"Can you get up?" Piper asked again.

Paige hesitated before nodding.

"I have faith in Prue and Phoebe, Paige," Piper said as she helped Paige stand. "They're going to get us out. I promise."

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"Okay, we have all the ingredients together," Prue said, an hour later. Phoebe had explained her plan and, while it was risky, it was better than the original.

"And I'm working on the spells."

Prue read the potion instructions three times over.

"I'll get the potion done. You make sure those spells are fool proof," Prue said firmly.

Phoebe nodded, rereading what she had and tinkering with it.

They were so intent on what they were doing that neither heard Leo drop in.

"I have some-"

"AH!"

Both Prue and Phoebe jumped.

"Leo! Don't sneak up on us like that!" Prue cried.

"I have some bad news," Leo said, ignoring Prue.

"Like we need anymore?" Phoebe asked grimly.

Leo frowned. "Piper's not the only one trapped in the alternate reality."

Prue and Phoebe exchanged looks.

"Who's trapped with her?" Prue asked.

"A Half-Whitelighter named Paige. The Elders don't know much about her. They don't know how she's Half-Whitelighter or what her other half is. All they know is she also went to Los Angeles Psychiatric Institution ten years ago – with Piper. She was a cutter, too, but the staff didn't find out until she'd been there for five years, around the same time that Piper showed up."

Prue and Phoebe exchanged looks again.

"So we have two lives on the line," Prue said. She looked at Phoebe. "Step up those spells. We're on a time limit now."

Phoebe nodded and went back to writing the spells, while Prue went back to work on the potion.