Interlude: First Noel

the long version

Before Ethan returns to DC…Before he becomes Jack’s first gentleman…Jack and Ethan share their first Christmas together.Step back to Jack and Ethan’s first Christmas season and the tentative early months of their relationship under the world’s spotlight.Three months into Ethan’s transfer-in-exile in Des Moines, Iowa, the pressures of dating Jack, the president of the United States, start to wear Ethan down. His weeks are measured by the days he works in Iowa, chasing counterfeiters and financial