Chapter 11

Here we are Mr. H Sonny said as he took the blanket and spread it on the ground.

Will and Sonny were laying on the blanket and Will had their favorite playlist playing on his phone.

Hey Sonny may I have this dance Will asked?

Sonny said.. Why Mr. Horton I'd love to.

Will laughed at Sonny's not so good but his best southern accent.

Hey Sonny my love I do not think that accent exactly is your best impersonation. You might want to keep being Dr Kiriakis and not Scarlet O'Hara Will said he was laughing.

Sonny asked Will if that was as bad as his water skiing?

Babe Will was laughing and said I do believe that they might be a tie but hey at least I had one sexy doctor there to give me mouth to mouth a save my life.

Sonny said Will I swear to you had I known that you had never been water skiing before I would not have ever asked you to go.

Honey why did you not tell me?

Sonny Honey I will tell you exactly why. I was not ashamed or anything like that it is because I face the unknowns and I do not back away just because I have never tried it before and the next time I will be ready and I know what I did wrong and I learned from it.

Plus the fact that I wanted to have some fun with you even though I

did almost give you heart failure .Do you not want me to try new things anymore?

Will Honey I almost had a heart attack that is true but tell me next time that it is the first time that you have never done something before so that I can at least keep a good eye on you and I will not

Make you do anything dangerous or let you get hurt. Sonny was almost mad when he said...

They are the ones who put the boat in high gear and did not even let you know before hand so trust me Dr. Kiriakis was not happy and he did lose his religion on them before that you were doing fine. I almost took you to the hospital for observation had you not got the water out of your lungs as fast as you did I would have.

I know you did. Will said you had turned white and you were doing what you were supposed to do but after it was over and you sat me down in the car I think that everyone in the state could hear you losing your religion. I was almost afraid that you were going to go to blows with them. Man after that you did not even let me out of your sight for almost a month.

When Kari starts school and someone pushes her down on the playground like kids always do I feel sorry for them.

Will Let me tell you right now no one will hurt any of my family I promise you if they do they will see that my bedside manner will not be very good and Will I promise to you right now that you Kari and Marlena are my family and Sonny said with a tears in his eyes

If anything happened to any of you it would kill me because you guys are my life Sonny said Will you have no idea how deep my love runs for all of you. I have never been brought to the point that I was almost violent before until I have had too because I am so over protective of you guys. Will can you promise me that you will not get angry at me if I get to over protective and I act out? Will you promise that you will not leave me because of it?

You know that I do not smother you guys but I will take action if I feel that we are going to get hurt or if someone does hurt any of you?

Sonny Babe please do not worry about that because unfortunately for you sir you are stuck with these three nutty people here.

Will said Sonny Hon you know what? I think that Kari and I need to

Do something soon.

What Will Sonny asked almost afraid of the answer.

Well right now Will said I do not want to talk about it but we are going to revisit the subject and stop being nervous I am not ever going to leave you. We love you too damned much DR. K.

So you do not have to ever worry about us leaving unless you give us no other choice.

Hey Boys Marlena said I am sorry I did not realize that you two are on a date here. I had a little angel girl wanted to come to the park and so I could not say no to those great big brown doe eyes of hers.

Kari came up and said Dadyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy and gave Will a huge hug and then she did something that absolutely caused everyone to cry. Daddyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Sonnnyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy as she came to him hugged him and and gave him a huge hug and a great big kiss and said you know what?

Sonny's voice cracked a little and he asked what angel?

Daddy Sonny I wish that you were my daddy all of the time because I love you Kari said and I get sad when you are not with us.

Sonny got a huge lump in his throat and he said I am sorry angel

Daddy Sonny gets sad when he has to leave too.

Daddy Sonny Kari said I don't have a mommy and I know Grandma loves me too but with you it is not like that.

I feel like I do with my daddy not Grandma she is different but I love her too.

Marlena hit her speed dial button on her phone in her purse for Sonny's number.

Sonny said…. I have to get this its the hospital.

Kari said as she was almost in tears.

Daddy Sonny I guess we will see you tomorrow at work.

Sonny said… Angel who knows?

Sonny asked Marlena if she would take care of his man and his Angel?

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Marlena said yes Sonny I will take care of them. .Don't worry they are in good hands.

Sonny said no they are in great hands!

Sonny came back and said almost in tears because he was about ready to bend down on one knee right then and there but he said….

I have to go to the hospital guys.

I love everyone of you so much. Sonny kissed Will and held on to him for dear life and said Babe I love you with all of my heart and soul. Kari came up to him and he picked her up and he kissed her and hugged her and said angel girl I love you so much don't you ever forget that either! Kari said daddy Sonny I can't forget that I love you. You are my daddy Sonny. Sonny went up to Marlene and said I love you woman more than you will ever know and he hugged and kissed her and everyone had said their I love yous.

Sonny got in his car and he started crying so hard and he said after tonight we all will be a family and I will truly be Kari's daddy Sonny because I am going to ask will if I can adopt her. I have to get a necklace for Kari also one for Marlena and a ring for her too three rings for me and Will because I will have one just in case he wants to

give me an engagement ring too. Sonny was off to the Jewelry store and the formal wear store next door. Sonny sent Marlena a text and asked her if he should pick up an engagement ring for Will to give him and she said no he can use his grandfathers ring for you and you can buy his engagement ring his ring has three diamonds and it is 18K yellow gold. If you can get one that has your birth stones in it he would love it.

Marlena your birthday is march 29th right?

Yes Sonny it is you have a good memory Marlena said.

Well I better or I would not be a decent trauma surgeon if I didn't Sonny said with a laughing emoji.

Will said Grandma I think I better get this angel home and we can relax a while before I cook dinner.

Will can I speak to you for a minuet please Marlena asked?

Sure Grandma is something wrong Will asked with a bit of concern in his voice?

Yes Will something is very wrong Marlena said looking at Will with a very stern look. Will I love you guys and you know that I have never told you what to do when it comes to your relationship with Sonny ever but I feel like now first I have to ask you a question. I know that you love Sonny but do you love him enough to marry him?

Yes I do Grandma Will said...I would marry him right now but he has not asked me. I told him that would be up to him if that was what he wanted. When I gave him his partners ring.

Will I think things may have changed tonight because of that little angel playing on the blanket with her tablet. Will why don't you ask him and see what he says because I think that Kari has made it very clear how she feels about Sonny and Sonny has made it very clear how he feels about all of us.

Will said you know what Grandma I think that you are right.

Only if you make me a promise.

What is that Will Marlena asked?

Grandma I really do not feel comfortable with you living across town in that building alone would you be willing to move closer to Sonnys house Will asked?

Grandma the only reason that I say that is because last week two apartments were broken into and a woman was raped because she lived alone.

Will I do not blame you and if you know of a place that is closer to Sonny's house then I will do it my lease is up tomorrow. Marlena said…So it would be perfect timing plus I have a good excuse to buy new furniture that is not from the late 80s.

I will ask him to meet me tomorrow after work and I will try to figure out the most romantic way to ask him. Will said.

Marlena said… Will I can help with that and I can also help by letting you use your Grand Fathers wedding band before he died he said that when you had need for it for you to use it and so you have use for it now. Your Grand Father would be so proud of you honey almost as proud of you as I am.

Grandma there is a house that is for sale next door to Sonny's if you would like to check it out tomorrow Will said.

Will I am not going to check it out I am just going to get it you have three bedrooms so I can move in your place with you until the deal closes and it is mine. If that is OK with you Marlena said.

Will Why don't we just grab a bite together because I haven't eaten yet either and I want to keep her tonight and finish out our girls night too. Marlena said knowing what is up. Will when is your lease up?

Hey Grandma mine is up in two days. I moved in two days after you. Will said.

Sonny sent a text to Marlena and said at the restaurant now.

Marlena said Will If we don't get some food pretty fast I am going to start eating you.

Will asked Kari to go with grandma to the car and he was going to grab the blanket and shake it off really good and then he will be right there because grandma is about to eat Daddy because she is so hungry.

Kari said grandma please don't eat my daddy we need him too much and I can'[t go to work and see Daddy Sonny if you do so please don't eat my daddy.

Kari honey please don't cry. I am not going to eat daddy honey grandma is just very very hungry. Marlena said.

Marlena pulled into the restaurant parking lot and she said I told you that you needed to dress formal Will because tonight is special it is not very often that my grand son is going to get engaged and perhaps this could give you some inspiration.

Will said Thank you grandma its been a while since we had a good reason to dress to the nines. Kari looks just like a doll in her little white Lacey dress and her red glitter shoes. She is so gorgeous.

Thank you for helping us both get dressed and taming my wild rats nest that is otherwise known as my hair. It had a mind of its own this morning.

The curtains opened to the stage and Sonny was waiting in the wings he was not nervous at all because he knew that he was gaining a whole family who loves him and he loves them. Not one of them would he not kill or die for and so he is going to marry the three of them tonight. Sonny had made arrangements for a family unity service as well as the wedding. He had called the hospital and told them that he was not to be disturbed for a month because he was getting married tonight. He called a few of the coworkers who were very close to Will and Sonny and so they were all there with their families Sonny had a unity candle set up for him and Will and he had four colors of sand in small containers with pour spouts that were shaped like hearts. Each persons sand was the color of their birth month and it all had the same color of glitter in the sand and a large heart bottle with an opening in it to symbolize the melding of the whole family as one. There was a smaller heart container with smaller sand containers for Marlena. Sonny also had the private dinning room rented for the night where they had canapes and a beautiful chocolate mocha wedding cake and it had a chocolate mocha filling.

Sonny called the restaurant to have their pastry chef to make it for them before he got into the car and it was four hours before the dinner and that gave the pastry chef six hours to make it.

They said that it could be done. Sonny had the sugar artist to make a heart topper wit and an S inside of it.

Sonny had everything planed out to a T.

The MC walked through the curtains and he welcomed everyone for coming and he called up Will Horton to the stage and The first song that was playing on their first official meeting at the coffee house the first time was playing as Sonny walked out to Will and he said William Robert Horton we have been partners For a little over a year now.

I have saw Kari turn from a tiny baby who the first time she saw me she laid a great big sloppy wet kiss right in the mouth. I knew that I loved you and I loved Kari from the first time I saw her picture and every time we talked about her I could see pure love radiating from you our first meeting by the lake when I saw you there was such a pull that drew me to want to get to know you and once I was almost introduced to your fist because you had been so preoccupied and we spent so many hours talking that day as Star watched on as the sun was setting I kept thinking to myself Dr. Kiriakis this man is the man who you love. Three weeks later we were under the very same tree without any horses this time you bent down on one knee and you told me that you did not do the boy friend thing because you did not

need to test the waters to find the person who you want to be with because you knew the person and the kind of kind of man who you wanted not as a boy friend but as your partner. Will I though that when you went down on one knee that you were going to ask me to marry you but instead you gave me this. Sonny showed everyone his partner ring on his right hand and the inscription says Partners I've got your back. I have never saw any one ever do that before in my life but you did. Will you have shown me what pure love loyalty and devotion as a partner a father and a grand son and I would like for Wills grand mother to step up wit Kari because this question is not only for Will but for all of you .First Will I would be honored if you would be my husband? Will dropped to his knee and he said through tears of joy Dr. Jackson Steven Kiriakis I have loved you from the first time that I laid my eyes on you. We have had a great life as partners and little by little as time went on I said it was time for you to meet my angel and when I did I saw the same love for her mirrored in your eyes that we shared together. You saved my life twice and you never even realized that you had. One of the reasons that day that I was preoccupied was because shortly before you had came was because I was aimlessly walking around and I had hit my head on a rock and I was bleeding a bit and I was knocked out for a short period of time face down in the water and I was sitting their thinking My God I could have died there and then Kari would not have a father and my job at the time was about to kill me with a presentation that was sucking the life out of me as a father when I was at home that project was taking away my ability to be Kari's father and it was during that time that sometimes I thought that she probably would be better off with a father who was there for her in every was not just physically. When I met you it all changed for me because I had found someone who I knew in my heart that I loved and that I wanted to have as a partner.

You gave me such a sense of peace and love that has only gotten deeper the day that I gave you the partners ring I told you that I was not purposing to you because that would be your call when of if you decided that was what you truly wanted for the rest of your life.

Now I ask you Dr. Jackson Kiriakis would you give me the honor of being my husband as we have made our intentions clear I think that we should both give each other our answer together Sonny took out Wills ring that had the birthstones of Marlena Kari Will and Sonny on it

Will took out his grandfathers wedding band and each mam

N placed the rings on the left middle finger and said yes and kissed they rings and told each other how much they loved each other.

Sonny said Babe hold on a second we can not really a family unless I say this Marlena I love you as deeply as if you were my own blood would you please give me the honor of being my grandmother also.?

There was not one dry eye in the whole restaurant and Marlena said Sonny you have been my grandson for a very long time now so it is an absolute yes. I love you Sonny so much and I hope that you really do believe that because we have a bond together almost as strong as I have with Will and Kari but I could not love you more if you were blood kin. She kissed Sonny and hugged him.

Sonny took Kari from Marlena and he said angel girl you called me daddy Sonny today and I could not have been any happier or so touched by the love that was coming from you with those three little words and so I ask you Kari Amorah Horton would you become my daughter forever? Kari shook her head and said Daddy Sonny you are my other Daddy already so yes.

They pulled back the curtain and the judge was there with a court clerk and asked Will to please sign the marriage lisc to make this service legal and binding. Will signed the certificate and the clerk put the state seal on it and left the stage The judge said this in not a typical wedding that you are witnessing today but infarct it is very extraordinary preformed by me for two extra ordanary men and their family today We are here to join these men in holy matrimony before all of you and God. Marriage is not to be entered into lightly it brings with it some responsibilities first to each partner always remember that marriage is not just saying I love you and pretty words it takes work understanding forgiveness loyalty and faithfulness . Each man must always remember to love hard and to forgive often because you are only human.

Jackson please repeat after me I take William to be my lawful wedded husband to love and to hold forsaking all others as long as we both shall live. Sonny looked at Will and he repeated every word

The judge asked Will to repeat the same vows that Sonny had just taken Will repeated every word that Sonny had just vowed to him.

As a sign of unity to each other we will now have a family unity service as requested by Jackson.

Marlena Evens as a sign of family unity do you take Jackson as your grandson and vow that he is in whole a member of your family as witnessed by God and these people who are in attendance to day?

Marlena said through tears yes I certainly do take Jackson to be my grandson in all that it in tells. Jackson do you have her ring?

Yes I do by placing this ring on the third finger of her right hand you are pledging your love and the unity that brings both of you as a family united in love.

Marlena this is my pledge to you as a symbol of unity to vow to you in the company of these witnesses and as God being my witness that you are my family in which I treasure and will love until death do us part. Sonny slipped the ring on her right hand and he kissed her cheek and he whispered I love you lady. Thank you.

The judge turned to Kari and said Kari do you take Sonny whispered she calls me Sonny. Kari do you take Sonny as your daddy always and promise to always love him as he promises to love you?

Yes I do. The judge said Jackson do have a token to give Kari as a promise to always love her and protect her as her own father?

Yes I do. Sonny took out a small gold necklace and it has a unity symbol on it with diamonds encrusting the symbol. And he placed it on her neck and said Kari never take this off it means that we are a family. Marlenas ring was a diamond unity symbol with Wills birth stone on her far right Sonnys under wills and Kari's next to her diamond. Jackson and William please join me as the lighting of the union candle that symbolizes the love that you have vowed tonight.

Sonny and Will each took up a candle that is lite and they lite the pillar candle as a sign or their unity as husbands each one will blow out the candle of the other as a symbol of their commitment to each other.

Marlena would you please bring Kari to the right hand side and as a symbol of the family unity each one of you pour the and from your vessels as marked by the color of your birth month.

Everyone went to the table and the judge said as a symbol of all of the members of the family melding together please pour the sand at the same time the judge held Kari and said honey thins goes into the jar don't try to eat it because it is yucky. Every one including Kari with the help of the judge poured their sand in the bottle.

And the judge handed Kari to Sonny who was beaming and he was hugging and kissing her and said I love you angel baby girl daddy Sonny will never let anyone hurt any of you.

Marlena you may take Kari back to your seat and I have only one more bit of business to conduct.

The judge said by the state I now ask that you seal you union as husbands with a kiss.

Will and Sonny both had tears in their eyes and they gave each other the most tender kiss tat was filled with so much love that it could be felt by every single person in the whole room.

I would like to introduce to all of you Dr. Jackson Horton- Kiriakis

and Mr.- Will cut him off saying William Horton -Kiriakis Will and Sonny stepped off of the stage and they hugged each other and Will was crying so hard as Sonny was holding him in a loving embrace and Sonny said Mr. Kiriakis are those happy tears or is it something else?

Sonny do you realize that you not only married me but you married my daughter and my grandmother just now? Will said Honey I was never expecting any of this at all in a million years do you realize that we are all truly a whole family?

Sonny said Will honey I love you and I love those tow ladies with all of my heart and I set it up that way because of the love that I have for not only you and Kari which is the deepest most precious love that is so pure and so treasured by me but Marlena I love her as if she was my own grand mother so I had to marry every single one of you because I love you so much.