"How are things with Sarah?" Selina asked her father. "Do you feel any better about that?"

"It's still a little hard to believe," Matthew told her, eyes wide. "I can't believe I have a daughter who's a witch!"

"You know, I have a friend named Amy who's a witch and I really think it might help you to talk to her about witch stuff, you know?" Selina encouraged. "She's so sweet, really."

"Are you sure?" Matthew asked. "I know it sounds ridiculous, but I have this image in my head of the Wicked Witch of the West and I'm kind of skeptical that she'll be of any help to me."

"Oh, of course she's not like the Wicked Witch of the West!" Selina told him. "She's really more like a Glinda, red hair and everything."

"Okay, I'll go talk to her, if you think it will help," Matthew told her. "Christine was suggesting I do that. She told me that she would have Eva or Sean talk to me, but I really don't want to inconvenience them."

"All right," Selina said. "I'll go see when Amy is available. I really think you'll be glad you did this, though. And if you can't talk to Amy, maybe you can talk to her son-in-law, Jonathan Putnam. He teaches at school, and usually sits with Elijah and our son-in-law Viktor at lunch. He and his wife adopted a child too."

"Was the child a completely different species than they are?" Matthew asked pointedly.

"They thought so," Selina nodded. "Of course, they were proven wrong later, but they could still help."

"And what happened with their child?" Matthew asked. "Did they turn out okay?"

"Yes," Selina nodded. "Her name is Mary and she's married to my grandson Liam. I should get a hold of him and ask if he can come visit Elijah and me sometime. They have a son named after Mary's brother and I haven't spent as much time with him as I should, being his grandmother and all."

"Do you want to do that before you take me to Amy's house?" Matthew asked. "Because I can wait."

"No, I really think we should get this thing nipped in the bud," Selina replied. "It's really no trouble. You can even bring Christine with you if that would make you more comfortable."

"Bring me where?" Christine called, having just come in the house after taking her horse out for a ride. "Where are we going?"

"To visit my friend Amy," Selina called back. "I think she might be able to help Daddy deal with Sarah being a witch, and answer any questions you have, of course."

"But you don't have to come with us since you seem fine with everything," Matthew assured Christine. "I can just go. Do you want to?"

"I'll think about it," Christine told him. "When are you planning on going?"

Although she had no problem with Sarah being a witch, Christine came with Matthew and Selina and Sarah to talk to Amy anyway. Selina used her key to get into Klaus and Amy's house (she'd gotten it from Amy, not, as she believed Elijah would think, from Klaus) and then they sat at the kitchen table and waited because Amy had told her she was busy doing something and might not be there when they arrived.

"I can't believe we just waltzed right in here," Matthew said. "How can this woman be willing to help us if we basically break into her house?"

"We aren't breaking in if we use a key," Christine replied, bouncing Sarah on her lap.

"Yeah, plus Amy told me that she might not be here when we arrived," Selina assured him. "She knows we're here and it won't bother her at all."

When they'd been there for twenty minutes or so, the door opened and Amy rushed in looking flustered. "Sorry I'm late," she said. "I'm helping Astrid with something for the council and it ran a bit long." She looked Matthew in the eye and took his hand. "You must be Matthew," she said. "It's going to be all right. I can help."

"Do I look that terrified?" Matthew asked.

"Yes," Christine and Selina said, both putting hands on his back. "It's gonna be all right," Christine repeated. "You need to take a deep breath and calm down."

Matthew tried, but then Sarah's body began to fade away and that's when he stood up and nearly strode from the room. Amy quickly righted her, however, and persuaded Matthew to sit down before he fainted.

"I see you're not quite used to your daughter having powers yet," she told him.

"Is it that obvious?" Matthew asked. "I didn't even know she was going to be a witch, so frankly, I think I'm doing pretty well."

"What she's going through now is nothing to be afraid of," Amy told him calmly. "It might seem frightening, but it's something every magical child goes through. Do you have someone at your house that can right things when they happen?"

"Yes," Christine nodded. "My friend Eva and her husband Sean are staying with us."

"Well, isn't that nice?" Amy smiled. "It was a good idea for you to have them come over."

"I didn't know what else to do once she began changing," Christine explained. "I knew it had something to do with being a witch, but I didn't have the power to fix it, so I had to call someone in."

"It would really ease my mind if you could answer this question for me," Matthew told Amy as he looked her directly in the eye. "When the magic shows itself, you know, when she's floating or disappearing or whatever…does that hurt her at all?"

"Not the magical stuff," Amy shook her head. "She's protected from the magic actually causing her harm in the beginning stage. Now, if she were to, say, hit her head on the ceiling while she was levitating because she wasn't caught in time, that would be painful, I guess. But that's a result of the magic, rather than the magic itself. All in all, though the manifestation of powers might be horrifying for someone who doesn't know it's coming, what you see is worse than what your child may be feeling. You might not believe me, but it's true."

"No, I trust you," Matthew reassured her. "You're a witch, so if you don't know anything about this, who would?"

"That's such a good point," Amy told him. "I'm really not trying to lie to you or lead you on. You seem to not have been expecting this at all. Did you adopt Sarah?"

"No, she was…she was a product of when I went to a sperm bank," Christine told Amy. "And since I'm not a witch, her powers must've come from the man who fathered her, although there was no indication of that in his description."

"Oh, dear," Amy sucked in a breath. "Warlocks giving to human sperm banks often leads to trouble. Men have been jailed for that because a magical child foisted on a human couple when they aren't expecting it can give us away, you know? I guess it was lucky that the two of you aren't human. Well, Matthew was at one point, right? But that was a long time ago."

"Yes," Matthew nodded. "It was. Now, are you positive that her magic doesn't hurt her?"

"Yes, I'm positive," Amy repeated. "And by the time a child is a year old, it usually has regulated itself, so you're not gonna have all these shocks going on forever."

"Oh, thank god," Matthew said. "I don't think I could handle her randomly turning into a chicken or something like that for the rest of her life."

"Anything else I can tell you?" Amy asked. "You should probably make an appointment at the hospital too, just to make sure that everything is all right. Just looking at her, it seems like it is, but then again, I'm no doctor."

"All right," Matthew said. "Thank you so much for your help."

"No problem," Amy smiled. Then she wrote her number down on a piece of paper and gave Sarah a hug. "If you need to ask me any more questions, don't hesitate to call because I'll answer. I know that seeing the magic flare up is trying, but with Eva and Sean living at your house with you, I just know you'll get through it!"

Christine, Matthew, and Sarah went out to the car then while Selina stayed behind to talk to Amy a bit more.

"Has your father always been such a worrier?" Amy asked her.

"Well, technically, he only raised me for two months, so in a sense, this is his first real shot at parenthood," Selina explained. "I can't blame him for being nervous, but I bet Christine really wishes she could find a way to calm him down. Thank you so much for your help. I really owe you one."

"It's not a problem, really," Amy assured her. "Are we still going shopping tomorrow?"

"Of course," Selina smiled and gave her a hug. "I wouldn't miss it for the world."

The next day, Matthew decided to do as his daughter suggested and sit with Elijah, Viktor, and Jonathan instead of by himself with a book as he usually did.

"I hope you don't mind if I sit here," he told them. "Can I?"

"Of course," Elijah replied. "Have a seat. Jonathan, Viktor, this is Matthew Warren. He's my father-in-law and my son in law, you know, the one who married Christine. Matthew, Viktor is married to your granddaughter and my daughter Amanda, and Jonathan…he's married to my niece, Amy's daughter Savannah. Selina told me you went to talk to Amy yesterday."

"That I did," Matthew nodded. "She was a big help."

"What did she help you with, if it's not prying too much?" Jonathan asked.

"Well, Christine and I decided we wanted to have a child despite the fact that I'm a made vampire and can't. She went and got fertilized at a sperm bank and just recently, we discovered that our daughter Sarah is a witch. It was a jarring surprise, to say the least, and Christine has taken it much better than I have. And you'd think I'd be old hat at that since my eldest daughter has werewolf blood in her."

"But you knew about what Amelia was the entire time you and she were together, right?" Elijah asked.

"Of course," Matthew nodded. "My brother and I were a couple of the few people outside the immediate family that knew the secret. So if Selina had turned, I would have at least been prepared for it. But this…this with Sarah, I had no reason to see it coming."

"My wife and I didn't know our daughter Mary was a witch until we'd had her for a few years," Jonathan told him. "We adopted her when she was two years old and her parents died in an accident. She was at a daycare center that my wife's sister in law taught at, and when Savannah was volunteering there after a miscarriage, she and Mary bonded. So when she was left alone, Savannah insisted we take her in, so we did, assuming she was just a normal human girl. Then her brother Sean came looking for her, and that's when we found out that she was a witch and had been cursed at birth to become a horrible monster when she turned eighteen. Or was it sixteen? One of those. My god, I feel horrible for not remembering."

"Who can blame you for wanting to forget?" Matthew asked sympathetically. "That's a horrible thing to have happen!"

"Yes," Viktor nodded. "If there's anything we can do, don't hesitate to ask. You and I are family, after all."

Matthew looked around the table at the three men who had offered him so much support. Between them, Amy, his daughter, and his wife, he could deal with whatever Sarah's powers threw at him and truly believe what Amy had said: that whatever her powers made her do, what he was seeing was worse for him than it was Sarah. And after all, that was the most important thing.