THE WALKER RANCH

"I'm fine," Andrew said. He'd had worse bumps and bruises than this. Heck, his dad beat him worse than that. For what he'd been through, twisting his arm was nothing. It would hurt a bit, but still, all in all, it was nothing. He was more interested in seeing this farm and seeing what a barbeque was. And who were these neighbors? His father had made him not associate with the neighbors when he'd lived with him. He'd said they had to be careful of neighbors because they would be too nosy.

steven smiled "ok, come on we can ether take the new truck or floo" he said John spoke first "floo much quicker moe eatin time" he said grinning , but Steven turned to Andrew "whitch do you prefer?" he asked moving inside and gathering his coat then walking back out to wait for his reply "ether does not bother me" he smiled

"Either one," Andrew said, His schoolmates were teaching him about various sorts of travelling, And he had often ridden with muggles when he had hitchhiked. Muggle vehicles were just machines, as far as Andrew was concerned. "Floo is easier," he said. "Quieter. That's probably my vote."

John ran to Andrews side grinning " yay " he grinned standing beside andrew. Steven chuckled "ok come here and well head across" he walked inside and took out a greenish powder he blew into the open fireplace "I had it hooked into the floo network just in case we needed it " he said "besides Im an auror i need to get places quckly" he grinned " Dent farm" he said and he could hear th sound of Khaat talking , Taking Johns hand he held out his other to Andrew "you done this before?" he asked.

"Yep. My father did it a lot." He took the floo powder, stepped into the fireplace and tossed the powder, saying "Lupin farm." In a moment, he appeared in the fireplace in the large living room of a well decorated, clean, expensive farmhouse. An older man with graying hair was sitting on the sofa. He looked up from his reading. "Well. You must be Andrew. I'm Robert." Andrew stepped hesitatnly out of the fireplace.

OOC: farm belongs to robert and katherine, so its technically the Lupin farm.

John and Steven followed " thats good Andrew, your a fast learner" he said smiling "hi Robert, yes, this is andrew" John ran out side to check on the mult colored fluffballs. Steven moved to shake roberts hand again "ya looking good stil" he looked at Andrew then smiled "its ok, their freinds" he said with a sigh then a small smile " I'll leave ya ta talk " he headed out side to where john was playing with a fluffball shaking his head as he watched.

OOC: Ok, I'm confused. The flowers were planted at Khaat's house in Hogsmeade. The Lupin farm is next door to Steven. So where exactly are we?

sitting down on the porch he watched as Jhn ran around after the little puff basll catching it he smiled and walked over to him "can we keep him dad?" he asked "thats up to robert and karthrine" he said brushing the purring fluff ball with his finger "better asking them" John ran into the house.

Stopping he stood infront of Robert "Mister Lupin Sir could I keep this rainbow fur ball ,please , dad said it was up to you" he stood looking from Andrew to Robert and back.

"If its okay with your dad. They're old enough for homes now, and we certainly can't keep all of them, or we'll be overgrown with them," Robert said. John thanked him and ran off excitedly. Robert watched the two boys for a moment and saw Andrew flinch slightly. Pain. Robert was detecting pain in that boy in his energy signature. "I'm going to borrow that new boy from you for a moment, Steven," he said. He went out and called Andrew. "Let's go talk for a minute," he said gently, leading the boy off into his massive study.

He just sat and talked with Andrew and made a complete assessment of him. A collarbone fracture. Well, that was the thing troubling him now. Andrew's body yielded a whole history to him as Robert scanned him. He set the bone magically and stopped the pain for him, and put it in a sling. "Two days," he told him. "Then it will be good as new. I'll give your dad a bottle of pain potion, even though I know you won't take it. Ok. Go play. I think I need to talk to your dad for a minute." He sent Andrew back outside with John. 'Steven, we need to talk," he said to him.

Steven frowned as he saw Andrew walk out Roberts office with a sling on . Quickly he moved over to him "whats going on, what hapened to Andrew" he asked very concerned following him into his office leaning on the back of the chair he found there "well I send him in and hes find and then hes hurt?" his eyes showing his anger, he knew Robert had a good reason but he could not handle any of his boys hurt.