If Neil’s attempt was unsuccessful:
His father would have allowed him to go back to Welton on the condition that Keating was fired and Neil didn’t peruse acting at least until college.
Neil’s mother sat by his hospital bed, adamant to make up for what happened with the play by truly getting to know her son.
She would read him Shakespeare and poetry mostly to see a rare, week smile on his usually somber face.
As someone who had someone in my family attempt I will project a bit and say Todd actually loved that Neil needed him around to sleep. That way, when he woke up he could very easily check his pulse or the air coming from his mouth and reassure himself he was actually alive.
On the nights Neil didn't ask to sleep with him, he would sometimes get up in the middle of the night to check he was still on his bed, terrified (no matter how well he'd seem during the day) that he could have sneaked out and jumped off the roof or something.
Neil noticed. It sometimes would make him feel loved and cared for, and sometimes would make him feel guilty and angry for the lack of trust.
Todd would sometimes contemplate asking to sleep with Neil when he didn't ask first, but would end up deciding against it, telling himself Neil needed the space and trust to heal.
With time, he became a very light sleeper.
