Blitzditch

JKR owns everything, it's her world I'm just playing in it

Chapter 3:

"Weasley!"

Rose nearly fell out of her chair.

"Yes?" She straightened herself out as her boss rounded her cubicle.

"Do you have that report on the visit to the French Ministry?"

"Yes" Rose said again. She shuffled through the mess on her desk until she found the papers she was looking for. "Here you go."

"Great. Davies has a meeting with the Italian ambassador in a month. Set up his portkey and accommodations, will ya" her boss said and then walked off.

Rose rolled her eyes. She hated her job so much. And the funny thing was she didn't even realize until someone else pointed it out for her.

This was the messiest her desk had ever been and Rose didn't like it. About eight percent of the things on her desk were about James' project. She gathered everything into a stack. Then she figured what the heck, if she has to go down to the portkey office she might as well go on her lunch break as well. She wrote a quick message and fired it off on her watch.

Staring at her watch Rose noticed the tiny Potter Crest in the center of the watch. When has James ever failed on one of his project? He was almost single handedly responsible for bringing the wizarding world into the digital era. Apart from these smart watches for faster communication, he also created devices that can display Quidditch matches like a telly, music devices so you don't have to wait for the wireless to play your favorite tune, he even made those miniature computer things that muggles use for apps, or whatever.

The line at the portkey office was long, but that was to be expected. It always was.

"Hey Rose."

Rose was down here so often they knew her by name. She did feel like she was an errand girl most of the time. Like her internship never ended they just changed her title to junior.

"Hey Megan. I need a Portkey to Italy for Gamble Davies. Someone near a five star wizarding hotel but not to far from the Italian ministry. No ocean views. For some odd reason the man doesn't like them."

"Okay, date and time?"

"A month from today. And he has to be there by 8AM their time, so I'm going to give him an hour to shower and all that, so 7AM CET"

"Okay, a week before we'll send Davies a memo letting him know what form his portkey will be in."

"Thank you."

"No problem. You have a good day."

"You too."

Ah, lunch time. Rose clocked out of her station then apparated to The Leaky Cauldron. Lily and Denise were already there. Rose ordered a burger and joined the girls at their table.

"I'm surprised to see you outside of the office" Denise said. She is Lily's best friend. They were in the same year at Hogwarts only Lily was Gryffindor and Denise was a Ravenclaw.

"I was dying for a break" Rose replied. A waitress came by and took her drink order. "Anyway I have something for both of you."

Rose dug around in her purse. It wasn't huge, but there was an undetectable extension charm placed upon it. She pulled out two envelopes. She handed the yellow one to Lily and the white one to Denise. "I need you to run these in your papers for me. Lily's is a poll. Denise's is a survey."

"K, no problem" Lily said putting her envelope away.

Denise however opened hers and read it. She worked for the Daily Prophet. "Questions about sports? Well at least it's not something work related. No offense, but your job sucks. I'll ask my editor to run it in the paper. It might cost you."

"I'm okay with that."

Rose's food came.

"So what's the latest dirt?" she asked.

"How long is your lunch break?"

Technically speaking only an hour, but they wouldn't notice if Rose stayed longer than that. "As long as I want."

Denise smiled. "Okay, so you know how…."

Two and a half hours and three margaritas later Rose found herself back in her cubicle at work. Maybe it was the liquor, but Rose found herself writing her two-weeks notice. She didn't know where it came from, the dissatisfaction at work. Every since she was little she knew she wanted to work at the Ministry. That's where her parents worked. But when it came to getting career advice at school, she just didn't know. She told her professors "any ministry job will do" but that wasn't right. People didn't' change the world by saying any job will do. They had hopes and dreams. So what were Rose's? What did she want out of life?

"Weasley!"

Rose jumped knocking her notice on the floor.

"Yes?"

"What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be on your lunch break?"

Rose blinked. Her boss hadn't even noticed she already went on lunch. She'd been here for three years and her boss barely noticed her. Yeah, now is a time for a change.

"I hadn't realized the time. I'll clear up my desk and then head out."

"Good, the last thing we need is an employee passing out from malnutrition and HR will come breathing down my arse. You're looking a bit peaky, make that an hour and half for lunch."

"Will do" Rose said gathering her files.

She packed all of her research for James, and cleared off her desk. She made sure to drop off her two weeks notice and decided to take the rest of the day home.

It wasn't even 3pm yet. What do people do with their day when they have nothing else to do? They probably don't run around in stuffy robes.

Rose apparate to her flat in London.

"Rose is that you?" her boyfriend called from the kitchen.

Rose wasn't expecting him to be home.

"Yea, it's me" she called toeing off her shoes at the door and hanging up her coat.

Scorpius Malfoy came out of the kitchen holding a roast beef sandwich.

"You're home early" he commented.

"I put in my two weeks notice and then went on a lunch break that's going to last the rest of the day."

If Rose was expecting him to be shocked, she was disappointed.

"About time. You never wanted to work there in the first place."

Rose gave him a kiss then for the heck of it took a bite out of his sandwich.

"What are you doing home early?"

"Dragon Pox outbreak at the orphanage. Well they say outbreak, but only two people got it. Still, didn't want it to pass on so I have the day off and those poor infected buggers were isolated and sent to St. Mungos."

Scorpius was a primary teacher at the local wizarding orphanage that his mother runs. He wants to become a teacher at Hogwarts, but not until he's in his thirties.

"So are you going to enjoy your new found freedom or start looking for a job already?" Scorpius asked as Rose helped herself to the rest of his sandwich.

"Well I'm going to be working on a project for James until the summer. After that we'll see how it goes."