He shook his head a bit "I had no idea, but maybe I am starting to gain that skill." he chuckled a little "Well it does help in my job to be able to read people" cause you needed to be able to know who was lying to you and who wasnt. He nodded "I am rubbish at that too! I mean I walked into this room today and I felt like.. where do I start with all these people. So like you I stood off to the side and waited for a few people to come to me. " he smiled at how they had started off very similar "Then I got the hang of it and decided to talk to others who felt a little lost. " hence why he had come to her in the first place. He smiled "Thats good that you have, wouldnt want to be stuck doing something that you dont love." yeah it was just not a good thing to be in a situation like that. "Ah ok thats good that they have pikced up" cause it was nice not to have to just sit there doing nothing for a department that you enjoyed working for. "Ah ok, thats a cool department. Does it keep you on your toes?" he asked wondering what kinda of job she did in Accidents. He smiled and nodded "Yeah so I see.. I guess that means you are great too since you said the people here.. and you are one of them so that means that you are great" he smiled as he noticed that she had said everyone there and that included her right? he smiled "Thanks.. I wasnt doing too good at first.. but I got the hang of it after a while" and he was glad that he wasnt as nervous as when he first got here, he was actually meeting a few good people here like Ashley here. "I work in MLE, always have done. At first it was Muggle Law Enforcement and now its Magical.. so always MLE" he chuckled realising that both were MLEs whether the 'M' stood for Muggle or Magical.

"Sounds like a fun time! You're so lucky. I couldn't even go on a cruise if I wanted to. I'm so busy," she said. Victoria always dreamed of going to Hawaii but never got the chance yet. "Is the pineapple as good as they say," she questioned with a small laugh.

"What lovely places though," they really were. She hasn't been herself but they do sound like nice places. "I'm from the north west of America," she said with a proud smile.

Victoria laughed with a nod. "That may be why. And no, we have an every large space with so many rooms." It was a little private in level 1, which can be nice, so she wasn't complaining. "In the ministry,'she questioned, "Not often. There will be little problems in each department, but nothing major for the whole place."

He was back at work.

Technically, he wasn't working right then, but the problem was... he was back at the Ministry. Even if he'd had an amazing time on their winter holiday, he sort of hated ever going to Italy. Of course, there were obvious reasons for which he adored the country, and even one more after his last trip there, but he got so used to spending time with Roxanne that he started missing her the moment they parted. It was not a good feeling.

So, there he was, making his way through the crowd of new and old employees in the hope of finding a more peaceful corner. Also, this holiday made him forget how uncomfortable he sometimes felt in suits and shirts, rather than t-shirts and his favourite jeans. Nevertheless, he was back in a dark suit and a white shirt, but no tie. Maybe he could also get rid of his coat later, and then he could feel a bit more comfortable.

Soon enough, Konrad forgot all about the suit when he spotted Roxanne, his feet instantly walking by themselves towards her, a wide grin back on his face. "Hi, gorgeous," he said, leaning down to kiss her cheek. And... surprise! There was no stubble! Heheee.

She smiled, "Yeah, they are lovely places... I actually got married in Hawaii." Elizabeth blushed at the memory. "North west? Oh what is it like?" She laughed and looked at the girl.

Elizabeth glanced at the lady and nodded, "Yeah... you didnt bite me too hard... are you okay though? Maybe you need to rest... or something?" She looked at the lady, a little worried.

"Oh, thank you." He replied appreciatively, making a note by all of the sections she mentioned so he could somehow fill the sheet up. "Greatly appreciated, Ms. Summit." He was still waiting to be asked by a non-IMC person how many languages he spoke, seeing that was on the list too.



Charles offered Elizabeth a polite nod. "It's fine, I understand." Oh, so she'd picked up that he hated being called Charles? That was surprising since he thought he'd hidden it well. "Well I shall keep to 'Charles' due to Gavin's decision about formalities." Or the lack of them. He was about to ask if she was sure she was okay, but frowned instead. Had her husband just said zombie? His eyes turned back to the staring woman, everything was making sense now.

He hadn't really listened to the marital conversation because he'd been staring out the zombie, but when he heard 'ambassador', Charles looked over at the couple slightly blankly. What? Were they talking about him? O__O He was about to open his mouth, but zombie lady distracted him by shoving her money pouch in his direction. Surprised, Charles shook his head and pushed it back toward her. "It's fine, I can replace my shoes." Couldn't do it YET though. UGH. Melty shoes for the rest of the day. "Just... focus on getting better, Ma'am." And not throwing up on him again.

Anyone? Stop by and say hello ^_^
 

Demitria was ready to meet new people, she felt a little estranged from her social life. The past year has had so many events that turned her life upside down. Not to mention finally landing a job here at the Ministry! It was a lot to take it, yet her smile was a big as the building and as bright as the sun. It was a good day.

She smiled at the people around her, Demi's best friend happened to have worked in the Ministry. Also her best friend's father was the Sugarplum's shop owner.

for colley and jujune I just hope it makes sense ;)
 

"Oh so you're in the Magical Creatures department. I've never had a reason to go there so I honestly don't know what it is like. Are you new or just changing jobs?"

A Reminisciator modifies memories or implants new ones. I basically get called if there is a need to implant or modify memories especially on muggles who have a lot of contact with wizards." Jade said in one breath. She took a sip of her wine afterwards looking back into room.

"And you Hershey what does a Junior Dragon Researcher do?"

As she listened to Hershey explain about her job, Jade noticed a man just wandering around looking intently at people. She didn't know if he was affected by the odd behavior that all the infected zombies were but you couldn't take a chance.

"Excuse me." she said to Hershey. It was rude of her to be sure but that man seriously was up to no good.

"HEY! You okay there?" She yelled in the direction of the man hoping to get his attention

*clones Ella* for Natasha, Kensi and Hershey ^_^
 

Ivee nodded. Good, he knew Amortentia. "So, you say you've got skills in Potions?" the woman asked. He can't be that bad in Potions now... Cause if he did, Ivee would have zapped him with a spell to know what the hell is wrong with him. Not knowing Potions and Herbology? Poo you.

"That, I am not so sure," Ivee answered. "It didn't state at the job description, but maybe we could make some different breeds of plants." That would make her whole job way more interesting if they experimented on some plants and such. Cooooooool.

*clones* Kensi & Lights, Ella, Charles and Izzy
 

Trying to keep her head cool Tasha kept mumbling soothing words to Kensi as she tried to get the younger woman from breaking into another hysterical burst and biting somebody else. With her focus on Kensi she at first didn’t see the other woman (Lights) that came up and tried to help with Kensi.

Exchanging a brief glance with the woman behind Kensi’s back was all Tasha had time for before Kensi sat fire to a man’s SHOES! The man was resourceful though and put the fire out before the fire spread. A PLUS in her book.

Blinking she turned to Kensi as she thanked her. "Uh, you’re welcome dear. You should really think about taking some time off from work. Mr Ferguson will surely not object to that.” Taking a step back from Kensi she looked over at Lights. "I think I heard someone say that Mr Ferguson is in the Food area. It might be wise if you escorted Kensi to him so that she requests some time off before something else happens." Tasha suggested of consideration only for the very sick woman.

It was with a feeling of déjà vu that Natasha turned her full attention to Ella. The creatures department head that she had met before the vacation. Nodding she replied enviously after Ella had shared where she had vacationed. "That sounds amazing even if I would have skipped the Yeti’s. I settled for going to the Spa, spending a lot of time with my family and just relaxing." The babysitting for Izzy and Wesley had been a challenge. Who knew that twins could be so loud?

Turning to the man with the now fully ruined shoes Tasha fired off an apologetic smile in his direction. "I’m sorry your shoes got ruined, were they new?"

Spotting her older sister come into the room Tasha waved to get her attention and come over. If Izzy was here then she had probably managed to find some to babysit the twins probably their mother. It was still a mystery that Izzy had decided to bury the hatchet with their mother when Tasha always thought she was just meddling too much and causing too much trouble for everyone but herself mostly.

At someone's request. ;) (Tasha, Ella and Izzy if she comes over?)
 

Elizabeth smiled, "You are sweet." She nodded, "Okay." She smiled at him as he looked over blankly at Jack and her when they were talking about the new ambassador aka him. She was, of course, not talking bad just that Jack kinda of already met him.

some of u r here.. anyone feel free to say hi..
 

It might have taken Victoria a while until she joined the other employees at this orientation thing, which was awesome. But choosing which dress she had to wear was the reason. Well, she settled on one eventually and here she came to this meet and greet area. Her purse clutched with her hand she entered and stood taking in the faces of the people. She immediately noticed the faces of her friend and colleague Konrad who was with Roxanne,of course. She shot them a smile from where she stood. Let them enjoy each other's company before she intruded joined them.

She walked further and noticed Kensi. Just when Victoria was about to raise her hand to greet the woman she noticed spells being cast. Wait. Did she just burn that man's shoes? Victoria was wondering how the woman had been and if she had gotten better during this vacation. Was that the answer or was there a perfect explanation for what just happened. Not wanting to interfere as many people already did and not wanting to ignore. Victoria raised her hand and waved at the red-headed without getting so much nearer. You know her shoes were brand new. "Hey, Kensi." That should do it, right?

The secretary searched the faces and recognized a few more. Natacha, the head of department woman, Derek was there too. She managed nods and smiles towards them all. And probably towards people she didn't know as well. She just missed everyone at the ministry and was so glad that she had come back.


Then as she stood there she noticed someone….smacking into walls…? Victoria walked towards the woman her heels clicking against the floor. Looking closely she recognized the woman. A fellow Level-one employee. "Erm…Are you ok, Kyle?" That was her name, right? And only after asking this did Victoria notice that the woman's eyes were glazed. That only reminded Victoria of Kensi's eyes. GULP.

I just lost track in here!
 

Man, this is getting seriously crowded. She detached herself from the crowd and observed the others those who were bonding. Whose idea was this orientation, anyway? She spotted Konrad, the ghost guy and Roxanne. She waved to him along with a loud "Hey" She'd talk with him in a moment, as she had spotted a woman, who looked stranded as her.

"Hello there" she walked towards her "I'm Julia Smith from MLE" she stopped and extended her bony arm. "And you are?" Another MoM staff I don't know.

Yes. Yes she was. "I'm completely new. I actually just graduated from Hogwarts this past year." So, totally brand new! Yay!

Oh. So THAT was what she did. That was kind of COOL actually. "I guess that could get messy sometimes, altering memories like that." Hershey managed not to laugh when the woman asked what a Dragon Researcher did. She also managed not to have any smart comments. "Besides researching dragons? Not quite sure yet. I guess I'll find out soon."

"Oh, sure." Hershey nodded as the woman excused herself and called out to some random man.

Whoops.

Hershey took a step back to give the woman, who seemed to be surrounded by people, some more room, "No worries, it is quite crowded, and to think I came out here for a bit of room." She laughed, "I'm just glad you're not one of the zombies I heard about."

Yeah. Perhaps Ministry of Magic letters of employment should include pictures of the respective Department Heads....

and Dorian.
 

Isobel looked up when someone stepped in front of her. Good thing she hadn't been walking that fast, she didn't exactly want to walk into anyone. Her auror senses had also told her that someone was approaching her. They all came in useful. She smiled at the man. Gavin Isaacs. She recognized that name. Isobel tried to go through her memory, thinking where she had seen the name. It took her a few moments but she got it. This man was one of her knew employees. Perfect.

"Hello." She smiled at the man. "I'm Isobel Ferugson." Surely her name would trigger his memory. Hopefully the man would know who his boss was. Or her name at least. "I'm department head for the Department of Mysteries." Which if her memory was correct was where this man had been placed.

Sensing someone trying to get her attention Isobel looked up just in time to see her sister waving at her. Ooh. Tasha. Izzy smiled, and made her way over to her sister. She hadn't seen Tasha that much since her twins had been born. The boys made her a very busy woman. "Hey Tash." It did seem forever since she had seen her. She'd have to get Tasha to come around more because now they were back at work she was bound to get even busier. "Having fun?" And. It seemed that one of her husband's employee's was here. Izzy hadn't really talked to Dorian that much when she had worked up on level 2. "Hello Dorian."

Jade laughed, "Yes. Sometimes I guess. I'm new at the job actually- just got promoted so I haven't been out yet altering memories."

Hershey was just out of Hogwarts? Well Jade could say for sure that Hershey was in for quite a rude awakening working at the MoM. It was vastly different from school in Jade's opinion. But she didn't have the heart to tell the girl that-- why make her nervous beforehand?

"I honestly don't think that it is just restricted to researching dragons. At least not what I've heard about it-- it does sound like an interesting job. I've heard that with experience you get to spend actual time with the dragons, cataloging different things about them and more of course. Obviously, don't take me by my word on this- I'm no expert.

So how are you finding being at MoM so far? Of course we just had the Christmas vacation which probably was welcomed wasn't it?"


A few minutes later after she was distracted by the man who was wandering the crowd inside and excused herself to yell out at him, Jade returned her attention back to Hershey.

"Sorry about that-- apparently there is a Zombie invasion of some sort of the MoM. So you can never be too careful with people acting out of sorts."

She shook her head as she spoke. "What do you know about the whole Zombie thing?"

Anyone???
 

Lissy and ANYONE!
 

Armen Recard had been there the whole time he just had made a big show of examing the buffet tables stuffing his face with shrimp and other yummy treats and checking out the goodie bags and trying to decide whether or not to swipe one of the autioned off items for himself.

Besides that he HADN'T been talking to the new employees like he was supposed to--but Alexander had told him to do that so obviously it wasn't too important, right? If there were any new Transportation employees here they would be smart enough to find him, he was practically famous these days. Only the MLE department newbies would be overly paranoid and talking/questioning every person they lay eyes on.

Victoria happened to see two people standing alone. Well she had a few comet o her, so it was now time to go to other people. she walked up to them and smiled, "Hello, My name is Victoria. I am new here and wanted to introduce myself." She felt her nerves jump, but tried to control them so she could get to know as many people as possible. It was time to branch out and meet the people she could be working next to as well as living near.

so behind, so sorry! >.<
 

Mariel smiled in relief. Thankfully the woman was friendly and didn't just bite her head off for running into her. "Hi Elizabeth.. I'm Mariel," she answered in return. "Oh, African Ambassador.. that sounds really interesting." Mariel loved to travel to other countries, but had never been to Africa. She'd have to change that. "I'm in Games and Sports."

Mariel smiled pleasantly as the man turned towards her. Aww, and he seemed a bit nervous.. The woman couldn't blame him as she had felt the same way upon walking in.. but for some reason the fact that others were nervous as well put her a little more at ease. Perhaps talking to the man would do the same for him. "Yes.. something like that," she gave him a nod and friendly smile. "Learning together.. but separate." That was a kind of funny thought. "It's nice to meet you as well, Tyler."

She was about to open her mouth to answer his question, then the hint of a mischievous grin played on the corners of her lips at his next words. A guessing game might be fun.. "Why don't you go on and guess then?" she said as she smoothed down the pleats of her skirt and pushed back a few of her raven locks behind her shoulders. "Where do I look like I belong? ..and then I'll guess yours."

"Yes.. Games and Sports," she nodded. Mariel glanced over at Victoria and nodded again as she turned back to Melissa. "We were just discussing that.. Quite a coincidence." Mariel smiled over at her co-worker, glad that they got on well already. "Um.. I'm not sure yet.. I'm new and haven't gotten that detail of my assignment yet." Mariel thought for a moment. Hopefully it wouldn't be long until she found out. She hated being in the dark about things. "I suppose given my experience, it will most likely be Quidditch-related," she added.

Mariel leaned over to view Victoria's picture. "Oh, he's precious," she said with a smile. "Great age, isn't it? I don't have any myself, but my sisters have kids.." She offered a sympathetic smile. "I'm sure he'll be fine.. Kids are resilient. And I bet he'll love London... What's his name?"

Mariel nodded happily. "Me too.. I was a bit nervous, thinking I'd be the new kid at Games and Sports, but I guess we can share that title," she said with an amused smile. The woman furrowed her brow slightly. "You either? No.. I'm not sure what I'll be doing yet.. Hopefully something with Quidditch." Because gobstones really weren't her thing. "Maybe we'll find out today?" she added hopefully.

The apologetic smile was greatly appreciated in this moment of distress for his feet nearly being on fire. "Thank you. As it happens, they were." Charles answered the blonde snappy lady, thinking that maybe she'd just snapped because she was caught in the moment. He hoped so. When a man he didn't know approached (Dorian), Charles nodded to him politely. "Hello Mr. Tamerlane, Charles Taylor." Hopefully he'd help the poor woman who'd set him on fire.

Him? Sweet? Seriously? Had she taken notice of what he was like? Sweet was not a word he'd use when describing himself. Maybe they needed to talk more, she'd understand who he was soon enough.

Just like that day in Scribbulus Tasha didn’t see Dorian coming before he had already walked up to them. When he mentioned her inkwell she couldn’t help but burst out laughing warmly. With a wink at him she replied. "Good day Dorian! No more inkwell accidents of late no, but lots of painful parchment cuts I'm afraid." She held up several fingers with healing cuts to prove her point. Stationary equipment just didn’t like her it seemed.

When her sister came over Tasha immediately engulfed her in a big. "Hi Izzy." They saw each other too little these days. Maybe they could remedy that soon with a sister’s only weekend somewhere? Wesley could manage the kids on his own for a few days, couldn’t he? "What? Oh, yes I am! I’m glad the ministry decided to hold this bonding extravaganza." Or feast depending how you viewed it.

"Who did you persuade to babysit the twins?" Tasha wondered curiously. Had their mother pitched in?

"Oh then I’m doubly sorry for you. I’m Natasha Warrington by the way." She introduced herself awkwardly with a smile trying her best to not look at the painfully ruined shoes. "On what level do you work?" Tasha asked.