West Wing FF: Drabbles for scrollgirl's prompts
Though, again, one is not actually a drabble, being that it has 300 words. Sam and Will wanted a little chat.
Sailboats and no burning trashcans - (Sam/Will, PG-13, Arctic Radar)
'Toby-
He's one of us.
-Sam'
(Episode 4-10, Arctic Radar)
“You didn’t give him the note.”
“Yes I did!”
“Yes, but by that point you were already hired. If you had given him the note first you could have avoided the whole conversation.”
“So he wouldn’t have torn me apart for daring to use alliteration in a speech?”
“Uh... no, he would have done that anyway. Toby is not a fan of alliteration. Or imagery. Or referencing communists. Or... well just try to write the speech and stay out of his way.”
“Sam, why am I doing this?”
“Because you’re a talented writer who’s relishing the chance to write an Inaugural address?”
“Really?” Will asked sceptically.
“You are.”
“So it’s nothing to do with you getting back at me for winning the election in a bizarre confluence of events which was, by the way, not my fault!?”
“No.”
“No?”
“Toby’s a good friend, Will, and he needs help. He’s also too stubborn to ask for it, so that’s where you come in.”
“That’s where I come in. The help thrust upon him. Because everybody wants to be that guy.”
“Yes.”
“By the time this speech is written, you may be the one owing me a favour.”
“If I win this, you can have it.”
“And if you don’t?”
“If you get Toby through the next few weeks, you can still have it.”
“I’ll hold you to that.”
“You know where I live.”
“I do. So, what exactly are you offering?”
“What am I...? Sailing, Will, I’ll show you how to sail.”
“I know how to sail. Without falling out of the boat, which is, I hear, your speciality.”
“Great. Then we’ll go sailing. You, me, the open waves, and no burning trashcans or Californian Democrats. Except us anyway. Would that be okay with you?”
“I’ll see you on January 21st.”
* * * *
Inside information - (Sam&Will, PG, Inauguration Part 1)
WILL: I heard once-- I don't know if this is true-- I heard once that you convinced the President to let you rewrite a section of the State of the Union with less than 24 hours to go. It was the second year, and everybody was a Republican whether they were or not, and people at the DNC convinced him to include the line, "The era of big government is over," and you couldn't live with it. Because government should be a place where people come to gather, and no one gets left behind. An instrument of good. And that's exactly what we heard in the State of the Union the next night.
TOBY: There were maybe four people in the room when I had that conversation.
(Episode 4-15, Inauguration: Over There)
“I’m going to tell you a story, and you can do with it what you will...” That was how Sam broke into Will’s tirade over US foreign policy.
Sam had heard all of Toby’s anger at the President of the United States proclaiming that the era of big government was over, more than two years ago. He hadn’t been one of the people in the room, but he remembered the line, Toby’s anger, and where Toby had been just before it was cut.
“It worked then,” Sam asked, smiling down the phone after the speech.
“Yes. Sam... thanks.”
“Any time.”
* * * *
Speechwriting Partnerships - (Toby&Will, between Arctic Radar and the Inaugural)
WILL: (To Jed) There's a... partnership, sir, that can develop between someone and his speechwriter. It happens over time.
-
WILL: He'd do a radio address proposing free liposuction to every child of woman born if you wrote it for him.
TOBY: You're wrong. And if he did, I'd be fired shortly thereafter.
WILL: Maybe, but ten pounds lighter.
(Episode 4-14, Inauguration Part I)
There was a partnership between a President and his speechwriter, and Will wasn’t there yet. State Department guys looked down their noses at him, and there were still posters in the office.
At least the bicycles were gone.
“Shot down again?” Toby asked.
“Yes, although this time I actually said something to have shot down, so in relative terms there’s a sort of progress there...
“Yeah.”
“He listens to you.”
“You haven’t been working here long enough to know how much of a misapprehension that is, so I’ll let it go.”
“He does.”
“And I listen to you. Be content.”
* * * *
Managing Frustration - (Toby&Will, Inauguration: Over There, PG-13)
JOSH: What's his level of frustration?
TOBY: It's high.
JOSH: He's here on a temp job. He's that invested in...?
CRASH!
JOSH: This never happened before, has it?
TOBY: No. No, it hasn't.
WILL: Sorry.
(Episode 4-15, Inauguration: Over There)
“I broke your window.”
“It happens.”
“It’s happened before?”
“No. Forget about it.”
“I destroyed White House property! I’m a freelancer and I...”
“You’re writing the Inaugural Address, it’s not like we called you in to fix the pipes! I think we’ll let it go.”
“I’m having... there’s a difficulty I’m having with the Oval Office being sixty feet away, and also our foreign policy.”
“Well first, we’re sixty-three feet from the Oval. Second, get past it, because I need you sane.”
“I’m sane.”
“Not today, but that’s fine, as long as you’re okay tomorrow.”
“I’ll be fine.”
“I know.”
* * * *
Still open for more requests :-)
Sailboats and no burning trashcans - (Sam/Will, PG-13, Arctic Radar)
'Toby-
He's one of us.
-Sam'
(Episode 4-10, Arctic Radar)
“You didn’t give him the note.”
“Yes I did!”
“Yes, but by that point you were already hired. If you had given him the note first you could have avoided the whole conversation.”
“So he wouldn’t have torn me apart for daring to use alliteration in a speech?”
“Uh... no, he would have done that anyway. Toby is not a fan of alliteration. Or imagery. Or referencing communists. Or... well just try to write the speech and stay out of his way.”
“Sam, why am I doing this?”
“Because you’re a talented writer who’s relishing the chance to write an Inaugural address?”
“Really?” Will asked sceptically.
“You are.”
“So it’s nothing to do with you getting back at me for winning the election in a bizarre confluence of events which was, by the way, not my fault!?”
“No.”
“No?”
“Toby’s a good friend, Will, and he needs help. He’s also too stubborn to ask for it, so that’s where you come in.”
“That’s where I come in. The help thrust upon him. Because everybody wants to be that guy.”
“Yes.”
“By the time this speech is written, you may be the one owing me a favour.”
“If I win this, you can have it.”
“And if you don’t?”
“If you get Toby through the next few weeks, you can still have it.”
“I’ll hold you to that.”
“You know where I live.”
“I do. So, what exactly are you offering?”
“What am I...? Sailing, Will, I’ll show you how to sail.”
“I know how to sail. Without falling out of the boat, which is, I hear, your speciality.”
“Great. Then we’ll go sailing. You, me, the open waves, and no burning trashcans or Californian Democrats. Except us anyway. Would that be okay with you?”
“I’ll see you on January 21st.”
* * * *
Inside information - (Sam&Will, PG, Inauguration Part 1)
WILL: I heard once-- I don't know if this is true-- I heard once that you convinced the President to let you rewrite a section of the State of the Union with less than 24 hours to go. It was the second year, and everybody was a Republican whether they were or not, and people at the DNC convinced him to include the line, "The era of big government is over," and you couldn't live with it. Because government should be a place where people come to gather, and no one gets left behind. An instrument of good. And that's exactly what we heard in the State of the Union the next night.
TOBY: There were maybe four people in the room when I had that conversation.
(Episode 4-15, Inauguration: Over There)
“I’m going to tell you a story, and you can do with it what you will...” That was how Sam broke into Will’s tirade over US foreign policy.
Sam had heard all of Toby’s anger at the President of the United States proclaiming that the era of big government was over, more than two years ago. He hadn’t been one of the people in the room, but he remembered the line, Toby’s anger, and where Toby had been just before it was cut.
“It worked then,” Sam asked, smiling down the phone after the speech.
“Yes. Sam... thanks.”
“Any time.”
* * * *
Speechwriting Partnerships - (Toby&Will, between Arctic Radar and the Inaugural)
WILL: (To Jed) There's a... partnership, sir, that can develop between someone and his speechwriter. It happens over time.
-
WILL: He'd do a radio address proposing free liposuction to every child of woman born if you wrote it for him.
TOBY: You're wrong. And if he did, I'd be fired shortly thereafter.
WILL: Maybe, but ten pounds lighter.
(Episode 4-14, Inauguration Part I)
There was a partnership between a President and his speechwriter, and Will wasn’t there yet. State Department guys looked down their noses at him, and there were still posters in the office.
At least the bicycles were gone.
“Shot down again?” Toby asked.
“Yes, although this time I actually said something to have shot down, so in relative terms there’s a sort of progress there...
“Yeah.”
“He listens to you.”
“You haven’t been working here long enough to know how much of a misapprehension that is, so I’ll let it go.”
“He does.”
“And I listen to you. Be content.”
* * * *
Managing Frustration - (Toby&Will, Inauguration: Over There, PG-13)
JOSH: What's his level of frustration?
TOBY: It's high.
JOSH: He's here on a temp job. He's that invested in...?
CRASH!
JOSH: This never happened before, has it?
TOBY: No. No, it hasn't.
WILL: Sorry.
(Episode 4-15, Inauguration: Over There)
“I broke your window.”
“It happens.”
“It’s happened before?”
“No. Forget about it.”
“I destroyed White House property! I’m a freelancer and I...”
“You’re writing the Inaugural Address, it’s not like we called you in to fix the pipes! I think we’ll let it go.”
“I’m having... there’s a difficulty I’m having with the Oval Office being sixty feet away, and also our foreign policy.”
“Well first, we’re sixty-three feet from the Oval. Second, get past it, because I need you sane.”
“I’m sane.”
“Not today, but that’s fine, as long as you’re okay tomorrow.”
“I’ll be fine.”
“I know.”
* * * *
Still open for more requests :-)