Muffin Madness - Malichai

[Kate McCarthy]

Kate was working late tonight because that was better than being at home at the moment, Sam and Rebel had broken up and so their house was being flooded with sad songs, all hours of the night Sam was up writing them. It was driving her insane and when he was in a sad song mood it meant she had to do something else to occupy herself and that had been Muffins. If she made anymore muffins then she got the feeling the whole department would kill her, everyone in every office seemed to have a basket of them. She needed to get out of a muffin mood, to do that she would have to do something about Sam.

It was easier to stay away, to stay late at work and avoid the temptation to bake it was safer for everyones waist lines too. This was why she found herself reorganising the filing system in line with MACUSA, normally she would fight them on that, but today they would win and only because it gave her more work. They might see this as a victory but it was not, so now the office was full of files and on every surface there was not a file there was a muffin.

Tying her hair back in a messy bun Kate flicked her wand in the direction of the radio flicking through until she settled on some sort of folk station a little bit of home and selected a blueberry muffin to snack on as she settled in to her evening of organising.


Malichai Payne

[Malichai Payne]

Malichai could smell the muffins from outside the department door. Something had gotten to Katie again... She baked when she was upset usually. Stepping into the department door, he found baskets of muffins on the communal table the ambassador teams shared for file grabbing. "Uh oh..." He gave a worried glance towards Katie's door, hearing the radio going from behind it. He wasn't entirely sure he wanted to find out what was happening behind it.

Manning up, Malichai gently tapped on the door before opening it and poking his head in. Files... Everywhere... Oh, shit... "Um... Katie... Why are there muffins and files all over your office? We had this straightened out with the new layout... Or at least so I thought..." Did he do something?! Dear god, he hoped he hadn't done something to upset her this much!

[Kate McCarthy]

It was late and Kate really had not expected Malichai to be around surely he had a life and he was busy, so when he was standing in the doorway of his office and she was sitting in the middle of the floor pulling his office apart, she was a little mortified. For a moment she just sort of stared back at him mouth agape file in one hand and muffin in the other. Why was he here? Did he not say he was heading home? Maybe he had not said that, was she so spaced today that he had said hew as coming back and she had just decided to do this? What was up with her at the moment.
Realising that sitting here and staring at him was probably not the most helpful action she quickly dived over and turned the radio down, tried to straighten herself out a little and not look like the complete mess she was. ”Oh .. um hey .. yeah um well, MACUSA didn’t like how we straightened everything out, it isn’t inline with MACUSA” As she spoke she quickly tried to gather things together and at least make it so he could get to the desk. ”They said it had to be more inline with their guidelines and to quote them here “not the British way of doing things” Kate paused for a second to do their air quotations before carrying on. ”And for some reason I thought you were heading home for the night, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to try and get it on track before .. I don’t know how it works over there maybe they report me to the filing police or something?” She probably sounded like the biggest idiot, but she offered him a smile, hopefully he was not mad.

[Malichai Payne]

Malichai crossed his arms and leaned against the door frame to listen to Kate's explanation of the current mess in the office. MCUSA... He figured it was MCUSA. "Okay... Kate... We're in the UK... Not the states love..." It was so difficult to keep from chuckling as he spoke to his assistant. Slash... Whatever they were to one another at this point. "You can tell them to shove it up their asses and you can't get in trouble. And I HIGHLY doubt Draco would let them shove you around if he found out they were sending you letters on how the UK organizes their files..." He hadn't heard of Cole or Keiko getting bullied by their coordinating countries ministries, but he was going to make a point to ask about that. It was usual for MCUSA to bully and harass their own people, in New York. But he'd never heard of it overseas.

[Kate McCarthy]

”Really? I had not noticed” Kate stuck her tongue out at him as he pointed out their location, he was so full of himself, she was aware of that, but that did not make it any easier. Congratulations you are in the United Kingdom, but MACUSA had reach of course they did and she really just got the feeling they did not like her very much. That or they were really really bored and telling her how to do things and making her feel bad at her job was keeping them entertained.

Sometimes Malichai could just be .. well so bloody American with the way he spoke and handled situations, there was no diplomacy with him sometimes which was bizarre considering his job title. ”Yes, but you see we both know I am not going to do that” Shove it up their asses, was such a mans response to doing things, it was easy for him to dot hat and he could do it and they would take him seriously. She had been raised to treat all people with respect and .. well she was also not brave enough to do that, that and they would probably just laugh in her face. ”I tried to do that, but they reminded me that it does not work like that apparently” Shaking her head Kate tossed a muffin at Malichai ”If you are so brave why don’t you go and talk to them then? I think they just want to keep me on my toes, its probably that Anderson person I met last time we were over there because I refused to go on that date with him” They were always propositioning her like that when she went over there it was ridiculous and kind of embarrassing too. ”I just don’t know whether I am coming or going between the two organisations at the moment and its exhausting” That and putting up with Sam at the moment, it was possible her emotions were getting the better than her because she was exhausted in all aspects of her life at the moment, but .. she was doing her best.

[Malichai Payne]

Malichai stuck his tongue back at Katie, making a face while he was at it. "I suggest you realize quickly then pet! You answer to Christina, not whoever is president back in my home country." He couldn't keep the damned people in charge back home straight anymore. Power changed hands too often for that to be a priority of his anymore. "Who is sending you letters saying you have to comply with MCUSA's file system? Because if you do comply with theirs, you'll spend hours finding things..."

True to telling others off... Kate wasn't someone who would easily shoot her mouth off, unlike him. He caught the muffin with ease as she tossed it at him, no doubt intending to hit him with it. The reminder of Anderson made him roll his eyes and groan. "You sure I can't go wring his neck for you? I would you know."

Stepping over the piles of files and muffins strewn across the floor, Malichai managed to fit himself in behind Kate and take a seat, wrapping himself around her form and pulling her into his chest gently. "If you want, I'll find a muggle phone and make a few harassing phone calls to them and find out what the hell they're up to."

[Kate McCarthy]

Kate must have looked quite the mess to Malichai and she looked up at him from her mess on the floor ”Yeah, but you see when you say that it makes sense and it sounds reasonable, but when they say it the other way it sounds like im the idiot floozy that is messing everything up. I have the letter right here” Pausing for a moment Kate realised she did not in fact have the letter and scrambled across the floor to her bag where she dug out the letter and waved it above her head. ”I just don’t know anymore, I don’t know where I stand, it is all too complicated and I don’t know if I can do this”

It was just all too difficult and too much and too many people who are pointing fingers and trying to blame one another, nobody just wanted to get on and it was frustrating. ”Oh don’t you tempt me, I would like to wring someones neck right now, I just want an easy life, but nobody will give me one”

When Malichai stepped over and gave her a hug, redness spread straight to her cheeks. ”I would like that very much” Taking a deep breath Kate tried to calm down a little bit an leaning back into his arms and his chest a little more ”Please find the phone or you and everyone else on this floor will be eating muffins for the next month”