Chapter 12:

A/n: Hey I'm back! Whew, little kiddies sure do wear me out. We played in sand boxes, did coloring, went on a walk, and went "camping". It was fun though. The kids are so cute! I was volunteering at a school for mentally disabled kids, which I will be doing all week so I probably won't start updating until 3:30 or so, and tomorrow I won't really be able to update at al1 because after work I'm volunteering at my church's soup kitchen. I know, a lot of volunteering, right? It's fun. But anyway, I thought it might be a good idea to update today. So, here's the next chapter. As always, please read and REVIEW! Let me know what you think. I won't be able to tell if you like my ideas if you don't give me your opinions. Huh. Whenever I write the word opinions, it reminds me of onions. Did you know that it's impossible to say "Irish Wristwatch" fast? Also try saying "toy boat" five times fast. You can't! Aren't tongue twisters amazing? Okay I'm rambling again. I'll shut up so you can read the chapter. And as I said before, REVIEW!

At the police station, Paige was getting bombarded with questions by the police. Phoebe was taking care of Jessica. The interesting thing was, however, that the more questions Paige was asked and the more frustrated and annoyed Paige got, the more nervous Jessica became. It was almost as if she was sensing Paige's feelings or emotions.

In the room that she was in, Jessica was having a lot of trouble laying still. Every time Paige would get irritated, she would squirm around and make a face like she was in pain. Eventually, Phoebe began to get really worried.

"Jessica, sweetie, its okay. Nobody's going to hurt you. You're safe here. I promise." Phoebe soothed

"Why is Paige so angry?" Jessica asked, finally sitting up.

"How do you know Paige is angry?" Phoebe asked, surprised

"Because I can hear the tone in her voice, duh! Can't you?" Jessica responded

"No. Sweetie, you know Paige is all the way across the building, right?" Phoebe asked

"She is? She sounds like she's right next door." Jessica replied, surprised.

"Damn, girl. You must have really good hearing." Phoebe commented

"I always have had good hearing. That's how I knew when my foster fathers were coming into my room to beat me." Jessica replied

"Oh, Jess. I'm so sorry." Phoebe said sympathetically

"It's okay. I learned how to defend myself really quickly." Jessica said

"No. It's not okay. It's not okay that you had to go through that. No child should ever have to live in fear. Kids should be able to trust adults, especially adults who are taking care of them." Phoebe said firmly.

"Yeah, well, unfortunately that doesn't always happen. So, Phoebe, what do you do? You're obviously not a social worker." Jessica asked to change the subject.

"How do you know I'm not a social worker?" Phoebe asked back

"Because I've had enough social workers to know how they're like. You just don't have the "social worker aurora" around you." Jessica explained

"Hmm. Interesting. Well, I'm an advice columnist. I work at the Bay Mirror." Phoebe replied

"Oh. I sort of pinned you as a writer of some sort." Jessica said somewhat smugly. "Hey, Paige is coming back."

Five minutes later, Paige opened the door. "Thank God that's over with. Man, I hate investigators! Go investigate my ass walking out the door! Jesus!" Paige ranted

"Sweetie, I'm sure they did plenty investigating of your ass, especially if they were guys." Phoebe commented

Jessica smirked. "So it went well, as I heard?" she asked

"No. It was completely annoying. I shouldn't have had to go in for questioning the moment we stepped in the building! Why didn't you go, Phoebe? And what did you mean, as I heard?" Paige said

"Well, I didn't go because you are the social worker, so you would be the typical one to ask." Phoebe replied, interrupting as Jessica opened her mouth to speak.

"Oh. I guess that makes sense. But you still could've come with me!" Paige said, frustrated, interrupting Jessica once again as she opened her mouth yet again to speak

"Well, someone needed to stay here with Jessica." Phoebe replied

Paige opened her mouth to reply

"May I speak now?" Jessica asked impatiently.

"Sure, sweetie go ahead." Paige said, closing her mouth again

"Well, I was able to hear you because I can hear very well. I was able to hear your entire conversation." Jessica explained proudly

"Superpower hearing." Phoebe muttered "Jeeze."

"Is there anything else you can do? Like fly?" Paige asked, coming of skeptical, but really actually curious, as the Halliwells were witches.

"You'll think I'm making it up." Jessica said wirily

"No, we won't. Because we can do stuff too." Phoebe replied

"Fine." Jessica sighed. "I can move things with my eyes, blow stuff up with my hands, burn things with my eyes, make things freeze, I can sort of fly, and I can triple myself." She finished, looking at the two sisters.

Jessica and Paige looked at each other. "Oh…my…God." They said somewhat quietly.

"Ugh, I told you you wouldn't believe me." Jessica said angrily.

"Oh, we definitely believe you. Watch." Paige replied

"Where?" Jessica asked

"Look at that lamp." She said, pointing to a lamp in the corner of the room.

"Lamp!" she called, and the lamp came to her in blue orbs.

Jessica's jaw dropped open. "Whoa!" she said in shock

"Watch me!" Phoebe said, and she soared up into the air, levitating.

"Hey! I can do that too!" Jessica exclaimed excitedly

"I thought you said you could fly. That's levitating." Paige commented

"Well, I said I could sort of fly. I didn't know it was called levitating." Jessica replied

Phoebe floated back down to the ground. "So, what do you think?" she asked

"Cool!" Jessica said

"You know, if you came to live with us, you could learn a lot more about your powers and stuff. We also have two older sisters, Prue and Piper, who we fight demons with." Paige said

"Demon?" Jessica asked confusedly

"Yup. We are known as the Charmed Ones, the most powerful witches in the world.

A/N: Yay! Finally got another chapter done. I'm really sorry I haven't updated much at all this week, but it's been really hectic with work. I tried to make this a longer chapter to make up for it, and I'll try to update again after this chapter. Oh, and sorry if the ending seemed awkward. It was either end there and make it a semi-long chapter and be able to start the next chapter, or keep going and make it a humongous (Jeeze that's kind of a weird word to spell) chapter. I thought you would appreciate two chapters rather than one really large one. It just makes me feel a bit more accomplished, you know? Like I actually did a lot of work on this story today. Not that I don't work on this story. It's just sometimes I get more done some days and less done other days. It all depends on what I feel like doing and what my schedule looks like. So yeah, I hope you enjoyed it. Anyway, before I start rambling again, as always, please REVIEW!!!!