Title: Rain (No Longer Monotone)
Fandom: The West Wing
Characters: Andrea Wyatt/Toby Ziegler
Prompt: fanfic100: 66 – Rain; un_love_you: 3 – This cancels out the hurt.
Word Count: 250
Rating: pg
Summary: Tradition, Wyatt-Ziegler style.
Author's Notes: It’s completely fantasy fluff. I’m not ashamed.



The first year after they were divorced (seven months and six days after the papers were signed), Toby showed up at his ex-wife’s townhouse and kissed her in the rain.

It was all she’d asked for on her birthday six years before, exactly a year after their first kiss. “Take me outside and kiss me senseless every year for the rest of our lives and I’ll be happy,” and he couldn’t deny her. He knew she never expected him to continue the tradition after their divorce, but there were too many things that were broken between them already. He wanted this one thing to remain intact.

And he liked catching her off-guard. She answered the door barefoot, raindrops splashing against her toes as she invited him in out of the rain.

Toby shook his head. “Nope. You come out here.”

“It’s dry in here.”

“The deal wasn’t inside. The deal was outside; you didn’t put a disclaimer on the weather.”

She realized then why he was there, just as he reached for her hand. She protested, but his thumb on her bottom lip silenced her. “We have to do this, Andy.”

He kissed her then, there in the rain, and she rose on her tiptoes to press against him regardless of the water sliding down his coat. His hands searched for skin, slipping under her shirt to slide in slow strokes over her back.

She avoided his eyes when she finally pulled back, and rested her forehead against his instead.