Hey so I finally was able to get this chapter done. It took a lot of time, I literally spent hours trying to figure out what to do. Taking things out, putting new things in. Just know I changed this chapter about 12 times. I hope you guys enjoy the finished product. Also thanks for the reviews.
Will woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Well the wrong side of Alicia's bed that is. The past couple of days Will had been crashing at Alicia's, half because they would end up spending the night working/other things. But also because he just loved seeing her when he woke up in the morning. But this morning was different, he felt an unbearable dread wash over him as he got out of bed that morning.
As will grabbed a pair of pants and a shirt, something that now permanently stood in Alicia's closet, and went in the kitchen to grab him something for breakfast. When he entered the kitchen, he saw Grace and Zach both chowing down on some pancakes.
"Hey guys."WIll said with a yawn as he went to the plate of pancakes waiting for him.
"Hey Will."They said in unison. It took Grace a awhile to come to terms with her new family, but after some family bonding time and a lot of soccer practice, Grace has finally been able to cope with Will, more importantly her new life.
"Where's your mom?"Will said curiously as he started to almost consume a whole pancake. The two children looked at each other and then back at Will.
"Um Will, mom's with dad."Zach said slowly as if Will should have already known. Mostly because he should have. And suddenly Will remembered why he felt so bad. Alicia had been with Peter all night at his victory dinner that he practically begged Alicia to go to for helping him with his campaign. ALicia really didn't want to go, but it was will that told her to go, he was thanking her, at the worse, she would end up eating too much cake or drinking too much wine.
"So she hasn't come back yet?"Will asked, drinking some orange juice he recently poured. The kids looked at each other, wondering what they should and should not say.
"Well...uh….um...er"Zach stumbled, slowing his food hard. Suddenly The door opened and Alicia walked in. Both children let out a deep breath that they didn't know they were holding. To be honest, they didn't mind their mom hanging out with their dad. They wanted them to at least be happy and not those parents that argue all the time they see each other. But since they have gotten close with Will, whenever their dad comes up they become afraid to tell him anything, fear he would freak out or leave. Though they doubt he really would, they can already tell how much they, he loves her.
"Hey babe. Long night."Will said as Alicia walked over to the kids, kissing them first before going to will.
"Yeah."She said drinking his orange juice.
"I'm going to go take a nap and then we can all go out ok?"She ripped a piece of Will's pancake and ate it. Just as she was about to leave, Zach stopped her.
"Uh Mom, Will and I were supposed to go play basketball."
"And then we were supposed to go try out my new side kick at the park. After that dad was supposed to come and pick me us out for dinner and a movie."Grace added. Both of the kids were a bit worried that the two adults had forgotten what was supposed to happen this weekend.
"Oh. Ok well I guess I will see the two of you…"Alicia stopped hoping they would remind her about the rest of the weekend.
"Monday, we will be with dad the rest of the weekend."Grace said as she continued her breakfast.
"Ok"Alicia said as she partly staggered into her bedroom, all eyes watching her.
"Is she ok?"Grace asked, more to Will than Zach.
"Hey you guys finish eating and get dress. Then I should be ready ok?"Will said before following Alicia to her room.
"Leesh?"Will said as he opened the door to her room. As soon as he saw her, he bolted to her side.
"Alicia what happened? Why did you get home so late?"Will asked, holding her as she cried into his shoulder.
"Will it was the worst night ever.I think I made a really bad decision."
12 hours ago
"Alicia I am so glad that you came."Peter said, wine glass in his hand. Alicia surfed through a crowd of people in Peter's new apartment.
"Peter there is too many people here. I am going to go."Alicia said as she turned to leave. Peter grabbed her just as she was about to leave.
"Please. I need you here."Peter whispered so only she could hear, which was hard since it was so loud there. Alicia could see a hint of sadness in his tone as he spoke to her.
"Ok."She whispered back. Peter's slight frown faded and turned into a huge smiled as he saw someone important walk by.
"Good. We have wine, drink up."Peter gave her a glass of wine and walked away.
For the rest of the night, Alicia spent it drinking, periodically speaking to important business people and political power houses. But most of her time was spent hiding from jackie and laughing with Eli.
In the past couple of months, her and Eli have become the best of friends, almost as close as Kalinda and Owen. But with new friends, come new enemies. Jackie had sworn to "repay her for all of the pain she caused". While she doubted that Jackie would cause her any harm, but she still did not trust her anywhere near her.
Hours later, all of the guest had gone, including Jackie and Eli. It was just a drunk Peter and a partly drunk Alicia. Alicia, a little wobbly, started cleaning up the mess and then stopped realizing how he still had her in his trap.
Peter hand his legs open and his arms on the back of the chair. From his posture, Alicia had thought that maybe he had finally passed out from the many glasses of champagne. But when Alicia walked over to see if he was awake, he grabbed her. She screamed from the sudden movement from her ex husband but soon calmed down afterwards.
"Alicia will you stay the night?"Peter said as he stood up. Alicia had pulled from his grasp immediately after being grabbed.
"Yes Peter. You are too drunk to care for yourself tonight. And your mom as well as Eli have already left."Alicia said straightening her suit out and sighing. She really didn't want to take care of Peter. She felt the only people she should look after were her children. But in the circumstances, she decided this one last time would be ok.
Alicia looked at her phone and then at the clock on the wall.
"I should really call Will and the kids to make sure they are ok."Alicia said under her breathe. Though Peter heard her and grew extremely angry.
"Alicia let's go to bed."Peter grabbed her arm and had dark shadows in his eyes. At this moment Alicia became slightly frightened by his look and pulled from him.
"Excuse me?"
"You said you would stay with me."Peter became confused and angry. Alicia took a step back, already ready to run if necessary.
"I said I would stay, not with you, for you. I meant I would stay and make sure you would be ok. You know not break anything or puke everywhere."Alicia became irritated that he would think, that he had planned this whole thing just to get back together. SHe was now one move from punching him in the face.
"Why not now? A couple of months ago you were fine with having sex with me. Why not now?"
"Because I was not with Will a couple of months ago! At least not intimately."Alicia shot back, immediately regretting telling him. She had forgotten for a moment that she did not actually tell Peter when she had gotten with Will, or that she was with him now.
"It always comes down to WIll doesn't it? What does he have that I don't? What is so bad with me?"Peter was completely furious and out of control now. But so was she.
"You Peter, it has always been you. You are controlling manipulative and an all round asshole. Also what is so wrong with Will? Everyone, and I mean everyone is ok with us. The kids, my job, my family, hell even Eli is happy for me. But not you. You refuse to let me go, and it would be sweet in any other case. But you are cold and hard hearted, heartless if I may add and in this case, the fact that you will not let me go just shows you how controlling you are."Alicia grabbed her things and stormed out of the apartment just before Peter threw a lamp at the door.
Alicia laid still in Will's arms. The sheer memory made her shudder.
"I spent the rest of the night walking aimlessly. The next thing I know, I'm here."Will hushed her as he rubbed her back and kissed her forehead.
"You were both drunk, he probably doesn't even remember."Alicia looked up, she knew that he was wrong and her eye showed the fear she knew she would soon have.
"Hey, no matter what. Everything is going to be fine."Will said before picking Alicia's face up in his arms and kissing her. But if only Will really knew what was to come, he wouldn't have said that.
Will stood in his office throwing his ball up and down. He looked out into his office window and just admired his lovely city. Some days when things were getting rough or he was having a bad day, he always found the sunset in his office would always make things a bit better. And today of all days, he needed a really good sunset.
"Will. How are you doing?"Diane said, pulling him from his glorious sunset. Will took one more look at the sunset and smiled.
"I couldn't be better."Will replied before sitting down at his desk.
"They haven't called you for a ruling yet?"Diane asked, truly concerned for her friends well being.
"Nope."Will held in his fear so well, but of course she saw straight through it.
"Will you might want to start worrying about the worst at this moment."
"You know that even if I get disbarred he still won't win. There is nothing that he can do that could ever break us apart now."Will smirked at the irony of it all. He did this to break them up, but this only made their relationship stronger.
"Will, he can still destroy you."Diane threw at him, hoping it would help him realize that he really should be worried.
"Only my reputation."Will thought back to when Peter had called him after he had found out about the grand jury and all of the meetings to get him disbarred.
"You're a sadistic bastard Peter."Will growled through the had just informed him about the grand jury Wendy Scott Carr had set up for him.
"Will I have no idea what you are talking about. I only to call to find out if you were still agreeing to the audit."Peter tried his hardest to hide his snicker. He had only been in the office a couple of weeks when Cary had brought this to him. For awhile he contemplated whether or not to do it. But he remembered his conversation with Alicia when he won. The words "cold hard hearted and heartless" ran through his mind and he knew his answer.
"Peter why can't you ever do anything like a man? You have to destroy my career instead of just fighting me? Seriously? Peter Be a man, fight for her her not sneak around like a snake."Will shot back. His blood boiling with rage.
"Says the man that hired my wife just to fuck her!"Peter shot back. He couldn't stand it anymore.
"I hired her, but she was in love with me years before this or you. And she will love me years after it and you know it."Will hung up the phone and slammed the door. Over at the State's Attorney's office, Peter through his phone far across the room.
Will was brought back from his thoughts by the ringing of his phone. He answered it and ended it within seconds.
"Diane I gotta go."Will said before he got up and left. Leaving a confused and worried Diane in his office.
On his way to the elevator, he bumped into Alicia.
"Hey sweetie."Alicia said before giving him a kiss on the cheek.
"Did you get the call?"Alicia said seeing the phone in his with a shake of his head, she knew she was right.
"Ride down with me?"Will said as he looked into his sunset.
"Of course."Alicia grabbed his hand as they walked into the empty elevator.
"Everything will be ok. Remember?"Alicia said as she moved closer to Will. The closeness used to send shocks of electricity to his chest. But now, he feels a rush of warmth and love eroding from his whole body when she is near.
"I know. We will always be ok."Will kissed her hand as the elevator continued to drop. Alicia closed her eyes to the warmth of his lips.
"I love you."Flowed from her lips as he removed his lips from her hand. From his shocked and scared eyes, she knew he hadn't expected her to say that. But she smiled anyway.
"Don't look at me like that." She hit him on his chest.
"Ow!"He laughed as a smile faded from her lips and she started to frown.
"I know when I said it those many weeks ago, you probably dismissed it."
"Yeah, I assumed you said it because you were used to saying that when people left. You know like Owen or the kids."Will said staring at the doors of the elevator opened and the got out. As soon as they left the elevator, Alicia grabbed Will's face and looked directly in his chocolate sultry eyes.
"That was apart of it…..but I meant it. I have always meant it for you. And I always will."Alicia drew him into a passionate kiss.
"I never knew the sunset tasted so good." Will thought to himself.
"I love you too."Will said before kissing her one last time, as if he were entering into the army, leaving to never return. Will turned and walked out of the door. And even though she knew he would come back in one way or another, she couldn't help but fill with dread.
As Will sat down at the long table of people, he started to let the worry set in.
"Will welcome, please sit."Said the head chairman. Will looked at him with a confused and dazed face. He was already sitting, why tell him to sit.
"We have reviewed all of the evidence present, and we rule that you shall have a six month suspension. While on suspension you are not allowed to practice law….."By this time Will had completely blanked out. He pretty much just stopped listening when he heard suspension. Three words rang in his head like bell towers, warning the townsfolk of trouble.
"Six month suspension."Will thought to himself as the chairman continued to talk.
He looked out of the huge glass windows across from him and looked at the sky. He noticed that the sky grew dark and the sun was nowhere to be found. He had missed the sunset.
So I want everyone to know, before I get chewed out about accuracy, Alicia was drunk, a bit, when she yelled at him. SO I don't want, she would never really say this. Mostly because I would agree to it. Also, I almost forgot about the I love you thing, but I used their elevator to express everything. But I do wish I could have fit a longer more thought out conversation, but it just didn't fit. And one last thing, I was so close to two parting to(where the line break is) But I pushed to finish it. So I hoped you enjoyed it, please review.