"Adrianne we are going to have to talk about this before Sonny arrives" Justin tells her as they are driving to O'Hare. "There is nothing to talk about Justin" she replies. "What do you mean there is nothing to talk about, our son is going to be landing in an hour and you still haven't come to grips with him being gay." Justin say somewhat frustratingly. "Why do you insist on saying that Justin." Adrianne says forcefully. "I say it because it is true, and the sooner you come to accept that the better it will be for everyone." Justin says authoritatively . "Justin you don't know that, Sonny doesn't know that, it is all because of that boy." as soon as she says it she realizes it. "Dammit Adrianne, Justin says just under a yell, his name is Will, Will Horton and let me tell you something you better come to terms with it because whether you like it or not he is a big part of Sonny's life and I don't see that changing any time in the near future." Justin continues. "And one last thing, because this whole conversation has become futile, unless you want to become estranged from your son you are going to have to accept this, and you are going to have to accept Will as part our son's life." "Justin you don't..." Justin interrupts her, "Stop, just stop Adrianne, those are the facts there is nothing else to talk about, I have told you the reality of the situation, now you have to accept that reality or you can lose your son, those are your only options, and one last thing, if you say so much as one hurtful or negative thing about Will, then you can kiss your son goodbye because he won't be giving up Will for you or anyone else." "And whether you care or not Will has been there for Sonny when we haven't and for that I owe him." Justin concludes. Adrianne just sits back in the passenger seat and looks out the window. She knows there is nothing she can say to make this situation any better but she also thinks that once Sonny is home with his family he will not be around that boy for long.
Sami looks at her watch. "What time is the plane suppose to land Lucas?" Sami asked. "The same time I told you 5 minutes ago, 10:15 that's pm not am " Lucas say for the fifth time since they left the house. "Don't be a wise ass Lucas" Sami retorts. Lucas glances over at Sami. "Why are you so nervous Sami?" Lucas asked. "Because Lucas, I don't know what to expect, will he be angry at me or us for sending him away, angry that he has to come home, is he still going to be the unruly child he was when he was last home, and the list goes on, I haven't spoken to him in almost a month." she states. "Whose fault is that Sami?, you got mad at him for changing his plans, and I still don't get why that made you so mad." Lucas states. "Well for beginners he never did explain why, and why was he in France anyway, and why wouldn't Carrie or Austin tell us, something just doesn't make sense." Sami says. "Well I thought you said that Carrie said that he ran into a friend and went to France to spend some time with this friend?" Lucas queries. "Who would Will know in France, and how did he meet this person from France if he was living with Carrie and Austin?" Sami ask skeptically. "You don't suppose he met a girl over there do you?" Sami asks almost excitedly. "No, I don't think he met a girl." Lucas responds. Sami looks over at Lucas. "Why do you sound so sure Lucas, what aren't you telling me?" she asks. "Nothing, I just don't think he met a girl and went to France with her." Lucas says nervously. "Oh my God Lucas, what if he got her pregnant?" Sami says like it is a fact and she is shocked. "Sami listen to yourself, will ya, you have him running off to France with some girl and has her knocked up, Will isn't us Sami." Lucas says unintentionally insulting. "That was uncalled for Lucas." Sami says feeling hurt. "You're right I didn't mean it to come out that way I am sorry." Lucas says apologetically.
Will is nervous and Sonny can tell from the furrowed brow. Sonny puts his hand over Will's. "Don't like landing babe?" Sonny asks him. "Oh no, it's not that." Will replies. "Then why are you so nervous? Sonny asked. Will holds back a bit before he answers, afraid of how his reason will come across to Sonny. Will speaks, "Before we land I need to ask a favor of you, and I am afraid it will hurt or insult you." Will says with a bit of fear in his voice. "Just ask Will, it's okay." Sonny prompts him. Will takes his hand out from under Sonny's and grasp it in his other hand and he tightens his grip on both hands to the point where his knuckles turning white. Sonny looks down and can see that Will is really tense. Sonny puts hand over Will's hands. "Will look at me please." Will turns to look at Sonny. Will sees concern and understanding in his Sonny's eyes. "You want to keep us quiet until you can tell your parents yourself right?" Sonny says hoping to alleviate Will's fears. Will looks at him and feels the tension start to ease. "I am sorry Sonny, Will say as his eyes fill up, I am not ashamed of us and you know I love you and want to be with you, but I want to tell my parents my own way and not just drop it on them, do you know what I mean?" Sonny smiles at him. "Will don't worry about it, I promise I won't ravish you in the terminal in front of your parents before you spring this on them, now I can't say I won't ravish you if we're alone." Sonny says with a laugh trying to put Will at ease. Will just looks into Sonny eyes. "Could you be anymore perfect?" Will says as he leans over and kisses Sonny lightly on the lips. Sonny kisses him back once more. "No I don't think I can, now that I have you with me." Sonny says. Sonny continues. "So for now hands off when we are in front of your parents until you have a chance to tell them yourself?" Sonny questions, but real means it as a statement. Will responds, "Thank you so much for understanding Sonny." Will says with true appreciation of Sonny's willingness.
Justin looks up at the display of arrival and departure times. "It looks like gate 37 and it is on time." Justin says unnecessarily, stated more as an attempt to maybe get some sort of conversation going so that Sonny doesn't pick up on the tension between them. Sami and Lucas are walking into the terminal and Sami spots Justin and Adrianne. "What the hell are they doing here?" Sami asked almost disgustedly. Lucas stops and just looks at her. "Well I am going to guess...either they're here to pick someone up, drop someone off or they're going somewhere, now since they have no luggage, and there doesn't seem to be anyone else with them and they are looking at the arrival times, I going to go out on a limb here and say, ah...picking someone up." "Why do you do that, why must you always make it sound like I said something stupid." Sami says with a bit of contempt in her voice. Lucas bluntly responds, "Because Sami it was a stupid question and you made it sound like they have no right to be here at the airport." Sami let's it slide because she knows he is right. As they walk toward Justin and Adrianne Lucas is suddenly stuck by why Will stayed longer, and in France. He remembers hearing that Sonny was sent to school over there. Then the pieces start to fall into place for him.
"Hey Justin, Adrianne" a voice comes from behind them. Justin turns around and sees Sami and Lucas approaching. "Hello Lucas, Justin says as he extends his hand to him, hello Sami." Lucas asks,"who you picking up?" "Oh Sonny is coming home." Justin offers. "Oh nice." Lucas responds. "And you? Justin asks even though he knows. "Will's coming home too." Lucas informs him. Neither wife acknowledges the presence of the other couple. "It's gate 37" Justin informs Lucas. "Okay, thanks." Lucas says. Sami grabs Lucas's arm and pulls him aside. She whisper into his ear, "how does he know what gate Will is coming in on?" "I don't know, Lucas said, maybe Sonny bumped into Will in the airport and called his parents and told them that he and Will would be on the same flight." Lucas then pulls his arm out of Sami's grip and walks back over to Justin and Adrianne. To break some of the tension Justin speaks up."Well we may as well walk down together, so shall we go? Lucas looks at him trying to convey a need to talk alone for a minute. Justin picks up on it and puts his hand on Adrianne's back and then says into her ear. "Sweetheart why don't you go ahead I need to talk to Lucas about a proposal he wants me to go over, I will be along in a minute." Adrianne starts to move immediately in an attempt to get away from Lucas and Sami as quickly as she can. Lucas looks at Sami, "Sami why don't you go ahead I will catch up, don't worry I will be there before he get's off the plane." Sami gives him a what are you up to look but Lucas ignores it. She finally starts to walk away. When both wives are a sufficient distance from their husbands, where Lucas and Justin can talk freely without being overheard by them, Lucas takes a step toward Justin.
"Justin I just wanted to talk to you about something without all ears listening." Lucas says. "Yeah I picked up on that Lucas, what's up?" Justin asked. Lucas begins, "First, please don't be offended and I want to apologize upfront if I am way off base here, but I don't think I am, but are Will and Sonny together?" Lucas asked with a bit of concern about overstepping. "What do you mean by together Lucas? Justin asks. Lucas not sure how to say this delicately, "Well are Will and Sonny...seeing each other, is that why Will stayed longer and in France and not Switzerland? "Well Lucas if you are asking me if they are boyfriends then I have to tell you yes, they are." Justin says politely. Lucas is caught a bit off guard. Even though that is basically what he was asking he wasn't expecting it come out so plainly. "You sound very sure about that." Lucas asking a question more than making a statement. "Well Lucas I am sure, I have known Sonny was gay since before he left to go to France, and I know that he and Will have been living together in France for the last month." Justin says, but wishes he could pull back that last part, he knows that it was not his place to tell Lucas that. Now that their wives are well out of earshot Justin and Lucas start to walk toward the gate themselves.
"Living together, I didn't know that." Lucas says a bit hurt that Justin knew that and he didn't. Justin tries to correct his error, "Lucas I am sorry I had no right to tell you that, that was something Will should have shared with you when he felt he could or needed too." Justin states with true regret. "No I understand Justin, it is partly my fault, as I am sure you know things weren't the best between Will and Sami and I before he left. I just wish I could have been there for him, but he never said anything, and why would he. He was angry at us, and we barely spoke for the last month he was home." Justin listens and feels sorry for Lucas, he realizes that Lucas might have had a better relationship with his Will if Will had opened up to him. Justin is thankful that Sonny and he have that kind of relationship. "If I may ask Lucas, and please feel free to not answer, but how are you feeling about Will being gay?" Lucas begins. "Well I am not surprised, I suspected there was more to Will and Sonny's relationship than just two boys being friends, and honestly for me, I don't have a problem with it, I am one of those people that believes that being gay is something you are born being and not something created after the fact, but the only thing that matters to me is that he is happy." "I am not going to say it is going to be easy for them at first, but I will stand behind them both." Lucas tells Justin. Justin smiles, "I am sure Will is going to be happy and relieved to know that Lucas." "Well Justin my problem is that he hasn't told me, and I don't want to confront him with it, and that was the wrong word to use, what I meant was how do I broach the subject with him so that he can feel comfortable telling me." Lucas states almost as a question and looking for Justin's advice. "Well Lucas, at this point I think Will is going to be more receptive to discussing it with you now that he is comfortable with it, but I have to ask, how is Sami going to take the news?" Lucas shakes his head as they walk, "I honestly can't say Justin, who the hell knows what she will do, she is all fine and dandy when it is someone else's child but her own, I think denial will probably be her reaction, but that can't go on for long if she wants to hold on to her relationship with Will."
Lucas looks over at Justin, "May I ask, how did Adrienna take it?" "Well that is a loaded question, Justin replies, she is still in the denial stage, and Lucas please know that this is not an opinion shared by me, but she thinks that Will caused Sonny to be gay." Lucas is a bit angry over that but is willing to let is slide for Will and Sonny's sake. "I'm sorry to hear that Justin, I can only hope that she doesn't accuse Will of something and make a tough situation even tougher." Justin looks towards Adrianne who is now seated waiting for the plane to land. "I talked to her about that on the way here, I told her that if she did pull that then she stood a very chance of losing her son over it, but did it sink in, I have no idea, I can only hope so."
"Please remain in your seats until the aircraft has come to a complete stop, and remember to check the overhead compartments before you disembark." The flight attendant announces over the PA.
Mr Simmons taps Will on the arm and ask, "I wonder how our friend did back there? I suspect his ears started bleeding about an hour into the flight." Will and Sonny laugh. He continues, "Well it serves him right, maybe next time he will think twice." Will responds,"I am sure he will, but only about saying something, not about thinking the wrong way." "Unfortunately you are right about that my boy, it is sad that people still hold on to these antiquated notions and are unable to get by them." Mr Simmons say. Sonny leans forward a bit so he can look directly at Mr Simmons, "Well sir we are lucky to have people like you to show them that their perceptions need to be looked at." Sonny says.
The plane hasn't come to a complete stop but people are already standing and pulling their carry-ons out of the compartments above them. Will, Sonny and Mr. Simmons remain in their seats. Mr Simmons turns around and sees that his wife's seat mate is rising to get his carry on. Mr. Simmons rises from his seat, "Excuse boys just want to have a bit of fun here." Sonny and Will turn to see what he is doing. They watch him walking toward the rude passenger. Mr Simmons starts, "I trust you had a lovely talk with my wife," the passenger looks at him with daggers in his eyes, "did she happen to mention our dog Blossom, such a lovely dog, and ever so cute, dear maybe you could show him a picture of Blossom." Will and Sonny both have their hands over their mouths to stifle their laughter. "I saw your Goddamn dog, and know everything about her right down to her shitting patterns." Mrs Simmons clutches her bosom, "Oh dear, such language, well it is a good thing Blossom isn't here to hear you talk like that, good heavens, she would positively faint." Mr Simmons carries on with his torment, "My my sir you seem to be upset, I do hope it wasn't something we said." The rude passenger pulls his carry-on out of the compartment and looks at Mr Simmons, "You can go to hell, the both of you." the rude passenger yells. Mr. Simmons looks him right in the eyes and responds, "Yes well we will shall save you a seat, next to my wife, when we arrive there, she has other scrapbooks she could show you." And with that the rude passenger turns and trips over a carry-on that a passenger had placed in the aisle. "Oh dear, I do hope you hurt yourself, my friend." Mr Simmons offers. Will and Sonny picking up the do hope and not hope you didn't jab, can't contain it and just openly laugh watching the fallen man try to stand up and maintain some sense of dignity. Mr Simmons turns to look at them both and winks.
The passengers start to walk out of the jet tunnel. Justin and Adrianne and Lucas and Sami stand up. Adrianne and Lucas see Will and Sonny coming through followed by an older couple that seem to be talking to both of them. When they clear the tunnel and step out of the way of the traffic Will and Sonny embrace them both. Mr Simmons looks at Sonny, "It was pleasure to meet Sonny and Will you have the information?" "Yes I do sir" Will responds."and thank you very much for the offer, though I do hope it won't come to that." "Yes well it is there should it." Mr Simmons replies. Mrs Simmons offers her pleasantries, "William it was a pleasure seeing you again, Blossom could not stop talking about you when we got home, I'll have to make sure to tell her that we saw you again, she will be so happy, and Sonny it was lovely to meet you," Sonny responds "you as well Mrs Simmons. Mr Simmons wanting to let Sonny and Will go before his wife starts a Blossom story, quickly speaks."Well come along dear we have a car waiting, boys it was a pleasure speaking with you and allowing me to share my story with you." Sonny replies with his own thank you for Mr Simmons's rescue from what could have been a disaster. Then the two couples part.
"Will...Will over here" Sami yells. Will sees her and waves. He looks at Sonny, "Well this is it, the faking it, begins now." Will says. Sonny looks him in the eyes and speaks softly, "Let's hope it doesn't have to go on for too long," Sonny turns his gaze and starts walking toward the crowd of people waiting for a passenger, so it doesn't look like he is talking directly to Will, he says just loud enough for Will and only Will to hear him and trying not to move his lips so that Will's parents won't know, "I love you." Will turns his head to Sonny and using the same technique says, "I love you too." They then part and walk to their respective parents.
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Will and Sonny walk toward their parents. As Sonny approaches Justin and Adrianne, Justin opens his arm beckoning Sonny to give him a hug. Sonny happily obliges. "It's great to have you home Sonny, we've missed you so much." Justin starts. Still holding on Sonny responds, I missed you too dad...and I can't thank you enough for what you did for me...for both of us, it means so much." Justin releasing Sonny doesn't really acknowledge his statement in front of Adrianne, as she is already angry enough. Sonny then with hesitation takes a step over to stand in front of his mother. She opens her arms and Sonny walks into her embrace. She hugs him with a bit less enthusiasm than Justin but Sonny can accept that, he knows what she is feeling right now, but he plans on changing that very soon to save their relationship.
Will walks up to Sami and Lucas, Sami is all smiles, but Will can see concern and worry on her face about what to expect. Hoping to remove some of those feeling he walks to her and gives her a tight hug and a kiss. He can feel the tension in her back but as he holds her for a bit it starts to subside. Sami let's go and looks at him, running her hands up and down his arms as people do just before they tell you how much you have grown or some other silly observation, "We are so glad you're home, we missed you so much, of course you could have been home sooner if you hadn't changed your plans at the last minute." A jab both Will and Lucas catch. Will, willing to let it slide for the most part, responds, "well plans chance." Will then steps over to his dad, Lucas give him a firm hug but Will feels more to it than just a welcome home we missed you feeling, there is something there but Will can't put his finger on it, he doesn't feel it is a bad thing but just something different. Lucas releases him, "It's great to have you home Will, "I've missed you, we've missed you a lot," Lucas corrects himself. Will looks at him to see if he can read from his face what his dad might be saying. Though Will is not quite sure he thinks he sees a bit of sadness or regret in his expression. Will responds, "Well it is great to be home, I've miss Salem." Sami pipes in, "well there are a lot of people anxious to see you, not tonight of course but maybe tomorrow." she says. Will feels a bit nervous that this could mean that he won't get to see Sonny again for a little while and it's making him uncomfortable. Will abruptly walks away from them. Sami stares, what is he doing?" Lucas has a feeling he knows but will let Will's actions explain it.
Approaching the Kiriakis's, Will grabs Sonny's arm and turns him so they're face to face. Adrianne fearful of what might happen in public, reaches out to grab Sonny's arm to pull him away, "Come on Sonny we have to go, we're parked in short term parking and if we stay too long they will double our fare." Will looks at Adrianne thinking, you can try but this is going to happen whether you like it or not. Sonny firmly but politely pulls his arm out of his mother's hand. Will begins, "Sonny I know what I said on the plane, but forget all that," Will puts his hands one on each side of Sonny's head and kisses him for both sets of parents to see. Sonny wraps his arms around Will's back and pulls him in. Will finally let's him go and says. "I will see you tomorrow regardless of what happens on our rides home." Sonny has this huge smile on his face, "count on it babe." he responds. Adrianne looks around to see if anyone noticed that exchange and then grabs Sonny arm and literally yanks Sonny away from Will. Justin takes a step around Sonny and stand in front of Will, Justin looks at Will for a moment and then hugs him, "thank you for what you did for Sonny Will, you got him back to us safely." Will looks at Justin, "what else could I do sir, I love him." Justin smiles and puts hand on Will's shoulder, "well I will talk to you soon..I better catch up with them before Adrianne tears his arm off." Will looks at Justin with just a tear in his eye. "Thank you for understand sir and for believing that Sonny and I are truly in love and not some school boy crush." "Will that never even entered my mine, talk to you soon." he says as he rushes to catch up with Adrianne and Sonny.
Will now knows he has to face his own music, he turns and walks back towards his parents. Sami is the first to react, "what the hell was that Will?" "Will is speechless, he doesn't know how to explain. Lucas noticing Will's distress, intervenes. "What did it look like Sami, he was kissing his boyfriend goodbye...you will probably have him all booked up for the next few days so he won't get much time to spend with Sonny." Will's head is spinning at what he just heard, he opens his mouth but nothing comes out. His only recourse to just hug his dad, and he does. Lucas speaking into Will's ear, "yes I know Will and I'm happy for you, but we still need to talk about this when we get home." Will pulls back and just smiles. Sami's not done yet, "what the hell is going on here, will someone tell me what this is all about." Lucas, rolling his eyes at Will, speaks to get them to move, "come on Sami we will talk about this later, let's go, get a move on." At that Lucas wraps his arm around Will's shoulder, "So how was Switzerland and France?" Will just turns his head to his dad and continues to smile.
Sonny angry at his mother's actions speaks, "Mom what the hell was that? Will and I were talking." She abruptly responds, "we have to get going, we can't be dawdling at the airport." This time Sonny yanks his arm out of his mother's hand almost pulling her back and causing her to slightly lose her balance. Justin arrives at this time. Sonny lays into his mom, "look mom whether you like it or understand it or appreciate it or not, Will and I are boyfriends and that isn't going to change because you don't understand or don't approve, so understand this now, this is who I am, who I have always been and who I will always be, so learn to live with it or learn to live without me." At that Sonny just walks off toward the exit. Justin watched the exchange and didn't even attempt to step in the middle, he knew Sonny had to get that out and he was proud of him for standing up for himself, then taking a step toward Adrianne, Justin just repeats what he has already told her to many times before, "Adrianne I told you this would happen, now you can either get with the program and face reality, or learn to live without your son in your life." With that Justin walks to catch up with Sonny.
Seeing as both Sonny and Will have no luggage both families walk to their car's. Justin and Lucas catch each other's eyes and Lucas shrugs his shoulders with a who knows air. Sami is firing questions at both Lucas and Will. When they reach the car and Sami being oblivious to the fact that neither Will or Lucas has answered any of their questions, continues to talks. Sami get's in the car first, she gets in and closes the door. Will and Lucas are on the other side of the car with their hands on their door handles. Lucas looks at Will, "it is going to be a long ride home I can tell." Will smile, "dad," Lucas looks up at Will, "how long have you known?" "Known?...about 30 minutes, thought it might be true, years, but Will it's not a problem for me, as long as you're happy then I'm happy for you." Will reaches out and grabs his dad and hugs him as hard as he can and cries into into his dad's shoulder. Lucas let's it go on for a few seconds, with Will's arms still around him he says, "Now comes the hard part, but I will be behind you all the way Will."
Sonny is standing just outside the exit when his dad and mom come walking out. Justin spotting him informs Sonny that the car is in lot C so Sonny follows behind them to the car. Justin unlocks the car while he is about 20 cars away. Adrianne picks up her pace to the car and get in. Justin waits for Sonny to catch up, and looks at him, "She'll come around Sonny just give her some time." Sonny responds, "I will dad but if she thinks that I am going to stop seeing Will until she sees the light then she is going to have a problem, because I do love Will and I am not going to stop seeing him for one second just because mom doesn't understand or accept it." Justin just looks ahead at Adrianne sitting alone in the car. "Sonny I have one favor to asks of you." "What's that?" Sonny responds. Let's not discuss this in the car unless your mother brings it up, okay?" Sonny replies, "okay, but dad I am not going to be walking on eggshells around her, this is me."
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Sonny gets into the back seat and Justin gets in the driver's seat. Justin pretends to adjust the mirror but he really just wants to see Sonny's face in the reflection and to let him know he is there for him. Justin starts the car and pulls out of the space. There is silence as they navigate the parking lot, pay their parking fare and pull out. Once they are on the highway home, Justin tries to break the tension.
"So how was Switzerland, did you like it? "Your mother and I went there before you were born but I imagine it has changed a lot." Justin starts. Sonny understanding his dad wants to stay off topic, plays along. "It was cool...the snow covered mountains, we walked across the Chapel Bridge, I saw Lake Lucerne and the Lion Monument but we didn't see much else, we weren't there very long." Adrianne joins in reluctantly, "Oh how is Jeremy, did he like the sights too?" Sonny replies, "I didn't see them with Jeremy I saw them with Will." He realizes he just did what his father asked him not to do. Sonny looks at his dad in the rear view mirror to see his eyes, they are looking at him conveying its okay. Adrianne just skips over that part and continues on. "So how is Jeremy, does he have a girlfriend yet, he is such a nice looking young man." Sonny is going to omit some facts here but still respond, "Ah yeah he is seeing someone." Sonny responds without offering up the sex of the person Jeremy is seeing. "Oh is she someone from school, or a French girl perhaps?" Sonny trying to think of way to say this and make it gender neutral. "No ...no one from our school anyway." Again Justin looks at Sonny in the mirror and gives him a tilt of good job on that one.
Will and Lucas get into the car and Sami is fuming. She has her arms crossed under breast and staring out the side window. Lucas starts the car and pulls out. And like the Kiriakis's nothing is said until they hit the highway. Sami pulls the shoulder strap that is running down her torso, out and then pulls her right arm shoulder out from under it and lets it retract back behind her so she can turn in her seat and look at Will directly as she fires her questions. "Okay Will, what the hell just happen back there, was that some sort of joke you and Sonny were playing on us to shock us or something, because you are mad at us?" Will just looks at her somewhat dumbfounded that that is what she comes up with to explain him kissing his boyfriend, he responds, "It wasn't a joke mom, I wanted to do that because Sonny is my boyfriend and that was the only way I could get you all to see it, so we can have this out and we can talk about it and just get by it." Sami a bit confused looks at Lucas, "have what out...Lucas what is he talking about?" Lucas looking at her with disbelief says, "Sami, it's Will's place to tell you that not mine." "Tell me what?" Sami says as she turns to Will again, "what do you have to tell me?"
Though Will is not ashamed to say it he is having a hard time getting the word out, he understands that once he says it there is no going back, not that he wants to, but his life will change from this moment on. The way people will see him, the way his friends will treat him, even his family will be different around him, he fears, but it is who he is and they have to make the adjustment not him. Will looks his mother in the face with an intensity that practically burns into her, he wants to pick up every subtle change in her face, will her eyes give her away, will her face flush with color, will her lips tighten, will her breathing change, he wants to be able notice it all, to know what is going on with her and where he now stands. "I am gay mom...Sonny and I are boyfriends and have been for a while now." Will spits it out with just a hint of anger that he hopes his mom picks up. He wants to show her he is ready for a fight if it comes to it. Sami turns back in her seat adjusts the seat belt back the way it was and just stare at the road ahead. Lucas looks in his rear view mirror to see Will's face, he can see Will's eyes filling up but he hopes he can stop that, We love you Will, so how was Switzerland, did you learn how to yodel, hey did you bring back any Ricola, my throats been scratchy lately," Lucas then tries to do the Ricola yodel. Lucas looks in the rear view mirror again and can see Will smiling but still wiping a few tears from his eyes. "No offense dad, but you suck at yodeling, and I didn't bring back any Ricola." Will say as his way of thanking his dad for trying.
Justin and Sonny converse the rest of the way home. Adrianne doesn't join in at any point. Both Justin and Sonny are a bit relieved at that because they want to be able to discuss this and not have a shouting match in the car. Sonny wants to be able to look into his mother's eyes when he talks to her and he wants her to look into his so she can see that he is sincere in everything he is saying. He has to make her understand that this is who he is and he is happy.
Like Justin and Sonny, Will and Lucas keep the conversation going. Lucas has a ton of questions about France, the food, the sights he saw, did he go up the Eiffel Tower and so on.
They arrive at home, as Sami gets out of the car without looking at Will she informs him, "I've unpacked your bags and did your laundry and put everything away," she then just walks into the apartment building and rides the elevator up. Will looks at Lucas, "So how long do you think this will go on for, will she be able to handle it?" Lucas looking at the apartment window as the light go on, I don't know Will I really don't but you know your mother she will stew, then think about how this affects her, then...oh who the hell knows after that, but Will," Lucas says as he steps toward him, "I love you and this doesn't change that, I am just sad that you couldn't tell me about this, I am sorry I wasn't there for you." Will reaches out and hugs his dad, "It's okay dad..I didn't really know myself, all I knew was that I missed Sonny and I was angry that he was taken away from me and I acted up." "There really wasn't anything you could have done to make that better, and I couldn't tell you because I didn't understand the feelings myself." Will releases his dad. Lucas looks at Will, Okay then, I will let you go, but I want to talk to you sometime tomorrow so we can discuss this okay, and no it is not going to be are you sure kind of thing I just want to discuss this okay?" Will smiles, "I got ya, I appreciate your concern and yes we can meet tomorrow, but not to early because I am exhausted." Will says with a laugh. "Okay then I will call you tomorrow afternoon." Lucas says. "Great dad, thanks, I love you, Will says. "I love you too son." Lucas responds.
Lucas gets in the car and drives off. Will looks up at the apartment but he can't go in yet.
Justin, Adrianne and Sonny arrive home. Adrianne like Sami just exits the car and goes into the mansion. Justin looks at Sonny, "We will talk about this tomorrow, it will be okay Sonny I promise." "Thanks dad, " Sonny says as he hugs his dad. They release and Justin starts to walk towards the house, "Are you coming?" Justin asked. "Not just yet, " Sonny replies. Justin look at Sonny and smiles, "Okay well tell Will I said hi and welcome home." He then turns and walks into the house.
Just as Sonny turns right at the end of the driveway he sees someone running up the road, he smiles and jogs towards the person. "God I missed you on the ride home." Will says. "Not half as much as I missed you." Sonny replies. They embrace and then kiss.
Chapter 50: Chapter 50
Will is laying in bed. He has been awake for about a half and hour and he hears his mom stomping around in the kitchen. She was in bed by the time he got back from seeing Sonny last night. He was actually glad she wasn't awake because he doesn't want to deal with this alone. He is laying there now waiting for his dad to show up so they can be a united team. He thinks on that and realizes that he is 17 now he should be standing up for himself. This is only the beginning of what he is going to be facing and it may be the hardest to deal with. So he decides he will he will take the bull by the horns and just do it. He throws the covers off and climbs out of bed. Standing there beside the bed he is debating this rash decision, but before he fully analyzes it's pros and cons he steps to the door and opens it. He tentatively steps into the hall and and makes the 3 or 4 steps to the kitchen where he has been hearing his mother fussing about for the past thirty minutes.
"Morning, any coffee made?" Will asks as his form of ice breaker. Sami not returning the morning salutation, simply replies. "I just brewed a pot it's over there." Will makes his way to the pot, he opens the cupboard and takes down a cup and then grabs the pot and pours himself a cup. Will takes a few sips before he jumps in with both feet. "So are we going to talk about this or are you just going to ignore it and hope it goes away?" Will asks. Sami continues with her busy work tidying up the living room, without responding to Will's question. Will is leaning against the counter with one arm crossed in front of him and his other arm's elbow resting on the crossed arm with the coffee cup just inches from his mouth. He asks again. "So I guess we are going to ignore the gay son in the kitchen?"
This one cause Sami to physically react by dropping the pillow she is fluffing. "Ah..so you are listening to me." Will says when the pillow drops. "That's a start." "So you're listening, Will says as he eyes follow his mother around the apartment, "but you aren't going to respond so I have the freedom to talk completely uninterrupted, well this could work, you can take it all in and then formulate your response accordingly." "So let's see where do I begin, well I know I have said it, indirectly ..but it is always good to be completely clear, so there is no misunderstanding." "I am gay, I Will Horton am a gay man, there it's out there, the words are floating freely now, so you now know who I am." "Now where do I go from here..?" Sami jumps in..."You think this is funny, you find humor in this?" she say loudly. "Actually no I don't think this is funny, I think it is a fact that you can't wrap your mind around." "So tell me mom what is your feeling on this issue?" "Come on tell me" Will says a bit more forcefully than it might have wanted to. Sami doesn't respond. "This ticks Will off so he starts to poke at her with his words.
"So tell me, does it disgust you, does it change how you feel toward me now, are you ashamed you have a gay son, are you worried about how your friends and our family are going to look at us now?" Will continues, "oh poor Sami she has a gay son ...don't we feel sorry for her." "Oh...no wait...maybe...just maybe, you think I am just confused, is that it mom you think I am confused." Sami snaps around to look at Will. "Yes I don't think you know who you are, and I think you are doing this to get back at your father and I for sending you away." She says angrily. Will actually laughs at that last part. "Angry?, angry because you sent me away, hell I am grateful, so grateful I can even begin to tell you how grateful." "If you hadn't sent me away I never would have found Sonny again, angry, no mom...you actually provided me with the chance to be happy for the first time." Will proclaims.
Will looks at his mom and can see her thinking about this. Sami looks at him, "So we caused you to be gay, by sending you away, is that what you are saying?" Will puts his coffee cup down and rubs his face with his hands. He takes his hands away and places the butts of his palms on the counter behind him and curls his finger around the edge, while he stares at his mom before he responds to her observation. "Did you just hear the words that came out of your mouth, did you actually hear them?" "Oh my God, Will says as he looks down at the floor, I can't believe that you think that would be reason for someone to be gay." Will pushes himself away from the counter. "Mom this may come as a complete shock to you...brace yourself...this is going to cause you head to spin, you can't make someone gay...that bears repeating...you can't make someone gay, now the really shocker, I was born this way." "Yup...I was born being gay." Will says. Sami looks at him, "Was it something I did or didn't do, was I to strict or not strict enough, was it because you did have a father around all the time..." Will just stands there with his mouth open in disbelief, "Oh my God I can believe this, I honestly can't believe this" Will says as he turns and walks away, "I am taking a shower, maybe when dad gets here he can reach you..because I certainly can't." Will walks to his room grabs his clothes and heads to the shower, as he is walking across the hall he looks at his mother, "You know what mom, you need to join the rest of the world in this century." He then enters the bathroom and closes the door.
Chapter 51: Chapter 51
Sonny is laying in bed wishing Will was with him. He is also wondering how Will made out with his mother. Then the reality of his day sinks in and his mood darkens. He feels determined but also angry that he even has to go through this, that he has to explain to his mother that he is gay. He can't fathom why his mother would think that he's lying about something like that. His dad had no resistance to the news it all. But his mother was going to put up a fight and he was afraid it was going to be a nasty one. He had made one decision though, if she spoke ill of Will, then he was out of there. He was going to lead off his conversation with that, so that the ground rules would be established right from the start. He get's out of bed to shower and get dressed to get this over with as quickly as possible. He is hoping to see Will later this morning.
"Adrianne listen to me, you had better choose your words very, and I mean very carefully." "Sonny is not a child and he is not acting up he is just being who he is." "So if you want to have a civil conversation with him this morning you better look at it that way." Justin tells her. Adrianne doesn't even respond to Justin's comment. She has her own agenda and she is sticking to it.
Sonny comes walking down the stairs with a tight stomach and little interest in eating right now. He enters the dining room and takes the seat directly across from his mother. He say good morning to his father and mother. "So how was sleeping in your old bed again?" Justin asked to start the ball rolling on a positive note. Sonny responds, " I didn't realized how much I missed it until I laid down on it." "I felt at home again, once I was stretch out and relaxing." Sonny continues, "Oh I spoke to Jeremy last night, he sends his best to both of you." Sonny says. "Oh that was nice of him" Justin says. Sonny tells them, "he is actually coming to visit on their next break, I told him we had plenty of room here so he could stay with us while he is here." "That would be great I would love to see him again." Justin says. A silence falls over the room. Adrianne is barely nibbling at her food. All she has said since Sonny sat down was the good morning response to his good morning. So Sonny decides this is going nowhere really fast so he dives right in.
Looking at his dad he start. "Okay here it is, let's get it out on the table, talk about it and be done with it." Sonny says authoritatively. "But before we do I have one thing to say." "Mom if you say one negative thing about Will during this conversation I will get up from this table and leave." "That is not a threat that is a promise." "And if you think you can subtly slip some comment in about Will, under the guise that you didn't mean it, I will still leave, so be careful what you say." Adrianne bites back. "I will not take orders from my son about what I can or can not say so you better watch your tongue young man." Sonny gives it right back. "Fine that is a two way street mom, I am not a child so do not treat me like one." Sonny says with anger in his voice. Justin can see this escalating so he jumps in, "Okay, okay let's go to our neutral corners here guys, let's calm down, and be civil and polite to one another." Sonny looks at his dad, "Well dad I am not the person who has a problem with this." Sonny says and just stops.
Then Sonny begins in earnest, "mom I am gay, I was born gay, I will die gay, and there is nothing you can say or do to change that, I am happy with myself and with Will." Adrianne halts her motion to take a drink when Will's name is mentioned in that context. Sonny catches it and goes from there. "Yes mom that is right I am with Will, I love Will and I have for quite a while now, probably from the day we meet, of course I didn't know what it was back then but I do now." "I can't see myself being with anyone else, ever." "We have shared a lot over the years we were friends, and I will add one thing and it is not meant to hurt you because I know you thought you were doing what was right for me, but I have lived a miserable life for the past two years because you took me away from Will." "Once we found each other again I was finally happy for the first time in 2 years, and I mean truly happy." " So I will continue to see Will whenever I can, I am not going to stop seeing him because you don't like or believe that I am gay." "Now I have stated my case, please tell me what you are thinking."
Adrianne is holding her glass up in front of her, she looks at it and not at Sonny. And as if she is getting ready to launch her first salvo, she puts her glass down with great deliberateness. She raise her eyes up to look Sonny in the eyes. "First Sonny, I believe you think what you are saying is true, however I don't think you really know who you really are yet, you are still finding yourself." "You are 17 years old, you are being rebellious trying new things." Sonny let's that go because he is going to let her go on without interruption like she did with him, but he is writing in a mental notebook of all the things he is going to address with her when she is done. Adrianne continues,"I think this is a phase, and before too long you will discover that what you feel right now is not the real you, and while I can't force you to see that now, I would hope you could consider that before you both end up hurting each other needlessly." "Now here is what I propose, if you really are what you say you are then let's try something." "I would like you to go a month without seeing Will, or having any contact with him." "If after that month you still feel the way you do then I will accept it." "I think that is a reasonable request and one you could honor to prove your point." "Once you have done that I will accept any decision you arrive at." Adrianne then picks her glass back up and takes a sip. Sonny takes that to mean that she has stated her case and it is time for his rebuttal.
"Okay, where to begin, there is so much to address with that theory" Sonny says. "First, yes I am 17 years old you do have that part right," Justin interjects, "Sonny mind the sarcasm." "You're right that was uncalled for, and I am sorry." "Okay let me start again." Sonny says. First, what I am, which is gay by the way but you seem to have a problem saying that word so I will say it for you, is not something that I think I am, just at this moment, it is a fact, and is how I really feel, this is not being rebellious, this is not a phase, and what I feel right now, is not going to change." "Even taking Will completely out of the equation, I am still gay." "So I suggest to you that perhaps your issue with this isn't completely that I am gay it is that I love Will." Adrianne doesn't allow that to go without being addressed, "Oh please Sonny you don't even know what love is, you are 17, you haven't even had a chance to experience true love." Sonny looks at his dad with a look of complete disbelief. He then puts his head down rest his forearms on the table and clasp his hands together so tightly that they they are shaking. He is holding back the urge to scream out at her. He counts to 10 but then needs to count to 10 again. Finally at a place where he thinks he can speak calmly he continues.
Sonny now addresses her proposal. "Okay so the proof you need to be sure I am gay and that I love Will is to stop seeing him, your theory is what? out of sight out of mind." "Okay then...let's me just say with all the sarcasm I am muster, that theory has more holes in it than swiss cheese, and here is why." "I was separated from Will for 2 years, count them 2 years, and you know what, I still loved him, I still wanted to see him, I still needed him." "So your month apart suggestion, request or order is ludicrious." "Been there done that, don't need the tee shirt." "SONNY, Justin yells. "Apologize to you mother." he demands. "No I am sorry, I won't ...if any apologies need to be said they need to come from her to me." "She has insulted me accused me of lying, and has proven that she is ashamed to have a gay son," "So any apologies won't be coming from me." "Now if you'll excuse me, I am going to go see Will." "Just a minute Sonny," Adrianne says very calmly. "You have a choice here, you can do what I ask or I can have you placed in a private school two towns over, where you will have to live on campus." Sonny is shocked and pissed at the same time. "Adrianne, you never discussed that with me" Justin says. "Those are the condition take them or leave them, it is up to you Sonny." she says. "Dad?" Justin stands, "Adrianne we are not finished talking about this, Sonny let's you and I have a talk." Justin walks around the table to Sonny, as he passes Adrianne he says out loud, you are truly unbelievable Adrianne treating your own son like he is some sort of pawn that you can manipulate, it is disgusting" Justin says. Adrianne truly thinking she is right, attempts to speak, "I am just, Justin interrupts her, "Stop talking Adrianne just stop talking, you have done enough damage as it is, come on Sonny let's go to my office." Justin puts his hand on Sonny's shoulder to lead him away but Sonny jerks his shoulder out of dad grasp and turns to his mother. "Is it your mission to continue to make my life a living hell mom?" Adrianne truly struck by that remark turns to Sonny but he turns his back and walks away with his father.
Chapter 52: Chapter 52
Shortly after Will starts his shower Sami hears a knock on the door. She walks over to answer it, knowing full well it is going to be Lucas. She just turns the knob opens the door without even looking, and then just turns back and heads towards the kitchen. "So I am guessing things aren't going well here?" Lucas states more than asks. "No Lucas they're not, and you're no help at all." Sami says as she pours herself a cup of coffee. "And how do you figure I have created this situation?" Lucas ask matter of factly as he closes the door and he walks in. "Because you knew Lucas, you knew and you never told me, no I have to learn about it in the middle of O'Hare Airport." Sami says with sarcasm and anger. Lucas walk over and grabs a cup from the closet and pours himself a cup of coffee. Once he has cup in hand he turns to Sami to hear how this situation has become his fault. He starts it off with his version, "First I didn't know, I found out maybe 30 minutes before you did, so I wasn't holding anything back from you, or hiding anything so lets put that synaptic misfire to rest now, and frankly Sami whether you knew or didn't know, or when you found out is completely irrelevant to this." Lucas says. "Oh really Lucas how is that?" Lucas responds, "Well Sami whether you knew about it a year ago or just 5 minutes ago it is not going to change the fact that our son is gay, and that he is going to need our support for a while." "He is going to be dealing with a lot, and he needs to know that we have his back." "Thanks Dad." Will says.
Neither Sami nor Lucas noticed that the shower had turned off. Lucas speaks first, "Hey I didn't see you there, how did you sleep," bet you were tired after the long flight and the time change and all." "Yeah I was tired but I slept pretty good, it was the waking up that was a bitch." Will says. "WILL that was disrespectful," Sami says. "What do you mean mom?" Will asks with faked confusion. "Okay, enough of that," Lucas says. "but Will your mom is right that was completely uncalled for so apologize to her." Will looks at his dad and can see he is not going to let that go by. "I am sorry I said that mom, but our conversation earlier was just as rude and disrespectful to me as well." Lucas interrupts,"Guys come on, this is not going to be productive if you are just going spar here, we need to sit down and talk this over, Will go finished getting dressed and come back, we are going to talk this out and no one leaves until we have said all that needs to be said." Will continues on his course to the bedroom.
Lucas walks over to Sami, Speaking softly so Will doesn't hear him, tells her, "Listen to me here, I don't know what you said to him this morning, but whatever it was keep it to yourself, because you are just going to make things more tense than they are." "Lucas I have legitimate concerns that I have a right to bring up," Sami says. "Fine then raise them, but think before you say something you can't take back." Lucas tells her "We have to be..." Will interrupts, "Okay let's do this, I'd like to go see Sonny." Will says as he walks out of his bedroom. Sami turns and walks into the kitchen area Lucas takes a seat at the counter and Will sits at the table. Lucas becomes director, "Will why don't you start and then we will discuss it." Will looks at his dad,"God I feel like a child who has to explain why he push that other boy down in the playground." "Here is the whole story in a nutshell, I am gay, I think I knew I was gay when I was around 8 or 9 but I didn't know what it was, all I knew was that I was attracted to Sonny, or maybe just guys in general, but Sonny in particular." "This is not a phase, or confusion or my attempt to lash out at the two of you, it is just who I am." "I am gay and I am in love with Sonny." "I trust that I don't have to explain why I feel this way or how I feel when I am with Sonny as some sort evidence to prove what I am saying it true." Lucas raises his hand to stop Will from proceeding.
"Okay, my turn, Lucas says. "I had a feeling about this since you were young Will, I sort of new that there was something between you and Sonny that wasn't just two buddies." "You two had a closeness that was beyond him being your friend." "When you came to me all upset about not being able to see him, I knew there was something to it, but I will be honest Will, and this is not why we sent you away, but I thought that maybe if you didn't see him for a while then the feelings will fade and that maybe it was just an infatuation." "But at the airport last night things quickly started to click for me, and pieces fell into place," "I talked to Justin and he told me about Sonny and about how you two had been living together in Paris for the past month, and that confirmed my thoughts." Sami almost incensed by this revelation speaks. "What, you were living with Sonny in Paris, and Carrie and Austin knew about this and let you do it?" Lucas tries to stop her. "Sami, it is over it is a non issue right now, " Will jumps in, "Yes mom Aunt Carrie and Uncle Austin knew about it, but they understood, we had a long talk about my feelings and they understood something neither of you did, they understood that the reason I was behaving the way I was before you sent me off, was because Sonny was taken away from me, and even then I knew that I loved him, and that was more than I could take, so I acted out." "But neither of you saw that, you never made the connections." "So don't go calling Aunt Carrie and blaming her for anything, she did nothing but support me."
Lucas after hearing Will out continues. "Okay Will, maybe we didn't see that, that was what was bothering you, but you never told us any of this." "How could I" Will responds, "look at how mom is acting now...can you imagine what she would have said back then, she probably would have sent me to one of those gay conversion camps." Lucas sits back because he can't really fault Will's logic, he knows Will is probably right he knows that neither he nor Sami would have taken it well and would have thought that Will was confused and needed counseling. "Well I can't deny your thoughts on that, but I can say this to you now, I love you and you being gay has no bearing on that, all that I want is for you to be happy, and if that means being with Sonny then I am fine, and happy for you." "Thanks dad", Will says as he stands and hugs Lucas.
Lucas turns in his stool and looks at Sami. "Okay Sami, now it's your turn, what do you have to say." Sami just stands there looking anywhere but at either one of them. She then walks to the couch grabs her jacket off the back and starts to walk out, Lucas jumps up and reaches her before she can get to the door, he grabs her arm, "Sami, what the hell do you think you're doing?" "We are here to talk about this as a family, nothing will be accomplished by just leaving and not dealing with this." "Why should I stay, it is apparent that you two are just going to gang up on me." Lucas somewhat stunned says, "Gang up on you, who is ganging up on you, we are just talking about this and what we are feeling, we aren't ganging up on you." Lucas says. "Yes you are, anything I have to say will make me the bad guy." Sami proclaims. "Sami there is no bad guy here, there is concern, maybe some confusion, some misunderstanding, but no one is pointing a finger at you as a bad guy." Sami looks at him and pulls her arm away and walks out the door.
"Well that went well, Will says. "I am sorry about that Will, she is just, I don't know, just not able to see it yet but she will come around she just needs some time." Lucas explains as a cover for Sami. "But that doesn't' mean you and I don't have things to talk about, and to me they are important." Will looks at his dad as Lucas sits down next to him at the table. "Let's start with what you are going to be dealing with and how you need to be careful...
Chapter 53: Chapter 53
Sonny and Justin enter Justin's office. Both head to towards the couch and each assumes the couch position they always do. Justin one side tilted toward Sonny and Sonny on the other side tilted towards Justin. Sonny starts right off. "Okay dad please let me talk first and then you can explain things to me okay?" "Okay you have the floor." Justin says. "Thanks" Sonny says. "Okay my part of this is going to be mostly question and you have never lied to me so I am asking that that remain the case when I ask you these questions." "I will do my best." Justin responds. "Okay, first does mom really believe that someone can turn a person gay?" Justin, to gives himself time to come up with a logical answer, picks an imaginary piece of lint off his pant leg. "Okay to be completely honest, yes I think in some small way she might think that outside forces could make a straight person gay." Justin states. Sonny replies, "but you know that isn't true, right?" "Of course I know that." Justin responds as a given. "Second, is she scared that I am gay?, and what I mean by that is, is she afraid what others might think?" Sonny asks. "Again I will have to say yes in a small degree she is, while she would never put anyone else down if she found out they had a child that was gay but, I do think in her own way she has a , there but for the grace of God go I, but Sonny that doesn't mean she doesn't love you she still loves you like she always has." Justin adds. Sonny is confused by that answer.
"Okay dad I have to play stupid here, she is partly embarrassed by me being gay but she loves me just the same, I am not getting that concept." Sonny says for clarification. Justin looks at a Sonny for a moment and sees that he doesn't get it. "Son, here I am going to have to say I don't understand it myself." "I know she loves you and she does what she does because she thinks it is best for you." Justin says. "Hold on dad, if what she is doing to me is making me miserable, and I am not talking, like making me clean my room or eat my vegetables, some silly things that that no one likes to do, but doing things that truly and deeply hurts me, like trying to keep me from Will, how can that be interpreted as loving me?" "Well Sonny in her mind she doesn't think that it true, she thinks you are confused and are trying to find yourself, and she thinks in her own, somewhat warped, way that Will is preventing you from becoming what she saw you as being." Sonny is quiet for a moment while he tries to think of how to respond to that. "Okay, so she has this mold of me in her mind and because I am not fitting into the mold that she created, I have to be wrong, broken or damaged and I have to be deprived of being happy, all because I am not what she had planned for me?" Sonny says ending with a bit of anger.
Sonny shakes his head, "okay dad just a few more things and then you tell me what you want to tell me." "Does she hate Will that much that she thinks this is some sort of plan by him to ruin me or this family?" "Well that is a much longer conversation Sonny, let's just say your mom doesn't like the Horton's on principle alone and since Will is a Horton, in her mind that dislike transfers on to him as well." Justin explains. "Well dad, that's her problem and perception, I'm my own person and I will be the judge of the people I associate with or fall in love with and not her." Sonny says with some defiance. Sonny continues, "The last thing, does she really mean to care out this ultimatum, because if she thinks I am going to give up Will for a month to prove an unnecessary point to her, well I will find some other place to live, because that is not going to happen." "Okay I spoke my peace, thanks, now you can tell me what you think."Sonny says.
Justin begins, "first your mother and I are not on the same page regarding this issue." "She still has some, shall we say antiquated views on being gay, mostly from lack of contact with them." "I on the other hand, I deal with issues regarding things involving in the gay community, though I strongly dislike that term, community, it seems to imply that there are just a few people in this group, when in fact it is global, okay sorry got off my train of thought there for minute." "Your mom is going to need time to come to grips with the facts, how long that will take, I have no idea, but I have spoken to a few of my clients and they explained about this organization called PFLAG." "It seem to help people in this situation by bringing them in contact with others in the same position." "So I have located a local office here and I have made plans, though I haven't told your mother yet, to attend a meeting and see how it goes." "Maybe it will help your mother understand." Sonny responds, I have heard of them from some of the kids back at school, their parents had attended, the majority said their parent did learn a lot from it but there are always those parents that will fight any change so they didn't even put the effort in to try, Jeremy is a case in point." Sonny says.
Justin then continues to address one of Sonny's biggest concerns. "Now regarding this deal your mother wants to strike with you, put it out of your head, you will not be going to any private school anywhere anymore, I lost you for two years and that about drove me crazy, so this little plan she created behind my back, is not going to fly this time." "I let her do this once, she is not getting a second chance." "So no do not worry about that." Sonny looks at his dad, "but what if she puts her foot down?" Sonny asks. "Sonny she can put her foot down anywhere she wants but I am not wavering on this one." "It is a done deal for me, you stay here with us, none of this towns away crap." Sonny leans over and gives his dad a firm long hug, "Thank you so much dad, you have always been behind me, and I know it isn't easy for you either, but you never turned away from me." Sonny says.
They release and Justin looks into Sonny eyes. "Listen to me Sonny, I am proud of you no matter what, gay straight whatever, your my son and I love you with all my heart, but, and I want you to seriously hear me on this son, it is not going to be easy out there for you and Will but if you have any trouble you come to me or Lucas, do you hear me?" "I am not joking about this, this is one of my biggest concerns." "I know there have been changes recently but not enough and not fast enough so you watch yourself." Sonny smiles at his dad. "I know what you are saying dad and we will deal with it, we do love each other and we will have each others backs." "And I will have your backs." Justin adds. Sonny explains that he wants to see Will so he tells his dad that he is going to go find him. Justin and Sonny hug one more time and Sonny leaves.
Will has had his talk with his dad, and is relieved that his dad is not phased by him being gay. He is shocked by his dad's reaction, but in a great way. His mother on the other hand, he is unsure of. He explained to his dad that she is going to have to accept it because this is who he is. Lucas, and Will's talk was basically the same as with Justin and Sonny. Lucas was concerned for his son's safety, not only sexually but personally. He explained that there are going to be some tough times ahead and that if he ever needs help he is to come to him or Justin. Will like Sonny hugged his dad and thanked him for his support and love. He then told his dad he needed to get some air, and he will deal with his mother later, and headed out.
Will has been walking around trying to stay in the shadows. He is not really in the mood for the welcome back, how was your trip conversations at the moment. He managed to get through Horton Square undetected. He then knew where he could go and feel comfortable and at peace.
Sonny is walking across Horton Square when he hears. "OH MY GOD, Sonny, when did you get back in town? Sonny looks up to see Abby walking towards him. He too like Will is not up for the this conversation.
"Oh, hey Abby, I got in last night, he says as they hug. "So how was Paris, did you love it, was it as beautiful as it seems?" Sonny looking around for Will say, "Ah, yeah it was great, have you seen Will at all?" "Oh you haven't heard, oh of course not you were in Paris, Will went to live with his aunt and uncle in Switzerland" Abby tells him. "Yes I know Abby, we met in Switzerland, I am really sorry and I promise I will tell you all about Paris another time but right now I need to find Will." He says. "But Sonny I just told you he is in Switzerland" Abby repeats. "Sonny replies anxiously, "no he isn't he flew home with me last night and I need to find him." "Well I am sorry but I haven't seen him and didn't know he was back" Abby says somewhat confused. "Okay well thanks anyway, I will find him, it was great seeing you and I promise I will tell you everything about Paris another time but I have to go" Sonny says as he dashes off. He thinks he knows where Will is and he needs to see him now.
"Hey you, remember me, I was the boy you kissed on that very spot a few years back, that was the spot where I fell in love with you." Sonny says as he walks to the warehouse. Will has a huge smile on his face and jumps off the ledge of the warehouse platform." He runs over to Sonny and throw his arms around his neck and kisses him like he hasn't seen him in years, and Sonny gives back the same intensity. They finally give each other up and just look into each other's eyes. "I knew I would find you here," Sonny says. "this is our spot, the very spot where Will Horton and Sonny Kiriakis fell in love, even if we didn't know it at the time." Will looking at Sonny head to toe as if he can't believe he is home and he is with his boyfriend. "Can you believe this is still here, I thought it would have have been torn down a long time ago. Will says as he looks around at it. "I use to come here after you left and sit up there and just relive that first kiss and the time we spent in each other arms until we were found, Will's eyes start to fill up. He turns back to Sonny, "I thought I would never see you again Sonny." Sonny using his thumbs wipes off the tears rolling down Will's cheeks. "Well you never have to worry about that again," "We're home and we're together and that is the way it's going to stay." Will looks at him smiles and says. "Come with me, I have a plan." Will takes Sonny's hand and leads him away.
"Are you sure about this, won't we get caught," Sonny whispers. "No we're safe, I actually talk to me dad about this place this morning." "So I know it is empty, and there is the key just where it always is." Will unlocks the door and peeks in the hall first, he doesn't see anyone so he puts the key back in it's place and he and Sonny hurry in. They get to the second door, "Voila." Will says. "Key number two just where it has been all these years." He unlocks the door and pulls Sonny inside, Will quietly closes the door as Sonny looks around. The room is filled with natural light and it's cozy and nice. Will walks up behind him, and puts his hands and arms around Sonny's waist. He then kisses Sonny on the nape of the neck. Sonny tilts his head and it drops back against Will's shoulder.
Will puts his hands on the front of Sonny's jacket and takes it off, and lets it fall to the floor. Then still from behind he starts to unbutton Sonny's shirt. Sonny slips a hand behind his back and can feel Will getting harder as he starts to rub his palm over the growing hardness. Sonny shirt is quickly discarded to the floor. Will has his hands running up and down Sonny's stomach and chest, paying particular attention to Sonny's nipple's as he remembers how much he likes to have them played with. All the while kissing and licking Sonny's neck. Will then works the belt open, the button comes undone, and Sonny hears his zipper slide down. It is Will's turn to feel Sonny's erection, over his boxer briefs. Sonny quickly turns around and returns the favor of undressing Will in record time. They are both now in just their underwear kissing and groping one another. Will starts to guide Sonny to the bed against the wall, leaning in Will whispers into Sonny's ear, we have to be quiet, no moaning or growling, there are pub customer's downstairs" He says. Sonny whisper back, "I can't promise anything once you're inside me lover boy." Will laughs and pushes Sonny down onto the bed. As a form a foreplay they very teasingly remove their respective boxer and boxer briefs. Now naked they begin to grind their hips against each other, kissing with almost a fury. Sonny's says softly, "Not having you in bed with me last night was killing, I just wanted to reach over and touch you and play with you, make love to you." Will laughs a bit, "I second that emotion, I was actually afraid to masturbate for fear of moaning and waking my mom." Sonny let's out a little laugh. "Sonny I know we would both like to spend more time just enjoying each other's body,and make it last for hours but i need to be inside you like now, I missed you so much." Sonny grabs Will's head and pulls his face closer to his, thank God you said that because my body is scream for you right now. Will smiles looking into Sonny's deep brown eyes. He pushes himself up and slips between Sonny's legs. Now kneeling between Sonny's open legs Will begins orally moisten Sonny up for his entrance. Then when Sonny is wet enough Will starts to insert a finger inside. "Will I don't need to be loosened up, please just fuck me. Will spit on his hand and lubes up his erection. He then lifts Sonny legs up to his shoulders and then manipulates his cock to Sonny puckering hole. "Now Will, please do it now." Will pops the head in and Sonny let's out a soft moan, Will continues his course until he can feel his balls touching Sonny's ass. "Do it Will now hard and fast, I don't know how long I can hold back. Will starts his rhythm and the beat increase each second Sonny's leg wrap around Will's back and he presses the heel of his feet against Will's ass. Hey both manage to control themselves for about 10 minutes but it becomes to much for Sonny. "Will I have to let go," as he says go his head arched back and he bites his lip to keep from yelling out. Will sees the stream of white pulsating out of Sonny's cock onto his stomach and chest. Once the wave of physical pleasure subsides for Sonny Will suddenly moves Sonny legs so he can reach Sonny's face and he kisses him as he makes his last few thrust to climax. Will's lips sucking on Sonny's lower lip to keep himself from letting a moan of pure pleasure be released.
Once Will's remaining body shutters have stopped he slowly slides himself out of Sonny and rolls over beside him. "Sonny reaches down to the floor to grab his boxer brief. "You're getting dressed already? "No I just want to wipe off the cum so it doesn't roll onto the bed." Will looks at him, "I got this one" and Will begins to lick Sonny clean. Once every drop has been licked off, Will looks into Sonny's eyes. "There all clean." Will tells him. Sonny looks at Will, "open your mouth, I want to taste it too." Sonny says.
Once they have been spent and are just enjoying the sated feeling, Sonny says, "Guess it is time for our stories, so let's get this out of the way now...how was your mom? Sonny asked. They lay there and talk about it all.
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Will and Sonny finished talking about the trials and tribulation of motherdom. Will told Sonny that he is afraid of the ultimatum that Sonny's mom has forced on him. Sonny assured Will that his dad would not let that happen. But Will's thinks about the first time they were separated, and how Justin knew how Will and Sonny felt yet he still allowed Adrianne to take Sonny away from him. So despite Justin's claims Will is not completely at ease with it as Sonny is, but he doesn't tell Sonny. They spent about 2 hours in the vacant loft repeating their original action only this time with more control and more tenderness.
Feeling they have overstayed their welcome and are now just pushing their luck, they get dressed and sneak out, only to reenter the pub as customers this time. They walk in and take a table in the corner. Both looking at this as a sort of test run for what it is going to be like for them once everything come out into the open. "You know what really sucks, about this," Will says, "here we lived together for a month in Paris, went out could be openly affection, hold hands and just be boyfriends." "Now I feel like we have to crawl back into the closet and start all over or just stay there and keep this a secret." "Will I am not going back and while I will do what you want I don't want to keep this a secret." Sonny says.
Sonny looks at Will from across the table. "Do you want to keep this a secret, do you want to have to sneak around?" Sonny asks. Will looks down because he is ashamed of what he is thinking, but he responds with what he think Sonny wants him to. "No I don't want to sneak around and keep our being together a secret." "Hello I am Audrey and I will be your server today, can I start you off with something to drink? the waitress asks. Sonny is focusing on Will's response, and how it sounded like there wasn't much conviction behind it. Then realizing the waitress is standing there Sonny finally acknowledges her. "Oh I am sorry, drinks right, I'll have a water with a twist of lemon, Will what will you have, Will still not raising his head and wrapping his napkin around his hand so tight it is cutting off the circulation to his finger, "I'll have a ginger ale, please." Will replies. "Oh" Sonny says, we are just going to have appetizers, so could we have an order of mozzarella sticks and potato skins please." "Coming right up, I will be right back with your drinks, she says as she leaves.
"Will look at me, what's going on, look at me please" Sonny says with just a hint of anger. Will slowly lifts his head to look at Sonny. "Will do you want to keep this a secret?" "Holy crap, looks who's here, when did you guys get back in town?" Both Will and Sonny turn to look at who it is only to discover it is T. Will starts to feel sick and Sonny notices it. Sonny looking at T but also at Will from the corner of his eye says, "We landed last night." Sonny tells him. "We?" "You flew home together, I thought you were in France and Will here was in Switzerland?" "It's a long story but we did fly home together." T starts being the T Sonny remembers. "So you dudes going to be like you were in school, always hanging out together and forgetting your other friends?" Sonny notices Will's shoulders drop at T's assumption. Will's mind suddenly goes back to his mother, and her telling him that he doesn't know what he wants, and that he isn't sure how he feels, that this is just some rebellious thing to get back at her and his dad, and he starts to get's angry. Before he even knows what he is saying Will starts to talk.
"You know what T, you're right we may go back to just hanging out with each other, you know why T, because Sonny is my boyfriend, and I want to be around him as much as possible, so yeah maybe we won't hang out with you guys too much, because you have made it clear on numerous occasions how you feel about gay people." "So there T there is my answer, and if you have a problem with it then take it someplace else because I don't want to hear it." With that Will reaches over and puts his hand on top of Sonny, who's jaw has dropped. T just puts his hands up in surrender, "Whatever dude", and turns and walks out.
Sonny's final comes back from this wild scene he just watched, "Where the hell did that come from?" "Here are your drinks and your food will be right out." Audrey says. "Thank you" Will replies, and Audrey walks away. Will leans forward and using is index finger to tap on the table top to clarify is points "It came from everyone else telling my how I feel and what I want and who I should love, and I am fed up, so no we are not keeping this God damn secret, you're my boyfriend, I love you and fuck everyone else." Sonny just looks at him and smiles. "Wipe that smile off your face and give me a kiss." "Yes sir" Sonny says as he leans across the table and give Will a kiss on the lips. Once seated again Sonny says to Will, "Just how long do you think it will take for this to make it's way around town?" "With T, about 15 minutes." I will go so far as to say that before we leave here at least one of our old friends is going to come in here to find us." Sonny laughs, "Well we may as well get it done fast so we can do our thing and be ourselves in front of everyone." Sonny says. "Okay, and here are your mozzarella sticks and potato skins, and is there anything else I can get you? Audrey asks. Will looking into Sonny's eyes but addressing Audrey. "Yeah could you put up a sign in front of our table that reads, Yeah we're a gay couple get over it, signed Will and Sonny." Audrey stands there for a second, "I'm sorry but my brother is using that sign right now but I'll see what I can do about getting him to bring it back to us." "Enjoy your food guys." Will smiles a genuine smile since they left the loft.
"Hey guys I heard you were back in town" Chad says as he grabs a chair from the next table and sits down. "Hey you mind if I steal a cheese stick, I am starved." Chad asked. "Oh and yes I know and I have one question, what the hell took you so long, you two were into each other since elementary school?" Sonny and Will both laugh.
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"Well that took less time than I thought" Will said. Chad looks at him confused at first then the lightbulb goes on. "Oh T, please he texted everyone and their cousin as soon as he found out, he's a douche." "I mean I like the guy and all but sometimes he has his head up his ass." Chad says. Sonny looks at Chad with appreciation, "So you're okay with this? Sonny say as he waves his hand between Will and himself. "Dude it's not my thing...but if it is someone elses, that's cool...as long as both people are happy, and judging from the smiles on both your faces, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you are both happy." Will and Sonny laugh out loud. Will looks at Chad, "More than happy trust me." Will says. "Well then all is right with the world." Chad says. Sonny looks down at his appetizers, "Well all seems to be right with your stomach...you couldn't leave one cheese stick for us?" Chad looks down at that empty plate, "Oh sorry dudes, I was starving, and now that I have eaten your food..I am going to drop you two like a hot potato, so I am outta here, Chad says as he stands and puts his chair back at it's original table. Returning back to Will and Sonny's table once the chair has been returned Chad looks at them. "But seriously guys I am really happy that you guys found each other again, and with that I am heading out, later dudes." "Bye Chad and thanks" Will says.
"Will looks at Sonny, "Well maybe this won't be so bad after all" he says. Sonny looks at him bringing his hand up with his index and middle finger crossed. "Fingers cross." Sonny says. They both smile.
Justin and Adrianne are walking across the square slowly, going in no particular direction. Justin is telling her that she is not forcing Sonny to give up Will for month to prove to her how he feels about him. Adrianne, while she wants to protest, is actually feeling bad about her decision. She missed Sonny these last two years and Justin has told her how Sonny feels, and how she was hurting him. As they are conversing Adrianne overhears a conversation behind her. "Yeah, can you believe it, Horton and Kiriakis, two fags, that is just gross." Their parents must be wiggin out." T says. "How did you find out?" the girl asked T. "I just saw them in Brady's Pub and Horton told me flat out that they were boyfriends and they even held hands" T tells her. "Man that is just disgusting, what pervs." he says.
Adrianne turns from Justin walks away, and heads in the direction of the voices. Justin, calls to her but she doesn't hear him. When she reaches T and the girl Adrianne steps right in front of T. "Who the hell are you calling my son that vile name? What gives you the right to judge him?" "Look at you," Adrianne says as she looks T up and down, T now feeling embarrassed lowers his head and looks at the ground, "I'll tell you what is disgusting is people like you who have determined that a person who is not like them is a bad person." Justin has come over but does not try to intervene. The girl T was talking to attempts to back away from this scene but Adrianne catches her in the corner of her eye. "Where the hell are you going?" "You're no better than he is." "In fact you might even be worse because you stood here listening to him spew his bigotry and did nothing." "So by your actions I can only assume you feel the same way this neanderthal does." The girl tries to speak. "Save it young lady, I don't want to hear anything you have to say." "Let me tell you both something, yes my son is gay, but you know what else my son is, he is a kind, caring person who has an open mind and doesn't judge people based on how they were born." "I can only imagine how proud your parents must be to have children like you two." "You two are the real blight on society, if only we could find a cure for people like you, the world we be a lot better off, and my son and Will wouldn't have to put up with people like you two."
"So let me give you both a bit of advice, wake up and take a look around, there are a lot of people out here who aren't like you, but they are good people, and because you can't wrap your mind around them because of your bigotry, you're going to miss out on a lot things in life, things that's you sorely need." Adrianne wants to say more but notices that a crowd has gathered to listen to her tirade, in that crowd are Will and Sonny. While they didn't hear the whole thing they heard enough. Sonny takes Will's hand and they smile at each other. Adrianne continues, "Just get out of my sight, you're both just proof that some people just missed the train to the 21th century, and I can only hope that you hop on the next one really soon." Both T and the girl scurry away as quickly as they can. Adrianne watches them run off. Suddenly Adrianne hears applauses in the group of onlookers. While not everyone in the gathering is applauding, the loudest applause come from Sonny and Will as they walk over to her.
"Okay, so who are you, and what have you done with my mother?" Sonny asks, as he embraces her firmly. When they release Adrianne looks at Will who has a tear rolling down his cheek and then back at Sonny. "Sweetheart I am so sorry for what I have done to you, to both of you, I never meant to hurt you, but I know I have." "I can only ask for your forgiveness." Adrianne says. "Of course I forgive you mom, I am just glad you can accept me for who I am now." "I know this is not what you expected or wanted for me but mom I am truly happy" Sonny says as he reaches over and takes Will's hand, "I feel I can now be me and not what others think I should be." Justin looks at Sonny and Will, then his eyes stop on Adrianne. "Well this is not how I wanted to talk to you about it Adrianne, but Sonny knows about it, I have located a place where they hold PFLAG meetings." "I thought we could attend one and see what it is about and maybe get a better understanding on how we can support Sonny and Will." "It might help us to talk to people who have gone through this." Adrianne looks at Justin and Sonny and Will. Then responds, "It sounds like a good idea." "But there is one more thing I need to address here, and that is you Will."
Adrianne steps over to Will. "Will I am sorry for how I have interpreted your relationship with Sonny and how I blamed you for this whole thing." "I think I was just looking for a scapegoat and you seem to be the easiest target, and for that I am really sorry."she says. "Mrs Kiriakis first let me say this, and I know it may not be easy to hear or to even understand right now, but I need you to know that I love your son, with my whole heart, it has taken us a long time to get here and to even understand our feelings for each other, but I am telling you without a doubt that while you may perceived us as being too young to understand what love is, I can tell you that there is no one more important in my life than Sonny." "And regarding your perception of me being the cause of your son being this way, I know this not what parents expect for their children, but I do know you did the things you did because you were looking out for Sonny, and no one can fault you for that." "So please don't worry about what has happen in the past, Sonny and I are together now, so all we want to think about is our future, because I do see a future with Sonny, and I am looking forward to that future." Sonny looks at Will and smiles. Adrianne gives Will a three quarter hearted hug." She has accepted the fact that they are gay and a couple but she is not one hundred percent sure Will is the one for Sonny. But she is reserving judgement.
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"Okay, no offense Sonny, but I did not see that, coming from your mom." Will said to Sonny after they left Sonny's parents in the square. " Yeah well I second that surprise, I don't know what caused the complete 180, but I am sure glad it happen, now we just have to work on your mom." "Well, now that is a zebra with different strips." Will responds. "I think I am going to need my dad's help with that." Will tells Sonny. "But we have jumped one hurdle, just a few more to go."
Will and Sonny take a walk through the park holding hands. They get the obligatory stares from people. Sonny can sense Will is getting a little nervous so he releases Will's hand and pretends he has to scratch the back of his neck. When he completes the fake task he doesn't take Will's hand again. Sonny realizes that he himself has had over two years to come to grips with his sexuality, Will on the other hand is still relatively new to it. While alone Will has no problem being himself, in this new environment of his hometown, where everyone knows him as the old Will, he is nervous to be himself for now, though not intentionally, he is shying away a bit.
Sonny looks over at Will, "Hey you want to grab a seat over there?" Sonny asks, giving Will a chance to get out of the view of the other foot traffic. "Ah, sure" Will says, as he follows Sonny to the park bench near the fountain. "So you doing okay Will?, you seem a little tense." Sonny asks. "I'm sorry Sonny really I am ...it is just that right now I kinda feel exposed, especially since T has apparently spread the word already." Will says. "I get it Will I do, we will take it slowly, just relax" Sonny says. "Well look who we have here boys, our new resident homo or should I say homos." says the voice from behind Will and Sonny.
Will recognizes the voice as Benny, one of the guys he was hanging with before he was shipped off. Will then feels the back of his head being pushed. "So Willamina I hear your a cocksucker now," Benny says as he comes around to stand in front of Will and Sonny, with two of his friends, who Will also recognizes. "Fuck off buddy" Sonny says looking right at Benny. "Oh so this must be the guy slipping you the sausage, am I right?" Benny asks. "Whataya want Benny?" Will asks. "Well, me and the guys here were wondering if maybe you could give us each a hummer, since..." Benny doesn't get to finish his sentence before Sonny and Will stand to deck him, but Sonny makes it first with a right. Benny hits the ground hard. Sonny then steps over him so that Benny is between his legs, he then reaches down and grabs the front of Benny's shirt and pulls him up and Sonny throws another punch that lands squarely on Benny's jaw. The two remaining friends turn to grab Sonny but Will grabs the first one by the front of his jacket with both hands and with all the strength he has he whips the guy around straight into the body of the other one, sending them both to the ground. Will turns his attention back to Sonny and throws his arms around Sonny from behind. Will yells. "That's enough Sonny, stop it, let him go." Will manages to pull Sonny off of Benny who is bloody faced laying on the ground writhing in pain. The two other guys untangle themselves from each other and climb to their feet. Both guys just stand there looking at Benny whose lips are already starting to swell.
"You want some too, you bastards" Sonny yells as he makes a move for them that is blocked by Will. Will turns his head to look at the other two. "Guys, go grab Benny and get the hell out of here." Sonny pushing against Will to get to them, yells, "You guys ever come around me or Will again, and this will look like a little scuffle." "You hear me you homophobic assholes." The two guys get Benny to his feet. Will looks at him, "Benny if Sonny hadn't gotten to you first I would have done worse, so remember that the next time you try to fuck with me." Benny's friends start to help him walk away. Will puts his hand on Benny's chest. "Benny I know how you operate and I can bet you are already thinking about how to get back at us, well let me share something with you." "My grandfather is the Police Commissioner, and I am going to share this little incident with him." "And make it clear to him that if either of us so much as get a stubbed toe you will be the one responsible." "And if memory serves you already have a kinda long record, and this being a hate crime and all, you can expect some major time in JUVIE, so these are just a few things to consider, now get this asshole outta here you guys." Will says.
Will turns his attention back to Sonny. "You alright babe, are you hurt, let me look at that hand." Will says he pulls Sonny hand up to look at it. Sonny still panting a bit not from exertion but from sheer anger. "I'm fine Will, it's nothing." Sonny claims. "No it's not nothing, you could have broken your hand." "Come on we are going to the ER to have it x rayed." Will says. "It's fine Will honest" Sonny protest. "That's the adrenaline talking come on, and I am not taking no for an answer." Will says as he leads Sonny away.
Two hours later they are leaving the ER. "See I told you it wasn't broken." Sonny said as he holds the ice pack on his hand. "Yeah well you are lucky, this time." Will says. As they walk out of the hospital and just as they are about to step off the curb a police car pulls up and stops right in front of them. Two police officers step out. One immediately walks to Sonny. "Sonny Kiriakis you are under arrest for assault...
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The officers handcuff's Sonny. "Sonny don't say anything to them I will call your dad right now and have him meet us at the police station," Will says, I will call my grandpa too" Will adds. Will just finishes the sentence when Sonny is placed in the back seat of the police card. Then driven off.
"Hello law office of Justin Kiriakis" the secretary says. "Hello this is Will Horton, I need to speak to Mr Kiriakis it's an emergency."Will say hurriedly. "I am afraid Mr Kiriakis is in a meeting with a client right now" she says. "Ms this is an emergency about his son he will want to be told right away, please interrupt him." Will pleads. "One moment please." she says. Will waits for about 15 seconds. "Will, what's wrong, it Sonny hurt?' Justin asked with fright in his voice. "No sir Sonny is not physically hurt he has been arrested and he is on his way to the police station." Will conveys. "Arrested? arrested for what?" Justin says somewhat shocked. "Well the arresting officer said it was assault." Will said. "Sir I know you have million questions but Sonny needs you right now." "I told him not to say anything to them until you got there, I am going to call my grandpa right now to let him know." "I am on my way now Will, thank you for calling." Justin hangs up. He opens his office door, "cancel all my appointments for today, and maybe tomorrow, I will let you know later today." Justin then goes back to his desk puts his papers back in his briefcase closes it and is out the door before his secretary can ask a single question.
"Hello Brady here." "Grandpa it is Will." "Hey Will I heard you were back, how are you doing?" Grandpa I don't really have time for that right now, I need a huge favor from you, right now." "Sonny Kiriakis is being brought in, I need to you to protect him, I told him not to talk to anyone until his dad shows up, so could you make sure he doesn't say anything to anyone until his dad gets there." "What's this all about Will?" "I really don't have time to explain right now, I am on my way there now, so can you do this for me. please grandpa please this important to me?" "Okay Will I will have him brought to me as soon as he arrives, but I want to know the full story from you when you get here." Roman says. "Grandpa I will tell you everything, I have to go bye." Will says. Will has made these calls before he's even left the front of the hospital. Now that he has contacted the people he needs too he heads towards his car. As he is running to get to it it occurs to him that the process begins, his truth is going to come out in a big way. He realizes it doesn't matter now, all that matters is that Sonny is alright, he can't think of anything else, and the fact that this is all his fault.
Justin arrives at the station. He tells the office behind the caged window that he here to see his client Sonny Kiriakis. The office looks it up and tells Justin, "Okay here he is, he is in booking right now, you can see..."That's okay officer," Roman interrupts, "I will take Mr Kiriakis with me" Roman says. "Justin follow me." Roman says. Justin walks through the door and walks with Roman. "Roman what is going on, all Will told me was that Sonny was arrested for assault, so that is all I know right now." "Can you fill me in on this?" Justin asks. As they enter Romans office. Roman closes the door and walks around his desk and takes a seat. "Please sit down Justin, I am having Sonny brought to me after booking." "Now as for what happen, here is what I have been told." "According to the complainant Sonny attacked him with no provocation, and broke his jaw and nose and bruised up his face quite a bit." Roman says. "Roman, my son would"..Roman interrupts Justin by putting his hand up. "Justin I am not buying this for a second, this guy who is accusing Sonny has a rap sheet as long your arm and mine together." "So I guarantee there is a lot more to this story than he is claiming." As I said"...but Roman doesn't get to finished his comment.
"Dad" Sonny says as he is led into Roman's office. Justin stands and goes to embrace Sonny and notices he has handcuffs on. Justin looks at Roman, "officer please take the cuffs of Mr Kiriakis" Roman tells the officer. "But sir" the officer tries to protest..."Just take them off I will take full responsibility." The officer reluctantly takes off the cuffs and then just stands there. "You can leave Officer Mitchum, I will take over the prisoner now." Roman says. Justin cringes at the word prisoner. Sonny now free of the restraints hugs his dad. "Sonny what happen, how did this happen." Justin asked. "It is my fault" comes the voice at the door. Sonny turns around to see Will standing there with tears in his eyes. "I am the reason this happen," Will says. Sonny steps to him and put his arms around Will and they hold each other. Roman is watching and is not getting what is going on. "Okay will one of you tell me what it going on here?" Roman asked of Will and Sonny. Sonny and Will release each other but not completely before Will gives Sonny a quick kiss.
Now Roman is thrown off balance. "Will everyone sit down so we can sort this out, Will grab a chair from the hall and bring it in." Romans says. Will steps out and grabs the first chair he sees comes back and puts it next to Sonny and sits down with everyone else.
"Okay, now one of you tell me what is going on, we will start with you Will." Roman instructs. Sonny puts his hand on Will's hand, knowing Will is going to have to come clean with his grandfather. "Okay grandpa I am going lay it all out here, everything, I ask that you just listen and hold back from any questions until I have finished, this is going to be hard enough without stopping every few seconds to answer a question."
"Here goes." Will says as Sonny squeezes his hand. "Sonny and I are boyfriends, I'm gay, and today we were walking in the park and sat down on a bench near the fountain." "As we were sitting there we heard a voice behind us." I recognized the voice immediately as that of Benny Lester." He was making some homophobic comment and then I felt him push my head from behind." "I was willing to let it go but then he came around in front of us with two other guys, and continued their trash talk." "Well Benny crossed a line and both Sonny and I stood up to take him down but Sonny got there first, and well the rest I will gather you got from his complaint." Will says. "Okay Will, thank you for that...and I know that couldn't not have been easy for you, but I have to asked what he did say to you that pushed you both over the edge?" Roman asked.
"No, he doesn't have to answer that" Sonny says rather loudly. "Dad tell him he doesn't have to answer that." Sonny pleads. "It's okay Sonny, thanks for trying to protect me but I am going to have to deal with this stuff soon or later...Sonny interrupts him..."This Benny guy told me to orally service him and his friends, and I got so angry that I punched him." Sonny claimed. "Sonny no"..Will interrupts..."this is my doing, I love you for it, but don't try to protect me, Will says looking into Sonny sad eyes, then turning back to Roman, Will continues, "grandpa he told me to give him and his friends a blow job." Will says. "Well Sonny and I both got pissed and went for him but Sonny, as I said, got to him first, or it could just as well be me that these charges are being filed against." They all notice Roman getting red and his hand rolls into a fist. Will is now getting nervous about what his grandpa might do. "Grandpa, I am sorry about this, but it has been handled and unfortunately not in a smart way by either of us, but I don't want you going after him." "I am fine with it ...my only concern now is about Sonny, so please help us in getting things straighten out with Sonny."
Roman sees Will is trying to pull him back from doing anything rash. Roman takes his eyes off of Will and looks at Justin. "Well Justin what can we do?" "Well I think Will may have given us an out of this whole thing and provided you with a potential hate crime that could cause this Benny guy to back down unless he wants to do time for his actions." They all look at Justin. Roman finally asks him what he has in mind. Justin looking at Will asks him a question, "Will you said you heard his voice behind you and that he was making homophobic remarks, right?" "Yes that right sir." Will confirms. "And then you said he pushed your head from behind correct?" "Yes sir, it wasn't anything major just a shove sort of." Will answers. "That doesn't matter Will, he touched you while at the same time making his remarks...Roman interrupts Justin, "so the assault was originally committed by Benny" Roman says. "Yes" Justin says. "Now with that being the case any person could assume that they were being threatened, Benny pushes Will, who's to say that he wasn't planning more of an assault, then add to that what he said to Will and Will could have felt that his life was in danger so they acted in self defense, and we could turn the table and file charges of a hate crime against Benny for his assault against Will."
"But Mr Kiriakis, it was hardly anything, like I said it just was a shove." Will says. "Will many of fights have started with just a shove, and you can't say with any degree of certainty that he wouldn't have done something worse to you both, you are sitting on a bench they are standing in front of you potentially blocking you from leaving, and you did what you had to do to protect yourself." "But"...Will starts to say. "He's right Will" Roman points out before Will can state his case." "You have no idea what he had planned and since he was verbally attacking you it is a short step to physically attacking you." Roman says.
Justin looks at Roman, "Roman is there any way we can stop this process from progressing any further maybe get this wiped away?" Justin asked. "Well Justin we would have to get this Benny guy to drop his charges, and that is something you would have to talk to his lawyer about." Roman says. "Who is his lawyer, I will call him right now." Justin says. Roman provides Justin with the lawyers information and then Justin excuses himself.
"Okay while you dad is handling this Sonny I just want to talk to you both." "Will I know what you told me had to be hard, and you were probably scared at my reaction to this news." "Well I am going to be completely blunt with you, it shocked me, I had no idea no a clue, but with that being said you are my grandson, gay, straight or anything in between I am absolutely fine with that, but I have one thing to say to you Sonny." "What's that sir, Sonny says. "You take care of Will but try not to do it with violence the next time." Roman says. Will and Sonny give him a nervous smile. Will gets up from his chair and walks behind Roman's desk. Roman stands and Will give him a hug and Roman returns it. They separate and Roman looks at Will, "So I guess your parents both know?" Will walking back to his seat says, "yes they know, dad is okay with it but mom is having a hard time with it." Will says. "Really your mom is not taking it well?" "No she has sort of adopted a don't talk about it then it won't be true sort of deal. "I'll have a talk with her Will if that is okay with you?" Roman says. "That would be great grandpa." Will says.
The three of them sit there waiting for Justin to return. Roman asked Will about Switzerland and his trip and Will and Sonny tell him about France and Switzerland sans any of the sexual activities which anyone would assume happened if they have a brain in there head.
And hour pasts by and finally Justin comes back. As soon as the door opens all three of them turn to look at his face to get a gauge of where they are and how things went. "Okay," Justin says as he walks over to take his seat. "I talk to his lawyer who at first balked at any deal because of our name, they were looking for some major payout from us." "I then gave him the true story, and told him about the contact to your head Will, something his client neglected to tell him." "I informed him that we would be filing paper for a hate crime, and he got scared, because he immediately told me he had to speak to his client, and that he would call me back." "So I lit a little fire under his ass and told him that I was already starting the paperwork so he better hurry." Well fifteen minutes later he calls back and suddenly his client remembers the shove, and that was all his lawyer needed to hear, so he told his client what could happen if he continues with the charges and this Benny guys folded and he and his family are withdrawing the charges." Both Will and Sonny let out a sigh of relief.
"But there is one caveat, we will cover his medical bills." Justin says. "I agreed to it because Sonny what you did was wrong, they were just words, hurtful word but just words, and it bothers me to have to say this but there are going to be more words like they thrown at you until people open up their minds." "But Sonny and you too Will, you can't use violence to counter their words, you aren't doing either of you any good by taking that stances." So going forward when you encounter things of this nature, walk away if you can or if they seem reasonable and you can talk to them, which is asking a lot from people with that mindset, then talk to them." "Am I making myself clear here boys." Both Will and Sonny verbally acknowledge Justin's statement.
"Now Roman, their lawyer is filing papers to withdraw their charges as we speak, can I ask you to have this issue be removed from any permanent file on Sonny?" "Well Justin since we are so understaffed they have even gotten a chance to put them into the system yet so I can stop that from happening, and once we get the order to drop the charges it will go away permanently." Will and Sonny stand up and embrace. Justin reaches over and shakes Roman's hand, "Thank you for this Roman we really appreciate it." Sonny turns to his dad and Will turns to Roman and they all exchanges thanks and express their appreciation for everything they did for both of them. Once all the pleasantries are dealt with Roman speaks up. "Will, Sonny, you got lucky this time, you may not be so lucky the next time, though hopefully there won't be one, but I want to say this to both of you, if you are having problems come to me or your dads, don't take matters into your own hands." "We don't need a replay of this from either of you." "Am I clear?" Will and Sonny acknowledge their understanding. Roman looks at Justin, I am going to go check on the paperwork and then let you guys go, I will be back, it might take a few minutes." Roman says as he leaves his office.
Chapter 58: Chapter 58
Will and Sonny leave the police station. Justin remains behind to clear up some paperwork. As they are walking down the few steps of the station Adrianne can be seen walking toward the station very quickly. She spots Sonny and Will coming out and yells out to Sonny. Sonny looks up to see her coming and then looks at Will, "Here it comes, let me handle this Will, she will make more out of it then it is and then who knows what will happen." "Sonny I just heard you were arrested, what happen, how did this happen?" "Mom, first calm down, everything is fine now, no charges are being filed, I won't have a record." Adrianne jumps on that last part. "Oh my God a record, good lord, how did this happen...what were you charged with?" Sonny looks at Will and then at his mom, "I was charged with assault"..."What!" Adrianne interrupts, "assault, who is claiming you assaulted?" "Just some guys who were harassing Will and me, but it's all settled, nothing is going to happen, they dropped the charges." "Was this one of those, what do they call them, gay bashing things?" Adrianne asks. "Yes mom but you are missing the point here...it is all over with, it is settled and I am fine." "So you can calm down and not worry, dad is inside just signing the papers to make this all go away." Sonny says.
"Who were these boys, they were boys right, not some adults?" Adrianne asks. "Just some guys mom, it doesn't matter." "Well it matters to me, why did they single you out?" Will can see she is not going to let up until she hears it all so he starts to answer her. "Mrs Kiriakis," Sonny grabs Will's arm signalling him to stop, Will puts his hand over Sonny's but continues on. "The guys who did this were people I use to hangout with before I was sent off to Switzerland, they had heard through the grapevine that I was back and that I was gay." "They came across Sonny and me in the park and started to harass me." "They went a bit too far and that is when a fight broke out." Will says. Adrianne not wanting to hear anymore grabs Sonny arm and pulls him away, "Come on Sonny we are going home, we will talk about it there" she says giving Will dagger with her eyes. Sonny yanks his arm away from his mother. "There is nothing to talk about, I made a mistake it has been repaired case closed." Adrianne not giving up grabs Sonny's arm again. Will intervenes this time. "Sonny you better just go, it will be better for everyone, I will talk to you later." That comment draws a looks from Adrianne and Will notices. He knows that she is going to work on Sonny to get him to not have any contact with him going forward. And he also knows there is nothing he can say to make this better. Sonny looks at Will, "Will she is overreacting and being rude" Sonny says. "Sonny it's okay...her assumption are partly right, this would not have happen were it not for me, so go with your mom and we will sort this out later." Will insist. Sonny know's Will is right his mom is not going to let this go so he decides that he may as well go and sort this out with her alone. Will looks at Adrianne and then at Sonny. "I'll talk to you later Sonny, I am sorry about all of this" he says as he walks towards his car.
Sonny looks at his mom, "You were beyond rude to Will, your looks your reactions, all uncalled for." Sonny says just as Justin comes up behind them. "Where is Will?" Justin asked. "Mom here just pretty much sent him away." "Why?" Justin asked. "I'll tell you why, Adrianne says, "I was right about him he is a bad influence on our son." "They are only home a few days and Sonny is arrested over the Horton boy." Sonny looks at her, "I am not going home with you mom, Dad could you drop me off at Will's place, please." "Sonny you are coming with me and we are going to talk about this" Adrianne says. "We have nothing to say, you pretty much accused Will of something that was not his fault, I was the one who threw the first punch." Sonny says. "Yes because Will's friends were harassing Will." "You should have let Will fight his own battles it was not your fight." Adrianne says. Sonny looks at his dad, "Can you believe this, listen to her," then turning to his mother, "you just don't get it do you...I love Will, and if someone harms Will they harm me, so yes it was my fight." Sonny doesn't even wait for his dad to agree to drive him to Will's he just step off the last step and walks off. "Sonny where are you going?" Justin asked. "I'll walk to Will's" he says and just continues on.
"Well done Adrianne, just went I thought you took a giant step forward you make a bigger leap backwards." "When are you going to see what Will and Sonny mean to each other." "Do you think this is just some crush, something that will fade and they will move on to someone new, well it's not going to happen, and whatever you may feel about the Horton's, Will is not his mother or his father, he is Will, and you better grasp that because Will and Sonny in my opinion are here to stay." With that Justin walks away.
Will is sitting in his car not wanting to go inside because he has dealt with enough crap for today. And dealing with his mother was not going to go well. So he is trying to center himself before he ventures into the pool of denial that is the apartment. After about 20 minutes he decides it is time to do it and get it over with. As he opens the door he sees Sonny walking toward the apartment. Will yells over to him and Sonny stops and looks at him. Will approaches him. "Are you okay babe, have I a caused more problems again?" Will asked. Sonny skips answering and gets right to the point. "Do you know if the Simmons are still in their apartment here?" Will looks at him, "Well funny you should asks, Mr Simmons called my last night to see how things were going and then told me he and the Mrs were heading home today, in fact I am pretty sure they have left already." Will say. "Then let's go, now" Sonny says as he walks to Will's car. Will confused and not sure what to say just falls in behind him and they both get in the car. "Do you want to tell what's going on Sonny?" Will asks. "Can we not talk for a while Will, and just drive." Sonny responds. "Sure" Will says and drives off.