Summary: Sequel to Saving Love; Sonny and Will seemed to be in a good place but everything changes with new arrivals and new challenges. Sonix has a new owner that befriends the power couple but has a secret connection to the town. New challenges present all around for Will and Sonny. After saving their love will their new start be enough?

One

Will walked out of the bedroom fresh from a shower smiling when he saw his husband walk through the door. He slowly made his way over to the other man hating how clingy he had gotten in the past few weeks. Their first time together had started something new for them making the blonde feel like he had when their relationship first started out. He didn't know what had happened but somehow he had become clingy always wanted to be near Sonny or be touching him. His grandmother Marlena had helped the best she could explaining that it was subconscious and would take time like everything else.

"Hey," Sonny greeted a hum in his voice not minding the way his husband had started to cling to him because it wasn't too bad and the blonde had been trying to calm down.

"Hey," the blonde whispered trying not to blush at the way his husband looked at him with understanding in his eyes.

"Don't you have to go to work?" Sonny asked remembering that there was a new owner of Sonix magazine.

"Yeah I do," the blonde groaned afraid, "We have a new owner and I guess rumors have her as being crazy."

"Not all rumors are true," the brunette warned a frown on his face concerned but also not wanting to be one to jump to conclusions though he was still upset at the way the old owner and Zoe Browning had made Will take off his ring.

Will gave his husband a look silently telling him to trust him because he already planned to talk to the new owner and tell her he had new terms for his contract. The brunette let out a sigh and wrapped his arms around his husband's waist pulling him into a kiss. Blue eyes closed in pleasure as he moved his hands to tangle into dark locks. When their marriage had crumbled under everything he had thought he lost everything but he had been proven wrong and despite still having many issues he also knew that all the hard work was worth it.

~Keeping Love~

Will twisted his hands nervous for his private meeting with Lila Wayne because at the group meeting she had seemed to be eccentric and wild but also laid back. He was use to working with a hard ass as a boss so he wondered if she would go crazy if he told her his new terms for working at Sonix. A young girl who looked to be a little younger than him let him into the office a smirk on her face and blue eyes smiling as dark hair was covered by a beanie.

"Will Horton," was the greeting he received.

"Yes," he answered taking his new boss in.

Lila was a beautiful woman and if he was not married, gay and committed he would probably go for her in an instance. She had brown locks that fell past her shoulders in waves and a black beanie covered her head. She had dark eyes that seemed to be smiling if that was at all possible and in a way she reminded him of his husband though she seemed to be just slightly shorter than him at only five feet and five inches.

"Sit down or stand which ever you prefer," Lila told the man in front of her seeing the nervousness on his face.

"I don't know if you will be as polite once you hear what I have to say," Will started waiting for her reaction seeing her pause and tilt her head in curiosity.

"Continue," she ordered waving her hand.

"When I came back from Los Angeles the old owner and Zoe Browning had a meeting with me and told me the only way to work on the story was if I hid the fact that I was gay and married with a kid. The story was on Paul Narita and while I understand that my cheating was my fault it felt like I was forced into it by having to lie. I refuse to go through that again and if that loses me my job then so be it," Will said feeling brave but nervous as well.

Lila took a minute to process what she had been told and honestly admired that the man had been so determined and brave in talking to her like that. She had moved to this small town and bought the company because she wanted a new start away from memories of her deceased husband and the life that Stefano DiMera had taken. She looked at the man sitting before her and sighed hating that he had even been put into that position.

"I can tell you that unlike your old boss I respect marriage and I sure as hell don't blackmail someone into a story," Lila told him telling it like it was.

"Oh okay," Will sighed.

"Will I might be a bitch but I'm not unreasonable. Now I am still settling in so I don't have any ideas for a story. I will give you the choice to choose your next story so come back to me in a few days with some ideas," Lila ordered frowning as her phone rang, "I have to take this so I hope you have a good day."

Will smiled at her and walked out of the room sensing something about her he just liked. The look on her face when she learned of what he had been practically been forced to do just to work told him that she wasn't the kind of person to do that. He didn't know if it was her resemblance to his husband or his instincts but he felt like he could trust her and that maybe she could be a good friend. Suddenly an idea for a story clicked in his head and he hurried off to research before bringing it up to his boss hoping she would like it.

~Keeping Love~

Thea watched her best friend softly close the bedroom door that led to her daughter Sophie's room and turn to look at her. The young girl of twenty honestly didn't know how her best friend at the age of twenty five was able to accomplish so much and still seem so strong in life despite what she had been through. She was the mother of a four year old little girl and to top it off she had not only lost her husband but also owned a new company.

"Are you okay?" she asked her dark blue eyes concerned.

"I wish you would stop asking that," Lila told her sighing as she rubbed a hand over her face.

"Lila you lost the man you loved because of that psycho Stefano DiMera. He was my brother and it has been a year since he has died. You deserve to be happy Lila not just going about the motions," Thea pleaded stepping towards her.

"I'm not just going about the motions. Sophie is the only thing that keeps me going Thea and I miss Oliver every day of my life and I probably always will but when I do start over I have to be sure that I'm ready. Besides I kind of like this new company and I like that Will Horton he was blunt," Lila told her dear friend and sister in law trying to change the subject.

Lila could tell from Thea's raised eyebrow that she wasn't buying that she was completely okay and the brunette didn't blame the younger girl. Lila's life had been hell and she fought her way through the foster care system to graduate at sixteen and struggle through college only to fall in love with the rich Oliver Deardon. Oliver had hated his money though and considering he had lost both his parents already he was in control of his life. Lila had doubted that he truly loved her but then he kept pushing until finally she realized she had fallen for him. His sudden death in a car crash had destroyed her but it was only her little girl Sophie that kept her going. She turned to look at her daughters closed bedroom door and sighed hoping that moving to the small town of Salem, Illinois was a good choice because they deserved a fresh start.