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Chapter 2: Talking It Out

"Roman do I want to know A) where you managed to find two kids and B) why you look pregnant?" Piper asked her son-in-law when he came into the kitchen followed by his two sons.

"Well something tells me that if I told you this is all Mel's fault you wouldn't believe me so I'll just tell you that you don't want to know." Roman replied he didn't know how his wife went through any of this. His back hurt, his feet hurt, his pecs were sore. He was pretty sure he now knew why she had been so crabby for months.

"Ah look Noah we know where you get being a whiney little bitch from now." R.J. mocked his littlest brother.

Noah gave his oldest sibling a shove but he was only playing with him. "Yeah and we damn sure know why you're so temperamental all the time."

"Boys it would help a lot if you could make the potion I really don't feel like hearing your mother she is being a pain in the ass today." Roman told his two sons.

"Well dad I hate to tell you this but nothing is new there mom is a pain in the ass everyday." Noah agreed with his father.

R.J. took offense to his brother's comment "Hey don't talk about my mom like that ass."

"She's my mom too shit for brains." Noah reminded him.

"But she was my mom first dumb ass." R.J. argued back.

"At least I'm not a fucking momma's boy like you." Noah pointed out as if it was the most normal thing in the world.

R.J. pretended to think for a minute "That's right you're not because you're daddy's little princess. And that would be why the only girlfriend you have is your hand."

"If you two don't mind that will be enough I have a five year old in the other room who will repeat everything you say." Piper cut in.

"You know R.J. just when I think that we have hit a new all time low when mom is yelling at us. I remember that things aren't as bad as they could be. Because I thank God every day that Piper Halliwell is not our mother." Noah said solemnly.

R.J. shook his head at his youngest brother "No she just taught our mother everything she knows." He said as he began assembling what they would need to make their potion.

Roman rubbed his chest because it was feeling very tender "I wonder if her boobs normally hurt this much." He mused more to himself than to anyone else.

Piper couldn't help but get a dig in "Ro maybe if you asked her you would know these things." She reasoned with him.

"Yeah I know I have been the world's worst husband lately." Roman agreed he couldn't argue with her there.

"Then I think that maybe you should go try to make it right. I have the boys under control here. They won't burn the kitchen down if your Aunt Paige hasn't after all this time." Piper advised him he just nodded his head and went off in search of his wife.

"Mom I promise you we have this under control just relax for five seconds we have this spell done and over with. You just need to learn that you don't always have to be in control." Leo reasoned with his mother.

Grace rolled her brown eyes when she heard what her brother had said "Leo I really wish you would stop with the whitelighter sounding bullshit. This is mom we're talking about she has to be in control."

"I really wish the two of you wouldn't talk about me like I'm not in the room." Mel informed them she was sitting on the couch. It was nice that for the first time in months she didn't hurt all over.

"I wasn't talking about you like you're not in the room I was merely telling my brother the facts of life." Grace replied and Mel rolled her eyes that girl couldn't have been more like her if she had tried.

"Merely tell your brother the facts of life more quietly I am enjoying not being sick to my stomach. And I would enjoy it a hell of a lot more if I couldn't hear your Aunt Lilly whining in my head. I wonder if Ro has to listen to this all the time. Hell I wonder how he deals with being able to hear people's thoughts all the time no matter what he does. Because it is giving me a headache." Mel mused out loud.

Neither one of her children had time to answer her because at that moment blue and white orbs filled the room.

"Ah that would be Aunt Charlie returning with the designated Halliwell sluts." Grace mused there was really nothing she could do that would make her any more like Mel there was just no way it was possible.

"Grace watch your mouth those are your aunts you're talking about." Mel reminded her and then she groaned when she realized how easily those words had come to her. She blamed Carly, Val, and Penny she had been mothering them for years.

"Mel do I want to know why you're not pregnant right now?" Val asked that was pretty much Val for you right there she would notice that before she noticed the two young people in the room. Anything remotely related to sex caught her eye right away.

"No Val you don't want to know and I'm so glad I get a 'hi Mel what's going on?' before you barge in here and start questioning me. And it looks like I don't even get that out of Carly. Charlie wouldn't have dragged your asses back here if it wasn't important so I'm sorry if it has disturbed you."

"God Mel I don't remember you being this touchy before I mean you were always kind of bitchy but a girl goes to New York for a couple of years and her most favorite older cousin ever turns into a super bitch." Carly rambled on it wasn't hard to tell that she was Paige's daughter.

"Hey I thought I was your favorite." Val huffed.

"Nope you're my best friend and my roommate." Carly answered like it was the most natural thing in the world.

"Oh God Charlie you brought the dynamic duo back I don't know if I want to kill you for this or not. " Roman said upon coming into the attic.

Val really had to fight the urge to giggle when she saw him but she lost that fight. There was just something about him standing there with his hands on his back and his stomach bulging that she found funny. "I'm not even going to ask because I have a feeling that it will take a long time to explain so I'm just going to let it go." She snorted.

"I'm glad you find this funny Val. This is just not funny I ache all over even my nipples hurt and that just can't be normal. I feel the strong urge to puke all over the place and the smell of my own after-shave is making me sick. So this is really hilarious." Roman said it wasn't hard to miss that he was on the verge of tears.

"Those damn pregnancy hormones suck don't they?" Mel asked him a smirk on her face.

Roman used his t-shirt to wipe his eyes. "Yeah just a little bit." He replied it was the most civil that they had talked to each other all day.

"Dad this is very important so stop and consider what you're going to say before you speak. Did you honestly leave Roman and Noah alone with a potion?" Grace asked her father it had just dawned on her that her brothers hadn't come back up with him.

"No your grandma is with them don't worry so much they can't be that bad." Roman said dismissing his daughter's concerns.

"Ok let me put this in terms that you will understand imagine setting Aunt Penny and Aunt Emily loose together without supervision and that is what will happen if R.J. and Noah are left alone to make a potion. They don't listen to grandma they aren't smart enough to know what is good for them." Grace replied.

Charlie looked from Mel to Roman and she knew that they needed to talk "Come on kids lets go down to the kitchen and make sure that your brothers aren't about to blow themselves up."

"But we have to stay and help mom." Leo protested.

Grace rolled her eyes at her brother "Dude I think that maybe we should give mom and dad some alone married people time unless you want dad to be the one to carry you for nine months."

"Oh I got you and that is just wrong. Come on lets go thanks to you I now have to go puke." Leo replied rushing out of the attic.

"Mel you couldn't deny any of them if you wanted to they have the Halliwell sarcasm down pat." Val said before leaving the attic.

Mel and Roman sat around in an awkward silence for a few minutes "So I guess you can come sit down because I know that your feet are killing you." she said moving over on the couch so he had room to sit down.

Roman looked over at his wife and feeling everything that she had been feeling for months he felt bad that he had been ignoring her. "I guess we should talk about it."

Mel sighed when she saw the space between them on the couch "Ro there is nothing to talk about you know how I feel and you don't seem to care. So there is nothing more I can say about it."

"Mel that's not true I love you more than you will ever know and I do care I just have been neglecting you lately." Roman replied he knew that he had been wrong and the only thing he could do was admit it and then beg her for forgiveness.

"So now that you know what it feels like you're sorry?" Mel questioned him she wasn't trying to be unreasonable it was just how she felt.

"Mel I know that is what it seems like but that's not it at all you're my wife and you're carrying my son. I should pay more attention to you and I'm sorry I will do better from now on." Roman said sincerely. Mel couldn't help but soften a little when she heard him speak.

"Ro I know that I seem like I'm being an unreasonable bitch sometimes but it's only because I just want to talk to you. I've just been feeling so off the wall lately and I need to talk to you about it. But you can never make the time for me." Mel said calmly she wasn't trying to make him feel bad he just wanted him to see where she was coming from.

"Honey I never once thought that you were being unreasonable I just didn't make the time for you. That was wrong of me you are going through a lot right now and I haven't made it any easier on you. Mellie you have no idea how sorry I am. This is the guy that I never wanted to be. You know how much it pains me to think that I will turn out like my father. And that is basically what I have done. Sure I haven't died on you and left you as a single mother. No what I've done is worse I've been right here the whole time and I've ignored you." Roman went on speaking from his heart.

Mel closed the gap between them and took his face between her hands "Baby you're nothing like your father. You just get preoccupied sometimes and you forget about everything else. But I know that if I really needed you that you would be right there by my side. I just feel alone sometimes and like I said I've been going through a lot and there is so much that I can't do. Babe weak is the one thing that I don't do well you have to understand that. Maybe I should have made you sit down and listen to what I have to say but I don't want to force you to do things I want you to listen because you want to."

"Sometimes I'm stupid and I need you to knock some sense into me that is why I married you." Roman chuckled a little bit.

"And don't think that I won't I know when you need to be smacked upside the head." Mel replied leaning over to kiss him.

Roman smiled up at her "I just have one question for you. Do your boobs normally hurt this much?"

"Yes they do and they hurt all the time." Mel answered him and then she thought of something that she wanted to ask him "Do you always hear these voices in your head like this?"

"Yeah I hear Lilly all the time because we're twins I just have to work really hard to tune her out. And I have advanced telepathy so I have to put my walls up really good or I hear everything." Roman replied.

"I'm sorry that I've been such a bitch." Mel offered him.

Roman took both of her hands in his "You haven't been a bitch I've been a dumb ass. But this dumb ass sure does love you."

"I love you too." Mel replied kissing him again.

"Well I would have thought that would have given us our powers back but your son is stubborn." Roman joked with her.

"My son is an angel it's your son who is hell on wheels." Mel gave back as good as she got.

"Come on babe lets go downstairs and see about the kids." Roman said and she helped him up off of the couch.

"Alright because we still have this damn demon and I have to call the three amigos to fix this and then we can see about fixing us." Mel informed him as they walked out of the attic hand and hand.

A/N: So there is one more chapter left I hope you guys enjoyed it. Until next time please review.