Truth Revealed Chapter 10, a days of our lives fanfic

Authors Note:

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The usual, characters are not mine and they belong to Days of our Lives and the Italics are for flashbacks/memories.

Chapter 10

In quick succession Kayla and nurses rushed in and pushed everyone out, they dropped the bed and pulled for the paddles…. All that the family and friends could do is stare through the window, Lucas and Sami just came through the doors and hear the commotion, John grabbed for Sami and stopped her hurtling in to the room.

Sonny dropped to his knees as the piercing noise engulfed him, Will was flat lining …. He was losing him all over again!

Kayla called for an intubation tube and scope, and pulling Will's head back and opening his mouth used the scope to effectively place the intubation tube and the nurse attached the bag.

Kayla clambered onto the bed instead of using the paddles, she placed her hands on one another and began to push at Will's chest, she began the rhythmic pumps stopping after every 30 to allow the nurse to do 2 deep presses of the airbag, and she continued this for a minute and shouted another nurse

"We need 10mg of Epi, now!"

John held a tearful Marlena, Lucas now clutching Sami in his arms and Sonny crumpled on the floor hearing the long monotonous tone of Will's heart monitor, Paul stood near unsure if he should try and comfort Sonny or shout at Will to wake the hell up. Stunned himself he kneels by Sonny and places a hand on his shoulder.

Sonny's head shot up to look at the person in front of him; he swiped away the hand on his shoulder and through gritted teeth spat "What the hell are you doing? Get your hand off me!"

Paul recoiled his arm and pushed himself up, Sonny in turn stood and again warned Paul

"Why are you even here? This is partly your fault and Johns, if you had just left him alone, you need to leave!"

"Sonny that's not your call, it's the decision of Will's and right now, he needs us all here."

"Do you really think I am buying that? You're here to make sure I don't spill your dirty little secret which Will, will finally see just how much of a manipulative son of a bitch you really are."

"Well at this rate you won't be telling him anything now will you?"

Sonny shocked at the bluntness of Pauls words , he clenched his hands tightly fighting the urge to deck Paul "You genuinely think so little of Will, this was one big game to you, he is fighting for his life and there is no way, we… his family are losing him. So I will tell you one again PAUL, back the hell off before you see my true Kiriakis side!"

The venom coming from Sonny took Paul aback a moment; he straightened himself and moved away to the coffee stand, to gain back a little composure, Sonny turned around to stare through the glass, he watched the nurses and Kayla tirelessly work on William, to get the electrical pulses in his heart and muscles. Something snapped in Sonny and he pushed past the family in the doorway and started to shout.

"WILLIAM ROBET HORTON-KIRIAKIS, you stubborn, self-righteous, git of a man, this is not the time to be selfish, so stop being a pain in our asses and start breathing you have a daughter who has just gotten you back and who most definitely cannot lose you now, especially now!"

Sonny stood to the side of the bed and started to punch Will's arm, harder each time, for a few seconds and then starting him with both hands, Kayla stopped the compressions and climbed off the bed while the nurse pressed two more bags of air into, she touched Sonny who slumped into her his head into the crook of her neck and tears flowed freely, after the second bag of air Kayla ordered another 10 mg of epinephrine, Kayla placed Sonny in the chair and instead of syringing this into his drip, she chose to plunge it straight into Will's chest near his heart and administered the drug pressing the plunger down.

She watched the monitor as the line continued to be horizontal, Kayla started to worry that this was it, and went to move to the machine to turn the screeching noise off when, out of nowhere a single beep occurred… Sonny looked at Kayla and then back at the monitor there was another, and another, Sonny practically leapt from the seat to Will's side and held his hand "Will? Please come back, we are all here, we all need you… Please." Within seconds Sami, Lucas Marlena and John surrounded Sonny and Will whilst Paul hung back.

Kayla spoke "Nurse, we need a ventilator in here now, hourly pressure monitoring and temp checks." The ventilator was quickly wheeled in and Kayla ordered everyone to take a few steps back while Will was hooked up to the machine, the bag removed from the intubation tube already in Will's throat and the ventilator was switched on and a whirring sound began to help."

Sami finally gained the ability to speak "Kayla what's happening?"

Kayla smiled and continued to write in Will's chart before she responded "So we managed to get the heart beating but to give his body a chance we have put him on a ventilator to help with getting oxygen into the body, it was several minute without oxygen so we won't know what effect that has had on his brain, so will need to push for MRI in the next day or two. His heart beat seems to be slightly atypical and out of sync, if this hasn't rectified itself we will need to do a cardioversion."

"Sorry a what, come on Kayla most of us here don't have medical degrees" Sami snapped.

"They may need to shock his heart back into rhythm dear." Everyone turned to see that Marlena had gained some composure and responded "with the lack of oxygen being sent around his body this could have led to some brain damage, or impairment of his faculties like speech, memory and motor skills."

"Well he has already lost his memory once; surely he can't lose it a second time?" Sonny continued to ask "Do we even really know why he was so affected by the Valium?" Kayla looked at Sonny and then to the rest of the family "I'm sorry Sonny but we don't know and the theories we do have I can only speak to the family."

"But I am family! Don't start with the hospital policy bureaucracy. Sami, Lucas, Marlena? Please I know we are divorced but please don't shut me out not." Sonny begged.
"Kayla just talk, we are all family here." Sami responded and smiled at Sonny to which Sonny nodded back.

"The one theory we have which is looking more and more likely is that Will wasn't just given the drug to reverse his close to death like state, he seems to be have been continuously drugged to keep his memories from returning and so since he came to Salem he hasn't been receiving them and in essence went cold turkey and is suffering from withdrawal, to then start taking Valium in small doses was replacing whatever he was given but the last high dose due to the tranquiliser started a chain reaction in his body and started an infection which he has been fighting until now. We will monitor him and take the MRI and hopefully if we see signs we may and I mean may be able to take him off the ventilator. For now I suggest we limit the amount of people in here at 2 or 3 at a time. It's just a waiting game now."

Sami looked to Lucas and said "Lucas and I would like some time with our son please." The others nodded and left the room; John moved to Paul and spoke to him "Son you ok? I know this is difficult but may be well maybe we should go home? What you say?" Paul wanted to fight this but just nodded and took steps towards the elevator.
"Doc?" John called to Marlena who was hugging her daughter and came out of the room "Yes dear, I'm coming I need to change and eat something, I will come back in a few hours to see him." Marlena looked across to Sonny and stepped nearer to him "Jackson, dear perhaps you should go home as well, we can meet later and see him together?" Sonny smiled at the thoughtful gesture that she had made "Yes, yes please? Errrmmm do you think I need to explain this to Ari, she will be asking about him, she is with my parents at the moment?"

"Yes, maybe you should bring her here and we can explain, this is going to be a very scary time for her." Sonny nodded in agreement "Thank you, I will be a few more minutes, I just well I just need to hear that monitor beep a little longer." Marlena smiled and then left with John and Paul.

Sonny turned and lent himself against the doorframe hearing the heart monitor beep every few seconds, then a long pause and a few consecutive beeps, it may not be his normal rate, but there was life, he was there somewhere needing to come back to everyone.

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Will could feel the ringing subside and the room became all to quiet, slightly unnerving but nowhere near peaceful and tranquil. He raised his head and dropped his hand to see the effects of the room after the board shattered, around them was nothing, no broken boxes, no more cubes, not even the table that was once there, nothing but the white walls colour started to seep through in blotches, the colours began to form images, still photos of the memories he had recovered appearing like a canvas on the wall.

As the last photo slotted into position, Will stood and brushed his hands along the walls, trying to absorb everything he saw, he stared at the first image, it was when Sonny kissed him, after the explosions went off he came looking for me…

"Hang on, explosions?" Will said out loud, he continued to speak out loud "what explosions, ohhhhh I was annoyed because T and I argued, he called me a fairy, then Sonny came and was worried and then he kissed, I took my frustration out on him, when all I wanted to do was kiss him again" Will smiled at the thought of Sonny kissing him, his lips, his arms round him when they hugged, then he grew slightly sad when he remembered their argument, the way Will pushed Sonny away. He shook his head and looked onto the next pictures because clearly he got through it and then a new thought popped into his mind "Our first date."

Will started to feel a scratching in his throat and he gagged slightly, the feeling was uncomfortable for a few seconds and then it stopped. He stared at the walls determined to remember it all and warmth radiated up his one arm and soft whisperings began to engulf the whole room.

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Sonny unclipped Ari from her car seat "Come on sweetie, your Nanna Marlena can't wait to see you."

"And daddy?" Ari asked innocently, Sonny's breath stuck in his throat, he coughed and cleared it and said "Your daddy always wants to see you."

They rode the elevator up to the correct level and the beep sounded and the doors pulled apart indicating they had reached their destination. Ari tugged on Sonny's hand for him to move as he had lost himself in his thoughts in the ride up. He smiled at Ari and proceeded to move onto the ward and to the seating area and Arianna pulled out the paper and crayons from her little rucksack

"I will make daddy a picture, he want picture right?"

Sonny smiled at this beautiful resilient little girl, he knelt in front of her and said "Darling he will love it, you my precious are brilliant, do not ever change for anyone, you got me." Arianna grinned widely and giggled, she didn't understand everything that her daddy Sonny had told her, but giving her daddy Will a picture of their family would help she was sure of it. She concentrated so hard on her drawing that she hadn't noticed Marlena enter and come and sit next to her. Sonny looked to Marlena and smiled "Hi"

"I see that Miss Arianna is on a mission?"

"She is drawing Will a picture." Marlena smiled and asked "Does she know?"

"I just didn't know how to explain it to her, Marlena, how do I explain what she is about to see"

"I know it will be tough, but it will be worse for her if we don't give her some kind of warning."

"Right, first things first, coffee?"

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Sami and Lucas sit on the edge of the bed with one hand on their son and the other hands entwined, Lucas' thumb rubs Sami's hand gently, calmingly trying to comfort his ex-wife as much as he could in this situation. Sami sniffled and brushed more tears away with her shoulder then lent into Lucas' shoulder.

"Ohhh Lucas… we lost him once, that broke us both but to lose him again, I can't…I can't do this, his brother and sisters need him, Ari needs him… we need him." Lucas nestled Sami closer to him "I know, Will was always the best thing from us, well until Ali, Sidney and Johnny came along, he knitted our family together, we may have broken, but we are mending since he was back… I was mending." Lucas stopped and sighed.

Sami looked up to Lucas and smiled "You know I'm proud of you right? You have gotten yourself back up and onto the wagon." Lucas moved his hand from Will's body and brushed away tears that ebbed down Sami's face. Lucas wiped his hand on his trousers and then brought his hand back to Sami's cheek and continued to stroke gently, Sami looked on partially confused and partly comforted by his touch.

"Lucas?"

"Shhhh, I'm comforting you." Lucas candidly said. Sami leaned further into his hand and closed her eyes, without warning she felt the pressure of Lucas, her lips lightly covered with his, a tender kiss in the midst of pain, Sami reciprocated by pulling Lucas closer and adding a little more pressure into the kiss, her mouth opens slightly to gasp and Lucas pulls back to then kiss her again, gliding his tongue along her lip before their tongues connect.

"Nanna!" Comes a squeal from the doorway which startles both Lucas and Sami and they pull away quickly.

"Arianna, now what have I told you, it's Grammy Sami" Sami laughed as her granddaughter leapt into her arms. Arianna looked at Will in the bed and fell silent quickly. Sonny and Marlena were now at the doorway "Sorry she saw the door open and you guys and she couldn't wait any longer." Sonny spoke;

"It's Okay, it's always a pleasure to see this beautiful lady."

Ari held her arms out towards Lucas and he scooped her from Sami's arms "Hello my darling." He said whilst he tickled her which was responded by a fit of giggles.

"Shift change?" Sami asked Marlena.

"Yes dear, you need sleep and I bet you haven't eaten either?" Sami looked on guiltily, Sonny had walked into the room and no had Ari on his hip and her head leaned on his shoulder, she nervously kept looking at Will in bed with the ventilator and wires.

"Daddy?" Arianna whispered.

Sonny kissed her head "I know sweetie, like we said, he is just sleeping right now and that machine is helping him, I'm sure he knows you are here and when he wakes he will want that big hug we talked about"

"The picture?" Sonny smiled "Of course he will want your picture as well." Sonny sat Ari down on the bed and carefully curled herself up next to her dad and whispered "Hello daddy, I miss you." She kissed his cheek and lay there.

Sonny sat to the side and nervously took Will's hand as Marlena left them a moment whilst she said goodbye to Sami and Lucas.

"Will, Ari and I miss you a lot." Ari looked at Sonny and shushed him which caught Sonny off-guard slightly and so he staid quiet. "Daddy I made you picture, me you daddy mommy at beach with crabs and castle."

Ari looked around for the picture and realised she had left it in the waiting room "Daddy picture not here!"

"It's ok Ari, sweetie go get it." Sonny helped her off the bed and saw her dart out the room to grab her backpack and picture, within seconds she was back climbing onto Sonny's chair to get back onto the bed. She placed the picture to one side and then Sonny watched her pull something else out of her bag. The headphones all tangled she fumbles the earbuds into Will's ears and started pressing all the buttons for it to play.

"Honey what you got there?" Sonny looked to see what Ari was doing it was an MP3 player, but it wasn't just any MP3 player it was the MP3 player that Sonny had gotten Will for Valentine's Day all those years ago. He pressed the on button and it started to play that song…

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Will started to hear the music play around him and it felt familiar he listened to it, once it hit the chorus that eureka moment happened "that song." He started to laugh profusely "it played over about 5 times, Sonny forgot it was stuck on repeat whilst we were…. Hahahah whilst we were making out that one time." The memory opened up others thoughts "Valentine's day present, the MP3 was a present it had an inscription on the back." He started to rock back and forth on his heels as he said out loud the inscription "WH I love you SK and the card about new beginnings, I thought it was to get back together, but he did it when he thought we were moving in."

Will began to smile as the feeling or remembering his memories made him feel good, he wasn't quite ready yet, there was still so much more he needed to remember but this was a good start.