If You Take a Thief out of New Hampshire

by thedorkygirl

John Hynes was going to be the next President of the United States. For TWW100 firsts challenge. Repost

title: If You Take a Thief Out of New Hampshire, Does that Make him President?
author: Keren Ziv
rating: K
spoilers: general Hoynes deal
summary: John Hynes was going to be the next President of the United States. For TWW100 "firsts" challenge.

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Even before the previous occupant of the White House was halfway through his second term, John Hoynes' name was spoken in casual conversations over coffee. His celebrity grew out of whispers and into talk.

The talk brought him things: recognition; money; the ability to court Joshua Lyman onto his staff. He reveled in that authority, and so when Josiah Bartlet was mentioned one day during his morning bagel, he was discomforted.

(With every right to be.)

Bartlet did not steal the primaries, the votes, the supporters, or even Lyman as his initial act of burglary.

No, he took the whispers.

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