Not mine… except Elizabeth Parker.

A Wednesday Child.

It had started out like any other Wednesday and he thinks that's why he was caught so off guard. Because, really who prepares to be told that you have a 15-year-old daughter at 9:30 in the morning before you've even managed to drink a coffee on a Wednesday.

Not Will McAvoy.

Except he should have been because that's exactly what his 9:30am Wednesday consisted of.

"You're my..." Will stuttered because if he wasn't having enough going on recently the world had to pile this on him.

A daughter.

"Illegitimate child, yes. I already said that." She was blonde and rather tall and unfortunately he could see the resemblance and it was becoming harder and harder to deny. "As I have also stated, although I'm sure you'll need to be reminded again; my name is Elizabeth Parker."

"Right, Parker, Parker, your mother was…"

"Emily Parker. Relax would you it's nobody you are suppose to remember. It was a fling from a long time ago. The only difference is now you have me resulting form said meaningless fling," Elizabeth reassured. "Trust me, she has them all the time."

"How do I know you mine then?" He asked desperate for anyway out of this situation. He can't be a father. He's not made to be a father.

"Well you could look at me and see I'm the 15 year old female version of you or you could call your lawyer and a doctor whilst I sit here trying not to be offended by the desperate tone in your voice." She looked so tough, so strong but Will could sense an underlying vulnerability here. He had to apologies.

"I didn't mean it like that." Note to self; probably should have apologized not lied.

"Yes you did." Yes, he did. "But this is a pretty big surprise for you, so I'll forgive you."

"What are you doing here now?" Or ever because really when he had a drunken one night stand 16 years ago this was hardly what he was expecting; to be told 16 years later that you have a daughter and responsibility and he wants to know why know? What is it that she wants? "What are you expecting?"

"My mother is a drunk and my step-father a felon. I grew up watching my step-father beat my mother and having nobody there to save me." Just like he had to do only he had someone save him. He had an escape route. He supposes so does she; him. "I watched my mother allow him to beat me because she was so battered and bruised herself that she didn't care."

"You want to stay with me."

He wishes she would say no, he wishes he could say no.

"I want family, yes."

"I'll be right back then."

-Mac's POV-

"So, she's yo-your-"

"Yep."

"Your d-daughter."

"Yep."

"Are you okay Billy?"

"Nope."

"Any chance of getting more than a one syllable word."

"I'm not okay Mac," he admitted in a smaller voice that made Mac feel like she needed all the answers because perhaps she could save him. "I'm really not okay but I can't stop right now because that girl is now my daughter and she needs somewhere to stay and live and I don't know what I'm doing but if I stop for even half a second then I'll crack and I can't do that."

"Because you now have a daughter and she needs somewhere to stay and live."

"Yep." Okay, time to turn this ship around with the only way she knew how.

"Well, in that case she should meet your beautiful, award winning EP, don't you think?" Mac said stepping closer to the anchor's office door. She turned the handles disturbing the peace of the room. Suddenly not just Will's eyes were on her but so was Will Jr's. "Hi, I'm Mackenzie McHale. I'm your f-father's EP. It's so nice to meet you."

"Hi, I'm Elizabeth. I know you might be suspicious of me turning up now but I-I..." She was just like Billy and just as she had with the man outside the door Mac felt herself pulled in by this tall blonde.

"It's okay Elizabeth. It was just a shock to Bil-your father." She really feels the need to make sure the young girl is okay because she's Williams now and if everything here at work is going to be okay then she needs everything in Will's now different home life to be okay. She needed William to be okay.

"I know and if I had known my paternity any earlier then I would have found out but-but I didn't and so I never could." She could see the young girl close up and the journalist in Mac wanted to figure out why, to keep pushing, because experience tells Mac that people on close up when they have a secret to need to keep closed. This was Will's daughter (god, just that phrase itself, Will's daughter) not some state secret and

"Everything will be okay, I promise." This time it's Will's voice penetrating the air and the sound of it shocks Mac, not because he's in the room, after all this is his office and his daughter but because of how soft it sounds. It's not a soft she thinks she's ever heard form him before. This isn't Will-in-love soft or Will-the-kind-leader soft. This is Will-the-father soft and it both shocks and delights Mac because she always knew he had it in him even if she didn't expect him to need to. He'll be okay because as she looked into his eyes, those ocean blue eyes that she's glad had the chance to be reproduced, she knows that his voice isn't the only thing that's softened and she thinks she could look at him around his daughter forever if that's the way his eyes go and maybe she will because god he's so amaz-

"What's everything and what's your version of okay." Mackenzie's almost glad to hear Elizabeth speak because loosing herself to Will's eyes really wasn't okay and she was meant to be over him because he was over her as he'd proven with his cold attitude the past 2 weeks. Well until today when he'd burst into his office with a wild look in his eye and an announcement that he was now a father.

"You are going to live with me now. We'll figure everything else out later." She could see that look start to return and the loss of the calm attitude and she knew with all the certainty in the world he should not be on air tonight.

"Yes later as in however long it takes for Lonny to come get you and take you back to your apartment. You are not going on air tonight."

"An hour." Mackenzie's not sure what she was expecting but a complete and utter surrender was not it. He's Will McAvoy and sure she'd have sent him home within an hour anyway and she was sure he knew it but to just completely roll over anyway. That was not the William that she knew and that scared her.

"I'll go inform the team. I'll call you later William."

"Mac there's really no nee-"

"I'll be calling you Billy."

That's all she really can do now.

To be continued…

Okay, I know probably short and crappy but I needed to lay out the groundwork first. I was planning on it being longer but I really didn't have much time. Expect an update tomorrow everyone but until then to please me because I know you love to do that then you should review because it'll make me love you all that much more… seriously 30 seconds is all it takes…

Also thank you to the lovely SerialStoryLover who helped with the name (she reviews you know;))

Oh, yeah, title will be explained next chapter…