Armen had been standing at the front of the make-shift classroom with Katrina and Katherine for a few minutes, and without letting it show to his two employees, he was beginning to worry none of the MLE employees would show up. That Bole had some brilliant plan that they didn't need Apparition licenses anymore or some nonsense.
That really would have ticked Armen off and he would have to think of other means to...
test level 2, and another meeting with Lord Borr would have to be arranged, but thankfully all of that was avoided when the first
traitor to the Minister arrived.
SPOILER!!: Emily
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Originally Posted by
Hera
Emily just couldn't believe this was happening. This was ACTUALLY happening. She'd been dreading it for so long, but she wanted her license back, she needed it back... and she would get it back. Yep... she would.
Upon entering the uhh... classroom? that had been prepared for them, Emily glanced at the small desks. They didn't look too comfortable. But she wasn't going to let that bother her, she was small anyway, so it was probably the right size for her. As annoying as that was. She knew the
Squid was there with his cronies. She wasn't phased. If she had to play nice to get her license back, then she would. There was no point in lighting fires and sending sparks. Nope, she was a mature, responsible, YATI.
"Good day," she said greeting the three muppets with a respectful nod and a smile. Yup. Squidy boy was gonna be in for it. She already knew Izzy wouldn't be happy.
Taking her seat toward the middle of the class, Emily stared down at the name tag on her desk. BLAH! It was like Hogwarts all over again.
Now she'd just wait? .... How dull.
Straightening up and regaining his composure, Armen smiled smugly at Emily Browne, one of the
junior aurors he had the most animosity towards. She definately fit into her Department well, a loose canon she was.
"Oh glad you could make it Emily, and first no less. I'm glad you see the importance in this lesson today." he nodded in an overly proud way and walked towards her....awkwardly perfect sized desk...and placed a big, shiny
GOLD star on her name tag.
SPOILER!!: Izzy
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Originally Posted by
RachieRu
Isobel hadn't been to school for over 10 years. She hadn't really expected her boyfriend to make her go back to school. This really sucked. She wasn't very happy. The auror frowned as she came to the kind of glassroom. Hopefully this would be over and done with pretty fast and they would have there licenses back, because she would not be a happy bunny if they didn't. Armen would not like her when she wasn't happy. As she wandered in, she noticed that Emily was there. Perfect, she'd go sit with her. First though she needed to go check on something.
Walking up to Armen she smiled at him, grabbing one of his arms, gently, before grinning. "Nice." She nodded towards his cufflinks, glad that he was wearing them. They were really nice, suited him. Without saying anything else to him, she wandered towards the desks. That was when she noticed the desks. Did Armen seriously think that they were children. She frowned, whipping around.
"We are not children Recard." And without another word, she went a sat down in the stupid little desk that was next to Emily. She kind of felt sorry for when the men got here, there was no way they'd fit into these little chairs. Pulling her quill out of her bag, she filled in that little card. This seemed all too silly.
Turning away from Emily, the Transportation Head felt someone touch his forearm through his suit jacket and upon further inspection saw that it was his girlfriend, Isobel, and she was pointing at the cuff links he was wearing, the ones she gave him for their anniversary.
"Thanks," he smiled and then leaned into her and whispered.
"Sorry about all this but you have to come and make it seem fair."
Watching her pick the chair next to Emily, an unfortunate choice in friends in his opinion, Recard walked over to her desk after her name card was filled out and placed a large
GOLD star on her name tag.
SPOILER!!: Gabe
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Originally Posted by
MeredithRodneyMckay
This was ridiculous.
Because of one man's vendetta they were all striped of their licenses, and now had to re-take them. Despite the fact they were all, most likely to each man and woman, more than capable of apparating. Ridiculous.
And talking of that one man - there he was. Armen Recard. No doubt with an inner smirk, waiting for someone from the MLE to do something wrong so he could pounce. Well right this second, Gabriel was not going to be that person. No, he was going to be calm. He was going to be rational. He was going to --- get his bum stuck in the teeny tiny chair that had been provided for them. Seriously, if that happened he would hex the face off Recard when no one else was looking.
Right now though, he just greeted the three examiners with a nod, and a quick "Good day." Turning his back he moved to a seat near Isobel and Emily, rolling his eyes at them and raising his eyebrows.
Name tags. Pffttt.
And in walked the 'Head of
Security', some security really; they couldn't even keep a Cult from entering the premises.
"Gabe, glad you could make it." Armen nodded, his smirk showing ever so slightly.
"Will Evander be joining us soon?" 'You are one of his closest cronies, right?' he thought that last part but could have said it out loud, it
was his classroom no? Once his name tag was filled out, Armen didn't leave the man out, he too got a large
GOLD star.
"Great job!" he said pointing at his name and position on the name card.
SPOILER!!: Antoni
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Originally Posted by
TSnitch
Dacs was not at all pleased to be here let alone to be near the man she wanted to tear into. She flashed Armen and his crew a dangerously venomous glare as she made her way in. She headed to the far left of the 'class' and saw the name tag to write her name and position in.
She glanced back up again at the man wanting to hit with a hex or two. 'Ridiculous little brat.' she thought. Dacs took out her wand and manifested her name and position in place on the tag.
If she ever got the chance she would apparate, by accident of course, herself and Armen into the center of the Greek Wizard Tricirlce. Yeah, then she could sate her thoughts. The thought allowed slight smirk to tug at her lips. Either way it was just a thought that was brought on by her now white hot irritation that burned so deep yet she kept her composure: calm, guarded and stoic while she chose to stand, and not be degraded by a smug twit.
Another MLEer walked in, they were coming fast now. Armen looked at Katrina and Katherine as this one joined them. She defiantely seemed happy to be here, not.
Armen plastered a smile on his face and walked over to her desk after her quill went down and looked over her shoulder at her name tag.
"Dacosta? Are you related to Layla Dacosta, here on level six?" If so she definately had picked the better level to work on. Nevertheless,
GOLD star!!!
SPOILER!!: Skander
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Originally Posted by
Saiai
This was too much. Not only was Recard apparently petty, making all of them retake this test since he hated their boss, but apparently he had to treat people like children as well. Because this was sooo going to make people actually side with anyone but Bole. Great way to get people on side this was.
Skander just hoped that the man would get caught doing something illegal and that he'd be prosecuted soon. Oh Skander would so enjoy watching that happen. After all the courtrooms were like his second home, technically and he would have a right, maybe, to be on level 10 if the MLE were ever so fortunate to be able to pin something truly illegal on the man.
And to think that at one point Skander actually had thought that the man was alright, hell he'd probably still think that Recard was an alright guy if he hadn't of taken away all their apparition licenses simply because he could. That being said Skander could still show some level of politeness so he nodded sharply at their "teachers" before taking his seat at a most uncomfortable desk.
Oh yes, he was disliking this more and more by the second.
As an employee entered the room who he hadn't
bothered and harrassed really met before, Armen walked over to his desk and looked at his name card.
"Oh welcome Skander." He peered at his position and....he worked for the Courts?! Well he was one the Cult would want on their side, we need people on the inside of the Courts should things...go wrong.
"Ahh well Im very glad you could join us today." He nodded and gave the man TWO
GOLD stars.
Armen knew how to get people on his side alright. Pfft.
SPOILER!!: Dorian
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Originally Posted by
SilverTiger
Heading down to level six, Dorian had brough the phoenix feather that was usually on his desk as a precaution. Reminding himself that MLE wouldn't get anywhere if he let Recard get to him and spike his temper. It was bad enough that he had a feeling the Cultist was going to treat them all like two-year-olds, he didn't need to make things worse on himself, his department, or Evander. Besides, there were other things he could concentrate on to distract him from condescension. Not to mention he knew that most of his coworkers were just as unenthusiastic at having to be taught things they all knew perfectly well.
As such, upon entry to the classroom, he'd ignored Recard standing there even as he flashed a bit of a (uncharacteristic for his usual demeanor) smile toward Katherine and a nod towards the poor other woman forced to deal with the Transportation Head. No need to take things out on the women, unless Recard had gotten to them. Hopefully not. Heading for the desks, he nodded again at his fellow MLEers who had already arrived before squeezing himself into one of the desks and filling out the namecard. Definitely not made for someone over six feet, and he just chalked it up to another of Recard's petty attempts at defiling them. It wasn't going to work, and hopefully he wasn't going to need to walk the man through the abbreviation for his divison. It was tempting, though.
Armen hadn't felt this much attention and animosity from a room in a long time, and he was really enjoying it. The man could practically feel the thoughts and possible envy radiating from each person in the room.
So the next person to walk in was a guy that was rather familiar, and Recard was sure he had met him before. Joining the guy at his tiny desk, Armen looked down at him and his name tag, noticing the name. Oh yeah, he was pretty sure they had met once.
"Good day Dorian." a
GOLD star for you!
Wow....that's a lot of letters on the abreiviation. O__O
SPOILER!!: Dean
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Originally Posted by
sevensnared
After he saw the advertisement on the noticeboard, he went up to level six immediately. He already knew about how the MLE had lost their apparition licence which to Dean's opinion is utter nonsense. Unlike before, Dean frowns instead of smiling. However, he musters up all his willingness to force a tiny little smile upon seeing the three Magical Transportation people.
Walking towards the back of the classroom, Dean takes a seat at the uncomfortably small desk. Pulling the name tag closer to him, he fills it in with appropriate information.
After a minute's break on the influx of MLE employee on level six, the next came in and took a seat.
Armen's brow furrowed as he looked at the guy. He didn't seem familiar at all, and even though Armen didn't go on level two very often he DID check out their personal records, the ones he could access, sometimes. This guy must be new to the ministry. Pity he got stuck in MLE. Walking up to him Armen smiled smally.
"Hello there Dean. You're new to the Ministry yes? Well I appologize for the inconvience you are going through today, but its been decided by the Minister of Magic that some of the people in your department's past have required us to do this. Good luck on your exams." Armen plopped a big
GOLD star on the officer's name tag.
SPOILER!!: Katherine
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Originally Posted by
PhoenixRising
Katherine didn't really understand the political animosity between her boss and the one in Law Enforcement, but she wasn't one to overstep either. Most of those in Law Enforcement had been apparating for as long as she has, but probably done it more frequently. Nonetheless, if Recard had said they needed to re-sit their Apparition exams, then she wasn't one to argue. Even if she did think he might have gone overboard with how childish and petty he was acting toward this department, she wasn't going to voice it.
Smiling as they entered the room, Kat noticed a couple familiar faces. Isobel, of course, who she couldn't help but feel slightly smug that she wasn't exempt from these lessons despite being Recard's girlfriend. And Dorian; a Ministry Employee who she sadly often dismissed that he was employed here as well. One of these days she was going to arrange lunch or dinner or something with him. Returning his smile with a sympathetic one of her own, she DID feel bad for him, even if she didn't for Isobel.
Ok so after greeting quite a few MLEer's, Recard returned to the front of the room to retrieve a new page of gold star stickers and glanced at Katherine, who had been watching him greet each employee. He smiled at her and with a wink went back to face the classroom.
--------------- "Ok everyone, thanks for coming today, myself, my collegues, and the Ministry thanks you. We will continue to wait a few more minutes for...stragglers to arrive and then the lesson will start." he nodded and then looked towards the door, where Bole would eventually arrive.