Level 6 Work Area and Cubicles
 

Armen had recieved the owl from Mr. Trumball that morning when he had arrived at the Ministry and was so excited to get to Level 6. The letter had contained news of a remodel that had taken place and now all the Divisions had workspace in one giant room. That would allow for better inter-Divison working and planning. Not to mention less of those memos flying around the air.

After getting off the lifts and bouncing excitedly down the hall, he paused before he crossed the corner into the open work area. After taking a deep breath he continued on to see the new office.

IT WAS AMAZING!!!! He was the only one in there so far and, after looking around to check that fact, he actually jumped at the spot in joy. He walked over to larger desks that were set along the back wall that were for the Division heads. He walked around the deep mahogany desk, noticing that he had recieved some new leather chairs for guests to speak to him. He sat down and placed his briefcase on the floor next to him.

Laura had her nose buried in the letter she had received earlier about the Ministry's remodeling. How exciting was that!? She hurried habitually in the direction of the Portkey Office. The Portkey Office that apparently no longer existed, as she discovered. It started out as a "hm, the doorknob's missing" thought. And then, she backed up and did a double take. Wow, Laura. Genius.

Darn habits.

Folding up the letter and slipping it back into the pocket of her jacket, she readjusted the bags slung over her shoulder and made her way over to the new work area. She walked on in, eyes wandering around. There were already several people. Laura spotted Armen and made a point to smile and wave a hello to her boss.

Supposing that it was time now to find her new desk, Laura maneuvered through the cubicles to the Portkey Division corner. This whole set up indeed seem practical. Choosing a desk, Laura set down her bag on the chair and began to take her items out to arrange on the desk; a couple pictures of herself and her sister, Kenzie, a mini potted plant, an amber paperweight, several inkwells and quills, and a pad of Post-Its. Merlin, were they nifty.

"Oh, this is great." Jayden replied as his boss walked by. He turned his chair and faced his desk. He removed the first thing from her inbox tray and began work.

John walked into the Magical Transportation office for the first time in months, he had recently been ill with something that baffled the healers and was later named to be an extremely rare case of Habbotitis but he was now back and when he walked through the door he was confused, everything looked completely diffrent and he now had absolutly no idea were he was to go so taking a look around he couldnt see anyone he recognised but then again there was some people he couldnt quite see so instead he spoke up and said, "Hello im John Milloy, i havent been here for a while and i was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction to my department head"

(ooc. Portkey ;) )

Christian walked into the work area to see how everyone was liking the changes when he heard someone asking for the Department Head. Milloy... Milloy... Christian recalled the name from an employee list... sick leave or some such.

"Mr. Milloy!" He approached the man and extended a hand. "Welcome back. I'm Christian Trumbull, the Transportation Department Head. If you're looking for your Division Head..." Christian paused, trying to recall which Division the man was in. "Well, all the Division Head's desk are over there." He pointed over to the four larger desks. "Ingrid for Apparition, Jordan for Brooms, Theron for Floo and Armen for Portkey."

John almost jumped out of his skin as a man snuck up on him from behind him, "Hello" He said sheepishly still shaken up from his scare a few seconds before. As he continued to listen to the man he thought that he didn't sound all there but still sounded like he was good for running a workplace. "So Armen is still Head of Portkey , eh?" He said as he looked right up to the back of the offices and sure enough there sat Armen working away.

"Thank you for your help, its good to be back" He said as he went to walk up to Armens desk to announce his arrival.

Sorry it took so long guys! :)
 

Armen had been the first one in the new office and was at his desk when the first of the employees began to arrive, and it just so happened to not be one of his. He smiled and greeted the man and then went back to putting his things back onto his new desk.

He had just place a photo of a younger Armen Recard with a blond girl, both of them clad in Hogwarts attire, his Ravenclaw, her Gryffindor, at a Quidditch match. Both of the students smiling and hugging as Armen looked at it.

After putting down the photo, another person entered the office, this time a familiar face, who so happened to be one of his fellow Division Heads. "Morning Ingrid!" he smiled cheerfully. "I agree one hundred precent. This new set up is great! Now we all get to work together and we will get to know all of Transportation's employees." he smiled at her again. He was happy that she had chosen the desk beside his, he had chosen one in the middle that way he could be side by side two other Heads. "Would you like some chocolate frogs?" he asked her, pointing to the new basket on the edge of his desk.

After speaking with Ingrid, Armen heard another arrival to the office. He was just so excited for today!!! And it turned out to be one of his employees this time! "Oh Laura, glad to see you could find us in here!" he chuckled noticing her slightly confused expression.

Bringing the first pile of Portkey request forms out of his to-do basket, he half-noticed the entrance of Christian and someone else. He gave them a wave not really noticing them all the way, until he heard his name mentioned. He looked up and as he noticed the younger man begin to walk towards him. It took the Division Head a second to register where he had known that face from and then it hit him. "John, is that you?!" he jumped up from his desk excitedly and walked forward to meet his long-absense employee. "It's good to see you again." he said sticking his hand out, with a large smile. "Welcome back. How are you?" he asked curiously. He himself wasn't a hundred percent sure what had been wrong with the guy.

He then looked around the newly renovated offfice space. "Oh and as you have probably noticed, the office has been changed up a bit from what you remember. We have consolodated the four Divisions into one big office space. You are free to choose what desk you want and begin to settle in. Those four desks," he pointed to the four, large desk in th eback, where he had just vacated his. "Those are for the four Division Heads. So if you need anythign while you are working that is where I will be." he nodded happily, it was good to get his employee back!

John was almost shot of Christian when suddenly Armen was almost jumping up and down at the site of him, 'you leave for a few months and come back to an office filled with crazy people' he whispered to himself as he put on a brave face for the questions that he would surely ask, but there wasnt any, just the usual how are you which he decided to answer to get it out of the way, "Im ok, Alot better thanks and ready to get back to my old working self" he said trying not to snicker when he thought about the lack of work that he actually had done when he was last here. "Hmm it is quite confusing, but im sure i will get used to it" he continued ; "What have i missed since i have been gone?"

Armen always met you with a smile and a optimistic attitude which Ingrid couldn't keep herself from loving. Even on down days her fellow division head could light up the room. "Morning to yourself Armen! How are you this fine morning?" She moved to take up a few of the memos in her inbox tray scanning them through. Work never ended. There was always a new fire to extinguish in some part of Britain. Hearing her stomach grumble she heard Armens question repliying "Yes, I do actually. I'm hungry and its not even lunch time." Grabbing a frog for herself she opened the box to look at the card inside. This time she got one of Neville Longbottom. "Do you collect wizard cards Armen? I got Longbottom this time."

Laura looked up at the sound of Armen's voice. "Me too!" she exclaimed. "I'm excited to see how the remodel will work out in the long run, aren't you?" He didn't even have to answer. One look at him and Laura could tell he was excited. Grinning, she looked back down at her desk and at the photo of her and her sister. It wasn't moving, of course. She sat down, stretched her fingers, and picked up her quill. Then she slowly began work on a fresh pile of Portkey request forms.

One minute the work area was quiet and serene the next all chaos broke loose as weird objects shot out of Theron's new desk drawer. Ducking Ingrid identified the flying menace to be fireballs. Pulling out her wand she called out "Watch out everyone! The fireballs can set fire to everything. Protect the files and important memos, but most of all take cover!"

Ingrid ducked again as two fireballs came straight for her. Seeing the danger she cried out "Protego!" over her desk. At least now her desk and its supplies would be protected. While she had done that Theron had tried killing the fireballs with water which had only caussed them to multiply.

Determined to take all the fire balls out Ingrid raised her wand and walked straight for the biggest group of fireballs flicking her wand snappily "Immobulous!" hoping that it would stop the fire balls in their tracks.

Armen practically swelled with excitement at having one of his employees back from...leave. He thought he would leave the question of where John had been for a later time or perhaps the Division Head would just have to poke around in Human Resources at the man's folder. Oh well that would be later.

He clapped the Portkey Employee on the back as he asked what he had missed. "Well John, as I'm sure you noticed from...wherever you were, the Quidditch World Cup commensed a few months ago and we were right in the thick of it here on Level 6." Armen rubbed his hands together. "We were in charge of setting up and regulating the forms of Transportation to and from the event." he then thought. "After that it was a bit quiet for a bit, and then the Ministry underwent a remodleing and you came here just as they finished. We currently have a Level-wide party going on in the Conference room if you would like to pop down there sometime." Nodding he continued. "Umm... and that is about it. You've met the new Department Head, Mr. Trumbell and your desk is whichever one over there you would like!" he ended happily.

Armen looked up from of few of his work forms as Ingrid began to reply to his morning greeting. "Well I am doing well this morning, popped into the little muggle cafe across the street for the first time, will definately be going back there sometime. I met the Senior Undersecretary there, you know; Very nice woman." he nodded watching her open her chocolate frog and examining the card she showed him. "Yeah I actually do collect them Ingrid. A neville is pretty cool, I have one of him." he reached for one of his frogs and opened it, checking what card he got. "Ooh look I got a Kingsley Shacklebolt!" he said excitedly.

"So Ingrid do you collect the Wizarding Cards?" the Portkey Division Head said to his colleage, and desk neighbor.

Armen didn't have a chance to reply to Laura's excited question to him before she turned back to her desk to begin the day's work. He smiled at her regardless, she was such a good worker and that would no doubt earn her a promotion one day.

As Armen had been looking at Laura begin to work, he had failed to meet the new Floo Network's Division Head. He had also failed to see the fireball that had shot out of the desk, and then split into three, until it flew so close to his chocolate frog card that it was senged. "What in Merlin's horned toad?!" he shouted jumping up from his chair and casting the Wizard card aside. He pulled out his wand and followed Ingrid's lead in casting a sheild charm on his desk, he had way too many important forms on there to get destroyed.

He watched at the fireballs flew around the office and came pretty close to the other employees and their belongings. "Everyone use Protego on your desks. And protect yourselfs too." he said loudly. Armen saw Ingrid been to slow the flying flames with Immobulus. He didn't know what spell Craig Wickham could have used to create these things, but he may recieve a summons to the Division for Experimental charms. The only thing he could think of would be to try and finish off the fires. He poitned his wand at one of the stopped fireballs across from his desk at eye-level.

"Finite!" he shouted and the spell making the flames stay alive ended and the fireball disappeared. "Everyone cast Finite on the remaining two Fireballs and they should die." he said glad to have found something that could stop the menacing fire balls flying around Level 6.

Laura had barely put her quill to paper when she suddenly heard a commotion coming from up where the division heads' desks stood. A thump very close to her drew her attention away before she had time to register what was going on. It was a fireball!? She instinctively shot up to her feet and looked around, watching the fiery objects bounce around the room. Well, that wasn't good.

Noticing Theron's attempt to put out the fireballs with Aguamenti, Laura realized that water only made things worse. Great! She dodged another fireball and snatched her picture on her desk as it was narrowly missed by the fire. Laura heard Ingrid already in action and Armen shouting about protecting the desks. She reached for her wand and pointed it at hers. "Protego!" Laura turned in time to see Armen get rid of a fireball with Finite and then turned to the nearest of the remaining fireballs, casting the same spell on it, and watching its flame end.

Jayden ducked as a fireball went passed. Just another day at the office, right? He was getting ready to put one out when a girl nearby did. It was Laura, the girl he met at the party. He gave her a friendly wave. Now he knew more than Ingrid. That was a victory for him as he was a guy that normally kept to himself.

As John was clapped on the back he felt an odd feeling of Hollowness, he felt really bad that he was not there to help his team at the World cup when they needed him and that meant that he would have to try as hard as he could and do more work than everyone else to prove to Armen that he was worth something. "Sorry i was not here for the world cup" He said turning to look apologeticly at the man "I was recently ill and as soon as i got better i came right here because this is were i belong so if you have any work then pass it my way".

"Yea i met Christian , i thought he " he began as everything spiralled out of control as several fire balls swerved around the room, pointing his wand at one that was near a stack of paper he said loudly "Finite!"

Laura noticed a movement out of the corner of her eye. As she turned, pocketing her wand again, she saw that it was Jayden. She smiled and waved back to him. It was nice to know most everyone in the department. "Hi, Jayden. Other than almost being hit by a flying fireball, how are you today?" she asked.

Soon, Laura heard the sound of another fireball and an oh so familiar voice yelling the same spell she had used not long ago. She turned in time to see another fireball dissipate. "Wow, nice shot," she said appreciatively, turning to face the caster, who just happened to be...

"John Milloy?" she said upon seeing him. She had never really seen his wandmanship, since they only knew each other briefly in the office. "It's been too long!" What had he been gone this long for? An illness or something like that, if she wasn't mistaken. "How are you?" she asked.

Jayden smiled. "Other than that pesky fireball I'm doing great." he responded. "How about you? Enjoying the new department set-up?" he asked.

In between ducking for fireballs Ingrid continued her conversation with Armen. "I've never been to the muggle cafe.. Maybe I'll go there some time, that is if you recommend it?" Aiming her wand at an incoming fireball she muttered "Immoblous! Finite!" a woman could multitask after all. "I haven't had the pleasure of meeting the senior under secretary yet..Isn't she new?"

More fireballs came her way and Ingrid turned away from Armen to dispose of the menace. It seemed like they only kept on coming. What on earth gave Craig the idea of having them statched in a desk drawer? Shaking her head Ingrid avoided a fireball by an inch as it just brushed passed her right ear. Turning back to Armen as the fireballs weren't attacking as hard she wiped her brow. "I have never collected wizards cards. I might start now. Unless these pesky fireballs don't incarcerate all the frogs."

Looking around the room Ingrid's eyes stopped on Theron who was ducking beside his new desk. Calling to him she asked "Theron! Can you see if there is an end of fireballs in sight?"

Noticing the arrival of a employee that she hadn't met before Ingrid pocketed her wand for the moment and headed over to him smiling "Hey! I don't believe we've met. I'm Ingrid. Head of Apparition.. Are you John?" Since everyone was going to be working in the same space she had made it a priority to remember who was who. It was more professional to call someone by their name that just you there.

Happy that the fireball he had been tackling had dissipate John put his wand back in his trousers before he was approached by someone else he had not seen in a long time. I guess he was going to end up working overtime to reintroduce himself to everyone. It wasnt going to be fun but it had to be done and he had to work hard for Armen to make up for his not being at the World Cup.

"Far Too long He said as he turned and noticed who exactly he was talking to "So what has been going on since i last ditched you guys for a deathbed?".

Oh god an unknown face , was all John thought as he was approached by someone who he didnt know or remember, even if he wasnt sure which it was, it didnt matter because he was about to meet her anyway. John didnt know that Apparation was in this room but then again he wasnt really paying much attention to that christian guy who was telling him who was in here. "Pleased to meet you" He quickly said as he offered her his hand "It will be a pleasure to work with you."

OOC: Okay, so I'm just going to pretend that Laura already knows about her promotion.

Laura laughed lightly at Jayden's comment about the fireball. "That's good to hear," she said. "I'm doing well, thanks for asking! I love this new set-up, personally, don't you? It feels much more efficient than the way it was before." She looked around at the nice new work area as she spoke. It was a really nice way to get everyone pitching in and getting to know each other. And as a new division head, Laura wanted to get to know as many people in the department as she could.

Did he say "deathbed?" Laura was momentarily shocked. "I do hope you're feeling better. It wasn't terribly serious was it?" she said. Ah, well. John was probably tired of people questioning him about that stuff. But she figured it didn't hurt to show that she was concerned.

"Well, you missed the helping out with the World Cup," Laura shrugged. "Did you happen to get to see the match, though?" It would have been a shame if John had been too ill to see the Quidditch World Cup. "And obviously, the Ministry went through the remodel," she added, waving her hand around to indicate the new work area. "The Portkey section is over there," she said, pointing. "So, I suppose you can choose one of those desks. Don't mind my things. I was just about to move them up to the division heads' section, just in case you want to take my desk."