Unconnected One-Shots about Will McAvoy and MacKenzie McHale
The ladies of News Night go to Magic Mike Live. Maybe it stirs up some feelings between Will and MacKenzie.
The ladies of News Night go to Magic Mike Live. Maybe it stirs up some feelings between Will and MacKenzie.
“Billy, I didn’t know—“ “You didn’t know? Kenzie, I think I loved you from the moment you walked into my office. How didn’t you know?” “I just didn’t, Will!”
MacKenzie is usually the one trying to play match-maker, but in this story it is Will that gets involved with another couple. AU set around 1x10
I feel that (almost) every episode could have ended with or led up to a happy end - Here are my versions. Some shorter, some longer, some simple, some more complex - Please read the intro at the start of chapter 1. All characters belong to brilliant Aaron Sorkin. One shots, each chapter is a separate story and stands on its own.
Set after the show ends, Mackenzie and Will talk about baby names, and their newsroom staff. Just a one-shot.
Years into Harry's professional quidditch career, a video of him playing for England during the world cup is leaked to the muggle world. The Statute of Secrecy well and truly broken, Harry is tasked with handling the first interview in the muggle world.
Charlie in her pre-school's Christmas play - Or: "How to embarrass your father."
"I gotta see you Doc. It's an emergency." Habib sighed. "It's always an emergency with you Will. Why don't you try coming to your weekly appointments like everyone else? You're not the only patient I have, you know." "I know, Doc, and I get it, but this time it's different." Post season two. Fluffier than you might think. Now with added epilogue.
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
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.)
"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.)
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.)
Maggie gives Don and Sloan a bit of advice. "It's like you are playing chicken. You're deliberately trying to get the other to swerve. If you do that long enough, one of you will swerve and never come back." Don and Sloan pairing with a hopeful Jim and Maggie
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun in the room, I want to be the one in control of it. Clint Eastwood...and perhaps Mackenzie McHale.
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?
Based on LilacMermaid25's prompt on tumblr: Mac manages to restrain herself from hitting Will (barely), but not everyone on their staff can contain themselves when they see him being mean to her.
Will and Mackenzie's baby girl is an appreciative audience. "Will finished Brown-Eyed Girl by Van Morrison, which he'd adapted and made Blue-Eyed Girl, in honor of his daughter's turquoise gaze. Then he started on You Got It by Roy Orbison."
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?
Just a bit of Will and Mac. Annoying as they are I do love them. Rated M for language only
He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
When Mac and her team go missing for a week in the Khyber Pass, Will spends the night drinking with Charlie and makes a pitch he wouldn't otherwise, committing News Night to ten special broadcasts from Camp Hook in Afghanistan. (HO&LG/Pre-series AU.)
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.
So Sloan's got a secret talent she hasn't let Don see yet. Here's how Don found out about it.
Sequel to Family Matters II. Co-written with IWorkWithPens. Set post season one. Will and Mac realize that family is what matters.
"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.)