N.B.     I don't own any of these Characters; this is just the mere ramblings of someone who has too much time on her hands.  I just hope you enjoy.

"Sir, you have NSC briefing at 9 and then…"  Charlie Young looked at his boss who looked as if he had lost all interest in what he was saying.

"Mr President, are you alright?"

The President looked at Charlie in a daze "What was that Charlie?"

"Sir, I asked if you were alright.  You had that look in your eye again"

"What look is that Charlie?"
"Like you want to pull your arm off and hit me with it"

The president gave a little chuckle.

"You know you come in here every morning and go over my schedule with me.  Why do you do that?"
Charlie gave the President a confused look.

"Sir, that's my job."

"Yes but why do you do that?  What's the purpose of telling me where I've got to be and what I've got to do?"

Oh God thought Charlie he's in one of those moods today.

"Sir, you are the President of the United States.  You need to know what you're doing or else the country will fall apart.  This is not a nightmare like you think but reality and you have a staff meeting in ten minutes."

"You know I'm only joking right.  Sometimes I just don't like you telling me what to do"

"Yes sir," Charlie said walking out of the oval office just as Leo was walking in.

"Good morning Mr McGarry"

"Good morning Charlie, what kind of mood is he in?"

"I would say that he's in his 'I don't want to be here today' mood"

"That bad, huh" Leo smiled.

Leo walked into the Oval office and stood in front of the Presidents desk.  The president was looking over some papers which Charlie had left on his desk.  He was deliberately ignoring Leo.

 "Are you deliberately ignoring me?" Leo asked.

"No, I'm just hoping that when I look up from these papers that you're not going to be there."  The president looked from them "Damn" he muttered under his breath.

"Sir, your worst nightmares have been realised."

"Why are you here?"

"Sir, we have a staff meeting"

"I don't see any staff in here"

"How long has Abbey been gone?"  He knew exactly what was bothering the President.

"Too long?  Do you know why she's in London?"

Leo shook his head.

"Some damn conference on women's rights.  Don't get me wrong, I'm all for women's rights, but my wife has been gone for two weeks, Leo and I want her home."

"Have you told her this sir?"

"Have you ever tried telling my wife what to do?  She says I'm a big boy and should deal with being without her for a few more days."
"Yes Sir" Leo said with a little chuckle. 

The president looked at him and gave a little growl.

The door to the oval office opened and the rest of the senior staff appeared at the door.  They were talking animatedly about the video but stopped when they entered the office of the president.

"Good morning Mr President" they all said in unison

"Ahh, here they are my senior staff.  Now I'm surrounded by the brightest and the best."

The senior staff all looked at one another.

"Ok, let's get started."  Leo said

"We have a pretty slow day, the press are asking about the President's trip to London and his meeting with the Prime Minister."  CJ turned to the President "Sir, at some point we're going to have to go over a few things with regards to the trip."

"Sure" The president replied

"Sam and I are working with the speech writers about…."

"I hear there's porn in the Whitehouse" The President said.

Everyone looked at him shocked and then down at their shoes.  Leo was looking from his senior staffers to the President.

"Sir, I hardly think that any of this lot would bring Porn into the Whitehouse."

"Leo, please.  I know different"

"Sir, if I may it's not Porn" Josh said speaking up.

Leo looked at him and gave him a look that said we'll talk later.

"I heard different" the president said with a smile.

"Sir, how did you find out about it?"  CJ asked.

"I have eyes and ears everywhere.  And I was walking past the bullpen looking for Toby when I saw Sam here, watching what looked like a porn movie."

They all opened their mouths to talk at one but the President got there before them

"Now, I don't mind Porn not that I watch it myself, but this is the Whitehouse…"

"Sir, it's not Porn" Toby said

"Looked like porn from where I was standing."

"It's a sex education video."

"Wait a minute, how did you end up with a sex Ed video?"  Leo said still not quite aware what was going on.

"Donna's sister sent it to her.   The teacher who produced it showed it to her class and was fired the next day because parents thought that their kids were watching a porn video."  Josh replied.

"So, why send it to Donna?"

"Some of the kids and some of the parents think that the teacher has been wrongly fired.  Donna's sister thought that because she works in the Whitehouse…"

"That she has the ear of the president."  Leo finished for him.

"Yeah!"  Josh said.

"OK, well send the video back and tell Donna's sister that there isn't much we can do about it."

"Leo, you can't do that."  CJ butted in.

"Why the hell not CJ??"

"Cause the press know that the Whitehouse has a copy of the video."

"How the hell did they find out about it?"

"Some of the students have mounted a sit in, in the school and are refusing to leave until the teacher is re-instated.  One of the student's is Donna's niece and well she told some of the local press that they had sent the video to the Whitehouse."

"Damn"

"And the hits just keep on coming" The President muttered to himself.  "What do you say about all this" He said pointing to Sam who up until this point had remained silent.

Sam looked up at the president and then around at everyone else in the room.

"Sir, I think it's a very well researched and put together video.  Granted there are some points in the video where they do take the sex scenes a little too far, but it's not anything that these kids don't see on the TV and at the movies every other day of their lives.  Their parents are making a fuss because teachers are meant to be teaching abstinence only until you get married."

"You think it's a fuss over nothing" the president asked.

"No, I don't Sir.  There is always going to be a fuss when it comes to sex education, but then I don't think that we should be teaching abstinence only in schools."

"Sam, I don't think this is the time to be bringing this up."  Leo said.

"Why not?  Education is one of our main points and people are talking about Sex Education again.  Granted some people aren't happy about talking about it but it has to be talked about."

"Sam's right."  CJ said.

"What's your take on this?"  The president asked sitting on the edge of his desk.

"Sir, I haven't seen the video yet"

"I'll bet you can't wait thought."  The president chuckled.

"Yes sir, but I do agree with Sam.  Statistics show that most parents and guardians favour sex education programs that teach young people about all aspects of sex and sexuality – including how to use birth control to prevent unintended pregnancy and how to protect against STDs – over programs that focus solely on abstinence-only-until-marriage and the dangers of sex."

"CJ, this is a debate we don't want right now" Leo said.

"It's one that you're going to get Leo.  The press know we have a copy of the video and they'll want to know if the president has seen it."

"I would like to see it." The president said.

"NO!!" came the answer from Toby and Leo.

"Why not?"

"Sir, I don't think it would send out good signals if it were to become known that the President had watched a Porn movie first thing in the morning with his senior staffers.  It's going to look like we have nothing better to do with our time" Toby said rubbing his forehead.

"Toby I have nothing better to do this morning.  They want me in to see the NSC, just to tell me that there is nothing much going on in the world today, maybe a little troop movement here or troop movement there but nothing too much too get worried about.  Here we have a group of students who have locked themselves in a school because they think there teacher has been wrongly fired.  They are standing up against an establishment that says that students should sit down and listen and learn and be damned if they take action.  They are protesting against something they believe in.  I want to see a copy of the video and I want to see it today."

"Yes sir" Toby answered.

"Don't you even think about stopping me watch this video, my wife has been gone two weeks Leo, two weeks."

"Yes sir."

"Sam!"

"Yes sir"

"I'm not saying that we're going to make any reforms to the way that Sex Education is taught in this country cause it would take an act of congress to do that and some of them are old stick in the muds, but I want you to put together a report, statistics and whatever about the whole abstinence only and teaching kids all the aspects of sex."

"Yes Sir"

"CJ, if you're not too busy give Sam a little help with this."

Toby looked at the president with a look that said you're crazy to even think about this.

"You got something to say Toby?"

"Sir, I just don't think we need this discussion right now."

"I think it's too late for that"

"What about me sir?"  Josh said looking for something to do.

"Go talk to Donna and tell her that her sister can't just assume that the President is going to get to hear about something she's not happy about just cause her sister works in the Whitehouse."

"Yes sir and thank you"

The senior staffers turned and left the oval office, some were happy and others not so much.  Leo stayed behind and watched the president shuffling papers in his desk.

"You got a problem?"  The President said looking over his glassed at Leo.

"No, but I think your going to have a few problems when word gets out about this"

The President laughed and watched Leo return to his office but he knew he was right.  Trouble was just around the corner.