Title: Joshua
Category: Romance/Humor/Drama
Rating: PG-13
Summary: What happens when Josh finds out that he shares the same first name with Dr. Freeride?

Disclaimer: Not one inch of the West Wing belongs to me, not even a molecule of the air they breathe
Author's Notes: Feedback the best stuff on earth

Chapter 2

A/N: Sorry, I have a tendency to change tenses and I did a major change from the last chapter to this one

Mandy Hampton did not like Donnatella Moss, not one bit. Mandy's eyes betrayed the contempt she felt for the younger woman. It wasn't that she felt threatened; it was more that Mandy's boyfriend had the tendency to be a little…overprotective of his assistant. His young, blonde, gorgeous, blue-eyed, female assistant. So, maybe you can understand why Mandy's vision was clouded with green when she walks into her boyfriend's office to see him touching, no, not just touching but massaging his assistant's ankle while she sits on a chair and he crouches on the floor.

"I guess I'll just come back later." She spits fire and hopes it burns as she turns back towards her office. She knows exactly what Josh is doing now. He's dropped Donna's ankle and is starting to run after her. He'll be in her office ten seconds after she sits down behind her desk.

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She hears footsteps getting closer and puts on her best glare.

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Brown hair and a face appear in her doorway.

"We have an emergency meeting with the Governor in five, Mandy. I figured I'd stop by and tell you since I didn't know if Josh had." She puts on a tight smile and nods at the good looking blue-eyed man. His eyes are a darker shade of blue compared to the crystal light of Donna's.

"Thanks, Sam, I'll be there soon." He smiles at her and then the doorway fills with light.

Where the hell was Josh?

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He dropped her foot and she gasped as it landed with a bang on the floor. That's what stopped his pursuit of Mandy.

It had been a week since Donna returned to him. Josh had done a little research on twisted ankles due to falls on ice and otherwise (just in case). He had full faith in doctors and their medical practice but after reading up on the injury he decided he needed to investigate for himself and make sure the doctors hadn't…passed over anything or misdiagnosed her. She put up a struggle, but eventually she let him examine her ankle (and all he had to do was promise to eat a salad for lunch). What? It was the same thing he would do for any of his friends.

As he was about to tell her that in Joshua Lyman's webmd educated opinion her ankle would be fine if she just didn't overtax it his girlfriend walked in. His insanely opinionated, wildly brown haired, sexy yet overbearing girlfriend looked in his doorway at a perfectly innocent scene and huffed off. That's when his senses left and he hurt Donna.

Josh's face twisted with concern as he turned back towards the blonde woman sitting in his office chair, her face contorted with pain.

"I'm sorry." Her hands had reached down to grasp her ankle. "I am so sorry. I didn't mean…I'm sorry…I'm…" Josh's voice trailed off. He was staring down at her with no idea what to do or how to fix it. He felt helpless. Tears pricked at Donna's eyes. She fought them off as best she could before she lifted her head to tell him that it was fine, she just needed a minute.

"I have a meeting with the governor that I have to go to. I'll…get you some ice on my way back. Just stay here and elevate that thing." He ran off, scared that he had made her injury worse. Damn Mandy.

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Margaret entered a few minutes later with the bag of ice Josh had promised. He had known that Mandy wouldn't let him get away from that meeting quickly so Margaret was Donna's best bet for instant relief.

The initial yelling occurred exactly three minutes after the meeting had ended and the office watched as Josh baited Mandy into walking out the front door so that she could have her hissy fit in the streets of Manchester instead of in front of the whole staff. And for the first time during the Bartlet for America campaign Mandy Hampton broke up with Joshua Lyman.

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A/N (sorry there are so many of these): So…tell me what you think. How is it going? Do you feel this chapter may be irrelevant? I'm still not sure if I'm going to have Josh and Donna get together in this story. We'll see. Let me know your opinions and once again, thanks for taking the time to read, I hope you enjoyed.