A President in Waiting

Senator Nathaniel Adams leaned back smugly in his absurdly overpriced chair and rested his hands behind his head as he contemplated a job well done. It seemed his journey to the White House would be an even quicker one than he had anticipated. This was almost too easy to be fun.

It was true that President Jason Davidson had helped expedite his plans by being a weak and unpopular leader with few friends left that mattered. A shameless people-pleaser by nature, it seemed increasingly these days that the President could please nobody at all and, while the deeply damaging rumours currently plaguing him were as vague as they were unsubstantiated, that hadn't stopped many of his remaining allies considering it prudent to distance themselves from someone so toxic. Nobody wanted to be on the wrong side of history when the political tide turned, preferring to flock to the side of the heir apparent instead.

Nate Adams had by now firmly established himself in that role, especially with the current VP having stripped naked on TV before apparently disappearing off the face of the earth. Until recently Nate had been a generally well thought of but low profile Senator from Connecticut. The sudden ground swell of support from large swathes of the public for him to be made the next President with immediate effect had taken many by surprise, but that kind of noise couldn't be ignored.

Nate could tell very quickly which of his political colleagues had given into temptation and watched the nudey news show. Those who had - and it was more than he would have expected - were fully behind him without question within a day or two of the second broadcast. Many of those who hadn't caught the show were now also offering their support, even without the need for mental manipulation, as they were hoping to curry favour with the nation's seemingly inevitable new leader before he took the hot seat.

The only blows to his plan, and ego, had been that Kayleigh - who he thought he had groomed to be his loyal number two, Dawn - who he'd offered to make the most important journalist on the planet and, worst of all, his own daughter Olivia had defected to the other side. He was more or less done with Liv now. She'd always been a money grabbing brat who cared little about the work he did to fund her extravagant lifestyle, but if she couldn't get behind her own father's bid to be President of America then what hope was there for their relationship? Fuck her. He only had a kid because being a family man played well with the voters anyway.

Nate's internal monologue was interrupted by the appearance of Sally, the beautiful intern he had taken on as his full time executive assistant a couple of years back, at his office entrance.

Nate had assumed that, having been given such a desireable and well paid role when she was barely out of college, Sally might have been grateful enough to at least flirt with, if not fuck him. In fact, she had been infuriatingly insistent on a working relationship that was professional to the point of prissyness.

Well, not any longer.

"Good morning Master. How may I best serve you today?"

Nate didn't think he would ever get tired of hearing that greeting, but he was still far from happy.

"Do you think you're at all appropriately attired for this office, Sally?"

"No, Master" the immaculately dressed young woman looked down at herself in shame "It's just that, for the journey here, I thought I should.."

"I'm not interested in any of your excuses!" Nate held up a hand to silence her "Do you at least have your special office suit on under all of this vulgar and ostentatious business wear?"

"I do, Master"

"Then what are you waiting for?"

Sally nodded and began to undress until she was wearing nothing but her black high heels and lingerie pantyhose. Nate had always had a thing for that, and it had been years since he could get his wife to oblige him.

"There, much better!" the Senator smiled wickedly "Now come here and sit on my lap"

Sally walked over and placed her bare ass on Nate's knee while draping her arm around his neck. He stroked her hair and spoke softly into her ear, his voice dripping with mock affection.

"Look at you now, Sally. To think, you could have been my Kayleigh. All you had to do was dye your hair black, tell a few white lies and appear nude on TV. But oh no, that was too immoral and degrading for you wasn't it? You wanted to resign completely and go and find a job working for one of my rivals. Probably blow the whistle on me too while you were at it. You ungrateful little bitch. But in the end I'm glad you turned my offer down. I'd say you make for a much better personal pet and stress relief toy than second in command, don't you? "

"Yes Master, so much better" she answered robotically.

"Now, I think it would be cute if you became nice and stupid for me for the rest of the day" he decided "You're going to be a clueless ditzy bimbo until midnight, aren't you?"

"Err..." she put her finger to her lips and thought hard about this for a few moments "I guess so? Whatever you say, Master."

"That's right, Sally" Nate smirked as he stroked his interns back like she was a dog "Whatever I say."

It was at that point the person who had accepted the role of Kayleigh walked into the room, arms folded with a scowl across her pretty face.

Jayne Hutton was an ambitious young go-getter who had practically jumped on the opportunity Nate's PA had refused. Asking her had initially felt like a risk. Unlike Sally, there would have been no way for Nate to mind-control her into keeping quiet about his plans if she was similarly repulsed by them.

Before defecting the real Kayleigh had, somewhat reluctantly, assured Nate's staff during an in-person meeting that they could trust every word their leader said. This was directly after they had all been made to watch the opening episode of Naked Truth for "research purposes". Nate had told her, quite rightly he still maintained, that it would be a necessary requirement to prevent any potential whistle blowing or subterfuge from those working closest to him. He also promised he wouldn't abuse the power he was being given over his employees and, apart from his one indulgence with Sally, who needed to be silenced and justify her over inflated wages anyway, he felt he had more or less been a man of his word on that count.

Jayne had been working for a rival politician at the time so hadn't been present for the group brain-washing session. But, fortunately, Nate found she could be almost as easily manipulated by the promise of power. Heck, she even agreed to strip fully naked, entirely unnecessarily, at the end of her first show to ensure she got the gig. Dawn and Liv's replacements hadn't agreed to the nude scenes, they were merely jobbing actresses who had been shown the announcement at the start of the first show during their auditions, having previously been introduced to Jayne as Kayliegh the host. She'd had full control of them ever since which, curiously, she refused to share with Nate.

Jayne was therefore both Nate's MVP but also somebody who knew everything he had done and couldn't be controlled by him. Therefore, whatever this little hissy fit she was about to have was, he would need to find a way of placating it to keep her fully onside.

"You need to do something about all of this online shit about Kayleigh Preston being a stupid lying permanently naked bimbo. It's driving me crazy and !'m not even her!"

"We've done some testing and the online messages don't counteract the effects of the announcement on the show that explicitly says every word that comes out of your mouth is true. So it's only people who see the messages online then watch TNT for the first time afterwards who will find you dishonest."

"And what about the shit about me being a constantly naked bimbo? There was nothing explicitly disputing that!"

"Oh, so what?! Some people think you're naked when you aren't. Who cares? Anyone who has seen the show has already seen you in the buff anyway!"

"Yes, but that's not the same as when I'm walking down the street, or standing in line at the bank and everyone is staring, wold whistling or calling me a stupid whore. It's only a matter of time before I get arrested for indecent exposure."

"Then you'll just have to hope the judge isn't active on Reddit"

"Fuck off Nate, this isn't funny!" Jayne continued to sulk "We need to bring in a different Kayleigh next week."

"No" the Senator shook his head firmly "We can't keep switching Kayleigh's or people will start to notice. Besides, you would lose the single ability that makes you useful to me. There would really be no need for me to keep you around as my number two if that were the case."

"How do I know you aren't behind this in the first place?"

"What? That's insane! Why would I do that even if I could?"

"I don't know, Nate. It's just funny that they've smeared me in the most humiliating way imaginable and yet they're helping you"

"Helping me?" he was now looking at Jayne like she had completely lost her mind "How the fuck are they supposed to be doing that?"

She tossed a file onto his desk. It seemed more of Joey's posts had been discovered. They had been encrypted and decrypted several times to ensure they were safe to read.

As a deeply confused Nate looked at the documents, Sally struggled to read them out loud.

"You.....must......de....mand....that....Nate....Adams......is....made.....Pres....i...dent....now"

She also looked confused.

"I don't understand, Master. If they don't want you to be President, then why are they saying you should be President? Did they make a mistake?"

"I doubt it's a mistake, poppet" he answered as he rubbed his hand gently over her thigh and in the direction of her pussy "But I don't understand either."