Soul Searcher

5 - Testing The Waters

I sat in the kitchen of my mom's house with a cup of tea in my hands. She was talking with the parents of Brian who didn't understand how to get through to him that he was still important to the magic community and that having abilities was not all that it was cracked up to be, more work responsibility. But he did not really want to hear it, he didn't particularly care about what they had to say, he wandered out of the room to the kitchen and just looked at me.

"You are lucky..." He spat the words out at me with a venom I did not deserve. I looked up at him and raised a single eyebrow.

"Lucky?" He crossed his arms and got a smug look on his face.

"Have those power, wasted on you...you...you don't even know how to use them."

"No I don't. Because I was torn away from my parents, my father is running around as wolf god knows where, and my mother was stripped of all of her power...and I am lucky? Lucky that I was lied to my entire life, lucky that I made goals and dreams for my entire life, worked for years to achieve them, and then have them ripped away from me because of these abilities?" The tea in the cup started to bubble with my anger and I didn't take my eyes off of the boy in front of me who looking incredibly uncomfortable.

"You think I am the lucky one then you need to go take a look in the damn mirror buddy, you could do ANYTHING with your life and yet you are choosing to spoil it with petty jealous and hate. If you ask me you are the lucky one." His mother came into the kitchen and touched his shoulder.

"Brian ready to go home?" He nodded and turned away from me and my mom took his spot in the doorway.

"I understand that there will be some resentment for a while. I am aware of all of the accomplishments you have made. Especially academically...I am sorry for that Evelyn..." I looked at her and I didn't feel resentment towards her in any way. I smiled at her and shook my head.

"The most resentment I feel is towards Ben, he lied to me. For 21 years he lied to me about the truth...I had the papers filed for him to adopt me." I shuddered in horror if I had done that when I had been under 18. She nodded and sat down.

"I wanted to talk to you about that actually if that is okay?" I nodded and cuddled the warm cup into my cool palms.

"I got the papers to absolve the adoption...as your biological mother, I am legally allowed to file these...I know that you may think you owe Ben...but you don't and the adoption papers mean more than you would like. In this world had you of done that when you were still a minor he might have been able to take your power from you...or undo the binding I had placed on your powers...I don't believe it holds any more meaning than a piece of paper now...but to be on the safe side..." She extended the papers to me in a helpless gesture. Absolve the adoption, that was actually a thing? That could be done? Yes, I very much wanted to break that tie. I did not want him to be my 'father' any longer. I couldn't live with the idea that I almost gave him the ability to take something from me that was a part of me. He might have killed me he would have killed me if he would have taken all of my power.

"I would like that very much," She smiled and nodded understand my motives and feelings.

The next few weeks went by in a blur, learning as much as I could from my mother. Everything and anything she was willing to show me I wanted to learn. And we learned quickly together that I had more untapped potential than we had previously thought, I had almost blown up the house a couple of times, with the help of Grey and Lily I was learning to control the outbursts that seemed to be tied to my heavy emotions. My mother told me she was willing to unbind all of my magic whenever I felt that I was ready to handle it and to be honest I didn't think I could handle anymore at the moment. The dreams, that turned to nightmares, that I learned were the possibilities of the future and some of them were downright terrifying. My mother had written to some of her previous friends for help. Most witches had specialties...one thing they were really strong in...right now I had 4 things I was exceptionally strong with. Visions/future sight, the weather was at the whim of my emotions currently, sometimes rain sometimes sunshine, it all depended on how my nights went...everything was connected I was learning, I was also extremely good with water it was like working with a second skin I could ask it to do almost anything I wanted. And healing, I had a strong affinity for fixing that was broken. And so far I hadn't gotten into too much trouble with it, but my mother warned me to be wary of it until I learned from a more superior witch. If I did something stupid I could possibly end up killing myself. I was not in the mood to try and deal with it. Grey was strong with teleportation he was the only one that my mother knew of and they were both curious if I had the same ability.