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Nathan had his head down trying to keep out of the proceedings, enjoy his fried chicken and try his best not to get grease on his suit. Nate usually enjoyed a good knees up, but with all these Ministers and important people around it was rather difficult to relax. The chicken was good, though it didn't really compare to the colonel's own secret recipe.
He looked up when he heard someone approaching to see Egypt. He smiled warmly, pleased to see her and leaned over to give her a peck on the cheek. He used his fingers to wipe away the chickeny grease mark left behind by his lips. “That maybe true but nobody wants to watch me eat fried chicken.” he replied with a small chuckle. “Hello love. You look nice.” he told her as he eyed up her figure hugging robes. Very nice in fact. “Another one of your sisters' creations?” He asked as he fingered the beads around one of her wrists.
“Eventful as always. There's never a dull moment with Nicoli and Forrester.” he smirked and shook his head slightly. “I've never worked in such a chaotic atmosphere before.” And that was saying something coming from the man who lived his life buried under his own (organised) chaos. “We went from cyphering codes, to using a pensieve, to patrolling the ministry for this.” he gestured around. “And I don't think any of it got finished.” Some of it hadn't even got started. He sighed. It got frustrating at times but he knew it was no one in particulars fault. “What about you? The Ministry's looking spotless I have to say.”
Nathan grinned when he heard the Chinese Minister. That was a question he had been wanting to ask himself along with 'Where firewhiskey?'
She smiled at him as he kissed her cheek. She could feel the greasy film and she as glad when he wiped it off.
"Well I want to see you eat fried chicken." She said with a wink. She would watch him clean a bathroom, well she would watch from a distance anyways. He was looking handsome as ever. She had tried to tame his hair for him this morning but it was a exercise of futility, but at least it fell over his eye the way she loved.
"Thank you Nathan, you are looking very fine today as well." She commented as she smoothed out a wrinkle in his lapel.
"Yes it arrived this morning. I didn't even ask them for it. A owl fly into the kitchen with a box and this was in it." She told her gesturing at the robes. She loved them though. They were in her favorite colors.
She looked around they didn't clean on Level 10, but the rest of the Ministry was spotless.
"Yes my team outdid themselves and I am very proud of them." She had never seen the place looking as clean. Not that the woman who had her job before Egypt did didn't do a good job. This was just Egypt's first real task as department head and she had come out on top.
"Well you know Forrester. The man's brain and mouth move at 100 meters a minute. Its a wondered he hasn't burnt out by now." She hadn't met Nicoli but the one time at the wedding, but he seemed a pretty ok man.
"Well you have to work in some sort of chaos. Criminals don't exactly work on a time table or in a ordered fashion. So you guys have to be adaptable to catch them." She missed some of that action being on Level 2, but she was calmer and happier without being a judge.