Charmed - The entire history of Rachel and Puck's relationship can be retold just from the charms on a simple silver bracelet.

Rating - T

Characters - Rachel & Puck

A/N -Reviews/concrit are loved, as are suggestions as to what you want to see happen. And I'm from the UK, so if anything American is not quite right, please let me know and I'll fix it.

This is the last chapter I had pre-written & I'm sort of out of ideas (I don't really want the wedding to happen straight after aleb's born) I'm still toying with the Beth idea I had, but the majority of people said they'd like Shelby & Beth (the idea I had was just Beth) or to leave it with just Noah, Rachel & Kaleb. In short, if anyone has any ideas/suggestions I would be extremley greatful!

Chapter 7 - And K Makes Three

"Are you sure you're okay babe?" Noah watched Rachel push herself from the sofa, she was 4 days overdue and even the simplest of movements were getting difficult, she'd laid on her back for less than thirty seconds a couple of days ago and was convinced she now knew how whales felt when they got washed up onto the beach.

"I'm fine" she snapped.

"Okay okay" Noah held his hands up in surrender, Rachel had been really cranky for the past few days but he reasoned he wouldn't be jumping for joy if he had to carry a large heavy wriggling beach ball his gut, "where are you going?"

Rachel picked up her bag and paused to rub the small of her back, "I've got a class at two."

Noah frowned, "you can't seriously be thinking about going to class Rachel, you were due to give birth four days ago, I'm sure they won't mind if you don't go in."

"I'm going in Noah, now you can either drive me there or I can get the subway." She paused to take a deep breath and rub her stomach.

"I'll drive you" he said slowly, "are you sure you're okay Rach, you're not like having contractions or anything?"

Rachel shook her head, "he's just a little active this morning, making his momma need to pee constantly." she dumped her bag and walked to the bathroom, "I'll be two minutes".

Reluctantly Noah dropped Rachel off at college. Her class was only an hour long so he told her he'd wait in the car and take her home again afterwards, he'd sold his truck a few months ago when Rachel became so big he had to lift her into it. He sent a text to Leroy, Hiram and his mom while he was waiting for Rachel. 'I think something might be happening with the baby. Rachel says she's fine but you might want to start making your way up'.

His mother rang almost instantly asking Noah what made him think that the Kaleb would be here soon. He explained how restless Rachel had been in the night, how she'd tossed and turned constantly whilst mumbling in her sleep. He told his mom how he'd found Rachel pacing the bathroom that morning as she told him how nauseous she felt, and how she kept stopping what she was doing to rub at her back or her stomach. She'd almost constantly felt the need to rub at her stomach when Kaleb was kicking, but only over the last couple of days had she stopped mid sentence to do it.

Mrs Puckerman agreed with her son and promised that she would speak with Rachel's fathers and they would be on their way as soon as possible.

Noah must have dozed off while he was waiting for Rachel and he woke to find her shuffling in the passenger seat, "come on Kaleb" she spoke softly to her stomach, "give momma a break."

"Hey" Noah mumbled as he woke, "have you been here long?"

Rachel shook her head, "just a couple of minutes."

"Are you giving Ima trouble already little guy?" He reached over to lay his hand on Rachel's stomach, "Woah, calm down little one" he gasped when he felt an almighty kick. "God Rach, I don't know how you put up with it."

She sighed, "I guess I'm used to it by now, I think you just got an elbow."

"It'll all be over soon though" Noah tried to reassure her, Rachel had seen her doctor just two days ago and she had promised that if Kaleb wasn't here by the end of the week Rachel would be induced.

"I know" Rachel shifted in her seat, "I don't want to worry you, but I think you were right earlier. I don't think I'm in labour as such, but I don't feel right. Maybe I should call your Mom when we get in."

"I already called her, she's on her way with your dads, and she said she had a lot of backache when she was having my sister apparently rocking on all fours helped her." Rachel nodded, still rubbing at her stomach, "do you want to go to the hospital?"

Rachel shook her head, "can we just go home?"

"Sure thing babe" Noah kissed Rachel softly before fastening her seatbelt for her and driving them home.

Noah spent the rest of the evening alternating between running warm baths for Rachel and laying on the bed with her, rubbing her back or just holding her in his arms. Not long after they'd arrived home Rachel had laid in the bath with Noah behind her rubbing her stomach. It was there that she admitted how scared she was of giving birth, how scared she was that having never had a mother herself was going to affect her ability to be a mother to Kaleb. Noah had kissed her neck and tried to reassure her. He'd told her that while she'd never had a mother, she had had two loving fathers, and he'd never had a decent father but he'd had a great mom, so between them they should be able to do a fairly decent job at bringing up their son.

It was as Rachel stood from her fourth bath of the night that she yelped loudly and was glad Noah was there to stop her slipping, "that one was a lot worse" she told him once the pain had finally passed. Up until then the pain she'd been experiencing was more annoying and irritating than anything else, but it had all changed now.

"I'm going to ring the hospital" Noah told her, "see when they want you to go in".

"No" Rachel reached out and grabbed him, "please don't leave me. They said to wait until they were five minutes apart, please"

Noah saw the fear in Rachel's eyes so he nodded slowly, helping Rachel from the bath and wrapping her in a large towel. Rachel suggested watching a movie but spent most of the time pacing the room, only pausing when she had a contraction, or when things got too much for her and she needed Noah to hold her and tell her it was going to be okay.

It was just after midnight when Rachel's fathers and Noah's mother arrived. Rachel had fallen asleep shortly before they arrived so Noah set up the sofa bed for the Berry men and showed his mom to the tiny second bedroom where a camp bed had been set up by the crib before he climbed into bed himself.

Rachel woke a little after three am, her contractions were back and stronger than before but she didn't wake Noah. She was surprised to find her dad sat in the kitchen, "Hey Rach" he greeted her as she poured herself a glass of water, "how are you doing?"

"They're worse than they were bef-oh" Rachel gasped as she felt Kaleb shift inside her just seconds before she found herself stood in a pool of water, "dad"

Leroy could tell Rachel was terrified, "it's okay Rach, let me wake everyone up and we'll get you to the hospital, I think Kaleb's ready to say hello."

It was almost twenty hours later when Kaleb finally made an entrance. Rachel had demanded through her contractions that no one touched Kaleb before Noah held him unless they absolutely had to and instantly fell in love with the a photo Noah's mom took of Noah gazing at the tiny bundle in his arms, Kaleb's big brown eyes staring right back up at his father, all five of Kaleb's tiny fingers gripped around Noah's much larger index finger.

Noah fell in love with Kaleb instantly, he was the tiniest person Noah had ever seen, even smaller than Beth, but he was so perfect, "Happy Birthday Bug" Noah whispered before kissing his son and passing him to Rachel.

"Oh" Rachel began to sob the second she set eyes on her son which in turn caused Kaleb to wail too. "Oh baby" Rachel rocked him gently, "I know, it's been a hard day for me too" she ran a finger gently over his cheek, "but you're here now, we're okay, you're okay, it's okay". Noah remembered Rachel turning to him with tears in her eyes, "we did it Noah, look what we did."

Noah smiled and kissed Rachel's damp forehead he could tell she was completely exhausted, "No babe, you did it. You bought this little guy into the world, I'm so proud of you Rach, you were amazing." Rachel was too tired to argue and simply dropped her head back against the pillows as the nurses took Kaleb over to the side of the room to clean him off and check him over. "So" Noah took Rachel's hand in his, "I got you this" he grinned reaching into his pocket and pulling out a tiny blue package. Rachel unwrapped it with shaking fingers to find a silver K in the same style as the R and the N she already had, an extra reminder of the day Rachel and Noah stopped being a couple and became a family.