Author's note: hello! Here I bring you another story… this one is in my mind ever since I watch "First scandal" (my favorite episode EVER!) and now that I've just watched it for like the third time I got inspired to write down my thoughts. This story answer one simply question… Who was the one who leaked the information? And how will Mac react?It takes place in the middle of "First Scandal" and "Rubi Dubidoux and the Brown bound express" … In this story everything what happened before and in "First Scandal" remains the same meaning that Mac already promised Rod giving him an official position in the West Wing but she still haven't decided which one…and she already gave the press conference about the book but Rod is still trying to discover who betrayed Mac by leaking the letter and he is almost obsessed about it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Commander in Chief… please don't sue me.
Don't blame Teddy Bridges.
Chapter 1:
Stolen Letter
White House. Residential Part. Presidential bedroom. Very late at night.
Mac was about to get into bed. It had been a long day and she was ready to leave it behind her. But her husband wasn't… Rod was in their bed reading "Stolen Presidency" one more time… all she wanted to do was to burn that book and never see another copy in her entire like. But Rod wouldn't let it go… he was still outraged because of that book, and because of the implications of the book. To him the book meant that someone close to them shouldn't be close to them. One of the people working for his wife had betrayed her, and that was unacceptable to him. Mac got into bed a little frustrated. She wanted her husband to do something that wasn't exactly reading…
Mac- I can't believe you are reading that crap again!
Even the title was insulting to Mac… "Stolen presidency" That had hurt her like hell… but she hadn't show it, of course, she tried to pretend like the book was no big deal.
Rod- honey, I have to see if there is something I missed… maybe a clue, a hint… something about who was the person who send Evan Hutchins the letter…
Mac shook her head… She wanted more than anyone to know who was the person who betrayed her, but that seemed an impossible thing to found out. Who was Evan Hutchins "anonymous Source"? If that wasn't the best-kept Washington Secret, it was surely in the top 5.Mac- what do you expect? Do you expect to suddenly discover a note at the bottom of some page that says: "the letter was sent by a black men whose initials are JG"?
Rod looked at Mac with curiosity now… Rod- so… you think it was Jim now? But you have just sent him back his resignation letter… Mac tried to be patient and calmly explained…Mac- I think that YOU still think it was Jim, even when I told you he wasn't… and you are still obsessed with the book because you are dieing to prove that he betrayed me…
Rod seemed a little offended by the insinuation…
Rod- I'm not obsessed with the book…Mac have him a "Come on!" look.
Mac- Rod, how many times have you read it in the last 48 hours?
Rod- four… what's your point?
Mac- that you are so interested in finding out who leaked the letter because you are wishing with all your heart it were Jim…
Rod was now very offended.
Rod- I'm just really interested in finding out who is the traitor in your administration…
Mac raised her eyebrows and asked a question maliciously…Mac- even if the traitor were Kelly?
That caught Rod completely by surprise. What did Kelly had to do with all this.
Rod- what is that supposed to mean?
Mac shook her head…Mac- nothing… just forget it…
But Rod wasn't known for letting little things go…Rod- honey… Are you jealous of Kelly?
Mackenzie was now embarrassed… she had to admit something…
Mac- well… she is pretty, young and you did tell her about the job in New York before you told me. Plus, I don't like the way she looks at you sometimes…
Rod thought his wife was crazy.
Rod- Come on! That's ridiculous… You are just paranoid!
Mac- and so are you!
Rod- I'm not just paranoid… you do have a traitor in your staff…
Mac knew her husband was completely right. That was why she had refused to pay much attention to the book at first… because it meant that someone stabbed her in the back and it really hurt her to admit that. The idea of one of her closets people betraying her disgusted her.
Mac- ok, but if anyone who knew about the letter if a suspect, then Kelly if a suspect… she wrote it.
Rod reluctantly accepted that but he still thought that his wife was just jealous.Rod- ok… but if Kelly is a suspect then so is Vince…
Mac looked at her husband in horror…
Mac- No way! He didn't even wanted Kelly to write the letter…
Rod- hey! if you think Kelly could do it is fair to suspect of Vince too…
Mac rolled her eyes and very reluctantly had to accept that.
Mac- ok, ok… but I think we are skipping the obvious suspect…
Rod- Templeton?
Mac- yes… I mean, he knew Teddy had asked me to resign… and he saw me folding a piece of paper and putting in my pocked… my guess is that he connected the dots, realized what the piece of paper was and then stole it…
Rod considered it for a second… actually he had been so busy hating and blaming Jim that he didn't even considered the most obvious choice.
Rod- it just… it would be too…
Mac- too painfully obvious to be truth?
Rod- exactly… it's weird… but that's how it feels…
Mac thought about it for a few seconds and the she said using a very mystery voice…
Mac- well, honey, in Thrillers usually the killer turns out to be either the person you less expect or the person that seemed so painfully obvious that was the killer that you decided in the first 15 minutes "that can't be the killer".
Rod shook his head and said very seriously…Rod- this isn't a Thriller. We are not solving the murder of a half-naked woman with big breast who tried to run away from the killer running upstairs when she should have got the hell out of the house. This is real life…
Mac rolled her eyes for like the hundredth time in the last two days… Mac- I know! I was just teasing you… jeez Rod, you are taking this too seriously…Rod- and you are not taking this seriously enough…
Mac was running out of patience. Of course that she took it seriously… but she thought there was no point in obsessing about it because there was no way they could find out who was the source of the leak. She tried to explain it nicely to her husband.
Mac- look honey, I know you mean well, but is impossible to know who is the backstabber… it could have been anyone. I mean, Teddy Bridges himself leaked most of the information.
Rod rolled his eyes… He didn't care about Teddy Bridges so much. When it came to traitors, Rod's priority was catching the alive ones.Rod- yes… but there was one thing that Teddy couldn't have possible leaked…
Mac- my resignation letter, I know that.
Rod- Mac… what did you do with that letter after you decided not to resign?
Mac- I already told you! I had it in my hands while I was talking to Nathan Templeton, he was being really annoying, then I decided to became President so I folded the letter and putted it in my pocket… when I went back to our room, ready to have some sleep, I took of my clothes and noticed that it wasn't in my pocket anymore…
When she noticed the letter was missing, she didn't worry too much about it… until two weeks after that, when she found out that a reporter had the letter and was writing a book about it.
Rod- so… it could have fallen out of your pocket in the Vice-Presidential mansion for anyone who was there that night to find it… or maybe someone stole it from your pocket while your were distracted or something…
Mac- I doubt that someone would put a hand in my pocket, hoping to find in it a resignation letter confessing that Teddy had asked me to resign, without me noticing the hand in question…
Rod- you are right… the letter must have jumped out of your pocket alone… that's a very athletic piece of paper you wrote…
Mac didn't appreciated the sarcasm…
Mac- look… chances are someone who knew about the latter waited until I took off the blazer after the swearing and hung it on a chair, and then just stole the letter…
Rod looked at Mac surprised…Rod- you took off the your blazer after the swearing!
Mac- I was sweating like a pig! That wasn't very presidential…
It was the first time Rod heard about it and he was shocked.
Rod- you took off your blazer, which contained your resignation letter, and left it just hanging in a chair without watching it? And with Templeton in the room! What's wrong with you?
Mac was now very pissed… all the emotions she had bottled up for the last 48 hours were suddenly right in the surface…Mac- well… at that moment I had just became the President and I had a lot in my mind… I'm sorry I didn't think "Jeez, What if someone finds what was going to be my resignation, gives it to Evan Hutchins and he writes a dam book about it saying that I stole the dam Presidency! I better keep an eye on the fucking blazer!"
Mac had now tears in her eyes. Rod simply held her in his arms and kissed his forehead.
Rod- I'm sorry for not discovering who it was… and for being such a pain about all this…
Mac looked at his eyes and felt really happy to have him with her.
Mac- you are not a pain, honey… sure, sometimes you are… but this last couple of days you were amazing… when you found out I was in trouble you stayed in Washington without thinking it twice and got into action to discover that book's many lies… you stood up for me and now you are still trying to found out who hurt me and even when I think you are getting obsessed and annoying, it doesn't matter, I love you even more for that…Rod was touched. For the first time since Mackenzie became President, he actually felt important and needed. He felt useful and that was just what he needed… before, when she asked him to stay with her in the way she did it, he had felt over the moon. He kissed her very passionately and only broke the kiss to get some air…
Rod- oh Mac… you have not idea how happy you are making me saying all that… you know how much I love being an overprotective husband and how much I love you…He finally left the book in his night table and then kissed Mac again more passionately getting ready for one great night of making love for hours.
To be continue…
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