Sloan passes away, leaving Don and their daughter Georgia behind. First chapter was based on a Prompt, later chapters based on requests. The chapters are not in chronological order, but the dates will be stated at the begging of each. Enjoy! Also posted on Ao3
She tries to hold out, for longer and longer, like a child holding their breath under the water. Eventually she'll drown, or come up for air, lungs burning. Either way, it'll be over. She'll be done running away. (Will doesn't have his revelation on Election Night, and by Friday, MacKenzie has decided to embed again.)
They're both in the woods and he knows it, and Mac's in danger and Will never had a choice in choosing his sisters and his mother but he's pledged his life to MacKenzie and he's chosen to protect her and it means something, even if the simple platinum band was taken from him during inmate processing. (Spoilers for 3.04 and 3.05.)
The front of her building was crowded with police cars and an ambulance, a long yellow cord preventing anyone from going inside. [...] Everything in her living room was turned upside down: papers scattered all over the room, broken glass on the floor, smashed laptop on her desk, cushions thrown from the couch that had landed everywhere. What the hell had happened in there?
Can hope and forgiveness prevail between Will and Mac?
"Actually, I've tried to get in touch with you a lot of times in the past three years. Did you get any of those emails?" "I didn't read them." In the uncertain hours following Mac's stabbing in Islamabad, Will reads the emails. Each and every one. (Pre-series AU.)
Season 1x01 AU, in which Mac returns from her time embedded with an invisible injury.
Will gets the wrong end of the stick and then finds managing a relationship with Nina harder than he thought. Set when Will has been with Nina for 6 months. AU after Don tells Mac she should date. Silly stuff to get through to season 3. No ownership rights. Two swear words.
"Like a poem poorly written/We are verses out of rhythm/Couplets out of rhyme/In syncopated time/And the dangling conversation/And the superficial sighs/Are the borders of our lives" How Will and MacKenzie fall into sync again; a snapshot survey of their lives. Spans pre-Season 1 through Season 2.
Maggie and Jim weren't in the newsroom when Charlie collapsed. They weren't in the waiting room when the doctors told everyone the bad news. And they most definitely weren't there to share the pain. No one even thought to tell them. Not until Sloan gave them a call. What happens after that horrible call? One-shot. I own nothing!
A/U where Charlie and Will have the conversation that prompts Will's realisation after the election broadcast is over. Based on LilacMermaid25's Prompt on Tumblr: When Will goes to propose to Mac, she is already packing up her office.
A man dies. The mission lives on. (One-shot. Post 3.05)
Written September 2013 because there wasn't enough Mac/Will interaction in 2x06 and I was angry about that. It's nice to know that now folks will be able to read this as AU instead of being distressed.
It's not the wedding day that either of them expected. Mac didn't expect to be shot. Will didn't think he'd get a phone call that would cause him to give up the source. He'd been prepared for prison, for separation, but he was not at all prepared for the possibility of a life without Mac. Post 3X04: Contempt.
After the stabbing the Navy doctor told her it was highly unlikely that even she did conceive that it would implant, that between the adhesions and the depth and angle of the knife wound she would probably never carry a viable pregnancy, and yet here she is, staring at two pink lines on a stupid white stick ten days after her husband was thrown into federal prison. (S3 spoilers.)
Three weeks after the ultrasound technician tells them it's a boy, Will finds himself back in therapy. Sequel to "A Time to Keep" and "Bolt", WIP.
"Haven't you been paying attention? Mackenzie's staff is confronting her right now about her misguided desire to shoulder all the blame for Operation Genoa."
"Stiltedly, as if they don't quite remember how, her fingers pluck out the chorus to Sweet Child O Mine until she's able to play it at something resembling tempo." A month after their engagement, they're still adjusting to each other. (Post S2. One-shot.)
"She's tried running. Miles and across the sea and back. And she's tried grinning and bearing it, and breathing through it, and yoga, for a bit." Will finds Nina. MacKenzie tries writing, and finds herself along the way.
"MacKenzie knows that she needs to uproot and leave before she rots where she's planted." 2.06 AU; the Genoa story never goes to air. Now complete.
"You're here, in New York. You can't help anyone in Nebraska right now. Just take a minute, Will." What happens after the end of the broadcast where Will's father dies. (Post 2.05, one-shot.)
"She has to believe that their victory in this war of attrition won't be hollow." Dantana's law suit enters the discovery phase, and MacKenzie is ten days late. (Post S2. One-shot.)
They meet as strangers six years later at charity event, years and the whole of the Atlantic between them. One-shot AU. "What if Mac had never had Jim in her life?"
"The intern doing the overnight book doesn't recognize her name, but gives pause out of professional consideration at the yellow iNews alert that a CNN field producer has been stabbed and killed while covering a religious protest-turned-riot in Islamabad." Mac doesn't survive the stabbing. Pre-series AU. One-shot.
Maggie has been through hell, and everyone is worried. Especially Jim. Post Season 2.
Saying "I love you" won't solve all your problems. Those you still have to figure out for yourself. (Post 1.07 AU. WIP.)
AU in which MacKenzie and Will work in different newsrooms.
They had told the staff to get some sleep while maintenance worked to bring the generators back on, but Mac isn't sleeping. Neither is he, obviously. (The answer to the question of why Will was waiting outside of Mac's meeting with the lawyers. Set during 2.07.)
"Well then, as your boss, consider this the end of your working week. You're fired, Mackenzie." Oneshot. (I sort of suck at summaries, I'm afraid.)