Sonny rings the door to the Kiriakis mansion. Nobody answers and he rings again a few times. Fives minutes later, his uncle opens the door himself. As this is a first-time occurrence, Sonny asks apprehensively "Is everything's fine ? We were scheduled for a family dinner, right ?" Victor frowns and lead Sonny to the living-room. He turns to Sonny and say "Sonny, I want you not to panic... It might not be as serious as it looks..." "Great job" Sonny interrupts him " Now, I am panicking. What's going on ?" "Adrienne has cut her hand open with a kitchen knife... She was all excited to see you tonight and she wanted to cook herself, and..." Sonny feels faint and leans on the edge of the couch "Is she at the hospital ?" "At the ER. I'll tell my chauffeur to drive you there." Sonny refuses " I came with my car." Victor lays his hand on Sonny's shoulder and say in a firm tone " There is no way I am letting you drive in this state of nerves." Sonny takes a deep breath and thanks his uncle.
Sonny comes running to the hospital's hallway, with the awry impression of repeating the night of Abby's accident, when he was looking for Will. Here, though, he knows a few people and he can see his aunt Jen waving at him. "Sonny!' She shouts "Come here!". He walks to her and has a weird feeling, like he recognized someone else. "Adrienne is having surgery later. A hand-surgeon is flying here in a helicopter from Chicago." Sonny is surprised of such an arrangement for a cut finger then it clicks "... paid by my uncle Victor ?" Jen smiles " Yes, he insisted. It's going to take a little time, though. You can go see her, she's in room 215 down that hallway."
Relieved at finding his mother her usual self, more worried about him than about her health, Sonny offers to go and fetch coffee for his father. He goes back to the hallway where his aunt calls him to introduce him to a severe-looking man that Sonny suspects is a police officer. "Sonny, this is Captain Roman Brady." Sonny shakes hand saying "I'm a friend of Will. He talks about you a lot. He said you were handling Abby's hit-and-run case ?" Roman looks even graver. "I just got a phone call from Chicago. The car have finally been linked to the hospital. I'm here on duty." "Well, good luck!" says Sonny, sincere. He wouldn't mind they catch the person who ran over his cousin, he'd be thrilled, in fact. The coffee machine is broken, so Jen tells Sonny "You can go to the employees' one, it's a few corridors away, next to the locker room." She gives him a few directions and he goes wandering in the hospital. He finally see the coffee machine and something in his mind clicks. That was Cam he unconsciously noticed earlier. Here he is, in a heated argument with a male nurse. They are whispering but their voices rise at times and Sonny hears " If I get arrested, you're going down with me for complicity after the act..." Sonny takes a step back on instinct and drops in the locker room. A few moments later, the nurse strides by the door and Sonny waits a bit then goes out to talk to Cam but he has left too. He assumes the nurse made a malpractice and is now trying to hush his doctor down.
While surgery is in progress, Sonny sits on one of the waiting room's benches while his father goes and chat with Jen. Sonny feels his eyelids drop but he fight it off, in case something happens. He looks at his cellphone. It's one a.m. Too late to call Chad or Abby and chat the time away. He scrolls down his contact list, pauses when Will's appears and passes his thumb on the photo. It was taken on Valentine's day when Will spotted Abby come into Common Ground and he wishes this joyous expression would be directed at him instead of his cousin. A finger taps his shoulder and he asks without turning "So, dad, any news ?" "I'm way too young to be your dad, Sonny, were you about to call me ?" This time, Sonny turns his head then jumps on his feet. "No, I... I thought it was too l ate. Are you visiting anyone ?" "No, Grandpa Roman called to tell me about Abby's case and he told me about your mum. He thought she would go through surgery tomorrow, so, I thought you'd go home with your dad to let her rest and I would call you in the morning to ask how you were doing ?" Sonny's heart dissolves. How can he move on from his feelings for Will when he's sweet like that ? "And then, aunt Jen called to talk about something urgent with my dad and she mentioned the helicopter stuff. So I said bye to my father and I came to be with you while she's operated on." Sonny doesn't exist anymore. Instead, there's a puddle of melted emotions on the floor. He tries to say something but no word pass his throat and he can only look at him in gratitude. His knees give way and he falls back on the bench. Will asks, worried "You must be exhausted. You had a coffee ?" "Yes" Sonny manages to say "It isn't enough, though." "You can lie for a while, I guess one can sleep on these things." says Will, knocking on the metallic seat. Sonny shakes his head but Will doesn't give up "Come on, I'll wake you, if there's anything." Will takes his jacket off, curls it in a ball and put it on one side of the bench. Sonny lays his head on it and his legs on the seat. He falls asleep instantly.