Future Echoes

Chapter 4

“Sweetie, what are you doing?” Leo followed Piper down the stairs into P3, holding Wyatt’s hand.

“Relax” she said, waving her arm at him dismissively. “I may be pregnant but I’m not an invalid. I can still work.”

“But…” he began to protest, but couldn’t think of anything more to say.

She stopped and swung around to face them. “I’m not due for another 2 weeks. “I went past y due date before anyway. Apparently it runs in families.” She walked over to Leo and placed her hands on his shoulders. “Look, I know you’re worried, but I’m fine. Besides, I didn’t have a choice. My head barman’s off sick and we have a delivery. I’ll be an hour, tops.”

“I can help you Mom” Wyatt suggested.

“Thanks Honey.” She winked at Leo and kissed him on the cheek. “At least I have one helpful man in my life.”

“Mom” Wyatt asked, when he was sitting on a stool in the back room 10 minutes later watching his Mom tell two guys where to put the crates, “what are you gonna call the baby?”

“Steve, put that box in the corner.” She turned to her son. “I don’t know sweetie, me and your dad haven’t really thought about it.”

Wyatt thought. “I don’t think you should let Brooke choose.”

Piper laughed. “Why not?”

“She was talking about naming the baby Flower. He made a face. “There’s no way I’m having a sister called Flower!”

Piper raised an eyebrow. “That’s OK then, because there’s no way I’m having a daughter called Flower!”

“I have a middle name” Wyatt said after a while, “but you can’t know yet.”

Piper walked over gesturing for him to get up. She sat down on the stool sighing and he perched on her knee. “What about a first name?”

“You and Dad should choose, it’s your baby.”

She smiled. “Thanks Wyatt.” She gave him a hug. “Does it look like we’re done here?” He nodded. “High five!” Their hands met in mid air and they both giggled. “C’mon, let’s go home.”

* * *

“Aunt Paige, Wyatt doesn’t like my baby name.” Brooke held Paige’s hand as she pushed the shopping cart back to the car.

“What name’s that sweetie?”

“Flower” Brooke replied, sulking. “You like it don’t you?”

Paige sighed. “Well, it’s very…” she tried to search for the right name, “unusual.” She looked a bit surprised that her niece, the tom boy, liked such a girly name.

“I like making cakes though” Brooke said, as if reading her mind. She wouldn’t put it past the trouble maker, after all, she had cast a spell on the baby. She had quite the little budding witch on her hands.

‘Huh?’ she thought, then realised. Flour. That was more like it.

“I bet aunt Piper and uncle Leo will hate it too.”

Paige finished putting the last bag in the trunk and lifted Brooke into the car. “Maybe you could think of another name.”

Paige grimaced. Her sister wasn’t going to like her much after saying that. She could only imagine what her niece would come up with next.”

* * *

‘Big brother?’ Wyatt furrowed his brow at the voice coming from nowhere. ‘Can you hear me?’ It had been 2 months since Brooke had cast that spell. She had sat there for hours having conversations with his Mom’s stomach but his sister hardly ever spoke to him. He shrugged. ‘Yeah’ he thought mentally.

There was a pause. ‘I’m ready to come out now.’

Wyatt looked shocked. “Erm, Mom?”

Piper looked down at him as the approached the door to the main part of the club.

“The baby said…”

The voice spoke again. ‘See you later!’ And it was gone.

“Aaaaaaaaaaargh!” Piper yelled, and leant against the door frame for support. “Leo!”

“She said she was coming out now” Wyatt announced, grinning. Piper rolled her eyes, trust her son to know something like this before she did. Leo rushed to her side from one of the booths across the room and skidded to a halt.

“What?” He asked, then looked at the pained expression on his wife’s face.

“Our daughter’s coming now!”

* * *

“Go…. Get… Phoebe!” Piper yelled at Leo through laboured breaths. He jumped back, looking slightly scared, before orbing out of the room.

Brooke giggled. “You’re funny aunt Piper. Uncle Leo looked scared.”

Paige rolled her eyes and help Piper’s hand. “She’ll be here, just breathe.”

“I am breathing! Wyatt wasn’t this much trouble!”

Wyatt, who was sitting in the corner, gave a satisfied grin. Brooke stuck her tongue out at him for no reason other than to wind him up. He just did it back. Paige noticed and shook her head.

“Not now kids.”

“Where’s my useless husband?” Piper yelled through andother contraction. “He should be back by now!”

“He’ll be here” Paige said calmly, trying to reassure her.

“If this kid was a whitelighter, you’d think she’d just orb out of me!”

“Give the doctors one hell of a shock wouldn’t it?”

“Maybe she takes after Brooke. Difficult.”

“Oh God” said Phoebe, appearing in the middle of the room, “I don’t know if we could cope with 2 of them!”

“Mommy!” Brooke charged across the room and leapt into her mother’s arms.

“Woah! Careful there!” She reached for Wyatt’s hand, patting Leo on the back and giving Piper a kiss on her forehead. “I’ll take the kids to get something to eat, leave you to it.”

Chapter 5

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