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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?
He paced back and forth throughout the kitchen; watching the woman who he had pledged his life to cooking him dinner. Bethany had been wonderful to him throughout everything after the accident and he couldn't have asked for a more attentive wife. Which made what he had to tell her now that much more difficult.
"Baby; I need to talk to you. It's kind of important. Can you slow cook the dinner and sit down with me for a few minutes please?"
She did as he asked and took a seat at the table, fully aware that what he needed to say to her was obviously eating him alive as he hadn't talked to her much since she had arrived home that day. She had noticed his pacing but hadn't wanted to cause a stir. She knew deep down that he would talk in his own time. Which apparently was now.
"What's going on AJ?"
He cupped his hands together and looked directly in her eyes. "I think I know who I am. I found out some things today. I just know that I can't keep it from you. You deserve to know just who I am just as much as I do."
"What have you found out AJ? What has you all torn up like this?"
"My name is Jeffrey Nero Hardy, my birthday is August 31, 1977 and I have a brother and a father who fully believe that I am dead. I am a professional wrestler with a company named the WWE." He knew he had left out possibly the most important part. The part about his fiancée and their son but he wasn't even sure if the baby was alive or not. Should he even bother her with that news?
She didn't say anything at first but then began talking. "A Father and a Brother? My God AJ!..I mean Jeff. They must be completely destroyed not knowing that you are alive! Is there anything else?"
"I was born in Cameron, North Carolina, where my brother and father still apparently live but I am not completely sure on that. There isn't much else I know at this point."
Bethany was silent for a few moments, letting it all sink in. For years she had been content now knowing about his past, just wanting to be a part of his future but now she was faced with the reality that this man, her husband had a complete other life, separate from the one that they shared together. That thought was heartbreaking but she forged on.
"What are you going to do?"
"I booked a flight today to North Carolina. It leaves in the morning. I want you to be with me but at the same time I feel like I need to do this on my own. I need to see my brother and father, even if it is from a distance for the time being."
I also need to see if I have a son. He thought but never said aloud.
He hated keeping this from her, but in his mind he knew it might just be the thing to break her heart. It would come out if and when it had been confirmed and he only hoped his wife could forgive him for omitting it now. He just knew it was the right thing to do.