Title: "Fifty Years"
Author: Pirate Turner
Rating: G
Summary: It's been fifty years since she last saw her.
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Author's Note: 244. That's the number of stories that were sitting on my hard drive collecting dust because I lack the energy and time to take care of them as I once did. My betaing pattern has always been to write, then type up if written on paper, the story, read it aloud to my beloved Jack and our children, editing as I go, and then finally format and post. Sadly, this part is simply taking too much of my time and energy, and my beloved Jack and I have too little time together in person these days to be able to keep up with my stories. So what to do? Give up writing? I actually considered it for a while, tried to make excuses to myself other than the large number of stories collecting cyber dust on my computer, as to why I lacked the energy and Muse to write new tales. And then, with the turn of the new year, I decided to stop running and face the problem. The problem is, quite frankly, that once one gets so bogged down in formatting and editing that writing is no longer a pleasure but the actual posting of those writings becomes a hassle and - egad! - work, it's time to cut something out, and that will never be the writing process. So, in short, yes, there will be mistakes in this tale. Yes, it's missing about half of the header information I usually include. But I wrote it for pleasure and am posting it in hopes of sharing that pleasure with others. Do with it as you will.
It was fifty years before she saw her soul mate again after the day she buried her, barely able to see her grave for rain and tears. Fifty years wherein she tried her best to stay married to a man whom she could never love not because he was a bad man or there was anything wrong with him, anything other than the fact that he wasn't her. It was fifty years of sometimes trying to forget, never being able to, and never really wanting to. Fifty years of building a new family and yet never having the void in her heart and soul filled. Fifty years of fighting evil, winning triumphs for the good side, and aching all along to die so she could finally join her.
Then, one night in the cold loneliness of her own bed, Piper was finally rewarded with passing from the living into the afterlife. She found Prue waiting for her there, surrounded by a bright, white light. She made no hesitation but flew straight through the light and into her beloved's waiting arms. "I never stopped loving you!" she cried.
"I know, baby," Prue said, stroking her long hair and shaking back. Joyful tears poured down their beautiful faces that day like rain, tears of joy that slipped into their happy, passionate kisses to mark the occasion that'd finally given them what they'd really wanted all along. Now, at last, they were together and free to love each other as they chose forever.
The End
