A/N So as promised as soon as I could churn it out I give you chapter 15. Wow chapter 15 already from a three chapter fic to an amazing journey! Thanks everyone for taking this journey with me, and Will and Alicia. Enjoy the chapter, happy reading and Happy Sunday or as we know it it my house Good Wife day! Also I used two quotes in the second to last paragraph, I'm not sure who they are from I found them on Pinterest so they don't belong to me.

Will and Grace

Will was quiet as Grace continued.

"so Zach got a phone call from an unknown number last night," she paused and sipped her coffee,"Can I get some cream and sugar?" "So anyways he didn't know the number but he answered it anyways and it was some reporter, and they wanted to know how Zach was handling his parents divorce, but that wasn't the worst part, the worst part is apparently there was a rumor about my dad sleeping with an intern, some redhead well he was; apparently it wasn't a rumor but she was two timing my dad. Ironic isn't it? Anyways." Grace took another drink, then got up and started to pace.

Will couldn't help but think in that moment how much Grace looked like her mother. He was pulled back into the moment.

"So this redhead got information on some voter fraud thing and she passed it on to her reporter boyfriend." Grace continued pacing back and forth, "and I guess she has pictures of something she found in my dad's office and they plan to pass all this on to someone in charge, but I don't think my mom knows and well me and Zach didn't know what to do so what do we do Will?"

Will was taken aback he hadn't expected Grace to come to him about anything like this. He needed a moment to think.

"okay so I think we need to tell your mom so that she knows what's going on and can prepare herself, and she needs to know so she can talk to your dad. Now can I ask you one thing?"

Grace stopped her pacing to look at Will, "yeah?"

"Why aren't you in school?"

"I have a free period so I took the EL to get here to talk to you."

"ok well let's get you back to school before they notice you missing and call your mom and scare her, then I'll call her and let her know what's going on, and we'll make a plan, you know how your mom likes plans."

"Thanks, Will" Grace smiled at him and more than ever she reminded Will of her mother.

They drove in mostly silence on the way to Grace's school with Grace directing him when necessary, both were lost in their own worlds, Will digesting the information that Grace had given him and Grace was thinking about whether or not she had made the right choice coming to Will, part of her wondered if maybe her dad would have been a better choice, but she thought that getting the information from Will would be better than her mom getting it from the news or her dad. When they arrived at Grace's school Will assured her that she had done the right thing coming to him and let her know that she could call or come see him anytime she needed to. Grace thanked him again as she got out of the car, then headed into the building. Will pulled out his cell phone and dialed Alicia.

Alicia

"…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…"

Alicia heard her phone ringing and excused herself from her conversation with Carey and Robyn.

"Will what's up?"

"Hey honey, you busy right now?"

"I think I have a few minutes free if you need me to."

"Yeah I can't really tell you over the phone so can I meet you somewhere?"

"Wanna meet at the office?" Alicia could sense something was off with Will, when he had first called her she had thought maybe he wanted to have one of their 'lunches' but now she could tell this probably wasn't a happy get together.

"I'd rather not, maybe a coffee shop or some place like that?"

"Ok I'll meet you at the Starbucks on S. Dearborn in about 20 minutes? I need to let Cary know I'm going out."

"See you in a bit, Love you"

"Love you, too" Alicia hung up the phone and started to gather her things then glanced at the clock it was only 2:00 but she figured she could just take her work with her and work from home after she talked to Will. She found Cary and let him know she'd be out for the rest of the day and headed to the rickety elevator.

Will was waiting for her with a coffee in the back of the coffee shop, he smiled as he saw her approach.

"Hey Beautiful"

Alicia kissed him on the cheek and stopped him from standing up,

"Whats's going on, Will, you sounded serious on the phone."

Will floundered a little bit he had forgotten that she could sense when something was amiss,

"So Grace came to my office today, about two hours ago, I dropped her off at her school right before I called you."

"Grace came to your office?" Alicia looked confused, "why would Grace come to your office? Why wasn't she at school? Was she ok?"

Will reached for Alicia's hand, "Grace is fine, physically, but she found out something and she wasn't sure how to handle it."

"Zach got a phone call last weekend, and the press knows about the divorce."

Alicia sighed, "Well it was bound to get out do they know about us?"

"I don't think so but Alicia, there's more."

Alicia gave a strangled laugh, "of course why wouldn't there be more, just when life was starting to get less interesting."

"Alicia, Peter was having another affair, he was involved with an intern." Will paused to gauge Alicia's reaction before he continued, "This intern was working Peter over and the whole affair was a set up, Alicia, they know about the video and the investigation."

Alicia laid her head down on the table and laughed soundlessly,

'Leesh? You ok?"

"you know, Will I'm not even upset,hurt or angry anymore. I'm just tired. I'm tired of putting in more effort than I got back. I'm tired of holding on for nothing. I'm tired of believing all his lies. I'm tired of him proving me wrong. I'm tired of getting my hopes up and being disappointed. I'm tired of thinking it will be different and every time it's the same old thing. Even worse than being lied to is this feeling that I wasn't worth telling the truth. What the hell is wrong with me Will? Why did I think this time would be any different? Will? Can you take me home? I just need to get home before the press finds me."

Will stood up and took Alicia by the hand, "Come on I'll take you home." Will helped her out of the chair then sheltered her body with his as they left the coffee shop, he opened the car door and helped her into the car. She was quiet which Will knew would lead to the tears, and he didn't want to be Peter when her tears fueled her anger. He'd been on the wrong side of Alicia's wrath before and he'd do anything he could not to end up there again.