Welcome to Hickstead, home to both Seven Oak Stables, and Blue Acre - two rival stables. Both offer opportunities for their clients to reach the highest level of excellence. Each stable differs from the other, so choose wisely and never forget, loyalty is everything... Meanwhile as the stables battle it out, there's trouble brewing at the university. Be careful, if you don't pick a side you may get caught in the cross-fire...
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a loose dog? he hoped that it had been an accident and someone hadn't let a dog lose in the woods, it made him mad when he saw people walking their dogs without leads around the barn, like they didn't care what happened to the horses or people riding. luke might not have been overly fond of the horses at the barn but he was of the people who owned some of them and when something like this happened, it didn't matter. people he loved were hurting and someone had caused it. or in this case, something. he kept his hand on chance's back as he watched logan turn to get maya off kalona and he couldn't help but relax once she was off the animals back, as calm as he looked right now he'd heard the horror stories about the beast.
"maybe whoever owns the dog deserves a dose of leo's ballistic." he said as he wrapped an arm around chance's shoulders to support the kid as he straightened from being sick. he didn't look overly injured, just a knock to the head that luke could see. he suspected that what had made him sick was the shock of everything, at least that's what he was hoping. "lets get you into the gator, got to be more comfortable than kalona." he said with a smile as he helped chance over to the gator and got him settled into the front seat. he then turned back to logan. "i'll get them settled in the lounge while you get kalona sorted, if you want to call ranger to come check them out? he's working the ambulances this swing i think." which could turn out to be a good thing if he was free, at least then chance would have both his parents. "i'll call leo too, see if he can come back." he said as he reached to take maya from logan, hoping she'd let go of him easily enough so they could sort this mess out.
TWENTY FIVE | STUDYING LAW/FIRE FIGHTER | LILIANA HONEY WHITE-COLE CLAIRE WHITE | 4 ROSE WHITE | 3 FELICITY WHITE | 3 SLADE WHITE | 1
he knew the ribbing was coming from a place of love, well from most of them anyway. from leo it was all annoyance because he'd been too slow to grab the tongs that morning. he couldn't show off his prowess on the bbq but luke wasn't about to feel bad about it, for once it was nice to know that he'd bested him, even at something so trivial. he chuckled as lily pronounced him the king of the bbq and he leaned down into the kiss she placed on his cheek before she raised her lips to his ear. "don't worry, i'll make sure it's charred all the way through." he teased with a smile as he turned back to the bbq, finishing off what needed finishing off before he felt everything was done enough to call it finished.
"married?" he asked incrediously as he overheard what bella and lily were talking about and he shook his head a little. he set the tongs down and reached behind him to untie the apron strings from his waist and he glanced across to where his oldest daughter was chasing around after zeke. "oh that needs to be nipped in the bud." he said as he reached down into the esky for another beer and he cracked the top. "i'm setting a no boys or girls rule until their 30. actually none of them can date until slade is 30." he said with a slight nod as he took a sip of the beer. "it's all done." he said with a quick smile as he reached to pick up one of the trays he'd set the meat onto. "foods done!." he called out, waiting to be mobbed by the masses now there was food on offer and the afternoon could really begin.
TWENTY FIVE | STUDYING LAW/FIRE FIGHTER | LILIANA HONEY WHITE-COLE CLAIRE WHITE | 4 ROSE WHITE | 3 FELICITY WHITE | 3 SLADE WHITE | 1
he knew that hadn't been a fair question to ask her but he'd had to ask it anyway. he hated seeing her hurt, even if it had been from an animal that she loved as much as he knew she loved adonis. it would be like her asking him to let someone else go into the fires to pull people out, it was his job and he was going to do it. but it didn't stop him from worrying about her and fussing over her when she did get injured, he never would. she was his wife, it was his job to do it. "i know lils, i do." he said, softening his voice slightly so she knew it and he didn't really expect her to have said yes. it was just a question he'd needed to ask, because he'd not forgive himself if he hadn't and something went wrong. "adonis probably listens better ..." he said in response and he smiled a little as he clasped his hand around the washcloth when she let him take it from her fingers.
he felt some of the tension leave his shoulders as she reassured him that it was just the scrape on her back and he nodded his head slightly, pressing the cloth against it gently so he could continue cleaning it for her. even with her assurance that it wasn't as bad as it looked he didn't really believe her, he knew it had to hurt somewhat more than she would let on. it was a trait of her family after all. he reached his free hand to touch her chin as she looked at him. "i'll believe that in a few days." because by then he'd have forgotten the shock of seeing her in the bathroom, the anger that she'd been hurt and it would just be a healing wound. "come into the bedroom and i'll go get the stuff to dress it properly." he said as he finished cleaning what dirt he could see.
TWENTY FIVE | STUDYING LAW/FIRE FIGHTER | LILIANA HONEY WHITE-COLE CLAIRE WHITE | 4 ROSE WHITE | 3 FELICITY WHITE | 3 SLADE WHITE | 1
he saw the sheepish grin cross her face and normally it would have been enough to make him smile back at her but he couldn't help but worry about her instead. he'd seen the grazes and he wanted to know where else she was bruised or hurt. he'd long given up trying to understand the families connection with horses but it always worried him when she came home injured. he'd seen some bad injuries, in their own family, that had come from riding and it scared him to no end that one day it could be lily or one of their kids when they got older. "tell me you cracked him a good one in return." he said, a little drily but playing along with her joke. once he had his hand on his shoulder, he felt a little better. he knew it was stupid but there was something so important about touch to him, knowing she was close enough for him to help, especially when she was hurt or ill, he didn't want to be far from her side.
"i suppose if i told you to let leo or logan work with him instead of you, you wouldn't listen right?" he knew there was no point, lily was who she was and he loved her just as she was but he couldn't help but worry about one of the horses hurting her. to him, her brothers could take it so much better than she could. not that he'd ever tell her that straight, she'd probably cut him down at his knees for it. he reached out and took the cloth from her, nodding a little as he lifted the hem of her shirt gently back up so he could see the wound. "where else are you hurt?" he asked quietly as he worked on cleaning the graze on her skin as carefully as he could.
TWENTY FIVE | STUDYING LAW/FIRE FIGHTER | LILIANA HONEY WHITE-COLE CLAIRE WHITE | 4 ROSE WHITE | 3 FELICITY WHITE | 3 SLADE WHITE | 1
luke stretched as he walked up the front steps to the house he shared with his wife and her family. he whistled a tune softly to himself as he unlocked the door, spun his keys around his finger for a second before he gently dropped them into the bowl at the front door. with so many sets of keys in the house, it was sometimes hard to keep track of, but it meant there was never a shortage of cars to grab in an emergency. he'd just been into town to run som errands and he'd come back to see if lily wanted to grab a late lunch while they were child free. claire was at school, the twins were at daycare and slade had been stolen by ranger so he could take them on a walk around the park when luke had left to run his errands. he was planning on showering before he made his way over to the barn to see if his wife wanted to take advantage of their child free status and he kicked off his shoes at the bottom of the stairs as he walked up them.
he didn't know who was home at the moment but with the amount of people who lived in the house, it wasn't unusual to have someone in the house at all times. in fact it was a bit of a rare occurance when they were all out at the same time. he scrubbed his hand over his face as he grabbed a towel from the hall cupboard, not able to remember if he'd hung his up that morning, and he headed into the room he shared with lily. he tossed the towel on the bed as he started to tug his shirt off but he stopped as he heard someone moving in the bathroom. he frowned a little because it was his and lily's bathroom, the perks of being married to the woman who owned the house, they had their own. no one in his family would be in there, unless they had a good reason or one of the kids had snuck in but it didn't happen often.
he stopped trying to take off his shirt and he walked towards the door, looking into the bathroom and more than shocked at the sight he saw there. his wife was there, her shirt held between her teeth as she tried her best to twist to put some cream onto one of the worst looking graze down her back he'd ever seen on her. "lily! what the hell happened?" he exclaimed as he hurried over to her and he touched his hand gently to the top of her shoulder, not game to touch her anywhere else in case she was hurt in other areas. "did you fall?" he asked her quickly but gently, not able to help jumping into the mental checklist he did with the patients he dealt with at work. he wasn't a paramedic but he had more than basic first aid training and the sight of his wife in pain was enough to make him remember his training.
TWENTY FIVE | STUDYING LAW/FIRE FIGHTER | LILIANA HONEY WHITE-COLE CLAIRE WHITE | 4 ROSE WHITE | 3 FELICITY WHITE | 3 SLADE WHITE | 1
how he'd ended up pulling weeds from the fields on his day off, he'd yet to understand. there had been pancakes for breakfast, bacon piled to the roof and even muffins. he should have known there'd be a catch because when lily had set a plate piled high with the delicious offerings, she'd asked him a question knowing full well that he was too distracted to know what she was really asking and he'd agreed. he'd denied his agreement to help but he hadn't really put up much of a fight. he'd just come off a night shift rotation and after sleeping for pretty much the full day and night before, he could stand to get out into the sunshine, even if there was no heat coming down from the giant orange ball. he straightened as he threw some of the weed he'd just pulled from the dirt into the back of the small gator they used to run about the barn and his attention was caught by a horse coming up the lane towards the barn.
he frowned a little when he saw who it was, able to recognize them right away. logan was leading kalona but that wasn't the most worrying part. the worrying part was that chance and maya sat atop the horse. he might not have been the horsey person of the family but he listened to them about the animals at the barn and he knew that logan wouldn't have put them on him without a reason. besides the last he'd seen maya and chance had set off on their own just an hour or so before. he'd waved to them as they'd ridden past them. he abandoned his task without a second thought, jumping into the gator and driving it out of the field he was in, only pausing to open and close the gate as he went through it. he drove down the lane slowly, keeping the revs on the gator low so he didn't spook kalona and stopping what he hoped was a safe distance away because the last thing he wanted to do was make the crazy beast panic while maya was still on top of him.
he turned the vehicle off just in time to hear the sound of chance throwing up by the fence. he pulled a face in sympathy as he climbed out and he shut the door softly. he walked towards his best friend and his son, keeping his eye on kalona as he heard maya's small voice ask him about her dad. he shook his head a little and he looked up at her with an apologetic face. "i'm sorry honey, he left about fifteen minutes ago." he wished he could tell her he was there but he couldn't lie to her. "i got him, you help maya down." he said to logan as he moved to where chance was standing by the fence, resting his hand on his shoulder lightly. he didn't want logan to feel he had to chose between supporting chance and keeping maya safe on kalona. "what happened?" he asked logan above chance's head, shifting his hand to the kids back as he threw up on the fence post again.
TWENTY FIVE | STUDYING LAW/FIRE FIGHTER | LILIANA HONEY WHITE-COLE CLAIRE WHITE | 4 ROSE WHITE | 3 FELICITY WHITE | 3 SLADE WHITE | 1
he couldn't help but smile and squirm a little as she patted his stomach and he turned to look at her. he knew she was joking, though he did know that at some point he'd have to start watching what he ate. he was lucky though, he had a job that involved him putting a lot of effort into his fitness because if he didn't he wouldn't be able to do his job and that could cost someone their life. "you're just jealous i can eat anything." he teased her as he reached to pat her on the bottom as he turned back to the bbq in order to check the meat.
"never leo, never." he said as he reached behind him to rest his hand on the handle of the grill. he didn't know what it was but there was something about cooking the food at his little girls birthday party that was important to him. his job was busy and it kept him away for a lot of the time. especially when he was working his night rounds and had to stay at the station. he missed bedtimes and dinner times and a lot of the craziness that his kids got up to so this, this meant a lot to him.
he heard all the talk over from the other members of the family and he looked across at them with a look of mock indignation. "logan .. even you? my bestest buddy?" he said with a laugh as he shook his head a little and turned back to the bbq for a second to make sure nothing was burning, as was apparently their worries. anything he did burn would get tossed to the dogs before they could see it, if he burned something he'd never live it down for the end of his days. "chance!? oh my god .. you too? you've been spending too much time with leo." he said with a grin as he picked up the tongs to turn some of the sausages when they looked about done. "at least my kids like my cooking." even though most of it came from a packet on the rare nights that he was the one who had to feed them.
TWENTY FIVE | STUDYING LAW/FIRE FIGHTER | LILIANA HONEY WHITE-COLE CLAIRE WHITE | 4 ROSE WHITE | 3 FELICITY WHITE | 3 SLADE WHITE | 1
there was a familiar pit in his stomach as he helped get everything ready for today. had he loved watching the joy on the girls face when they'd come down this morning to their birthday breakfast? did he love the fact they were at the age where they started to get excited about birthdays and parties? of course he was. did he love seeing how happy they were right now? absolutely. what was causing the pit in his stomach was the fact they were getting older. they weren't babies anymore. they were passed the terrible twos and they were becoming their own little people. as different as chalk and cheese yet still so connected to each other, it was amazing to watch. but they were one year older, one year closer to being teenagers and he wasn't looking forward to that. he smiled from his spot at the BBQ though, having finally beaten leo to the appliance and declaring himself cook for the day. he clicked the tongs together a few times as he waited for it to heat up.
he took in the people around him as he stood there waiting, the kids were spread over the lawn, joined by claire and zeke as they jumped down from the deck. chance was sitting in the middle of the lawn with slade and rory, blowing bubbles for them as maya did her best to get as close to the pool as she could without actually getting into the water. if there was water, she'd be in it. and then there were the birthday girls. he couldn't see rose, but he was sure someone had eyes on her. flick was up, holding a giant water pistol she'd been given for her birthday and she was hunting around for her next target.
he looked away from the kids as lily came up next to him and set down some uncooked chicken wings for him to put on when it was ready. "please tell me they're just for me and everyone else is having sausages?" he joked as he set down the tongs and he picked up the can of coke he had sitting next to the BBQ. it was the tame stuff for now, but he had no doubt once the kids were all down later that night that the alcohol would come out.
-- i thought so we can keep track of whose posted, if we just copy and paste this tag list and then strike our characters as we post them? then when everyone is crossed off that's the posting order? and because peps only has ashley in here, maybe clips and i go a few more times, then ash can jump in and then clips and i can put the rest in?
TWENTY FIVE | STUDYING LAW/FIRE FIGHTER | LILIANA HONEY WHITE-COLE CLAIRE WHITE | 4 ROSE WHITE | 3 FELICITY WHITE | 3 SLADE WHITE | 1
