Linda Curtis

Linda Curtis is a recuring character in Touch of Magic. She is the mother of Hayden Curtis, Eloïse Curtis, Connor Curtis, Ariël Curtis, Chloë Curtis and Phoebe Curtis. She is a successfull OB/GYN.
She is a witch, but her powers are inactive due to decisions she made regarding the safety of her children. She is a member of the Curtis Bloodline and The Curtis Family.
==Life==
Linda was born in an ordinary family in Conneticut, USA. She was the oldest of 3 daughters, and was left to care for her sisters while her parents worked long hours to support her and her sisters. At age 16, Linda herself got a job at a local diner and when she was 19 she decided to go to med-school to become an OBGYN.
In school she met Edward, an aspiring professor at the local college. He eventually convinced her to reconsile with her parents, and Linda revealed her identity to him. Charles stated he still loved her and proposed to her. Hearing of the fairytale marriage of Lillian and Christopher, Linda wanted to create the same life for herself. They got married in the summer and Linda got pregnant in the fall, giving birth to their oldest son Hayden. They had another five children after that, a son and four daughters.
The young family was hit by disaster when the oldest two children, Hayden and Eloise, died at 11 and 9 years old by the hands of The Valkyries. Linda tried to warn the magical community of the dangers, but she was accused of not keeping her children safe and exposing them to the dangers of their world. The magical community turned on her and she and her children were punished by having their powers removed. 
Seeking comfort without her powers, she joins the local church community. She quickly finds out she is pregnant, which establishes her faith more as she calls her pregnancy a miracle when it is revealed that the baby's powers are still intact. This leads to Linda's youngest child, Phoebe Curtis to be the only one in her family with active powers.
The following decade, Linda watches her children grow as she works as a gyneacologist and her husband is a professor at a University now. All seems to go well, untill Connor  speaks up about his feelings. Her husband tells Linda to quit her job and they move to the East Coast, where they would send their children to a more conservative school. Ultimatly, this controlling behaviour turns her children against her. 
===Season Four===
When her three oldest siblings moved out for college, Linda watches her youngest daughter Phoebe slip through her fingers. Phoebe, who has by now grown an itch to learn more about her magic, relocates to a boarding school in Waterfall Creek, a city that she feels drawn to. Linda panics, fearing her daughter will suffer a fate much like her eldest children if she's across the country without protection. Phoebe hides the fact that she lost her dorm room, and pretends all is good when she calls her mom. However when Phoebe mentions the Silverstones, Linda is enraged and makes plans to go to Oregon herself to get her daughter. When she arrives, Linda repeatedly talks negatively of Payton and Claire, indicating that they are magnets for death and pain. However, when Payton goes into labor Linda is the one to deliver the baby because "she knows what it's like to be a mom, and to want to hold your baby in your arms."
===Season Five===
Linda makes an attempt to reconsile with her youngest daughter and the two are able to re-establish a relationship after Phoebe calls Linda out for having to raise herself. Realizing she has been doing so, Linda returns to her magical roots to support her daughter, something her husband can't get on board with knowing how much pain it caused their family. Phoebe and Linda both attempt to talk to him, but to no prevail.
Linda is about to leave Waterfall Creek to accept an offer from a friend to open a practice, when news of Claire's pregnancy spreads. Elisabet begs Linda to stay, because together they can save more lives. She briefly considers staying, but knowing it will only affect her relationship with her daughter negatively, she opts to leave. She plans to return soon to Claire's due date to help with the birth, and acts as Claire's doctor.
===Season Six/Season Two===
Linda, on her way to Waterfall Creek for Phoebe's graduation, assures Seth on the phone that Braxton hicks are a normal pregnancy symptom. She informs Seth that the due date is still 5 weeks away. She shows worry when Seth doesn't reply on the other side of the line and the connection is lost.Linda is on her way from the hospital when Elisabeth calls her, saying Claire was taken to the hospital where Elisabeth has no standing. Linda then rerouts her taxi and calls the hospital to tell them she is on her way. She arrives just at the right moment to help with the delivery of the twins.
At Phoebe's graduation, Linda enquires about Chloë's plans, and she is shown not to be pleased when Chloë announces she has dropped out. Linda later catches Chloë, who kisses Liam to spit her mother. Linda calls Chloë a disgrace and focusses her hopes on Ariël and Phoebe, who both come to the defense of their siblings. Phoebe recites a passage from Amertas to her mom, what comes down to Love is Love. Linda then tells her kids that she loved her oldest children the most in the world, but it wasn't enough to keep them save. Connor steps in and tells his mother that they don't need her protection, and her kids walk out on her.
At the end of the season, Linda hears about the car accident and Chloë's death, realizing the last thing she said to her daughter was horrible. When she finds out Chloë was pregnant with Liam's child, she rushes from Ariël{s side to see the baby. However LIam gets there first and she lashes out at him, saying he could never keep a baby safe because he is a "child of satan". Phoebe steps in, stating Liam is the father. When the nurses ask about the baby's name, Phoebe looks at her mother while she tells the nurse it's Sophia Greene having found Chloë's namelist with the name Sophia circled.
Returning to the hospital bed of her oldest daughter, Connor sends her away because she left at the first sight of a do-over. He states that Linda is selfish and tries to fix the mistakes she made twenty years ago with her two oldest children while failing the kids that were still alive. When Ariël finally wakes up and asks about her mother, Connor tells her she is "Praying to learn how to be a decent person."
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