Background: This story takes place in a bit of an altered reality, it's in the present, but there is no Leo. Karen is living up the single life (i.e. Is free of Stan), Jack is single too, as is Grace, but Will has been seeing "somebody" for a few weeks. Will & Grace still live together. I had to mess with some of those things to get them to work for this story, so don't yell at me about continuity. I warned you.
Note: Yes, I'm writing more of this story. It's going to have a lot of chapters. Please, if you're taking the time to read it, take the time to review!
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"Don't look at me like that." Will insisted. Grace looked up at him with sad, puppy dog eyes, frowning at him.
"I tell you how all my dates go!" Grace pleading, just dying to know about the mystery guy that Will had been seeing for two weeks now.
Will smiled even wider than he already was. He hadn't stopped smiling since he'd gotten home the night before. "A, no you don't. And B, I don't want to jinx it. It's going really well, so please, I promise I'll tell you all about him as soon I'm ready."
Grace rolled her eyes, but managed a smile. "I'm glad that it's going well... Me, on the other hand... Not so lucky." Grace was still dressed in her PJs, and pulled a sucker out a bag on the counter and unwrapped it as quickly as she could.
As she started to suck on it, Will observed as he yanked it from her mouth, "You're getting addicted to those things."
Laughing, Grace pulled her strawberry sucker back and put it into her mouth again. Speaking with it still in her mouth, Grace muttered, "Bad for the teeth. Good for the broken heart."
"You can't have a broken heart if nobody's there to break it, Grace." He reminded her, not realizing that his words were more hurtful than helpful.
"Are you kidding? While you were out last night, I watched Love Story three time. My heart's breaking for a broken heart."
Grace grabbed another sucker from the bag, this one was Apple flavoured. She threw it's wrapper at Will, and held the sticks of both suckers in her right hand. She shoved both of them in her mouth at once. Will gave her a blank stare. Defensive, Grace snapped at him with her mouth still full, "Thut up, I detherve thit!"
Will laughed with her as he grabbed a piece of bread from a bag and shoved it into the toaster. Suddenly, the door to their apartment flew open and Jack pranced in, dressed as though he'd been for a morning jog. Will knew better than that though, exercise to Jack occurs at a gym. With cute guys around.
"Guess who - Guess what - Guess Where?" Jack practically sung out as he made his way into the room and shut the door behind him.
"You. Gay sex. Anywhere." Will remarked, without allowing for any time between their comments.
"Yes. No. No." Jack answered, pretending to be insulted. Cupping the side of his cheek, as though he were read to tell a secret, and mouthed almost silently, "You. Me. The elevator." Making the appropriate hand singles, Jack pointed at Will, then himself, and then towards the door as he silently spoke each words.
Grinning, Grace asked, "So what's the real news, Jack?" She sat down across the sofa.
"Somebody in this room..." Jack paused dramatically, "...will be performing in Jack 2003: The Off-Off-Off-Broadway Revival. All my fans are going to be there, for all the performances."
"I think you mean fan, Jack, and actually, I think that kid's face really cleared up and he had friends now."
Looking false disappointed, "Oh ye of little faith, and various other little things."
"Hey," Will scolded, "Don't underestimate me."
Grace was amused by their conversation, and tilted her head up from where she was seated. "As interesting as this is for me, I've got to get dressed for work." Grace was down to one sucker, but kept it clutched tightly between her teeth even as she spoke. "Great news, Jack. Great news, Will. Great news, everybodybutgrace." She muttered as she exhaled.
Graced trotted towards her room, and left Will and Jack alone in the kitchen.
"You've got good news too? Did the libido fairy last night too, because that seems to be the chat down where it's at."
Will crinkled his nose in confusion. "What the hell are you talking about?"
"Oh, come on. My apartment is a homosexual hot spot, you know that." Jack insisted, almost in a bragging tone.
Raising an eyebrow, Will shook his head clear and focused on Jack's original question. "I've been seeing this guy, and it's been going great."
Jack's eyes lit up as soon as Will hit the word guy, and by the time he'd finished, he could hardly contain himself. "Tell me all the little details - And if it's really going well, the big details."
Will shook his head. "Nuh-Uh. No details. I haven't even spoken his name yet to anybody but him. It's very... fragile... at the beginning, you understand that..." Realizing that Jack's relationships weren't long enough to classify any one part as the beginning, he finished, "Or, actually, maybe you don't."
Jack smiled at the comment. "Oh, but I do. How well I do... See, I was doing research for Jack 2003: The Off-Off-Off-Broadway Revival, and I learned all this stuff about how the committed brain works."
"Sounds fascinating, although I'm not even going to ask why you need that for your show." Will commented as he grabbed his toast when it finally popped from the old, slow toaster. Biting into the edge of the toast and chewing it off, he nearly choked as Grace ran out from her room, dressed in a tight black shirt that came down to her knees, but clearly had run out on impulse as she was holding a shirt in her hands and wasn't wearing anything over her bra.
"Speaking of show," Jack smirked suggestively as he pointed at Grace, "Yet another one wasted on us."
"What's wrong, sweetie?" Will asked genuinely as Grace stood there, looking at him in shock.
"There's things in there! Big, creepy, Indiana-Jones type bugs!"
"Indiana Jones type?" Jack asked, pleased with the thought. Suddenly realizing she was referring to insects, he began to scream. "Eww! Eww! Eww! Are they on me? I feel like one's on me! Check the back of my neck!" Jack turned around jumping up and down, trying to shake off the invisible, imaginary bugs.
Will rolled his eyes at the two of them, and strolled towards Grace's bedroom. "Calm down, it's just a few bugs... I'll squash them and be done out in a minute."
Grace and Jack stared at the door as Will walked into her room. Less than two seconds later, he calmly walked back out.
"Done already?" Grace asked, with a big smirk on her face.
"Yeah, we're calling the exterminator." Will answered as he walked to the phone.