Hey guys, I'm back. I am so sorry for not updating, I think it's been like two months since I have. Sorry but life has been hectic, I became an RA at my college and now it has taken over my life. Also I have rewritten this chapter 7 times, and I'm not even over exaggerating this number. That plus not knowing if I even wanted to make this a full story or just an ad on. But I realized that there is just so much to add to this story that I just decided to break it up rather than making it extremely long. Plus I have been criticized for cutting my stories to short. So here is the 2nd installment of Here with me. But don't worry about those of you that have not read the the original, you don't have to. I will be having a lot of flashbacks to stand in lieu of the events. Besides, I love flashbacks. Any who, I will try to update once a week, but don't hold me to it. Enjoy this first chapter, don't forget to review please.

Diane sat down in her office chair just she saw Alicia past her office. She shook her head as watched the younger associate make her way to her office. She wondered what went through her head these days. It was funny, it seemed the more hectic and the more stressed she seemed, the more she thrived (at least in her work). She wondered how she did it, but at the same time, she was glad that it wasn't her. Diane herself was struggling to keep herself together and she barely had anything to do with it. But all in all, she was glad that Alicia hadn't broken down yet. And yet she was afraid when she would.

Alicia sat down in her office chair and sighed. It was the first time all day that she was able to sit down, if you exclude her car. She has been running around from court rooms and meetings since eight am this morning. But it seemed as though that was her life lately, running from place to place. And even though it seemed highly overwhelming, she was ok with it. Compared to the alternative, even if it would make things less stressful.

She leaned her head back and closed her eyes for a second, hoping to catch some zs for a few minutes before she ran back off to court. But just as she was closing her eyes, a knock came at the door.

"I know you're not sleeping on the job." Alicia smiled as she heard the voice enter her office. She continued to keep her eyes closed as she answered.

"What are you telling me you never fell asleep once while at work? Oh that's right you don't sleep. You absorb energy from your victims, that's how you stay young." Alicia opened her eyes to see her best friends face. But as usual there was no expression there, just blank as usual.

"My victims? And I have you know that I am only twenty-nine." Alicia smiled, she knew that her younger friend was not as aged as her, but she felt as though there was something that she was doing to preserve her youth. Kalinda propped herself on Alicia's desk.

"Yes the unsuspecting criminals that you allow to think that you are there to help them and not help win my case."

"You believe I only do it for your cases?"

"It feels like you only work on my cases."

"That's because Will always put me on your cases. I also worked other cases while still working on yours. Don't you remember that was why Peter fired me." Alicia did remember Kalinda telling her that, but she still doesn't believe that was the only reason for him to fire her. But she never pushed it, they already went through a lot and they just got back to being friends, she didn't want to ruin it.

"Yes I remember, also I think that you also volunteered to join some of my cases. Just admit that you like me and that you wanted to be around me more and we'll call it even." Kalinda said nothing as she got up and walked over to the stack of files on Alicia's couch.

"Are you still taking over his cases? And you still haven't moved into that office. If you don't take it soon David Lee will try to claim it as his own." Alicia rolled her eyes, she hated how easily Kalinda was able to switch between subjects.

"Yes, and I am not moving in there, it doesn't feel right. Besides, Diane is not going to let David Lee take it. She isn't crazy, I'm still amazed at how much power he has over her."

"Like you and Will?" Alicia turned to face Kalinda, she could not believe that she would say such a thing. She had no power over Will, or at least she never used it, willingly.

"I have no power over him, and besides, if I did, which I am not admitting to, it doesn't matter now." Kalinda shrugged and sat down. She knew it was no use fighting her, Alicia is very stubborn when it comes to Will.

"Regardless if you think that you do or don't, everyone else does." Kalinda put her hand up to stop Alicia from protesting, she already knew that she would.

"Look, you need to take that office, you deserve it. And you especially need the space now with your increasing work load. I also know that you have gotten a pay raise, why not show it?"

"How do you know?" Even before Kalinda answered her, she knew the answer.

"Do you really want me to answer that?" Alicia rolled her eyes.

"If I take that office people will think that it was because I slept with Will."

"Or that Peter is State's attorney."

"Exactly, I do not need my reputation to get any worse here. I just want to work and support my kids. Is that so much to ask for?" It has taken Alicia months to get the whole 'She and Will went to law school together and that is why she got the job'. Or the 'She is sleeping with Will, that is why she got the job over Cary'. And now everyone either thinks that she is just good at her job or that she is sleeping with someone else. So if she doesn't want rumors flying about, she has to stay where she is.

"Alicia if you aren't moving up the chain because of what everyone else thinks, you're just going to get stuck at the bottom. Alicia you are an amazing lawyer and you deserve that office. Don't let some slackers that are only mad that they don't have the skills to rise hold you back." Alicia sighed, she knew that Kalinda was right, Kalinda was always right.

"Unless." Alicia looked at her friend inquisitively, she wondered what other mad ideas she had going on.

"Unless?"

"Unless you feel guilty for Will and you are punishing yourself."

"Kalinda you are mad; I am not punishing myself for him. I didn't do anything wrong." Alicia knew that Kalinda was so right that it hurt. She had been blaming herself for what happened to Will. That is why she nearly begged Diane to take over his cases. But at the same time, she really couldn't blame herself for what happened. She only did what she thought was right. But it didn't mean that she wasn't going to feel bad about it.

"Alicia are you seriously saying you don't feel even a little bit guilty for what happened to him?"

"Nope, not even a little." Alicia turned towards her desk and turned her computer on. She knew if she looked at her that Kalinda would be able to tell that she was lying, if she didn't already know. Which she did.

"Wow it seems that you are much more heartless than I previously thought." Kalinda said as she got up to leave.

"What do you mean heartless?" Alicia couldn't believe that Kalinda would call her this. But then she realized that she was only saying that to make her confess.

"Nothing, don't worry about it. Well I'm off to do work on another case that has nothing to do with you." Alicia smiled as her friend walked out of her office.

Even though she knew that she was only joking, she felt a little hurt by her words. Would other people see her as heartless that she shows no mourning for Will? Did everyone else think that she didn't care? And then she remembered that she didn't care what others think and she knew that what she did was right. The only person she did worry how they thought about her was Diane. Other than the fact that she was her employer, she was worried that she hated her as a friend.

Alicia and Diane goes between stages of them not liking each other and being friends. Alicia likes to think that the two of them are friends, just friends that fight a lot. But some days, especially now, she wasn't so sure. So now she shortens her interactions with her to bare minimums. If she can avoid her, she will.

Alicia started to write up some paperwork to get her mind off of Will and Diane. But her efforts were fruitless due to another knock at her door.

"Alicia" Alicia rolled her eyes at the sound of his voice. She hated every interaction with him in the past. And yet he somehow believes that they are friends.

"What do you want Eli?" She rolled her eyes as he walked into her office and made himself comfortable on her couch. Moving some papers out of the way so he could sit down.

"You exactly what I came here for Alicia. Why are you cruel to me, you make me think that you don't like me?" She hated how sarcastic he sounded, it just made her want to punch him.

"Oh no Eli, I would never want to make you feel as though I don't like you."

"Good because I-" Alicia stopped him before he could go any further, she needed him to know that she wasn't done.

"I want you to know that I don't like you." Eli only smiled lightly at Alicia, even though she knew that he cursing on the inside.

"Alicia I still don't know why you are so mad at me." Alicia turned towards Eli after closing her laptop.

"Were you really worried about my safety when you said that Peter would kill Will or was that another tactic of yours?" Eli was taken back by her words. Of course he was worried about her well-being. If he didn't care, he wouldn't have told her at all.

"Alicia I am not this horrible monster that you make me out to be. I am actually here to help you, if you let me." Eli stretched out his hand, only to let it fall a few seconds later.

"Alicia you know that I am only doing what is in the realm of my job and human ability. I do not control what happens in life or what Peter does. That was your job."

"So now you are saying that what happened to peter was my fault and mine alone." Eli only shrugged. Now she not only hated him but also was disgusted with him.

"Alicia I only want us to be friends, I do not want to cause any more trouble than what has already happened."

"Then stay the hell out of my life." Eli frowned as he stood up. He had hoped that today she would actually listen to him and things would go smoothly from now on. But now he guessed that she would need more time before she felt comfortable with him.

"I will go now because you seem like you are on edge right now. But do you think that you can do what Peter asked you to do."

"Hasn't he taken enough from me already? Tell Peter that he better be glad with what he has now and if he continues to harass me like this, I will take everything." Eli only nodded as he made his way out of her office. Alicia watched Eli walk up the stairs to the elevator before dropping her head to her desk. She groaned as she thought that her day couldn't get any more hectic.

"Knock, knock." Alicia didn't sit up immediately, she just angrily groaned and cursed herself. But when she looked up she was hit with a wave of emotions. She didn't know whether to be happy, sad, mad, scared, or just plain confused. She went with confused.

"What are you doing here? Don't you have a job, or do you even work anymore."

"Wow, great way to great your brother." Alicia smiled and hugged her brother.

"Of course I'm happy to see you, but I swear I never see you at work." Owen smiled and sat down on her couch.

"Well that is because I have an amazing schedule that allows me to live my life and work, unlike some people." Alicia rolled her eyes and turned towards her computer.

"Look there you go again; you've been working non-stop since the incident. Are you hoping that if you overwork yourself that it will make up what will happen, because it won't?" Alicia turned around towards her brother. She hated how insightful he had been lately. She missed the brother that drank a little too much and tells her to have a bunch of sex.

"When did you become all knowing?"

"I'd like to think that I have always been knowing. But as far as when you started realizing it, I'd say after Peter's scandal." Alicia rolled her eyes and started to grin as she saw the goofy smile that appeared on her brother's face.

"Whatever, well what brings you here?"

"What a brother can't visit his only sister in the middle of the day on a Thursday?" Alicia raised an eyebrow, knowing obviously that there was much more to his statement than he was sharing.

"Owen what is going on?"

"Why are you still in this tiny office, didn't you get a bigger one?" Alicia knew that he did not want to talk about whatever he came here for. So obviously it had something to do with a guy.

"I turned it down because I don't need it. What is going on, why are you avoiding my questions?"

"What do you mean you don't need it; you definitely need it. You have files everywhere. Is it because of Will?" Alicia sighed but continued to play into his game.

"No it has nothing to do with Will, what is going on?"

"I think it does but you stay in this cramped office if you want to." Alicia stared at her brother until it became uncomfortable for both of them.

"Fine ok." Owen shouted when Alicia continued to look at him.

"Cameron is here." Alicia went into her mental bank of Owen's ex's and Cameron was not ringing a bell.

"The barista?"

"No."

"The chef?"

"No." He said angrily.

"The makeup artist?"

"No."

"Oh the philosopher?"

"No! Not them, I'm talking about the guy that is like fire and ice all at the same time. The man that made me so crazy that just thinking about him made my heart race and made me feel dizzy. That in the end only wanted to tie me down and stood for everything that I was against. The man to this very day still makes me tingle and hard just thinking about him." Owen had stood up quickly before practically screaming at his sister. Alicia quickly walked to her door and closed it. If she had known he was going to yell at her, she would have closed the door earlier.

"Oh, I didn't know his name was Cameron." Alicia tried not to laugh at how mad he had gotten. She knew that he was in a lot of pain right now, but it felt nice to finally give him relationship advice and play games. Even though they both knew exactly what she would say.

"Well what are you going to do about him?" Owen started to calm down. He sat back down on the couch and started to relax.

"I've told him to leave, but he knows where I work and live. Luckily you need card access to all of my buildings, which he doesn't have. But he is literally camped out in front of my apartment. So I was wondering if I could crash at your place until he realizes that he has to leave me alone."

"And if he doesn't?" Owen sighed and looked out Alicia's small window out into the cool Chicago streets.

"Then I will have to put a restraining order out on him. If he doesn't get the memo, then I don't know what to do."

"Well I know what to do." Owen quickly looked up at his big sister with sad puppy dog eyes.

"What?"

"Date the man." Owen rolled his eyes and crossed his legs. He couldn't believe that she was giving him this advice.

"He's a stalker."

"He's in love." Owen was not going to hear it. She was his sister; she was supposed to be on his side.

"Look, I know that you don't want to do this, that you think settling down is the worst thing ever, but it's not. And yes I do understand that is so funny coming from me, but I do believe that it will help." Alicia hoped that she was getting to her brother, she did only want the best for her brother. He was the only one she had.

"Owen look at me." Owen slowly looked up at his sister, who genuinely look concerned about his love life.

"You need to try this out." Owen once again and rolled his eyes at her.

"Look, either Cameron is your Peter or your Will. Or maybe neither one of them. But regardless of what he is to you, you need to try this out. This isn't like one our arguments, you can't just ignore it and hope it goes away. This man is in love with you and you clearly have some kind of feelings for him. If you didn't, you would have been got a restraining order on him and called it a day. Instead you moved, hoping it would go away, hoping that his feelings for you would go away. And now you are scared to death that this man might actually be the one or that he may actually love you, compared to the other guys that you only fucked. You wanted him to forget you and now you're afraid that he never will. Trust me, I know, that was me when I started dating Peter. I fell for Will but I was afraid that either a, he didn't see me that way, or b, he wouldn't be serious about us. So I pushed him away, got married and I moved to a completely different state. And he forgot about me, or so I thought. But when we met again, I realized that he never forgot, he just let me think that because he thought that was what I wanted. And to be fair it was. But I wish that he came after me like Cameron did. I wish that he changed states so that he could profess his love to me, instead of me ending up with Peter. But it's ok, I got two wonderful kids out of it." Alicia hoped that she was somehow getting to her brother. She didn't know what else to do.

"So do you get what I am saying? Don't let him get away because you are scared. It's ok to be scared, falling in love it scary. Hell anything to do with love is scary. I have been scared out of my mind since the scandal. And to tell you the truth, I'm still a bit scared. But that is only half the fun. Once you get over the scared phase, everything just becomes easy.

"Well what if I never get over the scared phase, or what if I screw things up and cheat because I don't love him the same way?" Alicia smiled and grabbed her brother's hand.

"You're just going to have to try and find out. But don't worry, you're not alone. You will always have me, even if you screw things up. That is why we are called family." Owen smiled and placed his hand over top of his sister's.

"Thanks Alicia."

"Anytime Owen. And yes you can stay at my place until you have made up your mind." Owen smiled at his sister.

"Thanks so much. Anyway I should go. And you should take that office, Will would want you to." Owen got up and hugged his sister.

"I don't think I will. I have already had this discussion with Kalinda."

"Well maybe you should listen to us."

"Whatever, I'm visiting him tonight. I might be late home OK?"

"Don't you visit him like every day now?"

"Every other, why?"

"And you say that you don't feel guilty." Alicia rolled her eyes.

"I don't, I just like going there."

"Isn't that place extremely depressing?"

"Well it's not Disney land so." Owen smiled before leaving his sister's office.

"You're right. Get a bigger office." Alicia waved him off before checking her watch, realizing that she was going to be late to court.

Alicia closed the door to her car door and started walking. She had to admit that she had been looking forward to this all day. Owen was wrong, she didn't come here because she felt guilty, she did it because she was selfish. Of course she could come here once a week and it would be fine, but it was so much more fun coming every other day.

Alicia knocked three times before the door swung open. A wide grin came upon her face before she walked into the apartment and two large arms. She closed her eyes and she smelled his cologne. But she was far more worried about what he was wearing rather than what he smelt like. She loved it when he only wore pants, she loved to feel his body.

"I've missed you." She felt him say as his words ran down her spine.

"I've missed you too Will." She parted with him just barely to kiss him.

"So I guess you had a good day?" He said as he smiled.

"No it was horrible, but it just got ten times better." Will closed the door before walking her over to the couch. He seemed concerned about her day. But little did she know, that hearing the trials of the office only made his. Sometimes he loved having his girlfriend work at his law firm, even if he isn't there to see her.

I bet I had you guys thinking that Will was dead or in the hospital for a while huh? Tell me how this chapter had you feeling. Also if it makes you feel better I was going to end it with Alicia just standing in front of a door smiling. But I decided not to be completely cruel to you guys. Anyway, tell me how you feel.