(And then they go out for dinner after the vote, which was lost and HR-362 passes, and they make out a lot in the cab back to Josh's apartment, and Josh blows Julian up against the door, and Julian clutches at his hair a lot and mumbles things like, "god right yes just like that," and "fuck me, I want you to fuck me," and Josh takes Julian at his word and they stagger into Josh's bedroom and have age-defying athletic sex, and Julian spends the night only to be woken up at seven the next morning when Josh gets simultaneously paged and telephoned, and then someone's knocking at the door. Josh jumps out of bed and hauls on his pants and tells Julian to stay put, for the love of all that's holy, and Julian gets out of bed and is buttoning up his shirt and half-listening to the conversation Josh is having with a male someone in the living room. He starts really listening when he hears "HR-362," and when the male someone says, "Danny Concannon is running the story on Sunday. He's giving us the heads-up. There's probably more, but all they've found right now is that it looks like Whitfield, Homer, Lacey, and Dunbar," and then Josh says, "They were all bribed to pass it?" and Julian yelps, "What?" and the male someone says, "What the fuck --" and Josh yells, "Julian, you idiot," and Julian grabs his bow tie off the floor and drapes it around his neck, trying to tie it while walking out to the living room and saying, "I told you there was shady dealings --"
And the vaguely-familiar male someone says, "Who the hell is this?" and Josh slams his hand to his forehead and grits out, "I'm going to kill both of you, and then myself, and then maybe that'll be the lead news story instead of another fucking congressional scandal," and Julian introduces himself because he figures it's all shot to hell anyway, and finds out that the male someone is named Sam, and then it clicks in Julian's head that he picked this guy up once, two years ago or more, while he was still clerking, and he sees Sam's head jerk back and his eyes widen the instant he realizes it, but he thankfully stays silent. And Josh is yanking out his hair and trying to tie his shoes at the same time, and then Sam drives Josh and Julian out to the Hill in what is the most uncomfortable car ride of Julian's life.
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this is all your fault, pt 6/7
Date: 2006-05-14 10:32 pm (UTC)And the vaguely-familiar male someone says, "Who the hell is this?" and Josh slams his hand to his forehead and grits out, "I'm going to kill both of you, and then myself, and then maybe that'll be the lead news story instead of another fucking congressional scandal," and Julian introduces himself because he figures it's all shot to hell anyway, and finds out that the male someone is named Sam, and then it clicks in Julian's head that he picked this guy up once, two years ago or more, while he was still clerking, and he sees Sam's head jerk back and his eyes widen the instant he realizes it, but he thankfully stays silent. And Josh is yanking out his hair and trying to tie his shoes at the same time, and then Sam drives Josh and Julian out to the Hill in what is the most uncomfortable car ride of Julian's life.