Day 200

## Story

Lily and Regina continue working on the kitchen garden; Whitney makes progress with her research during FBI training and persuades Isabel to help her.

## New Characters

*No new characters are introduced on this day*

## Locations

*No new places are unlocked on this day.*

Places to renovate:

* White House Kitchen Garden

## Tasks

Players must earn 42 stars to complete the tasks of this day.

* Balancing Act
* Memory Gardens
* Forms of Love
* Law & Isabel
* The North Remembers
* Keep Caring
* Huckleberry Loaf
* Sweet Tree
* Shabby Shed
* Shed Shape-Up
* Raise the Roof!
* Tools of the Trade
* What time is it?
* Top-Notch Tiles
* Tables Turn
* Start New Day

## Dialogue

#### Opening Scene

> [Regina and Lily discuss the dream she had from the night before.]

#### Balancing Act

> **Regina**All right, well, let's get to work. No use sitting around moping.
> I can't mope and garden at the same time! Let's fill this planter.

*Player selects an option*

> **Regina**Good morning, Madam President!**Hazel**Good morning, you two!
> Regina, I'm glad to see you back.**Regina**Thanks, ma'am! I'm ready to get to work, I promise.**Hazel**Oh, I never doubted that. I can see your dedication.
> But sometimes what we want and what we need are not the same.
> And it can be difficult to tell which is which. I think you needed a little break.**Regina**You're right. Even if I didn't want to, I did need a break. And to spend time with Whit.**Hazel**Work-life balance is a precarious act! But a necessary one for happiness.[Regina's phone vibrates.]**Regina**I needed the reminder! Now my phone is reminding me to go pick up our building materials.
> I'll be back later!**Lily**See you later, Regina![Regina exits.]

#### Memory Gardens

> **Hazel**Lily, would you mind terribly if I hang around while you work?**Lily**Of course not, ma'am!**Hazel**I appreciate it. I find spending time in an active garden so relaxing.**Lily**Well, you just relax right here while I get this planter placed!

*Player selects an option*

> **Hazel**I have such wonderful memories of my mother working in her garden.

> **Hazel**It really was her happy place. She grew all kinds of vegetables.
> We would sit out in the garden all summer long, easting pineapple buns and enjoying warm days.

> **Lily**My Aunt Mary had a beautiful garden and we did the same! I loved it there.
> My mom used to drop me off at her house and I would run right into the garden.**Hazel**Did your aunt take care of you often?**Lily**Honestly, she was around more than my mom. Summers with Holly were more...
> ...leopard print and fireworks, less lemon tarts and fireflies.**Hazel**I grew up with a horde of aunties, my mother's best friends. Aunties are the best.

#### Forms of Love

> **Lily**Time to stuff this planter with all kinds of good stuff!

*Player selects an option*

> **Hazel**It's good you had your Aunt Mary to share a garden with.**Lily**She shared a lot with me, actually, more than my mom did, in a lot of ways.
> I know that my mom loves me, but she never really wanted kids. I was a surprise.**Hazel**There is a lot of pressure put on women to feel one way or another about motherhood.
> And to act or be one way or another, as mothers.
> It seems to me that your mother knew she wasn't going to be what you needed.
> So she found someone who would be what she couldn't. That is a form of love, too, Lily.**Lily**Wow, that's true. I never thought about it that way.
> I just thought she... hadn't wanted me. So she avoided me.
> But Aunt Mary loved me and I loved her.**Hazel**Not all mothers are built to BE mothers. Mothers are people. And some people are terrible.
> But yours is self-aware, Lily. And that's quite something.
> I met my husband later in life, you know. Too late for children. I made peace with it.
> My parents would have loved teaching their grandchildren Mandarin.
> But that isn't how it went for me, and I'm very happy with how my life is turning out.
> I'm mother to an entire nation, am I not?**Lily**You do clean up your fair share of national...poop.

#### Law & Isabel

> **Whitney**So we have to set up a crime scene for criminal analysis class.
> I'll set it up first and then you have to solve it.**Isabel**I can solve anything you throw at me, Wells. I guarantee it.**Whitney**Hmm. Hm Hm Hm. All right then, Isabel. I'm giving you the spoilers version then.**Isabel**Bring it on. I'm not afraid of spoilers!**Whitney**Okay, you have to leave while I get everything set up.**Isabel**Going, going!**Whitney**According to the workbook, things have to go in a specific place.
> But I am going to strategically alter this crime scene.
> Let's see if Isabel can solve a crime it took George a thousand pages to set up![Whitney assembles a crime scene.]**Whitney**On the one hand, this is really cool.
> But I should be spending my time figuring out the presidential kidnapping threat...
> Ugh. My IP trackers aren't finished yet. The answers are just out of reach!

#### The North Remembers

> **Whitney**Please tell me what happened here. Tell me...exactly...what happened here.**Isabel**Hrrm.
> Clearly someone was murdered. Someone important.
> Someone who perhaps took on more responsibility than they could bear.
> I can tell from how heavy the chalk lines are, obviously.**Whitney**Go on.**Isabel**This newspaper is placed just out of reach, as if it held the answer.
> And if only the victim could have put what he knew out into the world before he died...
> But no, someone got to him first.**Whitney**So, cause of death?**Isabel**Knowing too much. But also, I reckon, the headsman's ax.**Whitney**Keep going!**Isabel**This broken glass looks like ice to me...
> And the phone. The screen is broken...
> ...cracked into what looks like three...little...fingers.**Whitney**I can't believe you're getting this. Ready to solve?**Isabel**The victim is Ned Stark!
> He was set up by Littlefinger to die before he could reveal what he knew!**Whitney**Spoilers! You nailed it!**Isabel**If only Ned knew justice as I do.

#### Keep Caring

> **Lily**These planters are full of all my babies now! Well. All my garden babies.
> And what better pleasure than watching your babies grow up big and strong?

*Player selects an option*

> **Lily**Look at those little babies. Swaddled in soil. Not a care in the world.**Hazel**I do love babies. I spend a lot of time kissing them in this job. Ideal, really.**Lily**Yeah, I thought I wanted a ton of kids with my ex-fiance. But I was lying to myself.
> About him, about what I wanted. I know that now.
> Luke and I are so happy!
> And we have Karen, who I love. I never imagined I'd be a stepmother either.
> I thought maybe I'd understand my mom more after I became Karen's stepmom...**Hazel**I don't think that's a gift of motherhood, Lily.
> As we get older, our ability to empathize grows.
> Maybe you'll understand your mom's choices one day, maybe not.
> All you can do, for both of you, is care about each other. Keep caring.**Lily**Wow, that's way more motherly advice than Holly has actually ever given me.[Holly overhears the conversation and exits.]**Lily**You ARE everyone's Mom!

#### Huckleberry Loaf

> **Lily**Hmmm. My mom was supposed to come by, actually, but she's not here yet.
> She's probably sleeping off whatever scandal she got up to last night!**Hazel**Empathy, Lily. Empathy.**Lily**Right, right. Well, I'll fill this planter and see if she shows up in the meantime.

*Player selects an option*

> **Lily**Oh, here comes someone! Maybe it's--**Dan**Howdy ladies!**Hazel**--Vice President Best. Good morning.**Dan**I just came to bring Lily some of my famous huckleberry loaf! As promised.**Hazel**Oh, would you look at the time! I have to go broker peace between warring nations.
> See you both later![Hazel exits]**Lily**Wow, she got outta here faster than a heat-seeking missile...**Dan**More huckleberry loaf for you, Lily! Here you go, a bite fresh outta the oven...
> ...delicious.**Lily**Oh...oh...that's...

#### Sweet Tree

> **Regina**Sup, Lils. My truck's loaded with building materials. Wanna help me--
> Woah! The Vice President. What's going on, man?**Dan**Howdy, Regina. Pleasure to meet you. Would you like a slice of huckleberry loaf?**Regina**Uh...sure?
> I mean... no. Huckleberries give me...hives?**Dan**Not the first time I've heard that! It's quite a common allergy, I've learned.
> The just leaves more for us. Right, Lily?**Lily**Uhhhhh...I would but I have to plant a fruit tree.
> If I eat and plant, I get cramps. So let's just stick to planting, okay?

*Player selects an option*

> **Dan**What bounty of fruit! Perhaps I cam mix some of these into my buffalo ceviche?

#### Shabby Shed

> **Regina**So this guy's just gonna hang around us all day?**Lily**He's not just some guy. He's the Vice President.**Regina**I'll tell you one vice I won't have around him...gluttony!**Dan**Regina, are you allergic to anything else? I don't want you to be left out next time.**Regina**Too many allergies to list, actually. Especially with all the work we have left.**Lily**Right! It's time to tackle the shed. Starting with these shabby walls!

*Player selects an option*

> [Regina pulls out a piece of paper from the walls.]**Regina**Woah! Look what I found in the insulation. A love note!**Lily**A love note?! From who?**Regina**You will not believe this. "From Michelle" "To Barack"!**Lily**Eek! We're holding a piece of American romantic history.**Dan**A piece of history, you say? Give it here! I want a look at it.

#### Shed Shape-Up

> **Lily**Wowzers! Michelle gets a little raunchy in this note.**Regina**"I want to pinch your 'seat of power'." How risque!**Dan**Quit hogging the love note! I wanna see it! Let me see it!**Juan-Miguel**Good afternoon, ladies. How are we today?
> Oh. Hi Dan.**Dan**Juan-Miguel.**Lily**Look what we found! It's a love note from Michelle Obama!**Juan-Miguel**Really?! How exciting! She used to hide these all around the property for Barack to find.**Lily**We found it in the shed! Can you believe our luck?**Juan-Miguel**It's a real piece of history. A window into the love of two American icons.**Regina**Speaking of windows, want to help us pick some new ones for the shed?

*Player selects an option*

> **Juan-Miguel**Splendid. While you finish up here, I'll get this love note back to the Obamas.**Dan**Oh no! Give it here, Juan-Miguel. I can handle it. You're already so busy.**Juan-Miguel**It's fine, Mr. Vice President. I always like an excuse to text the former first lady.

#### Raise the Roof!

> **Dan**As much fun as this has been, I must be going.
> I've received more intel on the presidential kidnapping conspiracy.**Lily**Oh no! I thought that was all dealt with.**Dan**Everything is under control as the president told you yesterday.
> But there's a bigger team working on this than she realizes.
> We try not to add any additional stress to her already stress-filled life.**Juan-Miguel**That's very considerate, Mr. Vice President.
> I'll guide you out, so you and the ladies can get back to work.**Dan**That's a swell idea, Juan-Miguel. Thank you.
> Say, have you eaten lunch yet? I was thinking of making some Rocky Mountain Oysters.[Dan and Juan-Miguel exit.]**Lily**I'm glad Dan is looking out for Hazel. It can get lonely at the top.**Regina**Being at the top ain't too bad. Unless we're talking about this nasty old roof...

*Player selects an option*

> **Lily**You really raised the roof on this one, Regina.
> Heh heh heh! I'm the worst, ain't I?

#### Tools of the Trade

> **Lily**This new garden shed is top of the line.
> All we need is some top of the line tools to go with it...

*Player selects an option*

> **Lily**Oh boy! Look at this cool wheelbarrow. It's the new Vankaloy model.**Regina**They're making new types of wheelbarrows?**Lily**Have you not been reading the gardener forum posts I've been sending?**Regina**By the by, the VP was acting a little weird, right?
> Like he was worried, but also not worried?**Lily**The only thing he should be worried about is his culinary talents.
> I wonder if Melissa would give him any lessons? Would that be rude to suggest?**Regina**I'm just happy he's not interfering with our decorating anymore.
> I hate having too many cooks in the kitchen...especially when they cook like him!

#### What time is it?

> **Lily**Hey Regina, do you know what time it is?**Regina**Half past 4, last I checked.**Lily**Close but wrong...
> ...it's weeding time![Lily and Regina weed the picnic area.]**Regina**Hmm... I guess it was weeding time.[Regina's phone vibrates.]**Regina**Whitney's calling me! Be right back.**Whitney**Hey honey bear. Back at the White House today? How you feeling?

*Player selects an option*

> **Whitney**Hey honey bear. Back at the White House today? How you feeling?**Regina**Sup sweetness. The day off yesterday helped, but we're on a tight schedule.**Whitney**Why? Because of the threats? Have you heard more? What's the goss?**Regina**Nah. We just need to get the kitchen garden finished before the next garden tour.**Whitney**A garden tour, you say? A chance to inspect the outer perimeter of the White House.
> Interesting...very interesting...**Regina**Uhh...sure. Anyways, I gotta finish up over here. Love you! Bye!

#### Top-Notch Tiles

> **Regina**I got some funky tile designs for ground over here. Which do you like most?

*Player selects an option*

> **Lily**This one! It's so funky. It makes me want to boogie.**Regina**With you around, any floor can turn into a dance floor.
> Wait... didn't Holly say she would come back here later today?**Lily**Wouldn't be the first time she came up short...
> Ugh! I hope her shady all-access pass was revoked.**Regina**Lils, I get why you're annoyed her, but maybe you should talk to her about it.
> We both know how awful she can be, but she's been putting in a serious effort recently.**Lily**You're right. She's been trying to get closer and I keep flinching away.**Regina**Maybe it's time you two work through this. She's ready to change. Are you?

#### An Alliance Forms

> **Whitney**I got it! My IP trackers finally spit out some useful results.**Isabel**Can you quiet down? I'm trying to finish up this case report.**Whitney**That was a fake crime scene! We're talking about real crimes here.
> This wacko on the Dark Web wants to kidnap the president.
> They posted classified blueprints. They must have access to the White House.**Isabel**They did?!**Whitney**That's why I need your help. If you really are the number one rookie, prove it.**Isabel**But we'd be breaking the rules!**Whitney**Fine. I'll take this on alone. Have fun with your case report...**Isabel**I can't blow this opportunity for some crazy gal's crazy plan. I've worked too hard.
> But I can't let her get all the glory either, can I? Ughh...
> Whitney, wait up! I changed my mind. I want to help you.

#### Tables Turn

> **Lily**I say we set up this table and then head home. I'm exhausted.
> That huckleberry loaf took a lot out of me.**Regina**You saved me from that monstrosity. I 'll handle the table to show my gratitude.

*Player selects an option*

> **Regina**And there we go. Now let's get out of here.[Lily's phone vibrates.]**Lily**Ah, one sec. My mom texted me. Probably complaining about something annoying.
> Wait... what is this? "Dear Lily, I'm sorry."**Regina**Holly said she was sorry? I didn't know she could do that.**Lily**"I've always been a crappy mom, so from now on, I'll stay out of your life."
> "This is the last time you'll hear from me. We can both agree it's for the best."**Regina**Oh my gosh...**Lily**My mom...am I really never gonna see my mom again?

#### Start New Day

> **Regina**Lils, you look like a zombie again this morning, babe.**Lily**I was trying to call Mom pretty much all night.
> No answer. I left messages until it said her inbox was full.**Regina**She'll turn up.
> She's like a boomerang or a bad penny. Always comes back.**Lily**I'm just not sure this time, Regina.
> I think she was really, really upset.**Regina**Well, if we have to, we'll hunt her down ourselves.