Brian shook his head and smiled at Becca, "Yeah, quite big one to give a room for two." he teased her. Talking to her inbetween the work was refreshing one. She was just one of a kind. A rare one to find. He smiled to himself before got distracted by another voice.

He turned to the lady(Amelia) whose name was not yet known. "I'm glad Miss. It was just a rough idea, we can make it more perfect. And I liked your idea of reading Taylor instead of RT, " he said with a small smile. Atlast someone had come up with some idea which made him feel happy.

Then he looked down at the list what Julia made. "It was wonderful Julia, the primary stuff. I see you're so much involved in this..whole campaign thing. Very usual Julia," he appreciated her for the fabulous work she had done. Hoping that everyone would come up with something like that.

Ben was grinning from ear to ear. All this planning was absolutely wonderful! They'd blow Cooper out of the water come election time. He was so excited, he was about ready to dance. He wouldn't of course, cause he'd look weird and awfully loony, especially with his height. Instead, his blue eyes just sparkled with excitement.

"Excellent ideas, Julia and Liam," he said with a head nodd, reading over the lists they had prepared once again. "We'll keep these handy for later. Now, I think the first order of business, now that we've all kind of settled in, is to pick our main campaign slogan. Obviously, Miss Taylor," he turned to look at Reagan and flashed her a dazzling smile, "You can pipe at up any time if you don't like the angle we're going with here."

"Now, I think before Brian and Becky head off to the Prophet, we need to establish our slogans. We should all vote on our favorite, and the one with the most votes will be our main slogan. Now, we should have a few smaller slogans as well--they won't be plastered on EVERYTHING like our main one but we don't want to be boring and redundant, yes?" he asked.

He waved his wand once, and out of no where, one of those fancy smancy Muggle white boards on wheels came screeching out of the supply closet and came to a halt next to him. With another flick of his wand, green writing started to appear on the board, much like a chalkboard at Hogwarts:

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CAMPAIGN SLOGANS

All the way with Taylor

Together, Fight for Change

In Your Heart, You Know She's right

Enough is enough

Reagan Taylor, a branch of kindness

Reagan in Action

"There, I BELIEVE we have them all," Ben said with a smile. "Julia, I do love the idea for Women for Reagan, but how about 'Employees for Reagan' or something along those lines, just so we're not excluding the men?" he asked with a small chuckle.

"Alright, everyone--grab a quill and a piece of parchment. I've got some here on my desk--" with another flick, a piece of parchment and a quill went zooming towards each employee present "And please write down your top two choices for our slogan. Then just turn them in up here...how about we toss them in this hat?" he asked, holding out an old Hufflepuff cap from his days at school that had just been chillin in his office "And then I'll tally them up, and we'll hav our slogan!"

ooc: Please PM me all your votes for your slogan choice :] That way we won't take up a ton of posts by posting all your votes, they remain confidental, and we don't have to go through all the work of inserting a poll in this thread and then having to delete it when we're through. I'll take votes up until 8 PM EST on Saturday April 4th (that's 1 AM GMT, if I'm not mistaken xD) so that everyone gets a chance to vote.

"Oh, thanks Brian!" she said as she smiled widely at him. She looked around at people and was back to attention when Ben mentioned her name. She too chuckled at Ben's comment of separating the men. "Well, thats not a great deal, Ben. I just thought of emphasizing more on the women part, but as you say ... We can't separate the men can we?" She said smiling at both Ben and Brian and continued, "We can have something else in place of Employees though, it sounds little odd." She folded her hands and tilted her head sideways.

Ben tapped his chin. "Hmmmm, now that you mention it, maybe we can save this slogan for a few posters? OH, or a few buttons! They can say 'Women for Reagan' and women around the Ministry can wear them!" he exclaimed. Why hadn't he seen the brilliance of that earlier? "Scratch that employee bit--we'll make a special set of advertisement items specially for women," he said, turning so that under the list of potential campaign slogans, a little note was scribbled on the white board:

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Women for Taylor Campaign: Special line of buttons, flyers, etc to connect with the women population of the Ministry

Becca laughed as Brian spoke "Right, nice one" she grinned before focusing again.

Becca nodded "We should, we want to be prepared" she nodded again "If they're as bad as you say they are, we want to have every angle covered"

Smiling at Julia, Becca nodded as she spoke about emphasizing on the women.

Laughing softly at Ben's sudden brainstorm, Becca turned back to Brian and shrugged as Ben wrote stuff on the white board.

Julia looked awe-stuck as Ben exclaimed on about the slogan. She nodded when he said the women could wear the badges. "Thats nearly what I thought. We can make the concept plain the Women would support for Reagan by that tiny tag." She nodded as Ben said about the advertisement. "Good idea, Ben!" She said clapping a bit and smiling. Julia caught site of Rebecca smiling at her, she grinned back at her and beamed as Ben wrote down the point on the board.

Rico's thoughts had started to wander at mention of 'women for Reagan,' as he immediately wondered if Angelina was one of those women, and if she was, why hadn't he seen her here yet?

He shook his head and snapped to attention when Cobblehead mentioned voting, however. Rico ambled over to the table and grabbed a scrap of parchment, quickly scribbling his vote on it. When were they going to be starting the advertising? Perhaps after everyone decided on a slogan?

Rico shuffled back over to Nathan and crossed his arms, patiently waiting for the votes to be tallied as his mind started to wander again.

Bella had been lost in thought for the past half hour, her mind going over the latest and greatest accessories she'd read about this morning in Witch Weekly. Apparantly, black dress robes were rumored to be out, while coral, lime, and pink dress robes were going to be considered the "it" colors of the seasons. She better get out and purchase a pair or two...or three or four...before she was seen out and about with the black robes of yesteryear!

It was only when the man next to her began moving that Bella returned to reality. She looked around, trying to figure out what she'd missed and what she needed to do next. "What are we doing?" she whispered to the man who'd moved. She followed him over to a table and picked up a piece of parchment just as he had. Trying to not to be obvious, Bella peered over his shoulder and copied exactly what he put on his paper. Ohh, wonder what they were doing??

Madison reached for a piece of parchment and a quill and began scribbling down her vote for the campaign. All the slogans were good and she had a hard time wondering just which one to vote for, the one that stood out to her the most. It was all about eye catching and at that moment, she knew which one she wanted. She began writing then handed her parchment in.

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Bella had been lost in thought for the past half hour, her mind going over the latest and greatest accessories she'd read about this morning in Witch Weekly. Apparantly, black dress robes were rumored to be out, while coral, lime, and pink dress robes were going to be considered the "it" colors of the seasons. She better get out and purchase a pair or two...or three or four...before she was seen out and about with the black robes of yesteryear!

It was only when the man next to her began moving that Bella returned to reality. She looked around, trying to figure out what she'd missed and what she needed to do next. "What are we doing?" she whispered to the man who'd moved. She followed him over to a table and picked up a piece of parchment just as he had. Trying to not to be obvious, Bella peered over his shoulder and copied exactly what he put on his paper. Ohh, wonder what they were doing??

Rico was all set to start daydreaming again when lo and behold, a beautiful woman addressed him. Gorgeous, tan, and nice-smelling, he was momentarily bedazzled by her whispering and it took him a few seconds to think up a response.

"Uh uh," he blinked and smiled, "we're just voting on a campaign slogan for Ms. Taylor. Those are the options right there," Rico nodded toward Ben's white board. Well well perhaps this volunteer work would be more enjoyable than he'd thought, especially with awesome coworkers like her.

"I'm Rico Serio, by the way, Daily Prophet Layout Editor." He offered her a warm handshake. "Haven't I seen you around Diagon Alley or something...?"

Nathan had kinda lost track of what was going on around him. There were so many people here now... so many distractions for his attention deficit little brain.

Seeing people scribbling things on bits of paper, he went to investigate. He was obviously supposed to be doing something.

Voting! For slogans.. oooh. Fun.

He pulled the ball point pen out of his inside pocket, and with a click, he scribbled down his vote in his illegible spidery scrawl.

Becca nodded at Julia as she sat on the desk that was next to Brian, she leant back a little as she listened to what was going on, then remembering Brian was in the room, she sat up straight again 'Stop doing that to him' she scolded herself.

As she looked around and listened she noticed the Daily Prophet idiot who was too chicken to go and talk to the females who were in charge, she narrowed her eyes at him as he seemed to... nah, he wouldn't do that, would he?! Her eyes widened as he introduced himself, she shook her head and turned away, she needed something to distract her from this idiot and the best distractions were there, now all she had to do was choose the work or Brian, she voted quickly and then turned to look at Brian with a grin on her face.

Brian's poture didnt change much since from the beginning of the discussion. He looked around and seeing everyone was busy with voting for the best slogan. He was happy that everyone had had come up with some ideas.

His smiled widened when Becca teased him and his breath caught for a second when she leant back on her seat. Naughty Becca. He gave her a I-will-see-you-later kind of glance, smirking. Then he heard Julia's acknowledgement. "You're welcome Juls, I know your skills, dont I?" he asked her, grinned.

He cleared his throat and talking to the volunteers, mostly who were in the advertising committee, once they finished the voting, "Okay guys, People Who are in the advertising panel please do tell me how much you can do with the posters and banner, buttons. If you guys get assigned yourself in one or more work, I'll take care of the remaining, well if any, works." He wanted to get finish the work quickly since the due date was not so far away. "Meanwhile as Ben said, me and Becca is going to meet the Prophet editors, and if you give your words, it'll be useful for us to complete the work within the due date.." he finished in one breath, calmly yet clearly.

Andrina was not paying attention at all to anything really. She was day dreaming about Thomas and how much she wanted to be with him at the moment. However she was snapped back to attention as Ben brought in a nifty muggle device. Ahhh a whiteboard... She thought as she scanned over the choices.. She quickly voted and then returned to her day dreams of her boyfriend..

Becca grinned at him as she interpreted his glance, she knew him too well now, she let a small laugh escape her before she looked back at Brian, who was now talking, again. "Yes, words, details, dates, tips, all that sorta stuff, we'd be grateful" she smiled at everyone kindly, then her gaze reached the daily prophet guy, she smiled at him just like everyone else, but there was a small amount of awkwardness in her smile. She'd talk to Brian later, maybe there was a reason for him being that way.

Brian's attention came back on Becca as she followed him in the speech. He was listening her pointfull short speech and the mischievous grinning too. He leaned in to tap her shoulder, "Hey, I know what was in behind those mischievous grinning and laugh," whispereing, "get ready for the outcome." Then he leaned back on his seat, waiting for everyone's response for his previous suggestions.

Becca turned as Brian tapped her shoulder, then she put her hand over her mouth to stifle the giggle that had escaped her, she went pink and turned back to the others so she could listen and respond to them, she looked at the ceiling to try to stop giggling, then she looked at the Daily Prophet guy, Enrico, and sobered up instantly. She looked at everyone while trying to avoid looking at Enrico again, surely she could handle him for 10 lousy minutes, she turned a little and watched Brian instead.

Julia put her hand into her pocket and rested her hand around her wand. She did that always when she needed to control her movements. She looked up as Brian addressed her. "Oh thanks Brian, Juls hm? You still remember that??" she asked him smiling broadly. She pulled a ring from her pocket and twiddled it over her fingers, still smiling.

Nathan had drifted off into daydream land again, but woke up abruptly as Brian addressed he and the advertising team.

Work.. oh right. “I'm happy to help with all of those things, mate.” He offered. “And if you need anyone to go out there and distribute them to the people...” He winked twice, making a clicking sound... ”I'm your man.” Ah ha! What better way to spend your time than stopping pretty ladies in the street for a chat with a perfectly valid reason for doing so! Why Nathan hadn't done anything like this before was beyond him...

Brian's eyes never missed Becca's actions whenever she was around him. Now she was struggling to control her giggles, trying to hide her blushing which made him smile from the back row. If they were alone by this time he could go and get her in his lap. But he was sitting among the people, alomost full attendance. He chuckled bit loudly only to reach Becca.

Aw..Julia on the otherside, trying to hide her emotions, almost successful in that process. "Yeah, It's unforgettable," he replied, eyeing the ring on her hand as she was playing with it. What was that? Did he miss anything in between the absences?! he wonderd.

For his surprise, Nathan the other Prophet guy informing him his willingness to do the advertisement stuffs. He smiled widely, "Thank you mate. tell me how quickly you can finsih the work," he paused, looking at his calm face, "Ofcourse I need poeple to go out and distribute them in quick time, we're running short of time.." he said, running his hand through his hair. His thoughts twirling around Nathan. He knew he saw him somewhere else around the Diagon Alley. Where..where?! He almost squeezed his brain, succeeded within a few minutes. Yes..he had seen him with Becca's friend Egypt, just a glimpse, but strong enough to memorize. "Umm..Excuse me," he leaned forward, "You're Mrs. Egypt's husband, if I'm not verymuch mistaken. Right?" he asked, still in doubt.

Becca looked over at Julia and smiled, then she watched what she was doing... hmm.

Ring + Smile = Something good...

She'd ask her about it later

Becca frowned as she heard Brian laugh, she had to frown, if she didn't, she would have been laughing so much it would be very distracting, for everyone. Then he asked if this was Nathan, she knew the answer but thought it was best to let Nathan answer.

Nathan was really beginning to warm to this Brian fella... now that he and Enrico seemed to have managed to have escaped going to meet with their evil bosses to get the ad in the Prophet. He owed Rico a pat on the back and a couple of pints in the Leaky Cauldron for his shrewdness. Brian seemed a professional, reliable, yet friendly sort - the sort of chap you could trust to look after your piggy bank.

“What sort of deadline are we working to here?” He asked Brian. Although, seemingly laid back to the point of toppling over, Nathan could work quickly when required to, as his work at the paper proved with all that layouting business. He grinned when Brian said he could help with distributing – that would be the fun bit of this whole campaigning business. “I can start as soon as.” He offered.

He found that a smile to challenge that of the Cheshire cat's in Alice and Wonderland had subconsciously crept up his face at the mention of his better half. “Yeah. I'm married to Egypt.” He replied, still smiling. “Fourteen years now.. we married young.” And had their first child unexpectedly not long after. Merlin, how time flew. “I thought I spotted you and Becky talking to her in the street earlier.” He glanced over at Becky and winked. She and Brian made a lovely couple. “How long have you two been together?” He asked the pair conversationally.

Becca smiled at Nathan, he was being nice to Brian now, that was better, now his back was covered, but, he did have 7 kids to look after, she could see why he needed to keep his job totally safe. Then he winked at her, she smiled "Oh, a couple of weeks, or something along those lines, I can't remember really, it seems like forever" Becca laughed quietly.

Julia smiled even broadly as Brian replied. She closed her eyes for a one whole moment and opened them, feeling happy. She noticed Brian eying the ring she was playing with. His face looked lot different, she felt awkward. Maybe this wasn't exactly the time to talk over things made by old friends and the gaps. She slapped herself gently behind the neck and sat up straight.

Julia just sat upright to notice Becca smiling at her. She smiled, moved near her and said, "Brian is going all crazy now, hide your face please, he'd just keep blushing all over the time in the meeting." smiling and teasing her. Julia winked playfully at her and suddenly noticed that she too eyed the ring she was playing with. She felt uncomfortable. She stuffed the ring into her pocket suddenly, maybe this wasn't the time to play, people were doing far much important things.

Becca laughed softly "I think he'd kill me if I did" she grinned "and I love his blushing" Becca looked over at Brian and grinned at him, noticing Julia shove the ring away, Becca frowned slightly but decided to say nothing.