Chapter 6- The waiting game
"Phoebe..." Paige tried again as she felt something drip down her legs, but yet again the duo ignored her and continued arguing.
"Hello, if I remember rightly you grew up with her, you know what the woman is like!"
"So what, Leo this is your son's happiness we are talking about!"
"Don't you think I know that?"
As phoebe opened her mouth to responded, Paige gave an almighty whistle and yelled for them once again.
"What?" they said in union, turning to face the youngest charmed one.
"My waters have just broken!"
Silence instantly filled the room as the two quarrelling adults stared at the youngest charmed one, their mouths agape. Instantly phoebe's eyes dropped to the floor where a puddle of oozy goo was slowly spreading along the wooden ground.
"Oh…" was all she managed to say, but she made no attempt to move, and neither did Leo, they both just stood there, frozen top the spot as Paige winced in pain.
"Is that all you are going to say?" Paige panted as sweat started pouring down her face as the reality of what was happening set in. She couldn't explain it, bit somehow she knew something was wrong, she still had another seven weeks to go, that however wasn't what was worrying her as she clutched her swollen belly, something just didn't feel right.
Snapping out of her trance, phoebe dashed to her little sister's side as she saw the pure pain on her face.
"Just breathe honey, in and out, like we practiced, okay? Just concentrate on the breathing!"
Paige nodded, being unable to summon up the energy to do anything else, she felt like a swarm of bees were swimming in her head and that every breathe she took was a struggle.
"Leo, go call Henry!" Phoebe yelled, knowing her brother in law would kill them if he missed the birth of his children. "And an Ambulance!" she added as an after though. Being an empath she could feel exactly what Paige could, and it defiantly wasn't normal pains of child birth!
Just as the ex elder was about to dive out of the room, he turned around in shock as he heard a low moan escape Paige's lips. Walking back over to his sister in-law, he bent down and felt her forehead, which to him, was unnaturally hot.
As his hand flinched away from her, Paige's vision started to blur and her eyes rolled back, causing her body to slump forward as everything went black. Just before she slipped fully into an unconscious state, she heard phoebe and Leo scream her name in horror as she allowed the darkness to take her.
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Two hours, thirty minutes and twelve seconds later, an anxious phoebe, Leo, coop and Henry paced up and down the hospital waiting room. All four of them, not taking their eyes of the clock on the wall, for even a minute. It was like Chris' birth al over again, only the twins' future self's weren't dying (as far as they knew) and there was no great force of evil in play, it was a complete mortal problem.
In the corner, playing with the toys, were two little boys and one little girl, who were extremely confused about what was happening, especially eighteen month old Prue.
"I can't take this anymore!" Henry screamed as he rushed towards the reception desk in the hall. "What the hell is going on?"
As Henry banged the office desk, a near by doctor smiled sadly and tried to lead the worried father to be, away from the startled receptionist.
"Your wife is stable sir; we're doing everything we can!"
Those words were meant to reassure him, but they did the exact opposite, 'everything they can' was often followed by a funeral in his experience, or in this case three, he worked closely with doctors quite a few times and knew exactly what they said to try and calm relatives.
"Listen to me! Either you get someone to tell me what the hell is going on or I'll…"
"You'll what Mr Mitchell?" The doctor interrupted, stepping away from the enraged officer who had gotten dangerously close as he prepared to force the man to talk.
In normal circumstances, Henry was anything but violent, sure he got a little heavy with the probationers, but these days who didn't? Today was an exception though, he had never loved anyone as much as he did Paige, and to be told he might lose her, that his desire to be a father might have cost him, his true love, was just to much for the stressed out thirty year old to handle.
Having grown up in foster homes, he had never had a proper family, or let anyone close to his heart, this meant he had never experienced the pain of losing someone he loved.
Unfortunately that had major disadvantages, because now he didn't know how to control the swarm of emotions which were plaguing his soul.
Hopelessness, sorrow, anger, pain, blinding love, desperateness and even hate.
Each emotion was slowly breaking the wall that blocked out the desire to lash out and as every second past, it was like a brick disappeared, until he was unable to control the rage anymore.
Clenching his hands into a fist, Henry allowed it to come into contact with the nearest was, until the plaster bored actually cracked.
"Henry!" Phoebe screamed, rushing over to her brother in laws side, gripping hold of his shoulders, the five foot five witch pulled him over to the chairs and forcefully pushed him into one, as tears rolled down his face.
"Paige will be fine! They all will!"
She tried to sound reassuring, but with each word that left her lips, she felt like breaking down in tears. Deep down she didn't believe that, deep down she knew any second a surgeon would step into the room, covered in blood and mutter those two simple words, which meant too much.
"I'm sorry"
Allowing the tears to finally fall down her face, phoebe collapsed into coops waiting arms and cried, her whole body was shaking as the hot droplets burned her cheeks, she couldn't handle losing both her sisters' in one day!
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"Why mama cry??" Little prue said slowly as she stared at her mother, letting the yellow Lego blocks fall to the floor.
Wyatt being the expert by now and cheering his family up, instantly went and hugged the toddler, as Chris looked at his worried family then back to his cousin, then at his toy turtle he loved so much, wondering who needed it more.
"She's sad about Auntie Paige, prue!" Wyatt replied slowly, remembering his fathers panic as he rushed around the house, screaming down the phone that Paige had collapsed.
"Why?"
"Because prue… umm the new baby is coming!" he continued, shrugging his shoulders, not really knowing what was making his family so upset.
"Auntie Phoebe and daddy and Uncle Henry are sad because Auntie Paige is having the babies?" Chris responded confused after finally wondering over to the duo, having made his decision about the teddy.
"Yeah, I think its 'cus auntie Phoebe wants a baby to!"
"It is?"
"Yeah, 'member she said she wanted Prue to have a sister to mummy!"
"Oh… YEAH!" Chris replied, remembering that conversation clearly, especially since it was just two days ago. "But… that means the baby fairy won't give her one right?"
"Must do!"
"We should go yell at her!" The witch elder declared, jumping to his feet. Piper had told them when Paige had gotten pregnant, that she hadn't eaten a baby and that the baby fairy had made a baby in Aunt Paige's tummy and in nine months it would come out, although she refused to answer Chris question on HOW it would.
"Yeah! How dare she not give auntie phoebe a baby?!"
The two boys nodded and quickly scurried to the door, with Prue's hands tightly clasped in theirs. Before they left however, Chris walked up to his uncle and handed him the teddy bear.
"Bob wants to cheer you up!" he said, placing the blue cuddly toy on Henry's lap. The man never even bothered to look up, if he had, he would have seen the three magical children running out of the waiting room after making a very smart, as far as they were concerned, decision. If they had to go to the hospital to get the new baby, then that must have meant the baby fairy was around there somewhere!
(a/n) so sorry for the delay, but i am taking 3 a level 100 coursework subjects so have loads of stuff to do. Good news i have finally decided what is wrong with piper, but its gunna take some researching so i dont know when i'll next be able to update
thanks for all the lovley reviews guys they mean alot