Okay I know I really shouldn't be starting something else new, and that I have way enough to write all ready. But two nights reading on the fanforum TGW board about AW fans wanting a story of Will and Grace this one started forming in my mind, and I couldn't push it way. I have no real idea of where this one is going, and that is not usual for me. Bur if you have ideas or things you would like to see please let me know I might see if I can make it fit in.

Spoilers up to the finale of TGW and all of those spoilers there are out for season 5 so far, which means, Marilyn, and AW fighting and the hinted AW hard talk and Will angry with Alicia.

The story I tagged it as AW to not give flash expectations, as that is what it will be in the end. Though the start is Will and Grace it is focused on.

I don't own the good wife, aka the characters in this story you know belong to the Kings, the rest belongs to me.

Also a special thank you to my wonderful beta and the best friend i can have Sabrina who helped me out a lot with this one... and a special thanks to Jodes that helped me come up with a name of a charcter of my own that will play a role in this story...

Against All Odds

Chapter 1: A New Life

Will rubbed his neck and sighed. If these young people really were the future of the legal world it would be a hell of a mess. What had happened to the youth over the last couple of decades? He didn't remember it being this impossible to find a proper new junior associate ever before. Of course he hadn't expected the top candidates to apply to his small town firm, it was a long time since he had a top Chicago firm, and could expect such students, still he had expected more than what he had seen these last few days. It seemed like the most impossible job ever this year. He was starting to think he should maybe drop hiring a new one, and he guessed economically it would be a relieve not having one more salary to take care of. He looked up as his assistant, Hannah, entered the office.

"Please tell me there is at least one more that looks more promising that the last one you sent in. She would have worked better on a TV show that actually practicing law. What in the world was she doing out here? Did she expected to pick up a cowboy for a husband or something?" he grumbled.

He saw Hannah sigh and nod, while she mumbled a soft "probably", having Will grumble again.

"There is one more... but... well, the reason I kept her for the last is you will probably not want to hire her." Will raised an eyebrow at this comment. Why would she even have been invited to an interview if his assistant already knew she would not be getting the job? She must be really terrible though if that was the fact with what he had seen over the last few days, not that he had many applicants, but there had been a few.

A local boy coming back, sadly he had been a terrible choice and seemed to have learned nothing in school, a girl from a nearby town, who honestly seemed to mostly come to the new city in the hope of finding a husband. Other than that there had been a few thinking coming out here would mean less work to same payment as the big city high class firms. And at last the girl he had just sent away.

"Is she that bad?" He asked confused, and tired. He really wanted to get home soon.

"She has straight A's, went to Georgetown, worked in Howard, Pierce and Associates, Lewis and Mason's Law office, the DC. DA's office and Jackson and Associates in summer internships, the first even before starting law-school. Jackson and Associates offered her a paid job as soon as she finished her internship there, and I am pretty sure by now most top firms all over the country have offered her a job. She just finished her boards, and did so with launders." Will raised his eyebrow. Okay this sounded like an actual promising future legal aspect, but what in the world would she be doing here? It was years ago he had been the named partner of the top firm in Chicago. And since he had started this little firm it was certainly not students like that he saw most of.

Actually Daniel he had hired three years ago had more been him taking a chance on the kid whom he had seen some of himself in. He wanted to give him a chance to clean up his mess, a chance Will himself had needed many years ago after his own first job. Daniel had seemed to have the same troubles and had been honest to him about it, stealing money and gambling those money up was a thing that didn't help on the CV. Yet he had been a good bet for Will and the young man was a good lawyer, well actually a great lawyer, and people within the city and community had quickly taken to the kid.

However the girl Hannah seemed to have saved for last, and who she seemed sure he wouldn't hire, well she would probably not be taking a chance. It seemed she was actually this year's most sought out newly graduated lawyer. And he had no idea what such a girl could be doing here. And why she would apply for a job at his firm, when she seemed to have tons of more promising offers.

"Well, if that is the case why didn't you sent her in first? She sounds way better than Baywatch Barbie that just left. I am sure she only came her hoping to get a date, not a job," he grumbled. And he saw Hannah look down and sigh. Okay what was up with this? Why was this girl such a bad idea for him, that Hannah was nervous for even telling him about her?

"Well, like I said I am sure you won't hire her. And originally I had actually turned her away, said she shouldn't come. But she still came, and she has been waiting here all day." Will looked up. She had been waiting all day? Who the hell was this girl so bended on getting a job here, that she waited all day around when she already had job offers, and she had even showed up after Hannah had turned her down?

"Okay well who is she? And why are you so sure I won't hire her?" Will gazed up at Hannah.

"She is the first daughter, Grace Florrick..." Hannah answered softly. As soon as Will heard the words he stiffened up. What the hell would she be doing here? Well Hannah was right, he would never hire her. Will Gardner was long done with that family, especially the women of the family. He certainly didn't need Alicia's daughter running around here in his carefully built safe heaven and new and quiet world. No. He wanted nothing to do with that family ever again. And he certainly didn't owe any of them any more favors. And hiring Peter jackass Florrick's kid was one thing he wouldn't be doing, first daughter or not, the president's child or not he wanted nothing to do with them ever again.

"Yeah... you can send her away. I won't be seeing any more candidates tonight. You can tell her I looked at the economy and decided not to hire after all."

Hannah nodded with a small sigh. But she knew of his dislike for that family, most people all over the country did even out here in a quiet smaller town in Tennessee. And he also knew that this was the reason why she had tried to turn the girl away from the beginning.

Hannah gave him a small smile and left his office as Will started to pack up.

He briefly considered if he really should have been kind enough to take the interview, at least take the time to tell her "no" in person, but pushed the thought away. He really didn't owe those people anything. When he left his office and walked out on the street, he realized that it was raining heavily and he could already hear the first clashes of thunder a few miles away - not surprising, it was clearly not his day, so why not add a summer thunderstorm to the mix. He was almost at his car when a voice called out to him, making him stop.

"Mr. Gardner! Mr. Gardner! Please wait up." He turned hesitatingly around, facing no other than Grace Florrick herself.

Okay please let me know your thoughts on this new project of mine... the next couple of chapters are already written :-) I am gonna keep them on the smaller side in the hope I can easier update faster ;-)