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Heads up this is the penultimate chapter… Chapter 37 will be the last
Chapter 36
John finally stood and told Rafe and Hope that he was heading to the hospital, Chad and Ben came over and Chad said they were heading there, "The paramedics wanted us to be checked out as well, especially this guy who saved Will"
They all shook Ben's hand and said he had done good which for him felt weird "This… is weird, I wish I could have done more, if my watch hadn't have stopped I would have been here sooner, I said to Sonny I would give him 20 minutes, 15 minutes late, could of meant that I saved him as well, the beam may not have fallen by then, I could have…"
"Hey, Ben, look, you did your best, and no one is going to blame you" Rafe said
John, Ben and Chad left, Rafe and Hope stood on and watched the fire crew finish up and as they began to take statements of the fire crew came storming out
"Quick, call for another ambulance, he is alive, we have another survivor…."
Will yawned and tried to stretch his body out, hearing a few cracks in his back, he rolls over and his smile is wide and goofy but he can't help it, the sight before him makes him so happy. Sonny continues to lie there on his chest, his breathing slow and steady, Will playfully runs his hand along Sonny's back inching himself closer to his husband.
Sonny stirs and opens one eye "Good Morning Mr Horton-Kiriakis" and raises himself on his elbow and leans in to kiss Will.
"Good Morning Mr HK!" and they continue to kiss, Will pushes at Sonny for him to lie on his back as he slides himself onto Sonny
"I can't believe we are married again" Will said as he raised his hand and twinkled the silver in the light
"You know this is not being removed, no matter who asks or begs, hell even you won't get me to take it off" William says.
Sonny laughed and said "Right back atcha my love, forever"
"Husbands for life" Will replied
Will hummed and closed his eyes…
When Will opened his eyes, he saw that he was no longer in his marital bed, he began to move and felt searing pain through his shoulder and back, he shut his eyes and hissed loudly, he felt a hand on his shoulder and he called "Sonny?"
"No darling it's mom" Sami said causing Will to open his eyes and stare straight back at her blue teary eyes
"Oh my God Will you had us so worried" she enveloped him in a tight hug which caused him just as much pain as when he moved "Owwwwww Mom, stop pain, owww"
She let go quickly and apologised whilst wiping tears "Sorry sorry, just you have been unconscious for hours and well today I'm more emotional than usual, can you blame me, I nearly lost you again?"
Will looked round the room to see his dad asleep in a chair and through the window Marlena and John holding one another
"Where's Sonny? Where's Ari?" Will asking wincing once more as he tried to sit up.
Sami came closer and helped him move the pillows "Ari is with Gabi, when we finally managed to get hold of her. As for Sonny, he is… well…. Do you remember much?"
Will was beginning to get worried that his mom wasn't giving him a straight answer "Paul kidnapped me from my apartment as I was putting the groceries away, he kept me in the bloody mausoleum on the DiMera property for how long I have no idea, he got really annoyed at one point and well you saw my back, he sent the audio to Sonny."
Will stopped and looked out the window "Where is Sonny mom?"
Will looked around the room, his anxiety was starting to increase and he was also getting irate "Why won't you tell me where Sonny is, where is he? Where is Paul? Grandma! Grandma!" William began to shout.
Marlena who along with John had moved to the seating area of the hospital looked at John who nodded and she headed to the room "William you are awake, thank goodness" she rushed forward and delicately placed her arms around him to hug
"Grandma she won't tell me where Sonny is, why won't she tell me where he is?"
Marlena took the seat next to him and said, "My darling boy, the thing is that, when you were brought in, there was only one other person brought in"
"Oh so the third ambulance hasn't arrived then, but it's been hours you said, so your saying someone didn't make it… you are saying what, that Sonny made it to the hospital? That he didn't make it to the hospital, will someone give me a straight answer"
"They are both gone" Lucas said quickly who was now awake with all the talking, Will stared at his father
"But you said a second ambulance came?"
"Straight to the morgue with a body, from what we know they had sustained severe burns and identification is… difficult" Marlena replied
Will sat there and began to shake, "You think that is Sonny don't you? That is why you are not telling me, I've lost my husband and you're not telling me."
The bell of the elevator rang and Justine and Adrienne stumble onto the floor, John looks up from his seat and wants to go to say something, Justin locks eyes on him before Adrienne and John just points to Wills room. Justin nods and directs a distraught Adrienne to his room
"Justin, Adrienne, please please say you have news" they look at one another and then at everyone in the room
"Did no one tell you?" Justin asks
"Tell me what? He is dead isn't he, My Sonny he is gone"
Adrienne began to furiously shake her head "He is in surgery"
Everyone in the room all in unison replied "Surgery?"
Adrienne nodded "Yes, what, wait why did you think he was dead?"
"The second ambulance brought a body there was no third ambulance we thought there was no other survivor or someone had gotten out before the fire took hold"
Marlena looked through the door and it was starting to become clear why John now reacted the way he did when she arrived. She quietly rose and left the room to go and be with John.
Adrienne took the seat and explained
"After you and the other ambulance left, they put out all the flames and found Sonny, the beam was on his leg, when they removed it they thought he was dead but felt a faint pulse, so came out and called for another ambulance, when they got him here he was taken straight to surgery for his leg"
"How long has he been in there, when can I see him?"
Hope and Rafe who now arrived knocked the door and came in "Hey Kid" Rafe said, Will smiled and said hi,
"Errr well, we are actually here to take your statement about what happened if that is alright."
"But I want to know about Sonny first, what's wrong with his leg, wait but if he is in surgery the other… in the morgue… is that?" Will was stuttering
"It was Paul" Hope replied "Well it is believed it is Paul as he was the only other person that was in the building at the time of the fire. Will we really need to know what happened?"
Everyone in the room either stood or sat staring at Will which made him feel a little put on the spot,
"Please we need to know what happened to Sonny in there" Adrienne pleaded
"So you can blame again for your son being hurt?" Will whispered
"No! This was definitely not your fault"
"But I am aren't I, if I wasn't in the coffee house Sonny wouldn't have come there, if I had just staid quiet I would have been kept longer in the mausoleum and maybe someone would have figured it out."
Sami and Lucas came either side of Will "You need to not blame yourself for this sweetie; it could have been either of you he took"
"We asked him about that, he said he left a dolls head for me as well, but he had already drugged me before I got to see that, so Sonny saw his and knew what happened to me."
Rafe and Hope looked at one another and Rafe tried to get through to Will "Hey, I know this is tough but we really need ot go through the timeline of things, John figured out where you were and by the time we got to the mausoleum you were already gone, so he got you to the coffee house?"
Will nodded as his head hung low and as tears rolled down his face, he quickly wiped them away so no one could see "He phoned Sonny and told him that if he wanted to see me again that he had to come to the coffee house alone and tell no one, Paul chloroformed me again and I remember waking up tied to a chair in the coffee house"
"Well that matches Ben's part of the story." Hope murmured
"Ben? Wait how is Ben involved, he got me out, he got me out of the coffeehouse, and I remember seeing a flash of him and then Chad"
"Sonny left me staring at a shop window and Ben told me that Sonny had to go do something" Adrienne answered
"He did, but you are jumping ahead a little, Will what happened next?" Rafe asked
"Paul had me gagged and tied up and Sonny came into the coffeehouse he tried to untie me and I couldn't warn him in time that Paul knocked him out and tied him up to. Paul raved about how Sonny and I made him feel and who was to blame for it all was me."
Will took a breath and asked for some water "You know it's not your fault" his mother says
"I am" Will looks to Adrienne and Justin "I am so sorry, that I came into Sonny's life, before and again, if it wasn't for me then Sonny wouldn't have been married when Paul came to town and Sonny wouldn't have turned him down and come for me, If I didn't cheat or Drive Sonny to Paris, or get killed or hell even stay dead or an amnesiac with no memory of him or this place then he would be fine living his life"
"William Robert Horton, you take all that back this instance." Sami shouted angrily whilst wiping tears
"You do not and will not talk about your life like some meaningless moments… Ever!"
Will was slightly taken aback by his mother's outburst
Hope sighed "Will back to the coffeehouse"
"So Paul toyed with Sonny and slid a knife across his neck causing him to bleed and made me watch, then started to pour petrol around the place whilst Sonny begged he would do anything for him to let me go in which Paul told him to stab me" Will reached up and felt the dressing on the wound on his shoulder
"Sonny was close to doing it but he faltered and stopped just before the blade went in, Paul didn't like this and with one hand grabbed Sonny's and plunged the blade into my shoulder, like lashing me wasn't enough for him…. This was when he had turned his back on us and reached for a lighter, out of nowhere Sonny grabbed the knife and slammed it into Paul's back and he dropped the lighter causing the petrol to ignite, he pulled me and the chair doused in petrol away from the ignition and pulled the gun on Paul who was laughing at him, so I rugby tackled him against the counter still partly tied to the chair and he got knocked out. This is where things get hazy, I started to go in and out of consciousness, I remember trying to get Sonny out but he was pinned and then I was lying next to him and then a figure got me out and last I saw was a body bag as I was being put into the ambulance."
Both Rafe and Hope scribbled furiously "Okay, we will most likely have to ask you again in a few days just in case you remember anything new, but we will leave you for now, Will we are so sorry, you know Sonny will be back here in no time" They both look at Adrienne and Justin nod and then leave.
"Mom?" Will whispers, Sami holds him "What if he…"
"Shhhhh don't think about that right now, just close your eyes and rest, we will wake you when we know more."
Will turns onto his side with no stab wound and tries to be comfortable, he closes his eyes and drifts back to his dream of being back in bed with Sonny, he sighs happily.
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Will sleeps right through the night to the next day, not because he wanted to but his body so exhausted from his ordeal didn't seem to let him wake up. He eventually does and for a split second believes that everything he had gone through was a nightmare and he was just waking up from it, as he moved and felt the tug of his wounds which still smarted, his hopes dashed and his reality fast, he was very much still at the hospital.
He saw that none of his relatives were around, he carefully clambered off the bed and shuffled out the door, and he saw a nurse at the desk and asked "Excuse me, what room is Jackson Kiriakis in?"
The Nurse smiled and Will remembered her from his time in here before, who took his picture with Sonny and Ari, she pointed to the room right next door "We knew you wouldn't want him far away when you woke"
"Thank you" Will said and carefully made his way to the door and gently opened it to reveal with some relief, it actually was, there was Sonny lying in bed with his leg in a cast and a nasal cannula. He looked somewhat peaceful and William really hoped he wasn't in that much pain.
Will tiptoed to the edge of the bed and was now the one softly brushing his hand through Sonny's hair, he leaned on the bed and just watched him for several minutes, soon enough Sonny's eyes fluttered open and he stared straight at Will
"Will?"
Will smiled and began to cry uncontrollably
"Hey, hey, shhhhhhh" Sonny said pulling Will to him, Will now curled around Sonny not caring about the pain in his shoulder and back, it was better now that he was there in Sonny's arms
"You're alive, you really are here, please tell me this is real and not another dream"
Sonny kissed the top of Will's head and replied "I'm real, I'm really here, and we are really here, Will, god I thought I lost you"
Will sniffled and looked at Sonny "You thought you lost me, I thought I lost you, I saw a body bag, I woke and no one was telling me where you were, my family didn't realise you were brought in they were trying to tell me there was no survivors after Ben got me out"
"Ben got you out?"
"Yeah he pulled me out and apparently tried to go back in but there was an explosion and he and Chad couldn't try" Will squeezed Sonny a little harder
"So if I'm here and you are here, the body bag?" Sonny asked already really knowing the answer
"Paul" Will whispered into Sonny's chest
"Wow" was all Sonny could say
Sonny reached down to Will's chin and tilted his head up , Will staring into Sonny's eyes leaned forward and kissed Sonny, his lips warm and seemed to instantly calm Will, he kissed Sonny with a new intensity and Sonny wrapped his arms round Wills neck drawing him closer, the need for contact urging them both on.
After several minutes of heavy groping and kissing, a flushed Will pulled back and said "I need to… Sonny I can't wait any longer, I … will you…"
Will stuttered and before he could finish Sonny beat him to it
"Marry me Will!"
To be continued for the last chapter
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