OMG. How have I not seen this until now? And how is it that you haven’t continued it?! PLEASE add to this fic! It is brilliant! I would love to read Alicia’s perspective on all of this. I beg you to update!

YES. A THOUSAND TIMES YES. It's fabulous and heartfelt and everything that is good in this world. I can definitely see the Georgetown backstory shaping their relationship and I love it! Hope to see more of your writing here soon!
Until then, I'll probably reread it a few times.

It's your visionary feeling phrases which capture me...which thrust your writings onto a more unforgettable recall. I really liked their authentic character presentations in this chapter. My heart pangs for your Will's reactions to Alicia here-then and now. You staged it and played them well. It is so A/W through and through in feels. Thank you for sharing this lengthy mindful treatise. That their unfinished caring ache yet seems here to sting and prick signals your successful writing talent strength. Congratulations !

So I have been digesting this story for a few days. (Maybe I should have reviewed earlier and it would have been shorter...) It is so intense, and it makes me HURT so badly for Will. I find myself needing to play sliding doors or alternate realities with every scene to make it work out between the two of them. What if she had kissed him on the lips instead of the cheek in the last story? What if he had just answered the damn question when she asked him what he wanted? What is she has been less led by fear and just let herself fall into him that snowy night? What if he'd had the guts to confront her when she avoided him after that night that they kissed? It's so frustrating to watch their miscommunication and fear guide their lives! But it is so them... My mind keeps running down every scenario since I read and reread this story. The Georgetown flashbacks in this one kind of drive me crazy because I want to fix them...but they are delicious in their angst, very compelling.

I also crave Alicia's perspective. How did she feel when held "suffocatingly tight"? Does part of her feel nourished by his passion for her? It seems possible after Peter's betrayal. Ugh...he wonders if she mistakes him for Peter in her sleep (surely no...), and feels like he's trespassing... Is this a continuation of him NEVER feeling worthy of her. After this story, my feeling is it is the other way around! Couldn't "what were we doing?" be taken as, why did we never own up to how we felt? He never asks a follow up question and it drives me insane, but it's so very IC. How exactly were she and Will way to young but she and Peter were not? When you write these chapters, do you have backstory in your head about what Alicia is really thinking with her nonstatements? She had them on the show all the time and Will just pretended to understand, or assumed he did. (Man, you capture that well!) In the Georgetown flashbacks, what did she mean by "it's just, it's too..."? And why the hell was she okay with touching him but not vice versa? Is she simply afraid of being hurt if she loses him, or is she that awful friend that leads you on for years with just enough interest to make you not let go? I don't get how her avoiding him solves the problem of not losing him. In the present, why was it too much to think about- if they would have lasted just a week? What exactly is too much? This can't be real with him because of her marriage/kids? Was she really jealous just because he was her friend (of Andrea back in law school) or did she just chicken out on telling him she felt more? I feel like I have fully experienced Will's perspective of not knowing what the hell she meant. Ha! I can guess her intentions but everything has two likely interpretations.

I love the Helena break-up idea. In regards to her looking hot, "In the dark?"...funny, but poor Helena...

God, the part where she meets Peter makes me feel ill. To pair what's happening between Will and Alicia, and Will's broken heart, with that is just painful. Ugh...and he's still worried about her with seeming to need to be someone different than herself with Peter, that she seems insecure (with the lipstick). With the more sleazy Peter, Will should have had the guts to tell her that too...maybe. Ugh...she fell for Peter's ambition and arrogance, instead of Will's devotion and sweetness...and I'm nauseated again :P (I kind of like that Will tried to pick a person to date that would hurt her he most...that is awful isn't it?) Im glad she knows she hurt him! And good she cried that night! (Though does that mean that she had loved him at some point or just missed her friend?) I kind of like how present Will expresses all his emotions (love, hurt, anger) with sex with her. I wonder if she ever gets that? That one scene where he um...has a physical reaction to what he is doing to her...suggests that sometimes she does get it.

This was fabulous in its angsty emotion, it's romance, it's heartbreak, the sensuality, and the pure love. In parts it made me excited for them, happy, hurt, frustrated, annoyed, vindictive, resolved, and it won't let me stop thinking about it... Thanks for posting!

OMGGG THIS IS GOLD! PLEASE WRITE MORE I BEG YOU

Again, I read fast and rushed, but I love how you pieced together what we know from their past from the show into the flashbacks, with Helena and Peter and Alicia first meeting. How Will and Alicia just grew apart, how Will started to become the playboy, how they both missed each other, but figured the other one was happy or didn't reciprocate so they were afraid to just out their feelings. I'm not sure if your Alicia missed Will as a friend or if she really did want more from him.

And, as usual, I'm completely impressed with your use of vocabulary.

Loved every word of this! The characters are so well written and the dialogue fits right in with what happened on the shows. I love the Gtown anecdotes sprinkled throughout. Please consider another chapter!

.GOD.
I loved every little bit of it! The vulnerability, the chemistry, Will's bluntness not holding back anymore, it's FABULOUS! And god, the FLASHBACKS! Each of them is definitely worthy of an independent fic. I hope you are considering adding chapters to it. I'll definitely reread it soon enough.

I love reading Will and Alicia stories. Thank you for sharing your certainly skilled efforts here. Thought your plot has touched and built well with that reveal in Alicia character's all too seldom spotlighted. That circling within their Georgetown history essences sends forth a wholesomeness feeling in their relationship which does not and cannot exist in any other relationship in present time. Although Alicia character is a strong principled person she is also vulnerable and acquiesced partially to that "wind of inevitability at her back". How well you captured and worded those many dimensions of anger off-shoots in Will's thoughts valuing Alicia. How surely you in toned here that A/W irresistible life connection. I do hope you find inspiration and shuffle ways to build more on this foundation so well presented. Thank you again.

I loved this history! You mixed georgetown era very well. Please, continue!

I loved this ! First of all THE TITLE I mean yeah. But I loved everything about it. The little Georgetown flashback is absolutely adorable, and how you fill in the gaps of that episode is perfect. Loved the urgency in "I... need to see you again" and how Alicia's brain just seems to go "douqgfiuebfdnalidh YEAH OKAY". I also loved the awkwardness between them at his apartment and how she just resolves to invite him over for two nights straight. I really enjoyed this ! Are you going to write more ?

I think I need to reread (I was rushed and it's long) but I really liked the way you got into their heads and brought in all of the flashbacks. I'm not so into the T or M rated aspects of stories on here. I guess I'm just more of a G-rated girl. But there was still a lot to this story to appreciate taking those aspects out. I'm impressed with you usage of vocabulary and your ability to so clearly describe their internal thoughts, their actions, etc.
Really well done.

Oh my god! You are back! AND with a Will/Alicia story! You have so made my fan fiction dreams come true this evening. I loved it, every word. It was sad and sweet, it had me biting my nails to see what happened next (even though it's woven into the canon of the show, so that is something). You have this incredible ability to write stories that are simultaneously hot and so full of emotion. All of them are like that, but your Will... good god your Will. He is beautiful, with powerful emotions, and I always want to just wrap him up and protect him from the pain she does and will cause him. The Georgetown flashbacks are fabulous. I think they so perfectly fit his obvious enduring love for her throughout the show, fit her suspicions yet skepticism of his love (like when Tammy outs that he broke up with Helena because he was in love with someone else and his eyes flash to hers which are full of a knowing yet uncertain look), and perfectly fit her description of "we had what we had back in Georgetown...". That line made me think what the hell is what you had if you can't even name it? This is my in-my-head canon for the show now. (though actually all of your stories are in-my-head canon for the show) This is what they had back in Georgetown: his intense love and longing, his feeling of unworthiness and uncertainty on how to approach her, her ultimate trust in him and intimacy with him. It fits so beautifully, makes all of the pieces of the show fit that much better together. I am SO excited to have extra added to night-after discussion in her office scene, to the foyer scene, to the what happens after the foyer scene, as well as an explanation as to how their first weekend came about. The way that you expanded on those bits of the show, and meshed them with your backstory so smoothly, while giving such insight into their, and especially his, emotional states was fantastic. Could we have their first weekend together too? Could you give us more flashbacks? What the hell did Alicia think of their best friends relationship where they slept snuggled up together, and his obvious arousal and staring at her? Could she really not tell he was massively in love with her? Did she not see how amazing he was? Did she seriously not care as much about Will as she did Peter? Oh, and I LOVED your depiction of Peter, his obvious manipulation of her. That is EXACTLY how I imagine him- that she should have seen it coming, should have seen through his facade, but her insecurity and naïveté blind her to it all. Even though Alicia/Will stuff is by far my all time favorite, I'm kind of eating up the Alicia/Peter-is-sleazy background stuff too. Things keep popping into my head that I loved: the way you had Will so obviously fumbling and nervous, while still somehow coming off charming, funny, and sexy. That was unique and well done! Pleeeaaase tell me this means you will post more... Something with multiple chapters and a plot that develops like your Jason/Alicia one would be so loved and appreciated. I'm awful. I know it. I beg and I'm not ashamed :) I would seriously love to read anything you want to post. Thank you for posting!