Back at Reese's home, said girl is sitting in her kitchen with the book she had found in the attic open in front of her on the counter. She had felt a ton better after texting Caroline and getting a text back saying that she and Stefan both understood. Bonnie had also said that if she needed help to read up on some stuff, to not be afraid to call her. She'd help out as much as she could.

Grabbing a can of pringles and a blue gatorade from the fridge, Reese hopped up on the counter-top and pulled the book into her lap. As she came across the first page, she landed on the four lines she had read out in the attic during the storm. As she scanned it over a second time, she slowly realized that this was what had supposedly awoken her powers. Shaking her head in disbelief, and for partially being an idiot, she flipped to the next page.

Reese then spent an entire hour reading up on the witches of her line. Supposedly, only females in her family were able to be granted the ability to perform magic. Each witch was destined to have one female born into her family and that one witch would only be granted one or two powers. But somewhere in the future, one witch was destined to bear multiple children but only one female child would be granted all the powers of their kind. This piqued Reese's attention, knowing that it was her mom who bore three females. There was talk of multiple abilities- some being able to freeze time while others were able to speed up time and molecules to make things explode. Witches of her line were able to move objects with their mind and sometimes even with a flick of one's hand to direct where said object should go.

When she re-read about these abilities, yesterday had suddenly made sense to her. She had unconsciously made that douchebag of a man choke while she twirled the paper around her fingers and made that ball of light explode when the girls were talking about Caroline. She had even made the shelf move and topple over when she had threw her arms out but she was never concentrating on doing it purposefully. When she read the end of that specific chapter, she realized that her powers would be tied to her emotions so she'd have to be extra careful now.

There was also an entire chapter dedicated to one's ability to make up their own spells but when she read that there would be consequences, she easily skipped over it. If there were consequences, she wouldn't be messing with that then.

Reese then thought about what Bonnie had did the previous night with the candles and hopped off of the counter, eagerly running to her living room. Sitting down on her knees, she scanned the rest of the reading material for any magical fire starting techniques and came across only one. It was a bit like Bonnie's only her's needed something else. As she concentrated on lighting the wick, she needed to blow on the wick with her breath to light it.

"Talk about dragon's breath." She snorted.

After taking a moment to calm down from her inner amusement, Reese focused her attention on the wick of one candle and blew.

Nothing happened.

Frowning is disappointment, Reese shook her arms out before shaking her head as if she was clearing it. She put the book down off to the side and leaned into the candle with her mouth just inches away from the top of it. She concentrated intently on the wick until everything that wasn't the burnt up wick became unfocused. Seeing the wick catching light in her mind, she gently blew with her lips pursed in a small 'o' and watched as the wick smoked before flickering to life.

Shocked that she actually accomplished it, she leaned back and stared like a deer in headlights at the lit candle. As she processed what she just did, a smile slowly made it's presence known on her face and she eagerly grabbed for the book to see what else she could possibly do.

Remembering that she could move things with her mind or hands, she flipped to that part of the book and read up on it again. Doing this particular branch of magic was pretty much what she had to with lighting a candle. There was no blowing involved but there was definitely much needed concentration.

Setting the book back down, she concentrated on the unlit candle and stared at it, willing it to move.

It didn't.

Shaking herself loose like she did before, she concentrated on the candle again, willing the candle to move with eyes narrowed into slits. It didn't. Sighing in agitation, she flicked her wrist at the candle and watched as the candle exploded into bits and pieces.

Shrieking and covering her head in surprise, Reese was confused when no pieces hit her exposed skin. Slowly lowering her arms, her eyes widened in shock when she saw the bits and pieces of the candle were frozen in mid-air until seconds later, they fell to the ground.

"Crap." She groaned. "I'm going to need Bonnie sooner rather than later."

Slowly walking back into her kitchen where she had left her phone sitting, she found Bonnie's name and sent her a quick text. 'Okay, so I really am a witch. Wanna teach me how to control this? Come to my house when you're free.'- Reese

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Fifteen minutes later, Bonnie is knocking on the front door. Reese hesitantly answers it but when she sees that Bonnie is alone, she opens the door all the way. Bonnie offers Reese a small smile but when she walks into the living room, her mouth drops open.

There are candle chunks all over the place, shattered glass, and the stuffing from the couch pillows and the couch cushions littering the floor.

"What happened?" Bonnie set her bag down on the ground by the wall, mouth slightly agape.

"I told you I needed to learn control." Reese sheepishly shrugged. "It was like as soon as I consciously made the choice to practice magic, everything just triggers when I'm not concentrating on it." Bonnie stares incredulously at Reese and she impishly grins. "And my powers may or may not be connected to my emotions."

"Great." Bonnie sighed. "You're powers are going to be all over the place."

"Exactly." Reese chirped. "Hence the reason for calling in the fellow teenage witch."

Bonnie playfully rolled her eyes and shrugged out of her jacket. At least Reese didn't have a sudden change of personality. "Okay, well, what all can you do? Let's start with that."

"Everything." Reese admitted.

"E-everything?" Bonnie stammered.

"Everything." Reese grinned. "I read up on some pretty neat skills that I can do with my mind and what not but there are some other things that I can do that I'm pretty sure I'm going to stay away from."

Bonnie suddenly looked intrigued. "Like what?"

"Well," Reese walked over to the coffee table and picked up the book she had been reading from. "I can make up my own spells to do whatever I want to do but if I were to cross the line into personal gain territory, there'd be consequences. And I rather not deal with the consequences of the witchy variety."

"Can I see that?" Bonnie gestured to the book with furrowed brows, hesitantly holding out her hands.

Reese hands it over without a second thought. "Sure."

As soon as Bonnie has the book in her hands, Reese expects her to go through it but she's surprised when Bonnie stares down at the crest on top. "I saw this before." She murmurs. "When our hands touched before we went bikini shopping. I saw a flash of two words before I saw a flash of this symbol."

"And what were the words?"

"Powerful and Positive." Bonnie grins up at her before setting the book down. "Now, why don't we clean this up before we get started on control."

"Sure. Why not." Reese groans as she goes to her kitchen to retrieve the broom and dustpan.

Reese and Bonnie spend the next few minutes cleaning up the living room before they can settle down and get started. But before Reese could settle down with Bonnie on the floor next to the coffee table, she ran up to her room to retrieve a candle that she hadn't blown up yet.

"What are you doing?" Bonnie laughed as an overeager Reese set the candle down on the table between them.

"Just watch." She beams at the fact that she can finally show Bonnie her own lighting the candle trick.

Bonnie remains quiet as Reese concentrates on the wick of the candle for a few seconds before leaning in to gently blow on it as if she were blowing out a candle, and lighting it with her breath. Bonnie's eyebrows raise at the little piece of magic that was different from hers.

"What else can you do?"

"I'm supposed to be able to move things with my mind or hands if I concentrate on it enough but all I've accomplished is to blow objects up and then freeze the pieces midair before they fall to the ground with my hands."

"Y-you can do that?!" Bonnie was surprised at what Reese was going to be able to do once she learned control before her eyes fell to Reese's hands as if they were deadly weapons. Which, in this case, they were.

"Yeah." She sighed. "But the explosions only happen when I get aggravated and the freezing happens when I get startled. It's so annoying." Reese pouted.

"Well," Bonnie frowned. "-I don't think I'll be of much help." At Reese's confused stare, Bonnie explained. "Our magic is different. And from the looks of yours, all you really need to do is concentrate like you did with the candle, probably envision what you want to happen, and then will it either with your mind or hands. That's about as much advice as I can give you." She told her. "I'm sorry."

Reese pouted for a few more seconds before straightening up and shrugging. "Oh well. I kind of figured it'd come down to that. Wanna summon the dead?"

Bonnie swore she'd get whiplash sooner or later with Reese's sudden change of mood. "Excuse me?!"

Rolling her eyes, Reese set her hands on her hip. "I asked if you wanted to summon-"

"No, I know what you said." Bonnie cut her off. "I just can't believe you said it so nonchalantly. Do you know how dangerous that is? Summoning a spirit could bring forth a dark entity if you're inexperienced. Trust me. Been there, done that."

"Not if you have five white blessed candles to act as a barrier." Reese grinned. "I read up on it. The white candles will only let a good spirit reside inside the barrier. We've got nothing to fear."

Bonnie seemed dead set against summoning a spirit seeing as the last time she did so, Emily took over her body and even though Emily wasn't evil, it was still a spell she didn't want to do ever again. But now- now Reese was doing the summoning with her type of magic. As Bonnie took a moment to think it over, Reese hadn't stopped staring at her with the puppy dog eyes and hands clasped as if she were praying. "Sure. Why the hell not."

"Yes!" Reese cheered, throwing her hands up and blowing a small hole in the ceiling. "Fuck!" Reese groaned and put her hands down back at her side, Bonnie staring wide-eyed at what she just witnessed. "I guess it happens when I get excited as well, huh?" Reese nervously chuckled.

"You think?" Bonnie croaked. "How about we just go do that summoning and you keep your hands down from now on."

Reese agreed before picking up the book of magic where the spell was and led Bonnie up to the attic.

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This is the first time that Reese has been back in the attic since the storm. As her and Bonnie walk in, they kick up some of the dust but neither girl has a problem with it. Bonnie looks around as Reese immediately makes a be-line for the only object up there; the chest.

"So, I have a question." Reese threw out as she opened the chest and dug around for five white candles.

Bonnie took a seat on the window seat and smiled. "Ask away."

"Alright, well," Reese carried the five candles she managed to find to the middle of the room. "-when you were telling me I was a witch, why were Stefan and Caroline kind of wary of me?"

Bonnie watched as Reese made a decent sized circle with the candles. "Witches and Vampire are meant to be enemies." Bonnie told her and Reese looked startled at her answer. "Since witches are meant to keep the balance of nature, being a vampire goes against that or something." Bonnie shrugged. "It's really rare for a witch to befriend a vampire and other witches look down upon it. They were just wary because they wouldn't know how you would take it. Whether you'd be against them or side with them."

"Well that's stupid." Reese huffed. "Even if I were against them, it's not like I'd kill them or attempt to out them because then I'd be outing myself as a witch."

"If?" Bonnie grinned. "So you still want to be friends with them?"

"Of course! I just a need a bit of time to take it in that two of my friends drink blood." She shrugged.

Even though Bonnie had read the text that Reese sent Caroline, it still relieved her to hear it come from Reese's mouth. They really had nothing to worry about with Reese. As Reese struggled with her concentration to turn on one candle, Bonnie smirked as she concentrated on lighting the other four.

Reese had barely managed to light one when the others flickered to life. "Pft. Show off." She grumbled to which Bonnie laughed.

"Okay, so, do you know who or why you're summoning someone?" Bonnie asked as Reese started to flip through her book.

"Um, if it works, I don't care who shows up. I just want someone to come forward that can explain to me why I didn't get my powers sooner." She mumbled. When she found the spell she was looking for, she looked up at Bonnie. "I mean, if I was born a witch then why didn't they manifest earlier?"

Reese had a point that Bonnie couldn't argue with so she sat back and let Reese do the spell. Clearing her throat, Reese read the enchantment out loud,

"Hear these words, hear my cry
Spirit from the other side.
Come to me, I summon thee
Cross now the Great Divide."

The candles suddenly flickered with a bit of wind that made itself known in the attic and Reese went wide-eyed. "It worked!"

"Of course it did." Bonnie spoke as a swirl of white lights appeared out of thin air and spiraled downward to the floor. "Why wouldn't it?"

"Maybe 'cause I wasn't concentrating?" She sounded sheepish but Bonnie kept her eyes on the swirling lights. "I was thinking about food as I read that out loud."

"Reese!" Bonnie is ready to scold her for being careless while casting a spell but she's cut off as the swirling lights take form and Reese gasps, eyes quickly filling with tears.

The woman is transparent and has a slight glow to her, and Bonnie walks around her to get a better look as she stands next to Reese. The older woman is of average height as she stands there in a white v-neck sundress with Grecian styling. The shoulder straps are knotted, elastic bunching beneath her bust-line as the skirt flows down to her knees. Her hair was parted down the middle, loose curls framing her oval-shaped face as it falls down a few inches below her shoulders.

As the woman smiles kindly, Bonnie is shocked to see a bit of Reese in the woman. "Mom." Reese breathed in awe which confirmed Bonnie's suspicions.

"Hello, darling."

"What.. what are you doing here?!" Reese smiled with tears in her eyes.

"You summoned me, did you not? I'm here to answer your question."

Bonnie stepped forward and smiled brightly at Reese's mom. "Wow." She eyed the spirit up and down. "This is amazing." Bonnie looked on in awe as she started to circle the candles and the spirit within. When she didn't hear them talking, she looked up to see Reese and her mom both smirking at her. Eyes widening in realization, Bonnie grimaced. "I'm sorry! I totally interrupted your reunion. I'm so sorry."

Both women chuckled and for a moment, Bonnie is awed at the resemblance. "It's fine." Reese said. "Bonnie, meet my Mom, Elizabeth. Mom, meet Bonnie. She's a witch, too!"

"I know." Elizabeth nodded at the Bennett witch. "I've met your family on the other side. You, yourself, are one powerful witch, Bonnie Bennett."

"T-thank you." Bonnie mumbled politely.

"Okay, so now down to business." Elizabeth clapped her hands and gave her attention back to her own daughter, and Bonnie suddenly knew where Reese got her personality from. "The reason why you only just got your powers now is because I had them bound when you were younger."

"What?! Why?!"

"Because," Elizabeth frowned sadly. "I gave up magic when I married your father. As I grew up, I read of the prophecy of the one witch bearing more than one female. When I had Lydia first, I knew I was that one witch to bear more than one girl because Lydia was born with brown eyes."

"What do the eyes have to do with anything?" Reese asked as Bonnie watched on and listened.

"Witches of our line have eyes that shift colors, sweetie. I'm sure you've come to realize that you have both green eyes and blue eyes depending on what mood your in."

"Yeah and apparently they glow." Reese grumbled. "What's that all about?"

"I have no idea." Elizabeth brow's furrowed in confusion. "When did your eyes glow? What were you doing?"

"I don't even know!" Reese threw her hands up in aggravation, flinching when she realized her mistake at the last second but was surprised when nothing happened. "And that, too!" She exclaimed. "I keep blowing things up."

Elizabeth chuckled as looked fondly at her daughter. "Learn control. That's all I can say."

Reese rolled her eyes before Bonnie cleared her throat and gained their attention. "I think we're getting off topic here. We were talking about why you bound Reese's powers, remember?"

"Right." Reese drawled before chuckling. She had forgotten at how her and her mother were so easily distracted.

"And to answer your question," Bonnie cut in again, looking at Elizabeth. "-Reese's eyes were glowing a dull icy blue when she conjured up some wind downstairs in the living room. After her eyes started to glow, her pupils dilated and only allowed a thin ring of blue to shine through."

Elizabeth gasped, eyes widening as she looked back to her daughter. "You can control the elements?!"

"Not the topic of discussion, Mom, but I can summon some wind." Reese mumbled as she suddenly blushed at her Mom's shocked, yet prideful stare.

"Right.. right." Elizabeth beamed at her daughter. She was going to be more powerful than expected. "After Lydia came Mitch and then Isobel but she, too, had brown eyes so I knew I was going to have more children. Thomas came after and then you were my last. When you first opened your eyes and I saw blue, I knew it was you. I knew you were going to be the most powerful witch our line has ever seen but I couldn't chance your magic manifesting itself early so when we got home from the hospital, I delved back into magic and mixed a potion for you to drink. I didn't want to scare your father and risk him leaving and taking your siblings with him." She told her. "You weren't ever supposed to get your powers but with my death, all you had to do was read the inscription in our Grimoire. But seeing as it was here and you were in Texas, I didn't think you'd ever find out."

"But I did and now I have all these uncontrolled powers." Reese sighed. "I don't know what to do with them."

Elizabeth suddenly straightened up, her gaze tilted upward in a brief moment of silence. When she turned back to Reese, she smiled sadly. "I'm running out of time, baby, but listen to Bonnie. Concentration is all you need." Reese nodded along, sad to see that her time was running out with her Mom but she wasn't too sad. She had long gotten over her Mom's death and now that she could summon her when she needed answers, she figured she'd be alright. "And before I go, please remember that family is everything."

"Um.. okay?"

"In the near future, something is going to happen that will anger you greatly. Please remember that you must keep your temper under control. Your friends will help you through it as well as your Dad."

"Wait, what?!" Reese muttered. "What's going to happen?"

"I'm sorry." Elizabeth feebly smiled as the swirling lights suddenly surrounded her and her form disappeared. Before the balls of light could disappear as well, both girls heard Elizabeth's voice whisper, "Blessed it be."

Links to Reese's Mom (faceclaim: Andie Macdowell), her dress, and Reese's glowing eyes are up on my profile.

So, Reese is this powerful being but don't read too much into it. Nothing bad is coming that's going to make Reese go all witchy on them. And Elizabeth looking towards the ceiling in a brief moment of silence, that's just the other spirits calling out to her to let her know it was time to go. Nothing bad. Don't freak ;)

If you have any other questions, just ask! :)