Growing Part 7:
Welcome to the wonderful world of mothers

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At 8 a.m. the next morning Prue, Andy and the girls still sat in almost the same position in a room, some nurse showed them to, waiting for news from lily.
"I don't understand how this can take so long... I thought appendix was something simple..."
"not when it broke"
Andy whispered back
"you should take Maggie and Ann home... they need some sleep and you do too..."
"they won't want to go..."
"they're asleep... Mags gave up a few minutes ago as well... and you look, to be honest, pretty bad... you're up for more than 24 hours now... you need some sleep..."
she whispered
"I'm okay..."
"Andy... I'll call you when something happens..."
"I don't wanna leave you alone..."
Prue smiled and pecked him
"I'm gonna send Piper here..."
"no... It's Saturday... let them take some time off with the kids..."
"then I send my mom..."
"honey... I'm fine..."
"I don't want you to be alone here..."
Prue sighted
"okay"
she answered and Andy and her kissed before he got up and put his hands on the girls, orbing with them to his and Prue's bedroom. He settled Anna and Mags down on the bed, somehow as close as possible, so they wouldn't notice Prue wasn't there anymore. He then went to the bathroom and called his mom. After the second ring, his mom answered already
"Andy?"
"hey mom"
Andy answered
"is Lily okay?"
"I don't know... they took her so surgery right after I got into hospital... Prue wanted me to bring the girls home and get some rest... that's why I'm home now..."
"they took her to surgery?"
"yeah... it's... not cancer... it was her appendix... it broke... and they're taking it out... it's critical... umm... mom... look... I didn't sleep at all last night... and... I just... don't want Prue alone in the hospital... could u..."
"yeah... sure... sweet dreams"
"thanks... umm... Prue's in room... 213... we... she was able to wait there till Lily would come to the room"
"alright... good night"
"I don't know if I can fall asleep..."
"take a sleeping pill..."
"no... I wanna hear if Prue calls..."
"alright... if you say so..."
"bye mom"
Andy said and hang up. Andy sighted and sat down on the edge of the bathtub, taking some minutes until going back to the bedroom and laying down on his side, while the girls laid on Prue's. He covered them up a little and then went to sleep himself.

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Prue held her breath as someone knocked on the door. She looked up at it as seconds later Julia entered. Prue's hope sank and she looked down again
"hey"
"hey"
Prue answered lowly
"you okay?"
"I'd be... if... if Lily would finally get out of this damn surgery..."
"oh honey..."
Julia said and went to her
"you didn't... see her... Julia... she... she was so pale... and hot... and..."
"hey, hey, hey... shshs"
Julia said and hugged her
"she'll be okay..."
"I told that the whole night Anna and Mags... and you're only telling me it, for the same reason I told them..."
Prue told Julia, who smiled
"welcome in the world of mothers..."
Prue smiled a little as well... tears still in her eyes
"why don't they come here... and say how she's doing... why..."
"Prue... you have to stop or you drive yourself crazy..."
"I just wished I could see her..."
Prue whispered and leaned into Julia, starring into nothing. Julia just started crawling her back, trying to calm them both for a while... finally the door sprang open and a bed was rolled in. Prue sprang up form the bed already in the room and looked at the small figure on the bed. Her youngest daughter. She looked at the doc with a questionable look
"Mrs. Trudeau?"
"yeah. Is... Is she okay? Did she make it? What's wrong?"
"your daughter is alright. Don't worry. It just took us a while to get everything of the appendix out since there were little parts everywhere. We had to remove all the blood and wait tills he got more stabile from time to time."
"but she's okay now..."
"yes... she should be... we just have to be extra careful with the risk of infection. Her immune system is pretty down with the fever she has, but we're sure she'll make it"
"what's with the iv?"
"pain killers"
"alright..."
"okay... but last but not least I have to ask you... why did you wait so long to bring her here?"
"she... didn't tell us... you see she had cancer... a few years back... and she was afraid... it was back... she didn't want to go back to chemo and so she hid everything..."
"I see. Well, if you need anything just press the bottom. Your daughter should wake any minute"
"thank you"
Prue said as the doc and nurses left
"I'll leave you two alone... call the manor
"but... only the manor... let Andy and the girls sleep a little..."
"okay"
Julia said smiling and pecked her temple. Prue smiled back and then went over to the bed and sat down on one of the chairs, taking her daughter's hand in hers, crawling her pale cheek. Half an hour later. Lily opened her eyes. She carefully looked around and then saw the IV in her arm. She suddenly started to panic, hyperventilate.
"No! No!"
she yelled, pulling the IV out of her arm. Prue couldn't react fast enough to keep her from it. The monitors automatically started blinking an alarm going off
"Lily... Lily!"
Prue yelled, trying to hold her back
"no... No chemo... I don't want chemo"
Lily said giving into Prue's strength and laying back down
"shshshs"
Prue whispered to her. She leaned her face to the equal parts of her daughter looking into her eyes, crawling her sides
"shshs... everything's okay... you're okay"
"I don't want chemo, mommy"
"you don't get chemo..."
a nurse and doctor came into the room. They saw heartbeat and breath almost normal again and so let Prue proceed while they set the IV again.
"What's wrong?"
"it was just your appendix... you're gonna be okay... the IV is just painkillers..."
Prue whispered
"you're okay... you're okay"
"I want home..."
"shshs..."
Prue whispered again and pulled away
"no! Mommy! Stay!"
Prue sighted
"okay... I'm here... I'm here..."
Prue whispered and then laid down next to her. Lily laid her head on her shoulder... hiding between Prue's shoulder and face.
"Shshshs..."
Prue whispered and kissed her forehead. Prue reached with her hand over Lily and crawled the back of her head.
"its okay..."
Prue told more herself than Lily
"Lily... we need to talk about something"
Lily didn't react
"you almost died today... just cause you didn't tell me or dad or anyone else about this pain you had. You have to tell us such things, Lily. We don't want to make you suffer, baby... we just want to help u... okay?"
Lily again didn't reply, but Prue knew she still was awake
"alright?"
Lily slowly nodded
"promise you'll tell me if something like this happens again?"
Lily nodded again
"promise"
she whispered. Prue kissed her daughter's forehead
"I love you"
she told Lily and then continued to crawl her, get her to sleep, rest a little...