There was nothing on television to help take her mind off the agitation of waiting for her mother to finally get home. It was now six o'clock and Will was starting to worry just a little bit that maybe Susan may not make it home in time for the dinner. Her mother promised though and the redhead had faith in her mother and though time was ticking away the older woman still had time to make it home and change and still have just enough time to make it.

Cornelia wasn't right, Will's mother wanted tonight just as much as the redhead herself did. Susan loved her daughter, despite all the trouble the two Vandom women have been having lately they were a family. They would always be there for each other and Susan would be there for Will tonight, the redhead knew it.

Picking up the cordless phone from off the couch next to her for the third time in fifteen minutes Will worriedly dialed her mother's cell phone. She knew that her mother was going to answer, with each ring she told herself that Susan was going to pick up. Instead though she got the voice mail again.

"M-Mom…Are you okay? Where are you? Did you forget about m…Did you forget the dinner tonight?" Will asked choking a little as she fought back the tears that were threatening to spill and ruin the painstakingly applied make up. Hitting the end button Will hung up the phone and sat it next top her on the couch.

Picking up the remote Will started flipping through the channels again hoping beyond hope of finding something to take her mind off Cornelia's thoughtless words tonight. Truthfully if it was just tonight though Will would have been able to shrug it off but the blonde had said basically the same thing to her several times the last few days and a part of Will knew that Cornelia had meant it.

Will knew she was a screw up, she had always known it deep down though for the longest time she tried to prove she wasn't. Her father had left because of her, all the fights she remembered Tony and Susan having had been over Will. She couldn't remember exactly what they were about but she remembered them and she remembered Tony screaming something about Will being stupid.

If that wasn't enough to begin with there was her friends at Fadden Hills. Then again she guessed she never had friends there as they never liked her, they only felt sorry for her. Her parents were divorced, she was a pity project among the kids in her class and that was all. They got sick of it quick enough and sick of her.

Her father didn't want to hang around with her. Her old friends at Fadden Hills didn't want her around. And finally her friends here wished that she was never even born as it was her fault they had become guardians. All she was good for was causing people trouble and grief, after all look at Elyon. Will had wanted to protect Elyon and her parents from finding out thee truth as she was sure they would be safer that way and none of them would have to find out about this whole other frightening world.

Yeah, it turned out that Elyon's parents already knew as they were refugees from Meridian. The two had kidnapped Elyon top protect her from Phobos and thanks to Will not making a smart decision of going to them sooner the entire family was Phobos's prisoners in Meridian.

She completely botched that whole thing single handedly proving how bad of a screw up she was. Cornelia knew about it and Will was sure it was only a short amount of time before the other girls realized that also. The only reason they were probably friends anyways was the Heart. After all Cornelia didn't even want to be friends with Will to begin with, the blonde made that clear the first day when snapping at Hay Lin about inviting Will over.

"No!" Will cried out shaking her head. She refused to cry or think about this. Her mother loved her. SHE DID!

"Please mom, where are you?" Will whined hugging herself and leaning forward a little breathing a little heavily. "Please don't do this to me, please."

The phone ringing made Will cry out in surprise, smiling brightly as she picked up the handset. She knew her mother wasn't going to let her down, that was her now calling to let Will know she was on the way home right now. Susan probably had to get her hair done or something at the appointment took longer than it should have.

"Hey Will, you ready?" Irma's voice came over the phone crushing Will's spirits. It wasn't Susan after all but Irma, she should have known better. She had to have faith though, her mother really did care about her so she didn't have anything to worry about.

"Yeah, if I can just get used to these damned heels." Will said looking at the offensive footwear she kicked off next to her on the floor a little earlier.

"We're leaving in a few minutes." Irma said then whispered into the phone, "God Will, save me! She has me dressed up like some damned doll!"

"Come on, Irma, it can't be that bad." Will said laughing a little. Irma was her friend, she shouldn't let her imagination run wild like that. There were people who loved her though sometimes it was hard to see…Unless she was calling to flaunt her step mother caring more for her than Will's real mother did for the redhead.

"It is!" Irma whined, "God I don't want to go to this, I'd much rather be watching VMJ right now!"

"Come on, Irma, it'll be fun!" Will said smiling a little at Irma's antics.

"So are your mom and you wearing matching gowns?" Irma asked causing Will's smile to fall.

"She's not here yet, she's on her way now though." Will said hopefully.

"Cool, then I'll se you there." Irma said, "I have a little brother to kill right now."

"Yeah, se you there." Will murmured as the line went dead just after hearing Chris's scream of terror. Sighing Will tried dialing her mom's cell phone yet again and sadly only received the voice mail. "Mom, it's getting late please pick up. If you don't get home we'll never make it in time."

Sighing she threw the phone across the room before dropping her face in her hands. Taking several deep breaths she steeled herself and got her emotions under control before getting up and walking back to her room to make sure her make up was okay. Thankfully it was so she didn't have to worry about touching it up as it was a nightmare enough putting it on.

Dejectedly Will made her way back to the couch and tried once again to find something to watch and get her mind from everything as it was now fifteen minutes till seven. She knew that even if her mom made it home now it would make them run a little later than Will would have liked but they would still have plenty of time to enjoy the evening together.

She finally got her mind off worrying as the clock reached seven o'clock as she had managed to convince herself that Susan would be home any second. Landing on an episode of the Simpsons Will relaxed a little and started watching it though and finally let herself be drawn into the episode for a few minutes. It wasn't long though as she looked at the clock again noticing it saying seven fifteen when it advertised.

Susan wasn't coming…She would have been there by now if she was. The phone started ringing again causing Will to jump a little at the sudden noise before hurrying across the room to retrieve the phone from where she threw it a few minutes ago. She tried hitting the talk button to pick up as she walked back over the couch and froze as she realized it wasn't working. She screwed up again and broke the phone.

"Vandom's residence, leave a message at the beep." Susan's voice came from the base where there was a built in digital answering machine. "Hey honey, my cell phone isn't working so I wanted to call and tell you I'll be late tonight. A few things came up that I have to talk to Dean about but I have some money in the cabinet above the fridge you can use to order a pizza. I'll see you when I…"

The message stopped when Will screamed as loud as she could after throwing the phone at the base throwing it off the stand it was on. Susan had chosen him over her again! And tonight of all nights!

Dropping to the couch Will curled up on it pulling the tickets she had out of where the were sticking out of the top of her gown and clutched them to her chest. Two months of saving, two months of planning and two months of hopes all destroyed because Susan cared more about Dean than her own daughter. Cornelia was right all along and Susan didn't care about Will. Why would the older woman want to spend an evening with a screw up when she could spend it with Dean Collins?

She started sobbing as she realized she had no one left, everyone she had ever cared for her had left her. She probably deserved it though, it would explain why it kept happening. She was a nothing in everyone's eyes and truthfully in her own eyes as well.

Will yawned a little as she realized she had cried herself to sleep before noticing her mother kneeling there looking at the tickets that she must have taken from the redhead. There was a sad look in the woman's eyes but Will couldn't take it, she couldn't take the lies that Susan was sure to make up. The simple truth was Will didn't deserve anyone's love, she never did. She was worthless…She wouldn't pretend otherwise any more, she didn't have the strength. She wouldn't let anyone else lull her into a sense of love as she didn't deserve it and every time the people around her realized it the pain that followed was always too much. If she didn't give them the chance then they couldn't hurt her again. Never again.

"What time is it?" Will mumbled looking up at the woman.

"It's a past ten Will, I'm sorry." Susan sighed. Will mentally laughed, the woman was sorry. That was some sick joke, Susan wasn't sorry and Will wouldn't buy it.

"Where were you?" Will asked shaking her head, cursing herself for even bothering. She knew exactly where Susan was.

"Honey, please, I really…" Susan said softly, her eyes pleading.

Where. Were. YOU?" Will snarled angrily. Practically screaming at the woman.

"I had dinner with Dean…Will, I'm sorry…" Susan sighed. Translation, Will saved and planned for two months, had hoped for two months looking forward to this only to have the woman throw it back in her face how worthless the redhead was. She wasn't even important enough to consider how much trouble she had gone through for tonight, how much work she put into it.

"Don't! Don't even start!" Will cried, not caring about her make up any more as it seemed pointless. Hell, she probably already ruined it earlier as she faintly remembered crying herself to sleep. "All I asked for was one single night and you couldn't even give me that."

"Will." Susan said softly reaching out to her daughter only to have her hands smacked away.

"If you didn't want to go all you had to do was say so!" Will sobbed, shaking her head. At least if Susan had just told her instead of pulling this stunt Will wouldn't be in so much pain. "I saved for a month before asking you and buying the tickets! I was looking forward to this for TWO months!"

"Will, stop acting like a child!" Susan blurted out, obviously upset. She was a child though, she was supposed to be the woman's daughter and Susan was supposed to be there for her but she wasn't. Her mother had abandoned her just like her father had. Sure Susan was standing there but that was all she was doing, all she ever did. For all intent and purposes Will knew her mother had left her for Dean.

"Geeze, I'm sorry Missus Vandom, if you will excuse me I think I'm going to bed!" Will said coldly, swallowing her emotions trying to keep from breaking down. She turned from the shocked expression on the woman's face and walked to her room shutting and locking the door behind her. Yeah, she was really loved as the woman really fought to comfort her. Just like always…

"Will, please open this door." Susan called as Will numbly walked to her bed and dropped into it. Taking a pillow she shoved her face into it and let out a scream muffling it. She started shaking violently as she sobbed loudly into the pillow, "Will, please answer me." Susan begged turning a little and leaning against the door. "I'm sorry, please talk to me!"

Will refused to give in though, she wouldn't answer the woman and open herself to any more pain. She didn't know what she was going to do as she curled up as she continued crying. She refused to let herself be hurt by anyone ever again and was actually thinking about the bottles of medicine in her desk. It would be so easy to take those all and just end everything but she couldn't bring herself to get up. She eventually cried herself asleep for the second time that night.

NOTES

Wow, I didn't think I was going to get this chappie done quite this quickly but I'm having trouble writing anything else for the moment so took a break from A Chance for Happiness and worked on this though Chance will be the next update I work on, thankies.

Philip Gipson: Your welcome, glad you liked it. She's going through a lot but she wanted to fix things with her mom because she was so afraid of losing her but sadly it didn't work out. Sorries, it doesn't look like things will get much better for everyone's fave redhead anytime soon in this story. Will is my favorite character in Witch, well technically Will and Susan are my two faves and I love stories based on them, a mother daughter relationship. I normally love a good relationship with them and I have no idea where the idea for this story came from as I hate seeing them this torn apart. I might start a C2 based solely on Will Susan stories. (No, not romantic pairings…ewwwwww…But mother daughter relationship stories.) I may write a story based on one of the other girls some time in the future though.