A Birth day

Ruby listened to the boys talk with David "it's complicated, Sam and victor are my brothers, but Angus and I adopted them to keep them away from our mother and give them a better home life, she..shall I say the root of all evil, well to this family anyway?" she said smirking from the doorway to Edwards side before walking threw.

She looked at Angus as he spoke about the warm suit" oh that is nice of him, remind me to send him and his family a thankyou card and I will certainly put her in that,it's perfect and she'll be nice and toasty while we're outside." she said " I think it's in her wardrobe in her nursery next to her bibs that say daddys special puffkin" she said with a chuckle.

"There's one in every family, isn't there," David smiled. "Robert told me she married Tom Gelding. I have tangled with him before. She must be a piece of work if she thinks he's some sort of a prize."

"She's barking, and she is not the sharpest knife in the drawer," Sam said. That made David snicker. "If he wants her, he can have her. That's my vote. We don't want her, that's for sure. Did she mess with you last night again, Ruby? Vic and I neither one heard from her all night. I was almost disappointed. I was hoping to hear something useful."

"Well, she has to sleep sometime," David said. "Maybe she was sleeping last night herself for a change."

"Did she mess with you, Dad?" Sam asked.

"Nah," Angus said, not wanting to upset the boys or Ruby either one. "Maybe David's right. Maybe she slept too." He did not make a habit of not being truthful with them, but the boys and Ruby had all been through enough. A little white lie to spare them one more thing for them to be anxious about couldn't hurt.

"Doesn't mean she's done messing with you, though," Victor said. "Don't let your guard down with her."

"Well, you're right, of course," Angus replied. "I will keep my eyes open, I promise." Victor nodded.

"I'm going to go and see if I can talk to Robert or Michael before they head out for the day. I'll see you all a bit later," Angus said. He excused himself and headed to the main house.

Ruby chuckled at Sam's coment "yeah can'y deni that" she said softly then looed at them when they asked if she slept okay that night " yes suprisingly , heard nothing from her, drempt I was flying on a hypogriff" she added then looked at Angus as he said he had not hard from her ether. " maybe she is leaving us alone for once...nope not her thing, but I for one am enjoying the quiet. " she added to the boys and David.

Hearing Angus she smiled and nodded " have a good day" she said and smiled to him as he left for the main house. Ruby looked at Edward worried then down at Caprice " well we should get you ready to go out" she said to her and chuckled as she cooed in her arms.

Angus found Robert dressed and ready to go to St. Mungo's, and he was sitting in the dining room, lingering over a second cup of tea before he left for work.

"Angus, I didn't expect to see you this morning," Robert said. "So how are things at your house?"

"They're all fine," Angus said. "Robert, I need a couple favors."

"If I can, of course," Robert said. "What do you need?"

"Well, first, with your permission, I'd like to give the boys each a doubloon so they can get help if they run into trouble again, maybe portkeys to get home."

"Sounds reasonable, so long as they know how to use they--and how not to," Robert said. "No gong to Paris with them until i say so."

"Of course," Angus agreed.

"So that's the small request. What's the big favor?"

"How do you know there is a big favor?"

"I know you. Now, what is it?"

"Suzanne was in my sleep again last night," Angus told him. "I told Ruby and the boys she wasn't. I've not lied to them before, but they don't need the stress. I need a pass into Azkaban."

"Azkaban? Whatever for?"

"I need to see that witch," Angus said.

"Why?" Robert's face was serious.

"Suzanne said that old hag is actually related to her. Said something about a 'generational curse,'" he told Robert.

"Well, first of all, I wouldnt trust her any farther than I could spit her," Robert said. "And I don't think talking to that hag is going to get you the answers you seek. If you want to know, let's go about it a different way. Give me some time, and I'll let you know."

"Please dont say anything to Ruby or Jessie or the boys until we know if we need to," Angus said.

"On one condition," Robert said. "Regardless of whether you are straight with them or not, you need to be straight with me."

"Done," Angus said.

"Alright. Go see Michael about those doubloons and those portkeys," Robert said. "I'll let you know as soon as I know something."

Ruby picked up Caprice and moved back to their side and up to the nursary to get her ready to go outside. Once she was tucked in and cosy she slipped her into the clean sling and headed to the herb garden. She had a feeling Angus was not telling the whole truth but she was not going to pres him on it , she also knew he had his reasons for what ever it was he was protecting them from. "boys what are you doing today?" she asked walking down with Caprice in the sling. " didn't Angus ask you to tidy your room today and finish that rport you had on the diferences between cunjured and non cunjured foods" she asked moving to the back door.

Now outside she saw Angus moving in the main house as she knelt down to pull out weeds and trim down the herbs from dead wood from the winder die back. She also found several mandrakes had grown too close and decided to ask Edward if he could move them to a safe spot. After an hour she walked abck in and lifted Caprice out of the sling so she could wash her hands free of the dirt she had all over them.

"Did that yesterday," Sam told her. "Papers are done, room is sorted, laundry is in the hamper. Its all done. We thought we'd see if we could take a couple of the horses and go riding today. Or the unicorns. We're really like to take the hippogriff but we know we'd have to have Dad with us to do that, so muggle horses will have to do, I suppose." Victor looked at him and frowned.

"I don't think there are wizard horses and muggle horses, Dude," Victor said. "I think they're just horses."

"She knows what I mean," Sam sighed.

Angus got the dubloon pendants and a pair of portkeys from Michael, and in this case, Michael made the portkeys from old Irish 3 pence coins and he had hung them on the pendants with the doubloons so that the boys wouldn't lose them. Angus thanked him and took the pendants. By then, Zoe had a large basket of meat and some other foods to take up to the werewolf pack. Angus volunteered to take it up to the werewolves. He knew Jack would probably have preferred to do it, but Angus didn't know where Jack was and he wanted to get the pack anything they needed as soon as he could get it to them.

He carried the enormous, heavy basket out the back door, actually wishing he was more Jack's size because of how big and heavy this basket really was. It was going to be slow going for him to take it to the pack by himself, but he didn't have anything else to do.

Ruby listened to Sam and smiled " well thats good" she said "Hum riding , why not ask Kate if you can ride the horses, shes good with them." she said drying her hands and removing Caprices out door onsie before picking her up from the bassenette.

Jack rounded the courner after fiishing his rounds and sw Angus strugaling with a large basket " hey , could have yelled " he said picking it up with ease " going some where?" he asked and looked into the basket " ah the pack hideaway, want me to come too?" he asked looking at Angus " by the way noticed the new guy, who is he?" Jack asked once more then began to slowly wak towards the direction of where the pask were living.

"Kate!" They looked at each other. Neither of them had thought about Kate. "Let's go," Victor said to Sam. The two of them took off at a dash for the main house.

"Thank you. That would be great. I don't know any of this pack except Fenrir, so I really don't want to make a misstep and cause some sort of insult," Angus said. "I did think of asking you, but I figured you were probably busy. The new guy? Oh, I hired him to guard Ruby and the kids. David Phelps--He's a friend of Marcus's, and he's an ex auror and a protections specialist too. Apparently, when Marcus was in Bulgaria, guarding their minister of magic, David was there too, assigned to the minister's wife. Robert says he's worked a few special missions for the organization but that must have been before my time or I would have known him. Anyway, Robert and Marcus trust him implicitly. Phelps has three kids in Hogwarts right now, and Robert may allow them to come here for the summer.

"Jack," Angus said, "off the record, just between us, keep your eyes open. Suzanne is not done messing with me or my family. It isn't over. I have no idea when she's going to try something next, but she absolutely will be striking again. If it ever comes to making a choice, please protect my kids and Ruby and Edward and Simone first. I will try to look out for myself, but they don't deserve any attacks from this witch. And the witch has a whole big list of dirty tricks. Robert gave me permission to give the boys doubloons and portkeys in case she goes at them again. At least they can get home to us if they have to, but I really think either Suzanne or the witch or both are going to strike again before too long."

Ruby chuckled at the boys and nodded , she watched them head out the door to find Kate. Jack listened to Angus and shook his head at what he asked him to do.

"you know I'll do as you ask but mate , if I can I will fight at your side." he said " I fight for family too " he said "Jess you Ruby your boys even that girl of yours are my family too" he carried on walking towards the camp " but if that what you want, I can' deny it." he said "lets hope she lets go soon or gets board.." he shook his head " nope cant see it , both Gelding and her are both stuborn witches" he said and looked at Angus " I know what I said before you correct me" he carried the basket and push past some bushes hering people talking as he stepped into the clearing.

Ruby placed Caprice into a bouncer chair and picked up her book a she watched her enjoy bouncing up and down gently in it. Opening her book she placed her feet up on the sofa she was sat on and began to read. Soon it was time for her to go see Jeffery and she picked up Caprice to walk over wrapping her in a warm blanket. Entering the main house she smiled seeinf Jess stood in the kitchen. "Morning is Jeffery around?" she asked and Jess looked up at her and smiled.

"yeah I think hes in Roberts library" she said " I can look after Caprice for a while why you see him" she moved to take Caprice and Ruby looked at her.

"you sure?" she asked and Jess nodded.
"yes, now go we'll be fine" Jess sat down and held Caprice while making faces and making her laugh " go , sooner you talk sooner your back." Ruby smiled and nodded heading to the library to find Jeffery.

The werewolves all froze for a moment and looked up at Jack and Angus.

"Thought you might be hungry, so we brought you some food," Angus told them.

"Thank you," one of the women said. "Any word on Fenrir?"

"Not yet, but we haven't forgotten him," Angus said. "We're hoping that they will listen to the evidence we have that shows it couldn't possibly have been Fenrir who broke into the school and took those boys..."

"One of our men saw those boys here, and they were with you." a male said. "Who are you hiding them from?"

"The witch that is responsible," Angus said. "They were with me because they're my sons..." Before he could finish, three of the younger males jumped and attacked Angus, outraged and believing that Angus had set Fenrir and the pack up. Angus did not have a problem with the idea of defending himself, but these werewolves were all bigger than he was.

Jeffrey was in Brian and Khaat's library. Robert had suggested it because he thought it would be a quieter space. Then Robert left to go try to research Angus's question. Jeffrey had come in here with a large mug of tea, and he was just browsing the titles of the books on the shelf. When he heard Ruby, he turned around and looked at her.

"'Morning, Ruby," he said. "Was your sleep any better last night?"