A Birth day

Ruby listened to Marcus tell her what Robert had told Angus and she nodded " okay I'll mark that on his chart" she said picking up the clip board and wrote it down. " so less carinated drinks and more water based drinks" she said placing down a cold squash for him do drink instead of coffee.

Aria listened to Marcus and headed up to Angus bathroom finding the magic wrap there she carried it down to Marcus " here , its the last one might need to put an order in for more tomorrow" she said handing it to him so he could fit it on Angus. Ruby wrote a note and sent it threw the floo .

"done , we'll get the response .." she hadn't even finished when a note flew back to her " ah , there will be more tomorrow afternoon" she said smiling " so sorted." she said smiling to Angus " we just want you at top health dear" she said .

"I know," Angus sighed. "You do know that you could have waited just half a tick. Nigel is here, remember? Because of Beau? He's been over at the main house since Beau was attacked. He's always got a big bunch of them shrunken and stuffed in his bag. We could have asked him for some. Oh well. Now we don't have to ask him."

"Ruby's made more orange bars," Marcus said, bringing one for Angus and one for himself. "Enjoy your dessert and while you're doing that, I'll go do the security check and see if Minos is ready to take the night shift so Aria and I can get home and see to our own crew."

"I'm sorry," Angus said. "We've kept you all day from you family."

"No, no. You're family too," Marcus said. "My kids were working, and my parents undoubtedly were finding something that still hasn't been put to rights over there yet and were doing it for us. Much as I'd like to see them lounging for a couple days, but that isn't in their DNA anymore than its in Angus's. So, I'll go do the check and then if..."

"Anise," Angus said, remembering, jumping up. "She and Sam aren't back..."

"Calm. We'll find them. I thought I saw Jack or Jessie or someone out near the barn when we came back. Someone 7 foot tall and 6 foot wide," Marcus smiled, teasing. Maybe they've either seen him or they can find them and send their arses home on the double. It's too dark now for them to be out under the circumstances." Marcus went outside and heading for the barn, hoping to find Jack or Jessie still outside.

Jack had finished feeding the last meal for the animals and closed the last stall hearing the barn open he looked to see Marcus " oh hey Marcus , saw the kids out" he said and placed the feeding bucket in its small cupboard where it stayed. Moving to the main doors he slid them closed and locked them up for the night as Jessie walked over to him .

"I saw Sam and Anise out by the track" he said to Jack. Jack looked at him then looked at Marcus.

" you want them home?" he asked him and noted how it was dark already. " I have a feeling Angus asked you to find us to bring both of them back" he said with a chuckle. Jessie looked at Jack and sighed .

"I'll go get them" he said " I know where they are" he added and started to walk towards the track seeing two fingers sat talking he walked over to them .

" hey guys time to head home" he said and stood not far from them as he waited for them to make a move.

"Definitely," Marcus said. "Anise got irked with Angus and left at the beginning of supper. Sam went after her as soon as he finished eating. Look, we both know Angus is under a great deal of pressure right now, and he's got some damned good reason to be afraid when his kids are doing some sort of purely tantrum driven behaviors have them dashing off without thinking. The last he wants to do is to ever is to lose one of his kids because they were irked with him."

When Jessie caught up with them, Sam just looked at Jessie, not surprised that someone had come to get them. Anise bristled, not wanting adults coming after her. She wanted to spew off, to shout at him that she was grown and didn't need fetching.

"Don't do it," Sam looked at her firmly. Anise got the feeling that if she blew up at Jessie, Sam would be truly more than a little irked with her. 

"Fine," Anise said in a rather sharp tone, looking at Sam.

"I'll get her home," Sam told Jessie. "She's irked with Angus because he didn't want to talk about Pearl during supper."

"He isn't taking her seriously!" she spouted at Sam.

"I think it's quite the opposite. Just because he's not talking about it doesn't mean Angus is blowing it off. Come on. We gotta get home. All four of us have to be up early. Your last day of school for summer is tomorrow. So don't screw it up."

"You don't get it," Anise said to Sam.

"No, of course I don't," Sam said sarcastically. "Sorry, Jessie. We're on our way." He hurried Anise home.

Jessie raised an eye brow at the look Anise gave him but said nothing as he heard Sam talk to her , he was maybe only a few years older than her but understood with everything going on he knew tensions were high because of Peal. Hearing Sam say he would get her home he nodded " all right" he said not moving until they started back to the duplex , he followed further back but once he saw them enter he headed to the cabin.

Ruby saw Sam and Anise return to the duplex and Ruby relaxed seeing Anise was home and safe. " grab some orange bars from the kitchen" she said to them both " I made more for everyone." she looked to Angus and saw Aria move to do her checks of the upper floor while Finn sat at the door to be let out by Marcus.

Jack looked to Marcus and shook his head once Jessie had left " seems this pearl has every one on edge" he said checking the padlock on the barn. "particularly all the seers , even Jess is put out about her, she wants to strip her naked and turn her into a toad to be put in one of Roberts jars, if that's possible" Jack said with a chuckle.

"Look at Sam being all mature," Marcus smiled as he spoke to Jack. "He can be such a little boy at times, but when he needs to, he can man up. He's going to be a first stinger someday, and I reckon he'll be a good one."

Sam was not exactly grumbling at Anise all the way back to the house but he was doing his best to set her straight. Sam believed that Angus's devotion to family was stronger than his own drive to survive. Sam believed that if push came to shove, Angus would die for any one of them a hundred times over than to lose a one of them., and Sam believed it with his whole being. He wasn't going to even try to explain it or reason it with Anise. He only insisted that Angus wasn't blowing anything off. 

The minute they came inside Sam glared at her, a silent look that warned her to shut the heck up and not start a freaking thing. 

"You need to go shower. Now," Sam told her in a very soft tone, but he meant business. She narrowed her eyes at him but he wasn't budging. She finally turned and flew down the stairs to go shower.

"She's still irked, is she?" Angus asked.

"Yeah, but now she's irked more with me than with you, and I'm good with it. I'm not going to let her just keep spewing vitriol at you. You don't deserve it, because honestly she's really not even angry with you anyway."

"I know," Angus smiled. "She's irked that this stuff just keeps coming. We're all irked about that. And this whatever-it-was that the seers saw today jarred her. I get it. She'll cool off eventually. But thank you. Thanks for taking such good care of her. You're good for her, Sam."

"I wanna always be good for her," Sam said.

"As long as you want to be, you will be," Angus said. "Go get some dessert. Rubys' orange bars are really good."

"Yeah,. I will but I really want some almond tea with mine. I think I'll brew myself a cup of that first."

"Good idea. Its a good thing to mellow out with after a confrontation," Angus smiled, slightly amused, knowing Sam was just a little ruffled after dealing with Anise's hostility. 

"Angus, answer me one thing. You gonna be ready for her?"

"For Pearl? Hell, yeah. As ready as any of us can be," Angus said.

"Good enough," Sam said. "That's all I needed to know." He headed for the kitchen.

Jack looked at Marcus and nodded " yep he will, one day" he said and chuckled " on that day I'm retiring" he added with a chuckle and looked to Marcus. " well there home I'm off to have supper with Jess and settle down for the night, night" he said and headed to the main house.. Jessie walked back to the barn passing Joseph as he went to do his rounds with two grounds men.

Ruby saw Anise and Sam return and stayed quiet watching how adult Sam handled Anise and she smiled as Angus spoke to him. " I agree thank you Sam" she said smiling then at the mention of almond tea she chuckled " go right ahead" she said to Sam. When he asked Angus if he was ready Ruby nodded to him " its why we're readying too, backup, he has a lot of people watching his back." she assured him

Sam made himself a cup of almond tea and took it and an orange bar and headed upstairs. Angus felt like he knew what Sam needed. He needed a shower, his tea, his dessert and a few minutes of silence. Victor was already in bed, Angus believed, so Sam could have a little peace. Angus saw the soft little sparkles of light forming in various places in the living room, and Angus knew that this was Minos and his people were apparating in silently and taking up their places for the night.

Marcus came back inside whistling for Finn to get done playing around outside and get in the house. When he came in, he locked the door.

"I think you're good for the night now, Guys," Marcus told Angus and Ruby. "Minos should be here with his crew any minute."

"They're here already," Angus said. "You're good. You and Aria need to go get some sleep."

"Take that anti inflammatory Robert gave you," Marcus reminded him. "Oh, and let me help you with that magic wrap before I go. It won't take a moment.

"I need to shower first, I haven't done that yet."

"Go ahead. I'll get your pajama trousers for you and the magic wrap. Then you'll be good til morning."

"Okay," Angus went upstairs, made rather quick work of showering, and while he was in the shower, Marcus got out a pair of sweats for him for morning since Angus would be fencing, and then he got his pajama trousers and made sure Angus had his magic wrap, his anti-inflammatory, and Marcus added just a half dose of pain potion for him to help him rest. 

"Now I think you're good for the night. If you two are good, I'm going to head home," Marcus said.

"We can manage. Thanks, Marcus. Goodnight," Angus said.

"Goodnight. One of us will be back in the morning," Marcus said. He apparated out, heading home.

Ruby smiled seeing Sam head up to his room , she caught the sight of the little sparkles of Minos fae taking up positions around the duplex and smiled again. As Marcus entered she stood up and went to the kitchen to put the rest of the bars into the fridge for the next day if any one wanted to take one for lunch.

Aria finished her rounds and felt Mucus was back , she headed down to the living room passing Ruby " hes just finishing up with Angus's shoulder" she said and Aria nodded waiting down stairs for him. Seeing him finish she walke dover to him and took his hand " night guys" she said smiling as tougher they ported to the cottage.

Aria walked to their kitchen and made two cups of Irish whisky " to help you sleep, after the shower I know your going to take " she said handing Marcus a cup with a smile . " every one here is asleep or in their room for the night , I'm on first shift so you can lay in tomorrow unless your coming with to check the swelling in his shoulder?" she asked sipping her coffee.

"Thanks," Marcus said. "Good idea. Yeah, I'll shower first and then double check things here, but I'm not as concerned about security here as I am over there. But I know he is planning on fencing tomorrow, so I need to make sure he isn't going to blow that thing out. If he blows that out, I'm gonna choke him." He looked at her. "Bring your whiskey. Let's go shower." 

Angus took any remaining dishes to the sink and then looked at Ruby. 

"I think its going to be busy tomorrow. I'm ready to turn in. I think I'm going to head upstairs," he told her. "Minos? You've got this?" Angus asked. Minos fluttered over to him and gave him a quick, playful salute to tell Angus that he and the Fae were on the job. "Thank you, my friend. I appreciate it. Goodnight."  Minos nodded, and Angus headed upstairs.