*short story* Sequel to Clause 12: Confidential 💋✨

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THIS STORY IS FANFICTION! EVERYTHING IS MADE UP! Between Orders and Silence is a deeply emotional story about love found in the spaces where duty ends and truth begins. Set against the relentless pressure of public service, power, and expectation, the story follows two driven people whose lives collide at the worst-and most vulnerable-moments. As careers demand loyalty, secrets fester, and past relationships refuse to stay buried, they are forced to confront not only each other, but themselves. What happens when silence feels safer than honesty? When love shows up in the middle of grief, fear, and unfinished business? This is a story about longing, mistakes, forgiveness, and the quiet choices that shape our lives behind closed doors. Because sometimes, what survives us isn't the orders we follow-but the love we were brave enough to face.

Kamala Harris is Howard's debate queen, and her worst nightmare, Barack Obama, Columbia's smooth-talking star. They argue, they compete, and they drive each other insane. But somewhere between the sarcasm and stolen glances, rivalry starts to feel a lot like something else.

Howard University, 1996 Barack Obama (19), a smooth, guarded Howard sophomore hiding childhood pain behind a campus-king swagger. Kamala Harris (18), a brilliant, painfully shy freshman armed with color-coded highlighters and homemade cookies. Barack rules campus with a smile and a promise never to stay. Kamala rules the front row with highlighters and zero interest in games. Forced together on a Torts project worth half their grade, the campus player bets his boys he'll have the church girl before the deadline. He expects easy. He gets homemade cookies, quiet library nights, and a girl who sees every crack in his armor. One cruel joke almost ends it. One plate of Miss Lorraine's fried chicken almost begins it. Between chocolate chip cookies and whispered "goodnights," two guarded hearts discover that love doesn't always leave; sometimes it waits on the third floor for someone brave enough to stop running. This story is completely fictional.

In 2006, District Attorney Kamala Harris's life takes a dramatic turn after a night of celebration following a major courtroom victory. Leaving a bar, she stumbles upon a bizarre and life-altering discovery: Sergeant Kota Walkins, a woman officially declared legally deceased four years prior in 2002 after a military tour in Iraq went horribly wrong. Kamala quickly realizes this isn't their first encounter. Years earlier, during a violent robbery that ended in her father's death, Kamala had been saved by a then-unknown Kota. Now, reuniting with the supposedly dead soldier, Kamala learns a dark and dangerous secret: Kota suffers from a mysterious condition that causes uncontrollable rage to physically transform her into a monstrous being. Striking a clandestine pact, Kamala agrees to protect Kota's secret in exchange for the soldier's help in hunting down the individuals responsible for her father's murder. Their alliance is a volatile one, built on mutual need and shadowed by immense risk. As they work together, a powerful and dangerous attraction ignites between them, threatening to unravel their partnership and destroy them both from within and without.

After the almost assassination attempt on Kamala Harris, the world is on a scare. Secrets were kept and revealed in the first season, but on this season of Beyond the Headlines, will all of the Secrets stay revealed? Or Will Secrets tear apart what she most certainly holds dear?

A brief college love changes two lives forever, and nearly twenty years later, a devastating loss forces them to face the family, the silence, and the love that never truly left.

Kamala Harris's life gets turned upside down when the President of the United States asks her to join in his cabinet. An illicit affair charts a new course for the Attorney General of California as she discovers the biggest surprise of her life. How can they keep this secret from the world? {Purely fiction. No intent to cause harm. This story is not associated with any of the people involved. }

When detectives Kamala Harris and Barack Obama are forced to partner on a high-stakes case, sparks fly and not in a good way. But everything changes when Barack uncovers a hidden truth that ties them together in a way neither of them ever expected.