Josh pushed the door open and look at what was supposed to be an empty room. Donna and C.J were standing the middle of a circle of the people from Sunnydale, another young woman, Toby, the First Lady, the President and the crazy Englishman. They looked like they had been fighting.

Leo pushed past him with a superior look.

The first person to speak was Abbey.

"Leo, I said I would tell you if I could!"

"I was looking for C.J," Leo said.

"What do you need, Leo?" C.J asked, ignoring the fact that she wasn't wearing her shoes.

"I wanted to know what the Press were doing about Owen's death and if you had any more information that I might be able to pass on to Caroline."

"We'll find out what happened, Leo. But I want to keep it out of the press as long as possible. I don't think the details have made it out, I'd like to keep it that way."

Leo nodded and turned to Toby.

"You'll have to meet with her soon, Toby. She's needs input on the final draft."

Toby glowered at Leo and mumbled a response, but Leo knew he would do it. He stepped back and looked around the strange group of people.

"Have you and C.J been fighting?" Josh asked his assistant.

"She won," Donna said bitterly.

Josh looked at C.J. She'd neatened her hair and put her jacket back on. But there was dust on her pants.

"Why?" he asked.

"The easiest way to train," Donna explained. "And Buffy wanted us to."

Josh turned to the young woman he didn't recognise.

"You're Buffy?"

"Yes."

"And where did you come from?"

"What do you mean?" Buffy asked.

"You weren't with the others in the Roosevelt Room before," Josh said.

The Scooby Gang, and those who had done the spell shared a couple or anxious glances. C.J nodded to Donna, who looked questioningly at Toby. Toby looked to Giles, whose expression said quiet clearly that it was Buffy's fault.

"Mr President, they're your staff, how much can we tell them?"

"How much do you want them to know, Ms Summers?"

"What spell did you do?" Margaret asked.

She peered around Leo to examine the residue of the spell that had been performed. Leo turned sharply to look at her and almost fell of the step he was on.

"Call of Need," Abbey said.

Margaret nodded.

"Margaret?" Leo demanded.

"Sorry," Margaret said, taking a step back.

Leo just looked at her, trying to work out how much of what she had said was supposed to make sense. Abbey had known what she was talking about.

"Abbey?" he asked.

"I told you that you wouldn't want to know," Abbey said.

"No, you didn't. And you were wrong. So all these people…?"

"Yeah, they were all involved."

"Even Toby? And Donna?" He wasn't prepared to comment on anything C.J might be able to do.

"I didn't do much," Toby said. "It's not really my thing."

"No," Leo said slowly.

The President was watching him with something akin to anger. Josh was merely confused.

"'And Donna what?'" he asked.

"We did a spell, Josh," Donna said. "Mrs Bartlet, and Tara and Willow are witches."

She pointed Tara and Willow, but Josh didn't look at them.

"So this is a real conversation?" Josh asked.

"Spike's a vampire," the dark haired kid at the back said.

"This conversations has vampires in it," Josh said. He was beginning to sound panicky.

Xander was grinning. Donna patted Josh gently on the arm.

"It's okay," she said. "C.J and I can kill them. So can Buffy, she's the real Slayer."

"Slayer?" Leo asked.

Buffy held out her hand. "Buffy Summers, Vampire Slayer."

He came down the stairs, past Josh to meet her.

"Leo McGarry, White House Chief of Staff," Leo said.

"You knew," the President hissed in his ear.

Leo looked at his friend. "It was hardly my place to say anything, Jed."

"Jed, I'm sorry," Abbey said, tugging on his arm. "We never discussed it. They told me I was a demon, I had to run, Leo was the only person I could think of running to."

"You never told me," the President said. Although he had no idea what he could have said if she had.

Abbey shrugged. "You would have said 'I want you to stop' and I would have described to you all the great things I could do if I used my power."

Jed blinked. He turned to look at Abbey carefully. He couldn't find anything to say. She seemed to understand.

Josh was still staring at Donna. C.J and Buffy were now sanding either side of her. Leo was watching the four of them, waiting for Josh to think something and trying not to listen to the first couple's conversation.

"Mr Lyman?" the redhead interrupted him. "It might be better if you sit down."

Josh lowed himself to the bottom step. It was nicer down here, he thought.

"C.J?" She was the one least likely to be playing with him. Or at least, she'd be the easiest to read. He didn't know the other people there at all.

"Listen very carefully while we explain this, Joshua," C.J said.

He really didn't think that she was having him on. And it seemed the President, Mrs Bartlet and Leo knew what was going on, too.

Tara left the others to explain what was what to the White House deputy Chief of Staff. She remembered what the red head woman had said as she came in. She was at the top of the stairs, surveying the room with a disinterested air.

"Margaret?"

The woman blinked and looked at her.

"My name is Tara. You could see the residue of the spell?"

Margaret nodded brightly. Then she looked almost comically concerned.

"The Call to Need isn't a good spell. Jeanette was telling me about these people who had wanted to do it in Chicago. But they couldn't go through with it."

Tara ignored the information she didn't need.

"Can you see any residue in Willow?" she asked, pointing out her girlfriend.

Margaret narrowed her eyes as she looked. She nodded slowly.

"It's not as bad as Jeanette was saying about the guy in Chicago. But she needs help."

Tara nodded fervently.