As Alicia awoke the next morning she didn't recognize her surroundings. For one it was still rather dark in the room, the sun hadn't risen yet. Secondly, she just didn't know where she really was. And then it hit her, she was in Will's new house. She was quickly made aware that she was tangled in Will's embrace on his bed mattress. Obviously the entire bed had yet to be assembled so Alicia and Will just ended up falling onto the mattress the previous night. Though they could have been just as happy on the floor, like they were when she had arrived. Alicia pulled up the blanket that was roughly draped over their bodies so that it covered them completely and curled into Will even more. She rested her head against his chest and reveled in the warm his bare skin was producing. She had missed that immensely. At least once a week when they had their daily phone calls they'd fall asleep with their phones still on, and on those nights Alicia would try to imagine Will was right by her side. Sometimes she could almost feel his warmth and it quickly faded, but now she could feel it. She could touch, and even smell it.

She missed how Will smelled. It was so comforting, like sitting outside in the sun with a warm breeze brushing past every now and then. She pressed her face against his body some more and breathed in Will. It made her think back to when they were together and how much she loved waking up to Will. He would usually still be asleep so she would just lie there and let herself feel safe. It was sometimes the only chance she had to not think about anything, like she was in some magical place where everything just fell away. She missed that feeling when she was no longer with, or even around, Will.

She thought it probably rooted back to Georgetown and the countless nights they'd spend studying together. Often waking up too early in the morning and leaning on one another. Though now it was certainly different, Alicia probably loved it more than anything, excluding her family.

She draped an arm over Will's chest and held him tight, which surprisingly didn't wake him. Though it did cause him to shuffle in his sleep and turn into Alicia. He softly grumbled, "Alicia" in his sleep and it made her heart swell and even vibrate for the love she held for him there. Not wanting to wake him from his first night's sleep in his new home, Alicia closed her eyes and eventually fell back to sleep against Will.

They woke up close to an hour later, disturbed by the bright sun shining through the windows. They would definitely have to go get some curtains later Alicia thought to herself as she felt Will place a soft kiss on her neck.

"I've missed waking up to you." He said, his voice still veiled with sleep.

She groaned in agreement and whispered, "I've missed waking up to you too." She could see Will attempting to open his eyes but it must have been too bright for him because he gave up after a minute or so.

"I have to get curtains." He mumbled.

"I was just thinking the exact same thing." She said honestly. He let out a soft groan before his shuffled his body against Alicia some more and reach for the edge of the blanket they were under. He pulled it over their heads and only then did he open his eyes. He reached one hand up to her face and gently rested it against her cheek, stroking his thumb gently over her cheekbone.

"You're so beautiful in the morning. I almost forgot how much." He admitted, which made Alicia giggle softly and lean into Will to kiss him. She felt his hand leave her cheek as his fingers thread into her hair, pulling her in closer to deepen their kiss. As Alicia started push against Will, feeling the need to straddle him, her stomach grumbled.

"Woah." Will laughed at the sound. Alicia hadn't actually felt hungry in the slightest until her stomach made the peculiar sound. Though she should have realized. After all they never did have a proper dinner. A few bites of pizza is not what a meal makes. "Someone is in need for some breakfast." Will continued. Alicia sighed, already thinking about what options they had to pick from, but there wasn't even one that was easily accessible.

"I don't see that happening." Will pulled back from her slightly, giving her a confused look.

"Why is that?"

"You don't have any food here, Will." She said candidly.

"What do you mean? We've got pizza to heat up." He joked with her, at least she hoped. She was surely not in the mood for pizza with the lot that early in the morning.

"I hate to be a pain, but I'm not going to eat that this early."

"Then do you have a counter offer in mind?" She didn't. She didn't have any other suggestion, which made her feel horrible for shooting his down.

"We… We could go out and buy something." There, simple solution to it all.

"Well that's easy then." He said, and then she realized.

"Oh."

"What?"

"I don't have any other clothes with me. I came straight from the office." She bit her lip and looked into Will's eyes.

"We'll go get you some clothes then." He said cheerfully and then pulled the blanket away from their heads, but he quickly shut his eyes, not expecting how bright it actually was.

"We're going to get curtains." He groaned loudly into his pillow, which just made Alicia laugh.

"Come on then." She said as she reached beneath the blanket to grab Will's hand and pulled him out of bed with her.

Alicia waited by the front door waiting for Will to get dressed. She'd just thrown on her black shirt she wore underneath her work jacket and skirt back on since it was all she had. Will had taken longer because he couldn't find anything. A few times while Alicia waited, she'd heard him loudly mutter curses and then heard a thud. He'd had trouble finding the box that had his jeans.

After a good 15 minutes he came rushing down the stairs looking rather refreshed, like he hadn't just spent a long time trying to find pants. Though they also did have quite the refreshing shower together as they had gotten up from bed so that could have been the reason too.

"Ready?" Alicia asked and smiled to herself, recalling their shower. She opened the front door, walked halfway through and waited as he did the man check, front pockets, back pockets, nod head.

"Yes." He said confidently and followed her out the door. Alicia couldn't help but feel how strange that had just been. It was exactly like she lived there with Will and they were just going out for the day like a normal couple who were in love and lived together. She considered telling Will how she felt but she instantly thought that he'd just moved in there and talk of her feeling like she had too would probably freak him out. He'd already made the choice to move close to her, but with her actually in the same house would probably be too much, so she held her tongue on the matter and climbed into her car. They fastened their seatbelts and started to drive to Alicia's apartment. They arrived soon, considering it wasn't very far away, and went up to her floor.

"Give me a few minutes." She smiled to him as she disappeared into her bedroom. She quickly rid herself of the clothes she was wearing and quickly threw on a pair of dark blue skinny jeans, a thin navy and white striped sweater and her favorite long black boots. She retreated to her bathroom where she tried to quickly dab on some minimal make-up and attempted to tame her hair somewhat. That had taken more than a few minutes but she wouldn't go out for breakfast and shopping with rough looking hair. No matter if it was just for curtains.

She emerged from her bedroom and looked around to find Will, who was standing in front of her fridge with the door open, looking very interested at whatever was in there.

"Something interesting?" She asked curiously. He quickly turned to face her and shut the fridge door.

"Not really. I just thought you'd want something to snack on since you're so hungry." He smiled nervously and walked towards her. She gave him a sly look as he passed her and he did nothing but smile wider.

"Oh, okay. Well there won't be anything in there." She muttered. She knew the ins and outs of her kitchen and the best type of snack she could do that morning was either an apple or a stale piece of bread. She really needed to go shopping herself. She walked to the counter that had the bowl of fruit out and grabbed a red apple. "I'll just eat this for now." She said to Will, who was standing rather awkwardly in front of the fridge.

"Is everything okay?" She asked him. He was acting a little bit weird like he had been caught doing something wrong but of course he wasn't.

"Yeah! Fine." He deflected and walked past her to the door. She decided to throw the thought away and went back out the door behind Will and locked it up.

"Would you prefer we go out for breakfast or should we just go pick up some things at the store?" Will asked her as they went down the elevator. Alicia didn't particularly want to be seen out having breakfast with someone, not that she didn't want to, she just knew there would be some photographer hanging around and would love to snap a pic of the very-soon-to-be ex-wife of the governor sitting down and sharing googly eyes with some other man over a croissant and coffee.

"I think we should make our own breakfast." She said happily, not wanting Will to catch hold of her thoughts.

"Good call. I should buy some more food anyhow." She just nodded at his statement and kept quiet. He'd eventually understand that she didn't want to be seen in public with a new man so soon after her divorce, no matter how much she loved him. She knew he'd get it. Or at least she hoped he would.

They had gotten back to Will's by 9.45 which thankfully wasn't too late for breakfast. Will bought a lot of food. Mostly just the basics but it was all necessary since Will had absolutely nothing now. Alicia watched Will as he put all the food away, mostly likely devising a system in his head where everything should go. She remembered doing that when she had moved out of the big house. Things have got to go where they feel right and make most sense.

"Do you want me to go find your pots and pans? And plates even…" She asked Will.

"Actually yeah, that's be a huge help. I just can't remember what is in each box."

"Didn't you label them?" He paused at her question. Obviously he hadn't done that, which really was very Will to forget to do that.

"That might have helped had I thought of it." He laughed to himself as he stored away a packet of spaghetti pasta in a cupboard above the stove top. She moved away from the kitchen and into the living area where half of the boxes were stacked. Two or three had clothes spilling out from them, no doubt that those were the ones Will was looking through earlier that morning. Alicia pushed those to the side and searched through the others. She soon found some kitchen supplies and brought them back over to Will.

"Found some!" She called out to him, pulling a saucepan out from the box as proof.

"Great. Now let's eat something."

They'd had a pretty productive day, considering they stopped on numerous occasions to hug each other, or kiss for a while and at some point after lunch go back up to Will's mattress for a break. They had gotten most of Will's boxes unpacked, they had gone out of the house again to get some curtains. Though they were just temporary ones until Will would go out and get ones that matched the décor. Another thing that Diane would be good to help with. They did as much as they could meaning kitchen things, Will's clothes and they even managed to piece together half of Will's bedroom. He had his closet, dresser and bedside tables set up but they never did get around to putting the bed back together. Alicia thought whether Will didn't want to on purpose because it was still fun for them to collapse easily close to the ground. Though she didn't care about any of it too much, she was just ecstatic to be with Will for a whole night, then a whole day and soon it would be another night and most of the next day. She had missed him like crazy and she couldn't get enough of him now.

"Okay, pasta is ready." Alicia called out from the kitchen. She had made them both dinner because Will was never much of a cook and she wanted to cook him a proper meal for his second night in the new house.

"You didn't have to do this, Alicia." He told her and gave her a light kiss on the cheek as she served them up the food.

"Except that I did because you're hopeless at cooking." She giggled.

"I'm really not that bad. I make excellent breakfasts." He stated proudly.

"Which is the only thing you can do well."

He sneaked up behind her, put his mouth up to her ear and softly whispered, "It isn't the only thing I do well." He rested his hand against her hip and snaked it around her body, letting it drift lower down as he went. She felt the heat radiating from his palm as his hand slowly reached up beneath her sweater.

"I know it isn't…" She said softly as she let her head fall back against his shoulder and closed her eyes, thoroughly enjoying his touch, but all too soon he pulled away from her. She opened her eyes and looked to him, giving him a disgruntled look. He only smiled at her confidently and picked up the plates with steaming hot pasta and walked to the living area. She stood at the kitchen counter for a few seconds, hating how he did that sometimes. Just upped and left when she was enjoying his touch. Though his intention was most likely to keep her wanting him, she thought as she breathed in and rolled her eyes. As she followed Will into the room her eyes lit up at what he had done. He had set out cushions beside his coffee table and lit a candle for the middle of the table. He set the plates down at each end and stood up straight, facing her.

"So this was what you were doing while I was cooking dinner?" She asked as she took a few more steps to close the gap between then. She wrapped her arms around his waist and looked up to him.

"Do you like it?" He asked her nervously, though she wasn't sure why. Any sort of romantic gesture was always a big win in her book. She leaned up and kissed him gently.

"Of course I do." He smiled to her and pressed his lips to hers.

"Oh, and there's this." He pulled away from Alicia and walked to the side of the room. "Sit down." She did as he said and positioned herself on the pillows at one end of the coffee table. She saw him go towards his big stereo system and press a couple of buttons. Soon the room filled with cheerfully soft music and a gorgeous voice. She'd never heard it before but she was beginning to enjoy it.

"Who's this?" She asked him as he sat down to the table with her.

"Sam Cooke, one of my favorites." She smiled to him as she listened carefully to the song. The man had an enchanting voice and she seemed to be mesmerized by it.

"I like it already." She stated and he seemed to be very pleased by her saying that.

"Well we have the ambiance, now let's eat your perfect food that I love so much." They started to dig into their food and even though Alicia didn't find it as enchanting as Will did she still liked it. They didn't talk much, Alicia was too interested in hearing the music and apparently so was Will because she had looked up to him at one point and he had stopped moving and had his eyes closed, just smiling to the sound.

She listened closely to the lyrics on one particular song and she couldn't help but catch her breath on the line that had said,

Now I find myself wanting to marry you and take you home.

Of course it wasn't actually Will saying it to her, it was just a song by one of his favorites musicians, but she couldn't stop herself thinking of the possibility that maybe Will would say something similar to her. She couldn't exactly wrap her head around it and what it would mean for her, but it didn't leave her head. Was that a good sign? Maybe, maybe not. It wasn't something she had enough time in the day to think about though, so she tried hard to erase it from her head. It wasn't easy but she did it successfully. There would be time to think of those type of possibilities when she got home the next day.

They finished their food and Will fell back onto the pillows and just laid there rubbing his stomach. "That was a truly wonderful meal." He said loudly.

"Thanks Will." She didn't want to leave the plates there so she stood up and started to clear the table but as the song changed Will shot up from the ground.

"Stop and dance with me." He said quickly and took a hold of her body and whisked her away from the table. It was a gorgeous slow song so she would dance with him, no matter how silly it all seemed to her. He spun her around before pulling her in close and wrapping his arms around her. She did the same and rested her head against his shoulder as they swayed gently around the room together.

"I've wanted to dance with you to this song for so long." He let out and held her closer to him. She listened to the song some more and felt incredibly touched by what he had said to her.

"Really?" Was all she said and looked up to him. He looked down at her with love pooling into his eyes and nodded.

"So long Alicia." She just smiled at him again and rested her head back against him, closing her eyes. Suddenly the thought of him wanting to marry her scared the hell out of her. She couldn't possibly fathom why. She thought that if she did ever think of that it would cause her so much happiness inside of her she might burst, but right now it was terrifying. She was going to be divorced extremely soon which was the best thing but also scary. She never thought she would ever divorce Peter, but she did think about that for a while and knew it was the best decision. And even though she loved Will with every fiber of her being she wasn't sure she was ready to ever get married again, at least not any time soon.

So she just held onto Will more, even when the song changed to something more upbeat. They just stayed slowly dancing around his practically empty living room holding onto each other. And even though what was floating through her head was something frightening, she could still almost cry with how happy she felt.

AN: I'm not good at explaining music real well so if you don't know who Sam Cooke when is then I would look him up, because his music is gorgeous. The first song I mention is You Send Me and the second is Nothing Can Change This Love. Some of you may know that Josh Charles has tweeted about him before and I couldn't help but check him out and now I never stop listening to him. So if you want, go have a listen to him! And thank you for reading my lovelies!

I would also like to state that I do not own the lyrics to You Send Me by Sam Cooke.