Disclaimer-Nothing is mine.

And Cole is not going evil in this fic just to keep that in mind, he was Phoebe's soulmate and he always will be. Due to him not going evil a lot of the Season 4 after the next chapter will be skipped. I might do one two more of Season 4 and then we move onto Season 5. Again I do not think I will include the last season so just keep in mind Henry might pop up in the Season 6/7 arc (never liked Richard anyway).

Please Read and Review.

And so there will only be one more chapter left of Season 4. I hope that this ties up the Season 4 arc with Phoebe and her baby and gracefully skips over Cole turning evil.

And Trigger Warnings for this chapter for miscarriage. Please be aware.


Mother Of Invention

Chapter 7-Be True, Be Brave, Be Kind

Phoebe discovers she is pregnant and she and Cole get married (before she finds out she is pregnant and not afterwards), Cole is still human but a source of demon knowledge which comes in handy when Billie is turned into a vampire.


"I'm pregnant, quick Paige, what do I do?"

"What I am the go to sister on pregnancy?"

"Well you are the only one whose had one and that one turns out to be in pretty good shape half the time even though she does hog the shower and uses my Chanel perfume—"

"I spoke to her about that Phoebe" Paige warned over her coffee. "You can't blame her for that anymore"

"Never mind that" Piper said waving aside Billie's copious spraying of Chanel yesterday morning. "What do you mean you are pregnant?"

"I mean I am pregnant. Pregnant, pregnant, like took the test and it turns out I am pregnant, went to the Doctor to confirm I am pregnant, pregnant!"

"And you're getting married in five months as well" Paige said feeling rather sanguine about it. "Imagine how fat you will be"

Phoebe's face was a picture of horror. Piper shot Paige a look.

"What's the big deal?" Billie asked as she sat down the Book of Shadows on her lap and a croissant in her hand despite the fact that it was night time and they had finished dinner. Piper had been on a baking streak recently and Paige and Billie neither of whom could cook never mind bake, had both been enjoying it a bit too much. "You get married either before you show, as you show or after you've had the baby? Or you exercise your legal right to choose, either way your good. You're marrying the ex-half demon whose now human who tried to kill you and your sisters I think convention went out the window"

"We do not get crumbs on the Book of Shadows!" Piper said taking the book out of Billie's hands and slamming it shut. "And we tend not to take it downstairs unless we have to either. What are you reading about?"

"Vampires"

"What?"

"Vampires, you know they are real too Mom?"

"Wouldn't surprise me"

"Hello! Pregnant sister here, Paige help me?"

Paige sighed.

"Tell Cole and then…I don't know…elope, you guys wanted a nice small wedding anyway so what does it matter?"

"I heard the Seychelles are a really nice place to have a wedding" Billie piped up and Paige rolled her eyes. Subtlety had never really been one of Billie's inherited traits.

"Go and take out the trash please"

"Mom—"

"Go"

Billie rolled her eyes and flounced just as the front door opened and the man of the hour (now working regular hours) came through.

"Tell him" Paige said snagging a muffin. "We literally cannot do secrets in this house. I'm gonna grab a coffee to go, Piper?"

"Oh yeah"

"Tell me what?"

"I'm pregnant"

It was said in a rush before either Paige or Piper could leave the room and Paige sighed as Cole who had just taken a mouthful of cookie promptly choked.

"So much for privacy Phoebe" Piper scolded. "Cole don't get crumbs on the rug."

Cole was still choking as Leo orbed in and immediately thwacked him on the back and the whole thing was shaping up to be a rather funny moment that Paige was sure they would look back upon fondly in the future when the air was ripped by a scream that cut straight through them and straight through her, heart, body, mind and soul.

She knew that scream.

She knew who it was that was screaming.

She knew it in her bones.

Billie.

"Billie!" she shouted and she orbed on instinct alone outside before anyone else could run for her.

She orbed outside.

Billie was there on the floor cowering her hands on her face and shaking from head to toe, also she was covered head to toe in bite marks.

Bite marks.

And she was sobbing.

"Momma" she cried a little brokenly as Paige pulled her into her lap and rocked her back and forth.

"Billie baby what happened?"

"Bats" Billie said sniffing. "Bats they just came out of nowhere and I—" and she burrowed her head and started sobbing again and Paige rocked her back and forth satisfied a little that other than the bite marks which had broken skin but not penetrated deep, her daughter was otherwise unharmed.

"It's alright" she said over the raging beating of her own heart. "It's alright, Momma's here, Momma's here okay? Were gonna get you inside and Leo can heal you up?"

Billie sniffed and nodded wiping her face and Paige helped her trembling daughter to her feet and there was Piper with a blanket and there was Leo with his healing powers and Cole who was still staring into space with a dumbfounded expression on his face and there (though they didn't see it) in the bushes was the male vampire who had helped all the other little vampires bit Paige's daughter until she was one of them.

Problem was they didn't figure that bit out until later.


"Mass bats?" Cole said quietly after Paige had put Billie to bed then very unwillingly had dragged herself away from her daughter's side. "Sounds like vampires?"

"Could be a freak thing" Leo said ever the optimist.

"Yeah and if this was any other house and Billie was any other daughter of any other woman I'd agree with you but it's probably vampires, you don't need to be a demon to figure out what's going on down there"

"What?" Piper said waspishly. "You think they are voting in a new Source or something?"

There was a pause as Cole stared at her as if he was amazed it had taken her this long to realise what he had (to be fair to him) been saying for months.

"Oh you cannot be serious"

"The Underworld is leaderless for the first time since it's creation Piper" Cole said patiently. "There's nobody in charge to discipline the demons, to try and control them, to exile them. Vampires have been exiled since the dawn of time but now they are coming out of the woodwork? Doesn't take a genius to grasp that there is a power struggle. Factions are forming and infighting might take some of them out but at some point someone is going to have to take the reigns down there. Wouldn't surprise me if there are a few votes going on right now"

Brushing aside the fact that demons voted in their next leader like any other election for another time Paige wanted to know.

"If it's vampires why go after Billie…wouldn't it make more sense for them to go after one of us? And besides she was healed, she's asleep right now. She's fine"

"Yeah" Cole drawled. "Yeah she's not Paige and you know it. But the Vampire Queen has a clear agenda, there's a reason she's a pariah in the Underworld. She likes to get em young and get em to kill their families so to speak. She's…she's a right piece of work to be honest with you and—"

But Paige was already gone the second he said that Billie wasn't alright.

Cole was right too. The second she opened her daughter's room she found that she was on the ceiling and then before her very eyes her daughter, her baby girl turned into a bat and flew out the window.

"Told you" Cole said. To his credit he sounded more resigned than smug.


Paige was going out of her mind.

Phoebe wasn't sure she wouldn't be doing the same thing if it was her daughter—and here she had a headrush when she looked down at her stomach and realised that she was pregnant with what could be her daughter and she had to resist the urge to sit down.

As they stepped into the house there was Billie.

Only she didn't look like Billie.

For a start she was dressed all in red silk, a red silk top that just covered her chest and a long skirt that showed of her creamy and now anaemic skin and her eyes were dark with something that Phoebe hoped was hunger.

And there was the Vampire Queen standing there in all her glory.

Paige took one look at her and straightened to her full height.

"You want my baby, bring it on bitch" she said and then the fight was on.

Billie didn't have magical powers as a vampire which made it considerably easier for her to be thrown in a corner and to stay there. Paige took no prisoners, she went straight for the Queen and God help anyone who got in her way. Phoebe managed to bring down a blonde vampire who might in another life have been pretty but was now just vapid and empty and Piper blew one into the wall where she lay quite still which gave Paige time to orb a stake straight into the male vampire's heart.

Billie screamed getting to her feet but there was no teeth and before the Queen could do anything Paige had grabbed her by the throat and with an upper body strength that Phoebe certainly did not think she had she grabbed the Queen by the jaw and threw her bodily across the room.

"Stake!"

Immediately it went to Paige's hand and then she threw it dead on centre.

Jesus.

Don't piss of Momma.

For a second they stood there watching as the Queen burned before Paige turned to her daughter. Billie was already standing and without a second thought as if it was obvious that they were always going to be open no matter what, Paige opened her arms and Billie burst into tears and ran into them.

Phoebe thought it best that she and Piper left mother and daughter there to hold each other and so she went to find her husband.


"Momma?"

"Yeah Billie?"

Billie was dithering by the door and Paige who was sat on the bed jerked her head so that she could come in.

"I don't…I don't remember what happened…but I'm sorry if I did something"

"No you didn't" Paige soothed curling around her daughter. "That Queen Bitch is responsible for all of this not you. And she's dead so there's that. You did nothing wrong, and as much as I want to pack up our stuff and move out over this the reality is that this is going to happen. So we learn and we move forwards and we rescue each other because…"

"Because that is what we always do" Billie finished the sentence for her.

"Damn right" Paige said. "And so that's why we learn how to prevent this"

Billie nodded again and Paige wiped her eyes when she was sure that Billie wasn't looking.

She wasn't going to tell her daughter just how scared she was. Or just how scared she had been.

But she had been.

And she was.


She stared at the dress she was supposed to be wearing to Phoebe's wedding and willed her body to move when…

"You know your not the first and your not the last parent to worry themselves shitless about this"

She nearly jumped out of her skin whirling around.

And there she was. Penelope Halliwell, in the flesh.

For a second grandmother and granddaughter just stared at each other and then Paige spoke.

"Since when did you swear Grams?"

"Hon you try raising those three little darlings and you'd learn how to swear too.

"Grams—"

"Paige I can't stay here for long, a lot of magical juice went into me being here for Phoebe's wedding but I wanted to talk to you first. I wanted…I wanted to tell you that you are doing fine—"

"She nearly died Grams, she nearly died."

"No she didn't. She was transformed into a vampire and then you brought her back. Your doing fine Paige, this life…this life is hard but you have to learn early. Sometimes…sometimes I wish I'd have let the girls learn early. But the bond they had was nowhere near as strong as what you and Billie have. Not until they became witches and even then…"

"Grams—"

"Paige…let me give you some advice, what you do with it is up to you…but it's advice I wish someone would have told me when Patty was little. You can be the best Mom in the world but short of wrapping up your daughter in cotton wool you are going to have to let her be bruised by the big bad world out there. And the world that we live in, the lives that we lead, the bruises are bigger and uglier and worse. But we let our children do it. Because we raised them good. You raised Billie to be a strong powerful woman even without witchcraft and magic. And because of that she is good. Don't second guess yourself. Things are good"

Paige nodded. Her eyes were full of tears and she blinked them back because she spent far too much on decent mascara and eyeliner for it to start smudging now. Penelope Halliwell smiled at her and she took her hands in her own.

"Your doing good Paige" she said and then there was a knock at the door. Paige turned around to see Billie poke her head in her blonde hair loose down her back and curling slightly. She had chosen a baby pink dress that had sleeves and a nice v-neck with a floaty skirt. It was a far cry from light pink one shoulder dress.

"Mom? Aunt Piper says were ready?"

"Coming darling"

She turned around but Penny Halliwell was already gone.

Typical.


Phoebe did marry Cole that day, it was a small wedding, a nice normal wedding, it wasn't a big Church thing it was small, Piper, Paige, Leo, Billie, Daryl, his wife and his kids, just the family, just the people that mattered near and far. Victor Halliwell was here, and then ghosts, Patty and Penny and though neither sister saw her Paige saw Prue Halliwell in the back, the dashing Inspector on her arm watching her sister marry the man she had initially hated and then unwillingly grown to love and Paige grinned at her.

She turned to smile at Billie and then when she looked back Prue was gone.

That was fine.

Paige knew she wasn't meant to stay.


That the end of their happy ending as they knew it though they didn't know it then.

Because two days later in the middle of the night, without warning the house was woken up by screaming.

Because Phoebe was having a miscarriage.


And yeah, there you go, final chapter of Season 4 is on the way.

Next Chapter-The sisters and Billie, (including a grieving Phoebe) are forced to consider what their lives would be like without powers when the Angel of Destiny offers them a deal-Cole and Leo do not appear in this chapter-Final of Season 4.