The Secrets We Hid in the Night
Prologue
Prue Halliwell looked around in the darkness of her bedroom. Tears rolled down her cheeks as she engraved every detail into her head. She couldn't believe it was coming down to this but she was all out of ideas and she didn't have much time to come up with anymore.
She brushed a tear from her face and sighed. It was going to her sisters to wake up tomorrow and find her missing but she couldn't decide which was worse, for Phoebe's sake. This would hurt but she was sure the truth would ruin her.
It's the only way, she told herself as she walked over to her bed and began phase one of her plan. She messed up the sheets on her bed to make it look like there was a struggle. She then reached over and pricked her finger with a blade, leaving droplets of blood on the carpet to make the scene look more realistic. Finally she threw things around the room and opened the window. She stood at the doorway and nodded to herself. There was just one thing missing, a personal touch. The one thing that would cause tears to well up in her sisters' eyes when they found it. Her necklace.
She carefully unfastened the chain from her neck and held it in her hands. She brushed her fingers over the gold letters which read 'Prue' on them. It had been a gift from their mother before she had left them for good and Prue hadn't taken it off since it was given to her, until now. This would be the one thing that would make her sisters believe it. Make her sisters believe the scene she had prepared. Make them believe she was dead.
She sighed again then walked outside to her car, dripping droplets of blood near the car so it looked like her 'murderer' had stolen her car along with kidnapping her. Prue then put the key into the ignition, turned it and listened to the engine roar to life. Before pulling out for good, she snapped a picture of the house which she would never see again. She then paused at a sudden realisation.
Of all the years she had disgraced and hated her father for leaving her and her sisters, she had become no better as she, too, was fleeing the Halliwell Manor. But only now did she finally understand why he had done it. Because he loved them and that was her reasoning too, because she loved them. Finally, choking back the tears, Prue Halliwell pulled out of the Halliwell driveway for the last time.