p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Moving on from the past, closing in on the future - Chapter 3/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"After Sami finishes speaking with Sharon, she decides to call Lucas, thinking that when she spoke to him, whether she would tell him about finding Will, it will all depend on his attitude, as well as seeing how deeply involved he is with Adrienne at the moment./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"If he is still with her, with how she treated Will, and is no doubt still disparaging Will, there is no way she will let him know, and have that toxicity around Will while he is recovering once he comes out of his coma./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"After the phone seems to ring forever, he finally answers her call, but when she goes to tell him that she has something to share, and she needs to tell him something extremely important./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"He cuts her off before she can begin and asks her if he can call her back later, as he has to pick Adrienne up to run some last minute errands for the wedding tomorrow. After hearing this, Sami starts to flare up because she feels that yet once again, Lucas is putting that woman ahead of his children, especially Will; so she begins to hang up on him./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"However, she calms herself down, and says to him, "Lucas, it's really important, you need to hear this, so please make sure you call me later when you get home; this really can't wait any longer than that."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Lucas is in a hurry, and he's not really paying attention to what Sami is saying, because he is running late, and he doesn't want to upset Adrienne right now, as she is stressed over the wedding tomorrow. So he absently agrees that he will call her in a few hours when he gets back after finishing the errands, and hangs up./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Once he is out the door, he just forgets all about it; because he figures that it has to be about some small thing with Allie, and everyone knows how dramatic Sami is about everything, no matter how small the issue./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"After this, Sami sits back, and thinks that it is inconceivable that Lucas is actually helping Adrienne plan the wedding of his late son's husband's second wedding. Especially his wedding to Paul, the man who helped wreck Will's marriage./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"It seems like Lucas seems to have forgotten that Sonny had been Will's husband, and just how much he had hurt Will before he had been attacked and they believed that he was dead./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"After Sami finishes up both of her calls, she and Osala are sat in the same office waiting to hear back from Kaltona about Will's hair testing results; from what they had told it could take a few hours. Though, since she has to wait to hear from Lucas, she doesn't mind the late night, she knew that she won't be able to sleep anyway, at least not right away./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Lucas is hurrying to pick Adrienne, after all, he can't leave his love waiting for him. Never realizing that his actions today, or rather his lack of action, could ruin the chance for him to have his son back in his life again./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"After several hours of making sure everything for the next day is as perfect as they can make it, and the rehearsal dinner, Lucas is finally finished; by the time when he goes home, he has forgotten all about his promise to call Sami; he grabs a snack, and decides to go to bed then, because he has to be up so early the next morning./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"He is going to be helping Adrienne make sure everything is perfect for Sonny's wedding the next day. It's important because not only is it their wedding, it's also because his niece Abby is remarrying her ex-husband, so of course, everything has to run smoothly since it's all family./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Back at the hospital, Kaltona comes back to Osala's office with the results, and she tells them, "The test shows that at some point about three years ago, that at least once if not twice, Will had a sedative type drug in his system, one that is extremely potent."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Kaltona also says, "In my professional opinion, it would have knocked Will out cold, especially if he didn't take any kind of drugs normally, that he would have been out for hours, and not know what had happened during the time he was incapacitated by the drug."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"As soon as Kaltona says this to Sami and Osala, Sami then calls Sharon back, and tells her what they had just found out. Sharon, and the rest of the group, who had stayed at the precinct waiting, are shocked and disgusted that Will had to go through that happening to him./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Wes is even more sure that Paul is the one responsible for what happened since he was the one who had told Will they had sex, and he also said the same thing to Sonny. It was thanks to what he had said that morning, and was what led to Sonny and Will eventually separating before Will was attacked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Wes says, "It seems too much of a coincidence, don't you think?" Everyone in LA agrees with Wes, and so do Sami, Osala and Kaltona. Sami is shocked and saddened but also infuriated at what her stepbrother had done to Will's life./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She is sure that Wes is right, and she believes that Paul drugged Will, to make him think he cheated on Sonny, and used that to get Will out of Sonny's life; it took him a while, but it worked out like he wanted, didn't it. She looks at them, and says "Well, he got what he wanted, since he's just about to marry Sonny now, it's only a couple of days away."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sami bursts into tears at the thought of all the pain that Will went through before he was hurt and taken, then to have gone through whatever he did while he was missing, what could she ever do to help him get over all that?/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She says to Sharon and the rest of them, "How do I tell him how it was after he was gone, that it was just like they forgot all about him; and in his case, it really was out of sight, out of mind. Oh, they all cried at his funeral, but once that was over, it's like they erased him from their memories and hearts./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"I don't know if I can even stand to let them know that I have found him, because if the way they treated him that last year was any indication, and how much they all love Paul and Sonny together; I don't even know if they will care, they will only probably worry that he will try to separate the perfect couple."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sharon convinces Sami to at least tell Lucas, she says to her, "That when he calls you back later tonight, surely he will be ecstatic that his son is alive, that once they can hopefully bring Will out of his coma, so that he will have him back in his life again. Surely there will not be anything more important to him, than getting news about one of his children."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sami does say that she had told him earlier that it was extremely important that he call her back tonight, because he didn't have time then to speak to her, because he was too busy, you know, with his helping Adrienne with the upcoming wedding, but when he calls her, she will let him know what has happened, that their Will is alive, and she has DNA proof./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"However, she doesn't hear back from him at all that night or anytime during the next day. It's because from the moment he gets up in the morning, he is busy all day with all the last minute details before the wedding and during the reception./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Once again, he forgets that he was supposed to have called Sami back, it has to be for something to do with their daughter Allie, though he guesses it must be not that important./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"He gets caught up with Adrienne's excitement over the wedding of seeing her baby marry his one true love as she puts it, and even hearing her say that, he doesn't say anything, just letting her act like his son Will never existed./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"If Lucas was honest with himself, he knows that she wished he didn't, that he had never been part of Sonny's life; he lets her get away with her comments against Will, since he doesn't want to upset her, especially today, he puts it out of his mind again./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"It's proof that instead of calling her out on anything, he was still caring more about Adrienne than his own child. Finally, the reception finishes up, and the day is over,it's only after he gets home and is getting ready for bed, when he vaguely remembers that he had promised to call Sami, but he can't figure out what else it could be about./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Anyway, it can't be that important because the fact is that she never called him back; so he takes that as proof that it couldn't have been anything too bad, so he will deal with it tomorrow./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"He goes to sleep without a worry, thinking about what a great job they had done with the wedding, and how happy everyone was for the two couples, who now are off on their honeymoons./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Thanks to what he has done, he will never know that he has most likely lost any chance of reuniting with Will, all thanks to yet again putting his children after Adrienne's wants and needs./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"He doesn't even imagine the fact that once Will is conscious and learns that Lucas helped with Sonny's wedding to Paul, the fact is that Will may not be able to forgive this, or ever get past what Lucas did, because it's proof that Lucas doesn't care how much his actions would hurt Will./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"The morning after the wedding, in San Francisco, Sami is back at the hospital again, sitting with Will while she is waiting for Sharon and the LAPD protective detail to show up. On top of that, she has hired a dozen highly trained guards to be at the hospital as well./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Now that she has Will back in her life, even if he's unresponsive at the moment, she's not taking any chances that Philip Stroh could get to him, and kill him before he might ever be able to testify against him./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She is fuming over the fact that Lucas has not yet called her back, because two days ago when she had called him, he was too busy getting everything ready for Paul and Sonny's wedding, and being a supportive boyfriend, you know, to try and help keep Adrienne's stress levels down./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Not only did he not call her that night like he was supposed to, in addition to that, Sami had found out yesterday when she woke up, from her social media posts that the wedding was that day./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"So thanks to that, she had not heard from him yesterday at all, because between the wedding and the reception, he was obviously too busy with Adrienne, to even take five minutes and call her back./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Well, now that she knows that he won't pay attention to anything but what Adrienne wants, she's even more convinced that she shouldn't tell him about Will; after all, she had told him that it was really important, and that what she needed to tell him was something that he needed to hear./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"He had to know that for her to call him and say something like that, that is something he needed to know; it's not like they chat all the time, since the only real contact they had was about Allie, ever since Will was gone./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Obviously, what Adrienne wanted was more important than anything having to do with her and their children, well, child as far as he was concerned; if Allie knew that just how little Lucas seemed to think about her, it would break her heart./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She thinks, what if Allie had been sick or something bad had happened to her; he wouldn't know because he had blown her off when she called. Sami makes the decision then that she knows she can't count on Lucas for help or support, for either Allie or Will./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She will need to do this by herself; she needs to be there for her other children as well, this was the proof that she has to be the only parent for Allie; even before this, he hardly ever had time for his daughter, so now, she won't be dealing with him anymore./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"If he wants to see Allie, he will have to drag himself to California to see her, because she is not letting her children go back to Salem, she can't trust the people back there to treat them any better than they did Will before he was taken away./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Also, if he comes to see Allie, he better leave Adrienne back there; because she doesn't want her near the kids, spilling her poison towards them, and making any nasty comments about Will; or they will see just how bad she can be, and if she she does that, she will tear that hypocritical witch apart./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Look how she treated Will for supposedly cheating on Sonny, always treating him like dirt, plus she even had the nerve to slap him; while at the same time she was screwing around on her husband and sleeping with Lucas./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"It was alright for both her and Justin to be unfaithful, but apparently that there were two sets of rules, one for them, and another for Will; even if he did sleep with Paul, which Sami is sure didn't happen, now that they have the hair testing results./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She thinks Paul set it up for Sonny to find out that Will had slept with Paul, so that he could get Sonny back. Another question Sami has is, why was Sonny at Paul's room at the hotel that early in the morning, or at all, anyway?/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"If he wasn't involved with Paul, what was the reason he showed up there? She decides that she will get one of her investigators to check into that, she's convinced there's a story there for sure./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She decides to ask Wes for the name of that waiter, because her investigator can check into it, and see if they can find proof that the waiter helped Paul drug Will, and set it up to look like Will had been unfaithful./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"If it's true, she will have to stop herself from going scorched earth, and destroying a lot of them. Especially if they had made it look like Will had sex with another man, breaking his wedding vows, and it ended up ruining his life, if they did that all of that, they deserve to pay for what they did to Will./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Though to be honest, by the way Sonny acted, it doesn't seem like there was much of a relationship to save after Paul came to Salem, since Sonny was too busy spending so much time with his ex, even before Will "cheated", right? Don't even mention him cosying up to Paul, after that night, or she will be sick, ugh./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She wants proof of what happened that night, she knows that Will never did drugs, since he had such a low tolerance towards pretty much all drugs; not only that, it's because she knows that after Will was attacked, he couldn't hardly stand to be touched./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Honestly, she doesn't know if he had even been sleeping with Sonny once he went back to Salem, so she couldn't believe that he would let some stranger get that close to him./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She knew that he had been having horrific nightmares about the vicious attack by Stroh when he was in Los Angeles recovering, so she is finding it hard to believe that he was doing that much better once he got back to Salem./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"If her dear step-brother had Will drugged, then his plan worked out just the way he wanted, because everyone turned on Will for hurting Sonny, who was just so perfect in their eyes./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"It's sadly laughable that it was obvious that Sonny was flirting with Paul both before and after that night, but that was fine. It's like everyone else only saw it as being friendly, but from what she had seen of their behaviour during the week of Will's funeral, yeah innocent, right!/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"If that was anything to go by, then their flirting must have been so blatant, but no one paid any attention to that. She was disgusted when she saw them at Will's grave, they looked like they wanted to start making out./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"It made her so sick, that she had to leave or she would have been arrested for murder, again! Only this time, she would have actually been guilty of the crime, if it wasn't for her other kids, she doesn't know what she might have actually done that day./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"While Sami is lost in thought, the door opens up, and Sharon Raydor, along with Louie Provenza, Andy Flynn and Wes Nolan come into the room. They all stop when they see Will lying comatose in the bed./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Even though they had been told a couple of days before that he was alive, it's still shocking to see the young man they had all believed to be dead. He just looks like he's sleeping, especially since he is not even hooked up to any machines./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"It's so strange since he's just lying there in the bed, like he could wake up any moment, it's actually a little unnerving for the detectives, because they know if Stroh finds out that Will is still alive and that he's is totally defenceless while he's like this, that he would never even hear him coming./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sharon clears her throat to get Sami's attention, since she didn't want to startle her, however, Sami still jumps a little. She looks up and sees Sharon there, and when she stands up, she goes over to them, so when Sharon hugs her, Sami tears up./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She looks at Sharon and says. "He's alive, so I have him back, but I don't. You know what I mean? He's here, but he doesn't know what's going on, that we're here with him, that almost two years have passed, that his little girl is growing up without him./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"My heart is breaking because of that, thanks to whoever did this to him, he has lost all that time with his precious girl. He can never get that back. Also, he's in so much danger if that psychopath finds out he's alive, and where he is./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"I know that you said you are getting a protection detail set up for him, but I have hired extra guards to be here in the hospital as well, four for every 8 hour shift, split into teams of two."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Provenza says, "When are they going to be starting? I didn't see anyone standing guard outside when we came in." Sami says, "No, these guards are undercover, so the protection detail you provide will be the obvious protection, but my guards will be extra security that people won't notice. You didn't see them when you came in, did you?"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sharon looks at Sami and says. "They are already on duty?" Sami looks at her, and says, "Yes, they are all retired military special operations. To be honest, I asked for the most vicious men they had but I told them that they couldn't look like police or military, so they can all blend in and look like normal hospital staff./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"They are good, after all, none of you noticed them. Hopefully, if Stroh ever finds out, and just where he is, he won't be able to identify them either. They know that they are guarding Will from a psychopathic serial rapist and killer./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"They know that it may come down to them having to take him out if necessary in order to protect Will, but they have the training necessary to do it, if it gets to that point. He won't have an easy time of it, if he comes here./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Though, I know that for most of them, having heard what he did to Will, and all those poor women, they want to make sure he is captured and get the death penalty, as one of them said, that sick creep deserves to fry./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"They said, there is no rehabilitating him, because he feels no remorse for anything he has done. If we need more guards, let me know, the company has another dozen of their men waiting just in case./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"They know that he is vicious and will try to kill anyone who gets in the way of what he wants, so they are prepared to take him down hard, if they have to, if he gets past the police detail to get to Will./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"He will be put down hard, if he tries to get in here and do anything to Will, and to be honest, it would save the prosecution a lot of time and money, if they did take him out permanently, and he would never be able to escape and hurt anyone ever again."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"They all stare at Sami when she says this, and she sees the expressions on their face, and she says, "Sorry, just taking out my anger and frustration on that monster, not that he doesn't deserve it, if it happened that way."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sharon, wanting to change the subject to help Sami be less stressed out, asks her, "When will Lucas, is it, be here? I can only imagine that he is rushing to get here to see his son, even if Will is still unconscious./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sami's face goes stone cold, and Sharon asks her, "What's wrong? Did you get into an argument with Lucas over his helping with the upcoming wedding, or something else?/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sami tells them that she still hasn't heard back from Lucas, Will's dad, since the other day, so he doesn't know about Will. It seems that he was too busy that day helping to get everything ready for the wedding./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"On top of that, the wedding was apparently yesterday, and of course, he couldn't take five minutes to call and see what was happening, that if it doesn't have anything to do with Adrienne, that it can't be that important, and she bursts into tears./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She looks at Sharon, and says to her, "When Will wakes up, because he has to, how do I tell him that his father was too busy helping Will's husband get remarried to call and find out that his son is alive, but in a coma at the moment./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"I guess Lucas has forgotten that as far as he knows that he still has a child, that he has a daughter, one that he never has time for anymore, it seems like. To be honest, I think it's because Adrienne doesn't want Lucas to spend any time with Allie."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sharon asks her why, and Sami says "It's because she's my daughter as well; she can't stand me, and she passed that feeling onto my kids with Lucas. At this point, I don't think that I should let anyone from Salem know about Will./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Especially since I can tell you that Adrienne would never let Lucas come out here without her, and since she can't resist making nasty comments about Will all the time, I don't want her near him, they say that it's possible that coma patients may be able to hear what is said around them./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"I don't want that woman anywhere near my kids, and definitely not near Will, because she will hurt them just to get at me, and right now, I would probably beat her down if she starts anything./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"They deserve better than having a father who doesn't give a damn, at least E.J. treated Will and Allie right, even though he was their step-dad, I can't see her being the same way./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She despised Will, hated that he was with Sonny, and she did everything to make sure he knew that he wasn't good enough for her son; on top of that, she has never tried to connect to Allie, so as far as I can see, she is happy that Lucas isn't having anything to do with his daughter, with him just being a part of her kids' lives."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sharon, along with Provenza, Flynn, and Wes are completely shocked when they hear this, that not only had Will's father not called back, but to find out that he was helping with his son's husband's new wedding. On top of that, he was with a woman who was always insulting and hurting his son. How could he do that, how could he betray his son that way?/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"After Sami finishes speaking with Sharon, she decides to call Lucas, thinking that when she spoke to him, whether she would tell him about finding Will, it will all depend on his attitude, as well as seeing how deeply involved he is with Adrienne at the moment./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"If he is still with her, with how she treated Will, and is no doubt still disparaging Will, there is no way she will let him know, and have that toxicity around Will while he is recovering once he comes out of his coma./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"After the phone seems to ring forever, he finally answers her call, but when she goes to tell him that she has something to share, and she needs to tell him something extremely important./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"He cuts her off before she can begin and asks her if he can call her back later, as he has to pick Adrienne up to run some last minute errands for the wedding tomorrow. After hearing this, Sami starts to flare up because she feels that yet once again, Lucas is putting that woman ahead of his children, especially Will; so she begins to hang up on him./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"However, she calms herself down, and says to him, "Lucas, it's really important, you need to hear this, so please make sure you call me later when you get home; this really can't wait any longer than that."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Lucas is in a hurry, and he's not really paying attention to what Sami is saying, because he is running late, and he doesn't want to upset Adrienne right now, as she is stressed over the wedding tomorrow. So he absently agrees that he will call her in a few hours when he gets back after finishing the errands, and hangs up./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Once he is out the door, he just forgets all about it; because he figures that it has to be about some small thing with Allie, and everyone knows how dramatic Sami is about everything, no matter how small the issue./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"After this, Sami sits back, and thinks that it is inconceivable that Lucas is actually helping Adrienne plan the wedding of his late son's husband's second wedding. Especially his wedding to Paul, the man who helped wreck Will's marriage./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"It seems like Lucas seems to have forgotten that Sonny had been Will's husband, and just how much he had hurt Will before he had been attacked and they believed that he was dead./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"After Sami finishes up both of her calls, she and Osala are sat in the same office waiting to hear back from Kaltona about Will's hair testing results; from what they had told it could take a few hours. Though, since she has to wait to hear from Lucas, she doesn't mind the late night, she knew that she won't be able to sleep anyway, at least not right away./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Lucas is hurrying to pick Adrienne, after all, he can't leave his love waiting for him. Never realizing that his actions today, or rather his lack of action, could ruin the chance for him to have his son back in his life again./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"After several hours of making sure everything for the next day is as perfect as they can make it, and the rehearsal dinner, Lucas is finally finished; by the time when he goes home, he has forgotten all about his promise to call Sami; he grabs a snack, and decides to go to bed then, because he has to be up so early the next morning./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"He is going to be helping Adrienne make sure everything is perfect for Sonny's wedding the next day. It's important because not only is it their wedding, it's also because his niece Abby is remarrying her ex-husband, so of course, everything has to run smoothly since it's all family./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Back at the hospital, Kaltona comes back to Osala's office with the results, and she tells them, "The test shows that at some point about three years ago, that at least once if not twice, Will had a sedative type drug in his system, one that is extremely potent."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Kaltona also says, "In my professional opinion, it would have knocked Will out cold, especially if he didn't take any kind of drugs normally, that he would have been out for hours, and not know what had happened during the time he was incapacitated by the drug."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"As soon as Kaltona says this to Sami and Osala, Sami then calls Sharon back, and tells her what they had just found out. Sharon, and the rest of the group, who had stayed at the precinct waiting, are shocked and disgusted that Will had to go through that happening to him./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Wes is even more sure that Paul is the one responsible for what happened since he was the one who had told Will they had sex, and he also said the same thing to Sonny. It was thanks to what he had said that morning, and was what led to Sonny and Will eventually separating before Will was attacked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Wes says, "It seems too much of a coincidence, don't you think?" Everyone in LA agrees with Wes, and so do Sami, Osala and Kaltona. Sami is shocked and saddened but also infuriated at what her stepbrother had done to Will's life./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She is sure that Wes is right, and she believes that Paul drugged Will, to make him think he cheated on Sonny, and used that to get Will out of Sonny's life; it took him a while, but it worked out like he wanted, didn't it. She looks at them, and says "Well, he got what he wanted, since he's just about to marry Sonny now, it's only a couple of days away."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sami bursts into tears at the thought of all the pain that Will went through before he was hurt and taken, then to have gone through whatever he did while he was missing, what could she ever do to help him get over all that?/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She says to Sharon and the rest of them, "How do I tell him how it was after he was gone, that it was just like they forgot all about him; and in his case, it really was out of sight, out of mind. Oh, they all cried at his funeral, but once that was over, it's like they erased him from their memories and hearts./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"I don't know if I can even stand to let them know that I have found him, because if the way they treated him that last year was any indication, and how much they all love Paul and Sonny together; I don't even know if they will care, they will only probably worry that he will try to separate the perfect couple."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sharon convinces Sami to at least tell Lucas, she says to her, "That when he calls you back later tonight, surely he will be ecstatic that his son is alive, that once they can hopefully bring Will out of his coma, so that he will have him back in his life again. Surely there will not be anything more important to him, than getting news about one of his children."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sami does say that she had told him earlier that it was extremely important that he call her back tonight, because he didn't have time then to speak to her, because he was too busy, you know, with his helping Adrienne with the upcoming wedding, but when he calls her, she will let him know what has happened, that their Will is alive, and she has DNA proof./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"However, she doesn't hear back from him at all that night or anytime during the next day. It's because from the moment he gets up in the morning, he is busy all day with all the last minute details before the wedding and during the reception./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Once again, he forgets that he was supposed to have called Sami back, it has to be for something to do with their daughter Allie, though he guesses it must be not that important./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"He gets caught up with Adrienne's excitement over the wedding of seeing her baby marry his one true love as she puts it, and even hearing her say that, he doesn't say anything, just letting her act like his son Will never existed./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"If Lucas was honest with himself, he knows that she wished he didn't, that he had never been part of Sonny's life; he lets her get away with her comments against Will, since he doesn't want to upset her, especially today, he puts it out of his mind again./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"It's proof that instead of calling her out on anything, he was still caring more about Adrienne than his own child. Finally, the reception finishes up, and the day is over,it's only after he gets home and is getting ready for bed, when he vaguely remembers that he had promised to call Sami, but he can't figure out what else it could be about./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Anyway, it can't be that important because the fact is that she never called him back; so he takes that as proof that it couldn't have been anything too bad, so he will deal with it tomorrow./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"He goes to sleep without a worry, thinking about what a great job they had done with the wedding, and how happy everyone was for the two couples, who now are off on their honeymoons./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Thanks to what he has done, he will never know that he has most likely lost any chance of reuniting with Will, all thanks to yet again putting his children after Adrienne's wants and needs./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"He doesn't even imagine the fact that once Will is conscious and learns that Lucas helped with Sonny's wedding to Paul, the fact is that Will may not be able to forgive this, or ever get past what Lucas did, because it's proof that Lucas doesn't care how much his actions would hurt Will./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"The morning after the wedding, in San Francisco, Sami is back at the hospital again, sitting with Will while she is waiting for Sharon and the LAPD protective detail to show up. On top of that, she has hired a dozen highly trained guards to be at the hospital as well./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Now that she has Will back in her life, even if he's unresponsive at the moment, she's not taking any chances that Philip Stroh could get to him, and kill him before he might ever be able to testify against him./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She is fuming over the fact that Lucas has not yet called her back, because two days ago when she had called him, he was too busy getting everything ready for Paul and Sonny's wedding, and being a supportive boyfriend, you know, to try and help keep Adrienne's stress levels down./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Not only did he not call her that night like he was supposed to, in addition to that, Sami had found out yesterday when she woke up, from her social media posts that the wedding was that day./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"So thanks to that, she had not heard from him yesterday at all, because between the wedding and the reception, he was obviously too busy with Adrienne, to even take five minutes and call her back./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Well, now that she knows that he won't pay attention to anything but what Adrienne wants, she's even more convinced that she shouldn't tell him about Will; after all, she had told him that it was really important, and that what she needed to tell him was something that he needed to hear./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"He had to know that for her to call him and say something like that, that is something he needed to know; it's not like they chat all the time, since the only real contact they had was about Allie, ever since Will was gone./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Obviously, what Adrienne wanted was more important than anything having to do with her and their children, well, child as far as he was concerned; if Allie knew that just how little Lucas seemed to think about her, it would break her heart./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She thinks, what if Allie had been sick or something bad had happened to her; he wouldn't know because he had blown her off when she called. Sami makes the decision then that she knows she can't count on Lucas for help or support, for either Allie or Will./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She will need to do this by herself; she needs to be there for her other children as well, this was the proof that she has to be the only parent for Allie; even before this, he hardly ever had time for his daughter, so now, she won't be dealing with him anymore./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"If he wants to see Allie, he will have to drag himself to California to see her, because she is not letting her children go back to Salem, she can't trust the people back there to treat them any better than they did Will before he was taken away./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Also, if he comes to see Allie, he better leave Adrienne back there; because she doesn't want her near the kids, spilling her poison towards them, and making any nasty comments about Will; or they will see just how bad she can be, and if she she does that, she will tear that hypocritical witch apart./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Look how she treated Will for supposedly cheating on Sonny, always treating him like dirt, plus she even had the nerve to slap him; while at the same time she was screwing around on her husband and sleeping with Lucas./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"It was alright for both her and Justin to be unfaithful, but apparently that there were two sets of rules, one for them, and another for Will; even if he did sleep with Paul, which Sami is sure didn't happen, now that they have the hair testing results./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She thinks Paul set it up for Sonny to find out that Will had slept with Paul, so that he could get Sonny back. Another question Sami has is, why was Sonny at Paul's room at the hotel that early in the morning, or at all, anyway?/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"If he wasn't involved with Paul, what was the reason he showed up there? She decides that she will get one of her investigators to check into that, she's convinced there's a story there for sure./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She decides to ask Wes for the name of that waiter, because her investigator can check into it, and see if they can find proof that the waiter helped Paul drug Will, and set it up to look like Will had been unfaithful./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"If it's true, she will have to stop herself from going scorched earth, and destroying a lot of them. Especially if they had made it look like Will had sex with another man, breaking his wedding vows, and it ended up ruining his life, if they did that all of that, they deserve to pay for what they did to Will./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Though to be honest, by the way Sonny acted, it doesn't seem like there was much of a relationship to save after Paul came to Salem, since Sonny was too busy spending so much time with his ex, even before Will "cheated", right? Don't even mention him cosying up to Paul, after that night, or she will be sick, ugh./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She wants proof of what happened that night, she knows that Will never did drugs, since he had such a low tolerance towards pretty much all drugs; not only that, it's because she knows that after Will was attacked, he couldn't hardly stand to be touched./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Honestly, she doesn't know if he had even been sleeping with Sonny once he went back to Salem, so she couldn't believe that he would let some stranger get that close to him./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She knew that he had been having horrific nightmares about the vicious attack by Stroh when he was in Los Angeles recovering, so she is finding it hard to believe that he was doing that much better once he got back to Salem./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"If her dear step-brother had Will drugged, then his plan worked out just the way he wanted, because everyone turned on Will for hurting Sonny, who was just so perfect in their eyes./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"It's sadly laughable that it was obvious that Sonny was flirting with Paul both before and after that night, but that was fine. It's like everyone else only saw it as being friendly, but from what she had seen of their behaviour during the week of Will's funeral, yeah innocent, right!/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"If that was anything to go by, then their flirting must have been so blatant, but no one paid any attention to that. She was disgusted when she saw them at Will's grave, they looked like they wanted to start making out./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"It made her so sick, that she had to leave or she would have been arrested for murder, again! Only this time, she would have actually been guilty of the crime, if it wasn't for her other kids, she doesn't know what she might have actually done that day./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"While Sami is lost in thought, the door opens up, and Sharon Raydor, along with Louie Provenza, Andy Flynn and Wes Nolan come into the room. They all stop when they see Will lying comatose in the bed./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Even though they had been told a couple of days before that he was alive, it's still shocking to see the young man they had all believed to be dead. He just looks like he's sleeping, especially since he is not even hooked up to any machines./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"It's so strange since he's just lying there in the bed, like he could wake up any moment, it's actually a little unnerving for the detectives, because they know if Stroh finds out that Will is still alive and that he's is totally defenceless while he's like this, that he would never even hear him coming./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sharon clears her throat to get Sami's attention, since she didn't want to startle her, however, Sami still jumps a little. She looks up and sees Sharon there, and when she stands up, she goes over to them, so when Sharon hugs her, Sami tears up./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She looks at Sharon and says. "He's alive, so I have him back, but I don't. You know what I mean? He's here, but he doesn't know what's going on, that we're here with him, that almost two years have passed, that his little girl is growing up without him./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"My heart is breaking because of that, thanks to whoever did this to him, he has lost all that time with his precious girl. He can never get that back. Also, he's in so much danger if that psychopath finds out he's alive, and where he is./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"I know that you said you are getting a protection detail set up for him, but I have hired extra guards to be here in the hospital as well, four for every 8 hour shift, split into teams of two."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Provenza says, "When are they going to be starting? I didn't see anyone standing guard outside when we came in." Sami says, "No, these guards are undercover, so the protection detail you provide will be the obvious protection, but my guards will be extra security that people won't notice. You didn't see them when you came in, did you?"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sharon looks at Sami and says. "They are already on duty?" Sami looks at her, and says, "Yes, they are all retired military special operations. To be honest, I asked for the most vicious men they had but I told them that they couldn't look like police or military, so they can all blend in and look like normal hospital staff./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"They are good, after all, none of you noticed them. Hopefully, if Stroh ever finds out, and just where he is, he won't be able to identify them either. They know that they are guarding Will from a psychopathic serial rapist and killer./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"They know that it may come down to them having to take him out if necessary in order to protect Will, but they have the training necessary to do it, if it gets to that point. He won't have an easy time of it, if he comes here./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Though, I know that for most of them, having heard what he did to Will, and all those poor women, they want to make sure he is captured and get the death penalty, as one of them said, that sick creep deserves to fry./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"They said, there is no rehabilitating him, because he feels no remorse for anything he has done. If we need more guards, let me know, the company has another dozen of their men waiting just in case./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"They know that he is vicious and will try to kill anyone who gets in the way of what he wants, so they are prepared to take him down hard, if they have to, if he gets past the police detail to get to Will./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"He will be put down hard, if he tries to get in here and do anything to Will, and to be honest, it would save the prosecution a lot of time and money, if they did take him out permanently, and he would never be able to escape and hurt anyone ever again."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"They all stare at Sami when she says this, and she sees the expressions on their face, and she says, "Sorry, just taking out my anger and frustration on that monster, not that he doesn't deserve it, if it happened that way."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sharon, wanting to change the subject to help Sami be less stressed out, asks her, "When will Lucas, is it, be here? I can only imagine that he is rushing to get here to see his son, even if Will is still unconscious./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sami's face goes stone cold, and Sharon asks her, "What's wrong? Did you get into an argument with Lucas over his helping with the upcoming wedding, or something else?/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sami tells them that she still hasn't heard back from Lucas, Will's dad, since the other day, so he doesn't know about Will. It seems that he was too busy that day helping to get everything ready for the wedding./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"On top of that, the wedding was apparently yesterday, and of course, he couldn't take five minutes to call and see what was happening, that if it doesn't have anything to do with Adrienne, that it can't be that important, and she bursts into tears./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She looks at Sharon, and says to her, "When Will wakes up, because he has to, how do I tell him that his father was too busy helping Will's husband get remarried to call and find out that his son is alive, but in a coma at the moment./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"I guess Lucas has forgotten that as far as he knows that he still has a child, that he has a daughter, one that he never has time for anymore, it seems like. To be honest, I think it's because Adrienne doesn't want Lucas to spend any time with Allie."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sharon asks her why, and Sami says "It's because she's my daughter as well; she can't stand me, and she passed that feeling onto my kids with Lucas. At this point, I don't think that I should let anyone from Salem know about Will./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Especially since I can tell you that Adrienne would never let Lucas come out here without her, and since she can't resist making nasty comments about Will all the time, I don't want her near him, they say that it's possible that coma patients may be able to hear what is said around them./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"I don't want that woman anywhere near my kids, and definitely not near Will, because she will hurt them just to get at me, and right now, I would probably beat her down if she starts anything./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"They deserve better than having a father who doesn't give a damn, at least E.J. treated Will and Allie right, even though he was their step-dad, I can't see her being the same way./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"She despised Will, hated that he was with Sonny, and she did everything to make sure he knew that he wasn't good enough for her son; on top of that, she has never tried to connect to Allie, so as far as I can see, she is happy that Lucas isn't having anything to do with his daughter, with him just being a part of her kids' lives."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 115%;"Sharon, along with Provenza, Flynn, and Wes are completely shocked when they hear this, that not only had Will's father not called back, but to find out that he was helping with his son's husband's new wedding. On top of that, he was with a woman who was always insulting and hurting his son. How could he do that, how could he betray his son that way?/p