I've lost count of how many Sundays I've spent in this apartment with Donna. We used to work from here if it wasn't urgent enough to take us into the office but still had to be done. I used to find a lot of things had to be done. We flew in from Hawaii yesterday evening and we've spent a perfectly lazy day today unpacking Donna's worldly goods and putting them away in my apartment. It's funny I always thought of the old house in Connecticut as home – until today… I've just left some sort of cooking dish thing into the kitchen.

"Josh"

"Josh!"

"JOSH!"

"You bellowed?"

"Maybe you should think about installing an intercom in your bedroom"

"'We', 'in our' and not a snowballs chance in ..."

"You're serious about this? As in a permanent arrangement? Not just until I…"

"Donna, this is permanent as it gets… You like this place… You told me you were reluctant to move out…you know… back when"

"I was"

"So you liked the place or was there some other reason you didn't want to leave?"

"No, I liked the apartment Josh, in fact if you'd like to move o…"

"You're really funny you know that"

"In fact I do"

"I was going to ask you to come stay here when you got back from Germany…"

"Yeah"

"Donna, i'm serious I was…"

"I know, I believe you"

"You had your mom staying and then one of your sisters and then the other one…"

"I'd rather have…you know…"

"Well you're not going anywhere now"

"No I'm not… especially as it's taken us most of today to unpack three boxes, there are benefits of having worked for you Josh, the main one being that I never had time to accumulate stuff."

"You really think that was the main benefit of working with me for x-number of years? Not the political education, the experience…"

"The pleasure of hearing you yell my name"

"I yell your name now and I don't hear you complaining"

"Ah… but I enjoy the perks now"

"Perks ey?"

"A lovely apartment with dependable central heating"

"Is that all you need me for a roof and warmth?"

"I have other uses for you"

"Really?"

"But we'll discuss those after we unpack the last two boxes…"

"Donna!"

"Josh!"

"Fine"

"What's in this one?"

"Think it's bed clothes and the throw comforter I had on the back of my sofa"

"Where do you want them?"

"I'll put them in a cupboard somewhere"

"You love that blanket thingy, your sister bought it for you at some craft bizarre shop, you did everything but pin it on the wall at your old place"

"Yeah, I just…"

"And it's really comfy, do you realise how many nights I've spent under that thing"

"I have a vague recollection of how often you've turned up at my door on account of your sensitive system…yes"

"Well then can't it…go on the… the colours sort of…?"

"O.K…. what's Sam's number?"

"Why do you want to call Sam?"

"'Cause the spaceship that returned me has kidnapped you and I've been left with this clone who notices if colours match in his den!"

"I am very observant"

"You want it on the couch…"

"Yeah the last one I had got ruined…"

"Yeah, I should tell you something about that"

"Hey you dropped a jar of tomato sauce and half a bottle of red wine on it, you were on crutches you shouldn't have been cooking anyway"

"Well I might have to tell you something about that…"

"Yes?"

"Before I say this remember that I love you and have done for some time and that we're together and you no longer want to talk about education plans at…"

"I sense I'm being mocked"

"Maybe, but remember…"

"Yeah, yeah what?"

"You remember I was cooking chicken and vegetables that night?"

"No, but go on…"

"You don't put tomato sauce in chicken and vegetables and red wine doesn't go with…"

"What exactly are you saying Donnatella?"

"I'm saying that I may have ruined it sort of accidentally…"

"Accidentally?"

"Accidentally on purpose"

"You vandalised my apartment?"

"I was very careful not to get any on the rug or the furniture"

"My apartment smelt like Don Giovanni's pizza emporium for a month!"

"It wasn't a month Josh"

"It was dam close"

"I'm sorry"

"It was only sitting on that armchair because the super needed something to cover the floor with while he replaced that heater"

"It was on the foot of your bed…before I mean…"

"Not in a very very long time"

"Really?"

"That's why you destroyed a perfectly good blanket thingy because…you were…"

"Maybe"

"You were jealous?"

"Josh, please don't be 'you' about this"

"You were jealous"

"Josh, what exactly happened to the leprechaun on my desk last fall?"

"I don't know"

"Joshua?"

"You can't blame me that the head fell off some piece of tourist tat"

"Can't I?"

"No!"

"It had nothing to do with you, Charlie and a chefs knife from the mess"

"Donna!"

"It had nothing to do with that did it?"

"Well…"

"It was a present from my niece Josh, my niece… my sister and her family were in Ireland on vacation and my niece brought me back a leprechaun, thinking you know… it would bring me luck after I was injured and you…"

"Donna!"

"You beheaded the thing!"

"O.K. O.K. I'm sorry"

"You should be"

"You know this would all have been easier if you'd just jumped me in Manchester instead of answering my phone"

"I'm not saying the idea didn't cross my mind"

"It did?"

"Yeah Josh, you have that much of an irresistible sexual prow…"

"I sense I'm being mocked again"

"Put the blanket over the couch if you'd like to"

"I'd like to… What about this last box?"

"It's alright it's just books and… you have storage in the basement?"

"Yeah but don't you want to check what's…"

"I know what's…"

"'Aunt Donna's Box for Everyfink Quite Special'" ahh Donna!"

"My niece made it"

"I can't think of you as an 'Aunt Donna'"

"I sense I'm about to be mocked"

"Seriously if I think about Aunt Donna, I think cookies and cardigans and…"

"She calls you Uncle Josh"

"What?"

"You heard"

"Your niece calls me Uncle Josh?"

"Yes, and you send her a thanksgiving gift every year her Aunt Donna couldn't make it home because horrible Uncle Josh has made her work…"

"Horrible Uncle Josh? I really have no hope with your family do I?"

"You're her favourite uncle!"

"Your other sister isn't married!"

"She has uncles on her Dad's side Josh, but she likes you"

"I'm very likeable"

"You send her great gifts"

"Donna?"

"Yes Josh?"

"I have never in my life bought…"

"You did"

"I did?"

"Yes, you did"

"O.K."

"So what's in here?"

"Josh!"

"It's a campaign badge"

"Josh…"

"It's my campaign badge, you kept my campaign badge?"

"Yes"

"Donna…"

"I keep things"

"You are such a girl"

"As we've been sleeping together for more than three weeks I'm glad you noticed"

"Believe me I noticed"

"Good"

"What's this?"

"Josh!"

"Why have you got a card for a D.C. cab company in your box of special stuff?"

"No reason, it must just gave got shoved in there"

"So I can throw it in the trash then?"

"No!"

"Donna, Why have you got a card from a cab company?"

"It's just a thing"

"January 20th 2003, What was..Janu…? Oh!"

"Josh, don't please…"

"You kept a card from the cab?"

"What are you doing looking in my box anyway?"

"You said I could and you're blushing"

"I didn't and am not"

"Are too"

"Am not"

"We're back in the 5th grade!"

"Don't make fun of me Josh"

"I'm not"

"You are"

"I'm not… Want to see something?"

"If you're about to bring what I think you're about to bring out of your wallet and suggest we use it, we have had this discussion and…"

"You have a one track mind Donna you really do"

"It's contagious"

"This, this is what I was going to show you"

"So you've got a cab number in your wallet"

"Yes, it's the same company"

"I'm supposed to be impressed you keep a cab number in your wallet?"

"The company went out of business two and a half years ago Donna"

"So you have an out of date cab number in your wallet, whoopee"

"Look at the date Donna, I wrote the date the same way you did"

"20th January 2003…what? why?"

"I kept one too, from the pouch in the back of the seat"

"You did?"

"Yes I did"

"Why?"

"Why did you keep it?"

"Because…"

"Because why?"

"You'll get a big head"

"I already have a big head"

"You have a point"

"So why did you keep it?"

"Because it's the most romantic thing anyone has ever done for me O.K?"

"More romantic than taking you to Hawaii?"

"I have the ticket stub in my bag… but until you whisked me off for a romantic six days in the sun I had to make do with five minutes in the snow… in front of a communications director, a reporter from the Washington Post, the President's Personal Aide and a Will…"

"I looked at you that night and realised that what was flying around in my head and everywhere else was a hell of a lot more than what I should have been feeling for my assistant… my best friend. From that night on this little voice kept telling me you're in love with her you idiot..."

"You didn't listen to it"

"I made it a point not to listen to Sam, it tended to get me in trouble, besides it was coming from California I was a very little voice"

"It was Sam?"

"I should have listened to Sam"

"Then and there, here and now Josh"

"Yeah"

"Je ne regrette rein"

"I forget was French one of your minors?"

"Famous song by Edith Piaf, 'I regret nothing', she was a French singer in the forties and fifties.."

"Is there any snippet of useless information you don't know.."

"No information is useless Josh…We've got to go back to reality tomorrow"

"You're worried?"

"You're not?"

"No"

"That space ship really did take you away"

"No it didn't, Donna I've got you by my side and if I ever start putting you second or…"

"You're going to have to… sometimes"

"Sometimes yeah"

"You can't do that job if it's not your priority"

"Sometimes yeah… but you're going to tell me if I prioritise it too much…"

"That's one of the rules…"

"Which are laminated and stuck to the icebox…"

"You see how practical that was?"

"You're going to tell me if I get too monomaniacal…right. Don't just leave?"

"I'm not going anywhere Josh"

"I have you here, I have the person I trust most in the world…next to you… in my old office…"

"That's how Leo did it… the in the office part I mean"

"You think?"

"I do"

"Well Sam's there, You're here, I'll have Margaret in the…"

"I did tell you I offered Margaret…?"

"You didn't, you can't I mean... no, I mean, you can't…"

"Oh so all that 'I'm not worried Donna, I've got you Donna, I've got Sam Donna' comes to pieces when I tell you I offered Margaret…"

"She comes with the office!"

"I'll tell her that, that's really conducive to turning down my offer…"

"Donna!"

"It's alright she turned me down, but I had to give her an out…"

"An out?"

"Yes an out, she knows what I went through"

"So she's not going?"

"No but she's sharing the job with Nancy, remember she's got Kieren now"

"You organised an assistant for me, two of them?"

"The last time I did a terrible job of it and you left the White House, I couldn't run the risk…"

"You want to offer Ginger or Carol or…."

"That would be too weird"

"Maybe, you'll do this amazingly Donna… You are qualified and experienced; you got Mrs Santos through the campaign…"

"And I've got you to come home to, and Annabeth in the office…"

"You stole Annabeth!"

"Annabeth or Margaret pick one…"

"I'll take Margaret"

"Good, This is going to be weird…"

"No Donna, what's going to be weird is the first time I have to face President Bartlet after C.J. tells him where you're living…"

"Oh God…"

"Questions about my private life in the Oval… just what I've always dreamed about…"

"The President can't know we have sex Josh!"

"Funny I could have pictured you saying that years ago, now not so much…"

"I'm adding to the rules Josh, you cannot in any way or manner allow a President elect or incumbent to think in any way, shape or form that we have sex…"

"One, I'm not quite sure I can prevent that and two you can't add to the rules you laminated them."