Elizabeth raised her eyebrows in surpise. "You're Joey's dad?." She laughed and smiled, "I'm Henry's mother. What a coincendence."

Melanie shouted, screamed, raised her fist up in anger, but she wanted to end very soon. Yes Borr was a very evil little or rather large as a matter of fact man, but the strike has not made any progress to the changes in the Ministry

She proceeded to put down her sign, walk to the road curb and massage her head and clear her mind of the voices shouting angry messages to Borr.

" Yes, I am Joet's dad" J.J. Starr told Elizabeth." You are Henty's mother, wow" Joe Jon Montcenaggio said to Elizabeth." A real coincedend" J.J. laughed. " O see your badge says you work at the International Co-operaton Deptarment and I worked there before the re-shuffling of all the employees" he explained to Elizabeth.

"Nice to meet you too," said Lights, intrigued. Who's this guy? "I'm Lights Lennox, who're you?" To the point. "You think they'll try getting into the Ministry?" she asked, following his gaze to the crowd. Because that could cause difficulties. "Surely they wouldn't be that crazy?" Lights couldn't vouch for the protesters' sanity though.

With a solemn expression on his face, Dean nodded at the woman. "Dean Benson. Likewise," he responded to her before gazing back outside. "No idea," he said with his eyes still fixed on the crowd and arms crossed in front of him. "If they do, I've to summon the Squad and aurors." Wes' order. Besides, it's impossible for the three of them to control the whole bloody crowd. They're going to get stomped in no time.

He glared at Latorta, the International Cooperation Department Head. Had she gone senile? Does she think Borr will step down because of a protest? Didn't she think what will the Cult do about this? If they'd insist on forcing through, there are people going to get hurt and of course, arrested. Crowd control wasn't Dean's specialty, but he'll do his best.

"You're an Auror?" Lights couldn't help feeling a bit envious. She'd really wanted to be an Auror to search for the murder files. Not that she didn't like being a Security Officer, but there was a lot less access more adventure in being an Auror.
Lights had a thought. If Dean was an Auror, then he'd know about this Cult, right? Lights was still in the dark, and since she was already looked down upon by her coworkers (naming no names, pointing no fingers), she hadn't wanted to ask Gabriel about them. But now was her chance to find out more about them. "Um, Dean? What's this Cult of Walpurgis everyone's going on about?" Lights blushed for her ignorance. Some ex-Ravenclaw she was.

Dean chuckled and couldn't help himself from feeling proud when Lights asked about his position. "No... I'm an officer from the Squad. Someday though, someday," he managed to pull out a joke in this kind of atmosphere.

...And he thought he was the naive one. The patrol officer frowned when the security officer asked about the Cult so openly. He asked Wes about it before in a closed office and he received another piece of advice from Dacs. "Can't talk about it here," he looked around at his surroundings full of people. "After work, second level janitors closet," he noted Lights with a low voice. The closet was the only place he could think of.

And so the guy did have a smile. Finally, Lights was getting somewhere in her quest to make every serious person in the Ministry smile/laugh/look happy! "I'm guessing that's the ambition of almost everyone in MLE?" she said, only half joking. Because you've got to admit, it would be a pretty cool job.
Oh Merlin. Not the you're so naive it's weird look again. Lights raised an eyebrow. Nothing else on her face changed, just that one eyebrow. Yes, she'd perfected that. "The ... closet?" She shrugged, and smiled. "Okay. Just ... don't tell anyone I asked about it. I'm the little child of the Security Office at the moment - so everyone thinks." She said the last sentence with more than an edge of irritation to her voice. She was tired of being thought immature. Even though she still liked baking cookies. And sometimes making daisy chains. Okay, she was a teensy bit immature - but aren't we all in those respects?

Dean smiled briefly before he glanced outside again just to make sure they don't go overboard. Honestly, where did all the patrol officers go? His hand gripped the maple wand tightly in his right sleeve. "Don't worry about it. I'm the kid of our office." Meaning the aurors, hit wizards and Squad office. "If they break in, it's going to be a big mess here," Dean sighed as he looked at Vartann all Head Security mode.

Good, at least he'd got the point with that. And he could be thankful that Gabriel hadn't hexed him - if it had been Damien that Dean had done it to, well...he'd be lucky to have a nose left.

A low sigh escaped Gabe's lips when Dean spoke. Nodding, he turned his eyes only on the man stood next to him. They would definitely be outnumbered. "I think if Mrs Latorta has her way, then yes. But even though they do outnumber us, it would be unlikely to end well for them." The Cult were hardly likely to appreciate 'their' Ministry being stormed. The people in the protest were playing with their lives.

Gabriel listened, with slight amusement, as Lights asked Dean about the Cult. Not that that was funny, just the fact she didn't seem to want him to hear her ask it. Truth be told he'd be happy to tell her, but if she wanted to ask other people, she was more than welcome. He had a feeling that she would find out one way or another in the end. Although his opinion of her being the young, slightly immature one, wasn't helped by their first meeting a few weeks before.

"Some of them do look a bit crazy, not helped by all the shouting encouragement from the International Co-Operation Head, of course," he interjected into the conversation. And crazy people could be unpredictable - you just had to look at the Cult to see that. Granted, that was a different level of crazy. "For now we keep an eye on them. They might chicken out of a full blown invasion if they know what's good for them." Gabe didn't really want to arrest any of his Ministry colleagues today.

Elizabeth laughed. "How interesting." She smiled, "What department are you in now?"

" I am in Magical Department of Sports" J.J. Starr told Elizabeth. " I worked at Magical Education before International Co-operation Department" Joe Jon Montcenaggio said to Elizabeth. " I actually started in the Magical Sports Department" J.J. explained to Elizabeth. " Did you like working here before Lord Borr took over the Ministry?" he asked Elizabeth.

Dean nodded listening to Gabriel's opinion. True that the Cult clearly won't let that happen. If they're moving on from verbal to violence, they even might need the Cult's help. That thought alone disgusted Dean.

"Don't they think about the consequences?" he looked at the elder man one more time. "I mean... I'm sure they all know, or at least Mrs Latorta knows Borr's relation to... You know, them," because Dean was sure that every department heads know about the Cult and Borr being one of them. "Basically, they're putting everything they have in danger here," jobs and perhaps even lives.

The younger man turned around to Gabriel when his conversation with Lights was interrupted. "Crazy... That's one way to put it," Dean chuckled a little. Yup, they're crazy all right. Especially Latorta. She doesn't act like a normal middle-aged woman neither as a department head. Amusing.

"How interesting!" She smiled, "Is the sports department your favorite one?" She shifted slightly, "I didn't work here before he took over. I am just trying to help Ms. Gina out." She grimaced. "I heard of all that Lord Borr is doing. I just moved here a few months ago from France so i don't know what it was like before. What about you though? Did you like it better before Lord Borr?"

" Welll, I played Quidditch professionally and muggle baseball and football profesionally so I do guess I like the sports department" J.J. Starr explained to Elizabeth." Gina is a great boss" Joe Jon Montcenaggio said to Elizabeth." I loved it before Lord Borr took over" J.J. told Elizabeth. " This is why I decidd to strike" he smiled.

Elizabeth smiled, "How interesting. What teams did you play for?" Elizabeth agreed with J.J., "She is a great boss."

" Yes, it is interesting" J.J. Starr told Elizabeth. " I played on the Chudley Cannons and we won the championship twice while I played on the team" Joe Jon Montcenaggio explained to Elizabeth. " I really liked her" J.J. smiled.

Elizabeth smiled, "That was my father's favorite team." She laughed, "same here, she is very sweet and kind."

"Let's OCCUPY THE MINISTRY!!!" She said and began making her way to the entrance. "I am going to the fountain of Magical Brethren and I will get Borr to come out! Who's with me!!" But she wasn't waiting for an answer... she moved too quickly. She was already inside.

O_o Old lady say what?

Quickly slipping his wand from his sleeve, Dean pointed it straight to the Head International Cooperation. He didn't even bother to look at Gabriel and Lights. But the Latorta was already gone. Craps!

"Expecto Patronum," muttered the patrol officer with his wand pointed to the MLE office. Then, he pointed his wand to the door again. "NOBODY ELSE MAY GO THROUGH OR I WILL ARREST YOU!" exclaimed Dean unexpectedly. That didn't sound like the cheerful, immature Dean at all. Because when he needs to get his job done, he will do it.

Gavin nodded in agreement as Gina yelled that she was going to get Borr to come out. Finally some action! Moving forward quickly he was stopped by the voice of someone else. Was he serious? Gavin wasn't about to allow his dept head to go in alone, by herself to fight this! His eyes fell on the rest of the group. Taking a deep breath he shouted "ARE WE GONNA LET HIM FORCE US TO STAY OUT HERE AND LET GINA DO THIS ALONE? OR ARE WE GONNA NOT BE BULLIED, AND TAKE BORR DOWN?"

He was ready to go full force into the ministry. There was a reason he'd been beater on the quidditch team, and he would do what it took! He just hoped he wasn't the only one that was gonna do it! Dropping his sign he set it against the wall, and turned towards the group "WHO'S WITH ME?"

Where's the back up he asked for? Dean's wand was still pointed to the door. However, he won't be able to hold everyone all by himself. So, he decided to tighten their defenses. "Protego Totalum," he said as a shield conjured from the tip of his wand to cover the door. "Protego Totalum," he casted the same charm to make it stronger.

Taking a deep breath, Dean glared angrily at those dunderheads who knew very little of patience. "Do you think he'll simply step down?! Do you think that they will step down without a fight?! Stop being so impulsive and think about it! Lives could be lost if you keep acting like nine year-olds!" he called out angrily before ending it with a scowl.

Adler just arrived at the Picket Line because he was worried about the situation there. He saw a chaos there, There were also some MLE people like Lights and Gabriel, and also an MLE patrol officer, Dean. They tried to make the situation calm down.

Maybe they need help. Then Adler ran to Dean and asked him

"Hey!! Do you need any help from me?? The situation became very awkward!"

Elizabeth was shocked when Gina bursted through the ministry's door. Isn't that going a little too far? Elizabeth was about to leave when she had gotton into a conversation with J.J. Starr, so she might as well leave before it got too violent, espeically when she was now 7 months pregnant. Turning back to J.J. Starr. "Pardon me but i better leave to go back to the estate, i have some cleaning and stuff to do." She looked back at the doors and shook her head then look back at J.J., "You are welcome any time at it, if you want." She smiled, "Company is always welcome there." She laughed. "Have a nice day." She left the picket line.

His anger made him felt like the weather was getting warmer. He took off his coat and vanished it with a flick of his wand. Next, he rolled up his sleeves and loosened his tie. But his eyes were still fixed on the door in case if someone wanted to get stunned so badly.

Feeling he was being approached from behind, Dean turned around swiftly with his wand only a few centimetres away from Adler's nose. He let a heavy sigh before he lowered his wand. "Don't. Ever. Sneak up. To me. Ever!" said Dean emphasizingly before he turned to the direction of the door. "Yup. Could use some help here. Might as well take your wand out," he glanced at the other man briefly.

That was when he saw a pregnant woman walking away. He didn't recognise her, so she musn't be from the same department as he is. Good. A pregnant woman should avoid this kind of troubles. Best for the baby and herself.