Title: My baby's a what now?

Author: NCIS1990

Rated T

Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed or it's characters, they belong to Constance M. Burge.

Chapter 1

SCENE: HALLIWELL MANOR

(Piper is sitting at the kitchen table staring into space when Phoebe and Prue walk in.)

Prue: (Noticing Piper's expression.) Piper? Are you okay?

(Piper doesn't answer)

Phoebe: Piper?

Piper: Sure, do whatever you want.

Phoebe: Uh, Piper, what's wrong?

Piper: Sure, I'll have whatever.

Phoebe: Piper!

(Piper gasps and jumps in surprise.)

Piper: Phoebe, you scared me, what's the matter with you?

Phoebe: What's the matter with me? We came in and couldn't get your attention.

Piper: Sorry, I just have a lot on my mind.

Prue: Anything we can help with?

Piper: (Distracted) Do you know if the old crib is still in the basement?

Phoebe: What? Piper, what does that have to do with- (She gets a look of realization on her face.) Oh my god. No way!

Piper: (Nodding.) I'd been feeling sick and it wasn't going away, so I went to the doctor. I thought it was just the flu or something. I really didn't think this would happen.

Prue: How far along are you?

Piper: 6 weeks.

Phoebe: So it's Leo's?

Piper: Who else was I sleeping with 6 weeks ago?

Phoebe: Sorry.

Piper: No, I'm sorry, I just really wasn't expecting this. How can I have a baby right now, I'm 25, I'm just getting my career off the ground. I have no clue where the father is and demons attack every other day.

Prue: Woah, Piper, you need to relax, okay? We have about 7 and a half months to sort everything out. First of all, yes you're young but you're strong and capable so I have no doubt you can handle a baby and a career at the same time. We'll do everything we can to find Leo but no matter what you're not alone in this, Phoebe and I will be with you every step of the way.

Phoebe: You bet your ass.

Prue: And as for demon attacks, There's no way Phoebe and I will let any demon, warlock, or any threatening magical being even let a hair on your or our niece or nephew's head be out of place. We'll stand by whatever you decide, but we totally think you can do this.

(Piper starts crying.)

Piper: I love you guys.

(She hugs Prue and Phoebe joins in.)

6 MONTHS LATER

(Phoebe is blowing up balloons in the conservatory when Prue walks in carrying a food platter.)

Prue: (Laughing) How many balloons did you buy Pheebs?

Phoebe: A lot, for some reason I didn't think 30 was enough. Although at the time it didn't occur to me that I would be the one blowing them up. The next time we do this we're going to need a helium machine.

(Prue laughs as Piper walks down the stairs, her hand is on her very pregnant belly.)

Piper: Wow, guys, this looks great.

Phoebe: You like it?

Piper: I love it, thank you guys so much.

Prue: Aw, anything for you and our little niece or nephew.

Piper: Where is everyone going to sit?

Prue: Oh Andy's bringing over extra tables from old Mrs. Watkins house. (A/N: Yes he's still alive.)

Phoebe: Old Mrs. Watkins is still alive?

Prue: I was just as surprised.

Piper: I'm grateful for all of his- (She cuts herself off when she burps and bubbles come flying out of her mouth.) help.

Prue: Uh, Piper, what was that?

Piper: I have no idea but weird things like that have been happening alot lately.

Phoebe: What do you mean?

Piper: Well, it's just, I cut myself with a knife last night while I was making dinner. I went to get a band aid and when I went to put it on the cut was gone.

Phoebe: Really?

Piper: Yeah, (She holds up her finger.) See?

Prue: That's so weird. Anything else?

Piper: Well, you know how I spilled flour all over the floor last week?

Prue: Yeah.

Piper: Well, it was all over the floor because when I went to freeze it flowers came out of my hands.

Phoebe: Why didn't you tell us?

Piper: Well, I didn't know what to think of it, for all I know this is just a normal witch pregnancy thing.

Prue: Even in our world I don't think burping bubbles, healing yourself, and flowers popping out of your hands are considered normal pregnancy symptoms.

Phoebe: Maybe we should look in the book of shadows to see if it has anything to say.

Piper; Nope, not today, today I'm just a normal expectant mother who is going to have a normal baby shower, no magic aloud.

Phoebe: But-

Piper: No magic aloud!

(Piper walks away and Phoebe turns to Prue.)

Phoebe: What are we going to do?

Prue: Just listen to what she says. We'll be normal today and then tomorrow we'll consult the book of shadows.

(Prue walks away and Phoebe grunts in annoyance.)

LATER THAT NIGHT IN THE ATTIC

(Phoebe is on the couch flipping through the book of shadows when Prue walks up.)

Prue: Phoebe, it's three o'clock in the morning, what are you doing?

Phoebe: I couldn't sleep, I can't go on any longer without knowing what's going on with Piper.

Prue: Phoebe-

Phoebe: What? We gave her a nice normal baby shower, that's all she asked for, now we can find out what's going on.

Prue: (Sighing) What have you found so far?

Phoebe: (Groaning in frustration.) Nothing, there's nothing in this book that explains it.

Prue: Let me see?

(She takes the book and starts looking through it.

Prue: Did you look through the demonics section?

Phoebe: No, because it doesn't sound all that demonic to me.

Prue: Me either, I just don't know- (She pauses on a page.) I think I found something.

Phoebe: What?

Prue: (Reading from the book.) "Whitelighters, Immortal beings who guide and protect their charges from great evil. Charges are usually witches or potential whitelighters. If a charge is injured by a force of evil whitelighters have the power to heal them through their hands."

Phoebe: How does that explain Piper's problem?

Prue: I don't know if it does all the way, but Piper said that one minute she had a cut on her finger and the next minute it was gone.

Phoebe: You think Piper's a whitelighter?

Prue: No, but her baby could be.

(Phoebe thinks.)

Prue: Phoebe, are you okay?

Phoebe: I'm just thinking, what did we really know about Leo?

Prue: Okay, Phoebe, I didn't bring this up so we could get suspicious.

Phoebe: No, but think about it. In all the time he was here fixing things did we really learn all that much about him.

Prue: Well, I didn't, but maybe Piper did. She was sleeping with the man.

Phoebe: Still, the way he left was pretty cryptic. He said he had to go see family. He didn't say where and Piper hasn't heard from him since and he doesn't seem like the type to just sleep with a woman and skip town, you saw how he was with Piper.

Prue: Okay, maybe it is true, but what do we do about it, how do we tell Piper?

Phoebe: We don't.

Prue: Are you crazy? If this baby is half of a magical being that until a few minutes ago we weren't aware of isn't that something that Piper should know?

Phoebe: What are we supposed to say. "Hey Piper, like so many other men in your life the father of your child isn't human."?

Prue: Well, not in those words but we can't keep this from her. And, we can get her to look on the bright side of this, like, this one isn't evil, or this one isn't dead?

Phoebe: If he's immortal isn't he technically dead?

Prue: Not like the last one, at least this one has never appeared transparent.

Phoebe: Fine, but do we have to tell her now. The baby is due in 6 weeks can't we wait to tell her then?

Prue: I would Phoebe, but what if something goes on during the delivery that we didn't see coming and no OBGYN has ever seen before. Who knows what happens when a whitelighter is born.

Phoebe: Okay, so we'll do more research in the morning but until we know more let's just keep this to ourselves for now?

Prue: Fine.

(They walk out of the attic.)

A/N: There's the first chapter, I thought this would be a fun idea. If you follow my other stories I'm sorry I haven't updated them and I probably have no business starting yet another story but I'm going to do all I can to update each and every one of them. Let me know what you think.