LONDON CALLING

Jack heard the exploshion so did Jessie both ran down in the direction of the sound. " Wonder what that was?" Jack asked as both men moved quickly down to the equipment room. Entering the found Robert on the floor out cood and the small of gunpowder hanging strongly in the air.

"Robert!!"Jack called out then looked at Jessie " get Kate to send for Khaat" he called to him Jessie ran back up to the kitchen .

"Kate we need Khaat or a healer of some sort, its Robert something went wrong in the equipment room, hes down." Jessie said " some sort of explosive, don't think it was a booby trap, mighthave neen something to do with him being tired, I don't know." Jessie rambled Jessie walked over to him and placed her hands on his shoulders.

"Okay go get Khaat, I'll send for a healer just incase." Jess said and Jessie nodded. Aperating to Brian and Khaat home he called out .

"Brian, Khaat!!" he called while searching " we need a healer Roberts down." he called out hoping they would hear him he headed to the pool and barn,

"Jess, keep Abbey safe!" Kate said, not wanting Abbey to try to toddle down to the weapons room.

Kate ran downstairs to the weapons room, not knowing if she's find the place on fire, if Robert would be in one relative piece or not, but it was rare for Robert to have any sort of accident, let alone with a potion or a weapon either one. It alarmed her. This wasn't like him. Her first thought was the same as Jessie's--Robert was overtired and he'd made some sort of mistake. She saw some flames around his work table.

"Jack! The fire!" Kate shouted. Jack was big enough that she figured he could aim and spread. "Aguamenti!" Kate fired some wandless magic in the direction of the fire, but she knew she would need some help to get it out.

Brian came on the run, hearing someone shouting. He could hear Khaat throwing on some clothes after her shower.

"I've got it," he shouted upstairs to her.

"I'm coming in a minute," she shouted back.

"What happened?" Brian asked Jessie. He wanted to know, in case he needed some sort of medical equipment that Robert didn't have at the farm. "Where is he? I've got medical supplies here, but I need to know what to take."

Jack took out his wand and started to put out the fire. " Im on it, augmenti" he said as water shot from the front of his wand making the fire sizzle as it was dosed. Jessie looked at Brian as Jess headed to the playroom to stay with Abby.

"it was an exploshion, not sure if he was working on something or sabotage, but something went off, hes out cold on the floor." Jessie said waiting on the two of them.  Kate and Jack ae with him putting out the fire and assessing the damage. "I came for Khaat as she's ahealer" he said noting how he stood in his bare feet in their living room. " sorry had to change after the assault course again." he glanced around looking for the black doctor's bag " I'll fetch what you need, just tell me where. " he tried to take a deep breath to calm himself and it worked.

Jack moved to kneel beside Robert and touched his neck " Hes still breathing" Jack said " think we should move him to the living room and away from this smoke" he placed his hand behind roberts neck to suport it so it would not move incase Robert  had done some damage when thrown backwards. Gently as he could Jack moved Robert to the couch and lay him down, now in the light he could see scorch marks around Roberts face and looked at Kate hoping it was just superfichal and nothing worse.

Brian took off a signet ring from his index finger.

"Basement," he told Jessie. "Second door on the left. This'll get you in. There are two messenger bags with shoulder straps hanging on the wall. They're emergency med kids. Get them both as quick as you can and lock the door back up."

Khaat ran down the stairs, still trying to dress. She had jeans and a white button down that was buttoned up crooked. She had two sneakers, mismatched, in her hand, and she'd forgotten socks altogether.

"Hold still," Brian told her. He cast a glamour spell quickly to straighten her clothes for her and to fix her mussed hair. Then he transfigured both sneakers to a pair of canvas mules that didn't need socks or tying. "Try that," he told her. "Keep your calm. Getting rattled won't help."

"What the devil was he thinking?" she asked rhetorically, slipping on her shoes and automatically bending down to tie shoes that no longer had laces. Brian caressed her cheek to slow her down.

"Take a breath," he said gently. "I'm right here. He'll be alright, and don't forget if they needed to, they could open a floo and summon help if they needed to. That would get them past the unplottable spells on the farm and the protection grids. He isn't alone. This is your dad we're talking about. He's as resilient as it gets. He'll be alright." She ran to the kitchen and got a dishtowel and opened the kitchen cabinet and dumped a random shelf full of potion bottles into the towel and tied them up in a bundle in the towel and brought it back, hoping Jessie was quick in finding the messenger bags.

Jessie took the ring and nodded he understood, taking off he headed down the corridor Brian had mentioned and soon found the room there hung up were two bags he grabbed both and headed back. Aproching Khaat he opened one bag for the things in the towel. " Here" he said " we should get going, not sure how Kates ." he added.

Jack opened the floo in the fsrm sn looked at Kaste " Im going to send for help from the hospital, just incase" he wrote a note and sent it threw the floo network. " now we wait " hope whoever comes knows their stuff" he said placing down a damp towel over Roberts eyes.

Reatching over he toched Kates hand " he'll be okay, he's tough." he said softly." we also need to alow for the healer to enter should one come, some wards need to be lowered, I can't do that.." he hoped she understood she was the only one now who could for the moment.

Brian and Khaat both already knew time was of the essence, but they also knew that making sure they had the medical equipment they needed was worth the few seconds it took to get.

"Angus!" Brian shouted. "We're going to the farm. Robert's been hurt." Angus flew out of the kitchen.

"Can I help?" Angus asked.

"Stay on your toes in case we need anything. Keep things under control here until I tell you otherwise. I don't know if I'll need you to come and get Abbey or not," Brian said. "And St. Mungo's or Paris tries to contact Robert, send those things to me for right now. I'll keep you posted."

"Understood," Angus said, as Brian took the bags from Jessie. He gave Khaat's bag to her, and he shouldered his own and then took Khaat's hand.

"We'll meet you there, Jessie," Brian said, apparating out.

Kate opened the protections on the floo, but she wasn't going to open anything else. No one else needed to try to get in except who they sent for. She appreciated Jack's words, but right now, she had none of her own. She and Robert had been through scrapes before, and they would weather this one too. She was caught between being concerned for her husband and being angry and frustrated with him for always feeling like he needed to burn the candle not only at both ends but in the middle too. Not only that, but he always felt like he could handle whatever level of fatigue came his way. He just completely ignored fatigue and exhaustion like they didn't matter. Tonight, it angered her, but she knew this was not the time.

Once she opened the floo, she set a cleaning spell in place in the weapons room and then headed to the kitchen to make fresh tea and coffee. She needed her hands to be busy.

Kaden cleaned down the last bed and remade it after the last walk in patiant had left. He then moved down to the Nurses staion and began sorting out the equipment placed each in its right place and putting all those that had been used in the steam cleaner to be steralized for use again. It was now a voice came threw the floo. Urgance sat in it an acident at the patiants home.

Walking quickly he headed to the head nurses office but found nobody. Grabbing bandages potions and equipment he shrank them down and placed them into a doctors bag. Now with his coat on he accioed to where the emergancy had come from threw the floo network. Stepping out he saw an older gentelman on the couch out cold a woman stood in the kitchen and a big man knelt next to the couch.

"I'm nurse Kaden Whittemore from Sy Mungos, I take it this gentelman is the patiant, now please tell me what happened." he said moving to asses the older gentelman on the couch. He saw burns to his eyes and face reatching to gently asess his patiant he was relived to find no broken bones " all right , heres what I have found so far, slight head wound not sure with out a more skilled healers assess ment if any skull fracture but signifigant scorching to his face and eye" he spoke softly and gently so not to scar or alarm any one around.

Kate saw this unknown man arrive through the floo. She'd never seen him before, and it would have been easy for her to be irritable with him, but she tried not to, realizing Jack had sent for a healer. As he was making his assessment, she heard the sounds of more apparating, and she went to the kitchen, hoping she didn't have to fight off some intruder. She just motioned them to follow her into the living room.

"My husband is a collector of various weapons and ammunition," Kate said. "I wasn't in his collections room, but something must have gone wrong and exploded. Highly unusual for him because he's typically painstakingly meticulous."

"I can assist, if you like," Khaat told the stranger. "My husband and I are both healers, and he's my father."

Kaden looked up at whom had followed himthrew the floo, he saw two men and a young woman. It was she who spoke to him " wonderfull, can you hold his head, and you sir can you make that young lady some sweet tea." he spoke to the younger of the two who seemed to need something to do as well.

Kaden watched the young man head to the kitchen befoe he spoke again " I could use youe assistance to check his head, he has quiet a lump on the back of it, if theres a fracture it might explain his unconshious state right now, as for his eyes I can heal the burns but anything to do with the delecate structure, if damaged could need to heal natruly." Kaden reatcued into his bag and took out a bandage placing a herbal healing remady on it he gently dabbed the burns. " its a healing salve we use, it works well.


Jessie looked at the man hworking on Robert while he waiterd for the ketel to boil. By the way he spoke Jessie felt he knew what he was doing. Once the kettle was boiled he made a pot of sweet tea and gave one to Kate " he'll be okay, he has Khaat and a healer from the hospital, Im sure he'll be okay." Jessie placed a light hand on kates shoulder and smiled at her.

Kaden took out a small tourch and lifted one of Roberts eyelids, moving it he wanted to check that he could still see but with him being out cold he could only tell pupil reaction which was fine. " okay pupl reaction is good as for cornia damage, thats a wait and see." he looked up at the woman helping. " do you feel any movment around the lump?" he asked hoping for a no.

"Thank you, Jessie," Kate said. "There's fresh coffee and tea both for anyone who wants it. Set some mugs out, would you?"

Khaat and Brian went over to Robert, and Khaat laid her hand on his forehead to start to diagnose. She didn't say anything at first because she was just gathering information. She took the cloth off over his eyes and laid her hands on his eyes to check for damage, and then laid her hand on his chest to double check his vital signs. It was only then that she laid her hands on both sides of his head to check for fracture. She was already detecting gunpowder and magical explosive powder residue to his face and hair.

"No fractures of any kind," she told the stranger. "Mild concussion, no permanent damage to the eyes., some second degree burns to the skin around the eyes and to the face. The goose egg on his head is just a goose egg, nothing more. He'll have a nasty headache for a few days, but its no more than he deserves for fiddling around trying to mix those things. Bloody old fool--blew himself up good and proper."

"And I'm sure we won't let him live it down any time soon," Brian said with a bit of an amused grin. "Shall I get an ice pack for him?"

"He might need a fair few," Khaat said. "There's a daybed in the library where we could put him for tonight. That way we can keep an eye on him."

"You'll put him in his own bed," Kate said with iron firmness. "I won't be sleeping anyway."

"Let her be, Khaat," Brian said quietly. "She's within her right to be a little rattled. We'll do as she asks." Brian looked at the stranger. "I'm Brian Quinn, his son-in-law. And this is my wife, Khaat Lupin. And you are?"