Thank You to the guest who requested this one shot, I'm as excited as you! It's very relevant to Days right now and follows the storyline but has a twist.

Thank you to Jan and another guest who all came up with a few different ideas that all blended, you've inspired this. I have had to split it into two parts so the second part will be coming soon.

To help you understand where this one shot starts, Paul and sonny have done everything you've seen so far, Paul has kissed Sonny and now Sonny has told him he's married…

Hope you enjoy!

Sonny placed the final stack of coffee cups in the correct position in the hospital and stood up to think. He had another half an hour before he had to be back at the club. It's not like Chad was ever going to actually give him a day off by turning up to their shared business himself. He wondered whether to sneak out of the hospital and head back early or whether he should go and finish his conversation with Paul. Even though he seemed to get the message, Sonny couldn't help feel like he should go and see him again.

"Will, can you talk now?"

"Will, I need to tell you something!"

"Will, it's urgent."

Will could feel his phone buzzing in his phone all the way through his meeting but he had to ignore it. When the team had finally reviewed his completed draft of the series he was writing for, he left the room and quietly shut the door behind him, he read his phone to see eight missed calls and three messages. He'd sort it out after he'd spent some well-deserved time with his daughter.

Sonny opened the door to leave the room he had loaded coffee supplies up with and decided he'd avoid Paul today, it'd only make him stressed and give him more to think about for the rest of the day, more for his Mom to question him about and more to keep him awake at night. As he shut the door behind him, he felt a hand snatch his leather jacket and pull him, before he knew it, he was facing Paul in a little side corridor.

"Still scared in case anyone see's us I see?" Sonny looked around the small area they stood in.

"You know why I can't talk to you in public, have you thought about anything we spoke about the other day?" Paul searched for eye contact with Sonny.

"Think about what exactly? Whether you're going to give up hiding? That's your decision to make Paul, not mine!" Sonny began to walk away but Paul grabbed his arm with his free hand.

"Well how is your husband?"

Sonny looked a little mad, he just wanted to leave the situation. Why did he ever stay? Maybe Adrienne was right about Paul and staying out of his way. "One, he's none of your business and two no, I haven't told him about you."

Before Paul had chance to speak out, Sonny had gone.

Will had finally returned the phone calls and decided his time in LA was over.

He'd done the final draft, he wouldn't be needed by the company, his Mom was always busy and the kids were always occupied.

As Will packed up Ari's things, Sami came into his temporary room. "Hey honey, what're you doing?"

Will jumped a little when he heard his Mom's voice, he wanted to try and keep this a secret until he was leaving so he couldn't be stopped. Sami had a way with words when it came to her son.

"Hey… sit down for me," Will pulled up a chair and sat holding his Mom's hands.

"Okay," Sami half smiled looking a little confused, "what's this about?"

"You're doing okay here... right?" Will looked his Mom in the eyes.

"Yeah, of course! We're doing well together. It's better than I could have ever imagined." She smiled.

"But what if I left? Would you still be okay?" He wondered how she'd react now, he didn't want to directly come out with his plans and offend his Mom.

"You're leaving? I mean, I'm not going to stop you from going, I can't stop you, you've got other priorities now but what about your career?"

Will stood up and handed Sami a copy of the final script. "Here's my work that you can enjoy reading in your free time. I need to go Mom, I feel useless here now and thinking about it, six months away from Sonny and my life will kill me, I know you're looking out for me here but I'm still getting paid for what I've done, I just think I need to leave because you seem happy here… and I'm not." Will zipped Ari's case up and put it with the rest of their things. "I'm sorry but I booked a flight already."

Sami looked around the room and saw that he hadn't forgotten anything a part from a photo of herself, Will, Sydney, Ari, Allie and Johnny. "Well I'm not gonna lock you in here and force you out of it," they both laughed, "but as long as I get to say goodbye to my granddaughter and a hug from you before you leave, I'll be reassured and I'll let you go without a fight." Sami smiled wide as she hugged her son. "I'm so proud of you Will and I never wanna go a day without hearing from you." She gripped her son tighter.

"Mom, I'm never gonna go a day without hearing from you, you wouldn't let me and you know it. From LA you'd know what I was getting up to in Salem and still manage to get involved." As the both smiled, laughed and finished hugging, Will led the way to the lounge where Ari was playing with Sami following with a tear in her eye, she slipped the forgotten photo in Will's luggage pocket and headed off to say goodbye.

As Sonny looked over his mail behind the bar of the club, without actually reading it as his mind was on other things, he didn't realise his uncle Victor had walked in. Victor knocked on the bar to grab his attention but Sonny just looked up with no expression on his face.

"What's up with you?" Victor asked.

"Nothing, I just didn't get a lot of sleep last night. I'm a little cranky." Sonny put the mail to one side.

"Yeah, I wouldn't have guessed," Victor tracked Sonny's movements and felt a little edgy about what he was about to ask but went ahead, "So I guess your Mom was right?"

"Right about what?" Sonny's head shot up. His last conversation with Adrienne was about Paul, what could his uncle possibly know?

"Paul Norita."

Adrienne sat and looked at a picture of her and Justin, she knew her marriage was in jeopardy but needed to save her sons. All she'd done throughout their relationship was ruin it so she needed to save them from Paul… but would she make it better or worse?

"You're into baseball then?" Sonny asked his uncle.

"Don't play stupid with me Sonny, I know that you have a history with this guy and it's possibly not over, but you knew that I knew though."

"Why can't my Mom keep her mouth shut?" Sonny scratched his head.

"Because she loves you, she cares about you and your marriage which you seem to have forgotten about so maybe you should stop cursing your Mom and think about your life." Victor walked away and left the club. He knew that if he raised his tone with his nephew, he wouldn't dare answer back. He didn't leave on those terms to offend Sonny, he just wanted to make him think.

As Sonny headed for work, he walked in on a busy period with only Ben and T behind the bar so he had to start immediately. He was glad he'd got a better night's sleep so he was prepared.

Will hopped off his flight with Ari and swung her so she'd laugh through the airport. As they got back into Salem, Ari was wide awake laughing and attempting to walk with Wills help. She'd been trying to pull herself up on furniture all the time in LA and was getting the hang of it so Will held her hands and they finally got back to the apartment. He unlocked the door and expected to see his husband, however, he came home to an empty apartment and felt a little ache inside, he wasn't going to cry, it wasn't that bad but he was thinking about where Sonny could possibly be. He put away the cases to one side and got Ari ready for a little trip into Salem.

The busy spell quietened down in the club and Sonny let Ben go home. He kept his chin rested in his hand as he rested his elbow on the bar. He should call Victor but he was being stubborn. As he thought a little more, the door opened and he could have sworn it was Ari trying to push the door. As he stepped back so he could see over the counter, he could see a small figure and the baby turned to face him and smile, it was Ari but he was so confused for a moment. Was his mind playing tricks on him?

As he stared a little harder, he saw his husband walk through the door behind her. He wasn't dreaming, this was real.

"WILL?" Sonny's smile lit up and he pushed his way out of the bar and out of T's way, he grabbed his husband and pulled him in for a long passionate kiss. Will had missed the feeling of seeing and being close to Sonny. He kept hold of him tight. Sonny was so happy to see him, even though the last time they spoke they argued, he was just happy to hold his man.

T broke up the moment, "HEY! Where's my hug man?"

Will smiled and hugged his friend, Sonny picked Ari up and led his family to a booth.

"So, how are you home? Why are you home?" Sonny sat down after passing Ari back to Will and then thought about what he had said, "I mean, don't get me wrong! I'm more than happy you're back but that certainly wasn't six months!" Sony grabbed Wills hand from across the table.

Will explained all about the final draft being finished and how he wasn't needed anymore.

As Sonny got cover, he went home with his family. Ari finally went to sleep and Sonny started to make dinner.

"You hungry?" Sonny asked as Will came back into the room.

"Do I have an option?" Will smiled as he crept up behind Sonny.

"No." Sonny could hear Will coming closer and smiled at how his husband's sense of humour hadn't changed.

"Then yes," he wrapped his arms around Sonny and kissed his cheek, "I'm sorry about the way I spoke to you the other day by the way."

Sonny turned into Will's arms and kissed him back, "you don't have to apologise because coming home early has made it up to me."

They caught up about what they'd both missed out on, cracked open a bottle of wine and headed off to their bedroom to make up for lost time.

But they both hid something from each other. That something being a baseball player.

As Sonny reluctantly left for work the next morning, Will gave Ari her breakfast. When she'd finished, he let her play as Adrienne knocked on the door.

"Hey! Thanks for coming over." Will moved out of the way so Adrienne could come in. She was one of the only people in Salem who knew his was back. She smiled at Ari and sat down with Will following and sitting opposite. "Sorry I couldn't speak properly the other day but I kind of got an idea where it was going… so Sonny's ex is Paul Norita?"

Sonny got to the club with Chad waiting for him.

"Listen, man, I don't think this club extension is going to be affordable and practical enough for us. There's just no point to it anymore, let's just stay the way we are for a while." Chad started to walk out before Sonny could argue with him but it was too late.

"I've already started all the payments and planning Chad, it's happening, I can't pull out of it now!"

"I've gotta run, I'll talk later." Chad went to leave, he could still hear Sonny but pretended he couldn't.

"You always run, you're never here, you don't get the right to make decisions." Sonny shouted but thought Chad hadn't heard him.

Sonny stormed out not too long after and headed for Victors.

As Victor let him in, he asked his nephew, "Have you had time to think about Will now?"

"Yes but that's not the reason I'm here, first of all, sorry for the way I acted the other day, I have thought about everything and no one really knows this yet but Will is home, he's finished his job and he's back, however, today Chad decided to pull out of the business offer. He doesn't want to extend the club." Sonny placed his hands on his hips and looked at his uncle for help.

"So you want my help when it comes to your business but not your personal life?"

"Yes, Paul Norita is in fact gay and he and Sonny have history." Adrienne smiled at Will as he passed her a drink.

"He's a baseball player, I can't believe I never knew he was out!" Will said smiling.

"This is the problem, I wanted to tell you about him without Sonny knowing because Paul never came out, he chose baseball over coming out and having a relationship with Sonny so that's why I called you, you needed to come home and save your marriage because he's undergoing surgery in Salem hospital." Adrienne told her son in law.

"Well thank you for keeping me updated, I can't believe he's kept it from me but I'm not gonna let on that I know yet." Will passed Ari a toy and smiled.

"Yet? Will you can't say anything, please, just make sure Sonny doesn't get distracted by Paul." Adrienne looked worried about the extent of Sonny's secret that she'd exposed.

"Why? Do you think he will get distracted?" Will asked.

"If you don't look after each other and care for each other, then maybe."

"I'm sorry about that Uncle Vic! I really am but what do you think I should do now?" Sonny pleaded for help.

"Leave it with me, I'll call you later, right now, go and spend some time with Will and make up the time that you've been away from each other."

Sonny was grateful that so many people cared about his relationship.

"Thank you." As Sonny left, his phone buzzed.

The hospital had called him and left a voicemail asking him to call by to collect an order form that was needed urgently, as he rushed to the hospital, he read over the order form and as he'd finished he was annoyed to see Chad stood kissing Jordan and obviously having fun while he, once again, took care of business.

"Nice to see you working hard." Sonny sarcastically threw his way.

"Oh sorry Sonny, just because your husband isn't around at the moment, don't ruin everybody else's happiness." As Chad scoffed back, Paul walked round the corner with a drink, he'd obviously innocently been for a walk but he'd heard what Chad had said and took it as an opportunity to listen, only Sonny had seen him taking his tie to enter his room so he could hear what was being said so he acted on it. "As a matter of fact, Will is home and I am happy with him but I'm not happy with the way you've rejected the club and now you don't want to extend."

Jordan snuck back off to work as the guys spoke and Paul listened.

"Listen, I'm sorry… I've got other priorities at the minute, let the club have a little time to make a little profit and then I'll reconsider." Chad ran after Jordan smiling away while Sonny closed his eyes and took a deep breath at the counter of the hospital desk.

"So you need someone to invest in your club?" Sonny turned to see Paul asking.

A well paid baseball player was asking if he needed someone to invest in his club.

As Adrienne left her sons apartment, Will went to sit down as he heard a knock at the door. He swung round to see Zoe at the door.

"I heard you were back because I have contacts and needed to track you down, I'd have asked a sports editor to do this piece but it's not really sport that I want it written about, do you know Paul Norita?" Zoe looked in her back for some papers.

"Oh yeah, hi, nice to see you too." Will sarcastically replied with.

"No time for that, do you know him or not?" Zoe asked.

"Um," Will was about to say no but thought about all the doors that just opened for him, all the control he would have, "yes, he's in Salem hospital right now."

"Okay, well," Zoe looked up to think about timing, "It's Friday today, I want this piece by Tuesday, just write everything you know and can find out about him."