[EM] The Oddest Dream

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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.

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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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"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?"

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As the whackjob Magick School plus Candy Land combo dissolved away, Phoebe breathed a heavy sigh of relief. Once again standing in the manor was a relief, and she wanted to go to bed. Immediatley.

She smiled down at her mischievous nephew, reaching into the crib and ruffling his curls. She looked over at Paige, smirking. "You know he gets this from you, right?" She stuck her tongue out then leaned into the crib and kissed Wyatt on the top of his head. "Night baby boy. No more magic, k?" She caught his eyeline, then nodded, watching as he nodded at her. "K." She patted his head, then turned to leave his room.

"See you in the morning."

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Paige stared back at Phoebe, "Me? Whatever." Paige shrugged again before stretching and heading toward her room. Phoebe had stopped off in her own room, and Paige was just glad to get back to sleep. Long day was one thing, but getting roped into a dream, an odd dream that was part of Wyatt's subconscious was another thing altogether.

She was just glad it was over.

Over and done with.

Her eyes barely open she shuffled into her room shutting the door behind her and turning around ready to just flop onto her... bed?

"WYATT!!!!"