#hetty gets closure but not enough to go to the afterlife

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You'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling (epilouge)

Part 1

Summary: After years of not knowing what happened to you, Hetty gets closure on the relationship in an unexpected way. (Set after Part 1 of You'd have to stop the world)

Warnings: fem!reader, Original Character, fluff, no hurt only comfort,

Present day

“Hetty you have a letter in a bottle!” Sam exclaims in excitement.  

“What in heavens is that?” Hetty says looking at dust covered bottle in her niece’s hand. 

Sam holds the bottle under better lighting, and thats when Hetty sees her own name written on a small card in familiar scrawl. Hetty tries not to get to excited, but she cannot deny the small flutter of butterflies at the possibility. 

“It could be nothing,” Hetty tells herself.

Sam shrugs before saying, “There’s only one way to find out. Why don’t we go upstairs to figure out how to open this.”

While Sam is trying to pry the wax away from the bottle, the chime of the front door brings her attention to the foyer. Sam places the bottle on the counter, before wiping her hands on her jeans. She quickly leaves the kitchen to great the guest, leaving Hetty behind. 

“Hello are you checking in?” Sam asks.

“Yes, I am,” the young womans says approaching the front desk. 

“What brings you in?” Sam says while searching through the reservations. 

“Well actually you do,” the young woman says.

Sam tries to keep calm, but she knows the panic must show on her face. Anytime someone had said that, something hinky happens.  

“I know that may sound weird, but I think our family may be connected,” 

“Oh great not again. Do I not deserve peace?” Sam thinks to herself.

The young woman continues speaking, “My name is Antoinette, and my great-great-great-great grandmother was your great-great-great-great aunt Hetty’s best friend. I found a box of what I assume are old letters between them. I thought you might want them. I did some research on the family name, and I was able to track you down through your recently published book. I assumed you may want some family memorabilia,” 

Hetty gets a bit impatient waiting for Sam to check the guest in. She decides to leave the bottle and find Sam. 

“Samantha I-” Hetty stops at the sight of the guest. She feels as if her heart is about to launch from her chest. That face. 

“I’d know that face anywhere. But how can that be? Is it possible to be haunted in the afterlife?” Hetty thinks to herself.

“y/n,” Hetty whispers. 

Sam quickly glances at Hetty and almost double glances when sees Hetty almost in tears.

“You know before I bother you with questions, why don’t you take your things to your room, and we can talk more in the kitchen once you’re settled.” Samantha says handing Antoinette her keys. 

“Sure, I’d love to,” Antoinette makes her way upstairs. Once she’s out of ear shot Sam turns to Hetty.

“Where did that she come from?” Hetty asks in a harsh whisper.

“Oh well judging by her accent, England,” Sam says in attempt to lighten the mood.

“Where would be without your astute observations,” Hetty quips, ”I may sound crazy, but she looks like an old friend of mine, (y/n).” Hetty says turning her gaze towards the stairs the young woman just climbed. 

“Well she says that was her grandmother,” Samantha says

Hetty’s head whips back around to face Sam and stares at her in shock, at the thought of you having a child. Hetty can’t remember you saying anything about being with child let alone having one. Hetty’s mind races with questions, that need to be answered at once. 

“Are you okay there Hetty?” Sam asks

“What is she doing here?” Hetty answers Sam’s question with another. 

“She said that there is a box full of letters between the two of you. She thinks that I would like them,”

“Ofcourse I want them! I mean -” Hetty quickly slips a mask in place, “ Did she say what was in those letters?”

“No, but I’ll guess we’ll find out,” Samantha says. 

Sam, Hetty, and Antoinette spend a good portion of the morning into the afternoon trading family history. 

Albeit it’s mainly Antoinette answering questions that Hetty has Samantha ask. While they were talking 

“That’s my necklace! Sam you must get it back for me,” Hetty urges Sam.

“Antoinette, you have an ‘H’ on your necklace, is that in regards to you having a special someone?” Sam asks.

“Oh this?” Antoinette says looking down at her necklace,  “ Actually it stands for my middle name: Henrietta. My full name is Antoinette Henrietta Marie. The grandmother in these letters name was Henrietta Marie Antoinette. The first born girl of each generation obtains the middle name “Henrietta Marie”, but my mother decided to give me my grandmother’s full name with a bit of remixing. This necklace is has passed down for generations too and, I recieved it on my 16th birthday. I was hoping to inherit my grandmother’s ring, but I recently discovered she was buried with it. Total bummer, but hey I still have a wicked family heirloom.” 

“It’s a locket, I put pictures of me and (y/n) inside, ” Hetty urges Sam. 

“It looks like a locket, have you opened it?” Sam says. 

“Honestly I never examined it that thoroughly all these years,” Antoinette says taking the necklace from her person. 

Hetty waits with baited breath for Antoinette to open the locket. When the locket clicks open, Hetty is almost overcome with joy. There within the locket are a picture of her and (y/n).

“Oh my,” Antoniette begins but doesn’t finish,” That’s them isn’t it,”

“It sure is,” Hetty replies to Antoniette even though Hetty knows the girl can’t hear her. 

Sam glances at Hetty and notices the tears in her eyes. Before Sam can speak Antoinette phone begins to ring, “Excuse me I have to take this.”

Antoinette gets up from the table and leaves the locket behind for Sam to look at.

Sam turns back to Hetty and asks, “How do you think I should get the necklace back?”

Hetty quickly dabs the tears from her eyes, “No it’s fine. Let her keep it. It is a family heirloom afterall.”

Hetty never expected for your lives to still be connected after all of these years. Hetty often wondered what became of you after your death, and to now have answers has given her closure she wasn’t sure she needed. Hetty continues to admire the necklace, and is awe of how much Antoinette looks like her grandmother. It is almost uncanny. 

“It must be pretty cool to hear that you have namesakes, generations of them actually. She even still wrote you after your passing,” Sam says in awe,  “You and (y/n) must have been very close,” 

“Yes, yes we were” Hetty says with a full heart. 

Antoinette came back from the phone call, and urged Sam to read the letters while she took care of the business matter that called her away in the first place. Sam and Hetty then spend the next couple of hours reading through as many letters as they can. 

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1895

Henrietta,

You will not believe the news that I’ve been given as of late. I’m with child! The doctor suspects that I am 3 months along. I assumed my lack of menses and continued melancholy was due to your passing.  

There are still some days that I struggle to get out of bed. Now when I want to eat, I can barely manage to keep things down. I was hoping that I had missed the child bearing years, but it seems that this one has snuck up on me. I am not sure how I will get through the next six months. 

I can only imagine how excited you would have been. I know you will make an excellent guardian angel.

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1896

Hetty,

I have been blessed with a daughter. I am still coming to terms that I am now a mother. It all seems so odd now that the child is actually born, and what a labour that was. I do not think I shall have more. My husband and I are still debating on names. He says that he will love whatever I pick, and I wish he was more of help. He knows that I can be a bit indecisive. I think I’m going to name her Henrietta Marie Antoinette. Another little Hetty can you imagine that!

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1902

Hetty,

Your “niece” continues to ask questions about her Aunt Hetty. She wonders what you look like, where you live, and so much more. I never knew children to be filled with so many questions. It’s as if as soon as she turned seven, all of the questions of the world must be answered at once. Nevertheless, Little Hetty grows smarter by the day.  I wish I had our pictures together to show her, but I believe my photobox is in New York. I must remember to grab it the next time I visit. 

Mostly her attributes favor mine except her hair. Her hair favors her father as she has the most beautiful mop of curly hair that I’ve ever laid eyes on. I hope it does not give her governess grief when it is time to dress her hair for events. She also reads very fluently for her age and has taken up lessons in violin and piano. I assume she will be very ahead in her studies in the near future. I laugh whenever I hear Little Hetty say she is going to college, I remember what you used to say about women going to college. I’m sure if you were here, you would fund her endeavors without a doubt. As well as any of her other whims. I have to remind her father, that she cannot have everything she asks for. 

We have found that she is very quick witted and slightly tempermental, like her name-sake. Her teeth even have the same little gap yours had. There are some days when she speaks, and it seems as if you are talking through her. However, I hope she won’t inherit any of your other mischievous attributes. Lord help us all if she does. 

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1906

Henrietta,

Thomas recently  paid us a visit here in London, and I must say he is a natural with children. He was very eager to dote and spoil his young “cousin”. He even brought a gift for her 16th birthday, it was the necklace your mother gave you on your 16th birthday. The golden locket that bears an “H”on the front. It was to our surprise to see that pictures of you and I were still neatly tucked inside. 

He has even nicknamed her Letty, a variation on her nickname of Little Hetty. Letty is overjoyed to finally know what you look like. She treats the locket with the utmost care, and is very protective over it. She says she wearing it helps her feel closer to you. Oh Hetty you would have adore her. Though you hate to admit, you did have a motherly instinct. I wish you had the chance to use it more, and if you were still here you would have wasted no time using said instinct on Letty I can hear you requesting that she come and spend summers with you now. 

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Back to present day...Later that night

“Hetty I finally managed to get that bottle open,” Samantha says

“Please bring it over,” Hetty says beckoning Samantha over. 

Sam sits next to Hetty on the couch, and pours carefully pulls the letter out from the bottle. Upon further inspection, Samantha sees that is a ring inside and shakes that from the bottle as well. 

“Huh a letter and a ring,” Sam says holding the ring in her finger for Hetty to inspect.

“That’s her engagement ring. She never took it off what is it doing in a bottle?” Hetty questions.

“Maybe that is what the letter is for,” Sam suggests.

“My eyes are too tired from reading the other ones, can you read it to me?” Hetty asks.

Hetty knew that allowing Samantha to read the letter may open would expose her relationship with (y/n), but truthfully Hetty is tired of hiding the one person who loved her as a “friend” when she was much more.

-END-

A/N: The way I wanted to end it was with Hetty being "sucked off" in the middle of the night, but I felt that was too cliche lol. I still don't like the ending entirely so I might revise it lol.

Anyway, I hope y'all enjoy this fluff. Don't worry I have something so angsty in my drafts that you might fight me about it.

[originalwinnercheesecake]

CBS ghosts predictions for season 4

Patience is going to throw Issac down into the same hole they were in 130+ yeas ago and threaten him that now he has to spend the same amount of time stuck in the ground that she did.... He will actually only be in the hole for like a day. Nancy will (eventually) confess to the above ground ghosts about what happend. Thor or Sass will guess were Patience took Issac, and Hetty will go get him.

Patience will be super angry/feral. For the first so many episodes of the season she will stay in the ground or live in the woods on the property, and will be an antagonist. Like she will only make pop up cameo's or be referenced, but she is going to cause issues with guests, pull pranks on the other ghosts, and everyone will be afraid of her to an extent.

At some point (at first I wanted to guess the mid season finale, but it could be before) we will get closure between Patience and Issac. She will have him cornered somewhere. Maybe she will be crying, she will definitely be yelling. Patience was Isaac's best friend before Hetty died. How could he leave her like that? Did he even care? Or was he just like the puritan church officials who abused her before? (Side note Patience definitely knew George in the Farnsby house when she was alive. He used to accuse her of not being a virtuous enough lady, and they did not get along).

Isaac will have tried to tell her before that it was just an accident, that when underground he had tried to reach back and grab her again, called out hoping she could follow his voice, but she had run off and never heard him. At her new words though he will stop making those excuses and tell her that Yes, she had been a dear friend. Yes he dose care about her. He fought in many battles that did not go the way he wanted, and lost many troops, but losing her underground was his biggest regret. He knows he cannot take back her last century. But he wants badly for the rest of her afterlife to be better. Then will ask her to please stop all of this and come back to the manor. She can live like a civilized person again.

They will make up to the extent that Patience will agree to stop trying to seek revenge on him and terrorizing his friends. I do not expect them to go back to being close friends, or for Patience to join the main cast. Most likely she will move into the shed (maybe Jenkins becomes her new bestie. They bond over having dark and depressing senses of humor) or she will fall for and bunk with Crash (anybody still remember crash). But she will continue to make cameo's in season 3 part B, this time not as an antagonist.

Also we will possibly get Patience's ghost power before Hetty's. I hope she was tried as a witch and got some form of witch craft power (she can make things levitate or start smoking or something) in the afterlife.