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Will is trying his hardest to listen to this woman...what is her name again?...talk about.. what is she talking about? But all he can think about is his offer of partnership to Alicia. She hasn't even mentioned it yet and that makes him nervous. It doesn't make their private life any less difficult, either. It had started to get a little awkward between them and Will just wanted her to answer him. Whether it was a 'yes' or a 'no' he didn't mind. He just wants his lovely and non-awkward Alicia back.

As he is considering taking back the offer, he noticed Diane step toward his office doors. The woman.. Janey? No.. Joely. That's it.. is still talking about something or rather but Will takes in the intense and worried look on Diane's face.

"Joely? Could you give me a minute?" he says in a low voice, not paying attention to her or his own words. He registers that she says something but it's unimportant. She exits his office but his eyes are glued to Diane who looks a little shell-shocked.

"What?" he asks, his voice full of concern.

"Alicia's leaving the firm with Cary and she's taking our top clients." She says it without warning, flat-out, and Will doesn't process it right away. He says the words again in his head, Alicia's leaving, and it doesn't make sense. It just doesn't make sense.

"Sh- What?" His tone is hushed, because it doesn't sound real.

"I sat down with one of my clients, Sonya Rucker, and asked if she was leaving the firm. She is. With Cary and Alicia. To their new firm."

"She- With just Cary, right?" He's denying it all, because Alicia would never do that. Not when they'd just started to be happy with each other.

"No. Alicia as well."

"I… When? I- She's a partner."

"Yes, and she had a ten thousand dollar stipend to decorate her office, but she stopped three weeks ago, spending only half." She pauses, but it isn't enough time for him to process it. "She has been planning this for three weeks." It's easier to believe since Diane has a little bit of proof she really has been planning this. He thinks this is the reason Alicia has been so distant. It was about the offer of the partnership, because she's been planning to leave the firm. Leave him… Again.

"Will, I know this is hard-" He stands before Diane can finish. He has to talk to Alicia. There is no way in hell he won't ask her about it. There is no way in hell this is real. Not when they are finally together, and happy, for Christ's sake.

"Document everything," she says firmly as he leaves his office to seek out Alicia. He doesn't want a reason to document everything. Best case scenario is that it's just Cary, and not Alicia. Still, he trusts Diane and if she says Alicia is leaving then it's true, somehow. He feels hurt, and betrayed. There's no way for him to not feel that way right now.

He walks down the halls of his firm, the firm he was willing to share with Alicia, and all he sees is her. He sees her flipping her hair and smiling at him under the sheets from last Tuesday when she stayed over at his house and they barely got any sleep. He sees her smile at him from across the conference room, which was only a few days after they had their brief talk at her apartment. He can still feel how amazing it is when she smiles at him. It's like every dark day he's ever had disappears and it's only her light.

But then this overwhelming feeling of betrayal comes back to him, just as he approaches her door. Her head is down and she's working on something. It all looks normal. She's wearing the jacket he suggested she wear. It was between that and a light blue one, and though grey is boring, grey looks better. And there's a zip at the front, which is easier to take off. But all of that quickly erases from his mind, and he has to ask.

"You're leaving?" he asks quietly, casually, like it's normal, which is what she must think at first.

"No, I just got here." She almost gives him a confused smile, because he knows that she was leaving the house soon after him. Then she gets it.

He knows.

"You're leaving with Cary," he says again, this time with more conviction, and walks further into her office, closing the door gently behind him, trying not to make it look like something to the other associates. She looks down at her hands, looks back up and locks onto Will's eyes. All she does is nod. Words are barely needed between them now, and it makes Will hurt even more.

"Will…" she says, her voice hitches and Will sees the remorse in her eyes, but he doesn't let it get to him.

"No, Alicia. Don't." He walks to her desk. "We're together. We're happy. I can see it in your face when I'm with you." There's emotion in his voice and Will doesn't like the sound of it, but she's doing something that she could never take back.

"It's not just about us together, Will-"

"Stop it!" He interrupts her abruptly. "Don't try to explain it. I know what it's about."

"You think you do, but it's more about work-" she pleads with him, but he's too far into his own thoughts to really hear her.

"Bullshit!" he yells at her, and there's so much rage in him that he moves to one end of her desk and pushes everything off with one sweep of an arm. She stands quickly, and there's some sort of fear in her face because he's never been that angry before. He leans over her desk and looks directly into her eyes.

"This is the last time you do this. The last time you ever do this to me. I love you, but I'm not letting you do this again."

"Will, I lo-"

"Stop it, Alicia! I don't want to hear it. Get out." He sees the tears in her eyes, and as much as it kills him to tell her to go, he just can't look at her anymore. "You say you're leaving, so go." He stands up straight and straightens his suit.

He can feel the eyes behind him staring at the two of them, but he doesn't care. He doesn't want to care about any of it anymore.