Hey guys! Can I just say a huuuuuuuuuuuge thank you to everyone who has reviewed, sent me a request for a story, helped me with ideas and shared this fic, It means the world, it really does. I know my writing isn't the best, partly because I'm always coming back to my work. I have worked on part 2 below for a few days now and some of the things I wrote in the first half will seem like I'm copying Days but I promise I'm not, I've just tried to be as realistic as possible. Sorry if this doesn't please you, I tried to think of the nicest way to end this piece and I didn't want to end it in the original way that I got asked to because I would have had to make another chapter and I didn't want it to drag out that long because a lot more of you have asked for stories than I thought would! Haha, hope you enjoy, I'll start writing the next request tomorrow. Reviews would be nice but I'll just be happy with people reading it. Oh and one more thing, I saw in the other nights episode of Days that I spelled Narita wrong in the first chapter. Anyway, here goes:

It had been a tough night for Will. He'd had a couple of hours of just lying awake with Sonny's arms wrapped around him. He was once again in a complicated position with the article. He really wanted to write it, it was his job, he really shouldn't have second thoughts but with what he had been told about Paul by Adrienne, Will wouldn't be able to write an interesting article without it containing the small detail about Paul being gay. This would obviously be the perfect opportunity for Will but he could never out someone in a magazine. Could he?

Sonny hadn't accepted Paul's offer just yet. He slept on the idea and considered all the reasons why he should or shouldn't have Paul buy into his business. Sonny was the type of guy who when he wanted something, he would definitely do his absolute best to achieve it, he got Will and that was a hard accomplishment in itself but right now, he just wanted the club to be a success and if it meant letting someone more reliable than Chad pay into the club, Sonny would just be happy he'd done what he set out to do. On the other hand, would it get in the way of him and Will? What if Paul was at the club and people saw? That wouldn't be suspicious to people at all. Paul could just invest in the club and remain anonymous but would he agree to that deal?

"Morning." Will glanced down at his husband who had his head on Wills chest. He watched his eyes peel open and smiled.

"Mmm good morning." Sonny cuddled into Will some more and got comfortable.

"What are your plans for today?" Will glanced at their phones on the side in case anyone had made plans for them. Zoe could be on to him and Sonny could have stuff to do with work.

"Well I have to head up to the hospital to give them their copy of our order details for the next month but then I'm free for the rest of the day." Sonny smiled up at his red eyed husband... He'd obviously not had much sleep.

Will thought that if he offered to go to the hospital with Sonny, it would give him an opportunity to see Paul in person but he'd have to pretend like he didn't know that Paul was in town. "Why don't Ari and I come with you and on the way back we can grab some lunch?"

Sonny sat up slowly thinking about what was said, "You look a little tired, why don't you stay and get some rest?"

Will followed his husbands actions and sat up but threw his arms round Sonny's shoulders, "because, my love, there's about two people who know that me and Ari are back in town and I'd like to see more on our little trip to the hospital."

"Okay, let's get ready then." Sonny thought about the possibility of seeing Paul but he could just brush that off if Will had any questions... Right?

As Will explained to Kate why he was back early, Ari began to get restless, this was the fifth person she'd had to sit through talking to her dad. It's safe to say Sonny was getting a little bored of hearing the same story over and over again and Will was sick of telling it. He kissed Kate goodbye and they finally reached the elevator of the hospital. As they were going up, Ari settled down and Sonny giggled a little.

"What do you find so funny?" Will smiled.

"I was just thinking that I should print your story of why you're home on a shirt for you then you don't have to keep telling everyone!" Sonny helped Will out of the elevator with Ari and Will smiled.

"It sure would help!" Will joked.

As Sonny went to the desk, Will sat over in the waiting area with Ari.

Paul had just done some exercises but now it was time for a walk to stretch a little. As he opened the door to head out, Will looked up and spotted him.

Will saw the way Paul looked at Sonny, it was obvious he didn't know who Will was. Will never knew whether to be happy or sad. If Paul didn't know about Will then that meant they hadn't spoken enough to get to that point or that Sonny was keeping secrets.

Will thought he'd make himself known, he stood up and took Ari over to his husband, put his arm round him and Ari made grabby hands at Sonny.

Will purposely looked at the jealous look in Paul's eyes. It was obvious he still had feelings for Sonny.

As the couple left the hospital, Ari fell asleep and Will took his opportunity to ask Sonny a few things. "So you didn't tell me Paul Narita was in town, I'm a baseball fan myself, I can't believe you didn't say!"

Sonny realised his husband had seen Paul and for a second, he crumbled inside. "Um, I didn't know either to be honest, I don't spend a lot of time at the hospital."

"Ahh okay. Would you have known who he was if I hadn't had pointed it out?" Will laughed as he asked to make this into a joke but really his husband was lying to his face.

"No, probably not."

That night, Sonny stopped by the club. He had to close up so Will got Ari to sleep and pulled out his laptop.

He'd had a few days off writing, now it was time to get back to work.

"What Paul Narita doesn't want you to know."

The title of the article said it all really.

Will went on to explain that the baseball star was hiding his sexuality and used to be in a relationship with a barista. He didn't use Sonny's name. As he got to his second page about Paul being in Salem for surgery, he realised it was a stupid idea and closed his laptop with the page still open, he was tired so put it in the draws and headed to bed.

As Sonny came in, it was around 1am, he needed to open a few emails before he slept, he sat down, switched the TV on quietly and opened the laptop, it asked him to restore a document so he clicked "yes."

Will always use to write late and forget to save, Sonny wanted to help. As the document opened up, Sonny's heart began to race, his face got red and warm, his head started to bang a little, he was so surprised at what was opening up. He saw the heading and scrolled further down.

"The baseball star briefly dated a barista but didn't let the game slip away as he never came out publicly."

Sonny's jaw dropped and he put his hands on his head. He had to be dreaming.

The sound of Ari crying made him realise that he wasn't imagining things, his little girl needed him and he was sat starring at a screen. He put the laptop down and stood up, as he turned his head, Will was already on the case, he hadn't noticed Sonny because he was rubbing his eyes and went straight into his daughter's room. A few minutes passed and there was silence. Will came out of the room slowly shutting the door.

"I think we need to talk." Sonny said quietly enough to keep Ari quiet but it wasn't a whisper.

Will jumped, he didn't expect to hear another voice behind him but he was wondering why Sonny wasn't in bed next to him. "Wow, it's like two AM. And you made me jump."

Sonny just hand gestured to the laptop and Will could briefly make out the title of the document open.

"Oh."

It was late and Paul heard Theresa's voice getting closer to his hospital door so he lay down and acted more tired than he actually was.

"Hey you, you need anything?" Theresa came in his room in the usual flirtatious mood she normally was in whenever she saw Paul.

As she sat on his bed and held is hand playing with his fingers, he realised he could use Theresa even more to his advantage. "Actually, yeah, there was a guy in the reception before who owns a coffee shop or bar or something and he was going crazy about his business partner giving up on him. I was wondering if you could get me his number so I could call him and see if he'd be interested in me maybe making an investment."

Theresa was a little confused but she went along with it, if he was talking about Sonny's club then Paul making an investment meant that she got to see him a lot more and their relationship would blossom. "Oh that would have been Sonny and you're pretty dead on, he owns a club and extended from a coffee house, why such a sudden interest?" She got closer to Paul.

"What if I never get back into baseball because my shoulder gives in? I'm gonna need something to fall back on. I would like to help him out and that would mean helping me too. Maybe it'll help you too." Paul seemed to be convincing Theresa so he smiled and as she got closer he moved in for a kiss.

"Well the sooner you call sonny, the better so I'll go get you that cell number!" Theresa stood up and headed off.

Will walked round the sofa and sat staring at the screen without saying anything.

Sonny sat beside him putting the laptop on the floor. He rested his elbow on his knee and his hand held his head up. "How did you find out about this?"

Will looked in to Sonny's eyes and watched them get wetter as Sonny's nerves were obviously building. "I just got told to write an article and find out everything I could about Paul, I didn't expect to find what I did but..."

"Will, I didn't ask you that, I asked you who told you?" Sonny suddenly became more serious. As Will looked to the floor, it was obvious to Sonny he didn't want to speak up. "Well if you're being so passive then it means it was one of my family members. So, was it my Mom or my Uncle Vic?"

Will kept looking down, "I don't really feel comfortable saying."

Sonny's voice raised a little, "it was either my Mom or Uncle Vic. Just tell me."

"She only told me because she was looking out for us!" Will blurted out.

"So it was my Mom? Great." Sonny stood up and put his hands on his hips. "Where you ever going to even ask me before this article got published if I was okay with it?" Sonny glanced towards Will.

"Sonny, I didn't even write your name!" Will changed the tone of his voice but he didn't want to wake up Ari so he didn't shout.

"Well I don't think 'local barista' will take long to figure out for some people!" Sonny explained and put his hands on his head.

Will walked towards Sonny, stood right in front of him and grabbed his hand pulling his husband closer, "we can argue at two AM about one of my articles again all we want but it's not gonna change the facts here. Paul Narita is your ex and he's in town." Will looked Sonny in the eyes.

"And? He's my ex, Will! You're my husband. You mean more to me than what he could ever mean to me. I don't have to hide with you like I had to with him. I don't have to pretend. I had to with him, and I never wanna face that again." Sonny placed his hand on Will's hip.

"Did you love him?" Will looked down.

Sonny felt tears forming as he remembered the days with Paul. "Yeah. Yeah I did. I enjoyed being with him and fell for him but not anymore, I love you." Sonny lifted Will's chin.

"I was never going to let Zoe have that article you know?" Will looked into his husbands eyes.

"Really?" Sonny looked confused.

"I wrote it in anger, I was jealous mainly, jealous of the fact that someone else could love you and now he's closer to you, that came as a reality to me." Will played with Sonny's fingers while he looked down.

"You don't have to be jealous of anyone. Apart from me." Sonny smiled.

Will looked up and lowered an eyebrow as he wondered what Sonny meant, "you?"

"Yeah because I'm awesome," they both let out a small laugh and hugged each other keeping hold of each other for a few minutes, "what are you going to tell Zoe?" They both sat on the sofa, Will resting his head on Sonny's shoulders.

"I'll just say I couldn't find anything that would make it a front page story so it's not worth writing, she'll just give it to someone in the sports department. Besides, I couldn't out somebody in an article. I know how it feels." Will slipped his fingers into Sonny's hand and they tangled their fingers together. "I know I said I never wanted to know anything about your past lovers but I just got a little curious when your Mom had to call me and tell me. I'm not even her favourite person so for her to call me and warn me, that was a surprise." Will smiled.

"What do you mean? She warned you? Warned you of what?" Sonny looked at the side of Will's face because he couldn't make eye contact.

"She just told me that I should make more effort in trying to call you and that she would make sure that you're okay, when I started to question her about why, she had to tell me. Don't be mad at her." Will looked up at him in a plea.

"I'm not mad, don't worry. Oh and for the record, my Mom loves you!" Sonny smiled and pulled Will close to him, "and I love you more than anything." They kissed and Sonny pushed Will down onto the sofa, they continued to kiss and make it up to each other, they ended up falling asleep together in the exact same place naked and sweaty.

As Will woke up, he slowly stood up as his skin was stuck to Sonny's with heat. As he finally stood up, he'd accidently woken Sonny up with movement too. They both laughed at each other as they realised the situation they were in, Will picked up his boxers and stumbled into them and threw Sonny his.

Sonny picked up his low battery phone from the side as Will went into Ari's room shirtless. As he looked at the screen, he realised fourteen missed calls from an unknown number, two messages from his Mom asking to call her and another four messages which were the oldest unread messages currently on his phone. They looked quite important but again, it was from an unknown number.

MESSAGE. 01:30AM *UNKNOWN* "Sonny, I know it's late but I got your number from someone at the hospital. It's Paul. I need to know if you want me to help you out with the club. I'm prepared to make an investment, help you out and then you can expand. I might never play baseball again so I need something to do with my time and money. Let me know, thank you, Paul x"

MESSAGE. 02:47AM *UNKNOWN* "Sonny, please just reply! Even if it's a no! I'm sorry about everything we went through. If I can't play baseball again, I promise I'll come out publicly."

MESSAGE. 04:03AM *UNKNOWN* "I've had enough. All I wanted was you to reply but you're obviously still mad at me so in the morning when you wake up and turn on your TV, look at the news, whatever, you'll be happy. Just remember, I did this for you."

Sonny grabbed the remote and turned on the TV, as he fiddled with the buttons, Will came back looking at his phone screen with Ari held in the other arm. "Sonny, you might wanna see this." He handed Sonny the phone and he took it not taking his eyes off the message that read, "Hey! Looks like the work has been done for you with that article, Paul Narita came out! Find me everything you can. I want it ASAP. Zoe x"

As Sonny finished reading, his head switched to the TV screen. Paul was sat in what seemed like his hospital room with his phone filming his face. It was on the TV screen with the logo of the news in the corner and other headlines running along the bottom.

"To all my fans, to the sporting community, especially baseball, I have something to say. I haven't had the chance to speak to my family as of yet but it will be the next thing I do after filming this. Since the start of my baseball career, I've been hiding something from everyone. I found out in the early hours of today that my career as a pitcher is over. The surgery on my shoulder has worked the best it can but now, it's just not fixable. I made a decision before I got a trial for a baseball team not to reveal my biggest secret because I wanted my dream as a baseball player to happen. I have made this video to say, I've been hiding my sexuality. I have been in relationships with men before my career began and this week, being in this hospital, I've come across a certain person who has reminded me of how truly happy I used to be. He's made me realise that hiding from my sexuality will be worse for me, now that baseball is over, I just want to be happy and I hope you can all be supportive. Finally, to SK, this was the hardest thing I've ever done, thank you for making me realise that being honest is the best."

The camera cut back to the studio with the news reporter and Sonny felt Will sit down next to him, it made his mind focus back on the room. He was in so much shock, everything had happened so quickly.

For a couple of minutes, there was silence. Even Ari was silent, she was concentrated on scratching at Will's shoulder. Sonny just stared at the TV without actually listening to what was being said.

"He loves you." Will looked at Sonny's head as he was sat further forward on the couch but Sonny didn't turn round. After a couple of seconds, Sonny stood up and grabbed his coat and phone. "I need to go for a walk, get some fresh air." Before Will could argue, Sonny had gone.

He looked at Ari as she swung her head from the closing door to her dad's face and he smiled at her, she giggled and started to jump on Will's knee. He didn't really know how to feel.

Sonny ended up at the hospital, as he got to Paul's room, Theresa came out closing the door behind her, she turned and practically walked into Sonny. "Oh, if you're looking for Paul, he's been discharged now." Theresa smiled.

"How did you know I'd be looking for Paul?" He wondered if everyone had figured out if SK was Sonny or not.

"He asked me for your number so he could invest in the club." Theresa began to walk back to the main desk and Sonny took a deep breath and turned from the room, "you any idea where he's gone?"

"Not too sure, sorry!" She wondered off with some files as Sonny headed for the club. He could only think of there to go.

As he walked round the corner, he saw Paul asking Ben outside if he was at the right place. He was wearing a cap obviously to protect himself so he had less chance of people noticing him.

"It's okay Ben, I got this." Sonny walked closer and Ben smiled, nodded and got back inside to work, Paul turned to Sonny.

"You happy?" Paul smiled.

"I'm proud of you. You'll finally be happy and able to be yourself but this doesn't change things Paul. I'm married and I'm happy. I've been through the coming out stage and so has my husband. We are happy. Please don't try to ruin this for us." Sonny pleaded.

Paul looked down, "I can't believe I did all of this for you and you're still mad at me."

"I'm mad at the fact you thought there was a chance for me and you here. I'm married! Other than that, I'm happy for you." Sonny looked down and scratched his head.

There was silence for a few minutes and then Paul looked up, "do you still want me to invest in the club. I honestly just want something to help me now because my sporting career is over but if it means helping you too then I'll happily do it." Paul smiled.

"If that's what you would like to do then we can go and sit inside and talk about it, it's completely up to you." Sonny gestured to the doors of the club.

As Paul was smiling directly at Sonny and they looked each other in the eye, Will pushed Ari's stroller round the corner, he'd gone on a walk to find Sonny and calm him down but suddenly walked in on a moment between his husband and his ex.

The look went on too long so Will interrupted, "this looks cosy." He smiled.

Paul stepped back and gave Sonny some space. "You must be Will."

"Yeah, nice to meet you." He walked closer to Sonny as Ari slept.

"You too."

The moment couldn't have really been anymore awkward.

"Can I just say, thank you for making him happy?" Paul looked at Will and smiled.

"It's fine. Thank you for letting him be happy." Will wrapped his arm round Sonny's waist and pulled him closer.

"He did that on his own. He freed himself from my stupidity." Paul smiled and Sonny took them all inside.

Two months later, Will and Sonny were friends with Paul. He invested in the club and helped Sonny out a great deal. Paul even enjoyed working behind the bar. It was a change for him and he got to talk to fans. Will suggested the idea of setting Paul up with some of their friends. Will suggested calling Brian. They decided it would be better to hold a speed dating night at the club and have Paul be involved and leave an open invitation for Brian. Will finally handed in an article he was happy with and as it turned out, so was Sonny, Paul and Zoe. Theresa on the other hand just wished her bad luck would change.

"What Paul Narita did want you to know. The Truth.

Paul Narita, a well-known pitcher hid a secret from all of us. When you have a dream, it's hard to please everyone. I found that with writing. Only for me, I was 'outted' in an article so my problems weren't as bad as Pauls. However, he wanted his career to just run smoothly. When his big break came and his found his position in baseball, he hid his secret, his sexuality. I should know this more than anyone because it was my husband who used to be the one hiding with him.

My husband was the one who was left heartbroken by Paul Narita when he decided to pursue his career. I wanted to write this story so everyone could read from an insider rather than someone inaccurately guessing. Paul is a really nice guy who has had to battle with this secret and I know exactly how that feels. I can't criticize.

I hope other sports stars who are in the same position as Paul soon have the courage to come out and live their lives. I'm a gay married man who couldn't be happier but until I fell in love with my husband, I was in such a dark place so in comparison, this has turned out so well for me. Paul Narita used girls to make everyone think he was straight, I got a girl pregnant when I was in his position so before you judge, think about people's situations. Everyone should be proud of Paul for coming out in general but also the way he came out. A video in a Salem hospital bed is no way anyone should ever have to come out, heck, one day, people shouldn't even have to say "I'm gay" they should just have to say, "I'm in love."

By Will Horton.