Sophie was torn. Part of her was looking forward to spending as much time as she could with her new babies - skjfnsdkjflkdsjfnksjf her babies!! - but part of her loved working way too much to just leave it for so long.

Merlin, if only there was an easier way. Working from home, like Ella, maybe? Hm... maybe? She didn't know. If only there was a way she could see into the future and know exactly what would be best for her and her new babies!! But she had no idea how it would all be. If people were already ridiculously tired looking after one newborn, let alone two!

The brunette walked up to her boss's office door even though she wasn't 100% sure of just what to do. Of course, she needed materinity leave, but for HOW LONG? And who decided how long it would be even? Should se have spoken to her healer doctor about it? But then again, what whould a Muggle doctor know about Wizarding jobs?

Knock knock knock.

Gid blinked at the door when he heard Aron shout back towards the door "I don't have cookies..." he muttered. When he heard the thud he jumped and opened the door, "Aron?! Are you al...right?" he now was wide eyed as he stared down at the man as he rolled back and forth on the floor knocking things over. "Aron?" he asked his voice showing concern. What in merlin's name?! Maybe he really had lost his mind. He needed a holiday at St. Mungo's?

He heard a knock behind him and glanced at the door and then back at Aron. It was uhh his office but, the guy really didn't seem to have a grip on things at the moment. "Do you need help?"

Why was the bloke on the other side of the door talking about cookies?

MORE KNOCKING AT THE DOOR?! He knew JUST what to do with that.

"Who's there?" he called back after having rolled himself up in the rug on the floor of his office like a burrito and maneuvered himself all the way over to the foot the door. Maybe if he peeked through the small gap there he could see who it was? NO! That would spoil the punchline of the joke.

Oh oh oh DOOR OPENING UNINVITED! Time to roll back to the desk!

*THUD*

"I... huh..?" Sophie gave the man a confused look as she blinked at him and stretched her neck a little to try and look through the door to see her boss. Why was this man... here? Was he... what? "No, I just- Where's-"

Aron called from behind the door and Sophie looked at the general direction of his voice. "Sophie! Sophie Mordaunt?" Wait, that wasn't supposed to be a question. Never mind. "Are you... is everything okay?" She asked looking at the man she didn't know, but the question was pretty much directed at the both of them. "Oh, sorry, I'm Sophie Mordaunt." She added, holding out her hand for the unknown man to shake. She blinked because only THEN it occured to her that it was a bit silly because she had just literally said her name five seconds ago. Blink.

Anyways.

"Is it okay if I... come in..." Sophie trailled off as something moved towards the door, but... it was on the floor? The rug was moving, then? Sophie could fix tha-- ????????????????????? "Is that-??" And it - or he - was rolling towards the desk again. Blimey. You'd think by now Sophie would've gotten used to the crazy happenings at the Ministry, but the truth was that they never ceased to surprise and confuse her.

She never thought she'd see her boss like that. "What happened to him??" She finally asked the other man because it seemed like Aron had lost his marbles.

He was staring at the burrito of an Aron. Merlin what was up with him!? "You....why are you rolled up in the rug?" he asked blinking at him. "I....err hello Sophie." he said blinking at the woman as she came in as well "I'm not quite sure what's wrong. One of my employees came running, very concerned when he met err...Aron." He took her hand and shook it "Pleasure, I'm Gidyun Yenorin, head of International Cooperation."

Okay so now they knew who they were. Did Aron? "Aron are you alright?" he asked eyeing the man who had fallen to the floor again. "Maybe we need a healer?" he asked. Had the man gotten a curse or charm put on him?

You know, their knock knock joke wasn't funny at all. Did NO ONE around here know how to tell a proper joke anymore?

Blinking his dashing blue eyes at the pair, Aron - because that was apparently his name - took a moment to compose himself before speaking. Er...shouting as the case was.

"I AM A BURRITO!"

AND A HILARIOUS ONE AT THAT!

Cue more insane laughter. But no rolling around since he now seemed to have wedged himself between one of the legs of the desk.

Running? Merlin, so something was very wrong then, no??

Sophie frowned, but put on a smile to the head of International Cooperation. "Nice to meet you." She said before turning her attention back to her boss.

Who yelled about being a burrito. Riiight... "Maybe we do." Sophie agreed with Gidyun about needing a healer. "Or maybe not." She shrugged at the man and slooowly knelt down next to burrito!boss, waiting for him to stop laughing insanely."Hello..!" Sophie started, smiling as she tried to see Aron's face in the extremity of the rug burrito. "Aron, do you remember anything at all? Did you open any funny boxes? Maybe some strange envelope? Was the door unlocked when you came in?" The Charms Developer asked before considering getting her wand. She watched him closely to see if she spotted any signs of charmwork in his eyes.

A burrito. Right. Merlin he'd worked as head of A&C in Italy and hadn't seen anything like this down there. What had happened to Aron? He lowered himself beside Aron as well. At least he wasn't a danger to himself now that he was err a burrito? Good question! Maybe he'd come into contact with something. Hopefully it wasn't contagious and able to be passed between people. Oh merlin the fluids thing? He looked around him hoping he wouldn't see something on the floor or....okay maybe he didn't want to look.

"Is there any body fluids...?" he asked looking towards Sophie as she could see his face more clear than he could, if she could. "Greg had said there was body fluids coming out everywhere." And he wasn't bringing up the one part, yeah that was just disgusting.

Sniggering and snorting, Aron wiggled like a worm wrapped up in his blanket burrito while the pair questioned him. "Your face is a funny box," he replied, unable to contain another fit of manly giggles as he rolled around some more.

No wait. On a serious note. HAHA.

"Urine luck!"he chortled. "I do remember...............uh.........do I live here? Is there a loo nearby?"

BODY FLUIDS?

Sophie immediately backed away from burrito!boss to a safe distance. No body fluids on her, please. She wasn't up for getting infected with whatever Aron had, especially now that she was pregnant. No risks, nope, thanks. "I can't... see anything?" She finally replied to Gidyun as she looked around some, trying to spot any... body fluid. Eek. "Everywhere??" The situation was getting more and more risky, in Sophie's opinion. She now fully backed away from her boss and stood back up, being careful enough not to touch anything.

Then Aron mentioned urine. "There was urine here?? Is that what you remember?" She asked, completely ignoring his comment about their faces being funny boxes. He was making no sense! Or at least she couldn't put anything together from what he was saying. She turned back to the other Head of Department. "Did your employee mention anything else? Apart from... body fluids?" Sophie tried her best not to make a face before looking back down at her boss.

As for her boss' next question... Sophie wondered if their Department bathroom had been infected already by... whatever was going on. "No, you just work here." She told Aron as she slowly reaproached him, never getting as close as before. "There- there is, yes..." The Charms Developer answered hesitantly, biting her lip as she glanced at Gidyun again.

She didn't believe she would get anything immediate from Aron, so she supposed they would have to take the matter into their own hands. "If you don't mind..." The brunette said, pulling her wand out. "SpeRevelio." She started with the most basic spell as she slowly waved her wand around her boss' office.

The woman's spell revealed nothing unusual about the room, although the department head does begin to glow a jolly green colour that fades away after a few seconds. Were one to get close enough...one may even be able to her the faint sound of insane giggling.

Well this was a tad bit embarrassing. Oakey had to get some extra help on a certain situation he may have caused. He came to Aron's office and went to knock on it. Before he could though he heard a loud voice definitely from his boss and yelling weird things.

Another man was in there, as was Sophie.

Okay, maybe his thing could wait. Oakey opened the door slowly only to witness Aron glow for a brief moment "Is everything alright in here?" He asked concerned eyeing Sophie mostly compared to the other men in the office.

Yeah no body fluids anywhere. He nodded a grim look on his face, thank merlin for that. No fluids anywhere. Merlin, had he said urine?! He took a step back at that, no hugging. Well then again, burrito. Still ew! Wasn't the body fluid thing bad enough?! "Not that I can think of, just really odd behavior." Like wrapping up into a burrito form in a rug. "Err, yeah you are the boss in fact of this department." A loo! Yes, loo not your err trousers.

His eyes went huge as Aron now turned a bright green colour and stared at him as he heard the insane giggling again. "Aron?" he asked blinking at him again as it faded. "I...." his eyes went to the door as another person entered "I don't think so, we might need a healer."

...Nothing? Well, it had been worth a try.

Sophie was about to try another spell when suddenly her boss started glowing green and Oakey came in. The former Hufflepuff hardly acknowledged her co-worker because Aron was GLOWING green and that was a problem. Hm, not a big problem if he was simply glowing green, but he had been acting really, really strangely and now he was glowing green, sooo that was not good at all.

"No, Aron's not acting normal and now..." She motioned towards their boss. Glowing green. The sight made her feel sick. That, plus the thought of body fluids and urine and urgh, her almost-but-not-really-OCD was kicking in and she wanted out of there as soon as possible.

But she couldn't. She was a responsible employee and would not leave the area until something was solved. Or at least... until she could keep herself from throwing up. "Should we... get Aron to a healer? No, hold on, it's better if the healer comes." Sophie said as she looked around, trying to think what to do. "Do you reckon this is contagious?" She asked the other Head of Department as she still held her wand and eyed her boss. She wanted to unroll him so he wouldn't be a burrito anymore because... well, just because, but that was probably not a good idea. Let all the body fluids - bleurgh - and greenness stay in there. In fact, she quickly waved her wand to make sure he couldn't undo the burrito even if he wanted to.

You know, just in case.

Please don't hate her, boss.

HEHEHEHE HOHOHOHOHO HEHEHEEHEHE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Were basically the only sounds coming out of the department head as he lay there on the ground wrapped up in his rug like an insane, but still incredibly attractive, Australian burrito.

"Healer!" he chimed in. "You ever hear the story about the hag, the Healer and a Mimbulus Mimbletonia?" Only he never finished that thought, if one could even argue he had started it as more manly giggles and echoing laughter that could no doubt be heard on the entire level.

Oakey considered what the glow might of been. Perhaps one of the two in here. Not including Aron because the man seemed incapable of doing anything at the moment except spot nonsense and be rolled up in a rug. What was what about Healer and a Hag?

He shrugged at that.

anyways, maybe they tried to find something hidden within the room that was making Aron go nuts, and well the only thing revealed to them was Aron himself. He was in fact the only weird one in this room right now that seemed off.

"I can send for a Healer to head up here." Oakey obliged to the other Department Head in the room. "Sophie." he turned to her. "Before I came in did you try the Revealing spell?" He had a thought. Pointing at his Department Head. "Try it again. See if that's why Aron turned green? The source of the Charm may be on him."

Sophie stared at Aron as he carried on acting... odd. She blinked when Oakey spoke to her. "I did, yeah!" She said, eyes wide in surprise. "I didn't consider that! Good thinking, Oakey!" The former Hufflepuff waved her wand again, now very near Aron - but never near enough to touch him because eep! "SpeRevelio." She had to fight the urge to step back and get as far away from her boss as possible. Instead, Sophie watched her boss intently.

Once again the department head began to glow a jolly green colour and was once again accompanied by the faint sound of laughter as it fades away. There is nothing malicious about what you have seen. In fact one could argue that the department head had become the butt of a bad joke.

Yep, definitely ned a healer. This glowing department head wrapped like a burrito was a little concerning! He nodded in agreement at Sophie's explanation to the man who had just arrived. That and the body fluids. He watched her as she waved her wand, why.... And then there was the laughing again. Healer, hag and mimbulus mimbletonia? No he hadn't actually but that could wait.

"I think we should send for a healer" he said nodding in agreement when the man offered to send for a healer. "I agree though, we should wait on any spells, until we know what..." Okay, or not. He watched as she used the charm. Anything?

He blinked as Aron turned green once again and the faint laughter. Right....so had that revealed anything? He didn't see nothing at all that could be causing this.

You know what? Aron had the urge to see someone with a better sense of humor right now because these folks were about as entertaining as watching moss grow on a sloth - and he would know, he had done some research on the subject. Short story was that he had not taken a lichen to it.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

And no one wanted to hear the rest of his joke? Talk about sticks in the mud.

"NO! Lynley. She'll take a lichen my joke about the the hag, the Healer and a Mimbulus Mimbletonia."

If they were going to insist on taking him somewhere with authority figures, may as well be to someone who shared his sense of humor.

Sophie blinked as her boss glowed green again after she cast the spell. The faint sound of laughter made her frown and she kept watching him closely for a while.

Until his loud voice made her jump slightly and she stepped back again. "What's he... what's he even talking about?? Lynley?" Sophie asked the other two looking from Aron to them them back to Aron. "As in Lynley Purcell, Head of Transportation?" She wasn't sure whether to take whatever he was saying as some sort of 'clue' or to just ignore it completely.

She shook her head, trying to clear her thoughts. "So, um... right." Come on, Sophie, think straight now! Aron's attempts to tell jokes were effectively distracting her. "So, my revealing spell detected a spell on Aron. Or hex, even." She side-eyed the still burrito!man. "That laughter..." The Charms Developed full on stared at her boss again as her brain worked on different possibilities for the results of the spell. "Might be a clue that it has something to do with... comedy? Humour?" She stared at him a bit harder as more things came into her mind. "Jokes? A joke hex?" Sophie brought up the idea, softening her gaze and looking back at Oakey and particularly at the other Head of Department. "Do you think... Lynley has anything to do with this? Or..?" The former Hufflepuff asked with a small shrug. All she could really tell so far was that Aron was hexed. But... who could've done it? And why??

Merlin did it feel good to be back at work. Two weeks was a really long time in case Legend didn't realize and she was sure she'd already missed out on a lot. Like Aron. Just because she wasn't technically his babysitter anymore, didn't mean he didn't need checking on and she could BET no one else had thought to pop their head in to make sure the man was still alive. WHAT IF HE HAD DROPPED DEAD IN HER ABSENCE???

Legend would have a lot of explaining to do AND he'd have to give her a whole bunch of cases to make her feel better...because what a loss, y'know?

Lex had only just dumped her things back on her desk before making a beeline for the Department Head's office. First thing in the morning. Yup. It'd been two weeks. He was BOUND to miss her. Ahem. Knock. Knock. Knock......

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Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. Knockknockkncokknockknockknockknock.

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Merlin did it feel good to be back at work. Two weeks was a really long time in case Legend didn't realize and she was sure she'd already missed out on a lot. Like Aron. Just because she wasn't technically his babysitter anymore, didn't mean he didn't need checking on and she could BET no one else had thought to pop their head in to make sure the man was still alive. WHAT IF HE HAD DROPPED DEAD IN HER ABSENCE???

Legend would have a lot of explaining to do AND he'd have to give her a whole bunch of cases to make her feel better...because what a loss, y'know?

Lex had only just dumped her things back on her desk before making a beeline for the Department Head's office. First thing in the morning. Yup. It'd been two weeks. He was BOUND to miss her. Ahem. Knock. Knock. Knock......

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Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. Knockknockkncokknockknockknockknock.

For once the man was not drowning in paperwork and his desk was relatively barren - a very welcomed surprise considering the random influx of breaches in the Statute recently. Nothing sinister that he read between the lines, but a nuisance nonetheless. He was just signing off on the final report when the rapid succession of knocking came upon his door.

Unmistakable knocking to boot.

"Come in, Cambridge," he chuckled, giving his wand a flick at the door to unlock it for her.

He knew her by her knock. Such a lovely sentiment because you didn't just LEARN people's styles of knocking. It's not like everyone had their own unique way of knocking a door that made them stand out. Granted....she did, but that wasn't the point.

"Looks like I've caught you at a good time." She said casually as she let herself into the office. Naturally the door was shut behind her and on a few occasions, the thought did cross her mind to tack a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the opposite side whenever she visited but there were several reasons she figured this wouldn't make for a good idea. Consequently the other side of the door was still bare.

"Thought I'd check in on you before I began the days work. Make sure they didn't slack on your security or anything." Alexa took her time in walking around the room, pretending to survey the area. "Everything looks alright....so far."

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He knew her by her knock. Such a lovely sentiment because you didn't just LEARN people's styles of knocking. It's not like everyone had their own unique way of knocking a door that made them stand out. Granted....she did, but that wasn't the point.

"Looks like I've caught you at a good time." She said casually as she let herself into the office. Naturally the door was shut behind her and on a few occasions, the thought did cross her mind to tack a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the opposite side whenever she visited but there were several reasons she figured this wouldn't make for a good idea. Consequently the other side of the door was still bare.

"Thought I'd check in on you before I began the days work. Make sure they didn't slack on your security or anything." Alexa took her time in walking around the room, pretending to survey the area. "Everything looks alright....so far."

Of course he knew her knock. No one knocked quite like Alexa Cambridge and there was never a long enough break between knocking instances for him to forget.

Aron shrugged his shoulders casually at her comment. "Every time is a good time for you to pop by," he chuckled. Mostly to egg the reinstated Auror (yes, he knew aaaaaall about that) on for his own amusement.

"Well, don't let me stand in your way then." Literally, because he was seated. "Wouldn't want my favorite glorified babysitter feeling like she was skipping out on her duties." He gave his office a cursory look over. "Coffee? I can summon my assistant to fetch us some."