Ravers Manor

The Ravers family gathered around the long dinner table that night. Robert sat in the middle with Sophia to his left and Heather to his right. Daniel sat across Robert with Logan across from Heather and Audrey and Isabella on the other side.

Has usual the talk that night started around the business aspect of the day and has usual Heather quickly turned it around to talk about school. Tonight, it was all about the fight at school. She went on about who was in it, what happened and all the rumors flying around has to why it started while Logan silently picked at his food.

"Bishop?" Robert asked glancing at Daniel "Monica Bishop's kid?" to which Daniel simply nodded.

"Aren't those the same kids we helped out Monday?" Sophia asked.

"Yea! I know how weird? They seem to get in trouble a lot." Heather said.

"Dylan started it." Logan said dryly while he picked at his food.

"But... he wasn't in the fight." a confused Heather asked.

"I saw him celebrating with Shawn." Logan said chasing a bean on his plate. "I don't know how he did it but he made them fight each other. I know it."

"Are you sure honey?" his mother asked, "I know he used to torment you before, but a lot of boys enjoy watching fights."

"Oh they were celebrating alright. Like it went down just the way they planned it." He said. "And it doesn't look like the teachers are going to stop them."

"So what are you going to do about it?" his father asked hm.

"What? Me?" Logan looked up incredulous.

"Yes. You. What are you going to do about it?" his father repeated.

"But... I don't understand. I mean the teachers, the principal have to do something. What can I do? I can't send them to detention or kick them out." Logan said confused.

"There is always something you can do." his father said. "If you've been paying attention at dinner these last few days you would know that Jaisur is trying to buy our pharmaceutical division. Do you think we" he gestured around "are just like"

'Oh well they want to buy it and we really don't want to sell it but gee wiz they're going do it anyway by buying us out. so.. oh well guess we lost it'.

"You think that is how things go? You think we're like Scrooge McDuck? Sitting in the office all day long just counting money?" His father cheerfully chuckled. "There a lot of problems to solve and work around and they don't solve themselves."

"Your father's right Logan." Robert said. "There's a lot going on and there's a lot we do, We call in favor, we buy back stock, we bribe if we have to. There is always something you can do. And you don't always have to do it alone. I may be the visible face of Ravers Enterprise but I couldn't do it without your father running around putting out all the fires inside the company, without Sophia running investigative journalism on our competition or your mother developing new projects to keep us ahead of the game. We hope you three will do the same."

"So.." his father said "Think about it... what do you want to do? How are you going to do it and ... what are you going to do?"

Logan nodded and started to think while he finished his dinner.

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Later Logan sat in his room fiddling with his rapier when Heather came into the room and plopped down on his bed next to him.

"So, what’s up?" she asked while scrolling thru her phone.

Logan shrugged while he admired and studied the sword for a few minutes.

"You know, Rapiers are a very elegant weapon. You could say a very civilized weapon" Logan said.

"It's just a sword." Heather said.

"It's not just a sword." Logan said. "Yea... You could kill someone with it just like any other sword but... you could also injure someone without have to maim then. A stab in the arm or leg, just enough to hurt or incapacitate them for a while but not enough to cripple them. Can't do that with other swords. You could teach a lesson without killing or maiming. A civilized weapon."

"Is that what you are going to do? Challenge Dylan to a duel with that?" Heather laughed "You've been watching too much TV."

Logan chuckled "No I'm not going to challenge him to a duel, but we are going to do something."

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Robert caught up with Audrey in the hallway, “About earlier…” he started to say.

“Not here” Audrey hissed. “Tomorrow at the office” she said has she continued down the hallway to her bedroom. Closing the door, it took only a few minutes before Robert heard the familiar sounds of Daniel and Audrey making love.