Disclaimer: See chapter 1

I didn't think Chapter 3 had enough drama in this, and thought it went too quickly to Wyatt and Coop finding out to Melinda getting pregnant, so thought I'd add this Chapter too, I know it's very corny. There will be a LOT more drama in later chapters, so keep reading and reviewing.

Prophecies, Cupids and a Phoenix

Leo walked past the bathroom, he could hear Melinda throwing up again. It had been two weeks since she started being ill, something was seriously wrong if she was still throwing up. Deciding to talk to Piper about taking her to the doctor later, he left the hallway to bump into his youngest son on the stairs.

"Sorry buddy," Leo held his sons arms to stop him from crashing down the stairs, "I was in my own little world."

"It's ok dad." He heard the simple reply and then Chris ran up the stairs. Ok, was something going on? All three of his children had been acting weird since Coop had told them they were all in love. Did that have something to do with it?

As Leo reached the kitchen, he could hear his older son talking to his wife.

"Has she seen the school nurse?" He could hear his loving wife ask, so she was just as worried.

"I don't know mom."

Leo walked through the kitchen door to the smell of bacon and eggs.

"Maybe we should take her to the doctors." Piper looked at her husband who had just walked in. She did not need to be a telepath to know what he was thinking, especially when he nodded his head in answer.

"I'll take her after school." Wyatt piped up. He could not let them take Melinda to the doctor, then they would find out the truth.

"Take who where?" The adults looked to the door to see Melinda walk in, dressed for school.

"You actually." Piper looked at her youngest child and then put some eggs and bacon on a plate passing it to her.

Melinda took the plate her mother was holding out and looked down. She felt sick again. The eggs she could have handled, but the bacon she was having second thoughts on. She did not even think about questioning her parents about going to the doctors.

"I'll take you after school." Wyatt told his sister, who was sitting down near him with the plate of food.

"Yeah, sounds good." Melinda answered still in the thoughts of her breakfast in front of her. She did not even notice her mother smile at herself, for not arguing with her.

"Smells great mom." Chris took a deep breath in as he walked through the kitchen door. He loved his mom's cooking. He took a plate of food from his mother and sat next to Melinda, seeing that she was pushing her food around the plate and taking little bites of eggs.

"I've had enough mom." Melinda pushed the plate away and stood up.

"You've hardly eaten anything."

"I'm not hungry." And with that she left the kitchen. Wyatt glanced at Chris worriedly. He knew his mother could see there was something wrong.

Seeing the worried glances, Chris guzzled down his food and stood up, picking up some keys from the key peg hung on the wall.

"Chris?" Leo asked, as he saw his son leaving the kitchen, "Where are you going?"

"School."

Wyatt watched his brother exit the room and then his father sit down confused.

"They've been acting weird ever since Coop thought they were in love."

"I'm sure it's nothing dad."

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Great, Melinda thought as she sat down in her classroom, Parenting. It could not be any more ironic. She was going to have a baby and it was now time for them to do the parenting class every sophomore in the school had to do. And what was even worse was that she was paired up with Jake Cunningham, the most popular guy in her class. The one that all the girls wanted to be paired up with, and she had to admit, he was hot. In fact he was very hot, and sexy and…no she could not be thinking about him like that. She was meant to be with Chris now, after all she was having his baby, but that did not mean she could not have fun, right? Well, they had to make it look like they were not together, and by…no, she could not do that to Chris.

"Looks like we're having a baby." She heard Jake's voice as he sat next to her. Melinda was pulled out of her thoughts and saw him with the mechanical baby in her arms.

"Looks like."

"What do you want to call her?" Jake asked, trying to be serious, this was going to be one easy class for him. He'd give the baby to Melinda and that would be it. An A!

"It's a her?" Melinda eyed the boy, curiously.

"Yeah."

Melinda sat back and rolled her eyes. This class was going to be interesting.

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Chris has just got to his car when he heard the sounds of a screaming baby. That was something he could definitely wait for, but something that was definitely coming into his life. Eight months or so he would have a screaming baby in his life, but it was going to be with the one person he loved, so that was ok. He was about to get into his car, to wait for Melinda, when he realised the sounds of the baby was getting closer. He looked towards where the sound was coming, wondering if something bad was happening when he saw his sister walking towards him carrying a baby-shaped doll. He started to fear that she had gone to see the school nurse.

"Parenting class." Melinda rolled her eyes at the look of her brother's face.

"Nice timing." Chris smirked at her and climbed into his car, knowing Melinda was following suit.

"So who's the father?" Chris asked trying to make this serious, but he actually found the situation quite amusing.

"Jake Cunningham."

"You slept with Jake Cunningham?" Chris faked being hurt and shocked, which earned unimpressed glances from Melinda, who was still trying to figure out how to stop the mechanical baby from crying.

"How do you turn it off?" Melinda asked turned the doll upside down. To say this girl was pregnant, she was not showing any signs of maternal instinct.

"Use it's pacifier." Chris explained, laughing at the sight of the upside-down baby doll, remembering when he had to take that class. He had to do all the looking after of the baby, since the girl he was paired up with was so useless, and he did not want to fail the class, "Don't worry, I'll help you out." Then he realised, he was going to find out what it would be like to have a baby with her, before the real thing was born.

By the time they had pulled into the driveway of the manor, Melinda had figured out how to stop the crying baby and it was somewhat asleep.

"C'mon, we're going," Chris heard Wyatt tell their sister as they walked into the house, "Where the hell did that come from?"

Melinda looked at her older brother, where were they going and what did he mean what was this?

"Doctors," Wyatt winked, "We'll be back later mom." Melinda and Chris exchanged worried glances as Wyatt took Melinda's arm.

"Doctors?" Melinda asked, knowing that if she went they would know what was wrong and mom would find out. Would Wyatt really drop her and Chris in this when only three weeks ago he was helping them find a way of not having to tell mom and dad?

"Bye sweetie." They could all hear from the kitchen as they left the house. Chris decided to join them to be on the safe side. As the door shut behind them, Wyatt turned to both of them.

"Don't worry, I'm not that stupid. I've already cancelled the appointment mom made for you but I have to get you out of the house so she doesn't suspect something."

Melinda sighed with relief as the mechanical baby started screaming again.

"Oh my God!" She was not ready to be a mother, she knew that, but she was going to be in eight months, less that eight months in fact.

"Where did you get that?" Wyatt asked as they all got into his car, which was on the roadside.

"Parenting Class." Melinda rolled her eyes as she took the pacifier type thing around the baby's neck and put it in the baby's mouth, stopping it from crying.

Wyatt understood, he remembered the Sophomore parenting class, he had failed it. He tried to stifle a laugh at how ironic it was that Mel was pregnant and it was her class' turn for the parenting class.

"Don't start, I've already had Chris laughing about it." Wyatt looked at Chris through his rear-view mirror and saw his smirk.

"You know this will be a good chance to see how you two react with a baby." Chris' smirk disappeared, not something he wanted to hear.

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Piper was worried. Her son had taken her daughter to the doctors a hour ago, where were they now? She was surprised to find out Chris had gone with them too. Chris hated doctors, ever since he was 13, when he got an extremely bad case of tonsillitis. She was about to call for her sons when a familiar pink glow filled the room. It was her brother-in-law, Coop.

"Coop, what are you doing here?" Piper asked, forgetting her worry about her children and started to wonder if something had happened to her sister, "Is Phoebe ok?"

"Phoebe's fine," Coop smiled, "I was wondering if Chris or Mel were around." Coop had just found out that their love for each other meant something and had to tell them now, before it was too late.

"They're not here, they've gone to the doctors."

"Doctors? Why?" Coop started to panic, but then wondered whether Piper had found out about them both.

"Mel's been ill. Wyatt took her and Chris went with them." Good, Coop thought, She's just ill. Not pregnant. That was the last thing he needed, the last thing the world needed.

"But they left an hour ago."

Just then she heard the front door slam shut.

"It's just us." Came a call from her eldest son. Piper and Coop bundled out of the kitchen and into the dining area to see Melinda with a mechanical baby. Why would she have a mechanical baby? Oh wait, Sophomore year, parenting class. All Sophomores had to take this class because of the rising rate of teenage pregnancies. Oh well, she did not have to worry about that. All three of her children were smart, and Mel did not even have a boyfriend, so there was no danger there.

"Chris, Mel, can I talk to you?" Coop asked, "Actually all three of you." Piper worried, this was something important that would affect all of them. Was there a demon after them, no there could not be, Coop would tell her them.

"Dinner will be ready by seven," Piper told her children as they started walking upstairs with their uncle, "Bianca knows right?"

"Yeah, she knows." Wyatt nodded. This was the night his parents were officially going to meet Bianca, and as usual when something like this happened, the whole family were going to be there.

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"This is about both of you," Coop said as they all made their way into the attic. Coop directed his comment to Chris and Mel who were sitting on Aunt Pearl's couch. Wyatt perched on a table beside them while Coop stood in front of them all, "About your…well…"

"Relationship." Chris stated, since Coop could not quite get the words out. Coop nodded, looking between them. They were meant to be together. He had finally found the cupid who was responsible for putting them together and the meaning for it.

"What is it, Uncle Coop?" Melinda asked, seeing the worried look in the cupid's eyes.

"You two being together," Coop sighed, "There's a reason behind it. A cupid friend of mine put you two together."

Wyatt was confused, why would a cupid put together a brother and sister, and what was this reason?

"Just tell me something," Coop went on, "You're not pregnant are you?"

"Why?" Chris asked, slightly scared. There must have been a reason behind him asking that, and it was not because he was just interested in their lives.

"Are you pregnant, Melinda?" Coop asked, this time more sternly, he needed to know, the future depended on this.

"Yes." Came a weak reply from the couch. Coop sighed, brilliant, he thought.

"Why?" Chris asked again. From the look on Coop's face, Mel being pregnant was not good. Fair enough, she was 16, it was not good, but there was a deeper meaning.

"Uncle Coop?" Wyatt asked, seeing that Chris' question was not getting answered.

Coop closed his eyes.

"There's a prophecy," Coop started to explain, "If you two had a baby, it would destroy the world." Coop wanted to find a better way of explaining it, but with all three of them there, it was extremely hard to do, especially when the youngest of the three was capable of reading minds.

"Destroy the world?" Wyatt asked, when he realised nobody else was going to say anything, "As in, destroy it trying to save it or destroy it on purpose." He was hoping for the former.

"It wasn't clear, but I think the second one."

"So why would a cupid make us fall in love?" Chris finally asked, after a lengthy awkward silence, "Why would the Elders…"

"The Elders had nothing to do with it," Coop explained, "The cupid had been possessed by a demon at the time. The demons found out about the prophesy and decided it was worth it."

Melinda was still shaken from the news her baby was going to be evil, but now finding out that demons had made her fall in love with Chris, that made it worse. She felt an arm around her shoulders, but she pushed away from it and stood up.

"Mel?" She could heard Chris' voice behind her, but it was faint. She started struggling to breathe. All this information was too much for her and then suddenly it all went black.

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"Mel? Sweetie wake up." That was her mom's voice, but where was she. Everything was still dark. She tried to open her eyes but she did not want to, then everything Uncle Coop had told her would become true.

"Melinda." That was her dad.

She opened her eyes and looked around. Everybody was blurred at the moment, but she could make out the two figures stood above her. Her mom and dad, mainly because they were talking to her.

"She's coming round."

As Melinda's vision returned, she could see more people stood around. Chris and Wyatt, definitely, and the third must have been Uncle Coop. Melinda groaned, everything was definitely true, she was going to have an evil baby.

"Mel, baby?" Her mom said to her, "Are you ok?"

"What happened?" Melinda asked, although she knew. She had collapsed. Obviously her body did not like what her Uncle Coop was telling her. After she heard from Piper that she had collapsed, Melinda started to sit up.

"Take it easy," Leo told her, "Wyatt wasn't able to heal you. Something was blocking his powers." Melinda did as she was told and sat up slowly, even though she now felt fine. She looked around at everybody. They all had worried looks on their faces, except Wyatt. Wyatt knew what was blocking his powers, and must have still been pissed at what he found out from Uncle Coop.

"You ok?" She looked to see Chris help her stand up.

"I'm fine." Melinda answered, trying to shrug Chris' hands of her, this was the last thing she needed. Melinda finally got to her feet and sat back down on Aunt Pearl's couch.

"You gave us quite a scare there." Coop told his eldest niece, although knew what was wrong, and knew she would be fine, however he did not want to let Piper and Leo know, not just yet. That was up to Chris and Mel to tell them, anyway.

"Sorry." Melinda worried, feeling Chris' eyes burn into her, hearing his angry thoughts.

"Maybe you should go to bed." Piper started to lead her youngest child out of the attic.

Wyatt watched Piper escort Melinda out of the attic.

"Leo, can you get her some water?" came a shout from down the hall. Leo left his two sons and brother-in-law in the attic.

Wyatt turned to Coop.

"We need to stop this."

"Whoa! This is my baby…" Chris started to argue, but got a stern look from his older brother. A look that meant not to argue with him.

"There's not much we can do," Coop shook his head, "Have a think, though, ok? Your Aunt Phoebe wants me." And with that Coop vanished in his pink glow.

Chris looked towards his older brother, sensing the anger, confusion, sorrow and pain coming from him.

"Wyatt?" Chris mumbled, he did not want to start a fight right now.

"Don't Chris. You've got my sister pregnant with a demon baby…" Wyatt knew he was out of order, but he could not think straight. He had just found out his nephew or niece was going to become the destroyer of the world, and he needed to blame someone, and right now it was going to be the baby's father.

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Melinda had been in bed for three hours. Ever since she fainted, her mother had put her on bed rest and she hated it. It was not like there was anything wrong with her, only pregnant with an evil baby. She was still trying to understand how her and Chris could make such an evil child. They were both good, weren't they? They both fought demons, fought the evil of the world. It now meant she would have to fight this evil. Fight her own flesh and blood. But could she do that? Well, technically it was not a life right now…no she could not have an abortion. She hated the thought of abortions. Maybe she would have a miscarriage though, with the stress this news was putting on her it was possible. Suddenly she felt at least 10 years older. Just then she had a brainwave. She quickly picked up her cell phone and called James, Wyatt's half demon friend, actually he was a good friend of Melinda too, it must have had something to do with Wyatt being so protective of her, because James was just like Wyatt, just a manticore-human version rather than witchlighter version.

"Hello?" Melinda heard James' voice on the other end of the phone.

"James, it's me Mel."

"Mel, what's up?"

"I just wondered if you knew about any potions that forced a miscarriage."

"A miscarriage."

Mel did not want to have to explain everything to him, but it looked like she might have to.

"My erm…friend is pregnant. She doesn't want an abortion, but she's not ready for a baby."

"So you want her to miscarry? Mel what's going on?"

"Don't mention any of this to Wyatt ok, but the father's a darklighter."

She knew that would make James stop asking questions. He knew how much Wyatt hated darklighters, actually it was one this that scared him slightly, only because it was the only thing the almighty Twice-Blessed could not self-heal from.

"I know of a tonic, yeah. When do you need it?"

"As soon as possible."

"I'll get it to you tonight."

With that, Melinda hung up and laid back on her bed smiling to herself. No evil baby was going to come into this world.

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Dinner was going well for once, considering the whole family was around the table and Bianca, Wyatt's love of his life.

"So Bianca, what do you do?" Phoebe was trying to make polite conversation, hoping it would ease the tension she could feel from Leo and Piper. It had not helped that Melinda had collapsed earlier on.

"Erm, I'm a nurse at the hospital."

"A nurse. I half expected you to be killing the innocents not saving them." Piper said, coldly. She did not mean to be like that, but with her youngest child not feeling well, her head was not all together there. Melinda had not even managed it to get to dinner, she was feeling so rough, so she was really worried.

"Sorry?" Bianca asked, she knew about the Halliwell's history, their ancestry, but she was not sure if they knew about her.

"They know you're a phoenix, sorry." Wyatt explained, hoping his mother's outburst was a one off.

"I'm sorry Bianca, I'm just worried about my daughter."

"Wyatt said she was ill," Bianca nodded, "There is a stomach bug going around."

Wyatt relaxed a bit as he saw that Piper and Bianca were starting to get along, that was until Patience piped up.

"You're in love." Did she have to do that? He knew she was only just getting the hang of being a Cupid, but still, it did not mean she had to tell everyone who was in love that they were in love.

"I'm sorry?" Bianca asked, turning bright red.

"She's a cupid," Coop apologised for his middle daughter, "She's only just coming into it all though." Bianca had never told Wyatt she loved him, and now he knew because his cousin had blurted it out at the dinner table.

"Don't worry, Wyatt loves you back." Patience added.

Bianca looked at Wyatt, slightly shocked. Wyatt closed his eyes, wishing he could turn back time slightly. He could have done with this dinner another night, especially after everything that had happened earlier with Chris and Mel.

"You get used to this," Wyatt's Uncle Henry explained to the Phoenix witch, "I did and I'm mortal." That eased Bianca slightly. She could not believe that the family was so big. She looked around the table, most of the children were too busy making a mess to notice her uneasiness, but the adults could tell.

"Don't worry," Paige smiled at the Phoenix, who had stolen her younger nephew's heart in the past, "It all gets easier."

Wyatt sighed with relief once dinner was over. He needed to apologise to Bianca for his nosey family. At least Phoebe was keeping her empath powers to herself and Coop was staying out of the love thing for once, but why did Patience have to open her trap? The other two of Phoebe's daughters were also half cupid, but they never said anything, maybe it was something to do with her being fully cupid. Patience did not have a wiccan power to her name.

Wyatt managed to get Bianca outside for a few minutes to apologise but then she saw James walking up the steps.

"What are you doing here, dude?" Wyatt asked his childhood friend. He and James had grown up together, his mom and James' dad were good friends, due to Piper saving them from the manticores when he and James were just babies.

"Came to see Mel, actually. I called her earlier and she said she was ill. Thought I'd play the over-protective friend."

Wyatt shook his head with a smile. He was sure James actually liked Mel as more than a friend but would not over-step the mark because of himself. As James passed them on the steps, Wyatt could see him fiddling with something in his pocket.

"You ok, dude?" Wyatt asked his friend, just before he stepped into the manor.

"Yeah dude, great."

Once James was in the manor, Wyatt turned to his girlfriend again.

"I'm sorry about my family. They can be a bit in your face."

"It's ok," Bianca smiled, "I'm just not used to it, with it being just me…" Bianca trailed off. Wyatt knew that she had lost her mom a few years ago, it was actually to the hands of a witch, but Bianca had already decided at that point that she was going to follow the path of good. Wyatt put his arm around the chestnut haired phoenix and pulled her to him.

"I do love you, by the way." He finally told her. They had been together more four months but he knew that he loved her after two, just never had the guts to tell her. He was actually surprised that Patience had not said anything about it before the other afternoon.

"I love you too." Bianca smiled, feeling great that it was now out in the open.

Wyatt put his hand to Bianca's cheek and caressed the soft skin beneath his thumb. He looked deep into her hazel eyes and then kissed her, lightly at first waiting for her to return it, and then it got more passionate.

"Do you want to take this to my room?" Wyatt asked, knowing how they were going to end up. As soon as he saw Bianca nod, he stood up and pulled her to him. Contemplating orbing, but with the risk of exposure, he led her through the front door of the manor and then orbed them both to his bedroom where they stayed for the rest of the night.

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"So your friend is to take this and then within two days she'll have a miscarriage."

"Two days?" Melinda looked at her blue-eyed friend as he was sat on her bed, handing her a vile of purple liquid.

"Two days." James nodded in confirmation. He knew Melinda was hiding something from him but he was not going to push for details. He loved having her has a friend, she was always caring and loving towards everybody, putting other people's problems before her own, but when something was bothering her he knew.

"Are you ok?" James finally plucked up the courage to ask her.

"I'm fine," Melinda nodded, "I just fainted earlier. I've been a bit ill." But James already knew that. She had rang him the first couple of days that she was ill, they were meant to go out to the movies like they usually did every Sunday, but because she was throwing up every morning she called it off. She felt James' hand caress the side of her face, brushing a strand of her blonde hair behind her ear. She took the hand and held it between her two hands.

"Really. I'm fine."

James just smiled, he knew she would not tell him what was really bothering her. The only person she told that to was Chris, but that was because they were so close when they were growing up. Closer than she and him were. The five year age gap did not help.

"Remember it could take two days." James said and started to leave the room.

"Thanks James."

James looked around and tilted his head slightly.

"What for?"

"Not pressing me for what's wrong."

Melinda watched James walk back to her and place a kiss on her forehead.

"You'll tell me when you want to." And then he left, the conventional way. He always amused her how he always chose not to shimmer, unless he was going to the underworld.

Melinda eyed the purple liquid in the vile and un-corked it.

"Here goes." In one, Melinda downed the fowl contents of the vile.

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