Different Paths Part 43:
1991

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Prue sat on her window, starring outside while thinking about everything. She thought about all the ways she tried to help her sisters and only made things worse.

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Prue looked down as she saw this. She immediately knew what was wrong and knew what her past self thought about, when tears sprang to her eyes. She remembered this evening, this night so well. She had thought about her being the worst thing, that could happen to Piper and Phoebe and how she had loved to have died instead of her mom back then in the lake. She didn't know about the water demon back then. Didn't know anything about magic at all. Prue then suddenly heard the words which her younger self thought

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'My love is a curse. Whoever I love gets killed, hurt or they leave before they can get hurt. I hurt Piper and Phoebe. I killed mom and Meghan. I got Andy and dad to leave. Everything just because I loved them.'

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Prue closed her eyes, just as her other self did as well. She swallowed hard
"a curse..."
she breathed
"It... really is a curse..."
Prue swallowed hard again. Her love seriously had been a curse. She didn't think like that anymore in 4 years, but now it suddenly wasn't just a thought, a believe, a stupid thesis anymore. It was the truth. She was a curse. A curse to herself and a curse to everyone she loved. It seriously was her fault. Everything was her fault. Every four years something bad happened, happens and will happen to the people she loved or herself. Thinking about all of this, tears started to build in her eyes. It also would happen this year.

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"People... look!"
Victor said as he saw how Prue started crying and that not just a little. Not just a few tears. It were waterfalls. The attention immediately slid from Cole's comment back to Prue's condition
"You guys think it's already the next?"
Paige asked
"what'd be the next?"
Piper asked
"20..."
Andy said. Phoebe considered it for a second and then started shaking visibly.
"Phoebe?"
Victor asked worried, but stayed at Prue's side. Cole stood next to Phoebe already, his arm around her waist.
"The... the accident... the bridge... the... the picture... remember, Piper?"
Piper nodded unconsciously. Cole stepped more behind Phoebe and wrapped his arms tightly around her. hugging her form behind

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The next Prue heard were the sound of the accident. She didn't look up. She couldn't see this all over again. She tried to avoid the pool, but it had no use. She was forced to see it, no matter where she'd look.

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"I hate you!"
cars were honking when Prue hit the junction
then there was this ugly sound of the breaks when she tried to pull the car out of harms way.
"Oh my god! PHOEBE!"

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Prue still didn't look, but there simply were some things she had to see. Things she wanted to see because that was the reason she started this quest thing at all. And so the picture, she had made of the bridge, appeared in her mind and stayed there while she heard the music playing again. This song. She opened her eyes, to make the picture go away, but it had no use. Everywhere she looked she saw it.

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"The last song for this rainy 6th August in 1991 will now be played. I hope I brought some sunshine in your cloudy and rainy day after all so I'm gonna say goodbye with some more melancholic song… here you go..."

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places
Worn out faces

Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere
Going nowhere

Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression
No expression

Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow
No tomorrow

chorus
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had

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It was driving Prue crazy. She couldn't take this anymore.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
she yelled trying to shake her head, getting the picture and music away, what simply was impossible. Then, the scene finally changed, leaving Prue in the fogs again, as she tried to calm down. She still continued to sob
"make it stop... oh god... please make it stop..."
she begged.

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Everyone's attention had been on Phoebe and so they all got a little fright as Prue suddenly started screaming.
"Prue? Prue!"
Andy said, almost yelled, again trying to touch her. Again his hand was shrugged off. pushed away by the force field.
"Damn it, you guys need to do something!"
he said looking up at piper and Paige
"we can't"
Paige told him.
"She'll wake when she saw everything to answer her questions. She won't wake before that, no matter what we do"