Different Paths Part 50:
Outcome

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Prue woke in her bed. She was alone. She felt it. She opened her eyes and she was right. Slowly she dragged her still weak body up. She slowly went down and searched for Andy and the girls. She found them in the living. They had been watching some DVD, little mermaid, naturally, then they ate some pizza and now Andy and Mags where wresting, while Anna played a bit off with some doll of hers. Prue leaned onto the door frame and smiled watching. Her little family was perfect and she almost had lost it today. She closed her eyes and enjoyed hearing her daughters' laugh.

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It's that feeling again
That's making me high
It's like floating on air
Reaching out for the sky

That feeling again
When two hearts collide
It comes deep from within
And your Soul's open wide

It's like you're caught in free fall
With no cares at all
Look out then you can see
It's as high as you can get
Open your heart and let it be

Love is all around
Love is all around
Look at what we found
Love is all around

It's that feeling again
And you can't hold it in
As you open your eyes
Your head starts to spin

Ooh, that feeling again
When you don't have to try
It's that ten out of ten
That's so hard to describe

Interlude (It don't get any better than this)

I can't describe what
Makes me feel that way
No, you can't fight it
Just let it happen naturally

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"Mama"
Prue was pulled out of her thoughts and opened her eyes, seeing Brianna look at her. Prue's smile grew. She entered the living and picked her daughter up. Then moved closer to Andy and Meghan and received a gentle kiss from Andy.
"Are you feeling better, mommy?"
"Yes... a lot better"
Prue told her smiling
"will you never again be so weird?"
Prue sighted
"I'll always be a tiny bit weird on this day, princess... but I'll never be this weird again... I promise"
Prue said smiling. Andy smiled as well and kissed her forehead, wrapping his arms around Prue to pull her closer.

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A few hours later, it was almost midnight, the girls were deep asleep. Brianna, still in Prue's arms and Meghan was laying a little off in the armchair. Prue and Andy just kissed and Andy kept crawling her hands and hair gently.
"I can't believe I almost lost you today..."
Andy whispered
"I'm sorry... for everything..."
"It's okay..."
"No... It's not... I hurt you very much today..."
"You had your reasons..."
Andy told her and kissed her again
"can't you just... accept my damn apology?"
Prue asked, half laughing
"okay..."
he answered, giving up
"I forgive you... better"
"a lot!"
she said smiling and they melted in another kiss.
"you know... I never realized... something until today... well I realized a lot things... but two things were just so... surreal..."
"what are you talking about?"
"Andy... on... on the swing... when I saw you for the last time... you were... calm... you..."
Andy smiled. He knew what she meant
"it was like... recording something... a year ago... I had to... practically record myself..."
"so it weren't... the elders' words or something?"
"no... it were mine... just another version's... an older version of Andy's words... an Andy who knew how things would turn out and that it had to be..."
"I love you"
she whispered. Andy kissed her again and then looked back at her
"and the other?"
"I... the day after your funeral... my sisters... I think it was Phoebe... said... something about... she really will miss you... and... then I said something... I don't even know why I said it... that... I think... that you'll always be with us..."
"that's what I told you... that you will not loose me..."
"yes... but..."
"shshshsh, it's over..."
he whispered and kissed her passionately.
"We should get the kids to bed..."
"no. they're sleeping so peacefully. Maybe we just should... all sleep here... I mean... our couch isn't that bad, now is it?"
Prue asked smiling and pecked him once again...
"I should probably go... see my sisters..."
"they probably will be asleep already..."
"believe me... they're not..."
"I'm not gonna let you..."
Andy was interrupted by the chime of the clock. 12 o'clock. The day was over. Finally. It was the 7th August. Prue and Andy both kind of held their breath, looking into each other's eyes, as if they were waiting for something to happen in these last seconds of the day. Then the clock stopped chiming
"it's over..."
Andy whispered and kissed her. He had never let go off Prue, if it wasn't for the telephone, which started ringing just that instant.
"It's after midnight, who could that be!"
Andy asked
"I can't get up"
Prue said smirking, meaning she had Brianna on her lap.
"ohhh suddenly you can't anymore, huh?"
Andy told her. Prue just grinned as he pecked her before getting up. Prue watched him go and smiled. She then looked down at Brianna, who was sleeping peacefully in her lap. Then glanced up at Meghan who started to stir. She was probably woken up by the telephone. Prue smiled and got up. She went over to the arm chair and crawled Meghan's face and hair gently to get her back to sleep. Meghan wasn't going back to sleep, but opened her eyes. Mags snuggled into Prue's leg, since Prue was sitting on the armlean of the seat. Prue continued to crawl her and after several minutes she just grabbed Mags' hand and walked out of the room with her and Anna to bring them to bed. They walked past Andy and Prue immediately saw, something was wrong. Andy put the phone down and starred at Prue
"what's wrong?"
Prue asked, repeating his look
"Andy, what's wrong?"
she asked again since Andy didn't answer her
"my... my dad... he... he's dead."

The end