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Counting Coup by Perri Smith (PG)
Title: Counting Coup
Fandom: The West Wing
Pairing: Hints of Josh/Donna
Rating: PG
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: Seanachais
Why this must be read:
Noel must have spawned nearly as many fic as ITSOTG but I think this remains my favourite. Set the following morning, this is Leo and the President contemplating Josh and Donna and how good they are for each other, both professionally and personally. Perri Smith is a fantastic writer and has an excellent grasp of the characters' voices - especially Leo who has to be one of the hardest to write well. She's such a subtle writer, conveying Leo's affection for Josh, Josh and Donna's dependence on each other, the strong friendship between Leo and the President and the fragility of all these relationships without needing to labour the point. There are so many things I adore about this story but I'll shut up and just tell you to go and read it yourself.
Extract
I saw Donna's face last night, when we were both waiting in the foyer for Josh to come out. She didn't say anything; she just sat in the chair next to me, her hands clasped in her lap, and a look on her face that was damn near identical to the one she wore for all those hours in the hospital, when she was waiting to see if Josh was going to live or die. Like her life depended on it.
"I worry about her sometimes," I muse out loud, not really talking to Jed anymore. "She's maybe a little too, I don't know... dependent on Josh?"
"I would have said the other way around... but I know what you mean. She's tough, though," Jed adds after some thought.
"Yeah. She's tough." On the outside, anyway. She never wavered during those hellish three months of recovery, never let her efficient assistant/ruthless mama bear routine slip for a second, not in public.
In fact, as far as I know, she only broke down twice. Once, when Sam tried to get past her to see Josh, she apparently started screaming and scared the crap out of both of them. That would be when she started letting Sam take the occasional night shift at Josh's place. I know about it because Sam got worried and told CJ, who told me.
I dealt with it by sending Margaret to talk to Donna, then had to deal with Margaret crying all over me later, since Donna responded by crying all over Margaret.
Funny how anything that happens to anyone in this place, winds up threading its way through to the rest of us. I wonder what Josh's 'universal theory of everything' would say about that.
I wonder what Josh's father would say if he knew what I'd gotten his son into.
Counting Coup by Perri Smith
Fandom: The West Wing
Pairing: Hints of Josh/Donna
Rating: PG
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: Seanachais
Why this must be read:
Noel must have spawned nearly as many fic as ITSOTG but I think this remains my favourite. Set the following morning, this is Leo and the President contemplating Josh and Donna and how good they are for each other, both professionally and personally. Perri Smith is a fantastic writer and has an excellent grasp of the characters' voices - especially Leo who has to be one of the hardest to write well. She's such a subtle writer, conveying Leo's affection for Josh, Josh and Donna's dependence on each other, the strong friendship between Leo and the President and the fragility of all these relationships without needing to labour the point. There are so many things I adore about this story but I'll shut up and just tell you to go and read it yourself.
Extract
I saw Donna's face last night, when we were both waiting in the foyer for Josh to come out. She didn't say anything; she just sat in the chair next to me, her hands clasped in her lap, and a look on her face that was damn near identical to the one she wore for all those hours in the hospital, when she was waiting to see if Josh was going to live or die. Like her life depended on it.
"I worry about her sometimes," I muse out loud, not really talking to Jed anymore. "She's maybe a little too, I don't know... dependent on Josh?"
"I would have said the other way around... but I know what you mean. She's tough, though," Jed adds after some thought.
"Yeah. She's tough." On the outside, anyway. She never wavered during those hellish three months of recovery, never let her efficient assistant/ruthless mama bear routine slip for a second, not in public.
In fact, as far as I know, she only broke down twice. Once, when Sam tried to get past her to see Josh, she apparently started screaming and scared the crap out of both of them. That would be when she started letting Sam take the occasional night shift at Josh's place. I know about it because Sam got worried and told CJ, who told me.
I dealt with it by sending Margaret to talk to Donna, then had to deal with Margaret crying all over me later, since Donna responded by crying all over Margaret.
Funny how anything that happens to anyone in this place, winds up threading its way through to the rest of us. I wonder what Josh's 'universal theory of everything' would say about that.
I wonder what Josh's father would say if he knew what I'd gotten his son into.
Counting Coup by Perri Smith