They start to end sobbing as they wanted to ask tons of questions in their minds.
"How does that happen? What will happen to Alex? How can save her from yy-oou?"
"When a wizard becomes a family wizard, she is exposed to being a quaff. It runs only in the blood, unfortunately, the first quaff is from your ancestors. A quaff can be a great threat to the living, both to her human relatives and wizards. A quaff has the tendency to take the inner strength of the people around her, especially those who are close to her. She consumes their energy when they are often close to them. A quaff cannot control this kind of phenomena. It is in her nature to take energies. When it's too late, a person close to her can lose all his/her inner strength leading to worst case scenario, which is death. Because of this, we are forced by the law to eliminate all quaffs which we have in wizard world. We have eliminated one and we do not want it to happen so we are trying to find ways to prevent this. For now, you need to keep your family from harm, which means from Alex."
"Prof, we know we need to save our other children but is there a way that we can save Alex."
"First protocol is you need to be far away from her. Alex is starting to take energies, from Max and especially from Justin. You need to devise a plan to go somewhere with Justin and Max and leave Alex behind. She can be saved through this. She is not able to suck energies from the NEW people she will meet. You need to make sure she will live to an entire new environment, new people and everything that can be possibly new. I know this would be hard but this CAN be a solution, yet not an assurance that she can be saved.
The downside of this plan is that it can fail. A life with new people and new relationships is always shallow. It is a must that there is someone who will constantly believe in her - that she is a good and moral wizard and that she will be back again to herself. She needs to realize it by heart and that is the only way the effects of being a quaff would be reciprocated. It is impossible to find this kind of person when you only share a shallow relationship plus the fact that her attitude will get worse through the course of time. When a wizard turn into a quaff, he/she would be more irritable, insensitive, self- centered and would later feel no remorse.
In this setting, she can live and not harm everyone new around her, yet she will eventually turn into someone we do not want. If her quaff qualities would not be lessened, she will long for evil, bringing harm and killing people, which we cannot tolerate thus, you already know what will happen."
"That is the o-o-nly choice we have! We cannot just leave Alex alone in a place where no one will care for her as we do. That cannot be. That th-at ca-nnot be..."
"I am sorry for your family. We will see what we can do. I know it's hard but you need to tell your other kids. It would be better that Alex does not know she is a quaff. When you tell her, there is a greater possibility that she would be resisting change in her, she would be more rebellious and she would be going to be like your great great aunt."
Prof. Crumbs disappeared inside the lair, leaving Jerry and Theresa speechless thinking about how would their family end up. They sobbed little by little then again force themselves to stop. They both realized that they should be strong for their family.
It has been 30 minutes and Justin starts to become irritable as Alex make her way to their car. It is already 5:00 pm and Alex said that they would meet at the gate at 4:30pm.
"What you so long? You said you would be here at 4:30. It is already 5."
"Blah blah blah. Just drive, dork."
When they arrived at the substation, Alex rushed inside, leaving behind her back pack and her books. She started to call her mom and is eager to ask something.
"Mom, I am going to Riley's party. Long exams have passed and it would be like a celebration. Come in, mom. I am going. I will just text Justin when he needs to fetch me. I am going to change now, mom."
"wa-ait, a-lex. Ahh ok, fine." Theresa gave a yes remembering that she needs to talk to his 2 boys.
Alex rushes to the door with a spaghetti top and a mini skirt with a matched pair of boots. She bumped into Justin and did not even mind to say sorry.
"Mom, what is with her? She made me wait for half an hour then she rushes again outside going somewhere! She has been a pain since she won the competition, I know that she is my little sister and I love her but lately she is getting in my nerves."
"She is going to Riley's party. You will fetch her when she texted so. Let us eat dinner and your father and I would be telling some news." Theresa was looking far away as she realizes how hard this can be.
All Justin can do is to agree as he saw the seriousness of his mother's eyes. He can't help thinking what happened that her mom allowed Alex to a party. He knows that she is at legal age but she is Alex, anything can happen.
After dinner, the 4 of them proceeded to the lair as the two younger Russo's about to know something that would change their lives...
