A Birth day

Aria watched them take maps and start to walk away down the corridor, she followed behind them as did Ruby both watching when Angus paused by the elevators Aria placed a man there then moved with them again watching as Michael entered a room then paused she saw the marks on the floor she also saw Ruby was about to say something and she quickly placed her hand over her mouth and shook her head " shush" she mouthed with out making a sound.

Walking abck out she spoke softly to Michael " what about a non verbal levetation spell we could move it out the way with no sound." she said then thought about her words " if you have an idea Im listening" she said knowing he probably would.

"We could do that," Angus said. "I suppose just apparating in won't work will it?"

"Nah, Mate. Magic is blocked in several different ways on this floor, especially from anyone popping into or out of anyplace on the floor. We're going to have to be old school for this. It's going to take more than one person even to levitate it because it's heavy," Michael said. "And, if the vent grate is still off of the opening, they'll immediately see light anyway."

"Whatever we do, it makes sense to me that we're only going to get one person through there at a time, and it's going to have to be fast," Angus said.

"Oh, definitely," Michael said.

"She wants me anyway," Angus said. "What about we get a couple aurors to move the dresser, and Ruby, you and Michael and throw up a protego spell to try to shield me from any projectile she might have, and I'll go in and see if she's in there."

"Our protegos won't shield you once you're in a different room, you know," Michael said.

"Yeah, well, I'm not going unarmed. I still have my magic and my wand," Angus said. Michael reached in his pocket and took out a switchblade and handed it to him. Angus nodded, grateful for the knife. "I would think that I could cast a spell or two quicker than her muggle ideas."

"Don't get too confident about that," Michael frowned. "She's been locked up before, and she's nuts and she's irked. That can add to someone's speed under the right conditions."

"I'll be careful," Angus said.

"There's something else that occurs to me," Michael said. "Why haven't we heard Robert calling out to us? We have no way of knowing if he's alright or not."

"All the more reason to find him quicker," Angus said. He looked at Ruby. "Suppose we ought to have a healer closeby in case he's hurt."

"If she's hurt him, we're gonna need a matchbox too," Michael said.

"A matchbox?"

"Yeah, they'll need it to put her ashes in it when I get through with her," Michael said.

Aria motioned to two of her biggest men " will these two do?" she asked as they stood behind her. Ruby heard Angus talk about a healer and nodded " I'll find Jess." she said to him watching the end of the corridor but she didn't have to find Jess as she walked down the corridor right to them. "Well thats good timing" she said and chuckled as Michael said they would need a match box " hum might need a thimble not a match box" she said.

Aria spoke to her guys and told them what ever Michael needed they were to do as if she ahd given the order, each nodded and she looekd at Angus." don't do anything stupid, I do not want extra paper work thank you" she said knowing he would not and was very capable of defenting himself . Ruby had sen Michael give Angus a switch blade and nodded that she knew he was well armed.

"I'll do my best," Angus flashed Barnett a grin of amusement. He made sure his wand was in its holster, and he put the knife in his pocket.

"Ready?" Michael asked. Angus knew he had to get in, in a second or two. He wouldn't have more time than that. He went in, and Michael motioned to the others, going in behind Angus. He motioned the aurors into position and waited for Angus. Angus crouched down low to the floor, familiar with the small size of those cool air return vents. This would truly be a test of speed. When he was in a good position, he looked at Ruby and Michael and nodded. Michael nodded to the others, and the aurors moved the dresser. Angus wasn't surprised to see the vent had been removed. He had counted on it. He basically threw himself through the space, and as he did, Evelyn was right there, trying to stab him in lightning fast movement. He didn't feel any of them hitting him, though. Clearly they'd cast a protego to help him as he was going in. He fired several blasting spells at her, and she struck him with something. He couldn't see what in the darkness. He had seen it coming out of the corner of his eye, and he had tried to duck. It hit him in his bad shoulder, but it missed his head, thank goodness. He rolled out of her way, and he fired a petrificus totalus at her. She ducked. In fact, he fired it four times before finally hitting her on the fourth try. She fell as flat and stiff as a board.

"Lumos!" Angus fired a spell to light the room, and he saw Robert shoved roughly into a corner. He was barely conscious and was gagged and tied. Angus went over and untied the gag, which Angus figured out was part of a shredded hospital gown, but he had something stuffed in his mouth. Angus removed it and saw it was Evelyn's nasty knickers that she'd had on. Angus was immediately nauseated for Robert. Robert had been tied with more shredded bits of the torn hospital gown, and Angus cut the bonds with the knife Michael had given him.

"Robert," Angus called gently, tapping his face. "Robert, can you hear me?" He wasn't sure how Robert had been hurt, and he started looking over Robert to see if there were any wounds. He found a large bleeding goose egg on Robert's head and a stab wound in Robert's midsection.

"You'd better page Nigel," Angus called to the others. "He's going to need a couple plasters."

Aria and Ruby followed behind Michael and Angus each Auror took position and when motioned to lifted the dresser as Ruby and Michael cast protego on Angus as he disapeared into the vent. Jess stood in the door way ready to go into action when called for. They all heard the rapid movment from insode the hidden room then it went qiet followe dsoon after by Angus calling for them to fetch Nigel. " whose Nigel" Aria asked and Ruby chuckled .

"hes a healer , the only one who Robert trusts to do the job right, hes been treating Robert for years" she explained as Jes aperated into the room and knelt with angus next to Robert.

" Im here, Nigel wil be sent for" she said placing her hand in his head ," possible fractured skull slight bleeding, I'll get that under control, goose egg bump and bruising. " she looked up at Angus " we need to get him out of here so I can get a good asesment " she said and stood up " let me port him out , for some reason the charm that stops magic in others dosn't work on me" she explained.

"Nigel's going to be more concerned about the stab wound he's got,' Angus told her quietly. He stood up and cast an incarcerous spell on Evelyn, just to be sure she wasn't going anywhere any time soon. He crawled back out of the machine room.

"You're bleeding, Mate. What'd she get you with?" Michael asked.

"Meh, its nothing. It probably looks worse than it is," Angus said. looking to see the bloodstain that was slowly growing on his shirt. "She was aiming for my head. She missed. It's fine. I'm sure Ruby can find me a plaster for it when we get home. Barnett--do get her into custody before my spells wear off, won't you? You'll find plenty of evidence in there. And yes, I know you're going to want the backstory. Pop 'round to my place later, and we'll fill you in. Somebody needs to go tell Kate that Robert's safe."

"Oi!" Michael called to the nursing staff. "Anyone know if Mrs. Lupin was contacted about her husband?"

"She's upstairs in his office waiting on word," one of the nurses said.

"Let's go up and make she's alright," Angus told Michael and Ruby. "I'm sure she could use a friendly face or three right about now."

Jess looked at Angus and nodded " Im already slowing the blood loss and setting it to heal though mines teporary Nigel will fully heal it." she said and moved to aperate with Robert out while Angus crawled out the vent. Ruby looked at Angus and nodded when he spoke of a plaster for his wound " of course I will. " she said smirkng befre she saw Jess appear placing Robert on a gurney and wheel him awqy to a side room while healers entered. Jess moved Robet into a side room then opened the floo in it and sent anote to Nigel. Cleaning off his wounds and changing his clothing to a hospital gown as she continued to maintain his healing and suport while they waited for Nigel to appear and heal him.

Aria apperated into the room and cuffed Evelyn then apperated back out with her and handed her to two Aorurs who bound her magic again and her legs before placing her on a bed cuffed to it once more. Aria made her way up to Roberts office and knocked on the door. Opening it slightly she peked in then walked in " just letting you know were taking her to Askaba for what she did but not until shes had a thorugh phyc evaluation." she said

Angus motioned Ruby and Michael to follow, and he headed them upstairs to Robert's office. When they got upstairs to Robert's office, they saw Kate sitting there alone with a cold mug of tea.

"Kate," Angus called. Kate looked up, saw them, and leaped to her feet. "He's gonna be alright. He's safe. He's had a sound knock to the head, but we all know he has a damned hard head. And he's got some sort of stab wound to his midsection. Jess has him stabilized, and she's sent for Nigel since Nigel is who he prefers. I'm not a healer, but none of it looked life threatening. They're taking Evelyn into custody now. We left them to do that so we could come up and give you the news."

When Barnett came in and gave them the news about Evelyn, Angus nodded. "I'll let her husband know. They're separated, but she is still married. Thanks, Barnett."

"Thank you," Kate said to Barnett. She looked at Michael and Ruby and Angus and sighed with relief. "Thank you--all of you. I know there's a much bigger story here somewhere."

"For another time," Angus told her gently. "Could I get you more tea while we wait?"

"I do not expect you to wait with me," Kate told them. "Khaat and Brian are on their way. I'm sure they'll wait with me."

"I'm not leaving either, Kate," Michael said.

"Let us know when you get any news, won't you?" Angus asked.

"Absolutely," Kate said. "Thank you for always coming to our rescue, you all."

"Just as you always come to ours," Angus smiled. He looked at Ruby. "Shall we head home, Ru?"

Aria looked at Angus and Kate and nodded " I'll leave that to you, and thanks for saving me the paper work" she said and chuckled as she turned and left closing the door behind her. Ruby relaxed and reheated Kates cup of tea. When Angus asked if they should head home she looked up at him " yu don't wnt to wait and find out how hes doing?" she asked but seing his shirt she smiled and nodded " all right, we need to get you seen to and into some clen clothes, I dought that vent had been cleaned until you went crawling threw it." she said smiling at him a she moved to hod Kates hand " call us if you need us okay, any time." she told her then moved back to Angus " okay lets get you cleaned up" she said with a chuckle as she took his hand in her own.

"It wasn't all that clean," Angus said, "and, yeah, I really do want some clean clothes. We can always come back if we can be of any help." He honestly didn't want to have to deal with Nigel because he knew Nigel would see the bloodstain on his shoulder and would immediately want a go at it. And Angus really wasn't in the mood. "I'll send Andrew with some things for Robert," Angus told Kate. "He'll need some fresh clothes too."

Holding onto Ruby's hand, he apparated them home. Once they were home, he took his shirt off and chucked it into the laundry hamper. The bleeding was coming from a wound above his collarbone. He wasn't sure how there had been any sort of bleeding wound, but clearly there it was. It was rather shaped like an upside down v, and it was bruising already all around the area.
"That's weird. I wouldn't have expected that," he told her. "Believe it or not, that was done somehow with a pipe wrench. The bruising makes sense. The bleeding wound? Not so much."

"You lot back?" Edward asked, coming in. "You find Robert? Well, you were in some sort of a skirmish. Did you win?"

"We did," Angus grinned. "Final score--Us--1 hussy. Hussy--Absolute zero. Robert took a hit to the head and a stab wound that looked to me like a flesh wound, but I'm not a healer, so I don't know for sure. Jess called Nigel, so I'm sure he's in good hands.

"Well done, then, both of you," Edward said. "So what did she get you with? Shiv?"

"No. Somehow she did that with a pipe wrench."

"Hm," Edward said. "Looks like you got that business with the hook jaw on the wrench. But you should have let Jess check it. You've had entirely too much damage for it to be ready to take being clubbed with a big wrench like that."

"It's fine,' Angus told him. "It'll bruise, but that's about all I expect."

"You buggered off before Nigel could find you," Edward laughed, amused.

"Exactly," Angus grinned. "That, and I want a really good cup of tea. Oh, and we need to send Andrew with some of Robert's things. We absolutely need to tell him to take Robert's toothbrush and make sure to brush his teeth for him. He's going to want to do that as soon as humanly possible."