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Joanie and Josh both surviving the fire, though:

Instead of trying to put out the fire the first thing Joanie does is grab her brother and run outside. The house gets pretty well destroyed but their parents don’t care, they just cry and hug them for what feels like hours. 

Joanie travels a lot as a sought-after orchestra conductor, but she stays in touch with her brother over the phone as much as she can. She’s out of the country when their father dies and isn’t able to get back until early the next morning. Her brother picks her up at the airport and hugs her tight and they cry together. It’s the first time either of them has actually let themselves properly cry since they found out. 

After that she starts working for the Boston Symphony Orchestra so she can be closer to her mom, but then she’s offered a job at the National Symphony Orchestra and her mom tells her to take it. (Their mom is thinking about buying a condo, anyway, and there aren’t any prestigious symphony orchestras in Florida.) 

Josh uses his considerable influence to get Joanie a ticket to the inauguration and one of the inaugural balls and she thinks it’ll be stupid and boring but she kind of loves it. 

Because she’s already in DC Joanie is the first one to get to the hospital when she sees “shots fired at President Bartlet” on the news. She’s in the car before she even gets a phone call and when she hits a roadblock she gets out and walks. (She never does get that car back. She doesn’t care.) She shows up at the hospital and calls Leo who manages to get her in. She keeps asking about Josh but the Secret Service won’t tell her anything, they just take her to the private waiting room and she takes one look at Toby’s face and she knows. 

She collapses against Toby and he hugs her tight to hold her up because he’s already had one Lyman sibling collapse on him tonight and she sobs into his shoulder. She sits all night beside Donna Moss in the waiting room, they even hold hands at one point, and she knows then that if her brother makes it through this, this is the woman he’s going to marry. She doesn’t tell him, though, not when he finally wakes up and not any time over the next five years because he has to figure it out for himself. 

That winter Donna calls her from an emergency room and tells her “I just want you to know he’s going to be okay” and then Donna must have thrown the phone at him because suddenly she’s talking to her brother and he doesn’t tell her everything but he tells her enough. She cries, both that night and later, when he does tell her everything, or at least more of it, but she doesn’t cry for long and she doesn’t cry in front of him because he needs her to be there for him. 

When the President announces he has MS the first thing she worries about isn’t the President (though he’s the second because she’s met him and he’s a kind man and he has three children), it isn’t the country, it’s her brother, because she knows Josh lives and breathes for this and she doesn’t know what he’s going to do if there’s no second term on the horizon. 

When the car bomb goes off in Gaza she drops Josh off at the airport and tells him everything will be okay, even though she can’t promise that. While he flies to Germany she prays. 

When he fucks up with Donna, repeatedly, she buys him beer and does her best to give him advice about what women want. 

When Leo dies the night he would have been elected Vice President she thinks she’s going to have stay strong for Josh again, but when she gets there she finds out Donna’s got that covered and she finally lets herself cry in front of him and grieves right along with him. 

When he panics about Donna, about what it means, she laughs at him like any good big sister would and privately she beams with pride because she knows he’s found the one. 

When he decides to propose to Donna she goes with him to buy the ring, and when they get married she’s the best man even though she’s a woman. 

When Josh has a fight with Toby she tells him he’s an idiot and to just talk to him, for god’s sake, and he stares at her like that’s never occurred to him, because it hasn’t, and she smacks him but he he does it and it works. 

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Victory is mine, victory is mine! Great day in the morning, people, victory is mine!

Bradley Whitford as Joshua Lyman in The West Wing — Season 1 (1999)

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Josh Lyman + tumblr text posts (?/?) (feat Donna Moss)

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My husband sings your praises. He’s going to be P.O.’d in fact that I’m stealing you, just to sweeten the deal.

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Donna, this is a campaign for the Presidency, and there’s nothing I take more seriously than that. This can’t be a place for people to come to find their confidence and start over. Why not? I’m sorry? Why can’t it be those things? Is it gonna interfere with my typing?

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In The West Wing, the Iowa episode “King Corn” directly concerns the growing sexual tension between Josh Lyman and Donna Moss. The episode finds the two coming ever closer to answering the will-they-or-won’t-they question in the affirmative—realizing that their hotel rooms in Cedar Rapids are directly across the hall from each other. It emphasizes their parallel mornings. It emphasizes their parallel days. It ends with Josh, aaaalmost deciding to knock on Donna’s door when the day is done, and then deciding against it. And yet, the episode does the work that will be necessary for Donna and Josh to become a couple: It insists on their equality. All those parallels—rooms and days—suggest how far Donna has come from being, simply, Josh’s assistant. They suggest that Donna and Josh becoming a couple would not be a boss-and-secretary affair, but rather a marriage—or, you know, a committed relationship—of equals.

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good morning i miss west wing so here is josh and donna

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THE WEST WING 2.17 – “The Stackhouse Filibuster”

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Donna is just such a good character. Like the way she marched into that campaign office and started working there, proved that she was valuable over 6(?) years and then when she realized that she was being under appreciated as an assistant she quit and started working where her talents were appreciated. Then she got a job on the Santos campaign because Lou saw that she was talented and capable and she became almost an equal with Josh and the rest of the campaign staff. She just goes after what she wants, whether it be a place in Bartlet’s campaign, a better job, or Josh himself, she just goes after it. And her idealism? Her ambition?? Her eagerness to learn and get better??? Flawless.

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Josh and Donna got the perfect endgame though. Like I definitely wish there had been more scenes with them in the last few episodes but in terms of where both characters ended up we really hit the jackpot. They are canonically a political power couple. Losing??? I don’t know her. 

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The role that Janel did on Sports Night was not small, she was only on screen for a couple moments, but she gave Peter Krause a speech that really knocked us all out. We had brought her in, actually, to read for CJ. She did fantastically well, but obviously Allison Janney got the part. There are a lot of actors, but hardly any of them are really, really good. When you find them, you hate tossing them back… - Aaron Sorkin on writing Donna Moss in season one of The West Wing

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2.02 – “In the Shadow of Two Gunmen - pt. 2” | 5.22 – “Memorial Day”

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all the characters on the west wing are great but let’s be real the women blow all the men out of the water. cj cregg, press secretary of my soul, chief of my heart, badass feminist extraordinaire. donna moss my sun and moon, who grows into herself in the most heartbreaking way and turns into someone so strong and so sure of herself while still being caring sweet and kind. ainsley hayes had my heart the minute she slammed sam pretty-boy seaborn. abbey bartlet who holds her own all the mf time and refuses to be overshadowed by her husband. annabeth schott who is 4 feet 11 inches of star power and sass. u can have your Leo mcgarry and Sam seaborn and I’ll keep my ladies thank u and goodnight