Ancient Runes Office.

Kiara smiled inwardly and crossed her figures "Hopefully not"

"I am afraid so, unless you want to have a separate Ceremony with the people who know who you are"

Calista frowned slightly. "But won't that kind of...make the marriage invalid?"

Kiara sighed "Well normally I guess, but there is a spell that can be preformed that uses just a drop of yours and Armando's blood. It would make it valid behind the scenes anyway"

Calista was relieved. "Good...I don't trust my family not to mess it up, should they find out."

A small smile crossed Kiara's lips, "Don't worry about it Calista, if merlin forbid your family or Armando's family finds out unecpeatedly they will not be allowed anywhere near your wedding, I promise"

"Can I ask, umm are having the wedding before or after the baby is born?" she asked.

"Before I think." Calista replied.
"I mean, we don't want the families calling them illegitimate on top of everything else."

Kiara nodded but raised her eye brow, "Them? are you having more then one?" she asked.

Calista shook her head. "Not as far as I'm aware. I just hate calling them 'it' and seeing as we don't know the gender..."

Kiara nodded in understanding and she now knew she had less then 6 months to get a trail date and a cleared of all charges vertic in her hand.

A tough order to fill, she would have to pull afew strings and call in some favors form some people who owned her at the minisrty to get a date for it as soon as possible. That was when she got the case file ready and hopefully filled with the proof she was going to use and counter use to get the judgement she wanted.

"I see, that makes sence, though you had me thinking you were having twins with the way you said it" she said with a laugh.

Calista laughed. "Now that would be crazy."

Kiara laughed "Yes it would be"

Then Kiara got up "I think I have kept enough of your time, I will let you get back to work. Unless there anything else?" Kiara asked.

Calista shook her head. "Not yet. Take care Kiara. And thank you."

((after the dramatic-ness in COMC office and the near-disowning of Armando))

Calista sighed and sat down at her desk, and after a moment's hesitation, reached for her quill and ink.

She bit her lip as she wondered what to write.

Dear Raoul, Well, that was the easy part.

I'm sorry to write to you at work, but I thought it would be best...Dad isn't too happy with me as you know... Understatment. Serious understatment.

I'm sorry for not writing sooner, but I was in...shock...really. And azkaban. I need to tell you about that. I was rescued. I won't tell you by whom in this letter, mostly because I want to talk to you face-to-face. And partly because she didn't want her father storming down to Hogwarts and trying to kill both her and Armando. Or Raoul storming down and throwing stuff.

I know that you're probably really busy...but I'd like to talk to you. Please...could you meet me in Hogsmeade or something? You can choose when, I'll leave it up to you.

Your sister,
Calista.

She attatched the letter to the leg of her owl and the bird flew away.

About one hour later, it returned.

Calista! I'm so glad you're okay! Sorry, I just don't really know what to write...

Dad's been going mental. More than usual anyway. He barely lets me do anything any more...Yes, I know I'm an adult and should stand up to him...But he's dad...I just can't. Jerome's off on holiday with his newest in a long line of girlfriends, and its only me in the office. Which makes it harder to get away.

But I can make time for you, sis. I'll meet you in Hogsmeade, on Sunday.

See you in two days!

Raoul.
P.S. You'd better be in hiding. And you'd better be safe. I look forward to hearing about this mysterious rescuer...

Calista smiled and set the letter down. She'd talk to him. And hopefully, he'd be okay with her new family. Although knowing Raoul, it'd be a bit touch-and-go...He was not exactly a stable person, and he'd clearly been hyped up and happy when he wrote this.

Calista sighed, hoping either that this happy spell would last two more days, or that he'd be in a level mood. But either way, he was her little brother.