Will was sitting on the floor, the wall against his back when he heard the door opening. Knowing what would happen next, he stood up.
Though he only had been in jail 5 days and he already knew the hierarchy. In jail there where certain groups protecting their members. Will had no one. As a 'faggot' and a 'snitch' the other inmates despised him.
In the first hour behind bars he already met Jason. Jason was twice as big as Will and the one person every other inmate listened to. Will didn't know what Jason had done to end up in jail but he didn't want to know. It would only make him scarier to him. He heard on the steps that entered the room who it was.
"Jason."
Will didn't look at Jason, that would only provoke him. Though Will knew that his very moves were able to provoke Jason. The first day he made the mistake to look at him. That was a punch in the stomach. The second day he didn't look at him, that also was a mistake and was rewarded with him being dunked into the toilet.
"Look at you. All alone."
Jason's face came near to his. Will tried hard not to breath in. He imagined Sonny being in front of him.
"I heard you are in hear cause you had some urges you had to try at a child, naughty, naughty."
Will shook lightly his head while still standing pressed against the wall.
"That's not true."
Jason laughed. While laughing Will saw his teeth, their rotten smell reached Will's nose. He tried not to breath in.
"See. I wouldn't guessed that either. You are not the person to just take what you want, are you?"
With those words his hands wandered down at Will's sides, his neck, his chest, his backside. Heavenly breathing in Will closed the eyes and tried to wind himself out of this uncomfortable situation. He knew Jason was playing with him.
"Not so fast, Will. Sweet Will."
Jason lick his lips and showed his teeth. Will knew what was coming towards him. He had seen enough documentaries about wild animals. The look was the same. It was a threat without any sound.
"I haven't finished with you yet. I've heard your hearing is today."
Will didn't say anything. He knew that he wouldn't get out without his daily punches. Especially, when Jason might feared never to see Will again. When he feared to loose his toy.
Will got tired of fighting Jason. He had done that the first days but when he just gotten even more hurt. He had given up fighting his destiny. He was just thinking about court. About the few hours he was safe. That few hours where he could see Sonny again.
Sonny hadn't been here for two days and Will understood that. It was hard to visit him at visitation hours. The coffee shop couldn't be on its own especially now when Chad was out of town. Sonny had no one to cover his shifts and that was fully ok. Will wouldn't want Sonny to see him like this anyway.
Will felt so weak. Being a man. But here in jail he felt so small. So weak. So fragile.
"Kiss me."
Jason demanded. Will knew how this was going down. Kissing him meant implying he was gay. He would get hurt. Not kissing him meant not following his rules. He would get hurt.
"Never." His voice came out stronger than Will actually was.
He pressed his eyes closed expecting the first punch. And it came. It came with such a strength straight to his jaw that Will heard it crack. The second and third punch landed in the region around his stomach causing him to throw up blood. He tasted the cold and metal taste on his tongue. The fourth and fifth were kicks to his backs, going straight to his spine and leaving a feeling of numbness there.
"So Willy. We are nearly through but you need to be even more beautiful for court."
With those words Jason pulled Will up, so that she stood. Will's legs were shaking and every move hurt like hell. He felt the drying blood on his tongue on his lips.
Jason pushed him against the bars of the cell. The force of the impact was so tremendous that he immediately felt the blood running along the sides of his face. He put his hands to his forehead, feeling the open wound, the blood. He had an head ache and when everything started to spin around him he lay down on the floor.
"Mr Horton?"
Will didn't move. Everything hurt. He could literally not move even opening his eyes caused his cell to spin.
"You need to get up. Your hearing starts in an hour."
Sonny. Will needed to get to court. He needed to see Sonny. That was the force pulling him up to his feet, pushing him to the sink. Carefully trying not to make it worse, Will cleared his forehead. It was swollen one saw the wound flaunting in the middle.
He limbed back to his bed, pulling up the suit they had brought him. Under big struggle he climbed into his trousers, feeling nothing in his legs except the pure pain. He tried to button his shirt but his hands felt too numb to do it. He decided to let someone do it.
Slowly and in pain Will limbed towards the exit. He was leaving his cell and for a short moment he had hop that everything was going to work out. He had the best lawyers on his side. Next to Justin EJ had offered his help. Will had agreed. EJ helped him a lot in the past and maybe it showed that EJ didn't hate Will for shooting him. Sadly, he wouldn't see his family. His mother and grandparents were out of town together with his siblings. He wasn't even sure whether EJ and his dad told them. His dad was the only one from his direct family who would be there. But he wasn't there as a visitor but as a witness. He had to confirm that he went to prison for Will.
Will breathed out as he heard the buzzing from the door, meaning he was out of jail and away from his nightmares.
