Ronan watched on as everyone fussed over the babies. They seemed to be a hit of the party and that was all well and good. He looked around wondering where Pandora was because she was more friendly with these guests than he was.

Just as he thought this, she seemed to materialize out of no where and a smile appeared on his face. Her presence always seemed to do that and that's how he knew that he was completely in love with her.

However when she squeezed his hand, Ronan knew that something was wrong. Offering her Tristan he hugged them both as they spoke to their guests.

"It'd make you a horrible one." Frida said without giving a second thought. Filters were for sad people, which Frida wasn't...not even in the slightest. She laughed too when Roisin did. "Is Malachi being silly? Hmm?" Frida said to the baby. "He's a silly man."
Some weird twang of pain started to strike her in the chest again, but Frida ignored it.

"That's it se-EEK!" Frida seemed to have been knocked back into her senses once Roisin grabbed hold of her nose. "Now, now, Roisin. That's no-" Her face contorted in pain when Roisin started to twist her nose. Who knew that such a little thing could inflict so much discomfort? "Rothin." Frida's voice was different because the baby girl had pinched her nose shut, "Come on naw." She attempted to slide her finger under the girl's hand, but didn't want to scratch her fragile skin with her fingernail.

Seemed like Malachi had noticed, thankfully. Frida blinked a couple times once her nose was free of Roisin's grip. She sniffed to make sure it was working and smiled, almost embarrassed to Malachi, and blushed slightly when she felt the man's breath on her. "Heh...thanks. Yes, adorable." Frida looked down at Roisin again when Malachi started speaking with Pip once more. 'Have to pay extra attention I guess.' She wriggled her nose again, still surprised.

Just as Frida had readjusted Roisin again, and rubbed her nose, Pandora walked onto the lawn. Frida smiled widely and gave a rather cheerful wave, not wanting to interrupt anything. And besides, Pandora could wait until Frida gave her the gift she had purchased for the babies.

"Nice to meet you as well, Pippa!" Frida said happily as she held onto Roisin, giving a wide smile. It was weird though, the woman hadn't introducd herself using a last name. 'What if she has no last name?' Frida's eyes widened at the thought, 'No last name!?'

Apparating late, Abilee stumbled as she landed in front of a castle like building. "This must be it," Abilee checked the invitation again and makde sure. Ok good. So the youngster got the the place, but late, so nothing else to worry about. Walking up to the castle, Abilee couldn't help but wonder why this place looked kind of familiar to her. Ehh, probably from like a book something.

Nonetheless, the raven-haired girl knocked on the heavy door. Would they even hear it?

Ronan had gone inside to check on their house elf Winkles, making sure that Pandora hadn't caused her to start slamming into walls and what not with her unorthodox requests.

Just as he walked into the foyer he heard a knock on the door and went to go open it.

"Abby Dabby! You made it!" The young man said with a bright grin on his face. He leaned forward to capture the brunette in a swift hug and let go.

"Of course you wouldn't find this place difficult to find, it's not that far from where you grew up in the first place is it? Where's your date?" Ronan was all about the questions today as he glanced around Abilee for some tall dark mysterious man.

"Oof," Abilee said from the sudden hug and lack of air. But nonetheless, she hugged Ronny back. "Of course I'd make it. Wouldn't miss my best friend's little party for anything," she smiled and clapped her hands like the little girl she was. At least still in her head.

Nope. This place wasn't hard to find at all. "Yup and to think I didn't wanna step foot around here anymore," Shrugging, Abilee and did wonder where was Jesper. "He's probably late, of course. Or just 'early' for his being," she laughed.

Ronan gave a sad smile when Abilee mentioned that she hadn't wanted to step foot in here again. For one thing, his father had always been rude to his friends because they weren't to his liking. But that was a very long story that they both knew of already.

And for another, Ronan had left without saying goodbye which was probably the meanest thing that he could possibly do. But again, that was the past and now everything was happy.

He wasn't incredibly impressed by her date though. Granted, if he was out working really hard then perhaps he would be able to forgive him.

"Right then, let's go in the back where everyone else is." the young man said reaching out to hold his friend's hand. "You'll like everyone I'm sure of it."

"Okay," Abilee smiled and took hold of her friend's hand, letting go of that bad little moment that only lasted a few seconds. She had to admit, Abilee was nervous about meeting Ronny's wife. Why? She had no clue but she was. So bare with the poor youngster.

"I'm sure of it too, but what if they don't like me?" Whispering the last part, the brunette sighed but followed nonetheless. She just hoped they did like her.

How in Merlin's name did Muggles manage? Silas hadn't yet managed to feel confident apparating with the twins in tow, and the portkeys made them all nauseous, so knight bus part of the way, and broom the rest had had to do.

Thank Merlin for that muggle contraption that kept the twins strapped to him: one in back, and one in front, diaper bag and gift bag dangling from the handle. First chance he got, Silas was writing to that blasted transportation department about allowing carpets again.

Touching down, just a tad bumpily, Silas slipped the bags off the broom and extracted the twins' stroller. Fidgeting with the baby harnesses, Silas attempted to get both Imogen and Gabriel off his person and into the stroller.

It was proving much more difficult than it should have.

Pandora gave in under the influence of Pippa's warmth and hugged her friend very briefly before realising that Ronan was passing Tristan to her. She took her son and leaned backwards against her husband a little. "Well, you know me, I make the best of things. I'm just loving being a with my babies." She tickled Tristan under the chin.

Roisin laughed at the pretty lady, she was making funny noises. When Uncle Malachi moved Roisin's hand off the lady's nose she looked up at him, wondering why he would be doing that. Silly man!

Pandora had seen Roisin grab Frida's nose and started to move to intervene but Malachi got there first. When she turned around, Ronan had gone to answer the front door. "So how are you?" She asked Pippa.

Malachi stroked Roisin's curl's. "Yes, you're very adorable, aren't you?" In all honesty, Malachi could see the little girl becoming a spoiled princess but that was upto Curi and Ronan. All of a sudden his attention was drawn away from Frida and Roisin towards what he could only assume was another guest... or guests. The man performed an understandably inelegant landing since he was encumbered by one... no, two babies. "Umm, Curi? I think some one else is here." Although it was not someone he recognised.

Pandora looked up and saw Silas clambering off a broom. Knowing that he wasn't keen on brooms to start with, never mind with his twins in tow, she looked at Pippa. "Can you just take Tristan for me?" She asked, already handing her son to Pippa.

As soon as she was able to, Pandora dashed down the lawn, a huge smile on her face. "Hello you three!" She cried happily, her eyes shining with excitement, "I wasn't sure you'd make it!" She automatically reached for Gabriel who was strapped to Silas' back. She smiled as the little boy's hair settled on a pale blue. "Do you like flying Gabriel?" Pandora kissed his head and then looked at Silas. "I'm so happy that you're here. I've missed you." She tickled Imogen under the chin, kissing first the little girl's cheek and then her Daddy's.

Thank Merlin. Silas stopped struggling with the harnasses - a curled up Imogen making it nearly impossible for him to grab his wand - as soon as he saw Pandora.

As she lifted Gabriel off his back, he smiled at her and shrugged off the back-carrier. "I wasn't sure we'd make it, either. Imogen rubbed sunscreen in her eye this morning and has been in a foul mood, ever since." Silas stroked her cheek softly, looking down as Pandora held Gabriel.

Drooly baby gurgles were Gabriel's response to Pandora. He flailed his arms and laughed, a few peeks of white pushing through the pink gums.

"He loves it," Silas responded, returning Pandora's kiss on the cheek. "Imogen seems to have my stomach for it. She'll be a bit anti-social for a bit, but then I'm sure she's love some time with you, too." Silas lifted her out of the harness and, cradling her in one arm, shook the contraption off. Resting her against his chest, then, he dumped everything into the diaper bag, and put the bag on the stroller. "I think it carries their stuff more than them."

A little sigh escaped Imogen's body as she curled in closer to her daddy. There were people around. No people. *hide*

"I'm sorry for not being a better friend. It's been far, far too long." He'd missed them.

Frida blinked at Roisin, "That wasn't nice, Roisin." She said sweetly, but trying as hard as she could to be authoritative...even if it was hard to do while wearing such a large smile. She swept her long hair behind her shoulders when she noticed it getting a little too close for comfort to Roisin. The last thing Frida wanted was a chunk of hair ripped out of her head.

Frida grinned when Malachi stroked Roisin's curly head, "If she's so adorable then you should hold her as well." 'Besides, my arms are getting tired.' She laughed and looked towards a figure coming down from the sky, tilting her head to the left slightly; narrowing her eyes a little. 'More people!' Her face lit up again before giving Malachi a smart look after he spoke, "You think? Malachi, there's another person standing right there!" What? Was he blind? Though Frida couldn't help but chuckle quietly to herself.

Seeing that the new arrival was indeed a guest (judging by how Pandora had greeted the man), Frida started to wave from where she stood, smiling widely.
Oh! This newcomer had twins too!? Her eyes widened and she let her hand (that had been waving, and not the one holding Roisin up) help in holding the little girl again. 'That one has blue hair...'

Pandora looked at Gabriel. "Have you got teeth? Hmm, Mr Drooly? " She pulled a handkercheif out of her pocket and wiped his chin. She looked up at Silas and then back to Imogen, "Ouch, that must have stung. Has she been rubbing it ever since?" Pandora reached out again, this time to stroke Imogen's hair. "Do you want to put them down for a nap? It's a long way to come on a broom." Once Silas had all of the things sorted for the babies, Pandora started to lead them to the castle. "That's odd, isn't it, how babies take some of our personalities on board. Gabriel must be just like his mummy..." Her words trailed away and she looked at him, sorrow gleaming in her eyes where moments before there had been happiness. Trying to smooth over the awkward moment, she waved to Frida. "You're not a bad friend Silas, not at all." She gripped his arm for a moment. Gesturing towards the castle, she asked, "What do you think to all this then? Because I think it's... big." She ended rather pathetically and laughed. "What do you think Gabriel? Is it big?"

Malachi grinned as Frida told Roisin off while smiling, not bothering to point out that children generally took more notice of tone than words. He gladly took Roisin, kissing her on the head. "Alright trouble? Hmm?" He bounced her a little on his slender hip. When Frida laughed at him, Malachi blushed a little. "Yeah, I umm, must get my eyes tested. Shortsighted wonder, that's me." Malachi wasn't sure if shortsighted meant that you couldn't see things that were far away which didn't help to reduce his blush at all. When Frida helped to support Roisin, he slipped his arm around the young woman's waist, whispering in her ear urgently. "Has that baby got blue hair?"

Roisin babbled happily until she realised that she couldn't see her Mummy or her Daddy anywhere... She didn't like that at all, not one bit. She reached up and patted Uncle Malachi's face, hard, her little lip wibbling.

"Ouch!" Malachi was surprised to get slapped in the face... by a baby. He gently took hold of Roisin palms and kissed them. "It's alright trouble, Mummy's not far."

Frida stopped waving and smiled once Pandora had acknowledged her. She was almost tempted to walk down there and start hugging everyone, but that would have been weird.

'Ha! Your turn to blush now isn't it?' She couldn't help but grin when that thought came to mind. "Shortsighted wonder..." Frida chuckled and smiled, "That's real cute, Malachi. I'll have to remember that one." Her attention was drawn towards the new arrivals until Malachi started to whisper things to her.
"That's what I was thinking." Frida whispered back, glad that she hadn't been imagining things. 'I still think it's adorable.' They were all adorable. Every one of them.

Oh dear. That little one started to look a tiny bit unhappy. "Roisiiin." Frida said cheerfully and leaned over a little bit, enough to where her face was almost level with Roisin's...but that didn't last long.

The woman's eyes widened, and she grinned, "You okay?" She chuckled a little, thinking that Malachi being hit was sort of funny. "Glad I gave her to you, or I might have a busted lip as well as a broken nose." Frida laughed and brought her attention to Roisin, "You're a little tuffy aren't you?" She said sweetly, "Your mum is right down there, hun."

"Abilee do I seriously have to explain to you how they're not going to hate you?" Ronan asked giving her the look he always did when they were younger and she started worrying about things.

"Everything's going to be fine. If it makes you feel better, you can stay along with me until your..friend arrives." he added smiling. No way was he going to be calling that other guy Abilee's boyfriend. That couldn't happen.

Ronan smiled, comforted that Pandora was so close to her. Looking over her shoulder and down at Tristan he made funny faces to make the little boy laugh.

And now the surprise for Pandora had finally arrived. He grinned to himself as Pandora rushed to welcome Silas with his twins at the front, and then looked to Pippa.

"Those two have been friends for a very long time. In fact, they had been talking in the Leaky Cauldron the day that we had met." he explained to the young blonde and then looked back on his wife.

Tristan was not liking all this passing around. It was just making him irritable. And now he was in this strange woman's arms and not in Mummy's. He looked around for someone familiar and only say Uncle Malachi and Roisin. Why did she get to have all the attention from people that they knew? The little boy started to get really upset.

"I never said hate, and don't give me that look!" Abilee protested, poking the man in the process. Okay, so maybe the poor woman, if we can even call her that, was being a bit paranoid. She wasn't rude, mean or nasty in anyway, so Ronny did have a point. But Abilee wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of knowing that.

"And yes, yes it does, in a way," the girl pouted, but laughed nonetheless. ...friend. "Friend, huh? Guess he's in your bad books already," Abilee smirked, knowing it would take Jesper a while to get out of this one.

Jesper rushed up to the door, knowing that he was late. Great, first time going with Abilee as her boyfriend somewhere, and he showed up late. That would surely make a good impression on Abilee's friends, or whoever was there.


Finally reaching the door, which made him even more nervous, he knocked, hoping that somebody would hear. Whiping some dust off his shirt, he waited for the doors to open, while his heart was pounding quicker by the second.

Gabriel smiled, his cheeks dimpling as Pandora tickled his face with whatever that was. Grabbing it with one hand, he squealed and shook his arm. New toy!

"They both do. Teeth, solid food, self-feeding... feeding each other. Every day it's something new." He looked down at Imogen, who seemed to be falling fast asleep against him.

"She cried and rubbed most of the trip on the knight bus. But by the time we got on the broom, she seemed to have cried it all out." Silas looked down to try to see if it was still red, but she shifted against her chest, blocking his view. "She's fine where she is, but thank you. And that little monster in your arms is really excited. He'll need to run himself down a bit, I think."

Imogen gave a little burbley sigh. One thumb stuck firmly in her mouth with her forefinger hooked over her nose, her other hand idly twirled her own hair. Naptime on daddy!

Silas looked up with a sad smile. "He is. He really is. And she's me. For better or worse. You can see we share a similar feeling about crowds." He gestured to the sleeping girl, laughing as they walked. He turned to face Pandora as she gripped his arm. "You are the only one I know with children; if nothing else, I should be seeing you more often so that my kids have friends. And so I'm not such a recluse." He looked ahead of them, toward the others. He'd agreed to come because he wanted to be there for Pandora and the babies, but at the same time, the anxiety of socializing gripped him, even if it didn't show. And this was going to be a group of people that were complete strangers to him.

Shaking free of it, for a moment at least, to answer her question. "Yours aren't walking yet, are they? It'll feel bigger and smaller once they are. Small enough that you can't keep them away from anything and big enough that you won't want to move two rooms over without taking them with you." At least, that's how it had been for him.

Gabriel, for his part, responded with a spitty "Brrrbletittat iggle," his hair brightening as they walked.

"Mmm, you don't say, Gabe." Silas gave his son's hair a little ruffle. "Are you going to be staying here, then? Or splitting time here and at Old Mill Cottage?"

It wasn't exactily that Artemis was a shy person, she just felt funny around those that she didn't know and tended not to attend social gatherings. Not when her former boss, Sophia, cheerfully insisted they attend an ice cream social they had been invited to, not even when her siblings asked her to with them to a 'thing' with their friends. Not usually, anyway. But to this one, she would come. Pandora had invited her, much to her surprise in all honesty, and Artie thought it would be nice to see her again.

With a 'POP!' Artie apparated onto the property, in the backyard it looked like. Glancing down at the small child in her arms, the young woman murmured, "I think I misjudged where to appear, Monkey." She'd meant for the front lawn. It seemed, though, her landing wasn't so off after all upon noticing a group of people not too far ahead. A slight blush rose in her cheeks and she shifted Juliet on her hip, whom continued to cling to her and gaze around as they went forward.

Once close enough, the four-year-old took notice to a couple of babies being held by adults and bounced a little bit, saying in an excitedly hushed voice, "Look Auntie Artiee! Babies!"

Shifting Juliet a second time as the little girl tried to move about, Artemis smiled and gave a small wave of her hand. "Hello.."

Malachi was relieved that Frida was so relaxed, he had been concerned that she would be uncomfortable. "That can be my nickname. It sounds like one of those muggle superheros, I'll have to get a costume with my underware on the outside."

When Frida whispered back to him, Malachi nodded. "He must be a metamorphmagus." Malachi had never met a metamorphmagus before and he reflected that the child was lucky, wondering who he took after.

Frida's comment about her nose brought a crooked smile to his lips. He wanted to kiss her nose but he thought that might just be a step too far infront of strangers. Instead he squeezed her hip briefly. "I don't think tuffy starts to cover it with this little one. I reckon I'm holding a future dueling champ." He kissed Roisin's curls, a whisper of worry about what his own little tuffy might be up to.

Roisin wasn't happy. She was tired and hot and she wanted her daddy. She started to cry a little bit, grabbing a fistful of Uncle Malachi's shirt.

Pandora allowed Gabriel to take the hankerchief, grinning as he waved it around. "Are you a clever boy, feeding yourself?" She asked Gabriel, grinning at him. Turning to Silas, she asked, "Do you find that what ever one does, the other tries to beat? Or at least copy? Almost as though they're in competition with each other? Or is that just my two?" She looked at Gabriel again. "Are you going to play with Tristan and Roisin while your sister sleeps? Hmm?" She watched his hair change gradually, a strong reminder of the person who was missing.

She listened to Silas, nodding. A tear sat in the corner of one eye and so she rubbed it, trying to make it appear that she had an itch. "They're very lucky to have you." Pandora told Silas, as she had before. "And as for crowds, I have people I don't really know staying in a castle I own with my husband. I'm..." She looked at Silas and pulled a face, showing that she was very anxious. "There's a house elf for pity's sake! I'm just glad you're here!" When Silas suggested that they should see each other more often, Pandora beamed. "Yes, yes! I've worked out how to hold them both in the floo, so we will be coming for lunch and you can do the same." She could have skipped up and down at the prospect. "It'll be good to have a conversation with someone who replies in sentences."

"Not walking yet, no but we do have crawling, bum shuffling and pulling themsleves up so I understand what you mean. I'm half dreading them walking, to be honest." She chuckled at Gabriel's excited babbling and looked back at Silas. "I have no idea, it's too huge. I'd suggest selling it but that would just hurt Ronan. Can you imagine growing up here?" She shook her head a little.

As she said Ronan's name, he had appeared with a pretty young woman who Pandora could only imagine was Abilee. Just as she was about to wave to the pair, Artie appeared. Pandora waved, smiling. "Come up to the house!" She called. "That's Artie Chosen, she works in the owl place in Diagon Alley, she's lovely." Pandora explained to Silas.

As she reached the others, Pandora called out loudly "Can everyone start to make their way up to the sitting room so that we can have a cup of tea?" She heard Roisin crying and wanted to go and tend to her but since her baby was with Malachi she wasn't too worried.

*Bwahaha!* Frida gave a few loud laughs before silencing herself; she was pretty sure that she could hear an echo off of the castle. "Oh, that'd be just swell, Malachi. Just don't expect me to be your side-kick or anything." She chuckled again. 'Finally! A valid excuse to use the word side-kick!'

"Must be. Lucky fellow." Frida said with a smile, "Even better than being an animagus." She bit her lip, wondering what it would be like to be a metamorphmagus. Sure, animal form was rather fun, but being able to change appearance at will into another individual...that was just awesome!

"Eee-he-he." She shook a little bit, holding on to her now nearly calm composure. "Stop it. I'm ticklish." Frida said in Malachi's ear, warning him. "Oh you do, do you?" She said when Malachi mentioned Roisin being a dueling champion. "I can see that for sure."

'Oh dear. Oh dear!' What was that noise? Crying? Frida stared at Roisin with a look of concern, "Maybe she wants her parents?" She said to Malachi, unsure of why her head had started to throb painfully.

'Inside.' Now that sounded like a good idea. Frida smiled and gestured to the structure, meaning for Malachi to follow her up to the castle.

Ronan stuck his tongue out at Abilee. Always the bossy one, she was. But he was older so that made up for it.

He just was about to answer about her boyfriend, when he heard a knock on the door and went to go answer it. There was this young man, younger than him which kind of was starting to scare Ronan, standing there looking a bit anxious or nervous.

"Can I help you?" he asked with a curious glance.

Turning at the sound of his wife's voice, Ronan looked to the man again. This had to be Abilee's boyfriend.

"Jesper is it? Ronan Cavanaugh." he held out his hand for the younger man to shake.

"Come on in, we're about to start with the tea." Ronan smiled and turned on his heel, set to show Abilee and Jesper the way not wanting to look behind him and realize that the pair were kissing or something. After all, Abilee was like Ronan's sister and that was not something he wanted to see.

Abilee pouted and looked away when Ronny stuck his tongue out at her, but of course she giggled. Because that was just Abigail, she laughed at almost anything. But when Jesper finally showed up, she gave him a look as to not say nothing wrong. Once Ronny turned around and led the way to the back, Abilee slapped Jesper on his stomach. "You're late and I think you're in his bad books already for that," she said, but grabbed his hand nonetheless and followed behind her best friend.

Jesper's greeting wasn't exactly what he'd been expecting, as Abilee slapped him. He tried his hardest not to grin. Sad puppies, he reminded himself. Sad puppies, sad puppies...
"I'm sorry I was late," He told her, as they were moving. "I was gonna make a respectable entrance and drive," He had to restrain himself not to laugh while saying this, "And I conveniently enough ran into a tree," SAD PUPPIES. "And there was muggles all around, I could fix it, and then the police came, and... well," He rolled his eyes. Yes, he could've apparated, but he wanted to show these people he cared enough to put some effort into getting there.

"You could've just apparated like everyone else. Sure you'd have to dust yourself off, but at least you wouldn't have gotten here late," Abilee sighed, and took hold of Jesper's arm. She lookd at him closely to make sure nothing was broken or if he had a scratch on himself. "Well, all that matters now is that your here. But are you okay about the crash?" she asked, and giving him a kiss on the cheek.

Pippa smiled softly in Pandora's direction and nodded. "I've been good, really good actually... Things are slowly getting better. " Yeah, slowly. Nevermind, a slow pace was so much better than things not moving, not moving well. Gosh, come to think about it, her life was kind of bori--

Hold the baby? HOLD THE BABY? Oh, good lord, she hadn't reeeally done this before, unless you counted little Berry. Oh.

She took the kid from Pandora, and held him safel, looking down at him inquisitively before chuckling softly. "Aren't you a cutie, ey? I'm Pippa. Pip-PA." Wasn't she COOL? Haha!

She spent another short while, smiling at the child in her arms and screwing her face up in weird ways in an attempt to make the depressed child smile.

OH, Pandora was back! Inside? Oh. Okay. Suuuuuuuuure.