“It’s been a long while, Ms. Jones,” Mrs. Potts said cheerfully as she checked Gwen in at the MLE’s reception.

“I’d think that a rather good thing though, no?” Gwen replied, tone wry, lips curling slightly as she raised her gaze from the flourish of her name in the reception book to the little old woman sitting at the desk.

Chuckling, Ms Pott’s ( Read more... )

[Should have gone up earlier... oops!]

Bishop had been at the office since dawn, sleep having eluded him for much of the previous night. Joscelin's words weighed heavily on his mind. They needed to get Thomas Jennings off the streets as soon as possible, and if he could damage the man in the process, all the better.

Finally, it looked as though ( Read more... )

[...and this takes place at about Five PM this evening.]

"Will someone other than Ambercrombie and Moody dodge a goddamed hex?! It's like watching a bunch of retards trying to hump a doorknob out there!" Auror Houlihan was not pleased by the performance of most of the trainees that he'd seen, with a few possible exceptions. "I guess that we're ( Read more... )

Jonathan let out an 'oof' as his back hit the wall, falling to his knees second later. He clutched at his stomach as he looked up through the fringe of sweaty hair on his brow, quickly dodging the stinging hex that had been directed at his head. Rolling, hearing the hiss of the curse as it hit the wall, he rose on one knee, wand arm outstretched as ( Read more... )

Ms. Jones,

Auror Savage wanted me to update you on the status of the case against Thomas Jennings. Currently, there've been Aurors checking on the area surrounding both your own, as well as Ms. Resiyat's residences each night. No evidence has been gathered as of the time of this owl from either property, but we would remind you, as well as your team ( Read more... )

"Where are Natalie and Stone One," Hestia asked Jimmy Peakes ( Read more... )

Natalie and her trainee Enid Stone were skulking around Knockturn. They had gotten an anonymous tip that Adrian Pucey was here. Natalie wanted him. She wanted to actually do something as an Auror. So far, she had not had the chance to. So far she felt she had done more as a trainee. This was her chance. Moody had started somewhere, hadn't he? He ( Read more... )

This was a bad idea.

This was a VERY bad idea, and Verity knew it.

( Looks like you should have left this one in there longer... It's still gooey in the middle. )

( ... but it's hard to fool the heart )

Natalie knocked before sticking her head in Hestia's office. "You wanted to see me ( Read more... )