Different Paths Part 32:
What did you do, man?

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Cole, Phoebe, Andy and the two girls still were in the solar when the doorbell rang

"Maggie… you going to Aunt Phoebe for a bit? "
Andy asked Mags, who was almost asleep, laying on his chest...
"No..."
she whined.
"It's okay, Andy... I can take it too..."
"nah... it's okay... have to make up for the great kids rooms"
Andy gave her a wink and smiled. He looked down at Mags and decided to just take his daughter along. He soon enough would want to turn back time and stay where he was. He went to the door and opened it.
"Hello... is Prue Halliwell there?"
a tall, black haired man asked.

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Prue watched Piper, Leo and the baby for a while, and then decided to leave them alone. She carefully closed the door and went downstairs. Just as she was half way down the stairs, she saw how a man, which she recognized through the clothes as her husband, punching another someone, who stood on the front porch, right into the face. She took in a deep breath, closed her eyes and moved her hand to her face and hoped, the image was gone when she opened them again. She did and she really had seen right.
"Oh my god!"
she exclaimed as she was able to finally move again, especially with hearing Meghan's crying. Mags was the first to see Prue of the people standing at the porch
"momi!"
she yelled. She had been very scared because she never had seen her dad this way
"It's okay..."
Prue said before turning to the other man and without thinking picked her little girl up and rubbed her back. She looked with a quizzical face at Andy. Who repeated the look for a second longer, then started to back slowly off. She followed him for a few seconds with her eyes
"Prue?"
a muffled, somewhat familiar, voice which was filled with pain got Prue's attention. Finally she turned to the stranger who held his nose, which was bleeding like hell
"bane?"
Prue asked
"hi..."
"Oh my god... come in"
Prue said stepping aside and closed the door after him
"who was that freak... and did that girl just call you mommy?"
"I... umm... he... she..."
Prue let out an almost hysterical laugh. This was way too much for her to handle right now.
"She... you... he... oh my god!"
she said again, in search of something to sit down and then looked back at Meghan, who still was very scared
"Phoebe!"
she yelled. She needed to get rid of something... no matter if it was bane or Meghan... just something. She needed help. As fast as possible. Phoebe jogged to the entrance. Andy had acted weird when he returned and she knew there was something going on.
"What?"
she asked and then saw bane
"bane?"
"Uh... ya... um... Pheebs... can you... take Mags, please?"
"Sure"
Phoebe answered, both women moved to hand the girl over, but Mags clenched onto her mom. Prue looked back at bane
"just a sec!"
she told him and went back to the stairs. Finally being able to sit down. She sat down on the stairs and placed Meghan on her lap
"shshshsh"
Prue made trying her very best to calm her down. When she finally calmed Prue made Mags pull away a bit, so she could look at her. She started to remove the tears from her daughter's face
"princess, please... everything's okay... you just go to Aunt Phoebe..."
Mags started crying again and wrapped her arms back around Prue's neck
"shshshs... princess, just for a second... I... have to care for that man's wound... like I always care for your wounds... he needs my help now..."
she tried to tell her daughter trying to make her loose her grip on her
"princess, I'm with you in a sec... I promise..."
finally Mags let go and Phoebe picked her up
"go... play something..."
she told Mags smiling and then glanced at Phoebe
"stay away from Andy with her..."
Prue returned to bane
"I'm... so, so... sorry..."
"Did you just say Andy?"
"This is a long story... and I'm... your nose... c'mon..."
she said and grabbed his hand, taking him to the bathroom...

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Prue cared for bane's nose
"somewhat familiar, huh?"
Prue couldn't help but smile...
"Yeah... but that won't happen anymore..., bane... I told you about Andy..."
"Yes... he was the love of your life who's supposed to be DEAD..."
"Yeah well..."
Prue started and sat down on the edge of the bathtub
"the accentuation is on is supposed to... you know that in this house nothing is normal and nothing is supposed to... the girl you just said... is supposed to be dead as well... and so am I..."
bane starred at her
"Andy's my whitelighter... and... He saved me from dieing... without him I'd be dead..."
"And he hit me?"
"Yes..."
"Because..."
"Because of this…"
Prue said and showed him her wedding ring
"you're married..."
"Yes... and when he was dead... he saw me with you... because he was watching me... and so he was watching us... and... I guess he was something like jealous or something... I'm sorry..."
Prue said again
"and that girl... is your guys' daughter?"
"Yes... Meghan and Brianna are our daughters..."
"You've got two?"
"Yeah..."
"Okay... Prue... I... actually... was..."
"Here to come closer again?"
"yes... and... No... But... now... this is very confusing, you know... plus... I probably have to get to the hospital... since like you before already said... it's probably broken"
"I'm so sorry, bane..."
"Yeah... sure... umm... can I call you?"
"Yeah... sure... we can set a meeting... and... I can prepare Andy... and all..."
"Right..."
bane said and both got up, leaving the bathroom and Prue walked bane to the door...

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Prue went to the solar and found a crying Ann there.
"Aww you're hungry, huh?"
she asked and picked Brianna from Cole. Andy looked at her.
"Prue... "
"I am not liking you very much at the moment"
Prue told Andy, before he could say a word. She didn't even look at Andy. Then she started to go to the backyard to where Phoebe and Meghan were playing already. Cole stayed with Andy and looked at him
"what did you do, man?"

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AN:
first of all I have to apologize, I put you waiting long, but I was out of city and away from pc... but here I am... all back ;) I Hope you liked this one. I couldn't wait for this chapter to finally be published... (or written) since I planned it already a while ;)

Well anyway... thanks for all those reviews... I love getting all of that attention and I'm glad so much people liked the last chapter...

Melinda prudence Halliwell: thanks for your review, I Hope you liked this one as well, despite the baby isn't exactly in it yet...

Peanut2lb: I don't know if it'll be an original name... but I do know... that no one will be expecting it... ;) thanks for your reviews!

Ruthy: you bad girl! You get no answer to that!

Faith Kingsley: I can say this much: it won't be Wyatt! ;) Hope I'll not keep you waiting this long now anymore...

PrUe AnD Andy: there you go...

Oooh and last but not least I have to say... I said I'd think about an about 10 chapter long very last part in the very future... and I guess the chance for that is very big... I played more with that thought and can't wait to write it... it'll be very dramatic.