A new Power of three Part 20:
The book 3 – building a family
2037, Saturday
2002
He let go of her and then grabbed her hands while going down on one knee
"Prue, you're the best thing that ever came into my life. I love you with all my heart and I don't even want to imagine to live one day without you being around me. This room is something special to us and our relationship, so I thought about continuing this history with proposing to you, right here and tonight"He told her, looking into her eyes and then reached into his smoking pocket, getting out a little box and opened it, holding it up to Prue, just to show her the ring he gave her on their prom night.
"This time it's meant as an engagement ring." He said smiling nervously "Prue, will you marry me?" Andy asked and looked hopefully up at her. Prue just starred at the ring, not able to talk
"Prue?" Andy asked, trying to get her to speak
"Ye… yes… naturally… I don't know anything I'd like more than that"
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2002
"Piper! Phoebe! There's a demon!" Prue yelled, just as the two sisters, who were called, ran to the room, alarmed by Paige's scream.
"That's no demon, Prue! That's our baby sister!" Phoebe told her, not thinking straight just yet…
"And you... have the wrong room… that's Prue's room… the one over there was grams'"
Piper told her, as she pointed to the room in the corner
"Well... c'mon Paige…we better leave" Phoebe said grabbing a few bags as well as Piper and the three younger sisters left the room and closed it behind them. just as they wanted to walk away form the room, Piper froze
"Waaaait a second… that was Prue! Prue's back!" Piper yelled. Phoebe froze as well and turned around as well again, opening the door again, just to make sure, and found their oldest sister indeed in her bed with Andy…
"Hey!" Prue announced, kind of too happy/chipper "What did you mean with our baby sister?"
2002
"That's a reason to cheer" Piper explained as she opened the Champaign. She filled two glasses with it and then handed one to Prue. They both hit their glasses together and then took a sip. But when Piper saw Prue taking a sip, she remembered the baby. She froze and pulled her glass away. Then grabbed for Prue's interrupting her in drinking from the glass
"oh no! You can't!"
"What the hell?! Are you crazy?!"
"Don't Prue me!. Spill it!"
"While you… were… umm gone… we… umm… we found… found out… you're…" "I'm what?"
"You're pregnant…"
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2002
"Well… we… umm… invited you guys, cause we have to make a few announces… four to… to be exact… announces which are hard to tell you guys… but also concern you all more or less… and since it's pretty hard, we decided to do it this once… and then never again. Those… hum… announces are… for some of you maybe… better for others not so good… just… don't freak completely… till you know everything… cause we don't want you to freak just cause of one thing and then are not open for the other things anymore…"
"We... umm… discovered a few weeks ago… that... we're not… three sisters… but… four. She's 23 years old…"
"Excuse me?" Victor asked
"We…. Have another sister, dad"
"That… that's impossible… I wasn't there anymore at that time"
"You needn't be. Paige's our half sister… it happened after you and mom… with Sam… mom's whitelighter"
"Okay… hum… the.. The second announcement is also the third" Prue prepared carefully
"Okay… go ahead…" Julia said smiling
"The news is… that… I'm engaged" She said smiling, showing the ring around. Then looked at victor and his face
"Okay… thanks that I could meet him before you opened this up to me… or us…" "You know him, dad."
Julia froze dead in her tracks as she saw Andy entering the living, just like Richard. It was impossible, that Andy was there. He was dead. they buried him. They visited his grave a billion of times. This was impossible. Darryl looked speechless at his partner, but was in the end the first one to react
"Andy?"
"Hey Darryl. Don't worry. It's me. I'm not a ghost. Not anymore. I'm a whitelighter… like Leo… and… Sam for that matter…"
He added for his mom, so she understood it as well.
Julia shook her head slightly as tears ran down her cheeks. She couldn't believe her eyes. She got up and kinda flew into his arms
"Oh my god… my baby!"
She said gripping tightly onto him, just to make sure, it was really him. She cried into his chest, still not sure, if it really was her son.
"Mom.. You're.. Umm… suffocating me"
He told her smiling and Julia's grip loosened a bit, but she still cried into his chest
"Shshshs… it's okay…. It's really me… I'm back, mom"
He told her rubbing his mother's back, as Richard joined them and put a hand on each one's back
"I always wanted to tell you, how proud I was on you"
"I know dad…"
Andy told him nodding
"Welcome to the family?"
"How would you like to say that once again to your grandchild?" Prue asked smiling
"What?" Four mouths asked
"I'm pregnant"
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2002
"Well... we also can start with you Mister Trudeau" Andy looked at her
"What?"
"Well... some men want to experience this as well. So if you wanna..."
"Umm…" Andy wasn't sure what to answer to this. He felt weird doing it. But on the other hand... he wanted to know how this felt... how it was for Prue to sit there. He simply wanted to do as much as possible practices like Prue to understand how she was feeling. At least try to
"You don't have to do it" Prue told him, pulling him out of his thoughts
"Umm... no... She's right... I wanna experience the most things you experience as well..."
Andy told her and then got up."So... umm... how's this working?"
"You sit normally down and then place your legs in the stirrups…" Dr Andrews told him. Andy nodded a bit and then took one last calming breath before sitting down. Prue smiled a little at the image. Andy was so cute. Hesitantly he placed one foot after the other in the stirrups. Prue couldn't hold back a laugh. This looked just too hilarious. She got up as well and went over to him and pecked his lips
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2002
As his mom finally sat as well, the worst seconds of Andy's live started as he waited to see a glimpse of Prue's dress. Finally he saw a tiny bit of creamy glancing around the corner and step by step she appeared in the aisle, till he saw her full appearance. she looked amazing. He was speechless. She didn't look at all the way he imagined, but still more wonderful than ever before. The flowers, thought he knew how they'd look, matched perfectly to the church, the sisters and also to Prue and her dress. He couldn't keep his eyes of Prue. Their eyes seemed to be locked form the first second on. his heartbeat fastened with every step, Prue came closer to him, with every detail he saw more of her. Finally Victor and Prue reached the altar. Victor kissed her cheek and then let go of her. Finally she stood next to him. He looked at her closely, not believing how wonderful she looked
"you... you... I never saw you this amazing" he stammered. Prue smiled at him
"you look great too" she told him grinning and received a tiny peck from Andy.
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2002
Andy turned around on his heel and while going upstairs he tried to calm himself down even more
"you won't freak... you won't freak... you won't freak…" he mumbled over and over again. As he came closer to their room he heard music coming from it and as he was just right outside of it, he also could hear Prue singing to the music
"Ooh baby love, my baby love. I need you, oh how I need you. But all you do is treat me bad. Break my heart and leave me sad. Tell me, what did I do wrong to make you stay away so long"
Andy opened the door carefully and then entered their room he went through to their closet, which would become the future baby room as soon as it was painted and had a new floor inside and everything... Andy smiled at the image. Prue was painting... but it looked more like she was dancing and singing. The brush was used as microphone and Prue was dancing around while painting a little here and a little there. Despite the amazing look Andy still cleared his throat, getting Prue's attention.
"Daddy... heeey... we're dancing" Prue said grinning as she found the best excuse for painting the baby room, despite Andy told her not to, because of the smells, which sometimes were poisoning both, mother and child
"I can see that" Andy said smiling and went towards her. he kissed her and while being so close to her, he could feel the baby moving pretty much... he smiled even more and turned away
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2002
"Andy..."
"Mhmm…" he murmured, as good as asleep as well
"my water just broke…" Prue told him.
"Okay" Andy mumbled, as he didn't get the words just yet. A few seconds later he gasped and shot up into a sitting position
"what did you just say?"
"My water broke" Prue returned in a calm voice. Andy turned the light back on and Prue could see his panicked expression
"you sure?" he asked. Prue didn't answer but just pulled the covers away, showing him the wet space on the bed and his boxers, she wore.
"Oh my god! Your water broke!"
"I said that already" Prue said gently and started to rub her stomach slightly, while Andy tried to calm himself down…
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2002
But suddenly, there again appeared the same purplish light and all three conscious sisters inclusive Leo looked up. A little girl was standing in pretty much the centre of the room. She was about 3 years old. She had black, slightly curled hair and piercing blue eyes. She was dressed in a jeans skirt and a baby pink top. The little girl was helplessly holding a little baby, a new born, wrapped in a baby pink blanket, which matched the top of the little girl. Everyone watching them, could tell the girl had difficulties holding the little baby. Piper knew the eyes of the little girl form somewhere. She knew the baby from somewhere. She looked down at Prue again and then back up to the little girl who was looking shyly and scared around. She was kind of searching something. Someone. But she didn't seem to find him or her. Piper looked over at Andy. Was it him she searched? She could impossibly find Andy... he was completely disappearing in his mother's arms, just like a little boy. Phoebe and Paige looked at the girl as well. But for other reasons than Piper did. They were sure as hell, that the baby was their niece and the little girl a demon, who kidnapped the little girl and now wanted to get whatever she wanted.
"who are you? What do you want?" Phoebe finally dared to ask in a snapping voice. The girl looked even more scared as her eyes started to get smaller. And tears spilling form her eyes. She was definitely scared and completely unsure of what to do, as she still searched for someone to help her. Piper once again looked into those eyes. Those blue, shining, sparkling and piercing eyes and then again looked down. She looked at Prue's face and her eyes wandered automatically to her sister's closed eyes. She saw her sister's eyes on her closed eyelids. And then there were the girl's eyes. They were exactly the same. The little girl had the same eyes. It were Prue's eyes. As Andy heard Phoebe speaking he looked up to see what's going on and found the little girl and the baby in her arms. His heart skipped a beat at the sight. Tears were burning in the little girl's eyes and also flowing now freely down her cheeks as, she looked down to the floor. Andy froze
'this can't be... this is impossible...'
Andy thought and got up and walked slowly over to the side of the bed, the little girl was standing at. he looked her over again and then knelt down
"Meghan?!"
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2002
"Meghan, this isn't a game or something where you decided what will happen. I'll take your temperature and I don't care in what way, you heard me?" Prue asked in a serious voice. Meghan still didn't move. Andy looked at Prue, who nodded and Andy grabbed gently for Meghan's hand
"open your mouth" she said serious. Meghan shook her head. "Sweetie, it'll just take a few seconds. It's over in a minute, please…" Prue nearly begged, then saw it had no use and grabbed her nose, so she couldn't breathe through it anymore. Soon enough Meghan opened her mouth and Prue placed the thermometer under her tongue. Andy then let go of Meghan's hands and looked worried down at his daughter, while sitting down where her feet ended. Phoebe just grinned. She had hated it, every time Prue had done that to her. She only remembered the nose part, but then saw how gently and loving Prue crawled Meghan's head and face to calm her down. To tell her she knew it wasn't a nice feeling, but that it had to be. Phoebe leaned her head back into Cole and then looked at Prue and her still worried face
"I love you" Phoebe suddenly said everyone starred at Phoebe for that not getting who she meant, what she meant or why she said that. Phoebe just smiled and looked at Meghan
"I know how that feels... the nose trick's evil. I know all you feel now is being angry at your mom and that you don't even notice what she does. I needed till today to realize and see it. Don't be mad at her. Just enjoy her gentle stroking and how she cares for you." Phoebe told her niece. Prue smiled a little and looked back down at Meghan, who now snuggled again into her mom's stomach and lap. Prue looked back at Phoebe and mouthed 'thanks' to her, before removing the thermometer, as it beeped.
"you still wanna drink something?" she asked Meghan and she nodded. Prue grabbed for the juice and handed the glass to her daughter after placing her on her lap "with both hands" Prue lectured her, putting her other hand on the glass as well. Piper grinned, knowing that all too well as well.
Prue watched the scene and smiled, then looked back down at Meghan, who was now deep asleep and then stopped stroking her, just to wrap the blanket more around her
"some things never will change" Piper said silently, smiling a little as well
"what do you mean?"
"There was a time Piper and I kept bugging Prue with the nickname mommy-sis." Phoebe answered Paige
"the glass thingy... and the thermometer... 'I'll stay right here with you, I promise, now go to sleep' and that 'out of here she needs rest'... it's all too familiar" Piper added
"yeah... and just good Meghan doesn't know what you would have done, if she didn't give up then..."
"Why?" Paige asked
"Phoebe though she tricked me, when she was like 7. She just fast snapped for air and then closed her mouth all too fats again. I had no chance."
"And then Prue told me to face the wall. She uncovered me and took my temperature in my butt. I had no choice but to let it happen..." Prue smiled a little
"it never hurt you and was just the best for you" Prue answered. Paige just smiled a little
"I wished I could have been here as well" she told them
"no offence, honey, but, I think another one I wouldn't have survived" Prue said laughing...
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2002
"gooood news"
"I can see that"
"I found a house…" Prue looked down
"I... honey..."
"wait... first let me finish, okay?" Prue looked for a second back up and then down again, but nodded slightly
"it's... you know the manor's backyard, right?"
"Andy... I lived here almost my whole life…" Andy ignored her and continued
"remember when we crawled as kids into that old wife's garden which is like... on the back of the manor?"
"misses Larsanda's? yeah... so?"
"she died a few months ago and now her family decided to sell it... we could tear down the fence... and have one huge backyard, which is connected to the manor's... we always can go through the backyard and the backdoor from our house to the manor and the other way round…" Andy said kind of excited.
"This isn't funny, Andy"
"I know it's not. But I'm not fooling you. I'm serious, honey" Andy told her. Prue starred at him a few more minutes till a huge smile appeared on her face
she laid the book aside and starred for a good while out of the window. She couldn't believe it were almost three years Andy was back. It seemed to her like these years just went by with a snap. She picked her cuticles, thinking about the last three years. It really were good times. But so much had happened. Thinking back it was really hard to adjust to all these changes. They all were married. They were four now. Lily would be the fourth magical kid. They changed so much at the manor since she moved out. She picked the book again and skipped a few pages back, smiling at the pictures of her wedding.
"you really looked great" she whispered, then closed her eyes, remembering their waltz. A huge smile still on her face she again skipped pages. The curse. And then there was one empty page. She narrowed her eyes and looked slightly confused. Then noticed a small little crumbled paper pinned to it. She detached it and opened it up
Dear Prue,
I can only imagine how confusing it must be to wake in our bed and can't remember anything about the last 24 hours. I'm sorry for that confusion.
You went to the future to get some answers. And you found so much more, that's why I – we – you cast the memory spell. To answer your question: you'll have a beautiful girl. But you need to know, that despite everything that will happen, your girls will be fine.
Prue (before casting the memory spell)
Prue shook visibly. She'd been to the future before. She was supposed to do this time travel. She did everything right. She checked the room and finally found some pen and a sheet of paper on her father's desk. She copied the message and stuffed it into her jeans pocket. She then read about things she did when she was pregnant with Lily.
2005
Prue was letting herself fall on her bed. She was simply exhausted. She was in late 8th month and no sign of the baby wanting to come out so far. Her feet were sore, her back was hurting and every step she did was too much for her to handle right now. Adding to it all came, that she was jealous on Phoebe, who finally had gotten rid of the extra weight a few weeks ago.
"You better get out of there soon, have we understand?" she asked her belly, letting out a big breath. She closed her eyes; somewhat sure, she wouldn't get interrupted.
The baby hadn't moved for a while now and so she guessed he or she was asleep, Meghan was in her room doing homework and Anna over at the manor, playing with her aunts and new cousins. She closed her eyes... sleep! She didn't have much of that lately, since the baby always decided to be wide awake when she wanted to sleep. Just as she was drifting off to sleep, the door opened and someone jumped onto the bed
"mommy..." Prue sighted and dragged her eyes open.
"Yes... Mags"
"Anna had a flower and the baby now has a star... what did I have?"
Prue narrowed her eyes and pulled herself into a sitting position
"what... Mags, what are you talking about?"
"the music box... you had one for Anna... and you have one for the baby... did you have one for me too?"
"Um... yeah... we did..."
"What was it?" Mags asked
"song or shape?" Prue asked
"both!"
"Umm... the song was... I think my girl... and the shape was a little red heart"
"why did you take 'my girl'? What if I was a boy?"
"Princess, I'm really tired... can we talk about this after I have slept a little..."
"Okay..." Meghan said sadly and wandered out of the room. Prue sighted. She dragged herself into a sitting position and then got up. She walked into her closet and got the box in which she collected everything she wanted to remember out. She opened it and stirred for a few minutes through it. She found the little heart and placed the box down on the floor. Last but not least she finally went to Meghan's room. She entered it, without a knock, since the door still was slightly open. She stepped up to her oldest and laid the little terry cloth heart onto Mags' desk
"we never thought about you being a boy... somehow we wanted a girl and somehow we always felt you were a girl"
"Phoebe is pregnant?" Prue asked herself kinda speechless. She couldn't believe her little sister was pregnant. She smiled softly though.
