My first Fanfic (please be kind) it's even in a foreign language. Please review so I know someone actually reads what i write here ...
What happened if Nick had succeeded and Will had given up his parental rights. In my story, the situation in the hospital did happen, but besides the people who were in that room (Sonny, Sami, EJ, Lucas, Nick and Will) and Gaby now that Will is the father of Gaby's baby. The Wedding disaster didn't happen – Nick and Gaby are married.
The chapters might be short. I wanted to write a one shot, but it got a bit longer then expected.. :D
Nick could not believe what he read on the paper in his hand. He could not believe his plan turned out just as he predicted. Will signed his parental rights away.
Not willingly though but still. Nick had everything in check. He would be the father to Gaby's daughter. And he would do everything to keep his child away from Will. Away from Sonny and their lifestyle.
Now he just had to break it to Gaby. Had to tell her that Will did not want custody. And that would be the hardest part.
The door swung wide open, as Nick went into the hospital room, where Gaby was about to pack her stuff into the pink bag lying on the bed. She didn't not hear him or at least didn't turn around.
„Gaby? Honey?" His voice was soft and calm. So different from the voice he used just minutes before when he confronted Will and Sonny.
Gaby turned around and Nick took at a deep breath at the look at her face. Her eyes were swollen and red, smaller than usual. Her cheeks were burning. She looked terrible.
Nick was concerned. What had happened to his wife? Who was responsible for this?
Gaby sat down next to her bag and pushed her hair away.
„Will texted.", she said.
Nick nodded though he did not know whether her heard her right. Will already texted her? What would've he texted her about? Nick just hoped it would not about him.
„He gave up custody." She looked straight into his eyes. „What did I do? Why is he rejecting his baby? I know that we had a bad start, but i love him."
Nick breathed out, disturbing the short silence but nevertheless Gaby went on.
„I still love him and I want him to be around us."
The thoughts in Nicks mind ran wild. His stomach turned around at the thought of two faggots raising a child. Any child would be bad, but especially Gaby's.
Nick raised his arm, layed his hand on Gaby's shoulder and pulled her in. Again and again he stroke her back until she had stopped crying.
Her face lay in his collarbone and he whispered in her ear.
„Maybe it's for the best." He thought Gaby would rage at that sentence but she kept quiet. Maybe she hadn't heard him. He mouthed a thank you in the empty room.
„Let's go, honey. Let's go." Nick grabbed her bag with the one and the baby with his other. With strong, determined steps he went out of the room, hearing Gaby's quiet, sad steps coming up right behind his.
His hand turned the cold door knob around, pushing the door open. He purchased the new apartment with money borrowed by his brother-in-law Rafe Hernandez but he wouldn't tell Gabi about that. He was eager to keep the picture up, that he was able to feed his family now. Back in his head he knew that Will and Sonny could've provided more money for Gabi and her daughter. Just with the savings of the families Horton and Kiriakis, of course, but still.
He put his daughter in her crib, looking around in the room. He painted it bright pink, with crowns and princesses all of the walls. And that is what this little girl, sleeping in the crib was – a princess. His own, wonderful princess. And like princesses he would protect her from the darkness and the monsters of this world. That included Will and Sonny.
When he closed the door to the child's bedroom, he saw Gabi sitting down on the sofa, rubbing her forehead as if she had a headache.
"Honey, dear.", he said, sitting down beside her. "You should go to bed. You seem tired." He kissed her on the cheek, before he was standing up and going into the kitchen. He turned on the kettle and looked to the wall, fixating on the clock. It was half past 10 in the evening but he didn't feel it. He knew he couldn't sleep now, even if he went to bed. He was too awake to close his eyes and dive away to his dreams.
Suddenly something vibrated in his pocket and pulled him out of his thoughts. He took his phone out and saw on the caller I.D. that it was Will. For a second he thought about not answering but he did anyway.
"What do you want?"
The voice on the other end wasn't Will's but he recognized it instantly.
"I wanna talk to you..."
He shake his head.
"Not going to happen, Sami. You did this, and you know it. And Will has to pay for it."
"How is this my fault. You are not going to turn your own stupidity around. You … You betrayed the family. Betrayed your cousin."
Nick felt how his rage grew inside.
"Then your son should watch with whom he's sleeping." His voice dropped down at the end of the sentence causing Sami to question what he said.
He did not answer her question instead decided that it was indeed time to end the conversation. He took the phone away from his ear and threw it carelessly on the table.
Then he poured the hot water into his cup and watched the water turn red thanks to the tea bag inside. He focused on the red lines in the water how they grew and got bigger and bigger. He watched them until he couldn't see them anymore because the whole water was red-ish.
He picked the cup up and drank hastily.
Then he sat down at the table and stared into nothing. He did not think at anything in particular but it felt good, sitting in the dark, quiet kitchen. He felt like nothing could conquer him. He felt invincible.
When he decided to go to bed it was already early morning and he saw the first rays of sunlight shining into the apartment. Carefully not to wake Gabi up he lay down, pulling the blanket over him and closing his eyes.
At the same time a few streets away in a dorm of the University of Salem, Will just opened his eyes, just to see a bunch of black hair next to him. He sighed at the thought of Sonny. He got somewhat lucky and he knew it. Sonny was the best thing that had ever happened to him. He could not believed he deserved someone that kind, loving and caring as him.
"Don't." The hair next to him turned around and looked at him. Will saw brown eyes looking into his own blue ones. Sonny voices cracked a bit, being early morning and all that.
"What?" Will didn't understand Sonny's request.
"You are asking yourself why you've got me. Admit it."
Will chuckled.
"No. I'm asking myself how my boyfriend reads my mind."
Sonny sat up.
"Well. Guess I am a genius then." Sonny looked at Will's eyes and bowed over to kiss him. Those sweet little gestures of affection made Will fall in love with Sonny all over again. Those little kisses and hugs and touches made Will realise how lucky he was.
"How are you ?" Sonny stopped kissing Will. In his eyes Will saw blank concern.
Will looked away and let his view drop to the blanket. He saw the stripes on the fabric, the small yellow and the bigger green ones.
"There have been good parts of this night and bad parts." Sonny nodded. Will had hesitated with his answer because he didn't want Sonny to feel bad.
Will sat up, breathed in and stood up. Next to bed he was first stretching his legs before going into the bathroom. While the hot water of the shower was running over his skin, he felt as if his brain was cleaned from all the bad thoughts all of the worries and feelings he had about signing that piece of paper Nick had shown him.
But he knew that those thoughts would come back as soon as he would step out of the shower. Therefore he decided to stay under the shower longer than necessary but when he heard the impatient knock at the bathroom door he knew it would be time to get out. Slowly he turned of the water stream, pulled aside the shower curtain and stepped onto the cold floor. Then he opened the door, letting Sonny inside.
Sonny placed a kiss on Will's back shoulder and stepped towards the sink.
Will was already on the phone when Sonny came out of the bathroom. Last night, Sonny encouraged him to call in all help they could get, so Will decided to talk to E.J DiMera. E.J was as good as his step father and already the father of his siblings. And he was a lawyer.
But it didn't look good.
"William, as much as I want to help you. I was there, yesterday, was I not? I told you then the same I tell you right now. I cannot help you. I am sorry."
Will looked up to Sonny and his boyfriend saw the pain and the hurt in his sky blue eyes. Without any hesitation he pulled out his mobile and typed in a number. Just seconds later he held the phone to Will and showed him the display it read "Sure thing. Half an hour in the pub? - Dad."
For the shortness of a moment Will felt something like hop inside his bones. The father of his boyfriend was Justin Kiriakis and also a lawyer. And E.J and Sonny never stopped praising him.
"All that is left is to try." Sonny tried to cheer Will up but he limited himself. Will didn't like Sonny to be too hopeful about this whole thing. But he didn't want to see his boyfriend hurt. And right now he was.
Two years later.
"Ariana! Come here. At once!" Nick screamed the demand over the whole square. His daughter didn't know why he did it, but she learned to listen to him. He told her what to do. Looking at the pavement, she slowly came back. Her bowed down to her, and stroke her hair back. He felt the texture of her blonde hair, something he hated. He had dark hair so had Gaby. And Gaby being Hispanic should've been reflected in their daughter. But no. As if destiny wanted to mock him, it gave her daughter his blond hair. He tried to colour it once, but Gaby had been furious about it. She liked Ariana the way she was. Of course, when she still didn't know the truth.
"Baby, you really need to go inside the shop and look for mommy, alright? Would you do that for your daddy?" His daughter nodded and left him standing alone at the square, scanning the place for the faces he saw just seconds before.
It didn't take long until he found them. One of them started to enhance the pace of its steps until it reached Nick.
"Was that her?"
Nick didn't answer.
"Nick. Answer him!" The second face reached Nick, breathing heavenly.
"No, Sonny. The answer will just hurt him." Nick looked at Sonny, without glancing at Will.
Sonny stepped a little forward and also a little aside, crossed his arms, trying to protect Will from Nick.
"Ariana is Will's daughter. Did nobody ever mention to you why your daughter has blond hair and those fairy blue eyes? ..."
Nick interrupted Sonny angrily.
"I'm gonna stop you right there. The only thing "fairy" are you both." Nick's view, lingering in Sonny's eyes was as cold as ice.
"And call back your lawyer. He is getting on my nerves with all those ideas how we could change our agreement."
Will was stunned, his eyes got bigger and bigger. He didn't know that Sonny's dad got in contact with Nick already. He thought that after three years of trying to cook Nick soft, he thought Justin had given up.
"And you both should be so proud of yourself, you are such kids – running to Daddy at the first sight of trouble."
At the last world, Nick turned around a 180° and went. Leaving Sonny and Will behind. Shattered and crushed.
Will sat down on the floor, in front of steps. He thought back to the time when he didn't know who he was. He was sitting right here, back then. With Sonny, talking about his confusion. Talking about Sonny's outing. Slowly realising that he himself is gay, slowly becoming best friends with Sonny. Maybe even slowly falling in love with him.
After a while where he just stood still, Sonny sat down straight across of him. Leaning back to the wall, Sonny just looked at him, waiting Will to say something.
When Will just stayed silent, Sonny sighed softly, lay is head back, closed his eyes.
"We now had a full circle in our relationship – you realise that?" Will chuckled.
"But we've changed since then, haven't we?"
"You have. I'm still the same funny, caring and absolutely stunning ."
"Praising you bit much." Will looked at his boyfriend with the most amount of love he could bring up in that moment.
He was stretching is left leg a bit, just so much that it reached Sonny's. Then he moved it a bit, caressing Sonny's right leg. That was just a little gesture to show Sonny that the words he said, were said with love as a base. But Will knew that Sonny knew. He always knew and always had known.
"You know … " he said, smiling at his boyfriend, who had still closed eyes. "I just love you so much … "
Sonny nodded a little.
But Will shock his head.
"You have no clue, seriously. You showed me who I was and how I felt."
Sonny opened his eyes. Brown met blue.
"I thought that kiss at that alley with a certain boy, showed yu who you really were?" Sonny was mocking Will, but Will didn't care.
"That too. But you were there when I needed you. You did not even blink at my questions. You did wait for me to figure myself out. You did not once push me to anything I wasn't ready for."
"And Halloween?"
"I wanted to be lured there, didn't I?"
"Will, what is that all about? Why are you telling me this?" Sonny looked worried.
Will was quiet. He was thinking about his feelings. Sonny did ask a question he wasn't really eager to answer. The answer would just show that he was a bad boyfriend and didn't deserve someone like Sonny.
"I just don't feel like good company for you anymore."
Sonny wanted to say something, he breathed in, but Will wouldn't let him say anything.
"First I don't tell you about my daughter. Then I do. We break up, get back together. I force you int being a dad, when you want to climb mountains and travel the world. Then I am too stupid to keep my daughter and know you are getting a boyfriend who is hardly thinking about anything else." Will had started to cry over the past few words and he quickly wiped some tears on his cheeks away.
"I wanna be a good boyfriend to you. I really do. But I fear and can't be ever. And that is the worst thing. I love you incredibly much and I still want you to be happy. Thats why I think we should go separate ways."
Will jumped up, and ran a couple of metres over the square until Sonny caught up with him.
"Will!" He shouted angrily at him. "You do not get to walk out on me! That is the most selfish way I know!"
Will was shocked by Sonny's voice and anger.
"Selfish? Selfish? I am doing this for you."
Sonny grabbed his arm and didn't let go.
"You are absolutely not doing this for me. You are doing it for you and only for you. You are just afraid. You are afraid that I might go. That you might lose me. That I choose to go and break your heart. So you break up with me and try to break mine. And you should even manage that. Just because you didn't learn that from your parents. You didn't learn that people can stay. And that they will stay."
Will was crying fully now. Out of the corner of his eyes he saw people staring at the picture both them seemed to be. Two boys, so close still screaming and crying. No wonder people stopped and stared.
For a second Will felt to loose ground. He felt like it was shaking, his knee got weak and he just felt like falling down.
"Will? Will?" Concern in Sonny's voice who caught him falling in his arms.
"I am so sorry. I am so sorry." Will sobbed. He stood up straight again and hugged Sonny.
"I know. I know. Don't be..."
"I let it all really get to me. I love you. Oh my god I love you."
Sonny lay his head on Wills shoulder and kissed his neck.
Sitting on a bench, Sonny still had his arms wrapped around Will.
Will looked at him, his eyes still red-ish from crying earlier.
"You never told me that you're Dad is still trying to get my daughter back."
Sonny looked shattered.
"I know. But Dad also told me that he has little to no hope. I didn't wanna bring you down then."
Will looked at him in approval and climbed back into Sonny's arm, not wanting to leave them in his whole life.