A Birth day

"Angus's not wrong, you know," Anise said to Ruby angrily, needing to vent a little. "A transfigured werewolf isn't going to care that I'm sixteen and not eighteen. I'm food either way. Last night he told me I fight as well as any adult recruit Robert's got, and he said that if I'm going to fight like an adult, he's going to train me like an adult. That's respect, you know? And you know something else? Ginger and I were the only females in our whole pack that were of cub bearing age that hadn't had any cubs. Most of our females start reproducing as soon as they've hit puberty. They're expected to. Mom and Dad made some sort of deal with Fenrir, but I don't know what it was. Ginger and I have been adult women in our pack since we were twelve. Now, in your world, I'm a little kid again--except to Angus. If Jack doesn't get with the program, I'm gonna knock his block off. And Angus hadn't taught me that spell yet. I asked him to, but he hadn't done it. And just for the record, he's a damned good dad. He's a lot more involved than our own dad was. Our own dad was a hands-off dad, and Angus is completely in it. He's a very hands-on dad, and if Jack has buggared that up, I'm gonna pummel the snot out of him. You teach me any spell you can teach me that will help me win in a fight. I'm good with it."

Edward and Marcus had apparated out. Edward was checking all the likely places, and Marcus was just drawing at straws to try to think of where he might go. So far, they neither one had found him yet. They knew he wouldn't go far, but they just hadn't figured out where he had slipped off to.

Ruby listened to Anise and smiled " well I'll tell you this I'll be the one homding him down if he does that again" she told her " and to me your a great worrior just as Olivander told you , you were" she said ti Anise as she palced her hands on Anises shoulders " you fel beter now you vented?" she asked smiling at her " besides you need to keep practicing Sectumsempra for when he comes back " she took out her own wand and held it him " you see my stance ?" she sid waiting until Anise had stood like her " now cast, Sectumsempra!" she shouted and lelacerations appeared on the dummy " oviously it won't show the haemorrhaging becuse its a dummy but you try now, move you left foot back a little just as Angus told you and cast." she said smiling to her as she stepped back.

It was now Jessie appeared from the house and smiled " hey sis, um Jack kinda bolted Im here now , said something about my sis being a Psycho and sending him to his room like a child , well just so you know Jes did the same when she heard why you did that so now here I am" he said smiling as he watched Anise " nice stance, Angus toaught you that?" he said walking over to her. " soon you'll be casting as quick as lightning." he said chukaling.

Anise corrected her stance, and she began casting a sectumsempra on the training dummy. She fired a few times, but then her anger got the better of her and instead of shouting Sectumsempra, she was just slashing accidental magic energy bolts at the training dummy and shouting at it, "Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, JACK!"

"'Nissy," Ginger called her from the outdoor living space. "That's not in any spell book. Remember what Robert said. Breathe and control. Mean what you say."

"Well, I darned well mean somethin'," Anise called back. That made Ginger laugh.

"It's not voodoo, not even for a seer. Use an actual spell," Ginger said, coming over. Frustrated, Anise imagined millions of ants running all over Jack, from head to toe, and in her frustration, she fired her wand and the dummy, and ants rose out of nowhere and raced by the millions, in a black swirling carpet the covered the training dummy.

"Ants? That's what you were thinking?" Ginger laughed.

Ruby looked at Jessie who could not hold back his laughter at Anises want to do Jack harm with Ants. " well at least it's ants in his pants " he said laughing seeing the ants swarm all over the dummy Ruby could not help but laugh too seeing the sight. "well as funny as it is to see the dummy covered with ants, now you have to get rid of them, try Incendio." Jessie said still chuckling at the image of Jack with ants in his pants.

Ruby left Jessie and Anise as she walked over to Ginger smiling " Jack in for a world of hurt when she gets home" she said and sat down next to Ginger to watch as Jessie showed her a few more spells she could use like Incarcerous and Levicorpus , the last was a joke one but he felt it might come in handy if she wanted to hang some one by their feet , not naming names.

Anise cast an incendio and watched the ants go up in flame.

"Ooooh, Fire," she said, impressed. "I like it." She cast the incendio spell on some other random things that were things that Edward really wasn't going to miss.

"God, she likes that one too much," Ginger laughed. "She will get him in one way or another. She'll get him."

Anise seemed to be on a roll with her magic, finding that right now, she was fueled up enough that her spells, for the most part, worked. Finally, she put her wand away.

"Teach me more fist fighting skills. In case I have to take him on without magic," she told Jessie. "I haven't been able to work on that with Angus, or Nigel would have a complete melt down."

Edward and Marcus had looked for Angus for two or three hours and were not having any luck. Edward had covered all the likely places, and then it struck him. What if Angus hadn't wanted to be found? What if he had wanted to be left alone? So, if he hadn't wanted to be found, where would be the very last place Edward would think he would go?

Edward made his way to the worst bar in town, a place where there was said to be a lot of women for "entertainment." It was an old place. This place had been there since medieval times, and it was probably the most dangerous bar in the area.

He went inside, and since he was not a rough looking character, he didn't command much attention, except by a few of the women, looking for customers. In the far corner, in the back, Angus was sitting in a booth, with a glass and a whiskey bottle, and there was an Italian woman who had draped herself over him. She was not at all the sort of woman that Angus would be attracted to. She was attempting to seduce him, but he didn't even seem to really notice she was there. The only thing he really paid attention to was when she would get in the way of his whiskey glass. Then he would bat her off like an annoying fly. Edward came up to her, gently pried her off Angus and then leaned down and whispered in her ear.

"He's very married, and his wife was an auror once. Now? If she sees you with him, she'll just kill you," Edward said in an intimidating tone. "Go find someone else." She reluctantly left Angus and went to the opposite corner of the place. Edward sat down in the booth seat across from Angus and took a large gulp from the whiskey bottle and put it back down on the table.

"I don't blame you for buggaring out," Edward said. "You don't have to answer to Jack, you know. You don't have to answer to anybody. Anise has a job to do, one that very few people have done, aside from you and me and a very few others. You know what it's going to take, and you know Anise. I dno't think you made a wrong decision."

Jessie saw Anise and smiled " yikes what have I done" he joked then laughed . When she asked him to help her learn to fight hand to hand he looked to Ruby who nodded " okay but we need pads, don't want you to be hurt before you go on your mission" he said accioing a set of pads to his hands " well raise you hands and show me what you got" he said bending alittel as he braced for her hit knowing if she was pissed she would want to hit and hit hard.

Ruby smiled and looked to Ginger "How are your studies coming ginger, good I hope"she asked leaving Jessie with Anise and not worried about Angus, well maybe a little but she knew Edward and Marcus were on the job or rather hunt for him and he would come home when calmed down.

Anise decided to take him on like she would anybody else, but tried to remember she was training. Hurting Jessie really wasn't an option. She threw some punches at him and then, when he got comfortable with that, she made a dive at his legs to roll him over her back and onto the ground behind her, knowing the key was in bouncing back up before he could grab hold of her.

"They're good. I had one reading to catch up on for Robert, but that's done now. I think Anise is good, except for two readings. She's been really trying to stay caught up. I think he'll be pleased with both of us," Ginger told Ruby.

"I'm not answering to a soul," Angus said to him, with a slightly more than comfortable amount of whiskey in his system. I turned her training to Jack. If she doesn't come back alive, then I'll just kill him. It's that simple."

"I'll bring her back in one piece, Lad. You can count on me for that. You can't expect me to actually leave you here with the bar flies like the one that wanted you to follow her upstairs."

"Her? She's not my type."

"She's certainly not," Edward agreed. "Angus, when this is all over, you and Ruby need a few days alone, just the two of you."

"Over? It's never going to be over," Angus said. "My family still hates me, my dear friends think I'm incompetent, and the people who are going to be my in laws are trying to kill me. Oh, and lets not forget my work. My arch enemy is now going to be my in law, and he's been trying to kill me for the last ten years. What part of that do you think has a quick and happy ending?"

Jessie changed his stance as he saw her make her move but he was not ready for the foot swipe and fell on his butt but he laughed " nice move, always atch your oponant off guard" he said laughing as he stood back up and raised the gloves again " round two , again" he said . Ruby laughed seeing Jessie on his ass on the ground . She smiled hearing Ginger and nodded " he is proud of you, both of you" she said " as am I" she added and chuckled seeing Jessie get back up and wait for Anise to go again " hes loving this you know" she said.

Jessie stood waiting for her to hit him " don't be afraid were the same so our strengths are the same but you did good remebring to use anotehrs high against them." Jessie said " cuple more rounds and we'll be reay" he said " unless you want to stop?

She managed to throw a few rapid fire punches at him and then she looked up at him.

"Are we good for now?" she asked Jessie.

Edward had sat for quite awhile with Angus just letting him vent. He had finally gotten Angus to agree to go back on one condition. Angus was determined to go to Romania because he wasn't going to let Anise go underpowered. Without being allowed to teach her enough defensive skills, he felt he had to go along to either defend her or replace her on the trip. Reluctantly, Edward had agreed so he could take Angus home. They apparated back home, just a moment or two after Marcus had stopped back to see if Angus had come back. The first thing they saw was Jessie with Anise, and not Jack.

"Go apologize to Marcus, and I'll see if I can find out what's going on," Edward told Angus quietly. Edward went over to Ruby.

"Where's Jack?" he asked her.

Jessie chuckled as Anise asked if they were done "What you tired?" he asked "A bit more , need to push past your limit, that werewolf won't stop because you asked" he said but paused hearing operating " There back Anise" he said and looked to Ruby who stood up and saw him go to Marcus as Edward walked over to her.

"I sent jack to his room but he got his pants in a bunch so went home , Jessie here has taken his spot, hes aleo been trainning Anise in hand to hand and some usful spells to" Ruby said " and shes realy good, she's master two new ones , including calling an army of ants to take down Jack" she said and chuckled as she looked to where Angus was.