CJ's Office

"Yes, uh-huh, how bad? I understand; he will be there in about…" CJ paused to look at her watch. "Well, soon. Yes, thank you."

CJ hung up the phone and gave a deep sigh, this wasn't good. Pale faced she popped her head out of the office door.

"Margaret, can you get Josh over here please?"

Margaret automatically nodded and began dialling the number of Josh's office. It rang and rang but there was no answer, when CJ heard this, her face paled even more.

"I'll have to get over there then," she said to herself more than anything.

- - - -

White House Corridor

Josh picked up his backpack and, making sure he was leaving nothing of great importance behind, headed out of his office ignoring the phone as it began ringing. On any other day at any other time he would have answered it but today was different, today he would stop for nothing to get back to his apartment where he would tell Donna just how much he loved her. That was why he didn't pick it up and that was why he nearly collided with CJ when she came tearing down the corridor wildly. Hair flying behind her and her pale face in a look of anxiety, CJ slid past Josh before backtracking hastily.

"Joshua," she said urgently, making an already bemused Josh become more so; CJ only used his full name for two reasons – she was either really happy and felt like winding him up or something bad had happened. The look on her face suggested the latter.

"What's wrong? What's going on?" He asked, already having traces of franticness in his voice.

His first thought was of his mother. She was his only surviving relative and he was always conscious that at any moment anything could happen to her and he'd be left alone. While, being as old as he was, this seemed a ridiculous thing to worry about, Josh was well aware that with this came the burden of having to pass on the family name and also the knowledge that he would no longer have anyone to turn to for advice on certain matters without being teased for it. Then, thinking about why he did not want that to happen besides the obvious reasons, his mind turned to every single one of his friends Donna at the forefront of all of them.

"It's Kim…" CJ said but paused at the relieved look on Josh's face.

Of course he wasn't relieved that something had happened to Kim, he was just glad it wasn't Donna or his mother. That is, until CJ's next words when he realised what he had obviously forgot in his relief; Donna was with Kim.

"…And Donna," CJ finished noticing how quickly Josh's face changed. "They were in a car accident."

Josh's face had changed from worry to complete panic. "Are they alright? Where are they? They haven't…" He couldn't bring himself to say the words.

"I wasn't told much, patient confidentiality and all that, but they're at GW…"

Josh was already heading to the front entrance of the building shouting quick thanks behind him. He got into his car and sped out of the car park. He beeped angrily at anyone his way and swore at a couple of close calls when he jumped the lights. He might not be going to his apartment but that didn't mean he was going to stop for anything.

- - - -

George Washington Memorial Hospital

"Donnatella Moss and Kimberley Jenkins, they were in a car accident can you tell me anything about them?" Josh's face was pleading with the stern but bored woman behind the reception desk.

"Are you a relative?" She asked with a weary sigh, she had this conversation a couple of hundred times a day after all.

"No," the word slipped out before Josh had chance to lie. "But I'm Donna's boss and Kim's boyfriend," well that was true; technically they hadn't broke up yet. "I think that puts me somewhere close to a family member."

The woman shook her head, "Not even close," she said with a mocking glance at him.

"You listen here," Josh snapped, his concern getting the better of him. "I work for the President of the United States and I –"

"Josh Lyman I presume?" A man's voice spoke behind Josh making him turn instantly at his name.

"Yes," he gasped, not bothering to ask how the doctor before him knew that. "Have you been treating Donna and Kim?"

The doctor nodded. "And they're both fine," he answered Josh's as yet unasked question.

The relief on Josh's face was evident. "What happened?"

"I think," the doctor said almost knowingly. "That you should ask them that."

"I can see them?" He was surprised, they'd been in a car accident, and surely they needed to rest?

"For a few minutes," the doctor nodded.

"Great, where's Donna?" Josh asked, looking around the reception as though expecting to see her stood there.

"Kim wants to see you first," the doctor said, giving Josh a look that told him that's where he should go first.

Josh didn't argue, he supposed it was better if he did see Kim first, then he could concentrate on Donna without feeling guilty. He went to the room the doctor told him to go to and saw Kim lying there with her leg in a plaster and cuts all over her.

"Are you alright?" He asked her when she noticed him. "It looks painful."

"It's not now," she said with a sly grin. "I've been given lots of morphine; I can barely feel a pulse in my wrist anymore!" She put her left hand on her right wrist as though to emphasise this; Josh couldn't help but smile.

There was silence in the room for what felt like an age and then Kim spoke again, calmly and softly. "You wanted to tell me something," she said. "In your apartment. You might as well tell me now."

Josh looked down at the floor and mumbled something before looking up and trying again.

"Alright, so I wanted to say I was sorry," he said slowly and obviously embarrassed. "I used you, and it was wrong of me but if you would let me explain then I think you will understand why I did."

Kim shook her head. "I already understand Josh," she said in a soothing voice.

"Still," Josh said, convinced but wanting to say it anyway. "I would feel better if I told you." Kim nodded to give her go ahead and Josh continued.

"Alright, so I first Donna over six years ago and somewhere between the campaign and the first month of Bartlett's Presidency I fell in love with her. I don't know how, and I don't when but I did and I knew it at the time but I pushed it back. Bosses aren't meant to fall in love with their assistants, are they? And I knew she was capable of so much more than what I made her do but I couldn't bring myself to let her do it. My thinking was that if I couldn't have her then I sure as hell wasn't going to let her get away from me.

"It was stupid and eventually it became second nature to keep her where she was. I switched off any romantic feelings towards her I had, forgot I even had them and just carried on, ignoring how much her talents were wasted working for me. Then the CODEL thing came up and I let Donna go, that was the whole Gaza thing. I guess that's when my feelings resurfaced, when I heard what had happened. You know the smaller details, I won't go into it all, but by the time she came back to work I wanted her near me more than ever, to protect her. That's why I still haven't let her move on, I don't want her to. It's more than just me needing her, it's…And then she got a date with some idiot waste of space intern and I couldn't help but let my jealousy get the better of me.

"That's when I was talking to Leo and he suggested I talk to Stanley, that's when I met you. On a whim I asked you out and I was determined to enjoy myself, so much so that I convinced myself I was falling in love with you. And well, the rest you know…I'm really sorry Kim."

To his great surprise Kim, who had been trying to interrupt him the whole way through was grinning at him insanely.

"Its fine," she told him brightly, gesturing for someone to come in.

Josh turned and saw a man with straight dark hair, it looked black but in the faint light shining through the window Josh could see it was brown. He was in his late thirties, average height and had gorgeous brown eyes. He looked vaguely familiar to Josh.

"I've been trying to tell you," Kim told Josh with a laugh. "I did the same thing as you only with this man here. Josh, this is Philip, he works at Stanley's with me."

So that's where Josh knew him from! Josh knew he should feel some pang of jealousy, even just a tiny one, but there was none there. Instead he felt elated at the sight and, with a large grin on his face, he stood to shake Paul's hand. Then he bent over Kim and kissed her forehead.

"I'm glad you're okay," he said, and he knew she knew that he meant 'okay' to mean so many things. "But I have another woman to go see to."

"Go get her," Kim said, her smile growing as she watched him began to leave.

Josh turned just before her left. "Look after her, Philip," he instructed. "She's a good woman."

"Yes, sir," Philip said, taking Kim's hand in his. "You don't need to tell me twice."

Josh's smile grew as he watched this serenely happy couple for a moment before turning to go in the next room; Donna's room.

A/N: Had to leave it with an air of mystery on Donna's condition wicked grin I'll write more and responses tomorrow, I'm being hurried off the pc now. Sorry it took a couple of days, been reading Half Blood Prince. Yes, I'm a self-proclaimed HP fanatic! So yeah, if there's obvious errors it's because this has been rushed. Hope you like it, kinda pointless but I like it. Enjoy, I expect lots of reviews in the morning :D