Chapter 7: A glimpse of the future
Paulina Berg
Around a week later, she had gotten an appointment to meet a nurse at the clinic so Chris drove her there after school. It felt like a very strange place to be in. Women in all stages of pregnancy, some with small children coughing in their laps, everything was so full of life.
But there in a corner, she saw a young woman with tears in her eyes, looking determined. She was probably also here to do an abortion. When Paulina looked at her, it was like looking in a mirror of emotions. She could relate to her so much. It felt like they were twins sharing a destiny without even knowing each other.
A nurse came out in the waiting area and Paulina followed her back in to a room that looked more like an office than a ward. "Please sit." Said the nurse. "My name is Amber Hakesley, you're here to talk about an abortion, is that right?" "Yeah, I realized around a week ago that I'm pregnant. I've been pregnant for a little more than five weeks now. Me and the father talked about this and none of us are fit to be parents right now." "Okay, I understand. I can give you an appointment with our doctor if you feel like this is what you want, Paulina. Cause you're the only person that can take this decision." "I know that, and I am in conflict with myself. I don't want to be a mother, my life up until now has been planned, every single detail have been planned to get me to where I am today." "I see. If you don't want to be a mother, you don't have to. You just have to figure out what is right for your life." Paulina started to cry like a little baby, and that was really how she felt. Like she still was that scared little girl she had tried so hard to overcome.
It took ten minutes for the nurse to calm her down. "You seem a little bit lost. If you're only in week 6 you've got time to think a little longer. Go home, talk to someone you trust and call me again in a week. Okay?" Paulina nodded and left the room.
Chris smiled at her when they walked out of the clinic. "Are you feeling okay? What did she say?" "No, I'm not feeling okay. But she told me to go home, think and return in a week." "That seems like a good plan. I hope you know that I'm gonna support you, even if you take a different decision than I would." "Thank you Chris. I really appreciate that." When Chris reached out to let her take his hand, she shivered.
"Push sweetie. You must push." Piper Halliwell was standing next to her bed and held her hand. If you just push once more, you'll get to see your little girl. She's working really hard to get out here, but you must help her." Paulina pushed with everything she had. A baby screamed and it all got black.
When she opened her eyes, Chris looked at her, scared. "Are you okay? You don't have epilepsy or something like that, right?" They sat down on a park bench. "No, I don't… I think I saw something, I think I saw myself giving birth to our daughter." "What are you talking about Paulina? Maybe I should drive you home?" Chris let out a nervous laughter. "It felt so real. I was in a bed in a hospital and your mother was standing next to me, telling me to push." Chris studied her face. Paulina felt like he was arguing with himself whether she was crazy, or just a little out of place. "Paulina, I think we need to go see my aunt Phoebe."
Chris Halliwell
He and Paulina had not said a word during the entire drive to Aunt Phoebe's apartment. They were both trying to figure out what was going on here. This whole pregnancy thing was going to drive him nuts.
Little Primrose opened the door. "Hi Chris, I didn't know you were coming here today." "No, it wasn't planned. But I and Paulina need to ask your mum something." "Okay." Prim looked at Paulina looking really curious. "Mum! Chris is here!" Aunt Phoebe came out of her office. "Chris. Paulina. How lovely to see you guys." "You too." Said Paulina. "Aunt Phoebe, can we talk to you?" He looked at Prim. "In private." "Prim, can't you go up to your room? I think you have some homework to do." She looked grumpy, but left.
The three of them sat down in Phoebe's office. "Auntie, when you get your premonitions, how does it feel?" "I feel like a shiver, than I see the vision and get a little shaky when I'm back. Why are you guys wondering?" Paulina stared at him with open mouth. His aunt looked worried at them. "Is something wrong?" "I think our kid gave Paulina a premonition. She looked just like you do when you get one, and she saw. She saw herself giving birth." Paulina was still staring at him. Chris put an arm around her to try to comfort her. She shivered again.
Paulina Gren
The little girl was laying in her arms. "Hi beautiful." Said Paulina. She had the most beautiful green eyes and so much brown hair that it would be possible to put it all together in a tiny ponytail. Chris came in through the door. He looked at her and the baby with a tear in his eyes. "Is this her, is this our daughter?" Paulina nodded.
Paulina started crying when she opened her eyes. "I held her, and she was so beautiful!" "How is this possible?" asked Chris. But it was hard for Paulina to focus on what he was saying. She had just seen her daughter for the first time. "Chris, your mother, me and Aunt Prue did accidentally travel back in time once, to the 70's. Grandma Patty was barely pregnant with me, but she had still had a premonition, and together with the little versions of your mother and aunt we succeeded to cast a power of three spell. Some witches do have their powers from the womb, even this early."
Paulina put both of her hands on her stomach. "This is amazing. She must be so powerful to be able to send me premonitions like this." She could hear Phoebe and Chris talking in the background, but she could not care less. Right now she could only think of one thing, the beautiful girl with brown hair and green eyes, the powerful witch that had powers from the womb. Her little daughter. Now she must handle this, she must learn how to be a mother, and that means the first thing she has to do is to contact her family.
"Chris. I want to keep her." The two of them was walking from Phoebe's apartment building to the car. "I kind of figured that out. I won't say that I'm entirely happy with this, cause that would mean that I was lying. I don't wanna lie to you." "I know, and I'm grateful for that. If this is going to work in some way we both need to be honest to each other."
"What are you going to do about your family? And your host family?" said Chris when they were driving home. "When I get back, I'm gonna log in to Skype and hope that my mother's awake. Then I'm going to tell her that I'm pregnant and hope that she doesn't explode when I tell her that I want to keep the baby. Then I guess I have to tell my host family too." Chris stopped the car outside her home. "Do you want me to be there?" Paulina stayed in the car for a minute to think. She opened the car door. "Yeah, I think it would be nice if I could show you to my mother, and I will need emotional support."
Chris Halliwell
Chris sat on Paulina's bed next to her while she started her computer. He was nervous, very nervous. This was going to be an extremely awkward situation. Paulina looked like she was going to throw up when she pressed call.
A woman who looked a lot like Paulina appeared on the screen and Paulina said something Chris thought was greetings. Then she mentioned his name. "Chris, this is my mother Susanne." "Hi mrs…" Paulina interrupted him. "You can call her Susanne, we don't use titles in Sweden at all." "Okay, hi Susanne. Nice to meet you." "It's very nice to meet you too Chris. Paulina has been talking a lot about you." "Ey!" she said, followed by gibberish. Or Swedish, it sounded the same to him.
Then the smile disappeared from her face and she took his hand. When she was finished her mother looked extremely shocked. The two of them argued loudly for an entire hour in a language Chris didn't understand. He just sat there and tried to follow their body language.
After an hour Paulina was calmer and ended the conversation. When she had turned off her computer and put it away she started crying and Chris laid his arms around her. "My mum doesn't think this is a good idea." She mumbled in to his chest. "What a surprise." She said and they both started laughing. Paulina sat up in the bed. "I wanna do it again." "What do you mean?" "I wanna have sex with you again. It's not like we have to worry about pregnancy." Chris laughed. "I don't know. You're very upset. Do you really want to?" "Just shut up!" she said as she took off her clothes and Chris just decided to shut up and follow her example.
Wyatt Halliwell
Wyatt sat with his laptop in his knee and edited some photos he had taken. His roommate Dean sat on his bed and checked his phone. "Ey Wyatt! Wanna do something?" "Yeah, maybe. Do you have a suggestion?" "Yeah, Amy, you know that hot chick that I met last week." Wyatt nodded. "She invited us to a party, wanna go?" Wyatt closed his laptop. "Yeah, why not?"
A couple of hours later Wyatt and Dean were walking into a crowded house. It just took them a minute to find Amy who was standing with a couple of friends. "Hi Derek! You came!" she smiled and gave him a hug. "Yeah, and I brought my friend Wyatt too." Wyatt smiled at her friends. "I'm Samantha." Said a cute little brunette. "Wanna dance with me?" Wyatt smiled and they took a couple of steps away from the group to start dancing.
Twenty minutes later Wyatt heard someone yell his name. "But isn't this Wyatt Halliwell? What are you doing here dude?" Wyatt's old childhood friend, the half-manticora Josh, walked up to him and gave him a hug. "Josh, it's been ages. I didn't know you lived here now." "I'm just here tonight for the party, I'm studying at a little community college an hour away. How's the family?" "They're good. Melinda just started high school." "Cool, it feels like she is too young for that." "Yeah, but even the little ones are growing up." "Come on Wyatt, I wanna dance." Said Samantha who had started to look more and more bored during the short conversation. "Dance with the girl, she shouldn't have to be bored at a party." Said Josh and laughed. "Okay, nice to see you, we need to meet up and catch up soon." Wyatt said and started to dance again.
This feels like a good night thought Wyatt when he and Samantha left the house together. He had texted Dean to tell him that he was leaving, but he did not think that he would even notice. The last he saw of him, he was wasted and made out with Amy. Kind of like himself, just less drunk and a different girl.
Wyatt and Samantha were standing in an alley making out when Wyatt got hit by an energy ball. He quickly put up his orb shield to protect Samantha, who looked extremely shocked and he used his pyrokinesis to make the demon burn up. When she was gone, he took down his orb shield. "What the hell was that!" she screamed. Wyatt had never been at a situation where his powers were shown to someone else before, and he did not know what to do. "Nothing, nothing happened." He decided to go down the denial path. "But, you set that girl on fire, and there were a blue shield here…" "You're drunk Sam, that didn't happen. I was just standing here, and the girl over there lighted a cigarette and then went away." Sam looked suspicious but she didn't say anything. "Okay, I guess I should go home if I'm that drunk." They said goodbye and Wyatt persuaded her in to taking a cab, before he took the bus back home.
When he was back at his dorm he realized that he should text Aunt Paige and tell her about what happened. Since it was 3 am he did not think that she would be up, but then she could see it in the morning. Hi auntie, just got attacked by a female demon. She had long dark hair and threw energy balls. I'm okay and the girl that was with me is too. She was so drunk that I could tell her that she just imagined what happened. Just thought I'd tell you. When he had finished the text, he directly fell asleep.
Chris Halliwell
Chris was sitting on the floor in the kitchen while his mother was cooking dinner. That was one of his safest moments. Even though he loved being away from his family, they were the most comforting thing in the world. Especially now with everything that was going on with Paulina and the baby, being close to his own parents made him feel a lot better.
When the doorbell rang Melinda was the one that opened the door. But when the door opened Chris heard that it was Paulina, a crying Paulina, and he directly went to the door to see what the problem was. She had two big suitcases with her, and she looked exhausted. Melinda was hugging her and Chris joined the hug without saying anything. "I told my host family, and now they won't even let me stay a minute more. I have nowhere to go. I actually thought they were going to let me stay a couple of weeks at least." "Come in, let's talk to my mum. Mel can take your suitcases upstairs." Mel nodded and orbed herself and the suitcases away.
"But sweetie, how are you?" said his mum to Paulina when they walked in to the kitchen. "She told her host family, and now she can't stay there." "Then we decide that you stay here for as long as you want." Said his mother and smiled at her. "You can take Wyatt's old room. Because even though you're pregnant I don't think you should live in the same room. He's still my baby." "Okay, thank you Piper. You're amazing." Said Paulina and started crying again, but this time she was smiling too.
"Hello, I'm here. Witch Business!" said Aunt Paige when she orbed in to the manor. "We're in the kitchen!" answered his mother. Chris could see that Paulina tried to wipe her tears away before Paige entered the kitchen. "Oh great, Chris and Paulina is here too. I've heard something that I need to tell you. I talked to Wyatt a couple of days ago and he had been attacked by a demon when he was out with a girl." "What girl?" interrupted his mother. "That's not the important thing here Piper, you can ask him later." She looked irritated at her. "Since both of you have been attacked by demons on dates..." "When were you attacked by a date?" asked Paulina. "When I went to the car that day when we were on the beach." "Guys, you will want to know this!" yelled Aunt Paige. She got the full attention of all three of them. "I decided to look this up. You guys don't get attacked so much, and especially since it was in similar situations I got suspicious. So I went to the elders to see if anyone had an idea, and they had just heard about a prophesy that surrounded a kid of a Charmed One's son."
Chris saw that Paulina immediately put her hand on her stomach. "A prophesy?" she asked. "Yeah, according to the rumors your daughter is going to be the start of a new and powerful line of witches. The warren line was supposed to culminate with us, the Charmed Ones and now there will be a new Melinda Warren." "Who is Melinda Warren?" asked Paulina. "She's our ancestor; she was the first in our family who had magic powers. She got killed during the Salem witch hunt." Answered Chris. "Exactly, and now you guys will give birth to the most powerful witch ever. Wyatt is the most powerful witch of our time, so the demons will probably think it's going to be his baby for a little while longer. This girl is going to have the same powers as Melinda Warren, but she will also have whitelighter powers." "And the demons are already after her, after me?" asked Paulina. "Yeah, but we will do everything we can to protect you." Piper nodded. "It's my granddaughter inside there, and both you and she are parts of our family now." Chris put his hands on Paulina's stomach. "We're going to fix this, together. And we will raise the most powerful witch of all times. She is going to need us a lot. But somehow, I've already started to love her."
