femgenficathon

Title: Until I Break Into Pieces Without a Trace
Author: Normative Jean
Fandom: The West Wing
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Prompt: 94) “Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.” Hypatia of Alexandria (370-415), Greek mathematician, scientist, philosopher, teacher and inventor. Credited with creating an instrument for measuring gravity or density of water, an instrument for distilling water, and an instrument for determining the positions of heavenly bodies; surveying; and deducing time based on latitude.
Author’s Notes: Many thanks to empressearwig for the beta and the sounding board-ness. The title is a translated line from Ayumi Hamasaki’s (miss)understood. General spoiler warning for The West Wing through mid-season 6. For the 2010 femgenficathon.

Summary: Sometimes being stuck in place is the only way to move forward.

until i break into pieces without a trace