Hi, this is just a little starter, a lot of people have asked about the Gardners and would like more detail into their life before their kids turned into teenagers. These are designed to be little oneshots into their life's before the current story the Gardners. Each chapter is like a little oneshot, and they don't follow any particular order. The first chapters is set just after the birth of Grace. If you like I will write some other little oneshots. If you haven't yet read the Gardners then I suggest you do before you read this. The Gardners is my longest fan fic ever, which is just shy of 100 000 words so it will take you a wee while to read, but it's basically the story of Will, Alicia and their family, on the premise that Peter Florrick never existed and Will and Alicia got together straight at Georgetown. Hope you enjoy.

"I can't believe how beautiful she is" Will said as he gazed at his newest daughter who was suckling on her mothers breast. She was just one day old and more beautiful than he could ever have imagined. Alicia smiled up at her husband who was dressed in trousers and a casual shirt.

"She is just perfect" Alicia said as Grace stopped suckling, Alicia gently lifted her to burp as Will sat next to them on the bed.

"Perfect, just like her Mother" he said as he gently kissed her head.

"Have you seen the state of me" Alicia said laughing, she thought she looked shattered after just giving birth less than 24 hours ago, but Will thought she just looked amazing.

"You look beautiful" he said before changing the subject. "I have to pick the twins and Zach up from your Mothers after we are home, the girls are so excited to see Grace again" Will said. They had brought the kids to see the newest Gardner last night, Lucy and Rachel were 3 years old and were just happy they had a sister, Zach on the other hand was 2 years old, and a little grumpy that he hadn't got a brother, he didn't want to have a new sibling to share his parents with.

"What about Zach?" Alicia asked

"He'll come round, but once we get Grace off to sleep I think Zach could do with some special Mummy time if your not too tired, I think he thinks that your going to forget about him now he isn't the youngest"

"OK, well once Grace is off to sleep Zach and I will spend some time together just the two of us, we can read or watch a movie, and you can take care of our twin daughters" Alicia said with a giggle.

Alicia placed Grace into Will's arms and went for a shower, she was due to go home in a few hours and was looking forward to getting back to her own bed, and getting Grace settled, of course it wasn't going to be long until they moved, They had found a beautiful home in Evanton, and although it was maybe a little big for them at the moment, when the kids got older they would definitely need the space. There were 2 bedrooms on the third floor of the house and 4 on the second. They had decided to leave the top floor with no bedrooms just now and turn one into a play room and the other an office, the twins were to share a room, Zach and Grace to have their own and Will and Alicia to have the master. Although Will already had plans, when the twins were older they would move to the top floor to each have their own room and the rooms downstairs would be his and Alicia's home office. But until the move in a few months they still had their apartment in Chicago, Zach had his own room, the twins currently shared and Grace would be in with her parents just now.

Will soothed his baby girl to sleep; holding her in his arms took away from all the pressures he was currently facing. He, Diane and Joseph Stern had only recently started their own law firm. Things were tough at the moment, and only thanks to an inheritance from Will's father did they manage to buy the new house and put in equity to the firm.

"So Mr Gardner are we ready to go home" Alicia said, she had came out of the shower and changed into a simple dress, she still bore the baby bump a reminder of how recent the birth of their daughter had been, but if it wasn't for that you could never have told that less than 24 hours ago Alicia had just given birth to her 4th child.

"I'm ready and you look amazing" Will said, he brought the baby carrier up to the bed and helped Alicia get Grace ready, The Doctor had already been in and Alicia had signed the discharge papers, they were soon ready to go home to start their life together with their latest addition, baby Grace.

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