Hi everyone! So I've wanted to write something on Emily and Aaron for a while now but I've been lacking inspiration... so I figured instead of trying to come up with a full story, why not do a series of one shots were you guys can also have a say in what you want to see!

I'm basing them in a world where Emily and Aaron got together after their kiss in 1x10 and there was no Aaron scandal and they were able to progress to being an official couple.

So kicking off on the same time scale as Season 2, I'm thinking of doing scenes that we would have liked to have seen in the episodes and just random ones too!

I hope that all made sense... so let me know what you guys want to see, and I hope you enjoy this first chapter, based on 2x01!

5 Minute Moments

Emily and Aaron walked through the corridors of the West Wing, discussing their previous meeting with Kirkman. It had been a particularly stressful day and both parties were trying their best not to bite at people who came to them with any kind of situation- major or minor.

"Devon Braverman called me from the Times called me asking for a comment by the way" Aaron informed Emily who eyed him quizically.

"Why would he call you?"

"Seth hung up on him- twice."

Emily sighed; "You don't hang up on a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist."

"Looks like our boy's going through a bit of a rough patch... anything I should know about?" Aaron asked.

"Nothing that won't be dealt with by the end of the day."

"Emily, there's a VA meeting in the Roosevelt room in 30 minutes" Sasha said as she walked behind the pair.

"Lenny's running point on that" Emily reminded her.

"Yeah but someone said Seth told him to stay there."

Emily sighed once again as she and Aaron rounded the corner and Sasha left them; "Right yes, sorry... Elias Grandy, Aaron can you handle it?" she said as she lifted out her phone.

Aaron stopped in his treks; "that's not my job."

Emily too stopped and turned to face Aaron; "True... but it's my job to make sure that trains are running on time around here, so technically you report to me, meaning your job just expanded."

Emily turned to walk away, but Aaron was quick to grab her arm and direct her to the nearest door on their left that led to an empty briefing room.

"Aaron what-" Emily began as Aaron shut the door behind them. Her back was to the door and Aaron trapped her in, placing his hands above her shoulders on the door, their faces only centimetres apart.

"You're stressed." Aaron stated simply.

"You think cause I'm bosing you around today I'm stressed?" Emily asked with a raised eyebrow.

"No, I think you're stressed because from the moment we left Kirkman's office to get here, you sighed 8 times." Aaron stated.

"You're counting my sighs now?" Emily said, softing her stare towards him.

"Love makes you do weird things" He said with a smirk, which Emily couldn't help but blush at.

Since they became an item around 6 months ago, Aaron and Emily had become very good at keeping things professional in work, but sometimes, 5 minutes was needed with just the two of them, to remind them that there was more in their lives than just the stress of the job, and it set them up nicely for the rest of the day.

"Aaron, I'm White House Chief of Staff, it's practically in my job description to be stressed." Emily reminded him, as she began fiddling with the lapels of his suit.

"I know and nothing is probably going to change that... but I just wanted to remind you that tonight, we're going to go home and we're going to order take out..." he said as he kissed one side of her neck; "then, we're going to take a long hot bath..." he said as he moved and kissed the other side of her neck. "and then, I'll even sit through a Nicholas Sparks movie. There may even be a foot rub on the cards." he said, placing a chaste kiss on her lips.

"Don't even pretend like you don't love Nicholas Sparks." she said with a pout.

"I love it because you love it" he justified, but they both knew the romantic in Aaron had a real soft spot for the movies.

Emily chuckled; "you are such a suck up... but that sounds amazing" she said as their noses grazed.

"Good" Aaron said quietly as he captured her lips in a more searing kiss, cupping her cheeks in his hands as Emily's hands wandered under his suit jacket.

After a few moments Emily pulled away slightly, their lips only grazing; "Ok we need to stop now or I won't be able to stop at all and we have to maintain some degree of professionalism around here..." she said as Aaron smirked against her lips.

"Right. I'll go find Elias Grandy" he said as he placed a kiss on her forehead, before opening the door and leaving.

Emily took a moment, as she straightened her skirt and took a deep breath. She smiled brightly as she left the room. It was the simple things like 5 minute moments in empty meeting rooms, that made her wonder if it was possible to love Aaron Shore more than she already did.

Kirkman and his staff couldn't quite believe it when they made it one year in the White House. There was still a lot to be done and fires to put out every day, but they loved their jobs, they loved the people they worked with, and they loved that they could make a difference.

Emily had been trying to convince the President to hire a political director for months now, and he finally agreed to meet Emily's old colleague Lyor Boone. What the rest of the senior staff weren't expecting, was to be accosted by him for the rest of the day.

Aaron walked into his office following a meeting with the Ukrainian Ambassador to find Lyor poking around the contents of his desk, in particular his photographs. He eyed him curiously as Lyor picked up one of him and Emily.

"Emily Rhodes and Aaron Shore. The perfectly poised White House couple. People love you even more than they love the president and the first lady. You two—are the face of the White House." Lyor noted. As soon as the press caught wind of Aaron and Emily's relationship, every news outlet in the media reported on it, and people loved it. A formidable duo in and out of the White House—people milked it up.

"It's an invasion" Aaron said, not loving the attention he and Emily got. They avoided reading articles as much as they could, but they couldn't always avoid cameras being shoved in their faces.

"Then of course there are the people who worry that your relationship gets in the way of real work being done." Lyor added as Aaron sat back in his chair with a sigh. "But that's no reason to fire you… right?"

"Is there a point to this?"

"As long as I have known Emily there's always been whispers of an Aaron Shore and those whispers soon turned into an 'everyone in Washington knows that Emily Rhodes and Aaron Shore are hopelessly in love.'" Lyor informed him. Aaron rolled his eyes, it seemed that everyone knew this fact before either of them did—or at least before either of them were willing to admit it.

"It's a well-established fact and it's never going away" Lyor said as he motioned to the picture of them yet again. "It's all about how you spin things. Politics is perception."

"Is there something I can help you with?" Aaron asked, growing tired of this analysis of his relationship.

"Yes, what product do you use?" Lyor randomly asked.

"Product?"

"Yes, on your face, your skin is luminous. Is it glycolic acid? Nightingale droppings? Pumice?" Lyor rhymed off.

"Soap and water." Aaron replied bluntly.

"Huh." Lyor said as he finally set Aaron's photo frame back on his desk. "Thank you. It's important the products we use. Kind of like the words we use, and the words this administration's using? No good."

Aaron sighed, deciding to humour him for 5 minutes—for Emily's sake. She was hopeful about this. "Any words in particular?"

"I'm compiling a list actually. I think there should be a lexicon of bad words. You think I should talk to Seth about that?"

"Sure. Telling a writer what words to use is always a good idea." Aaron replied sarcastically.

Lyor smirked; "I see why Emily likes you. That dry sense of humour—matches hers perfectly." He commented. "Oh, and the hotel that you met the Ukrainian ambassador at—terrible."

Aaron raised an eyebrow; "I'll make a note." He said through his teeth.

"Good—good talk." Lyor said before awkwardly leaving the room.

He lifted out his phone and dropped Emily a text.

I just met Lyor

E- I hope you were nice

I'm always nice, but it's not my fault he's temperamentally unfit or that he's not socialised.

E- Be. Nice.

He said my skin was luminous.

E- That's cause it is

This is going to end badly.

E- Take the compliment and get back to work.

Yes boss…

Aaron smirked as he set down his phone. Emily was smart. Incredibly smart. She knew what she was doing… right?

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