The Ambulance pulled up in front of Salem General Hospital. The driver jumped out of his truck as his partner opened the back doors. An emergency doctor was waiting for them. The EMS worker with the patient spoke, rather urgently, yet professionally to the doctor as they wheeled the patient towards the hospital's emergency room.

"Young male, pistol wound to the thigh. There are clear entrance and exit wounds. Rather extensive loss of blood. Patient is now unconscious due to blood loss"

The doctor, an ER resident named Alex Coulter, looking smug , simply said: "Easy day at the office, then."

The patient was taken to the emergency room where the doctor looked over the patient's leg. There was extreme damage to the muscle and possibly some ligaments. There had been extensive blood loss. "Looks like the bullet might have torn through an artery. He needs to be stabilized. Let's get him to x-ray stat."

The doctor looked at the patients chart: "Well, William Horton. Let's see to that leg of yours, shall we..."

At that moment a police car pulled up. A dark haired, rather good-looking young man, jumped out of the back of the car.. He rushed to the other side of the car, opened it, and helped out a rather stunning dark-haired Hispanic looking woman, holding what looked to be a very small child.

Sonny Kiriakis helped Gabi and the baby into the emergency room, where he spotted a doctor: "Hey, we need a doctor over here. My friend just gave birth to a baby girl. We need help here. Also, did an ambulance show up with a pistol shot victim?"

Dr. Coulter looked at the woman with the baby and said to Sonny: "Your friend looks hurt; and when was this baby born?"

Sonny stared at the doctor: "Gabi is hurt, Doc, and the baby was born, like fifteen minutes ago."

A nurse tried to take the baby from Gabi's arms, who was rather reluctant to give it up. "Ma'am, we need to examine your baby. I promise you will get her back." Gabi struggled for a few seconds but relinquished the baby to the nurse; and then Gabi, promptly lost consciousness. Fortunately Sonny was there to catch her: " Didn't anybody hear me when I said my friend was hurt? And I need to know if a William Horton was brought here!"

The doctor looked more closely at the young woman named Gabi. She was bleeding. "Young man, William Horton is unconscious and presently in x-ray. And this young woman has been shot! What the hell happened?" Sonny, still holding Gabi, was astonished that this doctor seemed to be so preoccupied with the past, instead of dealing with the present; but he reasoned the doctor must have his own reasons, so he sighed deeply and began to tell the doctor everything.

Will and Sonny were in Horton square, trying to figure out where Nick Fallon was. Sonny had basically convinced Will that it was Nick who had hurt Rafe. But they needed proof. So, Will suggested they take a page from his mother's book and spy on Nick. But first they had to find him.

As luck would have it, Will suddenly spotted Nick, walking briskly through the town square. He seemed to be mumbling to himself and extremely worried about something. Will grabbed Sonny's hand and pulled, all the while trying to focus on where Nick was headed. Sonny was unsure what was going on, so he expressed it, thankfully in a semi-whisper: "Will, babe, what's going on?"

Will simply leaned into Sonny, while still trying to keep up with Nick's pace; trying to keep Nick from getting too far ahead. "I spotted Nick" was all he had to say. Sonny let Will lead him until he himself saw Nick. Nick looked very worried and agitated. Sonny was sure there was something wrong or that something serious was about to go down.

Nick traveled through the town square, through a few alleys and ended up at the town's waterfront pier. Will and Sonny could see Nick heading towards two rather large, shadowy figures. One stepped aside and Will could see that there were now four. Nick, two large men and one much shorter and fatter one: "I wonder what Nick is up to?" He whispered to Sonny, who just now saw what Will had witnessed: "I don't know. But it can't be good, whatever it is. I mean knowing Nick…" Sonny did not get a chance to finish his sentence. He saw Will's face change. Will seemed horrified. Sonny quickly looked over to where Nick was, and he saw it too. The shorter, plumper figure had been forced into the light by one of the taller shadowy figures. It was Gabi, and she looked terrified.

Sonny heard Will yell: "Gabi!", and before Sonny could stop him, Will was running towards the two shadowy figures, towards Gabi. Sonny was not about to let Will, fight them by himself; so within a fraction of a second of Will's leaving. Sonny was right behind him.

As Will and Sonny got closer they could hear Nick arguing with the other two. Actually, he wasn't arguing. He was pleading with them, pleading for Gabi. One of the other men had a hold of Gabi; it seemed he had her arm pinned behind her back. She looked very uncomfortable, and just a little scared.

Will heard Nick say: "I told you Vargas, that I would get you the money as soon as I could. I need more time! Let my wife go. Can't you see she's pregnant?" Then Will heard a series of things that caused him to react a bit too hastily. First Vargas said: "Listen Fallon, I told you to get the money fast. You had ample enough time. Now it's too late. Maybe I'll just take Gabi here as payment. Or better yet, maybe I'll yank that baby out of her and sell it off the black market. Babies must be worth at least fifty grand!"

But it wasn't Vargas' remarks that got Will to storm the two bigger men; it was Nick, yelling: "No. Don't hurt my baby!"

All Will could think was: "It's not YOUR Baby you homophobic ass! That baby is MINE!"

And so Will rushed the man who had Gabi, grabbing her and essentially tossing her towards Sonny, who grabbed her before she could fall and get hurt. He then punched the man, who turned out to be a man named Jensen, so hard that he fell to the ground. Hitting his head and was unconscious. He then turned his attention to Vargas. Vargas had time to pull out his gun, but not enough time to point it. Will grabbed Vargas' arm and struggled with him. There was a loud bang when the gun went off.

Both Vargas and Will toppled to the ground. Vargas landed on Will and Sonny rushed over to see if Will was okay. There was a lot of blood: "Will! Will! Are you okay Will!" Sonny could hear himself and Gabi screaming Will's name.

A few seconds elapsed and Vargas moved. It was obvious that Will had shoved him off. Vargas lay still and Will attempted to get up. Sonny and Gabby had surrounded Will. Sonny was hugging him and checking for holes at the same time. "I'm okay Sonny! I'm fine. Help me up."

Before Sonny could manage to get Will up they heard someone laughing behind them. Sonny, Will and Gabi looked towards the laughter to find Nick, pointing a gun at them: "You stupid Faggot! You ruined everything!"

Gabi was dumb-founded: "Nick…Why are you using that language? And besides…Will just saved your life!"

Nick just began to laugh more. In between hysterical chuckles Will, Gabi and Sonny were able to get a somewhat choppy story from Nick: "They… won't stop… now that Vargas… is dead. And it's your fault Will. Your fault!"

Nick pointed the gun at Will and fired. It hit Will in the leg. Blood started pouring out. But Nick wasn't done he tried to fire again. Sonny moved, as fast as he could, and hit Nick very hard. Nick went down even harder than Jensen did, hitting his head. He became motionless. The gun that was in Nick's hand fell to the ground and fired.

The bullet shot from the gun and went toward the ground and ricocheted several times. Gabi let out a cry of pain. Sonny went to her. He searched for blood and holes but couldn't find any: Gabi looked at Sonny, her eyes very wide: "Sonny! I wasn't shot… I think I had a contraction, and I think my water broke!"

Sonny cried out: "Oh My God!" and turned towards Will. Will was in a very bad way. The blood was pooling around him. Sonny took his jacket and wrapped it around Will's leg as tight as he could: "Will, babe! Stay with me! You are going to be a daddy soon!"

Will looked at Sonny, his blue eyes blurry from pain and lack of blood: "Sonny. Go to Gabi…help her…please…do it for me…protect my daughter…Sonny." Sonny grabbed Will in a huge hug and said, just before kissing him: "I'll do that Will. For you. But you have to promise me to stay awake. Stay with me babe. Stay alive…"

After the kiss, Will said weakly: "I promise." Sonny then gave his attention to Gabi.

Sonny went to Gabi who was sitting up her legs spread apart. He was bewildered. He was going to have to deliver this baby himself. Time felt strange. There was a lot of breathing and yelling and cries from Sonny: "I see the head! Okay Gabi…push real hard!" He felt the baby in his arms and heard the baby cry.

Thankfully just then an ambulance pulled up. They looked Will over first. Then one of them went to Gabi and helped her. Gave her a blanket for Arianna Grace, looked over the baby who had started to cry but had since calmed down.

Sonny went over to the EMS worker that was with Will: "How is he?" The EMS worker looked grim: "He needs to get to a hospital ASAP." Sonny then took the time to pay attention to his surroundings, in case Nick or anyone stirred.. There were police and detectives all around him. One came up to him and started asking him questions. After one or two questions, Sonny impatiently said: "Look! My boyfriend is hurt, and the mother of his child just gave birth! We need to go to the hospital! Now!"

The detective arranged for a police car to transport Sonny, Gaby and Arianna Grace to the Hospital. By this time the ambulance had left with Will. Sonny, Gaby and the baby followed the ambulance soon after.

The doctor looked at Sonny and said: "So the pistol shot victim is your boyfriend? And this young woman is the mother of his child?" Sonny just looked at the doctor, a look demonstrating how incredulous he was feeling at the moment: "Yes. Can you help Gabi? And where is Will?"

The doctor took a hold of Gabi and led her to an area where she could be checked out. He told Sonny that Will was still in X-ray and would be back here soon. Sonny could only sigh and whisper to the air: "Will, babe. You had better keep your promise."