As always anything recognizable isn't mine
Chapter Two
Previously: "This is impossible—I only slept with your mom once—if she got pregnant she would've told me" Will said. "Ummm…I'm sorry I shouldn't have come" Naomi said. "No it's ok…we're going to figure this out" Will told her gently. He didn't know why but already he felt a connection to her however small.
Naomi nodded. It was a good sign to her that he was even willing to figure it out and hadn't simply kicked her out but she wasn't going to get her hopes up- she knew that he was both shocked and maybe angry that he was never told. She began her story, "I just turned 15 and am in my first year of high school...two years ago my mom got married for the third time—yeah she has a history of choosing the wrong men…this one was worse than the others though…" she paused here and Will saw her involuntarily flinch. Oh crap that wasn't supposed to happen she thought to herself as she crossed her arms so she wouldn't do it again. "You ok?" Will asked her gently. "Yeah I'm fine" Naomi answered quietly. Will gave her a gentle look encouraging her to continue when she was ready.
Naomi took a deep breath and continued "first of all my mom wasn't always like this—she was good until I turned 7 that's when the drinking, drugs and bad taste in men started—although they mostly left me alone until the last one…" she paused here and sighed. She tightened her crossed arms and after a moment continued, "when she was out he would try to touch me but he never did—she would always come back before it got to that…but then he would beat me to prove his love to her…she would just watch and do nothing…and sometimes she would say bad things about me." Naomi felt a tear escape from her eye. She wiped it away but more followed and soon she was openly crying for the first time in a long time. Will gently put his hand on her arm and to his surprise she didn't pull back, "I'm so sorry…it's going to be ok…I'll make sure no one will ever hurt you again." "It's not your fault…you never knew I existed until today" Naomi said, "what's going to happen now?"
Will thought for a moment, "how would you like to live with me?" he asked. Naomi thought for a moment and answered "if it wouldn't be too much trouble to you…I'd like it." "Of course not—I wouldn't ask if I didn't want you to" he said smiling. She smiled back. "But there are some things that need to happen before you can permanently stay with me…first we'll have to do a DNA test to legally prove you're my child…then we'll bring the case to court where I'll ask for custody of you which should be pretty quick considering the abuse and there might also be a criminal case also" Will explained. Naomi nodded, "will they be there and will I have to testify?" she asked nervously. "Probably yes but if you do I'll be right there the whole time" he said gently. "Promise?" she asked. "Promise" he said.
Alicia had come back from court and stood in the doorway of Will's office. "Am I interrupting something I can come back" Alicia said. "No it's ok" Will said. Alicia looked at Naomi and once again the resemblance of her to Will struck Alicia. "Hi I'm Alicia Florrick" she said introducing herself. "Nice to meet you Mrs. Florrick" Naomi said. "Please call me Alicia" she said. "Ok by the way I'm Naomi Cohen…" she looked at Will and he nodded signaling it was ok for her to tell Alicia. "I'm Will's daughter." Alicia looked shocked and didn't know what to say.
A cliffhanger...haha! Alicia's reaction soon to come...review and let me know what you think :)