Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed only what I make up
Summary: When Mel is pregnant and having a little trouble with Roman they end up switching powers only to have their future children come back to the past.
Chapter 1: Love and Marriage
Melinda Halliwell put her hands on her six months pregnant stomach and rubbed it. If anyone had told her that morning sickness lasted round the clock she would have never gotten pregnant to begin with. She grabbed the pack of saltine crackers off the kitchen counter and shoved one in her mouth. She took a deep breath and willed down the new bought of nausea that she was feeling. This just plain sucked she would be so glad when her son was born and yet she was scared at the same time. That was why she was at her manor so she could talk to her mother about what she was feeling.
"You doing ok there sis?" Piper asked her only daughter she couldn't help but get a little misty eyed thinking about her baby girl having a baby. She would have been worse had it not been for the fact she had little Jack running around to keep an eye on.
Mel took a deep breath to make sure that she wasn't going to throw up all over the kitchen before she answered her mom. "I think so mom it's just no one told me morning sickness lasted all day. I swear I will be happy to have this kid out of me."
Piper smiled at her daughter and shook her head "I take it that my grandson isn't being very nice to his mommy right about now."
Mel smiled back and Piper marveled again how much her daughter looked like her "No he isn't being very nice at all right now. I can't even think about food without wanting to puke and I can't even have my coffee. Not because I can't keep it down but because my husband refuses to let me have it. He has hid every last bit of coffee in the apartment. Not even Charlie will let me have it. Hell I can normally talk Hailey into things and she won't budge on this."
Piper went to the refrigerator and came out with a bottle that she gave to Mel "Here this is ginger ale drink this it will make you stomach feel better." She coached her.
"Mom all I do is drink this shit and eat crackers and my stomach is still upset all the time." Mel bitched but she did what her mother told her to do anyway.
"So have you decided on a name for him yet?" Piper asked her trying to make conversation she knew from experience that being distracted took your mind off the sickness.
Mel smiled even wider than she had before at this her brown eyes sparkled and she seem to glow. "Roman James Halliwell. R.J. for short Ro said that I could name him whatever I wanted to as long as he gets to name the next one."
Just then a tiny cluster of orbs appeared in the room Mel had no doubt in her mind that it was her five year old baby brother Jack. She smiled just thinking about that kid he was so bad but he was so cute that it made it impossible to stay mad at him. Sure enough he appeared with little smudges of chocolate on his face. He had no doubt been into his mother's cookie stash again.
"Jackson Samuel Halliwell what have I told you about orbing for no good reason?" Piper asked him her hands on her hips. She let him get away with murder and with that cute look on his face she was going to have a hard time getting on to him.
Jack looked up at his big sister and gave her a grin "Jackie you know that you're not supposed to orb for no reason only if there is a bad man." Mel told him gently finding it hard to get on to him.
"Mel can I say hi to the baby?" Jack asked in his cute little voice. With his dark blonde hair and blue eyes if Mel didn't know any better she would swear that he looked almost angelic.
"Of course you can say hi to him. He has a name now so you don't have to call him baby his name is R.J. hop up on the stool so you can talk to him." Mel said smiling at him she was pretty good at the big sister thing. And she loved her baby brother with all of her heart.
Jack got on the stool on his knees and he leaned in close to Mel's belly "Hi R.J. I'm your Uncle Jack you don't have to call me Uncle Jack though you can just call me Jack or Sammy like Uncle Coop does. I love you baby." He said kissing her stomach.
"That was very sweet Jackie he loves you too." Mel told him tousling his hair.
"Hey monster I see that you're terrorizing your sister today." Leo said picking his son up in his arms and spinning him around. He set him down on the ground and went to Mel. "Hi baby." He said kissing her stomach. "Hey baby girl." he said when he kissed her cheek.
"He was not terrorizing me daddy he was being sweet. You need to have a little talk with your grandson about terrorizing me he is being a holy terror." Mel replied sweetly.
"Oh God Uncle Leo don't encourage her she has been talking about that sweet baby boy like that all week." Patty Matthews Halliwell said coming into the kitchen. She was Paige's youngest daughter and Mel's best friend.
"Charlie I'm going to remember this when you get pregnant and have all these things going on in your body." Mel retorted only half joking.
"Melinda chill out I was only joking and by the way your husband was looking for you he said that he had some things to take care of but he would see you later." Patty informed her.
"Yeah that would be the story as of lately we meet each other coming and going. If I'm not at work sitting behind my desk then he is out with the rest of his childlike friends doing God alone knows what." Mel said sounding kind of flustered.
Leo knew well enough to find somewhere to weather the storm when the Halliwell woman got started on topics like this. "Come on Jackie lets go in the other room and leave these three to whatever it is they're talking about. Us guys have got to stick together." He said leading his son out of the room.
"Alright Mel spill what's up with you?" Patty asked her cousin there had been something off about her for days.
"Ok you want to know what's up I'll tell you. I have morning sickness all day, my back hurts, my feet are killing me and I can't tie my own shoes anymore. I'm riding a desk right now instead of being out doing my job. I have mood swings like crazy sometimes all I want to do is cry. My husband much rather be working or running around with my retarded brothers than listen to any of this. I can't have coffee and I can't eat anything that I won't end up puking back up. Other than all that though I'm great." Mel listed off close to tears. She had wanted to tell Roman all of this but he was never around enough for her to talk to him.
Piper nodded her head she understood where her daughter was coming from. "When I was pregnant with Wyatt I went through the same thing with your dad instead of him being around he was always off with a charge but once we talked it out everything was fine. Stay off of your feet as much as you possibly can baby make your husband rub your back if it hurts that bad. The mood swings come with the territory you're just going to have to deal with those. As for your coffee if you need it that bad switch to decaf I know that it tastes like ass but it's better than nothing. And baby girl if you need to cry just do it there is no shame in it." She said putting her arm around her daughter.
"Mom I don't do the whole crying thing very well and you know it I just hate feeling this weak. And I hate feeling like I can't do anything. I can't do my job and my powers aren't working right. So I'm really of no use right now." Mel replied trying her best to be strong.
"Mel you are behind that desk right now for your own good. I'm your partner I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I let anything happen to you. And as for your powers let me tell you something that is why we have the older cousins and your husband they fight the demons so we don't have to. But if you want to feel useful you can come up to the attic and help me research the demon that your lovely younger cousins and your sister-in-law managed to piss off." Patty said knowing that her cousin just wanted to help out. Piper shot her a thankful look.
"So let me guess Penny, Hailey, and Emily all thought it would be a good idea to go demon hunting and now they pissed a demon off." Mel guessed it was always the same story with them.
"Pretty much now get your pregnant ass up the stairs and help me." Patty said and Mel smiled at her no one else would dare talk to her like that.
Mel and Patty had been up in the attic for about an hour when Roman walked in. Mel was sitting on Aunt Pearl's old sofa with her feet propped up in front of her.
"Hey baby I missed you, you were gone when I got up this morning." Roman said leaning down to kiss her.
Mel barely pecked him on the lips "Get away from me your aftershave is making me sick." She said not very pleasantly at all.
Roman looked at her kinda hurt "Mel what's wrong baby?" he asked concerned for his wife she hadn't been acting like herself lately.
"What's wrong is that I'm pregnant and my husband wants nothing to do with me." Mel replied coolly.
Roman sighed and shook his head "Mellie you know that is not true I love you with all of my heart of course I want to be with you."
"Well you're sure as hell not acting like it. If you're not at work then you're out with my brothers and the rest of your group doing whatever it is you guys do." Mel bitched at him.
"Mel I work so that I can support you and our son. And trust me half the time when I'm with your brothers it's because there is some demon to go after it has nothing to do with the way I feel about you." Roman informed her.
"Bullshit Roman I know that you weren't going after any demon last night. And you smelled like a bar when you came home. So don't you dare stand here and lie to me." Mel yelled at him.
"Mel that was one time ok I'm sorry I was feeling a little stressed. I thought that I was entitled to go out and let off some steam." Roman replied trying to keep his temper in check.
"So instead of talking to me your wife and the mother of your son you decided to go out and hang with the boys. Roman just get out of my sight so I don't want to kill you right now." Mel said she just couldn't stand to be in the same room as him.
"Mel don't be like that you said you wanted to talk so talk to me." Roman begged her. Neither one of them noticed it but there were little tiny orbs coming out of their backs.
"Uh you guys might want to look." Patty said she had noticed what they had failed to.
"Roman I'm not being like nothing I don't want to talk to you right now. You're not doing anything but pissing me off." Mel yelled at him.
"Well you're not the easiest person to get along with either right now." Roman yelled back at her.
"Guys seriously you need to pay attention." Patty said but it was no use as she spoke the orbs from Mel entered Roman and the orbs from Roman entered Mel.
"What the hell was that and why do I feel nauseous?" Roman asked feeling sick to his stomach all of a sudden.
"That is funny because I don't." Mel said laughing a little bit at him.
Patty looked between both of them and shook her head she thought she knew what was going on "I think that my nephew may have just switched your powers."
"Oh don't be ridiculous Charlie see I'll prove it to you." Roman said and he gestured at a box like he wanted to move it with his telekinesis but instead he blew it up.
Patty arched an eyebrow at him "You were saying?" she asked with a smug smile on her face.
"Ok there has to be some way to fix this. I'm going to look in the book right now." Mel announced pulling herself up off the couch.
"Oh my God do your feet and back normally hurt this much?" Roman asked her putting his hands in the center of his back.
"Yeah pretty much now sit on the couch and try not to loose your temper or shit will be blowing up all day." Mel instructed him feeling useful for the first time in months. She turned the pages in the book until she came to a spell she thought would work. "Winds that blow and ties that bind let our powers cross the line so that what's mine is yours and what's yours is mine." She read only to get no results her face fell defeated.
Suddenly four sets of golden orbs appeared in the attic each clearing to reveal a teenager. There were three boys and a girl left standing there. There were two dark headed young men and the third was dark blonde. The young woman had light brown hair.
"What the hell did you do dude I told you that was a stupid spell." One of the dark headed young men yelled at the other.
"Things like this aren't always my fault." The other dark headed young man yelled back.
"I wish you two would not fight like this for once I know it's asking for a miracle but the last time I checked we still had a demon to fight." The blonde headed young man yelled at the other two.
The young woman just shook her head at those three "I swear the three of you are going to get me killed one day."
Mel let out a loud wolf whistle to get their attention because obviously they hadn't notice that anyone else was in the room. "Hey who the hell are you four?"
What looked to be the oldest of the young men shook his head and sighed "Hi mom." He said simply this just wasn't his day at all.
"This is great R.J. I told you this was all your fault. Not only do your spells suck but they get us sent back to the past so then not only do we have to deal with mom being pissed off once we get to deal with it twice." The other dark headed boy said to him.
"Please tell me that your not all mine." Roman said groaning as he fought another bought of nausea.
"Sadly no matter how many times I wish that I wasn't related to those three idiots I am. And of course I had to be blessed with three dumb ass brothers." The young woman bitched.
"There is no doubt about it that you are our mother's daughter Grace." The light headed young man said.
"Give me a break today Leo I don't feel like messing with you." Grace told her older brother.
"And I really wish the two of you would go five minutes without fighting." The younger of the two dark headed boys said to them.
"Shut up Noah." All three of his siblings yelled at him in unison.
"So do I want to know how you four ended up here?" Patty asked not that anything phased her anymore because it didn't.
"Aunt Charlie as much as I would love to answer that I can't until I find out why the fuck my dad looks like he's pregnant." R.J. said raising his eyebrow he was too much like Mel for his own good.
"That would be because you switched their powers and shit like that. Now how did you get here?" Patty asked answering his question to the best of her ability.
"Well see I have this brother who can't admit when he's wrong about a demon so he comes up with bullshit spells. And they typically don't work so well so if we don't get turned into things we usually end up getting sent to the past. But to be fair he didn't want to go after this demon in the first place." Noah said looking pointedly at R.J.
Grace ignoring her brothers went to stand beside her mother behind the book of shadows. She flipped some the pages in the book before she came to what she was looking for. "It was this demon in this time he is no big deal but in our time he is pretty powerful. Which is probably why our spell didn't work. Not only that but he needs a damn power of three spell. You three stupids didn't tell me that before you drug me after the demon. At this point I'm so tired of you three that I would settle for having Paige as a sister as long as it meant I didn't have all brothers."
Mel smiled at her daughter "At least you didn't fall right in the middle of all three of them like I did kiddo. And you seem to handle them pretty well."
"Only me and Noah mom her and R.J are both too much like you neither one of them will bend on anything." Leo informed his mother.
Patty went over to look at the book of shadows "This is the demons that the three amigos managed to piss off. Of course it takes a power of three spell. I swear I have one younger brother but sometimes I think I was cursed with three younger sisters. That's what it has felt like for the last couple of years anyway. Emily, Penny, and Hailey just don't know when to leave well enough alone."
Mel shook her head at her cousin "So who do you want to call about this demon? Three of the four powers houses or the aunts. Keep in mind I am getting yelled at for this spell either way."
"Hank yells less than the aunts do. But we would have to put up with Prue." Patty replied.
"Roman has an idea if anyone wants to listen to it. I say since we don't know how to find the demon someone goes to the underworld and finds out where he is before we call anyone else." Roman suggested he winced when he saw the look Mel gave him.
Mel took a deep breath and fought the urge to kill her husband "Charlie can't go alone, I'm not going I can't work your powers, you can't go because as weird as it sounds your pregnant, and the kids are not going alone that is how they got in this mess."
"Chill I'll make a few calls. I'll get those two bitches from New York and we'll take care of this. You guys just work on the potion that is in here and then we'll find demon. And then we'll let Chris, Hank, and Prue do what they do. And I would also love it if you two could work out your problems so you have the right powers." Patty got out in one breath before she orbed out.
"Alright out of the four of you who is good with spells?" Mel asked her children. Gracie and Leo raised their hands. "Good we will write a spell for your aunt and uncles. And then Roman if you want to you can take the boys downstairs and make the potion." She told her husband.
Roman grunted as he tried to get up off the couch "I would if I could get up. Does your back always hurt like this?" he asked.
"Nonstop and if your stomach is upset which I have no doubt that it is try crackers it's the only thing that helps." Mel told him softening a little towards him.
Noah walked to his father and pulled him up off the couch "It's no wonder R.J. came out so fucked up." He cracked.
"Kiss my ass Noah." R.J. replied happily as he flipped his little brother off.
Roman shook his head at his two sons "I can only guess that your mother and I just gave up about trying to get you not to cuss." He mused.
"Pretty much dad you knew it was no use any more we can't help it it's the Halliwell in us." Leo answered his father.
"How much of that potion do you want me to make?" Roman asked his wife.
"Daddy make enough so that you will have some left over." Gracie answered him they hadn't told the full truth about the demon. But they wouldn't be Halliwells if they did everything they were supposed to.
"Dad make sure you don't let Noah blow the kitchen up he can't boil water." Leo taunted his little brother.
"L.J. I say this with the utmost love and affection but go fuck yourself." Noah told his older brother.
Mel couldn't help but hide a smile she knew that they had got that from her she couldn't say anything about it.
A/N: So I pretty much got lazy and decided to make this a couple of chapters instead of just a one shot. I hope you guys enjoy it. Until next time please review.