So back by popular demand, I am truly sorry that my stories were not being uploaded like I thought they were. Well to answer some questions, no Peter has no idea what is in the voicemail or that one exists like that. He knows that Alicia has a voicemail saved from him but that is the extent of his knowledge. Im not sure yet that he will ever know, anyway some thing to think about. But yeah, Iam going to try and work on this updating thing and hopefully the rest of your questions will be answered throughout the chapters. Enjoy and don't forget to review.


"Is that anyway to greet your brother?"Alicia sighed as she saw her younger brother open her door. Today was not the day to mess with her.

"Owen, what... why are you here?"Owen grew a huge grin and opened the door to show her Peter sitting at the counter with Eli.

"Peter, Eli."She said through gritted teeth.

"Hey honey, I ordered pizza, I hope you don't mind." Alicia rolled her eyes as she thought 'yeah it's ok as long as it's not your money.'

"Ok so why are you here?" Alicia asked as she turned to her brother for answers. She knew that either it is something that he didn't want Peter to know or it involved Peter. But since it seemed as though everything these days involved Peter, she went with the latter. Owen looked at Peter then at Alicia. Alicia stood there with her hands on her hips waiting for someone to say something. Eli decided to brave the waters and talk.

"Your brother was visiting at one of the colleges in the area and he was filmed. He was filmed saying that Peter was a homophobic." Alicia looked to Owen and saw him shrug his shoulders and smile. Alicia shook her head and rolled her eyes at her trouble making brother.

"Ok, it's Owen. I stop expecting him to do things without causing a scene a long time ago."

"Hey, I have done a lot of things without getting in trouble." Owen said defending himself. Alicia sighed and then turned to Eli.

"Anyway, what is he doing here?"

"Well we hoped if we had him stay with you guys and show that he was indeed joking, we might be able to salvage this. Also we are having Yom Kippur at your house."Alicia used all of the little bit of self control that she had left to stop herself from punching everyone in the room.

"Where are my kids?"Alicia asked as she made her way to the wine rack and grabbed a glass from the cabinet.

"They're in their rooms studying. Alicia are you mad?"Peter asked as he followed his wife's movement as she started to walk towards her bedroom.

"No Peter, I love it when you make decisions without me. It's not like it's my life too. Besides, you always seem to make the decisions for our family without talking to me."Alicia said before going into her room and closing the door behind her.

"Why is she so mad? She should be happy that her brother that abandoned her came to visit."Owen rolled his eyes at his brother in law.

"She's not mad at me. But next time try asking before you decide to do things out of the blue ok? As much as you wish to believe, you are no longer man of the house, she is."Owen walked to his sister's room, grateful to be rid of Peter's presence. Luckily Owen got there just before Alicia did. Actually he was in the middle of arguing with Peter before Alicia started to open the door to the apartment.

"You never knew what boundaries were did you?"Alicia sighed as she took another sip of her wine.

"I feel so attacked right now. You have barely been here 10 minutes and so many harsh comments. And they say I act like mom."Owen looked away from his sister but smiled when he turned back to see her smiling too.

"Owen I'm sorry but I just can't deal with this right now."Owen sat down next to her sister and drank the rest of her wine for her.

"Owen!"

"I'm sorry but you have work tomorrow, you don't need to be drinking."Owen said as he poured himself a glass.

"Now what is wrong? Other than Peter being Peter."Alicia smiled and laid back in her bed.

"Owen I'm not sure what to believe anymore."Owen turned to her sister and placed his glass on her bedside table.

"Alicia what is wrong honey?"

"Owen I think that I missed my chance on love."Owen start rubbing his sister's shoulder as he saw a tear rolled down her face.

"Alicia, it is never too late to find love. Look at mom, she's still looking."Alicia started laughing and started holding her stomach. Owen joined in and continued to rub his sister to calm her down as he saw her laughs turn into tears and not from laughing.

"Hey calm down, Alicia calm down ok. Come here."Owen pulled his sister into his arms and rocked her until she started to calm down. It reminded him of when they were younger. Alicia was always a strong person, but sometimes she would break down and Owen would hold her until she felt better. As much as she hated to admit it, Owen is the only person that can really calm her down. Well Owen and Will.

"Are you ok now?"Owen asked as he moved a piece of hair out of her face.

"Yeah, I'm good now. Thanks." Owen laid her back down on the bed and then crawled into bed with her.

"Owen I said I'm fine."

"That's nice, I'm still staying here. Mostly because I don't like sleeping on couches and your bed is more comfortable than the other beds."

"Owen!"

"It can be like when we were kids."Alicia rolled over in her bed and wrapped herself up, she knew that she was not going to win this battle.

"Take your shoes off."Owen smiled as he turned the lights out.

"We are going to have so much fun tomorrow."Alicia started to drift off to sleep until his words hit her.

"Tomorrow? Owen when are you going home?"

"In a week." Alicia growled under her sheets and tried to get some sleep

Alicia woke up to pancakes and eggs waiting for her on the kitchen counter. The one thing Peter can make is good breakfast. Alicia ate some of her food before grabbing her things for work with Owen in tow.

"Alicia wait."Alicia turned around to see Peter in a suit behind her.

"What Peter?"

"Can we talk, you seemed pretty mad last night. And Owen was in our bed so I couldn't talk to you."

"Peter I have to get to work."

"Later?"

"Yeah sure."Alicia said as she made her way out of the door. Owen was already at the elevator by the time she got outside.

"What?"Alicia asked as she saw her younger brother eyeing her.

"Nothing. Seriously, nothing."Alicia rolled her eyes as she got into the elevator.

"It's just I'm surprised that he made you breakfast, and thought that that would make things better."

"See."Owen just laughed as they rode down the elevator.

Alicia miraculously made it through the day without Owen bugging her about last night. She was hoping that he would just drop it and not talk about it. She liked hoping, even if it falls through.

Owen and Alicia were sitting in her office as she finished some paperwork. After she was done they would go home. And then she would have a whole weekend with her family for Yom Kippur. She was so happy she wondered how she was able to control her happiness.

Alicia was typing on her laptop when she heard his voice. Her head popped her head up so quickly she almost sprained something. Owen quickly followed her head after seeing how quickly she responded to voices in her hallway. At first he thought there was a fight in the hallway, but pretty soon he realized that was not the reason. He saw the man that Alicia was zeroing in on. Owen immediately started smiling once he realized what was going on.

"So I'm guessing that he is the guy that you missed."Owen said as he looked directly at his sister. Alicia almost got whiplash trying turn and look at her brother. Alicia was about to say something when Will walked up to her door and knocked on it.

"Hey Alicia, who's this. Am I interrupting something." Will looked straight at Owen and then to Alicia. He told himself that it didn't matter that she was messing with someone else, that he's with Tammy so she should be happy. Even if she is with someone else and Peter. Owen got up and smiled as he stretched out his hand to shake Will's hand.

"Hi, I'm Owen. Who are you?"Will, with a confused face, shook Owen's hand and stepped farther into the room. Owen went back to his seat and Will moved closer to Alicia's chair. Alicia looked up at him sadly as she thought about their relationship. They could have had it all if she only got that second voicemail. Now he has given up on her and he seems happy. But he is so close to her, so protective of her. How could he just throw everything away over a stupid voicemail. But maybe moving on is for the best.

"I'm her boss, Will Gardner. Are you a new client of ours? Or are you a friend of hers?"Will asked inquisitively.

"I'm her brother actually. Will Gardner, that name sounds familiar for some reason. Have we met before?"The sudden realization hit him like a dump truck. He forgot about her younger brother Owen that always used to get in trouble. She used to tell him about Owen all of the time. They met once or twice when he would sneak up there. Will grow a huge smile before re-shaking Owen's hand.

"I am so sorry I forgot that Alicia had a brother. I went to Georgetown with your sister. We were best friends back then."

"Oh, Mr. Georgetown. Of course you are, I should have known."Owen said smilingly. Everything was falling into place now. He felt like he understood everything.

"Owen!"Alicia yelled. She could not believe her brother right now. All she wanted to do was strangle her younger brother and bury him in the backyard.

"Mr. Georgetown? I didn't know that I had a nickname Leesh. Now you can no longer get mad at my mines."Will said as he turned to Alicia. He was so fascinated with this new information. But he mostly wondered why Owen should have known? Did he do or say something, or did Alicia.

"I never said that I didn't like my nickname. I just said don't say it around people who didn't know it and family. Even though you always called my Leesh when you talked to your mom. You know she thought that was my name for a very long time."Will started to laugh and leaned on Alicia's chair to keep in his laughter.

"I know I am so sorry. My mom thought a lot of things. She said that as much as I talked about you and how I did that we should get married."It left Will's lips before he could stop himself. He looked at Alicia, who wore a brave face in such news, and hoped she was too reoccupied that she didn't hear what he said. Owen knew better.

"You should have."Owen said, breaking the connection that had just stirred up between the two of them.

"No, I'm not the marrying type. Besides, you wouldn't have had your precious niece and nephew, they are two amazing kids. So I've heard."His words broke her heart, but it only convinced her that being apart was for the best.

"I don't know, I think that you two would have been a great couple. Anyway Alicia can we leave now, I need to go to the store. "Alicia cleared her throat and started to pack her things up.

"Um yeah, I can finish this at home. Sorry Will, I'll see you Monday."Alicia said as she got up and started moving towards the door. She was happy to get away from him. There was so many things going through her mind and having Will around was not helping her.

"Owen I would love to have a conversation with you. How long are you going to be in town, Alicia told me you don't live here and your mom lives everywhere I think that's what she said. Owen started grinning at the thought of his mom living everywhere.

"Yes she is what people call a free spirit, she doesn't like to be tied down in one place for very long."

"From what I've been told, so are you."

"Well Mr. Gardner I don't think you need to pick my brain at all. It seems as though you know enough already. But I'm here until next friday."Owen said as he started to follow his sister out of the door, leaving Will standing alone in Alicia's office.

"Owen I can't believe you."Alicia said once they were in the elevator alone.

"I can't believe that you didn't tell me that you worked with Mr. Georgetown."Owen grinned as he said his name. It brought him back to when he was younger and he would tease her about the secrets he knew.

"His name is Will and if you ever called me, you might know that."Alicia rolled her eyes as she looked at the doors to the elevator. As may pretend that she hates her brother, but she loves him more than he will ever know. There was too many times during the time that Peter was in jail that she wish that her little brother was there to make her laugh and feel better. She spent a lot of sleepless nights lying in bed crying. Owen moved behind her and gave her a huge bear hug and rested his head on her back.

"He's really sexy, very sultry looking."Owen said into her back after a few seconds. Alicia wiped a tear from her cheek.

"And what do you know about sultry?"Alicia joked as the elevator door opened. Owen continued to hold onto his sister until she tried walking out of the elevator.

"Owen we need to leave the elevator if we are going to go home."Owen sighed as he released his sister.

"Either you want my affection or you don't, you can't have it both ways."

"Can't I"Alicia joked before walking out of the elevator.

When Alicia and Owen got back, they found a note telling them that Peter took the kids out and wouldn't be back until late. Leaving the two of them alone for at least 4-6 hours. Alicia just loved how he never calls to ask her before doing things. Owen wasted no time getting alcohol out and setting up his own bar on Alicia's coffee table.

"Owen what are you doing?"Alicia asked after she came from putting a pizza in the oven. She was not in the mood to cook anything extravagant with the kids and Peter gone. Especially since she had to cook Yom Kippur, whatever that entailed.

"What does it look like?"Owen said as he started pouring them drinks.

"An actual bar."Alicia said as she sat down next to her brother and drank whatever he gave her. Whatever it was, it was really strong.

"Why are you getting me drunk?"Alicia said through a hoarse voice.

"Well you really only tell me things truthfully when you drink so here we are."Owen said as he pointed to all of the alcohol in front of him.

"We really need this much?"

"Well I have been gone a while. I expect this to be a long conversation." Alicia took Owen's drink signaling that he was right.

"Yes Will is the guy that I was practically in love with in college, but its much more than that." Owen started making more drinks as she talked. Alicia basically retold her life from Georgetown until now, but just filling him on the things that he didn't know about. Leaving out the wire taps.

"Wow, so he told you he loved you through voicemail and you didn't get it, I don't believe that." Owen said as he finished his 5th cup.

"I'm not lying. Sometimes I send things to mom and she doesn't get it and vice versa."

"Alicia a voicemail and a picture are two different things. Either he deleted the voicemail or someone else did."Owen said as he looked at the half empty bottles on the table that he would likely finish tomorrow.

" But I was the only one that had my phone. I don't let Peter anywhere near it." Alicia mumbled as she ate another slice of pizza that she brought out a little while ago.

"Didn't you say that Eli keep pushing you to leave, do you think he did it?"Owen said as he grabbed another slice too.

"I hope not. He seems like a really good person. He is always straight forward with me."

"Yes, but he is Peter's campaign manager first, remember that." He was right, if Eli listened to the voicemail he would have to delete it, or cause more problems for the campaign than needed.

"Hopefully he deleted it and didn't know."

"Hmm"Was all Owen said as he started to inspect the bottles of liquor. Alicia looked at her brother inquisitively, she knew something was up.

"What?" She asked as she elbowed him, pulling him out of a deep thought.

"What."

"Why did you say hmm. What are you thinking about?"

"Nothing."

"Owen you are always scheming."

"No I'm not ."Owen tried to defend himself but knew there was no use when Alicia raised her eyebrows in a rebuttal. He could never when these battles, she had more dirt when it came to their childhood. She was always so perfect.

"I was just thinking what I would do and."

"And what?"

"And what you would do."

"OK so what would you do?"Owen smiled wickedly, he loved to influence his sister.

"l Would cut my hair, because quite frankly I think you look better with a hair cut. Also you need a change, proving that you too have changed as well. Because you need to change, especially who you're with. Wear something business like but sexy, don't try to hard on the clothes aspect. Then during a not so busy time I would walk into his office and say 'Will, can I have a moment of your time. I have been thinking about you since Georgetown. I want you now.'" Alicia grabbed the closest unbreakable object and threw it at him.

"OWEN!"The two siblings started bursting out in laughter.

"You're right I'm definitely not doing that. But what do you think I will do about it?"Alicia said after the two of them finally calmed down.

"Nothing."Owen said bluntly.

"Nothing?"

"Nothing. Alicia you are an amazing smart and strong willed person. But you are none of those things. I'm sorry, you are bad when it comes to love." Well he did have a point. If Alicia were to look back on her love life, it would not be pretty.

"Owen I." But before she could say anything, the door opened and the rest of the Florrick's piled in. They were all laughing and smiling when they walked in. The stopped when they saw Owen and Alicia laying down on the couch with multiple bottles scattered across the coffee table.

"Alicia are you drunk, I thought you would be sleep by now."

"There is a lot you don't know about Alicia. "Owen joked as the kids made their way to their room. They already knew that this would not end up turning into a fight. They had a nice day, they didn't need their parents ruining it. Alicia elbowed Owen, she hoped Peter wouldn't make a huge deal out of things like she knew he would.

"What does that mean?"

"It means what it means. You never wanted to know her anyway. You just wanted her because she looked good, and then you got pregnant. It would not look good for you to have a pregnant ex girlfriend while running for State's attorney."

"Owen go to your room."Alicia said in her mom voice. Owen obeyed, knowing that he had went too far. Alicia sighed as she started collecting the bottles to put away and then stumbled back down.

" I got it, you're too drunk."He said angrily. Alicia could not believe that he was so mad after the many nights that he did this to her or any fucked up things that he did during their marriage.

"I'm fine."Alicia grabbed the bottles from Peter's hand and started cleaning up.

"Alicia we really need to talk."

"Not now. 'I'm too drunk'." Alicia mocked him as she finished cleaning up her mess. Placing the bottles into the back of the cabinets.

"Alicia are you really doing this? And you call me childish."Peter scoffed as he watched Alicia stumble as she closed the cabinets. Alicia turned around slowly and looked at Peter. She took deep breaths and tried to remember that her kids were down the hall.

"Peter I'm not doing this now."Alicia walked to her room and closed her door. She sighed as she flopped down in her bed and started to cry.

The rest of the week went by smoothly. Owen oddly behaved himself and Peter stayed out of her way. Yom Kippur was half a disaster half a success. But as far as Alicia was concerned as long as the house wasn't on fire she was OK.

It was Thursday and Owen was leaving today. She was going to spend his last night with him but one of his friends called and took him to a club last minute. The kids were out at a friends house and Peter was out doing god knows what leaving Alicia alone in the house, like always. Alicia decided, instead of being bored out of her mind, she should call Kalinda to come over and finish her alcohol off.

Kalinda came over so quick, Alicia was worried that Kalinda was staking out her place.

"I heard alcohol."Kalinda said as she turned off her phone and walked through the door.

"You know they have programs for people like you."Alicia joked as she closed the door behind Kalinda.

"Yeah if I join your coming too."Kalinda joked as she helped herself to the abundance of alcohol in Alicia's kitchen. Alicia and Kalinda sat at the kitchen counter before devouring the alcohol.

"Why do you have so much alcohol?"

"You can blame this on Owen. He makes me seem like I drink more than I actually do."Kalinda raised her eyebrow in objection.

"I do not drink that much. I don't."Kalinda continued to sip her drink as Alicia tried to plead her case.

"Where is he anyway?"

"Strippers R Us I think."Kalinda raised her eyebrow again at the name, but it sounded familiar.

"His last day here, I let him go."

"So how does he like the windy city?"

"Eh he misses home, the warm weather and all."

"What does he think about Will?" Alicia almost choked on her drink while Kalinda continued to drink without being phased.

"Why would he care about Will?"Alicia asked after getting herself together.

"He's your brother and by what I've heard, really nosey."

"Who told you that?"

"Who do you think?"It had to be Will. He was the only person that Owen talked to. Besides he was only there that one day.

"Is he mad?"

"Why don't you ask him?"

"I can't I mean. It's Will."

"Exactly, you've know each other for like 20 years. Why is it so hard for the two of you to talk to each other? Don't you think this game of beating around the bush is getting a little old?"Kalinda finished her drink in one gulp.

"What are you talking about?"

"Alicia you two obviously love each other more than I can bare sometimes. It's like the two of you ooze affection for each other sometimes. When I'm with you we always talk about Will when I'm with Will we always talk about you. Isn't it time that you talk to each other about each other? Besides you have known each other since Georgetown, you talk easily about everything else but each other. So please there is so much love and affection that I can deal with." Alicia started grinning.

"What afraid that you too will fall in love and be happy? That this tin man will finally find a heart?"Kalinda rolled her eyes at Alicia and took a shot of something.

"Alicia I'm serious, stop talking to me and talk to him."

"You're the one that brought him up. If you don't like talking about him, don't bring him up." Alicia joked, but it didn't make Kalinda laugh at all.

"Alicia."

"Why does everyone want me to talk to Will?"

"Because we want you to be happy."Alicia sighed and took a shot. She knew that they were right, she really needs to talk to him. But should she?

"Do you..."

"Yes, just do it please."

"But-"

"No butts "The two of them started laughing at the word butts like children.

"Ok OK, I will."Alicia said after they stopped laughing.

"Today."

"Tomorrow."

"Tomorrow." The both of them agreed and went back to drinking for a little while longer. Kalinda eventually left and Alicia passed out as soon as she had finished cleaning up.

The next day, she sent her brother off to the airport and went to the salon. She decided Owen was right, for once in his life, and got a haircut. She spent twenty minutes in her closet looking for the right dress to wear. She settled on a black dress that showed little to no cleavage but made her ass look wonderful. She was set on changing her life from now on, she was going to be happy.

Alicia confidently walked into Will's office prepared to put everything in the table. Unfortunately a few minutes later she found herself more pissed than before and storming home. Peter always ruined every good thing that she had in her life.

When she got home, the house was empty with the exception of slight music coming from her bedroom. She practically ran in her room and slammed open the door.

"What did you do!" Peter was folding his clothes when his wife came into the room screaming. He was glad that he had his mom take the kids for the weekend. He had hoped to surprise her with a relaxing weekend to themselves to make up for the past week of chaos. But he quickly realized that, that thought was already gone out the window.

"Alicia what are you talking about?"Peter said calmly as he could as he placed his shirt on the bed.

"Will."Alicia was fuming and now he knew why. His whole attitude changed very quickly. He went from calm cool and collected to very pissed very quickly. He always reminded her of the hulk when this happened.

"I could ask you the same thing."Now he's done it.

"I can't believe you. You know I did not do half as much as the shit that you did, and I could have. A lot of people came at me saying things like ' I don't know why he did this, I can show you better.' Trust me, you are not the only irresistible person. I could have fucked so many people but I didn't. I chose my family over lust. So you don't have the right to say that to me."

"I can do whatever the fuck I want to do Alicia."

"Yes I can see that. But the one thing you will not be able to do anymore is control me or my kids. So what the fuck did you do?"

"Alicia you are my wife, I will do whatever I want to, with or for you."Alicia started to laugh hysterically. Peter was worried that she was going to go crazy.

"Oh Peter, you forget what century you are in. Now tell me what you did or I will not let you see your kids."

"Alicia apologize and I will think about letting you see your kids. They are at my mother's house, one call and we disappear."

"Oh please do, because that would be kidnapping. I would love to send you back to jail. Oh yeah that's right, you have no custody over them. I made sure that I got full custody when you went to jail. And you are not SA anymore, you do not have the power that you think you have. And just try and get re-elected without me because we both know that you can't. And do not try and say that my career will drop without you because I am a damn good lawyer, better than you will ever be or was. I got jobs before you and I will get plenty without you. And right now I have the power in this relationship, way more than you. Now I will ask you one more time and I will think about being nice to you." Now it was Peter's turn to start fuming. He could not believe her, this was the first time that she had ever talked to him like that and over some crush. But he told her everything anyway without missing a detail. He hoped that she would see that he was doing it for them, but he was wrong.

"Pack a bag and get out."she demanded after hearing his story. She could not believe how crazy he was. Did he really believe that his plan would work? The sad part is if she would have never heard the wiretaps, it would have worked.

Alicia waited for Peter to get the rest of his stuff, and then she cried for a little while. Then she got up and pulled on a pair of jeans and a shirt and left the apartment. She drove around awhile and found herself at Will's apartment. She stood outside for a long time, even though the spring rain started coming down fast around her. It was late when she finally found the courage to go to his apartment, so many things was going through her mind. Was he with Tammy? Did he even want a relationship with all of what Peter did? Did he even want her anymore? The only thing she could do was try.

Alicia was freezing when she knocked on Will's door. She was holding herself as she waited for him to answer the door. He was taking a while so she knocked again, she hoped he wasn't with someone else. She was just about to go home when the door suddenly opened.

"Alicia?"Will called through his sleepiness. He was rubbing his eyes when he opened the door, she hoped he was just taking a nap.

"Will."Alicia turned around to the sound of her voice being called. Even though she was soaked, Will could tell that she had been crying.

"What is wrong, are you ok?"Will asked, feeling fully awake now. She noticed how adorable he looked in sweatpants and no shirt. It gave her all sorts of ideas, none that she came for at first.

"I talked to Peter. Will I am so sorry. Will I love you too." Without giving Will a chance to respond, Alicia ran into him and captured his lips with her own.

As Will wrapped his arms around Alicia and pulled her into the apartment. Alicia couldn't help but assume that all of her worries were answered, with good news.


Will they finally have their good timing? What do you guys think will happen next, tell me about it.