Okay I miss more personal moments and people talking about all that is going on in this show. So I am going to try and write some of that if I am inspired. The first here is Peter and Alicia discussing something regarding the plot of 704. I have also written another already that is Grace and Alicia and what I wished had happened after 702. If you have ideas for this for talks among some of the Florricks... preferable Alicia and someone else, but it doesn't have to be as long as it is Florrick related, something that lacked in the episode, I would love to hear it and i can see if i can try and write it. Otherwise this will just be then I am inspired.
I guess it is AU in some form as by the next episode it will likely be declared void.
I don't own the Good Wife.
7x04: A Matter of Trust!
She picked up the phone wondering, why he would call her now like this. What was wrong now?
"Peter?" She replied and heard his sigh.
"Hey... Did you ask Veronica to call me?" He asked making her eyes widen. What had her mother done now? Why in the world would she call Peter?
"You think I would do that? No, I didn't ask my Mom to call you. Why did she call?" She asked, as she started to draw small circles on the paper in front of her on the desk.
"To talk about the physician assisted suicide act! Just like Grace and Jackie have been by my office to talk about. Veronica called pretending to be you, to get through my assistant." He explained, making her snort. That did sound like her mother, but the rest of what he said confused her.
"Why? She doesn't care about that? And Jackie and Grace? Peter I don't have anything to do with this." She explained, and broke off the next second as she remembered Cary's request the other day.
"I think you should come by Peter... I need to tell you something I learned from Cary the other day... I don't know if it has any relevance to this... but it might." She sighed and rubbed her forehead.
"You do know, who this is connected to right? Eli! I told you it wasn't smart, but you wanted him as your chief of staff!" Peter hissed, like he hadn't heard her request that he should drop by.
"Peter, will you just come over so you can yell in my face instead." She snorted, and he mumbled something of a meeting.
"Fine. Come by then you are done, Grace is at a friend's house anyway! She took the night off." She offered and hung up without waiting for a reply. She rubbed her forehead in annoyance, and got up to open a bottle of wine, she would surely need for this conversation. She considered getting dinner but dropped it. Instead she took the glass of wine with her, into the paper work she started on and continued until she heard the doorbell. She got up and went to answer it and invited Peter in.
"Would you like some wine?" She offered and got a nod. She grabbed the bottle and another glass from the kitchen before guiding him into the living-room. She hurried to grab her own glass so she could join him.
"Eli is behind this, Alicia! I have no idea how he got the idea, but..." She cut him off right there.
"Stop right there. Because I do. The other day, I was having a meeting with Eli about campaign events when Cary came by. Cary wanted tell me that they had been asked to talk to me, by Reese Dipple's team. They wanted me to ask you, to say no to the physician assisted suicide act. Now it is up for reviewing again. It would would mean, I would be welcomed back at the firm, if I did so." She explained and Peter listened and nodded.
"So it came from them?" He asked and she nodded.
"In a way. I told Cary, I wouldn't do so. First of all I like doing what I do now, and I don't want to go back there. But it would also be a deal with you. And more so, one that is against both of our political views." She explained and he nodded slowly.
"It is, though don't tell our daughter that one... She came to my office to discuss it as well, and so did Jackie." He commented.
"Jackie wanted you to say no as well?" Alicia asked, and he shook his head.
"No, she wanted me to sway the other way... Ruth is sure it was Eli who was behind everyone showing up. I told her to fix it and I think she has, for now. At least Grace and Jackie feel comfortable with her now, and feel like she listens to them." He explained and Alicia sighed and nodded.
"It did come from Eli... he was here while Cary and I talked. He has to have heard us. I just didn't think..." She broke off as she remembered a week back and the case she had there, the FBI one. She gasped and put her hand over her mouth. How the judge right after had seemed to like her more. Though it couldn't be said for this week. But right there he had given her more cases without any reason.
"I told Eli confidential information about a case I worked on, Peter." She whispered and saw how his bows furred.
"Okay? In which way?" He asked.
"I was the lawyer for a case with an FBI agent undercover. It was about catching the judge for corruption. I told Eli. The judge wasn't caught taking the bribe after all, and I was fired as a lawyer. But right after the judge seemed to like me. He didn't this week, but right there." She explained and got a nod to go on from Peter.
"Do you think, Eli is behind that as well? And if he is what does he get out of it? I know this one with the act, he got you in trouble and annoyed, but the other?" She asked and Peter shrugged his shoulders.
"I have no idea. He might be. But I have no idea what he gets out of it." He answered and she sighed.
"You know, he managed to get me on the election board, right?" She offered, and got a nod.
"Yes, I have heard. What was the catch there?" He asked and she snorted. Of course Peter expected a catch.
"He was sent from the room, before Frank asked me. And I never told Eli this one. I am meant to vote "no" to the very first thing that comes by me, and I have no idea what it will be." She explained, and saw how Peter nodded slowly seemingly deep in thoughts.
"Well I guess it will be something to split us apart, but I don't know for sure. What happens if you don't do it?" He asked, and she shrugged her shoulders.
"I guess, I am removed from it again. Want me not to?" She asked, and he sighed.
"Maybe... it depends on the issue... I want you to follow your own instincts there. And vote what you really would vote." He explained, and she snorted.
"Well as you can see my instincts are clearly not the best. Or I wouldn't have told Eli these things. I just... I thought, I could trust him to protect my interests." She explained.
"He is using you to get to me, Alicia... I thought you knew, you were being used." He sighed and she nodded.
"Well I knew he used me in some way, I just... I didn't expect it, more than for him to still be a part of the campaign, and mess with Ruth, maybe get his old job back in the end... I expected things like the cooking show, with my mom, stuff like that." She offered, and Peter snorted.
"Well that was sure something... Don't worry, I have told Ruth to keep Veronica out of anything else." He offered and she nodded.
"No wine tasting show? Or home renovation?" She joked at him making him chuckle lightly and she noticed how he reached for the bottle and filled their glasses with the rest of the wine.
"No, wine tasting, you would both end up drunk. And home renovation, I would fear who ended up in the hospital." He laughed at her, making her smile a little.
"Okay... I appreciate it. And I will talk to Eli... I guess I will need to fire him right?" She asked and saw how Peter shrugged his shoulders.
"Maybe not... maybe keep him on, but stop trusting him, and be sure what he knows and doesn't know. I made a mistake in how I replaced him. Don't do the same... Plus he might be more dangerous where neither of us can keep an eye on him." He suggested and she nodded.
"Right, I can't really trust anyone here, can I? Everything will come back to bite me in some way." She sighed and took in how he nodded.
"You can trust me, Alicia... I know, I hurt you in the past, and you don't think you can. But you can." He offered and she sighed.
"You make decisions that inflict my life without my consent. Without even asking me. Like who is running this campaign." She explained and he sighed.
"Right... but we both makes such decisions, don't we? I mean you have our daughter working for you now?" He offered and she sighed.
"You don't want Grace working here?" She offered, and he shook his head.
"I do... I just wasn't consulted on it, was I?" He asked and she snorted.
"I am not sure it is completely the same Peter!" She stated and he nodded.
"Well then what about your investigator? He was disbarred for hitting a judge, and has an interesting reputation. You didn't consult me when you hired him, well knowing that he will be in your and our daughter's home, since your office is based in the apartment! Not to mention that Grace works for you as well." He confronted her, and she snorted again.
"You have no right to engage there Peter, it is my decision." She stated as she felt annoyed and wondered if she could kick him out again.
"Don't get angry Alicia... I am just pointing out that we are both making big decisions without any thought on the other... Yes, maybe I should have asked you on the campaign manager, and maybe I would have at another time... Just like you would in the past have talked to me before hiring Grace." He explained, thankfully avoiding the rest of what he had thrown at her.
"Maybe we do... but isn't it just how things are these days?" She asked after a few minutes of silence. She took in how he nodded.
"Yes, maybe it is... but it doesn't have to be... I thought we were getting to a place where it wasn't like it completely anymore." He explained and she sighed and nodded.
"So did I, but when you ambushed me with the campaign. And I know, I agreed... but then came Ruth... I don't know what to think anymore, Peter..." She explained and she sighed.
"I need to go back to Iowa." He offered after a minute of heavy silence and she nodded slowly.
"Okay?" She asked not really sure why he was telling her that.
"I would like it if you kept an eye on the governor's office, while I am gone. I know you have lots of work... but I would be thankful if you would. Just so I know there was someone with my interests in mind keeping an eye on which papers pass my desk and which ones I miss in my absence." He explained and she stared at him.
"You are asking me for a favor?" She asked to qualify, what this meant and he sighed.
"If you want to think of it like that... I would more like to call it that I ask for your advice... and show that I trust you on that front." He offered and she nodded slowly trying to wrap her head around it.
"Okay... I can do that... I would like it if you could pull a few strings and have someone look into racial bias in the bond court and in arrests in some cases." She asked him with a raised eyebrow and got a nod from him.
"Okay I can do that... I will pull a few strings at the SA's office. I will also have someone look into what Frank might want you on the election board for. And what he might be up to there. And what Eli might be brewing." He offered and she nodded slowly.
"Thank you, I would appreciate that, Peter." She glanced at their glasses.
"Would you like for me to find another bottle of wine?" She asked and he shook his head.
"No, I better get going. I will call you about when I am going to Iowa." He offered as he stood up.
"Okay, umm thank you..." She walked with him to the door and reached out to halt him as he was about to leave.
"What is this, Peter?" She asked and he sighed.
"This is me and you proving we can trust each other, when we make agreements." He offered and gave her fingers a small squeeze before he left. Alicia blinked a couple of times in confusion before she closed the door and sighed. Well in some ways that might be a step forward, but she wasn't really sure what to make of it all.
Let me hear your thoughts please!