Damocles

Josh Lyman, post-series. 100 words.


Josh has this fear. That she'll leave him.

He's irrationally afraid that everyone will leave him eventually. His fear isn't irrational regarding her, though.

She left him twice – once professionally, once only partly (despite what she says), and she threatened to leave, albeit obliquely, when she set the deadline.

He worries that he's going to screw up, or worse, that something will go wrong at work, and she'll move halfway across the country before he can say "boo". He can't tell her this for fear she'll bolt because of it.

He can't get comfortable anymore.

For Josh has this fear.