#cjandy

[bartletslesbians]

The West Wing + text posts (65/?)

(Thank you @quartforshort for enlightening me about Toby drinking chocolate milk)

[muldxr]

THE CASTRO, FRIDAY.

cj cregg/andrea wyatt, hiv/aids crisis, missed connection, 87 words

written for @twwpride day 2: press and media

Andy places a classified ad in the paper after not getting the name of a woman she meets at a blood drive.

[coolabout-it]

C/Andy Moodboard for @tww-femslashfeb

[divorcedlizbartlet]

Also 49 for Liz and Andy, or CJ and Andy?

49. holding onto each other's shoulders for support

(from this list; I am still happily taking prompts for tww characters/ships! I just answer slowly rip)

CJ/Andy with a side of CJ & Josh because they are so dear to me 💗just a short fluffy ficlet set at the Bartlet farm sometime around September of 2007

It’s the look on Josh’s face that sets them off.

Well, really, it’s plenty of things-- first, it’s Huck and Molly ambushing Gus, who might’ve managed to stay upright had he not already had his arms full of s’mores supplies. Actually, before that, the cider they’ve been consuming probably contributes to their giggling. It’s the time of year between summer and fall where this year’s apples have been harvested, but the cider isn’t ready yet; they’re finishing off last season’s stash, which is a little too potent by now. Abbey had warned them, but Andy’s response had been a cheerful good thing we’re not in Maryland, then before she’d downed her taster like a shot and then proceeded to turn bright red and cough so violently CJ was worried she would hack up a lung.

After decades in politics, neither of them are lightweights, but even sipping their cider slowly had them tipsy before dinner. They’re now sitting around the bonfire for dessert, leaning heavily on each other as the alcohol and the fire warm their faces. Of course they start giggling at each other when Gus, fourteen years old and nearly as tall as CJ, gets knocked to the grass by the twins leaping onto his back. The graham crackers he’s carrying are probably pulverized on impact, but the marshmallows will survive being squashed under the weight of a high schooler. Molly, seizing her moment, grabs a full-sized chocolate bar out of the grass and runs away, shrieking with giggles as Huck follows her.

CJ’s surprised that Andy manages to keep a straight face at all when she turns to her and says, “she gets that from you.”

“You’re the one with the sweet tooth,” CJ retorts, already snickering again.

“That’s why I like you, sweetheart,” Andy tries, but she can barely give CJ a peck on the lips before dissolving into giggles. And then, CJ looks up and sees Josh’s face across the fire from them, and she can’t stop laughing, either.

Really, Josh is well within his rights to look as shocked as he does-- CJ and Andy had more or less just started dating sometime around Valentine’s Day without doing much in the way of coming out. It’s still an imperfect solution-- there’s a delicate balance between quietly letting their friends into the loop and still staying quiet enough to protect Andy’s professional reputation-- but CJ is happier than she’s felt in a while. Except, apparently, nobody had told Josh.

“I didn’t leave you out on purpose,” CJ insists, honestly feeling a little bit bad. 

Andy is still laughing hard enough that she’s clinging to CJ’s shoulders for support. “Josh, Matt and Helen both know,” she manages, gasping for breath between bouts of laughter. “At this point, you’re edging toward worryingly obtuse!”

Josh scrubs a hand over his face. “God, really? Honestly, CJ, maybe you told me and I forgot.” He chuckles. “These days I’m packing so much information into my brain that I think my head might explode. Hey, Gus, toss me a marshmallow, will you?”

Gus tears into the bag of jumbo marshmallows and lobs one underhand toward Josh. Predictably, it ends up in the fire, melting and turning back before their eyes. This just makes CJ laugh harder, although at this point, she suspects any little thing will set her off.

“Good thing you don’t play ball sports, hon,” Liz says, taking the marshmallows from her son before he can sacrifice any more of them to the flames. When she turns to Andy and CJ, her eyebrows lift. “What’s so funny?”

CJ shakes her head, trying to stop laughing long enough to take a breath. Finally, Andy finds words again, leaning in closer to CJ even as she answers Liz.

“Honestly? I don’t even remember what got us started.”

[solar-settings]

fic: dare to dream about you (cj/andy)

written for @tww-femslashfeb 2026 day 27, “college.”

wordcount: 4, 740 // rating: T

tags: college, pre-canon, pining, not actually unrequited love, california, character study

for @bartletslesbians <3

[bartletslesbians]

CJ Cregg x Andrea Wyatt - post-canon

You're falling asleep on my shoulder,

In the back of your boyfriend's car.

We're coming home from a sermon saying

How bent on evil we are.

— from Christine by Lucy Dacus

[bartletslesbians]

This is literally all that's been on my mind this past hour and I blame @abigailbartletmd

[bartletslesbians]

One of my favorite little timeline things is that when CJ and Danny make it clear that they hooked up (presumably for the first time) without Any words a week earlier on Wednesday, they say that the day of Leo's funeral. Which makes last Wednesday night the night after Leo died. Like, the first real bit of free time CJ had after his death, she went and sough out Danny to say Nothing but have sex with him.

Which is such a fascinating thing and I've posted before about that as a thing CJ has done before (with the guy from high school as a reaction to her father's Alzheimer's). And it's great Danny was there and that while she has this response of, seeking out sex to cope with such heavy grief, that's (as far as we see on screen) consistently with someone trustworthy.

But, with zero intention of diminishing Danny here but just as a fun little AU thought game, it also makes me think of which other characters could have been that person for her in that moment. Because there are a bunch of options actually and they all provide something Just a little different.

There's Kate, who's right there at the White House when the news about Leo breaks, and who's not as emotionally involved with Leo and this administration but has still been a very solid person for CJ to work with and could absolutely be such a good and trustworthy person to have this with. (Similarly, Kate is a really good option when it comes to CJ potentially doing a similar thing when Toby confesses to the leak.)

Similarly, Cliff Calley is kinda forgotten about after season 6, but he is technically still CJ's DCOS and he has a longstanding... not a close relationship but definitely a respectful working relationship, with Leo. He and CJ have some serious tension in season 6 which is fun. He can be there.

Carol's there, and Carol loves CJ, CJ trusts her so much. Carol has worked for CJ long enough to potentially expect this, especially if you place it in the context if an existing crush or romantic history between them. Carol isn't about to leave the White House after Leo's death without checking on CJ. (In that same vein, while CJ/Margaret doesn't do much for me, and I don't think Margaret is the type for this. If you do? She's right there and grieving a lot too that night.)

Andy is having just one hell of a night, too. We never find out if she won or lost her election, but it's a big night either way. Placed in the context of a longstanding history between them, she's a very safe choice here, and there's a 50/50 chance she's expecting the call. (This goes double so in the context of any kind of Leo & Andy shared sobriety headcanons; in which case this really really hits her, too, and CJ is a nice distraction from a bottle of wine she can't open.)

Can't mention Andy without mentioning Toby. I'm not too much of a cjtoby girly, but if there is ever a night to get really truly messy with it? Oh. Toby is getting this news either from the news or from Donna, maybe. Maybe from Andy. Depending. CJ and Toby haven't spoken since the leak and she doesn't want to, but she also didn't technically want to see Danny until the inauguration either; this is a special night. This isn't forgiveness. But he's still a special person to her, they have this relationship, and he's there.

There are more options, surely, but. Finally. In a really heavy way. There's Mallory, too.

Who's just lost her father. With CJ as this daughter-figure to the dad Mallory lost; this longstanding friendship (and you can add all the potential other history to it that you want), the challenge in CJ having seen so much more of Leo in her day to day life than Mallory got the chance to due to the work they do. The resentment in that, the grief. The fact CJ holds her father's title right now. That shared grief and the unfairness of it all. There really is very little comfort in this one, but god it's cathartic as hell, and that counts for something too.