VMars: "Confirmation Hearing" (Gen)

[alixtii]

Title: Confirmation Hearing
Fandom: Veronica Mars
Characters: Veronica Mars, Cindy Mackenzie, Keith Mars
Rating: WS
Word Count: 432-ish
Summary: Cindy Mackenzie showed up to her best friend and boss's confirmation hearings with her hair dyed pink. A brief follow-up to my "Senator Mars" futurefic, The Art of the Possible.

Confirmation Hearing

Cindy Mackenzie showed up at her best friend and boss's confirmation hearings with her hair dyed pink.

Not all of it, of course. Just the highlights, the way she used to back in high school.

"That's a blast from the past," Veronica noted when she saw it. "You do know you're the new CIO of the Interior Department, right?"

Mac nodded with a smile. "Which means that I answer directly to you, and you answer directly to the President. So I figured I can pretty much do whatever I want." She leaned back in her chair and put her legs up on the table.

Veronica just shook her head as she sat down across from Mac. "You could have waited until after I was confirmed."

"You'll be confirmed no problem," Mac assured her for what had to be the something-hundredth time. "They'll spend the whole time digging through all of the many skeletons in your closet again, which one has to admit is no mean feat, and then once they've totally exhausted themselves, you'll be voted in overwhelmingly. It's a done deal, Veronica."

"Easy for you to say," pointed out Veronica. "You're not the one on the hot seat being grilled. You're the one who gets to sit on the sidelines and have pink hair."

Mac tilted her head. "I'm not sure you could pull off pink hair."

Veronica shrugged. "I'm not sure America is ready for a pink-haired Cabinet secretary anyway."

. . .

"Thank God that's over," were Veronica's first words to Mac after the Senate vote.

"Madame Secretary, congratulations," Mac answered with a raised eyebrow, looking up at her boss from her desk.

"Thanks," accepted Veronica. "I guess now I'm supposed to get stuff done."

"Actually, I think we're supposed to get stuff done, and then you just take credit for it," Mac answered, not missing a beat.

Veronica cocked her head, as if considering. "I like that plan better," she agreed with a nod.

Just then Veronica's new P.A. stuck his head in the door. "Madame Secretary," he said. "Your father is on the line."

Veronica nodded, then sat down on Mac's desk. "Patch it through here," she instructed, and the P.A.--Doug? Dave?--nodded and quickly exited.

In a moment Keith Mars appeared on the giant screen on Mac's wall. "Hey Dad," Veronica said.

"Hey, honey," he answered back. "I saw the vote on C-SPAN. Congratulations." Then he added, "Hello, Mac. I see you went back to an old look."

"Hello, Sheriff Mars," Mac said with a smile.

"This your office?" Keith asked Veronica.

Veronica shook her head. "This is her office; that's why she's behind the desk and I'm just on it. My office is bigger."

Keith smiled. "Of course. Silly me."

Comments

[mymatedave.livejournal.com]

Nice.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

srmqTtaCiKcNgr

[(Anonymous)]

not if it's just a GPS reciever. A GPS reciever is like a radio, it only receives signals and then figures out what to do with them. If you are worried about being traced on the internet, then you should stop using Internet Explorer and really know what your doing with a PC (or get a Mac) because there are lots of ways to trace you there that don't involve anything remotely connected to GPS.