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"The makeup makes me look fresh and youthful, MacKenzie. It makes me look like I'm full of vim and vigor. That you can trust me to bring you pertinent information about your health," Will argued.
"Their trust in you has nothing to do with how you look," Mac replied. "Now hurry up, we're on air from our living room in five."
Will and Mac in the age of the coronavirus.
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“With all due respect,” Mac took a deep breath and told herself that punching the anchor in the face before he went on the air was a Very. Bad. Idea. “You came to CNN for a reason.”
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A few phone calls placed to the right people and all of a sudden she had a flight scheduled and a job thousands of miles from New York.
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"I thought the theme was that she was turning one,” Will argued. “Isn't that enough of a theme?”
“Will,” Mac was using the tone she reserved strictly for those times when she thought he was being a total moron. “The party has to have a theme, and we decided that the theme would be Alice in Wonderland.”
Charlotte's turning one.
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Five birthdays in MacKenzie McHale's life.
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"You two okay?" He asked in a gentle voice, crossing over and kneeling in front of them, placing a soft hand on Mac's knee.
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Before someone sent a letter with a photograph tucked into its folded pages. A photograph of her baby girl with an x over her face (and it was the way the pen had made deep grooves into the photograph, as if someone had scratched out Charlotte's face with such a vehemence and purpose, that pushed Mac over the edge. Whoever had sent that had meant it).
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But Maggie was not firing on all cylinders. And because her brain was working at a slightly slower pace than normal, what she thought she heard was MacKenzie's voice telling to come in, when what she actually should have heard was Mac asking her to give them a minute.
Maggie wakes up on MacKenzie's couch.
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"What did you do?” Sloan asked again. “Is this a fixable offense? On a scale of one to ten, what are we talking here? Will flowers suffice? Or are we talking a nice pair of earrings to match the Rock of Gibraltar on her finger?”
“She’s sleeping at her own apartment, what do you think?” Will asked.
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“You know nothing about basketball,” he pointed out. “You didn't even know what a shot clock was.”
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He had fired her. And he had meant it.
Will fires MacKenzie.
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“Apparently we’ve won a Peabody,” he announced. She schooled her features into an impressive, neutral mask. “Which is a huge surprise, seeing as I didn’t know we had been nominated.”
“Is that right?” Mac asked. “I imagine, then, that some congratulations are in order.” -
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MacKenzie visited on Mondays and sometimes on Wednesdays when she could swing it, Charlie on Thursdays, but Tuesdays were the days that Jim came.
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Five people MacKenzie went home with on her wedding night.
And one she didn't.
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He hadn't even allowed himself to think that it might be more than words.
But Molly had all but confirmed it.
And he brought Brian back.Season 1 AU. After Brian's article is published, Will learns a little more about Mac and Brian's relationship.
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When Will discovered that Charlotte had had a giant piece of chocolate cake with chocolate icing, on top of the pile of candy that had been in the pinata that Hannah’s parents had not stopped any of the children from eating, and the pixie sticks that Charlotte told Will were “really yummy, Daddy,” he knew that it was going to be a difficult afternoon.
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The Heart and the Brain and the Body by bashert for simplyprologue
Fandoms: The Newsroom (US TV)
23 Jan 2015
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“That was for babies, Daddy,” she reminded him, wrinkling her nose in distaste and looking so much like her mother that it temporarily stunned Will. “I’m going to kindergarten."
Charlotte's first day of school. One of her parents handles it well. One does not.
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"How long are we supposed to stay here?" Will asked, glancing down at Charlotte. They only had so long to grocery shop while she slept peacefully. Time was ticking.
"Until the coast is clear," Mac replied, pressing herself up against Will so they were better hidden.
Five times the McAvoys run into someone they don't want to (and the one time they do).
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It had been a profanity laden process so far, Will's attempt to put together the bicycle, and Mac had to bite her tongue from pointing out that Will had insisted on putting it together himself. Three days before Christmas, he had pulled the box from their bedroom closet and announced he would have it together in no time.
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Her maternity leave comes to an abrupt end when Charlotte is only five weeks old. Pruitt calls her daily, and she finally packs a diaper bag, calls a car, and shows up in the office, baby Charlie bundled in her arms.
