"I hope we're not too late," Sabrina said as she and Zelda began running down the hallways. It was room 417 they had to find and of course it was on the very top floor. It was also convenient that the elevator was out of order and so both witches were running, no racing up the stairs before the auction began.

"Don't worry dear we'll make it, we have two minutes." Sabrina shouldn't have been surprised that Zelda was far ahead of her. Zelda did workout mainly yoga, Sabrina figured that if she survive this stair mountain marathon she would definitely go to the gym with Zelda for sure. And maybe for once be on top in her gym class.

They even wouldn't have to be at the stupid auction house if it wasn't for the mishap. Instead of receiving a necklace from Great Aunt Constance the lawyer presented the women with a shrunken head. The lawyer in charge of Constance's will checked and as it turns out the deliverers had accidently switched Constance's things she left in her will to things she would be auctioning off. Zelda said that the woman was probably trying to make a few quick bucks as though it were a garage sale. Constance always had relationships with dealers so it came as no surprise that Constance wasn't giving everything away to everyone in the family. When they demanded to know what had really happened to where Constance's heirloom was, the necklace was delivered to Buckland Auction House which was about five blocks away from where they were.

Now, they finally made it to the top and began to check both sides. Sabrina noticed that the biddings just got weirder and weirder. She and Zelda passed by rooms that auctioning off clothes, jewels to hair and hundred-year-old teeth. Finally they came to room 417 and to their surprise there was nobody in the room.

"Maybe we have the wrong room?" Sabrina said.

"No honey, the receptionist said that it was in room 417. I am not going down those stairs again. As soon as we get the necklace I'm just going to zap us back to the hotel for a nice long bubble bath."

Sabrina nodded her head and she and Zelda took seats in the front. Sabrina checked her wristwatch and the time read 3:53. She remembered that receptionist said the auction would start at 4:00 p.m. sharp. Two minutes later the room began to fill up with people (mostly mortals). On the side she and Zelda there were two elderly men and right behind them were a trio of mid-forties business women all on their cell phones killing time. To their opposite side there was only a couple sitting in the far back corner huddled close together. Their arms were wrapped around each other's bodies but would stood out to Sabrina was their good looks. They were both long-limbed, dark haired, and very well-dressed in black. Being dressed in that color gave them a mysterious feeling like they were hiding some sort of secret. Sabrina quickly looked away before they could catch her staring and right on cue, a woman and two men entered the room. The men were each carrying two large boxes of items. The auction was about to begin.

Meanwhile…

Piper quickly pulled into the nearest parking space in the area's parking lot. She quickly unlocked the car. They both only had one minute before four o'clock and they had no clue which room to go to. If anything, hopefully Prue was already there.

"Go, go, go!" she said as she and Phoebe scrambled out of the car and into the auction house.

Both women ran into the front lobby and luckily saw their sister talking to the receptionist.

"Okay so it's in that room?" Prue asked as she scribbled something down on a small piece of paper.

"Positive," the receptionist replied through a mouthful of bubblegum.

As soon as Prue was done using the pen she handed it back and thanked the receptionist.

"Prue!" her sisters called in unison. Prue made her way over and gave both sisters a quick hug.

"You both made it," Prue said.

"Yeah sorry but my class ended a little later than expected and I had some questions for the professor and then there was traffic and blah, blah, blah…" Phoebe explained.

"So did you find out what room we need to be in because unfortunately Phoebe's vision didn't show squat," Piper said.

"It showed us that we needed to be here at four," Phoebe said as her eyes glanced at the clock, "which is now," and her shoulders slumped.

"Don't worry the good news is that there is one auction going on right now," Prue said.

Piper always knew where there was good there was bad and anything to do with magic: ugly. "And the bad news?"

"It's on the top floor so we need to stop talking and start running," Prue said as she raced for the stairway. Her sisters followed and now they were all sprinting to the top as though they were racing in the Bay-to-Breakers marathon.

"And why couldn't we take the elevator?" Piper called from down below as she tried to keep up with her sisters.

"Coincidence, the elevator is down," Prue called back as they were now making their way past the second floor.

Piper managed to yell out something in between breaths. "That's not a coincidence, that's bad luck!"

"Well we're like in that scene from Ghostbusters where they had to go up the stairwell…except of course, we're in better shape and cuter." Even in dire situations Phoebe always managed to say something positive or funny.