Definitely not in Kansas anymore: OTA

[prueisavirtue]

One moment, she was in the entryway of the manor with Piper, trying to explain what was going on to Dr. Griffiths. The next, she was most definitely not in the entryway of the manor. She was...somewhere she didn't recognize.

"Okaaaay, this is new. Phoebe! What did you do?!" Prue called. She didn't think Phoebe could actually hear her, but she'd yell about it anyway. Because obviously Phoebe was the one responsible for whatever had just happened. She'd been the one going to the Book of Shadows, she could've easily cast a spell without Prue or Piper knowing about it. Except as she looked around, and received a couple odd looks from other people around her, she didn't see Piper.

"Uh, sorry. Force of habit. Sisters, you know." Prue explained with a half shrug and a pained smile. So she just decided to move on and figure out where exactly she was. Because that was half the battle of getting back. She needed to get back home in order to help protect Dr. Griffiths from the demon that was after him.

She was in a place that seemed to be a bar or restaurant. And some people she saw didn't look quite human. But they didn't quite look like demons either. "I'm definitely not in Kansas anymore," she said as she headed for what looked like a door.

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[thesurlyone]

"Actually, it's not Phoebe's fault this time, Dorothy."

Piper held her hands to her chest as she looked at the woman she hadn't seen in so long. Part of her wondered if it was just proof that this was a dream, if Prue was an illusion, or if her sister really was standing right there in front of her.

"Prue?"

[prueisavirtue]

"Oh, then maybe just the man behind the curtain. If I can find the curtain, anyway." It was mostly a quip. Mostly. If there was a man behind a curtain pulling levers, Prue was going to find him and give him a piece of her mind. Maybe throw him around a bit if need be.

But before that, she suddenly registered that her sister was there.

"Yeah, it's me. Who else would I be? Wait, don't answer that, we both know better. But yeah, it's me. Why are you surprised by that?" Prue was a little suspicious, but she was more concerned about the fact they were in some futuristic place. "Is this some sort of time travel spell because gotta say, it packs one hell of a wallop."

[thesurlyone]

She stepped closer, looking her over and willing her heart to stop hammering in her chest. From what she had heard from other people, this was definitely a possibility but to see her sister alive and well still had its effects on Piper.

She worked her jaw a few times to will more words to come out but no sound came out.

"Uh...someone beyond the Elders is in charge, from what I've heard."

[prueisavirtue]

The way Piper was looking at her, it was obvious something was odd. Prue couldn't quite put her finger on it, but it was almost as though Piper hadn't seen her in a while.

"Someone beyond the Elders? I didn't think that was possible." After everything they'd seen the Elders being capable of doing, Prue wasn't certain she wanted to know how much worse someone beyond them could be.

And then she narrowed her eyes in suspicion. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

[demontobeloved]

"I swear, it's like a family reunion here."

Comes a voice as Prue walks past. And there, leant against the bar, is Cole Turner.

"Hey, Prue." You're supposed to be dead, but Cole isn't questioning it.

[prueisavirtue]

Truthfully, Prue hadn't known what to expect. However, that voice had been one she didn't expect to hear. Nor did she really like hearing it. She stopped and looked over to see him.

"You," she said. It wasn't quite accusatory, but it was getting close to it. Her first instinct was to throw Cole into the nearest wall with her telekinesis, but she resisted that. For now. "Please tell me this isn't some spell that's trapped us together again. The time loop was bad enough."

And god help Cole if there was no one else here to act as a buffer between them.

[demontobeloved]

"Me." Cole responds, almost flippantly, but he's tensed up, ready to shimmer off at a moment's notice because, well... let's be honest. Prue's never really trusted in him to be good.

"Not a spell, and not just us." Cole shifts a bit. "An entity known as Q brought us here. Phoebe and Piper are here, too, as well as a Whitelighter called Chris." His expression then darkens slightly. "The kicker? Piper and Phoebe are both from the future."

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

"It's a spaceship," Bob helpfully pointed out. "Unless Kansas looks drastically different from what I've told."

[prueisavirtue]

Hearing the voice, she looked over at him. "Seriously. A spaceship." There was a heavy tone of disbelief, yet Prue well knew crazy things could happen. Not only could they happen, but they tended to always happen where her and her sisters were concerned. "But no, this isn't what I picture Kansas looking like. Never been there, only seen it in pictures and stuff."

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

Bob didn't respond, because it's less likely that Kansas had changed so much. "Me neither. Can't say the press I got was much good," he admitted with a shrug. So he wasn't going to change that. Even dead.

[student_lighter]

"Uh......." Chris said from somewhere in front of her, clearly able to only rub 2 brain cells together at the moment. He'd never met Prue of course, but there were pictures. And....well, they looked alike. It was kind of hard to miss your dead aunt yelling for your....alive one.

Chris tried again. "Uh....Crap. Have you.....met anyone yet? Piper maybe? Phoebe?" So he could go run and get them and all have this little freak out together. Brave Chris, real brave.

[prueisavirtue]

Prue almost didn't notice who was speaking to her, or in her general direction, until he mentioned Piper and Phoebe. She locked eyes with him and was briefly taken aback. She'd never seen him before, but he apparently knew her sisters.

"How do you know Piper and Phoebe?" Of course she instantly went on the defensive, not certain of whether he was friend or foe. Even if there was a family resemblance, she was more trying to assess the entire situation. And she wasn't going to directly answer his question until she got some answers herself. She'd been through too much crap given to her and her sisters by the Triad and the Elders to just blindly trust he was a friend.

[student_lighter]

Well, good to know that paranoia was a family trait. Chris did what came naturally. Unfortunately, what came naturally to him was lying. Or at least stalling.

"Of course I know Piper and Phoebe. I'm their Whitelighter." And apparently not yours, Chris thought. Which was interesting. Maybe because you're dead. He held up a hand. "Leo got a promotion." And just to prove he wasn't a demon or anything, Chris orbed in place. "See? Whitelighter."

[hasopinions]

Ishka gives an amused smile at the comment about sisters. An amused but toothy smile, since that can't really be avoided when you're a Ferengi. "Brothers do it too. No matter how old they get." Sometimes she just wanted to separated Quark and Rom like she did when they were small.

[prueisavirtue]

"Oh...uh...yeah, I think it's a siblings thing." Prue looked at the...woman? She thought this person was a woman, but she obviously had never seen someone looking quite like her before. Oh there'd been quite a myriad of demons and such that she'd seen, but this woman's appearance was entirely new.

"Uh sorry, I don't mean to be rude with my staring. This is just one seriously strange trip." She meant that in the sense of having a trip from taking some drug. But she was also clearly on a literal trip. One that she didn't exactly want to be on because she had an innocent to save.

[hasopinions]

"And you've never seen a Ferengi before." Ishka didn't need that one explained to her. Despite only being time displaced, she was getting very used to that. So many people Q brought hadn't.

At least this one hadn't gone straight to comparing her to a troll, goblin or leprechaun. Small favours. "Q manages to confuse everyone when he drags them on board."

[notalwaysstrong]

Of course, she almost walks straight into someone, as the doors to Ten Forward open with a swoosh. Mack, however, swerves out of the way.

"Woah, there... Someone's in a hurry." He remarks, before pausing a second, taking in who he's talking to. "You new here?"

[prueisavirtue]

Prue had been a woman on a mission, though she quickly moved to not run into him. "Oh! Ah sorry. I was going to try and find some people here." She brushed some hair behind her ear and looked at him with a slightly bashful smile for not having paid attention to where she was going. "Yeah, yeah you could say that I'm new here. New and confused, which I would assume is the normal reaction to being here?"

[notalwaysstrong]

Mack shifts, offering her an easy smile. "More normal than people'd care to admit." He remarks. He's always reminded of his own introduction to the Enterprise... Prue seems to be handling it better than he is.

"I think I can help with finding people." He motions for Prue to follow. "Save ya from scourin' each deck."

[premonitioned]

"Prue!" Phoebe is pretty much flinging herself across the bar to reach her older sister. Her heart is leaping out of her chest. She hadn't dared to hope they would send Prue back to them, they had been told she needed time to adjust to death. This time, time travel is a good thing. She puts her arms around her sister and hugs her tight.

"This time, I swear it wasn't me."

Sorry for the delay! Month got crazy and I've had the Cold of Death since Christmas

[prueisavirtue]

Hearing Phoebe's voice was a relief. At least she wasn't alone in this place. Though she didn't have a chance to react much before Phoebe was hugging her. It caught her by surprise a bit, the earnest she heard in Phoebe's voice. Though she returned the hug.

"Okay, then who or what was it?" She wanted to know so she could find them and make them send her back home. She was in the middle of something really important, and being here was stopping her from doing that.

that's okay!

[premonitioned]

"Oh just another, all powerful guy who thinks he gets a right to mess with our lives." It isn't like this is their first rodeo, and Phoebe on the whole, is pretty calm about the whole thing. She's pretty pleased that this trip doesn't involve any weird costumes.

"The problem is, that he refuses to show himself, and he isn't in our Book of Shadows." Phoebe is drinking the sight of her sister as she babbles, afraid that she might be snatched away again at any point.

[just_be_quiet]

"Not even the United States," one of the youngest of the on-lookers comments in an even tone. Although, there is a tiny hint of amusement hidden by a mostly dry and serious attitude the boy is presenting.

He gives a delayed blink at the comment about sisters.

"I don't have any siblings so I'm not really sure what that has to do with anything." He tilts his head at Prue curiously. She feels interesting to the pint sized empath. Andrew supposes he should put his shields back up before she gives him a headache but he doesn't see any danger of that just yet.

"I think I know what happened. Um. Can we find some place to sit? I'll explain what I know, I promise ma'am," Andrew offers with a shy smile at the woman.

[prueisavirtue]

The voice caught her attention and she turned towards it. And...was surprised to see a child. Prue hadn't known what to expect here, but a child answering her in such a way was not one of them.

"Oh, well, siblings can be frustrating and infuriating more often than not. They're sort of like having a best friend around you constantly. Eventually, tempers flare." Though sometimes tempers flared far more often than that between her and Phoebe, but that was besides the point here.

"Uh yeah, of course." She also hadn't expected answers from him, but she smiled. "Thank you. I'm Prue, by the way," she introduced herself.

[just_be_quiet]

Andrew isn't exactly a typical boy so answering her in a normal manner just wouldn't be as fun for him. He may not like his gift all of the time but it certainly has given him a unique way of seeing the world.

"My best friend is a dog," Andrew says carefully trying to hide any amusement. "I'm pretty sure if I ever have younger siblings I'd treat them different than Bernie."

He smiles at Prue finally giving up on his mostly serious reaction. "Andrew. Um. Do you like tea? They have some pretty nice kinds here. I'm more of a hot chocolate fan, personally."

He's still a kid. The sort with an addiction to chocolate.