During the time Violet spent with Anthony and his friends, they taught her how to use he abilities in ways that she didn't even know she could. She was learning how to direct the energy to what she wanted to do. Like now when she walked past a plant then it would move unless she wanted it too. The hardest thing she was dealing with the was fact that should couldn't stop taking energy in so whenever she stopped letting the energy out her hair would just grow longer and faster then ever before. It didn't matter how hard and long they worked with her she just couldn't close off that part of her mind. Most of her time there was spent on 'magic schooling' but she was aloud off on her own once.
Anthony had been called away for the day and had told her to go off and play. Since none of the kids were really her age she decided to go off into the woods. One thing that she's always loved is flowers. Something about them always made her happy so she was more then excited to see that the forest floor was completely covered. She picked one of them from their roots and pushed it behind her ear. She slowly felt the stem of it grow and weave into her hair. More buds grew and suddenly she had something that resembled a flower crown.
It wasn't until she was about 100 or so yards into the trees that she noticed a familiar spark in her head. She couldn't place where she had felt it before but she knew that she had. She began moving towards it. She wasn't scared, in fact that presents of this energy calmed her down, made her feel safe. She wanted to know why.
It was sitting at the base of a large tree that she couldn't name. From what she could tell it was sleeping. She recognized the dark silver beast as one of the ones she saw a few years before. When she took a step closer her foot snapped a stick in half and the animal shot to its feet. Its eyes zoned in on her, hostile but only for a split second, the growl dying in its throat. She moved closer to the wolf and pressed her hand onto it's head. She wondered where the other wolves were but she didn't ask, knowing that he wouldn't answer her. He licked her face from her chin to the top of her head.
She fell back and laughed at the gross feeling of slobber moving down her face. She rubbed her shirt down her face to get the wetness. Something changed in the wolf at the same time that she noticed another spark at the edge of her mind's eye. The dog shook her hand off his head and pushed his maw into her side, pushing her back the way she came. Whatever it was that she saw in her head, it was coming closer. The wolf pushed her harder and she stumbled slightly but got what he was trying to do. He walked her all the way out of the trees and watched her move back into the house before she felt him disappear out her line of vision.
Over the next few days she called her father every night before she went to bed to talk about what she was learning. He was still very uncomfortable with her not being with him where he could protect her. He was proud to hear that she was learning but at the same time wasn't happy that he wasn't the one teaching her. He couldn't wait until he could come and pick her up and go back to the way it was before.
"Violet, tell me, does the fire feel hot?" Anthony questioned as Violet stepped into the flames. It was kind of uncomfortable for her to walk over the burning wood but it was greatly out shadowed by the thrill of walking into the burning energy. She shook her head at the question and opened her arms to let the heat engulf her. It wasn't hot, not in the sense that it burned but more like a warm and comfortable blanket.
She happily stood in the fire for what felt like forever before he called her out of the flames. She sighed but did as she was told. When she came out it was almost like someone splashed cold water all over her and she frowned, not liking the feeling.
The physic was looking into where she thought Violet's abilities stemmed from and so far was finding quiet a bit of information. She was going to wait for Violet's father to come to get her before she brought up it up.
Anthony was more interested in how far he could push her powers. His own powers dealt with people and how they think. All of the other children he kept here had more physical abilities where as Violet's were both physical and mental. He hadn't seen anything like it before and learning about it first hand made him feeling like it could make a huge difference in how they handled hunters. If they could create a spell that worked the same as her ability then they wouldn't have to be nearly as cautious as they had to now. They would be able to live freely, not looking over their shoulders every time someone talked about the supernatural.
Violet was one of the easiest children that he's worked with. She listens to every word that comes out of his mouth and does it without a second thought. The only thing he needs to do is make sure he sounds nice when he said it. He learned very quickly to talk very politely and he was a little surprised considering the manner in which her father treated him.
He didn't quiet understand the Winchester brothers and the fact that the two brothers didn't seem to be to put off with raising a witch without any first hand knowledge on the magic that runs through Violet's veins and that made him quiet angry. If they continued to try and train her then there is a very good chance that she will never grow to her full potential and the world of good magic could suffer. He wasn't sure how to broach the conversation with her father when he came to pick her up but he couldn't in good conscious let her go off with them.
"What are we doing now?" Violet questioned when he had yet to give her something else to do. He thought about it for half a second before deciding that they had done enough for the day and he sent her off to the library, knowing that was where she like to be when they weren't working on magic. She ran off to the house and disappeared though the door. He put the fire out and followed after her inside. He thought about how he could keep her here and not leave with her father. His powers already almost failed him when he tried to convince Dean to let her go with him.
He didn't know how he would be able to get enough power to get him to let her stay permanently. He knew that she wouldn't want to stay, not unless he had more time to win her over without the pressure of her father hanging over her.
When Violet made it inside the library the first bookshelf she went to was the one the was lined with demonology. She loved learning about them the most, for some reason she found them fascinating in the sense that they could switch bodies the way that they do without much effort and wanted to make sure that she knew enough if her father and uncle ever had to go up against one.
She started reading them when she first got here and it didn't take her long to get to the end. She was really stating to miss her father and uncle, the people here were very serious and didn't watch tv or like to do anything but work on magic. She's likes learning and working on magic but Dean and Sam played games with her and cared about how she felt, not just about what she could do.
They called her for dinner and she moved into the dinning room of the house. She was the first one there and the only one her age. She had been kind of put off when she saw that all of the other 'kids' were teenagers and really want anything to do with her. Only one more day before Dean came back to pick her up. He had told her the night before that he finished the case and would come and get her the next morning.
Violet slept thought most of the night thanks to the fact that she was able to almost keep energy from coming in meaning that she needed more sleep. Dean was happy to hear that, knowing that she wasn't up and moving around would make it easier for him to sleep at night.
Dean pulled into the drive way of the house that housed his daughter. He was excited to see her and he didn't even wait for Sam to unbuckle himself before he was climbing out of the car. It took him two steps instead of four to make it up to the porch and banged on the door. He waited, rolling back onto his heels and crossed his arms over his chest. He didn't have to wait long for the door to be thrown open and he got attacked by a head full of dark red curls. He laughed and swung her up into his arms.
"Hey baby." He said into her hair. Sam came up the steps and smiled at the father and daughter. Once Violet saw Sam she happily pulled him into the hug as well. Anthony moved in front of the door and felt his nerves growing as he saw her very large, very intimidating father. Dean set her down after a few seconds and looked up to find Anthony. His grin slowly fell and he gripped onto Violet's shoulder, pulling her into his side. "Thanks for keeping an eye on her." Dean said shortly to the other man.
"It was no problem, I think you've got one of the most polite ten-year-old's that I've ever met." Dean chuckled and ruffled her hair.
"She's gotta get that from her mother." Anthony couldn't help but agree, though he didn't say it out loud.
"Yeah, why don't the three of us move into my office and Violet can finish eating breakfast while I tell you what her and I have been working on with her powers. Dean didn't want to leave her but Sam had already said yes and followed after him before Dean could get a word in. Dean told Violet to go eat and he made his way begrudgingly towards the office.
Anthony was trying to think about how he could go about what he needed to do. Normally his powers did the work for him but it seemed that the Winchesters' mind set just wasn't compatible as he felt like it should have been. When they made it into the room Anthony leaned against his desk and crossed his arms over his chest.
"She's got a lot of power in her." He started. Dean scoffed sarcastically.
"You think?" He said it under his breath and Anthony heard it but chose not to respond.
"I think the main reason she has such a hard time grasping how to control the energy is because it's so concentrated." His removed his arms from his chest and held his hands together so the two other men could see what he was trying to say. "I think she should stay here for a bit longer, so we can work with her a bit more." Dean opened his mouth to answer quickly, but Sam held his hand up to keep him quiet, knowing that his bother wouldn't be at all happy with the thought.
"How long are you plaining on wanting to keep her?" Sam asked, not sure if he himself was going to like the idea of keeping her here any longer then she has been already. And even if Sam thought it was a good idea, Dean would still have to say yes and the younger brother didn't think that was going to happen unless this man had the best sales pitch that the brothers have ever heard.
"Until we know for sure that she can use her powers without any risk of her exposing herself to humans or other hunters. Not to mention at her age she is very impressionable. If someone gets their hands on her abilities and somehow manipulates her, she could potentially hurt a lot of people." Anthony explained. Dean shook his head, already deciding that his daughter had been away from him for more then enough time.
"So you mean that you want to keep her indefinitely?" Dean let out a dry laugh. "No, I said that you could keep her for as long as we were working on that case. We took care of the monster so I came to get my daughter. She was perfectly fine with us before. We can keep her safe from other hunters while she figures out her powers and I'm not going to let anything or anyone get to her." He said firmly.
"We feel that it would be best to keep her here where we can keep an eye on her." Dean went back to shaking his head.
"I don't really care what you think is best. I didn't even want here to stay here to begin with. Thanks for working with her, really appreciate it and all so if you could finish explaining what you leaned so we can move onto the next case, that would be awesome." He gave Anthony a tight smile and Sam gave him an apologetic look. Knowing how his harsh his brother sounded. Sam could understand the reasoning behind her staying here and wanted to explain it to his brother but knew that it would just be better to keep his mouth closed on the subject.
"Why don't you let Violet decide." Before Dean could respond the psychic popped her head in the room. On her way here she could already feel the tension in the room. She knew what her house mate had been thinking and she really wished that he had gone to her for advice. The boy was stupid for thinking that he could just take the little girl from her family and expect everyone to just be okay with it, power of persuasion or not. She thought that her staying here would be best for them, that kind of power could go a long way but it wouldn't be what's best for the girl and at the end of the day witches are people too, and for anyone to think that the powers came before the human always pissed her off beyond belief.
"Dean Winchester?" She questioned though she already knew the answer.
"Who's asking?"
"I'm a psychic, I think I've got some answers for you about where your lovely daughter's powers might have originated from." That perked the bothers' attention and frustrated Anthony. He was trying to get them to let her stay, not give them a way to find things out on their own. The fact that they had more knowledge was his main argument. "You see, she's not the first one of her kind that I've seen before." Dean moved away from Anthony, all his focus on the woman in front of him. "When I was in Greece I met a young woman with powers much like Violet's in the sense that she naturally absorbed energy from other living things as well as the sun. her and I never got the chance to really talk about her abilities and what part of the magical community they stemmed from before she was killed, but she did tell me that she had a daughter whom she was very worried about. After she died I went looking for her baby girl, only to find that the infant had already been adopted in the states. Now I don't know if there's a relation to her and your daughter but I would look into it if I were you." She said, knowing that the information she provided wasn't all that much, but she was hoping that it might be useful.
Hey, sorry. I know I dropped off the earth for a little bit but I wasn't sure where I was going to take it and needed some time to think about it. Here is the next upload. Tell me what you think!