"I know how we all got away from here." Donna said softly, tilting her head towards Josh's chest. "Sometimes I wonder how we got here to begin with."
"That's easy." He told her leaning his head back against CJ's couch cushions. "Leo brought me, I brought Sam, Some political idiot Leo fired brought Toby and Toby brought CJ." He looked down at her face. "You." He smiled widely. "You just showed up." He leaned forward and kissed her gently. "Thank God." She smiled at him, the silence returning.
"How are we going to get back, Josh?" Her voice was soft and innocent.
The door leading to the oval opened and CJ walked back in. She stopped, looking at them with her red eyes.
"Josh." Her voice was unreadable.
"CJ?" His was just exhausted.
"You just won California." She smiled oddly at him watching the look of understanding that crossed his features.
He felt his stomach drop and his mouth slip open. He clicked his eyes back to Donna. She mirrored his astonished face.
"That's how." He whispered to her.
"He isn't talking phone calls right now, Lou." Donna put her hand over her face. "I know. You're going to have to handle it." She sighed loudly.
"I'm not taking phone calls either. Yeah well.. I'm taking Josh's not my own." She looked at his crumpled form sleeping on the other end of the couch.
"Look, as of right now? You're the deputy chief of staff of the incoming administration. Your COS and Press Secretary are away on a family emergency. You're the go to gal. You tell me, what are you going to do?" Donna grimaced.
"Well too late, go with plan B." She closed her phone and leaned back against the couch.
"So. What was plan A?" CJ asked quietly slipping back into her office.
"Complaining to Santos that his COS was sleeping with his Press Secretary." Donna cringed running her hand back over her face.
"What?" CJ's voice took on a pleasingly astonished tone. She sat down in her desk chair and rolled towards Donna. "You and Josh?"
Donna's fingers spread from her face, revealing one eye and a portion of her embarrassed smile.
"Damn! Leo's been up there less than 24 hours and he's already running things his way." She grinned back.