Author's Note: Thanks again to those of you who continue to read and review you have no idea how much they help me. I decided to make this chapter a little longer than usual because I will be leaving on Thursday and won't be able to update until next week sometime.
PrettyDiva: Thanks so much for the applause. I'm glad you think that chapter deserved it. I'm glad you loved the exchange between Chris and Nikki, for some reason I love writing lines for him. I'm glad someone has noticed Nikki's lack of emotion in planning her wedding to Drake. And I knew the ending wouldn't be much of a surprise.
HarryPassionFan: Of course, the baby is definitely Tommy's as for why it didn't get erased along with everyone's memories well you'll just have to read and find out.
Slytherin-Angel44: You can rest assured that Nikki will not be marrying Drake and yes she is starting to put the pieces together that something is very wrong.
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ThePink1atReefside: Thanks, it's nice to have a Charmed fan catch things like that. I do my best to stick with things the way they were in the show even if I have forgotten a lot of their history.
"What do you mean this isn't Drake's baby?" Sami questioned once they had orbed away from Reefside and back to Sami's apartment.
"Drake and I didn't break our deal, we haven't been together in months, so there's no possible way that this baby is his," Nikki answered.
"Nikki, that doesn't make any sense, if you haven't been with Drake then how could you have gotten pregnant?" Sami questioned.
"That's the thing, I don't remember, I have no idea how this happened, the only thing I'm sure of is that this baby isn't Drake's," Nikki replied.
"Do you think someone maybe put a spell on you to just make it seem like your pregnant?" Sami asked.
"Why on earth would someone create a spell like that?" Nikki questioned.
"I don't know but there has to be some explanation for it," Sami told her.
"No, this baby is definitely real, all I need to figure out now is who's the father and what happened to him," Nikki said.
"So what are you planning to tell Drake, you're supposed to get married in five days," Sami said.
"I'm not going to tell him anything, at least not until I figure out what's going on," Nikki replied.
"Ok, let's look at what we know so far, this all started because you felt like there was someone or something missing from your life," Sami began.
"And now I'd say it's safe to assume that missing person must be this baby's father," Nikki replied.
"Right and then there's this thing you've suddenly developed for the power rangers not to mention that cute paleontologist Dr. Tommy Oliver that literally knocked you off your feet," Sami added.
"Yeah that part doesn't really make any sense to me, I mean other than the fact that Tommy lives in a town that used to have a group of rangers," Nikki said.
"I can't believe we didn't think of this before!" Sami said excitedly.
"What are you talking about?" Nikki questioned.
"What if Tommy is a power ranger or at least what if he used to be," Sami said.
"You can't be serious," Nikki responded.
"Well how else can you explain your fainting at the sight of him, or the fact that you seemed to know your way around his house, I mean you ran straight to the front door despite the fact that you were unconscious when we brought you there, that has to mean that there's a connection between the two of you somehow," Sami told her.
"But if that's true then why doesn't he seem to know me," Nikki replied.
"I don't know maybe somehow his memory got erased," Sami concluded.
"Or maybe somehow the timeline got altered, maybe I do know him but somehow someone has changed things so that everything's somehow different but if that's true then why does it seem like I'm the only one who realizes that something's wrong," Nikki said.
"I think we're going to need the book on this one, maybe there's something in it that can help explain what might have happened," Sami said.
Nikki and Sami then decided to orb into the attic of the Halliwell Manor where The Book of Shadows was kept.
"Hey cousins, what are guys doing here?" Melinda asked as she was mixing a potion.
"We need to look up something in the book," Sami answered.
"Is there a demon on the loose or something?" Melinda asked as she handed them the book.
"Not that we know of, we just need to research something that's all," Nikki answered.
"I can't believe you're getting married, you must be so excited," Melinda told her.
"Sure, aren't all brides excited to be married," Nikki responded.
"Don't mind her she's just got a case of cold feet," Sami said as she began looking through the book.
"Melinda, dinner's ready," Piper said as she came into the attic.
"Hi Aunt Piper," Sami said not looking up from the book.
"Is there something wrong?" Piper asked.
"What would make you say that?" Nikki asked.
"Oh I don't know, how about the fact that your sister is over there searching for something in the book and that almost always means something's going on," Piper replied.
"Aunt Piper, what do you know about changing time?" Nikki questioned.
"That depends on what you mean by changing," Piper answered.
"Is it possible for someone to alter time in a way that could make you forget the way things are supposed to be?" Nikki asked.
"Well, yeah it's possible, I mean I can't count the number of times that some demon decided to reverse time as a way to defeat us, or the number of times that we've had to reverse time ourselves to prevent that from having," Piper told her.
"What's this I hear about reversing time?" Leo asked as he walked in.
"Our nieces seem to think that the timeline has been altered somehow," Piper told him.
"What would make you think that, everything seems fine to me," Leo replied.
"It seems that way to me too, Nikki here seems to be the only one affected by it," Sami told him.
"Nikki, what makes you so sure that time has been changed somehow?" Piper asked her.
"I think maybe we should call a family meeting for this one," Sami said before Nikki had a chance to speak.
"A family meeting, this must be big," Melinda remarked.
"Wyatt, Chris, come home," Piper called out.
"Mom, Henry, family meeting," Nikki said at the same time while Sami orbed away to bring Phoebe and her family.
Minutes, later, the entire Halliwell clan was assembled in Piper's attack.
"Ok, so what's going on?" Phoebe asked.
"Nikki and Sami seem to think time has been altered somehow," Piper told her.
"Everything seems fine to me," said Wyatt.
"It seems only Nikki is affected by it," Melina replied.
"Ok, Nikki, care to tell us what's going on," Paige said to her daughter.
"You may want to sit down for this," Sami remarked as Nikki glared at her.
"Why do I get the feeling we're not going to like this," Henry Sr. said.
"It's just that these past couple of days I've had the feeling that there was something or someone missing, something that I'm supposed to remember but have forgotten," Nikki began.
"And what makes you so sure this feeling of yours is right?" Prue asked.
"Because something has happened that I can't quite explain," Nikki told her.
"Come on Nikki, out with it already," Henry Jr. said.
"I know you're scared but you just need to tell us what's happening," Priscilla said suddenly.
"Hey, no using your empath powers on family members," Phyllis told her.
"Sorry, I can't help it," she said.
"Do you want me to tell them?" Sami asked as she put an arm around Nikki.
"No, I can do it," Nikki said as she took in a deep breath.
"Should we go get Drake, I mean he will be a part of the family soon," Coop commented.
"I could get him if you want," Chris said.
"No, trust me, until we figure this out, Drake is the last person who should be here," Sami told them.
"Please Nikki, if you don't tell us how will we be able to help you," Phoebe said.
"Ok, here goes, I'm pregnant, Drake's not the father but I don't know who is," Nikki finally told them.
"Pregnant?" Paige questioned.
"Are you sure?" Piper asked her.
"Positive, I went to the doctor and she confirmed it," Nikki answered.
"And you're sure there's no way that Drake could be the father?" Henry Sr. asked.
"No Dad, there is absolutely no way this baby is Drake's," Nikki told him.
"So that's why you didn't want me to tell Drake you were at the doctors," Chris said.
"And you have no idea who the father could be?" Prue questioned.
"None," Nikki said.
"Well that's not exactly true I mean what about Tommy Oliver," Sami said.
"Who's Tommy Oliver?" Priscilla asked.
"He lives in Reefside, Sami and I went there to check out a lead and that's where we met Tommy," Nikki replied.
"What makes you think he might be the father of the baby?" Leo asked.
"Because Nikki fainted when she shook his hand, not to mention the fact that his house seemed familiar to her," Sami answered.
"But he doesn't remember you?" Paige asked.
"No, he didn't seem to know me at all, I don't even know if he could be the father, that's Sami's theory not mine," she said.
"If this baby isn't Drake's then we have no choice to believe that what Nikki is feeling is true, someone has messed with time and altered it somehow," Wyatt said.
"What kind of demon would be powerful enough to pull something like this off?" Phyllis questioned.
"Well it's not Tempus that's for sure, we got rid of him a long time ago," Piper remarked.
"No, if it had been Tempus, time would have been reversed not altered and Nikki couldn't somehow still be pregnant by another man," Phoebe decided.
"Come to think of it, if someone altered things then how did this baby survive?" Henry Jr. asked.
"Because whoever did this wasn't powerful enough to reverse time, they only altered it to make us forget the way things should have been and create an alternate universe," Piper said.
"Obviously, they weren't counting on Nikki being pregnant, they couldn't change what was already happening," Paige said.
"Even still, how come Nikki's the only one who realized that something was wrong?" Melinda asked.
"Because my niece or nephew is a genius that's how," Sami said.
"What are you talking about?" Henry Sr. questioned.
"Just that I think somehow the baby was trying to alert Nikki that something was wrong, he or she was trying to send us clues so that we could figure this thing out," Sami said.
"Who would go to all of this trouble just to make me forget my baby's father?" Nikki asked.
"Maybe someone who didn't count on your being pregnant in the first place," Paige said.
"There's only one person who would go to all this trouble to change things especially if somehow in the future they ended up losing you to another man," Chris said.
"Come on, you can't possible think that Drake would have enough power to pull something like this off, I mean he's only a low level witch," Priscilla said.
"Maybe he had help," Leo said.
"Or maybe we don't know as much about Drake as we thought we did," Prue said.
"He must be working with a pretty powerful demon, I'm gonna head down to the underworld and see if I can dig up anything," Chris said.
"I'll come with you," Wyatt told him.
"Be careful, the last thing we need is for whoever did this to figure out we're on to him," Piper told her sons.