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Los Angeles, California

Office of Sam Seaborn

"Sam Seaborn's office," Sam's secretary says. "Donna?"

"Cathy?" Donna says in surprise. "Oh my God. Cathy, how are you? I had no idea that you were working for Sam."

"Yeah, I have been for a while now. I normally don't answer phones. Jane does that. She's out sick today. So how've you been?"

"Good. Josh's been working me like a dog. But other than that pretty good," Donna looks at Josh's expression and smiles to herself. "So how've you been? Sam isn't giving you too much trouble is he?"

"He hides his doughnuts." Donna burst out laughing when she heard this. "He does. He's afraid that I might steal them or something. He either hides them or eats them really fast and gets jelly all over his shirt. Then, I have to get him a new one."

"That's probably because you used to steal his doughnuts," Josh said.

"Hello, Josh. How've ya been? Still pissing Donna off."

"Yup. Daily," Josh said. "Toby's here too."

"Hi, Toby. Congratulations on the twins."

"Thank you."

Sam comes up to Cathy's desk wondering where the notes for the speech that he was working on went to. He's about to ask her where they were when he heard her talking on the phone, "Who are you talking to?"

"Donna and Josh and Toby," Cathy said. "We were making fun of you."

"Donna, Josh and Toby are on the phone right now?" Sam asked happily. He hadn't spoken to them in so long. "Put them on speakerphone."

Cathy did as she was instructed. Normally, she would have resisted, but she could see how happy Sam was to hear from his friends so she did what she was told. Besides she wanted to talk to them too. "Hey guys, Sam's here."

"Hey Sam"

"Hey guys. What's up?" Sam asked. "How is everything?"

"Everything's good," Josh said.

"How bout you Donna? Are you still putting up with Josh? You know if you ever get sick of working for him you can always come work for me. I mean the money sucks and the hours are long, but you get to deal with my winning personality. And Cathy is always saying how she misses D.C. and would love to go back." Cathy gave him a smack on the arm. Christ that woman can hit hard.

"Well, that's actually what we wanted to talk to you about, Sam," Toby said. "We were wondering if you'd like to come back and work for the White House again as Deputy Communications Director?"

"I know that you'd have to give up living in sunny California and the bad pay and that evil assistant of yours, no offense Cathy, but we would really like to have you back," Josh said.

"Well, that's the thing actually, Cathy would have to come too. She knows where everything is and we're kind of in this together."

"Of course Cathy can come too," Donna said. "Right Josh, you wouldn't take another job without taking me with you?"

"Of course not Donna," Josh said. "Cathy can come too."

"Thank you for your permission Joshua," Cathy said sarcastically.

"You're welcome," Josh said. "Now how soon can the two of you get out her? There are a few things that we have to take care of before you actually come back to work for us."

"There's a thing Josh.," Sam said unsure of how he was going to tell Josh the next part. "There's something that I have to tell you?"

"Well it can wait until you get here. How about Wednesday? Cathy clear his schedule for the rest of this week. I've got to go to a meeting. See you soon." The line went dead.

Sam gave Cathy a worried look. "Well, Cathy, I guess we're going to D.C."

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