All four sisters were sitting in the living room together with
coffee. "Prue, do you want anything, more coffee, food? Food! I could bake
you something!" Piper suggested.
"Piper, calm down, I don't need anything. I'm gonna be fine." Prue
responded. "I just want to go to bed. I'm really tired."
"Good idea, I think we should all head up. This has been an extremely long
day." Phoebe suggested. All of a sudden, Paige sneezed causing her to orb
out for a second and then reappear in the same spot.
"Oh my, she...she orbed. Are you a whitelighter?" Prue said sounding rather
confused.
"Part whitelighter, part witch, see Patty is my mom too, and then her
whitelighter, Sam, is my dad, hence the whitelighter-witchyness. I think
you've met Sam before." Paige explained.
"Yeah, once," Prue responded. "How long was it?"
"How long was what?" Piper asked.
"How long was I...well...dead," Prue said trying to think of any other word
besides the D-word.
"It was about three years." Phoebe answered. "How long was it for you?"
"Longer." Prue responded quietly.
An awkward silence seemed deafening as the four sister shifted
uncomfortably in their seats. Finally, Paige spoke up.
"What are we gonna do now? I mean its not going to be the same, ever."
"Well, I could get job, keep me occupied." Prue offered, but the sound of
her voice seemed to be telling everyone that she really didn't want to.
"Oh no, we couldn't ask you to do that. It's too soon. You just stay home
and we'll take care of everything." Piper said. "We really should get to
bed."
"Is my room still...well...my room?" Prue asked. No one really seemed to want
to answer the question, but bravely enough Phoebe finally told her, "Um,
sweetie, since Paige moved in, and we needed the room, it's kind of now her
room." Paige, trying not to be rude since technically it was her room first
offered, "You could stay in the room with me if you like."
"Oh, no I think I'll just stay down here tonight. I kinda just want to be
alone." Prue responded trying not to sound rude.
"Oh no that's fine! Perfect! I'll just make up the couch." Piper responded
so quickly everyone could tell she was just a little disappointed.
Phoebe got up off the couch, walked over to Prue and hugged her, then went
upstairs to bed. Paige too got up off the couch and kind of half smiled at
here sister and walked upstairs. Piper was setting up the bed silently
while Prue was sitting in the chair looking around the house. When Piper
finally finished she walked over to her sister hugged her and whispered in
her ear, "I'm so glad you're home." Prue quietly responded back, "Me too."
Then she too went upstairs. Prue crawled into "bed" and tried to go to
sleep. The house was silent, but no one could sleep. Instead, they all just
stayed awake in their beds being as quiet as ever but wishing that someone
or something would break the silence.
