Elizabeth Greene, MD

AO3 Profile: The_Finest_Bagels_and_Muffins

Fandoms I've Written For:

ER

Law and Order SVU

The Resident

9-1-1

The West Wing

Other/secondary: New Amsterdam (no longer active, but you can check out my Sharpwin fics if you're so inclined), Gilmore Girls, The Princess Diaries (Mia/Nicholas)

Margaret: I don’t see her staying under the Santos admin for long or going into a more 9-5 office job. I don’t think the latter is really her thing. I feel like she would start her own business; I’ve always imagined her owning a bakery. If the show were set in modern times, she’d sell templates on Etsy. I can also see her pursuing a career in book publishing, specifically working as an agent and later producing YouTube videos like “10 query letter mistakes to avoid.”

Carol: I also don’t think she stays at the White House much longer. She was initially hurt when C.J. didn’t bring her to the COS office in Season 6, but they end up reconciling. I can see her staying in communications work but becoming a coordinator or doing something for a nonprofit with less intense hours. She of course is still friends with Donna. In my alternate version of Tomorrow, she and C.J. walk out of the building together and into their new chapters.

C.J.: I loved C.J. as press secretary and the rapport she had with everyone in the office, but didn’t like when she was moved to chief of staff. I still liked her character, but she lost a lot of spark, and I don’t think putting her in that position was a good move.

For her ending, I really appreciated her desire to leave politics behind and move to something that will give her a more normal life. But I do wish she hadn’t ended up with Danny. He is too forceful for me and I feel like he wanted to be with her more than she did with him. I don’t think she really owed him anything in her future job choices. My preference for her love life would have been for her to meet someone new or even spend time with her own company for a while.

Josh: I am not sure if he’ll last more than a year or two as Santos’ COS unless he can pull himself together and stop being so impulsive and chaotic. I can see him eventually teaching! I have envisioned him as a teacher in some AUs and think high school or college students would love him.

Toby: The leak storyline broke my heart. I would have loved him and CJ to go friends to lovers if not for that. He definitely did not read the room with Andy in Season 4. 🤣 But it was nice to see that he was pardoned. I do kind of believe the fan theory that he was covering for someone else in the leak.

Donna: I loved Donna for most of the series, but she soured on me in late Season 5 and early Season 6 when she blamed Josh for feeling stagnant in her career. I never thought it was fair that she blamed him (and that he’s largely blamed by some parts of the fandom) that she didn’t have the career she wanted when she also wasn’t doing anything to pursue other opportunities. She got better when she stopped being so bitter toward him. I’m not entirely sure she is qualified for a chief of staff role, but I will say the scenes with her getting her office and being offered the job were a nice emotional hit.

Jed and Abbey: I love their marriage forever and ever. Even when they fight they realize how much they love each other and come back to each other. Abbey’s line “I would vote for you” in Season 3 says everything. I wish we had seen them get back to the farm and see the girls again. Jed has earned his retirement.

Sam: Since he has been gone since Season 4 and was only onscreen for about 10 minutes of the last season I don’t have an opinion here. But Will Bailey was an inadequate replacement, IMO.

Leo: The show was not the same without him, and the void of his death was felt. In an alternate universe where he lives, he retires from politics and is married to Jordon, and he has a new “career” as a househusband. And he gets to travel with her and cook dinner and have a normal life after working so hard for the last eight years.

I do hope good things for Carol and Margaret, my favorite assistants. And Debbie! I guess she resurfaces 10+ years later sharing a beach house with a woman named Grace after their husbands fall in love with each other. (I am watching Grace and Frankie mostly because I wanted to see Lily and Martin onscreen together again.)

Appetizers and Dessert - a Josh/Donna restaurant AU where Donna, who’s out for a birthday dinner with Carol and Margaret, meets Josh at a brewery where he’s a waiter. Thanks @jessbakescakes for sharing my excitement with me!

From the Diary of Margaret Hooper - new entry posted two days following Bartlet’s first inauguration in pre-canon times.

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What a great character. Feels like I lost a member of my own family. I felt sad for everyone but especially Josh and Margaret.

Thanks @jessbakescakes for running this! I hope everyone likes it!

Donna and Carol have been dating for about a month now and are having a harder time keeping their feelings and actions private, so they decide to share their relationship with the person who cares most about both of them.

A Donna/Carol oneshot for the prompt “Queerplatonic” where Donna is trying to figure out how to label her relationship with Carol. Carol has an idea that will help them both show off their commitment to each other as both friends and partners.

Thanks to @bartletslesbians for the patience in explaining this concept to me and @broadwaybaggins for the continued support!

I would love any feedback on how you think I interpreted this concept. Comments welcome!

If you liked this, today is my birthday, so I would definitely appreciate the gift of comments if you feel inclined!

If you’re looking for something easy breezy and shorter, Margaret’s diary has a new entry, detailing her visit to the White House before Bartlet’s first inauguration.

Or, ICYMI and/if you want some angst, check out Part 1 of my newest Leo/Jordon fic, When You Need Someone, Let it Be Me.

Seems about right.

After getting a phone call with an abnormal mammogram result, Jordon is spiraling and trying to find the strength to take the next steps and get answers. With otherwise limited support available in DC and not wanting to keep doing this alone, she calls Leo and asks him to come over and talk.

TW: Talk of possible cancer and the fears associated with that but nothing graphic.

Comments and feedback welcome!