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Will drove home right after dropping Alicia off. The evening didn't go as planned, but he still enjoyed himself, especially the kiss. But he was still worried. He didn't feel right with her still there with him. He just knew that he should have came up with her, to protect her from Peter's lies. But he also knows that she can take care of herself. And then on the other hand, they never got to talk.
"Why are things always so complicated with her?" Will said out loud as he flopped down on his bed. He got up and got him a cup of scotch and started to watch whatever baseball game was on. About five minutes later he got a phone call.
"Hey what's up?" Will asked as he answered his phone.
"You wanna do me a favor?" Asked the seductive voice over the phone. Will smiled, wondering what her version of a favor was.
"Well one of my lawyers dropped out of my mock trials. So…...could you?" Came the plea of an old friend.
"Well." Will said pondering the question. It would give him something to do, and take his mind off of Alicia. But he really doesn't mind her in his head really.
"I'll do that thing I did in law school for you again." Came the voice. Will pondered the bribe and shook his head.
"Um, no thank you. I'm good where I am. But I know that Diane needs a break. Try her." Will said, taking another sip of his scotch. He was sure if he did the favor, even without the bribe, he would eventually regret it. Things got messy when it came to his ex's. Even if it was their little sisters.
"Fine, no cake for you. And it was going to be vanilla." Came the voice as she pouted.
"Maybe next time." Will said hanging up. He put his feet up and relaxed. This would probably be a long night for him.
On the other side of town, Alicia was walking into her apartment and dreading it every step of the way. While she would just rather be with Will, she knew that she had to go home. For her kids sake. As she opened the door of her posh apartment she was attacked by her brother.
"Alicia! You finally arrived!"Her brother said as his sister smelled his alcoholic breath.
"Yes Owen. How much did you have to drink tonight? And why are you in town? You know what, forget it. I am too tired for this. Excuse me." Alicia as she walked past her now unenthusiastic brother. As she walked in she saw a sheriff and a less happy Peter, sitting in the living room.
"You needed me?" Alicia questioned as she started to take her coat off. The sheriff stood up.
"Hello ma'am, we got an alarm saying that your husband left the premises about forty five minutes ago and we responded to the call. Your husband said that you had forgotten your wallet and he tried to catch you. Failing in doing so he accidently crossed the sensor line, forgetting he was on house arrest. As soon as he heard the alarm he ran back in the house and answered the call. All that we need ma'am is for your to collaborate his story." Said the sheriff closing his notebook and looking to Alicia. She stood there contemplating what she should do. On one hand she would protecting her kids from losing their father again. But on the other hand she would be protecting her integrity and her morals like Will said to.
"Well sheriff. As you said, Peter was too late in getting me my wallet. So that would mean that I would have never seen him in leaving. Now did my children see their father leave trying to give me my wallet?" Alicia questioned, hoping this would stump the officer in to letting Peter go without her lying. The officer was stumped, he didn't think of that. He just remembered Peter daring him to call his wife and confirm that he was telling the truth.
"Well...uh...yes ma'am they did."
"So that should be enough for you right. And you had no right in pulling me from my diner when the reason Peter left had already been established." Alicia said glaringly. She felt bad for the officer, but at the same time, she was already irritated and pissed for having to leave her diner.
"And if everything is in order, my brother will be needing that couch for when he passes out." Alicia said as she escorted the sheriff out of her apartment. The officer left the house without a word. Once outside of the Florricks, he shook his head and went for the elevator.
"That's one crazy family."
"I don't want to hear a word of it." Alicia said as she raised her hands up. She knew Peter made the officer wait until she got back so he would have an excuse to pull her from her date.
"Alicia you seem angry. Did you not get any from Will?" Owen questioned as he used the living room wall for support. Alicia shook her head and headed for the closet. Once reaching it, she grabbed a blanket and a pillow. She then threw them at her brother, grabbed her purse and went straight to her room.
Once inside she slammed the door and flopped on her bed. She placed her hands over her head and closed her eyes. She groaned as she rolled over on her bed.
"God I hate this life." She said as she curled up in her bed. This was the worst day ever. The only thing about this day was that she got to kiss Will again. And that was short and unpassioned, as well as unplanned. But a kiss is a kiss. She spent the rest of the night with thoughts of Will running through her mind.
The next morning she found the kids already gone, and Owen up. He was in the kitchen making pancakes.
"Pancakes?" Owen offered more as an apology and less of a breakfast. When he woke up he remembered everything. It was the worst hangover yet.
"No Owen I have to go."Alicia said fully clothed and purse in hand. She hoped to run out before anyone could stop her and talk.
"Oh come on Alicia. It's the most important meal of the day. You gotta have at least one." Owen pleaded, putting the plate of pancakes in her face, waving it around in circles.
"Fine, one. And then I gotta leave." Owen jumped in the air, almost spilling the pancakes on his descend down. Saving the pancakes, he placed them on the kitchen island. Alicia sat down and started to eat, quickly.
"Alicia I'm sorry about last night. I went clubbing and I drank too much." Owen said hoping that the apology was enough. Alicia sighed and shook her head.
"It's ok Owen, I don't expect anything different from you. Don't worry, I'm not mad." Alicia said getting up from the table.
"Your leaving? I only arrived today." Owen said sadly as he turned the tv off.
"Yes, I have this thing called a job. And I have to go there on weekdays." She said sarcastically as she grabbed her purse.
"Well can I go?" Owen said as he ran around the kitchen island.
"This isn't bring your brother to work day Owen. I'm a lawyer, I can't watch you all day." Alicia said walking to the door.
"Oh come on Alicia. I'm just going to watch. See how you work, what you do all day, i'll promise to be good. Please, it will be fun." Owen pleaded.
"I doubt you will be good."Alicia said reaching for the door.
"It's better than leaving me with Peter." He said with a cheshire smile. Alicia stopped dead in her tracks and turned around.
"Fine, but you gotta promise to be good. And you can not embarrass me."Alicia said and immediately started to regret it.
"Yay! Give me five minutes." Owen said as he ran to the living room. Alicia shook her head as she stood against the front door.
An hour later, Alicia finally arrived at work. Unfortunately she had a meeting with David lee about a case, so she left Owen downstairs, by himself, in her office.
Will arrived at work early and stayed in his office most of the morning. He had no idea what to do about Alicia. The sex told him she was sexually attracted to him, the talk at her house told him she cared about his well being. But the dinner. The diner said that she wanted it but didn't know what to do about Peter. Everything always came back to Peter. Whether in Georgetown, or in today. It always came back to Peter. He had her hooked somehow, and he couldn't figure out how. What does he have, that he didn't.
Around ten, WIll want to find out. Will stormed out of his office and went straight for Alicia's, completely missing her as he went to the elevator. But she didn't miss him. When he got to her office he stopped dead in his tracks at the sight of a man sitting at her desk.
"Um...HI."Will said as the man turned around to the sound of another man's voice.
"Hi. I'm supposed to be good and not touch anything." Owen said as if he was in trouble. Will frowned his brow and the remembered.
"You must be Owen. Alicia's brother."Will said as he smiled and walked towards him.
"I'm Will Gardner, Your sisters...boss." He said changing last word.
"Ooohhhhhhhhh! Will!"Owen said with a huge mischievous smile. He got up, shook his hand and offered him to sit on Alicia's couch. Will complied and sat down.
"There is so much that we should talk about." Owen said crossing his legs and rolling closer to him.
Alicia almost ran to the elevator after the meeting. Half worried that Owen would do something stupid, half tired of seeing David Lee. Once she got close to her office she heard laughter and a man's voice. The sound of his voice made his knees weak, but she pushed herself to move more quickly down the hallway.
"Owen."Alicia almost yelled as she reared her head in her office. Both Will and Owen turned their head and started laughing. Alicia walked into the room and closed the door.
"What is going on here?" Alicia questioned as the two men continued to laugh.
"Oh sis don't worry. I was just telling Will a little more about his employee." Owen said as he got out of his sister's chair.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go to the bathroom." Owen said as he started to walk out of the office, winking at Will as he did.
"Owen you don't even know where it is."Alicia said following him.
"I'll find it Owen said behind him as he walked in the opposite direction of the bathroom. Alicia walked back into her office and sighed.
"I am so sorry about that. I asked him to be good."Alicia said putting her stuff down.
"It's ok. he was." Will smiled and her heart dropped.
"So what's up?" Alicia said pushing her chair towards her desk. Will was stumped, he didn't know what to say. After his talk with Owen, he wasn't sure what to say.
"Will, look here's the deal. My sister loves you. She is crazy about you, she has been since Law school. She would write in her journal about you all the time. But Peter has her wrapped around his finger. It's all because of one thing. He is secured, he is what people think is right for her. Because of our mother, she thinks she has to be the perfect good wife, the perfect mother, and person. And she is close to it, but she isn't happy. She will do whatever she has to to please everyone else. That is how she thinks and unfortunately, she thinks it's enough. But it's not. I want her to be happy, and know she is happy with you. I saw it while she was in Law school, and I see it everytime she hears your name or your voice. She needs you."Owen said with a straight face hoping Will won't run out of the office now and forever.
"What can I do?" Will said seriously. He knew all of this, he just didn't know how to make her happy.
"Love her, and show her that she doesn't have to be perfect. Show her that it's ok if the whole world doesn't approve of what she does. Make sure she knows that she is safe and secured with you. And make sure that you know a way out without hurting her kids, because if the kids get hurt, it's over. And then you will be happy. Easy as pie." Owen said with a smile.
"Yeah easy as pie," Will said sarcastically.
"Uh oh. Here she comes. She thinks i'm being bad. Watch when she gets down here she's going to think I am talking about embarrassing stories. She's going to call my name first and start to freak out. Just watch." Owen said as he saw his sister, and started laughing when she realized it was Will in her office.
"Will? Hello?" Alicia said waving her hand in his face. Will shook his head and smiled.
"Yeah sorry, I was thinking. I came down to see if everything was ok. I didn't feel comfortable leaving you there. I saw cops outside, was everything ok?" Will asked remembering the previous night.
"Yeah. But I thought you didn't want to know about my life." Alicia said teasingly.
"I said Peter's, I'll always care about you and your kids."Will said getting up.
"Oh, um. Well Peter broke house arrest, everything is ok now. Nothing serious." Alicia said as she watched Will move closer to her.
"Alicia, I just love how you make fun of serious things like that. Well Diane is out being a judge. Mock trial." Will said seeing Alicia's face.
"If you need anything, come see me. Anything ok?" Will said before squeezing Alicia's hand.
"Ok." Alicia said, stuck on their brief connection.
"And her cases?"Alicia said before Will left.
"Mine for now. See you in court." Will said before leaving. Alicia relaxed in her chair as soon as Will left.
The day went by quickly, Alicia was swamped with paperwork and Owen was oddly quiet, and polite. It got so bad that Alicia had to check his head to make sure he wasn't sick. By the time she got home she had hoped that he would be too tired to ask about her date last night.
"So Alicia, your date." Owen said as he handed her a glass of wine and sitting next to her on the couch. They had just finished dinner and the kids were already in bed.
"Owen."Alicia pleaded, too tired to argue.
"Oh, come on. The whole house is sleep. Live a little." Owen said as he took a sip of the wine.
"Owen. Peter is probably up. And I should be sleep." Alicia said getting up.
"Alicia. I'm just asking if you had fun."Owen said smiling.
"I did, until I was called away. How did you get here and where are you here?"Alicia said sitting back down.
"Can't a brother come see his lonely sister?"Owen said, growing a sad face.
"Not you."Alicia said drinking her wine.
"Geez. Well me and brian broke up and I needed a break. So I knew you wouldn't mind and came by."Owen said drinking his wine.
"You just decided to drop by?"Alicia said skeptically.
"Yeah, so what are your intentions?"Owen said pouring both of them more wine.
"My intentions?"Alicia questioned
"With Will, duh." Owen said turning to his sister.
"Owen!" Alicia said smacking him.
"Ow. I'm serious."Owen said rubbing his shoulder.
"Owen...I don't know." Alicia whispered.
"We are complicated. There's too much. Too much at stake. Too many people involved. And I have kids."Alicia said
"No it's not. What do you want?"Owen asked putting his glass of wine down and turning serious.
"Owen it's not that simple."Alicia sighed.
"What do you want. Find it and take it. You don't have to be perfect. You won't end up like mom." Owen said. Alicia tried to protest, but Owen stopped her.
"Alicia let me be the wise on for once. What ever in life it is take it. Whether it be Will or to just be happy with your kids. Taking pleasure in life isn't bad. And I can see no pleasure in your eyes. Expect with Will. But before you protest listen. I'm not saying to drop everything and go crazy. Just take a chance and be happy. Chuck Peter and be happy. Just be happy Alicia please, if not for me and the kids, but for yourself. And besides, booty calls ain't so bad."Owen said with a wink as he regained his wine. Alicia was stunned by Owen's words. He was right, and she hated it.
"Owen so much is at risk."
"For him, not you, or the kids. If it wasn't for him you would have been happy a long time ago, and you wouldn't have to go through so much pain."He said rubbing his sister's arm.
"Well maybe I love Peter."Alicia said, not even believing her own words.
"You aren't I can see it in your eyes. All I ask is that you do something for you. If not I will keep coming back and annoying you until you do."Owen said shoving her and laughing.
"Ok, if I do, do you promise to leave me alone?"Alicia said, not really wanting him to go.
"Yes. for a while at least. now go to sleep. I gotta go in the morning."Owen sighed.
"Oh, no. So soon." She said sarcastically.
"Yes, now go."Owen demanded as he watched his sister clean up and leave. After seeing Alicia walk into her bedroom, Owen got ready for bed. He lied. He had no intentions on leaving, he had hoped on finding an apartment. Something close so he could bother Alicia all the time. As he flopped on the couch and flipped through the tv he sighed.
"I'm going to be here more often I fear. I hope they get together soon. I need my weekends."Owen sighed before falling into a deep, peaceful sleep.
So how you like it? Sorry for drag on like this. I just had Owen as a character and had too much fun. Please review, all are accepted. Hope you enjoyed.