A Birth day

"I can try to talk to Madame Maxime again, but the girls do a form of home schooling from Beauxbatons with my nieces at home at my brother's house in Tuscany. It's an extraordinary thing because Hogwarts has never had such an option, not that I know of," Angus told Lucian. "What I might try to push, though, is that when the girls do have to go to the school in Paris in order for some specialized class or event that the school allow them to have a bodyguard, especially in light of the two attacks that they suffered at the school. And if they can't do that, then i might have to see if I can get them to let our ministry teach them apparating and porting. And, with Robert in the position he's in, I'm sure he could arrange a safer place for them to learn."

"Now you're using some good thinking," Marcus said. "I think you have strong arguments for both of those ideas. I do think that Daniella has a right to know what happened to you today, though, and I know Robert well enough that he is certainly already either thinking it or is already in contact with Daniella. He isn't going to let this rest. I think you need to do your investigation, Lucian, and I'll try to sound out with Robert what he's done or planning on doing, so that you're aware of how much he's stirring the proverbial pot...."

As they were sitting there, Angus's medallion and Marcus's both began to scream and flash huge red lights. Angus and Marcus leaped to their feet and snatched up their wands.

"Go to Edward's right now," Angus told them. "Marcus and I have to go. Keep the kids safe. Jack and Jessie will be going on this one."

"Now, Angus, right now," Marcus was urging him. Marcus looked at Aria. "The red alarm is one of the most important signals we could get. Robert is signaling that somewhere he is in immediate danger. Take every precaution until we know more. We have to go." Marcus and Angus both responded to the alarms by touching them to activate the alarm's ability to help them apparate right to wherever Robert was, and they apparated out, not knowing where they were going to end up.

"Hurry up," Marcus told Lucian. When they landed, Angus knew immediately where they were. They were back in the French ministry of magic in the lobby, and people were running in every direction, screaming. And in the center of the lobby was a hot and heated dual going on between Michael and at least three other wizards. And behind him, Robert was lying on the floor, motionless and bleeding heavily.

"Shit, shit, shit," Marcus said. He and Angus apparated instantly to Robert, and Marcus instantly covered Robert with his own body.

"Go, Marcus, go! Get him out of here. We've got this," Angus said, stepping in right beside Michael to help protect Robert. He began rapid slashing spells, and he could see his spells were slicing the hell out of one of Michael's opponents.

"I'll be back if I can," Marcus said.

"No. Keep him safe, at all costs," Michael ordered Marcus, with an iron firmness. Marcus ported out. He knew Jess would be working, and what made sense to him was that, for now, Edward had some healing ability, and the estate would be safe. He ported Robert back to the duplex, right into Angus's living room.

"Edward! I need help right now!" Marcus shouted for Edward, knowing Edward was on the other side.

Edward had flown to Robert, and he began casting, at once a Vulnera Sanenture to start to stop some of the hemorraging. He heard Jess arrive, but he was in the midst of his spell casting and wasn't intending to stop.

"If it protects one of my team mates, then effing shoot me," Angus said quickly. "They're more important."

As the man that Angus was dualing got bloodier and bloodier, Angus watched him literally change appearance right before his eyes.

"Bloody hell! Polyjuice!" Michael exclaimed. It took Angus a second to realize who he was slicing into ribbons--Tom Gelding's 20 year old son, Elliot.

"Donohue!" someone was running inside and hurrying towards them. "Donohue, no! Not my son! Donohue, stop!" Angus knew it was Tom's voice, but Elliot was trying to kill him. Angus didn't have the option to just stop. One by one, the wizards they were dueling began to change appearance. These were all thugs that Tom employed and paid to do their dirty work. Angus had seen them all in their rescues, time after time, on the night time streets of Paris over the years.

"I'm going to kill him, and then I'm going to kill you," Angus said to Tom fiercely.

"Donohue, stop. I didn't order this...." Tom shouted, begging Angus for mercy for Elliot. Someone fired at Angus from out of his line of vision, and Angus felt the slash across his bad shoulder. He saw blood flying from his shoulder, splashing on the floor. He looked to his left, and he saw Suzanne up on a balcony, and she was trying to kill him. It added up in a fraction of a second to him. Suzanne had set all this up to lure Angus out. She would certainly take out Robert if she could manage it, but she had had Tom's men try to assassinate Robert, knowing Tom would take the blame, and knowing that it would lure Angus out, and she could manage to kill Angus too. A two for one for her.

"Bloody bitch," Angus was infuriated. He dropped his assault on Elliot Gelding, and he raced upstairs, focused now solely on killing Suzanne. She began screaming that there was a murderer loose in the lobby. Angus was doing his best to ignore her screaming and to keep going right after her, firing slashing spells at her, hoping to get her with something.

Angus was slashing at Suzanne like he planned on slicing her to ribbons, she was starting to bleed profusely. Angus was racing towards her at full speed, and just as he got her cornered in a dead end hallway, the two aurors who had held him earlier and badgered him for hours appeared, snatched Suzanne and apparated out with her. Angus was immediately filled with rage.

"No!" Angus shouted, furious that the crooked aurors had helped Suzanne slip through his fingers one more stinking time. "Jack, capture Elliot!" Angus shouted. "Get him!' Angus had one thought. If Tom wanted Elliot, he was going to have to surrender Suzanne. If he wanted Suzanne, then Angus would just arrange somehow to hold onto Elliot.

Edward cast the Vulnera Sanentur, and as he did, the bleeding slowed and finally stopped. Edward breathed a sigh of relief.

"Vulnera Sanentur--it's a countercurse for a Sectumsempra," Edward told Jess quietly. "One of Severus Snape's contribution to magic. It stops big massive bleeding. He's going to feel like crap for a few days. I don't know that I can stop that, but he won't bleed to death on Angus' and Ruby's floor."

"I should get back to him," Marcus said. "If you think you can free me from guarding Robert to go back and try to help Angus from whatever crap he's causing right about now."

"Go," Edward said to Marcus. Marcus didn't need to be told twice. He stood up and he clutched his medallion, porting back to Paris. Edward looked at Jess. "I can apparate him to his room in the main house if you like. Aria, can you keep us safe here for a couple minutes?"

"Edward, I think we're covered. Look," Simone said. Edward looked up and saw there were Fae positioned inside and out, all standing guard to protect the duplex, inside and out. "Take care of Robert. I think the rest of us will be just fine."

Angus was now fighting his way past some of Tom's other thugs who were upstairs. Angus was now concerned for Daniella. Someone needed to fight their way through to make sure she was safe, and Michael hadn't been able to.

Marcus ran inside the ministry and saw all fighting but he didn't see Angus anywhere.

"He went that way," Michael said, pointing to the upper level of the ministry. Marcus apparated up there and immediately saw a blood trail on the floor. It caused a wave of fear inside him. Was that Angus? Someone looked like they had a serious wound. Marcus held his wand at the ready and raced down the hallway in pursuit.