Post Season One. Maggie moved in with Don. Complications follow.
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
"Considering how tightly she has her arms wrapped around his shoulders she knows how troubling the good can be, too. And Will, she thinks, has never really known how to have things." That too, is a choice. Will's father calls after the American Taliban broadcast. (AU after S1, one-shot.)
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?
Will and Mackenzie fight, reinforcing old habits instead of breaking them. "You know, you can't always run, and I can't always push you away. Those are old patterns. We need to unlearn them." he said.
"Will doesn't know what kind of luck you have to have to catch fucking pneumonia ten days after getting engaged." A week and a half after Election Night, things aren't exactly going as Will planned. (Post S2, One-shot.)
Can hope and forgiveness prevail between Will and Mac?
In a million different ways, she was saying goodbye, bit by bit. It hurt him to realize he never saw it coming. Post 2 x 08. Forgive me for this, but in this story, the engagement never happened.
Engagement rings and new apartments can't fix everything. Will still has some making up to do with Mackenzie...he just has to catch her first.
"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.
They were headed towards the next chapter in their lives, but it would never happened. The last two weeks of Charlie Skinner's story, as told by his wife Nancy.
What happens after Mac tells Will about Charlie's death?
Less of a story, more of a scene from Will and Mac's first married Christmas. Will's attempt at perfect Christmas decor proves hazardous; Mac cleans up. Written for The Newsroom Secret Santa on Tumblr.
Will believes he's handling Charlie's death pretty well, until Mac has to help him realize that setbacks are normal. Written for the secret santa exchange on Tumblr
[It is weird, in a way, that it has taken the death of his father to be able to say out loud what he has known for months.] Set post 2.05.
"I always thought you didn't like me." [...] "I didn't like you. At first." / Mackenzie gets a late night visitor and a few encouraging words.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Leona/Becca pairing
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!
You only avoid talking about those things that matter the most.
Mackenzie and Will in the immediate aftermath of 2X09.
Will's father dies and Mac is there to pick up the pieces. Slight AU. Episode 2x05
"Will?" she tried again, a little louder, but there was still no response. Reluctantly, she cracked open one eye. Shit. She hadn't even made it to bed. It was dark, and she was lying face down in the dirt. Where the hell was she? Does Mac have the hangover from hell? Or is it something worse? Post S2.
"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.)
"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.
To Charlie and Jim's dismay, Will probes events in Islamabad in 2008.
Some post season two fluff/drama, with a title nod to Woody Allen and Jeff Daniels, cause I just had to.
"He's not entirely sure how he managed to become Ass Number One, he just knows that he did, and now Jim Harper wants him severely injured and Mackenzie is hurting" . prompt-fic, pre-proposal, one-shot.
Co-written with iworkwithpens, set after season one.