"Do you think, you're escaped Ed?" he grinned, "I hexed you to get the same situation soon" he palyfully swish the wand at him.

Sipping the coffee silently for not wanting to lose the new flavour of his fav. thing too. "So when will we go for a treat lunch?" he asked, leaned in a bit towards Ed. "Tell me, when you're free from your work. Umm..Approx. we need two hours to enjoy mate" he informed.

"Well. If it affects me the same way it has you, I hope your hex doesn't work." Edward smiled at his friend.

He shrugged. "I don't know. How about we hit the pub after work tonight? I mean it would probably be the best time. Unless of course, you've got someone else planned for tonight." Edward said with a slight smirk.

Brian laughed, "Ed, man you're brilliant" he took another sip of his coffee.

He slighly pulled back his sleeves as leaned forward again, "Best Idea" he agreed but punched on his shoulder before spoke, "Nah..no one yet. I know where you come, mate" he winked, but getting a nice idea of taking out Sasha in near future without affecting their promotion treat.

Edward grinned and laughed at Brian. "I don't know about brilliant. But I'll take the credit."

He nodded. "It's agreed. We'll meet at the security desk and then head to the pub."

Edward glanced out at the desk. "well, mate, I've got to go check on the things. It's been great chatting with you."

"You deserves my every compliment, Ed" he grinned, "I cant wait to go for the treat" he winked and got up, ruffling his hair again.

"Okay. See ya later" he gave him a quick hug and walked out, Sasha was back on his thoughts.

As Brian headed out, Edward called out to him. "We'll meet at the fountain and head to the pub!"

Delilah slipped into the Breakroom, a few identical pieces of bright green parchment in her left hand. Slipping her wand out with her other hand, the Department Head magically sealed one of them to the wall, so her Security Workers were sure to see it.

Once she was satisfied that the note was securely positioned so everyone would see it, Delilah headed off to put up more of these announcements.

Richard walked in to the break room and made himself a cup of tea. He poured the tea in to his mug with the union jack on the front while reading the front cover of the daily prophet. He saw a story about the minister's wedding. He wanted to read about something else for a change so instead he flipped a few pages and began reading in disbelief that they had split the girls from the boys at Hogwarts. He sighed as he read that Lord Borr was at Cooper's school. The man was one of the most pompous people around. He hoped that his nephew Roland was keeping his head down and not messing around with the new rules though it was unlikely.

Then Patrick Hill walked into the break room with a great flourish

Egypt had to mentally stop herself from from walking toward the lifts to head toward level two. She let a nervous smirk play at her lips as she turned around and headed toward her department. Her department. It felt good to say that again. She was a good follower and did whatever was asked of her, but she enjoyed being in the drivers seat sometimes.

She didn't head toward the office she was still a little early for work so she went to the break room to grab some coffee. She had a memo in her hand that she needed to place up. She went over to the bulletin to post it up

A note flew into the office and attached itself to the bulletin board.

Louisa came into the breakroom and spotted a memo attached to the board. Reading it swiftly, she noted her floors and went off to get the job done.

Lily-Anne walked into the breakroom and walked over to the notice board. She scaned it and found what she wanted, she read the notice through a few time before turning around and walking out, wondering if their is anything she could do to help.

Nathan, loaded down with a bouquet of roses, peeked in on Egypt in her office on his way past the security offices. Seemed like there was a small party going on in there with no room to swing a cat, so he decided to head towards the break room and wait for her.

He helped himself to a coffee thinking that it would be better than that supplied on level two. WRONG! It was equally vile. He pulled a face but thought he better drink it now that he'd nicked it. Perhaps the new security boss lady could change the coffee for the poor employees on this level. He stole a digestive out of the tin someone had left lying there. 'What a silly place to leave your biscuits.' He thought before helping himself to another.

He took his coffee and flowers and went to sit down. This wasn't nearly as nice as the level two break room - no comfortable nooks to fall asleep in. He took a seat and placed his feet and flowers on the coffee table in front of him. Egypt, if not too run off her feet, had to come in here sooner or later.

After changing all the weather in the Ministry Egypt wanted to swing by the break room and grab some water. She had tried the coffee earlier and it was horrible. She was going to bring in her special blend tomorrow. She pushed open the door to the break room. She looked in and her eyes fell on her husband. She squealed and ran over to him throwing her arms around his neck as she bent down to kiss him on the cheek. "Nathan," She breathed simply. She had been missing him terribly. "I've missed you." She told him sitting down in his lap.

“Woah!” Nathan was nearly sent flying by the little woman running towards him at top speed. She reminded him of Taz in the Taz-Mania cartoon he and Paris sometimes watched and had to smirk.

He leaned up and pecked her lips in return for the kiss on the cheek. “Hello love.” he said brightly wrapping his arms around her as she sat on his lap. “I've missed you too. I tell you, level two is a lonely place without you around.” He reached over and picked up the bouquet of scarlet red roses. “These are for you. A congratulations, if you were, on the new job.” he said. They were both so busy with their own jobs this was the first time Nathan had seen his wife in ages.

She giggled as she nearly tipped him over in his chair. She hadn't seem him since they left home this morning and that was a few hours ago. She had been getting anxious about that. "Sorry," She said.

She closed her eyes when he kissed her lips. "Hello my lover," She said opening her eyes to snuggle up to him just for a little while. "Level 8 is really lonely without you." She told him with a smirk. She looked around at the flowers on the table. "Nathan you didn't have to." She said bringing the flowers up to her nose and smell them. She inhaled their delicate scent. "They are lovely though. Thank you so much." She leaned down and gave him a proper wife kiss. After a few second she pulled out of it and stood up before any of her employees walked in. She moved and sat down in the chair opposite of Nathan.

He laughed and straightened up. “Don't worry about it.” he said wrapping his arms around her.

“No problem.” he replied. "I'm making us a romantic meal tonight to celebrate. Just the two of us. Tommy's agreed to take the kids."

He returned her kiss with much gusto. He had really missed his wife! He smirked and leaned forward in his seat as she moved away from him. “What's this? Mrs Boss Lady's ashamed of her husband eh?” he teased. He picked up his foul coffee and took a sip. "You know you really should do something about the coffee around here." He took a bite of his stolen digestive in an attempt to dull the taste of the coffee a little.

She smiled. "Oh a romantic dinner. You spoil me much Lord Greenwood. Tomasina is going to have her hands full then." She said with a smirk. "But I am glad we can be alone." She wiggled her eyebrows at him.

She looked at him and smiled. "That would never ever happen. If I do recall we have visited some of the dark places around here." She said. "I just have to set an example thats all my love." She reached across the table and stroked his hand. She had to hide her giggle. Nathan and his bad coffee. "Oh I am brining some of my special blend in tomorrow." She told him.

“Well my queen deserves it.” he replied. “How does chicken sound. All the way from Kentucky with a special tasty coating and a side of fries.” he teased her. “Nah, just kidding. I'm going to try my hand at a curry.” Nathan had taken a real shine to being in the kitchen since his family came along. His dabbling with bacon and sausage had turned into something a lot more serious. He loved getting home from work, sticking a record on, pouring himself a glass of wine and making a meal for his family. “Tommy doesn't mind. She loves those kids.” he chuckled. Poor girl was unlikely to get any sleep tonight. “It's been a while since we had some alone time.” he smiled. “It'll do us both good.”

He laughed and looked around. “I think one of them was on this level before you started working here. But nothing quite beats the Department of Mysteries for dark places.” he said with a suggestive wink.

“Thank god. You could drop some off at level two while you're at it.”

She smiled at him. "Thank you my king for thinking of me." She pulled a face when he mentioned that KFC chicken. "Oh no Nathan," She said and then she saw his face and she started laughing. "Oh you were kidding." She said thankfully. "Oh a curry is nice," She said brightly. She was glad that Nathan had taken a liking to the kitchen. No one liked her cooking and she had tried to learn and had gotten good at something, but Nathan was the the king in there and she was happy to let him reign over his kingdom. He was turning into a right chef anyways. "Yes being alone with my husband is always good for me. Tommy had been begging to take the children to some muggle movie. So I am glad she wants to take them out tonight."

"Well we will have to put that on our list then." She giggled with a wink. "But how are things on level two. Is Warren and Alex alright. He looked really sick that last time I saw him," She inquired.

"I will drop some coffee off for you my love," She told him as she gazed into his eyes.

He had to laugh. Egypt hated that KFC – he and the kids couldn't get enough of it. But his health overall had improved since he became the resident chef, trying to make a balanced meal for his kids. “A nice spicy curry with coconut milk washed down with a bottle of that nice red we had the other day.” he suggested.

“Tommy's a goodun. She's always willing to take them.”

He smirked. “It's a date. Next time you're on a break I'll meet you there.” He shrugged at the mention of Warren and Alexa. “They're worse than ever, They're avoiding each other like the plague. They need their heads knocking together if you ask me.”

He smiled over at her as she gazed into his eyes. Oh how he missed having those deep brown eyes being just down the corridor. “Thank you love. The other staff will be most grateful too.”

He propped his feet back up on the coffee table, making himself comfortable. “So hows it going up here? Your staff treating you ok?"

"Well Lord Greenwood you have certainly thought this out. I look forward to get it." She was really glad that Nathan was in the kitchen now. The children weren't as nice with their comments about her food as Nathan was. She was a little sad that they wouldn't know about Ghanaian food, but that was the trade off to marrying someone who wasn't from the same place. "She loves them as much as we do, and I am happy about it."

She grinned wickedly. "It is a date then." She told him. "Those two are terrible. They are fighting their love for each other." She said wondering why love would make someone act like that. She never wanted to be away from Nathan. Their love pushed them together.

"I think I need to bring in enough coffee for the whole ministry. Everyone complains about the coffee." She said with a smirk. She held his gaze. It was weird not being on the same level with her husband. To nip into the break room and find him sleeping on the couch. Or walk down the hall and see him at his desk. She missed that more than she wanted to admit.

She thought about his question. "Not a whole lot to do really." She told him honestly. "Oh that staff is fine. Really nice, I think I will get along great with them."