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The West Wing/Andrea Wyatt/Prompt #4/Insides

Mar 20, 2006 16:55

Title: Elegant Simplicity.
Fandom: West Wing.
Characters: Andy, Ellie.
Prompt:#4 Insides.
Word Count:1300
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers/Author's Notes: Set roundabout Noel, without reference to it. Makes a huge nod to the episode "Ellie" however. This one is for raedbard who brings the Ellie love, and for all of my wonderful flist who fill my heart on this, my ( Read more... )

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crushing83 March 24 2006, 23:02:09 UTC

oooh. lovely. :)

jackmaybenimble March 25 2006, 20:21:11 UTC

thank you :) I love Andy (not that you'd ever have known.....) and Ellie is my favorite daughter....it seemed a good combination!

crushing83 March 25 2006, 20:31:36 UTC

ummno. i never would have figured out that you love andy ;)

yes. it's definitely a good combination! i'm in favour of it! more! more!
(beats thinking of her with the fruit fly guy!)

raedbard April 18 2006, 12:08:47 UTC

Right. *FEEDBACK*. Because I won't have you hanging on in cyberspace with no feedback, so I am going on a spree. (Or at the very least doing what I promised.)

So - I told you that I loved this, right? Many many times? Coz I did.

I love that Ellie hates Christmas (it's such a Toby thing to do that I can't help loving her for it) and more, than she recoils from the enforced gaiety and she doesn't know how to be at a party and be comfortable. (Ellie is me.) And I love that Andy matches her, is uncomfortable with the pretense and excess of Christmas. And it's actually something I wouldn't have thought to write in her - almost as a reaction to years of living with Toby's hatred, I'd have had her be involved and spirited, CJ-esque. But I like your way, it works.

Instead there is candlelight, slim cream slivers of wax, smooth in contrast to the jagged pine needles, elegant simplicity.
Yes. I've got a picture of her face bathed in candlelight and for that alone you deserve many many shiny things. It fits her - the smoothness, the ( ... )

really_good_pie April 18 2006, 17:43:30 UTC

Bless you. For my thumbs were hurting from the hanging.

You are my Ellie. I am a little Ellie, but I try to be Andy/Bird but I think thats why we get her. And I think Andy was an Ellie when she was younger, before she found her focus. And Toby. You'd never guess I hate Christmas, would you...for the excess.

It fits her - the smoothness, the feminine sexiness of candles she can be so elegant...on a good day, when she's brushed her hair and things. I have in my head an image of the Christmas tree from my other family, which had thin candles in silver holders and was so pretty and simple ( ... )