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After Mr. Bennet’s death, Mary and her mother are forced to move to London together. Having accepted that she will never escape her mother’s clutches, Mary loses all hope of ever finding happiness. Will a friendship with Mr. Tom Hayward change all of that? Could she perhaps even find love? This is Mary and Tom navigating Mrs. Bennet’s disapproval and a forbidden love worth fighting for.
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08 Jul 2026
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Mary Bennett knew what was to happen on her wedding night. Or, more accurately, she sort of knew what was to happen on her wedding night. There were many books hidden under her bed, both in childhood and adulthood, that briefly mentioned the logistics of the activities that would occur, but only in the briefest, most clinical sense.
To be completely frank, she was unsure what the appeal was. Besides, it is not as if she thought she would ever have the opportunity to experience said activities. The only additional information she was provided had come from her sisters, and they all had different ideas of whether or not wifely duties were… pleasurable. And even Lizzie, who had expressed how wonderful her wedding night had been, never went into great detail about what had made it so wonderful.
Now, only a day before her wedding, Mary was more confused than she had ever been. For the first time ever, she had the realization that she would be acting out the intimate details she had read about, not just reading them.-
Or: I thought it would be nice if Mary learned the appeal of intimacy with her husband while he reads a particularly... spicy poem aloud to her.
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05 Jul 2026
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Mary had done her research.
This was, she felt, the most responsible approach. She had always believed that the correct response to an unfamiliar situation was thorough preparation, and she had applied this principle consistently throughout her life - to London, to the Lake District, to the question of managing a household, to the correct way to address a letter to a barrister’s chambers, to approximately anything and everything she had ever encountered that was new. There was no reason to treat this occasion differently simply because the literature was somewhat more difficult to obtain and considerably more… varied in quality.
She had obtained it anyway. Through methods she was never going to describe to anyone, including Tom, including Mrs. Gardiner, including her journal, she had acquired and read several relevant texts over the course of the weeks between engagement and the wedding, and she had formed, from this reading, a set of conclusions.
The primary conclusion was: Tom would know what he was doing.
*Tim Robinson voice* You SURE about that?!
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04 Jul 2026
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He'd heard about it before, in whispers from the sort of men who went to gentlemen's clubs and brothels. An act that was pleasurable for the woman, though perhaps debasing for the man.
Tom didn't think it could be.
It was a hunger that lived deep inside him, and he needed to satisfy it desperately.
AKA: Tom wants to go down on Mary. Badly.
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03 Jul 2026
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Mary and Tom's wedding night. Both are virgins. Mary is thrilled, terrified, and determined to do it right. Tom is delighted by Mary's Mary-ness and cannot wait to bed his wife. Much awkwardness, tenderness, and eventual steaminess ensues.
AKA I refuse to believe Mary and Tom are naturals at sex but by God they get there eventually.
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03 Jul 2026
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A wedding night in which two virgins discover that the distance between theory and practice is, in this particular arena, catastrophic — and that it does not matter in the slightest.
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- Part 1 of A Course of Study
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01 Jul 2026
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Josh and Donna navigate a friends-with-benefits arrangement (and fall in love along the way).
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27 Jul 2024
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The story of the diary. With a few changes.
What started as a lighthearted romcom turned instead a dark and twisty tale with a hopeful ending.
Takes place throughout the first 3 seasons but focuses mostly of seasons 2 and 3.
I’ve hopefully now edited out most typos.
Thank you
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14 Feb 2024
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Errors and Omissions: Any misstatement or misleading statement or act or omission or neglect or breach of duty including misfeasance and nonfeasance by a covered party in its capacity as such. Errors and omissions includes employment-related practices and personal injury.
Donna had once thought she’d be a lifer in politics. But when life threw her a curve ball even she couldn’t imagine, she was forced to re-evaluate what was most important to her and how she could be of most help – or perhaps least harm – to the people she’d once devoted her life.
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05 Feb 2024
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Josh and Donna under different circumstances at Christmas.
Part of my 25 Days of Christmas collection.
AU.
Alternating-ish POVs.
Multi Chapter.
Low Levels of Spice.
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- Part 25 of 25 Days Of Christmas
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26 Dec 2023
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Day 6 of Kinktober
“Good girl.”
You close your eyes at the murmur. He’s said it before when you’ve done well at work—always lightly, and always in passing, but god does it rile you up.
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- Part 6 of Kinktober 2023
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15 Oct 2023
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ESPN PRESS RELEASE ON JOSH LYMAN:
(March 8th, 2000) After testing positive for illegal steroid use after what many deemed to be his ‘best’ season, Washington Nationals’ Shortstop, Josh Lyman’s suspension has officially ended, making him a free man once again.
This is the story of how Josh Lyman redeems himself and also manages to find love with someone he least expects along the way.
MLBBaseball!AU
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27 Sep 2023
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it's just gravitational (i can’t escape the pull) by orphan_account
Fandoms: The West Wing
11 Aug 2023
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Josh goes over to Donna's apartment after the end of The Portland Trip.
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“You’re still wearing the dress.” He remarks, and she smiles, almost embarrassed, before smoothing her features and tucking her hair behind her left ear.
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19 Aug 2023
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They have an agreement.
Every morning, she reads through his schedule.
Every morning, he gets to fuck her.
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05 Aug 2023
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Josh x Donna. Attending a family wedding and having a good time.
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- Part 2 of Wedding Dates
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22 Jun 2023
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One day Josh and Donna look around and realize that, somewhere along the line, they have slipped into something that can only be described as Domesticated. One-Shot collection. Post-Canon.
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26 May 2023
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What may wind up being a collection of one shots about Josh and Donna. Their life after the series, maybe their lives during the series, and maybe some other stuff, too.
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21 May 2023
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Somebody's moving up in the world.
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18 May 2023
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Donna's had eight years to fantasize about being with Josh, sleeping with Josh, specifically. This is them making her fantasies a reality.
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10 Apr 2023
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Josh and Donna rom com fest
Prompt blind date.
Takes place season one west wing. Pretty much everything is the same except that Donna doesn’t work at the White House. She’s a doctoral candidate at Georgetown and Josh meets her after Zoey sets them up on a blind date.
Rating mature for the very occasional, tiny mature moment
The idea came to me when I heard the line there will be grad students there too…
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07 Mar 2023