this is kinda niche but do you guys know some fics where mary hatford isn’t actually dead? like whether she gets brought back to life or it’s just an au where neil only thinks she dies and she shows up again at some point after or during canon. i read the one by ravenvsfox(?) and it was good so i was just wondering if there are more like it?
Safe and Sound by LFMH021 (M | 13,161 | 1/1)
“Thank you, child. To return the favour, if you can wish for anything right at this moment, what would it be?”
Neil felt Andrew’s eyes on him. And realising that he couldn’t really ask for anything more than he already had, and seeing that he didn’t really believe with what the woman was saying, he waved her off and said with a little sardonic smile, “Care to give me one last week to bond with my dead mom?”
He heard Kevin choke, Nicky let out a startled laugh, Aaron making a noise of disbelief and almost heard Andrew roll his eyes.
His eyes widened when the woman smiled. “Your wish is my command.” With that, she suddenly vanished.
Neil never realized that giving out his lunch to a woman who calls herself a starving witch just wanting to survive on the day before Halloween, and wasting the wish she can grant him by off-handed-ly wishing that he could have just a week to “bond” with his mother again, could somehow backfire and cause such change to his life.
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i'm going to make this place your home by smokesque (M | 7,752 | 1/1)
Neil traced the outline of her figure, familiar yet unrecognisable in places where time had broken her back, until his eyes caught hers and Mary Hatford—she of the false identities and paranoid promises, of hotel rooms and guns under unfamiliar pillows, of firm love and firmer bruises—blinked back at him.