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August 3rd 1964

Zach White was tired, in fact tired didn't even cover how he was feeling, it had been a long tiresome day to say the least.
'on the bright side' he thought to himself 'my shift ends in 30 minutes' with that thought in mind small smile found its way to his mouth, which was a rarity with Zach as he often wore rather grim expression where his brow would furrow and his eyes turned dark, and almost guaranteed he'd be chewing his bottom lip raw out of sheer frustration,
this look was usually reserved for the mass amounts of paperwork that seemed to accumulate on his desk in theAurora's department, his smile quickly changed to his usual scowl as he noticed his partner Adam Chambers attempting to levitate a large brown file bursting with paper from the other side of the office on to Zach's own pile with a sly look on his face, 'not today' Zach growled to himself pulling his own wand out of his desk drawer and aiming it at the paperwork which was now inches from the top of the pile, he promptly sent the paperwork shooting back at Chambers which succeeded in hitting the young man square in the face followed by a loud BANG as Chambers arms flailing uselessly fell backwards over his chair hitting the solid wooden floor with a sickly THUD. Zach cringed at the sound, but then immediately joined the chorus of laughter from the other aurora's as Chambers attempted to untangle his long limbs from his robes, deciding to be a good sport Zach rose from his chair and made his way over to help his partner right himself while everyone else in the department got back to their work, 'want a hand there kid?' he asked teasingly as he held out his hand towards Chambers who accepted it gratefully and quickly shot to his feet with his partners help, 'I hate it when you call me that!' Chambers complained 'you're what,25?' Zach couldn't help the look of amusement that crossed over his face but quickly looked away from his partner, hoping to hide the laughter dancing in his icy grey eyes, in truth Zach wasn't that much older than Chambers but looked a much older for a man of 26, he could pass for his mid to late 30's easily due to his tall,stocky build and firm jaw line and constant five o'clock shadow.
'Next time you try to sneak your paperwork in with mine, Adam ill tie you to the ceiling beams for a few hours' Zach warned the amusement still dancing in his eyes,
'I'm sorry' Adam grumbled attempting to brush dust from his robes 'I've got a date tonight and ill never finish that file in time!' the smaller man let out sounding flustered
Zach's eyes widened at the revolution his partner had announced, Adam rarely dated even though women practically threw themselves at him everywhere they went, letting out a sigh
Zach picked up the scattered file from the floor 'have you even started on this one?' he asked his eyebrows raising in question, 'yes' Adam said immediately a flicker of hope shot through him 'it almost done, I swear' he held out his palms as an innocent gesture towards his partner,
'fine' sighed Zach 'ill finish it off at home' he said with a curt nod, the only plans he had himself were to sit in front of themuggle television until he fell asleep
'which case is this one for anyway?' Zach inquired glancing up at Adam, who's only response was to shoot his partner a cheeky grin and wink
'its going to be a long night then' Zach grumbled to himself walking away.

25 minutes later, Zach noticed Chambers stand up and bolt for the door 'time to go home, then I assume' Zach chuckled to himself watching his partner disappear down the hallway before anybody else had even glanced at their watches, repressing a satisfied smirk Zach glanced down at the almost complete file in front of him, deciding to leave the rest until tomorrow he rose from his chair and pulled on his favorite woolen trench coat, stretching contently as he pulled it over his arm's and letting out a jaw cracking yawn, grabbing his satchel from under his desk, he bid a sleepy goodbye to his Co worker's and headed for the door, as he walked down the corridor towards the flesh far too busy daydreaming about the wonderful supper his house elf had promised to release somebody was calling his name it took him a moment to notice everyone else in the corridor was looking at him with interest, he stopped walking abruptly looking back at everyone with his eyebrows raised with a confused expression taking over his features, that was until something small came crashing into his back, making him stagger forwards a few step's 'what in Merlin's name' Zach grumbled regaining his balance and turning around to look at what or rather who had crashed into him. "oh! I..i..im so s.. sorry ah.. err w.. white" theflusherd woman stammered out, Zach couldn't quite help the coy smile that appeared on his face "that's quite alright, here, let me help you up, " he chuckled, holding out his hand to help the young woman get up off the ground, soon she was back on her feet brushing the dust from her robe's muttering "so humiliated" repeatedly under her breath, Zach chuckled softly watching her beat the dust off of her lilac robe's.

'Are you alright?' he asked with a concerned frown a smile still playing on his lips, quickly realizing Zach was still there and had not in fact walked away like she assumed he had, knowing she'd probably upset the handsome man barreling into him like that she looked up at him sharply blue eyes meeting grey. 'they're like liquid silver' she thought to herself and quickly felt a blush creeping along her cheek's
'Yes, thank you, I'm quite alright' she replied much more husky than she would like 'by Merlin, has even more good-looking than Janice said' she mused sighing contently, the grey eye's never leaving her blue.

Aware she was staring she quickly blurted 'Alastor sent me' trying to reel her thought's in desperately
'oh..Alastor sent you to charge into me?' he asked humor evident in his voice, a wide grin appeared when the girl's cheeks turned an even darker shade of red, he couldn't help the deep chuckle that rumbled through him which ended abruptly when the woman's eyes turned down towards the polished floor, Zach's face took on another frown he suddenly felt very self-conscious.

"not quite, " she mumbled frowning down at her shoe's "he did however ask me to try to catch you before you left for home, " she said rather quickly "so I guess phase one is complete" finally bringing herself to look up at him she couldn't help but giggle slightly at the confused look on his handsome face 'Merlin hails' perfect' she thought letting out the content sigh she'd been holding 'just looking at him's a treat'.

Zach's heart stopped as soon as that small giggle had passed her lip's 'good Gryffindor' he thought his mind stunned 'her laugh is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard, like music' "oh... that... that can't be anything good, " he said gulped 'those eye's, I don't think I could ever tire of looking into those big blue pools he thought while holding her gaze.

"No..no I don't think so, unfortunately, has asked I fetch you to his office, " she told him in the same husky voice as before 'Merlin what's got into me today' she asked mentally scolding herself.

Zach knew full well, why the head Aurora wanted him to report to his office, he sighed internally "lead the way.. miss?" he replied smoothly "bones" replied the woman smiling.

as he reached out to shake her hand, he gasped out loud at her touch, sending electricity from his hand all the way to his toe's leaving him tingling and all over like he'd been shocked. She seemed to feel it too, judging by the way her eye's widened in surprise, his hand lingered than longer necessary, but he finally let to suddenly feeling cold and empty, "lead the way miss bones" he murmured softly.
She seemed to pull herself together before he did,she was the one who broke the eye contact and spun on her heel to march down the corridor towards Alastor Moody's office trying to hide that she was now a deep shade of scarlet from head to foot.