BLESS YOUR HEART A West Wing Fan Fiction When a military incident threatens to go public, Leo McGarry makes one phone call. May Sevier — NSC liaison, Pentagon veteran, and the most self-contained person Leo has ever trusted with classified information — is pulled out of a NATO briefing in Brussels and brought into the Bartlet White House to manage the fallout. She has no title. No political history anyone can find. And as far as anyone on the senior staff can tell, no discernible party affiliation. In a building that runs on conviction, that makes her the most unsettling person in it. Josh Lyman has questions. May Sevier has answers — just never the ones he’s actually asking for. What begins as professional friction in the corridors of the West Wing becomes something neither of them has language for yet, built slowly out of late nights, fast arguments, and the particular tension of two people who are both, in their different ways, very bad at letting anyone in. The temporary basis was Leo’s word. Nobody believed him.