If he was going to be serving food at the ministry or whatever, Coul figured now was as good a time as any to get associated with it. That way he'd know if what he was serving was any good. Which he honestly had no hope for. He didn't have to actually cook anything, did he?

He wasn't looking forward to the complaints about how people had almost been poisoned if they'd expected him to actually cook food for people. Simple things, he could make, but anything more complicated? Not a chance. If they planned on having him prepare the food, he'd be HAPPY to tell people to shove off if they didn't like it. .........If it came down to it.

Which he really hoped it didn't.

The boy moved closer to the actual food tables, peering over the heads of people to get a better glimpse. It didn't look tragic. Nothing steaming in scary ways or bubbling when it shouldn't have. Just a lot of super...... basic healthy crap. Stuff that he'd LIKE. Nothing he could come up with on his own, obviously.

Everything was a stark contrast from what he was use to serving at the club.

Strange.

SPOILER!!: Sophie! <3

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Originally Posted by Nordic Witch

Shaking the other blonds hand Sophie said with a warm beam. "It's a pleasure to meet you Jasmine. I'm Sophie and Iäm new to Accidents and Catastrophes too." Something told her that Jasmine wasn't in her division either but it couldn't hurt to get it confirmed. "I'm in the accidental magical reversal squad division. In what division will you be in?" It was fun to meet her co-workers but Sophie sincerely hoped that she wouldn’t have to repeat the official name of her division many times because it was a mouthful.

Jasmine smiled was glad to be meeting with someone that was in the same department but a different field. Who says you can't be friends with them right? "Pleasure to meet you Sophie.." she smiled glad to know her name. "Oh I will be a Charms Developer and I will be working with the Experimental Charms Committee." She was quite excited for this actually. "It sounded like your field was a mouthful to say.." she joked and giggled. She wanted to make everything light for a first meeting right.

SPOILER!!: Head Honcho Aron

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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

"Is that...a rhetorical question?" he asked. Or her attempt at humor? As for tips...how about remembering what department he worked in? Har har har. "Don't drink the coffee on any other level or in the food court. We have the best in the Ministry on level 3." They could wait for the real serious advice once they got to the work place. Aron wanted to keep things as relaxed as possible for the time being.

Jasmine grinned and laughed. "Yes sir it was a rhetorical question. You caught me." But the truth was Jasmine was still nervous meeting her boss. She might of had what you call a blonde moment. She wasn't thinking before speaking since he was still nervous meeting people and such. This just wasn't her type of event. She didn't like socializing too much. She did it when she had to. She heard his advice and smiled, "Well I will make sure to get coffee, what is your favorite coffee so then I know to get you some when I go down there." she offered. I mean who didn't love free coffee right?

Jasmine also had a question. "When I got the job, you said in the information that we have a separate room to practice charms in. Will there by like dummies and is it safe to practice in. I know it may be a stupid question but I am just curious.." she grinned and hoped she wasn't just babbling on and on. She was just really curious about the department is all.

SPOILER!!: Tucker! Fellow Co Worker!

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Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom

There really was a small crowd of A&Cers forming here, eh? Tucker smiled at the pretty blonde and shook her hand in return. "Nice to meet you Jasmine! Or do you want me to call you Jazz too?" he asked. He didn't mean to hear her whole convo with Aron but...well, he was right here. It was hard NOT to hear...

"I'm SO excited. This is exactly the type of work I wanna get in to - it runs in the family, I guess. My mum just stepped down as Department Head on Level 6, but she always loved charms and stuff more than that," he explained in a hurry. He had already gathered that he was walking into...well, not a BAD reputation, but definitely a REPUTATION when it came to the Schultz name. He didn't want to talk about her too much, because you never knew what someone thought of her...some people dug the whole 'I will claw your eyes out with my manicured nails' attitude. Some didn't. At ALL.

"I'm going to be working in charms development. You?" he asked, knowing that not EVERYONE was going to be doing the same thing in their division.

Jasmine smiled and nodded, "You can call me Jazz whichever is easier. I mean we maybe working together I assume and you are?" she asked curiously wanting to know his name. She heard his explanation and it seemed like he had a lot of enthusiasm for this field. It was nice to see. "Well I like to see the enthusiasm, I am quite excited to work in this field. It is probably gonna be a lot of fun and we get to more action. I mean testing out charms and stuff? I am gonna have fun with this.." she smiled. "I even heard we get a separate room which is pretty cool..."

Then she heard his department and she smiled. "I am a Charms developer too. Well at least I know my co worker now." she winked and smiled. "Nice to meet ya work buddy.." she held out her hand to shake it.

SPOILER!!: Amy!

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Originally Posted by isSeeker

Amy walked into the garden party excitedly. She was ready to get to know her soon-to-be coworkers. She thought it would be a good idea to make friends with other ministry workers too.

Gripping her bag tightly, Amy looked around the event before heading for the food marquee. There were a couple of stations that got her attention, and the woman glanced around once more before taking a plate and surveying the food.

After Jasmine meet a few co workers she needed some food and something to drink. As she made her way toward the buffet and drinks, she noticed one woman beside her. She seemed like her age. She thought to make some small talk right. "Anything good I can eat?" she asked curiously.

SPOILER!!: Kyle!

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Originally Posted by Optimist

Kyle made her way slowly and carefully over to the food Marquee and glanced around. The food all looked delicious really, the normally shy girl picked up a glass of the lavender draught and thanked the servers before taking a long sip. The sweet relaxing note of the drink was nice, calming, and well just what she needed.

It all looked delicious she noted as she made her way slowly through the line and picked up a plate. Picking up a little glass filled with chilled soup, and one of the goat cheese the little bruschetta’s she tried to find someone anyone to talk to. After all, the ministry had just gone through one of its annual hiring sessions and well, maybe there were some nice new people for her to meet?

After all she would love to meet someone. As she continued along the marquee glancing around at the people near her she spotted them. Pastries and deserts. She didn’t even bother putting them on her plat she just grabbed one of the crystallized lilac Petits Four sand placed it in her mouth and chewed and she did the same thing with one of the little Lemon Meringue flowers the flower melting as it hit her tongue. She probably looked like a slob right? She didn’t care.

As Jasmine was trying to decide she noticed a girl was filling her plate on sweets and such. She smiled because she would do the same thing. She went over to introduce herself. The more friends the merrier right? She started with, "You don't like familiar. I am Jasmine I work in the Accidents and Catastrophes. Which floor do you work on?"

She was so glad her best friend was enjoying pregnancy it was a wonderful time, minus the best rest and stress that she had with the girls. All worked out in the end and she had two beautiful girls. “Yes it does fit with your first name. It runs very smoothly.” She admitted to herself a few times, but she’d say it to Mariel. She thought Victoria Culloden sounded quite good too. She couldn’t help but grin thinking about it, still so new and fresh in her mind. She played with her rings a bit.

“I am too. Let’s just hope nothing more goes on at that school. I swear if it does this year the minister better do something more than just rely on that Headmistress and the board of Governors, because obviously it’s not working well.” How much could go on at that school before enough was enough, but she was glad Cossy was there to watch over Bart. He needed that, or well she needed it more than her son. Laughing as Mariel said about living close she nodded, [b] “Yes I’m glad it works this way really. I love where I live, so close to everything. I really didn’t want to take Bart from that nor did I want to be horribly far. Not that Scotland was far, but she was happy to stay in her home.

Yes it was young and she nodded, she didn’t know what to do with him really, maybe have Emily lock him away until he turned 17. That seemed like her best option anymore. “Jon knows about this summer, but who knows if he is taking it serious. His first reaction was that’s my boy.” She rolled her eyes, typical man. “He wasn’t like this when we had first gotten married or least maybe I was just blind to it, but he is very ridiculous with her.” She couldn’t stand either of them. “I’m hoping with Cossy there that he will behave himself, especially now that he can’t just leave school and get away from the Professors.” Nope he lived with one.
“Two girls, well that is a nice little visit. I bet they are excited about their newest cousin coming.” She figured little girls just loved babies so it would be something very exciting for them. “Oh how is the nursery coming? I bet it will be beautiful.” She’d have to stop over and see it once it was done. Shaking her head she wasn’t sure about that, but she guessed she had been mingling a bit before sitting down to eat. “Well it wouldn’t have been as fun.”

Turning her brown eyes back to Gavin she chuckled, “Well it was probably good for you to get out and be social. Merlin knows you would have hid in your house all break if you could.” She was only half joking, she knew he would rather be alone, but she liked social Gavin. “I did rest, well as much rest as a mother of three can have.” Chasing two toddlers and dealing with a teenager wasn’t all that restful. “It was nice though, sad to see it ending and watch my guys go back to Hogwarts.” Bitter sweet really. She laughed at his comment to Mariel, “She works just as much as I do. Okay maybe I get a little obsessed with it.” She couldn’t speak for Mariel on the obsessed part, but Gavin knew of her very late hours when she had no one to go home to. “I love my work what can I say.”

Amy was filling her plate up quickly, even though she was not a big eater. There was a wide range of food to try out here, and she was going to taste as much as she could this day.

She picked up a couple of apple pies at the end of the line before leaving the space free for other workers waiting behind her. Then Amy realized that almost all seats were full and she probably did not have a place to sit down and eat. Fortunately for her, two friendly people invited her to join their table. "Thank you," she said, placing her plate down onto the now empty spot and taking a seat.

The nineteen-year-old smiled at the man's comment. "I'm glad that you are not going to eat me." They were definitely humorous and nice people, and Amy felt like she could trust both of them. "Nice to meet you too, Krel, Edward," she said, feeling more at home now, "I'm Amy. Specialty Area." She introduced herself.




She glanced at the person next to her at the buffet, a woman slightly older who was now talking to her. Amy looked down at her half-full plate once more, before saying, "I think this salad is quite good, though I have not tried it yet."

She smiled and piled some more desserts onto her plate. Amy thought a simple introduction would be good and added, "I'm Amy Harrington. Specialty area."

Krel was happy to see that the young lady was joining them. It seemed like many of the other employees she had attempted to engage in conversation (Edward excluded) had been more interested in talking with others in their department or just not with her. She wasn’t entirely sure she could blame them. After all, International Magical Cooperation was not something the average Wizard was concerned with. However, Krel liked to think of herself as a quiet, but rather interesting person. “Specialty Area? I’m afraid I’m not entirely familiar with that department.” She glanced at Edward who was drinking his pint and then she looked back at Amy uncertain if it was something like what Edward was involved with and hoped one of them would elaborate for her.

Daphne's attention was still on Ember as the woman greeted them. Some people would be annoyed by her. Others would probably talk rudely about her behind her back. Daphne was neither of these people. Would she be joining Ember in being quite that enthusiastic about the party? No, but this woman could easily be somebody Daphne could get used to hanging around.

The wink and thumbs up didn't escape Daphne's eyes either, and she just assumed that William and this woman...what was her name again?...had a little something going on. Dating? Looked like it. The woman turned her attention to somebody else then, so Daphne gave her a wave of acknowledgment then looked back at William, smiling this time. "Close friends?" she asked.

Then she smirked at his comment about admitting to being anti-social aloud. She thought he might have been joking at first, but then there was something in his voice and in what he said that hinted otherwise. "Oh, no. Nothing to worry about," she said, sensing he didn't want to talk about it. It seemed personal, and since they'd just met, she didn't blame him for wanting to talk about it. Unless he DID want to talk about it, and then she'd listen to whatever it was he had on his mind. Maybe it was that Ember woman...

The subject changed back to his middle name, so Daphne took that as a hint to let the other subject go. Okay, then. Middle names. "I don't know. I think you could pass as a Will if you ever wanted to go there," she offered. "That's not it, though. Hmm...Walter?" she asked. It was the only W name she could think of that hadn't already been said. Her eyes flickered back to the song and dance lady as William W-word Williamson detailed some prank he'd done on her. "Oh, really? Do tell that story," she said. This way, she might know what to expect if he ever tried to do the same to her.

Now back to dragons. Wow. This conversation was jumping. Daphne sat up a bit straighter so as to keep up with things. "You raised a dragon once? Now, William. You're just full of stories to tell, aren't you?" she asked. "So how did Hogwarts take the hatching?" She bet the students were really excited. Maybe somebody's hair even got a bit torched.

Edward set his drink back on the table and when Krel looked at him, he shrugged. I'm afraid I'm in the same boat as she is. Not sure what specialty area is, exactly. I work in a the super-hush hush part of the ministry so I don't get out much. He took a bite from one of Krel's skewers to see how it was.

Gavin smirked, amused by the road the conversation had already taken despite it only beginning."You're perfectly right, I am trying to assure you; can't have the food going to waste." It'd already been paid for. Mr. Howell would have received a briefing on the budget afterall so he'd understand as much. Gavin gave a small shrug. "Doesn't mean I deny knowing more than I should about poisons." When you worked with potions as long as he did that sort of thing tended to happen.

The table was getting more crowded. Where all these people came from, he didn't know. "Right again. Gavin Isaacs." In case that part hadn't been so clear. The man hadn't been here very long afterall. "I was never very good with plants. Not the living kind anyway." There wasn't any particular reason behind sharing that, just...wasn't that what people did in conversations?

The whole practice still confused him at times.

...What in Merlin's soggy beard....?

Who had let this one in? Did she even have an invite? Circe. Must have been one of those stragglers come to crash the orientation or something. Gavin's brows furrowed as he watched the woman--no plate just diving in like it was no one's business, except it was.

"Pardon, this event is invite only. You can grab another flower from the table but you've got to be going." The nerve of people these days.

Gavin was acutely aware of all movement happening around him so when someone came up behind him, presumably peering over his shoulder he was bound to notice...and take a step forward ever so slightly to prevent any further contact. Touching, touching was a no, even more so when he didn't know who the person was.

Did this one work for the Ministry now too? They were letting children in? "Could have asked me to move. I'd be more than happy to oblige." He said, gesturing to the breadth of space the young man now had to approach the table. You know, to avoid the feeling of someone breathing against his neck. It was almost enough to make his skin crawl.



Gavin allowed himself to laugh despite the bad memories. In truth, the weren't all bad. His best mate had his decent times. "A holiday at home would have been brilliant but between my sister, my nieces and everyone else scribbling all over my empty calendar, I don't think it'll ever be possible again." Her mention of both her guys reminded him she'd gotten hitched over the winter. Not something he'd suggest under any circumstance ever but Vic was a different kind of person. An amused smile crept onto his face. "I find it hard to believe anyone but Emily works harder than you. Might have to enlist your help." Gavin had no problem compartmentalizing his life. When it was time for work he worked, but when it wasn't he wouldn't let himself be bothered for anyone...almost.

Kyle turned to smile at the blonde girl who had begun speaking to her – she seemed nice. “Neither do you honestly, it’s a pleasure to meet you Jasmine” she smiled and then she saw someone giving her looks like she had done something extremely horrid. She had a plate, she just had skipped the plate for the desert, something about canapés and the pastries touching just didn’t seem right to her…and they looked so good.

“That guy is being weird” she muttered, and continued ignoring the astonished (or was it disturbed looking) man for the time being since he was interrupting a conversation. “Oh, I work transportation” she smiled over to her and then the guy was talking to her telling her to leave?

“Pardon? Now sir, I have an invite” she glared at the man, her hazel eyes lowering into a glare as she spoke. His utter attitude though was getting her riled up, “vous êtes un imbécile?” she snapped her tone cold and far less friendly than it would have been had he simply asked if she had an invitation and not assumed she was a common crasher. “vous ne le regretterez mon père n'est pas là! il serait en colère” she hissed once more her eyes still glaring at the man. She didn’t care if he was an attractive guy to her, right now


ooc: the translations
“vous êtes un imbécile” :: Are you Naïve? (or simple)
“vous ne le regretterez mon père n'est pas là! il serait en colère” :: you will not regret my father is not here! He would be angry – basically saying “you are lucky my father isn’t here, he would be angry”

SPOILER!!: DEREEEEK

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Originally Posted by Hey Ju

As he approached the central table to help himself with a cucumber sandwich, he avoided eye contact with pretty much everyone. He had already done his nod-greetings so that was social interactions done. Done for the day, please. No more.

He was about to turn around with his sandwich in his hand to try and find a quiet corner he could sit by himself when some banshee decided to call him. Not really. He knew that voice too well, but that didn't mean he was startled big time and almost dropped his food.

Blinking several times, the lab technician was about to wave and give her a little smile. "H-" But then a HUG HAPPENED. AGAIN.

Why.

The man froze as if hit by a Full Body-Bind Curse, just like the first time she had done it in the previous year. He tightened the grip on his sandwich, which made it turn into mush on one side and he obviously didn't hug the woman back.

Yeah, yeah, he was good. It was all very lovely, yes. And Merlin, she said he was adorable again. What did that even mean anyway?

No need to say Derek was obviously bright red. Again.

GAAH Derek was SUCH A GOOD FRIEND. Sure, he didn't TALK much, but Ember was completely okay with this! He was a very good LISTENER, right? Ember could chatter allllll day to the potions geek!

He was just...too cuuuuute. She let go and BEAMED. "So--" she said...and then she noticed how uncomfortable she had made him...UGH. She felt bad..instantly--and blushed a bit. "I'm sorry--I forget--you're not into hugs--" PLEASE FORGIVE HER PWEASE? Ember felt soooo BAD.

She took a biiiig step back and bit her lip. And also did her puppy eyes thing. Because she had AWESOME and manipulative puppy eyes, dude.

SPOILER!!: WWW and Daphne

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Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl

SPOILER!!: Joke's on Ember. Pretty sure Daphne is married! HA!

"Oooh," William joked, smiling genuinely now, "my bad, did I admit to being anti-social aloud? It's nothing personal, it's just-" well, for him it was personal. He wasn't sure he wanted to say anything to Daphne just yet, considering they had only met. "-nothing. Don't worry about it." He stuffed a forkful of something into his mouth so he wouldn't even be TEMPTED to bring up no one important nothing.

Anyyyyyywaaaaaaaay. The guessing game about his middle name was much lighter stuff. Much better. "Will is my first name, short for William, only it never really stuck as a nickname for me." William laughed that off. "Willy, now, that stuck, but I don't think I'm cool enough to pass as Will. Guess again." His middle name was so old-timey, she'd probably never get it.

Yes, that Ember. Knew how to make an introduction alright. William's eyes flicked toward her for a brief instant, as she was likely the topic of discussion at many tables right now. At least she was positive, right? He just gave her one of those brows-up, firm smiles again and sort of leaned toward Daphne. "Warn me if she starts heading over here. I pranked her real good one time and now she thinks I'm into yoga and meditating...." When he was more into couch sitting, dog walking and sleeping.

Oh ho ho, she had restrained a Short-Snout before? "Impressive," William waved his fork at her in a bit of a bow, if forks took bows. Should he one-up her story? Now WAS the time.... "I raised a dragon once," he went for it, all casual like. "Hatched it at Hogwarts and brought it up back in Romania." Oh he definitely got all the credit and the blame, lots of that too for that one. Heh.

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Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Text Cut: Ember and WWW

Daphne's attention was still on Ember as the woman greeted them. Some people would be annoyed by her. Others would probably talk rudely about her behind her back. Daphne was neither of these people. Would she be joining Ember in being quite that enthusiastic about the party? No, but this woman could easily be somebody Daphne could get used to hanging around.

The wink and thumbs up didn't escape Daphne's eyes either, and she just assumed that William and this woman...what was her name again?...had a little something going on. Dating? Looked like it. The woman turned her attention to somebody else then, so Daphne gave her a wave of acknowledgment then looked back at William, smiling this time. "Close friends?" she asked.

Then she smirked at his comment about admitting to being anti-social aloud. She thought he might have been joking at first, but then there was something in his voice and in what he said that hinted otherwise. "Oh, no. Nothing to worry about," she said, sensing he didn't want to talk about it. It seemed personal, and since they'd just met, she didn't blame him for wanting to talk about it. Unless he DID want to talk about it, and then she'd listen to whatever it was he had on his mind. Maybe it was that Ember woman...

The subject changed back to his middle name, so Daphne took that as a hint to let the other subject go. Okay, then. Middle names. "I don't know. I think you could pass as a Will if you ever wanted to go there," she offered. "That's not it, though. Hmm...Walter?" she asked. It was the only W name she could think of that hadn't already been said. Her eyes flickered back to the song and dance lady as William W-word Williamson detailed some prank he'd done on her. "Oh, really? Do tell that story," she said. This way, she might know what to expect if he ever tried to do the same to her.

Now back to dragons. Wow. This conversation was jumping. Daphne sat up a bit straighter so as to keep up with things. "You raised a dragon once? Now, William. You're just full of stories to tell, aren't you?" she asked. "So how did Hogwarts take the hatching?" She bet the students were really excited. Maybe somebody's hair even got a bit torched.

WILLIAM WAVED. AND EMBER WAVED BACK. And it was a general WAVE!FEST ...fun tiiiiimes. And the woman he was with seemed SUUUUUPER DUPER nice. She would have to track her down, YUUSSS once they were back at work. DECIDED.

She tired to squint at them SECRETLY but Ember was terrible at being secretive or NINJA!like...she was actually..the opposite of that. Her hair was already an attractive feature...you know, of attention and whatnot..and she was sure that her bouncy nature wasn't very good for sneaking either. OH WELL. HEHEHE.

SPOILER!!: Tabitha!

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Originally Posted by Ginevra

"I focused on having fun at my last job orientation but having a boss that did nothing but talk about himself and how good he was, it was hard especially when I couldn't fire a spell at him," Tabitha told Ember.

Tabitha looked at Ember's ensemble and smiled. "I really love your outfit. It is really cool."

Ember rooooolled her eyes as she turned back to Tabitha. "Don't you HATE people like that? I think it's more fun NOT to talk about yourself and see what people make of you on their own--" she said with a nod. Well at least you're here, now, love!" She said to Tabitha. How nice this woman was! Lovely. "What department are you...?" she asked her curiously.

HAAH! Ember beamed and did a little...twirly twirl. "THANKS! I wanted LOTS of colors!" The pink and greeen...yep. "ANNND! See--the greeen is on my legs--like a STEM--and the pink up top--I'M CHANNELING FLOWER!" she cried happily. WASN'T IT CLEVER? IT WAS CLEVER. IT WAS.

SPOILER!!: BRYCE

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Originally Posted by hermionesclone

The day Ember Brighten was anything less than overenthusiastic was the day Bryce would ditch working with plants to join a circus. Because gulping gargoyles, this woman always had a lot of energy in her and it made the Department Head wonder exactly how many sugar cubes she'd put in her morning cup of coffee.

"Good to see you again, Ember," he called, waving and smiling at her in return, "Very good, in fact. I ate more mince pies than I'm proud of but merlin, are they delicious." That was the sad thing about January: they got rid of those pies as soon as Christmas was over. "How's yours going?"

Ember turned to the Enviro head. "And good to see YOU! And looking SOOO snazzy, Bryce!" she said as she looked him up and down. BEAM. "Buuuut mince pies are the BEST." Ember thought some other things MIIIIIGHT trump mince pies--but really, who DIDN'T love them?! "My mum reaaaally makes wonderful ones--old family recipe--" but she waved her hand and giggled.

Bryce was always soooo pleasant...wasn't he? He was. She would get him a gift. YEP. She would get him AND Harmony a gift. SHE DECIDED. Loooots of decisions being made today, ehhh? And She would make these gifts...WONDERFUL.

"It's good. I told Harmony--I'M SO BORED AT HOME. but I got to visit some friends in Dublin--which was nice." She said with a shrug.

Tabitha smiled and nodded. "Very true. I am already loving this job a lot more than my previous one. I feel like I can be myself. I work as a Ministry Events Coordinator at the Minister's Office. So I help organise any events such as holiday parties or if a department wishes to run an events they contact me about it."

Tabitha watched as Ember twirled. "Genius concept regarding the floral inspiration,"

SPOILER!!: Kyle!

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Originally Posted by Optimist

Kyle turned to smile at the blonde girl who had begun speaking to her – she seemed nice. “Neither do you honestly, it’s a pleasure to meet you Jasmine” she smiled and then she saw someone giving her looks like she had done something extremely horrid. She had a plate, she just had skipped the plate for the desert, something about canapés and the pastries touching just didn’t seem right to her…and they looked so good.

“That guy is being weird” she muttered, and continued ignoring the astonished (or was it disturbed looking) man for the time being since he was interrupting a conversation. “Oh, I work transportation” she smiled over to her and then the guy was talking to her telling her to leave?

“Pardon? Now sir, I have an invite” she glared at the man, her hazel eyes lowering into a glare as she spoke. His utter attitude though was getting her riled up, “vous êtes un imbécile?” she snapped her tone cold and far less friendly than it would have been had he simply asked if she had an invitation and not assumed she was a common crasher. “vous ne le regretterez mon père n'est pas là! il serait en colère” she hissed once more her eyes still glaring at the man. She didn’t care if he was an attractive guy to her, right now


ooc: the translations
“vous êtes un imbécile” :: Are you Naïve? (or simple)
“vous ne le regretterez mon père n'est pas là! il serait en colère” :: you will not regret my father is not here! He would be angry – basically saying “you are lucky my father isn’t here, he would be angry”

Jasmine smiled and it was a pleasure meeting new people. "And I am sorry I didn't catch your name....you are?" she asked politely. She saw her give the man a creepy look and she moved her eyes with her. She heard her muttering and she smiled and nodded. "Yeah he is a bit creepy.." She agreed with her completely. It was totally rude to be staring at people and giving them looks. She could give him a piece of her mind. Ah she worked in the Transportation department. "I work in Accidents and Catastrophes..." she trailed off when she saw Kyle talking in french.

Woaahh she was bilingual? That was pretty impressive. She was watching and observing their fight.

SPOILER!!: Amy <3

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Originally Posted by isSeeker

She glanced at the person next to her at the buffet, a woman slightly older who was now talking to her. Amy looked down at her half-full plate once more, before saying, "I think this salad is quite good, though I have not tried it yet."

She smiled and piled some more desserts onto her plate. Amy thought a simple introduction would be good and added, "I'm Amy Harrington. Specialty area."

Jasmine smiled and nodded. "Well I will make a mental note and try it out.." she said and getting some onto her plate. "You're right it does look delicious.." she said and getting some raspberry vinaigrette dressing onto her salad. Jasmine got some dessert and some food she heard the woman's name. Oh her name was Amy. "I am Jasmine and I am from the Accidents and Catastrophes department. I hope we can run into each other in the ministry.." She loved meeting people from different departments. Why not have connections outside your department. "How long have you been working in the Ministry?" she asked her curiously.

Relax. Yes, relaxation was GOOD but Tucker was just so excited and eager to please. He knew he had to take it down a notch...so he did so. A few deep breaths and he was much calmer. He was pretty sure, at least. He could handle hanging out with his new Department Head now and not freaking out...yes, he could do that.

"So does the Ministry throw a fancy party like this every year? If so, I can definitely get used to working here," he said with a grin. Seriously, the food ALONE was enough of a reason to stick around for a bit. Hehe.

"Oh cool! So you deal with spells that go wrong and stuff, right?" Tucker asked. That was a seriously fun job - especially because it was dangerous. Things could get crazy real fast, and that was thrilling to the 19 year old. Plus it was like a puzzle - trying to find a solution to the problem could be tricky!

"Yes, I love everything about them. For a while I wanted to go into wand manufacturing, and even got an internship at Ollivanders, but the charms world was just calling to me more," he explained. It was in the Schultz blood or something.

"Ok, Jazz it is!" Tucker said with a grin. There was no real good way to shorten his name...Tuck wasn't a name. He'd always been jealous of people with nicknames...but whatever, this woman was also in his same division! How cool!

"That's awesome! And we definitely would need a separate room - don't wanna injury anyone, right?" he asked with a chuckle and a wink. "I'm curious to see if we'll have assignments to research specific spells, or if we kind of just have free reign to play around and see what we can come up with," he added as an afterthought. Either way, Tucker would be happy. Plus, if all his other co-workers were as cool as Jazz, he'd have a great time regardless!

Well, seeing as he was here, may as well make the most of the food marquee, right? Jake had been milling around for a while, mainly noting how quaint and... weirdly nice. Just like... a little too nice, really. The Hit Wizard had been sort of staring at his surroundings with an expression that could simply only be described as his 'what' face.

But now here he was, at the food. And... it all looked a bit fancy for his tastes, Jake wasn't entirely sure of what he was even looking at. He could totally go for a drink though. The tall wizard leaned around a few other people and grabbed a butterbeer, before taking a few steps away to free up some room and just sort of... looking around.

Gah. People. Lots of people, most of whom he didn't know.

In fact... was there anyone here that Jake recognised? No. Uhhh...

...

He'd just stand here then.

Sip.

........ Someone was already getting test, huh?

He was pretty sure that wasn't a very nice way to welcome new fellow employees or whatever.

Coulson's eyebrow lifted, giving the man a curious, yet obviously judging look. "Chill, won't you? I'm just getting a look..." Maybe this man had never learned manners. It was possible. He was dressed nice enough. Pureblood, maybe? Was that where his attitude came from? It ran in the family? That it?

"Well, then. Will ya?" Move. Y'know.

Scooch, mister.

She was not here because of the food. Okay, fine, maybe she was. But she was also here to search for a very important man. Nope, not the minister. Not that the dude was not important and all. He certainly was. But Lara was looking for her BOSS. Mister Isaacs and who else. She'd hung around the entrance for quite a time and the man was no where to be seen there meaning he'd either gotten here before she did or he'd been here before her. The later sounded more like it. So Lara was now searching.

She could easily recognize the senior undersecretary from afar after her job interview. Her brain did not need a second meeting to get his face permanently saved.

Her blue eyes cast a general look around trying to decide where must she look first. She may or may not have been trying to resist the smell of delicious food. She was on a mission to proof herself to be a very fine employee. She deserved a raise. Probably a little too early for that, yeah.

OH! Was that not him! Certainly him. The blonde made a beeline and stood RIGHT next to him. He was with other people but look, Gavin, your PA was here. Did he need food? Water? Napkin or anything? "Good evening, Mister Isaacs," She said intending to draw his attention. Did he recognize her? He must see lots of people so she decided to refresh his memory. " Lara Black, your new Personal Assistant." And shadow.

Mariel let her name play in her thoughts a few times, smiling lightly as she did enjoy the sound of it. She wasn't sure if it was the juxtaposition of vowels or just the fact that she shared her last name with her husband, but she did love the way it sounded. She was brought out of her thoughts as Victoria mentioned her son and his school. She couldn't help the faint look of distaste that crossed her face as she thought about things that went on at that school. She'd have to find some place for her daughter to go because she certainly wasn't going to Hogwarts.

"Something needs to change," she said, because Vic was right, what they had now wasn't working. "I honestly don't know how that school is still operating." But her friend knew all about her views on Hogwarts, she really didn't need to expand on it, not when her son and husband we're there. "Hopefully they've finally gotten their act together this year." Nothing bad had happened thus far as far as she knew or else she'd have certainly heard about it. Perhaps things really were on an upswing. Not that it would change her mind about the place.

Wow.. Vic's ex's reaction to their boy's troubles was just disturbing and Mariel gave her a disgusted look. "That is pathetic. And ridiculous." She supposed it was no wonder her friend was having some of the issues she was having with Bart if his father had that sort of attitude about it all. Hopefully this Cossy would be a better role model for the boy, but it really was a shame that his own father couldn't be much of one. And especially with the man there with Bart all the time, Vic's words affecting a faint smirk from Mariel.

She smiled genuinely thinking about their nieces and nodded at Victoria's words. "They are such sweet little girls. I think Lupita is still a bit young to really understand, but Isa is very excited." It was really cute to see and she knew they'd be great with her daughter. She was rather excited thinking about all the cousins she'd have. "So far the nursery looks great. I can't wait till it's all finished.. Jorge bought the crib for Christmas and we have most of the furniture, I think. Maybe just a little more decorating.." It was just going to be perfect for her little girl.

Sipping on her strawberry lemonade, Mariel glanced over at Gavin as he lightly engaged the two of them in conversation. Interesting holiday, hmm? The brunette suppressed a chuckle, picturing the Senior Undersecretary being dragged about town, knowing a bit about his aversion to social situations. A work order? Mariel looked at him somewhat amused. Vic was right, she did have a pretty strong work ethic, though her long hours at the office had been slightly fewer the past couple years to an almost normal work schedule. And she was sure she knew what she could attest that to. "I'm sure this one will keep me in check," she said, glancing down at her belly as she put her hands over it. She couldn't imagine putting in the hours she once did and try to take care of a newborn. "But I always get my work done, one way or another. And do it quite well." Even if it meant taking things home once in a while. No one could say she wasn't dedicated.

...

o_O

Gavin took an involuntary step further from the women, reluctant to catch whatever kind of crazy she was sporting. All she'd managed was having an invitation before going off about her father and his level of intelligence. It took him a second longer to realize she hadn't said it all in English but had slipped into French. Winter breaks back home did that. "Er....right then." He said with a small, firm nod. "You...right....sure..." He had no words for her. Conversations were unappealing in themselves. Add hostile women and the Senior Undersecretary was removing himself from the equation.

Merlin was he glad she didn't work for him.



This one had missed it completely, hadn't he? Once again, Gavin gestured to the space he'd opened up having moved away from the neck breather. "I'd hate to think you need any more room than that or you won't fit into most work areas." He commented, finding it hard to believe the young man would want him moving again.

"Are you one of those sceptical consumers?"

It would make sense given his obvious need to survey the food as opposed to simply tasting like everyone else.

Then people said he was strange.



He'd been so taken in by the picky eater that he hadn't noticed the appearance of someone by his side. Really, people should make louder appearances. Gavin nearly jumped out of his skin at the sudden greeting but you could never tell by looking at the composed expression he had as he turned to face the woman.

"Ah, Miss Black, glad I ran into you." But....er....did she need to be standing so close? Anymore movement from him and he'd be in a completely different spot from the one he was standing in when he got to the table. It was all these questionable people that did it.

Maybe just one step away. There. Much better.

"I saw you by the entrance but you were well into a conversation and I'm not one to interrupt." More like he wasn't one to go where there were too many people. "I'm looking forward to being impressed. After Miss Calverley you've got a lot to live up to." The other woman also understood personal space, did she know?



"Yes, children have a way of moderating your work schedule." He said with a small, reflective smile. They had just as much a way of crashing your alone time down in your Potions Lab but that hadn't bothered him in the longest while. Avery's big brown eyes and pouting lips were enough to make the hardest criminal feel bad about locking her out and telling her to get lost while you worked. Ashley's guilt was different too, more along the lines of 'all I wanted to do was learn from the best but it doesn't have to be YOU'.

"How far along are you now? Any word on the gender?" Those were safe questions to ask pregnant women, experience had taught him as much.

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"Ok, Jazz it is!" Tucker said with a grin. There was no real good way to shorten his name...Tuck wasn't a name. He'd always been jealous of people with nicknames...but whatever, this woman was also in his same division! How cool!

"That's awesome! And we definitely would need a separate room - don't wanna injury anyone, right?" he asked with a chuckle and a wink. "I'm curious to see if we'll have assignments to research specific spells, or if we kind of just have free reign to play around and see what we can come up with," he added as an afterthought. Either way, Tucker would be happy. Plus, if all his other co-workers were as cool as Jazz, he'd have a great time regardless!

Jasmine smiled and knew he was gonna be an awesome partner to work with. "Well it is nice to meet you Tucker.." she held out her hand for him to formally shake. She wouldn't do the courtesy since it wasn't a really formal event. Jasmine chuckled at his sense of humor. "Well I think we will harm ourselves more than others to be honest.." she grinned. "But we shall be safe and work together." She was sure they wouldn't hurt each other. They seemed to be skilled wizards and witches.

Jasmine heard his thoughts and nodded. "I wonder that too. I would like to do free reign stuff. That would be nice, I don't like to stay in one place too long." That was just her personality. She loved exploring and see stuff. "But if we have our own room I think I will have too much fun making up spells. I love using my creativity." she smiled. Now she wanted to know a little bit more about Tucker. "Soo Tucker tell me a little bit about yourself.."She just wanted to know more about her partner and she would do the same thing.

Victoria would agree whole heartedly that it was a shock that the school was still open, the way it had been run and the things that had happened since her son was there, was just ridiculous. She had every intention last term to speak to the minister about this to see if he was feeling the need to get involved, but meetings and schedules had just kept her from it. “At least it’s quiet so far this term. A troll got into the dungeons and interrupted Cossy’s class, but if that’s all that is going on I guess I can deal.” Though from what Bart said it had come very close to harming her husband.

“It is” She said factually as she took a sip of her drink. She couldn’t deal with the crap anymore that her ex-husband dished out when it came to neglecting their son. She was just glad Cossy and even Charely still were positives in his life. “Bart goes to Charely’s a lot because of Luc, so I’m hoping between him and Cossy that Bart will see what real men are.” She at least hoped so.

Listening to Mariel talk about her nieces, Victoria wished she had her own, but her brother, though was finally getting married, she wasn’t sure would be having children anytime soon. “How old is Lupita?” She hadn’t remembered that name before, though they really hadn’t spoken of Jorge’s family. “Isa seemed like a sweet girl when I met her last year.” Very excitable is Vic could remember. “Aww how sweet. I will have to stop by and see it soon.” Of course that meant bringing gifts. You couldn’t go see a nursery without bringing a gift or two for it.

She was glad Gavin had come to talk with them and laughed at Mariel’s answer, “Well it does help, but remember I have three and work still seems to get the better of me, so don’t think it’s going to change all that much.” She laughed. [b] “Gavin you should never be alone at home during the Holidays. “You always know I’m up for helping you.” She didn’t mind at all really.