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“Donna?” Andy asks, her voice low and sleep-raspy. Her brow is furrowed adorably, like she didn’t expect Donna to open her eyes anytime soon. She probably didn’t, Donna figures, or else she wouldn’t have let Josh leave.
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day five: breakups/arguments
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- Part 4 of tww femslash february
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Donna is quietly falling apart but still wants to keep it together. As her mind and body turn against her and she searches for answers, she decides to only let a few people into her new world. And as much as she wants to trust Josh, right now, that’s too much to handle.
Josh can tell Donna isn’t herself, but he doesn’t know what’s going on or why she doesn’t interact with him like she used to. Instead, he sees her choosing other people and can’t figure out if it’s something he did or if the problem runs deeper than that. He still cares about her; he just has to learn how—and when—to step in.
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“I think we should sleep together and not tell anyone.”
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Everyone else eventually finds something more meaningful than politics, Amy's still waiting, and probably always will be.
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Sam gets lost, sort of.
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- Part 3 of Sam's First Family
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In the brutal arena of the 2012 presidential race, everyone expected Garrett Walker to claim the Democratic nomination and steamroll to victory. No one anticipated New Hampshire Governor Josiah Bartlet—a principled economist with a penchant for Latin and lectures—upending the field and securing the spot.
Even more unthinkable: Bartlet's choice of running mate, House Majority Whip Francis J. Underwood.
What happens when the ultimate pragmatist meets the ultimate idealist? When Bartlet offers Frank a genuine partnership instead of a knife in the back? In a Washington of endless reinvention and betrayal, this unlikely ticket forces Frank to confront something rarer than power: trust.
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Donna, an ice dancer who recently won silver at nationals and has Olympic aspirations, and Josh, a hockey player with the Madison Buffaloes, have been dating for two years. Josh has been struggling with injuries over the past season, while Donna is still passionate about her career. But could some surprise news change everything for both of them?
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- Part 8 of Year of the OTP 2025
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It's May, 2001, and Jed Bartlet has just launched his re-election campaign. It's a short walk from the restaurant where the Staff was having a dinner meeting to the parking lot where CJ left her car.
It should have been safe.
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- Part 2 of BTHB 2026
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“Joshua...” CJ drawls casually.
Something in the tone of her voice sets off every alarm bell in Josh's head. He narrows his eyes, sitting back. “…what?"
“I got some... interesting... reading this morning.”His wariness intensifies. It's the way she said 'interesting' that gets to him. That tone implies trouble, but of what variety, he's as yet unsure. Josh leans back in his chair, still watching her like a hawk. "...whatcha got there, Ceej?"
“Oh, just a little piece on...women's health…”
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It turns out that kissing Donna and being kissed by Donna are two different things. Being kissed by Donna felt like a gift. Kissing Donna felt like a right of passage that he was certain he would never be worthy of.
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Being the daughter of the President’s Chief of Staff was challenging, but being in a relationship with the Deputy Chief of Staff was just as difficult, if not more when your father and the team don’t know.
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You join the Bartlet campaign to help with digital marketing and outreach, back in 1998. Your parents are long time friends of CJ Cregg and she invites you to join the campaign and later The White House senior staff as deputy press secretary working under CJ. You and Sam Seaborn hit it off, becoming great friends and coworkers. Because he'd never be interested in someone like you. Or so you thought.
Author's note: This will be an AU where the internet is a little more advanced than it was in 1998. Addionally, I am also making up the "deputy press secretary" role. These are all for plot reasons so just roll with me.
This was inspired by Tumblr's @dancethroughthethunder's one shot An Incredible Man and kudos to them, that was an awesome one shot!x
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Sam shuts and locks the door, shuts his blinds. “You’re going to leave this office a new man.”
“I was just expressing—“
Sam looks at Josh. “Get on your knees.”
Like his strings have been cut, Josh's jaw goes slack and he does so. He sits there looking up at Sam for instructions.
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Sam Seaborn was sworn in as Vice President barely two months after the Hoynes Scandal when another erupts and send the Bartlet Administration careening downward. The 25th Amendment is enacted and he is sworn in as the acting President of the United States.
As the search for the Bartlets middle daughter, Ellie goes on so does the internal war between Seaborn's staff and Bartlet's staff.
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They were like the Gordian knot, she thought, so interwoven that the only way to untie them would be to cut them apart.
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Josh and Sam got outed, C. J. needs more time to mull that over. C. J. doesn't want to think about that at all.
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Matt Santos is running for president. Josh and Donna are just running away.
Augmented canon for seasons six and seven. Ventures into AU territory from 6x18 on.
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And it hurts. It hurts because Josh might not wake up.
And if he doesn’t, Sam won’t even get to grieve him properly. He’ll have to stand at the back of the room, hands folded, shoulders straight, playing the part of “colleague.” He’ll have to give the world nothing.
Because what he and Josh have? It lives in the space between shadows. And no one ever mourns a secret.
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Sam Seaborn spent fourteen years, his entire life, learning how to stand on his own two feet.
He grew up in the shadow of his father’s iron fist and his mother’s quiet, eroding will to live. Yet before she died, his mother left him with a secret. A secret that would lead Sam to people who would show him what a real family looked like. Not one built on expectation and punishment, but on firm, unrelenting love.
But will Sam allow himself to trust and finally unearth the truth his mother carried to the grave?
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“Donna's roommate has a new boyfriend,” Carol whispers conspiratorially.
“I got two hours of sleep last night,” Donna says resentfully. “So did she, by the sounds of it, but at least she got an orgasm or three in the process.”
C.J snorts. “Yikes. This boyfriend of hers got friends?”
“Ginger said the same thing,” Donna mutters under her breath. Louder, she says, “I’m working on it.”
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OR: Donna's roommate is keeping her up all night with ridiculously loud sex. Surely there's only one logical solution. Right?