Hope everyone still likes this fic and that it doesn't bore you.
Chapter 9-Maybe it Will Be Okay
She took a deep breath as she walked into the kitchen. There they all were, together, a perfect opportunity and yet she felt as if a thousand-pound weight rested on her, unable to move. How could she tell them when she knew that they would not accept it, approve of it? This was what she had been waiting for. She wanted this and she would love her child no matter how her sisters felt but it would still hurt to know that they didn't want it as well.
"I um...I kind of have some news," Pheobe started, trying to gather the attention of her sisters and brother-in-law who were preoccupied with breakfast and the boys.
Hearing this, they finished what they were doing and turned toward her though still preoccupied with small tasks.
"What is it?" Piper asked noticing how pale and tired her young sister looked as she continued to feed Chris.
"I'm pregnant," Pheobe blurted out, too tired to keep it in anymore.
"Excuse me, you're what?" Piper asked, too shocked to keep her comments to herself.
"I'm pregnant and Cole's the father," Pheobe told them, getting everything out.
"You slept with Cole? Why? You're over him," Paige voiced her thoughts.
"How could you be so stupid, Pheobe? He's still a demon. How could you go and get knocked up by a demon again?" Piper was furious.
Pheobe stood and let them continue to talk. She had known they would feel this way, that they would be furious with her. She had hoped that Cole was right, that they would accept this child since they had accepted Ben but he had been wrong and she would have to face the fact that they wanted nothing to do with it.
"How can you accept that Ben is my son, but you won't accept this baby," Pheobe was beginning to cry now, hurt even though it had been what she expected.
"Ben was a mistake made four years ago. I accept that. It can't be changed, but this was sheer stupidity. How could you have made the same mistake twice? You should have learned," Piper continued, piercing Pheobe's heart with every word she uttered.
"Ben was not a mistake!" Pheobe screamed at her sister as tears began to cloud her vision. "And this baby is not a mistake either!"
She put her hand on her belly and caressed it as though this would soothe both her and the child.
"I understand that you love your baby, Pheobe, but..." Leo started.
"But it will not live here. My sons are not living with a demon," Piper interrupted her husband.
"I'll be gone by tomorrow," Pheobe informed them, already having some of her things packed, knowing that they would not let her child live there.
"Pheobe," Paige stopped her older sister as she began to leave the room. "We love you, and we want you to stay here."
"But you hate my children and they're not welcome. Why would I want to live with people like that?" Pheobe hissed. "Cole is a wonderful father and we are both dedicated to this child. He or she will get all the love it needs, a mother, a father, four siblings."
With that she left the room and, grabbing the keys to her car, set out for Cole's house.
"Mommy!" Ben cried as he opened the door and wrapped his arms around the petite woman.
"Hey, sweetie," Pheobe greeted him as she placed a kiss on the top of his head.
"Why you so sad, mommy?" Ben asked as he saw that she had been crying.
"I'm not sweetie. Everything is okay. Where is daddy?" Pheobe reassured the child.
Ben escorted his mother to the livingroom where Cole sat on the couch, trying to sleep as best he could with little Jalynn in his arms, sleeping.
"Jalynn's sick," Ben told his mommy.
Pheobe quietly took the small child from Cole's arms and laid her in the playpen careful not to wake her up.
"Cole," she whispered, trying to wake him up in the nicest way possible.
His eyes slowly opened and he noticed first thing how pale his love looked and the redness of her eyes which he knew was a result of many tears.
"Looks like we both had a pretty rough morning," Cole said.
"Yeah, Ben said Jalynn is sick. What's wrong with her?" Pheobe asked, concerned.
"She was up all night with a fever. It's gone down now so I think she's getting better. I kept her in here to keep Jadynn from getting it if it was contagious," he explained. "I guess you told your sisters?"
"Yep, and it went just as expected. The offer to move in is still on the table, right?" Pheobe knew this to be true but really just wanted to hear again that the baby was loved and wanted.
"Always," Cole answered simply.
He stared at her for a few moments and saw as the sadness that seemed to have overwhelmed her when he first saw her was now subsiding.
"You can stay in my room with me or if it's too soon, you can stay in the guest room, but that's the only extra room I have so I was going to turn it into a nursery, but," he was making sure he didn't overstep his boundaries and push her away.
"Staying with you will be great," Pheobe interrupted him as she placed a kiss on his lips.
"Is mommy living wif us?" Ben asked as a huge smile overwhelmed his features.
"Yep," Cole answered. "And you know what?"
"There's gonna be another baby," Pheobe finished for Cole.
"Is it a boy?" Ben asked. "I wanna wittle brudder."
"We don't know yet," Cole answered his son as he picked him up.
"So now I has a mommy ans a daddy in da same house," Ben concluded.
"That's right, baby," Pheobe happily answered the child.
That little boy really knew how to make a person smile. All bad or negative thoughts just seemed to float away from her as she looked at her little boy and the smile that he held, that of his father, made her confident that things would turn out fine, that they would be happy.
So, how was it? I didn't really no where to stop and that seemed as good a place as any so... Please review. I enjoy hearing what you think.