LONDON CALLING

Kate chuckled and nodded " yeah thats a realy good idea, I'll split the wardrobe, half here and half at the duplex" she said looking at Kate " would you mind fetching me some clean clothes from my room please, I can wait till your ready" she smiled eating more of the pancakes just as Jess and Jack walked in smiling.

"oh pancakes nice, any bacon?" Jack asked " can't have pancakes without bacon too" he said and sat down with his food to eat as did Jess " patrol was uneventful last night, air watch was spot on" he said to Kate smiling knowing she'd know he ment the owls " there resting now ready for tonight." It was now Kaden arrived yawning.

"sorry long night" he siad " some one cast a boils spell and we were inundated with it" he smiled smeling the pancakes and looked to kate " may I?" he asked before only taking one and some syrup to run over it.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Jack," Kate said. "Just didn't fix any. Didn't think that anyone might want bacon. It never occurred to me. I could make some BLT's for lunch, though, I suppose. I'm glad that your little nighttime crew worked out so well. At least we know that's something we can use more often now. I'll give them an extra ration today so they don't need to hunt unless they want to. Help yourself, Kaden, by all means."

"I had that boils business a few days ago, Kaden," Robert said. "I sort of think that its some summer time Hogwarts' students shenanigans. I know that the ministry is supposed to pick up on all the underage magic, but I'm not sure this administration is so efficient. One of the teens I treated said something about a candy that a friend had given them. Some Bertie Botts beans, and this teen was blaming it on the beans. I suppose I should go see Jonathan Belby this morning to give him a heads up on it just in case someone says the candy is bad."

"Oh, that reminds me," Marcus said. "My father said he has the bugs worked out of the wands, and that Abbey should come by soon. I don't' know what that means, but that's the message."

"I know exactly what that means," Robert laughed. "Abbey, would you rather go swim or go see Papa John this morning?"

"Papa John!" she bounced up and down.

"Jeffrey," Robert looked at him, "feel like a trip to Honeydukes this morning?"

"Honeydukes?" I haven't been there in a decade at least. I'd love to go--unless you need me first, Khaat."

"Not at all," Khaat said. "I'll be here helping over there in whatever this clandestine project is you all have going at the duplex."

"Then we're good to go, I think" Marcus said.

"I'll go get you some clothes, Ruby," Kate said, leaving to go get her a change of clothes.

Kaden smiled as he sat down at the table " these are great." he said Jack sat down next to him as he too ate.

"don't worry over it, just a thought" Jack said and chuckled at the boils breakout " im my day that was a hazing ritual." he said " always harmless never harmful" he said softly. " kinda a saying we had" he siad to them. Kaden laughed as Robert said one of the boys said it was candy.

" I don't think its that, unless some one enchanted them or pored a potion over them while no one was looking" Kaden said " which in that lace would be a mirical in its self" he chuckled. Ruby heard Kate and smiled to her breathing out a sigh of relife.

"thank you cake and I think I'll do some backing to day, always wanted to back a cake, might do a welcome home cake for the guys" she chuckled then looked at Abby " don't worry it will have berries ontop." she smiled as she ate her breakfast.

"Well, you're probably right," Robert told Kaden, "but you know how rumors get started. So, I think I'd best at least warn Jonathan, just in case some nut complains about Honeydukes. We can always swim when we get back. Kaden, I don't think you've met Jeffrey yet. This is Dr. Jeffrey Burnstein. He is the man who owns and runs that healing resort in Switzerland that I told you about. Jeffrey, this is Kaden Whittemore. He's a nurse working at St. Mungo's, and he's Jessie's partner."

"Nice to meet you, Kaden," Jeffrey said. "Maybe we can get some time to talk about Jessie and your thoughts about what you think his strengths are and also his needs. Maybe we can take just a little bit of time after breakfast while someone helps Abbey get some of the blackberry syrup off her face and hands."

"ROOby--can we has storberries?" Abbey asked.

"We have more strawberries than we can possibly use this year, I think," Robert laughed. "I think your Gam is going to have to make jam and syrup and all sorts of things to keep them from going bad."

Kaden looked at the man sat opasite him and smiled politly " oh , pleasure to meet you, I heard people talking about how wonderful your treatments are , I my self have refered several people to your clinic by word of mouth when all else failed, I keep some pamphlets for your clinic in my desk draw at work." He ate his food them looked at Jeffery and nodded " of course, you'd need all the information to make an imparshal diagnosis for treatment, right" he said with out missing a beat.

Ruby chuckled but nodded " I can make a strawberry cheese cake and strawberry scones and I bet you'd love strawberry smoothies too" she said and looked to Kate " all healthy of course, and I'll clean her up after breakfast"

"Thank you," Jeffrey said. "We have worked hard to make our clinic look and feel like a five star resort mainly because there is such negativity surrounding any sort of chronic health issue and any sort of mental health diagnosis. If people are going to be open and honest with us, I feel they need to feel that we respect them and intend to treat them in the finest way we know how. The process I use is to admit every patient first to the main clinic building for at least the first 24-48 hours for a complete physical. I want to know about any and all organic problems. Some mental health issues have organic causes, so I want to start to deal with the things that are biological in nature first. Once I have that under some sort of control, then I can start to help with the cognitive and behavioral issues. It's about effectiveness so that no one has to be away from family or friends any more than necessary. Then, after we have the patient relatively stable, we can look at when they're ready to perhaps be placed in one of our small cottages on the grounds. Their medical needs are still seen to, and their meals are delivered there three times a day. They have a small kitchen for fixing tea and coffee and snacks, and it also provides them a private and comfortable place for individual or family therapy sessions. Group sessions are done at the clinic. Sometimes, when a patient is ready, the family is brought in to stay at the cottage with their loved one so that we can try to help them get ready to be integrated back with their family again."

Robert finished his breakfast and took his dishes and Jeffrey's to the kitchen. Kate brought back a change of clothes for Ruby and started to put away some of the breakfast leftovers.

On the train Michael and Angus finished breakfast and the porter took their tray. They read the newspapers, and Angus talked to Michael about not wanting to spend another couple of hours on a bus when it really wasn't necessary. Michael did understand Angus's drive to be done with this mission, so he told Angus that whatever he wanted to do, Michael would come with him.

Kaden nodded as he listened to Jeffery talk of his facility. " sounds apsolutly perfect for mental reabilitation." he said smiling " as for Jessie I could get you a copy of his medical records if that would help you, he had a copy with him when he was discharged and has kept it , I know where he keeps it."

Ruby smiled and thanked Kate as she handed her the change of clothes " I'll take miss Abby and washer up and dress her for the day rather than her PJs" she said picking up a sticky Abby from her chair. Ruby headed up the stairs with Abby while Kaden helped clear the table.

Jessie sat in the cabin his leg bouncing he wanted to be home now and face the music as soon as possible. He also wanted to see Kaden too. He knew all Ruby wanted was to be with Angus and he was good with that.

"That would be helpful," Jeffrey said, "so long as you think Jessie would be alright with me reading it."

Brian noticed Jessie's agitation, and he changed the room to enlarge it again and put the puzzle back on the enlarged table.

"Here. Get focused on something," Brian told him. We have another nine hours before we pull in the station in Calais. Focus in on the puzzle. No one is going to do anything harmful to you. You're an adult. No one can make you do something you don't want to do unless you break the law. Besides, Robert doesn't work that way."

Edward and Simone finished the last in the master bedroom. The skylight above the bed was magnificent, and now they wanted one for their own master suite. They had some specific ideas and decided to talk to Kate about making the glass for it. Meanwhile, though, they had noticed that Ruby had moved all the clothes to the duplex, and they had heard that it was going to be a problem. Edward got out some of Angus wardrobe, and Simone got some of Ruby's, and they moved them back to the main house to Angus' bedroom there. Ruby did still look a bit short of clothing, so Edward sent a message that Ruby needed some rounding out in her things. Diane sent a message back that she would put a large box together and send it within a couple hours.

Kate was going to head over to the duplex when a message flew out of the floo. She intercepted it. It was from Sergio and Ana. Kate guessed that must have been the names of their contacts in Romania. The message was simple. "Shapeshifters attempted to destroy mine and miners last night. Final Game Score-- Miners: 2, Shapeshifters: 0. Shapeshifters will be returning in urns. Miners all unharmed." Kate took the message to Robert, and he read it.

"They killed the shapeshifters, then?" Kate asked.

"Yes," Robert replied. "Gelding's people will not be happy, but they brought it on themselves."

Jessie was glad Brian elarged teh room more and laid out the puzzle again. He heard Brians words and nodded as he focused on putting the puzle together " your right, its silly of me to think that way" he said peicing another peice in place " ha, I got another" he said smiling now he had something to keep his hands and mind busy.

Ruby came down with a much cleaner and now fully dressed Abby ready for her trip to diagin alley. " she heard what Robert said and brathed out " is it bad to say thank goodness, but we should still be on our guard right." she said placing Abby on her lap as she sat down to face Robert.

" oh I don't thibk he'd mind he showed me it then just palced it down like it was nothing" Kaden said to Jeffery" and he has a tendncy to act like a lost boy sometimes as if hes forgot hes an adult with his thoughts and words, he needs direction and encuragment." Kaden told him as he sat back and thought more about Jessies behaviour.

"We definitely need to still be on our guard," Robert said. "They just lost two of their people, and I'm sure they're trying to find out how we got so far ahead of them. Our lads are within spitting distance of home and their shapeshifters just made it up to the mine last night. However, now that they're not coming back, Gelding's people may be trying to strike out quickly. And--we still don't know who, in our own organization is betraying us. I still have to find that out."

"I have a thought about that," Marcus said.

"Do tell," Robert said.

"Let me go in using Polyjuice as a disguise. A little veritas serum here and there, and I might be able to uncover the culprit," Marcus said.

"That might work," Robert said. "But--what I 'like is that you won't be around to help keep Khaat safe from James. Let me give it some thought, though, because it really does have some merit." When Ruby came downstairs with Abbey looking much better, Robert smiled.

"Well," he teased, "where did you get this child? I don't think I've seen her before."

"Papa! It's me! Me! Abbey!" she bounced up and down on Abbey's lap.

"Abbey who?"

"Abbey!" she fairly shouted at him now. Robert burst out laughing.

"Of course I know its you," he scooped her up and kissed her. "Shall we go see Papa John now?" She nodded. "Marky! Coming?"

"Of course," Marcus laughed. "Anybody else coming?"

"Bring me back a surprise, would you?" Jeffrey asked. Abbey nodded. She was good at surprises.