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Who: Piper and You!
Broadcast: Fleet-Wide
Action: Starstruck
When: Shortly after the shuffle

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Have you ever seen a lady wearing ungodly amounts of purple? No? Well, you are now and that outfit can only be said to be designed by emo teenagers-- but at least she got rid of the most offensive items a long time ago. Though she doesn't seem to really care about that, but she does look pretty well annoyed. And for good reason.]

Very funny.

[It's not said directly to the communicator because, if there's one thing you learn after a while in her life: When people suddenly kidnap you somewhere they're usually not far away to laugh at you as you panic. This went for what she remembered of her old life and just about everything that happened in the Black Woods. It's really difficult to panic under those circumstances. You just get angry instead.]

I swear if you touched those kids I will find you. Don't think I won't.

[Because she'd been looking for them what little time she was on the Marivsa because usually in situations like this... Well, she was trying not to think about it but being shuffled no more than 24 hours later does not do for one's ire. But that's all she says for the moment.]

[MINGLE FOR STARSTRUCK »

How's it going for you guys? There's the new lady around now, at least, but maybe that's not very helpful. Since she's kind of not all there-- but for different reasons than probably expected. You're not trying to take your augments out again, are you?

It seems you might have some to catch up on for now. Or maybe you just want to stop the new lady from looking through the food supplies. Because that's a thing, too.]

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[ Yeah, well, he'll take it. He's won her trust once he can do it again. ]

Right, then I'll send you that frequency later and you can thank her or offer a favor or... whatever.

[ Chris peers in too to double-check and is relieved to see that it's off. ] Good, because we kind of need to talk, too. I don't know how much you might remember about magic or being a witch or a Charmed One, but just as a precaution.

[ At least she's not full of why do you have demons coming to my son at him, right? It's helpful. ]

Thanks. --And thanks for asking, too.

[ Because that is a lot of purple. Her fingers go to twist on the necklace that holds the amethyst key as he peers in and she settles. This is all very strange and hearing those words gives a sort of spark she can't quite fully place. ] I don't even know how much of what I know makes any sense. Or if it ever will at all. [ Since it feels like she knows her stuff in memories, but nothing is ever quite settled? It's very unsatisfying. ] Like what? Does... Charmed business even occur out here?

Hey, what are friends for?

[ It probably sounds a bit wrong. They were always just friends before they realized who Chris was, not his charges or anything like that, people he needed for help instead of the ones he was assigned to aid. Not that he knows it, but there's a strange, fine line being crossed between them and he blames it on the amnesia pushing them apart again. ]

No. Not Charmed business exactly. Just... Okay, look. Cole's probably going to try and get on your nerves, or even just ask for help in getting potion ingredients or brewing something. Don't rise to the bait.

[ This is literally a matter of life or death and Chris has a certain gravity about him that makes it obvious without trying to be too overwhelming. Then again, he's always been a pretty serious dude. ]

A lot of things, but you didn't have to go out of your way to get me out of this.

[ It's said in a way to just accept it. Piper isn't really one to accept friends doing stuff for her without doing something in kind. It was the stubborn streak in her that didn't want her to put others through something for her feelings. At least she didn't ask but, well, she did always hate costumes. And she doubted he didn't know that.

She folds her arms against her chest, arranging the bundle of clothes in her arms and rolling the name through her head. She knew who he was, if only from watching him and Phoebe. So understanding the tone in Chris' voice isn't difficult-- but it is alarming. She waits a moment to process it before speaking. ]

Okay, but why is he wanting a potion? [ That seems the question that needs to be asked since she can handle her nerves. Well-- she can try. She'd been working really hard to not just point at things and some such, so she has to have faith ] I might not know as much as I should, but these half-answers just ask for trouble.

[ Chris just rolls his eyes. Of course he's going to try and help Piper, whether she understands why or not. Whether she can put aside her own neuroses or not. It's why they get along so well. There's an understanding but not quite a tolerance to let them get away with too much. ]

Promise you won't freak out?

[ Don't be rude, kid. At the very least she is used to a magical land, but it's really not easy to forgo stressing with talk like that. But she's always been a details now stress after kind of person. ]

I'll freak out less if you just get on with it. [ She raises a brow. ] So?

[ There's a deep breath and Chris looks like he's bracing himself. ]

Okay. Cole's half-demon and he's somehow got it into his head lately that he might turn evil and the only way to stop him would be to kill him with an upper-level vanquishing potion, so he asked someone to get him the ingredients for it recently. Which—it's not happening.

[ You see, at least the word demons she's used to. They were in practically every memory she received except for the whole Titan and Darklighter businesses-- which didn't ring the same at all. Even Cole being a half-demon isn't that strange. It's there, but all of this still remains to be very headache inducing. ]

Okay. [ She says it with a breath, running a hand against her temple. ] I mean-- Why does he think that? Is it even, you know, possible to get those kind of potion ingredients up here?

[ Since she remembers how annoying it could be to find some on Earth. ]

Of all the places we've ended up stopped the last few months, this is probably the most likely place to get them.

[ Because this is the Halliwell luck right here. ]

As for why he thinks that... I'm not sure. Whatever's gotten into him, it's probably nerves. To a point. We're all basically trapped in tight quarters with a bunch of people, something's bound to go wrong, right?

[ Just rubs her temple at that. What did she even walk into? There's a momentary consideration of if walked into was even the right word before she gives the slightest of scoffs. Coming from a treehouse with six kids and then two others that actually got their own room-- it wasn't that much different. And only slightly less awkward. ]

Yeah, something tells me they didn't think the spacing issue all the way through. But I doubt comfort was a part of their plans. The whole thing's not easy for anyone.

Except the viewers.

[ What? That is totally a true statement. Too bad Piper doesn't remember how irritating Chris can be. Or does she? ]

[ Enough to make an ill-amused face at him. She remembers him showing up and calmly going Paige is alright after she turned to stone, okay. And other things, but, she knows his humor. ]

Yeah, well, we won't talk about them. Since they'll get what they want anyway.

[ GOOD because it's Halliwell humor, c'mon now. Well and Turner humor but let's be honest they kind of mix at some point anyway. ]

All right, not talking about them. ... still, you're not going to do it, right?