Sorry everyone for not updated, I've been really busy lately.
Sonny didn't know what to do. Over the weeks he watched his family and friends live without him. Watched as they laughed, and as they cried. He watched them as the seasons and days pass. He watched as Will became a shell of who he was. He watched Will's face crumble when Gabi told him she was going to keep the kids with her for a while. He watched the front door of the Kiriakus mansion close, when Victor couldn't deal with Will anymore.
Sonny visited his kids every night, talked with all of them once Justin was let in on the secret. It was like he was still there except Will wasn't in the picture. He worked and worked, until he got fired for punching a co-worker. The co-worker had it coming, but he didn't stop with the one punch.
Ej and Sami gave Will some money every week. Enough for food,rent and other things. But Will just spent them on booze. He would go to bars and drink until he couldn't remember his loose. Couldn't remember where his family was, or that Sonny was dead. Sonny would watch him every night from a distance, see him passing out on the streets and on bar stools. Even on the floor of his studio apartment.
Sonny knew he had to do something when Will didn't call or see the kids for the tenth day in a row.
That's where Gabi found him, standing above his grave with tears in his eye. The date on the stone was his birth to his death. The reminder of everything going wrong. He nelt down and sighed. As tears fell, Gabi hugged him.
"Has it been really been this long?" He asked her.
"Yeah Sonny, i don't know where the time went." They looked at the death day, a year he was gone was in two days. For them he never left. For everyone else, it was a year without his jokes. Without his love. Without his coffee. A year without him.
"Gabi," he cried. He couldn't finish the sentence.
"I know Sonny, i think they know too."
"I'm gonna miss them so much," he sobbed, words sounding blurred together. Gabi just hugged him tighter.
That night, they had dinner. The kids ate and laughed as much as usual. Afterwards, they got ready for bed and went to wait for their story. Sonny looked at them and smiled.
"What story tonight Papa?" Justin asked.
"No story tonight Bud," he sighed. Justin and Ari looked confused, Lucas looked like he was gonna be sick.
"Why not," Ari asked.
"We have to talk about-"
"No," Lucas interupted.
"Lu-"
"I said no," Lucas said stubbornly, "You can't"
"Papa what is he talking about?" Ari asked.
"I'm gonna go see your Dad."
The kids cried, He hugged them and they wrapped their hands around him until their little fingers were white. They didn't speak, no words had to. They knew what Sonny was doing, they missed Will too. They've cried for Will, just as much as they did when Sonny died. He missed everything the past year, to holidays, to school, to even saying goodnight and good morning.
"You be good," Ari said when they finally let go, making Sonny chuckle.
"I will Sweetie pie," he smiled and hugged her one last time. He turned to Justin, "Don't be a monkey, you stay on the bed you hear me," Justin laughed and hugged Sonny. Finally, he turned to Lucas, "When you get older, don't become a mad scientist and blow up the world," Lucas gave him a smug look, "Okay fine." Sonny hugged him too.
"I love you guys so much," one tear fell. They said it back, and he closed his eyes and let him self disappear. When he opened them, he was in Will's apartment, Will sleeping on the bed. Sonny smiled. This was gonna be the worse moment in his life.