A Birth day

Ruby looked at Angus and sighed " I did it again didn't I, Sorry dear, Your taking her to Clive to get properly fitted and I forgot," she said smiling to Angus " I think that will be much better, Aria and I can gather some toiletries of her own from the alley while your both out" she said to Angus.

Aria moved another piece on the board and looked to Ruby " yep you did" she said and chuckled. " I think gathering some essentials will be fun, and I think she would like subtle floral scents , nothing too strong" Aria said seeing Elwood make his move as she had spoken.

"Or, you could take her to Clive's yourself and help her shop," Angus told Ruby. "y biggest concern is to help to keep her safe. I am certainly not so savvy on women's fashion and even less on fashion for her age group. That's not my forte, by far. I wouldn't try to apparate, tough. It's too far for that. I think you should take my portkey and go by portkey instead. It covers longer distances far better than apparating, and you can port right to Clive's and right back again. I don't think you should go anywhere else, and if you get into trouble, you can port yourselves straight home. I'll take her later to Ollivander's for her wand. I don't think she's safe to go to London because I bet that's where the Faepyre will be looking for her."

"Confused?" Simone asked Jada. "Clive owns a clothing shop, and he provides all the clothes for our teams' missions, along with a lot of our normal clothes. I think you'll like the things he carries. If not, we'll try somewhere else. You need clothes, my dear, and we're going to get them for you." Jada shook her head, not wanting them to spend money on her. "Now, now. This is about money, isn't it? Don't you give that a moment's thought. We have you covered there. You do not need the stress of barely having enough on top of that nasty thing that's been chasing you. Let us make things a little easier for you. It's the least we can do. We've been blessed with enough money to live comfortably, and I've always believed none of us are blessed so that we can hoard and keep things to ourselves. We're blessed so that we can help others, and that's what we plan to do." Jada sighed and nodded, agreeing, even if a bit reluctantly.

Ruby thought about what Angus had said and nodded " sounds good, and no offence you don't really have good sense for women's fashion" she said with a smile as he lent down and kissed his cheek gently.

" we'll go in the morning" Aria said " I'm close to beating his ass at chess" she said and looked at Elwood but she knew it was the other way around and he was beating her but she was not disappointed by it , she found it very interesting how he played.

"You have mighty powerful wishful thinking," Elwood teased Aria. "Seriously, though, if you work on your strategy, you could be a formidable player. Keep up the good work. Checkmate. Sorry, my dear, right here." He showed her her mistake that had opened up the path for him to win.

Simone smelled baking cheese and chocolate. She went to the oven and took her cakes out of the oven. "Someone's cheesy something or other needs to be taken out of the oven," Simone said.

"You want me to get it?" Angus asked Ruby. "And how's your salad coming? Did you get it handled? Can I help you with it at all?"

"Hey, we're home!" Ginger and Anise called, coming in on Angus and Ruby's side. "Evan didn't stay. They're delivering a new boat or something today, and he has to go do something or other with it. We really weren't following what he was saying."

"Come over here, please," Simone called. The girls came over.

"We have someone for you to meet," Angus told the girls. "She's a new addition. She's in trouble, and she needs a safe place to stay. We think she's your age, but we don't know for sure. Jada, these are our daughters, Anise and Ginger. Girls, this is Jada. She's part Fae, so she can only communicate by Fae-speak."

"Cool!" Anise beamed. They went over and shook hands with Jada. "We're both werewolves..." Jada was wide eyed, a bit frightened by it. "Wolfsbane users. We don't transform while we're on it. You're safe." Jada breathed out, relieved, nodding."

"Make sure you welcome her and help her fit in," Angus said. They nodded, motioning to Jada to come with them. The three of them left the room.

"Well, so much for a debriefing," Simone laughed.

"Fitting in is far more of a priority for her right now," Robert said. "We'll handle her security. She needs to be a kid while she can. Oh, and when I tended her, I found some sort of a really strange symbol on her back, on her right shoulder blade. I gave a copy to Minos, and he's going to research it for me. He thinks it has some sort of important meaning. I'll keep you posted."

`Ruby heard Angus and glanced to the kitchen " oh shoot, the dessert" she said and quickly headed into the kitchen to take it out of the oven " salads ready in the fridge" she said to Angus before heading back to the kitchen to finish the desert for supper.

Aria chuckled and nodded as Elwood made a check mate " oh dang" she said and chuckled to him as he showed her where she went wrong " my mistake was underestimating you" she said as she reset the board with pieces. Aria stood up and moved to the couch again while she chuckled again at Ruby's forgetting of the dessert.

Ruby heard Angus call Ginger and Anise and explain about Jada as she retrieved some PJ's from the drier and walked over to Simone " these should fit her" she said handing her the PJ's and heading back to finish the dessert.

"In the meantime," Robert said, "it's time I checked that arm and that shoulder." He touched Angus and checked his broken arm and his shoulder. "Come with me. Let's get your life a bit back to normal, shall we?" Robert took him back over to his and Ruby's side of the house and he took the bandages off Angus' shoulder and the cast off his arm. He saw some fresh bruises forming. "That from the faepyre?" Robert asked.

"Yeah," Angus said.

"Bruises only. No additional damage. You were lucky," Robert said. "The shoulder is mending, despite your inability to go easy on it. As for your arm, it's technically mended, but you really do need to go easy on it a little. I'm going to tape it for you so it provides you some additional support for a day or two but then that should be fine. Well done. You survived again. You can go back to your rehab--as Andrew thinks is best."

"I need to start sparring again. I'm going to get rusty."

"Well, Brian and I have something new to show you. It's a new form of training that we've been working on ourselves. I plan on having a class on Saturday morning for all of you. Shannon and Nicky are going to babysit the wee ones so you all have no excuse at all about why you shouldn't come. Even your teens are going to be asked to attend. Jada might find it of some benefit too. Who knows?"

"Don't we have just about every training method involved as it is?"

"I think this will be helpful, though too. So show up--all of you. Now, I have to get home," Robert said, getting up and getting his things together so he could go back to the main builidng.

Aria looked over at Robert as he took Angus to his side of the duplex to check his shoulder then returned to let them know he had new training for every one and she nodded " I'm in and will be there" Aria said then saw Ruby walking back into the room from her side of the duplex as Robert said Shannon and Nicky would be minding the babi9es while they trained .

"okay, I'm in too" she said smiling " I trust those two" she said as she dried her hands and placed the cloth over her shoulder " casseroles almost done" she said to Angus " salads done and in the fridge ready to put out, and dessert is in the fridge chilling" she said " should be good training if Roberts thought of it and we'll make sure the kids get to it too.."

Sam and Victor came home, and Angus told them about Jada. They washed up and went downstairs to meet Jada. Angus set up the sideboard for supper and set out the salad and the salad dressings. He got our Ruby's dessert and cut it and made a pot of coffee for dessert and set out a pitcher of water and one of iced tea in case someone wanted something sweet to drink with supper. Then he got the macaroni and cheese out of the oven and set it on a trivet on the sideboard. It would need a moment to cool anyway. Elwood flicked his fingers at the chess set to put it away for one day. Marcus called the kids to wash up and then come upstairs for supper. Then he shrank his bed and took it down to the basement, shrank his recliner, brought it upstairs and resized it, glad to get it out of the living room. Andrew told him to leave the med supplies and he'd put it away himself after supper.

When the kids came upstairs, they seemed really pleased that macaroni and cheese was on the menu. They just naturally included Jada straight away and took her to the sideboard with them and five of them fixed their plates Andrew fixed a plate for Elwood and one for himself. Simone went over and called Edward to come for supper, and then Angus and Marcus fixed their plates and sat down with everyone else.

Ruby watched Angus cut the dessert and set the mac and cheese to cool then call every one to the table. Ruby smiled as she saw the girls take Jada under their wing and smiled at Angus knowing it was his teaching that had made it happened. Fixing two bowls for the babies she and Aria lifted them to the high chair and placed the bowls in front of them so they could eat then fixed their own plates and began eating.

Aria picked up Amari and placed her into her high chair while Ruby placed her bowl in front of her so she could eat it. Aria fixed her plate and sat down at the table watching every one happily eating and taking " saw you changed to your recliner Angus, nice going" she said smiling " I guess your healing well enough."

"Robert took the dressings off my shoulder and took the cast off my arm," Angus said. "He did tape it all with sports tape for some additional support for a day or two, but I have my mobility back. And I am more than a little glad to have my freedom back. I dont' even mind that we've been drafted to some sort of new mandatory training Saturday morning."

"Really?" the boys groaned. "No. We were going out."

"Not anymore," Angus replied. "Now you're going to training."

"Oh, come on. It could be fine. Sometimes training is actually fun," Anise said.

"Did you hit your head today?" Victor asked her. "Fighting is fun. Training stinks."

"It does not," Angus said.

"He's just jealous because he owes me 50 quid," Anise said.

"Quid? Not galleons?" Angus frowned.

"Nah. We're starting to keep some muggle money too so the next time we feel like going out for an evening we can consider perhaps a muggle movie. That's one of the few things that muggles do better than we do. We've heard about some sort of muggle thing that makes the movies real at one of their cinema's. It's called ITAX or something."

"Imax," Marcus laughed. "It isn't real, but it's supposed to look a lot more real than regular muggle movies. I've heard of it, but I've never been. Still, if you get a chance to see it, you should go and then tell us about it."

"We had planned to--until Robert stomped on our plans," Victor said.

"So go in the afternoon, and I'll give you the rest of the muggle money to pay your tab."

"And Jada can come with us," Sam said.

"Well, maybe. If we can come up with a safe way for her to go, then yes," Angus said.