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For the @twwpride prompt pre canon

Title: all the time Pairing: Amy Gardner/CJ Cregg (background Hoynes/CJ) Rating: Mature Warning: Rape/Non-con Words: 4185 Summary: 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.

Written for @twwpride's prompt first kiss

Crack ship asks: accepting

Oh I love them

They're not even a crackship to me I swear to god (I know by definition they are, but hey), those two have canonically hooked up to ME.

But okay. There are a few different ways this could happen! My main idea for them tends to be that they had a Thing while both happening to work for EMILY's List at the same time? We know CJ did, we know Amy did, we can easily say they crossed paths there before canon! And Amy, to me, really does feel like that particular queer woman in DC who like.. almost every other queer woman in politics has had some kind of experience with, whether that be that you hooked up with her, dated her, had a crush on her, or were just set up by her. I think she's worked in DC for most of her career, she's seen many many women come and go, and it's hard to be in queer women's spaces in DC without running into Amelia Gardner.

Which, combined with a Claudia Jean who's like.. not new to politics but not experienced yet, who had a devastating and deeply important relationship with a woman while she was at Berkeley (Andy Wyatt is a great option, but it could just as easily have been a different character, or an OC. One fic I once started writing and then didn't finish has her dating an HIV positive woman for years who ends up dying. It could be anything, but it has to be something.) CJ, who's like, told herself she's fine with not dating other women for like, a big part of her career, or at least never openly, never to mix her work and her sexuality, because that invites trouble. (Especially if she's gone to college near San Francisco during the 80s; she's seen the AIDS crisis, she's seen the way politicians have 'responded' to it. She knows what she's signing up for by going into politics.)

Just to meet Amy? Who's.. not out, not really, but not really that closeted, either. Who's out in that if you know you know sense where Josh Lyman will be SHOCKED if he ever learns, but Angela Blake clocked that the second they had a lunch once. And seeing the way Amy balances being queer and being in politics and being a woman and makes it seem like not that big of a deal when to CJ it's this huge crushing thing? I don't think they have a very serious relationship or anything, but their fling, their affair, whatever you call it, is still so impactful to CJ in particular. Just that like, opening up of another option between strictly staying in the closet and daring to be fully open about being queer, that balancing act, the way Amy makes it seem possible and fun even? Means so much.

Other options are CJ and Amy not starting anything until the Bartlet administration: a late night campaign fuck when Amy's joining them on the road for a few days, maybe? Something that doesn't start until Amy's working at the White House?? You can even very easily say it's a post canon thing (I did write a pwp fic about that here) and it's part of CJ finally not letting her position at the White House define her life and her love anymore, which also could be so fun?

And that has nothing actually to do with Amy. She doesn’t have any real feelings for Amy, she's not harbouring some secret love for her. But in that moment it's just... that first time kissing a woman? Both realising how badly she's wanted to do that for a long time, and realising she actually can do so, and wondering what the hell that means for her? And what if anyone finds out? Which does become associated with Amy in some way, even though it could've just as easily been anyone else.

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