"Are we sure that we're ready for this?" Ted sighed as he paced back and forth across their bedroom.

Mary looked up from the bed with a frown. "We can't keep holding it back, baby. People are starting to figure out that we're hiding something. We talk about how awesome Marcus is, yet we never show him off."

Ted nodded, wiping his face in anguish. "I guess you're right. I just wish we had a way to look into the future to know how he's going to take it."

She got up, walking over to her dresser to finish up her packing. "I just can't believe that we're doing it at a pay-per-view."

"I may not get much more screen time than this. I just hope that having them announce us as a couple works in both of our favor," Ted sighed, shaking his head.

Mary frowned, looking over to her husband, "Teddy Bear, we've been married for almost four years. Don't you want to show our love to our adoring fans?"

"Of course not," he walked over to his wife with a smile, placing his hands on her hips. "I love you, Mary. I want the world to know just how much you mean to me."

She smiled, kissing him softly. "So Cody agreed to watch Marcus for us during our match and possibly while we talk to Randy?"

Ted nodded, taking a deep breath. "Let's head to your bestie's hometown."

Mary giggled, "you like John too. He's always been good to us."

…

Over the course of 2012, Ted wasn't being used very well as a face. He was kept out of televised programs well after he returned from injury. At the same time, Mary was well on the rise. She had held the Divas Championship twice, but it wasn't enough for her. She began challenging the mid-card superstars and showed that she could actually perform better going against the men. By the time Night of Champions came around, she was given the opportunity to join in the battle royale for the number one contendership to the United States title along with Ted. At the same time, she was scripted to not win. They walked out to the ring together using her music, holding hands. The ring announcer introduced them as Ted & Mary DiBiase, which got them both a huge pop. The fact that they were married was listed on both of their Wikipedia pages, but not everyone in the WWE Universe had really caught on until then. Moments after Tensai tossed Ted out of the ring, he put Mary up and over, right into the waiting arms of her husband and Michael McGuillicutty, neither men wanting her to get hurt by landing on the concrete floor outside of the ring. Ted carried his wife back behind the curtain, bridal style with McGuillicutty close behind them.

Once they were fully out of any camera's view, Ted put Mary down. She grinned, turning to their old friend and hugging him tightly. "Thanks, Joey."

McGuillicutty returned the hug with a chuckle. "I thought that was you, Mary. I always knew the two of you were going to end up together."

Mary nodded as Cody walked up with Marcus by his side. "Mommy go flying!" the three year-old boy ran up to his mother, jumping into her arms.

"Yes I did, buddy," Mary grinned, Eskimo kissing her son.

McGuillicutty took a good look at the young boy and tilted his head. He stepped away enough to be out of the boy's earshot and spoke quietly to Ted and Cody. "I know that it's not my business, but he doesn't really look like you, Ted."

Mary overhead him and sighed, hugging her son. Ted nodded, "it's because he's not mine. It's a long story."

McGuillicutty nodded, patting Ted's shoulder. "It really takes a big man to step up like this." He offered a smile before heading back to the locker room.

Cody bit his lip, looking over to his best friend. "So I'm assuming there is a reason you brought him here tonight."

Mary nodded as she walked over to them, still holding Marcus. "We're telling Randy tonight after his match."

"We figured that is the better way. Who knows how he's going to react," Ted sighed. "The last thing we want to do is have him distracted while he's facing Ziggler."

Cody nodded, heading toward the gorilla position to get ready for his match.

…

After giving Randy plenty of time to shower after his match with Dolph Ziggler, Mary, Ted, Cody, and Marcus went to his door. Mary took a deep breath, knocking.

Randy opened the door, fully dressed, he raised an eyebrow as he looked from Mary to the others beside her. "What do you want?"

Mary bit her lip, "I think that it's about time that I introduce you to Marcus..."

Randy looked down at the young boy. He stood silent for a moment as he took in Marcus's features. After coming to the obvious conclusion, he shook his head, biting his lip to hold back the things he wanted to say, but not wanting to say it in front of Marcus.

Ted looked down to Marcus, "hey buddy, do you want to play with Uncle Cody some more?"

"Can we go meet John Cena?" the young boy's eyes lit up.

Cody smiled softly, "let's go see if we can find him." He walked away with the young boy as Randy stepped aside to let Mary and Ted into the room.

Randy sighed as he closed the door behind them. "Fuck!" He shook his head as he paced around the room a bit. "Ted, bro... I am so fucking sorry."

Ted nodded, slipping his arms around Mary's waist from behind. "It's okay, Randy. I forgive you."

Mary leaned into Ted's embrace as they continued to watch Randy's pace back and forth. They both recognized the look on Randy's face, and they had prepared themselves for the eruption that was about to take place.

…

Cody walked into the catering area with Marcus holding his hand. The boy yelled when he saw the superstar that he wished to meet. "It's John Cena!"

John grinned as he heard a small child say his name. Despite not having any kids of his own yet, he actually loved them. So he really enjoyed it whenever someone brought their kids to a show. He turned to the sound of the voice and walked over to the young boy, who was waving his hand in front of his face, doing "U Can't C Me" for one of his idols. "Hey Cody, this isn't your little guy, is it?"

Cody shook his head as Marcus jumped in front of him, looking up at John. "No, I'm Marcus DiBiase!"

John chuckled, "ahh, so you're Mary's little boy." He looked down at the young boy, "I've been friends with your mommy for a long time."

"I wanna wrestle like mommy and daddy someday," the boy grinned.

"Well maybe you can," John grinned. "Where are your parents right now?"

"They're talking to Uncle Randy about something. He didn't look very happy so Uncle Cody took me to come see you," Marcus frowned.

John looked up to Cody, raising an eyebrow. "And why are they talking to him and leaving you with their kid?"

Cody took a deep breath. "Take a good look at him, John."

John blinked, looking down at the young boy, studying his face and looking deep into his eyes. "So wait... the night that Ted and Randy had a match... then Mary came the next week..."

Cody nodded, "that's why they got married so soon after reuniting. They somehow hoped to hide it."

John winced, exhaling sharply. "That is not going to be pretty."

"Exactly," Cody sighed. "I just hope that not much damage is done."

…

Ten minutes later, Mary and Ted were back up against a wall as Randy had destroyed nearly everything in the room. He was seething, hissing like he did in the ring when he was getting mad. Mary sighed, closing her eyes for a moment. They both knew that Randy just needed to get it out, but Mary had seen enough. "Randy..." she bit her lip, waiting for a moment to see if Randy would respond. When he didn't, she broke away from her husband, getting into the other man's face. "Randy, look at me!"

Randy stopped, panting as he looked into the woman's eyes. "Do you know how fucking wasted I was that night? I never forget a rubber when I'm with a girl I don't know."

Mary bit her lip, nodding. "But you did with me, and I was so drunk that I didn't even recognize you. I even managed to temporarily forget about Ted. It's just like we said before, it was a mistake, but we can't take it back. What's done is done. We had sex, and now we have a son together."

"So you really weren't thinking about me that night?" Ted asked weakly, trying to fight back the tears forming in his eyes from what he had just heard. Despite knowing everything, hearing it like that hit him hard.

Mary shook her head, looking over to her husband. "I would have never given another man the time of day if I had my head on straight." She looked to Randy once more, "no offense, Randy."

Randy shook his head, "I know how much you two love each other. If I had known who you were, I wouldn't have dared even thinking about hooking up with you."

"We know, Randy," Mary whispered, smiling softly. She took a deep breath, reaching out to take her husband's hand. "Now the question is... what do you want to do about the information that you have received?"

Randy took a deep breath, finally calming a bit, as he watched the couple wrap their arms around each other. "I'm not going to force myself into his life and try to take him from you, Ted. I know that you are a great man, and you've probably been nothing short of an amazing dad to him."

Mary laid her head on Ted's chest, looking to the other man in the room. "Do you want to be in his life?"

"I'd like that," Randy nodded, "but like I said, I don't want to intrude."

Mary smiled, "are you okay with just being 'Uncle Randy' until he's old enough to understand? It'll give you time to figure out how to tell Sam in the mean time."

"Yeah, more than okay. It's a fucked up situation, but I trust that we can figure out a way through it," Randy sighed, trying to think of how to tell his wife. It would help that he had already confessed to cheating before they got married, but this would hit a little harder. He never told her that he had continued cheating on her well into their marriage. He figured that he would never need to, but now there was proof of his sins. Everyone would just have to take the situation one day at a time and they were ready to do just that.

…

It was six months before Randy pulled himself together. He barely went home and he was getting stone cold drunk just about every night. Mary, Ted, Cody, and John all took turns taking care of him as he dealt with things in his own way. As more time went by, Randy became more comfortable with their colleagues knowing the truth. This way it became more of a reality to him, and he became closer and closer to telling his wife. Thankfully, Alanna was staying with a friend the night that Randy went home with the intention of telling Sam what he had done. He knew that there was a good chance that she would leave him because of it, and he knew that he had a strong support group at work to help him through it.

He had sobered up for a couple of weeks before sitting down with is wife on the couch in their living room. Tears filled his eyes as he looked over to the woman who had sacrificed a lot to be with him. She could have had a normal life with a normal husband who could be around all of the time, but Sam chose this life. She wanted to be with Randy despite barely being able to see him. "I don't deserve you," he finally mumbled after ten minutes of silence.

Sam's turned to her husband with concern in her eyes. She knew that Randy wasn't the optimal husband, but she loved him in spite of this. "What could possibly make you say that?"

Randy sighed, running his hand over his face as he fought back the tears in eyes. "I haven't been faithful to you, Sam. Well, I have been the past couple of years since I had reality slapped into me, but before then I wasn't."

In a way, Sam knew that this was the case. She knew what type of man Randy was, and this had to be expected. She also knew that there could really be only one reason he would be admitting to this now. "So who did you knock up? Was it one of those floozy ring rats?"

He shook his head with a sigh as he looked down. He took a deep breath, still looking at the floor. "No, it was one of the Divas. She's married to one of my friends now."

Sam's eyes widened as she thought back to a match she had watched three years earlier. She remembered how Ted DiBiase and her husband stared each other down in the ring. The men on commentary commented on how they felt like things may be personal between them. As all of the pieces of the puzzle came together, Sam began seething in anger. She moved away from her husband and brought her fist back before allowing it to connect with his jaw. "You fucked Mary DiBiase?!"

Randy's hand went to his jaw where his wife had just punched him with a sigh. He had been hit harder plenty of times, but that time it was different. There was a lot of emotional force behind that. His heart broke as he feared the worse. He nodded slowly as he looked over to his wife. "Yes, I did."

"How long have you known that the kid is yours?" she sighed, not moving from her position as tears spilled down her cheeks.

When Randy saw his wife crying, he wanted nothing more to cradle her in his arms and comfort her. But how do you comfort someone when you were the one that hurt them? He sighed, biting his lip. "Since Night of Champions. They told me after my match. I know that I should have told you sooner, but..."

Sam shook her head, sighing as she ran her fingers through her hair. "No, it's okay, Randy. I get it. You're probably not the only guy who cheats on the road, and I'm sure some of the stay at home wives aren't exactly angels while their men are away. It's life."

"Samantha, I'm sorry. I love you. I was an idiot to succumbing to my desires. Like I said, it hasn't happened in years, and I promise that it's not going to happen again," Randy swallowed hard, his tears finally spilling over.

A small smile came across Sam's face as the reflection from the fire roaring in the fireplace across the room twinkled in her tear filled eyes. She leaned in, bringing a hand to his cheek and pressed a soft kiss to his lips. "You're sleeping down here tonight, and I want you gone before I wake up. Just give me a couple of weeks at most." She got up, straightening out her shirt. "Maybe the Ortons and DiBiases can get together this summer. That way Alanna can meet her little brother and us grown ups can all have a grown up discussion about how we're going to handle things."

…

The next afternoon Randy walked up to Ted and Mary's door. He rang the bell and waited for a response as he looked down at the ground.

Moments later Ted opened the door. He looked down to see that his friend had his suitcases with him and sighed, stepping aside to let him in. "Randy..."

Randy shook his head with a sigh, "she just wants a little time off to go over things in her mind. She's not leaving me."

Ted nodded with a smile, "well, you can stay with us for as long as you need to."

…

A few months later, the two families were sitting out by the pool at Ted and Mary's house. The two sets of parents were watching as Alanna and Marcus played together. As far as they knew, they were cousins. It would stay that way for a little over five years. As Marcus was just starting the third grade, Ted and Mary sat him down and told him the truth. Being that he was an intelligent boy, and he was raised in a very loving household, he understood. After that, he started spending time going back and forth between Florida and Missouri. Marcus had two families and a big sister. He was happy, and that is what mattered most to everyone.

THE END.

So that's it for this "what if" in Mary's life. Be sure to check out "How Did We Get Here?" which is a co-write, as well as "My Happy Ending" and "Goldust Digger" for more Mary. I hope you enjoyed this Mary saga. There will be more to come in the future if I get more ideas for variations of her life.