Hey! And thanks everyone for the reviews! Okay, so this chapter doesn't have any time jumps. It got too long for that part. But the next chapter will, and it may also be the last or second last chapter of this story. Then yes, I will have a sequel, but not before doing something else that will only be a chapter or two related to this story. Hope you like this chapter!
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"I can't believe what wonderful women you've become." Patty Halliwell sighed sweetly, playing with a piece of Prue's hair that was dangling in front of her blue eyes. "You've gone through so much for this family." She let a small tear fall down her cheek. She felt horrible watching Prue suffer to protect the family, doing her job.
Prue just stared into her mother's eyes; she was lost in the comfort she felt around her. She always had to be the tough one, the only other person she had felt this comfortable and safe around was Andy. "I just wanted to make you proud." She responded as her mother tried to hide back the fact that she was almost in tears.
"You protected this family better than I could. I'm so proud of you." She said, studying Prue, who was glowing like a usual expectant mother.
"Thank you." Prue held back tears of her own as her mother pulled in into a long awaited hug. But Prue was left speechless, her whole life was spent protecting her sisters, and trying to be perfect to make her mother proud.
"And you, my baby, you feel it all, don't you?" Patty switched, turning to Phoebe. "I was never there to comfort you. I died before you even knew me." She then began to look at one of her youngest daughters proudly. They had all grown up to be such beautiful and strong women.
"Some nights I just wanted you to hold me." Phoebe knuckled under her eye, keeping a few small tears from falling.
"Your road's been the longest, Phoebe. But I was never worried about you. You know why?" She asked rhetorically, gaining the attention of her three daughters. "Because I had a premonition the day you were born." She smiled, looking at their stunned faces.
"You did?" Phoebe's eyes widened, she had always been the failure in everybody's eyes. And now with Cole, it seemed she was never going along the right path.
"What did you see?" Piper asked, speaking for the first time in ten minutes.
"Oh, I saw this. I saw this moment right now, my three daughters standing before me as beautiful young women and I knew that everything would be okay." She smiled again, this was one of the best moments of her life. Well, afterlife technically.
"What did you see next?" Phoebe asked, breaking the long silence.
"I held you." Patty opened her arms as her three daughters surrounded her in a large hug. They were all so close and connected; she could even feel little Darien moving around in Prue's womb on her side.
Prue held her mother close like the other two, savouring every moment they had with her, knowing it would be short-lived. It was then a sharp pain just like earlier ran through her spine. Then travelling trough her abdomen. Her grip on her mother's shoulder tightened as the pain eased away.
"Prue, are you okay?" Patty asked, noticing the pain shoot through her daughter.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Prue answered, smiling at her mother and sisters. "Why wouldn't I be?" She then happily padded out of the room, using the excuse that she had to check up on Grams and the men.
"She isn't fine is she?" She asked, looking at her two daughters curiously.
"Probably not, no." Piper responded as she walked out of the room to check her hair one more time in the mirror.
"Let's go to our wedding!" Phoebe squealed hooking her arm around her mother's as they proceeded downstairs.
When they arrived downstairs, their eyes widened in surprise. There was a beautiful display of flowers that carried from the banister all the way down to the small wedding arch. There were also the handsome men lined up against the walls, dressed up in their formal wear. Prue, Andy and Cole were along one wall, with Darien, Victor and Darryl on the other.
"This is beautiful." Patty complimented as she and Phoebe each went to separate sides of the wall.
"Patty?" Victor stared in disbelief. He had seen some pretty bizarre things in his life, but nothing like this.
"Hello Victor, how are you?" She smiled, keeping everything casual. Acting as if this wasn't strange at all. Even though he had aged quite a bit, she still found him very handsome.
"Good… I think." He just stared in awe at the woman he shared all his happy moments with. "Alright, who brought my ex-wife back from the dead!" He questioned, looking directly at Grams and Phoebe.
"Not now, Victor." Grams interrupted, "This is not the time, that's what the reception is for."
Then, with the wave of her hand, Grams started the music as Piper slowly made her way down the stairs. Andy looked over at Prue, who looked absolutely gorgeous as she smiled with pride watching her sister walk down the "aisle". He then reached over for her hand and gave it a little squeeze of excitement. He had known Piper most of her life, and felt so proud to see her marrying a good man.
"We are gathered here today to unite two souls as one." Grams began once Piper reached them, and stood proudly beside Leo. "Do you, Leo Wyatt, and Piper Halliwell, join us here of your own free will to acknowledge the eternal bond shared by both of you?"
"I do." They both responded, grinning from ear to ear.
"You may face each other, join hands." She instructed as they did just that. "Leo, you may recite your vows."
"Piper, through all the tears and struggles, I always knew in my heart that we'd make it here. I promise to love and respect you from this point forward as your husband, as my wife, my lover, my friend, and my soul mate. All I am is yours." He looked around at everyone in the room, who were wall clearly touched.
Prue and Andy were looking at each other, both dreaming of what their wedding would be like in the near future. It was then another wave of pain shot through her body and abdomen. Which she chose to ignore again. It wasn't the right time; it would have to wait a few hours. She looked over to Andy, who clearly noticed her pain. And looked as if he was about to say something, but Prue put her free hand to his lips. She wouldn't want anything to ruin Piper's wedding.
"Piper..." Grams continued. No one seemed to notice except Phoebe and Cole who both shared the same look. They had figured out what was going on.
"Leo, you are the best thing that has ever happened to me. I was afraid that you were too good to be true, that maybe I didn't deserve someone so pure and beautiful and loving as you are." She had to stop to take a deep breath, this was so nerve wracking, and emotional. "But here we are surrounded by the people that I love the most and I feel so proud, and so blessed to be your wife. Leo, I was born to love you and I always will."
"Here before witnesses, Leo and Piper have sworn their vows towards each other. With this cord, I bind them to those vows." Grams was even beginning to choke up as she bound them together with the cord.
"Heart to thee, body to thee, always and forever, so mote it be." Piper and Leo said in unison, smiling brightly.
"So mote it be." Grams said, smiling at the newlywed couple.
"So mote it be." Everyone else repeated as Piper and Leo shared their first kiss as a couple.
"Let's get to the food, I'm starving!" Phoebe giggled as she leaned against Cole, teasing him with her eyes.
"Me too." Darien quipped, grabbing a strawberry. He was about to dip it in the fondue when Grams slapped it from his hand.
"No dessert until you've eaten your meal!" She scolded, trotting off into the kitchen where she watched everyone fill his or her plates with food along the way.
Everyone sat down at the table and began filling their plates as much as they could with all sorts of food. Prue took this time to sneak off upstairs to control obvious contractions.
"Not good, not good." She sighed, sprawling across her bed, trying to find a comfortable position. Something inside her head was nagging at her, saying she should tell someone. But this was Piper's day, she couldn't ruin it.
Moments later, just as she began to drift into a light sleep; footsteps could be heard nearby, and not just anyone's footsteps. She could always tell it was him from his little shuffle. It was Andy.
"Just thought I'd come up and check on you." He said, placing his hands nervously in his pockets.
"Thanks, I thought you would." She replied, walking over to him, and letting his warmth surround her.
"Would you like to dance?" He asked, music could be heard now; they were probably dancing while they waited for the cake.
"Why I'd love to." Prue smiled, she knew Andy was suspicious, but was glad he was off the subject for now.
They walked down the stairs to see Patty, Victor, Phoebe, Cole, Darien and Grams dancing to Thriller. They both chuckled at this site before Andy ran to join in on the fun.
Prue stood off in the sidelines, laughing along with Piper as they watched Darien and Phoebe try to teach it to Victor. Piper then tugged her along to join in with the others. For the first few moments she was fine, then the pain began to shoot through her again. Andy was quick to pull her into his arms for support as the song changed to Dreamer by Ozzy.
"Please tell me you only have lower back pain because you fell on the steps or something." Andy joked, wrapping his arms around her. He felt perfect right there, the love of his life in his arms, and their child in-between, but he could feel a panic attack coming.
"We'll worry about it after." Prue whispered into his ear as she buried her head into his shoulder.
"Prue Halliwell, do I have to tell you mother on you?" Andy grinned, gently rubbing her back for comfort.
"Whoa, childhood flashback." Prue laughed, Andy wasn't much of a "tattle-taler", but there were a few times.
"Smile!" Darien cut in, causing Prue and Andy to look in his direction as they were blinded by a flash of white light.
"Oh crap." Prue muttered as Andy looked down in shock.
"What? I thought you didn't mind pictures." Darien looked confused before he looked down to see what they were looking at.
"Oh, oh, oh." Prue said, looking up at Andy in shock.
"Your water just broke." Andy added, looking over to Darien.
"I can see that." Prue replied with a sarcastic smile. It was then Phoebe squealed and ran to Prue's side.
"I knew it!" She yelled, going to get the others as Andy brought Prue to the couch.
"Knew what?" Piper asked, looking over to Andy.
"That Prue's been in labour all night, and didn't tell anyone." Andy informed before rubbing upstairs to get some towels and wet cloths.
"Yes! I'm being born!" Darien smiled as he ran after Andy, leaving Piper alone with Prue.
"Sorry I stole your thunder." Prue smiled as Piper sat in the chair next to her.
"It's okay." Piper responded as she watched Prue close her eyes and grip onto the couch as she held back a scream.
She then began to smooth Prue's hair down as she waited for the others to arrive with supplies. Victor came in quickly with a pitcher of water and ice, with Patty trailing behind. Phoebe then appeared with a bunch of blankets, when Andy and Darien arrived with towels and facecloths.
"Oh God, who's going to deliver him?" Phoebe said, placing the blankets near the couch, looking over to Piper.
"ME?" Piper looked shocked as she looked at Phoebe as if she was insane.
"Yeah, well you did deliver Melinda Warren." Leo added watching from the other side of the room with Cole.
"That's not the point!" She argued, she did not want to deliver Prue's baby, she wanted to guide and support her.
"I'll do it." Grams intervened, becoming corporal and sitting at the end of the couch.
"Thank God." Piper sighed, earning a look from Prue. Andy then moved behind Prue, letting he support herself against him.
"This will be easy, just a few big pushes Prue." Grams instructed, nodding to Prue to start. Andy took hold of her hand and let her squeeze onto it as the pain surged through her body.
"You're doing great." He coached, kissing her hair as she finished another push.
"One more push Prue" Grams smiled, nodding to Piper, Phoebe and Patty to come see the miracle.
Patty then titled her head leaning over Phoebe, to see her grandchild's birth. "Don't worry, you can do it Prue". She spoke encouragingly as tears of joy sprung in her eyes.
Prue simply closed her eyes as pain radiated everywhere. She tossed her head back leaning up against Andy's chest as she felt the birth of life pass through her body. Moments later the sounds of a sharp infant's cry filled the room as Darien entered the world. Prue opened her eyes to see her new bundle of joy. As she looked up, she saw adult Darien disappear in a flash of white light. She pushed it aside since he probably only went into his new destiny as Grams laid the tightly wrapped newborn in her lap, where his cries died down to a low whimper.
"Welcome to our crazy world little guy." Prue breathed as she looked down at the tiny infant.
"You're already very loved." Andy added, caressing the babe's tiny bits of dark hair. Surprisingly, Darien took hold of Andy's index finger as soon as it came close to reach. It seemed that even from birth, they had a connection.
"It's a boy." Grams looked stunned as she backed away from the new family.
"Yeah…" Piper shrugged, joining Phoebe at Prue's side to see the tiny bundle.
"This is outrageous!" Grams looked as if she was about to have another heart attack when she disappeared in a swirl of white lights.
"Worry about it later." Phoebe told Prue, seeing the look on her face.
"Yeah, it's probably nothing." Prue said, trying to convince herself. She then turned her head to meet Andy.
"He's amazing." Prue said, looking into Andy's deep blue eyes. "Just like his father." Andy then covered her mouth with his as they shared a passionate kiss. It ended quickly as they stopped and began to look down at little Darien. It was then Victor walked in with Prue's camera, and took a picture of the three sisters, and Prue's family.
He then walked over to Patty, grinning as he approached. "Do you feel old knowing our baby just had a baby?" He asked, looking over at his family.
"Nope, I can't get old anymore." She smiled, looking over to Cole who was looking at the baby with Leo, in deep conversation. What could they be talking about? She wondered. Yes it was odd he was a boy, since Halliwell's with magic were only supposed to be women. But what was the harm in that?