N/A; This new chapter is going to be a little bit longer because I have decided to include some Andy/Prue moments. I wasn't thinking about doing it but I have realized that people really like that so this chapter and specially that part is for all of you who like the couple. I'll be answering reviews every 2 chapters so I don't spoil anything. Thanks a lot for everything. Also I don't know if I clarified it or not, Paige's new teacher is The Seer, they just don't know who she is yet. Did you really think I was going to leave The Seer out? She is like one of my favorite characters…She is just…well, evil. Lol. Enjoy.

Chapter 4

Piper's anger and Prue's pain

"Why didn't you tell me anything?" Andy asked almost yelling. "You know what? I don't care you are moving in! I won't let her hurt you again! I'll never let anybody hurt you again! Prue I am so sorry I should have…I should have noticed damn it! How can I be so dumb? You are my girlfriend since when, freshman year? I have known you forever! Why didn't I notice!" Andy said to himself more than to Prue, he was completely freaked out "We are going to the Manor to pick up whatever you need. And your sisters, yes, your sisters too, you are all moving in here…I'll,…I'll sleep in the garage or something, and your sisters can have my room and the guest room and you can sleep in the attic.."

Prue grabbed his hands trying not to laugh, okay, it wasn't the right moment to laugh but Andy was making a huge deal, his eyes were completely out of their orbits and his skin was pale. He had started planning everything, and she was sure that if she wasn't there he would have gone over her house himself and do some crazy thing…Not like he hadn't done it before.

"Andy, honey, calm down is alright" Prue tried to explain him. "I'm fine is just a bruise"

"Just a bruise? PRUE!" Andy cried.

"No Andy, listen to me" Prue begged "I DON'T want you to do anything crazy, or stupid. I don't want you to get closer to the Manor alright?"

"No! I love you! Don't you get that? I can't stay and watch TV while the woman of my life is getting beaten up! This time is just a bruise but next time you could get killed! How am I supposed to live without you Prue?" Andy stared at her. He knew she wouldn't put him in any danger even if her life depended on it. He knew Prue Halliwell too well; he could never get to convince her to leave if she didn't want to. However, there was something different in Prue's eyes; something that worried him deeply. Prue gave him a look that could have mean 'You know I can't'. But he stared at her, looking within her eyes for a fissure in Prue's wall. A wall that she had built in between her and the rest of the people. She wouldn't let anyone in, but he knew that some day, she will knock it down and let him in her heart, until then, he had to look trough the fissures to see Prue's heart. "Promise me that if your mom hits you or your sisters again you will call me, please, just promise" Andy begged.

"Promise" Prue smiled. Andy wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her softly too scared to break her in a million pieces. Prue kissed him back with a new intensity. She had never kissed anyone like that before.

"Prue," Andy said. She looked at him. "Not that I don't appreciate you telling me the truth but…is there anything else you want to talk about?"

"I'm thinking about anything else than talking right now" Prue admitted with a guilty smile. Just to imagine what she meant put a smile on Andy's face. 'Andrew Trudeau, focus!' "No Prue, seriously, today you have been different, is not bad, is just…well, you barely let me touch you in front of people, or kiss you, or even…I don't know.

When we are surrounded by people I always feel like our relationship is between you and me and them…but today I have felt like it was just the two of us"

"Is that bad?" Prue asked confused

"It is awesome" Andy answered while he held her. They both sat down again, Prue on Andy's bed and Andy on the floor, close to her. Andy's room was something like their sanctuary. There was pictures of the two of them everywhere. Some were from high school, most of them. However, Prue was looking to a picture she hadn't noticed it was there. It was a picture of her and Andy when they were around eight. They were both happy and laughing with Piper, Phoebe and Paige and behind all of them, there was a woman with a little kid, he had big black locks and green eyes. She will never forget those eyes, and even though the kid wasn't more than three years old she knew who he was; Ethan.

"Andy when did we take this picture?" Prue asked pointing at it. Andy looked at it and smiled. He got up and grabbed it, then he sat by Prue and pulled her in to a hug.

"Don't you remember it? You are getting old!" Andy joked but he wasn't far from the truth. "Summer after third grade, you, me and your sisters went with my parents to the zoo, it was your birth day!"

"Oh!" Prue gasped. Of course she didn't remember because…in her world it didn't happen. In her world, her mom was already dead by then. Suddenly she felt pressure in her throat and her eyes watered.

"Prue what's wrong?" Andy asked.

"Nothing is just…"Prue tried to make up an excuse but she didn't make sense. She couldn't stop tears. 'Don't cry Prue, please don't break down in front of him. What would I say to him? That I am dead! That he is dead too! That there is no future for us…Don't cry Prue…' Andy held her, kissed her forehead and whispered by her ear "Honey cry as much as you need to. I am here for you, you don't have to tell me…" Prue nodded and curled in his arms. "Prue, whatever is bothering you, we can make it through, together, somehow…" And Prue cried. She cried for everything, she cried for her sisters, her mother, she cried for Andy and, for the first time in a long time, she cried for herself. Sometimes, tears don't come from happiness but from relief, that time, was one of those times. Right there, in Andy's arms, she realized that it didn't matter how screwed up the world was, it didn't matter as long as they stayed together. Prue realized that she would follow Ethan to hell and back if by doing so, she could change her destiny and Andy's. Because how two perfect lovers could be pulled apart the way they were? It didn't make sense. Not many things made sense those high school days.

When Prue got home, it was passed diner time and she wondered if someone would be mad about it. She hadn't called anyone to say she was going over Andy's. She hoped her mom wouldn't be mad.

Almost all the lights were turned on and she could hear the music from Phoebe's bedroom.

"I'm home!" She called. She heard steps coming from the top floor. It was obviously Paige running down. "Mom? Piper?"

Nobody answered so she went to the kitchen and saw her mom cooking. She remembered when she was kid and her mom would come home smelling like hamburger, kiss her and go straight to bed because she was tired from the day. She had missed her so badly. "Mom?"

Patty turned around and smiled to her eldest daughter. "Where have you been?" She didn't sound mad or anything like what she sounded in the morning. She was smiling and happy, just like Prue remembered. "Over Andy's I guess"

Prue smiled and said "Guilty"

"Well, I was making chocolate chip cookies for later…we already had dinner so…I guess you can make yourself a tv dinner or something…you have stuff in the freezer so serve yourself" her mom said Prue couldn't believe how nice she was or better, how could she have hit her that same day? She didn't care, she just…she just wanted her mom back. Looking at that woman made her proud, she had always tried to be like her mom, to look like her, to do what would have made her proud…She had directed all her life towards her mom. But she had to ask.

"Mom?" She asked carefully. "What happened this morning? Why did you…?"

"I don't know what you are talking about honey...What did I do?" Her mom asked, she truly had no idea.

"Never mind" Prue smiled. Maybe another time. She liked her mom like that. Maybe her mom was having a bad day, who doesn't have those? Maybe she was tired and mad…Maybe a spell went wrong or something…

"Prue!" Paige jumped on her.

"Hey bugger!" Prue hugged her. "How was school?"

"We have a weird teacher but it was cool. Glen and I went to play soccer after school and…" Then she lowered her voice. Prue had to make an effort to hear it "and Piper yelled at me and locked herself in her room. I think Pipe is crying like always"

"Why did she yell at you? Why is she crying?"

"She yelled at me because I like mom…I guess…and I don't know why she is crying but she was mean to Phoebe too so she locked herself in her room and none of them talk to me and I am bored. Lets play soccer!" Paige jumped.

"Good idea!" Prue said. "I'll talk to our sisters first, maybe they want to play too"

"Will you be in my team?"

"Always"

Prue went upstairs looking for Piper. They had to talk, they couldn't go on like that. She stopped at Piper's door and, as Paige had said, she could hear Piper crying. She knocked on the door.

"Go away"

"I'm coming in," Prue announced. Prue came in and saw the room. It was such a big mess, the pillows were everywhere, there was books on the floor and Piper was right there, laid on the bed. It broke Prue's heart.

"Honey what's the matter?" She asked sitting next to her.

"Prue go the hell away!" Piper yelled.

"Not until you tell me what's wrong!"

"GO AWAY!" Piper yelled trying to hit her. Prue could notice all of her sister's anger.

Prue pulled her younger sister close to her and, even though Piper tried to get away she couldn't. Prue had always been stronger than her.

"Piper talk to me please," Prue begged. "I love you!"

"If you loved me you wouldn't do what you are doing Prue, you wouldn't hurt us like you are!" Piper yelled. At that point, both Phoebe and Paige were staring by the door.

"What have I done!" Prue asked losing her temper.

"What haven't you done! It is you, and Paige, and Phoebe…and mom and everybody! Don't you see it! She is never going to change!" Piper cried

"She is going to change!" Paige yelled.

"Paige shut up!" Prue yelled.

"No Prue. Piper should apologize!" Phoebe said.

"…she will drink, hit you like every time and then, you forgive her. You all do but I can't! I can't forgive. I can't forget!" Piper cried. "I hate you Prue. I hate you all"

"She is going to change!" Paige yelled.

However, Prue didn't hear anymore. Prue didn't listen anymore. What if Piper was right? She wanted to scream to the world nothing in particular, just to feel better, to get rid of the pain. Phoebe ran to her bedroom and so did Paige. Prue stood there, not knowing what to do or what to say.

"She is not going to change Prue!" Piper continued, more to herself than to Prue. "It has always been this way. Ever since Paige was born. Don't you remember Prue? You suffered the most. Mom fell in depression and you had to take care of us. In the beginning you blamed it on Paige but you loved her so much that you got blind! You said you would protect us but you haven't and you won't… Because you will always see mom with those eyes, hoping she would change and she won't. You failed me, just like you failed yourself. That is why you are never home or why you act like if you were perfect but you are not! You are horrible; you can't live with yourself…"

"Piper that is not true!"

"What is not true Prue? That mom drinks or that you are horrible?"

"Neither of them are true!" Prue yelled. "It can't be"

"Why is that? You don't what to screw up your wonderful life or what?"

"My life is already screwed up enough!" Prue snapped.

"Just like mine and you would help if you saw something instead of saying 'it is a bad day'" Piper said. This time, she wasn't angry or sad. She was talking serene. She was talking the truth and both sisters knew it. Prue felt trapped in between the two, the teenager and the adult. The adult inside her told her that Piper was right, the teenager told her to run away and don't come back.

"Piper I love you" was the only thing she could say.

"If you loved me you wouldn't do this. You would stop mom or…or something…"

"I can't fix everything Piper!" Prue cried.

"Really? You always act like if you could come back from the dead," Piper said seriously. Prue wondered if she could possibly know something but it wasn't possible. Prue needed someone. She thought about Andy but she couldn't call Andy, she couldn't be completely sincere to him. He would never believe. He would never understand. She didn't have her sisters, she couldn't go talk to her mother, even though it was the thing she needed the most. A mother. She had always needed a mother and now she had an alcoholic one. She would have gone to talk to Phoebe but she was too young and so was Paige. She didn't quite trust her friends, not the adult Prue. She needed someone who knew the entire story. She needed Ethan.

"I love you" Prue said again.

"You already said that"

Prue couldn't say anything else. She couldn't stand it. She needed to leave the house. Leave forever. She turned around and run to her bedroom, grabbed her keys and run downstairs.

"Are you leaving Prue?" her mom asked like if nothing had happened. Prue didn't answer. How could she be so blind? Prue left the house, ignoring that both, Paige and Phoebe were staring at her from their windows. Wondering how many more people were going to leave them.

Prue drove around the city, without knowing where to go or what to do. She didn't cry. She didn't speak a word because she had a battle within her mind. In between an adult and a teenager. In between dead Prue and alive Prue. She wished she could talk to Ethan, just like if he was going to appear right in front of her and save her just like he did before. In the end, she decided to go to a random park she used to go to. A park, everything started in parks. She thought about going to the lake where her mother died but…since her mother didn't die, it didn't really make any sense.

She parked her car and stared at the darkness. Everything was calmed and still, the crisp rhythm of the wind was the only thing she could hear. If only…if only she could do something to take everything out. She battled her memories, the new memories that had started to come back to her. Memories of her mother drinking and Piper…the sweet Piper always caught in the middle. That was why Phoebe went that way or why Paige didn't seem to be an eight grader but a fifth grader…because each one of them was trying to face the hard truth in their own way. Prue's desire to be alive had put her sisters in that situation. Prue cried, feeling guilty about it, even though she didn't ask for it.

"It is hard huh?" a silvery voice whispered behind her back. She knew he was there. Somehow, Ethan was there. She turned around and faced him. He looked horrible, his lips were bleeding and his nose looked broken. His hair was all dirty and it looked like one of his arms was broken. Yet he was smiling. "Sorry I left you"

"Why Ethan? Why did you do this?" Prue asked him. She didn't care much about his horrible aspect.

"Prue…I…need you alive. Everyone does"

"Why?"

"I can't tell you!"

"Why not?"

"BECAUSE IT HURTS!"

Sorry I left you hanging there. I want to apologize this chapter was a little bit…intense…sometimes I just lose it while writing. It won't be like this the entire story…I just wanted you to kind of know Prue's feelings and her sisters reactions and changes. This last part was something I just added but I don't know if you guys like it. Please tell me if you want to see Ethan more in the story or not. Also I wanted to say that the M stuff is going to come in the next chapter so if anyone feel they are going to get offended I am already sorry. I know most of you will want to kill me after this (making Patty an alcoholic…) but I need it because without it most of the things wouldn't make sense…I hope you enjoyed it. Please let me know how do you think this should continue… (The Ethan stuff)