Published: 18 Oct 2018

I explained that every single thing done on a computer leaves a trail, and even their web sites and their postings could be traced to it’s origin, thus opening new paths so, say someone using that same computer, but under a different user name, ordered 100 sub machine guns. That transaction could be traced, as well as the payment information trail. I thought that an electronic infiltration could possibly garner more information than a physical one, at least at this point. He told me he understood all that but just where were we going to find hackers loyal enough to do the snooping and to give us a concrete legal reason to raid and incarcerate these hate groups? I asked if he really wanted to know, I mean really wanted to know and he admitted he was curious, but he didn’t need to know who any of the snoopers were at this particular point.

When we woke the next morning Beth was organizing the boys getting dressed and getting them ready for the last round of testing for the private school we wanted them to attend. Bill and Kevin were ready to be driven to school by their assigned agents, one of them being Jake who had recovered so much already he was going to try being at the high school with the older boys and three other agents. It was good to have both Jim and Jake back with us full time after their whirlwind marriage and both agents were looking quite happy. I told the older boys I had something to discuss with them both after they returned from school and Bill immediately asked if I had another mission to work on and I whispered to him that I indeed needed his help, but it had to be a secret. That seemed to put a bounce in his step for the morning and then they were off with their escorts for their school day.

By the time the younger boys were released from their last round of tests it was only about 11 AM and Beth brought them down to the Oval Office to see us. We gave the three of them hugs and told them they must have rushed to be done an hour early and they all told us it was a piece of cake, which got Tom wanting something to eat, so we all trooped up to the family dining room and had an early lunch. By the time we had eaten the testers were done with their evaluations so, while the boys were in the game room with their assigned agents, Beth, Wayne and I met with the guidance councilor for the school and she informed us that even though the boys had only attended school sporadically, each one was near or at the top of their grades, which she attributed to their reading their school books when they were not in a regular school environment, and the fact that the parents often left them at a public library while they were off doing whatever they were involved with. She expected their development to soar now that they were in a loving environment where they felt secure and wanted.

After she told us this she also said that the boys talked about us during the times she had spent with them over the last two mornings and she said they didn’t really know what living with us meant, other than that they were loved and cared for like they had never experienced before. They knew people called Wayne Mr. President, but they didn’t really know what that meant, and it might sink in during a history or government class in the near future, especially for Luke and Gary, so we were to be on the lookout for a bit of awe and wonder when that happened, but if we acted like we always had and not make a big deal about it, it should pass quickly. She was recommending they start a regular school regimen the beginning of the next week, that would give the school enough time to prepare for the six to nine secret service agents who would be accompanying the boys for the school day. We thanked her and told her they would be at school on Monday and we’d be on the lookout for any unusual reactions they might have.

By the time I expected Kevin and Bill back from school the three younger boys had had their swimming lesson and they reported to Wayne and I that Beth did some dives into the pool and they and Scott were clapping for her. She had shown them a couple of dives they could do too and they wanted to show us during their next lesson. We told them we’d be there tomorrow to see them and then we were off to the games room while Wayne had some more work to do in his big office.

That’s where Bill and Kevin found me after they arrived back to the residence after school. While the younger boys were involved in a cut throat game of Chutes and Ladders with one of their agents I took the two high school seniors aside and explained what I needed. I told them I thought we could gather enough illegal activity information to put some of these hate groups out of business for some time, but I wanted to hit their web sites as well and hopefully make it harder for them to operate. I told them that their electronic snooping would only be of any benefit if illegal activity was turned up and the proper authorities were able to make good arrests based on any information gathered. I wanted their identities protected so they would be using computers not connected to the government system the White House used, they’d be set up with computers off the White House property and I thought I knew just the place, the house in Alexandria. There they would have complete privacy and would be allowed to have two friends of theirs help them. These two guys were computer wizards and had taught Bill and Kevin some pretty sneaky things on their computers. I told them I thought the 10 days of Spring Break, starting at the end of the next week, would be an ideal time for this operation, and I would only be a phone call away.

They were excited to start, and to get their friends on board, but I cautioned them that they couldn’t use the computers here in the White House, and I would obtain six untraceable computers for their use at the house sometime tomorrow and have the satellite connections made before the end of next week. They were up for the task and felt important being asked to do the computer searches and I told them that even Wayne couldn’t know about their involvement at this time and they agreed to keep their stay at the Alexandria house a “vacation” as far as anyone else knew.

The high school couple had selected the two boys they wanted to work with on their project and when I saw their pictures in the yearbook I recognized them from the wedding, they were one of the couples from the LGBT club in the high school, and they were the president and the vice president of the computer club as well. I was told they would only need one bedroom for their stay. I wondered about getting someone in, over at the house, to make sure the boys ate meals and not just snacks for a week or 10 days, but I really didn’t want anyone around who might figure out what they were doing, so I asked Jake if he knew someone who could be trusted to fix meals and clean up for the boys and he recommended an agent who had just filed for retirement and was looking for light duty until her retirement went into effect. She wasn’t disabled, she was just at the point where she was starting to slow down, and only had about a month to go before her exit interviews would start and she could retire. I made arrangements for her to be assigned to Bill and Kevin for their Spring Break and it was OKed the same day.

We had told Wayne about the boys staying at the Alexandria house for their school break and that I had arranged extra security for them as they were having another young gay couple staying with them and he was OK with that. I requested 6 super satellite computers from the director of the FBI and arranged for them to be installed with a satellite network at the house. This would enable virtually untraceable web searching for the boys, one more step in their security. I had prepared lists of the suspect organizations that warranted looking into, and the known leaders of them and their known affiliates. I only gave them the lists as they were leaving for the house as I didn’t want them tempted to get a head start on their searches, they were so eager to help break up these hate mongering groups.

The younger boys were adjusting well to their new school and they were thrilled they had a weeks vacation right after they had started, but swimming lessons were set up for them with Scott and he and Beth took them on several museum and historic sights tours during their week off. One night we chartered a river cruise boat that offered a fixed menu dinner and we invited the staff to join us for a sunset dinner cruise. Beth and Scott ate with Wayne and I and the three musketeers. It was a fun evening and it was nice being around people that weren’t gawking at us or pestering us with their own way of running the county or trying to get our autographs, although the secret service kept those people away from us. It was nice to relax with family and friends for the evening.

On Thursday Bill called and asked if I could bring the younger boys out for a swim in the heated pool, as both he and Kevin were missing the boys and they wanted me to meet Carl and James, their cohorts in espionage. I chuckled and told him we’d be out around 2:15 so make sure there were plenty of dry towels. I told Wayne about our plans after the morning staff meeting and he didn’t want to be left out of things so he finagled his schedule around with his secretary and arranged to go with us. It was a fun afternoon and we all got along with Carl and James, and Bill and I had a chance to talk privately when he told me he had something to show me upstairs. We left the others and he took me to the room the computers had been set up in.

There he handed me a sheaf of printouts and told me to look these over, he thought I’d be surprised as there was information in those papers that would amaze me, and there was a fairly simple solution to our problem with all the different hate groups, as he had outlined at the end. I asked if they had been careful and he chuckled and said it wouldn’t matter, as they had taken the identity of one leader of each of the twelve groups on my original list and created mirror sites of their own computers, which they had re-routed 100 times each to various computers around the world before setting up the mirror site on a different computer here in the room, which were untraceable. So each of the six computers in this room had 2 mirror, or exact duplicate, sites of 12 of the hate monger group’s leaders. Whatever they did on their group’s computers would appear here on one of the six mega computers in this room, and be seen and documented by Bill, Kevin, Carl and James. I couldn’t wait to read their report.

I didn’t get a chance to do that until we had returned to the White House and Wayne went back to his office for about an hour and Beth and the young boys went to watch an animated movie before dinner. Beth told me Scott had picked Finding Nemo for the afternoon movie, so I stayed in the family quarters and read the report which Bill had entitled” Follow the Money”. So I did. Through out the report they verified the source of the different groups funds and before long you could see the original source of all their funding was from the Neo-Nazi group headed by a former presidential candidate, all of them. The funds were tracked mostly from illegal activities, like prostitution and the slavery of illegal aliens. There were several influxes of cash that coincided with major bank robberies and jewel heists all around the country. These printouts documented the transactions and would provide the FBI with enough information, once supplied by the twelve leaders of the hate groups, to impound and extract the information from them to be able to prosecute all the officers of each of the 12 groups and of course, the American Neo-Nazi Party and it’s head. Whether or not they knew they were the source of the information sent to the FBI computers, the information would be sent from their own computers, using their passwords to send it, thus hanging themselves and their organizations. I phoned the Director of the FBI and asked if he was at his computer and he said he could be in five minutes and I then told him to be ready for 12 rather long emails and to have a lot of paper in his printer, and to be ready for about 13 raids tonight, he would need heavy military muscle to accomplish all this. I then called Bill on his satellite phone and gave him the private email address for the Director and told him to start the emails from the group’s computers right then and there.

Around 11:30 PM Wayne received a call in the residence and he motioned me closer to him on our bed so I could listen in and on the other end was the Director of the FBI, telling Wayne I had caused him a very sleepless night and he had called to let us know that the 13 raids had been successfully carried out and over 500 people were currently being held for questioning and 55 of those had already been charged with some sort of federal offense or another, mostly for multiple crimes. He wanted to disclose my part in exposing the money trail and I took the phone from Wayne and told the Director that if he did that then I would have to admit that my information came from 4 seventeen year olds who stumbled on the money connections while on Spring Break. Did he really want it known that 4 high school students did what his agents should have been able to do? He stammered his agreement not to disclose his anonymous informant, and both Wayne and I congratulated him on a job well done and we ended the call.

Wayne asked why I hadn’t told him that Kevin and Bill were involved, and I told him truthfully that if the shit had hit the fan I in no way wanted him to be connected to the information leak. That Bill had worked out a way so that the information gathered, that would hang the groups involved, would come directly to the FBI director from the group’s leader’s computers. He praised Bill’s ingenuity and my initial research to single out the various groups and their leaders for the boys, but I could tell he still had some resentment in him as he play fucked me to a second orgasm for the night. I fell asleep holding the leader of the free world in my arms, thrilled he was my spouse.

One of the staff asked what we made of the overnight news that the jailed members of the hate groups in the Dakotas had turned on each other and during the melee that ensued 14 of the jailed haters were killed and 17 badly injured. The other 30 or so men had had to be cuffed to the bars of cells to keep order in the jail they were being held in. Similar reactions had occurred in 8 other county or state facilities across the country, but no other deaths had happened. Wayne told the staff the loss of life was regrettable, but those men had so much hate in them that in their frustration they picked on their own kind. He said he hoped that the security cameras had caught those responsible for the deaths of the men in the Dakotas, but he wasn’t ready to shed any tears over them. He told the staff that all the paperwork showed the connection between the hate groups and the American Neo Nazi Party and he had every faith that the remaining prisoners, and the ones to follow as the investigation continued, would find themselves incarcerated for years and years to come, and the funds confiscated from their accounts would help defray the costs of imprisoning them.

Wayne further stated he was looking into having a lot of the jailed men (and in some cases women) tried at military tribunals as most considered themselves to be militias. As it stood now the investigations were still going on but the initial estimates were in the millions of recovered money from the bank heists, armored car hijackings, and the jewel thefts alone, this was not counting the ransom ware thefts or the extortion money or the monies not paid in federal taxes. He asked the staff to keep in mind the families of these people placed under arrest and that every avenue should be explored to help them through all this.

It was a pretty somber meeting and no one was really rejoicing, the ramifications were far reaching and deep. It was decided to determine if any confiscated funds could be earmarked to help out the families of those incarcerated and what help could be made available. Families with children would be given priority. Wayne asked for this to be a priority among all the staff and any ideas were to be documented and brought to his attention, either in person or in an email.

It was later determined that the Neo-Nazi group not only used a particular bank to funnel and launder money through, they owned it. The federal government seized it and all it’s assets and those millions were added to the other seized assets and these funds were used to not only help the families now left without a breadwinner, but to re-educate the remaining spouse and the children affected by the hate spewed by the arrested parent. Strict guidelines were adhered to and every ones civil rights were protected, it was a very effective program.

The last three days before the end of Spring break we spent as a family at Camp David. Wayne was in constant touch with the investigators and the judiciary, but we felt we had to also present a “normal” front not only for our own family, but for the country. The younger boys were a little nervous about returning to where the shootings had occurred, but we assured them that had been an isolated incident, and we didn’t even have to go near the big rock. The fact that Scott was coming with us and Beth, settled them down and we also invited Carl and James to accompany us. They would have a separate lodge to stay in for the weekend although they were included in all the activities we were going to be doing as a family. They were nice guys and Wayne and I wanted to thank them in some way for their help in doing the computer research which enabled the breakups of the hate groups.

It was determined by the FBI that the hate groups were largely responsible for the proliferation of meth labs around the country and the distribution of these venomous drugs.

Our short vacation was a fun filled one. Beth had asked for a low diving board to be installed at the pool and she continued to coach the three youngest during their swimming lessons with Scott. Scott had asked Wayne and I what would happen if Beth was to marry again and we told him she’d still have her job, whether she commuted or came down the hall where she and her spouse resided on the family level of the White House. That answered a few questions and Saturday night he proposed to Beth and the two couldn’t be happier. Beth wanted a small service since she had no relatives and Scott hadn’t had any for years so they decided on a post Easter wedding in the non denominational chapel on the grounds of the retreat. That gave the retreat staff a week to get ready, but Beth didn’t want a fuss made, all she wanted was a civil ceremony and maybe a small reception on one of the terraces after. She asked me if the boys would walk her down the aisle and I told her it would be alright with Wayne and I, but she would have to ask the boys herself.

The boys were thrilled to be asked and insisted on practicing with her often. Our week at home was even more fun as Beth explained she had been walked down every hall in the White House, much to the amusement of the other staff. Scott was increasingly nervous until they went and got their marriage license. He told me he knew it was real then, that she was really going to marry him, and he was so proud of that. The day of their wedding we had a surprise for them, Wayne and I had used our connections and had hired a fleet of helicopters for the afternoon and we flew out to the retreat any White House staff that wanted to attend so the chapel would be full, and we paid for the food and the mess hall’s staff time in preparing and serving it. Everyone had a great time and the boys did a great job as they slowly led Beth to Scott, where they each received a handshake from him. Beth kissed each one before they joined Wayne and I in the first pew on the bride’s side. Bill and Kevin had served as two of Scott’s 4 ushers and they sat in the first pew on the groom’s side.

The reception was held on the big pool area terrace and the barbecued ribs were well received. Everything was just perfect and the boys were a big hit with all the staff and their spouses. The new couple was foregoing a honeymoon at this point, preferring to wait until the family took our two week vacation when school let out for the year. Then they were going on a 10 day trip to England by themselves. It was a great time, being able to relax around people we knew and worked with every day, and we didn’t even have to clean up after, the mess hall staff had that in hand too.

The rest of the school year was tame for us compared with the earlier part of the year. There was no drama, just the occasional hiccup in foreign affairs, but nothing that couldn’t be handled with a few phone calls. Nation wide things had settled down in the wake of the hate groups breakups. Level heads prevailed and things had definitely settled down. Bill and Kevin had excelled in their senior year and were going to be attending Georgetown University in the fall and they asked for only one thing for their graduation. Instead of a graduation party they wanted to get married.

They had approached us after dinner one night at the beginning of May and told us their wish. They were sure they were meant for each other, they never wanted to part. They knew they had 3 more years to go before they could get serious about working on their masters, but they had actually started some work on them and they hoped in the semester after their graduation they should both be ready for their masters degrees. They wanted to live in the Alexandria house during their college years, not that they wouldn’t stop here at the White House for dinner or anything, but they felt they were ready to start living” on their own”. Wayne didn’t even bat an eye, he answered for himself when he said he admired their maturity and he had no qualms about giving his blessings to the pair of them. It took me a moment, but just a moment, before I looked each one in the eye and asked if they were really sure, and they both answered with conviction and a combined strength when they told me they were. What surprised us more was when they asked us to marry them, they told us that special licenses were available so someone not ordained could perform a civil ceremony and they wanted something like Beth’s wedding for themselves. They confided in us that the Pope had offered to marry them in a church service when they visited him in Rome over the summer. It was going to happen at a mass wedding during a special service the Pope was holding in commemoration of Gay Pride Month at the end of June, but they wanted to do a civil ceremony before then so they could have all their friends and family with them at one of their services.

I asked the legal department to look into those temporary justice of the peace licenses and was surprised they were fairly simple to obtain. They obtained all the forms that had to be filled out and we gave the date of expected use as the day the young men wanted to marry on, out at the retreat. With those filled out and submitted we only had to plan the way we were going to do the actual ceremony, with the two of us participating. The two of us thought we had it figured out and we had a dry run with Bill and Kevin and they liked it! They said it wasn’t too sappy and it wasn’t too dull, it was the four of us all wrapped into a fifteen minute ceremony and we would come out of it two committed couples, joined by love and the law.

Their graduation had come and we had added security for that, but we tried to act just like the proud parents we were. It was held on Wayne’s one year anniversary of having been sworn in as president. Thankfully the school had already had a commencement speaker chosen for this graduation over a year ago so Wayne hadn’t had to make a speech, even though he had been asked to he didn’t want to upstage any of the graduates, and it was a family day for us as well.

During the gathering after, Bill and Kevin introduced us to more of their friends we hadn’t met before, and their folks as well. We became reacquainted with Carl and Jame’s parents as well and we had a good time with them. I guess when the President and his spouse tell you that they admire your son it just makes the social tensions melt away. They informed us that quiet James had proposed to Carl the evening before and they(the four parents) didn’t know how to help the young couple. I suggested they talk to Bill and Kevin as they had had some unusual ideas that seemed to have worked out.

Shortly after Bill told us that Carl and James were also planning on marrying before classes started at Georgetown, where they had also been accepted. I saw that gleam in his eyes and I asked just what he was thinking. He nudged me and then asked how much did our country owe James and Carl for all their help and I told him it was a quite a lot, but their involvement was not to be made general knowledge, it would certainly put them in an unwanted spotlight and probably put them in peril. Bill, with Kevin right beside him, told Wayne and I, that he and Kevin wanted a double wedding with their best friends and they wanted them to live with them at the house in Alexandria, at least until they all had a good start at college and knew if the two couples were good house sharing roommates.

I thought it was nice of them to want to share one of their wedding days and Wayne was asking if we had to come up with a different ceremony, one for both couples to exchange their vows, and Kevin piped up and said that we could just drop the mushy stuff and what we had come up with would work for both couples at the same time. I thought about it and he was right so we agreed that Bill and Kevin would invite Carl and James to share their wedding at Camp David with them.

Before we left to go back to the White House all the arrangements had been set, and we told the happy couple’s parents we would hold 60 seats for the ceremony for them as the chapel only held 90 comfortably. The reception was another story as the terrace would hold seating for about 150, but the boys didn’t want that many, so 90 seemed a good number. Half the guests the two couples would have in common anyway(their mutual friends and fellow graduates) so it would be a true family affair with shared friends of both couples added.

The younger boys were asked to stand up for both couples and they would act as ring bearers as well. Of course they were chuffed at being asked to do stuff for their big brothers and their friends at their wedding and they wanted to practice walking them down the aisle, but the guys had something else in mind, they wanted to enter from the sides as equals as Wayne and I did, Carl and James did as well. One groom from each couple would walk from a side and meet the other pair of grooms coming across from the other side right in front of the altar piece and pair up there. They told the three younger boys they could walk down the aisle with the dads and get down to the front and then the two couples to be married would start their walk to meet them in the middle of the front. So that’s what we did. With Tom holding our hands we walked down the aisle of the full chapel, Wayne and I, with Luke and Gary leading the way, we all walked down the aisle together to get their brothers married. The younger boys hadn’t been officially adopted yet, we were waiting until the reception to tell them it had become official at 9AM this morning. Since I hadn’t adopted either Bill or Kevin and Wayne hadn’t either, they really were not legal brothers marrying, but the adoptions becoming legal this morning, and the two young men marrying this noon made us all related in one way or another.

I have to admit it was pretty scary, having the responsibility for the three youngest, but with Wayne at my side I didn’t see any danger in being called Dad, and neither did he.

THE END

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