Having spent around ten minutes in the main office, talking to both Dacs and Gabe and having a quick look at the information and memo's that had arrived on his desk since Friday. He'd since decided that it wasn't anything that couldn't wait and had moved to Wesley's office. After knocking and not getting a response, he'd moved through the department looking for the boss - finding him as his voice has resonated through a slightly-open door to the conference room.

"Hi, Wesley?" He called out, knocking on the door lightly so that he knew he was waiting for a word once he and Dacs had finished their conversation. He wasn't pushing the other Division Head out - they all needed to have a conversation with Wesley, and it wasn't like they needed to act like two year olds to get said time. They were all grown ups - and highly reasonable and responsible ones at that.

"I understand sir, I do. And no I wouldn't ask you about it if I didn't deem it important. I know there are regulations and processes but most of the occurences started in the cafeteria. I have reason to believe it's something in the cafeteria, more specifically, the food. But only with your permission will I continue on such course of action." she replied, with an almost military tone.

She continued and said, "If you need me to justify to the person in charge reason for a full shut down of the cafeteria, I'll be available."

Dacs wanted to close off as many avenues of possibilities to get to the bottom things as quickly as possible. She would be going on a 'zombie hunt' but she also needed to track possible sources of the infection.

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Having spent around ten minutes in the main office, talking to both Dacs and Gabe and having a quick look at the information and memo's that had arrived on his desk since Friday. He'd since decided that it wasn't anything that couldn't wait and had moved to Wesley's office. After knocking and not getting a response, he'd moved through the department looking for the boss - finding him as his voice has resonated through a slightly-open door to the conference room.

"Hi, Wesley?" He called out, knocking on the door lightly so that he knew he was waiting for a word once he and Dacs had finished their conversation. He wasn't pushing the other Division Head out - they all needed to have a conversation with Wesley, and it wasn't like they needed to act like two year olds to get said time. They were all grown ups - and highly reasonable and responsible ones at that.

At a pause in the conversation with Dacs, Wes nodded toward the where where he'd seen a someone sneak in. "Hi, Jax?" Wes mimicked his Head Auror's tone with a little smirk. "What's up?" Hopefully good news.

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"I understand sir, I do. And no I wouldn't ask you about it if I didn't deem it important. I know there are regulations and processes but most of the occurences started in the cafeteria. I have reason to believe it's something in the cafeteria, more specifically, the food. But only with your permission will I continue on such course of action." she replied, with an almost military tone.

She continued and said, "If you need me to justify to the person in charge reason for a full shut down of the cafeteria, I'll be available."

Dacs wanted to close off as many avenues of possibilities to get to the bottom things as quickly as possible. She would be going on a 'zombie hunt' but she also needed to track possible sources of the infection.

And back to Dacs. "It's definitely important. I'm with you 100%, so..." Wes glanced down at the purple paper he'd brought into the conference room with him. "I'm going to ask you to bring up the cafeteria...connection at a meeting this afternoon. The Minister himself is going to be there, as well as all the other department heads, so it will be the perfect time to ask to shut it down."

He held out the memo to her and waited for her to take it. "It says that we can bring employees with us, so... you're one I want to bring." Like Dacs, Wes wanted to get to the root of the problem too. All his hit wizard instincts were pointing to the cafeteria too.

She gave him a slow, short nod as he spoke. Then he actually took her up on her offer. Not wanting to show any sign of surprise, Dacs nodded once and took the paper he handed to her. Reading through it quickly, she said,"I'll report on it sir." as she handed it back to him."We don't have the reports on file yet , so they are unofficial, but it should be enough to make a point."

Dacs was going to speak up in front of department heads and the Minister of Magic himself. Whatever it took to get to the bottom of this before one of them drooled on her boots.

"Great." Wes took the paper back, thinking that he'd probably circulate it around if he had the time. "Just meet me there at one and we'll hopefully be moving on with this investigation as soon as it's over."

He glanced down at his files again. "Anything else to report?" Word on Amarantha? Or was Jax doing that? Wes wasn't even sure how his people were split up at the moment... he should probably check on that too....

"Let's hope. I didn't go on vacation for nothing." she remarked. Dacs hooked a thumb in one of the loops at the back of her jeans as she shifted her weight."Well, right now Gabe and I are wrangling Security and MLES people to sort out here, I have an evidence retriever, Esme at Talone's shop along with CMEC and Emily took two with her on site. Simon is watching Talone. Jax, would take it from there. I'm going between Talone's shop and here sir." She said.

Yeah, she was very grateful to Jax for the cup of coffee he brought for her. She would need it today and need more of the anti- sleep liquid throughout the day.

Jaxton smirked slightly as his best friend mocked his own questioning tone. Ah well, at least on rubbish days like this - they were around to help each other through, even if it was by their bootstraps. He held up a cup of coffee, and then held it out for Wesley to take as he stood silently slightly behind Dacs. He wouldn't interupt their conversation, but simply wait to see when he could fit in.

Ah, Amarantha... There it was.

Jaxton nodded his head. "Emily, Sabel and Josh are on site. Legend and Simon are with her in the cells. I'm on my way down there now, I just wanted to check in and give you coffee. Alicia wouldn't let me leave without taking it with me for us all, she knew from what she calls the "tell-tale signs", that something big is going on." He rolled his eyes slightly, but there was nothing that would make him turn away her coffee on a day like this.

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"Let's hope. I didn't go on vacation for nothing." she remarked. Dacs hooked a thumb in one of the loops at the back of her jeans as she shifted her weight."Well, right now Gabe and I are wrangling Security and MLES people to sort out here, I have an evidence retriever, Esme at Talone's shop along with CMEC and Emily took two with her on site. Simon is watching Talone. Jax, would take it from there. I'm going between Talone's shop and here sir." She said.

Yeah, she was very grateful to Jax for the cup of coffee he brought for her. She would need it today and need more of the anti- sleep liquid throughout the day.

And once again, it was as though Dacs had read his mind, delivering just the report Wes was looking for. He nodded as she went through a brief outline of the divisions on her side of the office at least, and he didn't have any objections to who had gone where. They were where he would have assigned them all anyway.

"Excellent work, Dacs, as always. Thanks for the update. I might just pop into Talone's shop myself near the end of the day, see what you all have come up with that can be used in an interview with her."

He nose wrinkled a bit just at the thought of that redheaded fiend. "I'll let you get back to it then, if you'd like. I'm sure Jax has something to add about de Talone..."

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Jaxton smirked slightly as his best friend mocked his own questioning tone. Ah well, at least on rubbish days like this - they were around to help each other through, even if it was by their bootstraps. He held up a cup of coffee, and then held it out for Wesley to take as he stood silently slightly behind Dacs. He wouldn't interupt their conversation, but simply wait to see when he could fit in.

Ah, Amarantha... There it was.

Jaxton nodded his head. "Emily, Sabel and Josh are on site. Legend and Simon are with her in the cells. I'm on my way down there now, I just wanted to check in and give you coffee. Alicia wouldn't let me leave without taking it with me for us all, she knew from what she calls the "tell-tale signs", that something big is going on." He rolled his eyes slightly, but there was nothing that would make him turn away her coffee on a day like this.

And so he did, plus he brought his boss coffee. Wise man!

"Looks good so far," Wes nodded and took the cup. "The plans of who's doing what, I mean." Not that the coffee didn't look good as well. "Let me know if anything develops...anywhere...." Since their people were so spread out today. "And you're also welcome to come to the meeting if you'd like, Jax, though I'd probably be more comfortable with you sticking around with Amarantha."

He wasn't sure he wanted her being watched just by two rookies anyway. "Are you planning to question de Talone today?"

Dacs nodded once and said,"It's my style." as she smirked at him,"I'll see ya then, if you pop in. Just don't pop in behind me,I don't like surprises." She straightened up and said,"I'll see y'all later."

She turned and walked to the door before she stopped and said,"I haven't seen anyone from CMEC for the zombie case yet. It wouldn't nice for them if I had to go get them myself. So, my day is about to get really good, not so much for them." With that she smirked and turned to leave the conference room.

The alley cat patronus dashed into the room, laser focused on it's target. Once it had spotted the recipient, it leapt onto the table the man was working at, walked over to the papers and sat down on top of them, tail curled around itself. Once settled, the ghostly patronus begin to speak in it's owner's voice. "There's been a situation at de Talone's workshop. Dorian fell through the floor. He's okay, but the floor collapse uncovered something quite impressive. Please come down as soon as possible."

It's message delivered, the smoky cat faded away just as quickly as it had come.

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Dacs nodded once and said,"It's my style." as she smirked at him,"I'll see ya then, if you pop in. Just don't pop in behind me, I don't like surprises." She straightened up and said,"I'll see y'all later."

She turned and walked to the door before she stopped and said,"I haven't seen anyone from CMEC for the zombie case yet. It wouldn't nice for them if I had to go get them myself. So, my day is about to get really good, not so much for them." With that she smirked and turned to leave the conference room.

Jaxton stood with one of his hands in his back pocket, as he silently went over a few things in his head as he listened to Wesley and Dacs finish off their own conversation about Talone’s workshop. He listed to what they were saying and couldn’t help the smirk that slid over his own face as she told them she was away to round up the CMEC division. Have fun, and look out! He thought silently, winking at Dacs. “Be nice!” He called after her, sarcastically.

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And so he did, plus he brought his boss coffee. Wise man!

"Looks good so far," Wes nodded and took the cup. "The plans of who's doing what, I mean." Not that the coffee didn't look good as well. "Let me know if anything develops...anywhere...." Since their people were so spread out today. "And you're also welcome to come to the meeting if you'd like, Jax, though I'd probably be more comfortable with you sticking around with Amarantha."

He wasn't sure he wanted her being watched just by two rookies anyway. "Are you planning to question de Talone today?"

“If it’s all the same to you – I’d rather stay with Talone... and the offices due to so many of our Department being out of office or in that meeting with you...” He paused knowing that his boss knew him well enough for him to not need to explain more than that – Wesley knew that every part of him was dedicated to their department.

“No.” Jaxton said with a single shake of his head. “I’m not questioning her today... Tomorrow possibly but I would rather wait until Dacs and Emily have given me the report from her workshop and so that my questions will be more direct and specific to her.” He nodded once and looked over the large piles of paper on the conference room table. “Do you need me to do anything else today?” He asked, before a cat slinked into the room.



With his eyes frowning, Jaxton sighed and looked at Wesley. “Quick instructions before you need to go?” He added, noting that Wesley would likely be gone until the meeting that afternoon, and then be busy most of the afternoon too.

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Dacs nodded once and said,"It's my style." as she smirked at him,"I'll see ya then, if you pop in. Just don't pop in behind me,I don't like surprises." She straightened up and said,"I'll see y'all later."

She turned and walked to the door before she stopped and said,"I haven't seen anyone from CMEC for the zombie case yet. It wouldn't nice for them if I had to go get them myself. So, my day is about to get really good, not so much for them." With that she smirked and turned to leave the conference room.

"Will do, and... won't do." Wes smirked at Dacs and raised an eyebrow about her one more thing... "I already have some CMEC people on the case, Dacs. Don't worry about it too much; they're on the job in Level Three."

Yes, he did keep tabs on all his divisions, thankyouverymuch. Either way, he'd be seeing her later. So on to the next division head!

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The alley cat patronus dashed into the room, laser focused on it's target. Once it had spotted the recipient, it leapt onto the table the man was working at, walked over to the papers and sat down on top of them, tail curled around itself. Once settled, the ghostly patronus begin to speak in it's owner's voice. "There's been a situation at de Talone's workshop. Dorian fell through the floor. He's okay, but the floor collapse uncovered something quite impressive. Please come down as soon as possible."

It's message delivered, the smoky cat faded away just as quickly as it had come.

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“If it’s all the same to you – I’d rather stay with Talone... and the offices due to so many of our Department being out of office or in that meeting with you...” He paused knowing that his boss knew him well enough for him to not need to explain more than that – Wesley knew that every part of him was dedicated to their department.

“No.” Jaxton said with a single shake of his head. “I’m not questioning her today... Tomorrow possibly but I would rather wait until Dacs and Emily have given me the report from her workshop and so that my questions will be more direct and specific to her.” He nodded once and looked over the large piles of paper on the conference room table. “Do you need me to do anything else today?” He asked, before a cat slinked into the room.

With his eyes frowning, Jaxton sighed and looked at Wesley. “Quick instructions before you need to go?” He added, noting that Wesley would likely be gone until the meeting that afternoon, and then be busy most of the afternoon too.

...or patronus, either or. Wes flashed Jax a look that said, 'Sorry for the holdup,' and then sat down to listen to the cat. Just look at it, walking all around his files like it owned the place. The cat reeked of woman.

And sure enough, it was a woman who was speaking. Roxanne, if he wasn't mistaken... Merlin, she sure sounded worried on Dorian's behalf...

"I wonder if there's anything going on between those two," Wes remarked aloud as he leaned back in his chair and glanced up at Jax. "Would be good for Dorian, really. He takes himself much too seriously."

He waited for Jax's report and answers to his questions, then nodded and flipped all his files shut once more, casting a security charm over them so that they would remain untouched while he was gone. "That sounds fine," he responded to Jax as he tidied up. "Just keep a tight eye on the YATI and this floor as a whole while I'm gone. I'll go see what they're up to in Hogsmeade."

Hopefully no trouble with the local townsfolk too... "Anyway, catch you later. We'll have more to discuss when I'm back." More evidence too, surely.

Wes led the way out of the conference room and, once Jax had cleared it, locked the door behind him with another swift tap of the wand. He nodded to Ace and then headed toward the lifts, subtly straightening his tie and tucking his wand away at the same time.

He had a strict timeframe here, Hogsmeade people. Let's make it quick.

MEETING

The MLE Department Head was not yet in the conference room, but the door was unlocked and propped open already. A notepad of paper was sitting at the head of the table. The top of the notepad said MEETING in big, bold capital letters, but nothing else. There was also an ordinary Muggle ink pen on top of the paper.

Wes always did hate quills. He couldn't write fast enough with one without smearing ink everywhere. So he had been in the room, and set it up a bit, and then... gone back out again.

There's no reason why you can't have a seat though.

Mandatory meeting. Dorian knew better than to keep Wes waiting if he was in one of his moods, and after what had happened with Isobel and then the incident when Natasha had felt the need to verify her sister’s condition (aka the wand-chewing incident), he was fairly certain his friend and boss was in a permanent mood. Therefore, he wasted little time in reporting to the conference room as requested, take-out cup of espresso in hand as usual, and for once he actually took a seat. Nobody else was there yet, so he may as well be comfortable. Besides, his back finally was essentially back to normal after the fall in Hogsmeade months ago. He didn’t need to stand, and he hardly imagined the de Talone case was going to be discussed anyhow. This is infected employee intel only, he thought to himself, grey eyes taking in the notepad and pen not far from the spot he’d chosen at the table. Maybe it had been an intentional move, or just involuntary, but he assumed that was where Wes would be whenever he returned, and as a division leader, he figured he was better nearby. Not to mention, that meant he was more likely to even get the reports from his people as the recitations passed by. CMEC was fairly spread out lately, with the different assignments. Aron working with A&C on the cure, Elinor in her lab doing her own work… At least most of the evidence retrieval from the cafeteria seemed to be finished, so it was down to the simple fact they needed to collect it all and come to a conclusion. Before there was no wood left in the building.

Having seen the big letters that the notice was in, Roxanne hurried over to the conference room as fast as she could, her own cup of coffee in her hand. She probably shouldn't still be drinking the stuff, not with her recent head injury, but it was the only thing keeping her going right then. When she reached the room, the only other person there was Dorian. She took a seat across from him, sending a small smile his direction. She wasn't mad at the man anymore, which was probably a good thing, considering that judging by the notice posted, Wes was BEYOND ticked. And would probably fire her right then and there if she caused any trouble. Not that she was considering it, with her head still not quite a hundred percent.

She took a peek at the notebook, smiling a little more at the fact that it was a muggle notebook and pen. She always liked seeing wizards use muggle things. The single word on the page gave it an ominous feel though.

When the notice appeared on the board it was obvious it was important, even with the few words written upon the parchment as it hung. And even without the threat of being in hot water, Simon wasn't about to wait on the matter and headed in the appropriate direction to be in attendance just as the note said.

Entering the conference room, the YATI noticed only two people there and no sight of the head honcho, deducing it was still early in the playing out of events. Or the gathering of personnel for the oh-so-important meeting.So with a polite nod to both Dorian and Roxanne, Simon made his way to a seat of his own.

Maybe...just maybe they would finally be finding out answers.

Emily never missed a thing, ever. Nope. As soon as the notice appeared she'd cleared her schedule to meet in the conference room, and by clearing her schedule, she meant ignoring everything and anything else that wasn't Wes or Jax... and even if it had been Jax she'd have given him stern looks and defiantly dropped whatever it was to be here.

As it were, she strode in, confident and fearless as always, and plopped herself on one of the seats, next to one of her YATI's. She gave Simon a pointed look and then awaited for the arrival of her Head Boss Man and any orders, instructions or discussions he was wanting to impose on them.

She only hoped nobody would pester her with boring questions or chit chat in the meantime.

Dacs saw the notice as she was making her way back to the offices and changed course immediately to the conference room. She had finished with the cafeteria and would be waiting for the lab results to come back. Mean while she had other things to she wanted to get at pertaining to the investigation. Something she was sure Wes had thought about already.

She entered and saw that Dorian. Simon, Emily and Roxanne were already there. Moving passed all of them Dacs went to stand leaning against the wall behind the chair she intended to sit in when the meeting started. She leaned her head back against the wall and closed her eyes and went through all the procedures she had gone through so far and the ones she wanted to take.

Melissa was on her way back to the Food Court to collect more samples for Esme when she saw the notice on the bulletin board. They were supposed to have a meeting. So she quickly walked back to her office, grabbed the book and the sample of the plant she had collected from the Food Court and quickly made her way over to the Conference Room.

She noticed as she entered the room that there were others already seated there. She recognized Dacs, Dorian, Simon, Emily and Roxanne. She nodded a hello to all of them and then took a seat. She didn't see Mr. Ferguson in the room but figured that he'd show up soon enough. As she sat, she gathered her thoughts. She figured that this was a good place as any to tell everyone what she may or may nothave discovered.

Pretending that he has interacted with your charries at least once Being in the same dept and all

Tyler entered the conference room as he had read the noticeboard, and he didnt want to be in Hot water with his boss. He had been about to start on a case that had come through but he decided that it could wait and that it would be best for him to be here instead. So he dropped off the case file into his desk drawer before making his way over to the conference room upon entering it he saw that Mr Boss-man wasnt here yet and only a piece of paper with a single word on it was there. He took a seat and smiled to everyone that was there "Hello to you all, hope you are all well" he greeted them all. If only he had more time to hang out with his fellow law enforcers no matter what their division was, he decided to make more of an effort to get to know them all and hang out with them. Oh and of course as well as working with them on cases that concerned them and their department. He then sat there waiting for their Mr Boss-man to come and explain why he had called a conference. That notice didnt sound too pleasant, but then again.. with the investigations still going on.. what was pleasant about it all.

Saul entered the conference room unaware of any of the infected ministry worker business, he knew it was happening. His complete dislike of anything zombie had him just doing small jobs. He looked around to recognized a few faces from around the office, but knew only one of them by name. Steven, Sydney, no Simon! He sat quietly down in a far corner seat and mentally berated himself for his Antisocial tendancies. Going to these meeting should help him though.

An apology would be warranted when this whole epidemic was said and done with. Elinor had snapped and shouted a couple of unladylike words when someone had opened the lab door to tell her there was a mandatory meeting. At the moment, though, she was not in the mood for apologizing to anyone. The lab supervisor had ripped off her coat and slammed the door to the lab, but not before grabbing her clipboard and shoving a stack of papers into a folder, should she be asked to answer any questions.

"Not that I've had time to get the answers," she snapped to herself on the way down to the conference room. How could one be expected to work when dragged away from the very thing they were going to be questioned on?? Did they or did they not need her to help figure this out?? The lady was getting more and more agitated by the second, and bit the inside of her cheeks to try to help collect herself. She wanted to yell at someone. Really bad.

So when the lab worker entered the room, she paced away from everyone else, too upset to sit down, and huffed to herself. She clasped her hands tightly around her collection of papers to avoid having a free hand. Elinor wasn't one to get upset, but the meeting was quite inconvenient on her search for answers. Her hair was, again, not at it's best. It was clear where she had frustratedly clawed a hand through it multiple times, short of pulling it out. She did not make eye contact with any of her co-workers as she paced, and was not going to tolerate a question from anyone but Mister Ferguson, who was lucky to be her boss, and lucky she did not feel like being fired this day.

The woman continued to bite the inside of her cheeks and attempted to do some deep-breathing before the meeting actually started. Not that I've had a real chance to actually have anything to say!

Wes stormed into the conference room after he thought he'd given the lot of them enough time to assemble. He slammed and locked the door to the room behind him and took his place at the head of the table, with his notepad and pen.

If anyone was late to the meeting, and judging by the number here so far, they'd have to knock and suffer his wrath and all the judgy LOOKS from their peers. So be it.

"Let's get started," the department head began without any preamble. "We're here to discuss the progress and status of our infected Ministry peers." They all knew who they were and where they were located, yes? And they were surely aware his wife was among them...?

"I want reports from anyone who was in the cafeteria, anyone who helped collect a....n infected person, anyone who did research on samples, anything at all dealing with this case." Wes held his pen to his notepad and looked up. "Go."

Emily was in awe... at Wes' charisma. The way he stormed through that door, was something to envy.

Unfortunately, she hadn't been involved in much, or any of the infection case... what with being tied up with the de Talone case and it hadn't progressed very far. Lips sealed, Emily peered around the room at the few people that managed to turn up on time. Well? Out with it. She wanted to hear this too. Perhaps she could even get INVOLVED with the case. Merlin she knew she needed something to keep her busy. Jax wouldn't object would he? Not that she cared all that much...

Dacs who was still standing by the wall spoke up and said,"All samples have been bagged and tagged before being sent to the lab for testing. I'm just waiting for the results to see which ones are the infected food items as I suspect there are a number of them in the lot and it wouldn't be all of them. Esme is staying on that while we can take on other areas." she reported with military precision like she always did when giving an oral report.

Deciding to sit she moved forward to the chair in front of her and sat down."I'm going to have her on them around the clock until we get the results." Dacs said, leaning back as she looked directly at Wes.

She meant business. Dacs was a dog after a bone with any case that was on her desk. This one she was more like a hunting cheetah. She wouldn't stop until it was between her teeth.