August 1st, 2025

A gentle thump could be heard as dark hooves hit the sandy ground. Logan did not spend much time in animagus form, something she found disappointing as she had spent quite a bit of time on the process. Sometimes it just did not feel right though, it felt like she was someone she shouldn't be when she was in animagus form. With a huff, the girl, currently horse, slid to a stop, sand flying into the air as she skidded almost into the fence.

It was a nice cool day, the summer breeze blowing gently through the fields as Logan's actual horses spent time grazing in the nice weather. They were down to eight horses now, having lost Mercury earlier in the summer. It was a hard day for the family, but they knew he was getting older and with his previous injuries, it had not made life any easier. With a shake of her head, Logan tried to ignore the memories, days of riding the horse across trails and through streams.

Gently turning her head, Logan looked back to view the arena she was presently stood in. A few smaller jumps were set up around the area, practicing her jumping skills while in animagus form. It was much more difficult than she thought. If she had actually been born a horse, maybe she would have been good at it, but trying to learn how to jump on four legs instead of two was extremely difficult to the girl.

@Logan Baird

Octavius was back to Scotland with Clark and his newly wedded husband, Ronnie Kennedy, as well as with his adopted kids that came with him.

He was going to make a stop at Adam's house, mostly because he did not really feel like he was a great family member to him, to Logan, to the younger siblings of hers, and it made him feel guilty and admittedly a little sad. With a sharp knock on the door, he put on his best smile and moved his hand down to the doorknob, turning it to open.

Baldrick and Tonto ran up to the door right as Octavius opened it and he watched them run like a wild sack of banshees up the stairs, but his reaction time was too late when he saw Baldrick quickly, while running, turn and shove Tonto backwards. Octavius's eyebrows furrowed in anger, and he rushed beyond the front door into the house to grab Tonto off the ground and turned his face towards Baldrick.

"BALDRICK! GET YOUR BEHIND DOWN THE STAIRS RIGHT THIS INSTANT!" If anyone was in the house.. well.. they'd probably know there was someone inside, if they didn't already. Baldrick solemnly stopped and turned, putting on his best 'I am innocent' face.

"Baldrick. Apologize to Tonto. Now." Ronnie came to Octavius's side and pulled out his wand, speaking the words to the Healing Spell (Reparifors). Tonto smiled. He wasn't really in tears, but both Ronnie and Octavius wanted the kids to be safe. Octavius hoped that Ronnie knew the risk when he married him. Oh well.

"Baldrick. I'm serious. Apologize. NOW. You could've hurt him, could've killed him." Octavius's tone serious and heavy. Baldrick only looked at Octavius with tears in his eyes. "I I am sorry dad please do not get mad I really sorry." Octavius groaned and sighed. How could he stay mad?

He'd get Baldrick to apologize to Tonto later.. hopefully. But for now? He'd go ahead and grab Baldrick and hug him, hopefully not have to hear snot going up and down his nose from the hug.

Octavius stood up, releasing Baldrick from the hug as Ronnie stood Tonto up and locked eyes with Octavius. Both of them looked worried but tired. Simon and Ben were just talking to one another, and Clark. Well. He was with him, that was all Octavius had to say.

Clark snarled, still pissed with his own father's reaction from the first day of the 'camping' trip. Clark doing dishes for other people? Disgusting. That work was for the house elves, so why did he have to do it! He was well behaved!

The grudge never left him. No. His nostrils flared as he watched the younger brothers run up the stairs and hurt the other. Well, since they were distracted, Clark might as well slip by and see who to torment. He knew his cousin was around somewhere, but where?

He looked around, but got bored of seeing the house, making his way towards the back door, when he saw a horse jumping around like it was a brand new baby horse. This horse was either really bad at jumping or it was something else. It was admittedly a little interesting to watch, a little more entertaining than listening to his stupid father try to get an apology out of his brothers.

"WOOO!" He whooped, clapping irregularly with the attempt of drawing attention and to be annoying. He heard his father yell NOW and just didn't bother to turn, instead continued watching the horse, seeing Logan's brothers not to far off as they caught his eyes.

He got up, and ran towards them. "HEY DORKS!" He yelled loudly, his voice ringing through the air. "WAIT UP!"

"Tell me some things about Logan." He smirked, but sweat poured down his face. "I want to destroy her reputation this year, you know she's going to graduate soon, so let me ruin Hogwarts for her! Please! I'll give you five galleons per secret... each!"

Logan stumbled over another jump with a huff, things were not going great but at least she was improving slowly. It was difficult and she was definitely going to be a little more lenient in the future when it came to training horses, she could understand the frustration now.

Honestly, Logan would have continued to practice if it wasn't for the appearance of someone new. Of course Clark was here, why wouldn't he be. With a flare of her nostrils, the large horse made her way over to the fence, closer to where her younger brothers were standing now with Clark.

She watched with slight narrowed eyes as she listened to the boy. In what world did he think her brothers were going to give him any information on her, plus, where was the boy getting his money from because it definitely wasn't his father. The Hufflepuff knew her brothers were not the biggest fans of Clark, they had mentioned multiple times in the past that they were happy to not be stuck in the same house as him. They were already stuck in the same year, they could only imagine having to be in the same house.

Logan saw her brothers look over at her with slight grins on their faces and the girl did everything possible to prepare herself for what was gonna happen next. "Hey Logan, if he is gonna pay us can you tell us something good to tell him?" Rorik questioned as he turned towards his older sister. The horse threw her head back and neighed as if laughing before quickly leaving her animagus form.

"So Clark, since you seem so interested in destroying my reputation this year, what do you want to know?" She questioned with a grin on her face as she now leaned against the fence. Logan did not know if he knew she was an animagus, but he was in for a big surprise if he didn't.