"Thank you. I typically either pack my lunch and eat in the office or take a walk outside the ministry, so I wasn't aware that it was pretty busy at this time." Last time she had been down here it was pretty dead, so this was interesting. Pulling out her chair and sitting she set her things down so they'd be out the woman out of the way.

Taking a bite of her sandwich she looked around. "How very rude of me. Victoria Maroon." How could she have forgotten just to introduce herself. "My brain is so focused on work I think I forget my everyday manners at times. What department do you work in?" She had to work at the ministry if she was in the food court area, right?

Felix held on tightly to his tray, lest it fall, as he made his way through food court's seating area in search of a empty table. He had no interest in just plopping himself down with people he didn't know, and didn't care to know. Felix was used to eating alone, besides, it wasn't all that bad.. Maybe he could catch up on some reading while he finished off his pizza.

Grabbing a seat at a table near the main entrance, Felix comfortably nestled himself in for his first meal of the day (he'd skipped breakfast earlier, he wasn't much of a breakfast kind of guy).

Felix took a bite of the first of two slices of pepperoni pizza, cringing in annoyance as the hot cheese burned the roof of his sensitive mouth. Damn cheese, it had probably done that on purpose.

With a freshly made chicken caesar salad and a delicious cappuccino from the buffet carefully balanced on a blue tray, Emma headed into the cafeteria to look for a seat. Now where could she sit? Her warm hazel eyes scanned the room, searching for either a familiar face or an empty table. Her eyes stopped on a very familiar young man who was sitting at a table close to the entrance. Aha! Hadn't she seen him in the meeting earlier that day? Should she go sit next to him? The blonde didn't really wish to interrupt; however, she really didn't want to go sit alone either.

So she took a deep breath and approached her fellow colleague. "Um, excuse me. Mind if I join you? I promised that I won't be too disruptive," Emma said with a shy smile with a twinkle in her eye.

Felix had been about to perform a mouth cooling spell on himself, when his attention was grabbed by someone speaking to him, which was odd in itself, most people just left Felix to himself. Glancing up, Felix was met with the sight of an attractive blond young lady with familiar features... Where'd he seen her before? Oh that was right, he'd seen her during the conference for the department.

"Hello," He blankly replied, blinking up at the young woman. She wanted to sit with him? Well, he had been hoping to sit alone, but something about the kindness of her hazel eyes made Felix reluctant to wave her off. "Um.. Not at all, have a seat," the young man said, adjusting his round glasses.

"We.. Work together, don't we?" Felix stiffly said. He wasn't very good at interacting with people.

And then the handsome man said he could join her. Well wasn't he rather kind. She could see that he was only a couple years older than her. He was probably around Brae's age. Twenty six or twenty seven... He looked that age but he could be younger or older than that too.

Anyway, Emma gave him a kind smile and placed her lunch tray down on the table. She was glad that she wasn't going to be sitting along at lunch and she hoped that her co-worked wouldn't mind too too much. She took a seat and unfolded her napkin. Then he had asked her a sort of question or was it a statement? The blonde didn't know.. Uhhh.... "Yes, we do work together. Same department. I'm Emma. Emma Malfoy. I work in the Ever-Locked Room," she explained as she nodded.

Felix tried not to watch the young witch's movements too closely, he'd found that people didn't exactly enjoy his hobby of careful observation, in fact some people seemed to think it rather creepy. Still, he couldn't help making a quick study of the blonde. Yes, there was the kindness he had seen earlier, but there was also a cleverness there that he had missed, this girl seemed like much more than a pretty face.

"It's nice to meet you, Miss Malfoy," Felix said, giving Emma a small smile as she introduced herself. Hmm, Malfoy, that was a rather famous last name she had there, it belonged to one of the oldest Wizarding families of all Britain and Felix found himself rather intrigued. "Felix Metei, I've just started in the Space Room, which... I've learned is rather sparse on employees," Felix added, his smile becoming ironic, showing his amusement.

"The Ever-locked room... It's the love room isn't it? Rather curious thing to study," Felix added, with that same, cool amusement.

She blinked a couple of times when he called her Miss Malfoy. Goodness, she wasn't used to people calling her that yet. Despite having a couple of years at the Ministry of Magic under her belt, she was unsure wether or not she'd ever get used to being called Miss Malfoy. She didn't mind being called Miss Malfoy- it was just that she was not used to it yet.

Felix? That was a nice name. It reminded her of liquid luck. She grinned. "It's wonderful to meet you as well, Mr. Metei. Also, welcome to the Department of Mysteries." The Department was a fun one to be involved in. She raised her eyebrows curiously when he informed her that the Space Room was low on employees. He'd have plenty of room in there. "Indeed. We have a couple of people in the Ever-Locked room; however, its not nearly the same amount of people that we used to have," she explained as she thought back about her first year in this very department. There had been so many new names to learn back then. Then with a wicked grin, she leaned forward and added, "You can always come spend time with the Ever-Locked people!" Yes, she'd be glad to have a friendly face around the room. She took a sip of her cappuccino. Ooh. That was good. The food here was much better than the food over at the American Ministry.

Emma raised both of her eyebrows when he enquired about the love room. Oh yes, she had gotten quite an interesting number of questions about her position so she often told people that she was an Unspeakable. She grinned. "Mhmm.. I'm a Love Specialist. It's pretty interesting," she explained, winking at him.

Caroline smiled. "I've never been down here. I usually pack leftovers from home and eat down in the department." Because Merlin knows as soon as she would set down to get she would get called for one of the kids who bumped their head. Or something along those lines.

"Oh I'm Caroline Delgado. Nursery Healer in the specialty area department. It's nice to meet you." She said poking around the slices of cucumbers in her salad. "What department do you work in?" Caroline didn't know many people out side of her department. It was sad she really needed to get out more.

She had never been down here? Well Vic could relate to being busy and not having the chance. "I know what you mean. I get so caught up working some days it's either to just skip lunch or eat at my desk. " Taking a bite of her sandwich she chewed quietly for a moment.
Though it is nice to come down once in awhile. They do have pretty good food here."

A nursery healer, well that sounded fun. "You know Jamie then?" She just loved Jamie, he was certainly one of her closest friends.
He is such a sweet man." She beamed thinking about him. Always there for her. "Nursery Healer, no wonder you don't have time to eat. If they are like any of my children." There had to be plenty of work for her.

"Oh I'm the Quidditch Division Manager in Games and Sports." Silly her for not saying that earlier, but Vic wasn't one to really say her department unless someone asked. She was super proud of her job, but never wanted to be one that bragged either.

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Vic had a bunch of doughnuts set in his plate as he made his way, happily, to the seating area with the intention to enjoy those heavenly pastries in private. January apparently had something to work on, a ghost was harassing a kid or something, Vic forgot. He strolled into the cheerfully themed seating area only to find none other than Kade Fuller (yes, he remembered names perfectly and from the first encounter) in one of them tables.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Vic's legs moved on their own accord, and he found himself standing behind the chairs opposite of Kade. "Uhh." Well?? "Mind if I join you?" They needed to have a small... talk. A good talk, a better one now that Vic knew things.

Kade had kind of zoned out of his surroundings at some point, so when he saw a man standing in front of him he couldn't honestly remember seeing him walk up. Now that he was here, though, Kaden sat up and tried to look a bit more professional.

... It was Vic. Kade almost expected the worse, considering what he had done last time (and the only time) he had seen the man. But he would give the benefit of the doubt. A lot of time had passed between then and now. Maybe Vic wasn't here to cuss him out.

"Of course," he replied, gesturing to the seat across from him. He wanted to immediately jump into an apology, but he figured it might be better to wait and see what exactly Vic had in mind for this. So, he settled with a polite, "how are you?"

Vic expected a sarcastic comment, or a rude gesture in all honesty. And he was prepared to intrude on the man and join him even if that was his reaction. But no, Fuller seemed to be well collected and... polite. Good, this made things easier. "Thank you." Vic murmured, taking a seat and setting his doughnuts platter in front of him.

... "Would you like--" He started to talk but let his companion finish his sentence first. "I'm good, good. Ya know, work and life. You?" His mouth pulled to the side in a smile. "Would you like a doughnut with that coffee?" Sharing food was kind of a big peaceful gesture on Vic's part.

Kade watched silently as Vic sat himself and his doughnuts down, and did his best not to raise his eyebrows at the small mountain of food. He actually needed to talk to this guy, and that would probably be easier if he kept his attitude in check.

So he smiled. "About the same. Life and work," he said. He immediately tried to think of another topic to ask, but Vic was faster than him. And... offering a doughnut. It would be rude to decline, right? And Kaden actually did want a doughnut. They looked good. "Sure. Thank you."

Before taking a bite, though, Kade decided that he was going to get the apology thing over with. "Look," he said, "We didn't get off to a good start. And I realize that was my fault. I had no reason to... do what I did and I sincerely hope I didn't cause any trouble." Because he had very much wanted to cause trouble at the time of the... incident? Encounter?

And now, with his conscious clear, Kaden ate his doughnut.

He put life before work, Vic noticed that and wanted to smile at that but didn't. It could be misunderstood, they were walking on thin ice here. He pushed the doughnut plate closer to Fuller and watched him take one, and bit-- oh. No. He didn't take a bite, instead he started sort of apologizing.

Vic heard him out till the end, a peace dawning over him because Fuller was saying all the right things. Vic wasn't an illogical man, he was never blinded by his emotions. "Apology accepted. I think it was more of a bad timing than anything, but no, you didn't cause any troubles." In fact, it was quite the opposite. Vic tried not to show his grin by starting on a doughnut himself too. "January told me that you two are, or were, good friends." She said they weren't anymore, Vic didn't want to be the reason for that. They were adults, they could handle those things reasonably. No need to kill any friendships.

Oh. No trouble. That would have been disappointing at the time, but he was being honest now when he said that he hoped there was no trouble. So he was glad they were okay. Although now that he was thinking about it in the right state of mind, he figured that it probably hadn't been a big deal between Vic and January at all.

And Vic accepted his apology. So Kaden supposed all was forgiven.

Kade nodded slowly when Vic mentioned January. Were. "Are," Kade corrected. "As of recently, actually." It had kind of happened accidentally, which was probably why Vic wasn't aware of it yet. Kade was going to explain how it happened, but he realized that Vic might not care. So he just waited for the other man to say something else.

... are? Vic didn't hide his surprise, last time he talked with January she was so against getting back with Fuller as friends. Ironically, Vic had made it clear that it wouldn't bother him if she did. He trusted her, and if anything bad happened, he'd come for Fuller through the law. The man would get sent to Azkaban, and all would've been sorted. Hehhh. But yeah, that probably won't happen since Fuller seemed genuine now.

"Good." He finished his first doughnut and grabbed another. "Just like you don't like to cause troubles between us, I don't like to cause troubles between friends." Nice doughnuts, mmMMMmm.

So since he was Jan's friend, maybe it was time they tried to get to know each other more? Yes? "I don't know what you do around here in the ministry yet. I suppose January told you what I do...?" Vic remembered Kade introducing himself but he didn't hear him that time over the roaring of his angered temper.

It was obvious that Vic found that bit of information surprising. Which... didn't surprise Kade. He could imagine the things that January had said about him after what he had done. It probably wasn't pretty. And she had probably not even considered being friends with him again.

He nodded, finishing his doughnut as he listened to Vic introduce himself. Kind of. "She probably did say, but I don't remember," Kade said. It was completely honest, and he wondered how Vic would respond. Hopefully not too badly, because he obviously didn't remember what Kade did, and Kade was fairly sure he had mentioned his job title when he had first introduced himself.

He wasn't going to mention that, though. "I'm a liaison in the Department of Specialties," he told him. And maybe he hadn't mentioned the fact that he was a liaison last time. So there was that.

Did she seem a little bemused or was that Felix's imagination? Had the Romanian said something odd? Probably, he tended to be rude, or to speak strangely without realizing it. "Have I... Said something wrong?" Felix asked, tilting his head.

The look of confused concern on Felix's face vanished and was replaced by a small smile as Emma very warmly welcomed him to the Department Of Mysteries, before going on to comment on the lack of people in her own sub division. Hmm, strange, Felix had always assumed that the DOM was one of the more populated areas of the Ministry, he had clearly been wrong. "Thank you," Felix said, before taking a rather large bite of his pepperoni pizza. "Why is that? Are they downsizing the department or have there just been less applicants lately?" Felix asked, managing to sound perfectly normal even with his mouth full of dough and cheese. "I can? That's allowed?" Felix said, his dark eyebrows raised in surprise. He hadn't thought he would be allowed to wander into the other rooms. He was definitely going to take advantage of this.

Felix had never been the romantic type, he believed himself too logical to get swept away by emotions like love and lust, but that didn't mean he wasn't curious about their natures, and he was actually rather eager to learn them mysteries behind the Ever-Locked Room. "A love specialist? If you don't mind my asking, what exactly does that entail?" Felix said, flushing slightly as Emma winked at him. Was she flirting with him? She wasn't showing any of the tell-take signs of physical attraction so maybe it was intended as a friendly gesture. He would file this little moment away for further inspection.