Friday:

"Hey your back early, is Donna here?" Sam asked bounding into Josh's office, Josh sat down and began going through his posts before he answered,

"No, she wouldn't come home, so I'm back early." he tried to give a half hearted smile but failed, he frowned when he looked at the post-its his temp had left littered across his desk and then looked up at Sam

"Sam…"

"I know, Josh."

"We have to. She's right. You didn't see her mom; she's dying Sam in the most awful way, its heart breaking. Why should she go through this?" he said half to himself and Sam knew he was talking more about Donna than Donna's mom.

"Trust me, Josh, its been on everyone's mind all week, the President is shouting at Charlie even more than usual. It's eating at everyone."

"Then lets do something. Next staff meeting we should do the right thing." Sam nodded in agreement,

"I'll go talk to Toby, if we have more people on our side to start with we can convince Leo and Bartlet that this worth a little pain for us."

"Ok, I'll see CJ, I know she's dying to get her teeth into this."

"Josh?"

"Yeah?"

"Is this mutiny?" Sam asked half jokingly

"No, they feel the same they just need someone to start the ball rolling for them." Sam looked at Josh for a second then nodded and walked out of Josh's office.

"CJ?"

"Hey Josh, you're back early. Is Donna with you?" she said looking up from a pile of papers, seemingly glad for the distraction.

"No, she's not coming back. Look, CJ, I've been talking to Sam and…"

"I'm with you." Josh stared at her,

"You don't even know what I was going to say!"

"Josh, you seem to forget how bad a poker face you have, of coarse I'll help push Leo and the President on the HMO's. When are we going to do it?"

"Next staff."

"K, I'll be there," she said smiling; CJ had never missed one staff meeting whereas Josh…well Josh was the kid with a lot of tardy slips.

"Thanks CJ, really!"

"Hey, it's the right thing to do."

"Toby?" Sam called as he entered Toby's office watching the ball bouncing against the wall, you never knew if he was about to throw it at you.

"What?"

"Josh is back."

"With Donna?" he asked as he stopped bouncing that menacing ball.

"No, she wouldn't come back. We want to talk to Leo and the President on this."
"What, bringing Donna back?"

"The HMO's, and if that helps bring Donna back then great."

"You know we're doing this for all the wrong reasons."

"Yeah, but she's right. We should have started this ball rolling along time ago."

"Yeah." Toby said staring down at his feet.

"So are you in?"

"What is this, a mutiny?"

"That's just what I said to Josh." Sam smiled then he turned and walked out of the door.

"Sam?"

"Hey, Josh."

"You talked to Toby?" Josh asked looking worried, the last thing he needed was a difficult Toby.

"Yeah, he was fine, he called it a mutiny too. Do you think we should all go wearing eye patches and parrots on out shoulders on Monday morning?" Sam said looking slightly hopeful.

"We could, but I don't think they'd take us very seriously, but if you want to Sam then by all means you can, but I think Leo may have you committed." Sam smiled and nodded.

"This feels really good, doesn't it? I've felt like dirt the past four weeks."

"Join the club, but we're doing something now right?"

"Yeah."

"I hope it works."

"Hope what works?" Leo asked appearing behind the two of them, they couldn't help but jump and Sam let out the tiniest little yelp.

"Nothing, just…just…" Sam stuttered

"We're making a model boat, we just hope that it goes." Josh said quickly, covering for his friend. Leo eyed them both sceptically.

"You're making a model boat?" he said unsure if he was hearing them right.

"Yep, it's a hobby of mine has been for years and Josh is helping me with this new one."

"Oh, you guys should get out more." Leo said gruffly, but you could just see the corners of his mouth turning upward and as he walked away they could both here him chuckling to himself.

"That was close." Sam said

"Way to cover there!" Josh said slapping Sam on the arm.

"Sorry, he startled me. Model boats?"

"It was the first thing that came into my head." Josh said defensively

"You were thinking about model boats?" Sam said smirking

"No, it just popped in there…look can we just leave the subject alone!" Josh said almost whining.

"Sure, I have to go anyway, I have a meeting for the thing on Friday."

"K, good luck." Sam rolled his eyes,

"Thanks, I'm going to need it."

"We all are."