This is much shorter than the previous chapter, sorry. Sorry, but I'm not going to reply to reviews today, though I will reply to the reviews from chapter one and this chapter next chapter!
I'm sure I'm losing my mind,I thoughtI posted this yesterday but I didn't! I kept telling myself I was going to and then I started reading another fic, and assumed that I had lol!
Hearing Things:
Two day old Aurora had been crying for the last hour,
"I can't get her to stop," Paige told Phoebe, rocking the infant in her arms,
"was Karis ever like this?" the Angelic Seer asked,
"no, and she's been crying in the night as well, Kyle thinks it has something to do the fact that she's empathic, maybe she can't handle all the emotions," the witchlighter replied. Phoebe shook her head,
"I don't think so, Aurora was given that power for a reason, to use it, she should be able to handle it, otherwise she wouldn't have it," she said,
"yeah, well, I wish I could believe that, but the Elders have messed with our powers enough times, why not our children's," Paige said,
"the Elders are workers of the greater good, they wouldn't harm any child, especially not that of a charmed one," Phoebe stated.
"Or maybe that's why they're doing this, to see if she's up to their expectations, I mean, they must think she's pretty powerful considering she's in our family," Paige suggested, Phoebe disagreed,
"you're so full of doubt I can't handle it," she said, standing up and beginning to walk off,
"see, you're an adult and you can't handle my emotions, never mind being a baby," Paige said. Phoebe turned around and focused on her baby niece,
"I'll see what she's actually feeling," she said, as her eyes closed in on the tiny child. Suddenly, the second to youngest Halliwell sister was blown off her feet by a white blast which shot over from Aurora,
"that's it, we're definitely binding your powers," Paige told her baby, who had stopped crying after Phoebe had been knocked over by the burst of white light.
Meanwhile, Prue was making Grace a sandwich,
"you looking forward to school tomorrow?" she asked,
"yep, but Miss Donovan's annoying," Grace replied, Prue laughed. When the eldest charmed one cut her daughter's sandwich into triangles and turned to give it to her, she noticed a strange expression of Grace's face,
"sweetie, are you okay?" Prue asked, the girl shook off the expression and reached out to grab the sandwich, which Prue put on a plate before handing to her daughter.
"Why this ham green?" Grace asked, holding up a piece of lettuce which had fallen from between the slices of bread, Prue grinned,
"because I came from a green piggy," she lied, Grace wrinkled her nose and raised her eyebrows suspiciously, before putting the lettuce back and biting into the bread. Prue began to make herself something to eat but stopped when she noticed the expression from before reappear on Grace's face,
"why the neighbours so loud?" Grace asked, Prue couldn't hear them, and when the walked over and pressed her ear to the wall she still couldn't hear them,
"something's going on," she whispered.
"When you've finished that we're going to see uncle Leo okay," Prue told Grace, putting away the bread she was about to use to make herself a sandwich, Grace grinned at the name of her favourite uncle, and began to swallow some of her food without even chewing it, but soon stopped this after nearly choking.
Not much later, mother and daughter were walking over to the manor when Grace stopped, glanced around and covered her ears,
"sweetie, sweetie, what's wrong?" Prue asked, extremely worried, she had to shout slightly so Grace would hear her through her closed ears, well that's what she thought anyway. Prue picked up her daughter and carried her to the manor, when they got in there she put her down and Grace took her hands off her ears,
"people don't need to shout," she said, before strolling away from Prue "Leo! Uncle Leo!" she was calling, Prue didn't know how to react to her daughter's strange behaviour.
Later that afternoon, Leo was inspecting Grace, but was also tickling her so she didn't wonder what he was up to,
"anything?" Prue mouthed to him, he shook his head,
"Gracie, can you hear me okay?" he asked.
"Loud and clear, really loud and clear," she replied,
"I think I have an idea what's going in," the Elder said to Prue, before orbing out,
"where uncle Leo go?" Grace asked, Prue shrugged,
"lets play catch," she said, trying to distract her daughter's thoughts from what was going on by throwing a yellow ball to her, which Grace caught and threw back.
When Leo orbed back in, Grace was taking a nap on the couch and Prue was in the kitchen,
"I know what's happening," he said,
"what?" she asked,
"Grace is getting a new power, it turns out her magic will extend from her enchanted sight and she'll develop supernatural senses, and this is one of those senses, supernatural hearing," he explained,
"will it hurt her, y'know, if people shout really loud if hurts," Prue said,
"it might do, to begin with, but she'll get used to it and will be fine," he replied.
That night, Paige, Kyle and Karis were sitting down to dinner while Aurora slept,
"have you told her yet?" Kyle asked, glancing at Karis,
"no," Paige replied,
"asked me what?" Karis asked, while stuffing some chicken into her mouth.
"We're just removing Aurora's powers for a little while, but when she's older we'll give them to her," Paige informed her, Karis dropped her fork and folded her arms, glaring at her mother,
"I won't let you," she said, jumping off her chair and running over to Aurora's bassinet.
"What're we gonna do?" Paige asked her husband,
"maybe we should just see how it goes with her keeping her powers, but if she continues crying the house down as much then we'll go back to binding her powers," he replied,
"well it doesn't look like we have much choice," she stated, watching as Karis generated some electro-pyrokinetic bolts into a cage-like form,
"you can stop it now, we're leaving her powers alone," Kyle told her,
"good," Karis said, getting rid of the bolts and going back to her dinner as if nothing had happened.
The following morning, Aurora had slept practically all night, and even when she had woken up she hadn't cried so much, so it was as if she wasn't magical at all and was a normal baby,
"so we're agreed we're not binding her powers?" Kyle said, as he fed their daughter, Paige nodded,
"never, ever," she told him.
To be continued…..
Next chapter- Phoebe turns detective to find out who Gabrielle really is.
'Sherlock Halliwell' should be up tomorrow.