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Summary: Five years after a plane crash leaves Jeff Hardy presumed dead, his fiancée is ready to move on, to a new life with her autistic son. But what happens when her life is turned upside down with a blast from her not so distant past and she is forced to reevaluate everything she thought she knew?

Matt had gone back on the road again, back to the world him and Jeff had made their own; the WWE and she found herself pensive hoping his flight out would be okay. It was a habit that she couldn't break; worrying about Matt. She never wanted to live through another plane crash again.

Mariska watched her son before her, flapping his arms in the air; waving a string around talking to it in a voice only used for this type of play. It was a symptom of the Autism, the doctor had told her at the appointment only a few days before. Before the diagnosis she used to chalk his play up to being like his father, the enigma and imaginative Jeff, but after the medical testing, she now supposed she knew better.

Understanding why he did it did not make it any easier to cope with though. At the very least she was thankful that she had Matt and his understanding nature around them because he dealt a lot better with it then she did.

"Mommy; is uncle Matt going to be my new daddy?"

She looked up from her magazine and her thoughts and saw the questioning look on her sons face. It was obvious he had this marriage on his mind and truth be told; she was thankful for the distraction.

"He wants to be your Daddy honey but he also told you last night that it's up to you."

JJ seemed to think about that for a few seconds; all the while Mariska watching the changes in him. They had discussed with JJ last night just what this wedding and marriage would mean. Matt had even gone so far as to ask JJ if he could marry his mother. The gesture had touched Mariska's heart more then she had let on and was equally touched when JJ had given him the okay.

"I think Uncle Matt would make a good daddy." JJ blurted out, looking at his mother again. "Can I call him Daddy from now on?"

Now this was where Mariska's heart became twisted and broken. She knew no one could ever take Jeff's place both in her heart and where her son was concerned, but was she really okay with Jeff's son calling another man, even if it was his Uncle, Daddy? At this point she just wasn't sure anymore. It didn't help matters much that she had been thinking not of her upcoming wedding, or her pregnancy, but of her past with Jeff lately either.

The phone rang at that moment blissfully saving Mariska from having to directly answer JJ's question. As she stood from the chair she made sure her son would stay put while she ran inside the door for the phone. Content that he would, she ran in and picked up the receiver and answered politely.

"Hardy Residence."

She had answered the phone that way for years; ever since Jeff had proposed six months before his death. It felt like home saying it and in a few short weeks it would finally be a reality. Just not in the way she had originally imagined it.

"I miss you and JJ. Can I skip this one tour and come home and be with you?"

Mariska smiled at the sound of his voice coming through the speaker into her ears. He always did this when he had to go on a tour and she never tired of it. For when he did it, she was re affirmed of her feelings for him and the future they were going to share.

"You know you can but I do not think you'd have a job to go back too if you actually did it. We miss you too though. We we just talking about you."

"Really?" Matt asked, his interest obviously peaked, even from a million miles away. "What ego boosting things am I getting today?"

He didn't know it but she couldn't stop smiling. She hadn't smiled a lot since losing Jeff the way she had but Matt was slowly changing that. She wished he was here to bear witness to the changes in her.

"JJ wants to call you Daddy."

Matt was silent then, making Mariska worry that they had been disconnected. It was when she heard the muffled sound of a sniffle that she understood the silence. He was so touched that he was crying.

"Is it Fathers Day?" he choked out then, again making Mariska's heart warm with love.

"No but I bet it sure feels like it is."

They talked a little while longer, reaffirming their feelings for each other and just how much they missed each other and couldn't wait until they were back in each others arms again. After a few short moments Matt said he had to go.

"I love you Mariska, and I will call you and JJ again tomorrow."

She said she loved him back all the while trying to stop the worry that was rising in her stomach. She hated when Matt promised another call as it always made her fear for the time when like his brother before him, the call wouldn't come.