This is my first CJ/Leo story and I'm a little nervous about posting it. So please send feedback to let me know what you think. Thank you Eleanor for bataing this for me

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This just kind of came to me the other day. If this sounds at all like anyone else's story I am very sorry. That just means that I have read your story so many times I have it memorized.

Chapter 4

October 30 2000

I can't believe this; I told Leo a small joke about Notre Dame while we were getting ready this morning and he went and snitched to The President that I like Michigan more then Notre Dame. So now I am on my way to Portland, wearing a Notre Dame cap and singing their Fight song.

I swear, one of these days I'm going to seriously hurt Danny. He tortured me the whole flight, by not giving back the first draft of the speech. Finally, he returned it to Toby. Turns out he went to Notre Dame.

November 1 2000

We just got back from Portland and Leo was there to meet us. He asked me if I was up to going out to dinner. It was late, but I could tell there was something on his mind.

We just got back from dinner where Leo told me that his divorce papers came while I was gone. He signed them and in a few weeks he will be divorced. I am very happy about this. I can't wait for our lives to really start.

November 10 2000

We went out to dinner again tonight. It started out as a nice quiet dinner we were talking about our week, but I could tell that there was something wrong. He kept fidgeting. I could not figure out what was going on.

We had just finished dinner, when the waiter came with the dessert tray I turned to look at it; when I turned back to Leo he was down on one knee with a ring in his hand. He said that he had had the ring since right after Rosslyn, and that he was going to propose that weekend we went away. He told me that he had loved me since we first me, and that I would make him the happiest man in the world if I agreed to marry him.

Once I stopped crying, I told him that I too had loved him since we met and that of course I would marry him. He put the ring on my finger, and I started crying again. It is such a gorgeous ring. It has an emerald surrounded by three small topaz stones. Topaz is my birth stone and I have always loved emeralds. I can not believe that all my dreams could come true in one night like this.

November 11 2000

I wore the ring to work today. The first person I saw was Carol and at first she did not notice it, but when I went to reach for a file from her desk she grabbed my hand and squealed so loud that all the other girls came running to see what had happened.

The president gave us both hugs. Abbey told me that she has not seen Leo this happy in a long time. The boys reacted about how I thought they would. Josh lifted me off the ground and spun me around. Sam just gave me a hug and told us that he was happy for us.

Toby was his same old stubborn self and just said his congratulations then he went back to his office. I followed him and told him that I loved Leo and he better be happy for me because I needed him to be there to give me away along with my father. He said that all he really wanted was for me to be happy, and as long as I was he would be happy for me. He also said that he would be happy to walk me down the aisle

November 12 2000

I talked to my father today and told him and my step mother that I was getting married. He informed me he thought I was too young but if Leo made me happy then he would be there for me. Molly said that he was having a good day and what he was saying was not part of the Alzheimer's. I just want my dad to be happy for me.

November 15 2000

Leo and I had an uncomfortable dinner with Mallory tonight. It started out ok; we had been out to diner together before, but once she noticed the ring she got very upset. She said that the divorce papers were not even dry and he was already replacing her mother. I told her that I was not trying to replace her mother. She said that she was talking to her father and not me. Leo told her that he loved her, but he loved me just as much and he was going to be marrying me no matter what. After he finished, she got up from the table and left the restaurant.

November 16 2000

I have been engaged to the man I love for six whole days now and I can't believe it took that long for someone in the press to figure out that I had a new ring on my finger. It happened this afternoon at my two o'clock briefing.

I was just finishing the announcements when I used my hand to move some hair behind my ear; the whole place went silent for a second. Then Danny put his hand up and asked if there was anything else I would like to share. I said "What is this show and tell?"

After they stopped laughing I saw Leo come in the door next to the podium (later, I found out he had been walking by a monitor when I got the question). He smiled as he walked up to stand next to me and I said "Yes, Danny there is something else I would like to announce, Leo McGarry has asked me to marry him."

The whole press corps smiled at me and once again Danny stood up and said "On behalf of the press corps I would like to say congratulations, and Leo if you hurt her you will have to deal with us."