FIC: Before a Fall by Maidenjedi (The West Wing, 1/1)

Did it again.

I sense a pattern.

I'm not sure about Will Bailey. I think he's a bit complicated and I think I could take this from several angles. I chose this one.

I always did like the "minor" characters. Of course, the trouble is that the minor characters are so easily shadowed on The West Wing, more easily and thoroughly than on, say, The X-Files. But there's nothing truly minor about Will Bailey, I don't think. And of course there are always layers to minor characters - there are smaller players than they.

Anyway. Here goes nothin'.

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TITLE: Before a Fall
AUTHOR: Maidenjedi
RATING: PG
KEYWORDS: Will
DISCLAIMER: Not mine and I'm not selling.
SPOILERS: season six in general
SUMMARY: He’d gotten a dead man elected, hadn’t he?

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Truth be told, Will Bailey never had loved his job in the West Wing. He enjoyed it; he always enjoyed a challenge. Love wasn’t a word he would use, though, because he thought of love in terms of passion, and he was not passionate about what he did. He was just good at it, he was one of the best.

He’d gotten a dead man elected, hadn’t he?

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