Truth Revealed Chapter 11, a days of our lives fanfic

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Chapter 11

It had been a few days since Will was ventilated and yet there was still no sign of him waking.

There had become a comfortable schedule of care and someone always being by his side. Sami and Lucas took most of the day shift… Marlena relieves them at lunch for an hour or two dependent on her patient appointments… They always head to the same spot in the canteen with their trays…

"Are we in high school or what?" Sami mused, Lucas smirked and then laughed "not sure, if you steal my pudding then most definitely." Which receives him a swift slap by Sami on the arm and she pokes her tongue out.

Once finished they would come back to Will's side… brush his hair and stroke his cheek, Sami always repeating "to keep the tigers out."

By late afternoon Sonny and Ari would visit… Ari babbling at her dad about her school day, leaves more artwork in his room and snuggles into him, she has begun to share an ear bud from the MP3 player and drifts to sleep next to her dad.

Sonny would get some extra work done and watch these two, taking the odd picture of them; he smiles but then also becomes sad looking at the picture seeing Will like this. Each day he wishes Will would wake.

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Monday

Will had conjured up a comfy chair and was slumped in it, he knew it wasn't real as he hadn't felt hunger or thirst, but he still felt tired, pain, emotions. Time was a weird concept in this bubble of his mind, but like clockwork the music would start and it would relax him and he could feel a heartbeat next to him but it wasn't his heart beat it was someone else's, he didn't want to guess who it may be … but he had his hopes.

More memories had started to come back, he now remembered what his mother meant by the duck he made, well it was supposed to be a turkey, childhood and teenage years came back like a tidal wave of colours and emotions, it had doubled him over in pain, unsure if his outer body showed the same signs.

The same could not be said for his memories from those 4 years before he was killed; they seemed stuck in glue and took a lot of effort for them to come forth. Will sat and thought about his 2 years in Memphis, which was something he hadn't done for a while, was any of that true, the feelings of keeping himself, the real him a secret because he didn't want to hurt Susan, then he thought to the time Sonny walked into his bar and looked so excited that he had found the person he thought he had lost. Will brought his fingers to his lips and felt them, remembering Sonny's touch, he had several kisses since then with him, and he had also had kisses with Paul, "Ohh Paul…" Will said out loud, it was the first time Will had thought about him.

He felt guilty for a moment for having forgotten about someone he thought he cared for, this fleeting moment came to a sudden halt when he remembered the cube that shattered it all, he was in bed with Paul, the room looked similar to where he was that one New Year's, his temperature rose slightly as he started to feel a sense of dread, the memory started to bleed through the walls spreading the other pictures on the wall apart.

He watched like a giant movie screen on the wall, as the scene began, Paul moving closer to him the conversation unfolding,

"What's the big question?"

"I errr?"

"Are you afraid to ask?"

"No, no, are you gay?"

"Do you think I am gay Will?"

"Yes, yes I do"

"Are you gay Will?"

Nodding Will says "Yes I am"

"Then I will answer your question" Paul raised his hand up to Will's cheek and then kissed him hard, pushing for more, Will relented and kissed back.

Will pulls away from Paul "This shouldn't happen."

Yes you got your answer, yes I am gay just like you thought, you pushed real hard to get that answer

"No I just..."

"You just what?"

Paul hooks his arm around Will's waist and pulls him close and kisses him again

"Tell me you don't want this to happen? I mean it if you don't want this to happen then tell me now"

"NO it's not that I don't want it to happen..."

"That's all I needed to hear"

Will climbs himself onto the bed and shimmies back as Paul clambers on and continues to kiss him.

Will rocks back and forth on the seat repeating over and over "No, no, stop please I don't want to see any more, no no, stop stop I get it, I get what I did."

Will sees himself roll on top of Paul and nausea rushes over him, bile rising up in his stomach, this can't be real, this can't be happening. he screams loudly at the memory "STOP!" and it does, the typical haziness he has felt all too often emerges and blurs the picture for a few seconds, but it refocuses and Will can barely look to see yet another moment.

We wipes the tears from his eyes and stares back, yet again with Paul, the familiarity of what had transpired, yet the voices begin again and the scene plays out further.

"Well if that's true if it was so right, then why did things happen between us?"

"Like I said they shouldn't have."

"And you say you didn't want it to or you didn't like it and you never say that you don't want it to again."

Paul takes Wills hand, "what about now? You want something to happen, right now?"

Paul glides his hand up along will's wrist and arm and up to his cheek and then kisses him and Will responds.

Their shirts are off and Will catches a glimpse of his hand where his wedding ring is supposed to be

"No no, this can't happen again!"

Fresh tears are flowing down his face; his eyes clenched shut as the scenes end, he holds his head and begins to truly understand the colossal mistake he made, how he let himself be succumbed by affection all because Sonny and him was having troubles, shards of extra memories came by the failed club, Sonny and their life savings, the jobs, the insecurities.. All culminating in Will being and acting so out of character that he chose to destroy one of the few things that meant so much to him.

And just like clockwork, music appeared and that heartbeat next to him started and for the first time he was scared of the heartbeat, whose heartbeat was it, for the first time he spoke out loud of his wishes

"Please…. Don't be ….. Please don't be Paul's.!" As he focused on the music to drown everything out.

Tuesday

A Tuesday rolled by like any other day, Sami and Lucas sat by the bed as Kayla walked in … "Hi guys, I have some information but I ermmm well do you want the rest of the family here or do you want to relay it?"

Sami stood up "I think it best I call everyone, mom would well help explain further, I will call her now."

"I will call Sonny, I know he may not be married to Will now but I mean he has been here every day since Will arrived and I don't think we should shut him out now." Lucas suggested, Sami smiled and nodded.

Both Sami and Lucas left the room to make their respective calls, Kayla took Will's vitals and recorded, she looked over the recent blood charts, she couldn't believe how this had slipped by so undetected for so long, but that was all about to change.

"Hey mom" Sami spoke into her phone, Marlena on the other end
"Hello dear, everything alright?"

"Kayla has asked to speak with all of us, it's about Will."

"Oh right, yes I will be there as soon as possible."

"Ok mom, see you soon."

Marlena clicked off from the call and saw Paul and John walk into the room "Hello boys, Sami called we need to go to the hospital, Kayla has some news for all of us."

"Is Will awake?" Paul enquired "No I don't believe so, I think Sami would have been a bit more hysterical if that was the case."

"I will come with you Doc." John stepped close to Marlena and kissed her head. Paul looked on and briefly said "errrm, I will leave you to it, I don't want to impose and I think it best all round if I hang back this time." John watched his son, he wanted to interject but it was his decision

"I won't be long and then we can get going with that case."

"Sure thing Dad." Paul replied and left Marlena and John to look at one another confusedly.

Sonny had just walked out of his therapy session, this session had slightly detoured from their normal consultations, in light of Will and his current status, and it was highly noticeable Sonny's anxiety and frustration and emotion for Will. The session was spent discussing exercises and ways for him to cope and release the emotion he was bottling up every day… he was sitting in the car doing some breathing exercises when his phone rang

"Lucas?"

"Hey, are you able to come to the hospital earlier?"

"What?" Sonny felt a restriction in his throat, his stomach dropping, his brain hitting the worst possible theories first "It's Will, oh god it's Will, what's wrong, is he? No no he can't be he was doing so well?"

"Hey, hey, Sonny, SONNY! Calm, chill man, he hasn't changed, Kayla has some news and she wanted everyone to be there."

"Oh, yeah sorry, I have a few hours before I have to pick Ari up, so I will be straight there. Thank you Lucas means a lot for letting me know."

Lucas met back with Sami and they both headed back to Wills room.

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Will eventually opened his eyes, he felt like he had been drowning with all the emotion that hit him from the previous memories that had come back, the music was gone and so was the heartbeat, he felt somewhat peaceful yet restless at the same time, why wasn't he waking up.

Will still had memories missing but where to start to continue on since his transgression with Paul, or before when apparently he was happy, he needed happiness, he wanted to be happy, when did I start being truly happy "When was I happy, for the first time, oh the day I first met Sonny, hahaha Jackson Kiriakis hugging my cousin Abigail, his smile towards me, his friendship … that meant everything to me, wait our first date our first kiss…"

"So is this about tonight or…"

"Yeah yeah"

"I'm sorry because I err had some stuff come up and I needed..."

"Will no, no it didn't"

"Excuse me?"

"I know the reason why you backed out of tonight, it's because of what my mom said"

"Oh no, I err I am sorry I don't know what you're talking about"

"You overheard my mom talking about you to my dad"

"It's not like it's something I haven't heard several times before"

"Look man she, she doesn't know you the way I do and she has no right to say those things about you none at all"

"Yeah she does, I mean she is right, I am not good enough for you"

"Why don't you let me be the judge of that?"

Sonny leans in and kisses Will and wills deepens the kiss and holds Sonny's cheek

"You're not pushing me away" Will shook his head and leaned back in for another kiss.

"You sure this is what you want?"

"You're asking me that after I kissed you"

"I dunno, I am worried because your mom is not wrong about me I do unfortunately have some baggage"

"Well I do too, I have an overbearing mother"

"Oh yeah I know nothing about that how is that it must suck right"

"You think this is pretty hot right, talking about our moms like this?"

"Yeah, yeah?"

"What do you wanna do?"

"Well we had a date planned, maybe you wanna do that"

"Yeah I'd love to"

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Will's heart monitor spiked slightly and Kayla watched patiently for it to settle, Sami and Lucas entered the room and asked "Is there a problem why it keeps doing that?"

"No, I don't there is, it may just be an electrical response to brain activity."

Some time passes and Marlena, John and Sonny all arrive, Sonny relieved to see that Paul had stayed away; they rally around Will's bed and wait for Kayla to explain her reasoning for calling everyone. Kayla closes the door, picks the chart up once more to scan the bloods that she had taken earlier that morning.

She looks up to see everyone waiting and she apologises "Sorry, right so you all know that we have been trying to determine what has been happening with Will, with theories and tests we think we may have pinpointed the issue. " Kayla takes a breath before she continues.

"We believe that due to the drug that was administered by Susan this caused Will to develop Korsakoff's syndrome, causing him to have a reduction of thiamine in his body. This in turn has caused a dual problem of Wernicke encephalopathy which can occur prior or after developing Korsakoff's syndrome. "

Lucas looked around and was the first to speak "Ok, I'm sorry but for a person with no medical degree here, that means what exactly?"

Kayla smiled and answered his question "It means that we need to start Will on a 100mg IV drip of thiamine three times a day for 24 hours and if he shows signs of improvement, we can reduce it down to eventually when he wakes taking a thiamine vitamin tablet and then making sure it is in his diet.

"You said when he wakes up; does this mean that this will help that?" Sonny asked

"I believe so; I believe this is a reason why he is not waking at the moment. The Valium itself exacerbated the symptoms of the decreased thiamine, but sooner or later Will would have gotten sick from being poisoned so long or being without it and not treated. I will get the IV sorted straight away and take it from there."

Kayla left the family staring at one another unsure if this would make a difference or not, Sonny was the first to speak "I need to go collect Ari, Marlena Ari would like really like to come by sometime and see you if that is ok, before we come here tonight?"

"Of course who could say no to that wonderful girl, however I am busy tonight so tomorrow?" Marlena smiled and Sonny nodded before they all dispersed leaving Sami and Lucas who staid a little longer and Lucas slipped his hand into Sami's "We will get him back you know." "I know." Sami answered and kissed Lucas' cheek.

Wednesday

Sonny and Ari came up to Marlena's door and Ari looked up to Sonny who knew what she was asking "Go on, you can knock" Ari raised her one hand and knocked three times on the door and Marlena opens the door "Hello my sweet girl" Ari gives Marlena a squeeze, hands a picture to her and runs into the bedroom.

"Ari? Not long we have to go see Daddy soon." Sonny calls out to her with no response.

Sonny and Marlena take a seat and begin a conversation about different things, Sonny talks about his therapy sessions and Marlena is so pleased to see they are helping. Ari peeked a glance out of the bedroom and sees the adults distracted, she closes the door and swings her bag onto the bed and opens and pulls out a photo album.

She is unsure if her dad knows she has this but as she flips the pages the photos of her two dads together, her mom and herself make her smile. She looks around the room and goes to the chest of drawers and can see it slightly ajar with a top hanging out, one that she has seen Daddy Will wear, she hugs it tightly and the closet door is open , her inquisitive mind takes her on a quest, inching forward and opening the door to seem some boxes.

She check on Grandma Marlena and daddy Sonny one more time before opening the lid of the first box, there are cd's, books, papers, and a tin. She lifts the tin then runs back to the bed to look at her photo album; there on the bedside table in the photo is the blue tin. Ari with a newly hatched plan for a 4 year old starts to rummage further through the boxes pulling trinkets and photos and hiding them in her backpack.

"Arianna, come on sweetie, it's time to see your dad." Sonny called from the other room.

Ari quickly closed the boxes and closet door, put the album barely back into her backpack zipped it up and came to Sonny in the living room

"Ready" Ari smiled at both "Let's go see Daddy." Sonny smiled, Marlena got one more hug from her and thank her for the picture before they left to see Will."

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Will seemed so relaxed until a sharp pain in his arm occurred. A red mark formed and a purple line began to form his arm, what was this, were they injecting him with something, the initial pain had faded and the feeling he began to experience was weird. As time went he noticed his surroundings began to change again, no longer were there paintings and images on the wall, but doors, each one wooden and white with a keyhole, a newly formed table to the side of him came too and an array of keys dispersed on the table…. Will was unnerved and didn't want to move in case something was going to happen.

Was this a good sign or bad, was this the end for him or was he finally close to waking up and being back with his family.