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Top 5 CJ/Toby scenes (of course).

(FUCK OFF JOSH DON’T MAKE ME SPIRAL LIKE THIS IT CAN ONLY END IN TEARS)

10 | “I’m too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my clothes, too sexy for my … other … things.”

9 | At the end of “The Midterms,” they’re all sitting on Josh’s stoop and she reaches down and rubs his shoulder, just this little touch, with Josh right next to him in his over-sized pajamas.

8 | Hoynes is publishing his book and they’re sitting in the Oval Office and they share this look, this tiny little look, and you know Toby knows, you know that he knows everything, and later she’s sitting in her office in the dark and he takes one step forward, and then another, and then sits down and lets her tell him again. 

7 | “You want to make out with me right now, don’t you?” “Well, when don’t I?” SOMETIMES THEIR MOMENTS WERE PLAYFUL AND FUN AND IN FRONT OF WHOLE ROOMFULS OF PEOPLE WHO KNOW THEY WANTED TO GET IT ON.

6 | “I have faith in us.” “The people in this room?” “And many, many others.” They basically eyefuck their way through that whole scene, through that whole episode, and when bullets hit the windows in the press room, Toby puts his hands on CJ’s shoulders and pulls her down.

5 | “Can this be one of those nights we get drunk and forget we work together?” IF YOU DARE TO TELL ME THAT DROUGHT CONDITIONS DIDN’T CONFIRM THEIR SEXUAL/ROMANTIC HISTORY, I WILL PUNCH YOU IN THE THROAT.

4 | “You act like the world’s bouncing you around, from Bartlet to Santos, from Danny to me. Pick something.” “I’d like to learn to cook a chicken like that.” “Stick a lemon up it. A little salt, a little rosemary.” IF YOU DARE TO TELL ME THAT INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY DIDN’T CONFIRM THEIR SEXUAL/ROMANTIC HISTORY, I WILL PUNCH YOU IN THE THROAT.

3 | “What do they keep in the bullion depository?” “Soup?” Because CJ’s cracking jokes just after she was in tears telling Toby that her father has Alzheimer’s, because she told Toby he father has Alzheimer’s, because she told Toby before she told anyone else, because Toby smiles in CJ’s direction and it doesn’t mean, “That was funny, CJ,” it means, “You’re amazing and strong and beautiful and I love you.” 

2 | “Do you want some water?” “No.” “Scotch?” “No.” “Do you want me to go?” “No.” Because Toby tells Ricki Rafferty that his brother died of cancer, because Toby tells CJ that his brother killed himself, because Toby doesn’t tell anyone else that his brother killed himself, because there are whole parts of these characters they only ever showed around each other.

1 | “If I was a woman living in Qumar, I couldn’t say shove it up your ass, Toby, but since I’m not? Shove it up your ass, Toby.” Because he reaches up and covers his heart, and.