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CJ shrugged. �Katie, Steve, Chris, and Mark are still in the press room, not to mention all the others. I�ll know about your screw-ups regardless. I�m just� sick of DC politics,� she confessed. �This was never my dream. I� I wanted to change the world, make it just a little bit better. But there�s isn�t exactly a section for that in the want ads and volunteerism is great but it doesn�t pay the bills. I find a firm but I end up assigned to the entertainment section which, sure, pays well, but I�m out there trying to sell fifteen movies about dogs and forty movies about cheerleaders and a couple dozen about serial killers and then they come back at me with complaints because they�re not getting nominations for whatever award show is around the next corner. Then Toby shows up and says that Bartlet wants me, even though he�s never heard of me, and then he says Leo wants me which I believed even though it turned out that Leo had never heard of me, either, and it was just supposed to be about keeping Hoynes honest and putting some important issues out there but eight years later I�m Chief of Staff and Leo�s dead and Toby�s facing prison and Josh and I are barely speaking and Donna and I still have weirdness from when I stuck my nose where it didn�t belong and made her sleep with a photojournalist and I didn�t even know what firm you are working for let alone that you got engaged�� she ranted before trailing off with a sigh. �This isn�t what was supposed to happen,� she said after a minute.
I chuckled bitterly. �Tell me about it. I was perfectly happy being a corporate lawyer and then Josh came along.�
�You were perfectly miserable being a corporate lawyer and you know it,� CJ said.
�Okay, fine, I was miserable,� I allow, �but I had a plan. I was going to make partner which would allow me to be able to actually pay for the wedding Lisa and her mother had planned for us and we were going to live a long and wealthy life together.� I paused for a moment. �Of course, if Josh hadn�t dragged me into the arena of Presidential politics I never would have ended up meeting Sara, so I guess that balances the scales.�
CJ grinned. �Tell me about Sara.�
I smiled and, in that moment, I knew that coming back to DC and to Presidential politics was the right move.
And this is where we would fade to the end credits.
THE END