Um just a warning I'm only in high school so my writing probably isn't that good! And please review its.. my first story! The good wife world seemed to be lacking fanfic's at the moment so I made one!

Cutting Deals

Will's POV

Things of the late weren't going that smoothly for Will... After finally being able to ditch Wendy Scott-Car and Peter Florrick with the grand jury, he thought his sky was clearing. Just a little bit... Every time he see's Alicia, in his mind, his sky is full of stars, but the stars fade away when the pain hits him and he remembers she's no longer his... I guess you could say that she never really was his, because three months out of sixteen years is pretty pathetic. Will didn't think Peter could stoop so low as to report Will to the Chicago Illinois Bar Association... or was it Wendy? He didn't really care.. He just wanted it all to stop! Disbarment, out of the question! He did wrong he knew that, but disbarment! Really? First he loses his girl, second the grand jury, and yes! The cherry on top, disbarment. Ahhh life sucks. Life sucks and he can't do anything about it. Will just sulks in his office, to depressed to do anything else, except think in his brown leather recliner... but even that was enough! He couldn't even think anymore or his head would explode! All the cheeriness from a month ago slowly sapped out of him like maple syrup in a tree. He could remember having a wonderful party, just to celebrate him being free of the states attorney! Now he wishes he was back in Peter's clutches anything but this.

No Alicia

Disbarment

No happiness

Thats the list that formed in his head whenever he was slightly happy, sometimes he didn't even have to think that list, he could just look around him and see all the people happy with lives. Something he didn't really have. Will would find out in two hours if he was no longer a lawyer. Two hours. He was sitting in the court room now waiting for the sentence. Elsbeth was making the final stand but they were getting crushed. The other side was saying that he violated his rights with a client.. which he did... but he paid the client back so it really didn't matter anymore. No one seemed to see it like he did... He knew it, he knew he was going to lose his license but it never really hit him this hard... He would have a half hour to do whatever he wanted but that was it... Once the time was up he would be in court again finally hearing the sentence that would rip him apart.

Alicia's POV

Alicia didn't know what to do! She felt it was all her fault Will was going to get disbarred... If she never slept with him..Peter wouldn't of ruined his life and let Wendy lose on him! God, she hated that women. Grey clouds were in her mind ... right until lightning struck! Lightning, beautiful, dangerous, and deadly. Would she be that stupid?...No, she wasn't going to do that.. That would only make things worse. Like how it helped last time. But it was Will, her "Mr. Georgetown," she had to help she would only feel worse if she did nothing. Sometimes she wish she wasn't so nice. Alicia ran down the hall in Lockhart Gardner only to be stopped by Eli. Lovely Eli.. always there to interrupt important things for her. She sighed when he stood in front of her and gave her a knowing and accusing look.

"Eli".. Alicia stated.

"Alicia." "May I ask where or should I say whom your running too, because I won't appreciate it if you go to Will's final statements or.. whatever their called, you already saw him yesterday that would look odd to bystanders and that's NOT acceptable here." Replied the ever so calm Eli.

"Actually I'm going to see Peter," Alicia warily said.

"Alicia it's not acceptable beca-Oh... Peter, very well, ah... have fun!" Eli spurted.

Alicia just gave him an odd look and walked away, Maby she would actually see Will just because Eli said that. Alicia wanted to see Will but she knew it would only hurt him more. She hurriedly walked to her car and drove to Peter's place, but he wasn't there, she tried his phone but he didn't pick up. So she let out an exasperated sigh and went to Peter's office... Maby he was working late today. She walked in to the courthouse down a couple halls to Peter's office. She saw him in there sitting at his desk looking tired and a little bit happy. When Alicia walked in he looked up and grinned with a sadness in his eyes.

"Hey Alicia"

"Hi Peter"

"Did Jackie do something wrong again, or is it something the kids did, or is it something else...

Alicia did not want to do this, but it was necessary if she wanted Will to be okay. Right when she was about to speak she realized not wanting to do this was a major understatement. She hated having to do this.

"Peter, I need to talk to you."

"Okay talk Alicia "he jokingly said.

"Peter, I want a divorce."

Her plan was going okay right now he didn't explode like a volcano he just had a huge hurt look in his eyes. She didn't want to hurt him, she didn't want to hurt anybody, but right now it was necessary. She knew only one person had enough sway to make Will a free man and that person was Peter. But she also knew Peter would do nothing for Will because he despised him with every bone in his body, so she was going to be a not so nice person and play fire with fire.

Will's POV

His half hour started now and he left his seat and walked out of the courtroom.. After all he was still a free man .. at least for a half hour. Elsbeth had tries her hardest, and unluckily the opposing side did too. Look, at them laughing and smiling there with cocky and triumphant grins on their faces, Will thought. He wish he could walk over there and take all the evidence of his wrongdoing with clients and throw them in a fire pit. Elsbeth was going to stay at the courthouse but Will was going to go sulk for a half hour in his office. He went around a corner and smelled her. Alicia's perfume was an imprint in his memory that would never go away. Alicia was an imprint in his memory that would never go away. He looked up and searched for her when he saw her in Peter's office when he walked by. Peter unluckily also saw him and glared with a nod of his head. Alicia turned around and saw Will walk away she gave a wary smile at which one Will returned and turned back to peter. Will arrived at Diane's and his law firm not believing that it would be taken away from him in twenty minutes. He walked into his office while thinking about Alicia and his life and how messed up everything with him and his life and Alicia is. He got so many sympathetic looks he wanted to punch the next person who gave him one in the face. But he arrived in his office so he couldn't. He sat down broke out the scotch, and looked up as he saw Eli and Diane march into his office, as well as Kalinda trailing quietly behind.

Alicia's POV

Peter instantly objected her divorce statement... But Alicia said if he objected she didn't care because she'd make him sign the papers.. This was all going according to plan.

"Alicia I don't understand we can work through this, I love you!"

"Everything was going fine what did I do wrong"

Alicia looked up at him into those dark eyes and said "you did nothing wrong, it's just not working anymore it hasn't been for a long time."

Alicia saw the flare of anger in his eyes and instantly knew what he was going to say before he said it.

"This is all about Will isn't it."

Alicia saw the look in his eyes, the politician had taken over him and he was no longer the Peter Florrick she fell in love with. But she was no longer going to take it, she wanted to hurt him in that moment wound him in the heart the way he did to her so she simply replied:

"Yes it is."

He looked shocked and outraged.

"Peter I'm no longer that person I was in the past fifteen years so I'm going to make a deal with you." "I know you can't afford a divorce right now because it would kill you and your career." "I also know you can sway the judge into not letting Will be disbarred, so I'll make you an offer, I won't file for a divorce if you go to the judge this minute and get the bar to call it off.

Peter simply said, "No, get a divorce I can survive, but there's no way I'm vouching for Gardner."

Alicia was enraged but you could only see it in her eyes she was in full on lawyer mood something that rarely came out while not in court.

Alicia stated, "Fine I'll get a divorce and I'll also let something leak to the press, something about Leela." Alicia was big time bluffing because she would not make Kalinda feel that humiliation.

"You wouldn't," said Peter. But Peter wasn't feeling so sure at the moment so he did something that made him feel like a scumbag.

"Fine Alicia, you file for a divorce, you rat out your best friend Kalinda, but know, just know that I'll get custody." Peter felt like a jerk he could see the fury and sadness in his wife's eyes and he knew it was because of him.

Alicia said, "I doubt it."

Peter couldn't stand the pain in Alicia's eyes so he stated; "Alright I'll make a deal, You hold off on the divorce until after I run for governorship, and you never speak of my affair with Kalinda, I'll make sure Will isn't disbarred."

Alicia stood there, she didn't want to stay with Peter for another four or five years she loved him but it wasn't in the same way anymore. She would be miserable throughout all of the press conferences she knew it but, it was the least she could do for Will after all the crap she put him through.

Alicia replied slowly "Deal, shake on it." Peter shook firmly and got up and said he better get going. He hated Gardner even more now and he was in despair that his wife was going to get a divorce and the only thing keeping them together was Will Gardner.

Will's POV

This was the most depressing thing ever, Alicia wasn't in the firm at the moment and he was surrounded by sympathetic people.. Well Kalinda, Diane, and Eli. It was silent for a couple minutes when Diane got up from her chair to get more scotch from his cabinet and Eli and Kalinda were staring at him awkwardly. Then Eli broke the ice with a very mean but true question...

"So do you know what you're going to do when you get disbarred?" Said Eli.

Will just glared at him but his heart wasn't in it so it just looked like a frown.

The silence was interrupted when some bumbling idiot ran into his office and handed him an envelope, he said it was from the Illinois Bar Association then he ran away. Will sighed and took the envelope. He opened the letter and looked at it. Geez, they didn't even type the letter he thought to himself. He read the letter and it said ;

Dear William Paul Gardner,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been cleared of your charges and you shall not be disbarred, there is no need to come to the court house, for you final hearing.

The Chicago Illinois Bar Association

Will re-read the letter six or seven times before he jumped up knocking his scotch over. Kalinda grabbed the letter and passed it on. He was smiling and everybody in his little group was laughing, at his expression. Will looked out of the corner of his eye and saw Alicia talking to the "bumbling idiot" who was carrying the letter. She shook his hand and let him walk away. She turned towards Will and smiled at him, giving him a thumb ups. He smiled back acknowledging that he didn't get disbarred and gave her a thumbs up. He watched her walk away with her hair in perfect shape and looking beautiful in her red dress with a black suit coat. He didn't like the fact that she was talking to that messenger, and he didn't like the fact that she gave him a thumbs up as if knowing that he didn't get disbarred before he knew it.

To be continued