Different
Paths Part 29:
A
new home
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In
the late evening Prue came back home. Ann was already sleeping again
while Meghan was still trying to stay awake
"c'mon princess,
let's go upstairs"
Prue told her not noticing, the manor was
empty
"nooo"
"you don't have to sleep, sweetie...
we'll just lay a little down and cuddle"
Prue argued, since
as soon as she had her in bed, she'd fall asleep anyway, so it was
the easiest way, to say, they'd just go cuddle a while.
"Nooo"
Prue sighted and kneeled down in front of her
"honey, we
discussed this before. We agreed on you not having to sleep but at
least lay down half an hour and do nothing..."
"but... me
wanna sow dadi mi new bawbis"
Prue smiled
"alright, come
here"
Prue said and picked Mags with her free hand up, walking
with both children to the new house
"Andy!"
Prue called,
as she entered
"dadi!"
Meghan yelled as well. They didn't
get any respond. Prue walked more inside and first noticed the bright
yellow wall and their new giant couch, then only noticed the whole
hallway and way back to the backdoor, she just walked through, was
painted clear white.
"What... Andy!"
she yelled again,
looking more around, surprised to see, that everything seemed set.
All the doors were open and she saw green coming from the office and
bleu from the bathroom. Then saw the red from the kitchen. She shook
slightly, not getting what was going on. She had expected this all to
be a huge building space, what it was when she saw it the last time
yesterday. But from where she was now, everything was set. Everything
done, at least down here. She walked over to the couch and set Mags
down on it. Then placed the car seat on the floor and picked Ann out,
to get her out of her jacket and cap.
"Mags, I want you to
watch Anna for me for a second, okay?"
Meghan nodded
"otai,
momi"
Meghan said, as Prue grabbed a pillow to support Ann's
head
"I'm right back"
Prue said and pecked her
forehead. Prue then went to the kitchen and gasped. It was all set.
The kitchen, Andy and her had picked two months ago, was completely
built up. She didn't even dream about the light wood matching this
perfect with the white shelves and red walls. She looked over to the
pass through and smiled slightly, seeing the dining corner done as
well. She shook her head slowly. This was impossible. She didn't
call for Andy, guessing she'd not find him till she discovered
everything he had done, anyway. She didn't have to check the bath
and office, knowing it was everything done
"c'mon princess,
we're gonna go upstairs"
Prue said, picking Ann up again and
grabbing for her oldest daughter's hand
"momi, wat awe wong?"
"iii think, daddy wanted to surprise us with something really
really big"
Prue answered her, walking slowly, so Meghan could
keep up to the stairs
"you gonna make all those biiig steps?"
Mags nodded very fast
"me big giwl"
Prue smiled
"I
know... c'mon."
Prue said as they started to climb the stairs
together. Upstairs, the hall too was clear white. She looked to her
right and saw a piece of bed from the room and her had planned to be
theirs. Then glanced back over to where the kids' room were
supposed to be, and saw the pink and orange coming from the rooms.
Meghan saw the pink as well and let go off her mom's hand running
to her new room
"momi, look!"
Meghan yelled thrilled.
Prue smiled and went to the orange painted room. Ann's crib was set
up there. And a mobile of little sheep was hung up over the crib,
moving a little by the wind coming from the open door. Prue smiled
"looky"
she told Ann, who had woken up, when she checked
the kitchen. Ann giggled seeing the 'dancing' sheep her mom
pointed to. Prue smiled and laid her down in her crib. A light brown
teddy bear was set in the crib which Ann grabbed and started to play
with. Prue smiled and then finally looked more around. The walls were
painted a bright orange. With a sponge darker parts were dumped onto
the walls. It looked amazing and matched perfectly to all the white
furniture with the orange highlights. Prue shook her head lightly,
fascinated by what her husband had done in this little amount of
time. She looked back at Ann and guessed she was good, being a while
by herself. Then noticed the turned on baby monitor which stood on
the shelf over the crib and shook her head
"I guess I'm
supposed to take that here along, huh?"
Prue asked into the
monitor, then grabbed it and walked to the door, which was set
between the two kids' bedroom, guessing she'd come to Meghan's
room now, but instead she was coming into a bright lime green room.
The kids' bathroom. It held two showers, mirrors and sinks. Two
stools so the kids could reach the sink and tab better. She shook her
head in disbelieve, and then made her way to the other door in the
bathroom, which now lead to Meghan's room. She opened to reveal
pretty much the same structure of the walls here as well, but in
pink. Ready for a princess. She smiled. Meghan didn't even notice
her, checking all the toys which were there and all the space she had
to play with them now. Prue smiled, seeing how thrilled her kids
were. She left Meghan alone and finally went to her own bedroom. She
entered it and was speechless... not by the furniture, or the walls
but at the ceiling. The ceiling wasn't flat. It looked like clouds.
It had a structure. Was painted like the heaven. Prue shook her head.
Not believing this. For a few minutes, she just stood there starring
at the ceiling. She then slowly walked over to the bed. She needed to
sit down. She ended up laying down and continued to stare at the
ceiling. It looked amazing. She then looked more around. There was a
bookshelf with all her books set in one corner; in the other was a
little couch to read on. She smiled
"you're an angel"
she
whispered and looked down, noticing it all was new. Not fully
understanding why, because Andy and her had agreed on leaving the
bedroom furniture for now, with their old. She then got up again.
Going to the closet. Finding all their clothes
"and crazy"
she said and left the closet again. She then saw the opened door
opposite of the closet and went towards it, walking slightly around
the bed into the dark turquoise room, which held their bathroom. She
gasped again, seeing the huge and expensive shower. But was surprised
to see only a shower two sinks and the toilette in the room, then
noticed it was just a wall, which wasn't put up through all the
room and walked through to the other section of the room, where a
huge 250m bathtub stood. Prue put a hand to her mouth and tried to
keep herself together with waving some air to her face. But it had no
use.
"Okay... I got it... could you please come out now?"
she asked in a cracking voice and then heard the sound which
usually was coming along with orbing.
'He must stand behind me'
she thought and slowly turned around to find the whole family,
even Piper standing there
"how... when..."
she asked,
kinda lost in this new, amazing and huge house right now.
"We
painted everything already yesterday... just had to set the
furniture"
Andy told her, approaching her and went to his
wife's side, holding her, scared she'd break down.
"It all
started with piper wanting to make you a new bedroom, as an act of
apologising. I agreed and then Phoebe and Paige wanted to help, so
they made the kids' rooms. The rest we had somewhat planned already
and so me, Leo and Cole just did the rest. Prue looked at her very
much pregnant oldest young sister
"you... did... the ceiling?"
she asked in a low whisper, not daring to speak. Piper nodded
slightly and smiled
"I hope you like it"
piper answered,
talking the first few words in months to her sister. Prue had tears
in her eyes as she pulled away form Andy and hugged Piper tightly
"I'm so sorry for how I behaved. Please
forgive me"
Prue just nodded and then looked at her other
sisters
"come here already"
she said in barely auditable
voice as the other two joined the hug
"I love you guys"
she
said with all the voice she still had, then looked up and mouthed a
thanks to Cole and Phoebe, and then turned round, and instead of
saying something to Andy, just kissed him.
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AN:
okay...
hum... someone who almost mostly gets everysthing to read befor ei
publish it, asked me, where allt he money for everything wa socmign
from and I guess that#s a question which is pretty good. I explain ti
all with this: first of all... Prue worked all these years and even a
year longer than in charmed, so she could have saved some money.
Then, there was for almost 3 years a paying check to Andy's bank
from 'working', since he actually never died, but sicne he in
reality was dead, he never ahd to sue any of the money, so this
explains where some of the money comes from. They decided to take a
credit, cause they wanted it all to be nicely done on the inside,
cause it most likely has no sue to at first set everything, so you
can live in it, and then buy everything step yb step. Same money,
maybe even more, if you first buy cheep stuff. So they decided to
amek everything good enough for it to live in it on logn time, except
their room, where they wanted to stand abck, but that was 'sponsered'
by Piper. Also... between the buy of the hosue and till ti's as far
as now, passed several months, and as you all noticed, I wrote piepr
as very pregnant, so it all is almost a year after Ann's birth.
Much time to lay some money aside. Plus: they did everything alone.
Also renovated the fronts, whichw asn#t really much fo a deal with
Leo beign a ahndy amn and knowing how to do such things. Sooo, yes,
they're still over their budget, but not as mucha s you all might
think