Family Ties

Chapter 11

By the time Mac made it up to the residence it was midnight. She hadn't really eaten all day, she had been to nervous in the morning for breakfast, and after Nathan's visit she had been to nauseous to eat lunch. Mac missed dinner with her family and finally the lack of food all day was catching up with her. She made her way into the kitchen and went through the fridge, nothing really looked appealing until she stumbled across the perfect comfort food; triple layer, chocolate mousse, cake. Mac smirked , usually the one preaching about eating healthy, she hid the fact that she had a major sweet tooth, she made a mental note never to let Amy in on that . She didn't even bother to slice a piece, she just grabbed the plate and a fork and took a seat digging in.

"Gotcha."

Mac looked up the fork half way to her mouth and saw Rod grinning by the door.

" I knew that cake would be gone by morning. You never could resist chocolate."

Mac smiled . " Grab a fork and join me."

Rod joined her at the table and they both started to devour the chocolate cake. Before the Presidency and Vice presidency ,when they both had their own demanding jobs, at the end of the day after they put the kids to bed, they shared a tradition of just sitting together, either with a glass of wine, or whatever was appealing that night, talking about their day. Rod used to joke that it was the closest thing to a date night they would have until the kids were in college and they were retired... lately that joke was becoming a reality.

"I saw the press confrence this morning." Rod said as he poured them both a glass of milk. " You did great kiddo . How were the responses?"

Mac sighed. " We won't find out until morning and honestly I don't really care... I did it because I had to, not to make my numbers any better."

"I know honey, it'll blow over soon enough." He said putting his hand over hers .

"How were things here today? Were the kids disappointed I didn't make it up to dinner?" she said intertwining her hand with his ,running her thumb along the side.

"It wasn't to bad, the kids didn't really stick around for dinner, claiming they had a lot of work to do, it was just your mom , me and Amy... and well Avery she's basically been in her room all day, your mom went in to check on her for a bit , she just said she was tired."

"What about you, did you try checking in on her?"

"Mac , I just can't get over it." he sighs ." It just it isn't the same... you know how hard it is to not even be able to look at your child in the eye? She's not the same girl we let go off to England to study ... I don't even recognize her."

" It's hard to realize your child isn't a child anymore, I can't even grasp that yet but, Rod she's still your daughter. That hasn't changed, she just isn't a little girl anymore... she's an adult going through adult things ,but she still needs us ."

Rod nods "Can we not talk about this , just for tonight?."

"Alright, what do you want to talk about then?"

Rod looks at her and grabs the empty plate and forks, dropping them off in the sink. He walks back to her leaning into her ear, whispering seductively.

" How about we stop talking for tonight and take this date back to our bedroom?"

Mac grins widely; taking his hand and leading him to their bedroom. Once inside the door she locks it.

"Wouldn't want any interruptions." she says flirtatiously as she plays with the tie on his robe.

Rod takes her by the waist, pushing her against the door; kissing her passionately. Making his way from her lips, to her jaw and down the length of her neck as his hands undo the buttons of her blouse...

"Rod." she moans holding onto his shoulders tightly ,burying her face in his neck. Completely over come with want for him she removes as much of his clothing as she can reach, letting it fall to the floor . Rod frees Mac from her skirt letting it join his clothing ... his hands roam down her legs, wrapping them around his waist, he carries her over to the bed where they continue to make love...

The next morning Mac wakes to her alarm, she groans wishing to go back to sleep. She looks over at Rod totally un phased by the annoying beeping sound and nudges him.

" Time to wake up Mr. Calloway."

Rod turns over; his long, strong arm wrapping around her waist pulling her closer to him.

"Can't we just stay here all day?" he says placing small kisses on her neck . "I can say the President is sick and she needs to spend the whole day in bed with the First Gentleman."

Mac laughs " Can you imagine? Jim sorry I'm not coming down today, Rod and I had really great sex last night and we want to see if we can break our old record of how many times can we do it in a day."

Rod laughs and kisses her on the lips, propped over her.

"I can dream ,can't I?"

Mac grins and raises her eye brow " If you join me in the shower you'll have something to day dream of all day ."

They both jump out of bed ,laughing, running to the bathroom.

End of chapter 11