Chapter Four
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| The West Wing My Way Chapter Four |
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| The phone in Toby's hotel room rings at six that morning, pulling CJ and him from their fitful sleep. Toby is on the wrong side of the bed to answer the phone, but he doesn't want CJ to answer it because of the way it would look to have a woman answer his phone. He lungese across the bed to grab the phone and gets tangled in the blankets. He ends up landing on the floor and pulling a groggy CJ down on top of him. He reaches up and grabs the receiver. "Yeah, yeah, I'm up!" | |||||||||||||||
| He hangs up the phone and looks at CJ, who's finally almost awake. "You're a very dangerous man, Toby Zeigler. A woman could get killed sleeping in your bed." Without waiting for his comeback--and he had a good one--CJ untangles herself from the pile of blankets with all of her grace and stumbles to the shower. Toby stands and tries to untangle himself, but gives up quickly and flops back on the bed to wait for his friend to get out of the shower. When she comes out wrapped in a towel twenty minutes later, there is no more hot water. | |||||||||||||||
| He showers quickly, yelling the whole time about cheap hotels, and then they're on their way to Bartlet for America headquarters. She puts her makeup on in the car and they arrive a short while later, looked presentable albeit tired. | |||||||||||||||
| **** | |||||||||||||||
| Toby's first letter to CJ is waiting for her when she gets home from Washington a week later. It's full of his cynical thoughts about the entire population of New York, where he spent most of the week at fundraising events for Andi's candidate, and his outlook on politics in the Empire State. He writes with such detail, she feels as if she was on his arm at the parties instead of sightseeing in Washington. She falls in love with him in that first letter, with the way he writes, with his words. Every sentence he writes draws her further into his worl and makes her want to better understand this cynical man she calls Pokey. | |||||||||||||||
| She writes him back that very same day. She tells him everything about her last few days in Washington. She tells him about physically bumping into a famous actress filming a scene because she was so engrossed in a newspaper. She is almost certain she spelled every other word wrong, but she doesn't care. She wants him to write her again. | |||||||||||||||
| He loves the way she writes. He loves all the words she misspells and the commas she uses incorrectly. He loves the way she told her celebrity story and the way she justified her clumsiness. He loves the way she signs her name 'Claudia Jean' even though she told him she'd kick his ass if he called her that. She is charming and funny, and Toby was hooked from 'Dear Toby.' He is not a man who goes back on his word, but Toby knows in his heart that if he and Andi weren't engaged, he'd be halfway to California right now. | |||||||||||||||
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