Marriage is Murder

Jess chuckled seeing Angus reaction " maybe some soup a bit later on when his apitite has retuned?" she said still chaneling that ikky feeling out of her body " remind me not to do that again" she said and shivered " if that how you feel then you have my sympathies" she said shivering as she let the last sesations leave her.

Jess moved back to him and tucked the blanket around him making sure his water was fresh. " do you think you think you could drink some water?" she asked lifting the glass to his lips hoping he would at least drink something even though Edward had given him some when they first got to the room.

"I can guarantee you that he feels worse," Robert said. He could see that Angus was really not feeling well. "Here. Let me," He said. He drew off some of Angus's nausea and some of the achiness. He saw the visible relief in Angus's face.

"Thank you," he said. "I wish I knew what the hell happened."

"I'm guessing you really honestly don't want to know," Robert said with a gentle smile. Angus tried one more sip of water from Jess but then aid back down. He had had enough. "Alright. Get some sleep. We won't push the food until you have had a chance to sleep some of this off."

In the nursery, the kids started to wake up and decided to wake Khaat up by piling on her. For the most part, they had avoided her shoulder. She sent them downstairs to breakfast, and they went in a big thundering herd downstairs, yelling excitedly. They were hungry and they wanted to eat. Khaat got up and went into the bathroom in her own room to shower and dress.

"Nothing like a dozen hungry kids at 6 am," Michael said, hearing them coming.

"Where's Brian?" Kate asked.

"He's outside at the powershed behind the barn, working on the transformer already. He said he wanted to get an early start."

"Oh, that's not good," Kate frowned. "That thing is always in such bad shape after it blows. And its been wet. That's going to make it dangerous. Robert is going to replace it today. We need to stop him before he ends up getting electrocuted."

Jess smiled as Angus took that one sip she placed the glass down on the wooden night stand by the bed and moved back to Robert. She heard the kids awake and smiled" I'll deal with them." she said as she then moved to the nursary stepping to one side as they ran past and down to the kitchen for breakfast. Jess followed to make sure none got hurt. Walking in she helped James into his chair and gave him a bowl of fruit as she also pored some or herself making sure to keep it away from the kids so they would not hurt them selves. " I see you guys found the food" she said chukaling as she looked at steven and Jack.

"I'll go and check hes okay" Jack said standing but not before he took some toast. He headed to the door and around to where the generator sat. " hows it going everyone was worried you'd electrocute your self out here" he said finishing his toast as he watched Brian working." can I help?" he asked moving a little closer to him.

Robert left Angus in Edward's care as Angus was drifting off to sleep. Robert expected Angus to sleep most of the day. He headed back downstairs to try to get something to eat before he had to leave for work.

"How's Angus?" Kate asked, handing Robert his tea again.

"Sleeping," Robert said.

"I presume that's better," Kate said.

"Than being unconscious? Definitely," Robert said. "He should be feeling somewhat better by tonight. He might well be up tomorrow, but I don't know if he'll be up to working yet--not at full force."

"We'll take what we can get," Kate said.

"Agreed," Robert said. "What's with the kids today?"

"I think they're excited because they got to camp out in the nursery last night," Kate laughed, watching them at the table.

"Ah. I see," he said. "Is the newspaper here yet?"

"Not sure," Kate said.

Outside, Brian was up a tall ladder starting to work on the transformer when he heard Jack calling from the ground.

"This thing is such a pain in the butt," Brian sighed. "Every time it storms, I have to repair it. It took a hard hit in an electrical storm shortly after I built the house, years and years ago. Blasted the transformer, and damned near burned the house down. And since then, I've been nursing it through from one storm to the other." He turned the screwdriver to loosen a wire and the transformer crackled and spit sparks at him. He sighed, frustrated with it.

Jack looked up at Brian as he was up a ladder " why not just buy another be cheaper than repairing this one all the time" he said moving to hold the ladder for him. He saw the sparks and looked at it " becareful I don't want to have to explain to Khaat that you blew your self up while I stood by" he said.

Jess looked at Kate and chuckled " I guess they are a little more excited than last night I hope that new play castle Brian built can stand the punishment they will give it today" she said handing Jaylen some toast. Steven handed little Robert a berry and sipped his juice.

"Buy a new one?" He asked. "'Guess I never really thought about it. It might well take a few days to get a transformer big enough to run this estate and get it put in, though. Unless Robert has some connections to get it done sooner." He tried one more time to disconnect a wire and this time it shot angry flames out at him, singeing his hair slightly. He brushed out the flames.

"Oh, alright," he sighed, giving up. "The thing acts like its hexed. I never claimed to be a wizarding electrical engineer." He drew his wand and flicked a strong protection barrier around it as it crackled and sizzled to keep anyone from going near it. "That should hold awhile. I'm coming down." He climbed down the ladder again.

"I think I'll lay the ladder on the ground until I find out when someone can come out. Then I'll come out and put it away. That ladder is extra long and its a bit heavy. I probably would have been better if I'd have tried to do that job on a broom, but I was just never able to let go with both hands--not for very long, anyway. Never found much use for a broom, really. Much to Madame Hooch's disagreement." And it was true. He had done alright in flying classes. He just hadn't particularly liked it.

Jack chuckled and held it till he was at the bottom " hey your not alone there I don't do the broom thing ether." he said and lay the Ladder down close by the transphomer then stepped back making sure that it was safe. " I'll look into it , firstly by asking Robert as you sujested." He walked back out into the garden. " be easier on the woman and the kids with a new one." he chuckled softly as he waited for Brian.

Jess watched as steven finished as she did and took the empty plates into the kitchen and into the sink. Jim gave Catlin a berry and a drink of jouice that she took with a smile.

"I think I want to go see if there's anything left of breakfast," he said. "If the kids come out to play, we probably will need to have them wear some light jackets or sweaters for the first couple of hours until it warms up. Its too chilly for little ones. I've put layers of protection spells around the play house and the play yard, but we'd better have at least one adult out here with them. I just don't trust the werewolves to not try to intrude here, especially when we have the little ones outside. That makes us very vulnerable, but we can't keep them indoors forever. They need to learn that a certain amount of that is just part of living in this family." He yawned, heading inside. "Coffee. Definitely coffee and maybe some breakfast. Unless the rest of you ate it all," he laughed.

Jack chuckled " when I left there was plenty left" he said and listend to him explain about the spells " good idea Steven and I will do it two are better than one after all" he said as they walked inside again he smiled seeing Jess stood with a plate of food for Brian.

Jess walked over and smiled " here breakfast" she said and placed it down on the table ready for him to eat. " any luck with the transphormer?" she asked him picking up an empty bowl that one of the kids had finished with.

"Thanks," Brian said as Khaat sleepily made her way to the kitchen. "I thought you were up."

"I was," she said. "I showered and dozed back off."

"Did you get to your coffee?"

"What coffee?"

"There was a cup in the bedroom," he said. "You clearly didn't get it, then."

"Here," Michael laughed, handing her a large mug of French roast. "I'll get you a plate."

"No thanks," she said. "I'll just get a piece of fruit."

"No, that won't do," Michael said. "Fruit and a scone at least? Jess made some apricot ones last night."

"Okay," she agreed." He cut up an Asian pear for her and put the slices on a plate and put a scone on it with the pears and a bit of jam for her.

"There," he said. "Try that."

"I am either going to have to call someone else in to repair the transformer or replace it with a larger one," Brian told Jess. "This one is determined to just toss flame at me."

"Let's not set the house on fire," Khaat said, sipping on coffee. "Its not like we can't afford a new one."

"Yeah but a new one takes a couple of days to replace, at the soonest, and that requires more strangers to come onto the property. And I don't want any more trouble," Brian said. "We don't need any more security troubles."