Jump 238: West Wing

Jump #238: West Wing
>Death, reversed: The refusal to let go of the past.
Actually, I choose to interpret this one more literally: there is a particular instance where Bartlett is angry because someone died. So I'm going to make a point of ensuring she lives through her car crash, utterly unscathed against all odds, and then rub his nose in it. Martin Sheen needs to be brought down a peg.
>Age: 31
>Location: Washington DC, 1999
>Identity: Personal Aide
>Jack Of All Trades (Free, Aide)
Well, that's a nice fake-it-til-you-make-it perk.
>I Suppose It's Possible I Was Drunk (900)
Never hurts to be able to play the comedy relief and get away with it if I want to. In fact, it may be incredibly helpful to do from time to time.
>Macromanagement (750, Aide)
Oh I will SO be taking this. Organizing complex tasks at the drop of a hat is very important.
>Diplomatic Immunity (450)
Technically, I'm totally an alien. I mean, a legal alien, but I was born in Ohio. Is it any surprise that the state that had the most astronauts has extradimensional travellers too?
>Speaking Truth To Power (150, Aide)
This'll help if I ever need to actually have a word to two with someone important. Like the leader of the free world. Because I will.
>Rolodex (0, Aide)
I have the numbers of literally every major person in the world's governments now. LET THE TROLLING COMMENCE.

The election years are odd in this world. Bartlett was elected in 1998 instead of 2000, but it works.

So there are a number of various crises that happen, and it's my self-appointed job to make sure the president comes out of it smelling like a rose. And... honestly? That wasn't even that hard for the most part, which left me with time to change things with the whims of a mortal and the powers of a god. Certain people didn't die when they might have, certain strings were pulled and a kidnapping attempt on Bartlett's daughter was botched before it even got off the ground, Leo McGarry survived his heart attack in 2006, and so on.

And then there's that whole 'oh he's got multiple sclerosis and shouldn't run for reelection' bullshit, which incidentally is complete bullshit. We've had presidents in wheelchairs, and somehow it turned out that either the diagnosis was completely wrong or he was mysteriously healed of it. What a thing. It still ended up increasing funding for MS research in the jump though, so that was a thing.

Most of this jump was me doing my job as best I could, but... I can't stop myself from being a good person and trying to make a difference where I can. There are a large number of terrorist attacks that never happened, for instance, and I'm sure that I don't need to name names - that's a thing I constantly do, look for major losses of life and act to stop them from happening. This is especially true in more 'real' settings, where there's a higher population density. I don't intervene in every case, but... places where there's senseless loss of life? You'd better believe I'm going to do something about that where I can. Otherwise, why have clairvoyance at all?