Chapter 34:

Days Later:

Crashdown:

Mel POV:

It's simple really mom, dad I'm pre… "Hey sweetie!" Mel turned suddenly her thoughts extended as she saw her mother and father walking over to their usual booth.

"Hey!" Mel smiled forcibly. "What can I get you guys?" She asked.

"Two will smith burgers and don't skimp on the fries." Max ordered jokingly.

Mel nodded jotted it on her order pad and headed for the kitchen window. She put the order on the rack and then headed back in to the restaurant to check on some customers. After a few gracious costumers paid their bill Mel felt her stomach gurgle and walked at a brisk pace towards the bathroom. Shutting and locking the door, Mel regurgitated whatever she had eaten that morning into the toilet.

Righting herself quickly she walked into the back room not noticing her mother standing at the swinging door. Liz cleared her throat and Mel turned her hand clasping over her heart startled. "Mom! God you scared me!" Mel said laughing faintly as she opened her locker to get out some gum.

"What's going on?" Liz asked.

Mel shrugged. "What do you mean?"

"I mean don't lie to me Melinda Alexandra Elizabeth Evans', something is up and I want to know right now what it is." Liz ordered sternly.

Mel turned to face her mother a look of guilt plastered on her face. "I found out some news the other day." She said softly.

Liz's demeanor seemed to calm instantly. "What kind of news?" She asked with concern.

"I…I'm pregnant." She said softly.

Liz stood there in stunned silence for a few moments. "When were you going to tell your father and I?" She asked.

"Today. I just didn't know how to tell you guys. I was afraid that you'd be disappointed or something." Mel said walking over and sitting on the couch with a huff, dropping her head into her hands, elbows resting heavily on her knees.

Liz walked over and took a seat next to her and her hand came up and rested on Mel's back. "I have to tell you something." Mel looked up a few tears running down her cheeks. Liz sighed. "While your father and I had you after we were married, Matthew was sort of born before Michael and Maria were married. And none of us are disappointed in them. Look how happy they are."

"So you're saying it's ok?"

Liz chuckled softly. "If I thought that you'd end up alone with a baby to raise and unloved it might not be as great, but we all know Matt loves you and I know he'll take good care of both of you." She said.

Mel smiled faintly at her mom. "Thank you."

Liz nodded. "I'll talk to your father."

"This is going to be a normal pregnancy right? I can't handle any surprise Czechoslovakian things." Mel giggled.

Liz smiled brightly at her daughter and nodded. "It should be fine. Maria and I both had normal pregnancies.""

Mel nodded. "Good. Matt and I have decided to have the baby and then get married. And how can we tell the timing?"

"Maria and I both had to have Max and Michael tell us. They connected with you guys and told us things they felt and saw." Liz explained.

Mel nodded. "Ok."

After that Liz hugged her daughter and walked back out of the back room. Mel took the time to pull herself back together and then she headed off to get back to work, sure that her orders were piling up.

That Night:

Matt POV:

"So you or me?" Matt asked.

Mel giggled. "Well something tells me Maria will be fine, it's Michael we have to worry about." She said as they walked up to the Guerin home.

"Yeah." Matt agreed knocking on the door.

A cheery Maria answered the door. "Hey what brings you two here?" She asked ushering them in.

"Something we want to talk to you guys about." Mel said kindly.

"Well Michael will be home any time now, he's working on this one car and it's really starting to stump him…first he thought it was the carb thing, and then…"

"The carburetor?" Mel and Matt both chimed in smirking at Maria as they took up seats on the couch and she sat in her green recliner.

Maria nodded. "Yes that's it…anyways he replaced it, well it wasn't that, and he's gone through every thing and can't find the problem."

"Well good that gives us some time to tell you first and then you can help us with Dad." Matt said.

"You haven't done anything illegal, nothing alien in public, or…"

"No nothing like that." Mel said. "I'm pregnant." She blurted.

Maria looked at her shocked, but smiling faintly. "Well I wasn't expecting that." She said softly.

"Neither were we." Matt said.

"I sort of was." Mel muttered.

"What?" Matt asked.

"I mean the dreams, come on coincidence? I think not." Mel insisted smirking at him.

Matt chuckled softly. "Well in that case I should be getting shot sometime soon and bleeding to death." He joked, but saw it was the wrong thing to say by the pale shade Melinda's face became. All the color was gone as she stood silently and walked down the hallway to the bathroom and shut the door.

"Shit." Matt breathed dropping his head into his hands.

Maria looked from Matt down the hall and then back again. "What was that all about?" She asked softly.

Matt groaned. "The dreams, Mel thinks there's a timing connection between the dreams and our real world." He said.

"Like?" Maria asked worriedly.

Matt bowed his head taking a releasing a deep breath. "Like us getting together in the first and then shortly after we got together, like making…well let's just say she's got a point. And in the last one we escaped the white room after I was shot and I ended up bleeding to death because I was protecting Mel and our unborn child." He explained quietly.

Maria nodded somewhat taking in what her son had just explained. "Well some of the timing things can't be denied, Mel has a point. But I don't think some of the things you guys were seeing were meant to be literal, they might just have a deeper hidden meaning."

"Yeah but I shouldn't have said that, she hasn't really been much of the same since that one." Matt said softly shaking his head in disappointment at himself.

Maria sighed. "Mel probably just has some hidden insecure feelings about losing you, or being left alone with an unborn child. It'll work out." She said.

"Yeah but I upset her." He said.

Maria giggled. "Well dreams or not pregnant women have hormone issues and can get upset at anything. Ask your father. He brought me the wrong ice cream once and I swear I cried for a week straight." She said teasingly getting Matt to chuckle faintly.

"And what Madame Maria do you say about someone killing another person in a dream?" Matt asked softly.

Maria sighed. "It's an end. Death is an out, game over kupoot, finished…etc…"

"But I killed someone." They both looked back at the hall. Mel was standing there tears brimming in her eyes. "I could feel this rage and it just over took me. I killed someone and whether it be a dream or not it scares me that I'm capable of that."

"We're all capable of it." Now it was the other three's turn to look towards the entrance to the kitchen were Michael was standing in his wife beater covered in oil and jeans. He looked to Mel and nodded his head towards the kitchen and the back door.

Mel nodded and followed. "I wonder what dad wants to talk to her about?" Matt asked is mother.

Maria smiled meekly. "Something that happened a long time ago."

Mel POV:

Standing in the backyard Mel couldn't help but be in awe. Maria had a beautiful garden, several fruit trees and Michael managed to keep up with the grass and it was green and beautiful. "Do you remember when Maxwell and I told you and Matt about Pierce and the possibility of the FBI finding a new team to look for aliens?" Michael started. Mel nodded. Michael sat down Indian style on the grass and Mel did the same right next to him looking forward at the fencing and the long vines that were dangling over and from it. "We left out that I killed pierce." Michael said softly.

"You would never kill anyone for no reason. I know that." Mel said softly.

"You're right. I killed him on accident. I didn't know what I was doing using my powers and I killed him to protect the people I cared about. I felt so guilty and scared that I was dangerous I broke up with Maria afraid I'd hurt her." Michael explained.

"What happened?" Mel asked.

Michael sighed. "Alex died and I had to put my fear aside because Maria needed me. Liz, no offense, wasn't any help she was on a mission to prove that Alex was killed and it wasn't suicide. After she told us her theories that it was an alien maybe one of us four, the group split. Maria and I ended up being on again of again and then when there was the chance to go home I couldn't leave her.

Anyways my point is to this day I still can't believe I was capable of murder, but I did what I did to protect my family and friends. I've moved passed the fear that I was dangerous because I got help controlling my powers and I'm actually happy about the way things turned out. I have an amazing life. And like you said I know you'd never kill anyone for no reason and I can say the same about you.

I don't know much about the dreams, but I know that you can't blame a imaginary death on yourself, when you wouldn't do it for no reason. Besides you'd never hurt a fly." Michael finished up his little speech and gently bumped her shoulder and she smiled and laughed faintly.

"Why tell me?" Mel asked.

"Cause I heard Matt ask about someone killing another person, and after your comment I just sounded like you needed a little convincing. Besides I've always sort of thought of you as another child. And well technically you will be at some point my daughter in law." Michael chuckled.

Mel smiled and looked over at him. "You're going to be a grandpa sometime in the near future." She said softly.

Michael looked down at her in shock. "A what?" He asked. "Could you say that again?"

"A grandfather. I'm pregnant. And I don't want you to be upset or whatever, we didn't do it on purpose and it's nobody's fault." Mel said softly.

Michael chuckled faintly. "Everyone thinks all I do is freak out." He said softly.

"Well you usually do." Mel informed him jokingly.

"True, but…"

"Mom already told me." Mel put in quickly.

Michael nodded. "Then I can't be upset. Beside I know that somewhere along the line myself and the others figured you two would end up together. I know that you and Matt are in love, heck I use to give Maria the same looks that Matt gives you."

"You did?" Mel asked smirking at him.

Michael grinned. "Yeah when she wasn't looking most the time. And anyways I know you love my son. So I'm happy, for both of you."

"You know I think we need to stop worrying so much that you are going to blow a gasket." Mel mocked him.

"And lose my edge I don't think so." Michael said laughing lightly.

Mel smiled. "Oh come on don't you just want to be a loveable cuddly, teddy bear?"

Michael smirked at her. "Only when no ones looking." He said softly.

"Thanks for the talk. It helped." Mel said sweetly.

Michael nodded and stood holding his hand out to her and she took it and he helped her off the ground. "No problem." Michael said and the walked back into the house, Mel in lead and Michael close behind.

Two Days Later:

Matt POV:

"I am seriously sick of being sick." Mel grumbled walking down the hall and laying on the couch in the living room.

Matt broke out some Tabasco laced orange juice and handed it to her. "It'll be over eventually." He said.

"If I didn't love you some much, I'd have half a mind to hate you right now." Mel protested drinking down some orange juice.

Matt chuckled and lifted Mel's torso up sitting and then letting her headrest in his lap. "So how do we do this?" He asked softly.

Mel reached out and set her juice on the coffee table just in front of the couch. "Like we would any other time, it's just you need to connect to a womb and not my brain." She giggled faintly.

Matt nodded. He rested his slightly larger hand over Mel's on her abdomen and let his other gently come through her soft brown locks as his eyes closed. He took some calm inducing breaths and like a vacuum he was sucked in.

//Flash// He could feel thumping…no beating a heart beat…two heartbeats. One Mel's and the other that of his child. //End Flash// And as quick as it was there it was gone again.

"When does the heart develop?" Matt asked softly.

Mel sighed. "Uhh…almost a month along why?"

"I felt it, heard it and you." He said softly.

"Ok so what over a month and I've felt sick for a few weeks and that usually doesn't start occurring until about six seven weeks as far as I know..."

Matt nodded. "So we'll play it by ear." He said softly still stroking her hair and looking down on her beautiful face. Mel's eyes were closed lightly and she looked to just be lost in the moment of time they were in together.

"I'm really going to hate you come the end of this pregnancy." Mel told him her eyes not opening and giving away any hint of sarcasm.

"Why?"

"No pain kills or hospitals." She yawned and that was all she said as she slowly dosed off back to sleep.

Matt chuckled faintly to himself. It'll be worth it. He said to himself smiling down at her. Her chest rose and fell with each intake and release of air. Matt reached for the remote and turned the TV on, keeping the volume low as he watched a little keeping a close eye on Mel as well.