"Phoebe what are you doing?" Bane came around the corner just in time to see Phoebe take her second step on the stool.

Phoebe looked over her shoulder and smiled down at the father of the child she was carrying, "Getting Piper a blanket?"

"Yeah well,get down. I'll get it." He took hold of her hand so as she wouldn't fall. "If Prue saw you up there she would tie you down to your bed till that baby was ready to make an appearance in the world."

"What she doesn't know won't hurt me, right?" she looked at Bane with her big puppy eyes.

He looked at her and started to laugh, "Try it again and she will. Now get out of here."

"Deal." She leaned up and kissed him on the cheek before scurrying out of the hallway.

Piper had come home a few days after her episode that led them to discover her condition. Now her sisters and all the men in the Manor were waiting on her hand and foot, and she hated every minute of it.

Bane walked into the living room and placed the blanket over Piper, "Next time please don't ask Phoebe."

"I didn't, she just went and got it." She smiled up at Bane, "Thanx."

"Your welcome."

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Prue opened up Phoebes bedroom door and saw her sister laying on her side, working on something for work she gathered, "What you up too?"

Phoebe looked up at Prue and saw something there. Did she know? She did know. "I didn't mean to Prue, Piper was cold I just went to get her the blanket. Bane stopped me before I got any further then the first step." Her emotions taking over as her tears ran down her face.

Prue wasn't sure what had happened but suddenly Phoebe broke down inot tears. She realized fast enough that it was the hormones of carrying the child inside her. She sat on the bed and held on to her sister, "Ok Phoebs. Ssshhh I got you know. Its ok." She ran her fingers gently along Phoebes back to calm her as it had many times as a child. "Wow, your pregnant emotions are ten times more then just you, aren't they?"

Phoebe didn't say anything as her tears overcame her and all she did was nod her head.

"I wish it was me going through all this instead of you. To feel your extreme happy and the sad."

"Pissed off wouldn't be good with your power Prue." through her tears

Prue looked down at Phoebes face and brushed her hand over the top of her forehead brushing back her hair, "It wouldn't would it." Prue agreed and let out a small laugh.

Phoebe wiped away the tears ion her face, "Is Piper ok?"

"As far as I know. She is down stairs with Leo and Bane."

"She scared me."

"Me too sweetie." Prue snuggled with Phoebe on her bed. "You ok?"

Phoebe didn't say anything at first, "What if that happens to me?"

Prue could see now where her sisters fears where. "We will all take care of you, like we are Piper. Phoebe nothing is going to happen."

"You can't guarantee that."

"Sure I can. I'm your big sister." Prue placed a hand on Phoebe forehead, "Phoebs its ok to be scared right now. I know you are and I know why. But you can't keep thinking something is going to happen to that little bundle inside you."

"Prue…"

"No. You are going to carry that child to term and you are going to have it naturally. And I am going to stand beside and let you squeeze my hand till you break it and let you call me every name you can think of." Prue wanted to cry but she held it in, "Phoebe you are making me so happy I can even begin to tell you how I feel."

"I know how you feel Prue I was there remember."

"This is different. You are giving Bane and I something that we wouldn't be able to have if not for your sacrifice now."

"It isn't."

"Phoebe it is. I know you struggled with even doing this to start with. Then everything with the demon coming back. I don't know if I could be that strong. To keep going like you did."

"I learned from you."

"Me?"

"Ever since I was little I always looked up to you. People would say things about us not having Mum around, and there you would be. Staying strong for Piper and myself. As we got older I realized it was your way of dealing with it. But Prue you are the strongest person I know and I can't even imagine now not doing this for you. To give you a chance to be as happy as Piper will be, and I was for a time. Our strength comes from love Prue. Love you gave us." Phoebe took Prue's hand in hers and placed it on her stomach, "That love you will share."

Prue felt the movement beneath her hand and felt a new set of tears well in her eyes, "Is that?"

"Your little girl Prue."

"How do you know its a girl?"

"I just do." Phoebe smiled and closed her eyes letting the weariness of pregnancy take her to slumber, and leaving Prue with the gentle touch of her child.

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Bane walked up stairs looking for Prue and saw her sitting with Phoebe snuggled up against her on the youngest's bed, "I was looking for you." He smiled as he walked in the room and gently sat on the bed, so as not to disturb Phoebe's sleep.

"Well you found us." Prue leaned forward a bit and gave him a kiss, "Here." She took his hand in hers and placed it on Phoebe's stomach. She waited and watched his face for that first moment he felt his child beneath his hand.

Bane at first wasn't sure what Prue was doing. It seemed still a bit strange to him having his sister in law carrying his child, but he was getting used to it. But then he felt it, a slight movement beneath his hand followed by another.

"Is that?" he held his gaze to his hand and the movement he felt underneath

"Your daughter, according to Phoebe anyway." Prue answered seeing the joy on his face.

He looked at his hand and waited to feel the child once again, and he wasn't disappointed. "Its like she knows I'm here."

"She does." Prue smiled as she reached her hand and cupped it around his face. "This is real isn't it?"

Bane looked up at her, "More real then we imagined."

Piper felt the edge of the couch shift down and opened her eyes to see Leo sitting beside her. "Hi."

"Hey. Prue and Bane are upstairs with Phoebe, so I thought we could spend some time together too." He moved up on the couch and sat in behind Piper. "You know I am still amazed at how everything worked out. I look back at the days when we were part, that the elders forbid us to see each other."

"Don't remind me." Piper pulled his arms closer to her as she rested one hand on her rather large stomach.

"Just a tribute that our love is everlasting."

Piper closed her eyes and looked back on the happier moments they had together, but the sad ones where always there, "Something to tell the baby when she is older."

"She?"

"We both know the future Leo. I saw that little girl."

"Futures are changed with ever choice we make. That could be just as easily our child Phoebe is carrying."

"I know. And I thank god every day that we are able to have our own. I can't even imagine what Prue must have felt when she got the news she couldn't carry. Here I was pregnant and Phoebe having just gone through her own loss months before."

"But you three always have each other. Prue will be ok. And I think Phoebe will too."

"She is much better isn't she?"

"She is stronger then I think she even realizes Piper, but she is making it through with yours and Prue's help. And I have the feeling that one day she will have her own child again. She just needed to get past her time of grief. She lost Cole and then the only piece of love she had left of him." He wrapped his arms around her a bit tighter. "But right now. You need to rest."

"I am perfectly happy resting where I am." She shifted a bit to get more comfortable against the man she knew she would love forever.

Leo sat and held her in his arms wondering back to the challenges they faced, 'how many more must we all endure?' he thought to himself.

Phoebe opened her eyes and knew she was still in Prue's arms, but she felt the second hand as well. "Ok, why is it, you two with your hands on my stomach, seem weird?"

Bane quickly moved his hand away only to have Phoebe take it and place it back where it was, "She needs to know her father is here."

"Phoebe."

"Bane I was joking." She smiled up and saw her sisters' eyes.

"I thought you were sleeping?"

Phoebe let out a slight laugh, "Always could fool you couldn't I?"

"No. Not always." Prue smiled back letting her sister know there where times she knew she was awake, but had let her be.

"Hmm. Yeah, I figured." She smiled as she got up off her sister before getting off the bed. Taking a half step she sat back down. "Oh."

"Phoebe?" Prue was beside her sister in a shot, "What's wrong?"

"I'm ok. Just a dizzy spell."

"Dizzy, like Piper was dizzy? Or something else?" Prue asked with concern
"Food dizzy. I haven't eaten lunch yet."

Bane lost the worried look and smiled, "I'll get you something."

"Thank you Bane but I'm ok. That was where I was going." She got off the bed again and started from her room. "I forget sometimes that I need to eat for two of us."

Prue laughed, "You normally do now you just need to eat for three."

"Haha Prue." Phoebe called back from the hallway.

Piper heard the creak of the stairs. "Hey Phoebe."

"How did you know it was me?"

"The walk. Oh." Piper felt the pain before she could finish her sentence to her sister.

Leo shifted around and looked at Pier, "Oh? What oh?"

"Oh like I think we are going to have to take the sofa cushions to the cleaners kind of oh."

Leo looked at Piper then realized what she was saying, as did Phoebe.

"PRUE! GET DOWN HERE!" Phoebe hollered up to her sister.

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Prue heard the panic in her sisters' voice and was off the bed and down the hall almost before her feet had a chance to hit the ground. "Phoebe?"

"Its Piper." Phoebe looked over at her sister and then to Piper. "I think we are about to become Aunts'"

Prue made her way over to Piper as her sisters' face contorted in pain. "Piper."

"Prue, get this thing out of me!"

"OK come on well get you to the hospital."

Leo looked at Prue, "There isn't time. She's coming now."

Prue looked at Piper and then over to Bane who was standing beside Phoebe, "Bane, get some towels and hot water. And call 911. We'll see who gets here first. Them or my niece."

Phoebe had sat with Pipers head on her lap as Leo and Prue took her through the birth. It wasn't long till Prue handed the small bundle to Leo.

Leo then made his way over to Piper and handed the baby to her. "Not what we were expecting, but he is still perfect."

"He?"

Prue laughed, "He. Unless she came with an extra part."

Piper's emotions came to the surface as she looked down at her son. "Hello baby."

Prue looked up at Phoebe as the youngest moved out of the way so the new family could be together. Stepping out of her husbands' arms, Prue wrapped an arm around Phoebe's waist.

"Were Aunties." Was all Phoebe said, as she rested her head on Prue's shoulder.

"That we are."

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The paramedics arrived and took Piper, Leo and the new baby to the hospital with the rest of the family following in Prue's SUV.

"Well Piper, he is healthy and that's the main thing." Leo told her as he settled on her bed taking in the features of his new son.

The doctor gathered everything he needed and smiled at the new family

Phoebe smiled at her sister before turning to Prue, "That will be you in a few months."

Prue stepped behind her sister and wrapped her arms around her, resting her chin on her shoulder, "Thanks to you."

Phoebe suddenly closed her eyes, "Oh." As she gripped on to Prue's arms.

"Phoebs?"

"Sit. I need to sit." She stepped towards the chair as Prue helped her sit down.

"You haven't eaten yet have you?" In all the commotion with Pipers baby arriving early, Prue had forgotten her sister was going downstairs for food when it all happened.

The doctor made his way over to Phoebe, "How far along are you?"

Phoebe kept her eyes closed as she heard Prue starting to talk to the doctor in front of her.

"She just started her 27th week."

"Eating?"

"She was on her way to get lunch when our niece decided to make an early appearance." Prue looked on as the doctors looked at Phoebe, "She's a surrogate mother with my husbands and my child."

"Dr. Williams?"

"Yes."

The doctor stood up and started making notes on his clipboard, "I'll give him a call. In the mean time I think she needs to go down to the lab for some tests. It isn't serious but with her dizzy spell and lack of food. She may have gestational diabetes."

Prue looked over at Bane and then to her sister. One more complication for them to over come. One more hurdle to pass through. Were they cursed or Charmed? That was a question Prue seemed to ask herself a lot since her baby sister discovered the Book in the attic four years ago.