Growing
Part 6:
Midnight
Drama
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In
the middle of the night Prue woke form sounds in the bathroom. She
opened here yes and was blinded by the light from the bathroom. She
closed her eyes gain and turned around again. She turned the light on
her night stand on and sat up in the bed. She looked on the clock
2.13 a.m. . Prue grumbled and got up, walking to the bathroom
"heey"
"hey..."
Andy said turning around in the shower
"sorry... charges..."
"well... sorry... but...
daughters..."
"yeah... I think they're over at Lily's
room..."
"it's after 2 a.m. ..."
"well... there's
light on and I heard Anna and Mags"
"you didn't go in?"
"no... Thought it might be important..."
"it's 2 a.m.
... they have..."
"no school tomorrow"
Prue sighted
"sooo what did you want to talk to me about?"
"it's
three things you won't like... and each of it belong to one..."
"okay... start with Anna... she can't be big trouble..."
"she stole Mags' make up..."
"noooo! Not make up! Not
boys..."
"I'm afraid so... aaand I promised her we'd get
some make up for her tomorrow"
"why did you do that?"
"cause she's 13... She needs her own make up..."
"no
she doesn't... she's ... my girl... you know?"
"so was
Mags..."
"I hate you saying such things"
Prue smiled at
him and watching him getting soaped and all
"okay... I guess I
know... what's with Mags... she caused a car accident..."
"no
she didn't... way worse... for you..."
"it gets worse than
Anna wanting make up?"
"yes... and I need you to promise me,
that you'll not kill someone... after you heard it"
"okay..."
"she... as she says 'maybe'... wants to have sex with
Robbie."
Andy starred at her
"Andy?"
"I'm gonna
kill him... and her"
he said still starring at Prue...
"you
promised me you'd not"
"please tell me I heard wrong when
you said... sex and Mags in the same sentence..."
"nope..."
"what did you tell her?"
"that she's not allowed to
see Robbie anymore..."
"Oooh I love you..."
Prue
smirked
"... in the evening... till she saw a doctor and got
herself birth control pills..."
"I... do think... I'm
having a heart attack right now..."
"no you aren't, stupid"
Prue said laughing
"where from do you know that? My dad
died on a heart attack..."
"yeah and my did almost as well...
so?"
"okay... calm me... what's with Lil?"
Prue
didn't answer but instead looked at the door, which was coming from
outside, where someone had knocked.
"Come in!"
Prue
yelled. Mags entered the bathroom and looked at her mom, kinda scared
"what's wrong?"
Prue asked, immediately worried.
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Half an hour earlier:
Brianna
was creeping up to the attic, to her bigger sister's room. She
knocked on it and then entered
"Mags..."
Meghan didn't
reply
"Mags... please..."
"Anna! It's late... get
away!"
"no... c'mon... there's something with Lily..."
"what? What's wrong?"
"she's... she's burning
up... it's crazy... I never felt someone being this hot... she...
she's scared the cancer is back... she doesn't want to tell mom
and dad cause she doesn't want back to hospital..."
"w...
wa... waaait a second..."
Meghan said and fumbled around,
turning on the light on her night stand, sitting up. "Lily ahs
pain?"
"yeah... she says she has it in the same spot, she had
pain in... when... when... Mags I'm scared... she looks really
bad..."
Anna said, as tears shot to her eyes.
"Shshs...
Anna we need to stay calm now, okay? You can't freak now, okay?"
Anna nodded and pushed her tears away
"let's go...
maybe... it's not cancer... maybe it's something else..."
Mags
said, getting out of her bed and wrapped her bathrobe around her,
then went with Anna back down to Lily. Mags sat down on Lily's bed
and looked worried at her. She really looked worst. She felt her
forehead.
"Did you take temperature?"
Mags asked Anna.
Brianna shook her head
"okay... umm... go get the one from your
guys' bathroom..."
"you'll not tell mom and dad, right?"
Lily asked lowly.
"Lil... you're... really not looking so
good..."
"I don't want back to hospital..."
"I... I
know... but..."
"there"
Anna said handing Meghan the
thermometer
"we'll see, okay Lily? Now c'mon... let me take
your temperature"
Meghan told her and placed the thermometer in
Lily's mouth. Anna climbed onto the bed and over Lily setting
herself on the other side of their little sister.
"Is... is the
only thing hurting your stomach? Nothing else? No sneezing or
coughing?"
Mags asked, even though she knew the answer, since
she didn't hear her at any time today.
"Only my side..."
Lily whispered.
"but... I heard her throw up... several
times... that's how I found her in the bathroom..."
Anna told
Mags and exchanged worried glances with her bigger sister
"Mags...
please say she's not back to that..."
"Anna..."
Mags
said... not being able to go further and somewhat happy, that they
were interrupted by the beeping thermometer. She grabbed it from
Lily's mouth and looked at it. 41,17°C
"Anna... go to
bathroom and get Lily a cold cloth... I'm gonna talk to mom..."
"no!"
Lily cried out
"Lily... you're... you've
passed the temperature... any normal human can take... we have to
call a doctor... at least talk to mom... or dad... or both..."
"Mags please... I don't want this crap happening again..."
"it happens whether mom and dad know or not, Lily... only by
hiding it... nothing's getting better... the docs..."
"will
do chemo again..."
"will heal you again..."
Mags told
her...
"please don't"
"I can't different..."
Mags said, not wanting to loose her sister. Mags got up
"Maggie... please..."
Mags ignored her and left her room.
She wanted to go to the bedroom, but then saw light and heard talking
from the bathroom and knocked there
"come in"
came her
mother's voice. Mags bit her lip and entered. She actually would
have turned away cause of her naked father, but she was too worried
about Lily
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"Lily...
she...s he's burning up... I... Anna got me... a few minutes ago...
and... I took her temperature... and she's over 40°C... she
says she has pain in her side... she... she... mom..."
Mags
said starting to cry. Prue didn't look at Andy speechless. She knew
there was something wrong. She simply knew it. She went for her
oldest daughter and hugged her tightly
"shshshshs... we'll
get her to the hospital... everything will be okay again..."
"she... she doesn't want to..."
Mags sobbed. Prue
glanced back at Andy
"I'm gonna get dressed"
Prue
nodded...
"hurry"
Prue told him, almost begging. Then
lead Meghan with her to Lily's room.
"Okay... umm... Mags...
Anna... you two... go downstairs... make some coffee... and...
Popcorn... and... Take any DVD you want..."
"what about
Lily?"
Anna asked
"dad and I'll take her to the
hospital..."
"we wanna come... please mom..."
Prue
looked at her daughter's begging face and remembered how often
Grams had forbidden her and her sisters to come along or to be there
for one of their sisters. She remembered how cruel it always was and
how they always hated her for not letting them be there
"okay...
okay... but... go downstairs... okay? Make some coffee..."
"okay..."
"and... And... Umm... go to... to the
manor... tell aunt piper where we are and to call your
grandparents... and tell everyone, okay?"
"okay"
Mags
nodded and took Anna's hand and lead her from the room. Prue
sighted. She saw already from far how bad Lily looked.
"Hey..."
"hey."
Lily said in a whisper, not able for more.
"I
thought we made clear, that you tell me if something is wrong..."
Lily looked down
"how long do you have pain already?"
"a
few weeks..."
Lily told her.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"I don't want chemo again... please mommy... let me die... I
don't want chemo again."
Tears sprang to her eyes, as Prue
heard what her little sunshine said
"Lily no... No... You're
not gonna die... no..."
"I don't want chemo... my hair...
it's finally long again... I don't wanna loose it... mommy
please..."
Prue bit her lip
"the hair will grow again,
baby... the most important now is, that u... you are getting
really... really fast better now..."
"don't take me to the
hospital... please mommy..."
Prue sighted... she was pulled
between helping her daughter and doing what she wanted. Andy entered
the youngest Trudeau's room as well
"please mommy... no
chemo... please..."
Prue looked at Andy, who saw Prue was
willing to leave her home. He shook his head and Prue looked down at
Lily again
"Lily... please... you have to listen to me now,
okay? Dad will take you to the hospital now..."
"noooo...
mommy please"
"shshshshs... we have to check this pains out,
okay? It doesn't have to be cancer... it can... also maybe... be
something else... we'll just check it out for now... and then we
decide what we're gonna do, okay?"
Lily didn't answer but
kept crying... Prue looked desperately down at her
"get her
some blanket and some other things"
Andy told her. Prue nodded
and kissed Lily's forehead before letting go of her daughter's
hand. Andy walked over and wanted to pick Lily as she disappeared,
using her powers to reappear in her desk-chair
"Lily... stop it
now. I'll take you to the hospital, one way or another..."
"no... Daddy..."
"Lily, this has to be... you have to
get checked out..."
finally Andy picked her. Prue threw a
blanket over her
"I'm... gonna follow with Mags and Ann..."
Andy nodded
"I love you"
Prue told Lily and kissed
her forehead again. She was scared, it could have been the last time.
She looked at Andy with tears in her eyes. Andy just pecked her fast
and then disappeared with Lily. Prue bit her lip and sat down on
Lily's bed. she covered her face with her hands and started to sob
"oh god... please..."
Prue took herself a few minutes to
calm down and then went to the girls' room and got their clothes.
What they wore the other day. She got dressed herself again and went
downstairs and into kitchen
"everything done?"
Prue asked
in a weak voice, showing she had cried.
"Yeah"
Mags said
in an almost equal voice, just a whole lot worst.
"Okay... get
dressed... I get everything into the car already"
"can't
we..."
"no... We're driving there, like any normal
family..."
"but..."
"goddess... girls... please!"
Prue almost yelled
"just once... I don't want to hear
this buts with everything me or your father say..."
the girls
stopped complaining and so Prue grabbed the can full of coffee and
the bag for Lily again and went outside to the car.
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Prue
and the girls met Andy at the hospital
"where's she?"
Prue
asked
"they put her right into surgery..."
"what's
wrong?"
"nothing... like we thought... it's her appendix...
but... it broke... and... It's very dangerous... they... they don't
know if she'll make it..."
"noo..."
Anna made and
leaned into her mom, even more. Prue was short before breaking down
herself. Meghan just stood somehow behind. Holding her mom's hand
tightly, crying silently...
"okay... c'mon... you guys better
sit down..."
Andy said and lead Prue and with that also the
girls to some close by chairs. Prue sat down in the middle. Meghan
clung onto her right arm. Leaning her head on her shoulder but
sitting straight. Anna sat down on Prue's left side and laid her
upper body down on her mom's lap. Prue crawled Anna's head and
Mags' hand, while she starred into Andy's eyes, who crawled her
head, to calm her down
"I should have... made her talk...
not... give her pain killers..."
"this is not your fault..."
"the hell it isn't... I'm her mother! I should have
known!"
"Prue... this is not the time..."
he
whispered...
