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[EM] The Oddest Dream

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 see what was the matter.

That night she heard the sound and just rolled over. "No. Not tonight. Sleep. I am sleeping. No on the jingle," was her muffled reply into the pillow. Her one eye opened a bit waiting for the noise to return to her head, but when it didn't she sighed in relief letting herself drift back off to sleep.

***

The hallway at Magick school seemed a lot longer to Paige, and she wondered why she hadn't bothered to grab her shoes before Orbing out of the house. It wasn't like her, but then again things had been sort of on the chaos side of things.

"Great, now I'm Sleep-Orbing. Fantastic!" huffed Paige beneath her breath trying to stay alert just in case whoever had called for her was hiding from something bigger. She was just thankful that she had actually been wearing a two piece set of pajamas, of course the oversized pieces of candy probably didn't make it look any more normal.

The other thing that wasn't helping was that the hallway didn't seem to end. Paige was pretty sure she had been walking for at least five minutes, and still hadn't made it to the grand hall. Sure demons had taken it over recently but that didn't mean they did massive remodeling. "Okay. What gives."

As soon as she said it the door on her right suddenly opened up scaring the hell out of her as she jumped back startled. "Okay! Okay! I can take a hint! Sheeesh!"

Paige shook her head a little miffed at everything and still confused moved through the door and tipped her head to the side, because there was Phoebe coming through a door on the opposite side of the door Paige had just entered. Paige also noticed that Phoebe was pajama clad as well.

"Okay, so this just got weirder right?"

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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.

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.

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?"

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 almost in surrender, "Calgon.. take me away!"

She sat up, looked around, "Eh, worth a shot."

Phoebe was trying to back away from the little yellow guy. "I don't know... I swear I've seen this.. thing before." She couldn't remember where, but she knew she had.

"Houses are green and pickles have hair." He advanced oh Phoebe, reaching out and grabbing her finger and refusing to let go. Phoebe shook her hand, trying to get him to let go. He screamed, and Phoebe shook again, this time harder, and this time he lifted off the ground, screaming even louder. Finally, she shook so hard he lost his grip on her finger and went flying, skidding across the floor and stopping inches before smacking into the wall.

"Oh... crap..." Phoebe winced and looked at Paige, expecting another screaming fit like before. Instead, the little guy got to his feet.

"Doitagain doitagain doitagain doitagain!!" He jumped up and down with a grin, then stopped, tongue rolling out of his mouth and eyes going vacant. "I'm a car. NEEEEEIIIIIGH!!!"

Phoebe looked over at Paige with an eyebrow raised. She finally went over and sat down next to Paige on the bed, leaning her head on Paige's shoulder. "I'm out of ideas." She pouted slightly as the neighing continued and he began running around the bed, stopping to thwack his head into the bedposts.

Paige went into a laughing fit as the little yellow thing wouldn't let go of Phoebe's finger. At least it wasn't grabbing her ass. Phoebe shot her a look, and she stifled her laughter a bit, putting her hand to her forehead.

"Something just feels familiar about all this... the trick bookcases, the animals, the talking animals, the board games... and *that* whatever that is... it's more than odd.. its oddly familiar."

"I know. I feel it too. It's like, it's all really weird, but I've seen it before, y'know?" She leaned forward on bed, resting her elbows on her knees and placing her chin in her hands.

"Okay. I've seen that guy before." She nudged her head over toward the yellow guy now gnawing on the foot of the paisley elephant. He stopped suddenly, looking at nothing in particular.

"Elephant is broken..." He then wandered away and starting dancing with the little blue plastic player piece. When he realized there was no music, he starting making his own.

When Phoebe heard a loud, long beep, she sat up, looking at Paige. "Oh my god. I remember being in the kitchen and hearing that from... the... playroom..." She raised an eyebrow, still looking at Paige.

The music did sound... oddly familiar. "The playroom? Like Wyatt and Chris?" Which kinda made sense, the penguin and the duck were both sort of not so lifelike, and well Candy Land... yeah this was the moment when the big pieces were coming together.

That thing, was definitely of the cartoon variety and good lord, Paige hoped it didn't feel pain. Because that? Looked painful.

"So... it's not the first time Wyatt's done something like this right? I mean dollhouse, toys coming to life for his birthday party... have you made any off comments around him about only in your dreams? Or... something like that? I mean I'm trying to think... but I got nothing."

"Oooooooooooooooooooooooh, that boy is in trooooooooouble!!" She scowled, looking around for something, no idea what. Something to pinch, or poke, or yell into. "Remember the giant dragon? Ooooh, trouble trouble trouble. WYATT! WAKE UP AND LET US OUT OF HERE!!"

She knew it was him. It was the only thing that made sense. Plus, from babysitting, Chris tended to drift off when the TV was on, and Wyatt was always very attentive and enjoyed changing the channels with his mind. "I'm going to tell your Mom! WAKE UP!" She walked over and poked the wall. "Wake. Up. Now. Young. Man!!"

She looked over at Paige. "It's Wyatt. No other possibility. How in the hel--llo do we wake him up?" She poked at the wall again. "Wyatt, you better wake up before I count to three... One... two... two and a half.. two and three quarters..." She grimaced. "WAKE UP!" She looked up and shouted at the ceiling.

Paige was pretty sure screaming at the top of their lungs was not the way to get Wyatt to wake up. Because the fact that they were trapped in his dreams meant that he probably had no clue that he had done anything in the first place. She pictured Wyatt sleeping soundly smiling as he watched his two aunts freak out in his dream.

"I don't think that's gonna work," she called to her sister as she got down off her bed and began to pace. At least they had some sort of idea what they were up against. Wyatt was a demanding kid that was for sure. He had already done a lot to mix up what they had tried, and that was him not even trying to do it probably.

"Well... we know that my spell... well the bed spell worked. Not the way I wanted but still, we know Wyatt is sleeping, maybe all we need to do is focus on him and where he is, and we can jar something in his room to wake him up?" Paige shrugged her shoulders up in slight doubt, "I mean is that bad? Waking him before we are out? Ooooooh. That could be very bad, us stuck in his mind? Yeah.. never mind on that horrible plan."

Paige resumed her pacing trying to figure out how to get out of the dream before they woke up Wyatt. She glared at the Candy Land game, "Maybe we do need to play. Finish the game?"

Paige headed over to her bed, "Bed!" she shifted it aside off the board and there was the red square she had been on before. Thankfully the little blue guy was no where to be seen. "Card."

The card orbed to her hand and she moved on her own to the next blue square on the board, "Wow. Only a million more squares to go. You're turn Phoebe."

Phoebe stopped her yelling, knowing Paige was right. She'd just gone with her first impulse. Never a good idea when you'd rather be sleeping instead of being annoyed by childrens board games and cartoon characters.

"I know. I just... Ack." She rolled her eyes and headed back toward the bed, watching and listening to Paige's verbal train of thought. When Paige came to the realization they probably had to finish the game, Phoebe sighed.

"Crap. Okay." She moved back as Paige orbed the bed away, then took her place back on the board, waiting as Paige finished her turn. She reached out and pulled a card, which had the picture of a gingerbread man on it. She walked the board path, skirting Paige, and finally stopping on the space.

"Think we can cheat?" Her voice was a little loud as she called back to Paige, since there was some distance between them now.

Paige laughed, "Right, right because while in the dreaming subconscious of our impressionable nephew, who has somehow stuck us in his dream? We should save our asses by cheating. Because that's something 'else' we want to teach him."

Paige just glared at Phoebe, and orbed another card to herself. Thankfully it was the ice cream floating thing, and she just orbed herself to the square sticking her tongue out at her sister. "Besides, I'm winning... just because you are losing doesn't mean we have to cheat."

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