Back from Trip (Cabinet Members)

[melissa]

They had reached the Oval Office, and Melissa knocked on the door before opening it, and she looked around, well it would explain why there was no answer when she knocked on the door, he wasn't here. "Well, looks like we're going to have try the residences, because he isn't here" Melissa said with a sigh and then followed it through with a laugh. Because it was quite funny when you thought about it. Here the two of them were trying to find the President for a meeting he organised.

When Mohinder questioned about Nathan out on the front lawn picking flowers Melissa just shrugged. What would he be out picking flowers for anyway she thought, then a smile spread across her face, if he was doing that, it would be for his daughter seeing as she was now living here. Maybe Nathan had forgotten about the meeting and was spending the day with his daughter Claire.

"You know, picking flowers isn't such a bad theory now that Claire is here living with him, he might be wanting to make her room all pretty" Melissa replied raising her eyebrow slightly and smiling. She thought it was lovely Nathan had his daughter living with him now, it was almost as if the two were inseparable these days.

"Or, maybe he forgot about the meeting and is spending the day with his daughter, or he cancelled it and forgot to inform me to inform everybody else" Melissa said, running out of ideas as to why the one person who should have been at the meeting wasn't there.

[mohinder]

It would seem that the Oval Office wasn’t where Nathan was. It seemed kind of awkward to Mohinder that the President wouldn’t even be in the Oval Office. Usually the President was good at sending memos to e-mail accounts and informing people that the meeting wasn’t going to happen, but it would seem that today of all days, he wasn’t going to be do that. “It would seem that way” He said shaking his head.

Mohinder was just joking about the flower picking. Though when Melissa said that Claire was living with Nathan now. He just couldn’t believe that. He wondered why Claire would even think about that. He then remembered that he did have a conversation with her long before her father was in the White House. He just decided to keep that to himself.

“So uh, you think that it is a good theory?” He asked a bit confused. “Oh-I-See, you think that he is making her room decorative” That would make perfect since. He hated to be out of the loop. Oh well, this was a better job for him than being the Secretary of Health and Human Services. That job was just insane. However, being Secretary of State seemed like a stressful job, but he enjoyed it.

He was deep in thought when he heard Melissa speak again. “Perhaps, but he would have left a memo” He said with a weak smile. “Usually he is up to date with these issues, Melissa. Sadly, I know how Nathan acts, but he wouldn’t forget an important meeting” He said shaking his head.

[[OOC: Perhaps we ask Romz to bring Nathan in!?]]

[melissa]

[ooc: I agree - but Romz kinda likes to keep her chars in 2 threads at the most as the same time and Nathan is in 2 now. I could suggest that the single Claire/Nathan thread we have comes to a close soon and then she can join this one?]

Melissa wasn't sure what they were going to do now, not one solitary cabinet member had turned up other than the two of them, and without the main person there, it just seemed a whole waste of time. But Nathan wouldn't cancel a meeting without forming people, and being his Chief of Staff she would know these things.

"You know, his daughter Claire was kidnapped about a week ago, maybe he has forgotten about this meeting in all his worry over his daughter and wanting to spend more time with her?" Melissa was trying to make excuses for Nathan really, probably because she held a torch for him. "Or maybe somethings happened to her again?" she added because she knew that Nathan wouldn't just not turn up, he took his position very seriously.

"Probably not, but it was worth a try to think that just for a short while" she said grinning, after all if he wasn't at the residences then there really wasn't anywhere else he could be, unless he had been involved in an accident or had taken extremely unwell, but these were all situations that being the President, they would have been made aware of quite quickly.

Melissa resigned herself to the fact that Mohinder was right, she had run out of excuses for Nathan, but it was right what Mohinder said, there was just no way he would forget an important meeting like this. Maybe she had taken the time down wrong, that wouldn't be the first mistake she'd ever made.

"You know, a lot of this might be my fault, what if I misheard the time of the meeting?" she asked, just clutching at one last ditch attempt to save the President from certain embarrassment at missing a meeting he had organised himself.

[mohinder]

[[Actually, I’m gonna close the topic. I kind of have no muse for it anymore.]]