Much less a garden and more an unending expanse of beautiful, idyllic countryside. There is a slight hill with a tree on top, a lush, tall and thick plant that reaches high into the wonderful blue, cloudless sky. The grass is dotted with daisies and miniature daffodils in clumps all over the place, and birds call to one another from the branches of the tree. The sun beats down and everything is in perfect harmony.

::Piper appears.::

::Piper leans back suddenly, finding her arms empty of her little girl. She's gone. No. Where is she? She looks around in complete confusion, wondering how she got here and to what purpose.::

"..."

::She looks around more, wanting Melinda back in her arms, but there's nobody to be seen. Her hands slip down and caress her stomach gently. It's okay. Melinda is with her.::

"But where am I?"

(It's beautiful.)

::She turns and slowly walks to the tree, since that seems to be the only landmark in sight.::

::Azura appears.::

:: Azura finds herself in an unexpected place, when she stepped through that portal she expected to find Paige, her Paige, instead she finds herself in the countryside. She starts crying harder. Has she made the wrong decision? If she had stayed would she have been sent back to Paige? Oh God, what has she done? She is collapses onto her knees, not bothering to move any further, she's near the top of the hill as it is.::

(PAIGE!)

:: It's useless though, she knows that for some reason she has only regained the ability to receive, not send.::

::Piper can hear crying now and fleetingly wonders if it's Melinda. She starts running and makes it to the tree, moving around it to see-::

"Azura!"

(What the hell?)

::She continues jogging towards her.::

:: Azura looks up and is shocked to find Piper, yet glad. She doesn't move though, just hastily wipes her tears from her face as they come.::

"I, I thought that by choosing to go back I would."

:: Where the heck are they?::

::Piper decides to just sit down, seeing how upset Azura is.::

"Yeah. I don't know where we are now."

::She doesn't ask what happened to Azura. She doesn't especially want to know, to be honest. If it was half as bad as what she was faced with, it's unbearable.::

:: Azura looks down at her hands at her ring. She starts to play with it, she really misses Paige now.::

"Do you think we made the wrong choice?"

::Piper shakes her head.::

"I know I didn't."

::She blinks back tears and sits back, tilting her head so the sun warms it.::

"This doesn't exactly seem like Wrongsville either."

"No, it does not."

:: If they are all being tested Azura worries about what Paige's might entail. She hopes it's nothing to do with Jasmine, then she would have chosen to leave that perfect world for nothing.::

(We will work things out.)

:: She badly wants Paige to be with her.::

::Andrea appears.::

::Andrea blinks when she realises that - surprise - she's alone. She's silent for a moment and sits down where she is before finally having a look around. She does seem to be completely by herself now, but that's okay. Unless she's stuck here for eternity.::

"..."

::Oh my god. Andrea stands up. What if she did the wrong thing and this is her punishment? She pales and starts to freak out. She shouts.::

"Hey! Hello?"

(Oh shit, please no, please no.)

:: Azura suddenly looks up sharply, her gaze flitting all around them.::

(Andrea?)

:: The girl can't hear her, remember?::

"Andrea!"

:: Now she stands and looks all around for any sign of her friend.::

::Andrea's head turns sharply and she's flying to the top of the hill, then has to slow down... poor thing... then she's at the top and sees Piper and Azura right there.::

"Oh my God."

::She puts her hand on her chest and allows herself to pant.::

"Fucking hell."

::Piper turns from where she's sitting and gives Andrea a bemused smile. She's feeling nice because of the sun, and the arrival of another person is making her feel more like she did the right thing in her test.::

"Come here, Andy."

::Andrea nods breathlessly and comes down to where they are. Everything's so beautiful here that what just happened is utterly surreal. But all she can think about is those few seconds where she thought she was going to be alone forever. She chokes on a relieved but shocked sob and falls into Azura.::

:: Azura is quick to steady both herself and Andrea, wrapping her arms around her friend and pulling her close. Everything the girl is feeling is so intense it's hard for her to prevent it from affecting her, the lump in her throat rises again and she finds herself crying fresh tears. Now she is more convinced that she made the right decision, if she had stayed there this Andrea, her Andrea, would have lost her best friend and she is aware that Andrea afraid of everyone leaving her.::

"You will never be alone, Andrea."

::Piper looks worried now, seeing how upset the girl is and how, in turn, she has upset Azura.::

"Here, sit her down."

::She shuffles to the side a little to give them space.::

:: Azura carefully manoeuvres Andrea so that they can both sit down, the girl half in her lap and resting against her. She runs her hand up and down Andrea's back in the hope of calming her, and in turn, calm herself.::

::Andrea sniffs and leans into Azura, whimpering.::

"Sorry, I'm being a big eejit."

::She breathes and presses into the blonde, needing her so much right now.::

"I just got a scare."

"It is okay."

:: Azura smiles down at Andrea.::

"I am also used to you acting silly."

:: Will that cheer the girl up or make her cry more? Or will she get a slap?::

::Luke appears. Oh... hey everyone! All your powers are working::

::Luke's eyes shift from right to left, trying to process what just happened.::

::Andrea doesn't say anything in response. She just closes her eyes and thinks about what she's done. As frightening as it all is, she feels oddly... free.::

:: Azura still strokes Andrea's back, even her hair, she feels much calmer now having got a handle on what she was feeling. Luke has been noted mentally, but nothing more.::

"... was Paige okay?"

:: She doesn't want to break her friend's calm, but she needs to know.::

::Andrea's mouth opens but she doesn't say anything for a moment. She's about to lie to Azura, then remembers the spirit of things and pulls back to look at her friend seriously.::

"She thinks you've left her."

"What about my sisters? Are they okay?"

::Piper's mind moves back to the Prue and Phoebe of her 'test'. She's sure that her ones would never resort to what they had in the test. They would've worked with her to find another way.::

::Andrea puts her palm to her forehead, starting to feel stressed out.::

"Um, Prue's gone. She's... she must be doing hers. I don't know about Paige and Phoebe. Paige came back and..."

::She glances anxiously at Azura, then returns to Piper.::

"And Phoebe was there. I don't know, I mean, it might've changed by now."

::His glances soon allow him to realize that he's in a different place now. Luke takes slight comfort in the fact that it was a trick from the mask, as he believed. The presence of this environment calms him down somewhat as well as the fact that he didn't kill Danielle.

Still, he knows that if the vampire actually was Danielle, his attempt would've saved her from spreading more evil and death, which is why they came to the moon in the first place. As the whitelighter takes in this bittersweet victory, his eyes shift to Piper, Azura and Andrea. Luke walks towards them, addressing them.::

"Is this... real?"

:: Azura feels much like Paige did when she returned only to not have the blonde follow. She didn't leave her. The other Paige stopped her. Suddenly she feels guilty, she had come very close to choosing to stay in that other world, but in the end she didn't. And now Paige thinks she has left her. What if her fiancee's test does play on some of her current fears regarding their relationship? The psychic isn't aware that her powers are working fully now. She doesn't answer Luke's question, she doesn't even raise her gaze to his.::

::Andrea turns and smiles grimly. She seems to be the talking one for now, so gives him a small wave.::

"'lo, Luke. Probably not."

::She puts her arm around Azura and pulls her close.::

(Paige'll be all right, like. She'll be here soon and see for herself.)

:: Azura knows that Paige can get into 'funks', ones where she thinks she isn't worthwhile. If she is thinking like that now... she's worried for her and for them.::

(I hope so.)

:: She thinks to herself about her decision and closes her eyes.::

::Andrea realises that Azura's powers are working and discreetly tests her own. Three blades of grass break away from the ground and swirl in the air before coming to a rest. Andrea smiles, grateful.::

::Luke picks up a daisy from the ground and plucks at the petals, one by one. He stands, leaning on the tree with his right leg bent, which enables him to plant the foot from that same leg onto the bark.::

"So... we just... wait here?"

::He glances to the three women, not having any preference as to who should answer his question, if they could at all.::

"You could climb the tree."

::Piper gives Andrea an odd smile and tilts her head back to look at Luke upside down.::

"We don't know, sweetie."

::She brings her head back, then turns around properly and gives him an anxious glance.::

"Are your powers working?"

"They weren't working in that cave. Then again, they've been on and off since we got here, so there's no telling. May as well try something."

::Luke looks up at one of the tree branches and concentrates on orbing up there in a seated position. Just as his body breaks down into those familiar blue and white lights, it reforms in the same spot as Luke intended.::

"Looks like it does."

::Piper adjusts her gaze to meet Luke's eyes in his new location.::

"Good. Could you come down here and heal me?"

::Andrea blinks. Why didn't Piper say she was hurt?::

"Are you okay?"