A Birth day

Jessie looked at Angus and listened to him talk of the incident at St Mungo's he breathed out at hearing he was safe but worried when he said he had been injured " Hum, sure, Im glad Nigels looking after him." Jessie said and heard Chris talk to Angus. Ruby looked up at Chris and Angus and smiled at them both.

"of course, we can make some tomorrow when Jessie brings you, I'll have everything ready," she said and waited for Angus to translate to Chris that she would love to bake cookies with him. Jessie looked at the book and spoke trying out some phrases.

"Chris, Ruby va face prăjituri cu tine mâine" he said and looked to Angus hoping he'd said it right to him " I hope I said that right," he said and motioned to the book he held open.

"Yes, it's fine," Angus told him. He got up and got into a candy jar on the counter and handed Cris a chocolate frog. Cris looked wide eyed. "Atenție. Ei sar. Va trebui să fii rapid," he told Cris. Cris nodded, grinning, excited about the possibility of an enchanted candy. He very carefully opened the package and snatched the frog in mid air as the frog tried to hop away. "Loc de muncă bun! Bine făcut!" Angus told Cris, telling him he'd done a good job catching the candy frog. The candy was now still in Cris's hand, the enchantment gone. He showed him the wizarding card inside. It was Edward's wizarding card. Cris got excited, seeing the face of someone he knew, and he hurried to show it to Jessie, pointing to Edward's house to show him that it was the same Edward that lived in this house.

"Well, now, there's something I didn't know. Edward's on a frog card," he told Ruby. "I bet even Edward doesn't know that. I might have to buy stock in frogs til we get a couple more of Edward's cards. I can tell you right now Simone's going to want one, and so is Evan, and so do I."

"I'll ask my dad if he can just get us a few cards," Marcus laughed. "Let's try the easy rout first. If not, I'll have to see if we need to buy a crate or so of them. Seems to me I heard something about a muggle movie where people went crazy buying chocolate for some piece of paper that was inside the candy bar wrapper."

"Really? Is the movie any good?" Angus asked.

"Dunno. Haven't seen it. My kids have, though, I think. Dunno how they saw it either," Marcus said.

"How are you coming in picking a new first name for Cris? Remember, Robert can't get him a new identity and create all the paperwork that goes with it until you pick a new name for him, Jessie," Angus told him.

Jessie smiled and watched as Angus gave Chris a chocolate frog. He also marveled as when opened Cris caught the frog and saw the card he smiled as Crish showed him it " asta e uimitor Chris" he said then looked to Angus. " In all my years of getting the frogs I never got an Edward card" he said and chuckled " I'll have to show Crish my box with them in" he said and Ruby looked shocked at him " What?" he asked

"I knew you were buying frogs," she said and chuckled to him " he use to get an allowance and he'd blow threw it, when I ask what he was doing with it he'd just say he was collecting but not what he as collecting " she chuckled softly " Im glad Angus isn't on a card or Marcus, I wonder if Roberts on one?"

Cris got up and ran over towards Edward's place and stopped short at the doorway, looking back at Angus, and Angus just motioned him to go. Edward and Simone would surely always welcome Cris. Cris ran over with his frog card to show it to Edward.

"Are you pulling some sort of a lag on me, Boy?" Edward called over to Angus.

"No. I'm as surprised as you are," Angus called back. "You didn't know either?"

"No. No bloody clue," Edward said, coming over with Cris, who was still eating his frog.

"I'll buy more frogs," Angus said.

"No. What would we do with all that bloody chocolate?"

"Are you kidding? With all the people we have here? It won't go to waste," Angus said.

"I'll head over and see how many frogs or frog cards I can get," Marcus laughed, standing and drawing his wand. "I'll be straight back." He apparated out.

"Does Cris know what you're famous for?" Angus asked Edward.

"Yes, of course," Edward said. "I told him just like there are good and bad people there are also good and bad werewolves, and my job has always been to get rid of the bad ones. He seemed to understand the concept well enough, and I reassured him that I have never hunted children nor would I ever. How would I gain his trust if I lied to him?"

"He's afraid of the next full moon," Angus said.

"Well, of course he is, poor little bloke. He'll have to get through it a time or two before he learns to put stock in the wolfsbane, and then he's going to have to deal with his grief that if his parents simply had gotten him treatment, he'd maybe still be with his family. They betrayed him in that way. Negligent, they were."

"Maybe, but perhaps it wasn't as affordable for him there. Some places do not offer wolfsbane for free like we do," Angus said. "Either way, their loss is certainly our gain, and I'm glad our family has him."

Jessie watched with a smile as Cris went over to Edwards's side of the duplex and then returned with Edward. He chuckled as Edward asked what they would do with all the chocolate. " Well Jack would eat it too," he said according to a small box in his hand. Placing it down he lifted the lid to show that it was full of cards of diferent people. He placed it down in front of Chris and sat facing him "aceasta este colectia mea chris" he said letting him look threw them. He looked up at Angus " they're just gathering dust so he can look at them" he said

Ruby had cleaned up the kitchen and made tea and coffee for everyone "Okay who wants tea or coffee" she asked setting two pots down for anyone who wanted some. Poring two cups she walked over to Angus and Edward handing them a cup each before returning with a cup of soda for Chris before moving to do her cup once she had given Caprice a small bottle of juice to drink.

Cris sat and looked through the frog cards, but since he wasn't reading English yet, it let him see faces but it wasn't giving him much understanding of who these people were. Edward explained that most of the cards depicted famous witches or wizards, but it didn't necessarily mean they were famous for doing good things. That made sense to Cris, though he wasn't sure why anyone would be interested in collecting evil figures, and Edward said people were always willing to find people who thought and felt like they did. Cris just shrugged, simply accepting Edward's explanation for now.

Angus thanked Ruby for the coffee, and as he was simply sitting with the coffee, there was a knock and then Michael let himself in.

"Thought you'd like to know that Robert's awake, he has a really severe headache, and, after he woke, he insisted on being home, of course. Nigel did a bit of surgery to close the stab wound. It was messy but not necessarily lifethreatening. Robert does have a fractured skull, as Jess detected, but for now, unless he develops complications, there isn't a lot for them to do about that except for giving him pain potions and encouraging him to have quiet and rest. Nigel is going to be here with him for at least a day or two, and he's going to split his time with Andrew, Khaat, Brian, Jess and the rest of them. Interestingly, Robert does have some very vague memories of hearing some fighting. He wasn't conscious enough to see anything, but he heard fighting. That had to have been you when you fought with Evelyn. He knows we got him away from her, and he's grateful. Right now he's sleeping in his room at the main house. We debated on taking him to the farm since it's quieter there, but since he's going to need to have some rotating shifts of people tending him or 24 to 48 hours at least, we've put off any thoughts of taking him to the farm until we know he's not going to have complications from the head injury. Just thought you'd all like to know that he's home, and he's alright so far, and he's glad you all were there to get him out. Well done."

Jessie sat with Edward and Chris but just let Edward explain to Chris who each person was he was just happy Chris was happy looking threw the cards.

Ruby smiled and nodded "Anytime dear," she said and smiled at him but looked to the door as she heard a knock and saw Michael walk in and start to let them know Robert was better and that Nigel was with him " That's a relief," she said with a smile she pored Michael a drink and handed it to him as he continued to talk explaining about what they had found and were treating Robert for at St Mungos. " Im sure Jess has things in hand," she said.

In St Mungos Jess sat writing notes as she sat in the room with Robert she watched Nigel work and made notes about what he had found in Robert's notes for the nurses. " its good thing you were summoned so fast" she said glancing at a nurse who nodded and headed to the pharmacy to get some potions to help Robert recover.

(evidently you missed that michael told angus and the others that nigel had tended robert and brought him back to the main house. i guess i'll just pick up from where your post was and move forward.)

"He was awake very briefly right after surgery," Nigel told Jess, as he double checked Robert's vital signs now. "He wants to go home, and I can't say as I blame him. The fourth floor lockdown was supposed to be the most secure unit in this hospital, and clearly, it isn't. He also knows that the ministry has undoubtedly been crawling all over this building, and he only has limited trust in them at best,. He told me he has some significant changes he's going to make, but I'm not about to let him do that for a few days at least.

"The man needs some rest now," Nigel continued, "but I did agree that if he felt he would be safer at the estate, then I'd arrange care for him there and take him home. That estate has handled people that were in far worse shape than he's in, so as soon as those potions come up from the potions lab, I'm packing them up and taking him home to his own room at the estate. I think he'll rest better in his own bed at home. I already sent Michael to alert Andrew so that Andrew can get Robert's room prepared. There isn't much we can do for him here anyway other than observation and pain potions, and we can do that just as well there."

Jess sat and listened to Nigel and nodded "Agreed" she said " I'll have the aproproate paperwork done so he can be transferred home under your care." she said and accused some papers which she wrote in and placed in front of him " okay sign here and here and he's good to go to the main house " she said then looked up at him " but if it's all right with you I will pop in myself to make sure he's settled, politics and paperwork." she simply said then took the release paper work and placed it in his file. Motioning to two nurses she told them to port Robert and Nigel back to Robert's home and make sure he's settled before returning.

Ruby was glad Michael had told them Robert was home and glanced over at the main house to see Jess in her nurse attire headed into the house. " Jess is here, I'm guessing to check on Robert" she said glancing back at Angus and Michael. Jessie chuckle as Chris took out one with a niffler on.

"el este favourite meu(he's my favourite)" Jessie said and chuckled seeing the niffler on the card move to push some gold coins into its pouch.

Nigel signed the paperwork and gave it back to Jess. "Now there are two things I don't give a rat's behind about--politics and paperwork. You do that, and I'll take care of the patient." Nigel had no intention of waking Robert while they transported him home because he didn't want Robert getting nauseous from the apparating. Nigel fully expected it from any person with a fractured skull. Head injuries and transporting just never mixed well. In fact, Nigel strengthened his sleep spell on Robert to avoid causing some most unpleasant reactions for Robert.

Andrew was waiting, and when Nigel got there, Andrew helped the staff get Robert to his room and settled into bed. Nigel rechecked Robert, and he had Andrew bring an ice pack for the injury spot on Robert's head, hoping to ease some the pain and pressure he knew Robert was feeling. As they were settling him in, Nigel saw Michael arrive, staying in the doorway in order to be out of the way.

"So, since it was a concern at St. Mungo's, I have to ask," Nigel said. "Is security going to be a problem here? Will I need to find a bodyguard for him here?"

"No," Michael replied. "You won't. I will be in charge of his safety for the time being. He'll be safe here, I promise you."

"I am glad to hear it," Nigel said.

"I'm sure she is checking on him," Angus said. "She's very efficient that way. I can't say a lot for some of the other staff there, but she seems like she gets things done the way they should be done. And I know that frustrated her earlier having all those strangers in her way."

"De ce? E un hoț de buzunare," Cris frowned. Angus laughed.

"Cris wants to know why he's your favorite. He says nifflers are pickpockets," Angus laughed. He looked at Cris. "Ce creatură magică îți place?" Cris rooted through the cards and showed Angus a phoenix card.

"El este fioros," Cris said.

"He likes the phoenix because they're fierce," Angus told Jessie.