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The corners of Alexander's mouth lifted upward into that 'cat who's about to eat the canary' type smile. "That's right, Recard," he said. Then he leaned forward to stress the next word--"Fired." He lifted up a stack of papers and nodded toward them. "As a matter of fact, I've already received a handful of applications from people who've overheard there's an open position." He pulled a file off the top and added, "This Ms. Grey looks like a good one."
Alexander put the files away and watched the variety of reactions from Recard. Finally, the man made his decision, and Alexander couldn't be happier to hear the sound of defeat in the man's voice. That would show him for being Borr's right hand man and attempting to hand the Ministry over to the Cult. "Very well then," he said, and then with a tap of his wand, Armen's nametag changed to show:
AREMEN RECARD
MINISTRY GOPHER
"You might want to go remove your belongings from level six now," he said. He imagined the new hire, which would likely be Ms. Grey from the looks of her application, would would want to move in immediately. With a sarcastic smile and an equally sarcastic tone in his voice, he added, "Have a nice day, Recard." Then he moved his chair closer to his desk, dipped his quill in ink, and began writing a message to the Grey woman. The smug smile on the
Minister's face was almost too much for Armen. He didn't think he would EVER get over this SECRETARY being in the Minister's chair--Lord Borr's chair. Gevrik had assured everyone he was nobody to worry about. But now Armen would just have to accept the fact that Gevrik was in Azkaban, possibly dying, and Armen was here--slightly beat up, tired, and demoted beyond belief, but a free man and alive.
He was already being replaced, and by a woman?! Well that didn't really matter to him but still. He had been in his office the day before and now before his chair is even cold, some stranger is going to be able to sit in it? Those were his employees, he had put in the effort into training them and making them part of the well-oiled machine--now some Grey woman was taking over.
Whilst worrying about his sucessor, his Ministry clearance name tag was magically changed, the last blow to his ego. Done, he was finished as Department Head of a Ministry Department.
Now he was being released, to go retrieve his things...this day was just bloody fantastic. Armen stood up, pushing the chair back behind him and nodded his head at the man.
"You too." and walked across the room yanking the door open and Apparating to level six.
He was getting his stuff home, now.