Thank you for the reviews, I am really glad that everyone loved it. But I do love this one. And for some reason I could not see perfection in this chapter. Like while I was updating this to fanfiction, I kept adding little things and changing things as I proof read. So I really do hope you guys like this. does anyone else do that, like write something, proof read and then almost completely change what they are writing. ANYWAY, here is chapter 7.


It had been a tiring two weeks for Alicia. She had to be cute and make herself up more than usual, it took a lot out of her. Then she had to flirt more than she worked, she had no idea how women did it. But she was glad that she had the weekend off to lay down and have some comfort time.

Grace was with her friends for the weekend and Owen was out of town. Everyone else was working or doing things without her. So she took this time, after work, to slide into her old Georgetown sweatshirt and a pair of jeans. She had hoped to spend this weekend sleeping and watching bad reality tv, as well as drinking a lot of wine. Her secret war with Will must wait until she got all of her energy back. But it came as a big surprise when she heard a knock at the door.

Answering the door, she was in an even bigger surprise when she saw who was at the other end of the door.

"Will? It's like ten pm, what are you doing here? And why are you holding my favorite flowers?"Alicia asked as she watched Will stare at her up and down. She noticed that she did not have her sexy grab on tonight, she shrugged and took the flowers.

"Those are for you. Are you wearing my sweatshirt?"Will asked as he walked into the apartment and closed the door behind him.

"No."Alicia said defensively.

"I got this at Georgetown before we graduated."Alicia justified her sweatshirt before putting the flowers in a vase of water. She didn't notice Will come up behind her and grab the back of the sweatshirt, but she sure did feel it.

"Hey creep. You can't just put you hands down someone's shirt."Alicia said as she jumped from his hold.

"Oh hush. I was just checking that it was mines. Which it is."Will said, leaning against the kitchen counter with his arms crossed.

"No it's not."Alicia said a little too aggressively.

"Yes it is, the initials on the tag says W.P.G. William Paul Gardner. I gave this to you before we graduated. I told you to wear this and think of me when we are apart, in case I can't be there."William said shaking his head that she could forget something so sentimental.

"You remember me telling you I will never leave you, but you forgot that I gave you a sweatshirt."Will said shaking his head.

"It was one thing that I forgot. And besides, I am mad at you, you can't be mad at me." Alicia said, turning to Will and standing no more than a few inches from him.

"You're mad at me. I should be mad at you. With your flip floppy emotions. One moment you act as if you are into me, the next you aren't and then you were avoiding me to just turn around and try to seduce me? Really, how am I supposed to react to that?" Will said sitting up straight.

"Well when you start to ignore me for weeks, I had to find someway of getting your attention." Will moved from her, he was too angry to look at her.

"You were the one that was avoiding me. Telling your assistant that you are out, getting Diane to make sure that we were separated and that we do not have the same cases. I even tried talked to Owen and he wouldn't say a word to me. I assumed that you did not want anything to do with me so I left you alone."

"Well if you wouldn't have regretted us, I might not have to avoid you."Will ran over to Alicia and grabbed her arm.

"Don't you ever say that I regret us. Because that will never ever be true. The only thing I regret is never having enough time."Will said the last part softly before Alicia wrapped her arms around Will's neck and crashed her lips against his. They held like that in a passionate kiss for a while. Then Will turned them around and pinned Alicia against the fridge before pushing himself off of her.

"Alicia we can't."Will said before Alicia started fuming and got closer to him. She didn't know what hurt her more, that he didn't want sex, or that he didn't want her.

"Get out!"Alicia cried as she tried to hold back the tears. Will didn't budge at all. He just stood there and watched her unravel.

"I said get out!"Alicia yelled again before walking over to the door, only for Will to grab her hand and pull her close to him.

"Get off of me."Alicia struggled to get out of his grasp, but his basketball arms were too much for her.

"No, this time I am not letting you go until you listen."Will didn't loosen his hold and she didn't stop fighting him.

"I love you and you love me. We can not continue to just have sex, we need communication. We need to talk about things before we ruin it with awkward sex ok? That was all I meant a month ago. I meant we shouldn't have had sex, we should have talked instead."Will sighed before letting Alicia go. After rubbing her arms, she smacked Will.

"Just say what you mean, you could have texted me that or done this sooner."Alicia said before kissing him again. This time, a short gentle passionate one.

"So we should talk about us."Alicia said as she sat on the bar stool. Will was still stunned from the kiss and the smack. He knew that he should argue back, but he decided to just take the win.

"What do you think we should do? We tried the sneaking around thing, and that didn't work. But we can't be open because of Peter."

"Well we can do the sneaking around thing, but less of it."Will said as he sat down next to Alicia.

"What do you mean?"Alicia turned to Will so that their knees were touching.

"Well Peter doesn't care what we do. He talked to me, more or so ambushed me, when I came to your house a month ago. He told me to treat you well and if I mess up, we will have problems."

"What? Why didn't you tell me.. oh ok. Well I will talk to him and Diane doesn't care if we are together either. I talked to her a week ago and she said she wouldn't make us break up again. Or whatever that means."Alicia said rubbing her temple just thinking of the conversation she will have to have with Peter. Will made no reaction to her comment about Diane. He knew that she meant it more towards him than her, but he was not in the mood to talk about that now.

"So we can't show our relationship to outsiders, but we can to those who know us? How is that any different from what we used to do?"Alicia said, still completely confused.

"Well if we just want to be alone together for the weekend, we can. If we want to leave and go have some fun together, we can. As long as the press doesn't find out, we're ok. Peter won't follow us around with cameras, Diane won't snoop around our lives to find out what we are doing. And most of all, you won't feel the guilt of cheating on Peter. Also Grace is old enough now to understand our relationship, if we get there. It's perfect."Will leaned back, feeling smug.

"Will, it's not that easy. We still have to hide from the people at our firm as well as the press. Half of those people we can consider as the press. We are still hiding Will."Alicia pleaded, hoping he had something better.

"Well if you remember all those years ago, you asked for a plan. I gave you a plan, that's all I got, short of you completely divorcing Peter. And we both know that you are not going to do that."Will said a little more snarky than intended.

"Well sorry for marrying Peter, you never stopped me."Alicia got up from her spot on the bar stool.

"And how was I supposed to do that, I wasn't even invited!"Will got up, pissed that she would blame this all on him.

"You left me for a year, what was I supposed to do. I had no address, no phone number. Did you want me to hire a private investigator to find you? No!"Alicia yelled, irritated that he thought that this was somehow her fault. Even though it was mostly her fault.

"Besides, you think I wanted to marry Peter then and give up my life? My father said if I don't marry him I would disgrace my whole family. What did you want me to do?"

"Not marry him maybe. Choose your own path?"Will shouted back.

"Then where would I go? Fresh out of law school, pregnant, and no husband or boyfriend to help. You were MIA. I was alone and scared, marrying Peter seemed like the best choice for me then. I'm sorry that I didn't wait for you, even though I didn't see you for what another fourteen years?"Alicia said sarcastically.

"I did come back."Will whispered.

"It was too late then Will."Alicia said as she wiped the tears that she did not know fell.

"Look the past is in the past. The bottom line is we have two options and two options only."Will said, breaking the awkward silence that filled the whole apartment.

"We can walk away from all of this, pretend that this never happened and deal with the sexual tensions some other way. Or we can go with my plan and be together again."Will said, stepping closer to Alicia. He put his arms around her and let her lay her head on his shoulder.

"Look no matter what you choose, I will be there for you. I promise."Will rubbed Alicia's back as she continued to cry in his arms.

After about five minutes, Alicia finally broke from Will.

"I choose option two. But not tonight. Tonight I don't want to feel anything and I don't want to remember my past. Can you do that for me?"Alicia smiled as she wiped the tears from her cheek.

"I know exactly what you need."Will said as he lead her to the living room.

"Will what are you doing?"Alicia asked as she followed Will into the living room and sat down on the couch."We are watching Netflix and ordering pizza. This will be our new routine when one of us is hurt."Will smiled as he grabbed his phone to order them a pizza online.

"This was not what I had in mind."Alicia sniffled as Will moved closer to her and grabbed the remote.

"I know what you were thinking of you dirty girl. But right now, you do not need sexy boyfriend Will. You need best friend Will that knows everything about you. Like your favorite movies and how to make you feel better."Will smiled as he found a movie for them to watch, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It wasn't orthodox, and Alicia would not show her kids this movie, but she loved it and watched it whenever she needed a good laugh and something good to watch. Not many people knew that this was her favorite movie, except Will.

The two of them spent their first night as a couple, as friends. And Alicia wouldn't Have it anyother way.


So how do you like their first night as a couple? Not what you were expecting right? ANd I know alot of people wanted Finn, but I needed some A/W. Especially With Alicia lately not know who she wants to be with. But Finn will be coming soon, maybe? Review!