Author's note: This is just to say a) I still own nothing that is truly West Wing, b) the song in here that Tess is singing is "Rock It 'Til You Drop It," by Fefe Dobson c) thanks for the reviews please keep them coming.
Tess is standing in the living room watching her dad sing.
"… Not easy to be meeee," he croons as all the women giggle and the boys cheer.
"Tinkerbelle it is your turn!" Sam says as he changes the CD.
"I don't sing, Uncle Sam," she says with a chuckle, "You know that!"
"It slipped my mind, the song is ready!" he says ignoring Tess' response to what he has done. "I will invoke an Executive Order Tess, you are singing."
"Gimme that!" she says as she crosses the floor to the karaoke machine. She rolls her eyes as she sees the song that is being played.
"C'mon now! Rock it till you drop it
Mmmm
Rock
it till you drop it
you know what I'm sayin" the song track
says.
"When
you're walkin walkin, your body's talkin to me...
but your mouth
ain't makin a sound.
When I'm stalkin stalkin, I can feel my body
rockin
with all these feelings I've found.
It's in the way
that he moves,
It's in the way that he likes the things I do.
It's in the way that he groves...
You know I love it when he
takes me dancing.
I never waited for that special one;
I
thought I'd settle for a setting sun.
Tonight's the night we get
this party on...
And on, and on, and on and on and on," Tess
croons.
"C'mon now Rock it till you drop it, hey..." the track croons back.
"And
I'm takin takin,
as you hit that tricky rhythm;
you take me
out on the floor.
I've been itchin itchin,
for the jive that
you've been drippin...
and you got me wantin more." Tess croons
again; she starts getting into it and turns to CJ who dissolves in
giggles as she sings right to here. As Evan wheels Jed into the
living room. He sneaks around the room to behind where Tess has been
singing and stands there and as she turns around she give him the
biggest smile and begins singing to him.
"It's
in the way that he moves,
It's in the way that he likes the
things I do.
It's in the way that he groves...
You know I love
it when he takes me dancing
I never waited for that special one,
I thought I'd settle for a setting sun.
Tonight's the night we
get this party on...
And on, and on, and on and on and on." She
continues as she dances with Evan and his hands sit on her hips, and
they dance around with him dipping her and twirling her around.
"C'mon
now
Rock it till you drop it,
You know what I'm sayin." The
track continues as Evan gently kisses her and the women coo their
approval.
"We'll
be rockin it, all night long...
We'll be droppin it, till the
break of dawn...
There's no stoppin it, once the freak is on...
Is
on, and on, and on and on...
We'll be rockin it, all night
long...
We'll be droppin it, till the break of dawn...
There's
no stoppin it, once the freak is on...
Is on, and on, and on and
on...
I never waited for that special one;
I thought I'd
settle for a setting sun.
Tonight's the night we get this party
on...
And on, and on, and on and on and on.
I never waited for
that special one;
I thought I'd settle for a setting
sun.
Tonight's the night we get this party on...
And on, and
on, and on and on and on.
Special one, setting sun..." Tess
finishes as Evan kisses her again and pulls her close to him and
whispers in her ear, as her family cheers over their performance.
"Marry me Tess?" he says as he takes the ring from his pocket and
kisses her.
"What?" she responds as the room's noise level gently falls.
"Would you do me the honor of promising that our lives will always be intertwined?" he says as he gets down on one knee. As soon as he gets into the position the room falls quiet. Josh passes a quick look at Jed and he nods, and Josh nods in return.
Tess looks at him with utter disbelief, and begins to nod her head. "Yes, YES! I will marry you!"
Everyone shouts and screams as Evan slips the ring on her finger, she begins to cry.
"No tears," he whispers as he hugs her.
"Good ones, I promise," she whispers back.
If a stranger had walked by they wouldn't have understood but because it was the Bartlett clan, it didn't matter because they all understood.
