Concerning Elders and Eyries Chapter 3 aka "Little kids say the Darnedest things."

( I don't have little kids nor have I babysat a lot so I'm just guessing about how much Wyatt should be able to say and do. Please forgive any grievous errors)

"Oh don't mind them, they're probably all jealous of your powers." Marilyn said putting on Aura's safety belt.

"Why aren't you? And how did your daughter orb, in the first place? She's not a whitelighter."

"She uh, she's special- chosen." Marilyn said trying to drop the subject.

………

Piper drove home after dropping her innocent off at the hospital.

"I'm baaack." Piper announced opening the manor door, the two toddlers in tow.

"Mom…Hungry. Mom hungry!" Wyatt cried.

"Ok, ok. I'll make you something." Piper walked into the kitchen. "What does our guest want to eat?" Piper asked little Aura, partly to be polite and partly because Wyatt would eat anything. Aura crawled onto a stool with an 'Umph'. She then proceeded to look around Piper's face. "You're a professional cook!" the little girl said delighted.

"That's right…" Piper said trying not to be disturbed.

"Um…Italian food?" Aura opted.

" Got it!" Piper said rummaging in the cupboards. "What else can you see about me."

"You're a good witch who poofs evil stuff." Aura gestured with her hands dramatically.

Aura was treating the questions like a game. So did Wyatt.

"oh oh! Me! See Me!" Wyatt said enthusiastically waving his arms.

Aura frowned. "Don't wanna. All sad."

"Awww." Wyatt moaned.

Phoebe chose the moment to come in, wearing a low cut shirt, and a short skirt that was painted on, below her hips, aka her usual work attire. Anyone else would get fired for wearing it.

Chris followed behind her muttering to himself. "I am NOT a taxi service Aunt Phoebe."

"I wanted to go home for lunch, it's not like you were doing anything else." Phoebe said temperamentally. Phoebe grinned as she saw Piper cooking, but stopped when she noticed their guest, plastering on a somewhat fake smile.

"Oh. Hello. Who's the cutie?" Phoebe said pointing to the little girl.

"We're babysitting an innocent under attack." Piper explained. "She's can read people's auras."

"Babysitting? We've got more important things to do! Like figuring out who turns Wy-" Chris said frustrated. He stopped when he saw the dirty look his mom gave him. Oh right, Mom didn't want Wyatt to know. He knew he was going to get lectured for it later.

Aura tiled her head to look at Phoebe and scrunched up her nose.

"Aww. How cute." Phoebe said thinking of the daughter she knew she'd have someday. Wouldn't it be nice to have her daughter now?

Wyatt thought that Aura wouldn't say stuff about him but maybe- "Do Aunt Phoebe." Wyatt directed.

Aura pointed at Phoebe who took her finger and shook it smiling widely.

"Slut." Aura announced in the most cute childish tone, as if she were pointing out a butterfly or a puppy.

Phoebe's face dropped and Piper coughed trying not to laugh. Chris covered his mouth and coughed hiding his amusement better than Piper.

"What was that?" Phoebe asked disbelieving.

"Slut." Aura repeated wondering if there was something wrong with Phoebe's ears. "does stuff with lots of guys she's not married to." Aura added to clarify.

"Uh, Yeah, you're not so cute anymore." Phoebe backed away from the little girl and looked to her sister. "Can we exchange her?"

"Hey, everything she's said about me was true." Piper said waving her off grinning.
"Perceptive kid." Chris said under his breath looking at his mom.

"I am not a slut." Phoebe argued, and then realized belatedly that she was arguing with a preschooler. That was a new low. And she thought being turned into a blonde genie had been embarrassing.

By this point Piper had finished making penne pasta con pollo (with Chicken) in cream sauce and was serving it to the kids. Wyatt ate messily in contrast to Aura's too perfect delicate bites.

"Do you have anything nice to say to me?" Phoebe asked the little girl exasperated.

Aura seemed to be thinking very hard. Chris took the opportunity to grab a plateful of his mom's cooking to which Piper batted him on the shoulder playfully.

"Phoebe?" Aura looked to Phoebe's belly, tilting her head fork still in her mouth. "You're daughter is nice and you do try to do good. And your power is kinda fun." Aura relented.

"Wo wo wo, you know about me having a daughter? And you know my name?" Phoebe said looking carefully at their innocent.

"Freaky isn't it? You never know what'll come out of her mouth." Piper said

"She doesn't sound like a- how old are you?" Phoebe asked.

Aura held up three fingers.

"She's three?!" Phoebe turned to her sister.

"Magical parent get together, in Wyatt's group." Piper said answering Phoebe's next question, knowing Phoebe well enough to know she wasn't asking a question about the kid's age.

"Well, I think we need to call- Paige!" Phoebe called.

"No no no don't call her!" Piper warned.

Chris looked confused through a large mouthful of pasta.

"Why?" Phoebe asked.

Paige orbed in. "What?"

Aura screamed bloody murder.

Paige covered her ears. "Ow."

Aura was hyperventilating.

"I tried to tell you, she's afraid of whitelighters." Piper said grimacing.

"She's afraid of whitelighters?" Paige said deadpan. "Who is she?"

"A witch we're babysitting." Phoebe explained.

Paige knelt by Aura humoring her, "See? I'm not dangerous."

Aura stared at her and said in awe. "You're not dead."

Paige blinked. "uh. Yeah." She blinked and shook her head.

"You're not going to die soon." Aura repeated relieved.

"uh. Sure, that's nice to know." Paige said turning to her sisters with a 'what the' look.

Chris frowned a memory rearing it's ugly head. "Wait a second, does she see the future?"

"Possibly why? Is there some great whitelighter massacre in the future you haven't told us about?" Piper asked concerned.

"The better question is what would he actually tell us about? It took him almost a year to tell us he was our nephew and almost that long to tell us that our other nephew becomes evil." Paige complained.

Chris looked betrayed.

"I think what we should be worrying about, is who is after our innocent and why." Phoebe said taking his side, as she could feel Chris's hurt with her empathy powers.

Paige rolled her eyes. "So, kid, who's after you?"

"Paige." Piper warned as if she was doing something dumb.

Aura frowned and looked around nervously. "Bad people?"

"Oh well that was helpful." Paige said. "Does that narrow down the demon list down for anybody else?"

Aura bit her lip and seemed to be deciding something. "Probably not a demon."

"Don't be silly. Demons attack witches it's the way of the world." Phoebe said waving her hands about, and realized she was- again, arguing with a three year old.

"Ok, not a demon, then what?" Paige said testily.

Aura pouted eyes watering.

"Oh no no no, don't cry." Phoebe begged, not wanting to learn what other inhuman pitches the kid's voice could reach- not to mention the headache her empathy power would give her.

Paige rolled her eyes, as Piper soothed Aura.

"Oh! I've got an idea!" Phoebe added. "I could try to get a premonition off of her."

"That might work." Piper agreed.

Aura meanwhile seemed to have become fascinated with Chris and attached herself to his leg. "Oh Pretty gold and violet and-" She seemed at a loss for words, and then as Piper guided her to Phoebe got a confused look on her face. Aura looked from Piper's stomach to Chris and back again.

"Ok now think who might be trying to kill you ok?" Phoebe said reaching out to pick Aura up who for the first time seemed to be struggling and disobedient.

Aura's face scrunched up as she pointed at Chris and said as if she couldn't credit her own words. "You're in there," Pointing at Piper swollen belly.

For the first time Paige thought that Aura wasn't entirely insane and Chris takes the seer seriously.

"Uh… that's right." Piper said uneasy. Wyatt was just confused, but interested. His family did the silliest things.

Phoebe reached for the little girl's hands—

A/N: Sort of a cliffhanger I guess. So what will Phoebe see? Sorry Phoebe fans but honestly all my roommates and I think she deserved that "slut" comment. ' Sides it was too funny NOT to put it in. After this it should cut to Leo ness ( I would have put him in here if it wasn't for the fact that Leo was gone for 6 months during this time and it wouldn't have made sense for him to just pop in for no reason.. otherwise I could have done the "stupid stupid elder dead beat dad comments.) Aura is one of those extreme 'good' almost as extreme in the "no gray area" As Bad bad world's alternate good world. Very much how a kid sees the world. And here's a spoiler about Eyries- they can't kill, it's physically impossible for them, so defense limited and can't become vigilantes otherwise their kind would. This will become important latter on.