So my first story for this show, I really love it but being in the UK have only seen season 1. This is not set at any point, although before Tamerlane is likely. No mention is made of any episode storylines and is just a simple story about having a day off. Hope you enjoy, there are three chapters that I will post this week.

Madam Secretary: A Day Off, chapter 1

Elizabeth stretched in bed, it was a Saturday morning and for once she had absolutely nothing planned. She worked her muscles from the tips of her toes to her neck, rolling them and stretching until she felt totally loose and ready for the day. She looked around her bedroom as the daylight spilled in through the slightly open curtains. Henry was nowhere in sight and she sighed, a little disappointed that she had been not allowed the wake up that she wished. She turned to his side of the bed and spotted the note on his pillow.

"Mornin beautiful….we have the day to ourselves to take your time, breakfast or brunch is on me. Love H"

She smiled, it had been over 25 years of her life and she loved him more and more every day. She looked at the clock on her bedside table, 9.47, so brunch not breakfast them. She got out of bed, went through her morning routine at a leisurely pace and was soon going down the stairs to see if she could find her husband. She looked in the kitchen, surprised he wasn't there and then she moved through the ground floor of their house. She found him in the study with his nose in a book and she just stared at him. He was so unbelievably gorgeous and sexy, he has holding his specs in his hand with one leg of them in his mouth; he was intensely focused on the book in front of him and subconsciously mouthing along with what he was reading.

Elizabeth moved behind him and stroked her hands across his shoulders to get his attention, he looked up at her and they smiled at each other, both caught in the others gaze. She slowly moved around him, gently pushing his chair away from the desk. Once he had been rolled far enough out she sat on his lap, her legs at both sides of his.

"Hi" he whispered gravelly, causing her insides to turn to goo as it always did when he spoke that way.

She could do little else other than kiss him, thoroughly. Once she had come up for air she scratched the back of his neck in a way she knew he loved. "Hi yourself." She whispered back, and settled herself more in his lap. She leaned back, still with her arms around his neck. "So I'm a little curious, is the 'we' in your note you and me, or is it you, me and the kids."

He smiled up at her, stroking his hands around her waist, "Both." He prolonged her obvious agony for information. Moments passed and he could see her getting more anxious for information, of course then she pulled her trump card and began subtly squirming in his lap. He laughed at her torture technique and raised his hands as if in surrender. "Ok I give, I give. Stevie has taken the other two for the day, shopping, lunch and then to the afternoon showing at the movies. They will be back late afternoon to join us for a family dinner, your choice, and then family night, their choice I'm afraid." He screwed up his face at the thought of what punishment his children could make him face for kicking them out the house so early on a Saturday. The girls in particular were unimpressed and could seek very serious retribution if they combined their annoyance.

Elizabeth watched the thoughts cross his face and could read the subtext. The kids had been bribed to leave and she suspected that one of their credit cards had also been handed out. "I assume you set a sensible limit on the credit card this time?" She looked at him sternly, both remembering the last time the kids had been given a free rein and only their parents assumption that they would understand limits before leaving. Jason had been the one with the sense that day, the girls would have gone wild without him.

"Yes." Henry responded dejectedly. "Maximum $50 each shopping, then appropriate lunch and movie ticket with small amount of snacks." He smiled at her again and then quietly added. "Do I pass, Ma'am?"

And she was a pile of goo again. She shifted on his lap, "So let me get this straight, the kids are away, busy for at least another 6 hours, we are not expecting visitors, the office is closed….and the bed is upstairs?"

"You read my mind babe." Henry kissed her fiercely and his hands trailed over her back and up into her hair.

Elizabeth dragged her mouth from his, she groaned. "We need to move now or this could be very uncomfortable and end up with one or both of us in the ER!"

Henry laughed and moved her off his lap, he stood and took her hand. "Your wish is my command." He pulled her from the study and made very quick work of the stairs. Out of habit he still closed the bedroom door behind them and went to the task of making his wife's wishes come true.

More to come soon, I promise.