"She spake in her heart", TWW, Sam Seaborn

[scrollgirl]

Title: She spake in her heart
Fandom: The West Wing
Characters: Sam Seaborn, Josh Lyman, CJ Cregg, Toby Ziegler, Will Bailey, Elsie Snuffin, others, original characters
Warnings: PG-13, gen, slightly AU after Season 4
Words: ~4,870
Author's Note: Written for littleloonlost for the Sam Seaborn round of tww_minis ( master list). littleloonlost requested Sam with his mother or father, Sam

Comments

[fluffybkitty]

This is beautiful.

So many different elements all tied so neatly in together to create a wonderful series of Sam snapshots.

[scrollgirl]

Thank you! I love writing snapshot stories because you can capture a character at different points in their life. I'm glad you liked this!

[littleloonlost]

Eee! Sam, my Sam. Your structure gives you such room to play and you've done so much with it. Highlights included the proud grandma on hearing the news about Horton Wilde and baby!Sam's career plans. And Sam's argument with Josh about the Bill (because Sam has so much more to offer than Santos ever did). It was lovely to see everybody included to play their part and you did a great job in creating Dolores. Thank you for writing. :)

[scrollgirl]

Yay, thank you for the feedback! I keep wanting to go back and add more parts to this, and I feel like I missed some opportunities to flesh out the characters more, but then this story would've been really really late! The structure came about because I didn't it obvious from the beginning that Sam would be president, I wanted to lead up to it. So I'm glad it worked for you! Yours was a very interesting request :)

[inocciduous]

*thump*

So much wonderfulness in here - I can hardly express it! First of all, the Spainsh! How I love stories with other languages in them. And I love your take of Sam having Latin American blood in him (plus your portrayl of his family is spot-on. It's hard to believe that this info isn't cannon it's so believable. Watch me butcher the English langague).

The timeline concept is wonderful. Not only is it unique and creative, but it forces the reader to pay attention and become invested in the story. *loves*

:D

[scrollgirl]

Hee! I don't speak Spanish myself, so I was hesitant to use too much. But I'm glad you like my take on his family! I figure Sam could very well have some Hispanic ancestry, which would give him greater ties to the Hispanic community and be useful in securing votes, especially if he was close to his extended family. Family values and all that, right? *g*

The jumping timeline came about because I wanted to slowly build up to the Inauguration. Hint at it, so you know it's coming, but still have time to get to know the characters first. Very happy it worked!

Thanks so much for the detailed feedback!

[pocky_slash]

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I really liked this a lot, both when I skimmed it earlier and now that I've had a chance to read it. Sam/Elsie makes me so happy, as does Sam/Will UST. Aww. Poor Will. But he held his peace.

I love the background you've managed to make up for Sam. It works so well and makes so much sense... it's just awesome. As are so many of the little details, like the part where Elsie's mood changes with the weather (did you base her "women in the hard sciences" rant on Danica McKellar's math degree?) and "You're twenty years old and you live in New Jersey," which cracked me up every time I read it for some reason.

Anyway, I should get back to work, but THANK YOU for dropping me a line about this. I have some fun stuff for you when I get a chance to type it, including your requested Sam/Will with long distance phone conversations.