Title: Empty
Fandom: Madam Secretary
Character: Nadine Tolliver
Spoilers: Madam Secretary Pilot/Pre-show
Summary: Drabble. Pilot Tag. Follow up to Leather and Mahogany.
Disclaimer: Not my players, just my playground.
Note: Nadine owns all. I hope I captured her well.
When the news of the plane crash hit, there was no time for Nadine to mourn her loss. Certainly no one to truly mourn it with.
The downfall of secrecy; there was no one to lean on when it all fell apart.
So, she didn't.
All she'd allow herself was a fleeting moment of silence each morning, as she readied assignments - remnants of him everywhere.
His favorite pen still in the desk drawer; a forgotten remnant when the security team swept the office. His smell, a lingering musk from too many nights spent on the couch in his office.
He wasn't truly gone until three months later, when the soft tap of heels hit the carpet and a new smell lingered in the air
"Good morning, Madam Secretary."
Inside she breaks.
Empty.
- Fin.