NationStates Jolt Archive

Larkinian Presidential Palace, Midday, recently after the swearing-in ceremony

Jeff sat back in the desk, god he never expected being President was going to be this hard. Between trying to keep all the different parties in Parliament happy, plus dealing with the military... speaking of the military, there was a whole cache of weapons that had gone missing from one of the storehouses in the Badlands. He'd had CIS looking into the situation, but so far there was no answer about the weapons.

Between all of these situations he was still trying to fiind more time for his family. It had been hard on the children, taking them away from their friends in Iansisle. Jeff promised them they'd be going back soon, as soon as he was done pretending to be president...

Pretending to be president, isn't that what the Larkinian Sun had said about him? Over and over, questioning him so much he started believeing their questions.

Iansisle... there were a lot of strange reports coming from there recently. He'd been so busy with trying to keep Larkinia from coming apart at the seams that he hadn't been able to put as much care into the troubles in Iansisle as he wanted to. If it was true what he'd heard, and James wasn't doing anything about it, he'd have to talk with him.

God.. what time is it?

He looked up at the clock in the office, 7:45... 7:45!!??

Jeff jumped out of the chair, he hadn't even seen the sun dip behind the volcanos in the horizon.

Awww sh*t! I was supposed to meet with Katherine 45 minutes ago.. f***!

He stood up just as the buzzer to his phone went off.

"What? Aimee I'm la..."

"Sir, there's someone here to see you. Says he's an emissary of some kind."

"Can it wait? I'm late for dinner with the family?"

"Jeeves has rescheduled dinner for a little later this evening and taken your wife and children to the museum to keep them occupied."

God damn it all, I told Katherine I wouldn't let any job come between us again... sh*t.

"Yeah, send him in."

The man, well... Jeff thought it was a man... walked into the room, clad in black armored leather from head to toe, covered in a hooded robe. No spot was left uncovered. The person's swagger left Jeff with the impression he was... military of some kind.

"Mister President," a voice said from behind the mask, "I have an offer. My Queen would like to establish.. what's the English word for it... 'diplomatic relations' between your nation and hers."

The man handed Jeff an onyx tube with a bow. Jeff looked down at the tube and opened it. Inside was a letter on ancient parchment and a small data card.

Dear President Williams,

Greetings and salutations. I am Princess Antoinette Goszka of the small nation of Kindred Masquerade. I would like to congratulate you on your victory in your recent presidential elections. I wish to offer you the opportunity to visit my country, and would like to start talks that hopefully will lead to a more progressive understanding between our two nations. I am looking forward to meeting you and your lovely family. Please take care and I hope to hear from you soon.

In sincerity,

Antoinette Goszka
Princess, Kindred Masquerade.

Jeff looked at the letter and then up at the man. "So, an official state visit? That might be worthwhile."

Takeo says I need to travel more as President, to make allies. And it would give me a chance to spend some time with the family.

"The travel instructions are in the data chip. Shall I tell my Princess you will grace her with a visit?"

"Yeah," Jeff nodded. "I think you should."

After the man was escorted out of the office, he punched the intercom, "Aimee, clear my schedule a few days. Put it out on all the usual ANH diplomatic wires, I'm not going to be available. I'm headed to a nation called... Kindred Masquerade."

That's an odd name... now where do I know it from?

((OOC: NNNNOOOOOOO!!!!!! LOL))

((LOL, well the doc's got a cure for everything right? ;) ))

((unfortunatly the cure for vampirism is a stake through the heart :wink: )

((unfortunatly the cure for vampirism is a stake through the heart :wink: )

(details... details... :P )

Katherine and the children had just returned from the museum when Jeff met them at the doors with hugs and kisses.

"Well someone's happy to be out of the dungeon," Katherine said with a wink.

"You bet. Hey guess what gang? We've been invited to go on a trip to a faraway land," Jeff said with a smile.

"Yea!!!!" three little voices said.

"So come on, let's go eat and then we'll pack up our bags!"

Katherine looked at Jeff, "so where are we going?"

"Someplace called Kindred... Kindred Masquerade, that's the place!"

Katherine stopped in her tracks. "Kids, go to the table and get started. Daddy and I will be there in a few minutes. I just need to talk to him in the study...


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Meanwhile, Aimee had just finished her entry to the ANH database.

[code:1:2c5557ba3d]Larkinia: President Williams unavailable, next 7 days. On diplomatic trip to Kindred Masquerade. Available through regular channels for emergency. End.[/code:1:2c5557ba3d]

"So that's where I'd heard that name before."

"This isn't funny Jeff!" Katherine said, "And you want us to go willingly there?"

"Come on sweetheart," Jeff said, "It's a state visit, there'll be some meetings, a few formalities, the kids'll have a good time..."

"Oh, if you think the kids are going into some kind of vampire hellhole, you've got another thing coming."

"Well, it doesn't sound so good when you put it that way," Jeff said with a wink.

"I'm not kidding Jeff, there's no way in hell I'm taking those children into that nation. Official visit or not."

"How about this? We'll go to the state visit, and I'm sure Dad will love to see the kids again. It's been a whole... what, two weeks or so since he saw them last? Sweetheart, it'll be fine. We'll have enough security there to keep anyone from getting near us."

((unfortunatly the cure for vampirism is a stake through the heart :wink: )

((Well, now that I've managed to kill myself laughing, I can TAG this.

Hmm...I'm trying to decide what time period this takes place in. A month or two from the inauguration?))

((Yeah that's about right, probably 6-8 weeks after. Just something I got started on while working on the inauguration post last night... besides, you said you wanted a Jeffpire a while back :P ))

((perhaps I didn't fully understand what I was getting myself into ;)))

((LOL, well, neither do I at some of these times. But like Jeff would say, "Awww, come on, it'll be fun." :P ))

OOC: Ya know, if Jeff wants to be imortal that bad, he could always do what Hoot did.

Oh, and Tag.

((But I thought he already was, I mean I don't know if I can kill him off anymore, cause he keeps coming back ;)

And I know I'm playing NS a lot, I walked out of the post office today and saw someone who looked a lot like Sean Connery and my first thought was "Holy sh*t! It's Dr. Niven!" ))