Marriage is Murder

Jack , Steven and Brant quickly got the lab up and working when they heard a crash from upstairs. Jim and Jack dove up and found Marcus and Khaat on the landing both looked confused at each other seeing the marks around her throat. "He attacked her?" Jack said looking to the door to Roberts room. Jim looked at sighed and looked to Marcus and Khaat.

"Look after her Marcus, I'll send up some coffee and tea for you both." he said and headed down to let Michael know what had traspired when she had gon in alone. Jack loked to Marcus.

"Best she not try again " he said " next time he could kill her with out knowing he was doing it." he was glad that Marcus had been there for her.

Jim quickly left the hospital and headed back to the main house he ported in and looked for Kate as he moved from room to room "KATE!!" he called out passign Cassidy and Steven who had come in from the garden with fruit and veg and flowers. Steven saw the look on his face and knew something was wrong cassidy headed up to the nursary to find Kate.

" Kate, Jims looking for you and it seems important." she told her and moved to sit drawing with Jalyen hoping she would go down to him. Steven placed the veg on the table in the kitchen along with the flowers he held.

Kate was dressing Julia for the day when she clearly heard the bellowing from downstairs. It was not good. Kate could feel the fear and the panic. She put Julia on the floor and dropped a pair of pumpkin colored socks for Julia to go with her brown corduroy pants and the tan colored shirt with the happy little pumpkin appliques.

"Would you help Julia with her socks, please?" Kate asked Cassidy quietly. She heard Robert in his room. Robert was alarmed. He was heading downstairs. Robert had been hiding himself away, but this was the first in a long time he had attempted to leave his room.

And as she turned to go downstairs, she got a strong, brief aroma of Turkish cologne. Then she saw a very clear apparation of Remus in front of her with a serious look on his face.

"Khaat," Kate said very softly. It was the only thing that would make Remus work so hard to be noticed. "Oh, God. And Robert knows. Somehow he knows."

Kate saw Robert in the hallway. "Robert," she called, careful to not try to touch him. "Please. Please, wait. Let me. I'll come right back and..."

Robert whirled on her, rage in his eyes. He knew something was wrong, and he wasn't waiting.

"Alright," she said softly. She carefully made her way to go around him, in front of him. Then she turned back around and looked at him carefully, knowing no easy way to break it to him. "Robert..." she said softly. "I just saw Remus. Just now."

Robert frowned deeply, knowing this was very serious indeed. Kate went downstairs and saw Jim there. Robert came down right behind her.

"It's Khaat, isn't it?" Kate asked, fearing the worst. "Tell me first--is she alive? Then tell me what happened."

Jim looked at Kate and nodded " she is both her and Marcus" he said simply " their at St Mungos, she’s in the O.R as we speak." he looked at her waiting for her to ask him to taker her to him " Marcus was hurt too I don't know the full existent " he said " Jess and the others arrived quick so...I think you'd both better get there." His voice trailed off telling her it was serious but she was in the right place to be tended to. Steven folded his arms across his chest and looked to Kate.

"We'll look after things here, go." Steven said looking from Kate to Robert and back knowing they were both fearful of what had happened to her

Robert went upstairs quickly. He went into Michael's room and borrowed a change of Michael's clothes, and hastily added some of Michael's hair to a bottle of polyjuice potion and took the potion. He changed into Michael's clothing and then went into Khaat's room and took Remus's old wand and placed his own very distinctive wand in his room.

Now, looking every bit like Michael Tremaine, he went back downstairs.

"Michael?" Kate frowned at him. "That's the best you could come up with?" He glared at her and motioned her to go with Jim. "Why can't I go with you?" she asked. He pointed at Jim very deliberately now, irked with her that she was wasting time. "Robert, I don't know why you won't touch her, but if she dies because you're being stubborn, I swear, I'll kill you with my bare hands."

She looked at his face. It was like stone. His hand hadn't moved. It was still pointing to Jim. She went over to Jim.

"You are such a damned stubborn bastard!" she cursed at Robert, fiery angry, knowing he had the skills to help his child and seeing all too well that he would not touch her, even if it meant she would die.

"Let's go, Jim," she told him quietly, watching Robert port out.

Jim nodded and moved to Kate just as Cassidy walked down but stopped seeing Remus stood in front of her " its serious" she said softly "very serious if your here" she spoke softly so not to scare the kids. letting the nannys take them she headed down to the main living room seeing who she thought was michael but saw subtle diferances and knew it was not him. " robert?" she asked some what puzzled but she nodded knowing it had to be seriouse for him to be leaving. " I just saw Remus Kate" she said " he looked worried " she told her just as Jim took Kates hand, he waited before he and ported out to the hospital.

He walked down to the room hoping she would follow to where Marcus and the others were waiting. Jack smiled at Kate as she saw her arrive.

(ooc: Abbey is too little to say Cassidy. She's going to call her Kay. Its about as close to the first syllable of Cassidy as she's going to get.)

"I saw him too," Kate said quietly. "I hope we get there in time."

Angus was in the kitchen, and he had Abbey with him. He had set spells in place to clean up the breakfast dishes, and he was finishing making some fresh deep dish apple pies for later. He was letting Abbey take the leftover pie crust trimmings and make little cinnamon sugar bites. He was letting her put sugar and cinnamon on the crust and then was cutting the crust into shapes and was putting them into a little pie tin to bake.

He turned to get some butter for the pie tin, and saw a man standing right behind him. Angus was badly startled. He hadn't heard a sound, hadn't felt a thing. He jumped and cussed, not expecting anyone to be there. Not to mention that he didn't recognize him. And then he realized he could see through the man.

"Unca ReRe!" Abbey's little chipper voice sounded. "Hi! Aun' Kay! Unca ReRe here! Come see!"

Angus spun around, looked at Abbey, feeling flabbergasted and then spun back around to see the ghost was still there. Was it really Remus? The ghost was looking at Abbey, was smiling and gave her a wave by wiggling his fingers at her. She laughed in utter delight.

"What the hell is he..." he began. Then he looked at the ghost. "What the hell are you doing here?" He looked at Abbey. "Do you know what he wants?"

Abbey seemed to be listening to Remus...or something, and what she heard seemed to make her very angry.

"Doggies bad," she said angrily, plopping down to sit on the floor. She hit her fist on the floor. "Mama gots a boo boo. Unca ReRe say Mama maybe go visit him." She looked at Remus, angry now. "You take Mama, but you bring her back!" She started to yell again for Cassidy.

"Aun' Kay! You tell him he gots to bring Mama back if she go visit there. He no bring her back, she no go!"

Cassidy looked at Kate and moved to Abby she picked her up and held her. " its okay Abby" she looked back at where remus stood her mind fixed on him as her face showed thunder in it.

"Ow boy," Steven said and stepped back from her " shes pissed" he said as he watched Cassidy look at Remus.

"Okay Remus, your not taking Khaat over the other side of the veil for good, even if I have to come and kick your sorry ass, even if you were a strong wizard. " she said looking right at him. She held Abby close and glanced down at her. " Don't worry Abby, Im sure he won't keep her there" she told her feeling inside she too was worried she realy couldn't do anything to him.

Remus raised one eyebrow, looking at her, surprised at Cassidy's reaction. She apparently honestly thought Remus was here to collect Khaat like some grim reaper. It was one of the most ridiculous things he'd ever heard.

He merely opened his arms towards her, as an open invitation for her to take her best shot. After all, what did she honestly believe she could do?

"Um..." Angus said quietly. "Maybe that's not what he wants?" He remembered the Remus in the portrait upstairs had only ever mentioned wanting Khaat to have a long, rich, full life. If Remus had come to somehow collect Khaat, then either this Remus or the image of Remus in the portrait was a liar.

"Remus, how can I help?" Angus asked. Remus looked at Angus. He was willing but wasn't a seer. A three year old was getting the message distorted, and the one with astral projection was too defensive to hear him. Clearly, he wasn't being helpful here. It was time to go. They were going to have to figure out that it was time to be ready for a lot more trouble--whether it came today or a month from now. It would come. They needed to be battle ready. But they weren't hearing them. They would need to do this themselves--on their own. He flicked them an irritated wave of dismissal and faded away.

"Unca ReRe!" Abbey was upset. "Come back! No go!"

Angus caressed the tot's blond hair. "It'll be alright, Abbey. I promise. He loves Mama. He's probably just gone to make sure she's okay."

Cassidy sighed and looked back at Remus trying to figure out why he was there "God Im confused I got the feeling he was protecting her and trying to warn us about something. " she said and sat down when Angus took Abby. Cassidy looked worried at them all hoping it was enough. Steven loked at her and nodded.

"Okay I'll speak to the guards about doubling spells and patrols to play it safe" he said and moved to Cassidy. Kissing her he left and Cassidy looked at Angus with a worried look.

" why do I feel this isn't over angus and its just the begining of something really bad." she said glanced back at where Remus once stood " and he knows it."