A Birth day

Jessie was relived when Jeffery awnsered " where do I start" he siad at first " okay we need your help, I mean myself, angus and my brother do, I think my sister has lost her mind , she's thinking Angus dosn't trust her and ..yeah it all dosn't make sence, I was wondering if you could pop down and talk to her , maybe find out the cause of all this please." he asked " she recently had a baby and Im hoping its just to do with that and it will get better for her." he looked back at Ruby now laid on her bed looking at the balconey doors. "hold on a sec." he said and moved to lock the doors just incase she decided to do something foolish.

Walking back he bounced Caprice in his arms " okay back, had to close and lock the balcony doors, shes just laid on the bed, but was saying some werid things about Angus not protecting the family and why did he hire a stranger and all that, like she didn't trust him, but I know he wuld only do what was best for the family, ugh please will you talk to her." he asked " I can take the boys around to Yu Long and I's cottage for the night while you do."

Walking over to Ruby he spoke while sat on the edge of the bed ." I wish I knew what is going on in that mind of yours" he said soflty " yes I know our mothers a witch with a B but Angus and Robert are working hard to fix that issue along with Gelding, also when you chose to stay in the kitchens you chose not to fight or go on misions , so don't complain, you want to take out your anger use the dummys out back in the yard or if you want to spar against some one use Yu or myself to do so."

"I can come, but it might take more than just one conversation overnight. You know that yourself," Jeffrey said. "Give me a bit to pack my bag, and then I'll port over. And, for now, it sounds to me like she needs to be elsewhere. Perhaps you could take her to your place for the night instead, and let Angus take care of the boys and the baby. If that doesn't work and you don't have anyplace else for Ruby, let Edward take care of all three kids and leave her there at the house. Angus, I'm sure can take care of himself for one night. If I'm to get a full picture, one of us will have to get Angus's side of things."  

Angus had headed in the general idea of the main house but then he didn't go that way. He just walked. Edward had heard all the shouting. It was highly unusual for Angus to argue or shout. It had concerned him, especially when he saw Angus leave the house, but he decided to give him some space.

A crackle of wand fire sounded outside on the porch and then there was a knock on the door. Victor got up and answered it.

"Yes?" he asked.

"I'm looking for Angus Donohue," the man said.

"Oh, you must be whats-his-name," Victor said. "The new guy..."

"Phelps," Sam said.

"Yeah, Phelps," Victor repeated.

"That's me," The brown haired man smiled.

"You're in the right place. I'm Victor, and this is my brother Sam. Angus is our dad. Come on in. Things are just all yumpy here. It's all cocked up. You'll have to just put up with the shouting and the nuttiness for a bit, I'm afraid. My sister's cheese seems to have slipped off her cracker."

"Okay, well, then maybe I can just get to know you lads for right now," Phelps said, as Victor stepped aside so Phelps could come in.

Jessie sighed and nodded his head " yeah I know all too well it will be a looong time and I have room in our cottage for a few days" he said to Jeffery. Hearing someone downstairs he looked at the floor " okay I'll get someone to mind the boys and Caprice their daughter." he said "someone just showed up, I'll see you when you get here " he said and headed down the stairs.

Seeing the man he smiled " Phelps" he said and walked over to shake his hand "Tyler, Jessie Tyler, Im Ruby's brother, good to see you again, you were at the Paris base for a short time?" he said "this is Caprice, um Ruby my sister is somewhat disposed right now." he said and glanced back up at the bedroom then to the boys " listen, boys, do you want to stay with me for a while or stay here and have Phelps look after you while your sister gets her head in the right gear." he added knowing the boys would want a choice.

He sighed and looked at David " Sam could you take Caprice while I talk to David please," he said and gave Sam the sling with Caprice in it sleeping peacefully. Once they had moved away he sighed " I have jeffrey burnstein coming , Im not sure what you were told about our family." he asked

"We'll stay here," Sam said. "We can look after ourselves and the baby until Dad comes back. He just needs to know he doesn't need to find somewhere else to sleep tonight. He'd come back then." Victor looked out the kitchen window.

"He's just outside in the yard wandering around. I think he's just trying to cool off. I'll go get him," Victor said, going out to talk to Angus.

"I don't know much," Phelps told Jessie. "I've known Angus for quite awhile. He's always seemed like a stand-up guy to me. I've been on several missions with Angus off and on. I know of his grandfather, but then again, who doesn't? Robert said that Gelding married Angus's girlfriend's mother. That has to be incredibly difficult, and Robert mentioned that Angus now has a new family and he wants to make sure they're all safe. I know Gelding enough to know that Gelding's threats can be very real, but I don't have to tell you that You know it firsthand. Understand that I am a personal protections specialist, just like Marcus. I started out as a fighter and advanced into protections. Angus hired me to look after his girlfriend and his kids, so I will talk to him, if i can, and find out whether he wants me to hang close to his girlfriend if Jeffrey takes her to Switzerland for awhile or if he wants me to protect his kids. I will let that be his call since he's paying me."

Victor walked up to Angus.

"Dad? You okay?" he asked.

"Always," Angus smiled at him.

"Phelps is here."

"Good. I'm glad."

"Dad, Ruby's sorta had some sort of breakdown, I think. Jessie came over, and he's sent for some dude named Jeffrey. They're talking of sending her with him for a bit. You need to come back. Somebody needs to take care of the baby and, I think they want you to stay with us too. Frankly, we'd rather you come home too. Sam's got the baby right now. It sounds like Ruby's not fit."

"Alright," Angus said. "Let's go, then." Angus didn't hesitate. He turned back and headed back home to take care of his kids.

Jessie listened to Sam and nodded "All right Sam, we do need him that much I know" he said then looked and listened to David and chuckled " well then you do know of our family" he said " welcome to the mad house, but yes that's what I think he wants you to do" he added watching as Victor walked over to Angus.

"Right now I need to get my sister to wake up and see she has a good thing with Angus and the kids, who by the way the boys are my brothers too, Angus adopted them, so yeah complicated" he moved to one side and motioned to the couch "Please sit," he said walking and sitting down himself. Jessie saw Angus walk in and breathed out again and nodded to him " I'll leave you and David be while I try and talk tome sense into Ruby, Angus You did right, Phelps is the best nest to Marcus I met him in Paris a while back and well he saved me so yeah I trust him whole heartedly also I havJeffreyey burnstein coming to talk and sort Ruby out, it might mean her going to Switzerland for a while." he placed his hand on Angus's shoulder and walked upstairs.

"Hi, David," Angus greeted Phelps and shook hands with him. "Make yourself at home."

"Glad to be here," Phelps said. Phelps sat down, listening to Jessie explain things a bit further and then listening to his explanation about Ruby.

"Thank you, Jessie," Angus said. "I don't know when Ruby went off the rails, but she seemed okay to me until we decided to go to Honeydukes. And the minute we decided to go out, it just got all weird. I don't know what happened, but she certainly isn't the Ruby that I thought I knew. I don't understand her at all right now. Jessie, I've seen a couple of cases when I was an auror of people that suddenly got ill like this. If we have to, Robert, as the chief medical officer of St Mungo's, can actually order her to go with Jeffrey. Of course, we'd rather not have to do that, but just so you know. It is an option--the last option but it's there. I'll do whatever I need to do to try to help. At this point, I just don't know what that is."

At that moment, Caprice let out an angry tearful wail, and a foul, foul smell rose up to Sam's nose.

"Ew," Sam scowled. "How can one tiny baby have such a big bad stench?"

"So change her," Victor said.

"You change her," Sam frowned. "She's disgusting."

"I'll get it," Angus couldn't help laughing. "Gas and poop. That's my job, I think." He picked her up, and he had to admit, she really was rank. "Ralph, what on earth did you do?" He took her to get a diaper and to change her.

Jessie nodded to Angus "iTs what brothers do and I agree, somethings not right with her." he said and then chuckled at Caprice " I get the feeling the smallest of our family knows the truth, it all stinks" he said hoping his joke would lighten the mood a little in the house. He looked to Angus and David and sighed.

"I do hope she stops all this soon I got a life of my own to live and I'm going to be going on missions too and the boys someday." he added "I hope it's just something to do with the baby blues or something." he looked to David, your wife do anything like this?" he asked having learned from him years ago he was married.

"Gads," Angus scrunched up his nose. "If she thinks it all stinks, then Ralph must think its a huge mess because she's had a full diaper blowout. I might have to go bathe her in the pool.

"Bet that will make Robert happy when he sees his pool full of poop," Phelps laughed.

"Remind me to never swim in that pool if he does that," Victor said

"My wife didn't have the issues that Ruby's having, but Marcus's wife sure did," David said. "Evelyn put him through absolute hell. She hasn't been right for decades, and that's why he hasn't divorced her. Every so often, he has to rescue her and put her back in treatment. He's had to actually hide the kids from her. It doesn't sound like Ruby's that bad, and from what I've heard about Burnstein, if anybody can help her figure this out, its him. It might not be anything to do with the baby. Maybe there are past traumas or something that are coming forward. Who knows?"

"Guys," Angus said. "We're alright for now. How about you take David's bag up to his room for him and then finish up your papers. Take Finn with you. Let's get the things done that need doing." They sighed but Sam picked up the bag.

"How'd you get all those scrapes up your face?" Phelps asked Sam.

"Faceplanted on the running trail," Sam shrugged.

"Ouch. Sounds painful. There's a running trail here?" Phelps asked.

"You don't know the half of it," Sam grinned.

"Oh, now I'm curious," Phelps smiled. The boys went upstairs. "They seem like great boys."

"They are," Angus said. "They haven't been in my life all that long, but I really would be lost without them."

"It sounds like they feel the same way about you," Phelps said.

"Oh, Jessie, we need to let the main house know that Jeffrey is coming. He might need a room for the night," Angus said. "Do you want to notify them, or do you want me to?"

Jessie laughed at the banter and then looked at David "agree with that " he said and then looked to Angus " want me to bathe her , we can use the sink to get her clean, save the pool " he chuckled then looked to Angus again " oh right I'll do it, be right back" he said and headed out the door to the main house .

Finding Jess sat reading he told her about what was going on and she shook her head " Ruby realy should trust Angus knows whats right" she said then stood up " I'll rady one of the spare rooms " sahe told Jessie and headed up the stairs. Jessie wrote a note for robert and sent it to him as well to inform him before he headed back to the duplex with a detour to his own cottage to let Yu know.

"okay I know just the ting I'll be around momenterily" Yu said moving to their cupboard and taking down a caddy of tea. Together they walked back to the main house. While Jessie went up stairs to Ruby Yu moved to the kitchen and made some Gotu kola tea in a traditional teapot. Seeing the new man he smiled and bowed " I am yu long, Jessie s partner." he said simply before heading up with the tea.

Angus gave Caprice a bath and accio'd a clean onesie from the nursery. The one that came down to him from upstairs was a pretty sage green with little butterflies embroidered on it. Angus put her in a clean diaper and put her in the clean onesie and took a couple minutes to play with her and provide her a bit of stimulation. She did seem to enjoy it and made happy little noises.

"Thank you," Angus told Yulong, "Tea is a good thought. As soon as I get this one settled, I'll put some lunch together. I'm sure the boys will be hungry soon. Guys that age are completely hollow. They're at that stage where I have to make extra large meals because I think their empty stomachs start in their toes and go all the way up."

David excused himself for a few minutes, and Angus told him where his room was. David went up and unpacked and took a look around the house, except for in the master bedroom where Ruby was. He liked this house. He unpacked rather quickly because he had packed light, and then he came back downstairs hearing someone knocking on a door.

"Come in, Edward," Angus called. Edward opened the door and came in, and saw a strange man there.

"Oh, you have company. I'll..." Edward began.

"No, no,' Angus said. "Come in. He's not company. He's a new hire. It's a long story. I hired him for some additional protections. David Phelps, this is my grandfather, Edward Donohue. Edward, this is David Phelps, and he's a protections man, like Marcus."

"Welcome aboard, then," Edward said. "My wife and I live in the other half of the duplex."

"Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Donohue," David said.

"Call me Edward, please," Edward said. "Angus, is everything alright? We couldn't miss the shouting, and I just saw Jeffrey Burnstein port in. He's on his way to the main house right now."

"No. Not really. I'll explain it. I'm glad Jeffrey's here. I'll pass that on to Jessie as soon as I can."