Brooke struggled free of her Mom’s grip and bounced into the room. “Hello baby sister!”

“She’s not your sister!” Wyatt snapped. “She’s mine!”

They both smiled and looked down at the little baby in Piper’s arms. Piper giggled. “Don’t fight kids” she said, but they both grinned sweetly up at her and she could see this was the one time they weren’t going to start a fight about nothing.

“Do you have a name yet Mommy?” Wyatt sat down next to Piper on the bed and Leo but his arm around his son’s shoulders/

“Nope, not yet.” She looked up at Phoebe and Paige, who were standing across the room. “Any ides?”

“Gertrude!” Phoebe said, smirking.

“Doris!”

Piper groaned. “Be sensible, please!”

“Margaret!” Phoebe said, not listening and giggled.

Piper paused and looked up to Leo. “Meg” she said.

“What?” Phoebe said, looking slightly amused. “I wasn’t being serious!”

“We know” Leo replied, “but I like it!” He bent down and kissed his wife.

Wyatt snuggled up closer to Piper and tugged the sleeve of her gown. “Can I tell you my name please?” he pestered, looking down at baby Meg, “can I tell you her middle name?”

“Hey!” Brooke said, “how come he gets to pick a name!”

“She’s his sister” Phoebe told her daughter. “When you have a baby sister, you can pick.”

“Promise?”

“Promise.” That seemed to appease her and everyone in the room turned back to Wyatt.

“Rhian” he announced proudly, “Meg Rhian Halliwell.”

Piper and Leo looked at each other and then at their son. “Rhian eh?” Piper asked.

“Yeah!” He continued enthusiastically. “My teacher at school helped me look it up. It means ‘Magical Maiden.”

Piper grinned down at her new baby daughter. “Do you like the name your brother gave you Meg?” The baby just yawned. “I’ll take that to mean yes shall I?” She hugged her son close. “I love it honey, it’s perfect.”

Inwardly, Leo groaned. Not another little witch. With a middle name like that, this child was bound to be nothing but trouble.

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Brooke sat in the nursery, staring at her new baby cousin in thought. ‘Baby’ she thought, ‘can you still hear me?’

Silence.

She sighed. She was fed up. Having a new baby about had sounded like an interesting prospect at the time, but the truth was they didn’t do much and it was getting a bit boring. She shrugged and stood up, walking out of the room in the hope of finding something a bit more interesting to entertain herself with.

Downstairs, everyone else was quite happy sitting in the living room doing nothing. It was only the hyperactive one in the family that wanted something to do.

“What’s your daughter up to Pheebs?” Asked Paige, yawning.

Phoebe reached for the remote on the coffee table. “I’m sure she’s fine, she’s been fascinated with that baby, she’ll be quite happy just sitting there watching her.”

Leo yawned too. “As long as she’s quiet about it. It’s so hard to get Meg to sleep.” She looked down at Piper asleep with her head on his lap and stroked her hair. “Some one here isn’t having much problem with that.”

“Am I the only one here who doesn’t mind being woken up?” Paige looked around the room at a hoard of annoyed faces. Even Wyatt, who was cuddling up to Phoebe gave her a look.

“Just wait ‘til you’re a parent” Leo replied, “then you’ll know.”

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Piper sat on the sofa with a two year old Meg balanced on her knee. “You know, I’m worried Leo” she began, “she hasn’t come into her powers yet, I’m wondering if something is wrong.”

“Relax honey” he said, and kissed the top of her head as he walked past behind her. “It’s fine. Be thankful that we only have 2 magical kids to cope with instead of three.”

Piper nodded but she was far from convinced. Meg, oblivious to her parents freak out, amused her self playing with her mommy’s necklace. “Pretty!” she said gleefully. Piper absently tried to stop her from yanking at it while still looking at Leo.

“Wyatt’s powers were evident even before he was born. Remember? I had that whole invincible thing going.”

“She’s perfectly healthy. We haven’t found anything in the book to make us think anything’s wrong. And the elders seem to think it’s perfectly normal.”

“Well, they haven’t exactly been reliable have they?”

Meg started to play with Piper’s pendant again, she shifted her over on her lap, so that bright shiny jewelry was out of the child’s reach but Meg just strained to get to it and started to whimper when she couldn’t.

“Sweetie, come on. I’ll let you play with teddy if you leave mommy’s necklace alone.” Piper picked up a pink fluffy bear from the floor but Meg just looked at her blankly. Apparently one year olds didn’t quite grasp the concept of bribery.

Brooke sat on the stairs watching them. Meg was now standing up, jumping about on Piper’s lap. Brooke sat there waiting to achieve eye contact with the baby without her aunt and uncle knowing she was there.

She had to test her theory before anyone found out. Leo returned from the kitchen and stuffed a cookie into Meg’s hand. This must have been more appealing than a teddy because she giggled and stuck it into her mouth. “Yummy!” She noticed her big cousin and grinned more.

‘Ok’ Brooke thought, ‘Meg, what am I thinking now?’

The toddler didn’t move.

‘Right. A different approach.’

Brooke took a deep breathe. Surprisingly, Meg was still looking at her. She pictured a garden. There were flowers everywhere and the 2 little girls were playing on the lawn. She was about to ask Meg a question but she had learnt before that that didn’t work. She imagined asking Meg a question. ‘What colour flower is this?’

“Are you sure we shouldn’t get Phoebe and Paige on it?”

“No” was Leo’s simple reply.

“But…” Piper began to say, but Leo placed his hands on her shoulders.

Meg’s eyes darted about the sitting area and every now and then she’d look up to Brooke who nodded encouragement and grinned very proudly. Meg finally saw the bright yellow mini cushion that was lying on the other side of her Mom.

She reached over and picked it up. She grinned broadly at Brooke and waved it about in the air. She paused, and looked at her daddy has he settled down on the seat next to her.

“Boof!” she said, and whacked Leo over the head with it.