Outtakes Part 25:
2008: Nightmares

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Summer 2008, late night.
Prue was sitting in her bed. He again wasn't there. Andy again was gone: nowhere to be found. The past few weeks it always was like that. Once a week he would suddenly disappeared: the whole night. He said he was very busy at work and so they really barely spend any time together anymore. She tried very hard to concentrate on her book instead of starting to grow more and more mad. She wanted to believe him, but the fact, that he was almost ignoring her, wasn't helping much. Suddenly she heard crying coming from the hall, becoming louder by the second. She looked up to the door and found her three year old daughter standing there, completely worked up
"hey... come here."
Prue told her gently, closing her book and laying it away. Lily crawled onto the bed and cuddled into her mom's side, as soon as she disappeared under the covers, Prue pulled her arms around her. She continued crying. Prue just lifted her on top of her and crawled her back and hair
"hey... shshsh"
Prue whispered gently, trying to calm her down. Lily seemed to not hear her at all.
"It's okay... it's okay... shshsh... you're okay... mommy's here..."
she whispered. A few minutes later Mags and Anna were placed in Prue's bed as well, all somewhat down. Prue knew there was something they knew, she didn't. She was sure of that. Otherwise all three of her daughters were telempathic and so easily knew when one was upset and mostly also why. Lily slowly calmed. And Prue looked at her two older daughter's
"what's going on?"
"Lil had a bad dream"
Anna told Prue
"a dream which upsets your sister this much, what was it about?"
Prue asked
"it..."
"nothing!"
Mags cut in. Prue's eyebrow rose.
"Nothing... so... it's this bad... and you had it too"
Prue concluded. Mags looked down, while Anna snuggled closer up to her mom as well.
"okay... hit and sunk, I see"
"girls... it's very late... tomorrow you have school and/or kindergarten... what means you really need some sleep... what means... whether you guys go back to sleep now... and maybe have even more nightmares or you just tell me... we talk about it... and maybe you girls can stay here tonight"
Prue suggested
"dadi no love we"
"what?"
Prue asked Lily, looking somewhat shocked
"Lily's dream was about dad leaving us, cause he doesn't love us anymore..."
Mags explained her mother
"mom, dad isn't leaving, right?"
Anna asked Prue took a few breathes. Was she this bad? Her kids had noticed. Prue sighted
"you three... are going to listen to me now, okay? I don't know... what... what's wrong with dad... and I... don't know... why he's gone that much... and I don't know... where he is... and what he does... but... I know one thing 100 percent sure... and that is, that your father loves you girls more than anything on the world"
Prue told them
"he'd never leave you guys... not in the world..."
"he leaf you?"
Lily said in a voice which no one would have heard, if it wasn't deadly silent in the room. Prue bit her lip
"mom?"
Anna asked... wanting that question answered as well. Prue wasn't so sure about this fact anymore, so she really didn't know what to say right now
"you hesitated... does... does that mean..."
Mags started to mumble
"that doesn't mean anything... that only means, that I'm trusting your father... and that I'm sure, if dad was able to be here, he'd be."
Prue told them in a low voice, knowing she didn't sound too confident right now
"but... even if dad and I would have problems... that wouldn't mean... it'd have effects on the relationship you three have with dad... or with me... for that matter. We love you and that's that."
Prue told them
"can we stay home tomorrow? Wait for dad?"
Mags asked after a few minutes
"Meghan... you should know better than that to get out of a school day like that"
Prue told her daughter
"that's not got anything to do with that... you seriously think this is the first time we're thinking about stuff like this? Dad always was there, bringing us to bed... and he wasn't there one single night the last week and a half... we all are scared...and that not only since yesterday... this isn't the first time one of us had a nightmare like that"
Prue snapped for air. This felt like she was wearing a way too tight corset right now.
"Why didn't you come to me?"
she asked gently. She had noticed a change in her children. She had noticed how tired and silent they had become lately. She had been worried a few times already, but she just put it off with the excuse, they would just miss their father, just like she did miss Andy. Prue looked into the scared and sad faces. She sighted again
"come here"
she whispered... motioning for Mags to move into the empty space on her right. Prue wrapped her arms around Anna and Mags, which were placed on her sides, holding them tightly to her, while caressing most times Lily's back with the hands which met in the middle of her own body and so laid on top of Lily. She used her telekinesis to turn off the light and then softly started singing to her children, trying to get them to sleep and this time hopefully peaceful.