Mary stood in line at the concession stand waiting to place her order. She and John had brought their son Michael to a Vikings game for the first time. She wasn't sure who was more excited, John or Michael. She felt so lucky to have two wonderful guys in her life, her 5 year old son and her husband. John had adopted Michael after they got married shortly after he was born. They also just found out they were expecting a child of their own. Michael's biological father, Matt had left Mary to take a job in Europe and didn't know about Michael. Mary glanced around as she waited and couldn't believe who was standing in the other line, it was Matt. She averted her eyes but he looked up and noticed her.

"Mary?" he asked

Mary turned her head, "Matt? Well, what a surprise."

He smiled, "Yes, it is. How are you?"

"I'm fine. So what brings you back to Minneapolis?" She asked trying to appear casual

"Work, of course. You know, I never took you for a Vikings fan." He observed.

"Oh, well…" she started

"Mommy, mommy look what Daddy got me!" Michael came running up to her in line with a football.

"Oh, well sweetheart that's great. Where is Daddy?" She looked around for John and saw him trailing behind.

He approached them, out of breath, "Hey, champ, don't run like that, your old man can't keep up."

Mary suddenly remembered Matt, "Oh, I'm sorry. Matt, this is my husband John and our son Michael." This whole thing seemed surreal to her.

John didn't seem to recall the name, "Hi," he extended his hand and shook Matt's, "Do you work with Mary?"

"Oh no, just an old friend." Matt explained, and then turned to Michael, "Hello there, young man."

Michael reached out his little hand, "Hi, I'm Michael Richard Davis, nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too, tell me, how old are you?" Matt asked

"I'm five." Michael said holding up his hand

Matt turned to Mary and John, "Well, you've got quite a young man there."

Mary smiled, "Thank you."

"Ma'am can I help you?" the young man working the concession stand asked.

"Oh, sorry." She said then turned to Matt, "Well it was nice to see you again."

"You too, Mary." Matt said

Mary put up a good front during the game but couldn't stop thinking about Matt. She assumed he was gone forever, not just from her life but from Minneapolis. If he was living here again how long could she keep it from him that Michael was his? But was that really true? He was Michael's biological father but in every way that counted John was Michael's father. He had been there for her during most of her pregnancy and when Michael was born. She didn't mention anything to John later and wasn't sure how to tell him who Matt was.

WJM NEWSROOM- THE FOLLOWING MONDAY

"Hey, Mare, you wanna get some lunch today?" Murray Slaughter asked as he typed away

"Yeah, sure. How about a sandwich at Clancy's?" she suggested as she looked over the production logs.

"Sounds good," Murray said, "You know I don't know why they keep sticking in these international stories, Ted is just gonna mess up the names of the countries, the leaders, oh what am I saying, he does that with local stories."

Mary laughed, "Yeah do you remember my first day here? He had even mispronounced Chicago."

"Mary?" Matt Bryant appeared in the newsroom

"Matt? What are you doing here?" Mary asked stunned

"I need to talk to you and I was hoping you still worked here." He said

"Well, what did you want to talk about?" She asked fearing somehow he had figured it out.

"It's personal." He said

"Oh, well let's use Mr. Grant's office. He's out of town."

They walked into Lou's office and closed the door.

"So what did you want to talk about?" She asked as calmly as possible.

"Mary, I have to know. Is Michael my son?"