In the end can they just pretend?
Ronald Weasley had hit rock bottom, his life as he knew it was over. He had lost everything. Well not everything, but it felt like the life he had imagined for himself was over. And his family wasn't helping him. Th...
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It had been about a week since she had returned from the disaster of a trip to France. Well, in one aspect Claudia supposed she had overreacted when she called it a complete disaster considering the fact that she had finally settled on her own emotions. And that in itself was enough to call it a mini success. But that was not relevant, what was, was the fact that she had finally got around to reading the contract of Ron's employment with the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
Claudia was not exactly an employment law specialist, rather she had gone down the route of family law upon starting her job in the ministry. As she worked and enjoyed trying to keep magical families together, and finding safe functional homes for children, amongst all the divorce proceedings that was. She hadn't been overly bothered with employment law, rather it sounded a bit boring. But she knew her basics, and she had her university course books open to refer to.
As she read through the terms and conditions and fine print, the stuff she knew he would not have truly read upon signing the agreement, Claudia sighed. It was well written, of course it was considering she knew just the wizard who had written it, but that was not going to stop her trying to find the smallest clause, tiniest loophole. If this could bring Ron some form of closure, even if she found nothing, then she was determined to rake over it with the finest of toothpicks. Anything to help him out, or at least that was what she thought.
The issue was with the information he had given her it was going to be challenging. They had given him a full 12 week redundancy period despite not having been at the job for 12 years. He had received a bonus payout he would have missed at the end of the year. There was very little she could see which was going to be a potential thing for Ron to look through. He had finished his training or apprenticeship period as that was only three years and he had been there over two years post finishing. Until she saw it, the tiniest of lines. Ones of which noted that Ron was guaranteed employment for the same time as his duration of training. She needed exact dates, ones of which he had not left with her, but she had something. In the very least that was good news.
Claudia moved to turn her office lights off, having stayed late to read through the old contract. Flicking her eyes around the room to ensure she hadn't left anything behind before her eyes paused momentarily upon the small figurines on her desk. What had only started as the one she had originally purchased just so there was something decorating her desk was starting to spiral out of control. As Ron often left one in her room when he popped in for makeshift lunch or when he came to keep her company in an evening she was overrun with work. The 12 figurines had now started to create a little scene and it brought a smile to her face. That was before she knew she had to take the nasty toilet travel to his studio.
But Claudia did it, without whining overly much to the other people she was surrounded with. And soon enough she was on the floor of which Ron's apartment was located. There was another figure stood outside the door she thought was his, and Claudia paused wondering if she had accidentally come out on the wrong floor. She had never done so before, but there was a first time for everything. Considering she was delusional, and didn't want to truly believe there was a reason another woman would be stood outside Ron's flat waiting for him. She didn't want to think that this was possible. But as she continued to approach knowing that she did indeed have the correct floor, she had kind of started to recognise the person stood there.
