Save Me
Chapter 3 "You Betrayed Me"
A/N: Thanks to everyone who reviewed, and especially CharmingTess, wAnNaBpIpEr, Charmed Fanatic and Hyperpiper91 for reviewing so many of my other stories too. There's some language in this one, so this chapter is rated PG-13, okie dokie?
The phone rang the next night, waking Prue up. She groaned, it was after 3a.m., who could be calling her now? "Hello?" Prue asked into the phone, stifling a yawn. "Prue, we need to talk" Jack said urgently on the other line. Prue's eyes snapped open as she became fully awake. He must know! She'd been avoiding him ever since she found out she was pregnant and for him to call on such a spur of the moment had to mean something was up. "Can't we talk tomorrow, it's the middle of the night" Prue said, fear coursing though her, she wasn't ready to tell him now, she couldn't, not yet.
"No Prue, we need to talk now, Andy told me you have been keeping something from me and I want to now what it is" Jack said his voice devoid of the laughing lightheartedness it usually had. Andy. Andy, told him that? "But Andy didn't tell you what it was?" Prue asked. "No" Jack answered and Prue let out a breath she didn't even know she was holding. "Are you cheating on me?" Jack asked suddenly. That among other things, Prue thought sadly. "Jack…I…" Prue trailed off unsure of what she should tell him first, if any since it was just over the phone, it didn't feel right to tell him anything that major. "Come over and we can talk" Jack said realizing she wouldn't tell him over the phone.
"It's the middle of the night Jack" Prue answered, but she knew she'd go. She owed him that at least. "Okay Jack, I'll be there in a few minutes" Prue agreed and hung up the phone, slipping her shoes on and putting a jacket on over her tank top and pajama bottoms before slipping quietly out of the house.
Jack lived three blocks away in an apartment complex with a few roommates he met at college. When Prue got there, she was shivering; from the cold or apprehension over telling him she was pregnant she didn't know. Jack opened the door the second she knocked on it and they walked inside. "What's been up with you lately?" Jack asked. "You don't return my calls" Prue nodded silently as Jack continued "I called Andy to ask him if he knew what your problem was and he told me that you needed to tell me something important" Prue nodded again, anger welling up inside of her. How could Andy do that to her? He betrayed her. He promised.
"Jack, I kissed Andy. Yesterday, it didn't mean anything, it just happened" Prue told him, trying to convince her self as much as him that it meant nothing. Well, whatever it meant it was over now, Andy broke his promise-and their friendship. Jacks shoulders slumped and he sunk down on to the couch next to Prue, "I should have known, you too are always together. I should have realized that you're cheating on me" he said defeatedly. "It was just one kiss. It shouldn't have even happened" Prue admitted. "And that's not all…" "It gets worse?" Jack snapped. Prue cringed, worse was one way to describe it, "Jack, I'm pregnant" Prue said after a moment. "What?" Jack asked, a mixture of horror and surprise crossing his face. "I am, I have been for about a month" Prue admitted. "You told Andy first?" Jacks said quietly, seething with anger. "Yes" Prue said, regretting it. Jack looked over at Prue and there was fire in his eyes, anger radiated off of him, "Get Out" he hissed. "Jack we need to- Jack raised a strong hand and slapped her hard across the face, snapping her head back. Prue's jaw throbbed and she saw stars for a moment after he hit her. Jack's mouth was an O of horror as he stared from his still out stretched hand to her bruised jaw. "Oh, Prue…' he whispered clearly unable to believe what he had just done.
Prue stood up and ran for the door, her tears blurring her vision as she ran out of Jacks apartment. The cold air outside hit her like another slap and the pain in jaw worsened, but Prue didn't stop running until she reached the park and sat down on a bench, crying and exhausted. She stayed there for the rest of the night, crying herself to sleep as she lay down and curled up on the stiff wooden bench.
When Prue woke a few hours later, the sun was just starting to light up the sky and some early morning joggers were making their way around the park. Prue sat up stiffly and stretched, her whole body was aching from sleeping on the hard bench and from Jack hitting her. Prue almost started to cry again as she remembered the events of the past few hours; Andy betraying her, Jack hitting her. Both of the men she trust most in her life had let her down, just they always do, just like Dad, Prue though sadly, remembering her father leave her mother. She should have learned her lesson right then, she shouldn't trust other people. Prue needed to rely solely on her self.
But first, she needed to go see Andy, how dare he tell Jack anything! With anger and pain fueling her and replacing her lack of sleep she walked determinedly to Andy's house, pounding on his door when she got there. "Prue, what's wrong?" Andy asked the second he opened the door. "You fucking bastard!" Prue screamed at him. Andy visibly recoiled from her in surprise. "What?" he asked. "You told Jack!" Prue yelled, anger and disappointment in him overwhelming her. "I had to, he deserved to know" Andy replied, "I'm sorry, but I had no choice, he called me and he was so concerned about you" "You promised me and you broke your promise!" Prue hissed.
Andy was about to reply and then stopped, staring at the side of her face, "Is that a bruise?" he asked, "Did Jack hit you, when you told him?" "Stop it" Prue said. How did he even realize it was from Jack? "He did, didn't he?" Andy asked. "Stop it" Prue repeated louder. It was none of his business anyway, how dare he stand there and think Jack did it, how would he know anyway? "Prue tell me" Andy ordered, concern playing across his features. "STOP IT" Prue screamed unable to deal with her anger any longer.
She ran at him, her small fist grazing his chin before he had spun her around, holding both of her hands behind her back in one of his. "What the hell's the matter with you?" Andy asked, anger showing in his voice for the first time. "Let go of me Andy" Prue ordered squirming and kicking, but he was far stronger than her and held her arms behind her back firmly but easily. Andy was careful not to hurt her as he kept her arms pinned but the more she struggled, the harder it got . "Calm down Prue" He told her "Let me go" Prue repeated and Andy instantly dropped his hands from hers, this was the first time they had spoken since their kiss and it was breaking Andy's heart to see Prue so mad at him. He was only doing what he though was right.
"Come inside so we can talk" Andy said opening the door and cautiously putting a hand out toward her, waiting for her take it. Prue took a step back, out of his grasp and shook her head firmly. "No Andy! You betrayed me. I hate you Andy Treadeau! Don't ever talk to me again. Bastard." Prue practically spat the last part at him before turning on her heel and walking away, waiting only to run once she'd reached the end of the block and was certain he couldn't see her anymore.
She slipped back into the manor quietly, thankful that everyone else was still asleep. Prue slowly trudged up the stairs and back into her room, already regretting what she said to Andy, in all their years of being friends they'd never had a fight like that before and Prue feared that it might not be able to be resolved.
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