Chapter 9

"Will, we should probably get back to the hotel and pack up so we can beat the rush hour traffic." They had been on the phone for about an hour, Will trying desperately to get a hold of Diane and Alicia was texting Cary and calling the office realtor to get out of the lease she had put her name on.

"What do we do Leesh?" Will asked with a pained expression on his face. "I mean, Cary? He is such an ass. Jo should be focusing on school, not Cary Agos."

Alicia put a hand on Will's shoulder. They were seated on a park bench in the Georgetown University Campus. "I don't know what we do Will. She's twenty years old, we can't dictate her life."

"Remember that guy with the tattoos and motorcycle she brought home?" Will asked with laugh.

"Didn't you like him?" Alicia said, smiling at the memory.

"He was a Baltimore Ravens fan." He reasoned.

Alicia laughed. "I cannot believe you called Peter." She said, changing her thought train back to the matter at hand.

"I was angry. I am angry. Cary should know better, you can't sleep with a name partner's daughter. How the hell is Diane okay with this?"

Alicia shook her head. Both were then interrupted by a young Georgetown student struggling to carry about six heavy law books in his arms. "Oh wow, that takes me back." Alicia said.

"He'll learn he doesn't need all those books."

"No, he can just steal someone else's."

"I did not steal your books."

"Oh really?"

"I may have borrowed them a few times." Alicia laughed.

"A few. Try all the time. It was a good thing we had an apartment together otherwise I never would have gotten them back." She smiled.

"You made it out alive. We both did." Will said. "Remember that time we argued for the Witch who tried to kill Hansel and Gretl?"

Alicia laughed, "We tried to get her off on an insanity plea."

"Those were the days." Will thought back to that day. They had lost and for some reason it had really upset Alicia. She was used to winning. He kissed her for the first time that night. "It was the beginning of the end." Will mumbled to himself.

"What?"

"We lost and then we kissed and then…"

"Then we made Jordanna." She looked him in the eyes. They hadn't talked about this in a long time. "Our moment of good timing."

"What the hell happened Leesh? Why didn't we become a family? How did we end up like this?" Will was definitely in a sharing mood right now. This whole thing with Jordan and being in Georgetown was too much for him.

"Will, don't do this now."

"I want to know why we didn't work. Was it me?" He put his hands on her shoulders, looking for an answer.

Alicia couldn't think. Why was Will bringing all of this stuff up now? Their time at Georgetown was over. "Will-"

"I should have fought for you. I should have fought for you and Jo."

"Will, if this is about Jordan, none of this is your fault. You are an amazing father to our daughter. You helped her with all of her biology homework and she's going to be a doctor."

"Leesh, this isn't about Jordan." Alicia closed her eyes; she loved the way he said the nick name he had called her. Will took her hand. "Why didn't we work? I would have been an amazing husband, don't you think?" He was rambling. Screw Peter, did you really want him that much back then that we couldn't be together?"

"Yes. Back then yes I did." She said, lying. It had always been Will. She really didn't know what had driven her back to Peter. She was with Peter when she found out she was pregnant with Jo. She guessed that because he was so great staying with her when he found out she was carrying her roommate's baby she didn't have it in her to leave him.

"Back then? And now?" He leaned in close, "now what do you want Leesh?" What did she want? Did she still love Peter? Had she ever really loved Peter? Not the way she would forever love Will.

It was her that moved the extra few inches to connect her lips with his and it was her who deepened the kiss right there on a park bench in Georgetown. Will returned the kiss with everything he had, his relationship with his daughter had gone to crap, but this, this felt like the only thing working right now. It took him right back to their first time here, twenty years ago. He kissed her back with everything he had.

It was also Alicia who pulled away. "Damnit" she whispered.

"That's totally what a guy wants to hear right now." Will tried to joke.

Alicia shot up from the bench "we can't do this again Will. This is exactly why-. We just can't do this anymore." She said. "We should head back to Chicago. Figure out what were are going to do about Jordanna."

Will rubbed his face with his hands, "you're right. I'm sorry. We should be thinking about Jo, not doing this, here. Must have been that Georgetown air." He stood up, "let's head back."

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Diane Lockhart opened her apartment door to be met by Jordanna and Cary with a suitcase and some boxes. She took one look at Jordan's face and opened her arms. Jordan accepted gratefully and sunk into her 'aunt's' embrace, tears flowing.

"We will fix this Jordan." She kissed her hair, "I promise." Diane then turned to Cary, "and you're not going to get fired so don't worry."

"Thanks Diane. Where can I put this stuff?" Cary asked.

"Second door on the left." Jordan answered, not leaving the warm embrace. Cary grabbed the suitcase and headed in that direction. "Thanks babe."

"C'mon sweetie, let's have some tea."

They separated from their hug and Jordan looked at the woman she had looked up to for as long as she could remember, "do you have anything stronger?" Jordan asked.

"Jordan, I know you are hurting now and you're mad at your parents." Diane made her way to her kitchen with Jordan in tow and opened one of her cupboards, "but alcohol is not always the answer."

Jordanna sat at one of the kitchen island bar stools "I know."

Diane turned around and placed two shot glasses on the counter and a bottle of tequila. "But right now, it is the answer."

END CHAPTER!