72 Hours After~ Prue

"Prue, honey you need to eat," Piper said the evening before Estelle's funeral. Prue sat in a pair of sweats and a hoodie. Her face was pale and tear streaked, her hair was in knots as she stared into a space of nothingness. She placed a cup of tea and a bowl of oatmeal in front of her on the counter but it eventually went cold. It hadn't mattered that Piper had made her breakfast food and it had passed midnight, Prue had hardly eaten in at all since Estelle had died. She had only slept and cried and flipped through the Book of Shadows. She had also spent a lot of time yelling; at Leo, her sisters, the Elders, and for Estelle to return.

"How can they have just let her died? She wasn't supposed to die!" she had yelled to no one in particular hours after she had died.

"Bring her back! Bring her back right now!" she yelled at the Elders twenty minutes after.

"Estelle, please, come back," she cried as she tore herself away from Phoebe. She clutched her lifeless daughter's body.

"Leo, I don't care, you should have brought her back!" she had said when he explained that he couldn't have brought her back if he tried. The Elders would have blocked his powers, possibility orbed him 'up there'.

"Don't talk to me, don't bother me, leave me alone," she fumed at her sisters as she went to the attic. Her voice had eventually gone sore trying various spells, yelling to let her return, and yelling at her mom and grams to get down here. They never came of course, not once, they left no message. They let her grieve with the living. Every attempt by her younger sisters to help though was futile. Hey tried but had not succeeded. When Prue was passing Phoebe's room she heard them talking. They mentioned how they had to be strong for Prue otherwise everything would fall apart even though they missed their niece.

This made Prue feel even guiltier about her daughter's death. Her sister's could grieve if it wasn't for her- then again if it wasn't for her they wouldn't have to grieve. If she hadn't been a witch. If she hadn't gotten so attached to Estelle. If they had sent her on her way that morning or months before. If she had kept a closer eye on Estelle. If she had known the language of the Fae. If she had done one thing different this could have been avoided. Estelle would still be there if it wasn't for her.

Prue pushed the bowl away and the tea as well which ended up spilling all over the counter. She mumbled an apology saying she'd clean it up only to burst into tears saying Estelle could have evaporated it. Estelle would have freaked out too at spilling the tea considering it a waste of water. She'd refuse any liquid for the rest of the day only to have had one of the sisters to talk her into a cup of tea hours later.

Piper brushed her sister aside telling her to go lie down as she reached a towel to wipe the tea up. Prue shuffled up the stairs stopping by her daughter's room. The door was ajar, everything was as it had been less than a week ago. Prue held back a cry as she saw her jacket tossed carelessly on the bed with her rucksack. Though the jacket had been her's it was one of- if not the first thing she gave Estelle when she arrived not that long ago. For a moment Prue wondered who had so thoughtlessly thrown her daughter's possessions in the room but remembered that it most likely could have been Estelle. She tried to remember her daughter doing such a thing but her last memories of the girl were jumbled. After what seemed like an eternity of sitting on the bed holding the worn jacket she fell asleep.

Piper and Phoebe saw Prue in Estelle's room, and Phoebe started to cry. Tears spilled down her cheeks as she mourned for her niece. Piper held her younger sister and realized not for the first time that she was holding the family together as Prue couldn't. She whispered to her sister that it was alright as she gently guided her away from Prue, for fear of waking her.

"I should have let him reset time, before Leo got back," Phoebe cried, "She wouldn't be dead. She'd be in Camelot, but she'd be alive." Piper had not told anyone but Leo that she felt personally responsible for Estelle's death. She could not say anything to Phoebe, let alone Prue. For if it hadn't been for her, if she hadn't of died, Estelle wouldn't have needed to use that dust.

"We'll get through this," Piper said not truly believing her words. Her and Phoebe would but she didn't know if what she said was true for Prue.

Morning came and they all got ready for Estelle's funeral. Prue showered, dressed, put on make-up, and ate but she still looked dreadful. Victor showed up and hugged his oldest daughter who didn't really hug him back or show any emotion except sadness. She sat next to her sister's at the funeral but the noise was just buzzing. She, nor any of the Halliwell's had planned the funeral. Estelle's friends from Camelot had. She had what they called a traditional funeral for Fae. Her Watcher friends showed up and they all looked to Prue but she didn't notice. Zoey passed Phoebe a letter that was meant for Prue. The letter remained one of many that remained untouched until weeks later. No demons attacked, not to Prue's knowledge anyway. If they had attacked it was taken care of my Phoebe and Piper and Cole. Prue had not seen Cole until the day of the funeral. It was then she had spoken the most she had in the past three days.

"You! You should not be here! You never cared for Estelle. You tried to kill her! Probably more than once! How can you show up to a funeral of someone you tried to murder!"

"Prue," Phoebe said but Prue kept yelling.

"No Phoebe! He's a demon! He has killed so many innocent people!"

"Estelle wasn't one of them!" Phoebe yelled, "A demon didn't kill Estelle, Prue!" This shut her sister up, as well as everyone else in the church. Prue glared at her only to blink away tears as she turned running out of the church.

A/N: Thank you so much for reading the first chapter! The next chapter will have Estelle in it and will be in the same timeline as this episode, it'll be uploaded on January 1st whereas Estelle's War chapter 2 will be uploaded January 8th. There will eventually be a time jump later on. Again, thanks for reading, please review! Chapters after January 1st will be uploaded every other week.