"I had never known Borr's past since I'm a new worker in the Ministry, but hearing from that, it makes me angrier even more! DOWN WITH BORRR!!!! WE WILL NOT STOP!" Melanie shouted.

Anyone :) And Auror's of course ^_^
 

Damien did not care who Dacs chose to listen to.... her Division Head might care, but she was NOT one of his employees so whatever. Feh.

Shrugging slightly at her he thought on it for a moment. He was not taking orders from anyone aside from Evander so... he would wait for his boss to get there because CLEARLY he would harm them all to do some good. Heh.

Damien felt the boy slide up next to him and turned his head and gave him a nod. "I am not giving any orders to my Aurors until I hear from Van on this. I would just as soon clear the room of the lot of the idiots, but... that mightn't be prudent." Sabel knew that Damien wasn't the best at containing his temper, so yeah. Patting the boy's shoulder slightly he cut his eyes back to Latorta and her moronic minions.

Sabel's eyes went from the crowd and up to Damien as he spoke. There was a silent moment of consideration before he nodded in understanding. He was starting to understand what Damien had tried to teach him; about waiting for orders despite wanting to do what you thought was right. It was painfully obvious in this situation, and he made sure to burn it into his memory. He was sure he would need the reference later.

Glancing back at the crowd, he tilted his head a little. "You think you could take all of them?" He couldn't help the small smile that touched his corners of his lips or seeped into his voice. The truth was, all Auror's had egos. It was simply a matter of measuring them.

SNORT!!!

Damien cracked the smallest smile and chuckled under his breath. "Kid I could clear a crowd twice this size without breaking a sweat," he said cockily. Well HE didn't think he was being full of himself. HE was just speaking his mind on the matter.

Smmmiiiiiiirrrrkkkk.

"I'd like to see that." His eyes took stock of those in the crowd. Ego: the Auror's definitely had it. He was curious however, to what spell Damien would use. Although, then again, Damien didn't really need to use magic to accomplish much. His expressions and radiating dislike or displeasure usually did the job quite well.

Dacs rolled her eyes at Damien and Sabel as she shook her head and said under her breath,"Men." She really was starting to have enough of them. 'All they do is pump their egos and break women's hearts.'

Yeah, she could fry a few for just those two reasons. It was one reason why she grew up so tough. Her father left her and her mother when she was two. She worked hard to prove to herself that her mother never failed and she never needed her father. That was her motive at first until, she realized she was one of the best at what she did. Now she works with a lot of males and had to deal with their egos. It was why kept to herself. Males had too much ego and other women were just annoying, especially the really girly ones.

" Welll, that was his past and apparent hispresent and furure" J.J. Starr told her." No one messes with my friends" Joe Jon Montcenaggio said to her. He was a true Gryffindor."DOWN WITH BORR" J.J. called out. " NO. NO. WE WON'T GO!!!!!" he called out again.

" Like to see you try something without your wand" J/J. Starr snorted back. " You see I am a purebllod, but I never liked the way purebllod treated muggles and I befreided and defeneded thode muggle" Joe Jon Montcenaggio said to the wanna- be- policeman. " I bet none of you got the guts to taje us on muggle style wothout yoru precious wands" J.J. snareled.
NO MORE BORR!!!!" he called out. " NO. NO. WE WON;T GO" he called it out louder this time.

Lights sighed. "Yay for you, you don't think you'll go. News flash: you will. At some point soon, you'll go. And as for purebloods and Muggles, I thought that was a closed argument?" Obviously not. "My brother-in-law's a karate instructor," she informed him. "I'd be happy to flip you if it comes to the mundane."

Too bad, when Adler and Lights reached the door, all off the protesters already moved to the fountain. Sooo???

He just stayed here, waiting for the next instruction from Gabriel. Adler saw Lights were arguing with a man who was also arguing with Dean Benson at the picket line. He was.. very smarth-mouthed man

"Lights, Enough.." he tried to make Lights calm. "Be cool, huh? Don't be easily mad because of him." He whispered to Lights.

THE MADNESS!!! ...and Esteban. *pets him*
 

Exiting the lifts Armen could hear the madness that he had assumed would be outside the building like many strikes so often were but this was the Ministry, all sorts of mad things happened here. Making sure that Esteban was still behind him the Transportation Head barrelled through the crowd beginning to form near the Fountain of Magical Brethren drawing his wand.

When he broke out into the front of the crowd he could see not the strikers but a mob--led by Gina Latorta. Looking around wide-eyed and fuming he saw that there were many MLE workers here as well. And they of course were doing nothing....

"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!" Armen shouted holding his wand up towards the angry group in front of him, the older woman he had thought of as a friend leading them. How dare she.

Forgive me Gina!!!
 

Esteban was holding his breath. Okay, here was the moment, live or die...or something like that. He had left this madness once today already and now he was back, but this time as a different person. He followed the Department head throught the crowd. Elbowing a couple people on the way so he could keep up with the man.

When they reached the fountain he saw his Department head, Gina, she looked so fragile with everyone's wand's pointing at her, his need to protect her flared up, he had done this before, he thought of the woman as a mentor. At least until he got his head on straight and out at the crowd.

In almost a whisper, maybe Gina wouldn't here him. "Gina, this isn't the way."

Maine was actually pretty convinced that this wasn't going to help the matter in any way at all. Getting rid of the cult would need something more cunning, and not as open as this.

Frowning, she turned on her heel and apparated back to her apartment, unseen. Unnoticed.

Was this guy speaking to Damien like this? SNOOOORT! He couldn't stop the smirk that stretched his lips and the chuckle that left him. "Riiiiight. Why don't you just run along and let us do our jobs you insole..." He was brought up short when some of the other MLE employees started to have a go. Heh. Gosh he loved them so.

Oh this one had some spunk! Damien smiled at her and nodded his head in her direction. Heh. It was official: Damien liked this one.

Turning to the next MLE employee he raised a brow and smirked. "I think she was well within her rights to tell that guy to shove off, actually."

Turning back to Lights she said, "Good job, kid."

Recard with a wand pointed at everyone. ... No. Not gonna work for Damien. Before he could really think much about it he was moving through the crowd with both wands in his hands and held tight at his sides.

CLearing his throat when he stepped out in front of Recard he said, "Recard, you need to lower your wand now." There was no hint of warning in his voice. In fact he hoped the man wouldn't listen so he would have a chance to take him on... but one could only hope.

" Oh, I am so scared" J.J. Starr told her. " O prefer the real muggle way, fisticuffs" Joe Jon Montcenaggio said to her. " Threats do not stop me or scare me" J.J. explained to her, " DOWN WITH BORR!!!" he called out. " NO, NO. WE WON'T GO!!!" he called out louder.

" Traitor!!!!!" J.J. Starr called out to the worker. " "Go and sit on Lord Borr's lap" Joe Jon Montcenaggio said to the worker. " Gutless coward not striking to make things better here" J.J. snareld at him. "NO TRAITORS ALLOWED HERE" he called out.

" Esteban, i thought I knre you" J.J. Starr told him. " Do you really like the way yo uhave been treated in the Ministry?" Joe Jon Montcenaggio said to Esteban. " She is your boss like she was mine and you should support her" J.J. explained to Esteban. " TRAITOR" he called out to Esteban. " DOWNWITH BORR" he called out again.

" There is that wand again" J.J. Starr told the wannabe policeman. " Get a real job, not one trying to stop free speech" Joe Jon Montcanaggo said to him. " No guts, no glory" J.J. snapped at him. " NO. NO. WE Won'T GO" he called out.

"But how to we get to them? Someone has to sacrifice themselves..." And although her joints were aching, she was not going to leave that spot. "No, this is the only way..."


There they were. Her supporters! "That's the spirit!" She said fist pumping the air.

Gina had her wand out in record speed. "I suggest you put up your wand, sonny. I could be your grandmother! Infact all of you should lower your wands... we are peacefully demonstrating. Which is within our rights."

"Use force on these people and I'll have your head, child!" the older woman said angrily.

"Don't you dare point that wand at me, Armen Recard! I thought so much better of you!" She said shaking her finger. If she had known the man's mother, he would be in such trouble!

... and there it was. She could feel the proverbial knife sliding in her metaphorical back. "Et tu, Estaban." she said so saddened by his betrayal. He'd supported her until now, how could he.

Watching as the law enforcement team grew larger, Gavin pulled out his wand again, this time instead of throwing it down as he had outside, he just held it ready to use if anyone decided to attack Gina. He was determined to keep them safe, no matter what. He agreed with Gina that they were in their rights to make a demonstration, but if those who had their wands pointed at them decided to get aggressive, Gavin would do what he could to protect Gina and those that were protesting.

Watching as Estaban finally switched sides, Gavin closed his eyes temporarily. How could he betray his own department head? His jaw fixed he stared down those with wands pointed at them, his own wand at his side ready to use if necessary.

You're all in there somewhere :P
 

He could feel one of those headaches coming on again. More and more of the protesters were getting through the doors, but considering they outnumbered the MLE employees there by about 10 to one, it wasn't all that surprising. Thankfully several more MLE turned up to help. Experienced ones to boot.

"Just encircle the protesters for now, please guys," Gabriel said, directing his words to all who had spoken to him. All except Damien - he reserved a special grunting growl for his friend. "I just want to smash their heads together and try and get it through to them. Do you think that's legal?" he asked, turning his eyes in the Auror's direction.

When Damien mentioned Van, Gabe knew he was right. The boss would ultimately have the last word on what to do with them all. He turned his eyes on Gina. He'd tried to be reasonable with her, but it certainly didn't seem to be working. And that darn man and his shouting was not helping. Gabe was almost wishing that Lights would take up the challenge and deck him.

And when Recard showed up it was the final straw. They would deal with him in a minute, or maybe Damien would do it all by himself - that'd be fun to see. But right now, Gabriel was putting his wand to his throat to enhance his voice.

"ENOUGH!" He turned around and looked at all the protesters, a calm expression on his features. "If you wish to protest in a calm and peaceful manner inside the Ministry, then you will do so behind this cordon!" A flourish of wand and a large area was fenced off with tape and hoardings. "Anyone daring to leave it will be deemed to be committing an offence and there are plenty of MLE employees here who will arrest you and put you in holding. For your own good."

As much as it pained him to to threaten people who were trying to do good, he had to for now. "I appreciate what you are all trying to do," that was said with a shooting glance towards Recard, "but my job is to ensure the safety of EVERYONE inside this building - and I will not allow a riot to start."

Removing his wand, Gabriel walked over to Recard, and stood shoulder to shoulder with Damien. "You don't need to have your wand out, Recard. The MLE have that covered. Despite what you may believe, we're capable of doing a job without 'help'" quote marks in the air? Check. "from the Transportation Head." And if you don't Damien will hex your face off. Not that that would be a bad thing. Probably an improvement.

Everyone sort of, regardless of quotes...
 

They were going to need some others that were Borr supporters to take care of this situation and Armen had half a mind to send the big man a Patronus right now and get all of there butts fired but he instead thought about contacting Sakura if things got worse.

Then big mouth, the one he thought he had gotten rid of for good, showed up and began to smart off to him. "Damien, you're back? Merlin I need warnings for this sort of thing, I thought there had been some more hot air in the Ministry today." he said eyeing the man who was trying to tell him to put his wand away. "I am a Ministry official and I do believe I rank higher than yourself. I demand respect and I will put my wand away seeing as your Aurors seem to have things under control for once, thanks to Gaberiel here. But I am NOT leaving until things are solved and these Rioters are repremanded."

He then turned icily to Gabriel. "You listen here sir. What sort of protection are you setting up for those who are being traitors to their own government. They complain about how badly they are treated here, well they had their choice in picking their allegiances and you all in MLE know this all too well, do you need reminding?" he said his finger dangerously close to poking the guy in the chest. "Now I am not going to just stand by while the Ministry's so claimed 'finest' allow these rebels to protest our Minister Lord Borr and those loyal to him for their own ignorant reasons. Order them away this instance and if they don't leave I suggest arrests should be in order!" he said triumphantly. It is moments like these that he wished Department Heads had the right to incarcerate people themselves. He will lobby for that next time he sees his Lordship.

The older woman he had once thought of as a friend was now shouting at him, speaking of how ashamed she was of him. "Gina, I could say the same thing for you. Minister Borr could have given your department the same treatment mine gets if you would have simply done your job and agreed with the rest of us." he said shaking his head. This was a matter between Dept heads.

Esteban looked up at Gina and wanted to cry, his heart was really breaking. He did not want to have to look into their eyes knowing that they had sort of turned on them. No it was not personal. It had nothing to do with Gina, or anyone else in his Department. This was strickly about him. And he hoped that Gina would be able to see that some day. Or maybe not.

"Gina please...you have to understand." Esteban tried and then saw Gavin from his Department as well. Oh boy, not good, he was for sure going to have to transfer Departments now....oh boy. Esteban couldn't decided what he even wanted to do anymore. No...don't be like that. You made your decision.

Well. This was going perfectly well. Isobel was sure that there was even more protesters here now. Wonderful day in the ministry. At least there were some more MLErs around now. So at least they would be able to hopefully control the protesters if anything did happen. Although Maybe Van should be down here....seeing as he was the head of department after all. She glanced around, before sending her patronus of up to Level 2, with the one intent of finding Evander.

But....oh. Great. Wonderful. Isobel's day had just gotten so much better. It was Armen Recard. Oh dearie me. Isobel watched him, as he talked...or rather attempted to order Gabe, and Damien around. Oh dear. Wait! He seriously was ordering them to arrest these people? Oh dear. "Why don't you leave the arresting to the department that is trained to do that, and go and check some portkeys Recard?"

Oh my chocolatey goodness...
 

Ethan darted over towards the crowd, looking for the one person he knew could help him get his grips on the situation. "Lights! Lights, where are you?" he called. The matter of Borr could wait. Right now, it was a matter of his wife's safety. Looking down, he saw he was still in muggle clothes from his day in the park with Lights, Zek, and Bella. Whoops. he thought as he waved his wand and changed himself into his blue maintenance robes. "Lights?"

Hawk was returning to the Ministry from Knockturn Alley. He was still fuming slightly over the fact that Bole and no one in the Alley seemed to be all that interested in the fact that someone was killed. But then he saw the huge crowd of protestors going to the fountain.

He saw the Department Head(Gina was it?), going into the fountain. Then he saw Recard come running in although there was too much noise to really hear what was being said. Like protesting would get rid of Byrr...

Hawk decided that he might be needed here more than at the office. He approached the crowd and saw a few fellow MLE's and approached them.