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EDIT: 6/2025 This story is being edited, new chapters are coming.
Remember the talk that Mac and Maggie had in the gym, about someone lost/taken hostage in Africa and the network not making any steps about saving them/paying for freeing them? Imagine happening just that.
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Will and Mac adopted a child when they were together the first time. She is a pop star who is linked to the Younger (TV) crowd. She brings her Brookyln friends to meet her parents and Newsnight team... and tries to fix her parent's relationship in the process.
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Grilled by pia-writes-things (useless_fangirl_does_fanart) for Saecookie, Hemerae_dusknights, Eara
Fandoms: The Diplomat (US TV 2023), The Newsroom (US TV)
06 Dec 2025
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After Throwbridge revealed to the world that President Rayburn was responsible for the carrier attack, and after Kate guessed where the nuclear weapons from the Russian submarines really are, she has to go on air to be interviewed by ACN's star anchor Will McAvoy.
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we're not, but we can be (if you'll let us) by meetmeatthecoda
Fandoms: The Newsroom (US TV)
19 Nov 2025
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“The spotlights are almost painfully bright from where he’s seated on the stage at Northwestern University, making sweat bead uncomfortably at his hairline and under the collar of his jacket, and the raised voices of the people on either side of him are swiftly conjuring a headache.
Will wants this to be over.”
A deep dive into the emotions & motivations in some of Will & Mac’s most important scenes throughout the show.
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Will, Mac, Sloan, Charlie Skinner, and Nina Howard undergo significant life changes. Mackenzie and Sloan get big promotions, Nina Howard meets the consequences of her actions. Charlie gets back together with the band.
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Whumptober 2025
Day 7 - Elevator
Elevator troubles strike Will and MacKenzie.
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- Part 7 of NatK - Whumptober 2025
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Maggie晋升DC后的日子。
重温之后，我需要表达一下我对这两个人的感受，以及我想他们在正剧里能在一起更久的期望。
再备注一下：我从未经历过异地恋，所以希望一切都好，也可能夸张了一些。还有，我真的不懂Maggie的工作具体是什么。
如果我以后有更多的想法，可能会继续更新的。但愿如此吧。
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Mackenzie and Will meet but it is a while before a relationship takes off. Will has issues to address, they live in different cities, career and commitment decisions need to be made. The usual cast of supporting characters contributes complications. Some criminal intrigue, a bit of entomology, psychology and theology around the edges. AU in mostly canon familiar or canon adjacent settings.
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Mackenzie finds herself back in her apartment at the end of election night, with a ring on her finger and no knowledge of how she got there.
The title comes from a line in The Red Wagon by William Carlos Williams.
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a prequel to I Am (not) A Rock
AU, What Mackenzie does to put her life back together after she walks out of the ACN studio election night following her confrontation with Will in the hair and makeup room. She does not stay around for the rest of the broadcast.
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AU that begins in the space after the confrontation between Will and Mac in the hair and makeup room on election night. Mac leaves. This story picks up there and follows what happens once she walks out for good. The title is, of course, from the song by Paul Simon.
If you have not started this yet, read the prequel, The Power of Goodbye first. If you have already started this, read the prequel to fill in gaps. It would have helped if I had written the prequel first, but it didn’t happen that way. Life isn’t a straight line sometimes, or ever. -
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An interview gets stuck in Sloan's head, she figures she should tell Don.
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Post-Canon, established Don/Sloan
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Will and Mac meet while working at ACN and have some issues, but in this au their problems are not as serious as Sorkin made them. The title and the chapter titles are, of course, from Camelot in deference to Will’s fondness for musicals.
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Louise McAvoy grew up in a newsroom, from age 14 until the day she went off to college. Now, she's back at ACN. Working with her father, Will, might not be easy under normal circumstances but his ex, MacKenzie McHale, is back and that comes with its own drama.
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Codependent best friends who met in college AU
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Maggie Jordan and Jim Harper are fierce academic rivals—both brilliant, stubborn, and unafraid to challenge each other at every turn. When Maggie transfers schools and joins Jim’s debate club, their rivalry heats up, complicated by Maggie’s ex, Don, who unexpectedly reenters her life. As they prepare for a major competition, their clashes spark a slow-burning tension neither expects. Between panic attacks, part-time jobs, and complicated friendships, Maggie and Jim must navigate more than just arguments—maybe even each other.
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an expansion of the final scenes of Election Night because Sorkin left it too condensed.
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a sequel to Rest Your Heart in Mine; au in which neither Will nor Mackenzie are the ones with the big problems but they run into some anyway
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Will and Mac break up and she goes overseas. Per canon. Charlie hires her when she returns. She returns to ACN but not to Will. Diverges from canon at this point and never returns.
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That thing of when, in 1.04, Will says "Don't call her honey it drives me crazy" can't and shouldn't be left alone.