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"The hell?"

Will looked at him, quizzically. "What is it?"

"There's a car following us" Chad replied.

"What?" said Will, looking back. Indeed, there was a black car right behind them, and while the road was clear, it did not seem to have any intentions of passing them.

"Will, sit properly, I'll try to lose him" Chad instructed.

"You know who that is?"

"I can see his stupid face glaring at us".

Not too far from them, Xander Kiriakis followed their car, looking ready for a fight.

"Xander?" Will said, unbelievingly. "He must be under Victor's orders, he also framed me. What are we gonna do?"

"Hold on" said Chad, as he pulled over the car.

"Uh, Chad, what are you doing?"

"We're gonna lose him".

"By stopping the car?!"

"Shut up and watch".

Chad turned off the lights of the car and pulled the emergency brake, but kept his hold on it and didn't turn off the engine.

Xander stopped his car right behind them, and turned it off.

"Chad, he's coming!" Will panicked, for Xander had just gotten out of the car. Chad ignored him, keeping his eyes on the rearviewmirror, watching Xander approach them dangerously. Just as he was close enough, Chad saw him put his hand in his pocket, apparently to take out something. Quick as a bullet, he pushed the emergency brake and slammed his foot on the accelerator pedal. The back wheels started fast, throwing dust and dirt on Xander, and the car sped. A shot was heard, but it didn't hit them, and Chad took an exit.

The moment he caught his breath, and made sure Xander was not following them anymore, for they were far away from the spot where they had met, Will looked at Chad. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!"

Chad smiled smugly. "What? You actually thought I'd let you be captured by that big ape? You're hurting my feelings".

"That man has tried to kill you in the past, come on. You gotta be more careful!"

"Hey, relax, ok? I'll be fine, and you will be fine".

"How the hell did he know I was being released today anyway?" Will wondered, still freaking out.

"Victor is a man of many resources" Chad replied. "Look, don't sweat it. We'll get to confront him, ok? Just calm down".

They reached the big sign that read Welcome to Salem in a matter of minutes. As Chad reduced the speed of the car, he glanced at Will, grinning. "Welcome home, buddy".

Sonny relied on Evan's chest after making love. Though he had had a good time, he couldn't bring himself to actually feel good about it. No matter what happened, what he did, his mind always came back to Will. It's the divorce, he tried to tell himself. It's too soon, of course he was going to feel that way. Of course he still loved him, and he would probably never stop. He had been apart from Will before, many times, and every single time his heart cried for him, not even death could make him put an end to his idea that they belonged together and that was it, that was the rule, they were endgame.

But he was young and stupid, he told himself now. Believing that love was forever and a once in a lifetime thing, with only one person to spend the rest of their lives with, was for children and fools. He was a grown-up, and he was smart, as petty as that made him look like. He wasn't going to hold onto the idea that he and Will were meant for each other. Not anymore, not after what happened. There were, after all, some things only God could forgive.

Sonny knew that his case was complicated. Will and him shared a daughter. Yes, she was Will's, but Will was never going to take her away from him forever, or even for one second, and Sonny loved her way too much to walk away. Them, he had to correct himself. He loved them. Sonny knew that if he went through with this, then his life, or at least the next few months would be extremely awkward, between him building a new life and constantly being in contact with his past life. But there was nothing to do about it. Will's wishes were to divorce him, and Sonny was not going to force him into staying. Not when he himself felt like giving up too. Will must have sent those papers to his lawyer by now, he knew he hadn't before but he had been hoping they were filed as soon as possible. Put them both out of their misery already...

"I can hear you thinking" Evan said, sleepy, rubbing his eyes and sitting up.

Sonny sat up too. "Sorry. Just been thinking about stuff, got a lot in my mind".

"Wanna talk about it?"

Sonny thought about it. Evan had been a good listener, someone to vent to, someone who understood. But he wasn't too sure whether he should trust him with his disappointment over the divorce. Nothing like talking and moping about your ex to your new love interest, right?

"I don't know if it's the right thing" he confessed. "Don't wanna be the kind of guy who keeps talking about his past like it's the only thing that matters".

"But it does matter" Evan said, already awake. "Will was a big part of your life, maybe the most important thing so far. I understand that you miss him".

Sonny looked him, incredulous. "I never said anything about Will..."

Evan gave him a small smile. "You get that look in your eyes when you think about him".

"I'm sorry, I don't mean to upset you. It's just that I..."

"...jumped into a new relationship when you hadn't even gotten out officially from the previous one".

He nodded. Evan didn't seem that bothered. "I get it. I was there once. It didn't end well for me, though".

"Got your heart broken by both boys?" Sonny asked teasingly.

"Girls, actually" Evan said. "I never fully loved them, if I'm honest. Got intimate with one of them, things never worked out, and I ended up making a mistake".

"Huh, what was it?"

Evan looked weird. If anyone asked Sonny, that was the word he would use. He didn't seem like wanting to share, which Sonny would actually understand, but he never got to say anything on the matter, for Evan was saved by the bell. Sonny's phone beeped, having gotten a new message.รง

"Wait" he said, checking it. "It's my dad".

"What does he say?"

"He wants me to come to the Mansion quick".

"Lucky for you, you live near, huh?" Evan joked, as he stood up and put on his trousers.

"Yeah, sorry to cut this short, though" Sonny said, putting on his own clothes.

"It's alright, I gotta go to Rafe's anyway. He's working late tonight and I gotta pick David up from daycare" he replied.

"Oh, ok then. See you later?"

"You got it" said Evan, moving forward for a goodbye kiss, but Sonny left before he could even close his eyes.

A very exhausted Maggie entered the living room. First sight that greeted her was the small table with the glasses and the drinks, and she made a face of full disgust. After she found out what she had done, she wanted absolutely nothing to do with it. She barely could stand the sight of herself in the mirror. She had gotten drunk, she had taken her car, invaded the wrong lane and caused an accident that costed Adrienne's life. Of top of everything, Will had been the one who had to pay the price, and had to lose his entire life for it.

It was hell on Earth for her. All because of one mistake. And while she wasn't going to go to prison, she was going to live with that for the rest of her life.

"One day at a time" Victor said softly, as he appeared behind her.

Maggie nodded. She had wanted to hate Victor for what he had done. She had wanted to leave the man for good. Him hiding what had happened was just too much. But she couldn't bring herself to it. Despite everything, a part of her understood why he had done it, even if she absolutely hated it. She had accepted her guilt, and had had a long conversation with Justin about that dreadful night. By the end of the day, they had come to terms with it. Justin needed time to process the fact that he had been blaming the wrong person all that time, but knew that he'd eventually forgive Maggie. However, this turn of events had reopened the wound, and it had been just as devastating as that tragic Mother's Day.

By the end of the day, everyone in the house knew.

Except Sonny.

Maggie found extremely bizarre that she hadn't seen Sonny in three days, despite the both of them living under the same roof. Victor had told her that Sonny was actually coming home very late in the night and leaving for work very early in the morning, which was partially true, and that the last few days, Sonny had been spending the night at Evan's, which wasn't exactly a lie, considering that had happened once, but Sonny had been coming home very late, when Maggie was already sleeping.

However, this was the weekend, Maggie knew Sonny was working, and so she figured he was spending time with his new boyfriend. She had been wanting to talk to him, thinking Sonny already knew what had happened, and had even thought he was actually avoiding her, but Victor had assured her that was not the case.

The truth was that Victor had been shielding Sonny from the truth, to spare him the heartbreak and to avoid him taking Will back. He certainly didn't want him in his family. Knowing that the rest of the family wouldn't mention anything to his nephew, he threatened Justin to make him not say anything, in hopes that Sonny would still think Will had been responsible for his mother's death.

It was a stupid idea, Maggie would eventually meet Sonny and everything would be revealed. But Victor was desperate. It was bad enough that his own grandson didn't want anything to do with him, now his nephew? But he refused to give up.

"It feels like a nightmare" Maggie whispered. "And I can't wake up".

"We don't blame you, Maggie" Victor said. "What happened is in the past. What we should focus is in the future".

"What future? I don't want any future! How can I live my life and look forward to the future when I took away somebody else's?"

"My God, would you stop it? It's not your fault!"

"What's going on?" asked Justin, who had just entered the living room.

"Nothing" Victor snapped, as Maggie sniffed.

"No, Victor" she said. "Justin, I just want you to know that I will forever regret what happened".

Justin just nodded. "I know, Maggie. But I don't want you to hate yourself for it. I know I certainly don't".

"Maggie" Victor said. "Stop being so hard on yourself".

"How can I not? I took a life! And she was family!"

"Adrienne would never want you to beat yourself up like this!"

"You're only going to sink deeper!"

As the couple argued, Justin took out his phone and sent a quick text to Sonny. "This is my chance. If I can't tell Sonny myself, then there's only one other way for him to find out the truth".

However, as he was about to turn it off, something caught his eye. It was a new article on the virtual newspaper. "Oh my God".

Sonny walked through the street looking at his phone. Well, he was staring at nothing, just his screensaver, wanting so bad that it was a picture of the family he lost again. The picture he had now was one of him, his brothers, father and mother, one taken several years ago, when they were all living together in Dubai.

How he missed those days, when he was young and carefree, no worries and life was just good. He had been truly happy.

Now, his life was just one big emotional rollercoaster. Sonny felt as though he hadn't caught a break ever since he first came back to Salem. Maybe the whole town's drama had caught up with him and started to suck the life out of him. It just happened.

His love life was a mess. That was the only way he could describe it. He was trying to move on with Evan yet his heart still belonged to Will. Sonny had no idea what to do.

His thoughts were abruptly interrupted when he bumped into someone. "What the..."

"Hey" Evan said, smiling at him. "Long time no see".

"I literally just saw you" Sonny chuckled. "What are you doing here? I thought you were going to Rafe's. Shouldn't you pass by the square to get there?"

"Um, we are at the square" he replied, looking around.

Sonny looked around too. He was, in fact, at the square. "Oh..."

"Hey, is everything alright?" Evan asked. "You've been very distracted all day".

"What? No, no. It's just been some intense days, you know? With the divorce and everything".

Evan didn't look all too convinced, but decided to let it go for the moment. "Ok. I guess I should go. Rafe is waiting for me".

"Yeah, my dad's waiting for me too" Sonny replied. "I'll see you tonight".

Evan nodded, and kissed him.

Neither saw Will and Chad standing at the other side of the square, staring, nor they saw Will start to cry at the sight, nor they saw Chad comforting him.

Xander's car stopped at the doors of a building, after failing to catch Will and Chad and prevent them from coming to Salem and meet Sonny by Victor's orders, and he got out, pretending to visit his girlfriend, hoping he'd be forgiven for keeping the truth from everybody.

"Sorry, uncle Vic" he said, leaving his phone inside the car. "You're on your own".

"What? What is it?" asked Victor, cutting his discussion with Maggie short.

Justin huffed, showing him his phone, which just in that moment vibrated, having received a new message. He looked at it. "Just in time".

"What?" Victor asked, starting to get irritated. ""What's with that smug look on your face?"

"Judge Gallagher has ordered Will Horton's immediate release. It was this morning".

"Oh, that's wonderful!" said Maggie. "I'm going to need to talk to him eventually. I need to apologise to him for making him lose all this time..."

"No one's apologising about anything" Victor said, firmly.

Maggie looked at him, confused. "But..."

"I said no, Maggie".

"You know, I find quite strange that you aren't surprised with these news" Justin said, narrowing his eyes. "You knew about this, didn't you?"

Of course Victor knew. The man had contacts and men infiltrated everywhere, but he was not going to admit it. Justin figured he wasn't giving his uncle too much credit now that he was older, and that was clearly a mistake.

"No comment" Victor grunted.

"Victor" Maggie said. "I haven't even been able to talk to Sonny about this. He must be hating me right now and I haven't even been able to talk to him!"

"Sonny doesn't know" Justin interjected.

Maggie turned to him. "What?"

"Justin!" Victor admonished.

"No, no, what is this? What do you mean he doesn't know?"

Victor pinched the bridge of his nose. "For God's sake"

"Victor doesn't want Sonny to know what happened so he will finalize the divorce with Will and move on with another man" Justin revealed. "Which, by the way, I already told him it's the stupidest idea he's ever had!"

"I told you I was going to think of something!" Victor exclaimed.

Maggie just looked at him in horror. "Victor, you can't just do that! That's his husband! You're not only ruining Will's life, you're ruining Sonny's life too! You're ruining Arianna's life! How can you be so heartless with your own family?!"

"Heartless? I'm protecting my family!"

"Protecting. Protecting! You can't protect us from this! It's too big!"

"She's right, Victor" said Justin. "This whole fiasco has gotten out of control".

"You shut up" Victor ordered. "You traitor. I told you to stay quiet and stick to the plan!"

"Adrienne was my wife!"

"This has gone to far, Victor" said Maggie. "Sonny needs to know. He needs to know that I was responsible for Adrienne's death!"

Victor looked behind her.

Maggie and Justin turned around.

A shocked Sonny was staring at them. "What did you just say?"

Rafe Hernandez had his things ready to go to work, just as the bell of his door rang.

"Just in time" he thought, as he went to open it.

"Hey" Evan greeted.

"Hey man, thanks for coming. David's in his room sleeping" Rafe instructed. "His things are where they always are, you know what to do".

"Yeah, sure".

"Sorry, I'm in a bit of a rush, I haven't even checked my mail, but I really need to go".

"Gonna see Gabi?" Evan asked.

Rafe sighed. "My sister has gotten in a problem so big there's nothing I can do to help her".

Evan looked at him simpathetically. "Sorry".

"It's alright" he replied. "Oh, by the way, Ciara's coming in a while, she's got something to do in the computer, she won't bother you, but I think you should know so you let her in".

"Yeah, no problem" Evan said. "See you".

Rafe nodded at him and left.

After closing the door, Evan went to the kitchen. On the table was a big pile of letters, all addressed to Rafe and tied with a lace. Evan knew about Rafe liking to be organised, especially now considering he was taking care of a baby. So he started sorting the letters: the bills, the personal letters, the ones of the adoption agency...

Evan wasn't stupid. He put the envelope to the light to see if he could manage to figure out what the letter was about. After throwing away one that had his name some days prior, he was trying to be very precautious. And indeed, he managed to see his name, so he ripped the envelope and read the letter. It was just a short notification.

Dear Mr. Hernandez.

We have not heard from you regarding our last letter with the topic of the background check of David's caregiver, Evan Frears. Please give us a call at the telephone number below so we can start conversations to continue with the adoption procedure.

Best wishes.

Evan crumbled the paper, and the envelope, and threw it to the rubbish bin.

"Son of a bitch" he mumbled. "Rafe must not see this".

The bell rang, making him flinch. Ciara was there, carrying a backpack.

"Hi, Rafe said I could come" she said.

"Yeah sure" Evan said, trying to look normal, as he let her in. The baby started crying from his rooms. "Oh, uh, gotta take that. Um, help yourself with whatever you need".

"Thanks" she said.

Evan rushed to the room, and Ciara took out a laptop, putting it on the kitchen table. "Alright, first I'll start my documents and then I'll use Rafe's computer to check the databases. Hopefully something will help proving Ben's innocence".

As she prepared her things, she accidentally dropped a small puile of Rafe's bills, and some envelopes fell into the rubbish bin. "Oh shoot".

She leaned down to pick them up, and as she grabbed the envelopes from the bin, she saw the crumbled paper.

"What's this?" she mumbled, picking it up. She flattened the paper and read it, frowning when she finished. "A background check for Evan? Why would Rafe throw this away? Unless... He didn't do it".

She looked back, and heard Evan coming. Judging by a small noises, he was probably carrying David.

"He better not see this" she thought.

So Ciara ripped a page from a notebook she had, crumbled it and put it inside the bin, and then hid the letter in her backpack.

Funny, I was watching today's episode just as I was finishing writing it. You might see some similarities but they weren't intentional. In fact, as I write this note, Evan is just reading a second letter from the adoption company. Again, total coincidence, I swear. Anyway, for those who are watching the show, this week we'll see Sonny's reaction to the news of Maggie being the real culprit, so there's not really a point writing it. So what I'm going to do is make a small jump in time. I think it will only be one or two days, so don't worry. It saves me a lot of work anyway.

Please comment and thanks for reading!