A/N: Sorry it took so long! Crazy, crazy. Any-who, I'm exhausted. So I'm making the thank you quick, and answering only questions and only from Ch 49.

Hm, and reading through the reviews, there are no questions! Lol. So on to the chapter! Hope you all enjoy!

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Paige came down the steps to the first floor and found Piper and Phoebe pacing. When they saw her, they stopped and stared.

"Melinda's in your room," Paige told Phoebe. When Phoebe tried to get around her to go upstairs, Paige blocked her and added, "She needs some time alone. She tried to summon Scott from the dead and she failed. She's really upset."

"Tell us what she's hiding," Phoebe stated. "Please."

"I can't. Phoebe, that little girl up there is scared," Paige said, even though Melinda was no little girl (hell, in a few months Melinda would have her own little girl). "She confided in me. Do you want to protect her? She's our innocent and she won't open up to me again if I break her trust in me by telling you what she told me. If she doesn't confide in me, we can't help her."

"But-"

"Phoebe," Piper interrupted softly. "Paige is right. I wish she wasn't, because I'm just as curious as you are. But she is. If Paige tells us what Melinda told her, Melinda won't tell Paige anything and if she doesn't tell Paige anything, then whatever is supposed to happen in the future will happen anyway."

Phoebe sighed, upset, but nodded. "You're right." She looked at Paige. "Is she okay at least? Can we trust her like I thought we could?"

Paige nodded. "We can. And Chris, too. He's on our side. They both are."

Piper frowned curiously. "If you say so."

Chris orbed into the room. "Paige, a little help?" He orbed back out.

Paige frowned, then understood. "Be right back." She orbed out of the room, leaving behind two completely confused sisters, and went to Phoebe's room where Chris now was, along with Melinda.

Melinda was curled up on her bed, her legs drawn up to her stomach and her hands under her legs, on her lower belly. A look of pain was etched on her sweaty face.

"Melinda?" Paige asked breathlessly, running over to her.

"It won't stop," Melinda sniffled. "The pain won't go away."

Paige didn't know what to do. She was no doctor! She didn't know how to help her niece.

"You're going to have to go to the doctor," Paige admitted reluctantly.

"No," Melinda shook her head. "I can't. Magical baby – who knows what will happen."

"We'll bring Piper along. She can put the freeze on if anything goes wrong," Paige suggested.

"No!" Melinda cried. "I don't want her or my mom involved. It's too risky. We can't have either of them finding out who Chris and I are. It's bad enough I let it slip to you."

"Fine," Paige said icily. "But you're putting your baby's life at risk. We don't know what could be wrong."

"That was a low blow," Melinda snapped.

Paige shrugged and left the room. She went back to her sisters.

"Something might be wrong with Melinda's baby. We need to get her to the hospital. Piper, can you come with us in case anything goes awry? We'll need you to out the freeze on."

Piper nodded. "Sure."

"What about me?" Phoebe asked.

Paige thought a moment. "Stay here with Chris. Watch Wyatt and check the Book for . . . something."

"Okay, now I know you're hiding something from me," Phoebe said, sounding hurt.

Paige guiltily looked away and orbed back upstairs.

Piper glanced at her younger sister. "I'll try and get the dirt out of her. Just stay here and do what she said."

Phoebe nodded. Piper smiled reassuringly and went up to Phoebe's room, finding Chris, Melinda, and Paige waiting.

"We're orbing. It's faster," Chris informed her.

"No, you're staying here with Phoebe and Wyatt," Paige told him.

He scowled. "No way! I'm going with you guys and Melinda."

"Chris!" Melinda snapped, pain engulfing her.

Chris scowled more and orbed down to Phoebe.

"We're still orbing, though," Paige told Piper. "We need to get there and get home as fast as we can."

Piper nodded and took Paige's hand. Paige helped Melinda stand, then orbed them all to the bathroom of the hospital. Paige glanced out to make sure no one was around, then they all came out and headed for the front desk.

"We need some help," Paige said stupidly, because – duh – why else would they be there if they didn't need help?

"Okay," the nurse said, smiling as kindly as possible.

"My n- uh, friend, Melinda, she's pregnant and she's having pains," Paige said, sounding even more stupid as she stumbled over her words, trying to choose them carefully.

The nurse nodded. "Exam room 5. It's down that hall and to your left. Here's some paper work-" She handed it to Paige. "-And a doctor will be in shortly."

"Thanks," Paige said, smiling. She led the others down the hall to exam room 5. Piper helped Melinda onto the exam table, then went to Paige's side.

"Okay. 'Name,'" Paige said, staring at the form.

"Make it all up, I guess," Piper suggested.

Paige nodded and filled out the form. When it was done, it looked like this:

Name: Melinda P. Halliwell

Age: 18

Current Address: 1329 Prescott Street

Reason for coming to hospital: Bad Stomach Pains

Other: Pregnant

Etc, etc. It went on and on in that way. It had, even, been Piper's idea to use their last name so it looked as though she were their cousin, or the daughter of one of them, or a niece.

"I've played along with your game," Piper said, after many minutes of awkward silence. "I think I deserve to know the truth."

"It's not my truth to tell," Paige said, shrugging. "That's up to Melinda and Chris. And right now, I don't think Melinda's in much of a mood to talk."

Piper pursed her lips in annoyance.

Melinda sighed as the pain subsided for a minute. She forced herself to sit up in bed and look at Piper. She had been the last to go. Wyatt had wanted Piper to suffer, so he'd forced her to watch the death of her sisters first.

At the very least, she felt, Piper deserved to know the truth. But just as Melinda opened her mouth to speak, a doctor came in.

"Hi," she said, smiling kindly. "I'm Dr. Saunders. So what can I do for you ladies today?"

"My-" Paige paused. "Niece here is having some problems. She's pregnant and today she seems to be having really bad stomach pains. We're worried."

Dr. Saunders nodded. "Okay. Let's have a look, shall we?"

The exam was long, and agonizing slow. Piper was somewhere between being worried about Melinda and her baby, and annoyed that she was being kept from the secret. Paige was worried sick, and Melinda was pale and frightened. She hoped nothing went wrong and her baby was okay.

"All right, we'll have the results as soon as possible. So sit tight and I'll be back." The doctor smiled and left.

Piper closed the door behind him, then walked halfway between the bed where Melinda lay, and the spot where Paige stood.

"I'm waiting," she said impatiently.

Melinda glanced at Paige, took a deep breath, then looked at Piper.

"Fine, I'll tell you. You deserve to know. But you can't tell anyone else. No one. Which, since she's the only one who doesn't know, means Phoebe."

"Just tell me!" Piper insisted.

"I'm Phoebe's daughter."

Piper's jaw dropped to the ground. "You-you- what?" she cried. "Holy mother of-"

"Watch your mouth, Piper, there's a soon-to-be-born in the room," Paige interrupted. "Little ears and all."

Piper shot Paige a death glare. She looked back at Melinda. "You're Phoebe's daughter?"

Melinda nodded.

"But you said Chris was your cousin. So that means-"

Melinda nodded.

"He's Paige's or-or even possibly mine?" Piper cried.

With slight hesitation, Melinda nodded. Oooh, was Chris going to kill her!

"Which one of us does he belong to?" Piper asked.

"I can't-"

"Tell me or I'll call his ass here and ask myself," Piper snapped.

Melinda looked at Paige in desperation.

"Piper, please. She can't say. I tried to get her to tell me and she wouldn't," Paige lied. "Just leave it alone. We shouldn't even know she's Phoebe's daughter, or that Chris is her cousin. And we do. So for now, that's enough. Let's just leave her alone. Isn't she suffering enough?"

Piper huffed, but said nothing.

"Now, we need to relax and wait for the doctor to come back with the results.

Melinda closed her eyes. Piper stared into space. Paige rubbed her forehead in frustration.

None of them spoke.