CIA agent dateing a Senator

[loquere]

Female CIA agent goes home with a young Senator, what could have been a one night stand turns in a cuddling sleepover. She doesn't know that he's a Senator at first.

-When he tells her that he's a Senator the next day, should she end things?

-What are the appropriate steps for her to take?

-Can she tell him?

-What are the consequences?

-Thoughts?

I already wrote two chapters, each is about 3000 words so their short. They didn't do well so I gave up. Then my mind started doing that thing it does. The first chapter is him getting elected surprisingly in an electoral upset. The next is him meeting her going down on her and just cudling after realsing he's guy she really likes and might love someday so she cudles and dosent fuck him

-Now is the part I need input on? Does she tell him blah blah blah

 

[Handley_Page]

Perhaps she might drop a hint to her Boss, although the CIA, as I understand it, is an 'External' organisation.

 

[HeyAll]

Perhaps he's on the Foreign Relations Committee...or the Intel Committee...and that this relationship would be a huge conflict of interest.

Conflict always makes for a fun story.

What kind of story are you aiming for? A romantic one? Or is it a more erotic story where the female character struggles with her sexual urges?

 

[Ironiclaconic]

There is no conflict of interest. CIA agents and Senators are both allowed to have personal lives and a Senator is not a supervisor.

The main issues are:

1) Cover. The rules on who you can tell vary by the type of cover. Even if under deep cover dating a senator would be an advantage as they have high security clearance. But even a deep cover agent would have a cover. "I am a cultural attaché for State." I know Joseph Wilson knew his wife worked for the CIA, but he had high security clearance.

2) even though it would be legal, it would be weird. Hey, our budget is up in front of your boyfriend's committee. Can you make sure he is kept "happy" this week? No supervisor would actually say that, but it does create an odd dynamic.

Such conflict is good for storytelling. He finds out she is a spook when she has to testify at his committee, for instance. She is on covert assignment in Iraq when he shows up on a fact finding tour. Fun stuff.

 

[lovecraft68]

Wait for it.....

 

[3113]

The first chapter is him getting elected surprisingly in an electoral upset.

Beyond the fact, as said, that there is no conflict of interest unless he's put on some committee grilling agents like her on an operation (I.e. what's the big deal?)...why doesn't she know he's a senator? I mean, if he won in a surprise upset? Most such upsets make the news and senators we otherwise would not hear about or know get known.

That is one way to go with the story, by the way. There should be some big operation she's part of that involves some big fish. Very secret. Then her lover might get inadvertently caught in the net or be officially asking what went wrong if it goes wrong.

 

[loquere]

Perhaps he's on the Foreign Relations Committee...or the Intel Committee...and that this relationship would be a huge conflict of interest.

Conflict always makes for a fun story.

What kind of story are you aiming for? A romantic one? Or is it a more erotic story where the female character struggles with her sexual urges?

My mind has been running with some ideas. Although it has to be under 3000 words.
In the already long published second chapter I did make him a member of the Senate select committee on intelligence. It's not a conflict really because she would still not be allowed to tell him anything. It does put her covert abilities at risk and her in danger if she's put in the field. Dating him makes her a target and him susceptible to blackmail, if she's taken.

-Romantic/Political (not erotic)

I thought of this/the wife thought a TINY portion, this morning.

-I was thinking of her breaking it off a month after she know he's Senator. She's been fighting it for so long, but now the relationship has changed after he meets her family, and he invites her to a State dinner at the White House. She decides if she's going to tell him it's now or never. However she believes if she tells him it's the equivalent of I love you lets spend the rest of our lives together since you know my secret. Unknown to her a few days ago he bought a ring spontaneously, he's not going to ask her to marry him. He's just holding on to it because he knows he will some day.

 

[loquere]

There is no conflict of interest. CIA agents and Senators are both allowed to have personal lives and a Senator is not a supervisor.

The main issues are:

1) Cover. The rules on who you can tell vary by the type of cover. Even if under deep cover dating a senator would be an advantage as they have high security clearance. But even a deep cover agent would have a cover. "I am a cultural attaché for State." I know Joseph Wilson knew his wife worked for the CIA, but he had high security clearance.

2) even though it would be legal, it would be weird. Hey, our budget is up in front of your boyfriend's committee. Can you make sure he is kept "happy" this week? No supervisor would actually say that, but it does create an odd dynamic.

Such conflict is good for storytelling. He finds out she is a spook when she has to testify at his committee, for instance. She is on covert assignment in Iraq when he shows up on a fact finding tour. Fun stuff.

I love this. Isn't cultural attache for state code for your in the CIA! DON"T KILL ME!

I loved all you had to say. I'll be using one of them at-least. I have some other points I had in my head related to the story. There is going to be an ongoing political theme.

-He's a Democrat, that for two years has singularly worked on a jobs bill that will have tremendous effect on his home-state, Ohio. 300,000 direct private jobs in three years, by way of him using those two years to build on the strong conditions for growth in state. Blah blah blah.

-The President is a first term Republican, black guy mid 60's. Distinguished former 3 star army general, and former Governor of New York.

-He's pissed because there's a clause in the bill sets the 92% percent of the jobs have to be filled by Ohioan's.

-President meets with the Senator, and is impressed that although respectful the young Senator isn't intimidated by him. They don't agree on everything, but he's sees some of the same values he has in the young Senator, and see's the potential in making him a republican.

-President's wife invites the Senator to dinner, the senator shows up thinking more people will be there. However it's just him the President his wife, and the president's youngest daughter soon shows up.

-The President's office the next day then sends the Senator's office a invite to a State dinner. A state dinner he had intended for Sarah the CIA girl before she dumped.

-The President's wife fixes it so that the Senator is at the head table seated next to her daughter.

-The next morning he has a select intelligence committee meeting and Sarah is there.

-They argue, she points to newspaper with him and the Presidents daughter.

-In his office he kisses her touches her throws the papers off his desk and fucks her.

 

[loquere]

Beyond the fact, as said, that there is no conflict of interest unless he's put on some committee grilling agents like her on an operation (I.e. what's the big deal?)...why doesn't she know he's a senator? I mean, if he won in a surprise upset? Most such upsets make the news and senators we otherwise would not hear about or know get known.

That is one way to go with the story, by the way. There should be some big operation she's part of that involves some big fish. Very secret. Then her lover might get inadvertently caught in the net or be officially asking what went wrong if it goes wrong.

She's been out of the country for a while in chapter two, a week after coming home she walks into a bar. I'm one that's into politics. Even ran and have been elected myself locally. I don't know everyone. I have to admit I study elections for fun sometimes I find out someone in state won razor thin. Sometimes even nation things miss me.

Originally I was going to have her get a promotion, after she does well on a single person op and stops a strike on Washington.

 

[loquere]

Wait for it.....

Wait for what?