I found a bunch of mistakes while reading this so I'm fixing it.
A one shot related to my story Sleepless. It's basically a summary of what happens with Wendy & Mark before Mark goes to live with Conner & M'gann.
If you haven't read Sleepless I suggest you do, cuz if you don't you will be confused.
Also if you want to know what happens to Mark after it ends please read Sleepless.
*several events from Season 2 don't happen in this timeline*
Wendy finds out she's pregnant three days after they graduate from college.
She's shocked, to say the least, especially since last she heard the father wanted to get back with his long term ex and high school sweet heart, and a baby with one of said ex's best friends would absolutely destroy any chance of that, whether they were a family or simply co parented while dating other people.
So she decides to not tell him at all.
The way he had panicked in the aftermath of their drunken night together in her apartment and having spent half an hour pleading before finally convincing her to pretend it never happened gave her the impression he wouldn't want the baby anyway.
Not if it wasn't Megan's anyway...
She doesn't tell any of their mutual friends either. If it got back to Conner that she was pregnant, or Megan found out it was his...
Oh God...
Wendy was living in a small two bedroom apartment just outside of Metropolis within a month. It's small and cozy and the rent is cheap, plus it's perfect for a fresh college graduate who's carrying a child she's 99% sure will in some way ruin their Father's life simply because she is their Mother...
She decides to not think of that any longer. She has more important things to worry about.
Her belly is growing and growing each and every day, becoming more obvious that the still 22 year old is carrying a life inside her. She can't wait to hold her son or daughter in her arms and raise them to be a strong willed and open minded respectable person.
She finds out that her and Conner's baby (she has got to stop saying it's his, even though the dates match up way too fucking perfectly for her liking, and the only other person she had sex with that entire semester was back near New Years and she's not far enough along for it to be that guys baby, plus Conner still loves Megan no matter how much he'll try to deny it, so maybe if she just stops saying that this is Conner's baby it'll some how miraculously become true) is a little boy exactly halfway through her pregnancy in August.
She can't wait to see him enter the world so she can cherish him and tell him stories about how her childhood was (minus meeting his Dad at 16 and conceiving him through a very drunk one night stand a few days after he turned 22).
After spending nearly two and a half months searching names and debating on which names would or wouldn't sound good with the surname Harris, Wendy finally- finally- decides on a naming for her perfect son.
Marcus James.
She thinks it's a bit risqué, having her son share a middle name with the biological father she's 95% sure he won't meet before turning 18 (not if she can help it anyway) but she wanted a part of Conner to be with their son and his middle name was the least obvious way she could think of.
Besides, Conner has two middle names, and James is the least obvious of the two in her opinion. If him and M'gann get back together and have a son, they can use the name Austin, even though they don'tand will never know that Wendy used James for her and Conner's son.
Conner Austin James Kent. As much as would love to name her son after his Father, she can't. She doesn't have the right.
But it's something she can see him and Megan doing.
Her baby boy Mark is due on New Years, and while she can't wait to see him, she prays he doesn't look too much like Conner.
Though both him and her have black hair, blue eyes, perfectly tanned skin, so she really can't say much.
Wendy ends up meeting Mark a few days prior to her due date. His birth is an emergency c-section, because her perfect little boy had decided he wanted to come out of his loving mother sideways and wouldn't budge to save anyone's life.
Stubborn. Just like his Daddy.
As her seven pound newborn son is laid on her chest, Wendy can't help but think that Marcus is as perfect and beautiful as she had dreamed he would be.
The first six months of his life are pretty calm and quiet. Mark is what many online forum groups described as being the perfect baby; quiet yet not too quiet, takes to breast feeding easily, sleeps most of the night, no colic.
Wendy thinks he's perfect regardless of what he can or can not do.
Through a bit of Facebook snooping, she learns right after Mark turns one that not only did Conner and Megan get back together (they're married now oh gosh that's so sweet) but that the two of them had welcomed a baby girl they had decided to name Lisa Marie Kent into the world barely three weeks before her Marcus turned one.
Marcus was a big brother to a sister he would probably never get to meet.
She hoped out of fear of unintentional incest that Megan and Conner and any other children they might have after Lisa will stay in Happy Harbor.
Based on their wedding date and Lisa's birth date (December 4th, she could've been a Christmas baby), it was safe for Wendy to assume M'gann was nearly four months pregnant when they got married.
But she refused to judge her old high school friends for having a shot gunwedding.
Does it still count as Irish twins if the siblings have different Mom's...?
Two weeks before Marcus turned two, he finds a box of a bunch of Wendy's old high school photos she had kept hidden under her bed.
While she was in the kitchen cooking chicken nuggets for his lunch, Mark went through the box, recognize pictures of his mom with various other people.
But there was one photo in particular, that caught his attention. Picking it up, he left his mom's room (with nearly a dozen other photos laying all over the floor.) and waddled towards the kitchen on his short chubby legs.
When Wendy saw the photo he held in his chubby hands, gorgeous blue eyes- her blue eyes- wide with curiousity as he stretched it up towards her, she couldn't help but sigh, deciding that Marcus should get the chance to know at least something about his Daddy.
She explained to him who that was with her in the photo, taken at their graduation (Happy Harbor High School had made the Valedictorian and the Salutatorian of each graduating class- that being her and Conner respectably- take a photo together post graduation with their diplomas) and how they had known eachother and how he had fallen head over heels in love with a girl named Megan who in return loved him back.
She doesn't tell him about Lisa though. She won't.
Mark had been in awe after that, knowing that he had a Daddy. When asked where he was, Wendy ignored him and changed the subject back to his lunch.
He picks up one of the dining room chairs the day after his second birthday.
Wendy nearly jumps out of her skin when she watches it happen. How is he able to do that? She can't do that!
Can Conner...?
It's one of the few moments in the nearly three years since she had last seen him that she wishes she had told him they had made a baby together.
But she doesn't know what to do. Her two year old is picking up pieces of furniture that she herself can barely pick up with absolute ease.
But there's no one to talk to, not without risking someone trying to take Mark away to run tests on and poke and prod him. And Wendy refuses to let her baby be a lab rat for some sick fuck to torture.
She nearly has a stroke when he jumps completely over the couch with one jump six weeks later...
The August 17th, a few short months before Mark's third birthday, had started out like any other day. Wendy placed Mark in his car seat as she drove to Metropolis to run errands.
But as she was crossing an interstate in down town Metropolis, a loud object struck the side of her car were both her and Mark had been sitting.
And in that moment, her life ended and her precious Marcus's life changed forever.