Who: Audrey Weatherby & Percy Weasley What: A run-in at work. Audrey is unenthused. When: 15 February, Tuesday. Lunchtime. Where: Audrey's office. Rating: Low for ridiculousness.
There were some days when it just felt better to have lunch by oneself. Today was one of those days, as far as Audrey was concerned. Nothing seemed to be going right. Between oversleeping, spilling her tea, and burning her toast that morning, things had not yet begun to look up. The latest problem seemed to be some paperwork that had gone missing - perhaps sent to the wrong department - and Audrey had been reamed out as though it was her fault. Which she was perfectly certain it was not. Generally her boss was understanding, and knew full well how responsible and conscientious Audrey was, so she could only assume he was suffering a similar bout of bad luck.
At least she had the courtesy not to take it out on other people.
Which was why she was very purposely eating a sandwich in her office, by herself, intently removed from the distractions and irritations that came with a bustling Ministry office in the afternoon. No use snapping at anyone. Thus, Audrey was none too pleased when she detected that someone was outside the door of her office. Just the sound of a knock made her roll her eyes, and she considered pretending not to be there. Instead, she went against her better judgment but was unable to keep the edge out of her voice.