Disclaimer: I don't own charmed.
A/N: Sorry it has been so long. CharmedAli, I understand completely.
Chapter 3
As everyone else went to their duties, Piper was caught in a very strange dream. The dream had started not long after she had fallen asleep and quickly took a turn for the worse. Piper's dream started normally. She was walking along a beach. All around her everything seemed to be at peace. Suddenly walls rose out of the sand and closed around her. It looked like a long corridor with doors running along each side. Piper began freaking out and ran to try the doors, desperately trying to find a way out. Voices started chanting around her, calling her name. At first, she was too preoccupied trying to escape to identify them. When she realized no doors were opening she focused on them. Leo was calling, and Prue and Phoebe. Also a darker more sinister voice she didn't recognize.
Piper: "What! What do you want?!"
Piper screamed in her dream, but unbeknownst to herself, aloud as well. Prue who had been coming to check up on her heard Piper's cry and hurried to see what was going on, thinking Leo might have decided to make a pit stop. Meanwhile Piper's voices had materialized to beings to which the voices belonged, teasing and taunting, calling her to a door only to slam it in her face, pushing her backwards. Once again she cried out.
Piper: "Stop it! I don't understand!"
The beings only seemed to laugh and increase the speed of their game. Fatigue was overcoming her when she saw herself as a child surrounded by the dark being and two others; a virus looking thing and a sickly chicken. Protectiveness kicking in, she took off to save…herself. Reaching them, she was repelled by some sort of force. Falling back she hit her head with a crack. Piper screamed in pain. Prue, who was now by her side, was startled by the sound of it. It sounded as though Piper were in danger.
Prue: "Piper, come on sweetie. Wake up. Please wake up."
Prue was urgently shaking Piper, pleading with her, as Piper began to writhe around, tangling herself with the sheets. Back in Piper's dream, little Piper's voice cried for help and it seemed to be coming from all directions. To make matters worse everything started spinning. Piper was on her hands and knees, trying to get oriented but unable to do so.
Piper: "I don't know how to help you!" "Tell Me!"
Phoebe: "Prue, what's going on?"
By now Phoebe and Leo had arrived. Leo had a strange look on his face, but made no move toward his suffering wife.
Prue: "I don't know but I think she needs to wake up…NOW!" "Help me!"
Phoebe ran to help the flailing Piper who was now soaked with sweat. In the dream Piper finally got up only to see her younger self killed by the beings. The dark one turned and said,
Demon: "You can never win. Stop trying."
Then the dream was over. Piper awoke with a start clinging to Prue's arms.
Piper: "Don't let me die!"
Piper pleaded to Prue still thinking of the dream. Prue hugged her, glancing at Phoebe over Piper's head. They both knew something was amiss here. Something more than the ordinary illness.
Phoebe: "You want me to…"
Prue: "Yeah."
Prue answered, knowing exactly what Phoebe was thinking. Phoebe reached gingerly toward Piper's shivering body.