And here we go, onto Season 2! I hope you enjoy. And though this doesn't really change anything there are twenty more chapters left of this story!

Disclaimer-Nothing but Jacob is mine.

And on a side note, I like so many other Fanfiction Authors no longer receive notifications via email about reviews/PMs etc. So if you do send any it might be a while, if ever before I get back to you. Please keep that in mind for it is not intentional-If anyone has a fix please let me know.

There will be a second part that follows this...eventually. Each series should cover about seven chapters some chapters several episodes. Flashbacks included when needed.

Also I do not do Private Messaging anymore, any questions stick them in a review and I will get back to you next chapter note.

Also please be aware of a bit of a time jump between these chapters.

Also after much thought and consideration I have decided not to include Mandy in this story. She's there for like one Season and misses half of the episode and while she was an okay character played by a very good actress her disappearance and everything that follows is just too hard to write. So no Mandy. Ever.

And a couple of the episodes are mixed around here but please keep that in mind.

There will be a lot of flashbacks in the Season 2 arc as well.

Perhaps Love

Chapter 11-Private Lives, Public Faces

Josh is back at work, Sam is enamoured with a blonde Republican sex kitten (his words) and the White House prepares for Thanksgiving which may or may not include CJ and some Turkey's Jake in a crash course in Turkey pardoning and an offer of football and beer. In flashbacks Jake Cregg-Zeilger meets Jed Bartlett for the first time.

"Mom?"

"Yes Jacob?"

That tone coupled with the use of his first name should have been enough for anyone to pull back and usually for Jake it was the first step towards pulling back but the truth of the matter was that he was so stunned that he could barely speak for a second.

"Mom?"

"Yes dear son?"

"You…you know that there are turkey's in your office don't you?"

"Yes I do. Eric and Troy"

Oh God the turkey's had names and everything. Jake shot his mother a look as she flipped through the paperwork. He had come to wish the President a Happy Thanksgiving before he and his Dad went back to the apartment to do their traditional pizza, beer and diet coke thing (complete with Toby and Sam this year and more than likely his Mom considering she was dropping some pretty intense hints before) and now he was seeing turkeys.

"And they are in your office because?"

"Because your father decided to have a little joke with me, now excuse me I have to take this to the President"

"The turkey's?"

"No not the turkey's…well yes! The turkey's do you know that Norton here is going to take the one that is not photogenic enough to be killed?"

Jake opened his mouth and then shut it again because he genuinely did not know what to do. Was his mother having some kind of breakdown? It had been a stressful few weeks. There had been the midterms that had taken place right after the shooting, there had been the drug's war that had ended up with a coup in an African country and there had been the blonde republican sex kitten (named so by Sam who seemed to froth at the mouth whenever she was mentioned) Ainsley's Haynes who had started working for the President and whose main goal in life was to drive Sam Seaborn up the wall simply by existing.

Jake had not yet had the pleasure of meeting her but he had seen the clip on Capitol Hill and he had to admit that she was pretty and she knew what she was talking about.

"You think she's pretty really?" Sam had asked when Jake had dared to ask this opinion and Jake had shrugged. He thought she was pretty and he thought that Sam had leapt to her defence in a highly suspicious way. As was the fact that whenever her name was mentioned his tone took on a high pitched kind of edge and whenever he was meeting her or due to meet her he was always smoothing down his tie and making sure that his hair was right. If Jake didn't know better (and that was an outright lie because he did know better) he would say that Sam had a crush on the new White House counsel but you couldn't say that because when you did Sam tended to get…well…shrill.

And now there was the turkey's in his Mom's office.

"Mom? What's the issue with Eric and Troy?"

Oh God, he was indulging this insanity.

"The winner of this competition that I was put in charge with, without realising it was a competition was that one of the turkey's gets a pardon and a long life at a children's zoo, the runner up gets stripped naked, has chestnuts stuffed up it's butt, decapitated and cooked"

Jake gestured to Morton that they were to carry on walking and Morton did so carrying the spare turkey.

"You know if the presidential debates were like that I'd bet you'd have a bigger turn out"

"Hey so you do this walking, talking thing a lot?"

They had arrived outside the Oval office and Jake watched as Morton deposited the turkey on the ground.

"Hindquarters are bent" he said into the silence causing Mrs Landingham to look around in alarm.

"Beg pardon?"

"The turkey"

"Oh"

Somehow he did not envy his mother going into the Oval Office and having a conversation with the most powerful man alive about pardoning another turkey simply because she felt sorry for it.

And as it turns out the President couldn't do that.

"You can't pardon the turkey?" Donna asked looking crestfallen. The President looked at her for a second and then…

"I suppose you think that the midnight pastry chef is real too?"

"He's not?" Jake said in surprise. "But then how do you get your cheesecake fix?"

"I have it snuck in past the Rottweiler that is my wife, between her and that old bat behind me—" here Mrs Landingham rolled her eyes heavenwards at the President's immaturity and Morton's eyes widened as if he was watching a play. "I have to smuggle my cheesecake in like I'm a cocaine—"

"Mr President!"

"Oh CJ the boys know I am not really—"

"Hey if you were Mr President what would the Secret Service make of it? Because technically they are supposed to protect you from harm and—"

"Jacob please do not add to this insanity."

"You know that's a thought, I must mention that to Ron at our next briefing and—"

"Mr President! I have to step out and start the children singing and lute playing"

Jake snorted with laughter before he could stop himself and his mother shot him a poisonous kind of look.

"Ok"

And then the President was gone and his mother was skipping (literally) to the door to start the singing and Morton once again picked up the turkey.

"Wow" he said again. "He's…wow"

"Yeah" Jake said watching as the boy of very few words disappear.

"Yeah, yeah he is"

And then he went out the double doors because his mother helping a class of elementary school students singing and dancing while dressed like little pilgrims and turkeys was something that Jake wanted a copy of for the rest of his life.

And he was pretty sure Danny owed him a favour.

Who do you think gave Josh the idea to mention goldfish in the first place?

He had only seen the man once and Jake was not really looking forwards to doing it again. He was sat in the conference room staring at his math book and not for the first time he was wondering was life not easier if he had said no to this 'adventure'.

He was also trying very hard not to think about Josh.

Algebra tended to blind the mind more than once.

The door to the conference room opened and in came Governor Bartlett.

"What you working on?"

Jake jumped and then stood up.

"Evening Governor"

"Evening Jayden"

"Jacob"

"But you prefer Jake right?"

Jake opened his mouth and then nodded. Sometimes with the names he didn't know weather or not he was serious or not.

"Yes Sir I do"

"What you working on?"

"Algebraic formula. My parents want me to carry on with as much schooling as I can while I am here and this was the only thing that I had left to do. I didn't…I couldn't sleep…I…I was thinking about Josh"

"Yeah" Governor Bartlett sighed fixing himself a cup of coffee and grabbing a pastry and then sitting back on the chair and throwing his jacket over the side of the arm.

"Is he alright Sir? I mean…is he…"

"It will take time but he will be fine, I think…time's a great healer of all wounds. I know you think it's a cliché but it is."

Jake tapped his pencil on the desk and then the governor spoke again.

"Don't think I don't know the phenomenal inconvenience this has been to your life since your parents came to work for me Jacob. I know that it has been terribly hard for you. Your thirteen and you have left your home, your friends, your school, your whole life to watch me run for President and if I win as Leo tells me I could…I know that things for you will never be the same. I know that I am borrowing your parents and that you have born the brunt of this. I just…I just wanted you to know that I know it has been hard for you. I didn't want to say it…maybe this thing with Josh has gotten to me more than I thought it would but…I don't know…I just wanted to say it."

Jake opened his mouth and then closed it. In truth he didn't know what to say to that other than he was oddly touched. He was actually very touched. He had not thought that the man had noticed and even if he had he would have never have thought that he cared. And it had been hard. It had been very, very hard to leave it all behind and he had been putting on a brave face for the longest time possible and it was just so…fucking hard.

"Thank you Governor."

"I'm sorry I thought you were a kid who needed babysitting, I didn't say it but I thought it a couple of times"

Jake looked at him and then decided to try his look.

"I'm sorry I thought you were an uptight pain in the ass"

For a second the Governor looked at him and Jake had the sudden urge to run but then the man broke down in a smile that made him look considerably younger than he looked before. Jake grinned back and then he turned back to his math book.

"So what's the problem?"

"I hate algebra"

"Why?"

"Other than the reason that numbers and letters shouldn't be mixed with each other and my work resembles a code that the NSA would struggle to crack?"

The Governor stared at him for a second and then.

"Let me take a look?"

Jake snapped his head back up and blinked.

"Beg pardon?"

"Let me take a look, I love stuff like this, I'm an economist, comes with massive amounts of math and I haven't had a good challenge in a while and believe me High School math is some of the hardest math ever. I don't know how you manage to get through it. Half of the stuff you learn you never really need"

"Like gym"

"Yes. I was always rubbish at that"

Jake passed him his math book and then surprisingly the Governor's eyes lit up.

"Oh this is so easy. Pass me that pencil kid, this is like a good sudoku challenge"

Jake blinked again and then. "You don't mind?"

"Oh no I love this stuff, kinda miss doing the girls homework, well only Zoey's. Ellie's a Doctor now so she doesn't need my help with math, never did, Elizabeth never needed my help with anything. I'm pretty sure the only reason why my youngest has such a good GPO is because I helped her with all that Math."

Jake didn't know what to say to that so instead he carried on listening as the man took a huge weight of his shoulders.

"Governor?"

"Yeah kid?"

"You think when you become President you could ban math from the classroom?"

The governor didn't even design to look at him.

"Not a chance kid"

Jake sighed. It was worth a shot.

"What about gym?"

The man looked up at him then over his glasses and Jake suddenly saw it. He suddenly saw what everyone else saw. He could see this man behind the desk in the Oval Office, he could see him becoming the next President of the United States.

Fuck.

"Now that's a thought kid" was all that was said before he turned back to his book.

Jake paused as he listened to the song and his eyes drifted left to look at the President and he thought that Charlie and Josh were both right.

That feeling you got when you were near the President? Not even the President but maybe just around Jed Bartlett?

It never went away.

And there you go, I had a lot of fun with this one so let me know what you think.

Next Chapter-It's Christmas and Jake and Josh are both pretending that they are fine until the White House Christmas Party where it all boils over.