Thank you for all the lovely feedback and follows. I have re written this chapter 3 times and I'm still not happy with it. Just dosnt seem to flow, please let me know what you think.

Mackenzie got plates and cutlery and placed it on her coffee table in case they felt like using them. She looked down at herself and realised she was over dressed. Will was in jeans and a tshirt and she was in a pencil skirt and blouse.

"I'm just going to go get changed" said Mac

"Ok" said Will picking up the remotes to her 4 tvs and putting on various news channels.

Mac got into her bedroom and surveyed the mess, feathers everywhere. She decided to clean up now. She got her hoover out and began sucking up all the mess. She pulled her skirt off and unbuttoned her blouse and found her tracksuit bottoms a vest and a zippy hoodie to wear. She loved being barefoot. She looked at herself in the mirror and shook her head at the mess of her face. She had panda eyes thanks to sobbing on poor Will. She was killing time, she was scared of the talk they were going to have. She was worried about saying the wrong thing. She didn't want to hurt Will anymore and she was scared of Will bringing up Brian. She was fragile and she wasn't sure how much she could face her past discressions thrown in her face especially when she had fucked up again with Genoa. He heard a knock at her door.

"Mac food has arrived" said Will softly through the door

"Coming" said Mac straightening up looking at her bedroom which looked much better abd going out to Will and the smell of food.

She got into the living room to find Will unpacking a box full of food.

"You know you are only feeding two people right?" said Mac as Will began opening the small Chinese boxes and peering inside each one to see what it was.

"Yes but i am starving and when did you last eat?" he asked giving her a wink

Mac sat down beside him and began looking in the boxes for what she wanted.

"You know in the UK Chinese food doesn't come in these little cardboard boxes" said Mac.

"What? How does it come?" asked Will a noodle halfway to his mouth

"Tupperware or foil trays" said Mac eating a spoonful of rice

"That's not right Mac, it isn't Chinese without the boxes"

"When I was over there every time we ordered Chinese everyone would say, i wish they came in boxes like in America"

"They are right!" said Will smiling

He knew what she was doing, Mac was great at small talk and they had a huge talk coming. She was trying to lighten the mood because she didn't like the elephant in the room.

It didn't take long for them to finish the food. Will put the leftovers in her fridge and Mackenzie did the washing up. Will poured them more drinks and sat on the sofa waiting for her he made a point of leaving the tv's on but muting the sound.

Mac came and sat down beside him, she curled her feet under her legs. She felt small and she wanted to not feel like this.

"So err where should we begin" Will asked looking at her

Mac shrugged she didn't know where to begin, she wanted to not have this conversation and just go to phone her mum and go to sleep.

"How about Genoa and work back" said Will

"Mac?" Will asked as he saw her tense up at the mention of it

"Genoa is my fault" said Mac softly

"and how do you figure that one?"

"I asked Jerry to come, I let him "

"Mackenzie" Will cut her off "Jerry came because Jim went to New Hampshire"

"I could have talked him out of that" said Mac sadly

"That I doubt very much" said Will

"Jim came to me, he said to me he needed to get out of the office, I told him he couldn't go he was a senior producer. But he asked me, if i went to Afghanistan because i fucked up with you, and i said yes. He said there wasn't Taliban in New York so he would go to New Hampshire. He was just so sad Will" said Mac sadly.

"It was something he needed to do Mac, it's not your fault"

Mackenzie nodded trying to stop tears coming again, she rubbed her foot for something to do. She could feel Will's eyes on her.

"Jerry came to me about Genoa and I told him I didn't believe him, believe the story up until we retracted it part of me didn't believe it. But i went to Charlie with it and we put together teams to investigate it and track it all down. I should have stopped it sooner" said Mac

"The benefit of hindsight is a wonderful thing, what if's Mac are no good to us now" said Will

Mackenzie nodded angrily wiping a tear away.

"If only we had checked more" said Mac

" You did we all fell for it, the interview was the final piece that made us green light the story Mac, if it had been the real footage, who knows what we would have done, but you didn't doctor footage Mac and you didn't Lie about it"

"But I lead a witness and I allowed it to get to you and on our air"

"I don't agree you lead him, but Mac we all allowed it on our air. Do you think I am happy about Genoa? Do you think I like retracting a story? Having our team feel the way they do?" asked Will his voice rising.

"No, I didn't mean"

"You aren't the only one hurting Mac" said Will simply standing up

"I didn't say I was Will"

"It's been a rough few months Mac" Will ran his hands through his hair.

"Will things were going great, you did the American Taliban broadcast and we were on cloud 9 then things changed. We had been meeting for drinks, late night calls when we couldn't sleep and we were getting on better. It all just stopped and i had no idea why until i found out about you and Nina Howard" said Mac her voice choked. She remembered how she felt when she found out about Nina and Will.

She had been in her office working late, most of the team had gone and she heard voices, she looked out her door and saw Will and Nina kissing as she had picked him up for a late dinner. It broke her heart. Of all the people it had to be her that Will fell for.

"Mackenzie, I know i should have told you about Nina but I well it wasn't a good time, i wasn't feeling myself" said Will softly

"I knew that, you could have spoken to me, I know you were upset about being taken off the 9/11 broadcast Will but you shut me out"

"I was flipping out Mac, my confidence was at a low and Nina was just there at the right moment" said Will carefully. He knew how upset Mac was about the whole Nina thing. "I needed what she was able to give me"

"Did she help you when your dad died?" Mackenzie asked. They hadn't spoken about Will's dad since the night he died.

"No, I didn't tell her, I didn't go to the Funeral so.."

"You didn't go to his funeral?" Mackenzie was shocked

"You sound surprised Mac, I hated the man, I couldn't go and shed crocodile tears over him" said Will gruffly sitting back down beside her. Mackenzie noticed a little closer to her than he was.

"But Will he was still your father, and what about your sisters and Brother?"

"What about them? We spoke on the phone, I paid for the funeral but they didn't expect me to come. I still don't understand how they could have anything to do with him after what he had done" said Will bitterly.

"He had stopped drinking; perhaps he had changed and tried to make amends for what he had done?" Mac offered.

"I don't forgive and forget Mackenzie, he didn't deserve my forgiveness, he put my family through hell. Just because he stopped drinking doesn't make him a perfect father Mac, I didn't want him in my life" said Will

Mackenzie felt sick, Will didn't forgive of forget and she knew this meant for her to. She was never going to get him back in that sense.

"Do you know what its like Mac to fear your own parent. To come home from School and be scared that he is going to beat you or your mother for simply being in the room? Or for playing with your toys and using voices for them. You were lucky Mac, your dad loved you, he looked out for you. I know being a ambassadors child has its own issues but you were safe and loved and you didn't have to protect your family" said Will he was holding back tears. He was remembering all the bad times why had he started talking about his father. He could remember the beatings, he remembered the day it stopped, the day he hit him with the bottle of dewers and he left the next day.

Mackenzie sat forward and placed her hand on Will's he squeezed it and looked at her. His eyes were red and tears were threatening to fall.

"It's ok Will. He is gone now, he can't hurt you again" said Mac pulling Will to her, she could see from his eyes he was reliving the worst moments of his childhood. They had spoken before about it and the abuse he had suffered. It took a lot for Will to open up and she understood why he didn't do it with Nina. What Will suffered as a child had affected him psychologically. It changed him and the way he acted. It also broke Mackenzie's heart.

Will squeezed Mackenzie's hand tighter. She sat back and moved his head to her knee. Will curled up and lay as she stroked his hair. She knew this comforted him, they would spend hours sat like this in the old days. She knew he was still upset, but she also knew they were done talking for while when he picked up the remote and put the sound back on.

As always any comments are appreciated.