80 Hours

(ALL TIMES ARE LOCAL)

Day 0 Monday, November 14, 2061

·      5:35 PM

o   Julia Danielle Gates-Allen, niece and adopted daughter of President Katherine Alexandra Janney of the United States of America, is abducted at gunpoint from a motorcade carrying US Congressional and military personnel, near Kirkuk, in Southern Kurdistan.

00:00 12:35 AM

Secret Service detail that has pursued the kidnappers south, hits a series of roadside improvised explosive devices near Samarra in Northern Iraq, blowing up one black suburban sedan, instantly killing four of the agents inside, and critically wounding two others. The kidnappers escape into sovereign Iraqi airspace.

·      7:35 PM

o   Leo Pierce, chief of the United States Secret Service Presidential Protection Division (PPD) informs President Katherine Janney, in Mosul, Central Kurdistan,  that her daughter, Julia, has been kidnapped, and that there are four dead agents at the scene.

1:10 1:45 AM

President Janney contacts Senator Robert Seabourne of California, who was present at the time and place of the abduction.

·      3:35 AM

o   President Janney and Senator Seabourne meet in Tehran, Iran.

·      4:25 AM

o   Senator Seabourne flies to Istanbul, Central Turkey, which has been determined as the field office for the coordination and execution of the rescue operation in neighboring Iraq.

·      11:25 PM

o   President Janney secretly boards Air Force One, VC-25A, and flies non-stop back to Washington D.C.

Day 1 Tuesday, November 15, 2061

·      6:00 AM

o   The President lands at Andrews Air Force Base outside the District of Columbia, and arrives at the White House.

·      9:25 PM

o   President Janney receives a special briefing from her assembled National Security Council, and then meets with the military Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the Situation Room below the West Wing of the White House.

--The President spends the night in the Oval Office, quartered with Major Rebecca Mavalently, Commander of the Navy and Air Force, and Adjunct member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the military, Kenneth Welsh, White House Chief of Staff, and Kristin Ludlowe, White House Communications Director.

Washington Day 4 11/15/61

15:05 3:40 PM

The President meets with Joshua Foreman, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, and Senator Josieph Kickland of Illinois, the Senate Majority Leader, and then with Vice President Theodore Matheson. Foreman and Matheson inform the President that the National Security Reconnaissance Agency Office received a call, saying that Julia Gates-Allen had been tentatively located at a complex in Karbala, near Baghdad, Iraq, but that she was suspected of having been moved since to Ramadi or Fallujah, Northeast of Baghdad.

·      6:35 PM

o   With the American public news media still reporting the President as being in Islamabad, in Eastern Iran, President Katherine Janney calls a secret meeting with Vice President Theodore Matheson, in which she discretely asks him to assume the duties of Executive Commander in Chief, and take command of the operation to recover her daughter.

20:50 9:25 PM

The President meets with Brittney Flatoff-Fasching, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Senator Nathan Sedwicks, the Senate Minority Leader, and informs them of the crisis at hand, and requests their silence.

·      10:40 PM

o   Word arrives at the White House that the search and rescue operations have begun in earnest.

Washington Day 5 11/15/61

32:00 7:35 AM

The President meets with Ludlowe, Foreman, Welsh, and Matheson, as well as Gina Everett, the White House Press Secretary, Chlaire Daniels, the Deputy White House National Security Advisor, to discuss how and when the information of the crisis should revealed to the public.

Day 2 Wednesday, November 16, 2061

·      12:35 AM

o   Two hours prior to the appointed time of the press conference explaining the crisis, the information is leaked by unknown sources within the administration that the President has returned to the United States, thus negating the need for a publicity campaign.

--The President spends the night in the Presidential Residence, quartered with Major Mavalently and her older sister, Constance Janney, the District Attorney of Boston, Massachusetts.

Washington Day 6 11/16/61

·      4:25 AM

o   The President meets with the White House Senior Staff, including Foreman, Welsh, Everett, and Ludlowe, to discuss how best to handle the newfound publicity.

42:00 5:35 PM

President Janney meets with Senate Majority Leader Kickland, House Speaker Flatoff, Vice President Matheson, Senate Minority Leader Sedwicks, and Senator Seabourne, on teleconference from Istanbul.

·      7:20 PM

o   The President returns to the Presidential Residence, where she consults with Kenneth Welsh, her Chief of Staff, and Major Mavalently, before conducting a long closed-door meeting in her Private Study, with Kristin Ludlowe, her Communications Director.

48:00 11:35 PM

The President convenes a joint meeting o f the military Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Congressional Leadership, the Cabinet, the Senior Staff, and the National Security Council.

Those present include Vice President Matheson, House Speaker Flatoff, Chief of Staff Welsh, Secretary of State Thomas Slatterly, Secretary of National Security and Defense Jason Hunter, Senate Majority Leader Kickland, House Minority Leader Ainsley Tomblinson, Senate Minority Leader Sedwicks, Deputy Chief of Staff Foreman, Deputy National Security Advisor Daniels, Press Secretary Everett, and, by teleconference from Istanbul, Senate Majority Whip Seabourne, with his Chief of Staff Leopold Spencer.

In the meeting, the President has the experts among the group thoroughly explain the crisis at hand and the current situation. President Janney makes it clear, particularly to Matheson, Slatterly, Daniels, Kickland, and Seabourne, that she entirely intends to fully cooperate in diplomatic efforts, through channels such as, among others, Russia, Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Italy, Greece, Switzerland, and China, and through the United Nations.

Then President of the United States Katherine Alexandra Janney makes it perfectly clear  to all present that she is still very much the President, in command, and in control of all of her faculties; and makes abundantly clear her point of view and her intentions by stating, quite clearly, and in no uncertain terms:

“We will try all possible diplomatic options. But I swear to you, right here and now, and by every power that any of us believe in, that if they kill her [Julia], if she turns up dead; then, so help me, by god; I am going to blow something straight to hell and god only knows, or cares, what happens next.”

Before turning, and leaving the room in silence.

·      2:00 AM

o   The White House receives word that the Special Operations surveillance forces in the Middle East have lost track of Julia Gates-Allen.

·      7:35 PM

o   The President consults with Secretary of State Slatterly, National Security Advisor Hunter, Deputy National Security Advisor Daniels, Chairman Condoleezza Falkenwrathe of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Chief of Staff Welsh.

·      2:35 PM

o   The President meets with President and Prime Minister Michel of Russia, and by telecom Senator Seabourne from Istanbul.

56:00 8:35 AM

The National Security Reconnaissance Agency Office (NS.R.A.O) receives photographs, digital images, and video of Julia Gates-Allen, heavily bruised and half-conscious, kneeling and sitting on a small rug and on the dirt floor of an Adobe house, taken in poor light conditions and in bright sunlight. The President and her Chief of Staff are called down to the Situation Room by Deputy National Security Advisor Daniels to consult on the implications of the scenes displayed.

--The President spends the night alone in the Presidential Residence.

Day 3 Thursday, November 17, 2061

·      1:35 AM

o   Vice President Theodore Matheson, assuming the duties of Executive Commander in Chief granted to him By President Katherine Janney, calls White House Chief of Staff Kenneth Welsh into the Oval Office and consults with Ambassador Muttahidah of Iran.

·      4:25 AM

o   Senator Seabourne meets with Admiral Condoleezza Falkenwrathe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Captain and Commander Jason Hunter, Secretary of National Security and Defense, and Major Rebecca Mavalently, Commander of the Navy and Air Force, and adjunct member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to coordinate the escalation of Special Operations Forces search and rescue operations in the region of Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. The meeting, conducted at the United States’ United Nations embassy in Istanbul, also discusses the contingencies of the commencement and pursuant escalation of possible active military engagement against the Arab Nations.

64:00 7:35 AM

President Katherine Janney is awakened by Chief of Staff Kenneth Welsh, who finds her asleep in the chair at her daughter, Julia’s desk in the Lincoln Bedroom in the Presidential Residence. She arrives in the West Wing of the White House, and receives a briefing on the night’s developments by acting National Security Advisor C.J. Daniels, Chief of Staff Welsh, and Vice President Matheson. Judging by the surveillance data collected from the digital tracing of the point of origin of the images sent to the Situation Room by the NS.R.A.O., the President determines that the Special Operations efforts should focus on the Arab nations of Lebanon and Syria, concurring with Daniels’ advice and Welsh’s recommendations, but contrary to the counsel of the Vice President, who is of the opinion that they should continue efforts in Iraq.

·      9:35 AM

o   Vice President Matheson consults with Senator Kickland, and Senator Seabourne from Istanbul, as well as Senator Seabourne’s Chief of Staff, Leopold Spencer, concerning the President’s decision. After hearing and reviewing the relevant available information, Senate Majority Leader Kickland concurs with the President’s interpretation of the situation as it stands. The Vice President reluctantly consents, and requests that Senator Seabourne, and more importantly his Chief of Staff, Spencer, head the search and rescue operations in the region of Syria and Lebanon.

68:45 12:20 PM

The NS.R.A.O receives a tip from United Nations sources in Turkey, which allows the Special Forces’ operations to be concentrated to Southwestern Syria and Western Lebanon. The information is immediately relayed to the White House Situation Room.

·      2:35 PM

o   President Janney is informed by Chief of Staff Welsh that the Special Operations Forces have  located Julia Gates-Allen in or around the city of Hamah, in Southwestern Syria, and are tracking her on the road, moving south into Lebanon.

72:00 4:35 PM

The Special Operations Forces pinpoint Julia’s location at the city of Tripoli, in Northwestern Lebanon, and the President meets with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the National Security Council to strategize a plan for retrieving and extracting her from a potentially hostile foreign sovereign nation, without instigating a potential military conflict with two or even three other nuclear powers.

·      5:35 PM

o   The Special Forces’ target comes to a stop near the small Phoenician city of Tyre, in Southwestern Lebanon, meaning that the Julia’s position is now stable, allowing the military commanders in charge of the operation to begin preparations for the retrieval and extraction of the target.

80:00

11:35 PM Middle East

6:35 AM Washington

11/17/61

United States military and United Nations Special Operations Forces, under the leadership of Major Rebecca Mavalently, Commander of the Navy and Air Force and adjunct member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the coordination of Senator Robert Seabourne of California, the Senate Majority Whip; land in Sur, Lebanon, and proceed to engage the Arab terrorists outside the city of Tyre, successfully neutralizing the kidnappers and retrieving the captive Julia Gates-Allen, who is unconscious, and is immediately air-evacuated from a secret U.S Air Force installation in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, to the nearest major United States military base, in Istanbul, Central Turkey. Senator Seabourne’s Senatorial Chief of Staff, Leopold Spencer, accompanies the President’s daughter, who is escorted by Major Mavalently, her godmother.

·      9:20 AM

o   Senator Seabourne meets the military-escorted helicopter as it lands at the Military installation at Dardanelles Military Base in Istanbul, Turkey.

o   The unconscious Julia is stabilized medically and inspected physiologically by military medical personnel at Dardanelles, to ensure that she is in no immediate danger of further serious injury in the event of continued movement. She is then loaded on a military aircraft with Seabourne, Spencer, Daniels, and Mavalently, and flown to Germany.

12:00 PM GMT

The military transport aircraft lands at Reichstag Air Force Base in Brandenburg, outside Potsdam, near Berlin, in Northeastern Germany, where it is met, while still on the tarmac, by Air Force One. The President rushes to meet Julia, Mavalently, and her Deputy NSA, C.J. Daniels, at the extensive military medical installation complex at the base.

--The President spends the next several days at Julia’s bedside, receiving daily briefings from Daniels on all variety of aspects of the rescue operation, and possible international diplomatic consequences thereof.

Sunday, November 20, 2061

5:30 AM GMT

Julia Gates-Allen regains consciousness, requests something to drink, and, after consuming a substantial quantity of water, she turns at the sound of her aunt’s voice, to the President standing, leaning over her. Julia smiles weakly and says, in a voice, low, rough, and husky, and a murmur, barely a whisper; “Hi, Mom.” Forcing the President to collapse, her knees weakening, and to have to sit down. Tears of joy running from her eyes down her face. She attempts to embrace her niece, but releases after her daughter grimaces in pain, due to a fractured clavicle, sprained neck, broken arm, dislocated shoulder, heavily bruised face, black eye, broken jaw,  minute skull fracture, and multiple minor concussions.

--Julia remains in Germany, at Reichstag, until the 24^th of November, when she is flown, on Air Force One, back to the United States. She is confined to Walter Reed Military Medical Hospital Center in D.C. for the remainder of the month, finally being discharged and released on December 1^st, already making a swift, speedy, and complete recovery. She does not return to school until mid-January of 2062, being, for the most part, bound to the White House and Presidential Residence over the Holiday season.