On their way down to the town square, Will started to go into panic mode and Sonny quickly calmed him down.
"Hey." Said Sonny "We can't let Abigail know that something might be wrong, she'll only freak out and that-"
"Is the last thing she needs today." Said Will
"Exactly." Said Sonny who smiled as Will grabbed his hand for a quick minute before letting go as they came to Horton Square
"Hey guys," said Abigail walking over to them with Gabi "So glad you could make it."
"Hey," said Will "is Chad here? Or Melanie?"
"What?" asked Abigail "No, why?"
"Have you heard from them at all today?" asked Sonny
"No," said Abigail "I tried calling Chad a bunch of times but he didn't answer, and neither did Mel."
"No." said Will clearly upset and scared
"Wait," said Gabi as Will and Sonny's phones started to go off "what's wrong?"
Will and Sonny jumped for their phones as Abigail and Gabi's phones went off as well.
The girls had looks of horror on their faces as they opened the picture message of Chad and Melanie being held at gunpoint.
"Oh my god." Said Gabi "What is this? What is going on? Tell me right now."
"This had better be some kind of joke," said Abigail on the verge of tears "Even though this really isn't funny this has to be a joke."
Will showed Sonny the newest text "Put the website back up if you want your friends to live, no cops."
"What?" said Abigail
"Wait," said Gabi "these are the guys who were using the site for illegal gambling. They have Melanie and Chad?"
"I can't believe this is happening right now." Said Abigail "I can't believe this
"Hey, hey," said Sonny trying to calm down his cousin "let's go get you some water so you can calm down."
"Calm down?" asked Abigail "Sonny how am I supposed to calm down? My best friend and my boyfriend are being held hostage right now."
"Hey, hey," said Sonny "shh. Everything is going to be okay. We're going to put the website back up and they'll let Chad and Melanie go okay. We can't tell anyone right now, so just be quiet."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Whispered Will putting his arm around Sonny "Okay he's right. Listen to me, the website is all that they want, so we're gonna do exactly what they tell us to do."
"So I'm gonna get you to a quiet place and you can collect yourself." Said Sonny "Look at me, we don't need to be drawing attention to ourselves.
Sonny and Abigail walked off to the side where he leaned in and hugged his cousin.
"We'll sort this out, I promise." Said Sonny
"Okay." Said Abigail as Sonny handed her a bottle of water he just purchased "So what was that whole Will putting his arm around you thing?"
"Nothing," said Sonny "we're both worried about Chad and Melanie, we're figuring out what to do, we're just friends."
"Okay." Said Abigail with a smirk as they headed back over to Will and Gabi
"Hey are you okay?" asked Gabi
"Yeah," said Abigail "I'm sorry that I panicked. What are we supposed to do? We cannot handle this ourselves, we have to go to the police."
"We are not going to the police Abigail," Said Will "you saw the text, if we do that Chad and Melanie could die."
"I keep getting calls from Bo." Said Sonny looking at his phone
"Rafe calls me to." Said Will "Do you think they might know something?"
"They're here." Said Sonny and Will as they saw Bo and Hope enter the square
"Okay," said Will "we have a choice to make. We can go to the police but we will risk our friends' lives or we can get out of here and handle this on our own."
The kids made a break for it, and after leaving the town square stopped to regroup before deciding to head to Maggie's house. When they got there Will and Sonny quickly made sure they weren't followed.
"Oh my god you guys," said Abigail "what if we did the wrong thing? What if we just ran from the only people who could help us? Maybe we should go back you know, Bo and Hope were trying to get ahold of us earlier, maybe they'll help us, they'll know what to do."
"No," said Gabi "no, Abigail. We did exactly what we had to do okay I mean these gambler people or whatever they are, we don't even know if they are watching us right now. We don't know what they're capable of."
"We need to get the rest of the house," said Will to Sonny "doors and windows."
Sonny nodded and followed Will out of the room.
They made their way towards the kitchen and as they got there Sonny noticed that Will stopped at the kitchen counter to take a breath. Not being sure if it would freak Will out or not, Sonny walked over and took the risk of placing his hand on top of Will's to offer comfort. Will accepted by turning his hand over, so the two boys were holding hands. "This isn't your fault."
"If I had been better at site security," said Will "I designed the site, I designed the security-"
"No website is hack proof." Said Sonny "These guys happen to be damn good at what they do and apparently also psychotic, two very dangerous combinations."
After locating a laptop Will made his way back to the girls.
"We have to do something," said Sonny "we can't just keep sitting around."
"We are doing something Sonny." Said Will sitting down at the desk in front of the laptop "I'm going to put the site up before it's too late."
"No, no, no, no." said Sonny closing the laptop to stop Will
"What are you doing?" asked Will
"You put the site back up, how do we know that they are going to keep their promise?" asked Sonny "They could still kill Chad and Melanie."
"Then what do we do?" asked Will putting his hand on Sonny's shoulder, again, "Sonny what do you think we should do?"
"We're going to find them and take of this ourselves." Said Sonny, the Kiriakis in him showing through, Will shook his head, but also found himself liking this other side of Sonny, and finding it quite sexy.
Chapter 3 is next! Also this ends everything that occurred in the episode on Thursday December 8, 2011 so starting in Chapter 3 is from the episode that aired on Friday December 9, 2011.