[EM] The Oddest Dream

[mysweatershrunk]

Paige hadn't been sleeping too easily these last few nights. Everything that had been going on lately with her Whitelighter status, and the 'jingles' that came any time of day or night it was getting to her a bit. She had barely been able to fall asleep before she would hear one of her charges call for her and she'd have to get up and Orb away to

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[neverhit_onyou]

"Paige, what did you do?" It was nearly always a spell gone awry when Phoebe woke up in a strange place and had no idea how she'd gotten there. At least this time she wasn't naked.

She walked the hallway, feet slapping on the ground and sidestepping the occasional piece of furniture that seemed to be slowly creeping its away across the hall. When the door slammed open, Phoebe headed into the room to see Paige across the hall.

"Ha. I knew it was you." She smirked and walked into the room more, hearing a loud scraping noise suddenly as a chair started to come into the room behind her.

"Seriously. What in the HELL is going on in here? And why are we awake? And where is Piper?" She turned around, looking at the room quickly, noticing a clock melting into the table. "And why is this place going all Salvador Dahli on us?" Things twitched and moved throughout the room without good reason, and Phoebe was beginning to freak a little. "There are just so many things wrong with this."

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Paige glanced behind herself hoping and praying that whoever Phoebe was blaming this mess on was conveniently right behind her. Too bad no one was there, well except the coat rack that was spinning to the other side of the room.

"Heh?" she questioned then turned back to Phoebe, "Oh no. Don't go blaming this one on me! I swear I was sound asleep, and The Book? No where near me when I fell asleep! So this??" Paige gestured wildly around herself, "So not me!"

Paige hadn't actually been moving, and yet everytime she turned around to take in the room, that room seemed to be getting bigger... "Please tell me the wall is getting further away for you too?"

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Phoebe watched as the room pulsated then began growing, laughing nervously as Paige asked her if she was seeing it too.

"Yeah. This is... very not normal." She raised an eyebrow and moved closer toward Paige, clinging to her arm. "Okay, at least you're real." Her eyes darted around the room, wondering which thing was going to come to life next. Her question was answered as the ceiling started dropping rapidly down on top of them.

"CRAP! MOVE!" She shoved Paige toward the door she had come in through and into the hallway. The ceiling stopped dropping as soon as they made it out of the room, acending slowly back to where it belonged.

"If you didn't do this, and I didn't do this, who did??" Phoebe's eyes were wide as a duck went waddling past them in a tuxedo. It stopped, looking back at them.

"Pardon, do you know where I can get a taxicab?" The duck had a British accent. Phoebe looked at Paige, then back to the duck.

"Uh... No?"

"Cheerio!!" The duck continued in his waddle down the hallway, stopping occasionally to ask furniture

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Okay this was definitely not Paige's fault. There was no way all of this madness and just plain quirky was all from her head. The british accent maybe, but it wasn't her fault of she had been watching King Arthur the night before. It was just that Tristan, and Lancelot... and well Paige is single! So maybe the accent was from her mind, but the penguin? That was all Phoebe.

"Don't look at me! I swear I had nothing to do with this." Paige tipped her head to the side trying to sort out if maybe she had some back Chinese that night, but actually now that she thought about what she ate, it was soup. Nothing dream bendy-pull-Phoebe-in about soup!

"So okay talking animals aside we are in Magick School, that should at least give us somewhere to start, but where? Well other than not in the rooms with the ceiling issues? I think we should head to the main hall?"

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Phoebe laughed at Paige getting manhandled to her square, then reached out and took the top card, getting a blue. She walked forward a few steps, not before jumping over the little blue piece that had come back to attempt to molest her.

"NO! No touchie!" She skirted him as he chased after her, then she landed in her space. She was now one behind Paige.

"Ha yourself." She sighed. "Are we really going to have to play this entire damned game to get out of here? I'd prefer Shoots and Ladders, or HiHo Cherry-o, myself." She smirked at Paige, waiting for her to move again.

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Paige poked at her sister who was one square behind her, "Hey! Watch it with the personal space." Her arms crossed her chest and she stood there, an act of resistence against drawing another card. "I'm gonna try another spell, and hope for a more fun board game this time?"

"Standing on the square of red
I wish instead it was...

My Bed!"

Suddenly Paige's feet felt off balance, "Crap."

Yep, sure enough Paige's bed was now in the middle of the board game and that little blue player piece was trying to hop up. "Oh no you don't!" Paige snapped back using her foot to kick his plastic hands away from the edge of the bed.

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Phoebe snorted as she tried not to laugh. As Paige tried to right herself on the bed and keep the little blue piece off and away from her ass, Phoebe could hear a slapping noise of someone walking toward them with bare feet.

"Uhh. Paige?" Phoebe looked around for where the sound was coming from, still hearing the smack-smack-smack. "Paige." Paige was still distracted trying to keep the handsy plastic off her bed. Smack-smack-smack.

"I LIKE BICYCLES!!!"

A small, animated, badly drawn yellow guy was staring up at Phoebe, eyes lolled to each side. She looked down at him, then over at Paige, who'd finally taken notice at the yelled announcement.

"What the HELL?"

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Woah. Paige was really wondering what she had for dinner before she went to bed, because a living piece of plastic was one thing, but a two dimensional... cartoon? That was another thing. She pinched her arm just to make sure, but of course it hurt and on top of that nothing happened, because she 'was' still dreaming.

Reaching down she grabbed the plastic piece and hurled him across the room at the bookcase, which she thought would be solid, but instead the little blue guy just sailed right into the books. "Hmmm.. one problem down."

"Problem down??? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

"PHOEBE??" Paige tried to yell over the little odd yellow guy that was clearly upset over something screaming at the top of his lungs. "PHOEBE????"

She hoped her sister could hear her over the yelling.

"-hhhhh... NO more PIRANAS. The gopher is an orange baby for me.""-eeBE?... Oh. Phoebe? What the hell is going on! I want to know whose dream we are stuck in because I sure as hell have NO clue what the hell that thing is." Paige flopped down onto her bed

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"Well, fine, crankypants." She made a face at Paige, then watched as she moved herself across the board by orbing. "And it's a good thing this is an alternate reality, because that? Orbing so you don't have to walk the board? Could be considered personal gain." She smirked at her, then took a card, getting a double purple.

"Hurry up and win so we can get out of here, please." She moved to the second purple square ahead of her, bringing her to the Lollypop Woods. She could see the finish of the board, but still had to loop around twice. Nope, she wasn't that close to finishing yet.

All she wanted to do was go back to sleep and her own weird dreams.

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Paige waved her sister comment about personal gain off, figuring that out of all the stuff going on in the dream that was the least of her worries. She had to get to the end of the game and she was going to do it the fastest way possible.

The cards came for both of them and one colored square by one odd piece of candy at a time they moved along the board. It was very repetitive and reminded Paige why she always said no to Wyatt when he wanted to play the game in reality... "In reality.. Oh My God! He's getting back at us! I said I didn't have time to play Candy Land last week, and he got all pouty! Now I am stuck playing it just to get back to my own bed. Oh.. he's so gonna get it. Except in that way that kids can't really "get it" type way of course."

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"Yeah. Who knew he could suck people into his dreams? That's not something you think you have to warn against..."

They continued around the board, card after card, Phoebe starting to walk like a zombie. She pulled the licorice symbol card, which took her to the last loop of the game. Paige was still a few spaces ahead of her on the last yellow square. When Phoebe saw that if Paige pulled another yellow they'd be out of the game, she threw her arms in the air.

"Pull a freakin' yellow, and we're done!!!! Oh, a purple would work too. Goooooo Paige!" She'd gone a bit loopy, and was now playing Candyland cheerleader. She crossed her fingers and bit down on her lower lip, willing Paige to pull a card that would get them out of the game and the dream.

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The cheerleader routine Phoebe was running was making Paige laugh a bit. "Okay! Okay! I'm drawing a *card* right now."

Paige watched the card orb from the pile to her hand and by the sheer luck of the draw it was a yellow card which meant that she actually had won the game, "YELLOW!!" she called out to her sister as she took the step forward to the end of the game.

As soon as her foot stepped onto the board the entire room started to swirl around them all. When the swirling stopped both Paige and Phoebe were in Wyatt's room with him standing up in the crib just grinning wide and bright up at his aunts. "Oh Mister, when you get older? You are so gonna give your girlfriend a heart attack. No more dream Candy Land got it?"

Wyatt just laughed and then plopped back down to play with his toys while Paige shrugged, "Back to bed right?"