LONDON CALLING

Jack groaned at Michaels responce but chuckled at the same time. Looking at the address he nodded he had memorised it then ported along side Michael. He walked slightly behind him as they entered the building " fancy building." he said looking around then as they headed to the apartment.

Entering he sniffed and sneesed " yeah definatly staged." he said then moved around the room making a note to not touch anything that would give away they had been in the apartment " so what we looking for exactly, other than the obvious" He asked looking from Angus to Michael and back before moving to the kitchen.

Kaden arrived in St Mungos and headed for the potions lab. Placing all the files in the correct place and copys into the ledger he slipped out and found a gurney. Placing down Burrito boy and removing him from the bag he enlarged him and placed a white sheet over him. Now carfully he rolled him down to the mourge and into one of the large freezers. He filled out the card and slid it in to donate who he was and then filed the report then quickly left back to the potions lab all with out being seen. Once there he sent word to Robert that Burrito boy was safely stoad away.

"We need to see if there is anything here that would tell us who he was when he wasn't shapeshifted into Phoebe. Look for a hiding place to see if his proper identification is here somewhere. Men's clothing that isn't Angus's. Or perhaps some sort of an address to his real place. If this was an undercover flat, then, surely he had a second place--his real address. I want to know who this bloke was. That might lead us to discovering how Gelding is finding these people. If we can find that out, maybe we can shut that access down for Gelding. That would certainly inconvenience him for awhile."

Michael began searching for some sort of a safe in the walls or beneath the floorboards. He didn't know if there was a safe or not, but if there was, he wanted to find it.

Robert got Kaden's message that the remains were logged in at St. Mungo's. Once that was done he ported to Paris to his contact in the authorities, and he reported the corpse and how they had come to find it. Robert promised them complete cooperation, but they waved it aside. They had no desire to try to take over Robert's efforts at stopping Gelding, especially since, by all Robert could find, they still didn't have an identification for the remains. Robert agreed to tell them the moment he knew.

Then he ported to London and followed the same process there, and got the same, very predictable results.

Edward took Angus back to Khaat's, and Angus went back to his duties at managing the estate. He knew that, despite how he was feeling, the tasks related to the estate didn't always wait, especially when it came to taking care of the livestock and all the guests. He found that the children were restless and irritable. He suggested that Owens take the little ones out to Abbey's play equipment, and then he took it upon himself to take the four that were older and decided that, if they were quiet and respectful and gentle, he could introduce them to the unicorns.

Jak looked around the apartment moving from room to room. As he stood he sneesed again "Bloody dust" He said softly then as if realising something he looked at the walls and floor for vents. Seeing one some what shinnier than the others he moved to it and gently took it off the wall. Pulling out a chair he stood ontop of it and looked inside. There sat a tin box, reatching in he pulled it out " Hey look what I found" he called out to Robert and Michael.

Jessie watched as Edward and Angus returned he could tell by the look on Angus's face something wasn't right and he gave him a short smile as he continued to help Kate and Jess with dinner pereperations. Jessie moved to the door and watched as Angus took some of the older kids to see the unicorns " you think he'll be ok?" Jessie asked Edward.

"Oh, well done," Michael said. "Let me see." He flicked his finger at the lock on the tin box, opening it. Inside was a wallet with a photo of a man, a rahter homely looking man, and a name. "Bingo. Augustus Ironwood, age 42. Ironwood. Ironwood. Seems to me I've seen that name somewhere before, but I can't place it. Well, he clearly wasn't a Frenchman. Born in Ivybridge. Hm. That's Devon. That will help. I think I'll look him up. I bet the Unspeakables have a file on him."

Edward watched Angus take the older kids to the corral to see the Unicorns, and he heard Jessie ask im about Angus.

"Yeah, he'll be alright," Edward said. "He's one that prefers to work through things rather than to discuss them. I think I'm going to keep an eye on him but I'm also going to give him a little distance. He's not ever been that serious about anyone before, so this is going to take a little time. And, if I know him, he'll swear off any sort of relationships for awhile, but that's alright."

He glanced back at the kids and saw they were legitimately awestruck at seeing a pair of unicorns.

"Well, that will be someone that those kids will remember all their days, and it will give them a story to tell when they get to Hogwarts," Edward smiled. "Have you gotten a chance to meet the unicorns or the hippogryff?"

Jessie looked at Edward and shook his head at his words about Angus " shame." he simply said then looked at Edward and again shook his head " nope I kinda stay away from hourse types, they don't like me" he told him and looked sheepishly at him. Jess walked over and chuckled at Jessie.

"yeah like the time Jack showed you the unicorn and you thought it would eat your hand." she said trying not to laugh. Jessie groaned and rubbed his face.

"yeah yeah I did, and screamed like a little girl too." he added also trying not to laugh. " Im happy they are over there and Im here." he pointed to the corral.

Jack moved to Robert as he took the box and watched as he took out every thing out of it. " sounds familier, ivybridge?" he said softly when Robert mentioned Devon he nodded " yeah by the coast"

"Hm," Edward said, amused. "I know exactly what to get you at the next gift giving occasion then. Something furry, and in between the size of a pygmy puff and a troll." He deliberately wasn't going to give Jessie any clues worth having.

"Yes," Michael said to Jack. "That's right. It's on the southern coast, not all that far from Cornwall. Pretty rugged country in that area. One thing about it, if someone really wanted to be able to hide themselves, there are a lot of places in that area to do it." He thumbed through the wallet, and he pulled out a Gringotts card that had a vault number on it. "Vault 603. How about you check out the vault and see if there's anything interesting in it? I'm fairly well known at Gringotts, so you would have better luck there unless I used polyjuice to do it. How much do you want to bet that there's a significant fund in there. Maybe you can talk them out of a written bank statement too so we can see who the money is coming from. If there's no money there, then we need to check the bank in Paris."

He went to the wardrobe and opened it and checked through it, and then he looked at the labels on the clothes. "Well, those aren't cheap. Designer labels from the biggest Paris muggle fashion houses. Mr. Ironwood went to a lot of trouble to look appealing. And...what's this? A jewelry box." He opened it.

"Good heavens," he said. "Wanna make Jess jealous? This man has more real baubles than Khaat and Jess do put together. Look at this." He handed Jack the jewelry box, loaded with bracelets, necklaces, earrings and rings. "All very genuine stones, I can assure you. Why go to all this trouble? There's making things realistic, and then there's this. This would have cost thousands and thousands. Gelding's put a ridiculous amount of expense into this, and I want to know why."

Jack whistled at the amount of jewlery in the box 2 you think its ral or costum?" he asked hoping it was just costum. " if its real then I agree hes realy gping over the top over this, but still begs the question why?" Jack picked up a ring and looked at it in the light. " these are fake." he said placing the box on a table. " nothing but paste, again the illushion but nothing real." Jack frowned.

Jessie groaned at Edwards words " oh please don't " he groaned with a smirk. and gently bangged his head on the door while Jess laughed at him. then looking at Edward as she finished redying the meals.

"Okay could one of you start the BBQ, smoked steaks with trout wrapped in paper with fennel and lemon." she said taking out the tray she'd put in the fridge. " theres two more in here."

"No, no. This is definitely real," Michael said. "No doubt about it. Catburglar, remember? I have been paid for decades to know the difference at a glance." He took everything out of the jewelry box and put it all in his pockets. "I want Robert to see this." He took the box and tossed it to the bed, and as he did, he heard an additional rattle. "Wait a second." He checked the box and found it had a false bottom. He opened it and found an envelope, and when he opened the envelope, he drew out a piece of paper and he opened it and read it.

"So that's what this is all about. This changes everything," Michael said quietly, deadly serious. "It's a contract between Ironwood and Gelding. Gelding agreed to pay him 1 million galleons for the death of Robert Lupin." He handed it to Jack to read it for himself.

Jacks eyes went wide and he whistled once more " there must be thousands in that box." he said " yeah, expert eye right" he said then watched as Michael took out the bottom of the box then an envalope. " That son of a witch" he cursed with a low growl letting his wolf show a little at his annoyance at Geldings constant interfearance. " means we need to vet every new member incase there working for him." He galnced at Michael " obviously not you nor I" he added " what about Jessie and Kaden?" he asked then shook his head " no, Jessie is a good kid."

Jack paced the floor " it would also mean new protacols need to be put in palce."

"The only ones right now we can trust, without vetting, is the immediate family, unfortunately. Robert, Kate, Khaat, Brian, you, Jess, me. I want to trust everyone else in our circle, but I don't know if we should. Robert and Brian have the means to get some folks vetted quickly, but he obviously isn't going to do that for everyone in the organization. Some of them will have to be processed slower. Robert and Brian aren't going to want to abuse their vetting privileges by doing a long list of people on a rushed basis. But, yes, we'll need to get everyone vetted, even if they were vetted before, we'll need to do it again.

"I think we need to find Robert immediately. I don't think he should be left alone for obvious reasons. He won't like it but I bloody don't care. He'll have to suck it up for the time being. And then, we need to have a family meeting--without any of the others. We need to lay this all out on the table and get a unified plan to deal with it. I say we gather everyone up and take them to the farm and meet with them while all the others are busy with the guests at Khaat's.

"You're right, Jack. This changes protocols and everything else. Let's finish this up in a hurry and go find Robert. He could be just about anywhere. That didn't really bother me until right this minute. Now that thought bothers me immensely."