#tfbelle

With the most recent shooting Lucas knew he had to teach Belle who to use a gun. He didn't necessarily want her to use it but he needed her to know how to defend herself. He couldn't lose another person in his life. Belle had always reminded him of his little sister. If his sister Lydia was still alive, she would be about the same age as Belle. He hadn't been able to save his sister but perhaps he could prevent anything from happening to Belle.

He had a list written on the back of a receipt, of ideas for presents. As he walked into town, he went over it, wondering if he should have been more specific. Cursing the sleep-deprived him of last night who had written it, he began thinking further on what to get.

• Tod - Something to cheer him up? Booze? • Isabelle - BOOKS?? What books? old books?? • Cassie - flowers :) • Theo - a hug and a bottle of cheap liquor

He decided that Belle's was the easiest, so he went to the nearest book shop and promptly realised that it was not in fact easy at all, and that the number of books in this shop surely outnumbered stars in the sky. She liked classics, he remembered, so went to that section. He hasn't realised how many there were - surely if they were classic there shouldn't be a lot of them, he had thought. But apparently not. Soon enough he had picked out a book called Emma that reminded him of the last one she'd leant him, so she would probably like it if she hadn't already read it. 

Next he went to the offie and resisted buying himself something, instead choosing a bottle of whiskey for Theo that he remembered they'd drank together at Christmas a few years ago. Whilst he was there, he got in some drinks and grenadine that would be necessary in the cocktails he was going to try to make for Tod. Maybe he could pull that off as a part of his present. He wasn't sure what else to get him. 

It was only on his way to get flowers when he passed a place you could get all sorts of things personalised that he had an idea. He went in and left fifteen minutes later with a mug with TOD written on it in cursive. That would do, he decided. Having bought Cassie's lilies, he hesitated, and then bought another bunch, this time of sunflowers. Though he had not intended to buy Bradley anything, Colton had just seen them and thought of him. 

Connor sighed as he pulled up to the Lupin residence.  Adam Lupin tended to be an easily angered and highly dangerous fellow and Connor disliked the potential for being present for one of his rages.  Granted, while the man was in control, Connor found it refreshing to deal with someone who would not bother beating around the bush but would rather go straight to the heart of the issue.  However, he felt their working relationship ran much more peaceably when he didn’t impinge upon the man more than absolutely necessary.  Unfortunately Lucas was here for the time being due to the somewhat bizarre presence of one Isabelle Bourgoine.

His brow furrowed as he considered the young woman in question.  He understood the concept behind her presence in the household, but he thought it rather a great deal of bother to go through.  Personally he held the opinion she should be tasked with a job or two to clear up the debt and then sent on her way.  She wasn’t one of them – the Soldats – and her presence was a risk as far as he was concerned.  Oh, he could respect her abilities, no question, and it might have been refreshing to deal with someone who actually understood the sheer artistry found in computers and related technology, but her uncommitted status made him wary.  More than that, however, she seemed to bicker with Mr. Lupin a great deal of the time – something that Connor found both questionable and potentially insane.  Why on earth would anyone want to drive the man into a rage?  No, if Connor had his way, she would have been given enough work to pay off her debt and then sent home to her father before she became more of a liability.