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tears back.
    “Fine, do it. What do I care?” I yelled and then stomped up the stairs. I heard the door slam shut to the house from halfway up the stairs and stopped. As mad as I was at what had just happened, I didn't want him to go. I loved him and now I really knew it.

Twelve
    I heard footsteps starting up the stairs after me and turned really hoping that it was Conner, but the face that I saw was that of my dad’s. His face was still angry about the display downstairs, but he looked at me with love and fear all at the same time. Maybe he thought that I planned to follow him and get myself killed too. I knew better than that after my last run in with Eric and Marie. I didn't know what to do about Conner, but there was really nothing that I could do.
Except stop this whole thing.
     
“I have an idea.” I said to my dad who was looking straight at me.
     
“What's the idea?” He said as we walked down the stairs with me.
    “Remember the binding spell that Anamara put on me when I was a child.” He nodded as I spoke. “Could we bind their magic for good?”
    “It will take your magic away too, but yes we could” He walked into the kitchen “That's what I was taught. That anyone in the line will lose the magic that they have. Do you really want to do that?”
“I can't hurt them. They may not be good people, but they are my parents.”
     
“I know.” He almost whispered this to me and he stopped looking through the pots in the kitchen.
    “Will you help me make the potion that I need?” I asked him this hoping that he would give me the help I needed. A binding spell is complicated and hard to do for a beginner, plus I really didn't know what I was doing.
    “Of course, but when it's time, I'm coming to get you.” He was completely calm in the way that he said this and I knew that he would.
    “One other thing that you should know. I had a dream about tomorrow. They hold the ritual in a clearing in the woods. It can't be too far from here.”
    “I think I know of the spot. There is a sacred circle clearing not far from here. Before the witches war, it was used for good magic. It has a special spot on the earth that helps to boost the magic that's done in it.”
    “That's probably where it will happen at.” I was not certain if my dream was real or not, but I trusted my dad and what he felt was right.
    “Let's get started on that potion. We will need a few.” He said pulling the pots that we would need from the cupboard that he had been looking at.
    He had already decided that we would need to have at least enough to stop each person in the coven. That was an easy number to remember for us. 13.
    I worked on my half of the potion bottles, adding herbs and oils and corking the tops of them. I thought about the type of people that would work for Eric and Marie and wondered if they were all really that bad. Maybe they were just scared of him. After all, from what Conner had told me, Eric was the most powerful of any of them right now. I wondered if I was going to be enough to stop him.
    I was a nobody. Just some girl who happened to be born into a family that was able to control magic and that had, what I was told as, gifts. I had never learned any of it though the normal channels and I was a complete amateur compared to, Conner who was the same age as me, but far ahead when it came to magic and potions and that. I felt silly making this advanced potion that I didn't even know was going to work for sure.
    “I think we have enough now.” my dad said snapping me out of my trance. “You can take half and I'll take the other half. That way we both will have some to stop them with”
    “What if they find the potions?” I looked at the tiny bottles. It didn't take much to get the job done when it came to magic.
    “You will have to make sure that they don't” He turned to me and put his hands on my arms kind of holding me there. He was smiling that smile that he did when he was worried about the same thing