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House of Lords
P.O.V : Prue
Chapter 3
-Like Mad-
As many of you might have already figured out I'm not much of a normal person, I mean, I knew I could be quite unique and stuff, but I just didn't know HOW unique. Maybe I did, maybe I always did, deep down. Anyway, that night I discovered how unique I really was.
I was running down the hallway, almost out of breath, carrying my backpack with me and everything else I used to carry around. I kept looking back just as if someone was stalking me but I knew I was alone, and for once, I didn't care. I could say I was scared but in fact, the excitement kept growing inside of me. I could hear my footsteps all the way through the hallway as if I was running ahead of them, the single details of the school that had kept my attention once seemed completely insignificant and all I could think of was, "Where do I go from here?"
As always during this time of the year, it was raining. It was raining like a bastard. The jingle of the rain crashing against the windows was slowly driving me insane, not in a bad way, in fact, as I told you I had never been so excited in my life. Slowly, I started stopping until I pretty much my knees gave up on me and I fell down. The floor was so bright that I could see myself reflected on it. .My eyes, always somewhere in between blue and green were now bright blue, as if one part of my soul had finally took over my whole body. My cheeks were red which was a contrast with my pale skin, I had hair all over my face and I was sweating, boy, was I sweating. At such a bad hour to stay awake, the entire school was deserted and that was when I liked it best. However, that night, no one was sleeping, for it was homecoming, homecoming dance. For the second time during my existence I was glad there was a school dance, just 'cause, just because no one would bother me that night. I picked up my stuff and kept running to my bedroom.
I opened the door and shut it right behind me, threw my stuff to one side of the room and run into the closet. Like a madwoman, I started throwing stuff out of the closet looking for something I was sure I would never want to see again.
"Dammit, where is it?" I pretty much yelled to myself. "Dammit,"
Rene, my roommate opened the door and stared at me for a while, I never knew exactly how long but I didn't notice her until she called my name. "Prue, what's going on?" She asked me.
"Nothing. Whyaren'tyouatthedance?" I said too quickly, although she picked it up. She gazed at me with her deep brown eyes while played with her long brown-reddish hear. I guess she saw all the excitement growing inside of me because she smiled, no, she smirked.
"What are you looking for?"
"Nothing" I repeated.
"So, are you just throwing our stuff around for fun?"
"Yes, exactly, I'm having a terrific time all by myself" I said sarcastically, begging that she would leave.
"Yeah right. Seriously Prue, what's going on?"
"Mind your own business, okay?" I snapped throwing more stuff against the wall. Accidentally, I knocked everything off the table. One of the pictures of me and Rene and my little sister broke in a thousand pieces when it crashed with the floor. "Oh crap!" I cried. "Where the hell—
Rene got closer to me and sat down by my side. Let me tell you something about Rene, she was always there for me, it didn't matter how weird I was acting. She was like the mother I never had, she was kind of older than me, or at least she looked older. I never knew why a person like her was hanging out with someone like me but I was glad she was there. She grabbed my wrists and made me look at her. "Prue, stay with me, okay?"
"I'm fine. I'm fine" I tried to convince her. "I need to find it. The book. I need to find the book, I need to bring her back so—
"Prue, you can't. We've been through this many times. Piper passed away…" She said with a calmed voice. Then, she tried to hug me but I didn't let her.
"I know she is. Don't you think I know she is? But this time, is different, she has talked to me. I was, I was making up a test and Mr. Spalding, he…, he was talking to me and then I heard Piper's voice. I heard her! Then, something weird happened, the water in the tubes started boiling! Spalding saw it too, he saw…"
"Prue, that was the chemistry room. Stuff like that always happens" Rene tried to convince me.
"No, I'm telling you. It was…MAGIC!"
"It was your imagination"
"No, it wasn't" I stared yelling. "Why don't you believe me! You are supposed to believe me! You are my friend!" I kept on. I knew what I had seen, I knew it was real. I knew it.
"Sweetie…"
"Rene! I'm not lying"
She started shaking her head and held me, for some reason I felt better, clamed, collected. "I know what I saw" I finally whined.
"Come on, sit" Rene said taking me to the bed. "Sit down, there you go."
"I know what I saw" I insisted. "I'm not crazy"
"Prue, I know you aren't"
"I can…I think it's in me. I think I can control it…if I try" I said getting all excited again but Rene shook her head. "No, okay? Prue, we've gone through this and we agreed…"
"Sucks to our agreement. I know what I saw" I said again.
Rene sighed and said. "Prue, every year, you swear you've heard Piper's voice…"
"But I…"
"…every year, remember freshman year? You were going out with Andy and you started hearing Piper…you ran off to the lake, remember that?"
"Yes but…It's not the same!"
"It's not?"
"No!"
"How is it different?"
"It just is"
"How?"
"I don't know!"
Rene caressed my face. I never knew how she dealt with me those days. How she found the strength to do it. "This is just another episode"
"No!" I denied. "I heard her". Now I had tears in my eyes. Why couldn't she just believe me when I said I'd heard her?
"You don't make sense Prue. You are out of yourself"
"NO!" I tried to get up but she held me down. "Let me go!"
"I can't. I'll get expelled"
"So?" I pushed her away from me and tried to get up. "Look, my sister needs me and I am stuck here. I'm not crazy! She jumped on me and made me stay on the bed, soon, our fight started to get full of tears, screams and slaps. "Don't Prue"
"I heard her" I whined once again about to cry. I could hear her voice right now, clearly, she was calling me, she needed help. I heard her, no kidding, I did hear her.
"I know you did sweetie but it's just in your head. She is not really there Prue, she passed away and you know it. You have pushed people away from you many times…Phoebe, your Grams, your few friends, even Andy…"
"Don't talk about him" I said. "Just don't"
"He didn't dump you Prue, at least he didn't want to. You made him, you…Prue, you've gotta let go of that attitude, it's leading you to the end of your life. You can't go on like this. Remember freshman year, remember what happened?"
I stared at her from, grimacing. Then, I glazed everywhere in the room, trying to get out of the situation. Clothes were all over the floor and pictures, pictures were hanged on the walls. Books were all over the place, chemistry books, psychology books, math books, English books, all over the place. It was still raining but not as hard as before and everything seemed to be calmed, and still. "Are you with me Prue?" Rene asked me gently. I wasn't. My mind was lost at some point of the blue lake, freshman year, homecoming. I had gone with Andy, we were dancing, everything was perfect. I was falling for him, my numbness was gone, I felt every heartbeat inside. Then, I started hearing Piper's voice, calling me, begging me for help and I ran off, following the voice. It took me to the lake. I could have sworn it was coming from the depths of the lake so I jumped in and dived until I lost my breath. I damn nearly drowned down there. After that, Andy asked me what had happened and I started yelling at him. He said that he couldn't stand me, that I was crazy and left. He was gone for like four days and then, he came back and that's when we started not to get along, he would always be asking ridiculous questions at the worst places so I just decided to ignore him and so on, we started hating each other back then. That night, I met Rene, she was new to the school and soon, we became best friends.
"What happened to Piper?" She asked me softly as if she was afraid that I'd break in a thousand pieces. "What happened?"
"I don't remembered" I lied.
"Yes you do"
"I don't want to talk about it!"
"Why not?"
"I just don't want to talk about it. God, it's not that hard to get" I snapped and glazed around the room looking for a cigarette. "I need to smoke,"
"You are done with that missy" She said in a dead serious voice while, my other friend, Holden, stormed into the room. He looked very pale and out of himself, very out of his mind. He stared at us and then, gazed at Rene who gave him a severe look. "We're busy right now"
"I need to smoke" I said ignoring Rene.
"No smoking" Holden said. That wasn't him. Holden was pro-smoking. If there was something he loved more than himself, that was smoking. "What's going on?"
"Prue is not alright. She is hearing things" Rene said. Holden nodded as if he knew what the story was all about.
"Well, we have bigger problems than that. He knows"
"Who knows?"
"Who else?"
Rene went pale too. "What are we going to do?"
"We have to tell him the truth. Both of them"
"What's going on?" I demanded to know. I got up and went straight to Holden. He pulled me into a hug and, again, for some reason his heartbeat relaxed me, I started getting more and more relaxed, sleepy, groggy until I finally gave in and my eyes started to close, everything seemed to be moving, and then, pitch black.
(P.O. V; Holden's. Same time, same place)
"She knows, Rene, maybe she doesn't fully realize it but she knows something is up" I said trying to sound convincing enough for "Mrs. Wisdom" to believe me. I still had Prue in my arms, she looked so damn peaceful. I laid her on her bed and wrapped her with blankets just like I did that day, four years ago. I caressed her forehead and said, "We're driving her insane"
"What else can we do? Holden, I don't know if she is really hearing the voices or making it all up. She is not ready to be part of our world! That's why she came here, because she is just not ready yet" Rene complained. She sticks to the rules way too much.
"Look, if you don't tell her I will. I won't let her go insane!"
"You will not say anything. I'm the boss here alright?" Rene said getting angry.
"Then be a good boss!" I snapped. "Look at her, she is all skin and bones, she is suffering…!"
"At least I don't limit myself to smoke! Just like you do, you've gotten her started in that crap! I'm driving her insane? You are killing her!"
"How else was I supposed to gain her trust? If you haven't noticed, she is allergic to people! And I didn't say you were—
"I gained her trust without smoking or alcohol!"
"She hasn't told you want happened to Piper, has she?" I snapped. She shook her head. "Then, she doesn't fully trust you."
"Any ideas?"
"Only one"
"well…"
"Trudeau"
hey how are you all? I hope you liked this new chapter. I know I said magic wouldn't be involved but it was just…perfect. I couldn't let it pass lol. Sorry if I disappointed you.
