Growing
Part 4:
Prue
– Alone?
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Prue
laid in her bed, still half asleep and half enjoying the peace and
quietness. The door was opened and then she heard footsteps. Then she
felt how the bed slowly sunk down on her left and then someone
started to kiss her bare back, then up her neck to her cheeks, eyes
and then finally lips. Prue started to smile and returned the kiss,
slowly turning around
"morning"
Andy greeted her
"morning"
Prue mumbled as he pulled away and she opened
her eyes.
"Paige is downstairs... without the triplets, wanting
breakfast; Meghan wants your car to get to school; Brianna claims to
be ill and Lily locked herself in the bathroom..."
Andy told
her
"which bathroom?"
Prue asked sleepily
"ours..."
"right... tell Paige, she only gets breakfast when she's done
feeding the triplets... give Mags my car keys and tell her, she only
can have it, if she takes Anna and Chris along... the two younger
once my astral self and myself will handle... and now to you... I
love you... make breakfast... please eat something and have a good
day"
Andy smiled
"see ya tonight"
Andy said and
kissed her again. Prue sighted and sat up more, tightening the bed
sheet around her, and then used her telekinesis to get her bathrobe
to her. She got in and then astral projected into
the bathroom and got up herself.
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Downstairs,
kitchen of Prue and Andy:
"Mom says you can have the car
keys if you take your sister and Chris to school..."
"what?
But dad..."
"I don't wanna hear it, Mags... whether you walk
or ask one of your aunts to drive you or you take the others and take
your mom's car..."
"I could drive ya"
Paige threw in
"no you don't, cause Prue wants you to feed the triplets
before you can have breakfast"
"I did feed them..."
"sure..."
"morning"
Chris said, as he entered the
kitchen
"morning... wow... you're already all dressed... and
sweating"
"yeah... dad an I were jogging..."
"wow...
you're such 'men'"
Mags commented
"you're so
funny Meghan"
Mags stuck her tongue out at him
"hey could
you stop?"
Andy asked
"where's Anna, anyway?"
"she
says she's ill..."
"awww... really... I'll check on
her..."
"no... Aunt Prue's doing that..."
"he's
better gonna shower... or else I will not drive him anywhere, dad..."
"Meghan..."
"you're so..."
"okay... you two
stop this right now!"
Andy said in a louder tone
"Chris...
take your aunt back to the manor... get a shower and a breakfast and
then come back... Mags will drive you"
"I hate you being the
only one able to drive"
"better get used to it!"
"Mags!"
Andy warned, raising an eye brow at her, a gesture
the girls learned not to argue with, and then looked back at
Chris.
"go!"
Andy told him and then Chris left
"Paige..."
"yeah... yeah..."
Paige mumbled and followed her nephew.
"I can only take them to school... I still have cheerleader
training after school..."
"it's okay... I'll handle
it..."
Andy told her.
"I'm gonna go upstairs and..."
"no. you're not calling Ashley now... you're helping me
make breakfast and set the table"
"daaad..."
"don't
dad me... just once do what I ask you to do, okay?"
"right..."
Mags mumbled and got dishes, cups, bowls and everything else.
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Brianna's
bedroom:
Prue sat down on the edge of her daughter's
bed. She felt her forehead
"you're not even feeling warm..."
Prue told her
"I'm not feeling well..."
"well...
then we'll take your temperature and if the thermometer shows, you
have no fever, you will go to school..."
"noo..."
"Okay...
then what's wrong?"
"nothing..."
"Anna..."
"my
talk is total crap... I don't wanna do it today..."
"Meghan
looked it through, didn't she?"
"yeah."
"what did
she say?"
"that it's good..."
"then it is good...
now c'mon... get dressed... please Anna..."
"it's bad..."
"I'll tickle you and carry you to school afterwards."
Brianna turned around and looked at her
"you wouldn't..."
"you know I would."
"okay, okay"
Anna said and
threw the covers off herself.
"Thank you..."
Prue said
and left the room to get dressed in her bedroom
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Prue
and Andy's bathroom:
Astral Prue looked somehow shocked.
All over the floor of the bathroom laid medicine bottles and boxes.
Her youngest daughter Lily was sitting in the middle of the chaos
"Lily... what are you doing?"
Prue asked, kneeling down
beside her
"I... have some headache... just wanted to get some
aspirin..."
Prue saw, something was wrong and took her
daughter's shaking hands in hers
"what is it?"
"I
told you... I just have some headache... and I'm writing an essay
later on... so I need to... be able to concentrate..."
"why
didn't you ask dad for a pill?"
"cause... I didn't want
to bother you or dad..."
Prue sighted
"I don't want you
to get yourself any pills, alright, Lil?"
Lily looked down
"okay..."
"alright..."
Prue said and kissed her
forehead just in case. Prue always did that, if she didn't want her
kids to notice she was checking up on their temperature. Lily sighted
heavily at her mother's attempt. She had learned what that kissing
forehead thing meant... and she hated it every time her mother did
it.
"Go downstairs... and grab yourself something to eat...
I'll be down in a sec... Bring you some pain killer, okay?"
Prue
asked, seeing she didn't seem warm
"thanks mom..."
"you'd
tell me if there was more, right?"
Prue asked. Lily nodded and
then went downstairs. Prue sighted, watching her go. Lily always had
been her little sunshine, but on the other hand she also was
permanently worrying her.
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Half
an hour later Prue came downstairs. She first showered, then got
dressed and then tidied the mess Lily had left. She came downstairs
and found her daughters on the table, chatting along. She leaned on
the doorframe for a few seconds, watching them. Prue smiled. This
reminded her on herself and her sisters. Then she finally stepped
into the kitchen
"morning"
she greeted them... it was
like a new start after all what was going wrong before
"morning..."
all three echoed
"there you go"
she whispered to Lily
and handed her the little pill
"thank you mom"
"it's
okay... and next time you ask, understood?"
"yeah"
Lily
said smiling
"what's wrong?"
Mags asked
"nothing...
your sister just has a headache and an essay to write... so she asked
me for some painkiller..."
"Oooh"
Anna made...
"dad
already gone?"
"yeah"
Mags answered. Prue then noticed
the jelly lips on her dish
"dad left those"
Prue smiled
"yeah I know... he used to do that a lot when you girls where
little"
she told them smiling
"that's so yuck"
Anna
commented
"not it's not... it's cute"
Lily told her
sister
"yeah... we can be happy our parents are still this
happy together..."
Meghan told her little sister. her bets
friend's parents had gotten a divorce a while ago and her friend
had always been completely devastated. So she was more than glad, her
parents were alright with each other.
"yeah whatever"
Prue
smiled
"you girls have everything?"
"yes..."
Mags
said...
"we're all set... just waiting for Chris... the
airhead"
"don't call him airhead!"
Anna defended.
Chris and her where something like best friends while Mags and Chris
where like cat and dog.
"you don't talk to your sister in that
way and you don't talk about your cousin that way"
Prue
lectured them
"when you talk about them..."
Mags mumbled
as Chris finally made his way into the house
"okay... then
where are my kisses?"
Prue asked smiling
"on your dish,
mom"
Mags joked. Prue laughed a little and nodded
"and
the ones from you three?"
she asked Anna went up to Prue,
hugged her and pecked her cheek
"bye mom"
"bye... and
hey... you can do that talk, okay? I believe in you... now you just
have to believe in yourself"
Prue told Anna, what she always
used to tell Piper in these situations.
"I know"
Anna said
smiling and then went over to Chris... as they started to chat as
well
"waait! Chris?"
"yeah?"
"who's driving
the rest today?"
"umm... as always... Lily goes with Aunt
Phoebe and the twins...and mom takes the rest..."
"alright,
bye..."
she said and then Mags pecked her cheek
"bye...
drive careful, okay? Want my car back in a piece, alright?"
"moom..."
"yes I know you drive good... now go"
she
said smiling and the three left
"I'll take you to the
manor... come on"
she told Lily and wrapped an arm around her
"no... I'm fine, mom"
Prue sighted
"your headache
already going away?"
"yeah... will you be at home when we
come?"
"yes I will... only have to go into agency in a little
while."
"love you, mommy"
Lily said and hugged her mom
tightly. Prue kissed her temple and smiled
"if you don't feel
well you'll go to the nurse, okay?"
"okay, mom"
"have
a good day Lil."
Lily smiled and then ran off to the manor
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You
still remember me? I'm Prue Trudeau. Like you could see... not much
happened. I'm still the 'mommy-sister'. I'm still the one
handling and dealing with everything I can, though Andy's a big
help.
Andy and I are still happily married and to our two
children came another one. Lily. My daughter's are each blessed
with a gift.
Mags is the one who can handle everything with
notes… music. She sings in a band, loves to dance and also is in
the cheerleading team to do her dancing. I love when we sit in the
living and she plays the piano. It's amazing.
Anna is blessed
with the gift of art. Her pictures and portraits of family members
are hanging all over the house. You wouldn't believe, that the
portraits are seriously drawn and not just a black and white copy of
some picture. I sometimes think, she's better with the whole museum
thing than I ever was.
Lily is good with words. The stories she
writes... goddess... I'm thrilled by what she does and I seriously
wonder where she got that from. When she suddenly disappears, she's
most likely in her room, reading. I don't know half of the books she
knows and loves.
Mags is now 16 and, to the misfortune of Andy,
allowed to drive. Andy hates it. He's always worried when she's
out. He knows what can happen and so is easily scared. Anna is 13
now. She slowly is getting into the boys thing. Andy hates that as
well. As you can see, Andy seriously doesn't like the teenager and
whatever comes after that age of our daughter's. He'd love them
to be forever his little girls. Sometimes I like to think of him like
Steve martin in the father of the bride. Though I know something
he'll hate even more... when Lily gets into that age and he has
lost his last little treasure.
Lily, we also call her Lil, what
seems to be a good nick name... since it's connected to her name
and to her status in the family, is now 10. Though she's still this
young, we never had more worries with a kid than with our little
sunshine. We found out Lily had cancer when she was 6. She had kidney
cancer. They removed it and everything is supposed to be okay now.
Andy and I are always scared about her. For a whole year she was
almost every day in hospital for chemo. It threw her back in school
and so she wasn't allowed to go with Emma and Emily into one class
after she was healed. She hated school. It seems to be better now
again.
But the worry never laves. Lily is a very shy and sensible
kid. She'd never say, she wouldn't like something at school or
elsewhere. She'd never say if something was wrong. If she was in
pain. She is always afraid of bugging me or Andy. I guess she has
that from those days in hospital, where she always though of herself
as pain in the neck. Andy and I couldn't bring her off that
thought. That's also the reason why we probably pamper her more
than her sisters.
When it comes to business things are almost the
same as well. Andy's still a cop. And I'm still a photographer. I
opened my own photo-agency when Lily started to go to kindergarten.
The first time it was pretty hard, but nowadays it's going pretty
good. When the thing with Lily started, I even was able to get a
manager. That's why I don't have to be that often in the agency
nowadays anymore. And I'm glad about it. I'm happy I have more
time for my kids and Andy again.
Lily worried me this morning.
There's something wrong. I can feel it.