Charmed: One Sweet Day

Title: One Sweet Day
Author: Vanessa
Fandom: Charmed
Pairing: None
Rating: G
Time period/time setting: After the final episode of season 3
Warnings: Angst/Mariah Carey lyrics
Short Summary: Phoebe and Piper's feelings after losing Prue



‘Sorry, I never told you,
All I wanted to say.
And now it’s too late to hold you.
Coz you’ve flown away, so far away.’

Phoebe: She’s gone. Prue has gone. No, she’s not gone. That makes it sound like she’s gone for milk or on a date. No, Prue hasn’t done either of those things. She’ll never do either of those things again. No, Prue’s not gone. Prue’s dead and she’s not coming back.

‘Never had I imagined,
Living without your smile,
Feeling, knowing you hear me.
It keeps me alive. Alive.’

Piper: It all happened so suddenly. If only Leo had got there sooner. If only he’d healed her instead of me. Prue was the best but Leo healed me coz I’m his damn wife! Prue, I know you’re up there and I know you can hear me and I’m sorry. This was all my fault. I wish I could turn back the clock and make everything right.

‘And I know you’re shining down on me from heaven.
Like so many friends we’ve lost along the way,
And I know eventually we’ll be together.
One sweet day.

‘Darling, I never showed you,
Assumed you’d always be there
I, I took your presence for granted,
But I always cared and I miss the [time] we shared’

Phoebe: We face death all the time. We always knew there was a possibility that one of us wouldn’t make it out alive. I suppose we just never believed it could happen so soon. She was always so strong. She was always the one Piper and I would turn to. Maybe the Elders are punishing us for taking her for granted? Maybe if I’d said ‘thank you’ more, things would be different? Maybe Prue would still be here.

‘Although the sun will never shine the same,
I’ll always look to a brighter day,
Lord I know, when I lay thee down to sleep,
You will always listen when I pray.’

Piper: She’s gone. No amount of spells or charms will bring her back. So I’m resorting to a simple prayer. I’m turning to the only person more powerful than us. I’m turning to God.

“Dear God, I understand everything happens for a reason and that I have to accept that but I can’t. I can’t accept that she’s gone. So God, please, please send back my sister. If not for me, then for the sake of humanity. She was the strongest of us all, God, we need her...we need her...”

-Fin-