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

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."

Elizabeth was going to the airport to welcome a young teenager who had just been granted asylum in the United States. Everything was going according to plan until an unknown suicide bomber made an unexpected appearance. Might change rating to M for future chapters.

Elizabeth McCord thought she’d finally caught a break after a successful diplomatic trip to Canada — until a leaked video of her and Henry’s very private bedroom activities goes viral. Suddenly, the Secretary of State isn’t just known for her diplomatic prowess.

Blake takes time off for a family emergency and everyone misses him. Kay can’t understand why. For Mature Audiences I own nothing.

Henry comes to understand what matters most to him. One-shot. COMPLETE.

Elizabeth must deal with the aftermath of a radical group who will stop at nothing to make sure the peace talks between the United States and India do not come to fruition.

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.

Series of one-shots of the McCords.

Just another normal day as the assistant to the Secretary of State.

The green-eyed monster came out to play.

Madeline McCord's life was but a dream when things take a turn for the worst. All she had ever known is ripped away from her cruelly at the hands of her abductor. Can she find strength to hold on to hope that one day she might make it back to her family? Can the McCords survive the tragedy that severed life as they knew it? Even if they could, would they ever be the same again?

Exactly what the title says ;)

She blamed the wine...

Believing they would share a common goal, she decided to turn to the so-called devil of D.C. (a fun little dramatic AU!)

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.

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.

[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.

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.]

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

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.