Hey, hey, I'm back, and yes a little late. This story is a little rough but I hope that it clears up any questions that you may have had. Also the first chapter starts three four months after the end of Here with me. So enjoy! Don't forget to review.

Will grabbed two beers from the fridge before rejoining Alicia on the couch. He loved being able to relax and drink beer with his girlfriend. It made him feel like a regular guy once. Ever since he was a child he was either working or studying. He was a rich kid so he had to work for everything that he had. Even though he was a playboy, he never really was able to have that simple life where he was happy in a committed relationship. Even though the relationship he is in is anywhere but simple, he was happy, and committed, and that was all that he needed.

"So, how was the office?" Will gave Alicia her beer and sat next to her, leaning his arm on the back of the couch. Alicia closed her eyes before answering his question. It was traumatizing to even think about it.

"Do you want the professional or the personal?" Will smiled as he drank his beer. He knew which one she wanted to talk about and which one he wanted to talk about. But he could tell that she had a long day, so he gave her what she wanted.

"Professional." Alicia smiled, knowing he really didn't care as much as she did about work now. In the beginning all he wanted to know about was the office and what clients stayed and which left. He started to forget why Alicia was there. It was rough at first, and she didn't blame him, it was her fault. Even though he would never say it, she knew that was always on his mind. She remembered the first argument they had about it.

"Will can we not talk about work for once?" Will was pacing in his living room while Alicia sat in an arm chair watching him. It had been two weeks since his suspension and Will nearly demanded that she come by every day before she went home (if she went home). Alicia was starting to worry that he would burn out before the end of his first month, or at least she would. She was tired, over worked, and wrecked with guilt. When she came to Will's all she wanted to do was relax, but it seemed that all she did was bring back a progress report. She felt like she was a spy at her own firm.

"How can you say that? All you do is work, what else is there to talk about?" Alicia was taken back; she knew that he was a workaholic but she never knew that it would go this far.

"Will we were actually friends before all of this happened. This happened because I love you; I think we have a lot to talk about."

"You love me, look where that got me." Alicia tried to hold back the tears. She knew that he was only hurt that everything that he worked for got taken away from him. And she understood that pretending that she was hurt by this was selfish. Her job was still intact, she was safe, no harm came to her, but she did feel for him. She yelled at Peter quite a bit for what he did, she was not going to stand there and let him take everything from her. She fought, hard, and even got Will from getting a sentence. But did Will thank her, no he could be in jail right now, but all he cared about was his reputation. Lately Alicia was starting to rethink her decision for the first time in a long time. But she still had faith in the Will she knew and loved.

"Will I didn't ask Peter to start a crusade against you. You did that all on your own. If you would have left him alone, we wouldn't have this problem."

"So now it is my fault, I'm the reason that I am suspended for six months. Yes, Alicia, you're right, you're always right." Alicia tried not to be hurt by his harshness, but she couldn't help it.

"No Will, but you didn't have to rub it in his face. And to be honest you could have told me to go back to him and saved yourself. You had that option plenty of times, but you never took it."

"So now I'm the bad guy for actually giving a shit and wanting to be happy for the first time in my life?"

"No but apparently I have to bare the cross for the both of us. You say these things as if I don't care what happens to you. As if it didn't kill me to make this choice. I was ready to give you up to save you. But I gave you the choice, I let you choose your job over me, your life over me. And every time you chose me over everything. And now I am supposed to take all of this shit because of a choice you made?" Will stopped pacing and walked over to Alicia.

"I made that choice with my heart. You forced me to choose, and it wasn't to give me autonomy, it was because you didn't want to be the blame for what happens. You love making decisions for everyone, but you hate to be the blame when your choices go wrong." Alicia got up, hurt by his words. She tried her hardest to hold back the tears that she felt accumulating in her eyes.

"Are you saying that I screwed up by choosing you?" Alicia could take a lot of things in life. But the man of her dreams telling her that she should have picked someone else, that tipped the scale.

"Because if you are, I will leave. I can find another job, move away and you will never see me again. I won't get back with Peter, but I'll leave you, if that is what you want if it will make your life easier. I will leave." It was a hard question for Will. If she left, his career may get better, it has already taken a massive hit by the suspension, but he could come back from it. He would come back stronger if he didn't have Alicia with him. But he would have a massive hole in his heart from the loss of the only woman that he ever loved. His pride was telling him that there were other women. But his heart was saying that there was no other.

After a few seconds of silence, Alicia sighed and grabbed her purse. She tried to walk past him, tears falling down her cheek as she nearly ran to the door. Will grabbed her arm before she even made it two steps. He moved her to face him, but she struggled to get to the door. It was only when he gently forced her to look at him did she stop struggling. He started wiping the tears away from her before pulling her into a hug.

"I would never want you to leave me and never come back. I could get laid off and still want you by my side." Will pulled away from Alicia so they could see each other eye to eye.

"I'm sorry I've been such a jerk lately. I have been stressed since my suspension. I should be taking this out on Peter or finding a way to get back to work rather than hurting the only person that cared for me. I promise from now on I will try to focus less on work and more on us." Will gently kissed Alicia before she placed her head on his shoulder.

"Now let's do something that requires a lot of work, but without the paperwork?" Alicia smiled before looking up at Will and nodding her head.

After that night, things got better. Alicia spent less time at Will's but they were much more intimate and less stressful.

"Everything is going great at work. We won two cases and we even got back two of our clients. It might have been because we went against them and won, but who knows." Will couldn't help but smile at how mischievous Alicia had become. But he also started to get extremely worried. Alicia was always seen as a saint to everyone, even if she refused to believe it. Will seemed to be the only one to know that she had a dark side to her. She was miraculously able to balance good and evil without people seeing the evil. But lately Alicia has been more cutthroat than usual. Which would be great for clients, but bad for her reputation. To be honest he could care less about what people thought about her, but it seemed as though she was starting to become more cutthroat, more like him, and he didn't like that.

"Alicia I think that maybe you should take a little vacation, maybe a weekend off? We could go to the beach; it's starting to get a little warm now."

"Are you crazy, do you really think that I have time to take a vacation?"

"Alicia I'm not saying a week, just a weekend without work and the kids, just the two of us."

"Will I barely see my kids; all I do is work."

"Exactly, you are starting to turn into me." Alicia smiled and kissed him.

"But I like you." Will shook his head and smiled back. He knew that she was trying to distract him to get her way, she had been doing it a lot. But he knew how to get around it. Will threaded his fingers through Alicia's hair as he looked her in the eyes.

"Yes I like me too, but me and you are two different people. I like you for you not for me. Besides, I wouldn't want to date myself, I tried that before and it ended in disaster. I try and stay away from Celeste as much as possible, she's dangerous to me."

"I thought I was your kryptonite?"

"You are, but Celeste is like silver bullets, she doesn't make me weak, she kills me. I don't want that, I want to be happy and I want you to be happy as well."

"But Will, there's just so much to do. We can go on vacation once work slows down."

"I know that work is stressful since I've been gone, and I'm not blaming anyone. And if I could come back and make everything better, you know I would. I'm only two months into this six-month hell and I refuse to have you burn out at month three. And besides, if we wait until work slows down either I'll be back and won't have time or we'll be retiring. So why don't you take the weekend off and we can take the kids to the beach. It would be nice if I can hang out with them, I do miss them."

"Do you want the kids to come or not, because you just said without them."

"Is that a yes?"

"Are the kids coming?"

"If you want them too, I only excluded them because I didn't know if they would cause more or less work for you." Alicia smiled as she took a swig of her beer.

"They are always work for me, it's part of being a mom. But sometimes they make work fun. I think it would be nice if we had a weekend away, but I can't."

"If you think about it, your weekends are always of unless you have an emergency trial date. You only decide to do work. I'm only asking that you decide not to do work next weekend. I don't think that Diane would mind. To be honest, I'm surprise that she's allowing you to do all of this work on your own. I'll have to call her and talk to her about that." Will went to grab his phone when Alicia grabbed his arm and pulled it back. Will knew that it meant that Diane had no idea about Alicia's case load.

"Diane doesn't know does she?" Alicia smiled and started rubbing Will's leg.

"I won't tell if you won't." Will tried not to take her at how sexy she was being, but he knew that was her new thing. Alicia started using her body after their big fight to get her way. And lately it had been working, but was starting to catch on and tried to counter act it.

"I won't tell her if you come with me on a trip two weekends a month." Will grabbed her hand and kissed it. Alicia took her hand back and placed it over her heart as if she was shot.

"You went up, a hell of a lot."

"Well I thought it would be an equivalent."

"I don't."

"Oh come on. We both know that if Diane found out she would stop giving you clients until you were down to one client a month or longer." Alicia knew that he was right and it was null to continue fighting with him.

"Fine, one weekend a month." But it didn't mean that she wouldn't try.

"No I said two."

"And I'm saying one."

"No, two, you are working yourself to death."

"One is my final offer."

"It was your only offer that doesn't count."

"Exactly, my one and only." Sometimes he hated how stubborn she was.

"Ok, one weekend and you go home an hour early every day."

"That's worse than before."

"Yup."

"Fine, two weekends a month." Will smiled and pulled Alicia close to him.

"Good to know that I haven't lost my touch. I would have taken one weekend you know?" Alicia smiled and laid her head on his shoulder.

"I know, I just like to make you happy. But that doesn't mean that you don't get to work for it." Will smiled and kissed her forehead. He took it back, he loved how stubborn she was.

"Since we are talking about it, how is personal?" Alicia let out a huge sigh before sitting back up.

"I just don't understand why everyone is up my ass about this office thing." Will was confused, this was the first time he had heard about an office thing.

"What office thing?"

"Well remember before your suspension you and Diane gave me that office by Eli's because I was supposed to negotiate with him since the campaign was over and he was coming to work for us?" Will only nodded his head and let Alicia continue talking.

"Well Diane told me to take the office but I thought that it would be weird to take the office since it was partly Eli's fault why you got suspended. To be honest I was surprised that Eli stayed or that Diane allowed him to stay."

"It was my decision. We were losing clients and I hoped that Eli would bring some, and he did. Are you no longer liasoning with him?" Alicia shrugged. She did her job when she had to, but other than that, she completely ignored him. And especially with the conversation that they had today, she would be surprised if he stayed. No, she knew that he would stay to keep an eye out for her, or for Peter.

"Yes, but I don't know how long I can keep it up."

"Then take the office. It's there because you deserved it and it comes with your new tittle. And don't worry about what people think and no it's not hurting me. I want you to prosper, I want you to do better. As long as you don't take my desk, I think I'll be fine. And to be honest one day I want to see you in my desk. Or on it depending how you see it." Alicia wanted to laugh at his last comment but she was stuck on how well he knew her.

"How did you know?"

"I know you sweetie, I know how you think. You may say that you don't care how people think, but you do. It eats you up at what people think. And I also know that you still feel guilty for what happened. But like you said, it was a decision that the two of us made because we love each other. And I would make that decision over and over again if it means that I get to be with you. Besides, I could go into teaching, that would be nice for me."

"What and have young coed's fawn over you and taunt you for a better grade, I don't think so." Alicia scouted closer to him and laid her head on his chest. Will wrapped his arms around her and kissed her forehead.

"This will all be over soon; Peter can't hurt you anymore. After this he will see that we are stronger than him and he will leave us alone." Will hoped that she was right; he nearly lost it a few weeks ago. If Peter had something else up his sleeve, he hoped that it would be better than getting him suspended. To be honest he wasn't sure if they could take another blow.

"I hope so."

"It's funny, he sent Eli to persuade me to go to some stupid conference to pretend to be his wife. I guess he is trying to milk as much out of me before our divorce gets finalize next week. He really thought he could change my mind after signing those papers'. I think that was the happiest day of my life, and the most stressful." Alicia still remembered the day he signed them, it was a month and a half ago. Work was in shambles since Will had been suspended and Alicia had just gotten into a big fight with Will, she just needed one thing to go right. Alicia was sitting in the kitchen drinking a glass of wine while going over paperwork for her case when there was a knock at the door. She hoped it was Will since he only seemed to come over when the kids were at Peter's.

"Hey handsome." She said as she smiled as she opened the door. But to her surprise, it was Peter instead of her lover.

"I don't think that was for me." Alicia rolled her eyes as she saw his sly smile. She hated seeing him on tv since Will. She avoided him as much as she could and only saw him when it came to the kids.

"What are you doing here, and where are the kids?" Peter walked past her and walked into the apartment as if it was his own.

"You know I haven't really been in here in almost a month? I almost miss it, almost as much as I missed the old house. You know I bought it back, the kids love it." Alicia was aware that he recently moved out of the apartment that he had into their old home in Highland Park. She was less than pleased to know that he had bought the house. Even though she would have never bought the house she didn't want to think about Peter taking the kids to stay there, raising her family with another woman in the house that she made a home. But then again, she was planning on being with Will which would be the same. Alicia closed the door and followed Peter to the kitchen.

"Yes Peter, I know. That still doesn't explain why you are here, without my children."

"Our children Alicia, our children. You didn't make them by yourself."

"I know Peter, why are you ignoring my questions?" Peter grabbed a glass and poured himself some wine.

"Well Alicia the children are with my mother so I could come here and talk to you."

"Ok back to my first question, why are you here?"

"I'm here for you Alicia." Peter said after taking a sip of his wine. Alicia finally noticed that he had smelled of alcohol and seemed to be holding on to the counter for dear life.

"Peter you're drunk, let me call you cab home." Alicia went to grab her phone when Peter grabbed her arm, tightly.

"Peter let me go."

"No, and I don't want to go home. Do you know hard it is to go to home to a house that you made with your wife, and she's NOT THERE."

"Peter I told you I'm done, you're the one that bought that stupid house, again. You need to move on Peter. Move on and be happy. I'm happy without you, you can be happy without me too." Alicia put a hand on Peter's and looked at him. With all of the hurt and pain that he caused her, she knew what it felt like losing someone that she loved. She didn't want him to be depressed, she just didn't want him in her life. To be completely honest, she would love to be friends with him, some day. But right now he needed to get over her, and sign the divorce papers.

"I love you."

"I love you too, but I'm not in love with you anymore, I can't do this anymore."

"Why, I was good to you. I didn't hit you or hurt you. I gave you everything you wanted." Alicia took her hand away, she knew that she would have to do this the hard way.

"No Peter, you took away everything and gave me material things in substitute. I just wanted to be a great lawyer and happy. And I will not lie and say that I was not happy, because for a while I was. But after you cheated on me and I saw how you manipulated me to proper your career, I realized that enough was enough."

"You're only saying that because of Will. You'll be back when he leaves you for a younger woman."

"Peter you have already done that to me, so I think I can handle it. And yes he may have helped me realize that I am not happy with you and you have hurt me, but he didn't make the decision for me. Peter it was only a matter of time before I realized that you were poison to me. I can't be with you anymore and no matter what you say, I won't change my mind. Now will you please at least sleep on the couch until you get sober." Alicia placed a hand on Peter's shoulder. She did think about kicking him out and locking the door, but she was sure that it would ruin his reputation if someone saw him. She wasn't heartless, even though she should be especially with how he has no regard for her career. But she just wasn't that type of person, she actually had a heart.

Peter looked at her hand, pulled her close and kissed her. His surprise affection, really took Alicia by surprise. It took her a few seconds before she realized that he was kissing her. She quickly pushed him away and took a few steps back.

"This is why I don't want to be with you, because you pull stunts like this." Alicia left Peter in the living room while she went to her bedroom. She grabbed the divorce papers that had been sitting on her dresser for the past couple of days. She had sent him a copy with her signature but she also had an extra incase he pulled something like this. She grabbed a blanket and pillow form the closet and threw it at him when she walked back into the kitchen.

"Sleep here and when you wake up, sign these." She held up the divorce papers and slammed them on the counter before storming back to her room and slamming the door. She locked the door incase Peter decided to try something in the middle of the night. She knew that she should have called Will to make sure that he stayed in his place, but she knew that calling him over would only cause more trouble than necessary. So she laid in her bed and tried to get some sleep. In the morning, the blanket and pillow was folded up and the papers were signed. A few minutes later Alicia got a text:

I'm sorry about last night, I gave you what you wanted, but it doesn't mean that I am done. Once Will is done with you, I will take you back. I'll be here for you like I always have been.

Alicia rolled her eyes and grabbed the envelope as quick as she could. She saw that Peter had signed the papers and it didn't look slurred so he must have done it that morning. She held the papers close to her heart and fell to the floor crying. She should have been ecstatic, popping open champagne bottles. But Alicia couldn't help but have a pain in the pit of her stomach. She didn't know if it was because she was finally free or because she just threw away fourteen years of marriage. Regardless of why, she cried. She cried for a few minutes and then told Will the good news. She cut out the fact that he kissed her and that he spent the night. She only told him that Peter came over and signed the papers. Will was so happy that he didn't ask a single question on how she got him to do it, he was just happy that they were free. But Alicia knew that it wasn't over.

"He sent Eli over, when will that man stop?" Alicia shrugged under his hold.

"He's a man in love, would you stop?"

"Are you condoning his behavior?"

"No but I just understand where he is coming from. Maybe we can set him up with one of your ex's or a friend of yours?"

"Alicia I don't think that he needs any help in that department. He can always go back to Amber." Alicia hit Will's arm and he started laughing. He knew that Amber was still a soft spot for her, but he hoped if he joked about it would make things less hurtful.

"Will he needs something to get him away from me." Will pulled Alicia away so he could look her in the face.

"Look maybe we should come out to everyone, it could be the shock that he needs to realize that it is over." Will seemed pleased with his idea, Alicia didn't seem so pleased.

"I don't think that will be a good idea."

"What the kids already know that we are dating. Speaking of, why don't you let me come over anymore. Are you embarrassed of me? Is the thrill gone that you are free of Peter?" Alicia was more than appalled that he would believe that she no longer wanted to be with him.

"Will I more than love you. I want to be with you forever, but with work and the kids. When I see you I just want to be with you and happy. I don't want to go straight into wife mode. So for right now, I'm separating myself from everything. I'm warming up to the vacation twice a month thing, it can aybe ease me into this domestic life again. But for right now, I want to be free and happy and forget the consequences. But I still want to be with you."

"Alicia those are conflicting thoughts. How can you be free and be with me?"

"Are you saying that I can't be free if I'm with you?" Will tried to laugh it off, realizing how he was slowing digging himself a hole.

"Alicia of course you are free when you are with me. But when you are in a relationship you get responsibilities and being a mom has responsibilities. So your freedom is limited. "

"I think that I can be care free and do all of the other stuff."

"If you say so Alicia. As long as you come home to me, I'm fine." Will engulfed her into a bear hug and started kissing her lightly, making her laugh. Truly, Alicia had no intention of doing anything wild. She just didn't want to have the complete family thing again. She liked having a boyfriend to go to when things got tough. And having two loving kids to be with when she needed them, or don't. She liked the freedom, but once Will starts staying over at her place and the kids get comfortable with him. He'll want to get more intimate and eventually marriage. And she would love to marry Will, but not right now. She is just finding herself, she doesn't to find herself and Will. Right now she just wants to be happy before things get tough. And with Peter being Peter, it was only a matter of time until things get tough.

"I still think that we should go public."

"How about we tell our friends and family. And by that I mean you. Owen already knows and so does the kids. I can tell my mom and Jackie, but that really won't make a difference. But I know that your sisters and mom will go crazy when they find out. So maybe that will be good until things slow down at work?"

"Are you trying to compromise with me?" Will continued to assault her with kisses. He eventually stopped kissing her and let her breathe.

"I am trying to you ass."

"Well I don't compromise."

"Well it's that or nothing."

"Well I guess nothing." Alicia pushed him and they both started laughing.

"Ok, I will compromise, but only because you're so cute." Will pulled Alicia close and kissed her.

"Maybe we can stop talking about things and maybe do some things?"

"I like the way you think." The two of them got up as Alicia lead them to the bedroom. Alicia knew that there were more conversations like this to come, but after the day she had, she just wanted some love. Even if she could feel the world turning and something stirring in the distance.

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