All right! Chapter Three! I'm in a good mood today so I put on all of my "Lyra & Will type songs" (About an hour's worth!) and started typing!

"Wake up child."

The child awoke to someone shaking her, trying to get her up. She mumbled rubbing her eyes and sat up. Standing before her was an angel, one she had never met before. She had lived with angels all her life and wasn't the least bit surprised to see one now.

"Why did you take me from my father? He's not going to trust your kind ever again!" She shouted. The angel was startled but continued talking in his quiet, polite voice.

"I don't know anything. I was just told to take you from your current holding place." The little girl thought of Will and Mary...Living with either one of them was MUCH different than just one of those "Holding Places" she was taken to. Holding places were places in different worlds where she was kept, usually with other children...Of course the children there were full, entire human beings not ANYTHING like her. She stayed there until it was deemed "Unsafe" and was brought back to the care of the angels. Will's house was nothing like that. He treated her like...A princess.

"Don't call it that! It--" What? She couldn't say she cared for Will, she barely got to know him...

"Come now. You can discuss this with Balthamos."

"You can find your child but you need Lyra's help." Will was dreaming. "You can take me to Lyra?" Will asked the stranger. "Yes." Suddenly Will was with Lyra again. "We have to find her!" Lyra said pulling along the streets of her Oxford everything started spinning in a blur of colour and confusion. Then he saw her. "Mum! Dad!" She cried running to them. Will reached out to hug her and Lyra wrapping them in a hug. As soon as he touched them they exploded into Dust. "No, no...They're gone...Both gone." He fell to his knees.

Will sat bolt upright in his bed breathing heavily. "It was just a dream..." He muttered to himself going back to sleep.

"He'll hate you for this! He'll kill all of you!" She shouted her anger consuming her small body.

"Listen. It wasn't safe there for you anymore. You shall stay here until we find a suitable holding place. We all care about your safety." The child crossed her arms frustrated. She had heard this a thousand times.

"I hate going to 'Holding places' why can't you just let me stay with my parents!"

"We've told you before. You can't stay anywhere permanently until you become a whole entity. After that we would be pleased to let you stay with Lyra or Will." Balthamos explained.

"Or? No. I want to live with BOTH of them! They want to live with each other too..." She mumbled the last part.

"When it's safe for you again I'll send you back. I'll tell Will personally what has happened. Alright?"

"Fine." The little girl sighed and went back to her chamber to sleep.

EDIT: Thank you LoveTriumphs for the help. I can't elaborate any more without spoiling the rest of the story. (I think I went from 629 words to...724 words.)

To anyone else who's reading my story...Praise is nice, there's no denying that, but a litle criticism is necessary too...If you think something's not perfect I'd like to know. I want to make this story enjoyable and interesting to read.

Also, I know this chapter's short I just didn't want to have a HUGE time-jump in the middle of a chapter...It just wouldn't feel right to me.