I'm sorry for the wait. I didn't know where to go at first. So many ways it could have gone. I hope you like what I have chosen. Enjoy! Thanks for reviews.
Will sat in his office and watched the conference on tv. He watched as Alicia joined her husband at the podium and he knew that he had lost. As he prepared himself to deal with the pain of Alicia he heard a knock on the door.
"Will you ok?"Came the soothing voice of his partner.
"Yeah Diane."Will lied.
"Talking to Alicia?"Diane guessed. She could always tell when Alicia had was either extremely happy or extremely sad.
"Yeah, but I'm tired so can we do this another time?" Will pleaded, not really in the mood to argue.
"Yes, but we will have to talk about this soon. Will."Diane said as her partner walked pass her and towards the elevator. Will knew what she had meant, but was tired of talking for the day.
Will had hoped to go home, get drunk and crawl into bed. Just as Will was getting into his car, Alicia called. Without a second thought he answered.
"Hello?"Will suddenly realized he had stopped breathing for a second.
"Hey Will, I couldn't hear you before…..did you say ok?" Alicia said as her breathing became heavy and her heart stopped.
"Yes.I have a plan. meet me at my place when you're done." Will said as he rushed into his car.
"Ok."Alicia said and quickly hung up, she didn't want anyone to hear the rest of their conversation.
Will raced home in record time. He had no idea what to do. And his place was dirty. He spent the next ten minutes cleaning his apartment up. Then he thought, food. They might need food. He opened his fridge to see it empty. He grabbed a pizza menu and ordered them some pizza. He was sure that he would eventually get tired of pizza and stopped eating it. But thinking about Alicia, he couldn't see it anyother way.
Ten minutes after the pizza man, there was a knock at his door. A Frightened Alicia was standing in front of him with all of her beauty.
"You came."Will said and smiled.
"You called." Alicia said as she smiled.
"I hate to do this Will but, it took a lot to convince Peter that I would be getting drinks with Kalinda, so I need a plan."Alicia said as she walked into Will's apartment.
"I know what I said, but I love you and love is not planned. So there it is. I love you and that's all I got. I hope it's enough. If not then, we can just forget about everything and go back to being friends."Alicia was stunned, she couldn't believe this. Love? He loved her? She had no idea what to do about it. But she knew in her heart, that she loved him too.
"Will...I...uh." Will walked closer to her, slowly not to push her.
"Yeah." Will said walking closer to her.
"Will, I don't know if I can do this without a plan. but I.. do." Alicia said, not moving a muscle.
"But you do? you do what?"Will said, stopping an inch from her face.
"I do love you, but Will-" And that was all that he needed. In one swift move, he caught Alicia in a passionate kiss. They parted for air.
"Will."Alicia said before Will kissed her again. When they parted again, Will spoke this time.
"Everytime you talk, I'm going to kiss you."Will said as he placed his arms around her waist. Alicia started to talk, but instead she kissed him. They went on for a while until Alicia stopped him.
"Take me away for the night."Alicia said as she started walking towards Will's bedroom. When she got to his bedroom door she dropped her dress and looked back at him. Without a second thought, he was running to her, he almost tripped trying to get to her.
The next morning, Will woke up to the sunshine of the morning and saw his clock. It was ten o'clock, he was late for work. He rolled over and almost freaked out upon seeing Alicia in his bed. And then he remembered. He was with her last night.
He stood there for a few minutes, just watch her chest rise and fall. He kind of felt bad, Peter will never able to see her like this again. He would never be able to see the happiness of having the best sex in his life and with the one he loved, because he knew he finally had her.
His phone started to ring and he answered it, hoping not to disturb Alicia.
"Hey what's up?"Will whispered into the phone.
"Will are you ok? You sound sick." Diane said as she stopped walking to the conference room.
"Um yeah. I'm not feeling well." Will coughed as he got out of bed.
"Will your lying, get your ass down here now, the staff meeting is starting soon!"Diane yelled. Will nearly tripped on his way to the bathroom.
"Geez ok Diane."He whispered, still watching the sleeping Alicia. Will hung up and was dressed in record time. He grabbed his bag and was about to leave when he stopped past his bed. God he wished he could stay with her. He reached over kissed her and ran out of the apartment.
Alicia woke up as soon as she felt Will's lips leave hers. She wanted to roll over in his arms but found the bed empty. She groaned as she felt only bed. She sat up and went looking for her clothes, suddenly, she heard her phone ring.
"Hello?" Came Alicia's raspy voice.
"Alicia? Are you ok? I've been trying to reach you all night."Came the worried voice of Peter.
"Yeah, I'm in heaven." Alicia stated falling on Will's bed.
"Are you sure? Where are you?" Came Peter's voice. She wanted to say at Will's, but she knew that would not be the best answer.
"I'm at Kalinda's I drank too much and she offered me to stay with her."Alicia lied. But when she saw the time, she freaked.
"You stayed with Kalinda?" Peter said,not believing a word she is saying.
"Peter I overslept I gotta go."Alicia said as she hung up. She quickly got showered and put her clothes back on. Good thing she had an extra suit in her car. Before leaving, she fixed his bed and locked his bottom lock, force of habit.
Alicia arrived at work thirty minutes after Will did, missing most of the meeting. She was able to get the fact that they had a new partner, and that they were merging with Eli Gold. Also that Alicia would be the liaison with Eli, her morning was going by too quickly.
When the meeting was over, Alicia tried to get Will's attention, failing in doing so, she went to her new office. She had found out about it before the press conference, she didn't like it then. She felt like she was being used somehow. But she did like the new office.
Down the hall, Will was being chewed out.
"Will, what the hell?"Diane yelled as she slammed the door shut.
"Diane calm down, it wasn't that bad. I came in right before you announced him."Will reassured her as he sat in a chair across from her.
"Will that's not the point. I needed you to be here, we always do meetings together. I looked dumb."Diane said flopping in her chair.
"No you did fine, you only looked a little bit dumb."Will teased. Diane found the softest thing to throw at him, her stress ball."Diane laughed as it hit him in the nose.
"Ow."Will said rubbing his nose.
"So who did you screw to get over her this time?"Diane said, adjusting herself.
"Diane I didn't sleep with anybody."Will lied, certain telling Diane would be the worst move yet.
"Whatever, Will next time, warn me so I can push these meetings back."Diane said as she waved their new partner in.
"Diane I didn't sleep with anyone."Will pleaded one last time before getting up and leaving. Stopping to say hi to his new partner before leaving to his own office. As much as he would love to stay and chit chat, he saw Alicia come in late and had some business to take care of.
When Will got in his office, his assistant came in too.
"Mr. Gardner, Alicia came by asking for a moment." His assistant said before leaving back out .
Will smiled and got back up, he strolled down the hall to Alicia's new, more convenient office. As he approached her door, he found her head back, turned around, legs crossed, and eyes closed. She looked so sexy and cute, he didn't even want to disturb her.
"Alicia."He said knocking on her door and closing it. Alicia smiled at the sound of his voice, but didn't turn around.
"Will."The way his name rolled off her tongue made electricity run through his body. Alicia turned around with a huge smile.
"We need to talk." Will said sitting down.
"About last night, because we keep talking about talking, and somehow, we never do."Alicia said, unable to get rid of her growing smile.
"Yes I know, but we must this time. And turn your phone off." Will said turning his off.
"Why? Alicia said pulling her phone out.
"Because every time we try and talk, we get interrupted."Will said growing serious.
"So why don't we go to your place. Staying here, you my boss, were bound to get 'interupted'."Alicia teased.
"If we go there we would never get anything done. But what do you want to do?"Will said, shifting in his chair.
"What do I want?"Alicia repeated, moving closer to her desk.
"Yes, what do you want with me, to do about Peter, about the kids? Everything."
"I hadn't thought about it. But I don't want the kids hurt. But I don't want to be with Peter." Alicia had to mentally step back. She had never said that before, and she thought she never would. But she also never thought that Will would ever fall in love with her.
"So keep us a secret, it would be for the best." Will said trying to agree with everything she is saying. He knew protesting would push her away, but all he wanted was her closer.
"Not to Peter and the kids. They deserve better than that. I will not turn into him."Alicia said remembering what he had did to them.
"So just to everyone else. The press, Diane, the firm, Eli?"Will asked, trying to be sure.
"What does Eli have to do with this?"
"Well, he's Peter campaign manager, so he will probably know about it sooner or later."Will said, turning around. He had spotted Eli when he walked down the aisle. When they both turned, Eli turned his attention to some meaningless papers, he had hoped they wouldn't notice him. Wrong.
"That just means we don't have to tell him. Peter will, if he finds it pertinent."Alicia said grabbing her phone.
"So I think we should not 'look' at each other. Try to look at each other as least as posiible, or try and not act like friends. People already think we are screwing, no need to help them."Will said grabbing his phone as well.
"Look' at each other?" Alicia said, checking missed messages.
"You know, how we just stare at each other sometimes. People see more into it than they should." Will said, checking his messages as well.
"Hmm, well all I see is Chicago's 16th most eligible bachelor."Alicia smirked.
"You saw it."Will said putting his hand over his head.
"Yeah, you looked sexy."Alicia teased.
"It was done a while ago. Ali-"Will tried to explain but Alicia stopped him.
"It's ok. I understand. Just don't let them girls in your head. One slip up and I'll kill you." Alicia teased again, but was a little more serious. She could not take another man cheating on her.
"Ok, so. You are going to tell the kids and Peter about 'us'. No one else is to know. And we are exclusive. Right. Um will you tell Owen and Kalinda. I feel like they will find out anyway." Will said as he got up.
"Oh yeah, you tell Kalinda, I got Owen? I feel like if I don't tell them, they will continue to bug me. Also I will be helping with Peter's campaign. I owe him that much."
"You owe him a divorce, and he owes you twenty years of your life back."Will said, trying not to get angry.
"Well it's this or let him sit at my house and rot. He will go mad, and I can't have that. My kids need their father back. And I need my house back. As soon as he is in office, we will divorce. And then, we can finally really be together. But until then, you will have to deal with things as they are." Alicia said, as her face started to drop. With a complete straight face, he answered her.
"I love you, and you love me. For now, that is more than enough." Will didn't smile as he left her office, he feared Eli would watch him leave smiling. Luckily he did, because as soon as he left, Eli was at Alicia's door.
"Hey Alicia, liking your new office?" Eli said, hoping to scope the feeling in the room.
"Yeah Eli, one second." Alicia said holding up one finger. She answered her phone, it was a case.
"Eli can we talk later? I have clients and I'm not feeling so well." Alicia said going back to her phone call.
"Well I need you for a meeting later. So keep you schedule clear after that."Eli said pointing to Alicia's phone as she ignored him. Today was going to be a long day.
What do you think. How will Peter deal with this? The kids? Can they make it as a couple? Tell me what you think? Please review.