Different
Paths Part 19:
Things
get serious
Prue
thought her spells didn't do anything
to Meghan, but at
the hospital Meghan's body was reacting
intensely to the spell. She was starting to burn up on the
inside. At 6 Andy woke and saw her sweaty forehead. He gently touched
her face and felt how hot she was. He pressed a button and a nurse
came in
"she's burning up"
he told her. The nurse
nodded and got a thermometer. Her temperature was 39.2C°
(102.2F), but it was going up steadily. The nurse
got cold compresses and Andy kept refreshing them, with no use.
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The
girls, Leo and Cole sat all together at home at breakfast by 7. Piper
just trotted in again from throwing up.
"I hate being
pregnant"
"no you don't!"
Phoebe answered her with a
grin. Piper just stuck out her tongue at her. Leo smiled and gently
placed her on his lap, trying to comfort her. Ann was sitting in her
rocker and was talking to the fridge, with all the colourful stickers
on, it was very interesting for the little girl. Prue made herself
some bagel with marmalade, but never took a bite off it. She smiled
as she saw Ann having fun and pecked her forehead
"umm... I'm
gonna go take a shower... can... can you guys watch Ann for a few
minutes?"
"Sure!"
"Naturally!"
Phoebe and Paige
piped in, while Piper looked worried at her bigger sister
"what
about your bagel?"
she asked
"wha... oh... umm... I'm
gonna eat it later"
she said, putting on a quick smile and then
slid out of the room, knowing everyone was gonna shoot at her now
that Piper mentioned it. While Prue went upstairs Phoebe cleared her
throat
"people, I'm really worried about Prue..."
"Who's
not?"
Piper responded
"why?"
Paige asked
immediately
"you're not worried?"
Piper asked Paige
"I
guess... not... but... I don't know Prue that well... she's really
caring and nice and all to me... but also I feel the most distance
from her..."
"Yeah... she's been closing up again"
Piper
said kinda sad
"no, Piper, she has changed."
Phoebe told
Piper
"what... do you mean?"
"Last night, I woke by
some noise in the attic... I went up to see what was wrong and found
Prue was there. All books were lying on the floor. Prue was crying.
And around her stood a million of potions and also laid a billion of
crumbled pieces of paper... she must have been for hours up there,
trying to find something to wake Meghan. I never saw her this way
before..."
Phoebe said lowly. Cole gently took Phoebe's hand
in his and squeezed it gently. Phoebe smiled a little before
continuing
"really... she not even was this way when Andy
died... or maybe she was... but she didn't show it this openly..."
"Yeah... but I can understand... I mean... she got her daughter
for only a few hours... and while she had her... they were
sleeping... too exhausted to spend any time with each other. And now
she might loose her again. We all played with Meghan, Prue didn't..."
Paige said. Piper smiled a little
"I thought you didn't
know Prue"
Paige smiled back
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At
the hospital suddenly all alarms went off. Andy looked worried around
and then saw it was Meghan's heartbeat. It wasn't existing
anymore!
"No..."
Andy whispered lowly clutching to her
hand as he sent a message from his head to Leo's, just as doctors
and nurses hurried in and pushed him away, to try to get Meghan back.
Leo
shrugged together as the message was suddenly in his head. He looked
up
"Meghan"
he whispered. piper turned around on his lap
and starred at him
"what?"
she asked
as everyone started to stare at him as well
"I need to get
Prue...it's Meghan... there's something very wrong"
he said
as he orbed out from under Piper to the bathroom.
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Prue
was just soaping herself up as she suddenly saw the light
"Leo!"
she yelled trying to shield herself from his view
"I
know... but... Meghan... hurry"
Prue froze immediately
"no!"
she said lowly starring at Leo
"hurry"
Leo repeated