A Birth day

Ruby listened to Angus and nodded that she agreed she chuckled hearing how he had told them they need a lot of owls to become an Auror and then impress Robert. She also agree with some house rules regarding Anise if she joined their family " I agre we don't need that kind of trouble" she said smiling as she watched him make the salad and head to th table with it.

"Yeah he disapeared into the main house as you said, maybe he forgot " she said taking some salad and hearing him mention how he was happy spring had come " the flowers should bloom soon if the weather stays warm as it has." she said " might get to go fishing with Caprice too" she added smiling to see if he would notice she slipped that one in as she did enjoy fishingfinding it theraputic with the sound of the wind threw the trees and the lapping of the water on the shore.

"I'll take care of it," he told her. "No problem. I think, if I were to maybe go early and set some ground rules for the demolition crew, I could go then to Hogwarts and take care of the boys. The demolition crew is not going to understand my instructions. I absolutely do not, under any circumstances want them to think they can just fill in the tunnels with the debris from the house. I want the tunnels completely demolished and filled in. I want them to use bedrock if they have it. Then I want the house taken down and all the material from the house completely removed from the property. I do not want even the slightest chance that Suzanne can just remove the rubble from the tunnels and use the again. Nor do I want her to be able to find the building materials from the house is perhaps what's being used to fill in the tunnels. That would give her leverage to be able to use that to resurrect that house. I want it all gone permanently.

"As far as the last of the tea garden construction here, Edward knows what I want with the tea garden, so I suppose he could set the landscapers on the right track to finishing that if I ask him."

"I think fishing is a good idea. It's a peaceful activity, and while the weather is nice and mild, this would be a good time to do it. When the summer months get here, you may find it's too hot for her to be outside so much. So for now, I think you should go and enjoy yourself."

Ruby listened to him and nodded he head " agreed , wipe the place clean" she said " and good idea" she admited "I thought of fishing becuse its something we can do as a family you, me and Caprice , but yes, when it get too hot Caprice and I will stay inside, don't need her delecate skin to burn and I know Robert probably has a potion or lotion to prevent it though." she admited and smiled again.

"Im sure he does, and the tea garden would be perfect once established for Caprice and I to sit out and watch you and the boys fish" she said thinking of the smell of the flowers and the cool breeze with some ice cold lemonade to sip while reading her favorate book.

"Well, I think, once its finished, it will be a bit of a sanctuary to escape all the noise and chaos of the rest of the estate. I hope its a place she can come to do her homework or read or maybe hang out with Molly. Who knows? There are a lot of noisy places here, but places to just get away from it all? Those are harder to find.

"Someday, I'd like to do a bit of an addition to her room. I'd like to take that idea of the tree we have in her room and extend it with an artificial tree house. Maybe a spiral staircase or something that goes up to what would be an enclosed octagonal tower room. Something that has a lot of windows and a glass ceiling where she can put floor pillows around and just go hang out and enjoy the sun or the stars. If our house keeps getting more people in it, she's going to need some quiet spaces where she can go to get away from the herd. Heck we might need to go grab a bottle of wine and go sneak up there ourselves."

Ruby loved what she was hearing and smiled "I agreed, there arn't enough quiet places and I love that idea, maybe we should ask Jack and Jessie to help build it that big cedar in the back seems strong enough" she said smiling at him. " but for now the painted one in her room will do." she said and chuckled relaxing with him more as he talked to her about plans for the future and the old house.

She could not help chuckle at the idea of drinking wine in the tree house " closer to the stars hey" she said softly and smiling " bet thre would be a wonderful view of the milkyway from up there." she looked down at a now content and sleeping Caprice and smiled " maybe we should start with the demo guys first so youcan get to hogwarts , while your doing that I'll make up the care package to take to them." she said smiling " do you want to take Caprice or shall I keep her with me while I make the pakages up?" she asked

"I'm confused. I'm certainly not going to try to stop you, but why would you mail them a package when I'm going there tomorrow?" he asked her, "and when they'll be moving all their stuff home here in three weeks? I'm taking them some cookies, they have plenty of cash, and Flourish and Blotts is sending the books I bought for them. do they need something else that I'm not thinking about? Why don't you sit still just finish your Nicoise salad? I'm not going any more this evening anyway.

"As far as the baby goes, we don't really need to have her in her sling all the time. We have to stop carting her around so much, honestly. She's getting big enough now that we need to let her spend time on the floor or in her crib. She's got to have time to figure her own body out so she can learn to move. If we don't start letting her have some time on her own, she's not going to learn to lift her head or turn over or anything else. Abbey was lifting her head and turning over at 6 or 7 weeks. Caprice is absolutely not to young to learn."

Ruby chuckled at his confusion " no silly, I'm making up the care package before you talk to the demo men so you can take it with you." she said and then heard him speak about letting Caprice sit in her bouncer chair. Taking her out the sling she placed her in it next to her and ate her salad. " good idea and good salad too" she said placing the sling on the chair next to her. " you don't need me there to approve the destruction of the house, I want it leveled just as much as you do, so whatever you chose is good with me." she said as she ate her salad then once finished she moved to the kitchen.

Placing the plate in the dishwasher she began gathering the things for the care package for the boys. She looked over at Angus and Caprice and smiled knowing giving Caprice som space would help her develop "so whose taking her for her first vacsinations when there due?" she asked " of would Robert come here and do them you think?"

"You were raised by muggles, weren't you?" he teased her. "Vaccinations--muggle stuff. Their medicine is completely barbaric. Wizard medicine has never used needles and that muggle barbaric nonsense. I realize muggles don't have a choice, but, gads, I would hope you don't expect me to take her to be jabbed with needles when we don't need to. That's all done by either adding a bit of a potion to one of her bottles whenever we decide to do it, or by having Robert cast a very simple spell. He'll probably either drop off the potion bottle or St. Mungo's will mail it to us. "

He still didn't understand why she wanted to send the boys care packages at all, but that was her choice. She had missed his point entirely. And he wasn't going to ask her how she intended to send one package to two boys in two different houses because she was very capable of figuring that out.

He took the baby out of the bouncer chair. He didn't think she needed that either as much as she needed time to just have on a blanket on the floor to figure out how to move, how to roll from side to side, how to lay on her tummy and lift up her head. He took her upstairs with him and put her on her tummy on a blanket on the bathroom floor while he showered. Then he took her with him while he popped over to talk to Robert briefly about Anise and Anise's desire to leave the pack.

To Angus's surprise, Robert already knew. Anise and her parents and Fenrir had all been visiting Ginger, and Robert knew that both girls wanted to leave the pack. Their parents had been firmly against it--until they had met Robert and the rest of the people here.

Fenrir, who had also been rigidly against it because he had not wanted two females who were capable of reproducing and growing the pack to be leaving. However, because of the events of the recent weeks, he was seeing that it was making a lot more sense to let these two go and blame it on Ginger needing extensive medical care. He could convince the pack that they were moving back to the forbidden forest and that Ginger was not going to be able to live with the pack for months. Fenrir was feeling a lot of pressure to get his pack back to the forest but he had to take care of this first, and quickly. That meant she had to leave the pack for her own fragile health. The pack was accustomed to fragile members needing to leave in order for the overall health of the pack to not deteriorate. This would allow them to leave and for the rest of the pack to not get ideas that they could leave too. That meant, though, that someone would need to be their legal guardians for the next two years. Phoebe and her husband were willing to sign guardianship--not custody--of Anise and Ginger to Angus. Robert had already been negotiating with them that Angus and Ruby came as a matched set, but Phoebe and her husband didn't really know Ruby. Angus suggested that Jessie or Jack take Ruby and go up to the pack and spend the day with them tomorrow to get to know them. If Phoebe and her husband then would agree, the papers could be signed and the pack could move on. And, Anise could, temporarily, stay with Edward while they decided if David were going to stay with Angus longer or not. Apparently, Robert and Edward had discussed that already as well, and Edward was already discussing that perhaps Angus needed to add on to his side of the duplex already. Robert suggested constructing a bedroom in the basement for the girls because they would certainly not be going to school. That did not mean they would not be educated, but it would not be anything formal since the ministry did not know they existed in the first place. The guardianship papers were only being signed to enable Angus to get medical care for them in case they ever did actually need to be treated at St. Mungo's or in case something occurred that did cause the Ministry to have to know they existed.

Angus told Robert of the meeting with Gelding and Angus's need to go insure the security of the boys at Hogwarts. Robert was in full agreement.

Ruby heard him and stood stunned then laughed " yes you're right," she said and then looked at the parcel and shok her eyes again" im a ditz today, "she said and chuckled " two houses, two packages not one,and this makes me feel like Im doing somthing mother never did, caring that they have enough, I know they will do, but still." she said with a chuckle in her voice she quickly made a second package and wrote Sams name in one and Victors on the other. she shrunk them to half the size so they would slip into Angus pocket when he was ready to go.

Ruby had seen him take Caprice with him and smiled as she finished cleaning up the kitchen and setting the packages down on the coffee table. Then she made a pot of tea and sat down enjoying the quiet that came with not having Caprice for the moment but she had to admit she missed having her around. But she also know that daddy daughter time was just as important as mommy daughter time.

Angus then went over to see Edward. He found Edward sitting outside near the garden, at a little bistro table set. He had opened a bottle of wine from his wine cellar and was sipping a glass of perfectly chilled vintage merlot.

"Where's your other half tonight?" Angus asked.

"Ah, well, her granddaughter, it seems, has been offered a child's part in the Paris Opera Ballet's production of Sleeping Beauty. It is apparently a significant role, and tonight is the dress rehearsal. Tomorrow night is the opening performance, so apparently I will be going to the opera in Paris tomorrow night to see Lena's daughter dance. She's eight, but I understand she really is quite good, and I presume she must be to get a part in the French national opera company's production."

"Good for you. Send her our best, will you?"

"Certainly. So what's on your mind?"

"Anise and Ginger," he said. "If I take these additional two on, I have to sign for guardianship of them too."

"Yes. I did understand that would be a given. And they're hesitant about including Ruby only because they don't really know her."

"Correct," he said.

"Well, first of all, I believe Ruby would be the first to understand that a decent parent isn't going to sign custody of their daughters over to just any old stranger. I do think she might agree to get to know them, though, too. And I think she'd be the first to understand that Fenrir is chomping at the bit to get his pack home where they feel they belong. I really think she'd get all of that."

"Well, certainly," Angus said. "But I'm becoming an instant dad to five kids, though."

"Yes," Edward laughed. "Sounds like you need a glass." He accio'd a wine glass and poured him some. "Have a drink, 'Dad.' So, as I see it, because time is of the essence, Anise needs to move in with Simone and me for now while you either build a room in the basement for the girls or put an addition onto your house."

"Or kick my boys out in three weeks," he sighed.

"No. Not happening," Edward said. "I realize they will be adults and the girls will not. But their dad was no sort of father figure at all. They need you. They need a father figure to grow them up to be decent guys and to teach them to be fighters, since that's what they want to do. Tylers chuck people out. Donohues add people. That's how its done, Son. We make room. We add rooms or whatever we need to do. Just sign the bloody papers, and get their things. We'll make up the rest as we go. Now, give me that baby. Its my turn." Edward took Caprice from Angus.

"How are her motor skills coming?"

"Pretty good," Angus said. "Ruby's doing the first time mom thing. If she could stitch her to her, she would. I understand that's what she thinks she has to do, but I really want her to stop carrying her everywhere and start putting her on the floor for some tummy time so she can start rolling over and learning to hold up her head and some of those things. She's a month old now. Its time."

"Give Ruby time to adjust," Edward said. "She'll do what's right for the baby. If you start it, she'll follow along. It'll be alright. Drink your wine. It helps." Edward looked at him and laughed. "Someday you'll have a hundred grandkids and great grandkids and then you'll find out how little some of these tiny things really are in the scope of it all. Ruby gets anxious about a lot of things. And you get stressed sometimes that she gets anxious. She has Jeffrey, and you just need more wine." Angus laughed and took a sip of his wine.

"God, that tastes like home," Angus said quietly.

"Because it's from home."

"That's because its from our winery," Edward said. "Drink up. There's more where that came from."