CNN was on in the background - God, when was the last moment that he’d had indoors when the news wasn’t on in the background, like some spoken word version of muzak - and they were playing clips of the President’s speech.
It was the cadence that had first caught his ear, but it was the sentiment that told him unequivocally that it was Sam’s. It wouldn’t have mattered if Toby hadn’t been with him as they’d schlepped back from Iowa; writing almost nothing, hands itching for spaces bigger than the margins of the newspaper in which to wield his pen. Of everyone who worked in the White House only Sam could have ever put those words together; stringing the verbs and adjectives together to create something so stirring, so genuinely beautiful.
This fic is everything that made me love these charactors. You really get Sam and Josh and Toby. I memmed it.
Oh, crappity crap. I saved it as yours, and now have no idea who did actually make it, so I've swapped it out for one that you *did* make, which is also gorgeous.
that didn’t change the fact that outside the window was a whole city full of people that smiled when he failed. Oh, that is so true (in real life D.C.), but also I could see it being a true thought in Josh's head.
I am...clearly catching up on fic I haven't read yet. Hee.
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...hands itching for spaces bigger than the margins of the newspaper in which to wield his pen.
A beautiful line.
Thank you again! This was lovely.
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It was the cadence that had first caught his ear, but it was the sentiment that told him unequivocally that it was Sam’s. It wouldn’t have mattered if Toby hadn’t been with him as they’d schlepped back from Iowa; writing almost nothing, hands itching for spaces bigger than the margins of the newspaper in which to wield his pen. Of everyone who worked in the White House only Sam could have ever put those words together; stringing the verbs and adjectives together to create something so stirring, so genuinely beautiful.
This fic is everything that made me love these charactors. You really get Sam and Josh and Toby. I memmed it.
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(And your icon is awesome. Obviously.)
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I wish I'd made it, but nope, didn't. Lol! :D
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Sorry for the mixup!
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I am...clearly catching up on fic I haven't read yet. Hee.
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