Last Day - Charmed fic - PG13

[tigriswolf]

Title: Last Day
Fandom: "Charmed"
Disclaimer: I didn't create any of them.  I'm just playing with 'em, but I'll return them unharmed.  Mostly.
Warnings: AU for season six
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 510

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Today is the last day of your life and you’re the only one who knows it.

Come tomorrow, the sun will rise on a world without you.

And you’re just so tired, so run-down, so weary… the knowledge comes as relief.

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She watches. It’s all she can do, all that’s left to her. It’s unfair but complaining won’t do any good.

The family and the world’s gone to hell since she died, and all she can do is watch everything self-destruct. She’d thought they’d do fine without her, once Piper got a hold of herself, but something broke in her little sister.

And Prue doesn’t know what to do. There’s nothing she can do.

Except watch.

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You’ve done your best and you know it. What happens next is up to them. You’ve played your part as well you could and the world of tomorrow has no room for you.

A price is paid for every action. For every life saved, another is taken. You understand and have come to terms with it.

You are ready.

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They lost their way after she died. They floundered and faltered and never found the path again.

Piper was the heart, Phoebe the soul, and Prue the driving force. Paige tried her best but it was no good—they all tried their best but it didn’t work.

And everything’s fallen apart. No one has the skill to mend the world.

So she watches in brittle silence as the last candle of hope is snuffed out.

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Your whole life has been his. As children, as teenagers, as men—you’ve done your best to save his soul and he just keeps damning it.

You’d kill to save him, die to save him, and it seems you’ve killed yourself for that end. Today is your last alive and you wonder if he’ll mourn.

A better question, though, is if he’ll even remember you.

After all, you’re changing the world—and there is no room for you anymore.

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She knows she’ll recall this desperate boy after the entire world has forgotten him. She watches and knows, sees herself and her sisters in him. He has enough love to sacrifice himself for his brother, just as Piper would.

Just as Prue had.

She has never met him but she already knows him.

She watches him do his best. She will welcome him and be sad she’s no longer alone because he deserves so much more.

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The world has no room for you after the sun sets. Your mother originally had two sons, two boys. Tomorrow would be your first day of life, your entrance into existence.

Tomorrow will be your death.

Tomorrow your mother will give birth to a corpse. And you feel nothing but sweet relief.

Tomorrow you can rest.

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One nephew and the world saved. She can do nothing but watch, and it hurts.

Her sisters don’t know what they’re losing.

She wonders if Wyatt will one day realize… but deep down, she knows.

Only the dead can truly know the dead.

 

Comments

[your-hero-died.livejournal.com]

*flounder*

Oh, you didn't.

Yeah, you did. That last line ...ouch. beautiful work as always, honey.

[tigriswolf]

Thank you so much!

[skyebanshee.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow your mother will give birth to a corpse. And you feel nothing but sweet relief.

Tomorrow you can rest.

*blinks*

*blinks again*

Oh, Chris. Trying your damnest to save the world and losing yourself in the process.

That hurt...but wonderfully written.

[tigriswolf]

Thank you! Before the Winchesters, the Halliwells were the brothers I love to torture.

[alznthlay.livejournal.com]

just...uhm....

wow

[tigriswolf]

Thanks!