Originally Posted by jujune29th

Derek was hoping no one would come and talk to him today. He even gave a small nod to those who verbally greeted him when he walked by and all, wasn't that enough, people??

Apparently not...

Imogine came in after him and also greeted him when she passed his cubicle. And both her and Natasha wanted to know what he was working on. There was a reeeason why they worked in cubicles, for Merlin's sake! People...

The 24 year-old stopped writing and glanced at them quickly before looking down again. "It's just something from that..." Food poisoning? "...stomach bug that had spread among the Ministry last week." The women didn't want to know that the thick substance in one of the vials was actually someone's vomit, right? Derek didn't think they would.

Yes, it wasn't really something so deadly important to their Department. It probably wasn't even going to be considered an 'accident' or a 'catastrophe', but well, it had infected a lot of people from what he had heard and no one was sure about what it was.

Plus, he was curious.

In fact... "Have any of you felt weird lately? Threw up? Drooled? Froze?" He inquired, finally looking at each of them. He hadn't heard of anyone from their department with those symptoms, but it didn't hurt to ask.

Originally Posted by Ladybug

Bradley smiled down at Natasha as he picked up her mug, "Sure it's not a problem, I can see your stressed and what better way to help than a cup of tea?" He said turning to head to the machine to make another batch of tea. Yeah I know muggle way. As he turned on the machine and set about putting a tea bag into the mug in front of him when the office door opened up behind him and in spilled other workers, some of which he knew by face and some by name. One however called over a hello at him.

Smiling he waved his hand in the air and said loudly, "Morning! I'm alright, yourself?" before going back to his task. Once the tea was made, the mug steaming above, he slowly picked it up and brought it back to Natasha. "There you are" He said with a smile placing it beside her.

Looking down at her ruined piece of parchment he bit his bottom lip in thought, "I think you'll have to start anew, there's not chance getting that off," He told her, "Just be more careful" He added with a wink and turned to go to his desk.