A few days past, Karen had stayed with Will and Grace and nobody had seen or heard from Jack. "You think he's ok Grace?" Karen asked.

Looking up from her newspaper Grace saw the worry on her friends face.

"Karen why worry about him, after what he did to you and Will, he deserves all he gets."

Karen knew this yet something inside of her felt like there were still some unanswered questions. "I know honey, but what if he meant what he said about being confused and really loving me."

"Karen, I don't know, all I do know is that he used my best friend totally and broke my other best friends heart, I can't say I sympathise with him in anyway, and if he does love you, then I hope he's suffering." Seeing Grace getting angry over this again, Karen dropped the subject but still worried silently about her poodle, it had been three days, they've never been out of contact that long and it felt like she'd lost half of herself.

Half an hour later Will rushed through the door "guess what I've got? Two tickets for Wicked, front row centre of the grand circle."

"Get out" Grace screamed running and grabbing them out of his hand.

"How did you get these its like impossible to get these."

"Well a clever, hot lawyer knew the answer to today's radio quiz and I won them, so get ready we have to go."

"How much time do we have."

"About an hour, so I'm going to be rushing, yeh wicked, I've been wanting to see this show for ages."

Grace grabbed her dinner and sat down to eat, Will stared at her. "What?" she asked looking at his disgusted expression. "I've got plenty of time, I've got to eat." She muttered with her mouth full. Will shook his head and danced towards his bedroom to change. "Wait Will, what about Karen?"

"What about me?" Karen piped up.

"Well I don't think I should leave you."

Karen rolled her eyes "Grace stop it, I'm fine, you go."

"No grace is right, I don't think we should leave you on your own."

"Listen you two, your going to get your sad, lonely assess out to that show, I'm fine here, I'll watch something on that tiny TV you've got over there, go I'm fine."

"Are you sure Karen cause I don't want you doing anything stupid."?

"Honey I always do stupid things its nothing new now go, move and honey don't wear anything that's not black, colours and you…no."

Grace smiled it felt like a bit of the old Karen had come back. She grabbed her food and ran into her room to change. Will came back to Karen placing a hand on her shoulder. "You sure you'll be ok?" he asked sincerely.

"Yeh Wilma, I'll be fine." She smiled up at him and watched him go off to his room. 'She had great friends' she thought to herself.

Will and Grace rushed about getting ready and headed out the door assuring Karen that they'd come back straight after the show. They hadn't been gone long when Karen's thoughts drifted to Jack, wondering whether he was in, how he was coping. Before she knew it she was standing at his front door, knocking lightly. After a few second he slowly opened the door and was surprised to find Karen standing there. He immediately tried to straighten himself out and hide the fact that he hadn't been out of bed since that night. Karen took in his appearance, his hair was messy and unkept, he hadn't shaved, he wore torn jogging pants and a ragged old T-shirt, things she didn't even know he owned. When she entered she noted his apartment was in much the same state, it looked as thought he had gone mad and thrown things about, glass was on the floor, everything was just a mess. "I came to see if you were ok, nobodies seen or heard from you in 3 days." He didn't answer her just took in her appearance. She looked tired and thinner, she was wearing some of Grace's clothes, her hair was unkept and she wore no make up, yet to Jack she had never looked more beautiful.

"I'm sorry I shouldn't have come." She said making her way to the door.

"No wait." He grabbed the tops of her arms as she turned to leave; grasping the door with her back to him she started to cry silently. Jack could feel her shacking and turned her around pulling her into a hug as she sobbed freely.

"I'm so sorry sweetie, so sorry." He whispered into her ear trying to comfort her. They stayed like this for a while until Karen pulled out of his grasp. "I think we need to talk." She sobbed wiping her eyes. He nodded in agreement and followed her across the hall to Will and Grace's.

"So you've been staying here?" He asked trying to start the conversation.

"Yeh, they have both been great." Karen replied looking away form Jack.

He moved forward and took hold of her hand; she filched and pulled away standing up and finally allowing everything she had wanted to say to come out.

"Why, Jack, Why sleep with Will? Why use one of your best friends of thirteen years to decide whether you have feelings for me or not?" She paused trying to contain her anger so he could reply.

"Kare, I don't know why I did that, I just thought that the way I was feeling was down to Will, seeing as I was always gay, I've never, ever been attracted to a woman, let alone fallen in love with one, so I got confused I thought my feelings were for Will, then that night, everything felt so wrong, I knew I should stop it but I didn't I was weak and pathetic and I didn't, I had a chance to prove to myself that I was still gay and I took it, second biggest mistake of my life, I hurt Will who had feelings for me, which I swear I knew nothing about, and I was so lucky that he wanted to forgive and forget, he had his feelings all wrong too, it wasn't just me."

Karen waved her finger to stop him, "no, no you never say Will was in anyway to blame for this, he thought he was going to wake up to a new life with you but you just dropped him like you did me."

"No Karen I didn't, yes I was unfair to Will, I used him I did, but not you, I got scared that's why I said the things I did to you the other day about

ending it, I could never forgive myself if things didn't work out between us."

Karen was getting more and more angry and upset.

"My god jack, that's what a relationship is all about, you have to take a risk, I took the ultimate one in letting my true feelings for you out, your gay, to me you have always been gay, so when you told me you loved me do you have any idea how many times I thought about whether this would work, would I be enough for you, how long would it be until you cheated on me with another man, but I put all that aside because I thought you were worth the risk. Rosario, Grace, Will all saying be careful Jacks gay, I put that aside because I thought you were worth the risk, you obviously didn't think I was worth that risk." She stopped as tears rolled down her face. He walked up and put his arms around her wanting to help her so much, wanting to relive the last few weeks and make everything right.

"Karen you are worth the risk, I knew that the minute you closed that door saying I had lost you, I knew then but it was too late you had gone, I love you so much, I never wanted you to find out about Will the way you did, I never wanted to hurt you. I love you."

The two were interrupted when Will and Grace came singing through the doorway.

"What are you doing, get away from her." Grace screamed pulling Karen away from Jack.

"Honey are you ok." She asked Karen. Karen nodded her reply.

"Jack I think you should go, why are you here anyway, haven't you caused her enough pain?" Grace snapped.

"I asked him to come over." Karen whispered looking up at Jack. "I went across the hall and asked him to come over, I had to ask him a few things."

"That's fine Karen are you done, do you want some privacy?" Will asked sensing they still had unfinished business.

"No it's fine I think were done." Karen replied walking towards the bedroom.

"Good now you can leave cause you're not welcome here." Grace said, looking evilly at Jack.

"Grace." Will chastise.

"No Will, nobody messes with my friends the way he has, and actually uses me for advise in between them both, I have nothing to say to him."

"Grace" Will tried again in vain as she walk off to check on Karen.

"It's ok Will, I understand how she's feeling, if anybody hurt Karen the way I had I'd want to kill them, I'm going to go, I'm sorry for everything." With that he left, still feeling as lost as before.