Henry McCord is on his second tour with the Marine Corps, this time in Kuwait, when his platoon is sent on a mission for extraction by the CIA. Per usual, the CIA is cryptic on their information, and the only intel they give on the target they're extracting is: "female in her late twenties."

Kamala Harris got elected as the 47th President of the United States, which means she is the first Woman in this Office.

Henry and Elizabeth are celebrating their third anniversary and run out of gas in a snow storm. COMPLETE.

What happens when the buried past comes back to haunt us? How does one begin to process the trauma of old secrets? Henry and Elizabeth are about to find out.

[AU - set in 1996] Elizabeth Adams is attending the Military-Intelligence Cooperation Summit (MICS), presenting her research she's conducted with the CIA on interrogation techniques. When she looks out in the audience, she's surprised to find someone from her past, someone who she has not seen or heard from in six years.

Henry gets a phone call from Elizabeth and quickly realizes something is wrong.

Lately, the middle of the night has been spent contemplating the what-ifs...

Seeing Dr Henry McCord in a tuxedo, how can she help but have unclean thoughts about her boss' husband? A minor characters exercise (1x05).

After receiving some disappointing news, Elizabeth Adams, an overachieving junior at the University of Virginia, decides she's going to attend the same fraternity party as her roommate, Jessica, and she finds a big, strong hero to save her night.

"Anguilla, baby, ten days! Just you and me." A well-deserved vacation McCord-style. Henry confronts his fears of scuba diving, and he and Elizabeth experience the "profound, serene beauty of the fish toilet" (5x20). [Revised Dec 2024.]

Series of one-shots of the McCords.

Elizabeth can't sleep when Henry's away. This is my take on the end of season two regarding the episode Render Safe. COMPLETE.

Elizabeth is announced Killed In Action during her tour of duty in Iraq in 2004. But, is that what truly happened? Soon enough, Henry will find out that no it isn't. An expanded version of The People Left Behind.

Her sister was her twin, and her twin was her. The part of her she needed. The part that married a nice man and had a nice baby and always had a warm smile. So if she was gone, then, Nadine might as well go to the grave too. - When Nadine's identical twin sister, Natalie, tragically dies along with her niece Grace, Nadine is left to pick up the pieces for Graces' four children.

These will be one shot scenes that I cant get out of my head

What would an extra child bring into the McCord's life? What if her birth was questionable? What if... things aren't what they seem. And... what happens when that becomes public knowledge.

Her lip was split, fat and red, but only on one side of her face. He was right handed, and slaps tended to land on her left. She sighed, raking strings of curly black hair forward in a futile attempt to cover the damage. It didn't work, but it didn't matter, she reassured herself, because this was the last time.

The 2020 Election does not go as Elizabeth had planned. This is a companion piece to my story The Campbell.

October 2007 - Henry and Elizabeth are professors at UVA, enjoying life in the private sector, though not always easy. Though they work in the private sector now, their private lives haven't gotten any easier.

Exactly what the title says ;)

'Learning to let things go...' Elizabeth and Henry Love story. - Repost of an old fic.

'Your love lifts me up like Helium' - Inspo taken from Sia Song Helium. Young Henry and Elizabeth AU.

Recovery takes time. Takes place after "In The End."

Elizabeth Adams is in Virginia Beach for Spring Break 1989 when she receives a call that her brother, Will, has been in a terrible accident. With her trauma from the last accident that took her parents, she needs some assistance getting through these more-than-difficult moments. That's when a practical stranger, a fellow UVA sophomore, Henry McCord, lends her a helping hand.

It was almost like a meditative state of mind - relinquishing control. It was all part of the game: the preparation and the aftermath were as important as what happened in between, she knew this and Henry knew it too.