Chapter Nine

PREGRANT ALSO

"Thank you for coming over Eve." Phoebe said as she closed the door behind Eve.

"Anything for my favorite family." Eve said with a smile. "Now brief me on Paige's condition up to the point when she passed out." The doctor and the middle living Halliwell sister started up the stairs.

"Ever since Paige came back from 1968 she has been distancing herself from Piper and me. Paige had even orbed out of the manor to God knows where. The same day that she dumped Richard for no reason at all, ok so Paige has her reasons, she just hasn't shared them with Piper and me." Phoebe waved her right hand. "Paige orbed home with Sam; her biological father and just shut down. Well she did help Chris and I trap Piper and Leo in their bedroom so Chris could be conceived. But for the past month all Paige does is look up demons and warlocks and goes after them and vanquish them. When Paige needs help she goes to Chris only. When the power of three is required she comes to Piper and me." Phoebe placed a hand on Paige's closed doorknob. "Dad's here now and Chris wanted to have dinner with him; so Paige was going to vanquish the latest demon on her own but, Piper finally put her foot down and jerked but gently; Paige back before Paige could orb. When Paige jerked out of Piper's grasp was when Paige finally fainted."

Phoebe opened the door and Eve walked into the bedroom to see the very concerned looks on Piper, Victor, and Chris's faces as they turned from the pale and unconscious Paige; but they all quickly turned back to staring at Paige.

"Well, I need Victor and Chris out of the bedroom." Eve said briskly as she walked into the room and set down the machine she had brought with her, along with her medical bag.

"Why!" Chris demanded as he jerked his head up.

"Because I'm going to do a full and compete check up on Paige." Eve said. "Which means I have to have her clothes removed?"

"So!" Chris's chin jerked out.

"Chris wait outside please." Piper said in a no more back talk tone.

Chris bent down and gently brushed Paige's hair off of her forehead and kissed his aunt. "I'll be right back Aunt Paige." He got up and left the bedroom.

Victor followed his fully grown second born grandson from the future.

"Piper please wait outside." Eve firmly said. She knew that she had to start and remain tough where Piper Halliwell was concerned.

"No." Piper steely said as she glared up into Eve's eyes while keeping Paige's right hand in hers.

"Piper get out now. Let Eve tend to Paige, than you can fight about this later, like when Paige is awake." Phoebe said jerking her head towards the door.

Piper turned back to Paige and bent down and kissed her baby ½ sister where Chris had. She straightened up and lifted Paige's right hand up to her mouth and kissed the back of Paige's hand. "I'm just right outside Miss Paigey and I'll be right back when Eve gives the ok." She got to her feet laying Paige's hand back on the bed. She left the bedroom closing the door softly behind her.

Eve had pulled out a hospital grown out of her bag while Piper was talking to Paige. All right, Phoebe, help me get Paige undressed and into this grown."

The doctor and the middle living Halliwell sister quickly and gently removed Paige's clothes and slipped the grown onto Paige.

"All right Phoebe. It's time you left now." Eve said pulling on the vinyl gloves.

"You need my help." Phoebe said.

"As Paige's doctor, I'm under doctor – patient confidence." Eve said. "Now leave so I can get Paige to wake up."

"You need someone to assistant you." Phoebe said.

A knock sounded on Paige's closed door and it opened to reveal ….

"Grams what are you doing here?" Phoebe asked.

"I'm here to assist Eve." Grams said. "Time to leave Phoebe."

Phoebe knew she was beat. So with one last look at her unconscious baby ½ sister she left the room closing the door softly behind her.

"Here's a pair of gloves, Mrs. Halliwell." Eve said handing a pair of vinyl gloves.

She walked and bent over Paige and held her stethoscope to Paige's bare chest from when she had pulled away the hospital grown.

Penny slipped the vinyl gloves on and walked to Paige's other side.

"Her heart beat is weak and erratic. But that's to be expected with how run down Paige is." Eve murmured. She took the blood pressure cup from Penny, who had held it out. She checked Paige's pulse. "Low, weak and erratic." She murmured as she watched her watch.

After Eve had unwrapped Paige's arm and Penny had covered Paige's chest back up with the hospital grown, Eve checked Paige's temperature, "Low, bellow 96.4"

"How low?" Penny asked speaking for the first time since Phoebe had left the room.

"92.6" Eve said looking into Penny's eyes before moving to the foot of the bed. "I want to get an IV into her right away." Eve pulled out her cell phone and called her assistant and told her what she needed and where she was.

"This next part will be very personal you look away while I examine Paige." Eve said closing her cell phone.

Penny nodded. "Just tell me what tools you need."

Eve nodded and after Penny had turned her head to look at Paige's face, Eve had moved the machine that she had brought with her over to the end of the bed.

Eve pushed up the bottom of the hospital grown up to rest above Paige's navel. Eve did compete examine of the vagina. She clicked her tongue at what she saw on the monitor. She shut the monitor off after she removed the tube from Paige. She lowered the hospital grown back down to cover Paige.

"We need to get Paige into her pajamas before the IV gets here." Eve said moving back over to Paige's free side.

Penny moved over to Paige's dresser and pulled out light violet silk pajamas and walked back over to the bed. "She'll be most comfortable in these." Penny said as she helped remove the hospital grown.

A knock happened on the door as Penny buttoned the last button on Paige's top.

Eve opened the door to find to her relief. Phoebe holding the ice chest where the bag of saline fluid. She saw the mental hook where the bag of fluid will hang next to the young woman. She took the ice chest and pulled the wheeling hook into the room. Eve closed the door on the concerned family.

Eve hung the IV fluid onto the hook as Penny rolled up the sleeve of Paige's silk pajamas top. Eve sterilized Paige's arm where the elbow bent. Eve carefully poked Paige's arm with the sterilized needle and used clear tape to hold the needle down. Eve stood straight and turned the knob so the saline fluid could begin to slowly drip into Paige's body.

Penny covered her youngest granddaughter with the fresh and clean sheet and than with the warm blanket. "How far along is she?"

"Six weeks." Eve said pulling the third pare of vinyl gloves off of her hands.

"Two weeks more than Piper." Penny softly said. She sat down and brushed Paige's hair off of her forehead. "What's the damage."

Eve sat down the chair and pulled out a notebook. "I need to know everything that Paige had been doing for the past six weeks."

"First Paige time traveled back to 1968 and than time traveled back to 2004. Then she orbed to a remote beach where she had become comatose when her father Sam had orbed to her, Paige finally orbed onto a jetty and allowed the waves to knock her into the ocean. If Sam hadn't orbed to her and orbed them to the beach than Paige would be dead right now. For the past month all Paige had been concerned with is vanquishing demons and warlocks. Paige only ate when she felt faint and only slept with a total of twelve hours a week." Penny said in a mono toneless voice.

Eve wrote everything down in short hand. She also added everything that she had found on a clean page. She closed the notebook.

"Paige is going to be out of it for at least a day if not more." Eve looked over at Penny. "Not ideal for a pregnancy, but not as uncommon as you think. I'm going to go pick up the required amount of saline for the IV." She sighed deeply.

"I don't normal recommend telling the family about a pregnancy. I feel it's the mother's right to choose when the proper time to share the news." Eve paused. "But given the circumstances I feel the best move is to fill Piper and Phoebe in on the situation. They are after all the ones who will be tending to Paige."

"I agree." Penny nodded her head firmly. "Let them in."

Eve stood to her feet and opened the door. She stepped back as Piper, Phoebe, Chris and Victor entered the bedroom.

Piper sat down in Eve's empty chair and carefully picked Paige's hand which the IV was connected too.

Phoebe pulled up a chair and sat at Piper's side and placed her hand on Paige's shoulder. "Well?"

Chris and Victor stood at the end of Paige's bed.

"Paige is fatigued so she'll be unconscious for a day or more." Eve said. "The IV will give her the nourishment that she'll need. I'll be dropping by more bags later on tonight."

"What aren't you telling us?" Piper said steely herself for the life changing news she knew that Eve would be delivering to them.

Eve looked over at Victor and Chris.

"They are family and have a right to know what's wrong with Paige." Phoebe said.

Eve turned her eyes back to the two full blooded Halliwell sisters. "Paige is pregnant."

"How many weeks?" Piper asked tonelessly.

"Six weeks." Eve said.

Piper's heart sunk as she rapidly flashed back to six weeks ago in Patty's bedroom in the year of 1968. She knew who the father of Paige's baby was. The same father of Piper's baby. Leo.

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