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Chairman, Not Chairwoman by Maidenjedi (PG)
Fandom: THE WEST WING
Pairing: Gen - Ainsley, Vinick
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maidenjedi
Author Website: uninvited
Why this must be read: This fic looks at the Democratic nomination at the end of the sixth season, from the Republican viewpoint. It brings back Ainsley Hayes and puts her with Vinick, and there simply isn't enough Vinick-fic. Ainsley still has affection for her former White House collegues, as well as respect for their considerable abilities, but remains determined to work for a Vinick victory.
The author hits both characters' voices, integrity and political stance precisely.
She’s had about eighteen hours to absorb the news and she only spent three of those hours sleeping. She wonders why she ever wanted this job and that’s when she catches a glimpse of Leo McGarry shaking hands with Matt Santos (as if that made her job any easier, McGarry as the vice presidential candidate and she can’t quite remember a time when someone she respected so much believed in the exact opposite of nearly everything…she’s doing it again and she pushes play on the CD player behind her so that Gilbert and Sullivan take over). Santos/McGarry.
Vinick is coming in later in the afternoon and they’re going to have to have a talk about whether or not to play hardball with McGarry. The alcohol. She will say she doesn’t want to and so will Vinick. The press secretary – what is his name? John, Jim, Jeff? – will want to. He always had a taste for vicious mudslinging but that was what he got paid for in his state party and Ainsley wanted it clear that he wasn’t getting paid for it here. Of course, if she fires him or he quits she’ll need someone else and the only name that she can think of is CJ Cregg and isn’t CJ the Chief of Staff now?
Chairman, Not Chairwoman
Pairing: Gen - Ainsley, Vinick
Author on LJ:
maidenjediAuthor Website: uninvited
Why this must be read: This fic looks at the Democratic nomination at the end of the sixth season, from the Republican viewpoint. It brings back Ainsley Hayes and puts her with Vinick, and there simply isn't enough Vinick-fic. Ainsley still has affection for her former White House collegues, as well as respect for their considerable abilities, but remains determined to work for a Vinick victory.
The author hits both characters' voices, integrity and political stance precisely.
She’s had about eighteen hours to absorb the news and she only spent three of those hours sleeping. She wonders why she ever wanted this job and that’s when she catches a glimpse of Leo McGarry shaking hands with Matt Santos (as if that made her job any easier, McGarry as the vice presidential candidate and she can’t quite remember a time when someone she respected so much believed in the exact opposite of nearly everything…she’s doing it again and she pushes play on the CD player behind her so that Gilbert and Sullivan take over). Santos/McGarry.
Vinick is coming in later in the afternoon and they’re going to have to have a talk about whether or not to play hardball with McGarry. The alcohol. She will say she doesn’t want to and so will Vinick. The press secretary – what is his name? John, Jim, Jeff? – will want to. He always had a taste for vicious mudslinging but that was what he got paid for in his state party and Ainsley wanted it clear that he wasn’t getting paid for it here. Of course, if she fires him or he quits she’ll need someone else and the only name that she can think of is CJ Cregg and isn’t CJ the Chief of Staff now?
Chairman, Not Chairwoman
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And, thanks for the rec!!