As they walked away Leo heard his name being called and turned to find CJ bearing down on him anger apparent in her every step. Not far behind her were Toby and Sam neither of whom appeared to be in a better mood.

"Leo, I just..." CJ began only to be cut off as Leo put his hand over her mouth. Her eyes widen in surprise at his unusual method of silencing her.

"Not a word from any of you until we're in my office," he whispered to them.

"What's going on, Leo?" CJ demanded as soon as the door shut. "I just got ambushed in a briefing with the fact that the First Lady got called over here on a medical emergency. My gaggle want to know what's wrong with the President? And I wanna know why I had to learn of it from them?!"

"And why may I ask am I covering Josh's meetings?" Toby asked.

Leo was silent for a minute glaring at the them. "Do you have something to ask, Samuel?" Leo ask sarcastically.

"What's wrong with Donna?" Sam whispered. "I saw Josh and the First Lady leading her towards the Residence as we came in."

"Donna?" questioned CJ as she spun around to gape at Sam. "Someone called the First Lady over for Donna?"

"I called Abby over, and yes it's something with Donna."

"What?" Toby asked in his most quiet whisper.

Leo raked a hand through his hair unsure if he should be the one to tell the others, but then decided that he could at least spare Josh and Donna this. He would need their help in getting the Press off the story anyway. "Donna may be having a miscarriage," Leo finally answered. "She's bleeding, but both her own doctor and Abby think it's just spotting. They think the baby'll be ok."

"But they're not sure?" Sam asked.

"No, there's a history of miscarriages in Donna's family. They haven't said anything about her pregnancy 'cause they wanted to wait until she was out of the first...."

"Trimester," CJ finished when he hesitated. "Most miscarriages happen in the first trimester."

"Yeah."

"How much longer?"

"Three weeks," Leo answered Toby's half-asked question. "CJ tell the gaggle that the First Lady was called to the West Wing, but it had nothing to do with the President or his health. A staffer had become ill, and per White House policy concerning the personal lives of our staff that is all we have to say on the matter."

"Okay," CJ agreed. "What if something gets out?"

"Unless it starts to be a thing we don't want what really happened out. Josh and Donna have enough to deal with without adding the Press into the mix," Leo told them. "Do you guys have Josh's schedule covered or do I need to take something?"

"We've got it, Leo" Sam assured him as he stood to leave. "In fact, I've gotta go deal with the insurance people."

CJ and Toby followed their younger colleague out of Leo's office. CJ heading back to the briefing room while Toby went back to his office.

"Carol!" CJ yelled for her assistant. "Get the gaggle back into the Briefing room. Tell them I have a brief statement that won't take more than five minutes."

A few minutes later, CJ stood behind the podium. "Afternoon, I have a brief statement concerning Ted's question earlier. The First Lady was called over to the West Wing of the White House approximately an hour and a half ago due to a medical emergency. A staffer had become ill. The President is fine, and in fact was not even aware of the situation. As per White House policy concerning the personal lives of the staff, that is all I have to say on the matter."

"CJ!" several reporters screamed trying through sheer volume to gain her attention, but she ignored them all as she stepped away from the podium.

"CJ," she heard a familiar voice from behind her as she walked back towards her office.

"Danny," she greeted him.

"Ask me into your office?" he asked quietly.

"Danny, there is nothing wrong with the President," she repeated as she closed her office door.

"What's wrong with Josh?" Danny asked. "Sam's meeting with the insurance reps. He's not in his office, and when I asked Ginger where Bonnie was, she said Bonnie was covering for Donna."

"Danny, this isn't news."

"Less than a year ago he admitted he was suffering from PTSD. If the Deputy Chief of Staff has had a break down it is news, CJ" Danny argued.

"It's not Josh, Danny" CJ told him.

"If it's not Josh..."

"Off the record?" CJ asked.

Danny nodded. "What's going on?"

"Donna's pregnant. She's been having some problems."

"This afternoon?"

"She started bleeding. Donna's OB and Abby think she and the baby will be okay, but Abby's taken her over to the Residence to rest," CJ explained. "Josh is with her."

"Okay," Danny said. "How are you going to handle this?"

CJ rubbed her neck absent-mindedly. "We want this under the radar. Donna needs to stay as stress free as possible."

"That's going to be pretty tough around here," Danny reminded her. "I'll sit on this and try to keep others off it as long as I can, but CJ..."

"I know," she admitted. "I've got an idea, but I'm going to have to run it by Leo and the President. You're a good friend, Danny" she told him giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Now get out of here."

Danny re-entered the area of the West Wing reserved for the press to find quite a few others waiting for him. "It's not news," he told them.

"So you know who it is?" Katie asked.

"Yeah," Danny replied.

"And you're telling us it's not news," Ted asked. "You're not just saying that because you're friends with them."

"Unless you work for the National Enquirer, it's not news. And frankly, even if you did work for the Enquirer, the staffer in question isn't famous enough to be worth the print," Danny lied. Donna may not be famous enough to be worth it, but her husband definitely was. If the shooting hadn't already made him a household name, his proposal to Donna at the Kennedy Center had certainly made them DC's most romantic couple. Then had come the fairy tale wedding in the White House Rose Garden. All of this had been surpassed by Josh's admission during a Dateline interview that he had suffered from PTSD after Rosslyn. The Republicans had fanned the flames in the Press saying he was too mentally unstable to do his job. It didn't matter to them that by the time it had become public, Josh had it under control. He didn't even need to see his therapist anymore, let alone take medication for it.