Author's Note: Hi all! I hope you enjoy my 100 Prompts/100 Words challenge based on Will and Alicia. I haven't written fanfiction on a regular basis for quite some time, so I thought this might be a nice way to get back into writing. :)

The timeline will jump around-I'll be sure to note in future author's notes if it's unclear when exactly it takes place or if it needs a little more clarification. I think it will be a fun way to throw in some flashbacks.

Oh, one more thing-several (many?) of these will be considered AU after the events of Season 5. Hmph.

Disclaimer: The Good Wife doesn't belong to me. If it did, Season 5 probably wouldn't have happened, at least not the way it did.

1) Loss

Named partnership. An offer he thought she couldn't refuse. An offer that would've convinced her to stay, even when he didn't know she was thinking of leaving.

She said no. She left. He yelled. He said and did stupid, irrational things out of fear. He was scared to lose her.

Will looked down at the scrap of paper in front of him. "Gardner/Florrick," he had scribbled. And he'd had another thought, too, later on down the road, that it might be "Gardner & Gardner."

But she was gone. He'd lost her. They weren't partners. Or lovers. And certainly not friends.