LONDON CALLING

Ruby smiled seing Abby with one of the fruit lollys in her hand and liking them. She also saw him change the chair and knew it had to be comfortable more so that the one he'd been sat in for a long time. Once every one dug into lunch Ruby relaxed a little. As every one finished she made the table clae its self and walked out to see a bear were pic on the shoting range boards " wow, thats a lot of skin" she said " ow I want a crack" she said picing up a pistol loading it and looking around to make sure every one stood back from her, Taking aim she shot him in his butt cheek then placed it down " Im done." she chuckled "its so theraputic" she told Simone with a chuckle " he's plauged this family for years as Edward probably has told you." 

She walked back in and chucked at Angus as she moved to kiss his cheek " that was funny" she said softly " I bet the shaving was Jacks idea?" she asked brushing Abbys hed gently. " I wonder how long this will last with her or if the fever will break soon?" she was worried that too high a fever might not be good for Abby or her magic.

"That is one ugly werewolf," Robert laughed. "You know, if he breaks in here and sees that, he's going to be really pissed off."

"Well, then he gets what he deserves. He shouldn't be messing where he doesn't belong, then," Brian said. "Leave it."

"Khaat," Marcus said, "come here. I have an idea." She went over to him and he drew his service revolver, checked the bullets and then stood behind her. "Here, take it. Both hands, just like I taught you. Good girl" He handed the pistol to her. Then he wrapped his hands around hers and lined up the shot to exactly where he wanted it. "Now, nice and easy, squeeze the trigger." She obeyed, and the shot went perfectly right where he figured Khaat would want to shoot him. There was no point in shooting James in the heart since he didn't have a heart. She wanted to shoot him elsewhere. Then, Marcus made sure she had placed a similar shot in all the other pictures as well.

"There. Feel better?" he asked.

"Much. Thank you," she told him.

"My pleasure," he smiled, amused.

When Ruby came back in and guessed that the idea of shaving James had been Jack's, Angus laughed.

"No. Mine, actually, believe it or not. It made me laugh so hard when Jack actually did it, that I couldn't stop laughing enough to apparate home. He had to bring us home because it was one of the funniest things I'd seen in a long time." He sate down with Abbey in the better rocker. "God, that's better," he said. "Let's hope I can change the kitchen chair back." He felt Abbey's forehead as she snuggled back into him again. "I think Robert must have cast another fever spell on her. She's somewhat cooler than she was. "Abs, how about drinking some of this soda for me? It's icy cold. You'll like it." He fed her some sips of the soda, and she seemed to be more willing to drink some fluids when she was starting to feel just a wee bit better. "Good girl." As he sat there with her, he heard a very strange gurgling noise from the drain in the kitchen sink.

"Ru, is there something weird in the sink?" he asked. It wasn't more than about thirty seconds later than the sink drain spat out a package wrapped in brown paper, addressed to Robert.

Ruby smiled when Abby drank some soda, she knew fluids would do her some good. She head the gurrgling and stood between tehm both , then the package was spat out and she caught it beore it hit the floor. " who sends a pakage by that method?" she asked " well its for Robert so guess I should take it to him. She looked at Angus and smiled seeing Abby now content on his shoulder.

Walking out side Ruby found Robert " um the sink just spat this out addressed to you." she said holding it out to him " and who sends my sewer?" she said scrunching her nose up.

"I haven't the foggiest," Robert frowned, trying not to laugh. Someone's taken to sending by kitchen drain, huh? Well, this should be good." He opened the letter that was on the package. "Oh. It's from Nigel. He apparently doesn't have a floo at his clinic in New York, so he sent it by break room drain." Robert laughed out loud. He opened the box and got out a bottle of potion and read the details. "Well, bless his little heart. He says this should do the trick for Abbey. He's had some success with it with adults. So, he's sent a large bottle of it, and he's given me the formula to make more, along with dosage instructions by weight." He opened it and smelled it, smelling the banana flavoring Nigel had added. "Well, she'll never drink that just like that. She doesn't care so much for bananas. I'll add some berry flavoring, and we'll be all good. He says we should give her a dose every six hours and that we should start to see some difference within 24 hours. Bless you, Nigel."

He went back inside and rooted around in one of the kitchen cabinets and found some strawberry flavoring. He poured her a dose of the potion and added a couple drops of strawberry flavoring and then double checked the potion himself to make sure it was safe to give to Abbey. Then he took it to Angus.

"Get her to take this, would you?" he asked. Angus didn't have a bit of problem getting her to take it. Then she cuddled into him again, saying something softly to him.

"'Fraid I don't know any stories, love," he told her. "Gam went to town to get a storybook. Maybe we can get someone to read you one when she gets home. Will that be alright?" She nodded. "I thought so."

Ruby chuckled and shook her ehd " now I have to watch for things coming out the sink too" she said still chuckaling then smiled as he told her it was from Nigel for Abby " oh wonderful" she said then he spoke of the banana flavoring she shook her head and agreed Abby would not like it. She watched as Robert changed the flavor to strawberry flavor. She ehard Angus and smiled more " I can later if you need a break" she said softly " is that okay Abby?" she asked softly " we can read the one about the bunnies." she gently brushed her hair out of Abbys face again. 

Ruby continued to claen up the kitchen then sat reading her book and watching as Angus slowly rocked Abby back and forth in his arms . She had no doughts he would be an excelent father to their children even if he could not see it himself. Turning the next page she heard Jack enter the room.

" Angus those posters are exactly what we need , though might scare off the crows too" he chuckled

Abbey did enjoy the story, and Angus was able to feed her quite a bit of the icy cold soda while she listened. Angus was glad that the story had kept her awake enough to get some fluid

"Those posters will scare off anything in its right mind," Robert laughed. "I like 'em. Good thought. Even if the muggle phone is contraband."

"What muggle phone?" Angus played innocent about the whole thing.

"Precisely," Robert said. It wasn't more than about three minutes, and Kate apparated back in with four big shopping bags filled with stuff, and carrying a cherry slushie. She set her bags down, came over and kissed the top of Abbey's head.

"How's my girl?" she asked Abbey. Abbey looked up at her.

"Hi, Gam," Abbey said.

"I brought you something. I brought you a cherry slushie. I know how you like them," Kate said.

"How do you know she likes cherry slushies?" Robert asked. "Are you feeding her junk food?"

"Says the man that thinks fish and chips are high nutrition," Kate looked at him and then paid no attention to him. "Papa is just jealous that I didn't bring him one." Abbey managed a little giggle. "Here, Sweetpea, drink. It'll help you feel better." Angus took the slushie and fed it to Abbey, who didn't seem to have much trouble with the straw. Angus encouraged her not to drink it too quickly so she wouldn't get brain freeze.

"Katherine Elizabeth Lupin, what did you do?" Robert pointed to the shopping bags. "I thought we talked about this."

"You talked about it. I did what I wanted to do," she said. She went to the bag and got out a new kitty for Abbey. It was, basically, ragdoll, but instead of being the standard doll with red yarn hair, this was a white raggedy kitty with a pink nightgown on.

"I found a kitty that needs a new home, and I thought you might like her," Kate told Abbey. Abbey loved the kitty immediately, and she wrapped it tightly to her. "Has she eaten anything?"

"Not yet," Angus said.

"Well, she has to try something," Kate said. She made Abbey a slice of toast with butter and cut it into some small pieces and set the little plate near Angus who coaxed her through eating the toast and drinking the slushie. Kate was impressed at how much Abbey would do for him just because he asked her to do it. He just had a way about him, a connection with her, that made Kate believe that, despite his own insecurities that he would turn out like his father, Kate believed Angus was going to be a really great dad.

Ruby looked at the bags Kate had brought with her " I'll put these in the playroom." she said and picked them up " you won't be saying that when shes a teen and wanting to hide away with a new book, or when her reports say very knowlagable." Ruby chuckled " and yes thats what I got, too much reading is never not good, I wish I had half the books you had as a child and if Angus and I every have children they can read a whole library and I would not stop thgem." she smiled seeing the new kitty " awe now lucky kitty as a new freind" she said softly.

"Angus, im guessing you might be sleeping here tonight with Abby not feeling well?" she asked watching Abby with the slushie drinking it slowly. She took out a soda for herself and smiled.

"At this rate she'll end up being a Ravenclaw," Robert said, knowing Lupins had been Gryffindors. Fawcetts had been Gryffindors. Quinns were Gryffindors.

"Her bio dad was a Ravenclaw," Kate said. "And Marcus was a Ravenclaw. What's wrong with Ravenclaw?"

"She's not being raised by Rob Dent. She's a Gryffindor, Kate," Robert said.

"You don't know that, you old poop," she laughed. "Let her be what she is. We'll love her because she's a brilliant, beautiful child and she's our first born grandchild."

Ruby asked if Angus was staying at the main house instead of the duplex, and he smiled at her.

"At this rate, I'll still be in this chair next week this time," he teased.

"I bet we'll be able to get her to bed by bedtime," Kate told Angus. Angus had a strong feeling that wasn't going to be as easy as Kate wanted to believe.

"Ruby," Kate asked. "Shall you and I perhaps give some thought about an easy supper? I was thinking perhaps of a large, tasty cottage pie. What do you think? Maybe a salad and some fresh bread? I'm open to any ideas you might have, though."

Ruby smiled at Angus and placed her hand gently on his shoulder " don't worry " she said then looked to Kate " I like your idea , cottage pit with salad and fresh bread." she said getting out teh potatoes to start cooking for the topping. Once they were on the boil she took out mince and cook it while adding carrots and peas to the mix then beef stock just to bind the ingridiants amd she let it simmer while she got out a large casserole dish to put the shepards pie in to cook in the oven.

Once that was done she set about making the salad to go with it she heard them talking and chuckled " hey I knew a few Raven claws that were nice people" she said as she mnixed the lettuce and tomatoes in teh bowl with cucumber and other slad ingridiates.

"He just thinks I buy her too many books," Kate laughed. "But I have him covered there." She accio'd a package from one of the bags and handed it to Robert. "There. There's her Gryffindor package."

"What?" Robert asked.

"You think I buy too many books, so I got her first Gryffindor gift."

"What did you do?" Robert frowned. She motioned to him to open the package. In the package he found a pair of tiny black jeans, black socks, a little pair of black boots, a little black turtleneck, a little black beret, little black gloves, and then, to top it all off, she had a little black leather duster coat that looked a lot like Angus's.

"Her own mission wear," Kate said. Angus laughed out loud. "Since you don't want her to grow up a bookworm, I thought I'd better get her ready for training." Robert shook her head.

"You know," Angus said. "She really is going to love that duster. She's going to be all about that."