"Dr. Brody is on line three, Mr. President." She said kindly. "And if I do see that
candy, I will take it away." She added before leaving. Jed chuckled as he reached
for the phone.

"Yes, mother." He murmured and grabbed the receiver. "Kid, that you?"

"Yeah. It’s me, Joss." KD’s voice came through the line sounding tired and weak.
He knew she was on her cell phone from the way the line crackled. But he could
also tell that she’d been crying.

"Sweetie, what’s wrong? What happened?" He asked.

"I guess no one has talked to you." She murmured. Jed looked at the door as Leo
entered the room.

"Talked to me about what? Katy, what’s going on?" He asked. Leo’s ears perked
up and he hurried to the side of the desk. Jed mouthed the words ‘what happened’
and then tried to listen.

"Joss, I have to go away for a while. I have to go out of town. I’m going to work
through the net, email and call, but I can’t stay in town." KD exclaimed shakily as
she pulled her car out of the garage she shared with Toby and their neighbors.
Once shared.

"What are you talking about? Explain this to me." Jed asked sharply.

"I really can’t. Trust me when I say that I just can’t. Things have gotten complicated
and I just need you to agree to this. I’m doing it anyway, but I need you agree. Joss,
I have to go." KD repeated.

"I need some kind of explanation. Did you have a fight with Toby? Did something go
wrong?"

"Toby didn’t do anything wrong. This isn’t about him. This is about me, and the fact
that I just can’t stay. Something has come up, something has changed and I have
to leave. I will continue to do the work you hired me to do, and you don’t have to pay
me for it." KD was practically rambling, and it was not something that Jed knew
her to do.

"Stop talking and breathe, Katy. I can’t let you go unless you give me a reason here.
What are you running away from?" Jed asked carefully.

"I’m not running away. I’m just leaving, because I have to. I’ll call you later. Just
think about what I said. I’m sorry." She said one more time and then hung up. Jed
looked at the phone and then at Leo.

"What the hell is going on?" He asked.

"Was that KD?" Leo asked.

"Yeah, sounding like her heart was breaking. What the hell is going on?" Jed
asked again.

"A while ago, KD walked out of her office, walked to Toby’s, handed him her ring,
said she had to go and then left the wing completely." Leo reported slowly. Jed
could see the confusion and pain in his friend’s eyes and he shared it. He shook his
head and looked at the phone.

"She just told me that she has to leave town and she needed to hear me tell her it
was okay." He exclaimed softly.

"And you didn’t." Leo asked.

"No, I didn’t. I tried to get an answer out of her. Mrs. Landingham!" Jed called as he
got to his feet.

"Yes, Mr. President?" Mrs. Landingham asked as she leaned in the door.

"Could you call David Beckwith and ask him to come down to my office please?"
Jed asked. She nodded and disappeared. Jed looked back at Leo who was
debating the President’s decision.

"You think he knows something?" Leo asked.

"I know he does. KD came into this job not wanting an assistant, but I know they’ve
grown close and I’m betting he knows at least one thing or another." Jed replied
before the door opened and the blond-haired, blue-eyed young man leaned his
head in. "Come on in, David." Jed encouraged and moved to meet the young man
halfway.

"Sir, if you called me here to ask me —" David started.

"Yeah, I did. I called you here because I want to know what’s wrong with your
boss." Jed interrupted all-knowingly.

"I would tell you, sir, but KD told me not to say anything about what happened."
David said, lying somewhat.

"I don’t care. I’ve got higher power than she does." Jed replied. "She’s your boss,
I’m her boss. My orders override hers. What happened?" He asked again. David
hesitated.

"A woman named Andrea Wyatt came to visit her. I don’t know who she is, but ten
minutes after she left, KD headed for Toby’s office with tears in her eyes." He
finally said.

"Wyatt?" Jed repeated and looked at Leo in shock.

"Oh, God. This is not good." Leo muttered.

"Who is she?" David asked.

"Toby’s ex-wife." Jed murmured in reply as he tried to put the pieces together.
David’s eyes widen and he tried to imagine what could have happened. The truth
was none of them knew.

Toby looked around the apartment and then dropped his jacket on the armchair
before heading for the kitchen. He knew it was empty. He could just tell. He didn’t
know where KD was but he needed to come home just to make sure. It was his
lunch hour and he would soon go back to work, go back to getting those looks
from all those people who called themselves his friend. He couldn’t stand those
looks.

Let you leave that day
Let you walk on by
Breaking up would pay
But you had far more pride

Toby stared at the wall before moving into the bedroom he’d shared with KD
for so long. Why was she so willing to leave so fast? What had he done wrong? He
didn’t even know. It was all too confusing and he was starting to wonder if there
was anything he could ever do to fix it. Would she ever talk to him again? Would he
ever see her again?

If I could give
Would God accept me?
Tried so hard to live, oh why?
Did you have to go out of my life?
Never got the chance to say goodbye

What would he say to her if he could talk to her again? What could he ask of her?
He loved her so much and she’d just walked away from him. There was nothing he
could do about it, was there? No way out, no way in. Why was it so easy for her to
walk away?

You flew away, you flew away
You left, you flew away
This heart it aches
Oh babe, you flew away
And I cry, I pray each night to God

Toby grabbed his jacket and left again. He didn’t want to stay here a moment
longer. He couldn’t stand to stay in this place that smelled of her, that breathed of
her. He had to go somewhere else. He got back into his car and drove. He didn’t
really know where the hell he was going to go. He didn’t want to go back to the
Wing just yet, not to go back to those stares. He couldn’t go back to those
sympathetic looks. He felt like the sympathetic looks just worked together to make
him feel plainly pathetic.


Sat along the bay
Watched the stars in the sky
Seems like yesterday
That you were by my side

He drove past KD’s old apartment. It was very recently that she’d moved in with
him and left that apartment behind. He paused at the crosswalk and looked over to
his left. There was the bench he’d proposed to her on, and she’d said yes. It wasn’t
even two weeks ago, and now so much had changed. Toby didn’t understand. He
didn’t want to understand. He just wanted KD to come back and tell him that she
was wrong and she wasn’t going anywhere.


If I could give
Would you still want me?
And would you forgive?
Oh, why?
Did you have to go out of my life?
Never got the chance to say goodbye


He pulled the car forward and drove again. He couldn’t dwell in the past. That’s
something he refused to do. This wasn’t the first time he’d been dumped. Not the
first time that the woman he loved had changed her mind and disappeared. He
would move on. She would too and that would be the end of it. Toby paused. And
then he realized how badly he wanted to cry. Just to cry and call her name and
pray that she would somehow hear him and come back, come back to tell him that
she never really left.


You flew away, you flew away
You left, you flew away
This heart, it aches
Oh, babe you flew away
And I cry, I pray each night to God
Tell me why
Did you fly away?


Pulling into his parking space at the West wing, Toby turned off the car and sat still
for a few moments. He didn’t know what to think, what to feel. He didn’t know
where she’d gone, but if he did, he would have followed her there. He wondered if
anyone had heard from her, if anyone knew what had gone wrong. He wondered if
it was all over, just like that. He got out of the car and walked to the elevator. It took
him back the office he knew and he walked towards his office, feeling everyone’s
eyes on him.

"Toby!" Josh called. Toby ignored him. "Toby, we got to talk." Josh added as he
caught up to his friend. "Toby, David said Andrea Wyatt came to see KD before she
left." Josh blurted out. Toby stopped and looked at his friend, his eyes wide. Andy?