A/N: Okay, so sense I know some people are interested I will post. I will replace the big author's note with this. I've tried to drop hints through the chapter on who Mac's son is, if you've read the note then it might hit you sooner than if you haven't, but what I tried to do is make clearer near the end. I hope you all enjoy.

Disclaimer: It's simple, I don't own 'em.

Bonds

Chapter One - Memories

Today was not a busy day in the New York crime lab, which was why Mac Taylor sat at his desk in his office. He had been invited for lunch by Stella. The woman who had started seeing sense Peyton had decided to stay in London which severed their relationship, but he had turned her down. He was too lost in thoughts about the recent case they had finished. This particular case brought back memories from his own past, memories he never quite forgotten, but hadn't thought about this hard in a long while. In this case they had found a woman and her husband dead and their few month old child was missing. It had turned out that the baby although belonging to the woman was not the husbands son. The babies true father in rage had killed his former lover and her husband and taken his child to raise on his own. Not only did this case remind him of his own past, but in ways it reminded him of the Mitchum case that happened a little over a year ago. The thing is Mac Taylor was a man of many secrets. One of his biggest secrets that no one knew about, not even Stella was that he had a son, but it had not been with Claire the woman he had previously been married to, but a woman he had been seeing before he had met Claire. A woman he had met about thirty years ago, her name at the time had been Victoria McKenny. He still remembered the time she had told him she was pregnant. It had been sometime in late May he was about twenty-three at the time and it was the year 1977 when she had returned to Chicago after a few weeks in New York.

Flashback

"Mac, I a.. met someone in New York and we really hit it off."

Mac could feel his heart sink. "Why are you telling me this Vikki?"

"It's never going to work between us Mac. We always knew that, but this guy is perfect for me I can just feel it. We know we want to marry each other and we only knew each other for a few weeks. The thing is he a bit older then you and all ready has a two year old son."

"Vikki I-"

"No Mac listen. I told him I was pregnant and I told him it was his, but it's not Mac. I told him a week or so after we a.. you know, but I know it's not his because I wasn't feeling myself before I left for New York in the third week of April. What I'm trying to say Mac-"

"Is that it's mine."

Victoria only nodded her head and looked down at her feet. "I'm sorry I cheated on you."

"What do you want me to do to help you sup-"

"I don't want you to do anything. I'm going to marry the man I met in New York because I know I love him.-"

"But you've only known him for a month, how can you-"

"Mac I know I love him, but that's beside the point. I'm going to have this baby, but you will have nothing to do with raising it. I'm sorry Mac goodbye."

End Flashback

Victoria had left Mac believing he'd never find anyone else that was until he met Claire. That reminded Mac of Reed, Claire's own son. Reed had asked Mac if he had any half siblings and it was true that he didn't, but in some sort of odd way sense Claire had wanted to find Reed when he turned eighteen it kind of made Reed feel like a step-son, but that would make his own son Reed's step-brother in a way, but then again no one knew about his son except himself and Victoria.

The truth of the matter was that Mac thought he was very lucky, even though he had to keep things to himself. He found himself lucky because he got to work with his son on a lot of the cases that came through week after week and that was where his memories were leading now. It was a few years ago and he had just wrapped up the first case he worked with his son when he got a call from Victoria, a woman he hadn't heard from in a little over twenty years.

Flashback

Mac answered his office phone as he was getting ready to leave. "Taylor."

"Mac, so help me god,"

"Victoria?"

"Yes Mac, it's me. I just got off the phone with my son; he says he worked his first case with you."

"You mean our son."

"No Mac, mine. You will not tell him anything, he's not to know that you're his father. Do I make myself clear?"

"He's an adult. I think he deserves to know the truth Victoria."

"I will not allow it. He will not know Mac."

"Whatever you say Victoria. If you want to keep him the dark I'll let you continue it, but it may be a mistake when he finds out on his own."

End Flashback

Mac had listened to Victoria, although he did not know why and had not told his son the truth. Although certain situations in some of the cases had made him what to he still had not, even to this day, but now more than ever he wanted to just tell him. His son's thirtieth was coming up and his own fifty-third was shortly behind that. He turned to face outside there was light snowfall outside. He hoped Stella was enjoying her lunch with Danny and Lindsay. Danny and Lindsay had recently gotten married; it had been a happy event for everyone. Hawkes and Stella had couched Lindsey through everything; Mac figured it was because they were all in the same foster home at one point in their lives. As the snow began to come harder one more memory came to him. It took place on a January in '78, like today it was snowing in Chicago, but he also knew it was snowing in New York because of the News. It was close to dinner time when Mac received a call.

Flashback

Mac let the phone ring a few times before he decided to pick it up. "Taylor."

"Mac, it's me, Victoria. I just thought you ought to know. I had the baby a few days ago and he's healthy."

"That's good to know Vikki."

"Mac."

"Yeah."

"We've decided to name him after.."

"After what? Your father?" Mac asked, he knew how much Victoria's father meant to her.

"No, we're naming him after my husband."

"What? It's not even his kid. You can't name him after a man that's not his real father."

"Yes I can. You know he thinks he's the real father and he wants his first son with me to be named after him. His first wife would not allow it, but I am."

"It's not his."

"I did not call you to argue. I just wanted you to know that the babies healthy, bye," she yelled through the phone and hung up.

It was in that moment Mac stopped calling her Vikki and now only called her Victoria.

End Flashback

Mac stood up from his desk to stretch. Hawkes came in the office a worried look on his face. "Sheldon?"

"Mac we just got call out to Queens. Calls came in about shots fired. It's Don's parents place Mac. I can't find him do you know where he is?"

The words that fell from Sheldon's mouth hit him like a ton of bricks. Don had told him that he had today off and was going to his parent's house because they were going to throw him a party. "Mac?" Sheldon asked worried about the look on Mac's face.

"He's there Sheldon, he's at the house," said Mac moving out behind his desk and swiftly past Hawkes.

He didn't see the look on Hawkes face. "I'll call the others, give them the address and tell them to get their fast," Hawkes yelled to a retreating Mac.

All that was going through Mac's mind was that this couldn't be happening. Don almost died before in the bombing at the brokerage firm. He hoped Don was okay that he was still alive and not too severely injured. He could not lose his son before he told him the truth.

A/N: Tah Dah! So that was the first chapter. Just to clear one thing up, I wanted to make things so they were almost kinda connected as a family. Stella, Lindsey, and Sheldon were all in the same foster home for awhile. Stella and Mac are seeing each other. Danny and Lindsey are married. And well, Mac Taylor's son is Don. There were refrences to Silent Night (Mitchum case) Consequences (Mac's talk with Reed) and Charge of this Post. I hope you all liked. I'll try to get the next chapter up as soon as possible. Thanks for reading. StoryDreamer