dirk e. cresswell (gogoblins) wrote in valesco,
@ 2009-08-05 20:57:00

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berkeley doge, bess fawcett, brier stebbins, corner conway, desmond riddock, dirk cresswell, earthquake, frank longbottom, group, jude wickham, marissa macfusty, ministry, phoebe smethwyck, sturgis podmore, tomas booth, venice vega, walden macnair, william jugson

MINISTRY OF MAGIC, EARTHQUAKE
Dirk loved his job, he did, but he loved Fridays even more. He still got to go in and work with the goblins (when they let him!), but he got to look forward to a nice quiet weekend of doing whatever he pleased. Lately it had been trying to get Derek to hang out with him, even though that usually just involved watching telly. It was something! Dirk was worried about his big cousin, especially now with the war getting so intense and--

He blinked curiously, as the shelves of his cubicle began to shake. Dirk's eyes twitched back and forth as he watched the pictures he had hanging drop to the floor, and the bust of Gorgak the Terrible started to inch forward and forward. And his desk was shaking, and now his chair, and Dirk was startled to his feet at the sound of someone screaming, "EARTHQUAKE!"

An earthquake! Oh hell, Dirk had just been thinking that some erumpents had escaped again! Earthquake! What was the first rule of an earthquake? These were NOT the things they taught you in Hogwarts! How was he supposed to survive an earthquake if he didn't have the proper training?! DEREK WOULD KNOW WHAT TO DO, THAT IS WHY DIRK WANTED TO REMAIN CLOSE TO HIM AND----

The bust of Gorgak the Terrible teetered off the shelf and smacked Dirk straight in the forehead, making him drop to the ground, and thankfully roll under his desk.

He really did love his job, he did.

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maintains
2009-08-06 03:30 am UTC (link)

The fact was that Roderick had known exactly what was going on from the beginning. He'd reinforced his janitorial closet a few days ago and things couldn't have gone more smoothly for him - once the initial shock was done, he stepped out of the office and then glanced casually around.

He sighed, looked down, and grabbed a nearby piece of jagged metal to slash himself with. Once he was satisfied that he looked shaken enough, he headed toward the familiar (and expected) sound of Erin shouting.

"Erin!" He half-jogged toward the girl's office, "Is that you?"

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erinkirked
2009-08-06 05:23 am UTC (link)

Pushing herself out the best she could with her hands, doing a crab-like walk from under the desk, Erin let out another holler at the other person's voice. Roderick? It had to be Roderick, he was the only one that lurked around here with the three lab mice (Erin and Alice had decided that rats was too vulgar for three ladies, thanks).

"Roderick!" she let out, plopping down to the ground after she'd manuevered herself away from any glass or spilled potions. Erin thought for a second about how much of a loon she must look like, but decided that this was probably the only way she would be able to get around if Roderick hadn't heard her, so she shouldn't be worried about appearances.

She frowned greatly when he finally arrived, shaking her head as she lifted her hands up to be hefted to her feet, "What the fuck just happened? Did we get attacked?"

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maintains
2009-08-06 05:30 am UTC (link)

He didn't hesitate in taking Erin's hands and hauling her up to her feet (even pregnant she looked lovely, but he wasn't at all surprised by that).

"Attacked? No, I think it was an Earthquake or something. Crazy, right?" Because he wasn't going to bring up suspicion of strange behavior until she hinted at it - guilty minds said things like that, and he didn't want to be considered guilty (even thought he was). He was glad to see Erin had gotten out all right not only because he knew Aland was fond of her, but because he still had his somewhat unhealthy ... thing for her.

"I got shaken up pretty badly."

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erinkirked
2009-08-07 01:59 am UTC (link)

Erin blanched, "An earthquake?"

Her face paled at the realization; she would have been more content with the Ministry under attack than a bleeding earthquake. An earthquake in London? Bleeding fucking hell, half of her family worked in Diagon Alley, or was constantly in the shops and stores! Erin took a deep breath, her hand instinctively going to her stomach and was greeted with a furious kicking from her son. Her knee throbbed, but the worry that had flushed over her face was overpowering the pain.

"Where, just---Diagon? Or was it..." Erin put a hand to her head, feeling her heart begin to race faster by the millisecond. "Oh God, Will and---and Nate and---" Her face flushed deeply, her concern increasing with each passing moment, "What are we supposed to do now?"

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maintains
2009-08-07 02:41 am UTC (link)

"You need to get to St. Mungo's," he decided after a moment of consideration. "If you are looking for other people that you're worried about they should be there too." Unless they were dead, but Roderick had just enough sense not to say that to her face.

He offered her his arm again so that she could stay steady and then managed a faint shrug. "I'm not sure where it hit," which was a lie, "but I'm sure it can't be as bad as it seems right now."

Probably also a lie.

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erinkirked
2009-08-10 05:50 am UTC (link)

Erin numbly nodded to Roderick's words, walking with a slight limp as she allowed him to lead her out the lab. Her mind was running around a mile a second; what if it had been all over? What if---Jesus, all the kids were with her mum while everyone worked so---what---what if it hit Glasgow? Well...she knew earthquakes didn't exactly work like that, but who bloody knew if it was a magical--God, she was talking nonsense, wasn't she?

"Holy shit," she let out at the sight of the completely torn apart corridor. How could Roderick not think it was that bad? Erin was bloody lucky as all hell that their potions hadn't been smashed together in unfortunate combinations, or else they all would've been blown to bits. Erin's hand pushed harder on her stomach, trying to control her 'what ifs' from taking over and getting her too riled up. She'd made it out with just a burn, things were--

"That---is a person under that rubble!" Erin shrieked, letting go of Roderick's arm and rushing forward.

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alaspooryorick
2009-08-11 05:16 am UTC (link)

Roderick wasn't panicking the way that Erin was because he didn't have anyone to worry about -- at least not here. He was fairly sure that Aland had gotten himself to his sister's house or something like that and avoided all the drama, so he wasn't concerned about that.

When Erin pointed out to him that there was a person under the debris around them, though, he perked up and instantly set his attention on what Erin was looking at. From the look of things, she was right. "Then we should get them out." That was a logical enough conclusion to come to, right?

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Avis had just come in to sign some papers. She was going to head straight back to her sister as soon as she finalized some of the papers so they could be sent off to the courts and then there would be no problem. She'd just been stepping into the ministry when she'd heard the strange noises and then felt the vibrations.

The roof came down on top of her too quickly for her to do anything but throw up a half-hearted spell - if it hadn't been for the protections that they put on the proper Aurors she would have certainly perished.

As it was, she was unconscious and trapped underneath several heavy chucks, but her familiarly thin fingers stuck out from the pile.

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