We May Be Better Strangers, Andy/Toby, NC17

[damelola]

Title: We May Be Better Strangers
Pairing: Andy/Toby
Fandom: West Wing
Rating: NC17
Spoilers: only for season 1, vaguely.
Disclaimer: I disclaim this fic and all who sail in her! Belongs to Sorkin, Wells, NBC etc. Title from Shakespeare's 'As You Like It'.

Summary: A wedding ring: its past, and its future.

Comments

[soaked_in_stars]

Fuuuuuuuuuuck. First of all, HOT. Hot hot unf hot hot, pinning up against walls. Fighting as foreplay, ohemgee, and the sequence of Andy taking the ring off and being little miss defiant face made me actually keel over.

And possibly my favorite of everything is this:

She waves it away with a half-hearted smile. It’s past the point of explanation, really. Toby presses a kiss to her forehead and starts in the direction of the bathroom.

Just...yes. You do these small little moments so perfectly, aaaaack. AND THE END, gut-shot, love.

[poeelektra]

OH MY. If you had asked me yesterday if I wanted to see Toby and Andy in the PB, my answer would not have been yes, BUT WOW THERE WAS SO MUCH TO LOVE ABOUT THIS--all the sentences and words, really (how it slots so subtly in to canon, the lead up to his proposal, the characterization and details and careful use of language)--yesterday-me knew nothing and I am completely sold on the idea.

Thanks for this bit of unexpected PB delight!

[kindness_says]

AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH...

I can't make a good comment right now.

/broken

[kats_blues]

Mmm. This is really good.