"Josh!" There was banging. "Josh!"
Donna rolled from his side and looked up at the ceiling.
Ronna. It's Ronna.
"Josh do you have Donna?"
Donna heard Josh snort, trying to hold in a laugh at the obvious pun.
"JOSH!"
"WHAT?" He yelled back in his most authoritative tone.
"CJ Cregg has been trying to reach you. She says it's an emergency! Something's happened." The woman yelled through the door.
Donna gasped a little and Josh shot her a terrified look.
"She said to make sure Donna was with you when you called her." Josh was scrambling into his boxers and turninghis phone as he ducked into the bathroom.
Donna put on his hotel robe and threw the door open.
"What else did she say?" She said ignoring the shocked look on the womans face. "Ronna, what else did she say?"
"Nothing. She was clearly upset. I tried to get her to tell me and she um... just muttered something about having to tell the Sr. Staff first." Donna nodded, looking back towards the bathroom. "And to make sure that you were with Josh." It had to be Bartlett, something had happened to Bartlett.
"Thanks." Donna nodded closing the door. She turned the bathroom handle and slipped inside. Josh reached his hand out to her and she took it.
"And you're sure he's-. No, I'm sorry, I just-. I know. And someone's with her? Yeah." He shot a look at Donna and her eyes widened at his expression. "Yeah she's right here. We'll be right over. We have to tell-." His head bobbed down. "Okay." He closed his phone and looked at Donna. "The secret service just.." She reached her hand up to his shoulder. "Leo." He said softly pulling her to his bare chest. "Leo... died."
They all sat around the table in the Roosevelt room, starring at each other.
"Someone should call Toby." CJ whispered. "I- I'm not allowed to call.."
"Sam can call him." Will said softly.
"Sam." The word slipped out of Josh's mouth, Donna squeezed his hand. "No, don't make Sam. I can call him. We've-. He's been helping me. I can-."
"Yeah, but you shouldn't." Donna whispered. "He's been calling you, you don't know what would happen if you called him."
He smiled at her.
"You knew?" She gave him a quirky look. "Of course you knew. It's your job."
She smiled at him.
"Carol? Can you call Andi? She can tell him." CJ whispered nodding to her former secretary. She nodded back.
"Margaret went home?" Charlie asked.
"I had Kate take her." CJ nodded.
"We need to call Sam." Donna ran one hand across her face and the other down Josh's back.
"How long has it been since you've talked to Sam?" Will was looking at Josh. Josh looked at Donna, she closed her eyes.
"I'll call Sam." Charlie mumbled wandering out into the bullpen.
"How did we get here?" CJ said softly, her voice breaking. "Scattered all over the place, not even talking to each other?" She shot her eyes to Josh then slid them to Donna. "How did we get here?"
Donna laid her head on Josh's shoulder.
"Time passed." He said shakily, he felt the lead weight of Leo's words in his chest before he whispered them into the room. "People move on."
CJ shot him the same look of betrayal that he had shot Leo when he said it a year ago. He leaned into Donna and looked away.
