At 5:17 PM, Eastern Standard Time, Eric Bischoff was arrested for possession of child pornography. AJ held a press conference saying that Bischoff could possibly be part of a much larger kiddie porn ring. The uproar this caused was absolutely epic. The people in Bischoff's party was thrown for a loop, and the fact that Jonathan Coachman was soon announced as Bischoff's replacement did not help matters. Coach, who had just been chosen by Bischoff to be his running mate, was a complete and total tool and the fact that everyone knew he had been kissing Bischoff's ass for years really hurt him. Bischoff was the most hated man in America at the moment, which amused James to no end.

Of course, there were a few consequences that James could have done without. One was that he now couldn't actually get his hands on Bischoff to kill him. The FBI was not releasing him from custody any time soon. It made them think that AJ had actually found evidence of Bischoff being involved in a federally investigated kiddie porn ring and that was why Bischoff wasn't being let out on bail. Now that disappointed James's bloodlust (he had been looking forward to killing Bischoff after all), but it was something he could live with. At least the weasel was out of the way.

But what did annoy him was the fact that he himself was getting watched much more carefully. The conservatives were attacking him like never before, mainly because they were desperate to get attention away from the fact that their golden boy turned out to be a pervert. He did his best to keep his head up and ignore it, going about his business by picking his running mate (Senator Theodore Long) and scheduling a sit down interview that would air on prime time television with journalist Lillian Garcia (this was when he hoped to come out about his relationship with Mark). But the attacks kept raining down on him, and they weren't even legitimate ones. The conservatives really just didn't like him because he was more vocal in disagreeing with them, and he did it in a somewhat asshole like manner. But being brutally honest and blunt about his opinions had gotten him this far, and he really wasn't going to stop now.

"Are you sure this is a good idea Lawson?" Mark asked the day of the interview with Lillian. He and Stacy had come with James to show their support. The others had gone back to Las Vegas, mainly to make sure Jeff didn't go out and get himself spotted (more and more media people had been following James around lately and he knew that he needed to make sure they took precautions with Jeff). "This is a pretty big fucking platform to do this on."

"What other choice do I have?" James replied. "If I just make a small press release about it, I'm going to get bugged until I do a big interview. If I just not say anything and we get seen together, things will get blown out of proportion. But if I do it this way, I'll just say everything I have to say about this subject and just be done with it. No hiding, no beating around the bush, and maybe it won't be as big of a deal as some will try to make it out to be."

Stacy nodded along as she looked at her manicured nails. "What does Teddy have to say about all this?"

"He told me to just go for it," James replied. "He's cool like that."

"Sweet," Stacy said, still distracted by her nails.

Mark gave James a very serious look. "Just so you know, this little coming out announcement doesn't change anything. I refuse to be your first lady. Stacy will have to do that crap."

James chuckled. Mark had been saying that for days and he didn't seem to be shutting up any time soon. "Okay Marky. Whatever you say."

The producers came over to him and ushered him over to make-up (which annoyed him). After getting all pretty for TV, he was taken to the room where the interview was to be held. Lillian was there looking over her notes, and after standing up to shake his hand, she went back to her notes. James didn't really mind though. He was too busy thinking about what Jeff had told him the other day. Jeff having another baby…well it was kind of scary, even to him. Sure he adored Nero and Jeff had proven to be as good a father as he possibly could be, given the insanity and the murderous tendencies. But he honestly did not know if Jeff could handle two kids. Melina really wasn't any help and Jeff had enough attention problems as it was, so adding a second kid that would need just as much attention as Nero did (and even more while it was still an infant) could lead to disaster.

Of course, everyone would do what they could to help Jeff. That wasn't even something that had to be thought about. But he hadn't told the others about Jeff's plans for a second child and judging from the fact they weren't freaking out about it, Jeff hadn't either (why, James did not know…maybe it was going to be a surprise for everyone else). Could the others handle another spawn from Jeff? Could the world even handle it? Now that was the question that needed to be answered.

"I'm sitting here with presidential candidate James Lawson here," Lillian said, interrupting James's thoughts. The damn interview had started and James hadn't even been aware of it. "And first of all James, I would just like to thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to do this interview.

"You're welcome," James said, smiling the most genuine smile he could muster (which always fooled everyone—except the people who actually knew him of course). "I've been wanting to do this for quite some time. I've got a few things to get off my chest."

Lillian smiled. "Well we all know you're not shy about that. You and certain other political members have been exchanging quite a few harsh words lately."

"Yeah, that tends to happen," James said with a nod. "I've been told I should take the high road and ignore them, but I hate having stones thrown at me by people who don't even take the time to listen to what I have to say on stuff. They take my comments and twist them around and throw them back at me and it pisses me off. I try to brush it off, but when that crap is hailing down on all sides, there's only so much a man can take."

"So what do you have to say about your critics right here and now?" Lillian asked.

"Nothing really. I've said what I have to say, and that's that." He leaned back in his chair. "I actually came here tonight not to talk about them. There's something I need to confess to the country right now and I want to do it before it gets dug up and blown completely out of proportion. "

Lillian looked kind of surprised. This was obviously not on her notes, so she seemed to be at a bit of a loss on what to say. "Oh, okay….what is it?"

James grinned and looked at the camera. "Many of you people out there have been told by the media that Stacy Keibler and I will be tying the knot and she will serve as my first lady if I were to be elected. But that's only half true. She would take the responsibilites of first lady if—and it'll be a big if after what I say here—but I will not marry her, I do not love her, and I'm no longer physically involved with her. I haven't been for three years."

Lillian's eyes widened. She seemed to have taken a guess at what he was going to say next. "Oh boy…" she said under her breath.

"The person I'm involved with...he's a dude. A big scary looking dude that I unofficially married down in Louisiana not that long ago. We've had an on and off thing for decades, but this time we're together for good. This is not a scandal. This is not something I want to hide. I'm saying this now because I want people to get over it as soon as possible. I love Mark and that's not going to change for anyone. Whether this hurts my chances of winning in November really doesn't matter to me. I chose my Marky, and it is what it is." Once James blurted that out, he looked at Lillian. She was looking at him in shock. He looked at the crew around him. They looked shocked. The millions of people at home probably looked shocked as well. Smiling pleasantly, he decided to break the mood a little bit.

"Hey, at least this is better than being a pedophile, right?"