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On a non-linear timeline, Josh and Danny have several conversations, among other things.
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The first time, after it happened, Josh asked listlessly, "Are you going to write about this right away or wait for a time when it'll get more notice?"
Danny hiked his eyebrows. "What makes you think I'd ever write about this?"
Josh slanted him a skeptical look. "Come on, Danny."
Danny shrugged. "Not gonna write about it. Never intended to. It's nobody's business."
Josh laughed roughly. "Well, that's something I never expected to hear a White House press corps reporter say."
Danny grinned. "I'm probably the only White House press corps reporter who wouldn't write about it. Just shows you got good taste."
And Josh's eyes were dark, and his voice was bitter as he said, "Well, lucky fucking me."
And Danny wondered, did you want to get caught?
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Sometimes Danny was sure that the only reason Josh had ever slept with him was because Josh was trying to damn himself, something vast and incomprehensible driving Josh to this brink, throwing him over. Danny knew that Josh didn't think he deserved anything, he didn't deserve to be this powerful, this respected, he wasn't smart enough to be running a national campaign, he was nowhere near good enough to have a hand in running the country.
So Josh tried to wreck his own life, but he picked the wrong reporter to sleep with, if that was his intention.
Because Danny wouldn't betray Josh. He couldn't.
And Josh was left hanging, baffled because he'd done the stupidest thing he could think of, and it still didn't work. Sleeping with Danny didn't damn him, just like a house fire hadn't killed him, just like nothing that ever broke down within him was ever enough to finally make him believe that he'd paid his penance, now he could be redeemed.
And all Danny could do was not write about it; all Danny could do was keep trying to tell Josh that redemption wasn't supposed to feel like this.
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A copy of this work was once archived at National Library, a part of the West Wing Fanfiction Central, a West Wing fanfiction archive. More information about the Open Doors approved archive move can be found in the announcement post.