Shocking Revelations and Helpful Suggestions

"So does the Vice President call you to shoot the shit like that often?" Joey joked, before kissing Dawn's nipple affectionately.

"Every now and then" she replied, laying in bed next to him. It was only early evening, but this was where the pair liked to spend most of their time together outside office hours "She trusts me. I had a couple of opportunities to burn her earlier in her career which I didn't take, because it wasn't in the public interest or the right thing to do. I'm reaping the benefits of that now, I guess"

"It's such a turn on watching you in action when we're working together" Joey found himself blurting out.

"Really?" Dawn giggled, with pleasant surprise, shifting her body so she was on her side and facing Joey "You get off on me talking about national fiscal policy?"

"You're just so fucking impressive. How much you know your shit, how confident and assertive you are, even with the Vice President. I find it really sexy. Anyone else talking about that stuff would send me to sleep, but all I could think about was how much I wanted to get you back here and fuck you"

"Wow. it's actually really reassuring to know I can have sex appeal while talking about boring but factual things. That's going to be important for me going forward"

"Really? Why?" Joey asked in confusion.

"Why?" Dawn realised she had said too much and quickly changed course "Because now I can have all kinds of fun trying to get you hard whenever we're at work. And also when we're not, of course"

"Where's the challenge for you in doing that?" Joey asked "Getting me hard is like your superpower. I've never known anyone who's able to do it easily and often as you"

"Oh really?" Dawn smirked as she began tickling Joey's balls, Already he could feel his dick stiffening "Then maybe we can have you ready for action again quicker than I'd anticipated"

She began to purr more of that economic jargon he had barely understood earlier at him in a seductive tone.

"Democratic fiscal policy draws heavily from Keynesian economics, which posits that aggregate demand drives short-run output, especially below full employment" she teased him in a breathy voice "Government spending multipliers can stabilise cycles"

"Fuck yeah they can!" Joey gasped excitedly, loving where this was headed.

Dawn curled her fingers around his shaft and began to gently run them up and down it, now whispering closely into his ear.

"Progressive financing can amplify spending multipliers by concentrating tax burdens on high savers, preserving consumption among liquidity-constrained agents"

"Oh holy fuck.."

She was now gripping tighter and tugging a little harder, kissing Joey's neck and collarbone every few words.

"Critiques invoke ......Barro-Ricardian equivalence..........or crowding-out via.........higher interest rates.....though empirical..... evidence..... is mixed in low-rate..."

It was only a few minutes since Joey had last been inside his work partner, but he was clearly ready again,

"Oh fuck! This is better than most girls talking dirty!"

Realising Joey was now reaching the point of no return, Dawn climbed on top of him, just how she liked it, and guided his dick into her opening once more. If there was ever a day when he had felt like James Bond, this was it.

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Joey left for the office around ten minutes before Dawn to ensure they didn't arrive together, at her insistence. There wasn't a lot of point, since all of their colleagues had already figured what was going on between them, but it was still better for both of them not to confirm it.

He arrived to find a familiar figure sitting in his chair.

"Oh, hey Charlie! Did you come to see me?"

"I'm actually here for Cole" she told him "But I figured this might be the best place to catch up with you as well, since you've taken to working overnight rather than coming home of late. I must say, I do admire your commitment to your profession"

"Oh, hey guys!" Kayleigh smiled as she wandered over "Joey, I've been trying to catch you to tell you some news I have that I hope you'll realise is good once I've explained it properly. We should go grab an empty meeting room so we can talk in private. Charlie, since your here, it would be great if you could join us. I'd love to hear your take on it too"

"Wow, colour me intrigued!" Charlie smiled with satisfaction, realising Dawn had come through for her just as quickly as she had hoped "I'm sure I can make some space in my busy schedule for you both. Lead the way!"

Joey noticed Kayleigh was looking a combination of nervous and excited as she sat at the desk opposite him and his secret agent roommate. She was fidgeting a lot more than she usually did, and subconsciously adjusting her clothing a little. It almost felt like this was going to be positive but embarrassing news, as weird as that concept seemed.

"So, Dawn came to me with an amazing opportunity to raise my profile, and I've agreed to do it. I wanted you to hear it from me rather than anyone else, since it's kind of out there, and I don't want you freaking out or misunderstanding what Dawn and I are going to be a part of"

"What? Why would I freak out over a job opportunity Dawn brought to you?" Joey chuckled.

"It's just a little outside my usual wheelhouse, and I know you can be very protective of me, which I'm totally appreciative of, but I need you to trust my judgement on this one"

"Okay.."

"So, Dawn had this idea for a new news show, and she has a backer for it already. She's asked me to co-host with her"

"Wow, that actually sounds like an amazing opportunity" Joey smiled with relief "I know getting any degree of fame can have its downsides, but I'm sure everyone will love you"

"Thanks, but that wasn't the thing you might, or most likely will, freak out over" Kayleigh was choosing her words very carefully as she continued "The show will bring people real news, and cut through all the fake crap. You know how passionate I am about that. Anyway, we need to attract an audience first, since there is so much competition from the kind of places that peddle made up shit, and for that we need a gimmick. To that end, the show is going to be called The Naked Truth....." she paused briefly to compose herself "And Dawn and I will both be appearing nude in it"

There was a moment of stunned silence from Joey.

"You're not serious?"

"I'm completely serious"

"Have you and Dawn both lost your minds??"

Kayleigh said nothing, feeling she didn't need to justify herself to her friend any further, so Joey instead looked to Charlie for support.

"What do you make of this?"

"Well, it isn't really my place to say, but I'm kind of with Joey" Charlie pretended "Won't this take away from your credibility as journalists?"

"I don't think so" Kayleigh shook her head "Anyone who watches will see that the quality of the debate and the information we present will be high. If people don't watch it, they can hardly judge"

Charlie turned to Joey and gave an "I tried" kind of a shrug.

"Anyway, I have work to get back to" Kayleigh told them both "We can talk about this another time if you feel you need to, but it's happening either way"

As Kayleigh exited, Joey turned back to Charlie.

"Can you believe this?"

"I really don't know Kayleigh or Dawn very well, but no, not really"

"Do you think I should use my powers of persuasion to stop her making a huge mistake?"

"Do I think you should mind control your best friend to make career decisions on her behalf?" Charlie rephrased the question for Joey "You know the answer to that as well as I do"

"Fuck, this is bad, Charlie"

"I agree" she paused a second. It was time. "Although..."

"What?" Joey asked suspiciously.

"Okay. Plan A, we talk Kayleigh and Dawn out of this because, I agree, it's a disaster of an idea"

"And Plan B?"

"If they are absolutely determined to go through with the show, then the one thing I will say, and Kayleigh was totally right about this, people will watch. Like, lots of people"

"So? That's bad isn't it?"

"That's certainly one way of looking at it" Charlie admitted "But perhaps, if you do the voice overs, you could save your friend some embarrassment and promote our cause to a wider audience at the same time"

"Save her embarrassment how?" Joey looked thoroughly baffled.

"I don't know, at the end of each episode, say something like 'You have completely forgotten what Dawn and Kayleigh look like naked, and if you have taken any screenshots or captured any footage of them, you are determined to delete at all costs. If you want to see Dawn and Kayleigh naked, you'll have to tune again for the next episode' That way we get our messages to a huge number of people, Kayleigh and Dawn have a hit show with a repeat audience, and no real harm has been done to their reputations"

Joey paused for a moment, considering this.

"So how do I even get to do the voice over work for a TV show in the first place?"

"I don't know, Joey. If only you had some kind of mind controlling power you could use on anyone you needed to influence"

Joey looked thoughtful again. Everything Charlie was saying made sense and that, couple with Kayleigh and Dawn's extremely out of character decisions to turn themselves into strippers, seemed suspicious.

"This is all very convenient for you isn't it?"

"What do you mean?"

"It's like you've got this all worked out already, and it all falls in your favour"

"You got me, Joey" Charlie answered in a snarky voice "I made Dawn and Kayleigh decide to strip on TV with the mind control powers I don't have, then schemed with Kayleigh in advance to pretend I didn't already know when she just told you about it with me right there in the room"

"Shit, I'm really sorry Charlie. I don't know what I was thinking there" Joey apologised guiltily "This is all just so weird."

"It's fine, it was just a shock to the system. I get it. And forget my idea. I'm trained to try and think out of the box on the fly in any situation. Sometimes I can't stop myself"

"No, you were right" Joey decided "If they do both insist on doing something crazy, it's better we take control of the situation"

An awkward but unavoidable thought was now overwhelming all others in Joey's mind. After all of the time he had spent being infatuated with Kayleigh, he was going to watch her debating news events with a woman he was fucking while they were both naked. And, whether or not the rest of the audience did, he wouldn't forget it. There was no chance of that.