AU based on the movie "The Parent Trap" and of course the original book that started it all: "Das doppelte Lottchen" (Lottie and Lisa (Luise?)) by Erich Kästner. After a prompt by drmg.

The Newsroom's Christmas party includes a Secret Santa this year. Season 1, no Wade

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.

Will and Mac's first Christmas together

Unconnected One-Shots about Will McAvoy and MacKenzie McHale— and the rest of the News Night crew!

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

Set after the show ends, Mackenzie and Will talk about baby names, and their newsroom staff. Just a one-shot.

Charlie in her pre-school's Christmas play - Or: "How to embarrass your father."

Will and Mac have been seeing each other, but nobody knows.

Election night is over, Will has proposed and now they are trying to settle into their new life together amidst everything else that is going on.

Christmas 2009 - Mac is travelling to spend the holidays with her family 2 other holidays

AU set after season 2 – There has been no epiphany for Will and no proposal on election night. Merry Christmas!

Lily Hart had been cagey in her conversation, as usual, when Mac reached her by phone, but she was most specific about the address for the meeting. Mac felt vindicated: obviously, Lily intended to identify herself to authorities as the whistle-blower, thus ending the need for Will's incarceration.

What if...?

Don Keefer never really talks about his family. He never really talks about how his sister lost her husband and became caught up in addiction. He never really talks about how he has to look out for his teenage niece. But circumstances change, how will Don?

Will is dating Nina Howard and Mac can't take it anymore.

This was so unfair. He'd had five minutes of fun (okay, it did last a little longer), and now she had to endure nine months of a foreign entity taking over her body.

Three years of deceptions hit peak on Election Night 2012.

AU in which a new EP comes to News Night to shake up the status quo and in doing so shakes up Will McAvoy.

Mac and Jim are both blaming themselves for the Genoa disaster. They finally talk about it, and both feel better.

Jim returns from covering the campaign in NH because Mac found out he gave an interview to a competitor. He returns to the newsroom to face his boss, expecting the worst.

April 20, 2020 - The 10 year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is also the day that Mac has been back in Will's life for a decade.

In which Shylock claims his pound of flesh—or, how Newsroom 2.0 nearly finished before it commenced.