Different
Paths Part 36:
Things
are getting seriously weird
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Prue
got out of her car and went up the stairs to her and Andy's house.
She entered and, like she always did, hang up the keys to the board
and put her purse down. She smiled as she saw, Andy's stuff was
there already as well.
"I'm home! Andy! Girls! Mommy's
back!"
she yelled and then saw some long hair which was coming
from the kitchen, laying on the floor. Prue froze. She went towards
it and the closer she came, the more she saw of Phoebe's face. Prue
snapped for air, seeing her little sister lay there not moving one
inch. A flashback from the time, Phoebe and her where alone against
that Jackson Ward, came to her mind. She leaned down and tested her
vital signs. Nothing. Phoebe was dead.
"Piper! Paige!"
she
yelled but didn't get any response
"Andy!"
she asked
frantically as she got up again. She slowly moved towards the living
and froze dead in her tracks as she found Piper, Leo, Cole and Paige
there. All of their heads were separated from their bodies. The
living 'decorated' witht he body parts. Prue put her hand to her
face. She couldn't stand the sight. She was getting terribly sick
and desperately searched for some fresh air. The backyard! She darted
forward and ran outside, just to find an even more horrible sight as
she saw her girls and Andy laying in the backyard as well. The sand
of the sandbox was soaking with her children's blood. The sight was
remembering her on the soaking bed sheets, there where the night she
miscarried Meghan. From the corner of her eyes she saw Andy laying
there. She looked over to him, tears in her eyes and saw how he had a
huge wound on his chest. She starred at his body and couldn't
understand it. A flashback of her seeing Andy's corpse for the
first time came to her mind. She turned around. She couldn't see
the sight anymore, but instead saw a close tree 'decorated' with
human hearts. The hearts of Andy and her girls.
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Heavily
breathing, Prue shrugged up in her bed.
"No!"
she said,
panicking from all those images. Tears were rolling down her cheeks,
as she was snapping for air. She has had these nightmares now for
weeks and they were getting worse. They all had two things in common:
something always happened to her girls, sisters, brothers in law,
Andy or even herself and... Prue never was able to prevent it. Andy
woke from Prue's reaction and saw in what a state she was, again.
"Prue? Prue... what is it?"
he asked, his arms around her
immediately.
"Nothing!"
Prue shot out a little too fast
and then got up
"I'm... I'm gonna go... check on the girls"
she said as she got her bathrobe.
"Prue..."
Andy
tried to get her to talk, but Prue ignored him and walked out of the
room. She leaned onto the closed bedroom-door and closed her eyes
tightly. Taking a few calming breathes. She then continued to her
daughters' rooms. She opened the door of Anna and got inside. She
smiled seeing her youngest sleeping peacefully in her bed. She went
up to her bed and gently covered her back up, then kissed her
forehead and went through their bathroom to Meghan's. She got in
and froze as she saw Meghan tossing in her sleep as well
"no...
No!"
the little one yelped. Prue couldn't move anymore. What
if her daughter was seeing the same horrible things as she saw the
last nights?
"No! no medicine... mommy... I... I'm fine..."
Prue relaxed, smiling a little. She went over to the bed and sat
down on it
"Maggie"
she called gently, waking her
daughter. Mags woke up and looked up
"momm..."
"Shshs...
just go back to sleep..."
Prue whispered and started to crawl
her hair. Meghan snuggled into Prue, but pulled back after just a
second
"mommy... you're wet... and smelly!"
Meghan
complained. Prue only then noticed her night-dress was soaking wet
from sweating and tossing about her nightmare.
"Yeah... you're
right."
Prue said sighting and kissed her forehead
"sweet
dreams"
she whispered and got up again
"mommy..."
"Yeah?"
"I love you"
"love you too"
Prue
answered and then left the room again.
"Everything's okay.
The girls are okay. Andy's okay... calm down, Prue... it's
alright."
She told herself. And then started to go through to
their bathroom. She turned on the heater blower. Then turned on the
shower and got undressed.
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Andy
was waiting for Prue. He needed to talk to her. This was going on for
weeks now. They seriously had to talk about this.
'maybe
this has something to do with... this special day... it's coming
closer... and it seems like things get worse with Prue night by
night... every night approaching that day this is getting more
extreme...'
Andy thought. He looked at the bathroom door as
he heard something moving inside.
"c'mon... come here... talk
to me"
he said lowly, wanting Prue to come through that door.
But nothing happened. Instead he heard the shower starting to run and
how Prue got in. Andy sighted. He turned the lamb on his nightstand
on and waited for Prue to return. He glanced at his alarm clock. 3
a.m..
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Half
an hour later Prue got out of the shower again and wrapped the towel
around her body. She took a big breath before going back to their
bedroom. She swallowed as she saw the light being turned on. Andy
waited for her. she didn't look up at him.
'No... Please
not'
she thought and went straight to their closet and
changed into another nightgown. Then went back to the bedroom again
and looked at Andy. He was deep asleep. Prue smiled a little and
walked over to him. She covered him up and turned the light off. She
fastened her bathrobe around herself and then astral projected
herself to attic of the manor. She used her more advanced powers to
disappear in the bedroom and reappear completely in the attic.
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Andy
woke up again. He opened his eyes and looked around. Prue wasn't
there. The light was turned off. He glanced back at his alarm clock
again. 5 a.m..
'damn! I fell asleep!'
He rubbed his
eyes a little and got up. He grabbed a t-shirt and put it on while
wandering downstairs. The kitchen was lightened and so he went
towards it. He found Prue in the kitchen. She was sitting, completely
dressed in a chair, a mug filled with coffee in her right hand and
starring out of the window
"Prue..."
he said, waking her
from her day dreams. Prue shrugged together and looked up at him,
scared. She fats looked away again. She didn't want him to see, she
was scared.
"Oh... hey..."
Andy looked at her concerned
and leaned down to kiss her
"good that you're here... I...
didn't want to wake you... "
Prue started and at the same time
moved away from him, so he couldn't kiss her
"... but... I
need to head off... I have a photo shooting today... it's in..."
Prue quickly thought for a place
"LA... so I need to head
off now..."
"What? Prue... you never..."
"Told you
about it? Yeah... I forgot..."
Prue said laughing falsely.
"I
only... noticed... last night... I wanted to grab myself something to
drink after I checked on the girls... and then... accidentally looked
on the calendar... and noticed it was already the 6th... I
thought it was only in September... but then..."
Prue said and
got up, smiling at him
"Prue..."
Andy tried to come through
to her, again. He knew she lied. He knew this all was a lie. And he
knew, that they both knew, what a day today was.
"Andy... I...
don't have time right now... I gotta go..."
she said and
pecked him fast before disappearing out of the front door... there
she stood. Her body pressed tightly against their front door closing
her eyes tightly. She had worried her family the last weeks enough.
It was time to solve some things. She opened her eyes and looked at
her car, then headed down the steps and got into the car, before
speeding off.
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Andy
looked blankly at the closed door.
"I wished you'd talk to
me..."
he whispered
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3
hours later Andy went to the manor with Brianna and Meghan in tow.
Brianna was by now one and a half year old and was slowly getting her
profession in walking. It was cute to watch the toddler walk all the
way to the manor almost on her own, only held by her bigger sister.
Andy smiled at them and followed behind them... watching his smaller
daughter's every step, careful so she wouldn't fall. Finally at
the manor he opened the door for them and found everyone else already
sitting on the breakfast table
"morning"
he greeted
"heey..."
Piper said smiling as she fed Chris. Phoebe
rose from her position on the table and walked towards the girls
"wow... did you walk all the way on your own, Anna?"
she
asked and picked her up
"no... I helped her!"
Meghan
said. Andy couldn't help but smile a little
"Prue left this
morning for a photo shooting in LA... so we thought we'd breakfast
with you guys"
"she did? I didn't know about something like
that..."
Paige commented
"well... neither did I... she
said she only remembered when she by accident looked onto the
calendar when she was up getting herself something to drink last
night"
Andy told them
"umm... Cole... why don't you take
Maggie, Anna and Chris to the bathroom and wash their hands"
Piper
suggested, as he was the only man still there to get the girls
distracted
"sure"
Cole answered and picked Chris out of
his high chair and then took Anna's hand, just to make sure...
"c'mon Mags"
Cole said, but she didn't move one inch
"Mags..."
"you just try to send us away..."
Andy
let out a breath. Meghan was now almost 5 and not as easy to get
'rid' off like her sister
"princess we talk later, I
promise, okay?"
Andy asked, kneeling down in front of her
"when later? Later you'll work!"
"After I pick you at
kindergarten we can go to get some ice cream, if you want"
"only
you and me?"
"Only you and me"
Andy confirmed
"okay..."
Meghan said nodding and followed her uncle out
of the kitchen
"okay... what's wrong... spill..."
Phoebe
told him
"I'm not quite sure if something's wrong... but...
Prue..."
"... has been acting weird lately"
Paige
finished for him
"you should have seen her this morning...
first... I see her waking from another nightmare... and then...
she... searched for excuses... and how to get away... before I could
say I love you... she was out of the door... I don't know... at
first I thought it'd gonna change… that she just had a bad mood or
something… that she'd talk to me at some point... but it has been
weeks now... and it's not getting better but worse..."
the
other two sisters nodded their heads
"yeah... We noticed it as
well..."
Piper answered sitting down again
"and talked
about it"
Paige added
"and what did you come up with?"
"That Prue maaaybe... tries to hide something..."
Phoebe
told him. Andy closed his eyes...
"You guys... don't think
she's..."
"No! Why should she? She loves you and the girls
more than anything... no... Not at all..."
"But then... what
is it..."
"She looked exhausted lately"
Phoebe said
quietly
"she had nightmares... every night..."
Andy
answered
"You think it's something like on my wedding?"
Piper questioned, following Phoebe's thoughts
"who knows"
Phoebe answered
"then maybe not she is cheating on me but
her subconscious?"
Andy asked...
"We don't know that,
Andy..."
"what if I know? I man... if this is something like
on Piper's wedding... then I know why she would betray me..."
"and that would be?"
"it's the day of my
death..."
everyone starred for a few minutes at Andy, then
looked awkward down.
"i... I'm sure... it's got nothing to
do with that, Andy... but... was one of you last night on the book of
shadows?"
"nope... why?"
"Didn't you hear someone up
in the attic last night?"
"yeah you're right..."
"you
think it was Prue?"
Andy asked...
"Maybe we should scry for
her..."
Paige suggested
"you... do what you have to...
I... gotta go... can one of you..."
"Sure... I and Cole will
bring her"
Phoebe answered him
"and I'll watch Anna..."
Piper chimed in
"so I'm left over to go haunt Prue..."
Paige nodded
"thank you, guys..."
"You're
welcome..."
all three said at once. Andy smiled and went back
to the house and then out of it, just to get into his car and drove
to work
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Prue
in the meantime was nothing like near to LA. She had been driving
around the city for hours and now, that it was 8 am, she stood in
front of an apartment, a bag in her hand. A man opened the door
"Prue?"
"I need your help..."
she whispered...