Disclaimer: I Do not own Charmed
A/N: I would just like to thank everyone who reviews my fic I love feedback. Also I would like to mention although I have stated that this fic is based on personal experience I simply mean that I am using my situations to write and guide the fic. I am making it as fictional as possible and using the charmed ones emotions. After all it would be too hard to write if I used my emotions. And I'm glad that this fic is helping people to see another side to the self-injury issue. Please keep reading and reviewing.
P.S. Obviously some of the fic is extremely fictional like what Prue is feeling because I'm just having to guess which I do a lot in this chapter so I hope it still works.
To Look Again – Similar Situations
Piper sat in a small rather uncomfortable chair, with a large ceiling light blaring down at her. She looked around the small room, there were various diplomas and certificates, in the room, along with a desk that seemed to big for the room itself, it seemed very wrong in the room. On the desk was a picture of Piper new therapist and her family, Grams had wanted her to continue with Dr Clarke but Piper didn't want to see someone who forced her into giving what she decided were text book answers. Suddenly a door behind her opened and in walked a tall, too thin woman with a clipboard and clothes that hung to freely from her thin figure. She came and sat down behind the desk, which looked even bigger with this tiny woman sitting behind it. Piper sat in silence, and waited for the woman to talk,
"Piper Halliwell?" she asked quietly, rummaging through various piles of notes and letters and what looked like random pieces of paper.
"Yes," replied Piper, in a soft tone looking away from the woman,
"How are you today?" asked the woman, Piper nodded and then the woman continued, "Well, my name is Anna Ford," she began but Piper spoke up,
"Erm… I just thought I'd tell you that I don't really want to be here, well I do but I don't if you get what I mean, and I don't want to be friends here, because it'll complicate things and I'll look at your little ink blots or whatever but that's all," she said quickly, the woman looked at her shocked,
"Well that's alright, we don't need to be friends if you don't want to. And don't worry there will be no little ink blots, or trick questions. Just some chatting that will be completely private between us, and hopefully we'll be able to sort some things out."
"Good," replied Piper,
"So, where do you want to start?" asked Anna,
"I'm not sure," replied Piper,
"Ok, well why not start from the beginning,"
"No," replied Piper,
"Why not?" asked Anna, making a quick note on a piece of paper,
"Because I've done that before," she replied,
"Done what?"
"Started from the beginning, it didn't help,"
"OK," Anna paused for a second and looked over some paper and then continued, "So where do you want to start?"
"I don't know,"
"Prue," smiled a young woman sitting behind a desk, riffling through many different sheets of paper, she put hem down on her desk and signalled to Prue to sit down, "So, how've you been?" she asked,
"Fine," lied Prue,
"Prue… I thought we were past you lying to me," said the woman, Prue threw her a glare that said 'I don't really feel like talking so bad off' "Now, what have you been up to since our last session,"
"Not much really, just the usual stuff,"
"Really?" enquired Prue's therapist,
"Really," replied Prue, nervously fiddling with a strand of her hair which had come loose from her hastily tied pony tail.
"Well, according to your on-site nurses report you had an incident a few days ago where they felt that you were very upset and not responsive to treatment," said the woman, slowly looking through Prue's file,
"It was nothing," replied Prue,
"Well it couldn't have been nothing… what was it all about?" asked the woman,
"I don't want to talk about it," replied Prue,
"You need to talk… that's why you're here, so you can talk and so we can help you to get better," replied the woman,
"I don't want to," said Prue stubbornly,
"Why not?' asked the woman,
"I don't know, I just don't feel like talking,"
"Well how about you just give me some inclination as to what upset you,"
"Nothing!" said Prue, raising her voice slightly,
"There must have been something… why don't we start from the beginning?"
After half an hour Piper and Anna hadn't made much progress, Piper wasn't very willing to talk about her feelings or what had been going on with Prue, although most people would have given up long ago Anna persisted.
"Piper, I know that you're not telling me things. I know that you're scared to talk about things that hurt you but you must know that you can trust me. Nothing bad will come from any of this," she said, attempting to persuade Piper to talk with her.
"But bad things will happen," replied Piper quietly,
"You can't know that. Bad things won't happen, only good things, that's all," replied Anna,
"But every time I talk about how I'm feel or not or how I'm dealing or not or anything things just seem to get worse, a lot worse. But if I keep it to myself then things will get better because people will not know what I'm feeling and they won't feel guilty because of it and that way things can't get worse," said Piper in a quick ramble, it seemed as though she was reasoning with herself rather than with Anna,
"Piper, if you don't talk to someone things will get worse in the long run. You're a smart girl, you know this. I know you know this," said Anna,
"But what if…" she started but Anna cut her off,
"No what ifs," she said, and then Piper started,
"I just don't want to hurt anyone. I mean they're hurting enough and I don't want to add to it. And I'm scared…" said Piper, Anna was slightly disappointed that this was all that Piper had said but she also felt reassured that she had finally gotten through to her,
"Scared? Scared of what?" asked Anna, noting a few things down in her notebook,
"Scared that I'm turning into Prue,"
"Prue, we've been over all this," said her therapist, looking slightly annoyed,
"I know,"
"Then why do you keep going back to these things in your life that make you so upset and unhappy? Why do you keep dragging us back here?" she asked,
"I don't know, I just don't want to hurt them I guess," replied Prue,
"Hurt who?" asked the woman,
"My family, I've put them through enough, so if I just don't tell anyone then things will improve and I will improve," replied Prue,
"That's the wrong way to look at it Prue, you know that you can't force things to be alright. But they will be, you just have to talk about things,"
"I'm worried," replied Prue,
"About what?" asked the woman,
"Worried what effect this is having on Piper and Phoebe, I know that Piper's not coping. She tries to hide it but its no good. What if…" she paused for a second,
"If?" asked the woman,
"What if I'm turning her into me? What if she's going to keep going down this path and end up just like me?"
A/N: Please review, this chapter is way shorter than I intened. Also, please check out my new fic it's a parody that co written by LarkaDragon. Its different from what I usually write obviously but I hope you guys like it. Please R&R. Witch x