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To Look Again – Haunting Me
Piper lay in her bed, tossing and turning, suddenly she awoke sharply. She wiped her forehead and look around the room, just a dream she thought to herself just another dream… She looked over at the clock, it read 2.30 am, if this were any other morning she would have read a book or attempted to get back to sleep but it was a weekend and she didn't have to be up at six 'o'clock as usual so she decided that she'd better try and get more sleep. She turned to face the open window that looked out to the San Francisco streets, after a few moments she was sleeping and within half an hour in a deep sleep, and haunting dream…
Piper looked around, she appeared to be standing in a church of some sort, there was someone standing beside her but she couldn't figure out whom it was. She got up out her seat in an attempt to leave the church but when she got half way down the walkway a coffin began getting carried in. Piper stopped dead in her tracks and took the nearest available seat. She sat down and listened as slowly the coffin approached her, as it passed her she peered inside and suddenly her breathing stopped. It was Prue.
Piper's eyes darted back and forewords, the church was becoming clearer once more. Grams was the figure that sat beside her, and Phoebe next to Grams. Their father lurked in the back, hiding from Grams; people from Prue's classes in school filled the pews behind Piper, Grams and Phoebe. Piper turned and looked at Grams, she was holding a napkin up at her eyes and nose in attempt to stop the tears but Piper could see them flowing past it. Phoebe sat cuddling into Grams, holding her tight whilst Piper sat on the outside. Prue's coffin had reached the top of the church and was placed on the podium, next to a photo of her. Piper wondered how she had never seen the photo before; it wasn't one that she recognised. Slowly a minister walked over and stood just in front of the coffin,
"Today is such a tragic day. We are here to celebrate the life of Prudence Halliwell, know to most as Prue. She was a young, beautiful, caring and loving girl with a beautiful heart and soul. But instead of me telling you that she has gone to a better place here is her sister Piper to say a few words about her," said the minister stepping down and allowing Piper to step up. She was slowly walking again her will, soon enough she had taken the place of the minister. Piper cleared her throat and then began,
"I haven't really prepared anything… but," she smiled and then tried to continue, "I thought that if I were to give you the perfect send off then I'd need to tell everyone about what a wonderful sister you were, about how much I'm going to miss you and how much I love you. But to speak honestly my mind hasn't fully adjusted to the fact that you're gone and I don't want to share childhood memories, I don't want to tell everyone here how much I cared for you, I don't want them to steal any parts of you that I remember. I want to keep all these memories to myself; I want to have them locked up inside me forever. But they came for a moving speech that would let them know how much we all love you, I'm just worried that what I say will be a let down." She paused and then looked away from the photograph of Prue, "My sister Prue died, she took her life because she was unhappy. And even though we're all unhappy now hopefully she has finally found the peace that she couldn't find in life. Hopefully by taking her life she will live on in heaven, I can only pray that she's looking down on me. That she knows how much I love her and that I'll never forget her, I'll never let go of the memories that we've formed, picnics in the park, staying up late gossiping, borrowing clothes, and sharing secrets… I will hold onto these forever, they're all I've got," with that Piper left the podium and headed for the front doors of the church. She burst through the huge doors and stepped out into the pouring rain, the water droplets splashed over her face. And she saw Prue, standing, bleeding, crying, haunting…
Piper jolted awake, she wiped the cold sweat that had appeared from her forehead and began to breath shallowly. Slowly she felt a lonesome tear drip down her face and fall onto the bed sheets. She instantly wiped away that tear and lay back down in bed, lying awake, haunted by the image of Prue in her dream… slowly she began to quietly sob, holding the cover tight to her body. Desperate for the comfort of a loved one, desperate to be held. Wanting someone to tell her that things will be all right, desperate for someone to hold her tight, gently stroke her hair and tell her that the screams she was hearing were just a dream, nothing more…
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Outside Piper's bedroom door, Prue had her ear firmly pressed to the wood. Listening quietly to her sister's sobs, what am I doing to them? How can I continue to hurt them all like this? I have to stop all this hurt… I don't want them to hurt anymore; I just have to end it all… with one quick, bold movement… it can all be over… she quickly fled from the door when she heard Piper getting out of her bed, Prue closed her own door quietly and reached under her mattress as she heard Piper run into the bathroom. She pulled out a razor blade and pressed it on her wrists, slowly but deeply she began to cut, the blood instantly began to spill. Dripping fierily onto the bedspread… Prue continued to cut, soon enough her arm was covered in new, deep, bleeding cuts.
"I don't want to leave them… I can't… I must, why?" she slowly started to mumble, soon enough the blood loss had travelled to her head, the top half of her body began to feel heavy within minutes she had fallen to the floor with a thump. The blood made a new trail onto the floor, soon she was surrounded with blood.
The door opened just before everything went black,
"Prue?" called Piper, and then everything faded to darkness.
A/N: Sorry this chapter has taken me longer to update guys. This is a really hard fic to write, I think its hitting closer to home than I first thought it might, but I hope you're all enjoying it and thank you so much for being so patient with me. I know that its pain when I spend ages without updating.
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