WARNING: Violence depicted below in the first paragraphs.


Will's POV:

"Please stop!" I feel hands grope me. I hear their laughter and then I feel nothing but pain. A hand is wrapped around my throat and my wrists are held tightly above my head as I'm pinned to the bed. My bed. I feel a sharp pain as he has begun. I plead with him, "Stop. Please." I say breathlessly.

"Why don't you love it? I heard you love to sleep around with everybody. That you're just like you're mother." He begins to violently thrust into me and I feel him panting against my ear and his grip only tightens around my neck. Tears roll down my eyes as I have no strength to fight. I silently plead in my mind for someone to take me out of my misery, but no one comes. He releases in me and pulls out without any warning. My whole body is aching, but the two guys have somewhat loosen their grip on me. I try to make a break for it but I am only violently pushed back down onto my stomach and forcefully taken again by one of the other guys. I scream from the pain.

"Will!" I hear someone shouting and I see a white light. "Will!"


Sonny's POV:

I'm woken up when I hear Will moaning and when I feel his grip tighten on me. I shake him to try and get him to wake up. "Will!" He moves a little but still doesn't wake and tears are coming from his eyes. I immediately know what he's dreaming about and rush to wake him up. "Will! Please wake up!" I shake him again and he wakes up with a gasp. I reach to touch his face. But he moves quickly out of my reach and puts his back to the wall. He's silently crying. "Will it's okay," I whisper to him. "It's me, Sonny. I'm not going to hurt you." He breaks down and slowly crumbles to against the wall. I get up and kneel in front of him. "Will please." I am sad. I thought he was finally moving on and then he goes and has a nightmare again. I reach out towards him but he shakes his head and wraps his arms around himself as though to shield himself from the world. He's building that wall again and I fight even more now to prevent it from happening. "Will, please let me help you." I have my hand out letting him know that I will be his shield and I will be his strength.

He reaches out with a shaky hand and takes hold of my hand. I pull him towards me a little to let him know I will hold him if he needs me to. He slowly leans the side of his head against my chest and I bring my arms around him. He hides his face in my neck and cries.

"Shhh. I'll protect you." We sit against the bed on the floor for 5 minutes before I hear his cries have stopped. "Do you want to talk about it?" I whisper to him.

"It was awful Sonny." He whispers back. "I felt so much pain. More pain than when it happened. It felt like a knives were stabbing me all over my body and I couldn't move." He sniffs. His eyes begin to water. "I plead for them to stop and they just laughed at me. I couldn't fight back."

I swallow and anger begins to boil inside of me. I want to find the men responsible and I want to kill them for putting Will in so much pain. I tighten my arms around him a little and push him against my body. I put my lips to his head and tell him that I'll do whatever it takes to make him feel safe again. We sit there in silence for 2 more minutes when we both yawn. We both get up and lie down in my bed. I immediately drift off to sleep not knowing if Will ever did fall asleep but hoping he did, with sweet dreams filling his mind.

When I wake I find his side of the bed empty. I quickly get up and walk out to the living room to find Will curled up on the couch in a blanket fighting sleep. I walk over and sit down by his head and say, "It's okay. I'll make sure you're safe. Sleep." His eyelashes fall to his cheeks and his breathing even out and I sit there for an hour watching him while my fingers brush through his hair before I slowly drift off again. I wake up again and find that it's 10 in the morning and Will is still sleeping peacefully. It's been 6 hours since his nightmare and he hasn't woken up since 6 am. I get up to make coffee for myself and Will. When I turn around I find Will's eyes open watching me. "Hey, good morning. Do you want coffee?" I whisper to him.

"Yeah. Thank you." He says as I hand him the freshly brewed coffee to him. I sit down next to him on the couch.

"Did you get enough sleep? If you didn't you can always nap here until you're fully awake."

"No I'm fine. Thank you. I didn't have a nightmare after that. I actually dreamed about us."

"Us?" I say quietly.

"Yeah. I actually saw us as a family again. We were happy. We had another kid. A boy and we were running around in our backyard." He whispers.

"Oh." I can't help but feel sad, while we did kiss we are nowhere near to being that close and open again. I can't help but worry that even if we do get together. Will he be able to get over his attack to ever be intimate with me again? Or will I have to constantly worry about him being afraid of me to touch him? To kiss him?

"I should probably get dressed and get out of here."

"Will?"

"Yeah Sonny?" He asks his back towards me. '

"I-" I freeze for some reason. Why can't I tell him I love him? I told him when we were at the hospital but this recent nightmare has me freaked out. That I fear that any sign of affection that I show towards him might scare him away. "Never mind." I quickly say. He walks into the bedroom and shuts the door. I silently curse to myself.

He walks out five minutes later and my clothes are folded neatly in his hand and he hands them over to me. "Bye Sonny." He walks to the door.

"Will! Wait! I'll see you soon okay?"

"Yeah." He walks out of my apartment. I sink down into the couch and slowly lift my shirt to my nose and smell his scent on my shirt. I immediately run to grab my phone in my room and call someone who I think can help me.

"Hello?"