As they walked through the door of the breakroom, Edward headed for the coffee pot and poured a cup. "You want some?" he asked.

"Well, youth has it own matters of problems. For instance, the girls sometimes want guys who make more money than I, or a more prestigious job. It's a bit frustrating sometimes. Personality sometimes only takes you so far. Sometimes it takes the nice robes and shoes."

"Well, the responsibility is worth it, right? Being able to have the ear of the minister and such? He barely even acknowledges us as he passes by."

"Surely.." he accepted the offer. Actually he needed that since he woke up so early and been the first person in the office made him bit tired.
"You may be right, there are always exceptions, Edward. We'll see that soon or less" he nodded and took a sip of coffee. "mhmmm..tasty..so fresh, where did you get this? I hope it's not from our Cafeteria.." he leaned in and spoke in a low tone while he said that.

"Absolutely, He's such a nice Person, and much busy to recognize all the ministry peopel and even for aknowldement.." he leaned back at the chair relaxingly, streched his legs.

Edward enjoyed the flavor of the turkish coffee. "I brought some with me. I don't mind the cafeteria coffee, but I prefer the stronger flavors of the eastern style."

As he sat down close to Brian he listened as Brian described the Minister. "It sounds like you enjoy the business and serving along with the minister."

"I thought so, I know the difference.." he nodded and takes another sip, relishing, "man..it's so refreshing..take some more for me daily, could you?" he grinned. "As you know I fond of coffee" he added.

"Yeah, I'm enjoying my work eventhough it's hectic..what about yours" he asked as he tilted his head and running his hand through his hair.

Edward smiled and laughed. "Of course I can, though I imagine the coffee in the minister's office would be much better than I could afford." He too, enjoyed coffee.

"My job could hardly be called hectic. There's only just the occasional spat between wizards that we've got to control. Other than that, it's quite mundane. I like it though. Not much responsibility for me, and perhaps I'll move into something different later, when I am totally bored with this."

A small, wrinkled-looking memo flitted into the room before it began dancing around the heads of the breakroom's inhabitants.

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Edward saw a memo make it's way into the room and checked it out.

Turning to Brian, he explained. "Sorry, mate. I've got to go. See you later then?" With that, he headed to the meeting room, hoping it wouldn't be something awful.

Brian smiled back, "thanks Edward, I'll be visit you during the break times..expect me..." he listened his work nature, although he already knew some of that.
"I understand, I'll inform you if I see any openings for any post.." when they were talking Edward had a ciruclar to attend the meeting.

"It's okay, I'll see you later" he patted on his lap, as he got up and walked out of the room, slightly whistling.

Scorpius sat in the breakroom his hair perfect, he was wearing a nice and very expensive suit. His wand tucked neatly in the inside of the jacket in its holder. He looked around the room, he was waiting for his shift to begin so he could begin working. He had not seen his boss to find out his post for the day. He glanced down at his pocket watch which hung neatly from the front pocket on his jacket. He still had some time before he was on. He had seen Ryder's girlfriend pass by and wondered what she was doing at the Ministry.

Attica L'Agneau entered the break room of the Magical Maintenance department. Her bright green eyes took a quick survey of the room and she nodded her approval with a bob of her flaming red head. Her long wavy ponytail bounced as she walked over to one of the cupboards and opened it to investigate the contents. The cupboard itself was mostly bare, but Attica smiled at the tidiness of the interior. Colourful shelf paper hide a less than new wooden interior, and the shelves were completely free of any dust or dirt, just what she would expect from the department of Magical Maintenance.

Setting her cloth bag on the counter under the cupboard, Attica proceeded to place a few food staples onto the bare shelves. A container of popcorn kernels, a small jug of oil, and a salt shaker found themselves situated on the bottom right hand side of the cupboard along with a stainless steel pot with a lid. Shortly after, a box of Twinings Earl Grey tea joined the party, along with a couple of mugs and a bowl. Attica grinned happily. This seemed like a great place to work already!

Unsure of where she was supposed to check in, Attica decided to do a bit of dusting in the break room. Hopefully someone would be along shortly to tell her where to go. She shoved her hands into her coverall pockets and produced a handkerchief which she proceeded to tie around her head, covering her hair. She grabbed a soft flannel cloth from the seat of her coveralls which she dampened at the sink in the corner of the room. Starting at the furthest corner of the room, she began to dust the room's surfaces. Taking no notice of any of the room's other occupants, she sang along to the radio as she worked, rapidly making her way around the room.

Edward walked through the door of the breakeroom and decided to freshen up his coffee. After his cup was filled he took a seat and waited for the mingling games to begin.

Delilah slipped quietly into the breakroom, thinking it was already filled with her many employees from both Maintenance and Security. She was quite surprised, then, when only one person from the meeting was there, waiting.

The Department Head smiled at Edward. "Glad to see someone can take simple direction," she laughed. The woman assumed everyone else was still dawdling in the meeting room.

Just then, Delilah heard a soft singing voice across the room; the voice was nice, though it didn't quite match the radio. She then noticed a woman dressed in overall dusting the room. It took her a moment, but Delilah recognized her as Attica, the newest employee hired to Magical Maintenance.

Instead of introducing herself formally to the other woman, the Department Head grabbed a clean rag off a nearby counter. She then scurried over to the woman and began dusting alongside her and singing loudly, her alto voice nearly drowning out the radio.

Lost in her own little world, Attica jumped a little when a pleasant alto voice joined her radioke. "Oh," breathed Attica softly to her partner in dust. "I'm so sorry. Was I disturbing you? I'm afraid I do it unconsciously. I can stop if you like."

Delilah chuckled quietly at the woman's startled behaviour. "No, no. Not at all. You have a lovely voice," the woman said.

The Department Head then slid her wand out of her pocket and flicked it towards the radio, which instantly turned the volume down a bit. "I'm Delilah Carted, Department Head." She slipped her wand back into her pocket and then held out her free hand for the woman to shake. "I'm glad to see that you can get to work without a lot of direction. That's mostly what this job is about- self direction. You'll fit in perfectly."

Attica was a bit flustered when Delilah introduced herself. She had had no idea that this was her boss. She blushed bright red as she wiped a slightly grimy hand on her coveralls before reaching over and shaking her boss's hand.

"Hello. I'm Attica L'Agneau, dirt minion." she joked, trying to hide her embarrassment. She reached up and tucked a strand of stray hair back under her kerchief. "I must say that I was quite pleased to get this job offer from the Ministry." she continued, "I've been hard pressed to find work after leaving Hogwarts, so this came at a most opportune time. How long have you been here at the Ministry, Delilah, if you don't mind me asking?"

The older woman laughed quietly as she shook Attica's hand. "Nearly a year," she answered, noticing what the younger woman had called her.

Delilah.

Usually, her employees referred to her as "ma'am" or "Ms. Carter", rather than her first name. The Department Head didn't mind the formality, but this was a nice change, to be honest. Perhaps Attica could become a 'work friend', giving Delilah a grand total of two.

"I told everyone to come in here; we had a meeting just a few minutes ago," the woman went on. "I head both Magical Maintenance and Ministry Security, and we're going to try something new where they're going to run like an alliance rather than two totally seperate offices. I hope it'll be much easier for me to handle." Delilah gave a relieved smile. "I wanted everyone to come in here for a bit to mingle with employees of the other department. But it seemes that only Edward here listened." She beckoned towards Edward Lennox of Ministry Security, who was standing just a few feet off.

Edward smiled and nodded. "well, I didn't think that things were to difficult to follow through with. I mean how often do we get the chance to enjoy the company of our fellow employees away from the security desk." He smiled as he watched Delilah help the new person.

Louisa walked into the breakroom, and noticed Edward and Delilah standing with someone she did not recognise. Smiling briefly in their direction, she headed to the kettle and brewed herself a cup of tea. As quick as magic was at conjuring up drinks, it never tasted quite the same as a cup of tea made by hand.

"Hi, seems like a lot of people listened to you, Miss Carter." Louisa said as she approached her trio of co-workers, considering now that Maintainence were working with Security, making Edward a co-worker.

Richard walked swiftly to the breakroom. He opened the door to see several people already there including Ms Carter. He walked in with his hands in his trouser pockets smiling at the already assembled staff and nodding at his head before getting a cup of tea. Once he had went and joined them. Some he recognised but one he assumed was quite new.

Attica nodded in response to Delilah's statement about the merger of the two departments. She agreed wholeheartedly about the importance of the staff mingling, but was a bit curious as to whether the two jobs would overlap at all. Attica shrugged. She guessed she would just have to see.

Just as Delilah finished speaking, it seemed like a large number of people entered the break room. Attica smiled at them all sweetly before putting her dusting cloth back in her pocket and walking over to the sink to wash her hands. Having tidied herself, she made a cup of tea from the supplies she had put in the cupboard earlier, and then went over to her colleagues to introduce herself.

"Greetings, all." she said pleasantly. "I'm glad to see I'm not the only tea granny here."

Richard took a sip of tea and then introduced himself to Attica. "Hello, Im Richard" he said holding out his hand to shake hers. "Yes, nothing wrong with a cup of the old earl grey is there?" he said with a small chuckle.

Attica shook Richard's hand. "No, no there isn't." she replied with a grin. "It's my favourite kind of tea, although I have been known to drink others when necessary." Attica paused to sip her tea before continuing. "So what do you do here, Richard? You are far too nicely dressed to be a maintenance man, I assume."

"Thanks very much" Richard said smiling at the compliment, "No, no I'm in security. Good thing about working on this floor is that you get to run round all the other floors. So this is your first day then is it?" he finished pleasantly.

Delilah looked on at her employees, now feeling satisfied. They were mingling, as she'd wished. Suddenly, the department head was overcome by a yawm.

Delilah quietly moved away from Richard and Attica; she moved over to stand by Edward instead. "Could I get a bit of that coffee you brought along today?" she asked, smiling coyly.