Down on her knees, Prue rummaged through the video cabinet, "Found it" she yelled, handing the tape to Phoebe. Phoebe carefully slipped it into the VCR and pressed play before taking a seat next to Prue on the couch.
"Let's wait for Mom," Prue picked up the remote and hit the pause button.
"Did Dad leave?" Phoebe asked watching her mother slid into the lazy boy.
"Yes, he's gone" she said wistfully.
"He still loves you know," Phoebe said
"I know" Patty smiled fondly, "true love remains even in the afterlife"
"Did you hear that Prue, "Phoebe hinted, "Love exists in the afterlife".
Prue just scowled and hit the play button. The tape began with a usual blue screen, and then switched to an image of Prue coming down the stairs, dressed in a red and gold cheerleading outfit with Grams voice booming loudly, "This is my granddaughter Prudence on the way to the big homecoming game. She and Andy have been nominated for Homecoming King and Queen"
"How did that get in there?" Prue jumped from her seat and clicked the VCR to off.
"No, No leave it on" Patty waved, "it's not often that I get to see the things I missed".
"Yeah, Prue why don't ya sit down and take a trip down memory lane" Phoebe added tapping the sofa cushion.
"Ok" Prue sighed reluctantly taking her seat. Phoebe then took the control from her hand and pressed play. The tape restarted to show a seventeen- year-old Prue shuffling towards the door, "Please turn that off Grams, Andy's here". She opened the door and Grams zoomed the camera straight onto Andy's face.
"Hello Andy!" Grams voice beamed loudly.
"Hi, Mrs. Halliwell" Andy wrapped his arm around Prue and smiled his best grin.
"Did I remember to feed Kit?" Prue quipped jumping from her seat. The last thing she wanted was to watch her teenage self with Andy. She quickly hit the pause button freezing the image that was on the TV screen. "I fed Kit this morning" Phoebe latched onto her sister's arm, and pulled her back down. "Now sit"
"If only Phoebe knew how much this still hurt," Prue thought crossing her arms over her chest. An unconscious smile then spread to her face, as the game scenes came on; unfortunately, Grams had taped every bit of it. Andy was dressed in his red football jersey and matching grey pants with red socks and black cleats. A close up, zoom, showed Prue jumping into his arms after the team had scored a touchdown.
"Oooh, I'd forgotten how yummy Andy looked back then" Phoebe cajoled liking her lips with a growl. She then flicked her wrist and swatted Prue's arm "And you, look at the hair!"
"Phoebe stop!" Prue giggled embarrassed at the close up facial, in which she sported mile high bangs, "why didn't someone tell me to ditch the hairspray."
"Hey, at least you never had a mullet" Playfully Phoebe picked up the pillow and tossed at her sister.
"Stop" Prue warned, wagging a finger, "this is the part where Andy is crowned the homecoming king". The giggles subsided as they all watched the half time show of the game announcing the homecoming court. Prue and Andy were standing on top of the homecoming float, both wearing dreamy in love smiles.
"Ooh, look and there's his Queen," Phoebe cooed at Prue. Prue felt her eyes well as she watched Andy lean to kiss her.
"That's so sweet" Phoebe quipped while Prue dabbed at her eyes.
"Prue are you all right?" Patty asked noting her daughter's silent tears.
"I'm fine" Prue replied forcing a grin.
"Watch your Grandmother in this next scene, I think Piper must have been holding the camera then " Both Phoebe and Prue sat silent looking at their grandmother on the TV, "what? Is she chanting?" Phoebe asked, looking Prue.
"Ow, it looks like she's casting a spell!" Prues eyes squinted, noting that Penny was also waving her hand, "Hey I recognize that wave!"
"She's using magic!" Phoebe hissed. "hey isn't this part where Andy gets hurt and blows out his knee?"
The next scene of the tape, showed Andy running down the football field to score a touchdown. He had just reached the goal line when suddenly, a defensive end, came out of nowhere, sacking him to the ground.
Both girls then looked at their mother for an explanation. "Grams hurt Andy on purpose?" Prue questioned, "Why?" Patty blushed a bit embarrassed as she started to speak, "well she didn't really mean to hurt him. She just wanted to slow him down a bit. Your Grandmother was a bit overprotective of you back then and she was a little worried that you and Andy were planning to uh...."
"Sleep together" Phoebe supplied, bright eyed, earning a swat from Prue. "Sneak away at the dance, is what I meant to say" Patty smiled.
"Well, Grams had reason to worry," Prue said letting a sly small smile curve across her face, "but um, she was too late. Andy and I were sneaking away long before that homecoming dance."
"Prue, you slut, you!" Phoebe teased giggling. She was giggling so hard, that she didn't see Patty rubbing the back of her neck, "There are just some things that a mother shouldn't know about her daughter"
"Duley noted Mom, but um, Grams almost cost Andy his scholarship to Oregon State because of that"
"Not to mention he couldn't take you to dance, you went by yourself right?"
"Actually, I spent the entire night with Andy. We had our own private homecoming right upstairs in his-" Prue voice's trailed when she saw Patties eyebrows began to knit. "In other words you had a good time, without needing to dance?" her mother restated.
"That was the night, Prue got her promise ring," Phoebe teased making her mother give her oldest a curious look. "Sweetheart, you never said Andy gave you a ring"
"Yeah, Mom that was a really long time ago," Prue smiled reminiscently before letting her heart harden, "you know, what I really can't watch this anymore" Pulling to her feet, Prue set the pillow she'd been holding in her lap on the cushion, and made for the door.
"Prue! Where are you going?" Phoebe shouted ready to follow.
Patty reached and touched Phoebe's arm as they watched Prue pull her jacket over her shoulders and slip on her flip-flops. "Let her go" Patty said gently. She needs to figure out what is still in her heart on her own."
Prue mechanically drove her SUV aimlessly through the city until she saw a flash of lights behind her. "Great" she sighed at the sound of a police siren. Putting on her blinker, she pulled her vehicle to the curb, and dug her registration from the glove box.
The uniform officer, stepped from his vehicle and wrapped on the driver side window, "going someplace in a hurry, ma'am?"
"I didn't realize, I was speeding" Prue said shyly squinting against the bright glow of the man's flash light.
"License and Registration Please"
Silently, Prue slipped her registration and license through the crack in the window, hoping for the best. The officer smiled as he handed her back her cards, "Well Miss Halliwell, you were doing fifty in a residental zone. Prue waited patiently as the man, scribbled the citation out and handed it to her.
"Have a good evening and drive safe"
"You too" Prue grumbled flatly, reading over the slip of paper, Andy? she gasped noting the presiding officer's name. The name on ticket was Sgt Andrew Trudeau. Even though the man didn't look anything like Andy, their couldn't possibly be two of them. Trudeau wasn't that common of a name. Pulling the driver door open, Prue jumped from the car, "Wait! I want to talk to you!"
Prue's body started to shake as she continued to shout into the darkness "Wait!" For several minutes, she just stood in the cold shivering until another car, came speeding past, "hey lady get out of the street!"
Taking control of her emotions, Prue stepped back into her SUV and turned over the engine. She then looked at the ticket, setting her eyes on Andy's name. The dream, the video tape, the ticket. It was all too much to be just a coincidence she relented. Magic had to be involved somewhere. Carefully she turned on her blinker and pulled back onto the street.
Twenty minutes later, Prue sat at the entrace to Golden Gate Cemetary, the place where Andy was buried. Going by memory, she walked briskly through the darkness towards, Andy's grave marker.
Wind and rain forced her to keep her head titled towards the ground, while her flimsy flip-flops proved to be of no protection against the mud sliding up through her toes.
Yuck! She hissed oblivious to the danger that lurked nearby. Two warlocks on the patrol for lost souls quickly picked up on her scent. "I smell witch" one of them said to the other, "and not just an ordinary witch; A Charmed One" Stealthily they moved through the night tracking the witch, like wolves on a hunt.
"Huh?" The snapping of twig made Prue look over her shoulder with a cautious shudder. "Nothing"
"I'll show you nothing" the older warlock blinked and appeared before Prue with teeth gnashing. Instinctively, Prue raised her arm back, in preparation to send the evil creature sailing. The second warlock appeared behind her grabbing her arm while the first shot burning darts from his fingernails.
"No, I don't think so" Prue hissed dipping her head. The astral flash appeared on the other side of a grave marker and her body fell lifelessly to the ground from where the Astral Prue stood she watched the darts, strike the other warlock, exploding him into flames.