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1doesnotsimplyhavejust1fandam · 2 years ago

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Toby and Josh have once again made me INCREDIBLY emotional, so remember when Josh is shot and Toby is the one to find him? I don’t think there is enough emphasis on the fact that Toby gets the news that his brother is safely landed from the Columbia space shuttle mere MINUTES before Josh is shot. Toby has a few minutes to feel complete and utter relief that he didn’t lose his brother and joke with the President about it before he’s hit with the terror that is finding his other brother, not blood, but no less his family, bleeding on the ground, dying. Toby gets one brother back, and it’s framed as being at the expense of his other brother.

#yes yes i know #Sam is Toby’s found family brother it’s in the text and all that #but hear me out #josh and Toby go through HELL together #they work together through so many crises and traumas but in the end they are still brothers #for god’s sake #they have a FIST FIGHT in Toby’s office and don’t speak to each other for so long afterward #up until Toby is indicted for the shuttle leak he and Josh don’t interact once #then we see Josh in the final legs of the santos campaign visiting his surrogate brother’s place and first fighting #but then admitting that josh himself messed up too #and then the next time we hear from the pair of them Toby is being called Bob and Josh is relying on him to help him win the campaign #they fought it out like real siblings do and then they drank together and came out the other end brothers once more #absolutely wild to me #josh and Toby’s brotherly relationship is not something that I ever expected to make me this emotional but it’s so SPECIAL #all of the senior staff + Charlie and Donna have the sweetest relationships and are often sibling-like #but Josh and Toby’s fistfight and Josh being shot after Toby JUST got his brother back just emphasizing how much they truly are brothers #also bartlet telling toby to go visit his brother at Edwards before the town hall meeting😭and then Josh is SHOR #*SHOT #you just know Toby never left DC let alone the east coast before he KNEW that Josh was gonna be fine #Toby telling Bartlet that he needs a break when he’s calling for the FBI to investigate West Virginia white pride #that man NEVER took a break once after Josh was shot :((#toby ziegler #josh lyman #jed bartlet #west wing #the west wing #in the shadow of two gunmen #what kind of day has it been #tww #ww

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