"The prosecution calls Jackson Steven Kiriakis as witness."

Will was surprised. He hadn't known Sonny was going to testify. It made sense though but Will didn't want him standing up there. He would be caught in the middle and he didn't deserve that.

"What is your relationship to the defendant?"

Sonny cleared his throat before he spoke. His voice sounded steady but a bit low.

"William Horton is my boyfriend or life partner, whatever you prefer."

"So you live in a homosexual relationship, Mr Kiriakis?"

"Yes, Sir."

Sonny looked to Will. It was a look full of understanding and love.

"Please tell me when you met Ariana Grace Fallon for the first time."

Sonny closed the eyes for a second.

"Do you mean the very first time?"

"I thought my question was clear enough?"

Sonny nodded. He smiled.

"It was. I just wanted to make sure you are prepared for this. I met Ariana Grace 2015 at the square in Salem. That's when I first saw her."

The prosecutor looked troubled.

"When did you speak to her for the first time?"

Sonny laughed.

"That is much more the thing you should be going for. The first word I spoke to Ariana was when she knocked on our door. At the 15th in the evening around evening."

The prosecutor sat down. EJ stood up, preventing that Justin had to interrogate his own son.

"Describe your boyfriend for me, please."

Sonny looked at Will. Then he turned his head to EJ and looked straight into his eyes.

"He is the kindest and most caring person I know. He is incredibly sensitive and couldn't hurt anyone. That's how he know he could never molest anyone. Especially not a girl."

EJ smiled at Sonny and turned around. Justin mouthed something to him and EJ smiled even more.

EJ hardly sat as the prosecutor walked up to Sonny.

"So your basically saying that William never had an intimate relationship with a woman?"

Sonny swallowed.

"No... I wasn't saying that."

"So you are admitting he had had sex with girls."

Sonny nodded. The prosecutor smiled as he won the case already. Justin stood up again and simply asked "Do you happen to with whom?"

Sonny smiled at his father.

"The only girl Will ever had sex with was the former Gabriella Hernandez. Today's Gabriella Fallon."

"Thank you. This witness is dismissed."

As next witness Gaby went to the stand. Her steps were slow and carefully. She looked to the floor until she reached the stand. Will knew that her reason for doing so was different from Nick's. She was ashamed that she was here against him. After all they had been friends.

The prosecutor walked up and down as he asked Gaby the next question.

"So you were involved with the defendant?"

"A long time ago."

"Would you please describe him?" The prosecutor asked, picking up EJ's question.

"I would describe him in the same way Sonny just did."

Her voice was quiet and shaking. She clearly didn't want to be here.

"Are you sure, Mrs Fallon? Isn't there anything you would like to add?"

Gaby thought about that longer as for the other questions. She looked at Nick. And for a short moment she even glanced at Will before looking back down to her hands.

"Well, back when I was involved with him he was very troubled."

Will sank together. 'Troubled' wasn't a good adjective to be described with. He looked at the Jury but all of their faces were barely moved by their thoughts and feelings.

"Why would you say that?"

Gaby looked at Will. This time her look stayed at his face. He felt that she was getting the strength to talk about that while looking at him.

"Back then Will discovered that he wasn't straight. He was troubled cause he had to figure out who he was."

As soon as Gaby stopped speaking Will felt that her look had moved away from him.

"One last question Mrs Fallon. Would you trust that Mr Horton could molest a child."

Will prayed to god in that very moment. It was important that Gaby was on his side here. He needed her to tell the truth. But he knew that she had to choose in this very moment. She had to choose between her husband and the boy who once knocked her up. He knew what she was going to pick.

"I don't think Will could ever molest a child. Not important whether boy or girl. He wouldn't do that. Never."

Will couldn't believe what he just heard. He looked at Sonny seeing him as surprised as everyone else. Nick was looking angrily at Gaby, while she was just trying to find Will's eyes. As soon as she found them he was mouthing a 'Thank you'.

"If you don't think he could molest a child, why are we here, today?"

Gaby shook her head. She buried her face in her hands. She sobbed.

"I don't know. I guess because Nick wanted this."

"So your husband raised a suspicion against the defendant for no reason?"

Will felt that the prosecutor was stressed. He didn't expect his client to change sides.

"I am not saying that. I guess he had his reasons. For once, our daughter was in his house just dressed in her underwear while being 17 and him being 35."

"Why did you say for once?"

The prosecutor wasn't content with her choice of words. He didn't want the defence to pick those words up, so he picked it up herself trying to prevent further damage.

"Because I fear that my husband is a bigot. And that part of this accusation is based on his believes."

Suddenly there was an uproar in the court, Nick was screaming to his lawyers, the prosecutor was talking to Gaby, EJ was talking to Justin and only Will sat still as if nothing had happened. Gaby caught him very off guard here. He always saw her as someone evil, as monster keeping him away from his daughter. But he seemingly he had forgotten that Nick was the real monster in this fight and that Gaby didn't know anything.