Willow Complex, Chapter 7

A/N WARNING: Depressing topics ahead. Be aware that this chapter deals with illness.

I am horrible at keeping this journal! Oh my gosh, the past few years have flown by, and each one of them has been amazing. Thalia loved her present, and Amber and I agreed to more children. We decided to start the adoption process again, but Amber also agreed to doing in vetro.

Thalia has grown like a weed. She's eight now, and still spends almost all her time making art! Thankfully, she's outgrown her habit of using any paper or wall as a canvas. Well, she still doodles on her homework a lot, but the books only have drawings that belong in them.

She says she wants to find a school that specializes in art, because she isn't the smartest in school, and that she wants to go there and become an artist, like me, her Momma. She calls Amber, Mimi.

I feel sorry for Juniper. He doesn't seem to enjoy living in a house with so many girls. He hopes the new baby will be a boy that he can play with. He and Thalia get along sometimes, but I'm worried that her loud, artsy, personality might be oppressing his quiet nature. Not that she means to, of course. She's a sweet girl!

Now, remember how I told you that we tried in vetro on Amber? Well, it worked! Two years ago, she gave birth to an adorable pair of twins. Lavender is in the yellow outfit, and Violet is in pink. Both are extremely sweet.

They enjoy spending their time with their mothers, but their favorite person on Earth is Thalia. They occasionally try getting into her art stuff to impress her. Of course, it's not impressing her at all. Actually, she is constantly irritated by them. I'm sure it's just because she was the only one actually born to us before, and she might be a little angry that she has to share her attention with not only her brother but with two new little girls.

My powers usually help her realize that she shouldn't be jealous of them, but when I'm not around the jealousy returns, sometimes.

In darker news, Grandma has cancer. It's horrible, she can hardly play with the kids and she had to stop visiting us, because the chemo is starting to seriously exhaust her. She might have to stay at the hospital, if it keeps getting worse. It's horrible, Lilac currently lives with her because she didn't want to be a burden on my family(seriously, I begged her to move in! She insisted she belongs with Grandma.), but when Grandma dies, she's moving. She won't tell me much about what she plans on doing, just that she's moving far away.

The good news, about Lilac, is that it seems she might be gaining some eyesight back. She's still blind, but before, she couldn't see in the slightest, and now she can make out lights sometimes. At the exact same time, Grandma's eyesight is getting worse.

I went to talk to her about it, a few days ago, and she admitted to it easily. She says that the cancer is from curing numerous cancer patients, and that it's most definitely terminal. She knows she's going to die, but for my family's sake, she's going through chemo so they know she didn't just give up. There is another reason, I can sense it, but I didn't push her about it.

She told me that she knew that saving the cancer patients would kill her, but she did it anyway, and that she then decided to heal Lilac as much as she could. Of course, Lilac won't gain sight. Being blind is who Lilac is, not a disease she can cure, but she is capable of bringing her vision back to how it was when Lilac was born.

I take back every single bad thing I've ever said about her! She's a perfect grandma, she's so nice and kind to me and my sister. I could never be that good...she's giving up her life for these people she hardly even knew! She told me, the only thing she would never give up is her power. Once, she despised her power, and that time was a very dark time in her life, but as soon as she accepted it and started treating it like a part of her rather than a disease, her life got better. I have to agree, about never giving it up.

I mean, I hate to sound mean, but I think I'm the main reason my family is together. Surely, the kids would be endlessly jealous every time a new child joined the family; more than Thalia already is. I'm the one keeping Amber and I from fighting too much about the kids or bills or anything.

Anyway, Grandma Prim is dying and Lilac is regaining her sight slowly. Grandma says that she has no power because of her blindness, but her eyes are green like Grandma's, so she would have been a healer. She doesn't know about the powers, and no one else alive knows about it. She says no one else should know about it, that it is supposed to be a secret between us. If we let everyone know, sooner or later the scientists will start testing us.

I can't help but realize that I'm the only one left, once she dies. Unless Thalia has powers, I will be the end of this long line of powerful women. But I can't help but wonder: Does Thalia have a power? It would most likely have something to do with art. Maybe she inspires people, or something along those lines. It's hard to pinpoint when she's still so young, but I can't help but hope she is blessed with the powers.

I need to go, Thalia's screaming about one of the girls getting in her stuff again.