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Chapter Sixty-Six
Nightmares
Prue loved her new ability to talk and would babble away the word she had learned constantly. Ethel felt her heart warm every time she said it and before long she was saying 'Emmy' which everyone took to mean Esmie because she looked at her as she said it and giggled. Everyone knew she would be saying all their names before long.
One night Sybil was asleep but she had a horrible nightmare about being kidnapped by Agatha and being taken from her family and when she woke in fright she heard thunder outside her window. She sat up in bed terrified and saw Mildred was looking at her, awake as well.
"I hate thunder" Mildred told Sybil as it rumbled again and Mildred put the covers over her head.
"I had a nightmare Agatha kidnapped me and took me away" Sybil cried and Mildred sighed thinking that was bad.
"Come on let's go to mum" Mildred suggested scared as well and offering her hand to Sybil. The blonde jumped up and took it and they walked to Julie's room.
"Mum" Mildred said close to her face and Julie shot awake clutching her chest from the shock as she woke up to see a face in the dark.
"Mildred! Don't do that" Julie said feeling her heart beat fast
"Sorry mum, can we come in with you, we don't like the thunder" Mildred told her mother
"And I had a nightmare" Sybil replied scared. Julie sighed but pulled the covers back.
"Come on then" she said and Mildred and Sybil happily climbed into the warm bed with their mum.
"Are the others sleeping?" Julie asked them and Sybil nodded
"Esmie and Ethel won't be scared of the thunder" Sybil told her mother as she cuddled into her hugging her.
"They might of slept through it and not realised" Julie replied knowing Esmerelda and Ethel were probably just more used to it and she didn't expect to see either of them.
"True, but I had a nightmare that Agatha kidnapped me so I woke up" Sybil told her mother sadly and she stroked the girl's blonde locks.
"That would never happen Sybil, she would have to get through all of us first" Julie told her kissing her head and then Mildred's just as Esmerelda and Ethel walked in holding Prue.
"Oh hello" Julie said shocked to see them both. Prue was screaming and crying.
"She hates the thunder, and we both had a nightmare can we come in with you?" Ethel asked and Julie sighed thinking she was going to have a hard time sleeping tonight with her girls.
"Alright sure if you can find room" Julie told them as she pulled the covers back and the older blondes saw their sisters.
"Mildred? Is that you?" Ethel asked
"Sybil?" Esmerelda said shocked
"Ethel?" Mildred replied back in shock
"Esmerelda?" Sybil replied back and Julie laughed
"I think we have established it is each other" Julie told them as Prudence giggled at her family's silliness, starting to calm down.
"Hey don't you laugh missus" Ethel told her as the baby laughed more "MAMA" she said hugging Ethel tighter as they lay down on the bed. Esmerelda did a spell and Prudence's cot zoomed into the room and crashed into the wall.
"Oops sorry, I should wake up more before doing a spell like that" Esmerelda said smiling at Julie who glared at her but Prue clapped her hands having enjoyed watching the cot zoom in.
"Someone thought it was funny" Mildred said thinking how cheeky Prue was.
"Prudie loves watching magic" Sybil said smiling thinking she was well on her way to being a good witch, magic seemed to fascinate her and she got so excited when she realised she could do it too.
"I bet HB is counting down the years until she gets another Hallow-Hubble at the school" Esmerelda replied with a smirk knowing HB must be finding it torture. Not only was she getting a Hallow but also a Hubble, the students who always seemed to be in trouble and nearly destroyed the school every year.
Everyone laughed imagining how she reacted when she found out Ethel had given birth to a girl so she would surely be coming to Cackles and when she realised Prudence was being raised in the Hubble household, everyone would be surprised if she didn't faint.
"Poor Miss Hardbroom, whatever did she do to deserve you lot?" Julie asked laughing as she joined in on the joke.
"What is wrong with us? Ethel asked pretending to be insulted.
"You are all nightmares that is what" Julie told them and laughed. No-one tried to deny it as they knew they ran Julie of her feet.
"AHH" Mildred screamed as just then there was more thunder. Prue started crying hard, scared of the loud noise in her little ears.
"Oh baby it is alright, we won't let it hurt you" Esmerelda told her kissing her cheek.
"EMMY" Prue said as she cuddled into her auntie and sucked her thumb, scared of her being squished Esmerelda placed her in her crib and stroked her head.
"She will be answering us back before long" Sybil said with a giggle.
"Yes if she is anything like Ethel" Mildred said and Ethel glared at her looking insulted. Everyone laughed.
"HEY!" She said
"Hehe" Prue giggled in her crib finding it funny, though she did find everything funny.
"Sorry Ethie, we love you really" Esmerelda told her and Ethel glared at her but in a joking way.
"Well now we have finished insulting each other why don't we go to sleep, it is late" Julie told the girls.
"Okay night" Sybil said putting her head on the pillow and getting ready to sleep.
Everyone smiled and lay down themselves to get ready to sleep and were just drifting of until Ethel started snoring
"Errrrr" Mildred said covering her ears with the pillow
"Oh I forgot she snores" Sybil said also covering her ears
"I haven't I hear it every night" Esmerelda said and with that she was soon asleep too and Prue was not far behind her, both move than used to Ethel snoring and able to sleep through it perfectly fine, which left Julie, Mildred and Sybil still awake.
"Can you do a muting spell?" Sybil asked Mildred and she shook her head ans sighed.
"I wish, I am not casting a spell on Ethel I will probably permanently make her mute" Mildred said not trusting herself.
"Oh it is going to be a long night" Sybil said
Sybil was right. Julie fell asleep soon after but Mildred and Sybil couldn't sleep because of Ethel's snoring so they got up halfway through and went back to their own beds, both knowing they would be up all night if they stayed.
"So we ended up back where we started?" Mildred commented as they both got into their beds
"Yes well I would never be able to sleep with Ethel" Sybil replied as she lay her head down on her pillow and was soon asleep, both forgetting the thunder and nightmares.