Note 1: The Good Wife is not mine.
Note 2: Not gonna lie, I'm not completely happy with this. I was gonna do a few one shots in one, but I need to publish this tonight because you probably won't see another update until June/July.
"I've built my life on winning, on hating the enemy and loving my candidate."
It's election day, and those words ring endlessly through her ears. It's only now, that she sits here, alone in her bedroom, and she wonders if she can really win this – regardless of the election result. Her phone rings next to her, and she does a double take when Will's name pops up on her screen.
Her eyes are playing tricks on her, seemingly in touch with her brain, conspiring to force Alicia to finally confront the question she's refused to answer – why are you running?
They're forcing her to finally come to terms with events which happened six months prior, instead of standing by and watching as Alicia tore down more bridges than ever before, and attempted to completely change the landscape of her life, all because Will's death caused to suddenly regret every choice over the last six years which brought her to this moment.
Now, she's absolutely terrified. This is the insecurity which Alicia has buried under the façade of coldness and anger towards her husband, and in her uncalled-for attack on Diane, because she simply couldn't let herself get dragged into her emotions.
Admittedly, she'd been changing her life ever since she was hired at Lockhart-Gardner, but that was natural development, whilst this State's Attorney race was so detached from her current life – and everything that stemmed from that, so she wanted in.
Now, she doesn't really know what that means.