Aaron woke up in Emily's living room with her asleep on his shoulder, their empty wine glasses sitting on the coffee table in front of them. He slipped out from under her picking her up and carrying her to her bedroom he placed her on the bed and pulled the covers. He was about to walk around when he felt her grab his hand. " Aaron I'm sorry"she whispered, her eyes still closed.

"You have nothing to be sorry for me" he said sitting down on the side of her bed keeping her hand in his.

"Yes I do" she said opening her eyes

"What do you have to apologize for" he said sincerely

"Because i didn't go, who knows what would have happened if I stayed. What would have happened with us" she said with sadness in her voice.

"Well your back now so who knows what will happen" he said bringing his hand to her cheek who leaned into it. He gave her a small smile and leaned his lips to her forehead. "Get some sleep I'll see you tomorrow." He said pulling away she nodded as he stood up walking out of her room

Emily's alarm went off the next morning she woke up walking into the kitchen and pouring herself a cup of coffee when she heard stuff from the outside. She walked over to the window and saw the press surrounding her apartment. She pulled out her phone to text the president when she saw a text from Aaron saying he saw the news and was on his way to get smiled responding that she would be ready in 30 minutes and there was a key under her door mate. She walked into her bathroom climbing into the shower. She heard the door open and close so she hurried and got dressed before walking toward the door. "Morning". She said drying her hair off with a towel.

"Morning. This is crazy isn't it.'' Aaron said, walking toward the window and peaking through the curtains.

"Yeah well when you work at the white house and come back from the dead it is going to make the news. Give me a couple minutes and i'll be ready." she said grabbing her bow drier from a bag sitting on her table.

"Take your time." her said leaning against the island in her kitchen as she walked into the bathroom. She blows dry her hair fast before pulling it into a sleek ballerina bun and quickly throws on some makeup and her jewelry before grabbing her purse.

"Ready to go." she asked, walking out of her room.

"Yeah yeah" he said pushing him off the counter following her out of her apartment. As they walked out of the front of Emily's apartment the press instantly started snapping pictures and asking questions but they just pushed threw and got to Aaron's car. And drove away. As emily looked up at his mirror she saw a couple photos pinned to it. On hopping out at her it was a photo of her and Aaron standing laughing at one of the white house parties. She turned and looked out the window and remembered a conversation that she had with her. She doesn't really know who he was but he was her boyfriend back when she was in protective custody.

Emily was standing in her kitchen when Jared walked in. "Beth, who is this guy." she turned around and saw him holding the picture she thought she was gonna pass out.

"Uh just a old friend from back home." she said as she could feel the color draining from her face.

"Whose picture you keep in the very back corner of you night stand" he asked

"I had it moved here and I forgot about it." Emily said, shrugging her shoulders.

"Ok so you won't mind if i just throw this in the fire." he said and Emily felt tears start to well up in her eyes.

"Yeah yeah go ahead." Emily said, looking at her feet when she heard the picture start to burn.

"I gotta go to work.'' Jared said, walking out of the house. Emily instantly started crying walking toward the fireplace seeing the picture of her and Aaron burning. In that moment she wants nothing more than being able to just call him and talk to him and stop being beth baxter and be emily rhodes again be his emily rhodes again.

"Em '' Aaron started pulling Emily out of her daydream.`"you ok." he said as she noticed they were at the white house.

"Yeah yeah lets go." Emily said, smiling , stepping out of the car and walking into the white house. It was hard getting back into work but she slowly got through the day and ended her day as she often hoped she would end her days with Seth and Aaron having drinks.

"So you ended up in montana.'' Seth asked, taking a sip of his drink.

"Yeah i mean at first it was hard i made friend and i had a.." but stopped before anything came out of her mouth

"Emily had a Montana boyfriend," Seth said laughing. Emily just chuckled shyly before moving on. After about a half an hour it ended up like most nights did with her and Aaron sitting watching the news.

"So who was this Montana boyfriend," Aaron asked, chuckling , pouring her another drink.

"His name was jared he was nice but let's just say i wasn't going to marry the guy.'' Emily said, taking a sip of the drink. After a minute of sitting in silence they turned toward each other after another second of staring into eachothers eyes they both leaned in. they pulled away a second.

"God i have missed you.'' Aaron whispered before pulling her in after wrapping his hand behind her neck.