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Sequel to the 1960s AU “The Times They Are A-Changin’”.
It’s September 11, 2001, and tragedy strikes once again for the couples who lived through tragedy and triumph in 1968. Only this time, everyone has something to lose and something to fear. But they come through on the other side braver and stronger than they’ve ever been.
Reuploaded January 6, 2023. This fic is not meant to be a commentary on the real-life event.
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- Part 2 of The Times They Are A Changin' (1960s AU)
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It’s 2022 in a universe wherein Sam gave Josh a different ultimatum at the end of S7 and Josh didn’t get his shit together with Donna. 15-year-old Margot Moss is ready for just about anything when she heads off to a writing program for the summer – anything, that is, except for meeting a new friend who turns her world and her family upside down.
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Sam’s life changed forever when Ainsley Hayes, his future wife and the future first female POTUS, kicked his a** on National TV.
Capital Beat with Mark Gottfried. Tonight from the right, Republican political analyst Ainsley Hayes, and from the left, White House Senior Advisor Sam Seaborn. With Chris Eisen at the Pentagon, and Marjorie Clarke in New York." The news broadcaster announced as the panelists' headshots flashed on the screenThe printer in the Bullpen chirped over the TV. A blonde woman furrowed her brow at the printer from her desk. ‘Huh that’s weird.’
"DONNA!" A man's voice bellowed from an office.
"Don't shout." She replied.
"DONNA!" The man shouted.
"Don't shout!"
"DONNA!" The man shouted.
Donna marched to his office door. "How many times have I told you not to shout?" She stared down a smug, arrogant auburn haired man.
"Ummmm….."
"Anyway Sam's about to go on Capital Beat, if you wanna come watch.” Donna said.
"I was just gonna ask you about that." Josh asked.
'Josh, Josh, Josh, Josh. What would you do without me?' "Way ahead of you, my friend." The auburn haired man followed her out to the Bullpen.
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- Part 1 of The Best of Wives and the Best of Women
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Just a taste of Thanksgiving 2012. Four snippets of conversations at the Bartlet Family Farm.
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- Part 30 of Transitions
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Disillusioned former Kennedy campaign aide Joshua Lyman comes to his best friend Sam Seaborn and promises to get him elected to Congress-the first "real thing" he's seen since JFK. Despite his friend CJ’s pleas for him to get a girl, the most successful he seems to be is setting the single Sam up with feminist Ainsley Hayes over a year earlier until divorced KTLA reporter Donna Moss shows up at the office. Suddenly Josh finds himself falling for the blonde reporter as the city around him falls apart, while he’s still trying to get a good man elected to Congress.
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- Part 1 of The Times They Are A Changin' (1960s AU)
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Sam. Ainsley. Unlikely. (Or, part one in a series the author has challenged herself to wherein she plays songs at random via shuffle, picks something from the lyrics, and writes a one-shot drabble/short fic inspired by that lyrical phrase or a single word.)
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- Part 1 of Wordsmith
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Josh teaches undergrads for a living but can't decide on a lunch order to save his life.
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For the first time in ages, Ainsley Hayes is truly speechless.
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- Part 9 of Fictober 2022
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The days were getting shorter, the nights were getting colder, and he had begun to partake in his seasonal sweater collection. Which could only mean one thing in his still-quite-young life: the season of Mock Trial was officially upon Sam Seaborn.
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Sam’s tunnel vision hadn’t quite cleared enough to pay attention to who Mr. McGarry was talking to, but he sort of had to pay attention when the bearer of the distinctly Southern drawl walked right by, snapping him out of whatever rage coma his mind had placed him in.
And Sam definitely knew he was back and wide awake when a long blonde ponytail with a purposeful stride sat down right in front of him in what appeared to be her new seat.
Josh’s seat, actually. Not that she seemed to realize that; it made sense— she was probably a… transfer.
Oh fuck no. Fuck no. Fuck no. Fuck—
“Hi, I’m Ainsley,” Ponytail turned around, blue eyes piercing the very depths of his fucking soul. “What’s your name?”
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Welcome to Landingham Academy’s 20th Annual Mock Trial Season!
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we don’t fit in well (‘cause we are just ourselves) by fiery_one_18
Fandoms: The West Wing
27 Aug 2022
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“Are you worried?” Ainsley turned to Sam, looking and feeling pretty worried herself.
Sam pursed his lips and fidgeted with his reading glasses. “About how they’ll get along?”
Ainsley nodded.
“Oh, absolutely.”
Ainsley hummed nervously. “It can’t be that bad… can it?”
*a few days later*
“Who the hell thought this was a good idea?”
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Engagement party with the Hayes and Seaborn families! It goes about as well as you’d expect.
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J/D get together in season 4. They marry in the haste of finding out they’re pregnant at the State of the Union. Their daughters were born in June 2004.
11 years later, Noa Lyman (the daughter of UCLA Professor and former Chief of Staff Josh Lyman) and Elisa Moss (daughter of Congresswoman Donna Moss of New Hampshire) meet. Will switching places be the shot in the arm their parents need to see what’s right in front of them?
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you knock me out, I fall apart (and I thought I was so smart) by fiery_one_18
Fandoms: The West Wing
31 Jul 2022
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“Mr. President, are you even listening to me?” Josh finally had to ask.
“Man, I’m sorry, but it’s a little hard to focus on important issues when I’m looking at a guy with an infant strapped to his chest.” Santos gestured vaguely to the small bundle that you’d be forgiven for mistaking for a pile of blankets but was actually Joey’s sleeping swaddled form.
“Yeah,” Josh drawled, looking down at his daughter with a love in his eyes Matt knew well, though his seasoned Chief of Staff might work hard to hide it. “She sleeps like a champ and has her mother’s eyes. In other words, she’s the most fearsome political weapon this world may ever know.”
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Or 5 times Josh wears a baby born and 1 time he doesn’t
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- Part 1 of oh, darling, don’t you ever grow up
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Ainsley Hayes has always been a Republican. Until today.
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July 1944:
Joshua Lyman is a JAG lawyer in the US Navy, widowed with three daughters. Donna Moss is a widowed, but devoted mother of three sons and an airplane factory worker in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, who moonlights as a piano player after her husband is killed in action. They share a week of passion when they meet in Wisconsin.By a twist of fate, they meet again.
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She’s just so tired of being on the sidelines for this fight.
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It's class president season in D.C. Of course Josh Lyman is on the case
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Babies, graduations, and other milestones. Long-fought campaigns and debates. Democrats vs. Republicans. Friends against acquaintances. The trials and victories. The ups and downs of the 2034 election.
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Yale Law graduates Josh Lyman and Donna Moss couldn’t be more different. Josh is an arrogant and abrasive political scientist, while Donna is a quiet, but quirky TA. They met in the summer of 1986, and over 12 years and a series of chance meetings, they toe the line between acquaintances, friends, and lovers. All the while, they ask themselves the existential question: “Can two friends sleep together and still love each other in the morning?”
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President Donna Moss-Lyman has her first press conference to ensure that it is short was being held in the Rose Garden in January.
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- Part 5 of The Moss Lyman Presidency
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Sam and Ainsley long for a baby. But for them, the journey to parenthood is bumpier than most.