"Not too much more." Charlie told him, "If I'm really lucky, I can probably get myself out of there permanently on Monday." It really was too much to ask that he finish things up completely today.
He chuckled when Callum filled him in on things at the reserve, "Sounds like one to me." He agreed. "Oh good, so maybe that means I've missed all the confusing bits of the evening then."
Wine was not a bad idea, if Charlie was being honest. They could all probably use a chance to loosen up a bit, especially considering the topic for the night, and Charlie wondered just how much Callum had gotten around to telling Baron before he showed up. Though that Callum touched him before he sat down, even for a brief moment was a hint of how much had been said, or the very least, how much had been implied.
He arched an eyebrow at Callum when he suggested that Charlie attempt to explain this to Baron, and oh this seemed like a very bad idea, given Charlie's track record for explaining things in a way that anyone seemed to understand. "You sure that's wise?" He asked with a snort. "I'll see what I can do though, I think your father and I both know you're not stupid." Charlie started when he turned his attention fully to Baron. "And while we haven't really said anything about it officially, he and I got close while we were at Hogwarts. It was easy there, working with a bunch of kids who, for the most part, had no experience with reserves and the way things work there. In moving here though, and bringing in trained keepers from other reserves we realized that sharing a tent, and well all that we were doing was not the kind of impression we wanted anyone to have of either of us. It's one thing for me because I know most of these people that have come in to help. I've worked with most of them in the past at one point or another - but they don't know your father, and that's not exactly the kind of first impression we want anyone to have of him." Charlie said glancing at Callum for a moment.
"You and I both know he's more than capable of doing this job, and considering how closely he's worked with these dragons over the summer I need him in the second position here, but if people knew what we were doing it wouldn't look good. And thanks to a very stupid misunderstanding, thanks in large part to my inability to make myself clear, things between us kind of fell apart. So that combined with the big change of moving to a real reserve, leaving Hogwarts which was easy and didn't have all the rules of a reserve - I think it was easy for Callum to think that leaving was the best thing." Charlie felt like he was saying too much - what he'd said to Percy was the most he'd ever told anyone about this relationship with Callum, even Bill only knew that they'd gotten engaged - that wasn't the same as what he was doing now, but Baron was important to Callum, he was his son, and it was obvious in the way Callum tried so hard to protect him to know that if this didn't go well that was it. Charlie wouldn't ask Callum to chose between them - he wasn't that stupid.