A/N I hope you all enjoy this chapter, I am doing my best to update faster! I hope you'll all review again. Reviewer Responses are just below.

Reviewer Responses:

Lamia Astaroth: I am so happy you love this!! It makes me feel good to have you begging for more! :-P Update your fic soon! I look forward to it.

Miguels-Lover: Heehee! Thanks for your review. Grace was oblivious to the kiss, I know! ::shakes head:: she is oblivious to so much. I am so happy you like the fic, I will update faster than I have been, I promise!

Fiddlesticks: I am so happy you liked the end of the previous chapter. I am sorry it was short! ::munches cookies:: with all the Halloween candy and these cookies I will get fat and roll around to move. I hope you like this chapter.

SnkNJak: I would LOVE to tell my teachers that my readers on fanfiction are much more important, but I think they would laugh at me or give me blank looks. My math teacher probably already would like to kill me. (Math is not my best subject and I don't do much of her hw.)
What is your script for the short film about? Have you already started filming it, or are you still working on the writing?
I'm so happy you liked that Grace missed the kiss. It seemed like a Grace-like thing. I figured she would miss something like that if it actually happened. Yeah, the acting was something that came to me at about 3AM in the morning last Saturday and I am wondering what I am going to do with that. I do have some ideas...not sure if I'll use them, though.
I'll update more often! (Probably once a week.)

Sylvia.S: Which was your other review? Well, thanks for the review and I will try to update faster, I promise!! I'm really happy you enjoy my fic!

Buff1700: I am so happy you think my story is great!! ::dances:: It makes me so fantastic! I will update faster. I hope to do it more often than once a week like I told SnkNJak, but I am afraid that is probably about how often it will be since I have school.

Nicole: I promise I will try to update faster! I hope you continue to enjoy this fic, I am enjoying writing it.

Would a little "over the sweater action" make you happy? I'll try to add some in during this chapter ::wink::

A/N Wow...it took me a whole page for the responses!

Chapter 9

Will sat down next to Grace and smiled – he had missed her so much. "Did you have a good time?" he asked.

Grace smiled. "Yes, it was wonderful. Of course...Karen was sober. Though, she ran around muttering insults so, I figured she was alright."

Will snickered. "Over all, did you have a good time?"

"Yeah! I mean, how could I not?" Grace sighed as she remembered her time in Vermont. "It was really nice." She looked at Will, smiling wickedly. "How are things with you and Vince? Anything fun happen? Anything naughty?"

Will blushed, but it was not because of Vince, it was because he was embarrassed that he hadn't told her anything that had happened and he knew she would freak out as soon as he told her what had happened when she had been gone. "She's going to freak out!" he thought. "Well..."

"I saw you blush! Tell me, tell me, tell me!" she cried. "I have to hear!"

"Vince and I broke up," Will began.

"Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry," Grace said. "You'll meet someone new. What did he say when he dumped you?"

"He didn't dump me!" Will protested.

"What did you do to make him leave you, then?" Grace asked.

"I didn't do anything!" Will snapped. "I broke it off because he was being insensitive about Jack."

Grace laughed. "That is the most pathetic excuse! Insensitive about Jack? Come on, Will, you can do better than that!"

"No, seriously, Grace. He wasn't respecting our friendship and what happened to Jack. He didn't understand I needed to be here for him because Karen was gone with you." Will sighed. He was wondering what would have happened if Jack hadn't been abused by the homophobic men. He grinned wryly when he decided that they wouldn't be together and he would still be with Vince.

"What happened to Jack?" Grace asked.

Will hit his forehead. "I didn't tell you? Damn, I meant to. Well, Jack got attacked by two homophobic guys and he was really upset..."

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Jack decided he didn't want to go to Karen's but he headed to the video rental store anyway. He saw no reason not to rent a movie when he had told Will he was going to. "Might as well," he muttered to himself. "Nothing else to do in the apartment since Will won't have sex with me." 'Maybe that's a good thing,' he thought.

He walked down the street until he reached the place and browsed for movies. He didn't know what he was in the mood for, nor did he know what Will was in the mood for. Shrugging, he grabbed Cabaret with Liza Minnelli and headed to the desk to rent it. Jack liked this movie and figured Will wouldn't mind watching it again either. 'He wont care,' Jack convinced himself. 'He just likes spending time with me.'

Placing the DVD on the counter, he got out his card and the money Will had given him to pay for the taxi and the movie. "Thanks," he mumbled when the girl behind the counter handed him the movie.

Jack left the store and walked down the streets feeling very much alone. He wanted to get back to the apartment and take Will away from Grace. He had thought that he was getting better and would be fine out alone, but he was mistaken. It was time for him to get back to the apartment and spend time with his boyfriend and just have a good time. Will could break him out of the shell he was putting himself in, and Jack wanted to get back to him as fast as he could.

He walked down the streets faster, but paused when he decided he was being selfish. 'I shouldn't do this to Will and Grace,' he thought. 'Grace and Karen just got back and Will is going to want to visit with Grace. Maybe I should grab some dinner for us, or something. We didn't really eat that much earlier.'

He headed to a pizza place and ordered two pizzas. He got a large one for Grace, and one for him to share with Will. Grace would complain if he just got one pizza and expected her to share with them. "She's such a pig," Jack muttered.

"Number 28!" the man behind the counter called.

Jack watched as a girl who looked to be about thirteen went to pay for three pizzas. He wondered why she was out so late on a school night but shrugged it off. She was probably just picking up food for her family because her parents were working or something. 'Still,' he thought, 'that was a little weird.'

The girl saw him looking at her and she grinned. "My mom's pregnant with my new brother or sister, she gets weird cravings."

Jack grinned back at the girl. "Have a good night!"

"Thanks," she replied and left the place.

Jack smiled and then frowned. He wondered where all of these serious and fatherly emotions were coming from. 'I should call Elliot. I miss him, I guess.'

"Number 29!" the man called.

Jack sat back in his chair, and watched the middle-aged man collect a pizza and dart out the door. He smiled, and contented himself with watching people in the pizza place, while he waited for his own number to be called. He thought watching people was fun, and decided it was hilarious when he saw a woman who had her small children out to eat a late dinner. The kids were throwing a fit and Jack fought to hide a grin when he heard his number called and went to collect his order.

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"Poor Jack!" Grace exclaimed. "He must have been devastated."

"He was," Will replied.

"That still doesn't explain why you broke up with Vince," Grace said, changing the subject back to its original one.

Will rolled his eyes. "I walked you through this already, Grace. Vince wasn't respecting that friendships I've had for over a decade are more important than relationships that I've had for a few months. Besides, I just didn't care much for him anymore."

"Oh," Grace said.

"Oh?" Will pressed. He hated when Grace made that sound, it always sounded like she disapproved of something.

"Yeah...it's a little weird," Grace said slowly. "Did anything happen between you and Jack?"

Will nodded.

"Oh, God!" Grace screamed, horrified and amused at the same time. "That is wonderfully horrifying!"

"What?" Will asked, confused.

"Nothing," Grace replied. "I'm happy for you." She kissed him. "I'm tired and I'm going to bed. I need to be at work tomorrow. You should go to bed too; tomorrow isn't your day off."

Will nodded. "Yeah...Goodnight, Gracie."

Grace walked into the bathroom to brush her teeth.

Will yawned and flopped onto the couch while he waited for Jack. It was well past eleven, and he hoped Jack would come back soon.

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Jack stepped out of the elevator and opened the door to Will's apartment. "Honey, I'm home!" he announced, like Rickie Ricardo.

Will smiled at Jack. "Good, I was wondering if you were even going to come back at all.

Jack set the pizza boxes down on the table and smiled at Will. "Worrying over me?" he teased.

"Yes," Will replied.

"Aw, how sweet." Jack stuck his tongue out at Will. "Where's Grace?" he asked, noticing she wasn't in the room.

"She's in the bathroom." Will jerked his finger behind him.

The bathroom door swung open and Grace ran out and grabbed a box of pizza. "Is this one mine? I don't have to share, do I?"

Jack snorted. "No, take that one. They're both the same."

Grace nodded and ran into her bedroom. "Night, you two!" The door slammed shut behind her and Grace's muffled "Oops" could be heard from the bedroom.

Will turned to look at Jack. "Are you alright? I thought you were going to spend time with Karen."

"I didn't want to. I decided I'd rather just rent a movie and get a pizza." Jack shrugged.

"Aren't you worried about how you'll have to burn the pizza off?" Will teased.

"Nope. I've got a boyfriend who's chunky, why don't I do the same," Jack retorted.

Will kissed Jack's cheek. "Thanks," he replied sarcastically.

Jack smiled. "I rented Cabaret. You wanna watch it?"

"Not right now, sweetie, I need to go to bed. I have to work tomorrow," Will replied, apologetic.

Jack's face fell. "Oh, yeah, I forgot."

"Don't worry, Jack, I'll be home early tomorrow. After the hearing, I don't have anything left to do at the office. I should be home in the early afternoon." Will sat down at the table and took a slice of pizza. "I'm hungry; let's just eat quickly before I head off to bed."

Jack nodded and sat down next to Will at the table. "Are you sleeping here?" Jack asked after a few minutes of silence.

"Yeah, unless you want me to go with you to your apartment. Do you want me to do that?" Will took a bite of his pizza, keeping his eyes on Jack.

"Yeah, I mean, if you want to." He blushed and then made a face. He was never shy around men, especially not Will!

Will laughed. "Alright, I'll come over."

The finished their pizza in silence and put the leftovers away. When they had finished that, Will went into his bedroom and grabbed some things before locking the apartment door and walking across the hall to Jack's apartment.

He opened the door and went into the bathroom to scrub his teeth and do other things. He took a quick shower and changed into his night clothes before opening the door and walking into Jack's bedroom.

"You smell good," Jack commented from behind.

Will jumped. "I didn't know you were there."

Jack wrapped his arms around Will and rested his head on Will's shoulder. "I love you," he whispered.

Will smiled and turned around. "I love you too." He kissed Jack's head.

Jack lifted his face up and kissed Will tenderly on the lips, breaking the kiss after a few seconds. He kissed Will again, this time more possessively and much longer. He deepened the kiss, letting his tongue enter Will's mouth and having his hand slide under Will's shirt to try and get it off.

Will kissed Jack back and moved his hand down Jack's back, feeling Jack shudder. He smiled and broke the kiss, resting his forehead on Jack's. "I really do need to rest," he said quietly.

Jack sighed. "I know." He kissed Will quickly. "Let's go to sleep."

"Tomorrow night," Will promised.

"Alright," Jack replied, trying to be disgruntled. "Tomorrow night."

Will smiled and climbed into bed with Jack right beside him.