Marriage is Murder

Angus heard them talking to someone and looked to where they were speaking and finally saw Abbey hiding there. He felt sorry for her. He got up and went over to her.

"Are you hiding from me?" he teased, picking her up and tickling her. She had had no intention of giggling but when he tickled her, she giggled, and it made him laugh. "Come eat before everyone else eats all the berries. Are you hungry?" he asked. She nodded. "Well, lets go see if they left you any." He took her to an emply placebeside him and put her there and put her little plate down in front of her.

"Where Mama? Daddy?" she asked.

"Still upstairs," Angus said. "I bet you can go see them after you eat your breakfast. I'm sure they'll be glad to see you. How's Gam today? Is she better?" Abbey nodded.

"Is Papa coming downstairs for breakfast?" Michael asked her.

"I no know," she shrugged. "He no say."

"Should we leave him any berries?" Angus asked. Abbey shook her head no, putting a berry in her mouth. "That's good, because I didn't plan on leaving him any," Angus laughed.

Jess smiled as Angus moved to pick Abby up and sit her next to him she could not help but chuckle as Abby began to eat the Berries from her bowl. " would you like a drink Abby , its pink" she said softly as she turned the juice from orange juice to strawberry juice. Steven sat and chuckled.

" hey no far I wanted some and she wouldn't do it for me" he said and pouted then stuck his tongue out trying to get Abby to laugh again at their antics and lessen her thoughts on how her mother and grand mother were doing.

"She like me better," Abbey shrugged, looking at Steven. That was all she could figure. Everyone laughed loudly.

"Well, I guess she cleared that right up, didn't she?" Michael laughed. "Smart girl, Abbey. Taking right after your papa." He liked that Abbey had just spoken her mind, straight up. Michael saw the coffee pot from Brian's room coming back down empty.

"Well, thats a first. A request for a second pot," Michael said, taking the pot out of the air.

"Daddy want it maybe," Abbey said, eating berries, watching the pot float by to Michael. "He busy all night, chasing carrot people."

"Doing what?" Edward frowned.

"Chasing carrot people," she repeated.

"Were you having funny dreams?" he frowned.

"I no know. I just see him chasing carrot people," she said.

Jess nodded and chuckled " of course I do Abby " she said softy then watched the pot floating down and over to Michael " carrot people ?" she said and looked puzzled " might be Khaats magic went wonky?" she said still confused a little by the term she had used but she stood up and took the pot " I;ll refill it and take it up to them" she said heading into the kitchen. Returning she walked up to Khaats room to find Robert their " wheres Brian I brought the coffee" she said placing it down on the tray " Abby said something strange this morning she said Brian was chasing carrot men around all night" she said and looked to Robert.

"He's showering," Robert said. "He'll be out in a moment. Thank you. I know he'll appreciate it. I think this makes the third night in a row that he's been up all night for one reason or another. The boy is starting to drag." He listened to Jess talking about carrot people. "Its possible," Robert said dryly. "I don't know if she was dreaming or whether she somehow saw either Khaat's wonky magic or whether she saw into someo of Khaat's delirium. Brian said Khaat had such a high fever she was delirious and then her magic went wonky. So anything is possible. Brian siad he bound her magic in order to stop the chaos.

"I presume the truth will probably lay in whether Brian remembers chasing carrot people or if we find carrots lying about in odd places. Hopefully the stupid things aren't really still bewitched. Michael will not be amused at having to wrangle carrots. He wrangles a great many bewitched objects, but he might not be amused at chasing vegetables. Especially if they're faster than he is."

Brian soon came out of the bathroom, dressed and drying his hair with a towel.

"Did you do battle with carrots last night?" Robert asked.

"Carr...Oh. Yeah. That...Yeah, I don't know if I got them all or not. Pesky little pests. Laughing like cornish pixies and just about as mischevious."

"How did Abbey see them?"

"Um...did she?" Brian asked.

"Apparently so," Robert said.

"I haven't the foggiest, then," Brian said. "As I said, I think I got them, but who knows?"

"Well, you lot might want to keep your eyes out for rogue carrots then," Robert said, looking at Jess. "Abbey did wake up in the night and get off my lap and curl up in the bed with Kate, so its certainly possible that she saw what looked to her like carrot people."

Jess watched Brian and chuckled as he spoke of carrots and she nodded " I'll warn the others " she said and looked around her feet " though Angus might just be tempted to through them in boiling water and cook them than catch them" she said and chuckled as she gently placed her hand on Khaats feeling all was in order she smiled and headed down and stopped by the table " okay Robert says be on the look out for carrot men" she told them" seems Khaats magic did go wonky last night some how making the carrots come to life" she told them as she sipped her drink " so Abby was right , Carrot men are on the lose, Brian was chasing them he thinks he got them all but isn't sure"

"You did see carrot people," Angus looked at Abbey. Abbey nodded. "Did you see anything else that doesn't normally happen?"

"Lots," Abbey nodded.

"Great," Michael sighed. "This is how I got that house of mine. What else did you see, Abbey?"

"'Nanas. Lots of nanas. Cookies...." she began.

"Wait," Angus said, "You're sure you saw nanas?"

"Uh huh," she said.

"How many?"

"Lots and lots of nanas," she said.

"What were they doing?" Angus asked. Abbey got up from her chair and started dancing. "Which way did they go?" he asked. She pointed in every direction.

"Well, add some dancing bananas to that list," Angus said. "And some runaway cookies. Did you see other things?"

"Food," she said. "But Mo eated a cookie."

"He did?"

"He catched it and eated it," she nodded.

"That's okay. Sounds like he earned it," Angus said. "Alright, we'd better do an inventory in the pantry and the refrigerators. Sounds like our groceries are running about."

"Don't take any nonsense from them," Michael said. "Bananas are usually a pretty rebellious lot. Be firm and consistent with them and send them back to the kitchen. You might want to take some sunglasses with you, in case the hot sauce is loose. It's always rather rude when its bewitched."

Jess chuckled and shook her head " shesh, a whole veg rack on the lose, I'll get on it " Steven said Jim nodded he would help as well. Jess chuckled " okay we'll keep and ye out especially for nasty banana men" Jess said and sipped her tea gently. After a moment Brant walked in with two bananas screaming and kicking at him.

"Hey, any one want a banana split?" he asked and held them up " I found these trying to get into the potions lab" he said then brought three carrots out from behind his back " and these too, i'm guessing Khaats magic went wonky while we were sleeping"

"Meh," Angus shrugged. "This is minor. We've had far worse. I take it that her fever must be down because if it wasn't, she'd have had the whole house bewitched by now."

"You wouldn't happen to be talking about my daughter, would you?" Robert asked, coming in.

"Good morning, Robert. Breakfast?" Angus asked.

"Yes, please. And then I'll take a tray up for Kate. I'm hoping to eat rather quickly so Brian can come down and eat. I think I need to keep an eye on things upstairs a bit. He didn't wake me up to tell me Khaat had had a fever spike from the last of that spell. I did think it was a possibility, but I guess I fell asleep and just didn't wake up."

"Is she any better?" Michael asked. He saw a couple of sneaky carrots out of the corner of his eye. "Oi! Back into the fridge, you two! Now! Or I'll make carrot cake out of you!" The carrots ran towards the kitchen, afraid of Michael. Robert sighed, seeing the carrots dash off.

"Well, here we go again," he said dryly. "Better keep your eyes open today until we get everything back to normal. Looks like they've been hiding out all night someplace because there's no sign that her magic is still off now."

Brant walked to the kitchen and placed the carrots and Bananas back in the fridge as the others dove inside . Walking back with a glass of carrot juice he drink it " ow don't worry there back in the fridge , and we will" he said sitting down as he drank. Jess listened and smiled .

" that's good mans shes on the mend , right" she asked as she accioed a tray for Kate for Robert to take up to her so she could eat she included a large pot of tea and two cups one for Robert if he wanted a cup later on.