Disclaimer: the characters do not belong to me, but they belong to Touchstone television and the creator of Commander-In-Chief Mark Laurie.
The set up is that this is the first female president of the united states and how she balances her life between work and family.
Horace and Rebecca are her 16-year-old twins, Amy Calloway is her 8-year-old daughter. Rod Calloway is the First Gentleman.
Chief of Staff is Jim Gardner, Press secretary is Kelly Ludlow, and special assistant to the president is Vince Taylor.
Speaker of the house is Nathan Templeton.
This story takes place before Rod Gives Mac the Ultimatum about a position on the White House staff.
By Natural Selection
By S.K. Rowling
Chapter 1
The Nod
Horace Calloway walked into School that morning as confident as ever. The attention that he was getting since last month, had his ego pumped up.
So what if it was only because of his mom? She was the first 'female president' after all. That historic deal came with downfalls, but it is the coolest thing that had ever happened in his life and he was proud of her.
His dad, Rod Calloway, kind of embarrassed him a little. It wasn't like he could help it, but the guys at school made fun of his father calling him 'The fist Lady.' The whole situation could be kind of embarrassing to a husband. Horace, however, thought that his dad should just buck up and take control of his new position. He needed to and make it his own, and define the role of a first gentleman. It was a blank slate and could do really cool things with the job. He could see what his father's displacement in his status did to his mom.
His twin sister, Rebecca Calloway, was not of the opinion that they should be living in The White House at all. She wished her mother had listened to everyone else and stepped down as Vice President when the President was still alive. Now she is stuck living in a house, that she didn't like, followed around by secret service for the rest off her life. She can't go to a Private school like the rest of the senators' kids as she did before and totally missing her friends just because her mother needs to impress the public.
Her Teenaged life has been turned upside down because her mom was President. No one in the school liked her, or even talked to her. No boy ever asked her out, and she swore it was because of all of the secret service agents around her twenty-four hours a day, and seven days a week.
"See you later Becca." Horace said heading towards his homeroom.
"Yeah whatever." She answered heading the opposite direction with her entourage.
Once the twins were settled into their seat and their agents settled in back of the classroom and at the door. The bell rang and the morning announcements began. "The nominations for student body office are in." Katie, the announcer, said. She was one of the most popular girls in school, which Horace had turned down more than once as she tried to get him to go out with her since his mom's inauguration. His friends thought he was crazy because she was hot and fun, Horace should use his sudden popularity to get as many hotties that he could.
It's not like Horace was a geek by any standards. He was tall and handsome with a fit athletic body. He had his mother's eyes deep brown. Horace was the image of an All-American boy, so he could get any hottie he wanted. His popularity only made it easier. But Horace wasn't about being a player, besides he had a maddening crush on someone already. "... And the nods for student body president go to the awesome trio: Christian Andrews, Allison Krouse, and my baby, Horace Calloway... Wow. Good luck Chris and Allie, guess who has this in his blood."
In her classroom Becca sank in her seat and covered her face totally embarrassed. She just knew that Horace was eating that up. Attention grubbing little snit.
In his classroom, Horace was being congratulated and he was effectively eating it up just as his sister suspected. After the announcements were done, Homeroom ended and Horace walked out of the class just as Katie walked into the room.
"Hey Horace," She said making sure that her hip brushed him as she squeezed through the door at the same time he did. "Don't whoop them too bad." Katie's shameless ploy to get him interested worked, making him take notice of her outer beauty to put it in the nicest way possible.
Becca caught up to Horace in the hallway rushing out of her own classroom. "Horace, you can't accept that nomination." She stated hurrying to keep up with his quickening strides.
"Why not?" Horace asked stopping to talk to his sister for a second.
"It won't be fair to the others that are running," Becca insisted, "None of the others are as popular as you, and won't even get listened to."
"So?" Asked Horace.
"So, nothing will get done." She said folding her arms in front of her.
"What makes you think that?" Horace said starting to walk again.
"Horace, Please… They have been grooming themselves for this for years. What you are doing is not fair." Becca pleaded trying to keep up with him.
"Who said politics was fair Becca." He said walking ahead of her.
Frustrated Becca ran a hand through her long brown hair and headed to her classroom.
up." She said heading straight for the showers.