Truth Revealed Chapter 13, a days of our lives fanfic

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Chapter 13

Wednesday

Ari wriggled more and more out of Sonny's grip who had to put her down to the floor before he dropped her. She ran back to the bed, tried to climb up before Sonny scooped her up again. Sonny turned to leave and the heart monitor rhythm fluctuated again which caught Sonny off guard he turned to look and something he wasn't expecting… Will's eyes opened, slightly panicked at the ventilator, Sonny plopped Ari on the edge of the bed and rushed to Will.

"Hey, hey, stay calm, it's ok its ok, just a ventilator … I will get Kayla." All Will could do was nod, his eyes averted to Ari who stared on unsure what to do, he wanted to hug her so much, tell her he remembers, he remembers it all.

Will could see that Ari couldn't quite comprehend what was happening, so he used what little energy he felt and raised a hand to usher her closer. She crawled up the bed and stared at Will; he used a hand to brush away a stray tear from before and then stroked her hair. Ari smiled and flung her arms around Will and he was taken aback by her strength of the hug "daddy!"

Sonny and Kayla entered the room to see this; Sonny was so overwhelmed that his own tears were brimming to the top ready to cascade at a moment's notice.
"Ari, sweetie Kayla needs to check daddy over, come sit in my lap for a bit." This time Ari nodded and held her arms up for Sonny to collect her off the bed and sit in his lap.

"Hi Will, glad to see you awake, didn't expect you to wake quite this soon, you are on a ventilator because you arrested and we had to intubate. Don't fight it, it is just helping your lungs, it's late so we won't take it out tonight, but tomorrow, we will try a breathing trial and hopefully take you off it ok?"

Will just nodded, he tilted his head towards Sonny and Ari, he could see that Sonny was close to tears and wanted to talk to him so much. He looked back to Kayla, who swiftly checked the monitors, his pulse, and his temp. She looked at Sonny and smiled and then back to Will "All is looking good Will, you scared us, you know that?"

Will nodded slightly, but tapped her hand once. "It's best not to move too much, just tap your hand once for yes and twice for no." Sonny looked at the time "I best inform your family, they are going to be thrilled." He looked at Ari and said "You definitely need to go home to bed little one, Daddy will be here tomorrow." Ari who was falling asleep in his arms didn't respond Sonny looked back at Will,

"Will, I… I am so glad your awake, you have no idea… sleep, and we will see you tomorrow." Sonny cautiously rose with Ari in his arms; he stepped to the bed and placed his hand over Wills. Will gripped his hand which caught Sonny off guard for a second, but squeezed back.

"I know"

All William could think was, 'No you don't, you have no idea what I want to say'.

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Sonny had successfully managed to carry Ari, her rucksack and his paperwork to the car without dropping anything; he slowly placed Ari into her car set and buckled her in. He sat in the driver's seat and proceeded to pull out his phone to start making the calls.

"Hello Sami, Hi, errr is Lucas with you?"

"Sonny hi, errrmm yeah he is why?"

"You may want to put me on speaker phone."

Sami nudged Lucas who was asleep in bed and whispered "Lucas, Lucas, wake up Sonny has news"

Lucas stirred and rolled over "what, errr k."

"Sami clicked the button and continued "We are ready, what is it."

"He's awake!"

Sami nearly dropped the phone "What, when, how"

"Ari and I were leaving for the night and she wouldn't leave him, she caused a fuss all I knew was a monitor beeped erratically and he opened his eyes. Kayla said they are going to try and test if he can come off the ventilator tomorrow, he is still on it tonight …"

"I best get over there, I need to hug my boy."

"Sami is that a good idea, if he needs rest?" Lucas piped up in the back ground "Thank you Sonny for letting us know we will go visit him first thing tomorrow."

"No worries, would you mind letting Marlena and John know, I need to get Ari home."

"Sure, go, see you tomorrow" Sami responded, she turned her phone off and lay it back on the dresser, she looked at Lucas and cupped his face, "Lucas, our boy, he is awake, oh god he is ok." She leant forward and kissed him ferociously, Lucas hummed slightly and they celebrated in their own way.

Thursday

Everyone milled around Will's bed, Sami tapping her foot impatiently

"Sorry, Sorry, Ari wouldn't go to school." Sonny said breathlessly as he rushed into the room he looked at Will smiled and said "She is going to be attached to your leg when you get out of here." Will watched and wanted to laugh so much but was still attached to the ventilator.

"Right, ok now you are all here." Kayla looked at Will and continued "You have stabilised enough for us to try and remove the ventilator, we have to do a test first to see if your lungs are able to breathe on their own. We have several ways to do this but the speedier option is by switching the oxygen off and the machine and allow you to take several breaths on your own. We will monitor your blood pressure and other sats whilst you're doing this. If all goes well, we can remove the ventilator completely and we can start rehab to get your body moving."

Kayla took a breath and tentatively spoke "There is something else." Everyone in the room looked on confused and Will did the same "What else could there be?" Sami asked

Kayla looked to her and answered "We will need to take an MRI and also do some tests to see if there was any damage sustained from the seizures"

"Hang on, what more could be wrong than he already has amnesia and lost his memories?" Sonny asked and asked further "you mean brain damage? Impairment, what"

Kayla nodded and looked at Will sympathetically "There is a chance that this ordeal may have caused some impairment on your body, physically or mentally, we will evaluate and deal with what happens, but let's not get ahead of ourselves shall we, phase one, we will do the SBT."

Kayla said she will be back in a few minutes to do the test and she left, everyone looked at one another and William just lay there, he wished he could tell everyone to relax, it wasn't them who were getting the test but they were making him nervous. His family continued to chat until he felt like someone was staring he looked to the foot of the bed and saw Sonny watch him.

Sonny rose and came closer to him and sat on the edge of the bed with his hand touching Will's arm

"Hey, it's a lot I know, you're doing fab you know that right, whatever happens, we are all here for you."

Will moved his arm away from Sonny's, Sonny thought he didn't want Sonny there but instead Will placed his on top of Sonny's and squeezed, he tried so hard to show what he meant with his eyes, pleadingly for people to not be here. Sonny unsure what he meant, stood and went to his bag and pulled some paper and pen.

"You wanna say something?" he placed the paper down and put the pen in Will's hand. Sonny held the paper down as Will scrawled 'too many people' When Sonny saw what he wrote he looked at Will and by nature stroked Will's hair "it's okay we can leave you with the nurse and Kayla when they do the test."

Sonny rose and called everyone together and showed what Will had written "I think he is worried we will be disappointed if it doesn't work and he is nervous." Marlena smiled and nodded "I think its best we leave Will". Kayla returned with the nurse. Sami and Lucas kissed Will "We will be just right outside ok, once over we will be back in" Marlena and John did the same; Sonny was the last to say a quick goodbye.

"You will do just fine Will, no rush." Sonny went to leave but Will grabbed his arm again and didn't let him budge, Sonny turned and looked back "hey, Will shhhhh, its ok, you be fine" Will pointed to the paper and pen again, Sonny retrieved the paper and pen and will wrote a singular word that when Sonny saw it, made so much of what had happened the last few months redundant and as if never happened.

'Stay' Sonny looked at the paper and then back to Will "You sure? I'm sure Marlena would be best…" Wills grip tightened painfully on Sonny's arm "Owwwww, okay okay, I'll stay." Sonny chuckled slightly.

Kayla closed the door and looked to Sonny who now sat again on the edge of the bed, he moved briefly out the way whilst the nurse raised the bed so Will was in a seated position. Will took hold of Sonny's hand and their hands intuitively laced and sonny placed his spare hand on top for support.

Kayla stepped to the machine "Okay William, we are going to decrease the speed of the amount of times the oxygen is being pumped first, we will give you a few moment to adjust and then turn off, if you understand blink once."

Will blinked once, Kayla turned the dial and Will noticed that the rhythm of oxygen had changed, he slightly panicked but staring at Sonny calmed him, slowly trying to breathe himself, he closed his eyes a few times to centre himself, he was so nervous this would fail and he would be stuck on a ventilator.

"Good, you're doing good Will we are going to turn it off now, 3..2…1…" a flick of a switch and the whirring sound stopped, the beeps of his heart monitor pinged erratically, oh god there was no oxygen, where was the oxygen was all Will could think, he felt like he was choking, he began to panic worse.

Sonny moved his hand to Will's face and tilted him towards him "Hey, Hey Will, open your eyes, look at me, come on Will, look at me!" Will opened his eyes and looked at those soft brown eyes, his vision focused a little more and Sonny was rambling at him, Will tried to concentrate on his voice

"Come on Will, listen to me, you can do this, one at a time, in and out, 1 and 2." Will calmed and followed his instructions, soon enough his body realised there was oxygen and he was breathing, his heart rate normalised and he squeezed Sonny's hand, realising that Sonny's hand was still on his cheek, he blushed slightly and leant into it a bit more, Sonny brushed his cheek with his thumb, forgetting where they were.

Kayla coughed briefly "Sorry to interrupt, but I think you are good to come off it Will, now this is where it is going to get tricky. Taking the ventilator away is one thing, you still have the intubation tube in, so we need to lay you down, when we tell you we want you to swallow several times. Your throat is going to be sore even swollen so talking may not happen right away ok?"

Will nodded and again looked at Sonny "I'm not going anywhere."

Sonny nodded to Kayla and they detached the main tube and the nurse wheeled the large ventilator out of the room. Sonny stood off the bed so when the nurse returned her and Kayla put the bed flat and lay Will down. Sonny held his hand and brushed his thumb over Will's hand in little circles hoping that it would calm him.

Kayla spoke "Ok Will on the count of three I need you to swallow, 1…2…3…. Swallow"

Will gulped several times and he felt the tube be pulled from his throat, the sensation made him gag, but quickly enough the tube was out and he started to cough. "Good, all done… okay let me sit you up again and we can have a look in your mouth see if all is good."

Kayla propped him back into a sitting position and with her penlight and wooden stick, held Will's tongue down and checked the back of his throat "hmmm a little redness, as suspected, we will get you some ice chips to help." Will was able to smile and he smiled back to Kayla as a thank you, he looked to Sonny and smiled widely, he squeezed his hand and pulled Sonny into a hug, Will breathed in Sonny's scent, how he had missed this yet he still wasn't able to tell Sonny he remembered, he didn't want to do it by paper he wanted to do it right.

All his family were let back in and they all hugged him, John hung back before heading in and took out his phone and dialled

"Hey, I know you're busy with a case, but you may want to come visit Will, he is awake and off the ventilator, he can't speak yet, but I am sure he will be happy to see you."

"Are you sure?"

"Course son why wouldn't he, you helped him in the mausoleum, he is your friend to."

"Sure I will be there in a little while, cya later Dad" Paul hung up and knew it was time to go see Will, he still wondered if Sonny had said anything, but with him only just waking up this was now his best opportunity.

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John entered the room a little later and watched as Sonny tentatively cared for Will, he questioned himself if asking Paul to come had been a good idea, but it was too late now. Sonny handed the cup with ice chips to Will who picked two and placed them in his mouth whilst sucking his fingers with the water droplets. Sonny couldn't help but watch and his cheeks flushed when he realised he was staring which in turn made Will chuckle and nearly choke on the ice chips as he swallowed them whole. Sonny pulled him upright "Woah Will you okay?" Will smiled and nodded and grabbed another ice chip "Yeah let's try one at a time shall we?" Sonny chortled and William stuck his tongue at Sonny. Both Will and Sonny felt so relaxed with the interaction both had missed this ease with one another.

Soon enough Sonny realised he had to leave to go get Ari "I need to go get Ari, I won't be long, she is going to be so excited to see you not on that machine." Will tried to open his mouth to speak but Sonny raised his hand to stop him "Hey no, its fine don't try yet, ok?" Will nodded. Sonny stood and was about to turn when he heard the knock at the door, he saw Will's eyes widen and when he spun round and saw who it was, he only had one response;

"Really?!"

"Hi, err John told me Will was awake, I wanted to come see him." Everyone in the room greeted him, except for Sonny whose one hand had gripped tightly on the bedsheets. Will brushed his hand against Sonny, trying and hoping that he would understand, he remembered his actions with Paul in the past and what he had done now, he knew he had things to say to Paul just as much as he had to say to Sonny.
Sonny looked back at Will who just nodded "I will be back soon with Ari." Sonny took one step to Paul and whispered so the others couldn't hear him "He can't talk right now, you even try anything I swear I will …"

"What Sonny? You and those idol threats again"

Sonny huffed and left the room knowing that Will had some protection with all his family there for the moment.

Paul came to the side of the bed and sat, he glanced at Will and then around to everyone and leant a bit closer to Will, his hand propped on the bed unsure if he should place it on wills, so left it nearby in case Will chose to move first "I am so glad you are awake Will, I was so worried about you."

Will stared at Paul and just nodded he raised his hand to his throat to show he couldn't talk "I know Sonny mentioned you can't talk right now, but you can listen." Will shifted in the bed slightly and then cautiously smiled. "Do you think we could speak alone for a bit without the family present?" Paul asked hoping that Will would agree. Will pointed to the notepad and pen and Paul grabbed it and handed it to him.

Will turned the notepad round and showed Paul his answer "Why?" Paul read out

"Will, what I want to talk to you is a little sensitive and well I don't think your family would really understand, I mean with Sonny having been around so much, they may not want him round after this."

Will scrambled for the notepad and again showed Paul his answer "Sonny? What do you mean?"

Paul internally smirked at the fact that his plan had actually worked "Well you know about the threatening behaviour right?" Will shook his head both in response and couldn't believe what Paul was saying. He turned the page in the notepad and wrote "Please can you leave me and Paul alone for a moment please?" Will tapped the cabinet to the side of him and everyone looked and he showed them the notepad.

John was now realising the way Will was reacting agitatedly at this moment that this definitely wasn't his best idea, but he agreed and rose and he and Marlena left, Sami and Lucas reluctantly left and shut door. Will scribbled rapidly "Now Talk!"