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'Ich liebe dich' is German for 'I love you'
The blackness cleared and Alicia found herself up seeing Will's present office at Lockhart & Gardner. She and Will were there and apparently the last ones at the firm once again, since she couldn't hear anyone else. Alicia in the vision had her purse on, ready to leave, but then put the purse down and tried to comfort Will. Oh, now present Alicia remembered that day. It was her first year at the firm after they had lost that case where the baby needed in uterus surgery. Will had been devastated and then… they had kissed as she saw now in front of her.
After all the other visions, where she saw young Alicia change something that led to her and Will being happily married in the future, present Alicia was expecting junior associate Alicia to deepen the kiss when in reality present Alicia had broken it off.
Present Alicia was then a little disappointed when her movie self didn't do it. She still stopped them and ran away, because of her responsibilities and all the complications. Alicia remembered doing that even though what she really wanted was to go further. That's why she had gone to Peter's room that night.
In the scene playing in front of her, her other self had still gone away, nothing had changed. Maybe it meant it was too late for them now.
But then, she saw something that shouldn't be happening. When she had come back that night, Will had no longer been in his office. This time he was. While riding down the elevator after missing Will, present Alicia never knew what she would've done if he had been there when she came back. Now, watching everything from above, she could see what it would have been like. Junior associate Alicia ran into the room, quickly closing the space between her and Will and kissed him.
Once again the fast forward began, but she could catch a glimpse at how the years of longing and wondering 'what if' showed between them, while they were on Will's couch.
….
Next, she saw herself and Kalinda in a bar. Nothing new there, except, Owen was joining them. As her brother sat down, Kalinda raised her tequila glass and said, already a little tipsy:
"To the future Mrs. Gardner!"
"And future Mrs. Georgetown!" Owen added. His comment earned Alicia a confused look from Kalinda, but she didn't ask.
….
There was still the beach wedding, but this time Zach, Grace, Kalinda and Diane were there, too and Mary, her former best friend from college was not. She and Will were both older than on the other visions, approximately the age they were now.
The Germany trip scene popped up again. But the bed was empty. On the night stand were the book 'Visiting Germany' and two cards:
'Enjoy your honeymoon! Love, Zach and Grace.'
'Paris is overrated and I knew you always wanted to come here. Ich liebe dich.'
Present Alicia could hear voices coming from the bathroom. They were hers and Will's.
"Is the temperature of the water good?"
"The hot tub is perfect. Now come here."
….
She saw them again at a baseball game, but instead of Mark, Jenny and Adam, she saw her and Will with Zach and Grace. Zach seemed to be really enjoying himself, asking Will questions about the game and sharing commentaries. Grace looked a little bored, but overall happy. Maybe it wouldn't have been such a terrible idea to have introduced Will to her kids, they would've gotten along. Now it was too late anyway. She saw her vision self, like her present self, watching her family enjoy the game. But, oh, she could see a bump on movie-Alicia's belly, showing through her shirt. Wow, could she really do the motherhood thing from the start again?
….
The movie kept going and she saw Will open the door of a big house while she held a baby boy.
"Welcome home, Adam." She heard her other self say. They got up the stairs and entered a nursery with baseball theme wallpaper.
"Go take a bath and relax. Take a nap afterwards, I'll be here with him." Will said.
Vision Alicia was leaving and expectant Alicia watched Will and the baby. He seemed really good at it, especially for a first time father. Maybe because of his niece he had learned how to handle babies. She remembered Peter with Zach and it was nothing like that. He held the little boy like it was a bomb about to explode. It had been adorable at the time, but not very helpful. It looked like Will would be a great father, well he had been, for what she had seen on her other visions.
….
In this scene she could see Will and herself again in the same big house as the previous scene. They were watching TV. Peter's acceptance speech for governor was playing. Wow, he had made it. It was weird seeing his side empty, the side she had always been. Weird, but good, because instead of standing in the middle of the press – something she hated – she was sitting at home with Will. Home – she really used that word. Even though she had never been in this house before, she felt like it was her home at the time in the vision.
….
Once again they were at the same Christmas table, but now Alicia could place it. It was at hers and Will's house. Its occupants were all different, except for her, Will and Owen, who was with the guy from the first vision. Zach was there with Nisa and some kids. Oh, he looked so handsome all grown up. Grace and her husband were there with two kids of their own as well. There was a teenage boy that looked too old to be either Zach's or Grace's, so he must be her and Will's son. The baby she was carrying in the baseball game scene. Diane was there as well, with Kurt McVeigh. Wow, he and Diane had made it work.
….
Strangely enough, she saw herself again at Georgetown. Now with Will and their son, who was a little bit older than in the previous scene.
"It's a great university. It's where your mother and I went to law school. And also where we met." Will shot Alicia a look. "Where do you want to start?"
"I don't know. You guys know your way around here, so, you decide." Now that he was grown, present Alicia noticed that he looked a lot like Will. He did have her eyes, though.
"OK, let's start this way. I'll show you the places and tell all the stories about it." Present Alicia admired Will having learnt the stories about Georgetown to tell their son, because she knew that he hadn't known any of them back in the day. When she listened closely, she noticed he was only telling his stories. Showing the places he had been drunk, taken girls or made crazy things. Some of them included her too! Present Alicia noticed her vision self started paying attention as well and took over as guide of the tour. She told stories about the university itself. Although the boy seemed to be having more fun with Will's stories, he looked like he was liking the history, as well. Alicia felt the darkness creeping back into her mind, and her world turned black and soundless again. Where would her mind take her next?
