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Kensi was feeling a bit better, though her stomach still felt a bit weird...she coughed a bit, and her eyes watered. She blinked, and tears were falling down her face...but she wasn't crying. it was just from her ...vomitting. (EW!)

She noticed a new woman come in...and Victoria ask her for napkins...Kensi pulled out her wand..."I c-c-can clean it up.." she stuttered, feeling a bit shaky. She brandished her wand a bit, and most of the sickness was cleaned up...she then said, "Aquamenti," softly, squirting some water down there...EWEWEW. It was time like these that made her miss her mother. Twenty five, and she still liked to be taken care of.

She ended up being pretty skilled in the cleaning, seeing as she was always a messy person, she had to learn to do this well. She even took out some perfume, and sprayed A WHOLE TONE down there...

"We c-c-can move booths in you want..." she said, her voice still shaky. She saw the new woman. "I'm K-Kensi..." she held out her wand...WAAAIT.

She rolled her eyes, "I'll be back...get all cleaned up..." Did she have time to go to her apartment and change? Maybe...SHe chanced it. "I'm going to change..." she told VIctoria...she was shaking a lot, now, and her eyes were still watery. The drool, too, was still an occurrence...

Merlin, she felt awful. She excused herself, and headed for the front of the ministry...

this is lame, sorry xD
 

Ella had spun around to set her plate down, and when she turned back around.... Kensi had vomited. Oh dear. Ella held her breath and patted the woman's back gently. She was never really the motherly-type, so she had no idea what to do in this situation except try not to breathe too much.

"Let me help," Ella offered to Kensi as she started to clean up. Ella took her wand out and cleaned up the mess until she could finally breathe again. Whew. And then Kensi was talking about going home and changing. Eek. "Maybe you should take the rest of the day off." It wasn't really her shot to call, but... whatever sickness she had seemed pretty bad. Ella frowned as Kensi left and hoped she would be alright.

Ella turned around to the other two women, one of whom had just shown up. "Well. Now that that's over..." And now that she could breathe again... Ella grabbed her plate again. "I hope that whatever she has isn't contagious," she said to anyone in particular.

Still holding her hand, Konrad followed Roxanne to wherever she wanted to go, to find that there wasn't much fun left, but then again, maybe it was because the man announced that he'd pay for everyone's food or something. He heard that. Where was he, anyway? Amoroso, or what was his name? Errr... no matter.

Roxanne's voice caught his attention, though, so he quickly turned to look at her. An early lunch? Well, he wasn't hungry, but... "I can never say no to a piece of cherry pie," he grinned, this time his turn to lead the way to the buffet. Heh, it didn't truly matter whether he was hungry, or not hungry at all, because Konrad couldn't refuse cherries... or anything that had cherries in it.

Hmmm...... pie. That sounded better than a early lunch. Or maybe just have the pie as lunch. That sounded even better, it did. Who cared what the 'correct' protocol for these type of things was. Roxanne never cared much for it anyway. "Pie it is then!" But maybe not cherry, so much. Maybe she'd see if they had a nice apple one. They were in season by now, yes? Maybe make that apple pie ala mode.....

She followed Konrad over to the desert table, grinning like a fool. After all, why wouldn't she? She had free sweets and a chance to actually extend her break. And the fact that she was walking behind Konrad slightly, giving her a great view of his back end didn't hurt either.....

Sorry for lateness of this...
 

Shouting woman in wide steps, 4 o’clock and coming straight for her.

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Had Tasha done something wrong? Looking around her, she saw other people filling their plates with food so that couldn’t be it. It was free lunch for only level one people? The woman stopped a few meters away and stopped her theorizing and spoke to Tasha in a less shouty tone of voice asking if she had any napkins?

Opening her bag she rummaged around for a few seconds before pulling up a handful of napkins. Offering them to the woman she responded "Here, take them all. It looks like they are umm needed." Catching another glance at the poor woman who was sick Tasha wondered silently why somebody hadn’t found it wise to escort the sick woman home and out of the food court. Food was usually the last thing you wanted to think about if you were feeling like you could throw up at any moment.

Eyebrows furrowed and inched a little together as the napkin woman explained what had happened to the poor woman. "Acting weirdly how?
Drooling and throwing up, hmm. It’s possible it could be some variant of that stomach bug which usually circles the ministry, but I’m no expert." And Tasha had never contracted it so she didn’t know if there were any symptoms to look for but drooling didn’t exactly seem like a good sigh. “I’m Natasha Warrington by the way. I work on level 3." She introduced herself to the other woman.

Natasha was seriously thinking about putting her plate of food down and helping out with the icky stuff clean up when the sick woman introduced herself to her. Smiling back at the by the looks of it younger woman she responded. "It’s nice to meet you Kensi even if the circumstances aren’t the best. You should go home and get some rest. Stomach bugs or whatever it is that’s making you sick can hang on for longer than one might expect." Awkwardly shaking the wand instead of a hand she added. "I’m Natasha. I work on level 3."

She watched Kensi leave for the exit on looking sort of shaky. Poor woman.

Natasha pulled out her wand and used ‘evanesco’ to clear away some more puke which she spotted in an undesirable place near the buffet table. The food could start tasting like puke which was never ever a good thing. Picking up a fork and a knife she was about to look for somewhere to sit when she overheard the brunette who had rushed to aid Kensi just a few moment’s ago’s comment. "I couldn’t have said it better myself. Drooling and puking and weird behavior it doesn’t seem like your typical flu bug."Tasha noted. Shudder. "Did Kensi just start acting weirdly out of the blue without any warning signs?" she asked the two women.

Tasha gulped. She was healthy as a horse and hoped to stay that way.

Victoria stood shifting her wait from foot to foot while the woman searched for napkins in her bag. Fortunately she had plenty. Victoria smiled at her and took them, "Thank you, and yeah they're needed." Obviously it was obvious that they were having a....puking situation.

"She was staring ahead with an odd expression on her face." The secretary answered on how Kensi was acting weird. "And she didn't remember doing so." Victoria frowned, "Doesn't make sense right?" Or was it Victoria's mind who stopped processing?

And what 's this about the bug, " Stomach bug?"Victoria repeated. She thought she had heard something about it from one of the visitors who came by the front desk earlier but she hadn't given it much attention. And now she wished she had payed attention.

As she was trying to remember what that man spoke about this bug she heard the woman introduce herself. Oh Victoria was so out of manners now which was so unusual for the receptionist. "Nice to meet you Natacha," She smiled at her not feeling like calling her by her last name. They weren't at work. "I'm Victoria Smith. Secretary at the Minister's office." She introduced herself.






As Victoria and Natacha stepped closer to Kensi. Victoria offered the napkins to the other woman who helped cleaning. And Victoria had just remembered the woman, she is a head of department. Victoria remembered seeing her on Level-one. Though she couldn't recall her name. Not now anyway.

Victoria watched Kensi leave feeling sorry for the woman and hoping that she'd feel better. And then the head of department said something about contagious. Victoria swallowed hard and retrieved her wand out of her purse. She cast a cleaning spell non-verbally. Eh...just to make sure.



Victoria listened to Natacha's question who seemed to be of knowledge of this particular bug. Victoria nodded at what the head of department said, "True. She seemed to be fine at first." Victoria said. "Then she suddenly started to drool and her body started to spasm a bit." The secretary explained. It didn't seem normal at all now when she thought of it. "Is this bug treatable? "She asked the women. "And is it known what causes it?" Victoria didn't know much about this bug. And she actually wanted to know in case she encountered other sick person.

"You’re welcome." Natasha nodded. It was the least she could do given the crisis with a vomiting woman causing a mess on the floor of the food court. Name? Hadn’t she introduced herself? She must have forgotten or if she had there was no harm in doing it again. "I’m Natasha. I work as event concealment advisor on level 3." She introduced herself. The brunette looked like that woman in the ministry bulletin she had read some weeks ago on her lunch break but Tasha could easily have this woman mixed up with someone else entirely it happened.

Sighing she said. "I sincerely hope it isn’t. I didn’t attract the last stomach bug that circled the levels but this one seems well um harsh and peculiar." If only she had paid more attention in her school days when they had spoken about symptoms of different illnesses, she doubted though that drooling fit under the stomach bug category.

Let’s change the topic. Hm, "Should we find somewhere to sit and eat our food?" Tasha might have lost some of her appetite with all the vomit but food was why she had come here in the first place.



"It’s all very peculiar and nothing really makes any sense. I even doubt that it’s a new stomach bug even if Kensi vomited excessively. Drooling unless I’m wrong doesn’t usually tie in with vomiting, but I’m not an expert." Natasha commented to the women. Had the ministry gotten their own little mystery sickness on their hands? If that was the case then what precautions should she take to avoid contracting whatever bug had made Kensi act weird in the first place?

Then the thought struck her maybe she was already sick but just wasn’t showing signs? No that was silly you couldn’t get sick by just sitting in your cubicle writing reports and creating models of possible event venues right? Putting a clear sock in flailing thoughts Natasha smiled cheerily at the woman closest to her. "Pleasure to meet you Victoria. I used to work in the minister’s office actually until I transferred when a vacancy opened up in Accidents and Catastrophs." She explained.

Spasms were bad!! Tasha was sort of relieved she hadn’t been there when Kensi had started to do that. "I have no idea, if it’s treatable. Have other employees showed similar symptoms?" she wondered out loud. If they had then she hadn’t heard about it or if she had she had just written it off as a variant of the usual bugs that circled the ministry building from time to time.

Sticking her fork into a piece of chicken Tasha plucked it into her mouth and chewed on it. Yummy.

Victoria nodded listening to what Natacha said. The secretary couldn't find any link between drooling and vomiting. However, she too was not an expert. "I find this really confusing."She shook her head. "It probably expert healers to look into the matter." And they should find a treatment very fast!Before other people caught this disease or whatever it was. And thinking of it Victoria glanced at where Kensie threw up and was grateful that she hadn't gotten so close.

"Really? Were you a secretary, an advisor or what position did you fill in?" Victoria asked Natacha when she mentioned that she was a level-one employee. Though Victoria couldn't understand why would the woman want a job in the catastrophes department.You know in level-one Victoria find it peaceful and relaxing. She didn't like being around troubles which wasn't really working out for her those days. However, she thought that it probably had something to do with refreshing the spirit or something. As working in the same position for too long would turn out to be boring and you'd probably feel that you don't have nothing much to give anymore. Victoria knew that someday she might get to that point but she wasn't going to work in catastrophes.

Back to the disease thing, "I think I might have heard that a couple of employees are suffering from the same symptoms." She told Natacha. "Though I'm not sure in which level or whether they got cured." At Level-one you hear people chatting and gossiping especially being a front-desk employee but you never know whether what you heard is true or not.



Victoria nodded at the woman, "Nor am I. It's complicated and it could actually be anything." Victoria said. "Food poisoning or any other illness." She only now wished for Kensi to get better and find a cure to that.

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The blonde receptionist glanced at her watch thinking that she should leave soon. Time had flown by since she got to the conference room to meet the new undersecretary.

Dacs moved over to the Main buffet part of the cafeteria. She was confident that the juice bar was well covered. With the field bag over her left shoulder, she surveyed the area and exhaled heavily. Yeah, she was still coming out from under the meeting with the heads and Wes after her brush with another colleague at crime scene. It was tiring some days and today was one of those days. But she couldn't think about that right now.

Lowering the bag onto a table, she reached in and grabbed a tiny pair of tongs and evidence containers and bags. She paused and looked around a bit and took out a note pad and started writing up all the food that were on the buffet.

Everything had to be done properly, plus she was still waiting for some extra hands to arrive. As she understood it, the entire ministry would working with MLE on this case. She was on those who would be in charge along with her boss, who seemed to be under it all. At that thought, Dacs decided she would stick it, try to keep her highly inflammable temper, cool and do her job.

She moved along the table writing down everything as she went.

A silvery eagle came swooping towards where the Dacs is. It hovered for a moment and then stopped in front of the Law Enforcer.

It opened its mouth and the voice of the Junior UNdersecretary was heard.

"Me and my two other colleagues are available to help, would you like us to do something for you?" it said sounding very polite.

Dacs looked up at the eagle patronus and said,"Yes, that would be welcome. I could use a hand over this side."

She continued moving along the buffet and writing as she nodded to the eagle.

The eagle circled the room once more before flying towards the juice bar. Then, moments later, Zach can be seen strutting towards the Main Buffet, towards Ms. Dacosta.

He cleared his throat, smiled and said, "Good day, Ms. Dacosta. I am Zach McMillan and I am here to help." he said extending his hand to shake Dacs'.

Dacs turned around and finished scribbling an item and said keeping her tone level,"Hi, Zach. Please call me Dacs. And I'm glad you're here." as she took his proffered hand with her gloved one.

Just then they were joined by another man."Hi, I'm Dacs. And you are?" she said returning the nod.

"Alright gentlemen, we're just going to be collecting food samples. Now, we are not sure which food is contaminated so we want all of them. You'll need to be wearing protective gloves because we are not sure how they contaminate, whether through contact or ingestion. I have a few pairs of gloves in my field kit over there," she said indicating the black bag on the table,"You grab some of those and the evidence containers and bags are there too. A couple pairs of small tongs to retrieve the evidence and a few small blades to cut if you need to. Label each container and bag before putting them in the cooler."

Dacs flicked her wrist and palmed her wand as it slid from the holster and flicked it toward the table, conjuring a blue and white cooler.

"That's better. If you have any questions I'm all ears. Ok, let's get this done." she said, moving back toward the table to get her tools.

Having what she needed, Dacs headed to one end of the table where she found potatoes. She used the tongs and picked up a couple pieces of roasted potatoes and put them in one evidence bag. Sealing it she plucked a black marker from her back pocket and wrote,Roasted potato on it. Went to the cooler and put it and headed back to the table to do the same with the mashed and boiled potatoes.

"Ah, forgive me," for the lack of manners. "I'm Konrad Scherfig. Pleased to meet you," he smiled, blushing juuust a little. He hated those rare moments when he forgot about his manners. His mother would not be pleased.

And then he listened.

... and listened.

He was there to collect food samples?! However, he was glad to hear that they'd be wearing protective gloves, but what Dacs said next made it difficult to keep his jaw from falling. On the floor. They weren't sure whether they contaminated through contact or indigestion?! What if they could get contaminated only by standing there?!

... moving on. Looking at the black bag she showed them, Konrad took a pair of gloves and put them on, and grabbed the tongs and a couple of evidence containers, too. Oh, look! She even conjured the cooler.

And now... work. Right. In just a few strides, tongs in one gloved hand and an evidence bag in the other, he eyed the breadsticks, picked a couple of them and put them in the bag. Once it was sealed, though, he realized he had nothing to write with. "Do you happen to have more markers?" She did say that they could ask any questions, after all.

"Nice to meet you too Konrad." she said.

Dacs looked at Konrad and smirked a bit at his facail expression and answered the question that was on his face."What we do understand is that it's not airbourne or else we'd all be zombies by now. So, you relax."

As she worked and moved on to the fettucini, she looked over her shoulder and said,"Yeah, look in the right side pocket of the bag; there should be some extras."

Dacs sealed the fancy faerie fettucini, she marked it and placed it in the cooler."So, have you guys noticed anyone on level one behaving strangely?" she asked them. It was always in her nature to interrogate. If it was to get to the bottom of something then she couldn't resist.

Did she just... hear his thoughts? It seemed so, when she answered his unspoken question. Maybe he was that obvious, but then again, he never was good at hiding his true feelings. If he had been blushing just a little a few moments ago, he was now blushing from head to toe, although it did help him relax, what Dacs said. Quite the coward, huh? Good thing he knew it, which is why he wanted a desk job.

When she told him to look in that same bag, Konrad searched the right side pocket and, indeed, found a marker. "Found one," he said as he held it up, grinning triumphantly. "Thank you." Now that he had it, he neatly wrote breadsticks on the evidence bag, and put it in the cooler.

He was picking some bacon when Dacs asked about any strange behaviour on level one. "Everyone seemed alright to me." Unless he was blind, everyone was alright, since he saw everyone every day, working at the fronts desks and all.

"Is there any equiptment left?" Beijing asked Dacs, ready to investigate. "I was also wondering if there are any face masks". Still unaware how long it took for the zombie transformation to take place, she thought she might put a face mask on. That way, nobody would be able to detect any germs if she coughed. Also, it would prevent any contamination from entering her lungs if she came into contact; and wasn't even affected by the virus from the smoothie in the first place.

Dacs stopped working the minute she heard the question and turned to look at another worker. It wasn't the first question that got her attention."Why do you need one? The infection isn't airbourne. Is there something I should know besides your name which I don't?" she said, leveling a cold, unfeeling, questioning stare at the woman.

It was apart of her job to be suspicious and that she was. Face masks were not needed in this investigation unless there was an airbourne infection from without...or within.

"It's because I drank a smoothie from here earlier. If I cough on something, it might get contaminated and mess up the investigation. I have not had any symptoms yet, so it's just incase." she rambeled. Beijing was not the smartest former Slytherin. "And my name is Beijing Pain" she said "level one".

It really didn't sit well with Dacs, that little disclosure. Moving away from the buffet Dacs focused now on the woman and said,"Well, I can't have you down here until you have been cleared. Even though as I said before the infection is not airbourne but your concern is not completely misplaced."

"It's nice to meet you Beijing but our encounter will have to be cut short as you have to report to the quarantine area until you are cleared." she said in a firm tone.

She flicked her wrist again and took out her wand. She summoned her patronus and sent over to Esme. Things needed to start wrapping up soon. These samples need to be tested so we could get to the bottom of things and get the infected ministry employees treated right away. She watched the silvery jaguar bound away. Before she turned back to the girl.

"While I get this sorted, you check off the list I've made over there on the table to see what we have so far." she told the woman. Contamination risk would be lower with her not directly handling the samples. She didn't want to be mean, well not on purpose this time but she had to be careful.

Beijing looked in the direction the lady pointed, she spied the list. She would head over there first, and make sure that everything on the list was covered. "sounds good" she said "and I didn't get your name". She would like to know who she was taking with.

After talking to Dacs, she made her way to the list. Most people have seemed to have gathered enough samples; but Beijing scrolled down the list to check every last thing. There would be no blunders when she was in control. She was pleased to sudenely be put incharge, she was not even a member of MLE. The former Slytherin scenned her list again, looking for something that had not been checked off. "Ah, here we go"

Check, she ticked the instruction off the list "People, listen here. We need to collect samples from inside the cupboards. Someone needs to go behind the counter and check the cupboards under the counter and above the counter. Who is willing to accept this task? " she said, holding up the list as she made her anouncement. She saw some people standing around, as if they were doing nouthing, perhaps they could be the ones for the job?