Harry's first meeting with supernatural creatures comes when he's eight in the form of a rogue werewolf trying to cover its tracks.
For weeks Claire had been teaching him about various supernatural creatures, how to spot them and how to kill them. She seems to see their sessions as some kind of bonding experience. Jody seems to see them that way too until she finds out that she had been taking him on stakeouts of particular areas she thought were creature infested.
Needless to say they haven't been happening since then.
Unfortunately for once Claire had been on to something and not crazy- as Alex kept claiming.
The next evening when Claire had stomped off to her room to go and research more about the supernatural and Alex had been dragged back home from the bar they had a rather unwanted visitor.
Through the window.
Full of sharp teeth and claws.
Eats hearts.
Sound familiar?
Jody luckily still has her gun on her but the shots didn't seem to do much except slow it down and make it angrier. Seconds later Claire is bursting from her room with a machete and an angry scowl.
Jody is half impressed, half annoyed and completely worried for her kids' lives.
Harry watches from behind the sofa as Claire swings for its neck only for it to duck and knock her into the wall. She grunts loudly as she hits the wall, arm hanging limply by her side and glaring up at the werewolf as it approaches.
"Claire!" The creature focuses on the two humans making noise, the bigger one first as the bigger threat.
It leaps for Jody and explodes.
For a second no one speaks.
"What the hell was that! Werewolf don't just explode!" Claire is the first to speak, shaking somewhat as she pushes herself against the wall to stand, machete dropped by her feet. Harry steps out from behind the couch, staring at the gore in horror. Jody runs to Claire first, helping her up.
"I don't know but we're lucky it did- go and get yourself cleaned up a bit before we take you to the hospital. Usual cover story." The girl nods, leaving quickly to shower.
Jody comes to stand in front of Harry. She kneels down despite the mess and places a hand on either of his shoulders.
"You aren't hurt?" He nods frightened, "Are you sure?" Harry looks up, face eerily pale.
"I think I killed it." Jody frowns, leading him to the kitchen to clean him up.
"What do you mean? It just exploded- I've seen weirder." She jokes as she cleans the blood off of them both, "It's gonna be hell to get that out of the carpets though." Her attempt at humour doesn't seem to work at calming him down. She looks him in the eyes and sighs.
"Harry, there are awful things out there- you've seen that tonight- but they aren't your fault. Even if you had made it explode it's easier to deal with a load of mess and broken bones than resurrecting people. You guys are worth more than monsters." Harry nods and hugs Jody.
"Now you'll need to change clothes-" She ruffles his hair affectionately, "Why don't you go and change while I get everything ready to take Claire to the hospital?" The boy nods and runs off to his room to do as told.
When Jody sets foot into the living room she just sighs.
"This is going to be a long night."
The room is spotless.
The three meet in the car, Alex having been warned against going out. Claire lets her arm rest limply in her lap as Jody drives them onwards.
It doesn't take long to get everything seen to. While Claire is busy having her cast put on Jody pulls Harry outside.
"We won't be long." The doctor raises his eyebrows and Claire just nods.
"So, why do you think you killed the monster?" Harry frowns worriedly, trying to remember and wondering if Jody might get upset.
"When it jumped at you I was really scared and Claire was already hurt so I didn't know what to do but I really, really didn't want it to hurt you and then it, it exploded!" Jody hugs him to her, rubbing his back soothingly.
"Shh, shh- it's okay. Is that how it worked when the room was all clean again and the window was fixed?" The small boy nods, sniffling.
"That's okay- we'll ask Claire or the boys if they know what's happening. It doesn't seem to be doing any harm yet though but we'll keep an eye on it, okay?" Harry nods again and Jody frowns, trying to think of anything that she might have encountered that would have this kind of effect.
As soon as Harry has calmed down enough they go back inside to wait for Claire again. The next few days pass as normal with school and homework and no monsters.
Then they get an answer.
As it turns out Harry is a wizard- and not the kind that usually requires being hunted down.
Apparently there is a whole secret society of wizards hidden in various places around the world who- instead of borrowing their power from demons- have a natural innate power which isn't predisposed one way or another.
Sam mentions that they only know of one other person like that so they expected is wasn't very common.