That Zig-Zag Running Through My Heart

Lighting by Little Mix

Kate Wilson CNNWilson

I will have you know #MarkWateny did not threaten me at all! He was nothing but understanding about our massive screw up and I will be talking more about this tomorrow on The MW Report at 7. #BringHimHome

Annie had an army of interns and actual employees scouring the internet "This is a fucking shit storm." She said running her hand through her pony tail "This is an actual fucking disaster."

"Ma'am, Kate Wilson tweeted that Mark was nothing but nice and didn't threaten her and she'll go into more detail in the show tomorrow." A brunette intern called out.

"Well that's good I guess. Although I'm not sure how seriously people take Kate. If it was Cathy maybe but Kate's not known for her hard-hitting journalism despite the fact that she's actually very good."

"Cathy?" The intern asked confused.

"Cathy! Cathy Warner!" Annie exclaimed annoyed she had to explain, she was even more annoyed when she saw the younger woman still had no idea who she was talking about "God Chelsea! Do I have to explain everything! She's the original host of The Mark Watney Report!"

"Sorry ma'am." Chelsea squeaked.

"It's fine. Go get Mindy Park for me will you."

"Mindy's not in yet Ma'am."

"What?"

"Well she usually drives to work with Watney so they must live close. I assume she's a bit scared to leave her house with all the media around."

"Damn it, you're right she actually lives-"

"Ma'am!" Dan, a new addition to her permanent staff, yelled.

"You just interrupted me Doug!"

"It's Dan... and I'm sorry but we have movement."

"Is Mark leaving his apartment?!" Annie exclaimed rushing over to the giant monitor he was looking at.

"No it seems the Ares III crew are going to him."

Annie smiled as she saw Lewis going into scary commander mode and scolding the media like children at the same time Beth seemed to be checking a text on her phone.

"You know who," Beth said, doing a vague head gesture in the direction of Mindy's apartment "just asked what they should do."

Martinez shrugged "Tell them on the count of three to dash across."

"That doesn't seem like a good-" Chris started

"That's a great idea." Lewis finished.

"It is?" Chris and Rick asked at the same time.

"Yes. Tell her to do it on three."

Her phone binged "She's ready." relayed Beth.

Chris supplied a key for Mark's apartment and got ready to unlock the door.

"One." Melissa said slowly and then abruptly skipped "Three!"

Mindy dashed out of her apartment carrying her keys, phone, laptop and chargers, closed her door behind her and into the open door of Mark's apartment. The 4 astronauts followed quickly and efficiently behind and then closed the door.

"Ha." Annie laughed "They may be a media nightmare, but they're pretty great."

Suddenly Siobhan burst in "This is terrible!" She exclaimed "Not only is this bad just in general but everyone judging my assessments of him may set back his progress for all I fucking know!"

"Irene." Annie said "It's been a while."

"This is no time for pleasantries Annie! The fucking world is burning down around us!"

Annie laughed sarcastically "I do NASA PR Doc. I put out fires everyday. This," she widely gestured around the large hall "is my empire, I'll show you how it's done or better yet, maybe Dan can tell you how I told him it was done."

"Um." Dan looked like a deer frozen in headlights "First issue a statement asking the press to respect the privacy of those involved?"

"Is that a question or an answer?"

"Um...an answer." Dan said still unsure.

"Correct. Work on your confidence. Chelsea, what's the next step."

"Schedule a press conference with leaders in the field of the topic." The brunette stating trying to sound more confident then Dan had and succeeding.

"Well done. In this case Irene that's you, Kate Wilson and Chris Beck. Jerome, what's step three?" She asked the African American man scrolling Twitter.

"Um-what? Step three? Um- brief the subject of the press conference on what they can and can't say."

"Good. And last but not least Irene, you should be able to figure out the next step from your work on the human mind."

She scoffed "Make sure they believe whatever bull-shit story you told them?"

"Close." Annie replied "It's actually to make sure they believe and then relay my bull-shit story to others so that they then believe. And if you look to this screen on your left you'll see a draft of the message to respect privacy and to your right is a list of the companies invited to our press conference."