Clarke had been born to a girl just out of college and a boy who constantly called out the hierarchy in Mulberry. Olivia Hill was a sweet 22 year old with a bachelors in art. She had originally came to town at the age of 18 and ended up staying even after earning her degree. She was wide-eyed and naive. She found Monroe Torry's rebellious spirit enchanting and interesting, and that was the first thing she fell in love with. She met him at a bar, after being coaxed into going with a few friends at the age of 18, which was very exciting since in America doing so was illegal. He had been the bartender, he had crazy shoulder length curls tied in a little ponytail and blue eyes that drew her in. He flirted with her, and he was the reason she returned multiple times. She learned that his favorite color was green, he wanted two dogs but his mum was allergic, that every year since he had turned 18, he ran against Andrew Davis for the position of mayor, and the most interesting fact of all...he was a wizard. In return he found out that Olivia found the color pink drab, she thought cats were very weird, that she loved to sculpt, and she drank yogurt every morning before class.

By the time she turned 20, Olivia Hill was completely in love with the cheeky and very lively bartender. They got married a year later and a year after that they had Clarke Torry, who they named after the explorer. For four years, they lived in their little green house on Jewel Stone Road with their two dogs, taking care of their son. They were the perfect couple, who spent every weekend at the beach reading books to Clarke. Olivia taught her son to sculpt little animals that decorated shelves in every room of the house, and Monroe taught his son to control his gift, the gift of magic. The couple found out about their son's gift after they found the three year old levitating their pug. They were absolutely ecstatic and from a young age began to prepare the child to become a great wizard. However, every great story must come to an end and the family's came very suddenly when Monroe died in a tragic car accident outside of the city.

For a year, Olivia couldn't function. She had trouble taking care of her toddler son because she could hardly get herself out of the bed in the morning. Her older sister came from New York to take care of her and Clarke. Maggie, her elder sister of five years, soon got her back on her feet and by the time the anniversary of Monroe's death rolled around, she was able to go home because Olivia had once again become functional. Olivia relied on her friend, Maria Gutierrez for support; she supplied her with a job, and even introduced her to Baldric Weisberg. He weaseled his way into Olivia's and Clarke's everyday life by joining them on family events and taking Olivia on dates. By the time Clarke was in kindergarten, Baldric had began to date his mum. He loved him at first, not as much as his dad but Baldric had become a close second in his mind. When his mum and Baldric got married, he was excited. Everything seemed perfect until two months after the marriage.

At first, the abuse had only been verbal. He would tell him that he was useless and that he couldn't do anything right, in spite of his perfect grades and the fact that he was way ahead of his grade level. When he came home beaten up after an encounter with Xavier Bennett or the Agnelli twins, Baldric would tell him he was weak. It was bad, but it became much worse after Baldric caught Clarke working on his magic using his dad's old spell books. From there, Baldric began to beat him and even went as far to burn his spell books. Every time he couldn't find a reason to beat him, he would make one.

As the years went on, Baldric came up with new ways to abuse him: from burning his hands on the stove to throwing lamps and kitchenware at him. Most of the time however, he would simply hit him. Clarke went from his usual t-shirts and shorts to long sleeves and pants, and for the longest time his mother thought nothing of it. When he tried to tell her, she would tell him he was just being paranoid. When turning to his mother didn't work, he turned to his friends who provided him with a way out.

Clementine Murray was the leader of their group. She was kind and gentle, but she was also candid when needed. She was observant and that lead her to knowing Clarke was abused before he even told them. The first thing she noticed was the flinching, whenever someone yelled Clarke would flinch. The second was his beloved sassy comments stopped, so suddenly that it felt like a punch in the gut. Third, was his dissociating, whenever an argument of the group became too heated he would completely zone out. Her concern reached it's peak when her old second grade teacher, Miss Seabrooke told her that Clarke didn't raise his hand in class anymore and that he purposely answered questions on quizzes wrong. She found the new outfits odd, and it was the last straw that made her believe her friend was being abused; when her friend came to school with a black eye, three missing teeth, and a limp, her unease was confirmed.

Clarke asked her to call a meeting a week later, here it was where he told the rest of the group. At first Austin and Kaitlyn were pissed, Kiara and Abby were confused, Ben was worried for his friend, and Aaron tried to come up with an idea that would keep Clarke from having to be home all the time. It took an hour and a half for the group to come up with an idea to keep Clarke from having to go home, with only one incident of magic occurring during the discussion. In the end Kiara suggest babysitting; and the others spun off from it. Clementine said Clarke could take over babysitting Begonia for a while since she had to get back to her aggressive ice skating training, Abby offered a few of her babysitting clients, and Ben suggested he babysat his cousins for him.

Around the time his 10th birthday came upon him, babysitting neighborhood kids stopped working as excuse and his stepdad gave him more demands to follow. Slowly he became withdrawn and shut himself up in his studies. When he got home, he would hide himself in his room and listen for the thudding footsteps of his stepdad; yet with each abuse event he began to become relieved as the steps ascended up the stairs wondering if maybe this time will be his last and he would be free.