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To Look Again – Good To Me?
Prue sat on her hospital bed, awaiting Piper's daily visit. Within minutes of the clock striking four Piper walked through her door and headed towards her sister, she smiled and sat down on the chair next to Prue's bed.
"Hey," smiled Prue, Piper returned the sentiment and a minute of silence occurred, "So, what you been up to?" asked Prue in attempt to break the silence,
"Not much, getting loads of homework from my teachers… pretty much being doing that," replied Piper, in a monotone voice,
"Alright, so how are things going at school? I guess your mock exams are coming up soon?" said Prue,
"My first one is in about three weeks," replied Piper, this shocked Prue. She thought for a second, how could I know so little about what's going on with Piper… how can I be so selfish?
"Oh, so how do you think you'll do?" asked Prue,
"I'm trying my best not to think about it and to find time to study… which is hard when…" she started,
"When you have to visit me everyday." Said Prue finishing her sentence,
"No, when I'm trying not to think about it," said Piper, looking down at the pale coloured floor,
"Oh, well you know you don't have to visit every day… I think I'll survive," joked Prue but was taken aback when she saw the look on Piper's face. Piper smiled and laughed half heartedly,
"So are you settling in alright?" asked Piper awkwardly,
"Well I'm not going to be here for long so I'm not really going to get very settled before I have to leave, but yeah its alright," said Prue, hoping that her answer was not upsetting to Piper,
"Oh… have you been told how long you'll be here for?" asked Piper, but Prue shook her head,
"All they've said is that it'll be for a while," she looked down at the bed sheets, "Right now I'd do anything to get home to my bed… even though its been a couple of weeks this still doesn't feel like my bed, it feels like a hospital bed,"
"Oh, well it should get better," replied Piper, "Hey, wanna play cards?" she asked hoping that playing would distract them from talking, they played cards a lot when Piper visited Prue, mostly rummy since there was only two of them and you needed three for most cards games. They played for about another hour and then Piper looked up at the clock, it had just went 5.30 and she had told Grams that she would be back for 6.00. Piper put her cards down on the bed and looked at Prue,
"I gotta go," she said quietly,
"I know… Grams always serves dinner at six… I think that's roughly when we get meals here as well, my time is all screwed up,"
"So, I'll see you tomorrow, same time?" said Piper, as she got up off Prue's bed,
"You know you don't have to visit me every day, I mean I like that you do but you don't have to, you should be out with friends living your life not adjusting it around me," said Prue,
"Its alright, I mean I like visiting," said Piper this was only half true, she did like visiting but she also visited everyday because it meant that she could check that Prue was still alive, she knew that she wasn't alright but she knew that she was alive. She felt that if she didn't visit every day that would change, so she structured her day around seeing Prue.
"Well, you know that you can take a day off if you want," said Prue, she liked having Piper visit her but she didn't like the awkwardness between them, it was different since Piper and Prue had always been so close. She also didn't want to tire her sister out or cause her any pain that she could avoid.
"Its cool, I'll see you tomorrow," replied Piper,
"Why are you so good to me?" asked Prue as she walked Piper to the door of her ward,
"Because…" started Piper, "Because you're my sister.." and with that Piper left the hospital and headed to get a taxi, and get home. Without Prue once more.
A/N: Ok, so I know that these chapters have been getting really really short and not nearly as long as they used to be. I hope that they're still good but because of studying and stuff I'm finding it difficult to find time to write anything new…and I'm updating as soon as they are written so I hope that you can deal with short hopefully more recent updates than longer chapters every two weeks. As always please review.