LONDON CALLING

Jess smiled at Kate " hes right they seem to absorb the language better art an early age, its good for her to be bylingwall, means she can have freinds across the world." Jess said " I always wanted to learn french but couldn't grasp it." She spred out some soft down for the pigmy puffs to sleep in. Jack stood up quickly and left the stall wiping his hands.

"welp there settled, one even tried to bite me." Jack said " don't think he liked me messing with his female." Jess chuckled and moved to stand with him.

"I'll start on the strawberry ice cream for dinner's desert." Jess said as she then moved out of the barn to the house.

"Its good things are getting back to normal again, even Jessies taking his trainning seriusly, he was out running before his patrol." Jack told her leaning back on the stall door. He brushed straw from his trousers.

"I do speak French and Spanish, as Robert but he also speaks Italian. The nice thing that is if you learn the basics of one, those are all based off of Latin. So they are very similar. If you learn one, you can actually figure out a lot of the other. Robert says he knows of a potion, believe it or not, that gives one the ability to speak different languages temporarily. I've never tried it because I see very little point in only speaking it temporarily."

When Jack said one of them had tried to bite him, that did not make her happy.

"I'll have a word with them," she said. "Of course, since not everything is a bird, my speech with other species is rather limited, but I have learned to say the word 'Naughty' in some different species." And then jess said, she'd go make the ice cream. "Thank you, Jess. You're a lifesaver."

"I'm glad we're getting back to normal too, but I'm even happier that you've done such a good job training him. I think you're giving him a sense of fitting in. Robert's right, you know. We've all been misfits in some sense or another in our own lives, and it's only when we've come together that we find we belong and we're pretty darned invincible. Remus and Sirius would be proud of all we've done and how far we've come, and they both would really like you and Jess."

Jack chuckled and nodded " yeah, she is, and misfits stick together" he said " in a good way, and yeah he has." He moved to the hypogriff pen and shook his head " na I think he was just letting me know she's his female and not to mess with her, not that I would." he saw the male walk over to him and lower his head to him Jack responded and was able to stroke his head. " see just a reasershion of doninance I guess."

Jess gathered cream starwberrys and the ice cream maker, placing everything into it she set it going and started on some small finger buscuits for them to have with it. she made a dough and rolled it out then cut it into finger sized strips and placed it on a baking tray to go into the oven. Then she placed it in the fridge to rest before cooking.

Marcus had gone to St. Mungos to find Robert, but all he found, for the moment, was Khaat. She was heading down the hallway in the sub basement to the potions lab to check and see if any of the new supplies she had ordered had actually arrived.

"Marcus? You look lost," she said.

"No, but I can't find your father. He left without me this morning," he replied.

"I heard his secretary tell one of the healers that he had slipped out for an early lunch. That can only mean that he's gone out to the Leaky for fish and chips."

"I'm gonna kill him," Marcus grumbled. "He has absolutely no right to ever complain about you again. You were so much easier to work with..." As he was speaking, Khaat suddenly felt some sort of powerful magical energies that were not her own, and they were pulling her somehow. She felt like she was going to apparate out, and not of her own control.

"Marcus!" she shrieked, clutching tightly to him quickly, and, hearing her alarm, he took tight hold of her, and as he did, they were both apparated out, to parts unknown. The odd sensation of it made them both black out completely.

In the kitchen at Khaat's, Kate felt a little surge of alarm, and then it faded quickly, but what she noticed was a strange muffling sensation. Someone had cast some sort of a spell to mute any seers' visions or sounds or sensations. That was concerning. Someone was deliberately trying to make sure seers were seeing and hearing and feeling nothing--which could only mean someone was up to something.

Jess stopped what she was doing and looked at Kate " thats not right" she said " somethings happened." she quickly wiped her hands and went to find Jack but Jessie was quicker porting to St Mungods where Kaden had called him.

"something happened I don't know what but I got an odd feeling, I do know I heard Khaat call out." he told Jessie.

"oka right now we need Robert," he said " he spoke of fish and chips so if hes not here I'll go his favorate place." Jesie said and left Khaat in the corridor where he hasd just arrived.

Jessie ported to the lecky couldren and looked around seeing Robert he walked over to him " don't mean to alarm but something has happened and Khaat and Marcus are no where around." he told him " you need to return, don't mean to be bossy but , like right now." he almost ordered

"Calm down, Lad," Robert said, having only two more chips left on his plate and a swig or so left of his pint. "What do you mean something's happened? Just because Khaat and Marcus aren't where they're supposed to be doesn't man something's wrong. Khaat can be impulsive, and Marcus is very good at keeping up with her." He ate the last two chips and washed it down with the last of his pint. "What makes you think something is wrong?"

At Khaat's, Kate was trying to figure out what had gone sideways with her abilities when Mira came into the kitchen, and she was talking a mile a minute.

"Aunt Kate, something's wrong with me. I've most my magic! I can't hear or see anything--it's all gone..." she said all in a rush.

"Calm," Kate told her in a quiet, steady tone. "Jess and I are having the same issue. For it to hit all three of us all of a sudden like this means someone's cast a bewitching spell. Someone is working very hard to block our seer's abilities. Now, think. Who do we know that would have any interest in turning off our sight and our hearing?"

"That old crone that had that big staff," Mira said. "Do you think she did it?"

"Well, that seems to be the most likely conclusion, except that she's in a jar in the cellar at our house," Kate said. "But that doesn't mean that Gelding or James might not have some other hussy working for them. And if they do, that means they're up to no good. And it also means, I'm calling dibs on getting to blast the bitch first."

Jessie looked at Robert and took a deep breath in " Jess and Kate felt something off, like it weas too quiet so did Kaden he called for me, when we got to where Khaat and Angus should have been Kaden said he heard her cry out, but she wasn't there." Jessie told him. " Have to admit I feel off, wrong myself." he looked at him " don't you feel it?"

Jess looked at Abby and smiled " its okay, im sure its just a tempory thing." she said glancing at Kate, then she flipped her medalion " safe than sorry." she said softly" beside if they don't show we'll know for sure." Jess sugested. Jessie looked down at his medallion that started to glow as did Roberts and folded his arms.

"Somthings not right, there gone." he said to him.

"Alright," Robert said. "Well, now you're making a bit more sense anyway." Just then the medallions started to glow. "It's Jess," Robert said. "Alright, I'm going, I'm going. I'll meet you at Khaat's." He rose, paid his tab at the Leaky, and flicked his wand and apparated out.

Brian apparated into the kitchen, followed in rapid fire succession by Gabe, Edward, Angus and Michael. Robert arrived a moment later.

"Has anyone seen Khaat or Marcus?" Robert asked. "She apparently was supposed to be going to the potions lab at St Mungos and never got there."

"I can vouch for the fact that she never got there," Brian frowned. "I just came from the lab. I brought in a big shipment from Italy, and I was going through the shipment invoice with the clerks that are in charge of unpacking and storing the new things. Khaat wasn't there, never showed up. One of the newer lads thought she had arrived because he heard some rather loud wandfire from outside the door in the hallway, so he opened the door, and there was nobody there."

"Sounds like somebody leaving, not somebody arriving," Robert said.

"Maybe more than one somebody," Edward said. "Can't tell you much. My seer's abilities seem to be on the fritz."

"So are Jess's and Mira's and mine," Kate said with a deep frown.

"All of you?" Robert said. "Then someone is mucking with us." He walked over to Kate and laid his hand on her forehead. "You've been blocked. Someone has cast a spell to block any of your abilities from working. And I'll bet that's what's happened to the rest of you. That probably means that Khaat, wherever she is, is blocked just like you are. For now, we'd better hope that Marcus is with her."

Jessie ported back to the farm and entered the kitchen with Jack who moved to a worried Jess. Jess nodded at Robert " even little Abby" she said glancing down " its weird to say the most, whom evey they are to affect us like that has to be ether wanting a death wish or a fool" Jess was now annoyed at the thought of not being able to sense what was going on.

"So what do we do now, if Khaat is with Angus she's at least got back up but we'd best find where she is and make our move to get her home" Jack said as Jess nodded along with him. Kaden ported in and moved to stand with Jessie looking at Robert.

"I did a sweep of the area and there is segnifigant reslidual magic in the area." he told Robert.

"Well if that's the case, if you found residual energies, then James was here. He got in past our enchantments and probably brought that woman here," Robert said.

"I thought she was in our basement, though," Kate said.

"Not her. I think it might well be the woman with the tarot cards that we ran into--Eve, I think her name was. She was already hooked up with James," Robert said.

"That's right," Edward nodded. "Her name was Eve. I think I have an idea, but it's a bit of a longshot."

"I'm open to anything you've got," Robert said.

"I think it's time I made a visit to Fenrir," Edward said. "I think we should see if we can motivate him to mount an offensive on James."

"I'm going with you," Angus said quickly.

"No offense, but in this case, I'm better with an experienced werewolf as an escort. I stand a better chance of getting out alive if I'm not going without a werewolf. I think we should take a generous gift. I'm suggesting two entire sides of beef--fresh. I think that would certainly appeal to him and his pack. Then, hopefully he'll hear us out."

"That means you're planning on taking Jack and Jessie both. You aren't going to be able to carry a whole cow by yourself."

"Well, since a side of beef is 500 pounds of beef, yes. I'm taking both of them--hopefully. And we'll be shrinking the beef so they can carry it. What do you say, Lads? Are you in?" Edward asked Jack and Jessie