Summary: Will Horton left town five years ago when tragedy took his parents from him. While away he met his best friend, Sophie, who helped him. Now both of them are back in Salem and the world changes not only for them but their soul mates as well. WilSon; AU.

Will – Chandler Massey

Sonny – Freddie Smith

Sophie – Nina Dobrev


One

There was so much blood from one gunshot and the tears clouded his eyes as he tried to stop the bleeding. She looked up at him with blue eyes that matched his own and opened her mouth to say something. He tried to get her to stop and tell both of them that there was enough time to save her but it was a lie and they both knew it. He leaned down to listen to his mother's dying words not knowing that they would haunt him forever.

"I love you. Be yourself," she stuttered out.

"No mom," he screamed as the life drained out of her.

He shot up in bed his blonde hair as well as his body soaked in sweat. He sighed as the reoccurring nightmare continued to haunt even after five years. She had died to save him and his only reward besides the guilt he carried was the haunting of that one moment. It felt like a curse and maybe it was for being such a coward that he left town shortly after his parent's deaths with only a bag of his clothes and the letter his father had left him. His cell phone rang and he looked to see that his grandmother was calling him once again.

"Hello," he greeted though he was tense because as much as he loved his grandmother she wanted him to do something he didn't think he was ready to do.

"How are you Will?" she asked searching for something.

"How about you ask what you really want to ask?" Will ordered not wanting to deal with her right now.

"I know what happened hurt Will but your family is in Salem and we miss you. Don't you want to see Allie and Johnny?" Marlena Evans said trying to gently push her grandson.

Will Horton had lived a life that he wouldn't wish on anybody. His mother had lied about his paternity then once it came out kept switching from man to man. He had turned to alcohol to hide his pain and the truth of who he was until it became too much and he told his family the truth. The only problem had been that his parents didn't like having a gay son and EJ DiMera in a ploy to get the love of his mother hired a hit man to take him out. One moment had set off a chain of events that not only took away his parents but changed his life completely. He had left four months after his parent's death never looking back but now his grandmother was asking him to come home.

"I'll think about it," he told her instead.

"I guess that is all I can ask of you," she said with a sigh.

"I have to go Grandma I will talk to you later," he said reliving memories of times when life had been so much simpler.

Will didn't know what he was going to do or if he was ready to face the town again. He had been broken after his parent's death for good reason and very few people really knew the whole truth or even understood why he had to leave. It was like losing his parents wasn't enough for them and they had fought over what he should do but a last gift from his father had helped him get away. Was he ready to come back to a town he ran from and face a past that had broken him completely making him have to rebuild himself?

~Remains of the Past~

Will Horton laughed at his friend Sophie and had to cover his mouth to try to stop. He had met her four years ago when she had been drugged by a guy from university and he had to help her out. They had bonded over their dark past and became like family. She had just made a joke about seeing his family and telling them about his escapades of bad boyfriends which is what made him laugh.

"You my friend are picky as fuck," she told him her dark hair falling down her back in waves.

"I know and I don't care. I'm broken enough as it is so sue me for wanting a guy that will date me with all the baggage and want a future with me," he said wishing a man like that existed.

"I understand but it's like every guy I try to fix you up with you find something wrong with," Sophie told him wishing for that kind of happiness for her friend.

"You deserve to be happy as well," he pushed her trying to get her to take a chance.

"Will I know nothing about myself except what the crazy woman who gave birth to me told me and that story is well crazy," she told him shaking her head at how crazy it really was because of all the things she had thought she would hear the story she got wasn't one of them.

"My mother took a bullet that was meant for me and I was dying from damage that a bullet did to my kidney when my father took a gun and forced them to give me his ending with his death," Will revealed though there was more to the story that he was too afraid to reveal because it hurt too much.

"The woman that gave birth to me beat me, sold me to the highest bidder and then I was taken away to be put in foster care where I was again beaten on occasion and right when I turned eighteen my birth mother came back to reveal that she isn't my mother and that the fetus was implanted into her to make the real family suffer," Sophie told him taking a shot of tequila.

"You're right that is crazy so you win," he said with a laugh because that sounded like a tale that would involve a DiMera but he highly doubted it in this case anyway.

"I have an idea," she suggested suddenly.

"Okay I'm listening," he said knowing that she always came up with these crazy ideas though they weren't as crazy as his mother's use to be or some of the ones that many in his hometown pulled.

"How about I go with you to Salem and that way you have backup?" she said holding her hand out with a challenging smirk on his face.

"Deal," he said shaking her hand knowing when he was defeated.

He hoped to whatever deity that would listen that this didn't backfire on him and destroy him completely. Will hated the town after the death of his parents but knowing that he was going back with the backup of his best friend reassured him in a way. Little did either of them know just how much going to the town of Salem was really going to change their lives?