Summary: When Sonny hears that Will didn't totally have a choice when it came to Paul he loses it a little but then he thinks and makes a decision about his marriage. Will the whole truth be enough to save Will and Sonny's marriage? The truth matters but will it be enough?

Please note that I do not hate Paul but it is a necessary evil to make him the bad guy if only slightly here in this story.

One

Sonny stared at Paul wondering where all of this was coming from and he knew that Will had talked to the other man the other night but hearing his ex talk about how what happened was his fault didn't make sense to him. Paul was acting like he was the sole blame of what happened and the fact that Will cheated which wasn't true but he also could see the guilt in Paul's eyes and wondered if maybe this was the truth. He was frustrated already because he wanted to fix things with his husband, he loved him so of course he wanted to fix things but every time he thought about trying to fix things he only thought about the way that Will seemed so obsessed with Paul and the hurt he felt at the cheating and the fact that the blonde didn't seem to want to focus on their marriage.

"What did Will say to make you say these things?" he asked instead thinking that maybe Paul was being forced to say something but he saw the way that the other man seemed to deny that.

"Will did say something but that isn't what this is Sonny," Paul explained, "Right after we slept together I tried again but he turned me down except that isn't the whole story. I tried to blackmail him and I told him that if he didn't stay I wouldn't do the story."

"You did what?" Sonny asked shocked not believing what he was hearing and trying to process all of it.

"Look I'm used to getting what I wanted so I did everything I could to get Will into my bed and it worked so it's my fault that things got this bad," Paul admitted not realizing the way that Sonny was feeling.

Sonny knew that Paul was always determined when he saw something he wanted, it was one of the things he use to like about him and the reason that their relationship started. The problem wasn't the cheating because it didn't matter the amount of charm that Paul put on his husband should have said no. The problem was that he had blackmailed Will into staying when he probably didn't want to and though at least it wasn't to sleep with him again it still made Sonny angry. The hurt he felt was because he was so in love with Will and he had been betrayed but he had screwed things up as well by saying he wanted to fix things then saying he wasn't ready. The anger he felt right now was in part because he was angry at himself and in part because he was angry that his husband had been blackmailed. Sonny didn't think as he pulled his hand back and punched Paul surprising them both.

"I deserved that," Paul said holding his lip which was bleeding and would probably bruise.

"No you didn't I'm sorry," he told him looking down at his hand shocked at himself.

"You love him Sonny I can tell and I know your hurt but maybe you should try to fix things with him or at least talk to him," Paul said giving him a sad look, "When he came to see me the other night he screamed about doubting you would want him when you could have me."

"Well I don't want you Paul," Sonny said trying push back what he was feeling because everything was catching up to him and he felt like he was going to break down.

"It's not me you need to say that to," Paul said and left before anything else could be said.

Sonny sighed sitting down on the bench and putting his head in his hands as he tried not to cry. He didn't think his life could get more screwed up then it already was but it had. Why did he have to tell his husband that he wanted it should be obvious though lately nothing was obvious for either of them? It was like Will and him were constantly hurting each other in some way and it felt like nothing was going to look up. The throbbing in his hand helped him forget about the disaster that was his life and he pulled back to see that his knuckles were bruised. Sonny tried to make a fist but winced when it hurt to even move his hand and knew that he probably broke something. Before he could move he heard hurried footsteps and turned to face his husband who looked like he had been running.

"What are you doing talking to Paul?" he demanded to know and a part of Sonny was a little angry but the other part was just tired of fighting.

"He wanted to talk to me," Sonny said simply his hand starting to hurt worse than before.

"Dammit Sonny can't you see why I wanted to get him out town. He wants you and he isn't going to stop interfering," Will told him waving his hands in the air and it reminded Sonny of someone who had gone crazy or was just plain desperate making him wondering if that was his fault.

"He was telling me about how he blackmailed you after the two of you slept together. Unlike you Will he isn't focusing on getting you out of the way to have me he is instead admitting he was an asshole and trying to stay out of the way," Sonny hissed out getting angry because lately that was all he did.

"Let me guess he's off the hook for that like he was for sleeping with me," the blonde yelled clearly upset.

"Let me make something clear Will. I let him off the hook because he wasn't married to me and because I am not in love with him. And no Will he wasn't off the hook for blackmailing you instead he now has a busted lip and I probably have a broken hand. I am sick and tired of having to constantly tell you how I feel and you second guess it. I don't want Paul and when I was with him it wasn't because of the fame Will. Do you really think that I would be this upset if I didn't love you?" he screamed having stood up and gotten into his face having enough and just breaking down in a way.

"Dammit," Sonny yelled out before the blonde could say anything when he tried to make a fist and his hand protested loudly but before he could look at it his hand was grabbed gently.

Will was silent trying to process everything and looked down at the busted hand of his husband. He had thought that he had ruined everything and that there might not be hope for them but it seemed telling the whole truth helped. He hadn't wanted to tell Sonny about the blackmail because he thought that it wouldn't matter but it seemed in a way it did. Hearing that Sonny had punched somebody because they hurt him and hearing that the reason the brunette was so hurt by everything was because he was in love with him not Paul had shocked him a little but it was also a reality check.

"Your hand looks like it's broken," the blonde said softly not letting it go but expecting Sonny to pull away which he didn't.

"Yeah well unlike T, Paul has a hard jaw apparently," Sonny huffed liking the way that his husband ran his thumb soothingly across his hand and he didn't want to pull away even if he was still hurt and angry.

"I thought we would be fighting right now since that's all we seem to do," Will said recalling Sonny's words from earlier.

"I have a right to be angry and hurt Will," the brunette said with a sigh.

"So you still love me?" Will asked.

"Do you remember when EJ cheated on your mom and how hurt she was? Well let's just say I can understand it right now. It would be easier if I didn't love you Will but I do. You know Paul told me what you said to him and you're wrong. I want you Will the problem is that you hurt me," Sonny admitted softly trying to ignore the pain in his hand.

Will wanted to point out that he had proposed to Paul first but stopped himself because Sonny had gone over that topic multiple times and his grandma Marlena had told him that just because you propose to somebody once and got turned down didn't mean you couldn't propose to somebody else again later on in the future. It was taking a while to get through his head and he wasn't there yet but Will knew that it had to be true otherwise Sonny wouldn't have punched Paul.

"Can we please try to fix us?" the blonde begged.

"No," Sonny said but continued on despite the fact that the blonde had a scared look on his face, "I need to get my hand looked at then we can try to fix us."

"You could have started with that instead of scaring me like that," Will laughed sighing as his heart tried to get back to its normal rate.

Sonny just shook his head and reached out for his husband but pain shot through him and he winched. He sighed when Will grabbed his elbow and gently led him to away to get his hand looked at. He figured that the truth was enough for now and while it felt like there was a way for them to fix things would the truth be enough to save their broken marriage.