9 Works by thebartlets
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they are five years into the administration before someone suggests, on live television, that perhaps the bartlet staff is a little bit cursed.
by then, four people are dead.
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Abigail Barrington Bartlet is a patient woman, and power comes to witches who wait.
or: the Bartlet administration would not exist without the coven of witches quietly sitting at its heart.
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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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It's May, 2001, and Jed Bartlet has just launched his re-election campaign. It's a short walk from the restaurant where the Staff was having a dinner meeting to the parking lot where CJ left her car.
It should have been safe.
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- Part 2 of BTHB 2026
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the face of god that I grew up with by thebartlets for AllTheWorldIsBlind
Fandoms: The West Wing
22 Dec 2025
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Ellie Bartlet runs away in broad daylight.
Well, accidentally.
It's easy to get lost when you're four feet tall and the only person not holding someone's hand.
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- Part 1 of BTHB 2026
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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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- Part 2 of whumptober 2025
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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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- Part 1 of whumptober 2025
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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.