A Whole World, Bit by Bit (1/1)

Nov 10, 2009 08:28

Title: A Whole World, Bit by Bit
Fandom: West Wing
Rating: PG
Characters: Josh and Sam
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Length: ~1000
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theme: longing, meta: fic, length: ficlet, character: sam seaborn, character: josh lyman, fandom: west wing

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Comments 15

sarken November 11 2009, 23:47:11 UTC
Oh, wow, thank you! You really managed to capture everything I love about both of these characters.

...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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dipenates November 12 2009, 08:00:36 UTC
Oh, I'm so glad that you like it.

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vicki_rae November 12 2009, 20:52:03 UTC
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.

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dipenates November 12 2009, 21:38:55 UTC
Thanks, Vicki Rae. I really appreciate the lovely comment, and the time taken to make it.

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sassie69 November 13 2009, 20:11:18 UTC
Really nice but a little sad insight into how Josh might feel, thanks

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dipenates November 13 2009, 20:21:38 UTC
Thanks, Sassie.

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indigo_inferno November 14 2009, 22:09:09 UTC
I absolutely love it. ♥

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dipenates November 14 2009, 22:53:09 UTC
Hurrah! Thanks so much.

(And your icon is awesome. Obviously.)

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indigo_inferno November 14 2009, 22:57:15 UTC
Ooooh thank you! :D
I wish I'd made it, but nope, didn't. Lol! :D

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dipenates November 14 2009, 23:40:59 UTC
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.

Sorry for the mixup!

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shutterbug_12 March 13 2010, 00:24:32 UTC
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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dipenates March 14 2010, 00:49:12 UTC
Thanks for the comment, and glad the fic rang true to you.

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