thebartlets
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CJ was fourteen when her mother killed herself.
She is thirty-eight when it occurs to her to do the same.
The thing about depression is that nobody seems to know how it works.
written for whumptober 2025 - day 4
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In 2003, Leo goes to see Abbey after the shutdown.
In 1993, he calls her from a parking lot, already half-dead.
written for whumptober 2025 - day 1
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It’s twenty minutes before someone is the first to ask: Where’s CJ?
An hour before someone goes looking.
Jesus. It was just supposed to be a Christmas party.
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Abbey makes a choice during Jed’s second inauguration. Jed struggles to forgive her.
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When CJ had come to him eight months before with a drugstore pregnancy test in her hands and a question on her lips, he had expected many things…the mood swings, the 2am cravings which he had gotten for her, and the way the President strutted around the building boasting about his new grandchild to be as surely as if CJ were his own blood.
It simply had never crossed his mind that he might lose her at the end of it all.
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CJ needs an afternoon off to have an abortion. She'd rather not anyone else in the White House know. Leo can keep a secret.
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27 Oct 2025
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CJ needs an afternoon off to have an abortion. She'd rather not anyone else in the White House know. Leo can keep a secret.
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Jed Bartlet has always been Sam’s hero, ever since he was a little boy.
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06 Sep 2024
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Jed Bartlet has always been Sam’s hero, ever since he was a little boy.
I’m a simple girl. I like my soap opera AU
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You can put it all on me, you can laugh and you can bleed by steveharringtoned
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Aug 2022
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Phil Callahan has made a large variety of strange arrests in his time working as a cop for Hawkins, Indiana. Daylight skinny-dippers; a small group of old ladies who’d attempted to rob the corner shop with their umbrellas, a guy who’d stolen a total of eighteen gnomes from his suburban neighborhood.
But pulling over Max Mayfield driving her brother’s Camaro at the ripe age of thirteen was pretty insane. Sure, kids will be kids and kids will be crazy. Until Steve Harrington crawled out of the backseat, clutched his knees and horror-movie hurled blood all over his boots and shit got crazier.
That took it from a minor concern to oh, fuck. Callahan has to take this kid to a hospital.
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03 Sep 2025
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Phil Callahan has made a large variety of strange arrests in his time working as a cop for Hawkins, Indiana. Daylight skinny-dippers; a small group of old ladies who’d attempted to rob the corner shop with their umbrellas, a guy who’d stolen a total of eighteen gnomes from his suburban neighborhood.
But pulling over Max Mayfield driving her brother’s Camaro at the ripe age of thirteen was pretty insane. Sure, kids will be kids and kids will be crazy. Until Steve Harrington crawled out of the backseat, clutched his knees and horror-movie hurled blood all over his boots and shit got crazier.
That took it from a minor concern to oh, fuck. Callahan has to take this kid to a hospital.
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Whenever Leo isn’t around to offer up a card, they do this roulette. They spread the expenses out, trying to keep it at least a little even.
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OR: CJ, Toby, Josh, and Sam play credit card roulette to pay for things when Leo's not around. The last time they do it, something changes.Bookmarked by thebartlets
06 Jul 2025
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Whenever Leo isn’t around to offer up a card, they do this roulette. They spread the expenses out, trying to keep it at least a little even.
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OR: CJ, Toby, Josh, and Sam play credit card roulette to pay for things when Leo's not around. The last time they do it, something changes. -
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It was Amy she had a lot of fun nights with while she worked for EMILY's List. It was Amy whose arms she fell asleep in during the DNC of 1998. In between that, it was Amy who held her hair back when she threw up after meeting John Hoynes at a charity event in Texas; Amy who held her through it, who talked her down and brought her home, and Amy who she never wanted to speak to again after that night.
Amy is there through the aftermath of that one night with Hoynes.
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30 Jun 2025
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It was Amy she had a lot of fun nights with while she worked for EMILY's List. It was Amy whose arms she fell asleep in during the DNC of 1998. In between that, it was Amy who held her hair back when she threw up after meeting John Hoynes at a charity event in Texas; Amy who held her through it, who talked her down and brought her home, and Amy who she never wanted to speak to again after that night.
Amy is there through the aftermath of that one night with Hoynes.