Hi, so here is the sequel to Perhaps Love! I am so excited to get this out and finish Season 5-7.

So...the usual. This will not be episode specific, certain episodes will be skipped. Dialogue will not be the same. If that's something you look for in a story then please don't start because you won't get it here.

Also in my West Wing Universe Sam doesn't leave and Ainsley joins full time. Will is in the story...so far...Mandy is not and never will be. Andy had Toby's babies via embryo's not by sex. Also Jake is bisexual.

Pairings are CJ/Toby (eventually) Josh/Donna, Sam/Ainsley, Jed/Abby.

Disclaimer-Nothing but Jacob is mine.

It is advised that you read Perhaps Love before you read this.

And this is 28 chapters long.

And there will always be swearing in this story. If this offends you then please don't read.

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.

And look...I don't like Amy. I don't like her. Nothing against the actress but as a feminist, pro choice woman (and damn proud of it) she was so annoying. In Season 5 I skip her scenes because she doesn't get it. No disrespect to anyone who likes her but she was wrong for Josh and wrong for the show. Sorry, not sorry. That's just my opinion, you are of course completely entitled to yours.

Future Perfect

Chapter 10-Politces As Usual

With John Hoynes bringing out his book CJ is plagued with guilt, Toby with jealousy and Jake...well...Jake just wonders why on Earth people keep thinking he's stupid. Italics include flashbacks to the early days of the Bartlett Administration and the Campaign.

It had not been intentional.

Sleeping with John Hoynes.

The more she thought about the book the more that she had thought about that night. The more that she had thought about Suzanne. Suzanne that had come to her and asked her how she could stand up against Abigail Bartlett. Suzanne who had been smart in her own right but who had given up her career to be a Mom in a way so many woman had, had to do. CJ had always looked down at her for that, had always looked down at her for fitting the mould that so many men wanted them to fit. Housewife, mother.

It had been what had made Abby so refreshing, Here was a woman who worked, who raised a family. Who didn't roast a turkey for sixteen hours straight on Thanksgiving but was instead working. She had looked down her nose at Suzanne thinking how easy it would be for her to go away. What was the point of her with a man like him?

Now she felt ashamed.

It had been growing since she had learnt about Helen Baldwin.

And look CJ was not naïve. She had not expected John Hoynes to be a one woman man. She had known there were others. She had not expected him to be so brazen about it—certainly she had not expected him to do it in the office. She had been the last one she had thought and maybe she had been the last one…maybe she had been the last one before he became Vice President? It was hard to tell with Hoynes.

She had regretted it the minute it was over. Had slunk from his room feeling like she had been paid. She had been ashamed. Never had she thought…but he had been so…

Charming.

Hoynes had oozed a charm that nobody else had. The President had charisma sure but he'd not had the charm that Hoynes had, You looked at the President when he talked about economics and you listened to him because he was right but you also looked at Hoynes with the baby on his hip, talking to the single mother and your heart skipped a beat.

That was reality. CJ had learnt it well. She was in media. She had learnt how it worked before she was even out of bed in the morning. She knew that Hoynes had sex appeal that the President did not. Hell she'd joked with both men about how they could use that in the campaign and gotten good laughs in return from them both.

And then she had tumbled into bed with him.

Once could blame the vodka but CJ knew it was her. She had hung on his arm like she was a fangirl, had blushed when he had paid her compliments, had tried to do her best to improve his image when it was the other guy who had been running for President. She had been a single mother and her sexual experience since Jake's conception had not been what you would at all regular. He had been charming and she had been weak.

And now here was the price.

A book.

A tell all disclosure book.

Fuck. Her. Life.

How had it come to this?

She did not dare tell anyone why she was so afraid of what that book would tell. Josh didn't see it the same way she did. Leo was more exasperated than anything else and If she had not nagged the President about it she didn't think that he would mind either. Sam was still in baby land and Toby…

Toby knew but dared not ask.

Just how she liked it.

"What happened?"

She was still in the bathtub, she had claimed that she was sick the morning after the…well…and now she was sat in a Donna Karen dress soaked to the bone bottles out of the mini fridge scattered around her and Toby looking at her so softly she wondered if something or someone had died.

She opened her mouth and then.

"Hoynes"

Toby stared at her for a second and this time his gaze was sharp and dangerous. It was an oddly attractive look on him and one she did not see that often.

"What did he do?"

"Nothing"

"CLAUDIA JEAN—"

"I SLEPT WITH HIM OKAY? "

Toby stared at her and then sank weak kneed onto the toilet seat. For a second they stared at each other and then he turned and walked back to the hotel room grabbing the bottle of whiskey and a bottle of water for her.

"Oh"

"Yeah"

"CJ—"

But she had put her head to her knees and sobbed.

Toby came to put her arms around a moment later. She leaned into him and he kissed her hair.

"CJ you deserve so much better"

She was too busy crying to analyse what that comment meant.

"Hey" Harrison said his head in Jake's lap (not in the fun way thank you very much)

"Did you hear the ex VP is writing a book?"

"John Hoynes?"

"Yeah?"

He paused combing through Harrison's hair and leaned against the wall and then.

"Oh."

"Yeah. Josh will get a glowing review"

"Probably."

Harrison flipped onto his stomach and looked at him.

"You want to tell me what's going on"

Jake dragged him up for a kiss.

"No" he said smugly.

Harrison just smiled.

He did not know what had awoken him but something had. To be honest he was so used to being dragged awake by his parents that sleeping in deep had become a thing of the past. He was still not sure what he was supposed to be learning here but he supposed that he was learning that if you wanted a job in the political world it was that you didn't sleep.

It was a long day, had been a long day, some political function that he was not supposed to be at But Donna being the wonderful woman that she was had smuggled him some food and a little one glass bottle of champagne. Jake wasn't sure what he thought of it…there was hardly enough for him to get drunk but he was still not sure if he liked it. Too fizzy.

But he did like the sticky chicken wings though and he was very happy watching a movie when he heard his Mom laughing in the corridor. It was a very un-Mom like laugh too. Jake didn't think that she had ever sounded like that before, and certainly not with him or his Dad.

They say curiosity can kill the cat but he padded out of bed and stuck his head out of the hotel room door.

It was his Mom alright and she was still in her evening gown, the green was off putting in the dimly lit room. Suddenly he felt slightly sick looking at her. She was with John Hoynes, as in the man that they were trying to make the new Vice President and they were giggling and dancing around each other as if they were together which they were most certainly not

He watched as the Vice President—or soon to be anyway—eyed his mother up and down as if she was some…well…something not nice and then his mother allowed herself to be pulled into the hotel room past the security that didn't bat an eyelid.

Because of course why would they?

Jake shut the door and then sat down on the bed.

God he felt dirty…he didn't know why but he felt dirty.

The next day his Dad told him that his mother was sick. Two days later she came out of her room but considering the look on her face any thought of mentioning what he had seen had gone out the window.

But he had seen.

And he had known.

And now it was coming out in a book?

Fuck.

He found his parents in his mother's office and she had that same look on her face.

"Fuck"

"Jake. Did you take a taxi here?" his Dad said looking at him in surprise.

"Yeah I—I heard about the book"

"Oh that's handled. He's not going—"

But Jake shut the door.

"I know you slept with him that night" he said to his mother. "I saw you and what I wanted to tell you was that security did that night too now I know—technically bribery is illegal but—"

"Hang on" his Mom said putting her hand up and staring at him open mouthed.

"What do you mean you saw me?"

"I mean I saw you" Jake said shaking his head at the stunned look on both his parents face. "I saw you Mom you weren't exactly quiet."

"You never said—"

"Yeah well…you didn't come out of that room for two days I figured you felt pretty shitty about it. Besides…you're an adult. And you're my Mom. It's not my place to judge you for making a mistake. Besides…your my Mom. I love you. A married man isn't going to change that"

For a second his parents looked at each other and then his Mom burst into tears.

His Dad sighed.

"It's okay" he said standing up and then he took out his handkerchief and passed it to his Mom who took it dabbing at her eyes and sniffing. "She's fine Jake. It's just that we are both going through it right now. You see…somewhere along the lines our little boy grew up to be a man and we don't know how or why"

For a second Jake stared at him and then.

"Oh please"

"No I'm serious" his father said smiling. His hand came out and cupped Jake's cheek fingers curling around his neck and he smiled. "You grew up and somehow I didn't realise it"

"Yeah well you've got Huck to do it all over again" Jake said with an eye roll. His Dad laughed and then he smiled at his Mom who was wiping his eyes.

"Go and get my jacket from my office will you? I think we all deserve a nice meal tonight."

Jake beamed and then he left and Toby turned to CJ who was standing reaching for her bag no doubt to hide the evidence of her tears. For a second they stared at each other and then she kissed him.

For a second he was stunned and then he responded. Kissing CJ was easy, it had never changed and for a second it was like the night that they had tumbled into bed and Jake had popped out nine months later, it was easy for him to put his fingers in her hair and for her to do that thing with her tongue she always did to make his knees weak. For a second they were entangled together and then she pulled back and tapped his cheek and then left her office leaving him standing here more than a little stunned.

There was a pause and then he coughed pulling himself together and stepped out of the room. Carole wasn't there and he didn't look at any of the staff in the eye.

She'd kissed him. She'd reached out and kissed him and he'd kissed her back. Toby didn't know what the hell that meant, CJ had been on a slow boil since that night, the book had only turned the heat up, the book had been the trigger point.

Even now out of office John Hoynes was still causing headaches.

Toby had never hated the man more.

He took his jacket from Jake. CJ didn't meet his eyes. Jake didn't seem to notice.

Either way, it was going to be an interesting few days after this. This was not going to be politics as usual.

Of that Toby was quiet sure.

And there you go, I hope that you enjoyed this chapter and I will bring the next one to you soon. Two more defo of Season 5.

Next Chapter-Penultimate One of Season 5-With the White House on lockdown Jake is spending time with Andy and the twins and lamenting a lack of summer project for his senior year when she provides him with an idea, a once in a lifetime opportunity, and something that his mother and father are simply going to despise.