The portal from present day San Fran to here is currently open.

::Julie is spewed from the guts of the portal, vomitted up onto the floor in a pool of- okay, yeah. The portal closes and Julie is a little out of town in the desert. Fun...::

::Julie gets up after landing like a cat. She brushes the sand off.::

(Great, just great.)

::First of all, she checks all her powers to make sure they work, before heading to The town.::

::Petunius steps through the portal with Phoebe and stops to get his bearings.::

"Well at least there's no gunfire."

::Phoebe looks around too.::

"I've never been to China before. Which isn't that abnormal."

::She sighs and starts walking slowly towards the town.::

"So... when did you get back?"

"Just a few hours ago. I think. It may have even been yesterday...I'm not too sure, my sense of time's all flummoxed thanks to Tempus."

::A hint of a very small awkward smile plays upon his lips but he manages to keep it at bay while keeping the pace with her as they walk towards the town.::

"Nothing quite says 'welcome home' than being abducted into the fourth dimension by your past self."

::Phoebe giggles.::

"If it was just yesterday, I think I can let you off with not calling and letting me know."

(Though...)

::Her face becomes a little more solemn as she thinks about Luke and what the hell is going to happen. It's typical that as soon as she decides Petunius was too unreliable anyway he shows back up with his stupid sense of humour and stupid good looks.::

::Petunius smiles, feeling a little bit more relaxed. He thought it'd be a lot more awkward than this. He walks silently with her for a few seconds more before speaking again.::

"So...how've you been?"

"Okay. We're all still a bit shaken about Prue and Paige and, well, P3 is still closed. But hopefully in a while things'll be okay and we can reopen. We're thinking we're gonna refurbish. Change everything."

::She sighs.::

"We don't wanna change the name, but..."

::Petunius frowns, feeling as though he's missed something.::

"Woah, change the name? Why would you do that?"

"Just... we don't really want people to think P3 and think various vampire, zombie and demon attacks. If it doesn't destroy us, I doubt it'd attract the right clientele."

::She gives him a sidelong glance and shrugs.::

"It's only come up a few times. None of us want to do it."

"Yeah. Well I guess that'd make sense from a business point of view. Just...don't call it 'The Spot' or something like that cos I gotta tell you, that? Will give you a whole other kind of clientele that you definitely wouldn't want."

::He offers her a grin as he continues to walk.::

"You know, now that you mention that... wait. How did you do that?"

::Slightly narrowed eyes in a good natured way.::

"Do what?"

"Uh... there might've been a... uh, brief period in P3's history where it was actually called The Spot. And, uh... everybody hated it!"

::She gives Petunius a grin.::

"Absolutely everybody. Well... apart from the snobs that were attracted to all that crappy show-off design... ugh. We're almost there."

::And they are. They enter the city.::

::Phoebe has been chattering to Julie madly the whole way back. So let's say she and Petunius have learned everything that happened and so on.::

"I gotta say, if everybody else's past lives are like this, this is going to rule."

::She winks at Petunius.::

"Sorry yours sucked."

::They get to the portal and Phoebe pauses.::

"I hope Prue isn't having too much trouble getting the other you. It kinda sounds like she's really... not the sort of person we'll have dealt with before."

::She motions for them to go through first. Being the responsible witch, she needs to make sure they're all safe before venturing through herself.::

"Well, past Prue is the one who killed me. I'm pretty sure she won't have much trouble."

::Julie goes through the portal back to the fourth D.::

"Prue?"

::Phoebe chews on the inside of her cheek for a second before taking Petunius by the arm and following.::

::Julie steps through the portal with Ju Rong and blinks straight to Ju Rong's quarters.::

::Julie blinks back and steps through to the 4th D without looking back.::

::The portal closes and disappears.::