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Phasma Idoneus Testing Facility
Topic Started: Jul 8 2009, 08:18 PM (143 Views)
Julie Varey
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The testing facility is not a pleasant place. Located in a run-down, remote area of a town just outside of Rome, it is disguised as a nuclear waste plant. Muggles don't dare go near it. Wizards tend not to either, as it looks simply like a Muggle building. Always careful to avoid alerting the magical government, no magical wards have been placed around the building. There is just state-of-the-art Muggle security around the place. After all, large amounts of magic guarding a place would simply scream trouble.

Inside the facility might, if possible, be worse than the outside. It's a high-tech building (no one would ever guess by looking at it), and it's rather bare-bones, sort of like a large warehouse. There was no point to any sort of decoration. There are fully equipped labs on the higher levels, as well as the record rooms and break rooms. The ground floor contained all of the offices of the researchers, carefully locked. There was no sense of camaraderie amongst the coworkers. Decorated in grays and whites only, the place seems sterile, almost like there's no sign of life.

The basement was where the children were kept. Of course, the areas they were kept in were "practical" - designed for economy and prevention of escape, of course. There was a small room with a few toys where the children were allowed their daily "exercise" (if one could call an hour per day 'exercise'). And then, for the older children - ages 3-5 - there were bedrooms with heavy, metal, bolted doors and barred windows, two per room, with beds and a couple of outfit changes (all the children wore the same thing so laundry sorting was never a problem). The rooms for the younger children were, for the most part, the same except containing cribs, not beds. Each room was labeled with one to two numbers - the numbers of the children assigned to the rooms, and their folders were readily available on a hanging file outside the door.

Of course, down the hall were bathrooms and the rooms for the people paid to take care of the children during the day and evening - essentially, to make sure they got fed and remained in passable health while they weren't being used for tests. There was also a cafeteria where the kids were served their meals.

Everything was the same color, though - gray and white. Not very uplifting, but then - neither was any of it.
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Julie arrived with the others to the place Jace took them to. The building looked rundown almost to the point of desertion. Julie could believe that Andre would use a place like that, but normally he preferred nicer things. Then again, he probably didn't want the place tracked. The place just gave off this awful vibe.

"Are you sure there are even people here? It seems so...deserted. Maybe he moved it?" He probably hadn't, actually. "How do we get in?" She figured they weren't going to let them walk in. But breaking in and searching the place ws actually legal if they had probable cause, which they definitely did.
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Abi Noel-Carter
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Despite it being a fairly warm summers eve, Abi shivered upon arrival. She was wearing passable muggle attire- or, she thought it was anyways, Concealment and Disguise certainly used to give her problems during training: jeans, a stretch jumper thrown over a loose t-shirt, converses. All clothes, in short, that would be required of her to run fast..and she was certain she would have to. Her wand was slipped into the front pouch of her jumper, her hand firmly around it. Thus, she didn't look like she was gripping a stick, but at the same time she was not going to be caught off guard.

Abi's wand honestly went everywhere with her now, but that was besides the point.

The building itself glistened ominously in front of them and Abi swallowed in -- not fear, but disgust. While it looked distinctly muggle- certainly very high tech- Abi had no trouble at all figuring that this was the seat of ridiculous hardship and disgusting habits. It just lived (although, rather, died) and breathed an atmosphere of misery and heartache. Abi couldn't picture a place less welcoming for children to grow up, which naturally made her assume--this was the place.

Disgusting.

Blinking her eyes tightly for a second to examine it magically...Abi was startled to discover there were absolutely no wards around the place at all. Her jaw firm, she finally spoke simply, "There's no wards."

And quickly, shot off two freezing charms to the sensors that had been spinning near their head. Well, that made that easier.

"So, then I'm assuming Alohomora would work as well."
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"It's supposed to look deserted." Jace pointed out, "But there's monthly 'deposits', as far as I know, to keep people from wanting it closed down. Usually more kids, but the general population doesn't know that. Now, there's security cameras in every corner. No blindspots. It'd be business suicide to have a kid escape. It's also normal practice to obliviate the guards once they've brought a new kid, and all the workers inside are under some control. I don't think it's imperius. More like blackmail, wealth, contract. Whatever."

He glanced at Abi, and her wand, and shrugged. "If you want to try that, go ahead. Magic in the locking system might cause malfunctions, though. I brought my id. We can try it, see if it still works..."

Jace glanced up at the building, impassive, and said, "Most of these people aren't magically inclined. Many of them pack guns. Try not to get shot? They don't have cars to steal here."
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Julie listened carefully to what Jace was saying, taking in all of the information and committing it to memory. If - Merlin forbid - something went wrong, she wanted to know the best way out and as much information as she could get so she could best assess how to deal with things.

"Yeah, let's try the ID," she agreed with the suggestion, then listened to the warning about the men with guns. It was honestly what she had been expecting. Andre's men had always been more inclined to use Muggle weaponry.

The last statement definitely brought back memories of the last time she'd had any sort of confrontation with Andre's group. "I'll be careful this time," she promised. At least this time she wasn't pregnant. But either way - she was not about to get seriously injured again.

They decided to go with the ID, which still worked, and got inside. Once in, they were on a floor of the building with no decoration. It was all plain - essentially a corridor full of locked doors. "All right... where would they keep their medical records, do you think? These look sort of like offices..."
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Wasn't the equipment malfunctioning the point? Then it couldn't send alarms off that there were intruders, the door would open...it was magic. In Abi's mind, magic always beat out muggle weaponry. Try not to get shot. How encouraging. Just in case, Abi cast a shield charm around herself as she waited for the ID to slip through. They...walked in.

Merlin this was weird. What, the guy could invent a history of mental illness with bribed doctors evidence, and he couldn't purchase one Sneakoscope?

And to keep workers there under blackmail was just ridiculous; Imperius would work so much better, and there was usually nothing but word-against-wo--

Was she really critiquing this? Hell no. All the better for them. Having committed the information Jason gave them with ease--she was used to getting briefed--she nodded and kept her hand on her wand anyways, shutting the door behind them, but not locking it. Quick getaways weren't on her mind, however.

Abi wanted that damn place shut down.

Speaking just as quietly, she first cast a perfectly silent Homenum revelio, revealing that the first office they were near was empty. A silent alohomora later, and the door clicked open with ease. Seriously? Abi was beginning to think that it was almost too simple. She cast down the corridors saying, "We start by getting the records for our missing child. Then we focus on getting the overseer guards arrested, the alarm systems shut down..."

She cast her eyes over to Jace and arched an eyebrow. "Do you know where those would be?"

Just standing in the crook of this door, and Abi was shivering with anger and disgust.
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Julie just looked around for a moment, trying not to imagine Arram being there. She followed Abi into the office she had just unlocked. There didn't seem to be much in the room. The desk was devoid of any papers, and it was sparsely decorated. There was a nameplate, though, and Julie decided to see exactly what Dr. Harvey was hiding in his desk drawer.

Opening the first drawer, she found a file. The title was a long number, and she didn't even want to know what that number stood for. Opening it up, she could quite easily see that it was the experiment records on one of the children.

Although she didn't want to read it, she figured she had to. It didn't take long before she reached a point where the notes were starred, and it read "see medical notes (303)." She could only guess that 303 was the room the medical records were kept in, meaning it was probably on the third floor.

"I think I know where the records are. They're upstairs. Then we just have to find the one that belongs to the baby we're looking for. Shouldn't be too hard - it would have record of the c-section, and it would be one of the higher numbers." The disgust that the children were just numbered was a bit evident in her tone, although she was trying to stay calm and focused. "Let's get upstairs."
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Jason Varey

Jace walked quietly, his eyebrows furrowing as he walked into the place he had taken one look at and decided it wasn't fit for a kid. That was the bloody problem with getting attached...

It was making him uncomfortable, though, all the spellwork. Maybe it was just him, but if magic caught the attention of their Ministry, which was why there was no magic to begin with, but not only that, but Jace knew better than to underestimate Andre.

He was a little tense. [[you think??]]

But both women were fighting emotions, and he let them rustle around in the room, having just as silently slipped out his own glock and had it pointing to the ground, just in case. It was quiet, but he knew that could change in a second.

"Well, Mrs. Carter, I would question the second bit of that statement. There's only one single auror in this group allowed to be making arrests at this point in time and I'm not quite sure it's your jurisdiction to begin with. I say we get the kid, and Arram's file, as evidence, and alert the Italian workforce. Perhaps they'd be capable of doing something right, this time."

He nodded when Julie said they needed to go upstairs, and left the room, keeping an eye out for more sensors or guards.
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Abi remained as calm as she could considering how firmly angry she was at the moment-- at Andre, not Jace--and responded simply. "I mean to alert them the moment you two are out of here, with our girl, and then I'll stay behind to fill them in, assist in any way they need me too...but honestly, after that, it's their jurisdiction in the first place.." By the book. Right? And...

She cast her eyes over on Julie's back as she followed them adding, "I don't want either of you to get into...well, trouble, at the moment." And Julie, was not supposed to be on field duty. Abi knew that. She just preferred to get this done now. So the faster she could be there with the Italian Aurors making arrests, the faster her niece would be home.

She too was following, her grip firm on her wand, re-locking the door the moment Julie had the proper room number.

The less time she spent in this place, the better.
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"Fine."

The three made it up the stairs - it was getting late, and no one was in there offices - with a few more spells casted at the security cameras and one poor janitor who was stunned underneath the stairs - and found the files they needed, rather quickly. The lastest one, once glanced at, had been out, clearly having been recently rifled through, ontop of the filing cabinets. It didn't take long to find Arram's, either, but instead of taking either of the files, Jace took out his wand and copied them both.

It would be too obvious if Arram's file went missing, of course.

Downstairs was a bit trickier, though they had managed to get into the nursery the file had said the baby was in, and silence the woman checking on them both. The number at the end of the cradle matched the one on the file, and Jace nodded to it, watching the nanny instead.
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Julie was doing her best to ignore what she was seeing. She really was. The place was absolutely horrible. The offices and records rooms had been bad enough, but the... place (there was no better word to describe it than that) where they kept the children was worse. Still, they were there to do a job, and she reminded herself to stay cool. Just breathe, and they could get out of there.

The minute they were in the room, she was over by the cradle. The noise, surprisingly enough, hadn't woken up the little girl inside, and Julie reached down to pick her up, carefully swaddling her with the blanket in the crib first. She was so incredibly light - Julie was willing to be she had been 'born' early, and Merlin did she know what that was like. So the baby probably wasn't getting nearly enough nutrition and attention.

At being picked up, the baby did begin to squirm, opening her eyes, an expression that could only be described as confusion on her face. "It's all right," Julie murmured to her soothingly. "We're going to take you home now. I'm sure your mother has been missing you terribly."

She looked up at Jace and Abi. "All right - I think we have to split up. Abi, you need to get this place shut down, and you're the only one authorized to be here, really. I mean, technically speaking? Our boss has me suspended from field work, and it's hardly going to be legally valid if I'm the one to shut this place down," she pointed out. "So, do you want to stay here while we take her home?" She also really didn't want Jace to have to get officially involved with an Auror investigation and the place turning into a crime scene, with the Italian Aurors no doubt questioning everyone who was there and why and how had they known... Yeah. He would hate that. And she really didn't blame him; she'd much rather even just let him take the baby and stay there and take the heat herself for being out doing field work.

Ideally, though, she could get out of there and not have any record of misbehaving before her trial. Turning to Jace, she asked, "So where is home for her?" She walked over to where he was holding the files, glancing at the little girl's medical records - a file stolen from St. Mungo's. The address she could get to. The name...

Dear Merlin. Tiger Baptiste. A Death Eater. That didn't change her intentions to bring her right back to her mother in the slightest. And honestly? She was pretty sure Abi would go give the baby back too. But Abi didn't know yet, and sometimes ignorance was bliss, right? If she didn't know, then she couldn't get held accountable for it later down on the road.

"Ok, you know what? Jace and I will just go." She just gave Abi the slightest shake of her head, gesturing that she didn't want to know.
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"She's been here for nine weeks." Jace pointed out helpfully, noticing Julie's slight reaction to how little the baby was, "And according to the file," What? He skim read, "She was born a month and a half early."

Just explains things. When Julie asked who the mum was, Jace honestly was debating on even letting them see - but Julie seemed to take it alright. She just seemed to have the same conclusion as he about Abi seeing. It was the whole ethics and job thing, he supposed, and he could take the baby back without either of them getting in trouble. Except for it didn't seem like Julie was going to not give the baby back, because of who the mum was, and he respected that.

He could also tell the place was making her mad. "When it's shut down, the site will be scoured, and every baby who has a name and contact to go along with the parents will be taken home. It'll be okay."

As for the address? "The forest behind Godric's Hollow, that's all it says." He put his carry away and then glanced at Abi, "Are you sure you're going to be okay here by yourself until the Italian aurors can get themselves over here?"

At Abi's nod - she seemed slightly surprised at the address? - Jace and Julie backtracked the way they had come, and apparated away to find the house.
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Abi was actually really annoyed that both of them seemed to know who it was that had given birth now and weren't telling her, but she was stopped from inquiring by the smallest shake of Julie's head. Oh. Fantastic. If she were to know, there would be some sort of problem, was that it? But she wasn't supposed to ask. So she decided against it right for now...after, she heard the address. In all honesty, Abi didn't really want to be inquired after for why she was so..particularly invested in the one case anyways.

At the question, her eyebrow was still raised at discovering the address, and then she nodded. The address? That was her grandmothers house. She knew that was her grandmother's house. So why, exactly, the mother didn't have her own address down, only heartened Abi a bit. It meant that at the moment, this was perfectly legal. Whomever the mother was-- bloody hell, Ryan-- obviously was just as wanted as Ryan was. She wasn't that dumb. Excitable, yes. Honestly, though.

"Oh-for-the-love-of-Merlin." She muttered it, under her breath after they left, working with her wand to alert the Italian office once more. "Ryan Gavin Faye, I swear." Abi didn't like discovering she had family she didn't bloody know about, and it was just perfect that if she knew who it was, there could be a problem legally. She had an inkling that Julie knew she'd have returned her niece no matter who the mother was, but she did respect Julie's opinion on the matter as well as her insistence to let the legal matters be left to her.

She was risking her marriage again, wasn't she? Oh bloody hell.

Abi continued to mutter entirely annoyed until others in charge began to arrive outside- which she only knew because of the monotones- following her instructions and entering through the unlocked door, the sensory-blind doorway, and...well there was a yell when the janitor was found. She ceased muttering- her brother, after all, was not supposed to be involved.

"Ms. Noel-Carter?" The accent was thick.

Okay, so, Abi had to admit that the fact that seven clearly skilled Aurors, including the equivalent of her own office were there so quickly was slightly aggravating. Instead of focusing on that, however, she nodded.

"Yes, that's me." They looked like they wanted to ask questions; a few of the Aurors were near the back, exploring other rooms...

"I will answer any questions you have, but first. Do you mind if you shut this bloody place down?"

A few eyebrows were raised in answer, but Abi had turned away to look at the now empty crib. Not twenty minutes ago, she'd seen her niece, and because of questionable legality, her family was being separated again. Again.

Looking at the empty crib made her want to cry, so she focused on what she knew about her Grandmother. Grandmother Martha was probably, at the moment, swaddling her newest granddaughter in the best clothes- probably had a room all set up, Seers were annoying like that- and was attempting to force feed Jace and Julie tea and crumpets.

Abi smiled.

Then she got down to work.
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