The storm in Tuscany broke some windows in the main house and tore down some trees and did some additional damage to the estate. By the time it was getting light, the storm was passing. Angus got up, and he looked out the windows. He saw that a good portion of the crew was up and starting to try to clean up storm damage. Looking across the yard, he saw that the house that his parents had lived in had taken a heavy, heavy hit. It was half gone. He looked at the house for a moment, and then he drew his wand and walked out of the smoking room. Marcus had barely had his eyes open, but when Angus drew his wand, that alerted him, and he jumped to his feet, now wide awake and he followed him.
Angus went outside, not saying a word to anyone. No one other than Rosario, Carlo, Angus, and knew Angus had been there at all. Marcus watched Angus's body language, and he saw Angus's strides become more purposeful as he walked. They were purposeful, and then they were determined. A man on a mission. He walked over to the house his parents had owned. The house he had only lived in when he had been too small to remember. He stood on the paved pathway for a moment, and Marcus didn't say a word. Then, Angus raised his wand, and using completely nonverbal magic, Angus took his rage at the pain that his parents had caused him and the heartbreak Ruby had inflicted on him in the last 48 hours and he used it to slash at the house, blow after blow, casting blasting spells, fireballs, and every sort of destructive spell he could think of. The noise started drawing his family out of their houses. Evan, still wearing pajama trousers and a tee shirt walked over to Marcus and just watched.
Angus didn't stop until there was not one board nailed to another. He completely demolished it board by board, and brick by brick until it was only one mammoth pile of rubble. When, finally, there was nothing left, his energies were gone. Spent. He sank to his knees on the path, unable to do more. Evan walked over to him.
"That needed to be done a long time ago," Evan said quietly. "Thank you. Well done, Brother." He helped Angus to his feet and he and Marcus helped him back to the main house. He noticed straight away that there was no Caprice. No Ruby. It was just Angus and Marcus. "Angus, where's Ruby? What's happened?" Marcus gave Evan a look as if he wished Evan hadn't asked the question.
"Gone," Angus said, not wanting to talk. "Bloody effing gone."
"Sit," Marcus told Angus, taking him to a chair. "I'll go get some coffee, shall I?"
Ginger had gotten up early, unable to sleep for no reason she could think of, and she had gone upstairs, gotten the baby, changed her, and taken her downstairs and found some jars of pureed baby foods and had fed her before Edward and Simone had awakened.
They nearly panicked at not finding the baby in her room until they saw Ginger had her in one hand and was putting coffee on to brew with the other hand.
"You have her? Bless you," Edward called from upstairs.
"She's fine," Ginger said. "Coffee's on, but breakfast isn't."
"That's fine. We'll get that," Edward smiled. "Is your sister up?"
"She headed out a little while ago to go running with the first stringers," Ginger said. "I expect her back pretty soon."
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