ext_27052 ([identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2006-03-27 08:33 pm
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Negative Ions by Yana, NC-17

Fandom: THE WEST WING
Pairing: Josh/Donna
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] yanatya
Author Website: Yana's West Wing Fanfiction
Why this must be read:

Looking through the list of stuff that's already been rec'd I was surprised not to find anything there of Yana's because she writes some of the best Josh and Donna smut around! And of course, the trailer for next week's show has sent my mind straight to the gutter...!
This fic dates from 2002, and our heroes find themselves (for some reason) in Niagara Falls on their way back to DC. Donna wants to go sightseeing and is her chirpy, chatty self, whilst all Josh wants to do is get to the hotel, put his feet up with a beer and watch tv! She manages to drag him out nonetheless, although he's hardly a bundle of fun (a touch of Deputy Downer, methinks!) and Donna nonetheless manages not to let him kill her mood.
But when they get back, she starts to get a bit maudlin - and faced with this side of Donna, Josh doesn't know what to do, or how to help (although he does manage to figure it out eventually! *g*)
The earlier part of the fic is mainly dialogue - which is superb, and as I've said the smut is teriffic. But what makes this fic stand out, for me, is the emotional depth as well - Donna's thoughts about her loneliness, and then her giving in to something she wants so badly but fearing it's a pity thing are quite touching -

She felt herself clench and her head fell back. A brief cry escaped her and she tried to swallow it back, sucking in air as she did. She kept her gaze trained up at the place where the ceiling met the wall and panted, trying to get herself back under control as quickly as possible.

She realised that she hadn’t lost herself in a fantasy. While she was physically relieved, she hadn’t released her emotions. Nothing had changed. The feelings that she’d been trying to ignore that day, the ones that had worked her into a blue funk that night, the ones she’d been trying to forget when she’d stretched her neck and arched her back for Josh, were still twisting at her insides.

Regret. Loneliness. Other things she didn’t care to name.


Gotta love the angsty sex - especially when it turns out OK in the end!

Negative Ions
ext_9872: (red lights romance by somanyreasons)

[identity profile] zauberer-sirin.livejournal.com 2006-03-27 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
between the teaser for next´s weeks ep and your recs these are going to be such Josh/Donna-filled days. thank you. i´m enjoying all your recs very much, i´d just thought i´d tell you.