A/N so just a quick note thanks to all my lovely reviewers! Especially guategal who faithfully reviews each chapter, it's such a happy little feeling when other people think the crazy things that happen in your brain are as interesting as you do! Anywho, enjoy this chapter while I contemplate what's going to happen next in the lives of our favorite TV lawyers!

And a quick shout out and thanks to the thanks to the two followers, TGWnevertoforget and gotta love tv.

Also forgot to add the song

Afterlife - Ingrid Michaelson

Alicia was pulling into traffic when her phone rang.

"…We all, we all, we're gonna be alright

We got, we got, we always got the fight in us

We all, we all, we're gonna live tonight…"

Grace had gotten a hold of her phone and played with the ringtones again and she had assigned Will some pop song she'd only heard when Grace was blasting music in the car on the way to school, she kind of liked hearing it but it tended to get stuck in her head. She reasoned that's why she hadn't tried to figure out how to change it because she at least knew who was calling without having to look. She answered,

"Rescue me? I'm bored and I'm going to start crawling up walls soon. Diane won't let me anywhere near the office even just to sit on her couch and look pretty."

Alicia laughed at the image of Will Gardner sitting on a couch acting as nothing more than decoration, just the thought was ridiculous.

"You have your arm in a sling, a rather large bandage on your neck, and you desperately need a haircut, you're not looking all that pretty these days Gardner."

"yeah yeah seriously though, I'm going crazy don't make me beg, and my hair doesn't look that bad does it?"

"I was actually just headed your way, apparently Grace has some kind of bible study and Zach is trying to cram as much friend time in before he graduates. Pizza good for dinner?"

"pizza sounds great, can't wait to see you"

Alicia stopped for pizza then headed to Will's apartment. She let herself in his front door and noticed that the apartment was dark except for the light coming from the windows in Will's living room. She kicked off her heels in the doorway, made her way carefully to the kitchen and set the pizza on the kitchen counter then headed down the hall towards Will's bedroom, calling his name as she went. As she got closer to his bedroom she could see a faint glow from his room. She started down the hallway and she felt something rustling under her bare feet, she glanced down and in the faint light could make out a trail of rose petals leading in to Will's bedroom. She followed the trail, the faint glow getting brighter until she arrived at his bedroom door. Alicia was stunned to see every available surface in his room was covered in candles. She covered her mouth with her hand as she noticed there was music playing softly. Will spent a lot of time on Spotify these days and had discovered that sometimes a song could say what he was trying to convey a little better than his words. Will walked up behind Alicia and wrapped his arms around her waist and gently kissed her neck and whispered in her ear,

"So I went to the doctor today." Will began walking Alicia further into his bedroom towards the bed pausing to trail kisses down her neck. "He said that when I'm feeling up to it, I have been cleared to perform more, shall we say…, rigorous activities."

"The pizza is going to get cold," Alicia sighed as she tilted her head to give Will better access to her neck. Will turned her gently in her arms and his lips found hers in a passionate kiss.

"The pizza can be warmed up, I've been waiting to get you in my bed since the first time I heard you say you loved me."

Alicia wrapped her arms around his neck being careful of the place where a bullet had almost cut short his life and returned the kiss. They worked their way closer to the bed and left their clothes where they landed and fell on the bed.

As the two lay on the bed in the aftermath Will caressed Alicia's arm as she smiled at him lovingly.

"So I talked to Peter this evening…" Alicia kept her eyes on Will's face expecting him to get upset any minute, his face never wavered from the look of pure love. "He asked me if you made me happy"

Will smiled at her, "and what did you say?"

"I told him the truth. You were my beacon when I needed something to show me the way, you were my light when my world had gone dark, when you looked at me you saw me. You didn't see the scorned housewife you saw me as Alicia Cavanaugh." Alicia placed a hand gently on Will's cheek, "and I meant very word of it, it just took me a little time and a lot of heartbreak to realize how much you really meant to me. You've been my lighthouse since that first class at Georgetown."

Will let out a breath he hadn't realized he'd been holding, " and how did Peter take that?"

"He said he'd sign the divorce papers and bring them by the office as soon as he could." Alicia smiled at Will.

Will seemed a little stunned and Alicia began to get nervous, she had expected something more since he had gotten so upset over her postponing the divorce.

"So what does this mean for us Alicia? I told you I'd wait for you as long as you were in it to and I don't want to scare you so I need you to tell me where we go from here."

Alicia was shocked and didn't understand why she had ever pushed this man out of her life, she must have been seriously delusional to think she could make it without him as a presence in her life.

"Well I think the first step is you need to get to know Zach and Grace, they are my reason for living and without them nothing works."

"Well alright then let's start with dinner, your house is probably better since they will have home field advantage, and we'll go from there."

Alicia couldn't help but kiss him after such a statement, although more than ever in her life she was trying to figure out how she could possibly have been so stupid through all of this.

"Ok well I think that makes sense, I guess I'm going to have to relearn all those sports metaphors that you like to use, but I think that sounds like a great plan." Alicia kissed Will tenderly again then turned to her side and snuggled up next to him and wrapped his arm around her waist.

Will spoke up quietly, "there's one more thing we might need to do,"

Alicia turned back to face him, "and what is that?"

"We have to let Cary and Diane know we're going to be together."

Alicia gasped, "Oh god I hadn't even thought about that, ugh, that is not a conversation I want to have with him, let's deal with dinner with my kids first then cross that river, although I think, I think Diane might have figured that one out when she called me the other day to see if she should let you come back to work," Alicia lowered her voice to a whisper, "and I told her to make you stay home a little longer…"

Will seemed a little bothered by the what she had said, which was why she had avoided telling him until now,

"she made me promise not to tell you." Alicia explained, she getting nervous, Will had been quiet for solid minute and she couldn't read his expression.

" you two better be glad I love you'" Will growled at her. " and just so you two know I'm going back to work next week. Now these 'activities' have worn me out and I want to go to sleep with the woman I love next to me, although I think she owes me pancakes in the morning."

Alicia adjusted herself again and kissed Will lightly, " I love you too, Will" Alicia fell asleep quickly, but Will laid awake watching her for a few moments he still couldn't believe that the fates had finally smiled on him and he was able to hold her in his arms again. He must have nodded off because the soon all he could hear were gunshots and he felt the bullets tearing through his shoulder as he dived for the floor, and he was screaming Alicia's name.