Chapter 2

A/N: Thank you for all the reivews you guys! I'm so glad you liked it!

Shawn-n-Bell, big fan! I'm like a big fan too! but back on track, thanks! I always wondered what if Charmed crossed Strong Medicine so I decided to experiment and it resulted on this little baby! Lol.

Mony19, you again! Lol. just kidding, I like having you around! As for Paige, half of it was because of the room the other half...I'm not revealing anything just yet so i'll keep you hanging for awhile. So, as Hialry Duff says, my lips are sealed!

Wendy van Os, Thanks and thanks for reading! I'm sooo happy you liked it! Makes me feel warm inside and out. Haha! Hope you come back to read it!

-0-charmed-freak-0-, Thanks for the review. As for the mix up, Prue disappeared right? Well, they kind of just considered her dead and gave up on finding her since she went into a portal so, to them, Prue is dead. Harsh, I know.

anyway, enjoy this part!

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The attic.

This was where Phoebe first found out we were witches, Piper thought as she stood at the doorway of the attic.

Piper carefully walked in and went over to a chest that was firmly shut. She fingered the intricate designing on it. It had been Prue's birthday gift to Piper, her last birthday gift.

Slowly, she opened. Inside was packed a bunch of objects; Pictures, clothes, pieces of paper; it all had a significant meaning.

Piper reached out for a piece of glass. She smiled as she fingered it.

When Piper was sixteen, she had gotten drunk at a party. A guy had taken her up to a room and had tried to coax her to make out with him but she had refused. Lucky for her, Prue was at the same party and had followed them up.

She had entered just when the guy was forcing Piper to take her shirt off. Prue had immediately taken a beer bottle of from the dresser and had smashed it against the guy' head; he fell to the floor instantaneously.

Piper recalled picking up a piece of glass before Prue ushered her out and took her home. Grams hadn't known what had happened; Prue had covered up for Piper.

"I never said thank you for that." Piper said quietly, thumbing the piece of glass. "There were so many things I never said thank you…I-I just wish I had told you…" Piper sighed and threw the piece of glass back.

A shuffle of footsteps from behind her indicated that someone was standing at the doorway. Piper smiled slightly. "These are all the stuff that have an important meaning to me." Piper pointed out to the chest.

"Must be a lot to keep in a chest." Said the voice from behind.

Piper nodded. "Yeah," She looked behind her shoulder. "It is a lot."

Paige pushed away from the doorway she was leaning against and walked up to Piper. "That's a beautiful trunk. Antique?"

"Yeah...Antique. Prue got it for me on my last birthday."

"Ah." She paused for a moment then opened her mouth. "Piper, I'm not trying to replace Prue."

Piper swallowed. "No one can ever replace Prue."

Paige cringed at the tone of voice Piper used but Piper quickly corrected her mistake. "No, I mean, there will never be another Prue…"

"I know what you mean." Paige began to walk away.

"Paige." Piper called out quietly.

Paige stopped in her steps.

"I don't hate you…It's just…it's just-"

"Hard, I know." Paige smiled weakly. "Piper, I don't blame you if you hate me. Just know this, I'm not here to replace or take Prue's place…I-I just want my family."

Piper suddenly felt ashamed of herself. Since Paige had arrived, she had treated her like an outsider. It wasn't that Piper hated her, Piper actually liked Paige but it was still hard on her having just lost Prue.

"Paige, I don't hate you." Piper said softly, averting Paige's looks. "You're my sister and you mean a lot to me…there has just been a lot…a lot of change…I don't ever think I'll get used to it."

"I don't think anything will ever be the same again." Paige said quietly. "I don't think we'll ever get used to it…"

Piper looked up. "So what now?"

"I don't know..." Paige slowly backed away.

"Wait. "Piper said, halting Paige in her steps again. Piper put a hand into the chest and took out a small black box. She opened it to reveal a simple but elegant sliver necklace with the letter 'P' as a pendant. "This was Prue's…I never knew where she got it from but it meant a lot to her…I think…I think you should keep it." She offered it to Paige.

Paige stood stock still, shocked and amazed. "Are you serious?"

Piper let out a small laugh. "Never been more serious in my whole life." She got up. "I think Prue would have loved you to have it. Take it."

"But-"

"Just take it Paige."

Paige stretched her arm out. "I don't have a choice do I?"

Piper smiled and dropped the necklace into Paige's open palm. "Not really. But remember this; if anything happens to that I'll blow you up." Piper gave her a serious glare and left the room.

"Funny." Paige laughed as she followed Piper out. "You're joking, right Piper? Piper? Piper?"

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A swirl of gray. Shouting. Wind swirling. Flying. Flying into something solid. Pain…Unbearable pain. Bright lights coming closer…Closer. Explosion of lights…

Prue slowly opened her eyes, her head throbbing. The room was dimly lit. She found herself lying down on a bed in an unfamiliar place. She tried to sit up and right away felt pain shoot through her body. She let out a small gasp.

She looked down; both her arms were bandaged and the other was in a cast. She could feel the textures of gauze wrapped around her torso and her left leg was raised up and bandaged as well.

"You're awake." Said a female voice from the end of the room. Prue squinted in the dark and watched as a lady, more likely a doctor since she wore a white coat, stepped into the light.

"Who…who are you?" Prue asked.

"Dr. Lu Delgado." Lu replied as she rounded the bed. "How do you feel?"

"Crappy."

"Yeah, I expected."

"What happened to me?" Prue asked, gesturing with her covered arm to her injuries.

"You got hit by a car." Lu said slowly. "You got a lot of injuries; torn cartilage around your knee, broken ribs, internal bleeding, grazed arm, an open arm fracture. You're lucky you survived."

"Doesn't feel that way." Prue muttered, leaning back.

Lu smiled. "Oh believe me; I've seen worse cases than this."

When Prue didn't reply, Lu continued. "We need to record you down as a patient of this hospital but we never found out your name. You had a gold necklace with a name pendant on it but we weren't sure if it's your name." She took a necklace out from her pocket and handed it over to Prue who accepted it.

Prue raised it up and touched it with her uninjured fingers. "Prue…"

"Is that your name? Prue?"

Prue nodded.

"What's your family name?" Lu asked as she took out a notepad and pen, writing down what Prue said.

Prue frowned. "I…I don't remember…"

"What?"

"I don't remember…I don't remember my last name!" Prue said frantically.

Lu put the notepad down on the bed. "Are sure you can't remember?"

"No. I don't remember…anything!"

"Ok, try and remember from your childhood. Anything at all?" Lu asked calmly.

Prue thought hard but in the end, shook her head. "Nothing. I mean nothing…What's wrong with my memory?"

Lu bit her lip. "I'm not sure." At that moment, the door to the room opened and in walked a female doctor with reddish brown hair.

"Lu." Dr. Dana Stowe acknowledged. Dana saw Prue wide awake. "Oh…Hello...uhh…"

"Prue." Lu completed.

"Prue?" Dana smiled. "Is that like Cher?" She joked.

"Well it's going to be." Prue replied sarcastically.

"What do you mean?"

"I think Prue might have memory loss." Lu answered.

"Amnesia?"

"I think I preferred the term memory loss better." Prue muttered.

"Yeah. She doesn't remember-"

"Anything." Prue quickly finished. "I don't remember my past, my childhood, what I work as, who I am, where I'm from…I don't even know how I got here. Is this temporary?"

Lu gave Dana a 'be gentle' look. "Well," Dana began carefully. "Getting hit by a car has a possibility of memory loss but it shouldn't be able to clear all your memories."

"So it is temporary?" Prue asked hopefully.

"Yes, temporary but it depends on how you would define temporary."

"Temporary memory loss could last a few days, a week, a month...sometimes even years." Lu explained. "With your case, we don't know how long."

"Are you saying that, I won't be able to know who I am? Or even know who my family is?" Prue inquired.

"Let's just hope that your case will end quickly." Lu tried to say positively but it wasn't working. Prue looked sullen.

"And if it doesn't? If it lasts for years? What happens then?"

Lu sighed. "We shouldn't be thinking about that. We should think about concentrating on how to get your memory back."

"Well, of course, it's not your life is it? Why should you care?" Prue snapped.

"What makes you think we don't?" Dana retorted. "Look, at least Dr. Delgado is trying to be positive."

"Yeah, ok." Prue rolled her eyes. "Could you just leave me alone?"

Dana opened her mouth to say something but Lu pulled her towards the door. "Sure." Lu opened the door and quickly went out with Dana in tow.

The door closed and Dana rounded on her. "Are you going to let her talk like that to us? We saved her life! She should be grateful at the very least!"

"She's in distress." Lu tried to calm Dana. Dana wasn't a pretty sight when she got riled up. "I think she has every right to get angry."

"But we saved her life! The least she could do is thank us and try not to bite our heads off!"

"She saved my life." Lu said out of the blue.

Dana did a double take. "What?"

Lu sighed and moved over to a bench in the hallway taking a seat. Dana followed suit. "I-I was suppose to be the one who was going to get hit by the car. She pushed me out of the way. She tried to get out of the way but something happened and the next thing I know, she's unconscious, lying in her own blood."

"Oh my God." Dana uttered.

"It doesn't matter if she shouts, rants, moans or complains to me. I'll never be able to repay what she did. She gave me a second chance, risking her own and look what's happened now. She's got amnesia." Lu ran a hand through her hair.

"What you should do," Dana said after careful consideration. "Is go back in there, attend to your patient and be the best you can." Dana got up.

"And you?"

Dana smiled. "I'm going to see what I can do." She smiled and walked away.

Lu watched as her best friend turned round the corner and out of sight. Slowly, Lu pushed herself from the chair and towards the door. She let out a heavy breath and turned the knob.

Prue lay in her bed, looking up at the ceiling blankly. "hey." She muttered.

"Hey." Lu closed the door behind her.

"About what happened, I'm sorry." Prue said to the ceiling.

Lu went over to her side. "No, its ok. You have every right to be angry. I would be to."

Prue stared at Lu. "What happens to me now?"

"Well, we'll have to get you moving but that won't probably start until you wounds have healed slightly. Then we'll give you therapy to try and get your memory back."

"I meant after all that. After I get discharged."

"I guess…you start a new life." Lu suggested. "You could live with me. My son, Marc, and I."

Prue smiled weakly. "I guess I have few weeks ahead of me to think."

Lu nodded. "In the meantime, we'll try and make you at home."

"Wherever home is."

Lu looked down.

Prue gritted her teeth and close her eyes. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't be taking all this out on you."

Lu didn't reply.

"So, what should I be expecting here?" Prue asked, gesturing to the room.

Lu let a small smile slip. "The whole staff is going to be up here. First off, there's Lana Hawkins, receptionist and my good friend. You'll be expecting lots of visits from her and probably lots of story telling. Then there's Peter Riggs, nurse. You play poker?"

Prue thought hard then smirked. "I remember playing poker."

"Peter is one of the best at poker here. You should try him. Then there's Dana Stowe, she's-"

Prue interrupted. "She was the other doctor right?"

"Ya, look, Dana isn't really like that. She's very nice and a great person to talk to. She's the best doctor around; she's really a determined person."

"You talk highly of her."

"I should." Lu said. "She's is to be thought highly of."

Lu continued on with her small lecture on the staff of Rittenhouse that she had come to love. Rittenhouse was her home away from home. Unknowingly, it would be a home to Prue too.

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A/N: Hoped you guys like it! I'm working on Chapter 3 right now so it won't be long till the next chapter! Thanks for reading, drop a review if you want! Cya!