Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed
A/N: Ok, so since I'm not online at the moment and can't remember who said they liked author notes and can 't check who it was whoever it was this one if just for you.
This fic is seriously hitting a slump I know, but I think that I'm better to just finish it quickly than leave it all long and drawn out. I think this fic has just had too many chapters that were too similar for it to be as successful or as compelling as some of my other stuff. But to the readers that have stuck with me throughout the whole think thank you so much. I hope you still like my fic.
To Look Again: Point Of Impact
"Phoebe, what the hell are you doing here?" asked Prue shocked to see her youngest sister standing before her,
"That doesn't matter Prue, you two need to sort this out! Now," replied Phoebe as she slowly walked towards her sisters, Piper backed away slightly as her sister walked towards her,
"Phoebe you don't understand what you're talking about. This doesn't make sense, Phoebe. Just leave now!" demanded Piper, she was shocked at how forceful she was being with her little sister, but she didn't want to let Phoebe witness any more of her and Prue's arguments.
"No! God dammit Piper! You go on and on about Prue not being able to see what's right in front of her but you can't see it either. You can't see what I see!"
"And what is that Phoebe?" asked Piper, smugly,
"I see Prue, trying to kill herself, and I see you finding her body and freaking out and almost turning into the next Prue. I see Grams lying to my face to try and distract me from all this shit! But do you want to know what I don't see?" she paused for a second and walked over to her sisters, "I don't see you two talking about anything. You both just bottle it up and ignore the problem but I won't go away. This thing has been going on for three years now and you need to get through it, you need to get over it already. I know it will be hard but I don't care! I just don't! You have to deal with this thing now or else its just going to get worse unless we fix it now. You two have to talk to each other already because if you don't then things will just fall apart. And I can't hold things together for much longer! You're putting to much pressure on me!"
"Phoebe calm down. We all just need to calm down!" said Prue; as she placed her arm round Phoebe's shoulder,
"Prue you can't do that," snapped Piper,
"Do what?"
"You can't act like you're in charge just because you're the eldest, you can't. Just because your older doesn't mean that you can take control. Your not ft mentally to deal with this stuff, you can't do it." Said Piper,
"What do you mean I'm not mentally fit?" demanded Prue, shocked that her little sister had spoken back to her. Piper was always the shy one who never stood up for herself, what had changed.
"Prue, you can't take charge when you don't know what's going on,"
"Stop it now!" yelled Phoebe, marching in between the sisters, "Look I don't want you two to argue anymore, and we just need to sort things out! Alright!" Piper and Prue both fell silent and turned to they little sister, "Ok," they muttered quietly, then all was silent. After about ten minutes of silence Prue spoke up,
"Why couldn't you just tell me?" she asked Piper, Piper continued staring at the floor scared to talk to Prue once more,
"I couldn't tell you because…" she paused and lifted her head back up to look at Prue, "Because I knew that it would be too much and would make you go too far and not phone the ambulance."
"But it wouldn't have. It made me want to stop," replied Prue,
"That was the other option, but I didn't think you'd pick that one. I thought you'd decide that it was too hard, that it was going to be too hard to stop all this," said Piper,
"I want to stop Piper, but you don't know what its like," sighed Prue,
"That's just it Prue," said Piper walking over to her sister and placing her hand on her shoulder, "I don't need to know what its like, I don't need to understand, I need any of that. I just need to know that I'm going to wake up and you'll still be alive, I need to be able to fall asleep at night and not lie awake listening for sirens, I need to be sure that I'm not going to become the eldest sister," replied Piper, "I need to know that things are going to get better, but right now I don't honestly think that they can,"
"But they will," replied Prue, "Things will get better, I promise you that. I can get better, I can…"
"But…" said Piper fighting back tears, "It's been too long for things to change. This has been going on for three years now. It's just been too long for any of this to change. You can't change something that's lasted that long, you just can't!" said Piper, forcing herself not to cry,
"I can! I will," said Prue defiantly, "I just don't know how I can,"
"You have to change it," replied Piper,
"I don't know how I can accept help, I just don't know what I'm supposed to do about all of this. You know me Piper, I can't ask for help. I can be proud and self-pitying but I can't ask for help, that's how all of this started."
"I know this Prue, but you need to ask for help. If you don't you'll die, and I'll die with you,"
"What?" sobbed Prue, the words coming out of Piper's mouth had made her see everything more clearly,
"If you kill yourself you're not only killing you, you're killing me as well. I can't live like this any more Prue, if you die I'm going to die with you." Piper cried, she had given up trying to stop tears from falling,
"No, Piper. Just because I can't fight this doesn't mean that you have to suffer for me,"
"But I do!" Piper sobbed, "I do suffer with all this, I don't know why you can't see it or if you choose to ignore it but I do! And so does Grams and Phoebe, why can't you just get better for us. Why? I don't understand why you can't just get better! I can't do this anymore Prue,"
"Do what?" wept Prue,
"Do this! I can't live another year like this; I can't keep going through life wondering if this is the day you'll die. I can't live like that, I can't do it. Last year was hell, I was permanently on edge, I messed up in school, I yelled at Grams and Phoebe, I considered self-harming myself, I was constantly off school was panic attacks wondering what you're thinking and when you're next going to try and kill yourself. I can't do it anymore Prue! I can't be the big sister,"
Prue darted upright in her hospital bed; she looked around disorientated. Slowly she climbed out of her bed and wrapped her dressing gown around her shoulder, and slowly headed for the door. She walked a few doors down and found Piper's bedroom; Piper was also awake. Lying so small in her bed with the duvet covers surrounding her tightly. Prue opened the door and Piper looked towards her, they exchanged glances. Neither one of them knew whether the dream had happened or not, then from behind the curtain Phoebe stepped out.
"Phoebe?" chocked Piper; although she was awake she was still pretty out of it,
"Yes," said Phoebe quietly,
"What's going on?" asked Prue, sitting in the chair opposite Piper's bed,
"Yes, it happened. The dream. It all happened, you both had it, you both heard what you heard and it was all real," replied Phoebe,
"But, then why are we back here?" asked Piper,
"Because we heard what we needed to hear," replied Prue, Piper looked over to her,
"But," started Piper but Prue continued,
"I heard what I'd put you through, its what I needed to hear to help me."
"But I didn't hear anything I needed to," said Piper, trying to sit up in her bed but failing,
"You will," replied Prue just as Grams walked into the room,
"Piper? Prue? What are you doing out of your bed? What's going on?" asked Grams, shocked to see Prue sitting with Piper and Phoebe,
"Grams. I've been thinking, and I've gotten some home truths that I needed to hear and… I… I want to go back to Wake Glens," said Prue,
"What?" asked Grams, followed by Piper,
"Prue… you don't have to do this… you don't… its alright,"
"No, its not. I need to get better, and I can't do that while I'm here, I can't do it. I need to be in Wake Glens, it's the best place for her. That's where I need to be right now." she stopped for a second and walked over to Piper, she bent over and gave her sister a hug. The first hug she had given her since all this started, "Its over, you don't need to be the big sister anymore. Its over," she whispered into Piper's ear as a tear slowly formed in the corner of her eye. Piper hugged Prue back and whispered "Thank you," as the tears began to flow. Grams and Phoebe looked at each other, Phoebe nodded, and Grams instantly knew she had helped. She wasn't sure how but she knew that things would get better.
Piper and Prue got out of hospital a few days later, and Prue went back to Wake Glens under voluntary admission. Piper went back to school, as did Phoebe and they're lives continued as they had before all this. With one exception, they visited Prue every night, except one – Thursday. This was Piper's night to herself – Prue had demanded she take it. Things continued like that for a year, then there came a phone call,
"Hello. Yes this is Penny Halliwell, really… oh god… ok, yes… we'll be right there," with that Grams hung up the phone.
"Grams who was that?" asked Piper who was sitting in the kitchen reading a magazine,
"It was Wake Glens… its Prue," said Grams, Piper's hair stood on end as she heard those words,
"What?" she demanded,
"She's getting out," replied Grams.
That day Prue was released from Wake Glens, and she came home to her family with a new addition. A mental health certificate which read – "Prue Halliwell – recovered depressive."
THE END
A/N: Ok, so its finished. I hope everyone liked that chapter. And the fic in general please R&R. I would just like to say that I gave this fic a happy ending,
I didn't want it to end the way my story did. Granted my sister was released from hospital, but I didn't get this happy ending. I figured someone should.