Useful | Jo
So how do you get from Dr. Free Ride to Josh Lyman anyway?
Slight Spoilers for In the Shadow of Two Gunmen.
She'd never been good with blood. WARNING:
Some disturbing imagery. Angst alert.
Keeping Watch | Ryo
She didn't want to see him, but she needed to see him. Sequel in spirit to
It Was Fragmented, Her Memory, but can be read alone.
Leo, in the moments we don't see. Companion piece to A Cause of Action: Res Ipsa Loquitur.
Josh, in the moments we don't see. Companion piece to A Cause of Action: Sine Qua Non.
The Theory of Everything | Ryo
Theoretical physics?
Josh is still obsessing over theoretical physics.
Dinner Conversation | Jo
Donna carries on a little conversation over dinner, but it's not her date
she's talking to.
Forget It | Ryo
A much-needed conversation.
CJ's Revenge | Ryo
CJ inflicts a little punishment.
Covalent | Ryo
Josh ponders bonding.
AWARD!
Josh and Donna discuss Hitchcock, John Garfield and screwball comedy.
It's Just a Movie | Ryo
"It's just a movie." Sequel to Jo March's Introduction to Cinema.
Cardinal Points | Ryo
It occurs to me that if I drink enough, I can look at a map and all I'll
see is a blur of annoyingly pastel blobs. No matter which map I use.
This is a companion piece to Jo March's wonderful Exit Strategy: Disappearing
Like Europe.
AWARD!
Curse of the Cat Goddess | Ryo
So is CJ really cursed by Bast?
Da Bomb | Ryo
"Donna, it's a bomb." Silliness inspired by The Stackhouse Filibuster.
The Middle of Nowhere | Jo & Ryo
This is set during the Bartlet for America campaign and concerns a certain SPOILER for 17 People.
AWARD!
Abstruse | Ryo
abstruse - hard to understand; recondite.
This story occurs in the Exit Strategy universe, but is not directly related to that ongoing arc.
In Purdah | Ryo
in purdah | hidden behind a screen, curtain, or veil; seclusion.
Dithyrambic | Ryo
dithyrambic | any wild, frenzied,
or emotional speech or writing.
Janissaries | Jo & Ryo
Compatriots and conversation.
Dress Rehearsal | Jo
Josh and Donna discuss the repercussions of his tobacco suit faux pas.
Logical Solutions | Ryo
CJ ponders logical solutions to the president's problem.
Détente | Ryo
CJ. The Idiot Boys.
Oversights | Ryo
CJ and the gang discuss Mossad, Republican boyfriends, the lack of phone calls, the chemical abbreviation for tin, and the relative merits of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Only not really, but I'll get to that in a minute...
Approaching the Bench | Jo & Ryo
Josh and Donna try to find a political solution.
Donnatella & Louise | Jo
"Dibs on being Susan Sarandon."
AWARD!
Of Bubbles Bursting | Ryo
a girl who couldn't choose between the shower or the bath | Tori Amos
AWARD!
"Josh, is there a reason your pants are wet?"
Cloture | Ryo
cloture [noun] | limitation of legislative debate.
AWARD!
"Today, I am going to be Josh Lyman's Wall of Consequences."
AWARD!
"It's four years later, and there are things that are worse, and things
that are exactly the same. Where do you start?" (see also In Proud Fulfillment).
In Proud Fulfillment | Ryo
CJ, one holy night... Companion piece of sorts to If Your Time to You Is Worth Savin'.
Me and Victor Laslo | Jo
"This
isn't 1941, and I'm not Ingrid Bergman."Silence Can Be Violent | Ryo
If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my
face |Rage Against the Machine. Josh, CJ, a darkened office, and two bottles of beer.
"Let me get this straight: You want the Communications Director, the President's body man, a reporter for the Washington Post, and a DNC speechwriter to tag along to your assistant's apartment so that we can play bad cop while you simultaneously yell at her for taking the credit for her not-Italian ex-boyfriend's quote *and* play the good cop?"
Divided | Jo
"I'm
hardly in a position to condemn a man for having an affair." Post-ep for Life
on Mars.
Hobson's Choice | Ryo
Compatriots and conversation; a companion piece in
spirit to Janissaries and a post-ep for Life
on Mars.
Twenty Questions | Jo
Donna constructs an answer.
Hour Follows Hour | Ryo
and from one to the next, we don't know what each hour will deliver.
Staffers' reactions in the hours after Zoey's disappearance.
Divided: Solace | Jo
"What did the Deputy Chief of Staff know and when
did he know it? Is that what you're asking me?" Sequel to my earlier
story Divided.Fell Clutch | Ryo
In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not
winced nor cried aloud. Fifty hours with Zoey Bartlet. Spoilers
for Commencement;
25; 7A
WF 83429; The Dogs
of War; and Jefferson
Lives.